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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by Rover on January 31, 2008, 01:24 PM »
I wear 11  or 12 depending on the mfg.   ;)  OH! Boot TIME!  :o

My home system has a lot of crap running as Services, so Login Screen to usable system is 2+ minutes.

My system at work is worse...  first it's a laptop with a slow HD; second it is a corp. controlled system with 3.2 million domain policies and 432,000 remote management agents.
Maybe a few less than that.   :-\

Power to Login screen is about 90 seconds, Login to useful system is 3-5 minutes.  On big update days it can be 10 minutes before the system is useful.  I usually login, wait until I can Lock the system and go get breakfast.  Love that bacon.  :-*
152
General Software Discussion / Re: Money saving budgeting options
« Last post by Rover on January 31, 2008, 01:18 PM »
I also recommend reading The Total Money Makeover by David Ramsey. He'll get you started on steps to take to come into big savings.
-Deozaan (January 30, 2008, 02:25 PM)

2nd that.  He gives you a new perspective on money handling.  :Thmbsup:
:two:
153
Older Newsletters / Re: --> Special Edition Mini Newsletter for January 13th - Codename "Three Thing
« Last post by Rover on January 14, 2008, 10:07 PM »
I have all the Winders software I need for now... :o

So I better everyone's odds and not enter for freebies this time  :P
154
Living Room / Re: Internet Faxing
« Last post by Rover on December 28, 2007, 07:39 PM »
I have not used this, I only found it mentioned in a Skype forum:

http://www.skax.net/

Fax via Skype.
155
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Total Text Container (PIM)
« Last post by Rover on October 17, 2007, 08:57 PM »
You must check out the screen shots of this. It looks like it does everything!!

BTW, version 0.0a40 is released today.
156
Best Text Editor / Re: Boxer Text Editor
« Last post by Rover on June 16, 2007, 12:36 PM »
Cool, another OS/2 User.  :Thmbsup:

I started using Boxer back in my OS/2 & DOS days as well.  I've tried to like other editors, but I always end up with Boxer installed.   Just before I installed OS/2 I was using Boxer TKO for > 640 RAM and virtually unlimited file size editing.... ahh the good ol' days.


Now if only David would port this to Linux...  :P
157
Best Text Editor / Boxer Text Editor
« Last post by Rover on June 14, 2007, 09:21 AM »
Look for a DC Member discount offer soon. 
We've been selling text editors since 1991. We're experienced at what we do, and we listen to our customers. We've filled our Boxer Text Editor with the features and functions you need to make your editing tasks go as quickly and smoothly as possible.
    * Powerful macro language
    * Keystroke recording
    * Color syntax highlighting
    * HTML editing support
    * Edit files up to 2 GB
    * Color syntax printing
    * Multi-level undo and redo
    * Auto-Complete typing feature
    * Active spell checking
    * Manipulate column blocks
    * Perl RegExp search and replace
    * Reconfigurable keyboard
    * User-configurable toolbar
    * Extensive user configurability
    * Power Columns editing feature
    * Ctags Function Indexing support
    * Open and edit files via FTP
    * Project support
    * Calculator, calendar, ANSI charts...
    * Dual-monitor friendly
    * And hundreds of other features



boxerpage.gif

158
Living Room / Re: Six Free Online Storage Services
« Last post by Rover on March 13, 2007, 12:45 PM »
OrbitFiles http://www.orbitfiles.com is a nice easy way to store 1G for Free.  Larger plans are pretty inexpesive too.

I use it for providing Password Protected documentation for clients.  Just send a link and the password and users can download from the web w/ no special software required.

Xdrive sux eggs these days.
159
General Software Discussion / Re: I'm running a pirated version of Windows and can't get caught!
« Last post by Rover on August 12, 2006, 09:52 PM »
Except the Dell, etc. install CD's usually bundle tons of useless "trialware", spyware, or worse, and you have to spend literally hours cleaning up afterward just to get your new "high-performance" computer running nicely. *sigh*
-JavaJones (August 12, 2006, 06:27 PM)

Agreed.  Been there, done that, didn't like it.   Boo junkware preloads.  :down: :down:
160
Living Room / Re: Windows unstable? BAH! Read inside - OR Not
« Last post by Rover on August 12, 2006, 12:09 AM »
Is it just me or was that a Netware Server?

Working with Novell
-the article
161
Living Room / Re: Windows unstable? BAH! Read inside
« Last post by Rover on August 12, 2006, 12:05 AM »
I used to work at a regional bank.  In 2000 or so, our group got a call from the corp. office wanting some assistance reloading an OS/2 2.1 server.  Seems it had been sitting in a corner somewhere doing currency conversions for some department and everyone sort of forgot about it until the hard drive finally died.

OS/2 Warp (3.0) came out in early '95, Warp 4.0 came out in '98 or so.  We're guessing the system was running for 3+ years with no intervention at all.  Scary stuff.  :o
162
Living Room / Re: comparative study of international acceptance of evolution
« Last post by Rover on August 11, 2006, 11:58 PM »
Zane, are you watching the same media as the rest of us?  Conservative media is such an oxymoron, I think you must be joking.  And did you really say conservative courts?  You mean the ones who create laws from the bench?  And demand states create laws to accomodate homosexual marriage?

BTW Darwin's "Theory" does not have enough backing to merit the actual designation of Theory.  Darwin himself said his hypothesis would be defeated if there were not an abundance of transitional forms in the fossil record.  To date, there are no, none, zero substantiated transitional forms discovered.

Junk science and agressive atheism has perverted the scientific community resulting in a thing called "Natural Science" which is what the kiddies study in most schools today.   Natural Science by definition assumes that there is nothing super-natural.  According to its rules all observations must be made through the lens of atheism; which is the pre-assumed answer to the question "is there a god?" instead of investigating the possability.

Bottom line is that evolution* is a political position that can't stand up to actual analysis.  It's just being pumped out so often by the media machine, no one questons it any more.

Since this is DC and not a political or theological forum, I will give everyone the last word and drop the subject.


*macro evolution:  species to species transformation.  adaption is not evolution; they are distinctly different items.
163
Living Room / Re: Legend of Pliskin 2 - very well done flash click adventure
« Last post by Rover on August 11, 2006, 10:12 PM »
hmm... seems a little buggy.  I couldn't combine things to make the bow AND arrow at the gap in the garden.

When I pressed the combine button in that area, it didn't act right on the screen.  bummer, nice sense of humor.
164
Living Room / Re: New WEP attack found - cracks in seconds
« Last post by Rover on August 11, 2006, 07:36 AM »
about the only real secure way to run wireless is using a Radius server or a 3rd party encryption scheme.

There was a nice blackpaper written on this a couple of years ago.  Can't find this link ...  :-\
165
Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude
« Last post by Rover on August 10, 2006, 04:42 PM »

I am not offended. But I think maybe now that you are done having fun and laughing at us, it's time to learn a little about what makes us tick.

http://www.dyscalculia.org/thesis.html
-app103 (August 10, 2006, 03:52 PM)
Does dyscalculia make people design hard to read web pages too?   :P

Sorry I just couldn't resist.  That page is very hard to read with the background a blue italics.
166
Living Room / Re: Damn Interesting: Natural Nuclear Reactor
« Last post by Rover on August 10, 2006, 04:37 PM »
Definition fun: 

Atheist - Knows Everything about Everything.   :o  They have to by definition because they claim there is no god.  In order to claim the non-existance of something, you have to have looked everywhere and seen everthing.

Agnostic - Doesn't care if there is a god.  They usually don't try to prove things one way or another because they just don't care.  Did god use eveolution?  Don't Care! says the agnostic.


Now, which are you again?


167
Developer's Corner / Re: Turbo C and Turbo Pascal are back!!
« Last post by Rover on August 09, 2006, 10:29 PM »
Definately hate those products...
-Gerome (August 09, 2006, 09:27 AM)
Hmm... ya know, I never did like Gerome.  Now I know why.  :P

It's a joke.
168
Living Room / Re: Is IRC Down?
« Last post by Rover on August 09, 2006, 10:18 PM »
OK, so it seem to have been my NAT router.  Weird, tho.  All other, than IRC, traffic was passing just fine.
What's weirder is that IRC was connected when it "just stopped working."

Release/Renew IP address on the Router and it's all good again.  Same Address, better service.  :-\

Thanks for the suggestions.
169
Living Room / Is IRC Down?
« Last post by Rover on August 09, 2006, 06:18 PM »
I've been retrying (automatic) since 6:00 EDT to connect to EFnet.  Round robin server search....
Is it just me or is something wrong?
170
Developer's Corner / Re: Turbo C and Turbo Pascal are back!!
« Last post by Rover on August 09, 2006, 08:09 AM »
Yippie!  Once again Turbo Pascal (Delphi) will rule the world!  :Thmbsup:  :up: :up: :up:
171
Living Room / Re: list of free software offered by MS
« Last post by Rover on August 06, 2006, 11:33 PM »
lanux - it works for me in ff.  current GA version. 

It did take a while to load and then I was at the very bottom of the page to start...
172
Living Room / Re: Interesting Links
« Last post by Rover on August 06, 2006, 04:59 PM »
Googlewatch is seriously over-paranoid IMO. Pretty biased "reporting" from what I've seen. Google has its problems, but they're still an amazingly "decent" company considering their size, income, etc.

Reading "Wikipieda Watch" the same goes for that. They may both be raising valid points but my god they do it in a "tin foil hat" kind of way. :P

- Oshyan
-JavaJones (August 06, 2006, 01:23 PM)

Agreed 100%.     

66 meters  :-[

Note: "tin foil hat" is a local reference to someone who believes in bizare conspiracy theories, like the CIA using general population mind control and alien spacecraft as the original source for computers.
173
Living Room / Re: Interesting Links
« Last post by Rover on August 04, 2006, 04:59 PM »
Sheep score... not too bad.

174
General Software Discussion / Re: IDEA: Visual FileSystem
« Last post by Rover on August 04, 2006, 04:19 PM »
JJ - I think one answer to why is that some people cannot relate to the virtualness of the filesystem.
Most folks don't really know how to file things in the physical world, so the metaphor breaks down a lot for some.

The tree view helps a little, but there still isn't a good visual for storing data.  To me, that's more the issue than need for a 3D fs viewer.

I agree with you on the whole DB FS.  Let's write one this afternoon. :)
175
Living Room / Re: Metaphysik II - another cool game web game
« Last post by Rover on August 04, 2006, 04:15 PM »
Rats, I totally missed the score part.

You're right about the orientation after you die.  There was one level where you needed to go up and right almost immediately on start.  Talk about a lot of deaths!

At one point I needed a break so I just left it dying for 20 or 30. 

The one improvment that is really needed is a delay or keypress before restart.

I played it thru all at once too, just becuase I wanted to see what was next.  The last 25 levels are a little bizare.
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