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1976

Living Room / Re: What's your favorite drink?

« Last post by rgdot on June 09, 2009, 05:54 PM »

Pepsi
By most measures I drink way too much of it

1977

Living Room / Re: Baby Cody Plushie is born

« Last post by rgdot on June 08, 2009, 10:11 PM »

Cute and well done, Canada is going to be Cody's first destination? 

1978

General Software Discussion / Re: FreewareMission.com: 94 Great Freeware Programs For A Freeware Only PC

« Last post by rgdot on June 08, 2009, 04:57 PM »

Nice list, couple of switches between 93 and 94 in the text and page title though (if there is a reason I guess I have to read more carefully)

1979

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MS Technet subscription

« Last post by rgdot on June 08, 2009, 01:53 PM »

There are laws in some countries where when an transaction has occurred it can't be revoked. As in you checked and accepted TOS or similar and they sent you a confirmation email with a receipt (says zero dollars in this case but it is still an official receipt). The question is anybody going to challenge MS over a technet subscription.

1980

General Software Discussion / Re: calendars - remembering the almond milk and sea moss smoothies

« Last post by rgdot on June 08, 2009, 10:16 AM »

Where is Ecco Pro available for download? the good old netmanage FTP hasn't had it for a while at least

1981

Living Room / Re: Brief rant Re:mIRC

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2009, 01:14 PM »

I am not a ranty person though hehe, but yes you are right. And it's done, as mentioned I did register it earlier today.

1982

Living Room / Re: Tetris turns 25

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2009, 10:53 AM »

The memories hehe.
Google might have stumbled into a new form of captcha, I can hardly make out google in that logo 

1983

Living Room / Re: Brief rant Re:mIRC

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2009, 10:37 AM »

Of course the author can decide anything and who am I to say anything but by letting it work beyond 30 days by design and then much later on disabling it, randomly or completely, is disappointing, nothing more.
The way it relates to the freeware vs shareware thing is because I find it disappointing that a change of policy occurs later on (of course I am aware some shareware have turned into freeware too) since this random disabling thing has certainly not been around forever, only the prompt to register has been there. I have known enough illegal (if it's a given to call them and me that) users, that for unknown reasons come to me for connection and pc issues, over the years to see that.

For those who care to believe me, after this post I am heading over to register mIRC. More so for past misdemeanors than future use

My apologies to everybody if the tone of my posts are not good, believe it or not they are not meant that way.

1984

Living Room / Re: Brief rant Re:mIRC

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2009, 09:03 AM »

My take on illegal usage is far more strict (if that's the correct word) than you may think, even if this thread seems to indicate otherwise. I have even been laughed at elsewhere because of my views about Napster and others, but that's another topic.  Anyhow I will stop here because to me your last sentence confirms what you deny in your first sentence (the part about missing my point)

1985

Living Room / Re: Brief rant Re:mIRC

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2009, 08:11 AM »

@ Jibz, you completely missed my point, but I almost knew this is going to turn into a mini-flame against me  I didn't say I should be entitled to use something for free nor did I complain about any nag screens or shareware.

My point was an author should decide what he wants and not disable a software few years later, I have no problem having to decide after 30 days (when it says 30 days) to pay for it or go for alternatives. And since you mentioned it yes I am against a 'third' option, either it's freeware or shareware that actually does expire (or may be even does not have a trial period at all).

Khaled is a nice guy that I (and you and others) first read about years ago and he has let people continue using his software by letting the continue button stay enabled after the 30 days, but I (I am not even saying anybody cares what I think, but posting here until mouser lets me ) am kind of disappointed to see this thing about mIRC.

I am aware of the freeware alternatives and for example AdiIRC and HydraIRC are pretty decent ones.

1986

Living Room / Brief rant Re:mIRC

« Last post by rgdot on June 05, 2009, 11:50 PM »

I have been using mIRC for a very long time and I am willing to admit ignoring the prompts since mIRC allows use beyond the trial. For the first time ever I couldn't use it today because the continue prompt was grayed out with a message 'your 30 day trial expired'. Since I have never seen or heard that happening with mIRC I go to its discussion forum and do find a thread about this (no I didn't start that or any thread there myself)

There was thread here on DC about freeware going shareware and issues like that. Of course mIRC was never 'freeware' but once again some software writers seem to not get it. Yes it's extremely nice, even hugely pleasantly so, to allow people to use what you have spent years to write for free but please decide one way or another. The world doesn't need another gray area.

/rant


EDIT: changed 'writer' to 'some software writers'

1987

Living Room / Re: Weird Window When Computer Boots Up

« Last post by rgdot on June 05, 2009, 02:15 AM »

Have you checked the event viewer? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427
XP Pro is control panel--->administrative tools

Might show warnings or errors in the different logs (system)

1988

Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by rgdot on June 04, 2009, 02:28 PM »

Maybe each person should post 2 answers, one true, and one made up for entertainment purposes.

-mouser (June 03, 2009, 09:52 PM)

Once an astronomer mistook a (dead pixel) dot on the computer screen to be a planet passing in front of Rigel...it became known as the rg dot

Spoiler

Yes, I failed Comedy 101

1989

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MS Technet subscription

« Last post by rgdot on June 03, 2009, 09:30 PM »

lol @ Microsoft, all it took was a link after filling a survey to grant access? Even I can set up better access restrictions  

1990

Found Deals and Discounts / MS Technet subscription

« Last post by rgdot on June 03, 2009, 01:15 PM »

For some so-called pilot project Microsoft is giving away Technet subscriptions. via downloadsquad

First had trouble getting in using various browsers and now that I got in keys seem unavailable when I try. Various other reports confirm the same. Details of the pilot project seem sketchy too but worth a try if someone likes access to various MS product keys, downloads and help.

1991

Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by rgdot on June 03, 2009, 09:28 AM »

I am honestly not sure where this came from. I just picked letters using the randomization formula from mouser's prize picker for the monthly giveaways. This is the result!

-Josh (June 03, 2009, 08:57 AM)

 

1992

Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by rgdot on June 02, 2009, 09:47 PM »

rg is my initials, dot is the lamest attempt in history to make it sound "webby", put together I registered the domain and also use it as my id/username in a few places

1993

General Software Discussion / Re: Adding text 'silently'?

« Last post by rgdot on June 01, 2009, 06:57 PM »

Another option to explore, thanx

1994

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2009, 11:05 PM »

It's not new but funny and silly stuff

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=P3Aqr7f2ezs

1995

Official Announcements / Re: June 2009 Discounts and Giveaway

« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2009, 04:04 PM »

But if someone does pay that amount he/she should get some other goodies as a surprise of sorts n the same package

1996

General Software Discussion / Re: Adding text 'silently'?

« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2009, 01:32 PM »

Thank you akx, will try that as well

1997

Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. IrfanView - integrity issue examined

« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2009, 01:31 PM »

@fenixproductions, thank you very much for the info.
I guess in some ways the lines between a filemanager and the likes of Irfanview are blurred, if it is as much about organizing existing images as it is working on them (resize, crop, etc.) then a filemanager can prove just as useful.

1998

Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. IrfanView - integrity issue examined

« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2009, 11:38 AM »

Speaking of IrfanView, does it have good archive file support? XnView's is so-so at best (There are Explorer replacements like AcBrowser that can not only open archive files but give thumbnails previews of image inside but wondering about IrfanView)

1999

General Software Discussion / Re: Would you recommend friends to use XP or Vista?

« Last post by rgdot on May 29, 2009, 10:25 AM »

Not in regards to the quality of 7 itself but in general if you ask me I would say SP1. Historically speaking if there are problems with a Windows release few weeks is no where near enough to wait.

2000

Living Room / Re: Help me build the ultimate metal playlist

« Last post by rgdot on May 27, 2009, 10:46 AM »

You guys put System Of A Down, Marylin Manson and Nine Inch Nails in a metal play list?