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Living Room / Re: Comcast caught hijacking traffic

« on: April 03, 2013, 07:26 PM »

a man-in-the-middle attack, courtesy of your ISP

-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 06:56 PM)

That's not a man in the middle, that's an inside job! 

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Living Room / Re: Cheap LED torches/flashlights - any good?

« on: April 02, 2013, 07:48 PM »

I bought a 3-pack of LED flashlights at Costco last fall.  They are very bright (which is welcome for walking, and cleaning up after, three big dogs in the dark).  I keep one in my coat pocket, one in the leash bucket, and one near the door.  The switch is a button on the end which goes from off to very bright to VERY BRIGHT to flashing.

Within two weeks the switch on first light I had pulled out had already started to get flaky, and two weeks after that it was useless enough that I tossed it.

That said, the other lights have been very reliable and have lasted through the winter without a hitch (and in fact I picked up another 3-pack before they were all gone).

FWIW I also have an LED Lenser which I keep at my bedside table.  Don't use it often but it has always been perfectly reliable.  It cost more than that 3-pack did, but I expect there is better consistency in the units, and heavier duty cycle switches.  Especially in the cheap LED lights you see ($3.99 at the Office Depot checkout line) the switches are the weakest link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: image backups after OS reinstall with clean system

« on: March 25, 2013, 08:54 PM »

I've also used Paragon's disk management products for about 15 years and have found them to be rock solid. For the past 5 years have relied on Paragon HD manager exclusively for my backup imaging.

-xtabber (March 24, 2013, 02:52 PM)

+1 for that - same here.  I try to take full images every few weeks, rotating between two copies on different external drives.  I have restored more times than I wish, including restores to different hardware (although not to a VM yet).

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Living Room / Re: NULL

« on: March 15, 2013, 08:16 PM »

Which do you think, NOP or IEFBR14?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« on: March 10, 2013, 06:49 PM »

My HP doc says you should press F11 repeatedly, about once a second, to get to the Win 8 troubleshooting menu.  ESC or F10 once a second should get you into the BIOS.  FWIW.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7 desktop improvements

« on: March 10, 2013, 06:15 PM »

For the speaker volume, click the little up-triangle to show the rest of your tray icons, then click Customize.  Find the speaker icon and change it to say Show Icon And Notifications.

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Living Room / Re: Here is an odd windows service problem

« on: March 08, 2013, 08:30 PM »

Maybe I am being stupid but I thought if you wanted to run something as a service it had to be registered as a service??

-Carol Haynes (March 08, 2013, 08:09 PM)

Think of all the viruses and rootkits that found a way around that... 

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Living Room / Re: Here is an odd windows service problem

« on: March 07, 2013, 06:47 PM »

Can you give us a hint on what the service or driver was?  Or what hardware?  One person's "ancient Dell" might be another's "newest stuff we got"...

One of our clients still has a stash of Gx1s, although I think they finally got rid of their 6300s.  In fact we just junked a 2400, most of their plants are running with 2500s now (with a smattering of newer boxes).  Cost avoidance is really big with some sectors of US manufacturing...

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Living Room / Re: Recommendations for a Host OS?

« on: March 06, 2013, 06:35 PM »

I presume you want something more like a hypervisor on your hardware, not something like Virtualbox that runs inside an O/S.  I had pulled down an older VMware hypervisor but could not bring myself to install it (I despise VMware).  Have not had enough time to play with Xen personally, though I have rights to muck about with my company's Xen farm enough to cause trouble.

For your Windows box, try disk2vhd from Sysinternals to pull an image to a file.  I made a copy of a box just recently and it worked fine (in Virtualbox) with minor mucking about.  You'll most likely need to reactivate to keep Microsoft happy, of course.

I'll be very interested in the responses you get, thanks for the question! 

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Living Room / Re: In Car Gadgets & Doodads

« on: March 01, 2013, 06:32 PM »

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And bolted on is the [url=http://www.glind.com.au]Shower

-4wd (March 01, 2013, 06:13 AM)

That Glind shower sounds nice!

Didn't there used to be similar products that would heat your washer fluid in cold weather climes?

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Living Room / Re: Internet Explorer 10 arrives on Windows 7

« on: March 01, 2013, 06:17 PM »

So, did anyone click Install?  What additional programs were contained?  What settings were customized?

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Finished Programs / Re: Another small clipboard monitor

« on: February 24, 2013, 07:16 PM »

Thanks flamerz!  Clean and simple.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can't capture Selected Region in Windows 8 unless Taskbar is "selected'

« on: February 17, 2013, 07:07 PM »

Works fine for me in "legacy desktop".  I never see metro mode (or modern, whatever they decided to call it) so I can't comment on that. 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Delete folders within directory but not the files within the folder

« on: February 11, 2013, 05:28 AM »

Just to clarify, what do you think should happen when there are filename collisions?  Say in your example there is a "read.me" in every folder, as well as that one desired file way down deep - what should happen to all those read.mes?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Free Linux DNS server

« on: February 05, 2013, 08:12 PM »

It seems to have worked for this guy using BIND.

I had BIND set up and working fine for my old company, then we put in Bay infrastructure and installed Bay's NetID to combine DNS and DHCP.  (Wow, how overly complicated can you get!)  But of course then A/D came in (which was a good choice for this company) and since we had the DCs everywhere that took care of our DNS needs without additional infrastructure.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lock PC during Boot. ???

« on: February 03, 2013, 07:06 PM »

It all depends on how hard you want to stop someone from booting the computer - if they can open it, they can boot it.

-4wd (February 03, 2013, 05:24 PM)

Agreed.  There are lots of ways to make it increasingly difficult to get at the contents of the computer.  Really depends on the requirements - is it necessary to just require a password to sign on, or prevent the computer from booting at all, or prevent any access to the drive contents even if it is removed from the computer?

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Living Room / Re: Super Bowl Commercials

« on: February 03, 2013, 04:22 PM »

I vote for the goat for sale 

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Living Room / Re: FBI ALERT SCAM - Malware or Virus ?

« on: January 23, 2013, 06:18 PM »

For what it's worth, I tend to use Bleachbit for cleaning up various junk/temp files occasionally.

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Living Room / Re: Java Update on Tuesday

« on: January 17, 2013, 07:32 PM »

why would that be any different from the technetwork page?

-Tinman57 (January 17, 2013, 07:20 PM)

Because the more dev-oriented types probably wouldn't want the dratted thing, and it's generally poor practice to tick off your developers?

Of course, Joe User apparently doesn't mind toolbars... (have we had a poll asking the most toolbars you've had to clean off someone's pc?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... multiple IP camera software (opinions or suggestions)

« on: January 12, 2013, 07:43 AM »

Great questions!  I have used Dorgem in the past for single cameras (although it supports multiple) but they're locally attached.  Also have a Linksys wireless IP camera (one of the cheapie ones, no pan/tilt/zoom) that came with its own software, but the camera regularly loses its address.

After you get your six months of diddling done, please let us know what works! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text post processing with KEdit, etc.

« on: January 11, 2013, 02:14 PM »

I would be remiss if I did not mention SPFLite here, which is basically a Windows version of the old IBM ISPF editor, with some enhancements.  I used ISPF for years so I'm used to how it works, and it has some capabilities that are hard to match in other editors.  I use SPFLite not often but regularly these days.

And now that someone has mentioned KEXX I will have to do some looking... I have used Rexx (Regina specifically) for lots of scripting tasks that plain batch won't handle and I'm curious how Kexx compares.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free clipboard manager — Ditto vs ClipX vs CLCL vs Clipboard Help+Spell

« on: January 10, 2013, 08:07 PM »

When was the dotTech article written?  He complained that Ditto doesn't date stamp its entries or allow search.  In fact if you hover over an entry for a moment the popup shows the Added and Last Used dates, and there is a search field right across the bottom of the window.  I'm not sure how you could miss those.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A new harddisk for my old notebook?

« on: January 08, 2013, 10:43 AM »

Oh, I don't think you have enough options yet...  how about trying Disk2vhd while it's all running fine, then run the resulting vhd in Virtualbox on a new PC... then you get your familiar environment and programs, just as they are now, running probably at least as fast, on new hardware (with a new warranty)? 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: More Autonaming tokens

« on: January 08, 2013, 10:17 AM »

I like those ideas, especially the %clean% idea!  (Although my condolences for having to work in SharePoint! )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rumors of Adobe releasing CS2 for free? (true or NOT true)

« on: January 07, 2013, 07:24 PM »

For my part, a purchaser of Photoshop 7, CS1, CS2 and CS3, I heartily applaud the result, no matter how incredibly absurdly it has been handled.  Adobe licensing assistance is THE PITS.  A valid licensee can install the software on two PCs, but heaven help you if you have a head crash on one of them because they won't talk to you over the weekend.  I have had to sneak time in a busy workday and remote into my home PC to get it licensed again.  Heavens, Microsoft is far far better!