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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by Grorgy on June 07, 2008, 12:27 AM »

yeah, i thought that was a nice touch 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Abusive Behahiour (Rant about Adobe Digital Editions)

« Last post by Grorgy on June 05, 2008, 08:27 PM »

and you can almost guarantee that people who have obtained it illegally are not bothered at all by the DRM, they already have the fix in place

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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by Grorgy on June 05, 2008, 08:23 PM »

Done 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Grorgy on June 04, 2008, 07:47 PM »

If the kids are fed, mostly, and the wife isn't past threatening to leave, things aren't too grim. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unlock files because of sharing violations

« Last post by Grorgy on June 04, 2008, 07:31 PM »

Ahhh ok, it is a pre ticked checkbox, still i missed it, I reckon these things need large red type that say "this is some crap you haven't asked for but we want you to have anyway"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unlock files because of sharing violations

« Last post by Grorgy on June 04, 2008, 07:13 PM »

Just added it to the weapons cabinet, but interestingly, and somewhat annoyingly it added a shortcut to Ebay to my desktop.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: VERY impressed with dtSearch - application and sales

« Last post by Grorgy on June 02, 2008, 04:55 PM »

   at that price it would want to work well 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker vote, stage 2, final voting

« Last post by Grorgy on June 01, 2008, 07:23 PM »

I had no idea about launchers till i discovered donation coder and FARR, when i first installed it i wondered what i had done but i just used it as a basic launcher till i became more comfortable with it and the whole idea of using a launcher, so I tried launchy and slickrun and all the others that were mentioned and something was lacking, while i didn't and still don't understand half of what FARR can do I wouldn't use any other, as your knowledge grows and your needs change the program is there to grow and change with you, its familiar already so the learning curve for what you need is hopefully a bit less steep.  And on top of all that is inbuilt there is, you may have noticed  a great group of plugin writers and alias developers who seem willing to try anything is lurking around these boards . If you think you might ever need the additional things that FARR can do I would recommend jumping straight in.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Alias: nircmd alias

« Last post by Grorgy on May 30, 2008, 03:35 AM »

oooops yeah like tomos says shell32   sorry 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Alias: nircmd alias

« Last post by Grorgy on May 30, 2008, 03:23 AM »

you can find most of the standard icons in windows\system32\shell.dll  at least thats where i found 'em 

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General Software Discussion / Re: ghacks round-up: Battle of the Software Updaters

« Last post by Grorgy on May 29, 2008, 06:58 AM »

Apart from the very specialised DCupdater the only one i like is the file hippo one, gives you some nice options, like skipping a program altogether or just that update and whether to show betas or not, its only downside for me is its only for software they have at their site but then in a way thats a plus because you at least know where to find it 

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Living Room / Re: New Adobe Flash Player Security Exploit Reported Today (tuesday may 27)

« Last post by Grorgy on May 27, 2008, 04:47 PM »

Trouble is, if we start disabling or removing all the plugins and so on, we will end up browsing plain text, which may be nostalgic for some and safe, but ohh so dull.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 10+ suggestions to make FARR the most interesting launcher

« Last post by Grorgy on May 27, 2008, 05:47 AM »

This name business wont go away will it, my suggestion is call it FARR, just FARR, not find and run robot.  Seems to me that the name FARR is probably becoming known, so keep it, and have a little note in the about box or in the help as to its derivation. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Character Table

« Last post by Grorgy on May 25, 2008, 03:40 AM »

I just downloaded and unzipped to the plugins directory, like I always do with plugins, unlike most of the others it didn't set up its own directory, I discovered this because when i started my computer FARR crashed with a violation error of some sort because of 2 updater files.  Easy enough to fix but a bit offputting,

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Developer's Corner / Re: Please, do me a disservice...

« Last post by Grorgy on May 24, 2008, 03:40 PM »

I got rid of one doing
Start, Run and type cmd and hit ok.
then type:
sc delete "<service name>"

And its gone on my xp home system.  I'd already disabled it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker vote, stage 2, final voting

« Last post by Grorgy on May 24, 2008, 04:41 AM »

Ok They must be out there, where are the wives who are being treated this way? and why haven't they rebelled?

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Grorgy on May 23, 2008, 07:29 PM »

When 90% or more of reputable scientists agree, and many of the apologists for the no global warming side I've discovered are funded and/or employed directly by the major producers of pollutants generally and green house gases in particular I tend to go with the majority of reputable scientists.  Of course they have been wrong before, the world was flat at one stage of our history, bleeding people was considered a valuable treatment in many illnesses.

I guess its trendy to talk about it these days because if it happens and the predictions of catastrophic change in 50 to 200 yrs are correct then we are among the last who can do anything about it.

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Living Room / Re: The last time your AntiVirus saved you!

« Last post by Grorgy on May 23, 2008, 06:58 PM »

I have never had a virus found.  But I still install AV as the first thing, I like the sense of security, (i am using eset smart security these days - 50% student discount here in Aus anyway)

I only run a full scan very occasionally and  every so often, every month or two, will run spybot or Asquared free just to make me feel good    And an antirootkit (blacklight and/or panda) They never find anything either apart from a few cookies, and i clean my cookies regularly and only keep the ones I want/need.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synology DS207+ NAS

« Last post by Grorgy on May 23, 2008, 06:34 AM »

wow what a great review, well done Perry, not so sure about mini though    Makes me want one 

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Grorgy on May 23, 2008, 04:36 AM »

I have to say either way the things that reduce these green house gases seem to be all good things anyway, reduce pollution, be more sustainable, and if there is no global warming we've just left a better cleaner more pleasant environment for the next generations, if it is real then we may have saved the planet, personally I have trouble seeing a downside.  (I'm procrastinating too  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Office Ultimate for only $59

« Last post by Grorgy on May 22, 2008, 09:30 PM »

Dont know about anywhere else but in Australia it has been extended indefinitely.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker launcher application voting and FARR Name

« Last post by Grorgy on May 22, 2008, 12:58 AM »

andthe only complaint i've ever heard about it (apart from its name lol) is that it isnt pretty enough! What i like about it is it does whats needed and goes away, how long do you want to look at the beauty of your launcher for?    Besides i reckon it looks good anyway 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Breakaway Audio Processor for Windows System

« Last post by Grorgy on May 21, 2008, 09:13 PM »

Well, it was coincidence, I've been amusing myself with finding HDD to plug in and its only that 1.  So its a hardware error not software, Breakaway or any other.  And breakaway is still sounding good 


Edit: Just to fix spelling

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Breakaway Audio Processor for Windows System

« Last post by Grorgy on May 21, 2008, 04:46 PM »

Thanks for that Darwin, I'm not 100% sure as, as usual, I was playing around with stuff so it may be something else, but, my little USB disk, when plugged in, now prevents the system from booting correctly. (seems to work ok when not plugged in but removing breakaway doesn't fix it).  Explorer is failing to start correctly, I can get process explorer up and restart explorer and it works briefly but then hangs again, but as I say so long as the drive isn't plugged in these problems don't appear.  Of course it could just be a coincidence and my drive was/is  on the way out anyway and just chose now.  Still it sounds good, and the flexibility compared to dfx for instance is great.

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Living Room / Re: Streaming audio across a network to multiple PCs?

« Last post by Grorgy on May 20, 2008, 05:50 PM »

I know its old fashioned but some wires and speakers?