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Living Room / Would any of you please social network with me at Digg or sites like it?

« on: July 23, 2009, 07:44 PM »

Would any of you like to join my social-network called, "Social Websters" so we can keep up with each other's art & other internet content? We can help each other vote up links so they get our work noticed at the homepages of sites like Digg.com, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.

If that's an okay idea for you, please contact me at Twitter.com/SocialWebsters

And/Or chat with me on YIM: SocialWebsters

Here's some of my artwork (it will be available to view later this week at OddCharacters.net

[King Narnia Antarctica]










[Click to ENLARGE Twitter Background]

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General Software Discussion / Would you recommend friends to use XP or Vista?

« on: May 08, 2009, 03:07 PM »

Would any of you tell me if XP is worst than Vista, in your opinion (and/or from your experience)? I would like to know whether Vista is easy for end-users to configure (and close backdoors). Since the NSA helped make both operating systems, I've found it difficult to find any "good reason" to download Microsoft's latest operating systems, but I have a PC, and I don't think Linux is any better than Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Please make your case for any of the Windows operating systems you would recommend to any of your friends. I need honest opinions & tips about how to make the system secure.

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General Software Discussion / Dell site won't help me: Please direct me to source of 64-bit drivers for XP?

« on: May 07, 2009, 10:02 PM »

Would any of you please tell me where to find a drivers pack for XP Pro (64-bit) that can work on Dell Inspiron 531S? The official Dell website does not offer such drivers. It only offers 32-bit drivers for that type of computer.

I'm searching for 64-bit drivers for XP is because I have no interest in using Windows Vista or any 32-bit operating systems from Microsoft. Like I mentioned before, the Dell website is not offering the proper drivers I need for this computer and the Windows XP (64-bit).

I've read articles about getting 64-bit drivers to work on that computer, but I haven't found any website that offers the same drivers. I'm basically on my own, according to this Dell expert (see below). That person told me about the drivers without sharing 1 single link to download the 64-bit drivers (or chipset) for XP, which he/she mentioned:

Dell does not support 64 bit in that model and the reason there are no drivers. You are basically "on your own" to try and find suitable drivers.

However, if you installed the Chipset drivers, Windows should either install a generic driver or find suitable drivers.

The correct install sequence is (1) Install Windows (2) Install chipset driver (3) Install Device Drivers.

On Intel systems the chipset drivers define what is on or attached to the motherboard. I assume the AMD drivers do the same thing.

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General Software Discussion / How does Flashgot work with portable DL Managers?

« on: March 09, 2009, 04:36 PM »

Would any of you please tell me exactly how to manage Flashgot (it's a firefox add-on/extension for download managers) so it will properly detect my portable download-manager applications?

In Flshgot-Options window:
I've tried to manually select & add the location of my portable download manager to the list of executables (list of available Download Managers on my machine) to detect when I want to download files:

When I add a portable download managers-program to that list, Flashgot brings up a window with a box that has "[URL]" in it. I don't know what I should do with that. So I just click OK, and move on.

Flashgot will detect my portable download managers, but whenever I click on a download-link, Flashgot has some sort of problem transferring the download-job to my portable application.

Please try Flashgot with a portable-download manager & tell me if it works well for you. I know it works with non-portable download manager-programs.

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http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/FlashGot.shtml

Screenshot (Example) of a non-portable DL Manager being added to that Flashgot-Options list of DL Managers to use when downloading a file (notice you have to select the location of the Manager application before Flashgot detects it: