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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 21, 2011, 11:19 AM »

Whoa! Revolutionary new search engine! Will NOT track you!
[link]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 19, 2011, 10:28 AM »

Go into your account settings, there's a link there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 19, 2011, 03:09 AM »

I have a really hard time following how Google links all their services and which bits of info from one service get fed to one or more of the others.

I review the "view data stored with this account" section from time to time. Have to give the devil its due for having this under account settings. On my last visit I learned that I had "subscribed" to some Arabic language forum... (not much use to me coz I can't say/follow anything beyond "How are you?" and "Thank you" in that language - there's only a limited no. of posts one can make with those two phrases before being permabanned on a forum, methinks ) and that I had claimed ownership (confirmation pending) on a notorious music piracy site based in the UK that was recently shut down. There's too much voodoo going on for my liking and I feel foolish for browsing for as long as I have while being signed into my Google account simply to make a few things more convenient.

I had clicked a +1 button somewhere (I could swear I was signed out at the time) and a few days later I log into another Google account of mine and could see the link I'd +1'd. There was no seeking out on my part what ppl. had +1'd, Google just let me have that info., no questions asked, coz the accounts are "linked". No clue what constitutes a linked account either.

With FB, I know they're a**holes but their a**holery is limited mostly within their network. With Google being as ubiquitous as they are, the sky's the limit.


@40Hz - that was hilarious!  Esp. loved the 14 page letter bit!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Acronis Saves the Day

« on: July 17, 2011, 11:50 AM »

FWIW I have also had their Partition Manager hose my system on a number of occasions.

-Carol Haynes (July 17, 2011, 10:31 AM)

10 points for not giving up!  

I've had that happen to me too.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 17, 2011, 03:45 AM »

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 16, 2011, 02:33 AM »

Greasemonkey options (for the site you're currently at) are normally available from its status bar icon.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb backup method - lost several years of notes

« on: July 14, 2011, 07:04 AM »

Try running a deleted file recovery software on the mirror drive... you just might hit the jackpot.  

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 13, 2011, 02:58 PM »

This only seems to happen when you search via the main webpage. I use GoogleBar Lite (it's not the official Google toolbar) and get regular links. I think this may also be possible with other sites that serve as a frontend for Google's search engine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 12, 2011, 08:42 PM »

@40hz, you're most welcome to. I did feel a little icky about the "in-your-face" part though, probably would have put it differently if I'd been more thoughtful. "Less-omnipresent"?  

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General Software Discussion / Re: USB Drive shows Write Delay error

« on: July 12, 2011, 11:26 AM »

I don't think the PC would be powering down those devices during transfer but just for the heck of it, go to device manager and make sure power management is disabled for that USB root hub.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 12, 2011, 11:09 AM »

I know this is fake, but I'm sending it to everyone I know anyway. 



FUD FTW! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 12, 2011, 10:49 AM »

I'd like to see some smarter, less in-your-face Americans, get a shot at things.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« on: July 12, 2011, 10:25 AM »

I somehow don't see most of the Facebook crowd uprooting themselves from their cozy established networks to join Google+, which seems geekier and less fun. FB definitely has an upper hand here, they have the masses. They just have to react and tweak in whatever G+ is doing better, to nullify the advantage.

I'll just come out and say it, a big part of me wants Google+ to fail. Orkut is a running joke here and I can't even remember the name of their latest FAIL ("Wave"... I googled it... irony! ). It just feels wrong that they can keep fucking up and coming back because they have obscene amounts of money to throw around.

I don't trust Facebook, I trust Google even less.
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I alter an exe's File Description?

« on: July 10, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Windows does pick up that string from the .exe so you weren't entirely wrong. The program already had an entry in your registry, so if you modified the exe you'd have to locate and delete the existing entry and then do an... open with... browse to exe... before the modified string would come into effect.

You can use a resource editor like Resedit to take a peek inside your exe, if you're curious.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I alter an exe's File Description?

« on: July 10, 2011, 11:37 AM »

And your edit wasn't there when I posted my last post. We're going in circles here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I alter an exe's File Description?

« on: July 10, 2011, 11:36 AM »

Yep, have updated my post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I alter an exe's File Description?

« on: July 10, 2011, 11:22 AM »

Curt, look for the string in your registry under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Software-Microsoft-Windows-ShellNoRoam-MUICache


Edit: Apparently, the path is different starting from Vista.
Nirsoft to the rescue: http://www.nirsoft.n...s/muicache_view.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: recommend backup soft?

« on: July 09, 2011, 09:15 PM »

I know where you're coming from!

I've enabled an email notification in Acronis that triggers on failure. There are still a lot of things that could go wrong... I suppose I could get notified of mirroring failure using a command line mailer or something but you've got to draw the line somewhere. Easier just setting an alarm.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: recommend backup soft?

« on: July 09, 2011, 01:04 PM »

I haven't updated my backup software for a while now since things work fine and updating just leaves me with the job of ensuring nothing has gone awry.

I've recently started doing a rotating full system backup (Windows + installed programs) using True Image and a little batch file. The batch file takes care of the 'rotating' bit - deletes the oldest backups, so at any given time now I have a full backup of the last 7-9 days. These get mirrored to 3 internal HDDs daily and hopefully (this part's manual  ) to an external drive weekly. 

I'd been getting careless regarding full system backups and would only do them when someone (usually mouser ) reminded people to backup. It's a relief to have the thing automated and out of the way.

Trivia: I'm running the same Windows XP install now for seven years using drive imaging to save & restore clean images - it's spanned 3 major hardware upgrades, IIRC, and works like a charm.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« on: June 27, 2011, 11:42 AM »

Canada remains a joke compared to the rest of the developed world.
That's all I am going to say about that 

-rgdot (June 27, 2011, 10:52 AM)

Seriously? I remember going online from a public library in Toronto, it was a blazing fast connection, and this was almost a decade back! Maybe Canada used up all its bandwidth.

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Living Room / Re: Geocities Returns!

« on: June 25, 2011, 03:57 PM »

Everytime I see that sign the only Men at Work song I know starts playing in my head. 

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« on: June 25, 2011, 03:45 PM »

I pay for 30 Mb down/up EUR 30,- (USD 42) a month. No limits.

-wr975 (June 25, 2011, 12:59 PM)

That's awesome! I pay around $25 and get 1/30th the speed!

But I do wonder what people use these seriously fast connections for... I source 90% of my TV viewing from the net and barely have time to view everything.

Mahesh, I have a Tata Photon stick as backup should the MTNL connection go on the fritz. I've only had to use it once - it was faster than my wired connection, IIRC.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« on: June 22, 2011, 10:07 AM »

My nickname for my Internet connection is the "assie shiternet". Got one for yours?

Inter... NOT!    

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« on: June 22, 2011, 03:52 AM »

I just beat someone to last place. 

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Living Room / Spam Viagra Operations (Harder to follow than I'd imagined)

« on: June 15, 2011, 10:37 AM »

A team of researchers, studying the economics of email based spam, have released a detailed report on how the whole system works and how much do spammers make from these transactions. The researchers made over 100 purchases at these spam-advertised pharmaceutical sites for the study, spending a few thousand dollars.

http://www.labnol.or...ra-email-spam/19591/