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General Software Discussion / Re: Why 2012 may finally be The Year of the Linux Desktop (courtesy of Microsoft)

« Last post by rgdot on September 21, 2011, 03:59 PM »

There is no way MS can close app installations like Apple. The only way they can do that is to force people into Metro with no 'desktop' access. Even Ballmer is not that dumb.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by rgdot on September 20, 2011, 09:40 PM »

It was done months ago, there is a parallel development area with a secret download location 

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Living Room / Re: it's not Star Trek, it's Cosmic Journey

« Last post by rgdot on September 19, 2011, 07:16 PM »

Nice

Not a gamer either, did have my days playing Galaga in actual arcades in the 80s though...to be a teenager again 

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Living Room / Re: UI Roast #1: cruel but harmless fun!

« Last post by rgdot on September 19, 2011, 01:38 PM »

Undelete option by itself without shortcut, as with the delete probably not undeleting what you think

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by rgdot on September 18, 2011, 11:09 AM »

^ If computer detects that the solution is not made using AHK it shuts down

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice Needed: Fixing Pentium 4 PC with Conficker virus

« Last post by rgdot on September 16, 2011, 06:15 PM »

Microsoft Security Essentials can not be updated manually either? ie add updated definitions via USB key for example. There are other anti virus that can do that.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by rgdot on September 16, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Keep him busy with something too big for a coding snack...I can come up with something 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any wordpress coders here available for hire?

« Last post by rgdot on September 15, 2011, 11:07 AM »

Good and cheap? 

-rgdot (September 15, 2011, 10:59 AM)

Won't be done quickly and other, paying, projects would take precendence.  You know?   

-skwire (September 15, 2011, 11:02 AM)

Good point. This is almost like the rock paper scissors game 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any wordpress coders here available for hire?

« Last post by rgdot on September 15, 2011, 10:59 AM »

Cheap and done right never go hand-in-hand...

-Veign (September 15, 2011, 10:50 AM)

Agreed.  You can have it:

• Good
• Fast
• Cheap

Pick any two.   

-skwire (September 15, 2011, 10:58 AM)

Good and cheap? 

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes Deluxe latest version today on GOTD

« Last post by rgdot on September 15, 2011, 12:09 AM »

21? pfft 

Nice program, I agree. Right now I am in Cintanotes, InfoQube and Treeprojects mode...fun never stops

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any wordpress coders here available for hire?

« Last post by rgdot on September 13, 2011, 08:23 PM »

The main part of your requirements are under the 'GUI' heading, I would not recommend tackling GUI with plugins. Custom theme and custom functions.php would be my 2cents.

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Living Room / Re: PCWorld recommends DonationCoder.com and says: "Give a Little, Get a Lot"

« Last post by rgdot on September 10, 2011, 08:46 PM »

Refunds???   

Great to see DC being mentioned in more and more articles 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Low Cost Hosting (Web, Semi-Dedi, VPS, Dedicated Servers) + Low Price TLD's

« Last post by rgdot on September 10, 2011, 02:48 PM »

Free DirectAdmin is cool 

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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911

« Last post by rgdot on September 10, 2011, 11:14 AM »

I hope we can avoid this becoming an angry political thread.  Let's all try our best to keep things very civil, polite, and respectful.

-mouser (September 10, 2011, 10:27 AM)

Killing each other is evil, period.

I will make a brief comment below, which I insist is NOT AT ALL in contradiction to the italic line above this one.

"Bin Laden hoped to provoke a civilizational war between Islam and the West. And we took the bait."
http://www.thedailyb...ama-win-on-9-11.html

The greatest problem is illustrated here (I confess I didn't read the article though):

To take 9/11 as the start of something is ignoring history.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by rgdot on September 10, 2011, 07:58 AM »

I am going on a bit of a tangent but something vlastimil said reminds me of an annoyance or gripe I have. Freeware that goes shareware. To me a person who starts a serious project should expect to put a lot of hours in it, actually the success of the product or license has nothing to do with it. What I am saying is that if you decide to go freeware when you are at 0.1 alpha doesn't mean less hours are needed to reach 1.0.
Fairware is not all that different from donationware, we have all seen one workable implementation. It has the potential to work in this modified way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Building Windows 8: I need longer arms!

« Last post by rgdot on September 09, 2011, 06:24 PM »

No matter what fancy resolutions and displays (Apple's retina display for example) handhelds or tablets can not be serious work machines - unless you are willing to walk around with a 20" tablet in hand. "Real" (not extrapolated/enhanced/etc.) screen space rules. You may say what about  touch displays where one sits and uses touch, I would say if you are sitting then why not connect an input device.
My point, touch may be fine and all but I would limit it usability to 10" at most and doing serious work with a 10" just doesn't seem right to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Building Windows 8: I need longer arms!

« Last post by rgdot on September 08, 2011, 10:39 PM »

This will become 'an additional layer' type thing. 90% of serious PC user will turn it off and move straight to traditional desktop. There is a reason the desktop has changed little and it's not because of lack of innovation its because it works.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Revo Uninstaller Pro 50% OFF

« Last post by rgdot on September 08, 2011, 01:31 AM »

Nice find thanks Curt, went to the buy now page and the coupon seems to work (actually I am a Windows Secret subscriber but not to their paid content). Downloading the trial to see...

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Living Room / Re: Six Levels of Apple Fandom

« Last post by rgdot on September 07, 2011, 11:45 AM »

Spoiler

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of an alternative to InfoSelect ...

« Last post by rgdot on September 06, 2011, 01:54 PM »

The aforementioned Smereka TreeProjects is one of the upcoming deals on BdJ, 50% off for $24.50

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Revo Uninstaller Pro 50% OFF

« Last post by rgdot on September 06, 2011, 09:20 AM »

Thanks Curt and Steven.

My primary computer is still XP but that will change. I mostly dislike stand alone directory monitors but far too many programs leave garbage and I don't mean just in the registry or bad stuff but also folders in My Documents and Application Data. So I think I will like Revo Pro's 'Real-Time monitoring of system changes - during install of programs', just have to decide, perhaps by downloading the trial.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Revo Uninstaller Pro 50% OFF

« Last post by rgdot on September 05, 2011, 10:04 PM »

Have read the threads on Revo here on DC, wondering what's the current verdict on buying the pro version vs the freeware. For an 'obsessive' downloader is the pro recommended?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Don't miss the excellent Metaproducts Inquiry today (Sept 1st) on GOTD

« Last post by rgdot on September 05, 2011, 11:15 AM »

Thanks Alexander. Good to know that that option is available.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for beta-testers

« Last post by rgdot on September 05, 2011, 11:06 AM »

Did a review of RealWorld couple of years ago. Will try as well if time permits.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternativas soft imageshack uploader

« Last post by rgdot on September 03, 2011, 04:41 PM »

My mistake, when you said 'upload images to a server' I thought you meant to upload somewhere else other than imageshack.