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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays
« Last post by NigelH on November 17, 2012, 06:40 AM »
As Renegade said, boiling is boiling - doesn't make one iota of difference whether stovestop or electric.
Many electric kettles also have specific temperature controls, besides the obvious one of switching off when reaching boiling point.
The "plastic" problem can be of concern, I can understand that.
I've been boiling water in them for 40 years but as you rightly mentioned, electric metal kettles are available.

My point really (which I didn't mention) was that many people in the US do not know that electric kettles for home use are even available.
I posted this gadget comment, as evidence of that fact came up in conversation again just yesterday.
Ten years or so ago, it was unusual to find more than one (if you were even that fortunate) in common discount stores.
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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays
« Last post by NigelH on November 16, 2012, 09:58 PM »
If you're stuck in the past using a stovetop kettle
http://www.amazon.co...ords=Stovetop+Kettle

Try one of these!!
http://www.amazon.co...UTF8&node=289753

I'm really baffled as to why people still use non-electric kettles.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Does the browser Opera suck?
« Last post by NigelH on November 16, 2012, 09:51 PM »
Certainly a few more than I normally keep open.
This was/is Opera 12.11 RC1

1100 tabs

Data for you - Opera's just loaded a 1100 tab session (wide variety of tabs) with no issues at all. Memory nice and stable as expected at 8GB which isn't unreasonable for this size session, processor amazingly low at < 30% consistent during load, no anomalies in Opera:cpu (ECMA 5-6%; all others close to zero), Opera:Memdebug shows interesting but probably sensible figures (below**).

Quite a lot of NSL tabs but equally a lot of tabs opening without NSL so it's not universal. I'll update this aspect later, as well as watching for memory leaks (none obvious so far).

Opera is also COMPLETELY RESPONSIVE UNDER THIS HIGH LOAD, no slowdown at all. Might as well be using 20 tabs for all it shows. I need that for heavy duty work - Opera's always had raw speed and response, but has consistently been plagued by stability problems.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 prices seem to have been announced during period to 31st January
« Last post by NigelH on October 16, 2012, 07:43 PM »
If anyone is planning to order Windows 8 Pro at the upgrade price of $39.99, you can get the DVD for the same price at Amazon until Oct 30.
Windows 8 Pro
Well, only if you don't mind spending the $30 promotional credit at Amazon.
Someone has to support it, right?
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Living Room / Re: Remember to make full drive image backups
« Last post by NigelH on October 14, 2012, 08:17 PM »
Beside Acronis TrueImage's problems a while ago, is there another one you had in mind?
-40hz (October 14, 2012, 05:35 PM)
Acronis was a case in point. But we're talking about relying on the integrity of a single multi-gigabyte file. I suspect many 100s of gigabytes for many people.
Not something I want to trust fully. I don't know how many of these tools are able to handle damaged clusters in an image file on a backup drive.

Extracting individual files from an image sounds like a good way to risk damaging the integrity of the image.
-40hz (October 14, 2012, 05:35 PM)
This was answered by Carol, but your question surprised me seeing that extraction is referring to just reading data from an image file.

Nevertheless, as long as you have your personal data backed up using any competent backup/sync tool, you can recover.
Unless your machine is old, you can't buy a restoration disk from the vendor to put the OS back and you don't know how to get around that.
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Living Room / Re: Remember to make full drive image backups
« Last post by NigelH on October 14, 2012, 02:46 PM »
Partition level back tools are somewhat unreliable - even if they offer file level recovery from their image backups.

I'd add a 3rd level of backup.
Use a folder synchronization tool to backup your important data folders to separate external drives or machines with shared folders.
Make sure you do a one way sync - targeting the remote folders.
That way, if you accidentally delete something, the deletion is not sync'd to the remote folders and you can reverse the direction of the folder sync to restore what was deleted. Or to delete from the remote folders what you intentionally deleted on the primary.
Folder level synchronization is also very quick comparatively.
There are free options for this as well as paid options.

If this (conceptually) is difficulty for you to do, get a copy of  Fab's AutoBackup 3 (EUR 4.90 or $6.50 ).
Fabs "knows" about most of the default folders on all recent Windows releases and will backup your important stuff.
You can also add separate folders to the backups.
If you restore, it knows how to put everything back in the correct place even if you restore from backups made on an XP machine to a Windows 7 or 8 machine etc.
Fab's backups are "full" backups, i.e. all your data files each time, so this takes a while. But if you start running of space on your target drive, you can delete the older backups.
Fab's Autobackup tools

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does the browser Opera suck?
« Last post by NigelH on October 12, 2012, 06:52 PM »
Yes, it sucks sometimes.
But the suckage (for me) is a lot less than the other three contenders.
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General Software Discussion / Re: CAD Recommendations?
« Last post by NigelH on October 06, 2012, 07:42 AM »
Didn't see Autodesk's 123d apps  mentioned http://www.123dapp.com/create
Not a user though - just saw it mentioned in Wired mag.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Nuance PDF Reader - Acresso-FLEXnet agent is Annoyware/Adware WARNING.
« Last post by NigelH on September 30, 2012, 07:27 AM »
Going back off topic, but I didn't want to reopen the old PDF viewer thread

Is anyone using Bluebeam Vu as their PDf viewer (or perhaps even tried it)?
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General Software Discussion / Re: instant linux on winxp
« Last post by NigelH on September 03, 2012, 07:13 AM »
Kalos, you didn't mention "fast" nor exactly what you want to run on Linux

So, Qemu may be able to run some Linux distro/app that you want - very slowly though.
Perhaps Bochs as well

Here's a Qemu example to run Puppy Running Linux on Windows Like Normal Programs
(Edit: looks like it is a really old article - may still be of relevance/interest though)


If your CPU supports KVM, you may have a better chance of success (performance wise) . See What_do_I_need_to_use_KVM
You will need an x86 machine running a recent Linux kernel on an Intel processor with VT (virtualization technology) extensions, or an AMD processor with SVM extensions (also called AMD-V).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Dupetrasher 2009 and asmdev
« Last post by NigelH on September 02, 2012, 03:45 PM »
Thanks Curt.
I could not see a recent release date for any of their products on their site, but I now see a reference on at least one other site.

A real pity if DupeTrasher had a short lifespan, but at least it'll serve me for a long as I stick with Win 7.


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General Software Discussion / Dupetrasher 2009 and asmdev
« Last post by NigelH on September 01, 2012, 04:02 PM »
I didn't want to re-open these old threads
https://www.donation...opic=20532.msg184702
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=19901

I recently needed to cleanup a drive - which I knew had plenty of duplicate stuff.
I mucked around with a bunch of duplicate file finder tools, but none of them seemed to handle
finding duplicate folders easily - the first step in cleaning up the mess.
I re-installed DupeTrasher 2009 and got the job done in flat out no (Edit: not "not") time

There was mention of a DupeTrasher 2010 so I looked for an update.
But both http://www.dupetrasher.com and www.asmdev.net seem to have had no activity for ages.

Member asmdev appears to have last logged in on 2010-11-03, his last post was in late 2009.
So I was wondering, does anyone know anything more?
Thanks.






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Living Room / Re: 2.5 GB for Opera - It's Not Running~! =D
« Last post by NigelH on September 01, 2012, 11:54 AM »
Renegade, not sure what Opera release you're running, but a very recent fix removed the plugin process.
Memory problem might be related. Most likely though, it's just some buggy plug in - which might be why the plug in process did not shut down.
12-02-snapshot-with-stability-fix
In Opera 12 we introduced out of process plugins to try to reduce the number of times plugins take Opera down. We now see that some Windows users are from time to time experiencing Opera freezing on pages with plug-in content. The issue has been investigated and we found the best short term solution to get Opera at a quality level we are comfortable with is to temporarily remove out of process plugins until we have a proper fix.

12.02 is now officially out though.
Opera desktop team blog

It is a pity that opera:cpu does not include more data.
We need an opera:tabs !!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Go to the folder in the registry (key)
« Last post by NigelH on August 31, 2012, 07:28 AM »
And regscanner from Nir Sofer
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by NigelH on August 31, 2012, 06:25 AM »
The original survey as echoed by Citrix (why would they make this a press release).
The nature of the survey looks like it originated from one of those "journals" you see at the supermarket checkout counter.

... believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.
Well, when storms takes out any other services or switches/servers relative to where my data or service is ...

... the top three deterrents are cost (34 percent), security concerns (32 percent) and privacy concerns (31 percent).
ya think.

You would think availability would show up there. I wonder if it was even in the survey.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by NigelH on August 31, 2012, 06:04 AM »
... you religious people are so full of yourselves >_<
-f0dder (August 30, 2012, 11:42 PM)
That word again   ;)
Not so much full of ourselves - just no shadow of doubt.


I will neither agree nor disagree.
And perhaps it's best if we let it rest here.
As Mouser has previously pointed out, DoCo's forum is generally not an appropriate place for ongoing discussions or debates about political or religious subjects. Let's get back to talking about books as simply things to read. And maybe leave the issue of divine or inspired authorship for another place and day?
-40hz (August 30, 2012, 11:47 PM)
Absolutely - I'm good with that.


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General Software Discussion / Re: data recovery tool, [i]on a network drive[/i]
« Last post by NigelH on August 30, 2012, 11:14 PM »
Another option I saw quite recently - should you get the option to use it.
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
I have not used it though, but I see it was mentioned once by MerleOne here https://www.donation....msg181832#msg181832
I think I need to "play" with it for a bit.

I quite like the MiniTool® Partition Wizard from them.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by NigelH on August 30, 2012, 11:05 PM »
40hz, with regard to human behavior, you're quite right - I expressed a similar notion.

As for "Theological discussion and debate, in actual practice, is something best left to professionals.", that is a disastrous assumption to make.
The "professionals" themselves have caused much of the problem.
That's not to say there should not be professionals, just that what they say should be weighed against what is written.
Again, I'm referring only to the Bible.
There is no other divinely inspired book.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by NigelH on August 30, 2012, 08:27 PM »
Yeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;D
-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)

Renegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)
-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)

 :o

-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:18 PM)

Hopefully, that somewhere not being in a cloud  ;)
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by NigelH on August 30, 2012, 08:13 PM »
..... I consider those books extremely dangerous  ....
-40hz (August 30, 2012, 06:13 PM)

I've seen a number of like minded comments in other threads by other board members over the last few months but I've not said anything.
40hz, don't take this reply a personal affront, it is not specifically aimed at you.
Perhaps we need a new thread for this where things can be discussed civilly.
Not that there are not enough other discussion boards on this subject where one could have a field day, so perhaps not.

Much wrong is done in the name of "religion" when what was done has no relevance with regard to the fundamentals of the actual faith.
I'm speaking only of the Christian faith (religion is an obnoxious term, so I don't use it). 
People are flawed - always have been, always will be.
We're all well aware of the depths of depravity to which people (anyone and everyone) could descend, right.
Even the most seemingly civilized person.

Perhaps you want to read something like this (Atheism and Mass Murder) when you refer to dangerous.

As for delusion, unfortunately Richard Dawkins at the end of his life will discover to his eternal horror how deluded he really was.
The same comment applies to those who believe similarly.

 
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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] Opening List of Links
« Last post by NigelH on August 19, 2012, 10:08 PM »
Thought I'd mention this is a piece of cake if you use Opera

On the the web page.
Hit Shift-Ctrl-L
A new Opera "page" will open up with all links
Type some filtering text in the search box in the upper right hand corner.
e.g.    .pdf  or .jpg or  any part of the text in the url
Select all the links you want (using usual Windows selection type mechanisms)
Right click to choose open in Background Window or Tab or Save As etc...

Works for 100's of selected links on the page - if you need that


A small write up here. opera links panel
I'm sure there are plenty of others

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Living Room / Re: 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography
« Last post by NigelH on August 18, 2012, 05:12 PM »
On TED
ramesh raskar - camera tha takes one trillion frames per second
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Living Room / Re: Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?
« Last post by NigelH on August 04, 2012, 01:13 PM »
An alternate tool to monitor SMART info
GSmartControl

Watch out for this though
Using smartctl with Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives may result in data loss


Edit: apologies if previously mentioned in other threads - I didn't check.
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Living Room / Re: Hacked "hard" via the cloud.
« Last post by NigelH on August 04, 2012, 01:04 PM »
Must admit, the remote wipe could be useful in certain circumstances.
But why was there no mandatory additional authentication to proceed with it?
Seems like just being just being logged in to the iCloud account was sufficient.

I own none of that particular vendors devices, nor use none of their services.
Don't intend to either, although MS seem to be heading down the wrong track.
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Living Room / Hacked "hard" via the cloud.
« Last post by NigelH on August 04, 2012, 12:43 PM »
A warning about having multiple interlinked devices and accounts.
hacked really hard
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