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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review
« Last post by Innuendo on September 10, 2009, 04:01 PM »
It is indeed true that the things that can be added to TC is truly becoming a small list. In addition to 'collections' the only things that I can think of that have any major rumblings in the official forum are virtual file panels and cd/dvd burning.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Export TheBat -> unix MBOX format
« Last post by Innuendo on September 10, 2009, 09:12 AM »
you're not going offtopic imho, since issues like yours are pretty relevant when picking an email client.

Just wanted to be sure. Some people don't take kindly to potential topic derails to their threads.

Thunderbird uses MBOX files, which are pretty retarded (but at least it keeps index files... kinda funny when you have a crash and the index file is corrupted, until you figure out that they need rebuilding). Iirc at least it creates a new MBOX files when the previous one grows too big... but it's still not optimal.

I keep wanting to like Thunderbird. Coming from The Bat!, though, Thunderbird has plain-jane looks with plain-jane functionality. I thought I'd be able to snazz it up with some extensions, but there just are not that many available.

One option that may look interesting is the latest Eudora beta. They've gone open source & are building the Eudora functionality and interface into a Thunderbird codebase.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review
« Last post by Innuendo on September 10, 2009, 09:01 AM »
Total Commander 7.5 final has been released!
-fenixproductions (September 09, 2009, 04:37 PM)

And looking over the changelog & seeing the obscure bugs that were fixed for this release really gives one an idea of how solid Total Commander really is. Now the official forum can move on to pestering poor Christian about what should be in v8.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager
« Last post by Innuendo on September 09, 2009, 12:03 PM »
Yes, true. But, just to make sure, this is not a hidden trap but spelled out clearly on the web page describing the Home Edition.

I'm sorry, Don. Your web page is where I got the information I posted. I didn't mean to make it sound like you were being sneaky, but rather I wanted to re-iterate your policy to circumvent someone from blindly clicking on the Buy Now link and possibly claiming foul later. There are all kinds of people in the world...and most either hate to read or can't read. :)

Your policy is clearly stated & could not have been put forth more plainly. I was just trying to save you some "But...but....it only says that in one place. How was I expected to see it?" drama later.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Export TheBat -> unix MBOX format
« Last post by Innuendo on September 09, 2009, 11:58 AM »
30,000 doesn't sound like a huge no. (I've 100,000+), and I think any decent email client today should handle that amount of mail reasonably well.

No...30,000 doesn't sound like a huge number and you would think that any decent email client in the year 2009 would handle that amount of mail reasonably well...but they don't.  >:(

Most email clients have database issues if you try to store too many emails (Outlook I'm looking at you!) or store emails in a 1-email-per-file arrangement which gets around the database issues, but really bogs the clients down when you start trying to deal with massive amounts of messages.

Your method is probably the way of the future for those of us who deal with huge email archives, but most people don't keep any emails for any length of time which is probably why email clients today are still having trouble with huge email archives. It's just not a feature that is in high demand.

But enough of the off-topic banter. It's detracting from f0dder's escape from The Bat!.
1706
Developer's Corner / Re: Mask/Forge Hard-Drive Properties?
« Last post by Innuendo on September 09, 2009, 12:23 AM »
A friend just recently asked me if there was a way he could forge the properties of his hard-drive so that it would look like it had nothing on it. I told him it wasn't possible but now I'm thinking I could be wrong.

It seems to me that finding out why he wants to do this would go a long way toward helping us suggest a way to accomplish his goal.
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If you are looking for more features, there is a great program called Media Monkey.
There is a freeware version and a paid version.

Media Monkey is a great program & the free version offers almost all of the functionality of the paid version. Well worth checking out, IMHO.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hard Drive Repair
« Last post by Innuendo on September 09, 2009, 12:20 AM »
Friends don't let friends use snakeoil SpinRite.

I know someone who rescued a hard drive using it, but I have never had reason to use the program. It may be snake oil to you, but evidently it has uses to some people.

However, if you would have said friends don't let friends use Norton products I'd have agreed wholeheartedly.  ;D

Btw, the distinction should be made between "hard drive repair" and "filesystem recovery" - there's quite a difference.

Agreed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Export TheBat -> unix MBOX format
« Last post by Innuendo on September 09, 2009, 12:14 AM »
I remember when I moved from PMMail 2000 to The Bat! I used Mailbag Assistant to get the emails moved over. If I remember correctly, PMMail just uses a Unix email format so they should move into Thunderbird no problem at all.

I don't think I could move away from The Bat! even if I wanted to...and I don't. My email archive comprises 30,000 email messages going back eons. Nearly every email program I tried choked on such a large number of messages...except The Bat!.

I've never run into any problems with its database, but I'm pretty strict on myself running the Maintenance Centre's functions on a regular basis. Come to think of it, I've never seen another email program with functionality to keep its messages free from errors.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager
« Last post by Innuendo on September 08, 2009, 07:40 PM »
For people who might be on the fence about XYplorer due to price, there's a new option - a lifetime "Home license" for $15.  According to http://www.xyplorer.com/homeedition.php:

The only caveat I'd like to point out to people thinking about buying this is that there is no upgrade path from the home edition to the pro edition. If you decide later you wish to have the pro features you'll have to pay full price to get them.
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Web bugs and tracking services. Those small, invisible things on web pages that report back to The Man what you're viewing, what you're reading, and what you're doing.

I hate them with a passion as does everyone who values their privacy. In my quest to combat these evil things I have discovered Ghostery. It's a Firefox extension that makes you aware of over 210 different web bugs & tracking services that may be on the web sites you visit and gives you the ability to block them if you wish.

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/9609

and/or

http://www.ghostery.com/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone tried Perfect Utilities ?
« Last post by Innuendo on September 08, 2009, 07:05 PM »
Never hurts to be chicken/wary when it comes to reg cleaners. If you don't know what a registry key does or doesn't do it's best to leave it be. A lot of keys are very cryptic in their function & when deleted wreak havoc on one's system. What's worse is that there are a LOT of reg cleaners out there (and I'm not saying the one referenced in this thread is one of them) that just nuke things willy-nilly and then one ends up with some non-functional programs at best and a non-functional OS at worst.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hard Drive Repair
« Last post by Innuendo on September 08, 2009, 05:38 PM »
Not sure if it's what you are looking for but some people swear by SpinRite.
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Living Room / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - Aug 29, 2009
« Last post by Innuendo on September 08, 2009, 05:26 PM »
I would have loved to have attended, but too much is going on in my life right now. Maybe next time...
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review
« Last post by Innuendo on September 08, 2009, 05:13 PM »
Is this Windows 7 only? Sounds cool indeed!

Yes, it is a new feature for Windows 7. It's really handy....so handy I turned off TC's minimize to tray option.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by Innuendo on August 26, 2009, 10:25 PM »
Nah, it's not that serious.  The Bat is still by far the best email program.  I'll deal with it.  but I do feel the whole Bat community is kind of out of touch...quirky at the very least.  I suppose it's typical of programs that offer a lot of power and customizations.

I found the same quirkiness with the ReGet Deluxe community with their usenet support forum. It must be an Eastern Europe phenomena.
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Living Room / Re: RIAA Says DRM is Dead
« Last post by Innuendo on August 25, 2009, 03:05 PM »
That doesn't really change anything - if your torrent client isn't sending data, it will be downprioritized by it's peers, leech client or not.

No, it changes everything. Leech clients makes it appear to the tracker that you are either seeding when you are not or makes it look like you haven't received any parts of the files when you actually have. Either way, your downloads are not down-prioritized at all.

There are lots of devious tricks available to get around the ratios and quotas.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by Innuendo on August 25, 2009, 03:00 PM »
Innuendo, no offense, but this is exactly the type of response I am getting from the other users.

No offense taken. I guess I don't see what the problem is because I have always typed the way MicroEd expects me to...going all the way back to when I first started with computers back in the mid-80s. I always double-space between paragraphs as that is the way I was taught to type, etc. The only time I ever run into a 'problem' is when I try to type something like your "list 1  list 2" example, but it's always easily fixed.

You may need to start looking for a new email program if it irritates you so much & the developers won't see your way of thinking.
1719
Living Room / Re: stunning 3D projections on buildings
« Last post by Innuendo on August 24, 2009, 10:23 PM »
[edit] Oh, yeah, and tinyurls are evil and should be banned from the internets (except, maybe, from twitter) [/edit]

Or just do what I do. Use a GreaseMonkey script to turn those tiny URLs back into their long form.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by Innuendo on August 22, 2009, 08:29 AM »
And of course, their support is way too archaic.  It's a mailing list.  So to ask a question, you have to sift through a whole mailing list.  They have a forum, but all the "real" users use the mailing list, so there's nothing of value in the forums.  They might as well not even have it.  So, the best way to read the mailing list is to use a newsgroup reader unless you want to actually subscribe to the emails, which is nonsense just to ask a couple of questions about your email program.  It's not like I want to follow the development of the Bat every day, like it's the most important thing in my life (I already do that here!).

Seriously, I love the program, but they need to get with the times.

What one user calls archaic another user may call refreshing. I wish all the programs I used had a usenet support forum. Having all the support for all my programs just a click away in my newsreader would make me very happy. I realize, though, that not everyone likes usenet, but if one just wants to keep up on the support forums there's access through the web & configurable RSS feeds. That's four ways to access their support forum. Surely one of those methods will trip your trigger.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by Innuendo on August 22, 2009, 08:21 AM »
continue there.  It's annoying.  For example, I wouldn't be able to do the following:

----
list1
list2
list3
---

Because as soon as I press enter, list2 will jump back and turn into "list1 list2"

That's why I said 95%. It's not perfect & in your example when the text turns into "list 1 list 2" just put the cursor right before "list 2" and hit enter. It'll stay properly formatted then. It's inconvenient & I can see your point, but the advantages of using The Bat! far outweigh the disadvantages of the editor.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared
« Last post by Innuendo on August 20, 2009, 03:53 PM »
Another option with TC is to turn on Tree View. You'll end up an interface much like Explorer where the tree view is in the left pane and the file list is in the right. Of course, you'll still have all of TC's power at your disposal so it'll be like Explorer on steroids.

However, everyone manages files differently so thankfully there is a plethora of file managers on the Windows platform and they all do things slightly differently so it's a pretty much sure thing that one will be able to find something that works the way they do.

Mac and Linux users don't have as rich a selection in this area.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by Innuendo on August 20, 2009, 03:37 PM »
Go to Options...Viewer/Editor...Editor Preferences...Make sure Auto-Wrap and Auto-Format are turned on and Justify on Wrap is turned off.

Fixes 95% of the problems with Word Wrap in the MicroEd editor and my emails look normal with uniform lines to all my friends.
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Just had a hard drive problem myself on the same day Mouser did. My problem was more insidious and harder to diagnose, though.

A SATA cable was becoming marginally bad & was sporadically "losing" the drive. For a while I thought  I was going to have to do the "RMA a drive" thing. Man, what a pain...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Steven's handy desktop Linux guide
« Last post by Innuendo on August 20, 2009, 03:18 PM »
More articles/guides like this are needed. It's hard for someone who is curious about Linux and wants to try it out, but knows hardly anything about the OS to choose what distro to use.

What distro one chooses plays a major role in what kind of user experience the user will have & it's easy for beginners to get lost in the techie details and distinctions of each distro when they go to choose which one to run. It seems to be the first decision one must make on the road to Linux is also one of the hardest for the newbies to make.
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