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General Software Discussion / Re: Confessions of a Freeware Junkie updates their list of recommended freeware

« on: May 08, 2009, 01:08 PM »

Nice list, personally not a fan of GIMP or CCleaner for example but it's just preference of course

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 7 RC spyware?

« on: May 07, 2009, 12:35 PM »

I know this requires more than a one or two line reply but seriously...this is not any less trustworthy than before, anything from Windows Update to countless other things require and gather snapshots of computer configs, state of particular applications, etc. The fact that TOS, EULA or privacy statements are not unambiguous is not new.

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Living Room / Re: The Geek's "100 things to do before you die" list

« on: May 07, 2009, 11:16 AM »

Can't believe I have done 32 of them.
lol @ 44, 59 and 61. 59 is more wishful thinking 

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Living Room / Re: Help me build the ultimate metal playlist

« on: May 05, 2009, 12:28 PM »

Kreator -  Under The Guillotine, Flag Of Hate, Command Of The Blade, Awakening Of The Gods...and so many more
OverKill - There's No Tomorrow, Feel The Fire, Shred, Overkill III...so many more too

Heavy metal side of things:

Saxon - Lionheart and Inner Sanctum albums are excellent in my opinion

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Living Room / Re: how to improve DC's usability: the stackOverflow model

« on: April 30, 2009, 04:13 PM »

I wish we wouldn't show post count either.

-housetier (April 30, 2009, 02:43 PM)

-40hz (April 30, 2009, 02:53 PM)

+2

-Gothi[c] (April 30, 2009, 02:58 PM)

+3

Done it in our (me and friends) soccer forum a long time ago, a popular move.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« on: April 30, 2009, 04:04 PM »

I hope this is not a precursor to creating a shareware version. 

-y0himba (April 29, 2009, 07:58 AM)

If Mr. Joren Kessels decides to go shareware with MyDefrag, I don't have a problem with that. Since it's his intellectual effort, it's only fair that he should get to decide how he wants to release it.

-40hz (April 30, 2009, 09:08 AM)

Not saying this is what is happening to JkDefrag but this kind of action when and if it happens is the very worst kind of decision, makes me shake my head when I hear some developers say "time constraints" or something similar. If you are serious about an app you are writing you should expect it to take lots of time (and by extension money and all that) and yes even for years to come. I have absolutely no problem with shareware but decide from the beginning.

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Living Room / Re: Opera is 15

« on: April 30, 2009, 03:58 PM »

I'll be more interested to see how Firefox and Chrome are doing when that old, Opera I have never used more than occasionally.

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Circle Dock / Re: Circle Dock Installation Video.

« on: April 28, 2009, 11:54 AM »

Thank you X_FiLeS

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Living Room / Re: The entitled generation....Are they right?

« on: April 28, 2009, 11:51 AM »

That's exactly the problem, these execs, bankers, etc. didn't appear from another planet, some were even those 60's and 70's hippie types. They take the 'getting older, have to be more responsible' way too far.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The evil of the horizontal scrollbar - and what we can do about it

« on: April 27, 2009, 08:57 PM »

My first thought when seeing the topic was web pages with horizontal scroll bars, possibly even worse than listview in a sense. I vote to banish and I agree, a good presentation with details is that Copernic screenshot in my opinion.

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Finished Programs / Re: FastShutdown

« on: April 27, 2009, 01:13 PM »

English (Canada)

TaskName                             Next Run Time
==================================== =====================
Ad-Aware Update (Weekly)             18:23:00, 27/04/2009

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General Software Discussion / Re: software that tracks changes made during install

« on: April 26, 2009, 11:08 PM »

Some choices I read about (never used) a while ago are SystemSherlock and InstallWatch that either take before and after snapshots or give you logs. They don't seem to be very current as far as I know but nevertheless

http://www.epsilonsq...com/installwatch.htm
http://www.kephyr.co...locklite/index.phtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comodo Software Removed from Softpedia (licensing problems)

« on: April 26, 2009, 10:47 PM »

Good for them for taking the stand.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« on: April 26, 2009, 02:27 PM »

@Jimdoria If it requires user interaction to be launched to do what it does, yes social engineering of some sort I would say. Not sure what you mean by mainstream Javascript, many of those hacks that leak info exist in 'normal' code that make the trick possible.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: April 26, 2009, 02:22 PM »

Welcome to DC, and not for the first time in this thread Go PSV but also Go Gunners   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« on: April 26, 2009, 01:38 AM »

I admit I only galnced at the site, if they are not saying how they achieved their supposed goal then I'll pass. Tend to agree with kartal

I think if you are a real tech head you would never even let this site to tell you where you have been, they are using a trick to get you browsing history?

and Jimdoria is likely right

JavaScript runs in the browser, and has access to the same info the browser does. The program runs in YOUR browser, gets information from YOUR browser and shows it TO YOU. How exactly is this a security breach?

Ultimately though one can trick browser to read and/or intercept info but that's hardly anything new and up to browser and web app makers to patch holes

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Living Room / Re: ZDNET: Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?

« on: April 25, 2009, 03:51 PM »

I know a few long time users who are sick of OS X, I hear less (but obviously not zero) complaints about Vista vs XP, 2000, 98. I understand that this may not be typical but it's certainly true in my case. About end of operating systems, average users will continue buying low (low for their particular period) end computers for the foreseeable future, whether MS can give them OSes that work "ok" with those specs is going to be the bigger question.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« on: April 24, 2009, 10:04 PM »

The only one I have used recently and then only on and off is Google Fx, useful for image results not so much for other searches or gmail in my opinion

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General Software Discussion / Re: CintaNotes

« on: April 21, 2009, 05:52 PM »

I like it as well, especially the way one can add notes 'silently'

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Living Room / Re: The entitled generation....Are they right?

« on: April 17, 2009, 03:07 PM »

I am NOT saying I like this or agree, but if a criminal is staying in my house and I know he has done something, when they storm in my house they will at the very least question me.
What I am saying I am not one bit surprised they are in trouble, don't agree with it but good luck finding judges/lawyers who will not say the thing I just posted.

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Living Room / Re: The entitled generation....Are they right?

« on: April 15, 2009, 12:08 PM »

As has been mentioned it's the method rather than the object itself. How they pursue and threaten with lawyers, how they treat the small guy is the problem. I wouldn't even blame talentless artists, because no one is forcing anybody to buy a Britney album, if you buy the hype and marketing the marketer is not the (only) one to blame. That extends to things like photoshop, paying nearly 4 digit dollars is not forced on anybody, if you really need it for a job the employer should buy you a license and deal with photoshop sales people and tactics.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New DC Member Kit Stuff

« on: April 14, 2009, 11:28 PM »

Back to my old excuse that English is not my mother tongue  I thought fenixproductions was suggesting that.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New DC Member Kit Stuff

« on: April 14, 2009, 10:16 PM »

A membership card with the username and user's info on it, as suggested above, would be my preference over a large(r) sticker.
As for other things I would say key tags or chains, of course that's more cost prohibitive both in ordering and mailing.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: March 2009 Fundraiser Wrap-up

« on: April 12, 2009, 07:27 PM »

Sorry about that, feel free to delete my posts to keep this thread clean and ontopic

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Site/Forum Features / Re: March 2009 Fundraiser Wrap-up

« on: April 12, 2009, 06:47 PM »

Thanx for the info and the system that is place is generous and better than fair in my opinion.

Made me laugh when I saw Mac got 5.8% of 5
Highest percentage is 40-50 year old? interesting