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

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2008, 11:48 PM »

According to my first attempt I had been cast adrift on the South Atlantic. Later I was marooned on Greenland.
Now I'm somewhat closer to home.

-cranioscopical (September 10, 2008, 09:17 PM)

And then you tell us that you never have crossed the borders of the house/community/village/city (cross out what does not apply). But now we know. 

Let's hope that the adrift part was done on a wooden raft else you would have a terrible time in Greenland (a rubber dingy doesn't burn that good) 

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive electrical failure... trash it?

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2008, 11:42 PM »

Ah well....live and learn.

Don't try this with high voltages though...it takes a whole lifetime to learn and before you know it the study course is over while saying the mantra of those right about to go on the travel beyond return.

That mantra would be: 'oops' or 'ohoh' (clinical studies still have not lead to a decisive answer on that one) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Time to reinstall Windows? Or get a new desktop?

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

Now I say that my system is still going strong, but I did change from harddisk during this period. Replicated my complete installation from a SATA harddisk to a SATA2 harddisk using a free tool that took forever (and then some!!). The current lack of sleep turned my brain is just solid mass which would the reason why I can't recall the name at this time.

My laptop runned for 4 years without re-installation before I had enough of the sluggishness from XP in combination with the hardware. Now that laptop is running Windows 2000 and it is again a breeze to work with. XP on a 128MB RAM machine together with a slow 6 GByte harddisk is just 'asking for trouble'.

EDIT: note to self - proofreading should be done before pushing the post button!!

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Sex Sells Spider

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2008, 08:44 PM »

a fat ugly geek in his underwear

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

Hey  I resemble that remark...

-Darwin (September 10, 2008, 01:12 PM)

You prefer: 'geek in fat ugly underwear', I assume 

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Living Room / Re: 10 Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2008, 08:41 PM »

The one in the middle?

 

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Living Room / Re: Invertebrate Animals Survive Vacuum and Cosmic Radiation

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 07:52 PM »

But don't one of those that have been 'out there', especially when you have to walk them there again...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super FDisk (iso)

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 07:42 PM »

So now it's name is 'MotherF...disk'?   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Time to reinstall Windows? Or get a new desktop?

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 07:23 PM »

@f0dder:

My XP installation is still going strong after 3 years!   

But then again...my system is not from 2001.

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

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 06:53 PM »

Residence: Paraguay
Nationality: Dutch

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: registry change detector

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 06:27 PM »

The best tool I encountered during my travels on the digital highway is this one: eRUNT

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General Software Discussion / Re: Time to reinstall Windows? Or get a new desktop?

« Last post by Shades on September 09, 2008, 06:25 PM »

You can "refresh" your system without losing your setup of software. How?

Check the following link written by our famed and loved Fred Langa. The text and pictures make it easy to do.

Tried the method myself on 5 different PC's and it really works!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 08:49 PM »

Well, if it runs as slow as your computer does....then it will spend another 9 years just to finish the marathon!

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Living Room / Re: Cortex Command Giveaway

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 08:44 PM »

If I remember correctly, there was communication with home base when I used the license.

Still having fun with it 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copying files to a series of DVD

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 08:42 PM »

There is a tool called: Burn To The Brim

Seems to be for CD and DVD.

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Living Room / Re: Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 07:20 PM »

So....to be a drama queen in Australia, you need a license?   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 07:08 PM »

Looking good everyone 

My pc stinks though 

-jonzku777 (September 07, 2008, 06:25 AM)

Bad joke but...
If it stinks, clean out (all) the bugs from it...or wait until they are fossilized (when you have some kind of attachment to the bugs)  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 12:03 PM »

Than I have a more modern system than you...my spring coil has a lever to wind it up 

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Living Room / Re: Cortex Command Giveaway

« Last post by Shades on September 07, 2008, 01:10 AM »

Well...LanTan asks for some license, so he could visit the site from the creators, leave money there and in that case he should get some license from them.

The free ones were all given away as I understand from this thread...

So Deozaam's magic 8-ball needs a new battery I think

EDIT: proofreading is a must.

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive electrical failure... trash it?

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2008, 10:23 PM »

Mostly not, but you notice it immediately if rain is the neighborhood...

Once I spend a two week holiday in the Domenican Republic during their rain season. Ideal!  
Why? Because it was the whole day excellent weather and between 19:00 and 20:00 it would rain. You could set your watch on that...amazing. So all people went out eating during that time to have a good 'base' before partying all night  

It is one of the pearls of the Carribean and I can recommend the southern and eastern part for the beautiful beaches, sea, food and Latinas (any combination is allowed  )

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive electrical failure... trash it?

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2008, 09:00 PM »

When I was the happy owner of such a similar device, I noted the inscriptions on the power supply. It needed to deliver 12 Volt and 1 Amp for the harddisk (3,5 inch). After an hour my power supply was also hot as hell.

My power supply broke because of too harsh conditions...in summer the ambient temperature rises easily to 45 degrees Celcius. If I ever going to buy such a device again, it will be a small one that uses a notebook harddisk, which requires no more power than what is coming out of an USB port.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any app to auto-replace Notepad ??

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2008, 04:44 PM »

Personally I use several text editors (depending the task) but you can always find EDXOR on my computer. It's freeware, 35 Kbyte and you can get it here.

On this page you will find the tool, an image that shows most of the options and multi-lingual manuals. It's interface might feel a bit spartan, but that is actually one of the reasons why I like it.

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive electrical failure... trash it?

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2008, 04:14 PM »

if you trace the connection from the circled piece back to the big black connector on top you will see that some of these tracks (at the line of holes) have directed a lot of current to the component that is burnt to a crisp. Those holes are discolored (there is a group of three and next to the group is another one)..

This isn't a good thing, because these holes usually mean that the board has more than one layer of circuitry. So it will be hard to tell if and which other component(s) have been damaged as well.

Buying replacement(s) for the damaged component(s) will not be your biggest problem (price wise). However, the labor from the technician is, given the replacement value of a SATA harddisk.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any app to auto-replace Notepad ??

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2008, 01:39 AM »

[Select]

UNA:+.?'
UNB+UNOC:3+0000000000009:14+0000000000002:14+050518:1056+U_200505183935'
UNH+U_200505183935+APERAK:D:96A:ZZ:EDINE1'
BGM+12E::9+U_200505183935842+27'
DTM+137:200505181056:203'
DTM+178:200505171239:203'
DTM+735:2:805'
RFF+392:U05051712394068'
NAD+MS+0000000000009::9'
NAD+MR+0000000000002::9'
ERC+23::60'
FTX+AAO+++TAX information is mandatory.'
UNT+11+U_200505183935'
UNZ+1+U_200505183935'

Codes have been changed to protect the innocent....or something like that. The format of this message is also obsolete, but you'll get the idea. A message like this doesn't pose problems, but when the size grows to 100Kbyte or more, Notepad++ completely loses track.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by Shades on September 05, 2008, 08:09 PM »

I can "improve" with my HP Omnibook 6000 which has:
Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
14" (4:3) screen
128 MB RAM
CD player
56K modem/100Mbit Networkcard
1(!) USB1.1 port

But it is still going as strong as it did 8 years ago. I love that thing and Windows 2000 runs very nice on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows based web server

« Last post by Shades on September 05, 2008, 10:30 AM »

XAMPP

Free LAMP but then for Windows. Download the 7-zip version, it only requires unpacking (in a root folder) and you have immediately a working Apache 2.0, MysQL 5 and PHP 5 integrated. Some extra's like a mailserver are included as well.

The original intent for the package is development, not hosting. So the only thing to do is re-configuring Apache for web use.