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Living Room / Re: Why I haven't made a donation to DonationCoder.com -- and why I might later?

« Last post by tomos on July 26, 2007, 04:58 AM »

re the visitor status thingy:

I think once people join the forum they should be simply called, for example, "forum member". (i.e. no visitor status at all)

I think one of the main reasons to donate (as mouser says) is for the software or in order to have credits to give to others (for tips, recommendations, reviews, etc. & is esp. handy for people like me who need help at times!

I've always felt re the forum that anyone who participates is already contributing in a very positive way - to the site at any rate - I mean if the forums were dead I suspect the whole thing wouldn't work so well..)

From the point of view of encouraging donations, I don't think the visitor status makes anyone donate (but who am i to know ) & I guess my point is I suppose that I think it's an unfair title as such.

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Living Room / Re: Copyright law explained with a simple drawing

« Last post by tomos on July 26, 2007, 04:25 AM »

other side of the coin?

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Living Room / Re: Comic blogs — I love 'em

« Last post by tomos on July 26, 2007, 03:41 AM »

What The Duck


"Whipper-Snappers"

(apologies to Cody) the comments are good where people try to give each a title

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General Software Discussion / Re: Print on PDF

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2007, 11:34 AM »

do you mean like you'd like to draw or type "on" the PDF? (edit it?)
superimpose whatever you want on top of it?

I am looking for a program that would duplicate this functionality.

on screen/modifying the file?

just a bit unclear what exactly you're looking for 

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General Software Discussion / Re: GMail Drive in My Computer

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2007, 04:33 AM »

anyone using Amazon S3/Jungledisk?
sounds like a very good deal to me - once off (small) payment -no monthly bills
or am I wrong.. unfortunately I believe I am wrong

Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB - all data transfer in $0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB Data transfer "in" and "out" refers to transfer into and out of Amazon S3. Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 is free of charge Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead. http://www.amazon.co...e.html?node=16427261

wonder what a "GB-Month" is    that's per GB per month I guess ..?

if you go here they'll estimate your bill but you have to know what a GB-Month is  )

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Snailware: Newer Software for Older Slower PC's

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2007, 04:15 AM »

another aspect:-
what's the situation these day with Win98 -
I mean it not being updated anymore - are there alternative sites that help keep it secure?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2007, 02:51 AM »

Check out Adobe Reader Lite at http://www.msfn.org/....php?showtopic=88167. If that's not what you're after, search the MSFN forum, there are a few pdf reader stripped down version circling around.

-PhilB66 (July 22, 2007, 06:28 PM)

thanks Phil

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 04:27 PM »

I think you might be refering to pdfspeedup.

-jgpaiva (July 22, 2007, 08:20 AM)

http://www.tnk-bootb...rted&id=7F7290B5 -Adobe Reader SpeedUp

-PhilB66 (July 22, 2007, 10:02 AM)

thanks guys, but no, that wasnt what i was thinking of -
& this is one of those very rare cases where I'm sure there was a cleaned up version (for want of a better way of putting it) about a year ago maybe - but it probably just out of date now anyway.
Will probably go for the Adobe install at some stage, thanks!

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 01:30 PM »

600th post
new badge,



jaysis, don't know meself 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Income 4 Dummies

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 01:27 PM »

If it's free why doesn't it (the website) or you say anything about the content?
-
I mean what's in it as opposed to what's not in it...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 07:51 AM »

So I probably will install Acrobat Reader as well -
there used be a sort of a cleaned up version available from somewhere -
somewhere beginning with "N" ? ... (I spy with my little eye... of course it could have begun with something else)
-
Ring any bells anyone?!

-tomos (July 19, 2007, 04:11 PM)

I thought it might have been Neowin or nlite but couldnt find anything there

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 03:12 AM »

tomos - there was a mini gathering?
tell me and i'll give you your badges.

-mouser (July 21, 2007, 05:54 PM)

Well,
I had been hoping to get up there for a while & in the end the one week I was able to get up I didn't have a car so had to borrow one which was touch & go for a while so to cut the story short I think we only confirmed thurs evening the visit for friday.
Journey up from Kaiserslautern took 5hrs instead of the 3 in google's perfect world - 2 traffic jams & 1 short detour in search of petrol - I'm marked on the map, Mike is up there somewhere in the top left.

Tom (tomos) and I had a lovely vist at Grotte Scladina ...

-Darwin (July 22, 2007, 02:06 AM)

Yeah, it was especially nice hanging out there where Mike works, sitting outside at the foot of a small steep hill in top of which is the cave they're excavating ..

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2007, 03:01 AM »

  that was just after the falconry show -
he must have come out of hiding when the birds of prey got tied up again!

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by tomos on July 21, 2007, 06:01 PM »

no - yes - sleep - tomorrow tell - goodnight..

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by tomos on July 21, 2007, 05:49 PM »

Hey!
got to visit Mike - nice guy - well worth a visit (but sure we knew that already, didn't we!)
we hung out yesterday (friday) evening and again this morning (first time I ever slept in a museum!) & did a bit of sightseeing with some of his co-workers today.
Yeah,
nice time.
me gotta sleep now though, too much driving -just back a couple of hours- & a strong Belgian beer at the journeys end..
take their toll 

zzzzTom

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2007, 04:51 AM »

Automation is my goal for everything, but the speed limitations of UNMAINTAINED COMPUTERS , dialup, snails, etc keep me from being able to automate things.

-wreckedcarzz (July 20, 2007, 02:45 AM)

you could produce a dialup version & a broadband one 

Maybe a "recommended software" area, for programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Pidgin, etc?

dont understand?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2007, 01:57 AM »

sounds great & getting better!
how about throwing in dcupdater in there for luck 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by tomos on July 19, 2007, 04:11 PM »

quick post
re viewers again:

tried to dl Adobe Reader today & it did it's damndest to include "Photoshop Album"
Then it would [NOT!] allow me to save it - wanted to install straight away (in FF anyway)

So I tried out the PDFXChange Viewer - it does look great, great image quality.
I miss though zoom keyboard/mouse options (Ctrl+scroll, crtl+/-Alt+Spacebar + mouse drag)
Once you get used to them it's a real pain to use toolbars/menus
Unfortunately  PDFXChange doesnt have hardly any shortcuts... but I'll definitely be keeping it

So I probably will install Acrobat Reader as well -
there used be a sort of a cleaned up version available from somewhere -
somewhere beginning with "N" ? ... (I spy with my little eye... of course it could have begun with something else)
-
Ring any bells anyone?!

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Writing Software

« Last post by tomos on July 19, 2007, 03:26 PM »

Tomos, thanks for the alert about TextArranger.  I just looked it over and tried to figure out just how I would use it.  I haven't come up with any ideas that are not covered by other software just as well.  Maybe I'm missing something.  How would you put it to use, as a writer?

-TomColvin (July 19, 2007, 08:08 AM)

First:
well I just came across it in my download folder & went to the web page for a look (hadn't even gotten round to installing it.. so thanks for checking it out!)
Second:
I'm not very familiar with software for writing (learning from your blog though!)
Third: I aspire to write ... as opposed to being "a writer" 


PS you can just paste a URL - it will automatically show up as a link. I'm sure there's a post somewhere telling you how to get fancier with links (if you want!)... will look see

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Writing Software

« Last post by tomos on July 19, 2007, 03:44 AM »

searched here & in Tom's blog but couldnt find anything about this
(havent tried it myself)

TextArranger is a multiple textbook manager which provides up to 5 separate textbooks. Each textbook can contain an unlimited number of different texts ordered in a hierarchical tree structure. So it is easy to combine texts of the same context in a folder and keep a clear overview of the information. LINK HERE!

Feature Overview: # Richtext, Bitmap and JPEG support # Folders of different colors # Textbook Compression # Strong text encryption (Blowfish) # External editors can be used # Custom colors and font # System tray support # Detailed help file

Free/Donationware!

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General Software Discussion / Re: imaging & partitioning queries

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2007, 11:35 AM »

An OEM version of Acronis TrueImage 9 is available from "NothingButSoftware" for $10 + $5 shipping:

http://www.nothingbu...tCode=36864&ai=0

-mwb1100 (July 17, 2007, 04:32 PM)

thanks (again) mwb
unfortunately the international shipping is 25$ ..

I got a free copy of Acronis 7 a while back - I think it's upgradeable, but will start with that at any rate & see how I get on..

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Living Room / Re: Google in Sicko Storm - Welcome to democracy google style

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2007, 11:16 AM »

Situations like this can only be mandated by public policy (the merits of this mandate not withstanding), and is what is most commonly seen in most free-markets today.  Often these regulations can be seen as protective and/or anti-free-market; but in a global market, there is no
way a consumer or even a significant sub-group can hold sway.  It is only when the TOTAL market (or significant portion thereof) deems this to be against THIER values, does the "consumer" hold any sway over the corporation.

-steeladept (July 17, 2007, 08:54 AM)

Look at food -
Nestle who has always been one of the big bad corporations is now producing a lot of organic food - it's quite possible they're paying paltry wages etc., but the fact is when people want something, the big corporations (& everyone else) go and produce it or grow it.

-tomos (July 17, 2007, 09:16 AM)

I am very confused by the example you showed, as that has no bearing (that I can see) on the moral values the market places on the corporation.

-steeladept (July 17, 2007, 11:34 AM)

well I was following in the footsteps of the Nike example -
shoes, food, it's all the one in terms of how it works
Whether you like organic food or not -
it seems like a big improvement on what Nestle have gotten up to in the past -
which isn't relevant here & I wouldn't know enough about it anyways to talk about it properly - rather the point being they are responding to peoples wishes.

In ways I'm saying the only "morality" brought to the table is by what people accept or dont accept in terms of behaviour etc.
You can try & regulate for that, but I still think it will boil down to what the people accept... and the less people accept something the less it will happen.

That's just my opinion* - I havent anything to quote to back it up and I'm no expert like some of the people writing here - but I believe it's a fairly fundamental "thing" (cant think of a more appropriate word )

* probably influenced by having lived in Ireland in the 80's & 90's - a time of major corruption, in particular amongst developers & politicians - it wasn't the regulations (those in place were casually ignored) or lack of them that affected their behaviour...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multisession burning

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2007, 06:13 AM »

You may want to see if disabling WinXP's built-in CD writing might help out:

http://www.microsoft...t_03september16.mspx

-mwb1100 (July 17, 2007, 10:04 PM)

Wow, that sorted it THANKs mwb

so it's probably a Windows problem  ...
Anyways, I'm very happy with that solution 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multisession burning

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2007, 09:45 AM »

Well, after a updating multisession DVD, the most recent additions didnt show in the Plextor drive but did show in my other DVD drive

-tomos (July 06, 2007, 12:48 PM)

I'd check Plextor for a firmware update on the drive.

-mwb1100 (July 06, 2007, 03:08 PM)

well,
I updated the driver & it's gone even stranger...

If I burn a disc in the Plextor drive - it burn okay*, but reads in the same [Plextor] drive as -
"Momentan auf der CD vorhandene Dateien"
which is Windows speak for these files are ready for burning or something to that effect

* - It reads fine in the other DVD drive..

If it's multisession & I update it, again it shows fine on other drive,
but Plextor one is still showing the same file list as previously (cant remember the english - available to burn?)
Also deleted files arent deleted but I cant remember what the default is there with Nero Express.

Been using just Nero Express - will try something else & see how it responds...

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Living Room / Re: Google in Sicko Storm - Welcome to democracy google style

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2007, 09:16 AM »

Situations like this can only be mandated by public policy (the merits of this mandate not withstanding), and is what is most commonly seen in most free-markets today.  Often these regulations can be seen as protective and/or anti-free-market; but in a global market, there is no
way a consumer or even a significant sub-group can hold sway.  It is only when the TOTAL market (or significant portion thereof) deems this to be against THIER values, does the "consumer" hold any sway over the corporation.

-steeladept (July 17, 2007, 08:54 AM)

I haven't had a chance to read all this thread but I definitely will!
I hope I'm not repeating anything already said but felt I had to respond there -
I gotta disagree with you there Steeladept 

Look at food -
Nestle who has always been one of the big bad corporations is now producing a lot of organic food - it's quite possible they're paying paltry wages etc., but the fact is when people want something, the big corporations (& everyone else) go and produce it or grow it.

Likewise, using your example, the less people who want something, the less companies produce that article.
Or, the less people accept the conditions under which something is produced, the more the companies will be willing to change work conditions etc.

Basically, corporations, politicians, etc. (individuals too!) do what they reckon they will get away with - I think they are a good reflection of what we accept as a society. In times when politicians are very corrupt, it's usually the case that people are fairly "corrupt" themselves - even though they might complain bitterly about the very same politicians...