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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Releases SyncToy 1.4
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on November 09, 2006, 02:40 AM »
Yep, the update is nice, and long overdue. I grabbed it right after it was released; it's always been a favorite for the same reasons 'cranioscopical' stated. Two of the XP PowerToys take you to MS validation d/l pages  :down: The whole collection can be found at MajorGeeks as one .zip.
http://www.majorgeek..._PowerToys_d710.html

hth
OEF  :D
152
Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 09:03 PM »
Hmmm...

Lots of good ideas. I've built and re-built 9 machines in the last five years. They're all in service, working fine. Five are shared more or less by Bite-sized trouble and I, and the others are virtually networked to my primary box.

I've used Newegg and Mwave, (even Tiger Direct once or twice), so the links from tinyvillager are nice to see. I agree that Dell is flexible in configuring to a customer's wishes, but their reliability is suspect, IMHO. Worse is HP; their machines are so proprietary as to be nearly impossible to alter. (They rivet drives in place!)

Unless you need to live on the bleeding edge of tech, I've found that it's easier to build solid, robust boxes using components that have been out long enough to get thorughly discussed in their respective forums. I also wait for the inevitable price drop!  :Thmbsup:

Frankly, I've learned everything by trying. We was all newbies once, after all...
After I overcame the terror the first time I cracked open a case, it was Wahoo! from there.
OEF
 :Thmbsup:
153
Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 08:12 PM »
lol!
Thank you Mouser and everyone for a terrific thread!

a) I used to make egg creams with seltzer and a real seltzer bottle I found at a garage sale.

2) y'know, there's No egg and No cream in an egg cream?

Bite-sized trouble doesn't like to watch me clean my ears. She says I shouldn't have that look on my face unless she's involved!

I have that ladder!!

I've never had any luck rewinding a DVD; spinning it on a pencil never works. (only for VideoCD's--you can rewind those any way you like.)


 ;D :D :D :Thmbsup: :D


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Living Room / Re: incredible fast shutter liquid photography
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 07:49 PM »
This guy's really got a handle on the process...
This kind of photography was done by Prof. Edgerton of MIT for years and years. (He developed the strobe flash)
Waugh may be standing on the shoulders of giants, but he's definitely adding to the view!
OEF
 8) :Thmbsup:
155
Living Room / Re: The Onion isn't the Only Funny Fake News Site
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 07:42 PM »
ROTFLMAO!!!!

Thanks, I needed that. :D
156
Living Room / Re: Cool Poster of How the Domain Name System Works (and other posters)
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 07:15 PM »
Excellent!
Just sent the PDF to a couple of IT Admin buddies!

Good work, Mouser.
 :Thmbsup: :D :Thmbsup:
157
Living Room / Re: WikiHow: The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 06:59 PM »
I've contributed to WikiHow a few times. (It's one of the items on my personal Google desktop) Sometimes I've had trouble with the format rendering the way I write. 
:(

Over all, it's not bad. The search can yield some quirky results, but that should smooth out with more pages.
Give it a look, if you haven't. OEF
 8) ;D :D
158
Living Room / Re: Tom's Hardware 10th Anniversary, pc giveaway worth $10,000
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 06:52 PM »
Yup, only for U.S. peeps.  ;)
I wish I knew how I could check the checkbox "    I agree to the Contest Rules." in a way that tom does not give me an error message: " Must check to agree to Contest Rules "

I mean the checkbox is ticked, what more can I do? I bet one needs to live in North America...


-housetier (September 24, 2006, 01:21 PM)
159
Living Room / Re: Secret Shopper Scams: How to tell real from fake offers?
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 11, 2006, 06:45 PM »
OEF sez:
Ha! I wish Bite-sized trouble was a secret shopper. She's always leaving her credit card statements for me to find, 'cuz she knows I'll pay 'em!

I've done some "comparision shopping" for my company, but it's really all about scoping the competition. We send underage test shoppers to our own retail stores to see if our employees make sales without proper ID. It's very rarely a problem; we've got good people.

 :Thmbsup:
160
Official Announcements / Re: --> SEPTEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on October 09, 2006, 12:24 AM »
Wow!
Bite-sized trouble and I were out of town (camping; no computers, just a GPS!) in Northern California for a couple of weeks. Thanks!!!

Zoom Player Pro rocks!   :D
161
Living Room / Re: how tall is Cody?
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on September 08, 2006, 12:20 PM »
!!!
It's perfectly clear Cody has no fixed size; big as Godzilla and as small as an ironic thank you.
This has been an expensive thread. Bite-sized Trouble went to Blick's art store and came back with over $100 worth of products. She got Sculpey, too.
We spent an entire afternoon making stuff and getting covered with colors!

BTW, we think the coin should chocolate.

OEF
 :P




If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
162
Living Room / Re: Cody Figurines
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on July 03, 2006, 11:05 PM »
aggh! you got me. Sculpey is found at Blick art stores here in L.A. hope i don't drool while i squeeze.
163
General Software Discussion / Re: Clueless Product Manager
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on July 03, 2006, 10:50 PM »
rotfl...thanks.
interesting site, too  ;D
164
Living Room / Re: "Maps" of Cyberspace
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on July 03, 2006, 09:54 PM »
agreed. think i've seen some of this before, too. but i can't remember where, either! :-[
165
General Software Discussion / Re: Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on July 03, 2006, 09:49 PM »
I've tried Star Office, Open Office, and a few others, but I stay with MS. Starting with Works, I've been through Office 97, Office 2000 Professional, Office XP Professional, and Office 2003. I just got the beta for Office 2007, but I've been a little busy to really get into it. Along with Publisher, IMHO MS Office is the best code MS ever wrote. Yeah, the suite's getting pretty fat, but at least every version has been an improvement, unlike the OS. (Vista looks like the WinME of the 2000's; they gutted the original code down to fluff.)
OEF  8)
166
Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on June 25, 2006, 03:37 PM »
I have several machines/peripherals tied together in a partly wired and mostly wireless setup. Except for a couple of times, Bite-sized trouble and I live just far enough away from other houses in a residential area that we've never run into the issue. Our stuff's very secure, so it's not a problem for us.
I've never gone looking for any wlans with the laptop; just not my style.

OEF ;D
167
Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: DimSaver, a better PowerDimmer screensaver alternative
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on June 25, 2006, 03:04 PM »
Hi Skrommel!
Tried this on a sandbox; seems to work ok. CPU usage about 30% on a P3 733. I don't think that's much of a problem, 'cuz the box isn't doing anything any way, right?
It's nice work, you get a :Thmbsup: for it. I don't use screensavers that much, so I probably won't install on my other machines right away.
OEF
168
Living Room / Re: Having trouble adding credits.
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 22, 2006, 03:42 PM »
tnx mouser. i got it straightened out. your directions worked perfectly. woulda got back to you sooner, but bite-sized needed my time  8)
169
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Encryption software
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 22, 2006, 02:33 PM »
Ah ha :D
I use Eraser for that cleaning stuff, but fSekrit sounds easier!  :Thmbsup:
tnx
170
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Encryption software
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 22, 2006, 09:42 AM »
f0dder, how so? I thought PGP was ok. (puts on flame suit over dunce cap.) oef
 :-[
171
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Encryption software
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 22, 2006, 12:08 AM »
OEF says:
i've used truecrypt, prefer PGP. runs from the shell, does what i need.  :Thmbsup:
just have to keep bite-sized trouble in the loop for emergencies!
 :D
172
Living Room / Re: Having trouble adding credits.
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 21, 2006, 10:39 PM »
tnx  :-[
i appreciate the help. good to see you guys showing up on shellcity.net btw.  :D
bite-sized trouble and i are fans of both.
173
Living Room / Having trouble adding credits.
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 20, 2006, 04:46 PM »
housetier gave me 10, which I gave away. tried to follow instructions on donation page. went to paypal and bought $10 more and just got another membership! how do i make it work? :feedback: :stars:
174
Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for May 19, 2006 - Codename 'Controversies and Contests'
« Last post by OldElmerFudd on May 19, 2006, 04:37 PM »
 :Thmbsup:

The newsletter just gets better and better. I pass along some of the links to a small circle of friends (separately, of course!) whom I know will appreciate the effort.
OEF
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