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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: aShampoo Burning Studio 11

« on: September 24, 2012, 06:17 PM »

Hi Tinman, any chance you could add "Burning Studio" to the title in the OP.
Will make it easier to find, thanks!

I got version 11. I havent tried much with it yet, but it's not working out well for me so far:

• burn .mp4 file to DVD - gave a codec error (I then installed DVD Flick and that worked fine)
• the "Add" dialogue for data discs is pretty wonky - sub-folders show sometimes, sometimes not, sometimes some. I get it now, they're trying to hide all sub-folders, but not successfully
• adding folders to a disc via the "Add" dialogue is almost impossible - I had to get the folder path and paste it. That may be intentional, but not helpful to me.

I think I'll leave it rest for a month or two, hopefully they'll bring out an update...

-tomos (September 24, 2012, 07:48 AM)

  I Changed the subject title...
  I haven't had the problems you listed yet, but I haven't done a data disk burn yet.  I normally just copy/paste in Windows Explorer for data with InCD running in the background.
  Under "Settings>Service-Channel" you can turn off advertisements, announcements and other messages.
  Only problem I had was with the DVD +R DL media that I was using, kept getting a disk error.  I tried another brand (Not Memorex) and it works just fine now.  I've always had problems with the Memorex brand...  And note that their customer support went into action as soon as I emailed them with the problem.  If your having an issue, you should report it to them.  It may be something simple....

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 24, 2012, 05:59 PM »

Tinman you are exactly right....that's the goal of my site...

-Webpirate (September 23, 2012, 06:53 PM)

  Which is exactly why I posted about this site on this forum.  Now if we can just get some people to understand that it has nothing to do with spam.   lol

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 23, 2012, 06:50 PM »

Tossing an email address and grabbing a new one takes a couple of minutes. The stuff scambaiters do can keep scammers occupied for a lot longer.

You've got your heart in the right place, but you're approaching the problem in a wrong way - and I'm still afraid it'll do more harm than good.

-f0dder (September 23, 2012, 02:11 PM)

  A scammer tossing an email address and getting a new one means that all the possible "hits" to that scam will be lost and he has to start all over again from scratch.  That's why they hang on to the email addresses as long as possible until someone shuts them down.

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 19, 2012, 07:39 PM »

 

Speaking of spam, anyone had trouble with spam text-messages being sent to your cell #? If so, were you able to make it stop and how?

-kyrathaba (September 17, 2012, 07:00 PM)

  It's illegal for marketers to contact mobile phones.   You can file a complaint here: 
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints

-Tinman57 (September 18, 2012, 06:45 PM)

That's USA only last I heard.

-40hz (September 18, 2012, 07:43 PM)

I don't know about other countries, the fcc.gov address is for the USA obviously.

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 18, 2012, 06:49 PM »

  Most all ISP's provide configurable anti-spam tools.  If you haven't "tweaked" it, then it's still set at the ISP default settings, which is normally pretty strict.  You can also add addresses to a white list within these configurations.

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 18, 2012, 06:45 PM »

Speaking of spam, anyone had trouble with spam text-messages being sent to your cell #? If so, were you able to make it stop and how?

-kyrathaba (September 17, 2012, 07:00 PM)

  It's illegal for marketers to contact mobile phones.   You can file a complaint here: 
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PaintSupreme: Wacom tablet support including pressure sensitivity

« on: September 17, 2012, 06:55 PM »

   I recently started using Paint.net, which is a freebie.  It's a pretty serious image editor with tons of free plug-ins to download.  I got it to replace Photo Impact 8 (Commercial), which stopped working after one of those famous MS updates.....

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« on: September 17, 2012, 06:48 PM »

  I can't remember the last time I got a spam or scam email.  I turn over my spam mails to 3 different anti-spam organizations, including one government site.  My scams/phishing emails I turn over to two anti-spam sites and one anti-phishing site.  If I'm able to ascertain the ISP, I also send a nasty-gram to them as well.  Yeah, I hate spammers and scammers, they are the scum of the world.  I'm all for them being lined up, shot and mass buried with one marker saying "Here lies a bunch of scum, feel free to walk and whiz on their grave"....

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: aShampoo

« on: September 16, 2012, 07:48 PM »

  And on another note, their tech support is really good too. 

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Living Room / SpammerScammer

« on: September 16, 2012, 07:34 PM »

  Here's something to get even with the scumbag scammers of the world.  Whenever you get a scam email attempting to part your hard earned money into the hands of a worthless scumbag, go to this website and enter the scammers email address and the subject line of the email.  The scumbag will then be bombarded with fake emails, making it harder for him/her to actually be successful in hooking someone.  Do read the contents of the site, if you abuse it you WILL be banned.....

http://scammerspammer.com/attack.php

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: aShampoo

« on: September 03, 2012, 07:41 PM »

Dang... For $10, hard to go wrong! (I'm constantly having troubles with other titles... bought.)

-Renegade (September 02, 2012, 07:35 PM)

  Exactly what I thought.  I have Nero 10 updated to 11, but have nothing but problems with it.  And unless you use it every day for months at a time it's really hard to get around and use it.  And then there's the bloat.  I downloaded Burning Studio and it was only 176 mb, and it's not stripped down in any way.  As far as I can tell it has everything that Nero has.  Plus there's some themes and other stuff you can download to beef it up some more, but I don't need anything else than what it has now.
  I haven't had time to play with it yet, but it comes highly recommended from several sources, and other software I have from them has worked great in the past.  Here's to hoping that they're still as good as people say......

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Found Deals and Discounts / aShampoo Burning Studio 11

« on: September 02, 2012, 07:27 PM »

I just happened to come across this last night, and sure was glad too. This is a highly recommended suite, I just bought aShampoo Burning Studio version 11 last night. I've been using their products for years now. For the next two days both version 10 and 11 are 80% off, as with everything else they sell!!!!! V10 is selling for $7.99 and version 11 for $9.99. Kind of hard to pass up on a deal like that...Check out their other software for 80% off too.....

aShampoo

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ripping My DVD Collection

« on: July 29, 2012, 07:41 PM »

  I've ripped with DVDSmith Movie Backup many times and it has worked like a charm.  It will remove copy-protection and real simple to use.  Best of all it's free (Last time I checked anyhow).....
DVDSmith Movie Backup

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linus Torvalds on NVIDIA -- "F**k you!"

« on: July 12, 2012, 09:16 PM »

  Yeah,

zridling beat you to the punch, but 100% thanks for posting!

https://www.donation....msg291117#msg291117

Last time I buy NVIDIA period. Just don't care anymore. They want to **** with freedom, well, my free cash won't bother ****ing around with them.

-Renegade (June 17, 2012, 12:03 PM)

  Yeah, that's sad too.  I've always used nVidia based cards since I came to the PC.  I plan on going to Linux in the next couple of years, so I'll probably wind up having to buy another GPU...

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2012 - 100 Days of Summer Slumber

« on: July 12, 2012, 09:13 PM »

I wish i could do something about google and yahoo sending the newsletter to spam, but as you might expect, big companies like that don't care about us or what we want.  It's their world and they make the rules.

-mouser (July 11, 2012, 12:08 PM)

  Tis why I only use my POP3 service on my ISP.  Most all are completely configurable in how they treat your email, right down to a whitelist.....

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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?

« on: July 12, 2012, 08:23 PM »

  Yep, that's what I'm going to, Linux with Ubuntu and a dual boot with XP.  I'll be using Linux as the master boot....

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« on: July 12, 2012, 08:19 PM »

  I've got a beefed up 2.8 gz desktop, and whenever microsoft stops supporting XP updates, I'll be intalling Linux on this same computer with a XP dual-boot.  I'm not downgrading to win8.  I've done got really tired of all of microsofts shenanigans, especially with win8, and Apple isn't much better.  So far I think I'll be using Ubuntu as the front-end....

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Living Room / Re: Preparing for the inevitable

« on: July 12, 2012, 08:13 PM »

  I just put everything in a normal text file and put it on CDRW and throw it in the safe.  If there's ever a change that needs to be made, that's why I use a CDRW!  lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 14, 2012, 05:56 PM »

  I suppose the mouse/trackpad drivers have a properties settings available, have you looked in there for anything not kosher?
  The drivers issue is the only bad thing about Linux, but there's quite a few linux sites out there that have a stockpile of drivers and workarounds that linux users have found.
  When I go over to Linux I plan on having all the linux drivers downloaded and on a CD ready to install just in case they're not included in the GUI....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 06, 2012, 04:42 PM »

I thought Media Center was only being omitted from the Pro version. Almost all computer will ship with the Home version on - which begs the question if you upgrade to Pro do they REMOVE functionality?

Has anyone seen whether losing Media Center in Pro affects Media Player which has been in every version of Windows at least since Windows 98.

 From what I understand, if you already have Media Center you can use it on Win 8.  But considering it has to be "installed", unless you can find and get the installer to work your out of luck.  And I think that Media Center can't be separated from the OS disk to install on another machine according to MS's EULA.
  Win 8 and pro comes with Media Player.  But doesn't that beg the question would you still have to install all the codecs, which means you either find a freebie codec or pay for it?
  Here's a rundown of what comes with the different flavors of Win 8: http://www.pcworld.c...n_four_versions.html
  You can go to the MS website and ask a question to the MS agents for the proper answers....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 05, 2012, 07:33 PM »

  Oh Microsoft, you've done it again....    If you want to play  DVD's on Win 8, you have to pay extra.  As a result of dumping Media Center by default, out of the box versions of Windows 8 will also lose TV tuner support and DVD Video Object (VOB) file playback.

Windows 8 Dumps Default DVD Playback
Microsoft's Windows 8 will not ship with support for DVD
playback. It says DVD playback will require a "marginal cost" OS
upgrade or a third-party solution.
http://www.pcworld.c...lt_dvd_playback.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 05, 2012, 04:45 PM »

Apparently the Linux kernel can behave very strangely when it is enabled. Most forums I visited with regards to errors I experienced always told me to disable ACPI. For some chipsets it works, but with most it just introduces erratic behavior that drives you insane.

-Shades (May 04, 2012, 04:25 PM)

I don't even know what that means and why it matters! Care to help?

P.S. Where's our mascot Superboy to help carry the torch?

-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 07:01 PM)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for device configuration and power management by the operating system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows xp sound device problems

« on: May 04, 2012, 07:41 PM »

I had this same problem twice in XP. It seems XP resets the default to "Mute". Try going to controls, to sound and then just unclick the box for "mute".

-sword (May 04, 2012, 05:40 PM)

  I had that problem on Win 98SE, but never on XP.  I wonder if it has something to do with what sound card your using.  With my Audigy 2 ZS, when I go to Mute, the word "MUTE" is displayed on the upper left hand side of the monitor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 04, 2012, 06:59 PM »

Whenever you install Linux (whatever distro), disable ACPI in the BIOS

-Shades (May 03, 2012, 07:33 PM)

  Now that's an excellent tidbit of info.  Thanks!    I'm putting together a text file of important Linux stuff that I need to know before installing, and this goes into that text file.   

  Only thing to figure out now is if I'm installing a dual boot XP/Linux, what will be the outcome of disabling ACPI on XP......

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:32 PM »

  I suppose my only dilemma is if/when I do go to Linux, which flavor should I go to.  But that will be a discussion on a Linux forum.  I can only imagine the fighting that will/has break/broken out between the Linux flavor fanboys.
  I've used many many different OS's over the years including Unix, but I don't really have a clue about the differences in the Linux flavors.  Actually, I don't have a clue as to how to use Linux.  I suppose one good thing about that is if I don't like one front end, I can just blow it away and try another flavor without having to blow away the whole OS.  I actually have a Linux Distro, plus WinLinux 2001, but they are both old and outdated.
  I had thought about going over to Apple too, but as much crap as I've seen that they've put their user base through, plus the cost of their machines & accessories and a few other things, I decided not to even add them to the list.
  Methinks this will require much research.... For another couple of years I suppose.....