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General Software Discussion / ToolWiz Time Machine anyone using it?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 10, 2015, 10:12 AM »

I am reading a forum from when ToolWiz Time Machine was in beta.  The reaction of most of the people trying it was very positive.  Since my Restore Points almost never work I was thinking of using Time Machine in tandem with Macrium Reflect.

Also I think it may have embedded the ToolWiz Time Freeze functionality.  Sounds like a cool freeware.  But I am fishing for horror stories before jumping in the pool. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comment Explorer 2.5.0.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 10, 2015, 08:55 AM »

CommentExplorer 2.5.0.3  Fixed Tooltip handling bug that occurred when successive files were commented.(i.e. the old Tooltip was removed but the new one was not displayed.)

I think the only practical way to use this utility is in Folder Mode with all the files in the folder commented.  That way one expects a comment to show up as each file is highlighted in Explorer.
Otherwise it feels too hit and miss.  I am going to try commenting as I download and making certain the new download goes into a commented subfolder of my download folder.

The more I mess with it the more I believe the function should be a file system intrinsic.  But as they say, it is better than nothing. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox drastically bleeding market share

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 09, 2015, 01:50 PM »

So, as I said in another thread... Renegade is a prophet, not a cynic, and one day that will become obvious.

-wraith808 (October 09, 2015, 10:44 AM)

A cynic is just a prophet who employs a heuristic.   

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [free] WiseCare 365 Pro updated today - free at BDJ

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 09, 2015, 01:42 PM »

Uninstalled GOTD version and installed this one.  Appears to be no expiration.  Thanks for the heads-up.

-Midnight Rambler (October 09, 2015, 11:45 AM)

Many of these say updating may reduce you to the free version or kill off your registration.  But it may be a gamble that the programmer doesn't want to add these checks just for giveaway versions.  If the program registration or install/uninstall "calls home" it might trigger.  But in most cases the free version still has useful functions.  So not the end of the world if you get kicked down to the ordinary free version.

Start Menu X Pro giveaway installed updates when I clicked "check for updates" but I noticed later it said my registration was cancelled.  So it can happen.  I don't have the energy anyway to create a whole bunch of shortcut categories to organize the Start Menu.  That was the main enhancement in the Pro version.  No biggie.  The free functionality still works fine. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / [free] WiseCare 365 Pro 4.2.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 09, 2015, 07:38 AM »

http://www.bitsdujour.com/pc-download

Wise Care 365 Pro.  No reg key.  The installer is unlocked.  They only ask for an email address and your name to email you the download link.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2015, 11:17 AM »

However, elementary maths and any calculator that is programmed to correctly obey the standard computational rules would give "7", so I reckoned that, from the context of IT, "7" would be the "correct" answer.

-IainB (October 08, 2015, 08:33 AM)

I can see MS missed the boat.  They should have named the successor to Vista

Windows

Ultimate

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Get Quote to use full edit applet instead of Quick Reply?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2015, 11:00 AM »

I don't see any way to get into Preferences if that is where this is controlled.  When I quote a post I get Quick Reply with no way to switch to the whole enchilada.

Edit:  Also I see no way to upload attachments or do much of anything.  If I click Quick Reply it just hides the window.  It does not give me an option to use the full BBS Edit thingie.

-MilesAhead (October 08, 2015, 09:23 AM)

I thought that was the way it always was... at least that's the way I always used it.  In order to get to the full reply from there, you just click preview.

-wraith808 (October 08, 2015, 10:53 AM)

What is to preview if you cannot set an attachment?  No it definitely was possible to go directly into the full edit mode before.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Get Quote to use full edit applet instead of Quick Reply?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2015, 09:23 AM »

I don't see any way to get into Preferences if that is where this is controlled.  When I quote a post I get Quick Reply with no way to switch to the whole enchilada.

Edit:  Also I see no way to upload attachments or do much of anything.  If I click Quick Reply it just hides the window.  It does not give me an option to use the full BBS Edit thingie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2015, 09:07 AM »

No none of that. A left over formatted PC to install and trial 10 on it instead of getting another Mac or installing Linux (on the PC). It's fine if 10 has to be bought straight away but I just wondered because with 7 it seemed easier with more obvious links to download from.

-rgdot (October 08, 2015, 08:59 AM)

If you ask around you might find someone who has some extra Tecnnet licenses for Windows 7 Pro lying around.  If you install Windows 7 Pro and activate it I am pretty sure then you can upgrade permanently to a free Windows 10 Pro.  Once you have the license key you should be able to download the Windows 7 Pro ISO image from MS.  A couple hundred bucks is a couple hundred bucks after all.  And many former Tachnet members have some licenses they will never use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 08, 2015, 08:33 AM »

So if someone is on a Mac and wants to trial 10 without ever having 7 there is no trial?

-rgdot (October 08, 2015, 08:17 AM)

Wouldn't you have to load it into a VM anyway?  I never hears of Windows running directly on Macs.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [Giveaway] Glary Utilities Pro 5 Free 1 Year License Code

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 06, 2015, 09:19 AM »

Seems to still be available for 1 day 16 hours here:
http://sharewareonsa...y-utilities-pro-sale

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 05, 2015, 06:02 PM »

f0dder on four eights

-tomos (October 05, 2015, 03:55 PM)

We should start a poll.  When f0dder hits eight 8s will DC still be here? 

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 05, 2015, 05:51 PM »

It looks like they may finally be making a movie from it.

-MilesAhead (October 05, 2015, 02:58 PM)

I hope they don't - it's a pretty good book, no reason to screw it up with a bad teal-and-orange Hollywood crapover

-f0dder (October 05, 2015, 03:22 PM)

Yeah.  Once in awhile they surprise me with a decent adaptation.  But not often enough. 

That reminds me when I saw Ayn Rand at Ford Hall Forum in Boston.  She took questions from the audience after her lecture.  The person asked about the status of the rights to Atlas Shrugged.  She answered "safely in my possession."  Of course that got a round of applause and cheers.  I watched the first third of the Shrugged movie trilogy.  I won't bother with the rest.  Other than money changing hands I did not see the point of making that flick.  A puppet show would have done a better job of conveying the ideas.  And I always hated puppet shows. 

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 05, 2015, 02:58 PM »

The Forever War

It looks like they may finally be making a movie from it.

I am only 30 or 40 pages in.  But the writing style is fine and the plot does not lag.  It may bother some people that the future dates used in the story have gone by and we still don't have faster than light space travel.  It doesn't bother me.  It is a novel after all.  I don't see that the dates matter.

Edit:  But it may be part of the genius of H.G. Wells that his hero in The Time Machine traveled way into the future like 80,000 years A.D. or something like that.  It will take a long time for the critics to complain about the future date arriving and the predictions being off the mark.  Also Wells has the advantage of being dead.  Much easier to maintain a deaf ear with that strategy. 

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 05, 2015, 02:32 PM »

After a bit of research:
Gunsmoke (1958 I think) was another good one.

-tomos (October 05, 2015, 02:16 PM)

We used to all laugh when "Chester" made his appearance on Gunsmoke.  Played by Dennis Weaver who later had the McCloud series, Chester had a limp and would come limping into the scene as fast as he could hop skip and jump yelling "Mr. Dillon" and he would deliver some news etc..  We weren't laughing because Chester was hobbled but because Dennis Weaver played him over the top. 

A bit of trivia, Burt Reynolds was also on Gunsmoke.

Edit:  You mentioned 7 Samurai before.  I enjoyed the Clint Eastwood vehicle "A Fistful of Dollars" since it was a direct ripoff of Yojimbo.

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Living Room / Re: Tweets > 140 characters?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 03, 2015, 04:52 AM »

Oddly enough, he could have gained an extra character 

-4wd (October 03, 2015, 01:39 AM)

I am lazy.  When Editpad Lite 7 said column 140 I quit.  Typical programmer's "off by one" error. 

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Living Room / Re: Tweets > 140 characters?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 03, 2015, 04:51 AM »

There is speculation that twitter may soon allow tweets longer than 140 characters.  When contracted for comment, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey s

-MilesAhead (October 02, 2015, 07:27 AM)

Heh heh! I see what you did there.

-Deozaan (October 03, 2015, 01:34 AM)

Heh heh. 

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General Software Discussion / W 8 start screen utility pin/unpin multiple apps etc..

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 02, 2015, 01:03 PM »

With hundreds of apps it is way too much hassle to right click each tile to pin/unpin.  Anyone know of a free Windows 8.x start screen utility to manipulate such things easily?

At this point I got fed up and used a command line to remove them all.  But right clicking items to pin from All Apps does not work.  The tiles do not show up in the start screen.  I just want to have maybe a dozen there so they are easy to find.  Mostly desktop programs to be honest.  Stuff like ShadowExplorer,  Belarc Advisor etc..  The way it is now I have to hunt down the exe in the install folder and use Pin to Start from the Context Menu.  Arrrggghhh!!   Heh heh

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Living Room / Re: Tweets > 140 characters?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 02, 2015, 12:47 PM »

I have never tried Twitter.  As soon as I heard about the max chars it sounded like a bunch of bumper sticker arguments were inevitable.  Not even sound bites, but sound bits.  Maybe if I had a reason to use it I would change my mind.  I tend to be too skeptical of new things.  Which reminds me, Mouser I do like the new format on here. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro [free]

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 02, 2015, 09:10 AM »

I found the reason for the speed difference of the Pro and Free versions.  The Free had VSS compatible mode disabled.  The Pro had it enabled.  When disabled the Pro analysis scan took less than 2 minutes.  The total defrag elapsed time was 5 minutes.

I have enabled VSS compatible mode in case defragging without it was messing up my Restore Points.
Edit:  In the notes it says VSS compatible tries to minimize the file movement to avoid messing up restore points etc..  So me thinks this is why I don't notice much of a speed up of disk i/o.  On the Free version I had this disabled so the optimization was evidently better.  If you do not use Restore Points then disabling this feature would yield better results in a shorter time.

I tried a restore point and it worked.  So the jury is still out.  If they work less than half the time I may just disable them and rely on Macrium Reflect incremental backup to safeguard my system.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro [free] now on GOTD

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 02, 2015, 08:01 AM »

http://www.giveawayo...sk-defrag-pro-4-6-0/

17 hours and change left as of this posting.

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Living Room / Tweets > 140 characters?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 02, 2015, 07:27 AM »

There is speculation that twitter may soon allow tweets longer than 140 characters.  When contracted for comment, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey s

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cyberfox / Firefox updated to 41.0x

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 01, 2015, 11:19 AM »

mine doesn't "crash", but there are serious problems playing video 
(Adobe is version 19)

-Curt (October 01, 2015, 10:00 AM)

I am still using the 18.x Flash Player.  It seems to work fairly well with 39.03 FF

I have the latest Slimjet chrome based browser.  It uses Pepper Flash and has the version you are supposed to use preloaded.  It is still on 18.x also.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 01, 2015, 11:15 AM »

I love how the world discusses Volkswagen's "ethics" while ignoring that everyone cheated before ... 

-Tuxman (October 01, 2015, 10:14 AM)

Heh heh.  They could drop a Chevy Impala out of a helicopter and I bet it would get great MPG on the way down.   

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Living Room / Re: Quirky Asian Movies

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 01, 2015, 09:51 AM »

All You Need is Love, a recent Shu Qi flick, is supposed to be at least mildly amusing.  It helps if you are a Shu Qi fan.  I can feel her soon moving into the category of former hot actress who plays the mother of the hot chick.  She may have a few more films in her as the lead.  But she has nothing left to prove so it's not realistic to expect much spark in the performances.