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. The error I'm getting isError 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): Unknown error.Seems familiar from a few aeons ago - say twelve (12) to fifteen (15) years? - but cannot for the life of me remember how to address it.
, so I'm hitting my Windows desktop (Win7, 32-bit), which has Apache, PHP, PERL, Python installed.
. Now I just have to set up IIS locally to make certain the testing will be good - the capt., for whatever reason, uses hosting with a Windows server <groan />. I think that's mostly because he's wary of setting up Apache/MySQL/PHP. Yes, he's been told about WAMP, but sticks with IIS anyway. Makes for some interesting conversations when he calls for advice 
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. The Capt. wants to know some stuff 'bout adding his new business to his Web site. I'm thinkin' he'd be best off with some CMS, but am hard put to recommend a suitable one. I'm aware of Joomla, Drupal, have a bit of experience with Concrete5 (?), but hard put to recommend one to him. Searched here, but nothing found seemed appropriate to this situation.
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.) Reason for this particular model is that my hand is at the most natural angle - for me, 30-45 degrees - thus no undue stress on the wrist. With the thumb controlling the primary mouse buttons & wheel, and first two or three finger[tip]s controlling the ball, there is minimal motion for any given digit or for the wrist. That's an important point for old (or young) arthritic hands. Tried the flat and the thumb controlled trackballs, but the Explorer was the least stressful - again, for me.
. I have documented the things I've done so far on the Gateway as a fallback - might even be able to script some of it for the Acer, but not certain my scripting abilities meet the requirements . So I broached the conundrum (?) here in the hopes that the wonderfully inventive, imaginative, and investigative minds of DC could help me to maintain my super lazy image 
.) as a surprise. He left all the necessaries to install the special stuff, so that's no problem.
.I wonder if there is a way to check a list of stuff that needs loading, then test against the actual system environment to see if it has loaded yet, and thus at least partially determine if the load process is done? If you could do that, you could probably write a small app to do this. Yet another nifty coding snack? So it would be something like application checks list of e.g. system services, sees the ones marked "autostart", and checks operating memory/process list/whatever for those services, if it sees one missing it displays it in a list with a red x or something, while displaying the loaded ones with a check mark. Could be an interesting little tool, and if it included timers from boot start that stopped as soon as the app loaded (i.e. a time indicator next to the app/service entry that showed how many minutes after initial boot it was actually loaded), that could really help pinpoint things that are slowing down the boot process. Granted such an app to track this would need to make sure it loaded first, which might be tricky...
. Wonder how you'd make allowance for startup stuff that want to update on the spot, though, and take over the process? 'Spose ya could just invalidate such updates, though, and make them a manual thing.
I use Chameleon Startup Manager Pro to mange my startup items.
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Good security tools that are worth their salt start as services before you even log in.Well, yeah, but not all security is about malware
. There are several instances in my startup that are related to data security, e.g., the data sync that was mentioned.I had so much stuff competing to get their icon in the tray at startup that half of them would fail. They would end up running in the background with no way to access them from the tray.Hm-m-m ... looks as though Lacuna Launcher worth a visit, as that's a problem I've encountered lately
. Never had to deal with it before . Stayed away from startup delayers since some bad experiences back in the 98/SE days. Yeah, I know. But sometimes it pays to be an old fogey .
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.., and the answers I saw, some of them, were amazing. Now, while these were mostly Windows-related, the question applies to any OS, I'd warrant.As for the laptop, unless you do a lot of performance computing with the thing, it's not worth getting an i7 IMO. Newer Core 2-based laptops with Win7 and a decent supply of RAM can be quite speedy. An i7 is really only necessary if you're a gamer, or doing some rendering or something.
As for brand, Dell's are actually fairly decent price-wise. We've got quite a few of them at my office (both laptops and desktops) and they've been reliable overall. I'm also a fan of Toshiba. Not so much HP, Gateway, Lenovo (Lenovo really makes odd decisions on its hardware design!). If you want pricey, check out Sony's VAIO line. But I wouldn't otherwise recommend them.-JavaJones (March 30, 2010, 12:42 PM)
. Yeah, I know, it's overkill - right now. But CAD will follow gaming in fairly short order, and I'm certain that Adobe is working on stuff right now that will want, if not need, it. Then GIMP will follow suit. It's amazing how fast some software can stretch the limits of technology. Prolly be years before most software will need, or even make use of, that kind of power. (Look at how long 64-bit has been around, then count the number of applications that make use of it .) But I'd like to play with it, and am in a situation right now where that is a viable option. It's a conceit, I know, but one I intend to satisfy <chortle />.
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