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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies for using user-data folders in Windows 7?

« Last post by nudone on January 20, 2010, 04:09 AM »

my solution: (on vista) i use MirrorFolder http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/ and set it to do real-time mirrors of data and config files to another internal hard drive. all these "mirrored" files 'n' folders are then "backed-up" to yet another internal drive (which MirrorFolder also does for me).

it's not a freeware solution but i think the software is more than worth it ($39.00) for what it does. i know that my important stuff is always saved and duplicated - and i don't have to ever think about it as it's all done in realtime (except for the backup process).

i'll be using MirrorFolder when i start to use Windows 7. it makes the problem of file/folder locations trivial as it will mirror whichever you want to another hard drive (or even the same drive if you like).

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Living Room / Re: Neat Indie Graphic Novel about Phone Phreaking/Hacking, etc.

« Last post by nudone on January 15, 2010, 11:35 AM »

cool, downloading vol. 1 and 2 now...

edit:
hmm, can't download it. just fails after a few minutes. will try again another day.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by nudone on January 11, 2010, 06:00 PM »

looks like your view opens out onto a black-hole. that's kind of cool. i'm impressed.

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Living Room / Re: Great Britain is frozen!

« Last post by nudone on January 08, 2010, 08:28 AM »

it's not that bad here, Derbyshire, UK. the roads are pretty normal and clear anyway.

(heheheh.)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we experiment with google ads on the site for 1 month?

« Last post by nudone on January 04, 2010, 06:57 AM »

Perhaps there could be a set of "special" cafepress items that are given out as gifts (with high prices), and then another set of fairly priced items for those of us wanting to "brand-up" with the DC badge.

(i'm not into fussy graphics on my garments (to be honest) so my favourite DC shirt is a black one with the words "DONATIONCODER.COM" on the front - nothing else. i'd actually be happy to design a few "proper" t-shirts if mouser wishes it, i.e. simple graphics and colours - things like the main DC logo text, etc.)

edit.
I see Carol has just posted the same suggestion.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody In Belleville, NJ

« Last post by nudone on December 31, 2009, 03:19 AM »

heheh, looks like everyone had a good time.

who is the little mouse that BC seems to be ignoring (probably just guarding the coin in his beak)?

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Living Room / Re: Worldometers -- real time stats around the world

« Last post by nudone on December 26, 2009, 05:18 AM »

avira antivir detected a virus when clicking on the above image!

false positive?

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Living Room / Re: donationcoder.com certifcate issues?

« Last post by nudone on December 23, 2009, 02:14 AM »

I checked, and I have that disabled already.


But as long as it's only me, and donationcoder isn't hacked or anything, I can deal w/ the problem.

-kli6891 (December 22, 2009, 04:09 PM)

okay, sorry to hear that then. not sure what else to suggest trying.

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Living Room / Re: donationcoder.com certifcate issues?

« Last post by nudone on December 22, 2009, 12:16 PM »

sounds like you've got this ssl setting enabled (see screengrab).

if so, just disable the "Use SSL 2.0" and you should be okay.

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Living Room / Re: donationcoder.com certifcate issues?

« Last post by nudone on December 22, 2009, 12:08 PM »

is it necessary to use https? works fine just using http in my Chrome.

but yes, i get the same complaint from Chrome when using https.

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Living Room / Re: fujitsu - why hide away the factory reset button?

« Last post by nudone on December 21, 2009, 03:12 AM »

okay, thanks. unfortunately i can't test things at the moment as i don't have a fujitsu laptop with me. i'll see how things go next time i can use one.

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Living Room / Re: fujitsu - why hide away the factory reset button?

« Last post by nudone on December 16, 2009, 09:05 AM »

i've had a look through fujitsu's downloadable pdfs called "recovery process". none mention the required information from what i can see.

plenty of stuff about sticking disks into the drive and booting from them - which isn't very helpful.

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Living Room / Re: fujitsu - why hide away the factory reset button?

« Last post by nudone on December 16, 2009, 08:52 AM »

this is the helpful information found in the manual..

"Restoring the operating system, drivers, manuals and special software
You can find information on how to restore the operating system, drivers, manuals
and special software in the "Recovery Process" manual."

of course, the question is, why haven't they put the "recovery process" manual on the hard drive with the "normal" manual. i'll see if i can find it online - maybe it exists somewhere out there in the ether.

the machine is now restored anyway. the first factory reset was taking a long time because it wasn't doing anything - that was a great time waster. thanks fujitsu.

i'm still not sure what happened. i tried to reinstall vista - which simply brought up the factory reset options when rebooting. i'm not even going to try and figure out what's going on as it's working - that's all that counts.

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Living Room / fujitsu - why hide away the factory reset button?

« Last post by nudone on December 16, 2009, 05:32 AM »

no doubt this is common knowledge with the world playing a cruel trick on me so that i never find out...

i needed to factory reset a fujitsu siemens notebook (amilo li 3710). vista is loading to a black screen with mouse cursor and that's all. i've read around the net for solutions and my conclusion is: i haven't got time to test every possible "solution". hence, factory reset is my friend.

the problem is, i've no idea how to start the process when booting up - there's no indication of what keys to press other than F2 for bios and F12 for boot order.

the weird thing is - i accidently got the factory reset menu to appear so i'm now waiting for the reset to finish its job. i really have no idea how it come on - i only pressed the F12 key again liked i'd done several times already but this time it skipped the boot order menu.

what's annoying is that i can't find any sensible info online about what keys to press. am i suffering from selective search blindness?

is anyone familiar with a fujitus amilo notebook and how factory reset is initiated while booting - maybe it involves holding down the F12 key whilst booting????????

thanks if you can help.

(i'm not convinced this factory reset is actually working - seems to be taking a very long time.)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New Release: Disk Space Fan Pro

« Last post by nudone on December 11, 2009, 08:44 AM »

nice program. i like the duplicate file feature and how it presents the results for that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: which system tray network monitor - like a graph or something.

« Last post by nudone on December 04, 2009, 11:45 AM »

i'm thinking Networx is probably the one i'll stick with too - because of the taskbar graph feature.

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Living Room / Re: Should Illegal Downloaders Be Cut Off From the Internet?

« Last post by nudone on December 04, 2009, 06:01 AM »

got to agree with Gothi[c].

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General Software Discussion / Re: which system tray network monitor - like a graph or something.

« Last post by nudone on December 04, 2009, 05:59 AM »

excellent. thanks everyone. i'm going to check these out later and then report back which i've chosen to use...

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General Software Discussion / which system tray network monitor - like a graph or something.

« Last post by nudone on December 03, 2009, 12:12 PM »

this should be really easy but i can't find anything - or remember anything - but can anyone recommend a system tray util that will display network activity? please.

i'm sure i had something years ago that did - no idea what it was now - maybe it was zone alarm.

any ideas, preferably free.

oh, it's for vista.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by nudone on December 03, 2009, 10:10 AM »

would be nice of an open source project managed to complete the task.

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by nudone on December 03, 2009, 03:42 AM »

my condolences too. more words seems so inappropriate here.

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What's the Best? / Re: good and free spelll checker

« Last post by nudone on November 30, 2009, 11:13 AM »

i've tried a few spell checker utils in the past and uninstalled them after a short while (can't remember what they were now).

i've just tried TinySpell and it works brilliantly. I'm just testing it out with the free version (which is probably enough for me) but i think i'll pay for the full version if i decide to keep using it.

thanks for mentioning it, tomos.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CNet's Security Starter Kit 2010

« Last post by nudone on November 27, 2009, 03:51 AM »

excellent. farr marches on towards world domination.

(not checked out the lists yet.)

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Living Room / Re: Be careful with your credit cards!

« Last post by nudone on November 27, 2009, 03:49 AM »

oh dear. sorry for your loss, but thanks for letting us know. very easy for us lot to use credit cards online without ever giving it a moments thought.

potential for some new scams there perhaps - create a company, sell online, charge your foreign buyers twice (or more) the published charge. it's obviously a perfectly legimate way of doing business these days.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: We like lists because we don't want to die. (...My abstract interpretation)

« Last post by nudone on November 23, 2009, 11:30 AM »

(app's "to-do list of doom thread" https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18354.0 )