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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

« Last post by Innuendo on July 19, 2009, 01:18 PM »

Yikes - Tab Mix Plus is supposed to be compatible with FF 3.5 - some elements work but not all! Can't get Lock/protect tab on context tab menu? But Protect Tab is on Main Context Menu?

-CleverCat (July 19, 2009, 02:07 AM)

Are you using the latest development version? If not, that's probably your problem.

Tab Mix Plus Dev-Build 0.3.7.4pre.090516
http://tmp.garyr.net...x_plus-dev-build.xpi

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General Software Discussion / Re: $20 if you make me a 6' Molex cable. $10 for recommending a better solution.

« Last post by Innuendo on July 19, 2009, 12:59 PM »

300W for a dual drive external enclosure is just ridiculous even if it is a NAS, eg. the DNS-323 Dual HDD RAID NAS has a ~50W PSU.

-4wd (July 18, 2009, 07:59 PM)

And my DNS-323 has no problems at all powering the two Seagate 1.5TB drives it contains.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2009, 11:46 AM »

Thanks, but sorry, I don't do blogging

-4wd (July 10, 2009, 12:07 AM)

4wd doesn't do blogging nor does he allow kids on his lawn.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2009, 11:43 AM »

Windows finally being a real full-fledged OS instead of sitting on top of DOS, etc.

-f0dder (July 16, 2009, 11:10 AM)

Just to nitpick: win9x still sits ontop of DOS (even though it "sucks out the brains" pretty well, and only calls down to DOS very rarely), and while it does implement pre-emptive multitasking, there's still a few "biglocks" in the kernel code that can get the system locked up totally. Oh, and there's a lot of thunks to old 16bit windows code as well. Win9x is... a mess [/quote]

I'm glad I have you around f0dder. I don't have as much time to answer things to my full satisfaction these days due to time constraints so I tend to over-simplify a lot of my replies, but I'm confident you will come along and flesh out my general outlines.

I always wanted to have an entourage. 

No, just kidding...I'm glad you are here to expound on my vague mumblings. So much to do and so little time to do it in these days. :: sigh ::

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Living Room / Re: Applications Stealing Focus...

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2009, 11:26 AM »

Missed this thread the first time around. Maybe someone at MS reads DC? New behavior in Win7 prohibits apps from stealing focus. It's been a long time coming & I really enjoy the feature.

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General Software Discussion / Re: $20 if you make me a 6' Molex cable. $10 for recommending a better solution.

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2009, 11:20 AM »

superboyac,
Is this hard drive in this external enclosure IDE/PATA or SATA? The reason I ask is you are talking about molex connectors which are used nearly exclusively on IDE/PATA drives. Granite Digital's web site lists the enclosure you are wanting to exchange for as being SATA only. SATA drives almost exclusively do not use molex connectors.

Re: Granite Digital - there's nothing to fear from this company except their prices. They market their products exclusively to the Mac market so they tend to be made out of stylized aluminum that matches the Mac Pros & they are over-engineered with high prices to match their target audience.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro X - 4 Free

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2009, 11:08 AM »

I don't mind an occasional offer of this sort, but Ashampoo's efforts are excessive, annoying, and hence counterproductive.  I'm now much less likely to buy any product from them.

-cyberdiva (July 18, 2009, 08:22 AM)

Oh, man...I just had some horrific flashbacks! I downloaded a free older version of one of their CD/DVD burning programs years ago and it took me forever to opt out all of the mailing lists that indiscretion landed me on.

Nothing is free when dealing with Ashampoo...you may not open your wallet, but you'll pay in some other way.

And what kind of company name is Ashampoo anyway?

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Found Deals and Discounts / MailWasher Pro - 30% Discount

« Last post by Innuendo on July 16, 2009, 11:13 AM »

Just ran into this today when I was updating one of my Firefox extensions (Interclue). Get MailWasher Pro for $27.97 instead of the regular $39.95 price.

MailWasher Pro Product Information

Discounted Purchase Link

No concrete date as to when this discount ends just that it is available for the next 30 days.

I have no use for the program, but thought I'd pass it along in case someone here did. They do offer free lifetime updates which is a nice perk.

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Living Room / Re: Is online access a right or a privilege?

« Last post by Innuendo on July 16, 2009, 11:05 AM »

I think they used to call that: "The Right Thing to Do" 

-40hz (July 16, 2009, 10:13 AM)

Having since being renamed to "The Right Thing To Do So Long As It Doesn't Cost Too Much Time, Effort, And/Or Money And Doesn't Cause Any Controversy Or Alienate Any Campaign Contributors" 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox --3.5-- Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Innuendo on July 16, 2009, 11:02 AM »

Has anyone been playing with Ubiquity?

-Perry Mowbray (July 16, 2009, 08:59 AM)

I tried installing it, but it didn't work properly. I don't know if it that's because I'm running over 30 extensions and something is interfering with it or because my Firefox profile is very old being used from Firefox version to Firefox version and from one OS install to the next for many years. I just didn't have the energy to sort it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by Innuendo on July 16, 2009, 10:59 AM »

The problem, Justice, is Microsoft cannot implement change too fast or there is going to be a lot of consumer backlash both from individuals and businesses. In order to move to that next generation of desktop OSes things are going to have to be planned carefully or a lot of people are going to be sitting around with $1,500 worth of Adobe software that won't work with their new OS and something like that would make the rally cries against Vista look tame.

Let's look at the last time Microsoft radically changed Windows. That was when Windows 95 was released and there were a LOT of programs that didn't work with the new OS because they either used outdated Windows API calls or were DOS-based. Yeah, a lot of people still used DOS back then because Windows 3.x wasn't a viable solution for a lot of people.

But I digress...back then there was some outcry and gnashing of teeth, but people made the switch with their apps because there was a lot to gain from doing so. Pre-emptive multi-tasking, improved performance due to software being 32-bit, unified GUI interface, Windows finally being a real full-fledged OS instead of sitting on top of DOS, etc.

If Microsoft wants people to move over/up to The Next Great Thing they are going to need a laundry list of advantages like that or people aren't going to make the move.

And to address your last point, yes you could say that any Windows version after XP are refinements of the same concepts, but only if you are talking about the concept of Windows itself. Once you start talking about the code-base, however, you will find that although Vista and Win7 have very similar GUIs to WinXP a lot of the underlying code under the hood has been rewritten and optimized for performance and security.

Warning: personal anecdote ahead! While the GUIs of Vista and Win7 seem to be very similar to XP on first glance there's a LOT more usability stuffed in nooks and crannies that help you get a lot more out of the user interface than one did with XP. I've been running Win7 since pre-beta builds exclusively and just last week I had to work on a WinXP and it was extremely frustrating. Sure, I could get my tasks done, but I kept looking for the new Win7 shortcuts to doing things and not finding them. It seems like Microsoft is back on track again & I'm really looking forward to seeing what Win8 will bring us in 2 or so years.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Generic.dx Trojan

« Last post by Innuendo on July 16, 2009, 10:26 AM »

A lot of those programs have been UPX-packed or whatever to obfuscate the code so their "competitors" can't see how they achieve their neat tricks. Unfortunately, some AV products flag anything that's been packed like that as a generic trojan because the trojan writers like to use those packers as well.

Even Linkman, the very reputable program that's been discussed on this site throws up a "suspicious program" flag in a lot of AVs because it's been packed.

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Living Room / Re: Is online access a right or a privilege?

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 10:36 PM »

Yes, the schools should be doing what they can to level the playing field, but that takes tax payer dollars and in this economy with ever-tightening belts and ever-shrinking budgets that means having to try to do a lot with little or no resources.

There's unfortunately no easy answer to this problem & looks like there won't be any sort of easy answer for a long, long time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Generic.dx Trojan

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 10:33 PM »

All good advice, Mouser, but the OP was concerned about files downloaded from GameCopyWorld a site that doesn't have any user-posted files. All files are provided by the site owner(s).

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Living Room / Re: 1st Person Shooter Disease

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 10:30 PM »

I'm one of the odd few PC gamers who don't see the allure of first person shooters. I'd rather play just about anything else.

However, I did play the heck out of Oblivion and Fallout, but those aren't the garden variety FPSes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 12:18 PM »

No x64 versions of Windows have been able to run 16bit apps I believe

-Eóin

That's what I thought, but I erred on the side of sticking with what I knew for sure. My PC doesn't have the capability to run a 64-bit OS so I don't know as much as I should about those yet.

I'm waiting to see what i5 brings us...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Generic.dx Trojan

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 12:15 PM »

The world would be a happier place if people would just stop using Norton and McAfee's products. No good ever comes of it.

Just so you know, Mystic-One, I download files from gamecopyworld.com a LOT to circumvent the downright intrusive copy-protection on some games and I have never had a problem with anything I've downloaded from them. I'd rate them to be a trustworthy site.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Actual Window Manager mini review

« Last post by Innuendo on July 13, 2009, 12:08 PM »

Alex, thank you for your attention to this matter. I cannot speak for Tranglos, but I bet if you were to offer to privately send him a debugging version to test he'd probably be more than happy to do so. Then you'd be able to analyze the data it logs and come up with a solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 04:17 PM »

My biggest hatre of Vista is it won't let any 16bits program to go fullscreen be it text mode application or grphical games...
Hope Win7  will lift this restriction...

-tslim

I wouldn't hold my breath. 16-bit applications are on the way out. You can't even run 16-bit apps on a 64-bit Win7 I have heard.

Just out of curiosity, what 16-bit app are you holding onto so dearly that makes you want to run a program that's got to be at least 14 years old?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 04:14 PM »

but what are the personal observations you got after trying Win 7 beta ?

-mahesh2k

My personal observation after having installed Win7 on a few different PCs of varying ages and capabilities is that if your PC ran WinXP well it will run Win7 well. If you have a fast Aero-capable video card like me then you may find, also like me, that Win7 runs faster on your PC than WinXP did.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Actual Window Manager mini review

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 04:10 PM »

I haven't run Actual Windows Manager in quite some time, but what tranglos says rings true in my mind. I rarely turn off my PC and I seem to recall that the AWM weirdness always showed up after letting it run for a couple/few days straight with no reboots.

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Living Room / Re: Is online access a right or a privilege?

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 03:56 PM »

Internet access is a privilege, but it should be a right and the only reason I say this is because I have a real life example.

I have some nieces and nephews that live in the puckered sphincter of nowhere with no internet access. They have a hard time of it sometimes keeping up with their school-mates because they don't have the access to online research sources that their peers do.

Living quite a ways from a public library is a real downer when their parents work during library hours so they have to rely on non-parental ways to get to the library after school hours.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: McAfee again. Don't ask.

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 03:50 PM »

Nobody should have to use McAfee. Ever.

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« Last post by Innuendo on July 11, 2009, 03:41 PM »

All I know is that I'm forever installing and moving and renaming and uninstalling files/programs/whatever, and given how I use the computer, I tend to think that using a Registry Cleaner can be helpful.  But I don't know enough to be certain about this.

-cyberdiva

All I can tell you is of my own personal experiences. I am a software junkie. If I have a software need (yes, need, dang it!) I will relentlessly search till I have found every program that will fulfill that need & I will end up installing a bunch of those till I finally have the one I consider to be best. I do this for every program I have on my PC. Sadly, it doesn't end there. Every few months I go check out all the new developments in programs and if they look like they can usurp my current choice I install them to give them a try out.

Everything I don't keep, of course, is uninstalled. Compound this phenomena with dabbling in PC games (I'll install games, try them out and after I've beat them or gotten bored with them they are uninstalled) my registry probably has a cubic butt-load of irrelevant obsolete entries.

I never do any registry maintenance and I don't have any program compatibility problems nor does my system run any slower than when I first installed my OS.

Actually, the only problems I have on my system from time to time are those evil little programs you install that covertly commandeer all your file associations behind your back. Fortunately, there aren't as many of those as there used to be and UAC blocks almost all of the remaining offenders.

Side note: Though I have never used it I have heard wonderful things about Total Uninstaller. If someone were looking for something that does what edbro talks about in his post then Total Uninstaller would be the first one I'd try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« Last post by Innuendo on July 06, 2009, 12:18 PM »

I don't use any...but way back when I had noble intentions of keeping track of all my movies I bought eXtreme Movie Manager. The reasons I picked his over any of the others are many. First, he's one of the hardest working software authors I have ever seen bending over backwards to make his users happy. That much is evident from reading his forums.

Next, for what it does and the amount of work he has put into it he asks a mere pittance. Not only that, but he's insane enough to offer that price as a one-time fee with lifetime updates. Another plus for this program is that the author has built in this very powerful scripting engine that will allow users to get movie information from a wealth of sites. Did something on your favorite movie site change and now the program won't get information anymore? No need to wait for an update to the program. Grab a new version of your desired script from the forum or from the update function in the program.

The last reason I chose this program is it's not hard-coded for physical media. Most movie collection organizers have no provision for movies that are not physical media like DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. If you have rips stored on an HTPC or media server this program keeps track of them. You can even keep track of the accompanying movie trailers as well on your media if you're a movie trailer kind of person.