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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rgdot on July 04, 2011, 10:11 PM »

Highschool spits me out.

-Razzy (July 04, 2011, 04:17 PM)

 

Welcome

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on June 30, 2011, 07:25 AM »

This would have been a better name

Google?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on June 29, 2011, 06:42 PM »

Waiting for an invite myself, if they also give me some to share I will post here first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on June 28, 2011, 09:41 PM »

Looks promising and it seems a much more low key launch than Wave which says a lot too

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Living Room / Re: Lulzsec hackers outed by "anonymous" user

« Last post by rgdot on June 28, 2011, 02:16 PM »

The problem with all these hacks, malicious or whatever stuff is ultimately the weak and poor suffer or at the very least they see no benefit. Embarrassing some web designer or security specialist is so 'meh', it's not like the politician, head of CIA, etc designed the website or wrote the security code...

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by rgdot on June 27, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Canada remains a joke compared to the rest of the developed world.
That's all I am going to say about that 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Mozilla trying to do?

« Last post by rgdot on June 23, 2011, 10:07 AM »

Google re-invented versioning just because they could, everybody is entitled to agree with what is said in the links TheQwerty provided and I am not exactly qualified to disagree. But to me it's first and foremost google doing things just because they can.

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

« Last post by rgdot on June 22, 2011, 10:48 AM »

I wanted to contact Vladonai and ask about that. Text on site and activation email seems to indicate June 23 but coupon image says November 23 like you said.

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

« Last post by rgdot on June 22, 2011, 08:56 AM »

Worked for me, but that was yesterday. Thanks for posting about it cmpm

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to stop forum spam ?

« Last post by rgdot on June 21, 2011, 03:17 PM »

I want to add something rather obvious to the third point made by mouser. In addition to forums I have set up and managed dozens of WordPress sites over the years. It is impossible that every spammer or bot creator doesn't know that akismet works with minimal effort out of the box  yet years into the blogs' existence there are sometimes 100s of spam messages posted and caught by akismet per day.
My point is they just don't think, that's how you should approach spam prevention.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to stop forum spam ?

« Last post by rgdot on June 21, 2011, 09:59 AM »

Only method that has worked for me is a question and answer to complete registration. Even easy question dropped spam big time.

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Living Room / Re: A New Twist in Wikipedia?

« Last post by rgdot on June 19, 2011, 12:34 PM »

Wikipedia or similar efforts will never find a way to remove slanted views, wrong information, etc. completely. You either have full editorial control or not (and all that comes with each set up) ... there is no real workable way that is a mix. We and they should be happy with what has been achieved with Wikipedia considering what the internet 'allows'.

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Living Room / Re: Friends: Brace yourselves for another economic turn.

« Last post by rgdot on June 16, 2011, 02:44 PM »

When politicians and by extension people are servants to some international organization who sets monetary policy and imposes austerity this will continue.
People are fearful to part with their money when it goes to governments, which in theory - and yes in practice - they can control but when a 'public' corporation rips people off it's worth a couple of stories and a week of fake and soon forgotten outrage.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google's ChromeOS Laptops for $20/month

« Last post by rgdot on June 11, 2011, 09:42 AM »

Without 'business class' (whatever that means  ) internet access I won't ever bother with '100% in the cloud'. Might sound very silly or crazy but I would rate reliable and solid internet access higher than security issues as far as cloud computing goes. The reason I say that is most or all of us have been using 'cloud' for many years anyway...email, banking accessible via the internet etc. To me a google netbook won't mean storing more stuff online it just means having a managed device.

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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2011, 09:15 AM »

Voted.

+1 CMS too. Having said that I am personally so tired of managing them, updates breaking stuff, etc.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Thoughts on HTML5?

« Last post by rgdot on May 27, 2011, 02:44 PM »

Some of this has to do with the end consumer too. I kind of see it as similar to the IPv4 story. The end user doesn't want to care as long as youtube videos work (or in IPv6's case, as long as you can just type youtube.com and go)
This kind of 'as long as it works' attitude doesn't create motivation at the business level.

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Living Room / Kickstarter Spotlight - May 26, 2011

« Last post by rgdot on May 26, 2011, 12:32 PM »

An interesting one today

	HexBright, an Open Source Light
Goal	$31,000
End Date	MONDAY JUL 18, 11:00PM EDT
Project Creator(s)	Christian Carlberg
Location	-
Minimum Pledge	$1
Description	Just about anywhere you can buy a cheap flashlight with a zillion unnecessary modes (high, med, low, slow blinky, fast blinky, SOS blinky... laser pointer too??). All garbage and the light will usually break on you. I made myself a light the way I wanted it; I picked the best available LED (a CREE XM-L!!!), a good rechargeable battery, built the electronics and programmed it with the only modes I wanted- high, low, and blinky. From necessity (also known as cheapness) I machined the body out of 1" aluminum hex bar stock and came up with a unique elegant look with a surprisingly very comfortable grip...

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Living Room / Re: Farewell Skype ...

« Last post by rgdot on May 11, 2011, 09:49 AM »

I can't believe the number of articles I read that relate to this subject that don't mention Live Messenger. To me they are 99% overlapping. I see it as MS taking on something to reshape to its existing product, improve, integrate, etc..

(In my opinion MSE is probably one of the best things out of MS, that may not say much but it really is good)

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Living Room / Re: Karen Kenworthy RIP

« Last post by rgdot on April 25, 2011, 09:48 PM »

RIP, sad news

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Living Room / Re: Higgs Boson, God Particle, rumored to have been found.

« Last post by rgdot on April 24, 2011, 10:05 PM »

Religion must stay 500 yards away from science at all times

Physics will inch forward in grand unification, god particle, dark matter, etc. I just hope not to hear all the why spend so much on building LHC stuff.

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Living Room / Re: what is the benefit of this old style network

« Last post by rgdot on April 23, 2011, 10:30 PM »

Separate or isolate local traffic from internet traffic for security...that's one possibility. Crude but has been done.

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Living Room / Re: The Foreclosure Scam

« Last post by rgdot on April 23, 2011, 05:03 PM »

And people voted Alan Grayson out - not a US citizen but follow politics - sad sad world and...I will leave it at that

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!

« Last post by rgdot on April 23, 2011, 10:40 AM »

Happy Birthday Renegade 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: InfoQube (IQ) Information Management System Q & A

« Last post by rgdot on April 22, 2011, 11:28 PM »

Thank you Pierre 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: InfoQube (IQ) Information Management System Q & A

« Last post by rgdot on April 22, 2011, 08:38 PM »

1- USB key
2- IQPath\Users\yourLoginName was created but now there are 2 (I have used IQ on 2 PCs so far). So I have IQPath\Users\yourLoginName1 and IQPath\Users\yourLoginName2. For example menu.dat is different between the two folders. Basically my question is, what is different in the 2 menu.dat and other files in these two folders?   
3- see 2-

Thanks Pierre