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General Software Discussion / Re: are email clients sofware a dead industry ?

« Last post by mrainey on March 29, 2008, 10:39 AM »

I'll play the part of the technological dinosaur.  Been using Courier as my email client for years and just love it.  I can search the archive in a few seconds, set up filtering schemes, tweak away to do pretty much whatever I want.  I even have it set up to play different sound effects depending on which product a customer has just sent an order for (wakes me right up!).

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General Software Discussion / Re: How often do you reinstall Windows?

« Last post by mrainey on March 28, 2008, 05:05 PM »

Never.  I make an image backup once a week, takes twenty minutes .  Maybe five times in the past six years I've had to use one of them to restore.  I copy important work to a thumb drive in between backups.  I use JV16, very carefully, to keep track of things in the registry.

My XP installation seems to run as fast as ever.

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« Last post by mrainey on March 16, 2008, 08:37 PM »

Absolutely sick of them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?

« Last post by mrainey on February 03, 2008, 01:10 PM »

I bought a license for x2 a couple years ago, but had to find something else because it wouldn't reliably retain its settings on my system.  That was an example of an intolerable bug.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?

« Last post by mrainey on February 02, 2008, 10:17 PM »

If a program has quite a few bugs, I find myself a little less confident in the accuracy of its output.  Thinking mostly here of programs that are geared toward number crunching.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Visual Studio Uninstaller Tool

« Last post by mrainey on January 30, 2008, 06:54 AM »

it makes your system unusable

What do you mean?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stickies 6.5a released

« Last post by mrainey on January 17, 2008, 01:12 PM »

I've gotten so absent-minded as I approach "senior" status, I couldn't live without Stickies!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Files From the ..\Local Settings\Temp\ Folder

« Last post by mrainey on January 13, 2008, 06:21 PM »

The way I do it is sort the temp directory by Date Modified.  Everything that's not from today goes - folders and files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Files From the ..\Local Settings\Temp\ Folder

« Last post by mrainey on January 13, 2008, 03:57 PM »

I delete the temp files often, and have done so for years with no problems.   If you try to delete a file that's being used, you'll be warned and the file won't be deleted.

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Living Room / Re: What should I do with my audio CDs?

« Last post by mrainey on January 10, 2008, 09:05 PM »

I tossed my cassette tapes last year, the CD's still get played quite a bit.  Guess I'm behind the leading edge.   

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Living Room / Re: Best Medical Diagnosing Links

« Last post by mrainey on January 10, 2008, 10:52 AM »

Interesting article on Salon.com


http://www.salon.com...08/01/10/web_doctor/

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Living Room / Re: Best Medical Diagnosing Links

« Last post by mrainey on January 05, 2008, 02:18 PM »

I's not like the patient doesn't have a vested interest in the subject. Wink

For sure, especially when most doctors do piece work instead of earning a set salary.  I do my own Internet research before and after a visit to the doctor, but never fool myself into thinking I know more than he or she does (though there are a few where it might be close).  And I don't go back to the "Jumbo Jet" doctors.

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Living Room / Re: Best Medical Diagnosing Links

« Last post by mrainey on January 05, 2008, 07:57 AM »

There's nothing wrong  with doing research about medical conditions, but doctors are seeing way too many people coming in waving printouts of their Internet "diagnosis".  They "know" exactly what's wrong with them, plus they demand prescriptions for specific drugs they saw in TV ads.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: post your 5 most used applications in 2007 here!

« Last post by mrainey on January 01, 2008, 08:12 AM »

Firefox
Directory Opus
UltraEdit
Emergence BASIC
Courier

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: Trucker's Log Watch

« Last post by mrainey on January 01, 2008, 08:00 AM »

Looks like you picked up on Emergence in a hurry.  Are you going to post the finished product on the Ionic Wind website?

Looking good!

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Best Text Editor / Re: How could y'all not mention Notepad Minus?

« Last post by mrainey on December 19, 2007, 09:29 PM »

At only 12,228 bytes, I doubt there's a smaller text editor out there.

There's always something.   

http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo until Christmas

« Last post by mrainey on December 19, 2007, 09:17 PM »

Then what about cancelling your subscription...?

The sales pitches just kept coming.  Ashampoo and Xara are the worst about that, in my experience.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo until Christmas

« Last post by mrainey on December 19, 2007, 04:52 PM »

Ashampoo = endless emails trying to sell you stuff.   

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Living Room / Re: Playing FLV movies - stopped working for some?

« Last post by mrainey on December 19, 2007, 08:42 AM »

I haven't had a problem playing FLV's (yet).  How could I get hold of one that's giving you trouble?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by mrainey on December 18, 2007, 04:42 PM »

who apparently don't mind all the usability annoyances, big and small, I have found in 30 minutes of playing with it.

Specifics?

One of the nicest things about UltraEdit is its customizability.  There are probably a few too many options and workarounds to learn about in thirty minutes.

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Living Room / Re: Laptop or Desktop — which are you?

« Last post by mrainey on December 14, 2007, 09:10 PM »

but I use an external keyboard, mouse and La-Z-Boy

You and I have a remarkably similar approach to computing!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by mrainey on November 30, 2007, 02:19 PM »

I've dumped A2, Prevx (tiresome), and TrojanHunter.

Why dump TrojanHunter?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Could a Directory Opus 9.0 user PLEASE try this for me?

« Last post by mrainey on November 28, 2007, 08:19 PM »

Running XP Pro.  Followed your instructions, right-clicked a jpg file, Directory Opus crashed right away.

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General Software Discussion / Bug-free software that does -- nothing

« Last post by mrainey on November 28, 2007, 06:02 AM »

"Most products we see on the market want to increase our productivity, organize our screen joyfully or make wonders with our sound card, but NaDa™ does nothing. This is a revolutionary whole new approach, a concept far beyond what you usually expect from the software industry.  Download it and forget it."


http://www.bernardbe....com/computing/NaDa/

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Found Deals and Discounts / No more "no backup" excuses Seagate 500GB FreeAgent Desktop Drive - $80 AR

« Last post by mrainey on November 22, 2007, 09:00 AM »

http://www.circuitci...71&mid=sduidp0t0