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[Boskone]

I converted to Bokononism a while back.

(phew) had to read that twice... first time through my brain told me "Boskone-ism"... too much Lensman in my formative years maybe...

What makes us think that any intelligent lifeforms out there somewhere are friendly?

I always did enjoy the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man^w.

 

Yeah, enjoyed the remake too:

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I also have win7 64.

Win7 x64 and win8 x64, no crashes here far as I can remember.

I ran BeachBit, and from what I could tell it wanted to remove ALL of the updates/patches.  I just want to delete the superseded updates.  I'll see what KCleaner has to offer.

  On another note, BeachBit has a sneaky spyware installer.  The first install screen with what looks like the EULA is actually trying to get your permission to install spyware.  If you select 'Decline' as I did, you'll be taken to the actual EULA for BeachBit.  This is the reason why I ALWAYS read everything presented on an install...

On the second item (the "sneaky spyware installer")  - where did you get your download from?  I just downloaded the 0.9.5 installer from Sourceforge (again) and installed on my 6 month old Win 8 box.  The Sourceforge download does not contain anything other than Bleachbit - you pick a language and the next box is the Gnu General Public License.  You didn't pull it down from CNet did you?  Sounds like someone repackaged it with OpenCandy in front.

(FWIW, it cleaned out 2.47gb of cruft on my box, and I did not select all of the options...)

On the first item, superceded updates may be sitting there in your SoftwareDistribution folder (have not checked) but they wouldn't be downloaded in the first place, would they?  Unless you tell your PC to download but not install updates, then you don't install updates...  If they're superceded then they won't get installed so there is no uninstall folder to clean out.  But one of the things Bleachbit does it empty out SoftwareDistribution which will get re-filled as needed next time you check for updates.

My first line of defense in recovering harddisk space on a Windows XP system

Yeah, Bleachbit does a good job of rooting out all those folders and all the other cruft that accumulates over time.  I've recovered gigabytes on the first run.

Just for curiosity I installed Maxthon but I almost never use it. Can someone explain at least one reason to use it?

[Ahem] My daughter informs me that the Webkinz site, which does not work properly in IE on her laptop-plus-monitor system, runs just fine in Maxthon. 

Oh, the face is definitely Ronald, although someone did a passable job of photoshopping it over top of Nancy.  Turns out there is a whole site devoted to "Presidents in drag" (though most of the entries were so poorly done that I could almost have done them).

(Off topic, is "photoshopping" sufficiently generic these days that it doesn't get capitalized, like xerox?)

Hm, never heard of it before.  Thank you for the reference.  And thank you Mr. Tsereteli.

It's a good piece, simple enough for even me to get, compassion in response to the horrific.  How could you reject that?

If you're going to shell out the cash anyway, just go with a hardware refresh and a rebuild.  Both will help.

@40 - I know there's a link to this somewhere else on this site, I fell down that rabbit hole last time I saw it!

I don't know if this one is true either:

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It's also extremely useful to use a screwdriver with a slightly magnetic tip, and don't work over a deep carpet.

Also try to convince resident cats or kittens that their assistance with the small pieces is not required.

as I said above I dont move from the spot

Same here... I think if I run off too far it'll feel like an old game of Zork...

I did the first half dozen rounds without even googling anything, just looking at the landscape, plants, sign language.  Did pretty decently, but there's a limit to how close that can take you.

Challenge game finished!
You won the challenge with 15636 points against 12564.

I, admittedly, got lucky.  On that last one, I got within 1km, giving 6k points.

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 17079 points against 12564.


Oh dear, what a time sink!  But I got that last one spot on, enough to make up for the one on in Australia that I thought was in Oregon.  

As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think I have much to do with this being a nice place to hang out -- things just happened and we are stuck with each other.. I feel lucky that so many interesting characters have decided to call this place their home.

There's a lot to be said for creating a welcoming place that can attract - and hold the interest of - so many interesting and talented people.  It's not pure coincidence.

I haven't progressed in improving the site to a new content management system and that there are still some very rough edges on the site

You can say that, but I constantly visit forums that are so... how to describe it... primitive and awkward for handling even basic forum-type tasks, that I am always glad to be back here.  (Which I am, every day, in contrast to most other places I could spend time!)

So - thanks very much!!

Sure, everything you might use will be circumvented in time, but that doesn't mean that the less effective attacks aren't going to happen in the meantime.

FWIW I always prefer Regina REXX for scripting (although I am not a CHS user and don't know how it interacts).  It's just an executable, plus a library file or two, no installation required.

Do you have a preferred flavor of REXX?

Wow, thanks michaelclyde!  Sounds great, and if I can get some time I'll beat it up with a few cameras.

The link to 12oclocker's programs page is here.

Hmm, I don't see that behavior when pasting into Word 2013.  I get a normal size and aspect bitmap.

Regarding the ini file location, I remember I had to edit something to put that file in a non-redirected folder but I can't remember where that was... at any rate it was noted in a thread here (although I couldn't find it in a quick search).  It was simple once I found the right post.  I guess fixing that up would be a nice checkbox option during installation, in case Mouser needs anything else to keep him busy... 

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the disincentives seem to include the sorts of thing you mentioned above, and others - e.g., the dropping of ClearType functionality (ergonomics is kind of important).

Yeah, and the lack of ClearType is only part of that.  Outlook, for example, uses way too much white space.  And I mean just that - white space, no borders or boundaries, no visual cues about where one thing starts and another stops, borders that are just thin line boxes.  Very large sender names, all spread out too much.  I guess the idea is it will work better that way when you are navigating with your finger.  (I navigate my finger to them somewhat differently though.  )

To be honest I don't do much movie watching on my PC, but it came with PowerDVD installed which does the necessary.

On the other hand, I installed Win 8 N edition (sans media code) on my test box, so maybe I'll need to locate the media add-in and give it a spin.

With a couple minor omissions

NT was a minor omission?

FWIW I haven't seen any Win 7 boxes in the weekly flyers here for several months now.  That said, I don't find 8 so annoying... my main home PC came with it installed (it was an emergency replacement), and once I put a start menu utility on it has behaved much like 7.  I just recently brought up a test box with win 8 on it so I could get more familiar with how things get done.

This caught my eye in this week's Staples flyer:

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What does this mean?  Did Staples find a cache of older boxes that were lost in the warehouse behind the paper?  A trailer that never got unloaded?

More importantly, how fast do you think people will snap them up?  

Of course, the market for all-in-one boxes might not be particularly operating system aware...

Couldn't you just grep the output to find the Pages: line then use set to pull out the page count?  Set has some niceties you don't often think about.

OK.  Looks thorough for the file system, did you make the comparable modifications to the registry permissions?

That said, I don't think it is possible to force Windows to just skip the acl check completely, is that what you're asking?