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Living Room / Re: Watch lightning strikes in real-time
« Last post by techidave on June 24, 2014, 05:26 AM »
Glass packs?  I haven't heard that term in a long time.  Also known as Cherry Bombs or Smittys.   :P
102
Living Room / Nexus 7 and wireless charging
« Last post by techidave on June 14, 2014, 06:28 AM »
I was looking at the Nexus 7 in WalMart yesterday.  They said it had wireless charging.  I had not heard of that before.
Does it really work?  Can I still charge it via a wired connection?
103
Living Room / using OpenDNS or other free dns servers
« Last post by techidave on June 11, 2014, 05:57 AM »
I would like to use a "safe dns service" like OpenDNS, SafeDNS or Comodo Secure DNS.  I am in the United States.

they state for the best service is to add their ip addresses to my router.  Usually they come with some kind of dashboard.  If the service is in the router, how will the dashboard work?

by using their ip's without an account, will I still get safe browsing against the porn sites and other similar sites? 

thanks,
dave
104
Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?
« Last post by techidave on May 23, 2014, 04:46 AM »
with the new one being so large, do you find its like in your face?  which can be uncomfortable.
105
Living Room / Re: Need a free survey site
« Last post by techidave on May 13, 2014, 05:25 AM »
I have used this one in the past, it can do more than 10 questions.  esurveyspro

now Google Forms can do surveys.
106
Living Room / Re: WinXP is officially dead!
« Last post by techidave on May 01, 2014, 05:36 AM »
could you right click the executable file to choose Compatibilty Mode and then choose Win XP SP3 to run as?
107
Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap
« Last post by techidave on April 28, 2014, 05:19 PM »
After reading the links that HamRadio posted, I have to wonder if the author of ImgBurn has even tried to download his own product to see what it actually does.  I don't know enough about Open Candy to know if it is "harmful" or not.  But I do know that Conduit and the other crapware can be extremely difficult to remove totally. 

And how can the author deny the claims that all these people are making about his install routine.  "Where there is smoke, there is fire"   :P  Maybe he should listen a little closer and check things out instead of arguing with everybody about all the "opt outs" that are there.

<rant done>
108
Post New Requests Here / Re: Send an email when remote computer is not in use
« Last post by techidave on April 25, 2014, 06:07 AM »
why not use the chat feature to ask them if now is ok that is built into VNC after you have remoted in? 
109
Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap
« Last post by techidave on April 25, 2014, 05:57 AM »
I just last week downloaded the current version of ImgBurn from their servers.  I deselected the Conduit stuff.  I have noticed a problem with that machine but I better double check it to make sure.

As Carol said, this will be a deal killer for me too if they continue to add known malware to their installer.  Its bad enough that we have to put up with Open Candy.   :(
110
General Software Discussion / Re: Scary Driveby Attack / Mysterious failure / Other
« Last post by techidave on April 18, 2014, 11:16 AM »
Hmmm.  I will have to check it out.  Thanks Shades.
111
General Software Discussion / Re: Scary Driveby Attack / Mysterious failure / Other
« Last post by techidave on April 18, 2014, 10:11 AM »
is there any kind of a third party program that will "record" or "log" the efforts of chkdsk when it runs.  Sometimes those scans can take a really long time and it would be nice to know what if found if I am not around before it reboots.   :(  I try to run these at night anyway.

I have also looked in the Event Viewer logs but it doesn't record anything there.
112
General Software Discussion / Re: Conduit A is Killing Me
« Last post by techidave on April 09, 2014, 05:41 AM »
conduit is hard to get rid of completely.  I have tried a lot of different malware removers but they just cannot seem to eradicate it.  :(

if there is a way to do it, I would love to know what it is.
113
Living Room / Re: are wireless projectors just a bandwidth hog?
« Last post by techidave on April 06, 2014, 10:28 PM »
Shades, I am not a big fan of PPT either, especially when the presenter only reads what is on the slide.  I am perfectly capable of doing my own reading ... don't need to be read to.  :D
114
Living Room / Re: are wireless projectors just a bandwidth hog?
« Last post by techidave on April 06, 2014, 07:19 AM »
It would be power points most likely without voice overs.  Also they will show you tube videos.
115
Living Room / Re: are wireless projectors just a bandwidth hog?
« Last post by techidave on April 06, 2014, 07:18 AM »
We are using Ubiquit Unifi Pro for an access points.  Each room has their own AP.  If I am remembering correctly, we do have some limits in place.  I will be in that building on Tuesday and will try to double check for sure.
116
Living Room / are wireless projectors just a bandwidth hog?
« Last post by techidave on April 05, 2014, 05:50 PM »
is anyone using wireless projectors in the classroom.  They have come down in price quite a bit.  But, I was wondering what wifi projection will do to my wifi network that has ipads and laptops on it.  Almost all of the rooms have an access point in them.

I am looking at Epson EX5220 to use in our school. Epson

Does wireless projection take a lot of bandwidth?

Looking for some feedback here. 

Thanks
Dave
117
General Software Discussion / Re: Unchecky: automatically unchecking unwanted offers, while installing software!
« Last post by techidave on February 08, 2014, 01:35 PM »
I don't know how it works either, but it looks like they work with various installers.  If you find one it doesn't work with, then you can request they update it to work with it.

or something like this ... :-[
118
General Software Discussion / Re: Unchecky: automatically unchecking unwanted offers, while installing software!
« Last post by techidave on February 08, 2014, 07:59 AM »
I looked at this yesterday and it looks really good.  I installed it on my home computer and am looking to install it on the school computers too.  I get tired of sitting in front of a teacher computer only to find it has some mcaffee or norton sw on it.  I know that I didn't do it cause we don't use either one.  Sometimes I will see Adobe Reader 4 on them because they installed some really old educational software that things it needs ver 4 and they ain't smart enough to uncheck the box.   >:(

this could be really good piece to have to keep away all the junk that java and adobe want you to have!   :)
119
General Software Discussion / Re: CrossLoop – Simple Secure Screen Sharing
« Last post by techidave on February 02, 2014, 09:06 PM »
I will miss Crossloop.  Didn't use it all that much but when I did...

now will have to find another one  :(
120
Living Room / Re: Hard Drive Brand Reliability Data
« Last post by techidave on January 21, 2014, 09:30 PM »
when it comes to laptop drives, my experience has been Hitachi and Toshiba have more problems than the WD drives that I use.

3.5" drives, I find that Samsung and WD are at the top of my list.
121
General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?
« Last post by techidave on January 15, 2014, 05:29 AM »
+1 to Shades and Ath's response.  i was getting this same error while using the Win 7 built in utility.  :(  Then on a suggestion from a friend I tried 7-zip and it was able to uncompress it without any problems at all.   :)

I believe they used a newer utillty to compress it the win 7 tool just couldn't handle it.
122
Living Room / Re: Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard?
« Last post by techidave on January 03, 2014, 10:24 AM »
DR_Andus, i believe that they do.  Google's word process would be one.  I am not your typical app person.  I don't need a lot of apps, thus I don't download and play with many.  More and more of google's apps are designed to work offline.  1st generation of stuff, you had to be online, but now they are seeing one of the errors of their ways and changing it.  and they do have a dropbox app too!
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet
« Last post by techidave on January 03, 2014, 08:35 AM »
it appears its working after that.  i just removed the slash marks in front of CONFIGDIR=.

no errors at the moment.

thanks, Mouser
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet
« Last post by techidave on January 03, 2014, 06:24 AM »
it won't let me save the ini files either.  same reason.  it redirected to H and not F drive.  Also since I am not win 7, it should just be DOCUMENTS folder and not My Documents.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet
« Last post by techidave on January 03, 2014, 06:20 AM »
Mouser, I got the following error when I installed this at work.  My computer is part of a domain and the document folder is redirected to the server, hence the F drive.

it says: ATTN: Error Creating Log file
\\fserver\xxx\dave\my documents\donationicoder\processpiglet\operationslog.txt

so how do i fix this?
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