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

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2015, 06:19 AM »

I would stress that there was no intention on my part to "Go Basement" on this and tut-tut or foam at the mouth about police brutality, or similar - the fact that it was a cop who was the actor was kinda coincidental, and police brutality is a sorry fact of life for a minority of police officers and a problem for their commanders to address, and something to which we have by now probably become desensitised anyway - so I generally would be disinclined to make passing comment about specific cases of police brutality in this forum (I don't find it funny in and of itself anyway) or anywhere else - e.g., The Basement.

No, what I was posting about is what seems to be a relatively new/emerging and growing phenomenon that is occurring in our society and which is largely enabled by the advent of telecomms and/or computerised "social networks" (e.g., including live video streaming, Twitter, Facebook) combined with the possibilities of the smartphone or video camera and sometimes especially the selfie features therein, resulting in something new that seems to be at one and the same time so seriously vain, moronic and self-destructive in some way that it it beggars belief and it might actually be quite funny and deserving of mockery that a person would do that to themselves in the first place without apparently considering the potential consequences for themselves or how their behaviour might appear to others watching in critical judgement. To do that would seem to require a pathological conceit coupled with a complete absence of self-awareness.

-IainB (October 08, 2015, 12:37 AM)

I got that possibility of humour there (especially in the arstechnica title), but the problem is that police have been getting away with exactly that for a long time now -- so on seeing a post like that, I would think unusual, rather than the way you suggest -- which is why I thought it was posted in the wrong thread.

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

« Last post by tomos on October 07, 2015, 05:07 AM »

^^ No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?
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-IainB (October 06, 2015, 09:32 PM)

Doesn't really seem like silly humor- more like basement cop thread.
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-wraith808 (October 06, 2015, 10:03 PM)

Ahaha! I caught you out doing that ventriloquist thang there, @Renegade! You think you're so smart.

-IainB (October 07, 2015, 03:31 AM)

I initially thought it was accidentally posted in the wrong thread as well. But then I remembered you've posted stuff like that on occasion before in this thread.

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Living Room / Re: whatsapp anonymous

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2015, 04:51 PM »

wraith was talking about getting a number via google voice - apparently you could forward calls to another number (but this may just work in the States).
I never checked it out properly myself...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2015, 03:55 PM »

f0dder on four eights

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2015, 02:16 PM »

I watched a few good westerns lately -- can only remember the name of one at the moment though
but it was a good one -- High Noon (1952)

After a bit of research:
Gunsmoke (1953) was another good one.

Appaloosa (2008) I enjoyed, slow moving but worked well for me. Interesting exploration of a male friendship.


There's been some posts about Japanese films lately too:
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) was a very good followup to the westerns. I see it's on YT

EDIT// sorry for all the edits

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Living Room / Re: default typing language in win8

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2015, 04:54 PM »

I'm on 7 atm, but *keyboard* is the keyword here -- your language and your keyboard language are two different things.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2015, 02:17 PM »

And the output:

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-Deozaan (October 04, 2015, 01:30 AM)

I especially liked this one

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Living Room / Re: John McAfee 2016?!? Yep. :)

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2015, 01:37 PM »

Seems anyone could be president these days 

-mitzevo (October 04, 2015, 04:44 AM)

I kind of thought it's been like that for a few decades now ;-)

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Living Room / Re: I have a new found love for taking 360 degree panoramic photos!

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2015, 01:23 PM »

The Great Orme one is the more impressive image/location though.
I feel like I'm wearing new glasses when I move around these images... Amazing technology though, and a great way to show off somewhere beautiful

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Living Room / "Great Service" Awards for Software

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2015, 09:57 AM »

Thought I'd start an appreciation thread for software with great service.
In case it isn't obvious, mouser and Skwire, and the many others here on dc share first prize

The first three here based on email communication:

CintaNotes (Notes: extremely helpful developer, very fast response times)
Linkman (Bookmarks: very fast and helpful responses to queries / bug reports)
Syncovery (Backup/Sync: very fast and helpful responses to queries / bug reports)

Special mention to:
InfoQube (Info Manager: very helpful forum and developer)
Softmaker (Office Suite: very helpful forum)


[hope I didnt miss any thread with same topic, did do a search FWIW]

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Living Room / Re: Is it reasonable to *require* phone nr. when purchasing software?

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2015, 07:49 AM »

Belated update to my attempted purchase that sparked the thread:

the software developer emailed me an invoice, and I paid via paypal.

I was a little embarrassed about having kicked up a fuss, he was so nice about it.
Apparently it is quite common these days, requesting a phone number...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2015, 03:20 PM »

There are positive market forces that provide incentives for auto manufacturers to create cleaner engines. There are also unrealistic regulations that go past the point of diminishing returns, which creates a burden for the manufacturers and drives up prices for consumers. Somewhere in that broad spectrum there are balances for different needs.

-Renegade (September 29, 2015, 11:00 AM)

From what I've heard on the radio here, this was broadly speaking about smaller cars being both affordable, and able to pass the tests, because smaller diesel cars are not so efficient nor as clean as bigger ones. While the logical step would have been to simply not make smaller diesel engines, greed kicked in -- greed for market share that otherwise would not have existed in the regulated world.
Now, VW are getting a land -- that's balance too.

You presume everything would work out fine -- do I presume that everything needs to be regulated? Maybe. Tbh, I suspect neither one of us is correct in our assumptions, but we may never know...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2015, 05:21 AM »

For VW, I'm not particularly disturbed by anything they did. But, I don't buy that they have any kind of ethical obligation to obey arbitrary/dubious laws. (I have zero faith in any kind of environmental legislation/regulation as it is too often used abusively.)

What nobody will ask is whether or not the regulations that VW violated are ethical.

The question of ethics should focus on whether the actual emissions are ethical/unethical, and not on any law.

-Renegade (September 28, 2015, 11:21 PM)

another aspect is that, because they have lied and deceived, they will lose a lot of sales.

Re the regulations, having cycled for years in a very busy inner city, I can tell you this:
you cannot filter out diesel fumes. I grew to hate them so much. I had high quality masks/filters, but apparently the only way to block diesel fumes is to block air completely. I've read that they are a proven carcinogenic.

I dont know what the regulations are like in the States, so cant comment specifically about them. But regulating diesel emmisions seems like a very good idea to me.
Judging by this action by VW, the motor industry wouldn't give a toss, if not for the regulations. Unfortunately, I suspect that many (most?) drivers wouldnt care either, but maybe I'm just being cynical there...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2015, 04:44 PM »

I wasn't quick enough

Stanley Tweedle Lexx Music Video

-MilesAhead (September 27, 2015, 09:54 AM)

this was unknown territory to me; Who and what's the video's music? It's good!

-Curt (September 28, 2015, 11:09 AM)

I highly recommend Lexx.

-MilesAhead (September 28, 2015, 02:02 PM)

What's the video's music? Obviously not from the movies.
 

-Curt (September 28, 2015, 04:31 PM)

^ that's Coldplay - When I ruled the world:
https://www.youtube....en+i+ruled+the+world

They have some of the best, catchiest, pop/whatever music I know (it's possible they they may not like being called 'pop' -- for me that's not a negative).

I never saw that promo before.  I don't know who put it together.

-MilesAhead (September 28, 2015, 04:36 PM)

you posted it

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2015, 03:12 PM »

I highly recommend Lexx.  The "first season" is really 4 made for TV movies.  I watched the first one, I Worship His Shadow, again yesterday.

-MilesAhead (September 28, 2015, 02:02 PM)

thanks for that tip, currently enjoying

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2015, 07:37 AM »

@Miles and mouser,
enjoying all the older music/vids

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2015, 04:46 PM »

Another non-video -- but the music talks, or whatever it is that music does...

Ray LaMontagne - Repo Man
Listening on CD here. I bought this album a few years back, and never really listened to it that much, so it's still relatively fresh. This one is nice and funky.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2015, 01:15 PM »

Where can I get a safe download?
Link?

-magi (September 26, 2015, 07:29 AM)

this is the version that's been actively developed --

Download Link   White Tiger's GitHub Release Page

-Stoic Joker (March 02, 2010, 06:14 PM)

I have no idea though if it works on Windows 10, although see mention of Windows 10 in (the developer) WhiteTigX's last post above

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2015, 03:09 AM »

^ Windows 7 doesnt allow creation here without a CD drive.

@dr_andus - do you have one from your last machine?
You can create a USB version from that using Rufus (on a machine with a CD drive...). I have notes about it on my desktop machine, can check later if you want. IIRC it was: (1) create ISO (I think I used ImgBurn); (2) use Rufus with default settings to create bootable USB.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2015, 03:42 PM »

I would not recommend deleting Recovery partitions either. I wouldnt recommend messing with the partitions at all -- because I wouldnt want to hear that it went wrong... In my case I did the partitioning because I had already borked my new laptop (long story) which gave me a liberating feeling of 'it cant get any worse' -- which was actually untrue -- but luckily it worked fine.

It is good to look at it practically though, e.g. one of the advantages of separating OS and Data into two partitions is that you can regularly create a reasonably small image of your OS without the baggage of all the data. OTOH, if you keep a fairly stable set of programmes, if you install them all as planned, then create your OS image backup, then back up you data daily -- if something does go wrong, you can restore your image with installed software (you will probably then have lots of MS updates to do but still) and restore your data.

So, I guess it's just to have a plan of sorts for the possibility of failure.

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Living Room / Re: Preloaded spyware, courtesy Lenovo

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2015, 09:53 AM »

Lenovo insists that they have only ever loaded spyware on consumer products, not their business oriented Think line (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, etc.).

That also turns out to be a lie.

-xtabber (September 25, 2015, 08:58 AM)

not wanting to minimise this in any way, but there is an interesting comparision there at the end
=>

Had this been any other PC vendor, this might be a triviality. Certainly Microsoft is doing far more tracking in Windows 10.

But trust is the price Lenovo pays for their previous behavior. Those of that recall the company's initial reaction to Superfish, dismissing it out of hand, have a hard time trusting them again.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Tray Management Utilities Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2015, 05:00 AM »

I'm going to be lazy, and see if a reboot fixes it ;-)

-tomos (September 23, 2015, 01:20 PM)

That's always the first option.

-MilesAhead (September 23, 2015, 05:21 PM)

seems to be working again:
https://www.donation....msg389895#msg389895

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2015, 04:56 AM »

Finally got round to this - I seem to have a lot in the tray... pretty much everthing here get's a thumbs-up from me though.
Developer names given where connected to donationcoder:



PopUp:

• MBAM
• [network/internet]
• [notifications]
• FileHamster (still works fine - I find I dont set it up for new jobs though, preferring Syncovery below)
• AHK script with various bits and pieces, mainly windows management
• FARR - by mouser
• Listary Pro - I use it in a minimal way but still a great help
• [Win Update]
• Linkman Pro (bookmarks) new user, like it so far, great support
• MSE antivirus (is it worth it :p)

Tray:

• GridMove (windows management) - by jpaiga
• Everything (search)
• Note5 (has it's limitations e.g. only one undo, but great for shorter lists / overview of a couple of topics) - by Chris Gingerich
• Process Explorer
• Dopus
• PopUp Quotes - by mouser
• CintaNotes Pro - great support, constantly improving
• MoveIt (windows management) - by MilesAhead
• [sound]
• Spews (wallpaper management) - by Skwire
• Syncovery (formerly SFFS - backup and sync) great support, could probably backup your kitchen sink but can be complex
• Screenshot Captor - by mouser
• Clipboard Help & Spell - by mouser

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2015, 02:17 PM »

Though what I meant by "fast" is that I will be installing 50+ software over a 48+ hr period. Some of them will prompt me for a reboot, by I was wondering if there is anything else to consider when intensively installing a lot of software, one after the other, all day long, for several days.

-dr_andus (September 24, 2015, 06:20 AM)

yeah, I got that

My point was a bit off-topic, but important:
be sure that you are happy with your partitons *before* you do all that work of installing all that software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2015, 03:39 AM »

^ Yeah, partitioning is a consideration (and you wanted tips to speed you up!).
I recently partitioned a Win 7 laptop using Aomei Partition Manager (I posted about it here somewhere but dont have time now to search).

Spoiler

I went for:

C: OS
D: Data
E: a partition with space for two image backups of C partition