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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help and Spell - New Name?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2015, 03:41 PM »

My inclination would be to keep the name.  But to refer to it as CHS routinely, to make it less of a mouth full. In that case searches on either CHS or Clipboard Help Spell would pick it right up.

Anyway I am glad you asked.  I read the description more thoroughly.  I didn't realize all the applications it has.  I'm going to try it out.   

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2015, 03:27 PM »

I'm not sure I'd trust the salt to make it that unreadable...and hammering the outside casing only warps the platters a bit. So for a low tech destruction on a drive that can't be electronically burned (or shot...), I go with disassembly, fold the platters in half by hand (surprisingly not that hard), and then hammer a sharp crease in the folded platter.

-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2015, 12:54 PM)

Then to securely quarantine the bits and pieces, put them in a shoulder bag.  Carry the bag on the MetroMover on Saturday Night in Miami.  It's better than incinerated at Cheyenne Mountain. 

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2015, 07:59 AM »

The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols

Nothing by Mae West

She was as cheeky as there was in her time.

-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)

I wasn't going to click through, but since the picture Arizona Hot used to link to the slideshow had a Mae West quote on it, I had to see for myself if any of them included Mae West quotes.

Three of them did.

-Deozaan (May 01, 2015, 05:47 PM)

Guess my browser weirded out.  Likely I was still using MxNitro on a RamDisk when that happened.  I've chucked all that.  I'm glad she was included.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 01, 2015, 02:52 PM »

The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols

Nothing by Mae West

She was as cheeky as there was in her time.

-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)

Excellent, thanks ! I like a lot "I have seen things and be places" transformed into "I have been things and see places". Or something like that.

-MerleOne (May 01, 2015, 01:52 PM)

I like the one:  "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

I enjoyed some of the flicks with her and W.C. Fields  "Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM »

The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols

Nothing by Mae West

She was as cheeky as there was in her time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 01, 2015, 08:30 AM »

MS Edge just sounds silly to me. *Sigh*

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2015, 06:45 AM)

Does it say how many shaves you can expect before you have to throw it away? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 01, 2015, 06:01 AM »

Another sad thing is that I've gotten to the point with Windows 10 that I did with Ubuntu a few years ago. I get all excited about installing a new version, but once it's installed I just kind of look at the fresh/pristine desktop and think "Now what?"

-Deozaan (April 30, 2015, 04:48 PM)

Yeah.  I put on a few Linux distros to get a look.  The frustrating thing is the main reason was to see some Glass as nice as Vista or W7.  But I couldn't get much to work without getting into too much minutia.  Esp. in a VM on a Laptop it is so slow I don't have the patience to configure stuff.  I knew some Linux back in the late 90s early 2000s.  I've forgotten most of it.  I haven't compiled a kernel in forever.  

When I get a computer room with a big bench/desk with 1/2 dozen machines then maybe I'll see something. By then the pizzaz will likely be sucked out of Windows.  It will have 2 "colors."  Gray and light gray.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 04:38 PM »

I was still having problems installing the latest Windows 10 images in VirtualBox.

It turns out that updating VirtualBox appears to have resolved the issue.

-Deozaan (April 30, 2015, 03:26 PM)

I've given up.  All these things will go on VMWare Player.  But it is so slow on my Laptop I can't stand to run any of them.  I've been messing around trying to boot VHDs directly.  But so far the only OS that actually booted and ran quasi-normally was Windows 2012 Server R2.

For some reason following guides how to boot from a USB stick with UEFI almost never works.  Out of maybe 7 OS I tried I got Windows 8 Pro to actually boot from a stick.  Way disappointing.  I know a lot more of this stuff would work with the old MBR systems.  The transition isn't much fun so far.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: RunInTrayMod 1.33

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 04:15 PM »

I have updated the first post with my current url.  I increased the timeouts for both RunInTrayMod and StartMinShortcut to 15 seconds.  This gives more chance for the window of the trayed program to open and set its title.  My Laptop does not run quite as fast as my quad core desktop. 


I added a custom icon to RunInTrayMod.exe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 01:35 PM »

5 1/4" floppy sounds much easier than trying that surgery on a 3.5" plastic jobber.

-MilesAhead (April 30, 2015, 08:34 AM)

I don't like to boast but mine was 8" 
 

-cranioscopical (April 30, 2015, 12:50 PM)

When you say was I hope nobody took a scissors to it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 09:56 AM »

It's weird the stuff you find in drawers.  I had a stack of 10 CD caddies left over from around 1993.  I assumed CD drives would all use caddies so I bought a 10 pack from Computer Shopper.  I think 7 of them were still in the cellophane in 2013. 

-MilesAhead (April 30, 2015, 09:30 AM)

Not quite the same thing, but I keep tripping over the 5-CD changer I used to have in the BBS I ran back in the late 90s. I can't quite bring myself to get shot of it, "just in case" but really... too much nostalgia is probably bad for you. (See previous comment re fingers. )

-oblivion (April 30, 2015, 09:35 AM)

Weird how stuff changes.  A few weeks ago I was trying to tell someone about this online service that was very expensive and only a few hotshots had an account.  I couldn't remember the name CompuServe until about an hour later. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 09:30 AM »

Heh heh.  5 1/4" floppy sounds much easier than trying that surgery on a 3.5" plastic jobber. 

-MilesAhead (April 30, 2015, 08:34 AM)

I have a boxful of 3.5" disks that are waiting for me to get round either to destroying them or suddenly discovering a use for the things: perhaps I'll give it a try.

I might see if I can find someone with more than the usual complement of fingers to do the scalpel-work, though.

-oblivion (April 30, 2015, 09:18 AM)

It's weird the stuff you find in drawers.  I had a stack of 10 CD caddies left over from around 1993.  I assumed CD drives would all use caddies so I bought a 10 pack from Computer Shopper.  I think 7 of them were still in the cellophane in 2013. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 09:24 AM »

One thing is for sure.  MxNitro is not ready for prime time.  On DNS lookup error instead of posting a 404 error it just dies with a fatal error msg.  A bit fragile for my taste. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 08:34 AM »

a 5.25" floppy disk that had been used by some twit as a coffee mat. I used a pristine new floppy disk, the case from another, a scalpel and a disk sector editor called, if memory serves, DU.

-oblivion (April 30, 2015, 08:23 AM)

Heh heh.  5 1/4" floppy sounds much easier than trying that surgery on a 3.5" plastic jobber. 

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 05:52 AM »

Speaking of oil.  One project may be to install an electric auxiliary oil pump.  You switch it on before starting the car.  Avoids dry rings moving in the cylinders.  I'm surprised this has never become standard equipment.  After all nowadays there is remote car starting for people to let the A/C or heater kick in before leaving the house.  Just as easy to program the oil pump on for 20 seconds before hitting the starter.

Avoid dry starts and the beast may run forever. 

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 05:46 AM »

^^ What a great picture! Inventive mechanics those Cubans. Not careless either - looks like most of them are wearing safety jackets.

-IainB (April 29, 2015, 08:15 PM)

That amphibious design looks a bit slow.  Perhaps it is good on gas though.  Especially with auxiliary propulsion using long paddles or a team pulling a rope in Miami. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 05:43 AM »

K-Meleon is still around, v75RC02 as of 29/03/2015 - quite a capable browser.

-4wd (April 29, 2015, 09:48 PM)

I use the Portable as a lightweight browser when I'm doing something else resource intensive.. like MBAM or SAS scans.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2015, 05:39 AM »

Build 10074 ISO for download to Insiders

http://www.tenforums...review-iso-file.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 04:28 PM »

One thing that is funny for a browser that has no extras(MxNitro)..  If you hover the mouse on google results it will load the page in a panel about 1/2 the size of the browser or larger.  I guess it could save a lot of opening in new tabs.  Just move the mouse down the results.

If they all do this now I didn't notice.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 04:05 PM »

^ I had it downloaded but, after all that, will probably leave it in it's box.
(btw I've finally given up on FF/PM variations - for Windows 8.1 at any rate: now trying SRWare Iron. Very happy so far )

-tomos (April 29, 2015, 03:34 PM)

I did Iron a couple of years ago.  At least then there were enough incompatibilities to make it annoying.  Mainly chrome extensions would not install out of the box since the paths were different.

I don't know why chromium stopped working with Flash.  I used those snapshots for a couple of years.  Anyway, on this Laptop it can be annoying waiting for FF to load just to check something.  I still have it as default browser.

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 02:25 PM »

car jacking successful

-mouser (April 29, 2015, 01:35 PM)

If I heard it on the news I would wonder how the terrorists were going to drive to Cuba.  

Have fun.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 02:10 PM »

-thanks for telling about MxNitro, I had never heard of it before! http://usa.maxthon.com/nitro/
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I know nothing about RAM Disks, but your post made me so far look up http://www.makeuseof...-you-can-set-one-up/. At the risk of sounding decadent, my first question is, if you are using a physical or a virtual RAM disk?
 

-Curt (April 29, 2015, 12:25 PM)

Heh heh.  I am using physical.  I allocated 512 MB formatted as FAT32.  So far the only quirk I've found in DiskMaster Free is even if you uncheck the option to put the system and/or personal Temp folder on the RamDisk, it does it anyway.  It names the RamDisk Temp and there's a Temp folder.  I guess they just assumed nobody would opt out of it.  

This mxNitro, I can see not getting pulled into a zillion extensions, but there should be some basic stuff like:
Putting the Bookmarks Toolbar as a Toolbar
some method of Ad blocking
more sophisticated download management
some kind of built in SpeedDial.

Even if not implemented all that well I am so used to looking at the thumbnails sometimes I forget the url of the site I want to go to.  Having to type everything in is a bit much.  But at least if there was a Bookmarks Toolbar you could set up folders and a "open all in folder" would be something to speed up launching groups of sites.

I suggested on Maxthon forums mxNirto subforum that the ability to put the Bookmarks Toolbar as a Toolbar seemed like a miminal feature.  After all, the thing imports my bookmarks and recognizes it.  I don't think I ever got a reply.  

mxNitro things I just noticed:  no spell check, when I hover the mouse on the smileys I get no tooltip.  Wow!!  Talk about Spartan(and no I don't mean the new MS Browser.)   I'll have to start composing in an editor with spell check and pasting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Portable in a RamDisk = decadence?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 10:45 AM »

I noticed chrome.exe does not really start up all that fast.  MxNitro, on the other hand.  Snaps open.  Unforutunatey it has been imumized against customization.  I can't even put my Bookmarks Toolbar as a toolbar.

But I decided to be even more decadent and copy the MxNitro Portable folder to my RamDisk.  The thing does fly.  But I'm starting to do a lot of typing to open pages.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 10:42 AM »

By "blink" I only meant when you disable the system icon, like recycle bin or whatever, it will vanish from the desktop.  When you enable it, it will appear.  That might attract your eye.  Funny but I was just reading something where a programmer was trying to get some animation on the desktop and/or change background colors of icons.  Unfortunately the desktop does not react until it is refreshed.  It would be lame animation if you had to keep hitting F5. 

It may be easier to have a few command lines in a text file you can paste into Winkey r command line.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2015, 07:46 AM »

How about using DesktopOK, http://www.softwareo...e=Freeware/DesktopOK

From the website:
Save and restore the positions of icons.
DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.

I have used it long time back, in Win98 days.

questorfla, see if it solves your problem.

Regards,

Anand

-anandcoral (April 29, 2015, 07:00 AM)

Save and restore is not the problem.  There are dozens of those. I even wrote one that would still work on 32 bit systems.  But if I read the OP correctly, the problem is the customer's machines are a mess.  Trying to find the relevant shortcut in the mess is the slowdown.

Maybe an easier solution that would require some memorization is to use Winkey r and just type in the command instead of using the shortcuts.  At least for system stuff it should speed things up.