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Thanks, I just read it and am going to save it now. Do you recommend USB hubs with their own PSU as a cheaper alternative to new pcs though?

Edit: btw those are some advanced stuff. Do you have any recommendation for learning voltages with a degree?
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Oh, I didn't know that. I've replaced the two usb plug with a single usb one thinking the other one was just an extra plug. Thanks. That could be it.

Two XPs as in separate HDs but similar machine. Hmm... I wonder if I should re-build a new PC again. I've been told that could be the problem before but it's so sporadic and I have little knowledge of how to build a cheap PC, I kept prolonging and prolonging it over and over again.

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Sorry guys, these questions are kind of too advanced for me.

I don't really know whether these are SATA drives. That has always confused me.

Shades, I don't think that is the cause because even though my past external HDs had this problem, this one is a Western Digital MyPassport without a power supply plug and is using a different usb cable.
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I don't think that's the problem mouser. I've had 3 power switch requiring external HD and one mini-one that doesn't have it and it happens.

The problem with ignoring this is that it happens quite a lot. Ex. I just have this happen 5 times now just right now so I can't access the disk.
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Not sure if this is a hardware or a software problem but I've had two XPs experience this already when the external Hard Disk would be detected and then undetected and then redetected again.
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city_zen, while that's true, I think just compared to the really popular forums, it falls short but my litmus test for a really active forum is one where you can't read one topic and go back to find that the entire first page has become different in a matter of minutes where only topics that are constantly churning out replies are the ones getting back up and new topics have to be constantly bumped to the top.
1607
Thanks Curt.

Btw in my earlier reply I link to Outwit Images, what I meant was Outwit Hub.

http://www.outwit.co...hp?version=0.6.0.172

It just has more features.

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Living Room / Re: Gmail launches themes
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 23, 2008, 10:10 AM »
Hunger is solvable? So you mean there aren't tons of species not in risks of going extinct?  :o

Btw where do you live icekin? Would be cool to finally research on a country that actually has a true free market.

I personally don't know why this is getting praise. IGoogle had themes for ages. Everything from changing color of the day stuff to minimalist looks. It's just Google further integrating these features together. Google would help more hungry people if they finally implemented Google Gears to Google Notebook so people without the internet can browse the recipes they put in there.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Notebook / Todo list manager
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 23, 2008, 09:58 AM »
It depends on what you want. Also a slight warning, recently there was a topic here on Surfulator getting a price hike and UltraRecall no longer being developed so you might need to get your feet wet on those first if you're considering them.

Evernote and OneNote are the overrated ones you'll hear alot so they're good but not the best if you need simpler or more advanced needs. (I know that sounded oxymoronic but both of those apps toe the line but doesn't really cross either areas)

Another popular beta product here is InfoQube. High learning curve though.

Other popular ones are:

Notetaking:
1. Google Notebook
2. Zoho Notebook
3. MindManager (Mindmap)
4. Tiddlywiki
5. Online Wikis (most popular casual one I know is Wetpaint)

To do list:
1. MyLife Organized
2. ThinkingRock
3. OmniOutliner (Mac)
4. Remember the Milk (and it's many plugins for FARR, Gmail, etc.)
5. MonkeyGTD/D3

P.S. Note these are just the popular ones. In no way are they the best for your needs. In fact, I only use two programs in that list I mentioned.

You may also prefer tweaks: (Use at your own risk!)

1. To do list on your desktop:
http://lifehacker.co...r-desktop-213280.php

2.  Commandline:
http://lifehacker.co...rocessing-217063.php

3. Gmail
http://lifehacker.co...-gtdgmail-195814.php
1610
Oh that's too bad. I would consider DonationCoder to be an average sized forum.
1611
Abterix:

Try these:

Speed Dial Firefox Extension:
https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/4810

Morning Coffee:
https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/2677

Daily Bookmarks:
https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/7814

Question:

How is Back to Top any different than pressing the Home and End keys?

Continued from my last collection:

1. No Squint - Adjust text and page zoom separately and saves it per site. A life saver for me when Opera's fit to width isn't cutting it out.

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/2592

2. Sort by Size - combined with tab counter, this is my favorite extension for reading. Sorts your tabs based on their length so you read the shortest tab first.

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/9209

3. EasyComment - made me start responding to blogs. Auto-inserts Name and E-mail to wordpress blogs

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/9095

4. Outwit Images - powerful advanced image crawler. Still no idea how to use it but it looks good.

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/9514
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 22, 2008, 04:07 PM »
Software and organization is a lot about compromise -- right? Compromise and choices about security, accessibility, flexibility, ease of use, portability, scalability, sexiness, price, etc. etc.

I disagree. That to me would be equivalent to saying that one should not need to search for an application because many Windows have come pre-installed with MS Office Suite on it.

I do get what you're saying about creating the app myself though but that is the bane that comes with ignorance. Also, prior to this, I don't know if such apps existed so I had to ask.

One needs to find something that's close enough and try to work with it, find ingenious solutions (use one's imagination, creativity...) to circumvent limitations. Sometimes it's a combination of different software that'll create the best solution. Sometimes one has to adapt his/her ways of doing things slightly to match the software's design, etc.

That's true. I already had one of these so I no longer need to search for tweaked alternatives unless the alternative is better for me.

Currently, I just use Akelpad with Auto-Save and Minimize to Tray plugin, MDI mode in conjunction with Launchy.

For online syncs, on the short term I just use Dropbox.

For templates, I copy the list over to LastPass' secure notes as I don't want it cluttering Google Notebook with all the other snippets.

For long term, I just use my preferred to do list program after a copy paste.



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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 22, 2008, 12:20 AM »
Thanks but I don't think that's going to work for me.

See, the thing with basing it around a "session" is organization so that when these things run amok you can easily find them and change/clone them in less time than it takes to copy paste/rewrite/reprint the to do list.

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 21, 2008, 06:00 PM »
Nah, brick game was a handheld based entirely on Tetris and every variation of Tetris that uses the basic pixels at it. If I remember correctly, they even have a shooter using all the basic tetris blocks. The choice menu in choosing a game number also used large tetris blocks.
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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 21, 2008, 10:58 AM »
Brick Game 9999-in-1 games all in one portable handheld.

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I haven't tried these before. Can anyone provide an estimate for how much space it will take to download an entire forum/website on average? I'm wondering whether as a casual user, I'm better off with the Scrapbook Firefox extension though to be honest, I don't know much about capturing to a certain depth.
1617
Anyone? Ok, to be more specific, what I don't get is doesn't either Returnil or ShadowProtect already back up your files on their own?

So how does having two backups secure the pc more than either program alone?
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 21, 2008, 07:14 AM »
city_zen, I don't get the program. Where does it allow you to save a session of your to do list?
1619
Ok, finally got the download link. It turns out it just sends the download link to the e-mail of your twitter account.
1620
So how was the book? Was it worth reading?
1621
How does the Follow Twitter thing work?
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 20, 2008, 06:06 AM »
Yeah that would be along the lines of too much space for me.  :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 20, 2008, 04:59 AM »
The problem with that is I don't have much space for paper and I don't keep them organized. You should see how many mini-notebooks I have with pages full of text in them that I ended up never revisiting again.

There's also the case of a lack of central place to store them so I'm always hitting myself on the head for throwing that 500 page paper away.

Index cards would be worse. They're small, easy to misplace and they're addictively disposable by nature. Not exactly the type of set up for something pending.
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 20, 2008, 04:27 AM »
Well, a proper systray program is often designed with speed, snappiness and direct to the point interface in mind. Some might call it minimalistic and straight to the point although I've seen exceptions.

A good example of these are Adobe Air apps. Many can eat memory, are not portable but the user interface can be less busier than an actual program tweak to do more advanced stuff. This is something where MLO (when I've tried it before in the past) doesn't achieve, interface aside.

That isn't to say such a full program can't be used but I really think it's better that the program only contains a few core features to manage to do lists of these sort and nothing else. The more content it allows in and the more this program strives to be a full to do list, the longer it takes to separate these lists with ones that you don't need repeated and even though it's still possible to navigate through it, eventually things might bog down to the point that you're much faster picking up an index card, writing several similar copies of the list on it and using it when you need to.

It really should be for lists that you find you need rewriting often enough but not often enough that you couldn't just abuse the copy-paste mechanism and have them structured in such a way that doesn't require an overt digging of all the other information that you have as to provide the snappiness in accessing several of these lists because without that snappiness, you could just simply write it down on Notepad and copy paste it and it would be like spending around the same time digging through a much more advanced notetaker/to do list program.

 
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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software
« Last post by Paul Keith on November 19, 2008, 04:14 PM »
Thanks. Glad to know there are still basic programs out there that haven't been made in bunches.

Nah, IQ and Sciral Consistency won't work for reasons that they aren't quite systray programs. (Not that they couldn't be minimized in the systray.)

Not only that but these kinds of tweak can be done more systray friendly using Evernote 2's template system, a Google Chrome app Joe's Goals and OneNote's template system. Even a tag based notetaker or MDI notepad would work.

It's not so much that these functionalities can't be replicated elsewhere. I would even think that The Form Letter or the recent Just to do it program that's in one of the recent topics in DC would eventually evolve to something like that.

It's just as you said, there's no specific program that comes to mind.

It's all tweaks and that defeats the speed by which to organize and manage these lists which is the key benefit that an app like this would have.
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