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General Software Discussion / Re: Comodo Internet Security -- a cautionary tale?

« on: April 13, 2015, 08:15 PM »

- Checksum everything
- Send it to the cloud like a DNS RBL lookup
- If your PC doesn't report back in, blacklist that checksum for the next poor fellow that tries to run it 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best SQL Express DB backup Software (SQL Express 2008)

« on: March 30, 2015, 05:53 AM »

If you do not verify your backups, you have not made backups.

-Shades (March 30, 2015, 12:39 AM)

This.

Spin up your server backup in a VM. Restore your SQL backup to another instance. Then you know the process works, and you will have been through the recovery steps so you're not winging it.

Then you do it again the next year.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best SQL Express DB backup Software (SQL Express 2008)

« on: March 29, 2015, 08:17 PM »

Can you try Expressmaint?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Removing images when printing?

« on: March 29, 2015, 07:37 PM »

A lot of printer drivers will have some of those features built in, such as 2-up (or more) printing and draft mode. I could swear there was one printer I owned that had more options like removing images, but my current HP doesn't.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« on: March 28, 2015, 10:00 PM »

Fortunately I seem to have missed the blue bar, but the buttons that are present now are not bothersome.

That said there is a good bit of wasted space, where there are really 4 rows of buttons (if you include the RSS button and Translate option). Maybe the first three rows (the buttons) could be condensed into one? Facebook buttons, then RSS which would be a good separator, then the others?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Syntax in Different Programming Languages

« on: March 26, 2015, 09:34 PM »

I like this one -- no filler just tables showing how small snippets of code would look in different languages.

-mouser (March 26, 2015, 03:00 PM)

But no Rexx. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: pretty-software.com does the same as Find and Run Robot and it is really free ;D

« on: March 25, 2015, 05:53 AM »

Nice of Cyberdoc to stick around and discuss though.

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« on: March 24, 2015, 07:17 PM »

Once you click the link in the email confirming your donation...

-Deozaan (March 24, 2015, 05:36 PM)

I always forget that step 

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Living Room / Re: Life sucks and here is why.

« on: March 23, 2015, 05:35 AM »

Sending positive vibes.

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Living Room / Re: Robert A. Heinlein - atmospheric processor question

« on: March 20, 2015, 08:17 PM »

The ^lichen method would actually be a very good approach, although current GMO abuses with Franken-foods have given the subject of genetic engineering a bad rap.

-bit (March 20, 2015, 06:21 PM)

Yeah, GMOs... ask the Thrints what happened to their food animals, the frumious Bandersnatch, that their genetic engineers, the tnuctipun, created for them... 

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Living Room / Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15

« on: March 15, 2015, 09:25 AM »

Missed my pie, in the middle of moving.

But it won't be too long until e day...  2/7/18 2:08:18!

Hmm, tossing the 0 placeholder in kinda defeats the purpose...

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General Software Discussion / Re: email account with fastest sign up

« on: March 13, 2015, 06:57 PM »

http://mailinator.com/

-Deozaan (March 13, 2015, 06:20 PM)

Thank you so much for the mention!! What a useful concept - I hope they have a number of subscribers to keep the service running. There are so many good valid reasons to have something like this (and of course bunches of unpleasant reasons).

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Living Room / Re: 128GB USB 3.0 Flash price/performance/durability recommendations?

« on: March 13, 2015, 06:47 PM »

I bought a Corsair 128gb stick with a slide-out connector (which I despise from all vendors). It quit working within two months, although it was reasonable to return and the replacement has worked flawlessly. They don't make that model any more, but I would have preferred the Flash Voyager GS model if it had been available (looks slim & sturdy) with the caveat that I'd really prefer the mini (but it maxes out at 64gb).

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Living Room / Re: Pick a number between 1 and 10

« on: February 27, 2015, 07:12 PM »

Not sure what base that all is though

-tomos (February 27, 2015, 05:17 PM)

Base villain.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: February 27, 2015, 07:07 PM »

How many people here ever used an EasyBake Oven as a kid?

-Arizona Hot (February 27, 2015, 05:35 PM)

Not me, although my daughter got one as a gift several years ago. She and a babysitter tried it out the first time, but they weren't happy with the results. That might be due to the fact that we only had compact fluorescent bulbs available in the pantry.

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Living Room / Re: Leonard Nimoy, Dead at 83

« on: February 27, 2015, 06:59 PM »

"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

Well said Jim.

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Year! 恭禧發財! 새해 복 많이 받으세요!

« on: February 19, 2015, 07:00 PM »

Happy New Year!

Luck be in the air tonight! 

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Living Room / Re: Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware

« on: February 18, 2015, 08:10 PM »

the task of delivering it to the target to infect the new hard drive without the OS noticing

-SeraphimLabs (February 18, 2015, 03:33 PM)

like... packaging it as a critical update from the drive manufacturer... which we regularly install on customer equipment...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: February 16, 2015, 05:29 AM »

maps of the solar system drawn to scale

-Renegade (February 16, 2015, 04:31 AM)

Pretty amazing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: bandwidth manager

« on: February 15, 2015, 08:09 PM »

You'll need to determine what will work with UK Sky. But in the end if your existing connection gives you an ethernet socket, there's nothing to stop you from putting another router behind the existing one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: bandwidth manager

« on: February 15, 2015, 03:01 PM »

Here is a D-Link DIR-615, cost is $25.74 US (at least on my Amazon page). Looks like the hardware revisions from C onward are supported by DD-WRT. Better?

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General Software Discussion / Re: OneNote is now free

« on: February 13, 2015, 07:36 PM »

Worth downloading for sure.

Worth using?

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General Software Discussion / Re: bandwidth manager

« on: February 12, 2015, 08:26 PM »

So, put the Sky Hub into bridge mode and buy a real router.

-4wd (February 12, 2015, 07:27 PM)

+1

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General Software Discussion / Re: bandwidth manager

« on: February 11, 2015, 07:21 PM »

You can look here to see if the QoS features of DD-WRT might fit your needs. If you think it might, then check here to see if your router is supported.

OpenWRT will likely do similar things and has a slightly different set of supported hardware, though I prefer DD-WRT's interface. I think Tomato tends to have more limited hardware support than either of the others.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: February 05, 2015, 07:07 PM »

You know, I've used TunnelVision for those purposes occasionally (although it's not the creeping, long term approach that can drive a man slowly mad...)