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Living Room / Re: Best explanation of the New Zealand internet blackout
« Last post by 40hz on March 21, 2009, 12:27 PM »If so, then here's our answer! 
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I sound like a broken watch but registry cleaners are pointless and dangerous. So you have a few out of date entries knocking about (so what) and you probably have hundreds of unused entries installed by common applications such as Windows and Office (to name only two) that deliberately insert empty registry keys that are only filled when you download a particular plugin or what ever.
Just because you don't perceive immediate problems doesn't mean they don't appear down the line. The main problem is that by the time you have a problem you don't even think to blame the registry cleaner.-Carol Haynes (March 18, 2009, 01:23 PM)
dvd burners are cheap enough that at a certain point you may want to cut your losses and just buy a new dvd burner.-mouser (March 18, 2009, 11:59 AM)
Btw, if you have relatively basic burning needs, I would recommend ImgBurn - nero is bloated junk.-f0dder (March 18, 2009, 11:59 AM)
This was my second attempt to repair my computers registry and thanks to your post, it’s FINALLY fixed. Perfect Optimizer worked on both my desktop and laptop computer. I will be recommending this best registry cleaner to all my friends .-dangdang7262 (March 18, 2009, 08:48 AM)
- really weird to see that askSam needs $245 extra for indexing the text!-Curt (March 17, 2009, 07:56 AM)
Yes, ÆD is a cruel, vile, nasty and evil place, definitely not for the faint of heart.-f0dder (March 17, 2009, 11:46 AM)
If you break the law, you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and nobody is above the law.-Deozaan (March 17, 2009, 12:41 AM)
much less of a failure rate compared to typical hard drives.-vegas (March 16, 2009, 09:09 PM)
Personally, what I'm looking for is somewhere that I can organise my growing collection of notes/ideas about various topics (which often overlap) and where I can then actually produce something from them - I'm still not sure what exactly and maybe that's part of my problem --tomos (March 15, 2009, 08:17 AM)
askSam is the ideal application to organize your information. askSam is a different kind of database - a free-form database designed for users rather than programmers. askSam makes it easy to turn anything into a searchable database: email messages, word processing documents, text files, spreadsheets, addresses, Web pages, and more.
askSam gives you the power of a database without the complexity. No need to program or learn a complicated query language. With askSam, you simply import or enter information, and you're ready to search. askSam users range from individuals organizing email, addresses, and research notes to corporations and government organizations managing meeting minutes, regulations, policy manuals, and corporate databases.
Note - as PCMag.com recently noted (absolutely cannot find the link, offhand), SpamBayes does take a week or so to get set up - it has to be trained/train itself to filter your mail. Just a word to the wise-Darwin (March 16, 2009, 06:04 PM)
Recession Pressures: National Retailers Not Honoring Sale or Price Match Policies. What You Can Do To Beat Them. HD GURU Investigative Report
These are tough economic times. Facing lower sales volume and declining revenue, some “big box” electronics retailers are apparently fighting back by not honoring their own pricing policies.
After reading a recent report by laptopmag.com that cited Office Depot stores for ordering its sales clerks to tell customers that “sale” laptop computers were out of stock—unless the customers first agree to purchase software as well as extra cost, extended warranties and in-store set-ups (see link here)—the HD Guru went undercover to investigate sales and price matching policy performance at local Best Buy outlets.
Source: Office Depot Associates Routinely Lie about Notebook Stock
March 10th, 2009 by Avram Piltch
Times are tough—apparently so tough that some associates at Office Depot are willing to turn notebook customers away if they aren’t spending enough on extras. According to several LAPTOP readers, including a current Office Depot employee we interviewed, the retailer’s sales staff are under such intense pressure to sell such “attachments” as Product Protection Plans and Tech Depot Services, that many will tell customers who turn down these services that the computer they asked for is not in stock, even when it’s sitting right in the stock room.
Keep in mind that they do allow you to read your magazines online, on their site, without having to install any software. So you can read them without it, now.-app103 (March 11, 2009, 05:50 PM)