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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 04:10 PM »

This may be so obvious that I'm almost afraid to post it.

Print and file paper hardcopy of any email you absolutely can't afford to lose.

-40hz (September 10, 2008, 02:34 PM)

No. It's excellent advice - a lesson that I learned the hardway...

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft granted patents for PageUp and PageDn keystrokes!

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 02:12 PM »

I think that the patent covers the way the pg-up and pg-down keys are used in programming, not the physical keys themselves.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft granted patents for PageUp and PageDn keystrokes!

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 01:15 PM »

I'm seeking a patent on the sodium-potassium pump. I figure that everyone on earth can either pay me royalites or go into renal distress. Once the money starts rolling in, I'll buy the rights to dialysis and then take over the world.

In the future, you'll look back on this moment in awe and remember that it all started with a dream...

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Sex Sells Spider

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 01:12 PM »

a fat ugly geek in his underwear

-app103 (February 29, 2008, 09:32 AM)

Hey  I resemble that remark...

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Living Room / Re: Flame Warriors

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 01:11 PM »

I love Diplomat:

Diplomat butts into hot disputes, presuming that the combatants will welcome and appreciate his even-handed and eminently reasonable mediation. Frankly, he gets what he deserves

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Forum 2.0 Suggestion

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 01:04 PM »

Adding to the list:

• Customizable themes
• Powerful and easy filtering
• Chat

By chat do you mean a one-on-one private chat? Because there's always the IRQ channel, don't ya know!

-alivingspirit (September 10, 2008, 11:09 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 06:56 AM »

e712 - wow! Your system cool and efficient and I've gleaned a number of pointers from it that I am going to start implementing (dragging e-mail to Tasks is a great tip - I've done it before, but never thought of it as an organizational and time management technique) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: AntiVirus with decent anti-spyware (realtime) detection

« Last post by Darwin on September 10, 2008, 06:40 AM »

I'm sure ESET would have been fine - the specs of my Win2k notebook are far above the system requirementst that ESET lists for the OS. My decision was made based more on the fact that it costs me nothing to use BitDefender as I've got 16 months remaining on a 3 system licence. BitDefender 2008 is still supported and installed no problem and a quick scan took 29 minutes. I can live with this!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 11:34 PM »

Thanks for reporting this, Targe. I though it was just me that was havin trouble navigating the map...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best image-"framer"?

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 11:30 PM »

You forgot leap years... but then I forgot one and still managed to overestimate my age

The correct number is: 14,443 days old...

167 days left...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Yet another Hotkey app!

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 10:28 PM »

Yeah, I've saved a copy as well! Great stuff. Be a great username and the picture would be a great Avatar...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best image-"framer"?

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 10:19 PM »

I changed my age today... I am 14506 days old 

Seriously, happy change age day, Curt  Sorry I missed it, but I hope you enjoyed the day!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 06:56 PM »

got a pesky license system

-f0dder (September 09, 2008, 06:31 PM)

Don't even get me started on the licensing system (though the workaround is pretty easy...  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: AntiVirus with decent anti-spyware (realtime) detection

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 03:34 PM »

Good news! BitDefender 2009 is out with built-in AntiSpyware!
Bad news... Win2k no longer supported 

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 03:22 PM »

Brett, I think you hadn't a hope of keeping this one country/one post/dont repeat the country
mine are there already

-tomos (September 09, 2008, 03:14 PM)

  Sorry, Brett. I didn't read your original post closely enough 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 03:05 PM »

I have PSP 9 and it's great! I paid to upgrade to X and it was dreadful - a real resource hog. X1 came out and I stayed away, but won a full copy so installed it. Even worse. X2, in fairness is pretty good - it opens nice and quickly and is stable on my system. I'm just very annoyed by the crassness of Corel and their blatant disregard for the user base.

Looks like the naysayers were right. What's worse, they now own WinZip, WinDVD, and other titles. No doubt WinZip will be rebranded soon as "Corel WinZip Pro TextEditor Plus X3 Ultimate"!

PS I retain copyright on both Corel WinZip Pro TextEdtor Plus X3 Ultimate and Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimater.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AntiVirus with decent anti-spyware (realtime) detection

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 02:53 PM »

Dantheman - no doubt you're right. However, with AV and AS I can't really see why I'd need more power. The notebook used to run Norton and after that McAfee years ago. Anyway, not to worry -Bitdefender to the resuce (I can use it's real time threat detection and scan at night. No biggie. Doesn't have AS, though  I'll have to find something else to deal with that).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 02:47 PM »

PS when PSP Photo X2 came out IT was supposed to be Vista ready. What the...?

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General Software Discussion / Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 02:42 PM »

I'm out of breath just reading the name of this latest offering from Corel. Where I think most PSPP X2 users were anticipating PSPP X3 be released about now, expecting it to be a paid fix for the problems in PSPP X2 v. 12.0.1 (note the version number: Corel have relesaed one fix in over a year and it's so bad, most users have stuck with the original release because of a number of new bugs introduced by the patch), Corel announced this today instead:

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate
Includes everything in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, plus:

• Enhanced! Support for more than 250 camera raw formats
  
• New! Background remover plug-in to change the background of a photo
  
• Enhanced! Creative content pack with 150 new photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes™
  
• New! Certified for Windows Vista® for better performance and enhanced security
  
• Bonus! 2 GB USB flash drive to store and transfer your digital photos
  
• Bonus! Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4 to turn photos into paintings in 3 easy steps
  
• Bonus! Media recovery software to retrieve images, movies and sound files, even from reformatted memory cards

PSPP X2 users are offered this incredible upgrade for $59.99! Amazing! Product comparision chart here: http://www.corel.com...rsion-comparison.pdf

What's next? Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2 Ultimater? CPSPP X2 was supposed to be the Professional version now we're being encouraged to upgrade to Ultimate because we'll have access to full professional power, rather than Standard. A$$holes. They've sunk to new depths. Usually, they are maligned for trotting out bug fixes and requiring their user base (read: dopes that have paid out of pocket to be their beta testers) to pay for them in the form of major upgrades. Now, as far as I can see, they're not even offering that, just the RAW support that people have been clamouring for since PSP X (and which was supposed to have been part of X1 and X2) and some crap they've thrown together. Ooh, aah! A 2GB thumbdrive! I can one for about $7 at Futureshop - name brand no less! Dumbed down versions of their other software that are bundled free with drawing tablets and such devices (in hope that buyers will pay to upgrade to the "full" version), etc.

Corel has hit a new low, in my opinion...

EDIT: grammar, grammar, grammar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AntiVirus with decent anti-spyware (realtime) detection

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 02:11 PM »

ESET installed with no trouble (after I had to manually un-install VIPRE - all it's uninstaller did was uninstall the uninstaller!). Unfortunately, I'm not too impressed with ESET's scanning speed on my Win2k notebook (admittedly, this is not surprising given the notebooks EIGHT year old specs  ). It strikes me as being about the same as BitDefender*. On balance, I am seriously considering just re-installing BitDefender. At least I won't have to pay for it for about 16 months!

In fairness, ESET IS most likely quicker but there are only two scanning options - Standard and Custom. I should probably tweak it before making a decision... - I've just been running the Standard scan and it's been about an hour and it's only at 52%...

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 01:24 PM »

cough cough cough member map mod installed cough cough.

Great, mouser 

For those wondering how to do this:

1. Look to the menu bar at the top of the forum and click on "Member Map"



2. This takes you to your DC profile. Scroll all the way down and click where indicated below the map.



3. This takes you to the map itself, zoom into your region and place your pin where you want it. Then click on "Change Profile" and you're done.



Note well I've corrected the location of my pin as it is off in the screenshot.

EDIT: couldn't live with the quality of the original screenshots...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super FDisk (iso)

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 12:31 PM »

Hmm... interesting find, Cuffy. Thanks for directing this our (my!) way. I'm downloading it now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Yet another Hotkey app!

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 12:29 PM »

That's AWESOME, Edvard! Thanks you've made me smile...

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 11:16 AM »

Deep. No pun intended 

Seriously, cool little story, 40hz, thanks for sharing it with us. FWIW, I think that you and Tom are right - this thread is begining to encompass the entire forum!

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by Darwin on September 09, 2008, 10:59 AM »

+1 in thanks for posting your observations about those notetakers/PIMs/writing aides. Very useful. I had the same reaction to LiquidStoryBinder, by the way  Sadly, I'd already bought it  when before trying it, but it was on sale at Bits du Jour (60% off) I love the GIMP analogy - hadn't thought of it that way myself, but it fits!