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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Eassos Partition Guru Pro--Free or Lifetime@~17$

« on: July 21, 2015, 03:50 AM »

Does anyone know what the relation is, if any, between Easeus and Eassos? The names and products seem so similar...

-mouser (July 12, 2015, 10:18 AM)

I don't think so, Easeus is a big company (seems to) with a rather wide range of products whereas Eassos seems rather small.  Their products are quite different in design (partition manager). Unfortuntely ToDo Backup which used to be quite usable is now terrible (over 15h to perform an image where other imagers require 1 or 2 hours). I would call this the "Acronis syndrome"...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinToFlash Pro Sale 7USD

« on: July 20, 2015, 05:01 PM »

Not clear if you can convert any iso bootable cd image into an USB...

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General Software Discussion / Re: My Boss is using Outlook Express. His Inbox.dbx file corrupted. How to retrieve?

« on: July 20, 2015, 04:35 PM »

http://www.minitool....outlook-express.html

The best tool IMHO,

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« on: July 02, 2015, 04:41 PM »

I found this :
http://easysyncbacku...CryptoMonitorDetails, free currently (until the newest version is released).  Of course when the PC is already under attack it's too late.  Did not try it yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Panda Free Antivirus 2015 anyone using?

« on: June 29, 2015, 12:53 PM »

Oh, I meant a free version for Emsisoft.  I already have Panda Free installed...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Panda Free Antivirus 2015 anyone using?

« on: June 29, 2015, 12:16 PM »

There is a free edition ???  Do you have by chance a link at hand ?  Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Panda Free Antivirus 2015 anyone using?

« on: June 29, 2015, 03:13 AM »

Discount codes ?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 20, 2015, 02:31 PM »

Maybe both, if kitty-cat is its real name...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Panda Free Antivirus 2015 anyone using?

« on: June 18, 2015, 03:36 PM »

Hi, I installed it on a slow PC, a HP210 running XP Starter Edition, where Kaspersky was putting this machine down on its knees, rendering it unusable.  After Panda Free 2015, it is again "workable" and no special error spotted to far.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: May 16, 2015, 02:48 AM »

Excellent !!!

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 12, 2015, 02:43 AM »

Thanks all.  Rather than tubes in the garden I think it were streams, but not of water but of something that had the ability to cause time travel.  It's when the main character jumps over one of these streams, which is forbidden, that time travel occurs.  I also remember that at the beginning of the story he visits the garden as a child with his family.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 11, 2015, 02:15 PM »

Hi all,

I am looking for a science-fiction short story, I just remember the synopsis, partly. It's a time travel story, where the main character, a boy at the beginning of the story and an adult at the end keeps returning to a strange garden which is used to launch rockets ? Or something else scientific related.  And for some reasons, I can't remember, this garden is flowing with tubes that create some time shifts, essential to the scientific activity.  It's strictly forbidden to come across them but for some reason some day he will, and since that day he will meet a stranger that tries to communicate with him but somehow eludes him. And, big spoiler coming, it happens that this stranger is himself at a different times.

I read it as a part of a compilation of short stories, but I really cannot find neither the title nor the author.

Any hint much welcome, as always.

Thanks !

-MerleOne (May 10, 2015, 03:22 PM)

What's the rough plot or the ending? So whazzisname keeps returning to this garden to "do something", to what effect? And since the stranger can't communicate, is it all futile that the older self is trying to fix something but then can't communicate so Whatever-Bad still happens?

-TaoPhoenix (May 11, 2015, 12:53 PM)

Well, the details are really fuzzy, I read that over 30 years ago. The thing that puzzles me is the kind of link there is (in my memories) with these time-travel effects and the rocket launchpad.  Maybe I am just mixing two stories.  I can't even remember whether I read it in English or French. French I guess, at that time I was mostly reading translated books. Thanks for asking !

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 11, 2015, 12:09 PM »

May be not helpful, but FWIW:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction

-ewemoa (May 11, 2015, 07:31 AM)

Thanks, a long list, but nice find.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Windows Desktop Virtualizers?

« on: May 10, 2015, 03:40 PM »

I remember http://www.otakusoftware.com/ had graphically nice products, haven't used them since a long time...

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Living Room / Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 10, 2015, 03:22 PM »

Hi all,

I am looking for a science-fiction short story, I just remember the synopsis, partly. It's a time travel story, where the main character, a boy at the beginning of the story and an adult at the end keeps returning to a strange garden which is used to launch rockets ? Or something else scientific related.  And for some reasons, I can't remember, this garden is flowing with tubes that create some time shifts, essential to the scientific activity.  It's strictliy forbidden to come across them but for some reason some day he will, and since that day he will meet a stranger that tries to communicate with him but somehow eludes him. And, big spoiler coming, it happens that this stranger is himself at a different times.

I read it as a part of a compilation of short stories, but I really cannot find neither the title nor the author.

Any hint much welcome, as always.

Thanks !

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 02, 2015, 09:28 AM »

Data Recovery... (see attachment in previous post)
...Not Going to Happen! 

-Stoic Joker (February 21, 2015, 04:44 PM)

When you lack cool toys, data destruction can be done low-tech.

-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:02 AM)

I find this violence against pre-IA barely watchable... Call 0dx911 !!! ;-)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 01, 2015, 01:52 PM »

The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols

Nothing by Mae West

She was as cheeky as there was in her time.

-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)

Excellent, thanks ! I like a lot "I have seen things and be places" transformed into "I have been things and see places". Or something like that.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone getting a Pebble Time?

« on: April 30, 2015, 04:54 PM »

Hi,
I fell for one (version II), and expecting it in June, I'll see from there....

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Living Room / Re: can anyone help me grab these pics

« on: April 30, 2015, 04:50 PM »

hello!

can you help me please grab the photos of this property please?

http://www.haart.co....ex-rm1/hrt019509056/

thanks!

-kalos (April 28, 2015, 01:17 PM)

Right click over the image, and select "Save Image As" works on my browser (Maxthon Nitro).

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what pdf reader app is your fav?

« on: April 13, 2015, 04:05 AM »

Granted, I never use SumatraPDF for editing neither printing, just viewing and it is just perfect for that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what pdf reader app is your fav?

« on: April 12, 2015, 06:59 AM »

SumatraPDF, it also reads Comics under .cbz format and others. Very fast.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: April 11, 2015, 10:27 AM »

Yuja Wang - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 - 1st Movement
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto - 2 - 2nd Movement
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 - 3rd Movement
Playlist Index of above links
Firefox supports Youtube Unblocker to enable a connection in case you want to use FF with Tor Vidalia or can't see it in your country or proxy connection for any reason.

-bit (April 11, 2015, 03:39 AM)

Very nice, thanks !

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General Software Discussion / Re: MxNitro Browser

« on: April 01, 2015, 12:27 PM »

I am using the portable version.  It told me there was an update.  I downloaded and ran it.  It put the thing in my settings folder.  I just deleted the old portable and moved the folder over.  So far the main thing that irks, that I sent in feedback about, is there's no Bookmarks Toolbar.  I have to go through a bunch of clicks to use a bookmark.  If they could fix that it might be usable.

Edit: The other bad news is it does not support multiple urls on the command line.  I can't even overcojme the Bookmark Bar deficit by using BrowserBunch to launch a bunch. 

-MilesAhead (April 01, 2015, 07:46 AM)

Actually I just use a few bookmarks and I type the rest in the address bar, the history does the rest...  But maybe I am really visiting just a few websites a day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MxNitro Browser

« on: April 01, 2015, 06:11 AM »

I'll say one thing for it.  They seem to have some marketing panache. Instead of the usual wizard the update installer(more like an unpacker since it was portable) had a big green arrow and looked cool.  What was uncool was that it just stuck the folder in my user settings without asking.  But at least it looked good doing it. 

-MilesAhead (April 01, 2015, 06:06 AM)

I agree, the default installation folder that can't be changed is annoying, that's why I use the portable version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MxNitro Browser

« on: March 31, 2015, 04:00 PM »

Good for you! 
Have you tried Opera's latest chromium based?
Here's what GHacks reported in a recent article.

-dantheman (March 31, 2015, 03:30 PM)

Thanks, I'll have a look.  I have an installed version of Opera 28 but can't find this setting.  Will try again later on.