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Living Room / Re: TV Characters -- Love / Hate -- By Show

« on: March 18, 2008, 06:52 PM »

House
   Love
    Gregory House
     He's sarcastic, witty, brilliant, and doesn't care what others think
   Hate
    None
   
   

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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)

« on: March 06, 2008, 07:28 PM »

Thank you, John

153

Living Room / Re: Haiku Poetry Messages for Microsoft Errors

« on: March 01, 2008, 12:34 PM »

My cousin is a  retired college professor. He is also very big on all things Japanese.  I e-mailed him , giving the website link that  Darwin provided ( http://www.crisbrady.net/WinHaiku.html ) .  He e-mailed back that one of his students did a paper on haiku and included most of them in the paper.  I asked for the year and the grade but have not heard back yet.

154

General Software Discussion / Re: Monkey Dash: Play test my game!

« on: February 29, 2008, 07:04 PM »

Ok  send it to me.  I was in the toy biz for 35 yrs

155

Living Room / Re: Haiku Poetry Messages for Microsoft Errors

« on: February 29, 2008, 11:45 AM »

Darwin

These are wonderful !!  May I pass them on ?

156

Living Room / Re: could wall colour help or hinder your work?

« on: February 26, 2008, 06:29 PM »

In the late 80's Anthony Schembri was the Police Commissioner in the City of Rye NY.  I had a store there and knew him.  He was the inspiration for the TV show  The Commish .

See this  article:   http://www.kpchapman...d-teens-in-the-pink/

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Living Room / Re: USB Flash Drives: What to look for or avoid.

« on: February 26, 2008, 06:25 PM »

 For what it is worth,  I bought a  no name ( super flash drive is printed on it) at a computer show about 18 mos ago. 4 GB  USB 2.0  I paid $ 35.00.  I don't know how fast it reads or writes but it is fast enough for me and the price was right (Oct  2006 ).  I loaded portable apps on it Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office. All work fine.  U3 drives  take up a lot of space for the " U3 " function . (The U3 drive  part doesn't work on  my wife's Vista machine ) I don't think U3 is worth it.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for February 21st - Codename "Vertigo"

« on: February 22, 2008, 06:36 PM »

As it always is,  a very interesting newsletter.  It  takes a lot of work and I ( and many others )
appreciate it very much.

Lew

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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club

« on: February 22, 2008, 06:17 PM »

  1)Today I am going to research how to manipulate the Setting tab in the Display Properties box via the Win32 API, so I can do it programmatically using AutoIt.
  2)I'll research how to code a mIRC script
  3) Use VBA to generate a graphical representation of a hierarchical data structure in Excel

I don't even understand what ANY of the above means, but I am GOOD at eating breakfast.

Lew

160

Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« on: February 22, 2008, 07:56 AM »

Incompetence.

Lew

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Living Room / Re: The Longest Joke in the World

« on: February 18, 2008, 01:35 PM »

I loved it   I read it from start to finish.  I will pass it on !!

Lew

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Living Room / Re: Pen & Paper To Computer Interface

« on: February 08, 2008, 07:48 PM »

Tinjaw

I've been looking at CyberPad for about 1 1/2 yrs now.  I have not pulled the trigger because:
1) 1.1  USB port                hey it is 2008
2) I can't find any retail store that carries it  only on the web
3)Bundled with Evernote 1.1     I have 2.2
I just wonder if it is still supported. It does not seem to be  current / updated.

Lew

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Living Room / Re: New Captcha System for DonationCoder.com

« on: January 18, 2008, 12:07 PM »

zero

164

General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« on: November 28, 2007, 07:59 PM »

I vote for RoboForm2Go. It's on my thumb drive and works on any computer I use along with portable firefox. 

Lew

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Living Room / Re: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader

« on: November 19, 2007, 02:35 PM »

 " but it will certainly reKindle interest "   I love that line.

I for one am interested in a reader.  I looked at the Sony last year, but just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger . But I would really like to try before I shell out $ 400.00.

Lew

166

C / C++ / Re: Free Course: Computer Programming I (using C)

« on: November 14, 2007, 07:33 AM »

Cool    I am going to do this.   I did a video course in Physics from MIT last year and loved it.

Thanks

Lew

 

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: October 29, 2007, 06:21 PM »

Ralf

That solves my extra year.   

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: October 28, 2007, 06:30 PM »

My date is  11/12/2004    but it says   alive 3 yrs  11 months  6 hrs 55 min 29 secs

BUT  from 11/12/2004 to 10/28/2007  should be   2 years, 11 months, 16 days

Is it me ?

Lew

169

General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Released today

« on: October 21, 2007, 06:08 PM »

And I just got my 7.04 CD last week.

Lew 

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« on: October 15, 2007, 07:46 PM »

Great Newsletter - as always.   

Lew

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for September 25 - Codename "Chatty Kathy"

« on: September 27, 2007, 06:26 PM »

Thanks for another very interesting newsletter
BUT   the doll was  Chatty Cathy  with a " C'"  by Mattel  late 50's ( your probably too young )
but I spent  35 years in the toy business

Lew

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Living Room / Re: Prelude to request for help for distributed pc cycles help from dc community

« on: September 25, 2007, 06:36 PM »

If I'm not to late my computer is on from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM EST every day.

Lew

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« on: September 19, 2007, 12:38 PM »

Direct Acess for programs I use  often every day   
FARR for programs I use occasionally and for programs I know I have but don't always know where

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Living Room / Re: How much RAM do you have on your PC?

« on: September 17, 2007, 06:27 PM »

I have 1.2 GB on my XP laptop.  I just bought my wife a new laptop ( old one died )
2 GB running Vista Premium Home..

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Found Deals and Discounts / Direct Access 40 % off Sept 20

« on: September 17, 2007, 09:08 AM »

Darwin reviewed this software last week  He liked it and I like it very much
Bits De Jour has it 40 % off on the 20 th

  http://www.bitsdujour.com/previews.aspx

Lew