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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 02:03 PM »

I had BSODs on my nforce4 motherboard when trying to use nvidia's "hardware" firewall (which was a retarted piece of crap, requiring a full install of an apache httpd in order to manage settings locally... :rolleyes: ), and I've had BSODs from third-party firewall, VPN and antivirus products. Some of these seem to show winsock as the problem, but that's only if you look just at the top-level driver in the BSOD, not if you study the actual minidump with WinDbg. Also, I've never had filesystme or registry corruption from any of these "normal" BSODs. Got more information on the issue?
-f0dder (September 06, 2012, 12:10 PM)
Not BSOD due to reg but was because of the theme patching and shell related changes. In case of reg issues, most of them were related to the WINSOCK and other network related issues. I can't specifically point to the issue because I used to patch that using the reg fix for Winsock. Without that fix, It was hard to connect to the net. I am not sure if it was because of driver issue or say some malware? For some reason system was not usable without those reg fixes (most of them were released by MVPs), I hope you remember XP days with regular fixing of broken stuff.
-mahesh2k (September 06, 2012, 01:41 PM)

Only time I ever saw WINSOCK get borked was usually due to an orphaned LSP from either a virus or babysitter security suite (mostly the 2nd one). Either way the fix has always been the same netsh reset winsock ... I don't ever recall using a reg patch for it.

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Living Room / Re: Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye With The Leap

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 11:57 AM »

Re: the OP --> very cool. Watch the video at that link...
-kyrathaba (September 06, 2012, 07:28 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 11:47 AM »

For some reason installers for .NET applications have a tendency to (occasionally) replace key .NET framework files as part of the install routine. There is an XML patch that I've had to reinstall over 30 times in the past year ... Simply because the EMR software that several of our clients use insists on "updating" (e.g. borking) this perticular patch every time they do an update.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:20 AM »

Those who are using Visual studio knows Why I am saying this, because microsoft's own programs make the system unusable.
-mahesh2k (September 05, 2012, 04:58 AM)
I've been running every single version (not every edition, of course!) and service pack of Visual Studio from 6 to 2010 SP1, and will soon be installing 2012. I've even been using VS on Win9x. While the first VS.NET version was pretty crappy and unstable, I've never had VS affect my system stability, and never heard of stories like that from friends or co-workers.
-f0dder (September 06, 2012, 06:54 AM)

Same here all the way back to 9x. Hell we've even got one guy that (does legacy stuff) is still doing VB code with VS6, on Windows 8.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:12 AM »

Good point Ren!

Mine is a bit more targeted at culinary fans, theirs is more targeted at quick family fun.
-mouser (September 05, 2012, 03:35 PM)

If it really is too close to risk marketing it yourself ... Any chance they'd buy it from you as a spin-off?

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Living Room / Re: Nokia's new Lumia 920 phone doesn't impress. But why? (no reason)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:08 AM »

Maybe they're just mad because the screen is to small ...

...I kinda like it myself, and I'm looking to switch to a Win8 phone in the next month or so (whenever they come out).

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Living Room / Re: Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 06:53 AM »

I've often wondered about the whole selling time in the CPU distributed computing thing. How (if at all) profitable is/could Bitcoin Mining be?

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Living Room / Re: Most BitTorrent users being monitored by copyright agencies, study finds

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 06:46 AM »

Go to ScanEye and click Check IP - see what it says you've torrented, (copyrighted stuff via public trackers only, AFAICT).
-4wd (September 06, 2012, 05:07 AM)

Okay, that's a bit more than just a little spooky.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 03:21 PM »

Something unique with the word "Chef" in the title might be good..
-mouser (September 03, 2012, 02:32 PM)

Shuffling Chef Poker?

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 07:39 AM »

Maybe he's never heard of the loose lips sink ships rule.
-Stoic Joker (September 05, 2012, 06:52 AM)

What would be really hysterical is if Korea pulls a Judo Throw with the increasing emerging info on the trial flaws and gets it overturned. Bets on whether that will happen? Hmm.

-TaoPhoenix (September 05, 2012, 07:13 AM)

I'll make popcorn

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 06:52 AM »

Groklaw - Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj

This is in the believe it or not category, but the foreman in the Apple v Samsung trial is *still* talking about the verdict and why the jurors did what they did. And the more he talks, the worse it gets for that verdict.

I would quote, but the article is very small so it's probably better to just give a quick look.
-Mark0 (September 05, 2012, 06:23 AM)

Maybe he's never heard of the loose lips sink ships rule.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 06:50 AM »

But too bad it's now the first to file instead of the first to invent under the new US Patent law
-40hz (September 04, 2012, 05:04 PM)

Great, now all they need is a disgruntled employee to smuggle out a few drawings and file for a patent on a cutting edge project. Bet they'll be grooving on that new system then.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 04:55 PM »

Now ^that^ is funny

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:57 AM »

Gives me a great idea for a Dead Spider virus. Take one infected device broadcasting control codes and walk through a mall, it then completely shuts down any device in range causing it to shrivel up like a dead spider, and only able to broadcast the shutdown control codes it was given. Now you get an exponentially growing circle of Dead Spiders.

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Living Room / Re: Buy Your Uranium Ore Here~! Today Only $49.95~! =D

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:35 AM »

Great Product, Poor Packaging
I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.
Published on May 14, 2009 by Patrick J. McGovern

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Living Room / Re: SEC uses JOBS Act to set up new roadblocks to crowdfunding

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:29 AM »

Well Gee Wiz the official decision when the criminal banking types totally boned the economy was a dazzling array of golden ~~showers~~ parachutes to rescue the greedy billionaires from "poverty" while the (pathetic remnants of a) middle class got completely shit on. How many people did the SEC see about locking up???

Now the little guy comes up with a way of cutting through the endless miles of red tape...and guess who is all bent outta shape.

The SEC needs to just admit to being completely useless, disband, dry up, and blow away.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE change

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 02, 2012, 08:56 PM »

I like IE and have no intention of switching.

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 02, 2012, 10:31 AM »

Maybe the idea is to let Apple clear the field first? Once Apple establishes everybody infringed on Apple all LG needs to do is show Apple infringed on LG and they'd have a clean sweep with minimal legal effort since if A=B and B=C then A=C.
-40hz (September 02, 2012, 08:25 AM)

It's a sound strategy ... Low exposure/high gain, and everybody loses ... Especially us.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modify the windows registry

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:42 PM »

Use Load Hive, browse to the other OS's registry files (X:\Windows\System32\config (IIRC)) and select the one you want. After it's mounted just browse it as normal.

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Living Room / Re: modular, borderless monitors suggestions please?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:33 PM »

I don't think, other than Apple's retina display, anyone has any pc displays that can go higher than 1080p.
-superboyac (August 31, 2012, 03:09 PM)

Don't be too sure about that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modify the windows registry

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:21 PM »

Not sure exactly what you mean by parallel, but basically yes.

Regedit's file menu contains several options for accessing another machines registry:
Import/Export is for any .reg files
Load/Unload Hive is for local access to another copy of Windows' registry files (or another user's NTUser.dat file).
Connect/Disconnect Network Registry is for connecting to another machine's registry across the network (remote registry service must be running on target machine)

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