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General Software Discussion / Re: Reduce size of an image option in the contextual menu

« Last post by rgdot on February 23, 2013, 12:10 PM »

How about?

http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by rgdot on February 21, 2013, 07:21 PM »

@mouser car rental is much like house/apartment, one does it for the feeling of ownership otherwise it is always more expensive to own.

As far as my car goes, regular Corolla, very boring just like me 

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Living Room / Re: Create Your Own Pirate Bay?

« Last post by rgdot on February 19, 2013, 04:18 PM »

What happened to "Pirate Bay on a USB stick" they brought out awhile ago?

-Stephen66515 (February 19, 2013, 02:55 PM)

I am NOT a comedian

Someone lost the USB stick?

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Living Room / Re: More speed/bandwidth from an 802.11n laptop<-->WiFi Router/Modem connection?

« Last post by rgdot on February 18, 2013, 08:28 PM »

Of course 4wd is right. Closer to router, less walls in between, wireless chipset (latest firmware or otherwise) .... whole spectrum of things affect wireless speeds.

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Living Room / Re: More speed/bandwidth from an 802.11n laptop<-->WiFi Router/Modem connection?

« Last post by rgdot on February 18, 2013, 07:50 PM »

I think you will end up with 'advertised speeds are theoretical' no matter what you try.

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Living Room / Re: CyberNetNews - Still alive?

« Last post by rgdot on February 16, 2013, 06:29 PM »

Didn't realize you are a member here. Posted a comment over at the site

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Living Room / Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson Russian meteorite was 'once a decade' event

« Last post by rgdot on February 15, 2013, 03:34 PM »

So now that he has said that if it starts happening more often...panic

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Static webpage generator

« Last post by rgdot on February 13, 2013, 10:19 PM »

Very useful, thanks mouser

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Living Room / Re: The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords

« Last post by rgdot on February 13, 2013, 05:06 PM »

What is 'cord blood'? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by rgdot on February 13, 2013, 02:52 PM »

My input on the Opera debate: https://www.donation....msg317912#msg317912

-Stephen66515 (February 13, 2013, 02:46 PM)

I read your post. It's not dev's fault when even a simple <div> leaves spaces and other things unlike every other browser, etc. Google various standards like div and others and add 'opera' right after it to your search query

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by rgdot on February 13, 2013, 02:40 PM »

Sites like Amazon didn't render or work properly and with pretty much zero interest to correct it. I hate to take the bigger business side of things but with their market share and real standard elements not working/rendering like the rest of (98% or so) the web, this was coming.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by rgdot on February 12, 2013, 08:42 PM »

A couple more

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by rgdot on February 12, 2013, 07:57 PM »

Two likely on no one else's list

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Living Room / Re: Website under attack ... help needed

« Last post by rgdot on February 11, 2013, 04:14 PM »

Header file (not index) injected with a redirect code is one likely source.

Often in an up to date, 'secure' install that is on a shared server, another user getting compromised is enough.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by rgdot on February 10, 2013, 04:09 PM »

Trying out SRWare Iron, and it's no faster than Chromium.  Then I read this:
http://neugierig.org...es/2009/12/iron.html

Meh.  Chromium works fine enough.

-Edvard (February 10, 2013, 03:48 PM)

Obvious good points there but he is basing some of it

"if you don't trust Google to not do something sneaky, you probably shouldn't be running software made by Google,"

calling a fork "running" is a stretch

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Living Room / Re: Flash Under Attack, Emergency Patch Issued

« Last post by rgdot on February 09, 2013, 08:38 PM »

click2play or flashblock add-ons help more than just against attacks, also do it to bring resource usage back to sane levels.
One thing about flash I never understood is that update notifications only show up after reboots (at least that's the behaviour that I see) and I don't reboot often ...

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Living Room / Michel In Guides!

« Last post by rgdot on February 07, 2013, 11:24 PM »

A bit of  and 

A 28-year-old salesman named Adam Mascall from Luton received a very angry letter through the post from the people at Michelin Guides (i.e, the French restaurant bible universally revered in food circles) after he snapped up the "www.michelinguides.com" domain name for just £6 recently.

Michelin, who mistakenly allowed the domain to expire, then threatened to sue Mascall in a sternly-worded letter as he was infringing on their trademark.

Mascall, however, then wrote back to Michelin and told them that his website was actually "Michel in Guides.com" and began filling the holding page with hilariously photoshopped images of UEFA president Michel Platini in Girl Guides uniforms!

http://soccernet.esp...poke/id/1878?cc=5901

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by rgdot on February 06, 2013, 03:42 PM »

that made me smile 

Stephen your avatar is too large (1mb), cut it down to under 100k. !

-mouser (February 05, 2013, 10:19 PM)

Its less than 1mb (980kb)  - Loads fine on a shared mobile broadband connection (currently running at less than 2mbps)

[ Page time: 0.041s | Server load: 0.06 ]

-Stephen66515 (February 06, 2013, 02:11 PM)

One word: Cached

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Living Room / Re: Free Nationwide WiFi

« Last post by rgdot on February 05, 2013, 09:45 PM »

At the risk of making this a basement thread.
Would you rather pay for weapons or this? Not that it will really ever happen but still. Leaving it to corporations is of course an option but you will be paying for it in that case too because there is no chance in hell that would be free for ever, via Google or whoever

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by rgdot on February 04, 2013, 01:12 PM »

Lesson of this thread

Google doesn't allow you to move an inch

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a minimalist Desktop Calendar Application..

« Last post by rgdot on January 31, 2013, 01:31 PM »

The installer for Desktop iCalendar Lite is NASTY.

-app103 (January 31, 2013, 10:52 AM)

Thanks for the warning. As recently as last October this wasn't the case.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a minimalist Desktop Calendar Application..

« Last post by rgdot on January 30, 2013, 06:39 PM »

If you code it I would love it, always on the look out for such things of course

Agreed that the only knock against VueMinder is resource usage, not really blaming Dan just that it is that way. On both an old machine and newer one.

Another few suggestions that may or may not meet requirements but worth a look

Desktop Calendar http://www.tinnes.org.uk/
My Calendar http://myuploader.ne...//files/44/index.htm
Desktop iCalendar Lite http://www.desksware...p-icalendar-lite.htm
Ultimate Calendar http://uc.maximus.in.ua/

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Tours and Tutorials / Re: DonationCoder: Getting Started

« Last post by rgdot on January 30, 2013, 01:09 PM »

  Nice thanks

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General Software Discussion / FastStone Image Viewer

« Last post by rgdot on January 29, 2013, 06:04 PM »

After ~1.5 years, a new version! 

Version 4.7 (January 28, 2013)
Added Touch Interface (tap, swipe, pinch) support throughout the application
Added a new mouse gesture to move between images: Click at the bottom part of the preview window to switch to the next/preview image

and more
http://www.faststone...g/FSViewerDetail.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible

« Last post by rgdot on January 28, 2013, 09:50 AM »

Boot time is overrated, I am always concerned with program opening times. The difference between my ancient XP and newer 7 (with more RAM etc.) is/was mixed. There are still programs that take their time opening up, others which are definitely better.