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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I don't get notifications. Am I just dumb?

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 09:37 AM »

when you post to a thread (click preview if using quick-reply) check to see if "Notify me of replies" is ticked (see below) by default. It should be with your settings.
(Either way this still a problem for mouser & co).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tweaking.com Registry Backup

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 09:28 AM »

...www.foolishit.com...

-Giampy (April 28, 2015, 08:33 AM)

 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: attempted capture opens web page http://www.www_getwindowinfo.com/

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 07:03 AM »

sorry ayryq, not much help here -
but just for the record:
I use Palemoon and am unable to reproduce this.

Windows 7 x64
Palemoon 25.3.2 x64
SC v4.9.6 (I have portable (with default settings) and installed versions)

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Living Room / Re: Where to watch soccer?

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 05:46 AM »

No idea where to watch soccer in the States -
have seen some US soccer on Eurosport - the quality seems quite high

Here in Europe, it's difficult to get to watch live soccer online legally - and the illegal sources usually aren't of great quality. And watching live is definitely the most exciting, especially if you're a supporter.

In Youtube search for something like "soccer matches full" will get you a share of matches. During the world cup, international games were taken down very quickly. Not sure how it is for league matches.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 05:25 AM »

^ more details in this thread:
Automakers Want to Outlaw Gearheads From Working on Their Own Cars

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Found Deals and Discounts / Cloudberry Backup (S3 etc.) on BDJ ($10)

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2015, 05:13 AM »

Disclaimer: I haven't used this.

The focus is Amazon S3, but it seems to work with a bunch of online backup sites.
http://www.bitsdujou...aign=2015-04-28+PC+A
$10
Seems like a very good price (if online backup is your focus) - monitors files & backs up online.

I've used their Explorer with which you can look at your S3 backups. Has a nice interface, and is easy to use.
They also have software that allows treating S3 as a local drive.

~20 hours to go.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Smiley Extra Spaces

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2015, 02:36 PM »

... so it would have a space before the smiley after a sentence/word ...

-hamradio (February 19, 2014, 08:00 PM)

^ that's the reason
(I find it looks fine at the beginning of a sentence too)

 

but it's good to preview

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Living Room / Re: facebook tracing

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 03:10 PM »

Maybe I misunderstand that you half want to bring this to our attention, and half want a solution.

I'm sorry if I get impatient, but still think my advice is good.
For the second half (a possible solution) - did you connect to FB using a phone?
(If so what are the settings on the phone as per your thread?)

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Living Room / Re: facebook tracing

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:40 PM »

I already looked at security and privacy (who knows what is the difference between them)

-kalos (April 25, 2015, 02:26 PM)

that's all I wanted to hear - I get frustrated when you (or anyone else) just keep asking questions without saying what you have done yourself to try and solve the problem.

And I wouldnt call that 'misbehaving' - I'd call it a bit of good advice:
if you want help - be helpful to those who are trying to help you - and that includes the above (i.e. telling what you have tried (or not); what you know yourself; etc. etc.)


edit// I meant did you follow up on any of the suggestions in the thread you linked to (and no, I didnt look very closely at them so have no idea if they're of any help - that's for you to figure out - but let us know)

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.30.01 - Apr 4, 2012

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:30 PM »

No posts in this forum since July 2013. I thought I'd change that by saying I just tried out DCUpdater by using it to install some new software and it appears to work flawlessly. Nothing has updated yet, though. We shall see.

It even detected my FARR plugins.  

-wut?! (April 25, 2015, 12:48 AM)

I still use it and like it a lot. Have had some minor problems: cant remember exactly now, but I think if you have installed and portable flavours of same software present, it can get confused with the install path and installs both to same path. For some reason it always starts up with Windows (7) for me - looking for updates for CHS (but tbh I haven't checked if that's something in the CHS settings).
There may be other bugs - but not that I've come across

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Skrommel's Software / Re: MoveOut: License? I want to extend it

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:21 PM »

^ well he's not seen so often here these days, and probably doesnt check this (or any other) board

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:13 PM »

A drink with a severed human toe. In Canada. In the Yukon.

-Renegade (April 25, 2015, 08:08 AM)

all I can say is thank god for flashblock  

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Living Room / Re: facebook tracing

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:10 PM »

where exactly facebook tells her location? that could be the ordinary you are saying that facebook displays ''from Copenhagen"
but she continues saying, if they click on her name (not sure what she means) they can see her EXACT location!!!

this is probably what I am refering too, but I have not seen/done it on facebook
any idea?

-kalos (April 25, 2015, 09:26 AM)

• have you even looked at the settings yet ?
• or tried any of the suggestions in that thread ?
• i.e. what exactly have you tried so far ?
• apart from asking questions here ?

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2015, 02:04 PM »

I've been on a huge funk spree lately. Listening to lots of Sly, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Commodores, Supertramp, Tower of Power, and of course Parliament/Funkadelic, etc...

-wut?! (April 25, 2015, 01:51 PM)

you'll have to make a few suggestions in the music thread -
(a greater variety of music unlikely to be found anywhere )

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Skrommel's Software / Re: MoveOut: License? I want to extend it

« Last post by tomos on April 24, 2015, 09:36 AM »

^ might be worth sending skrommel a PM

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Living Room / Re: Your Stuff Really Is Breaking Faster Than It Used To

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2015, 05:14 PM »

^ no lightbulbs here @ 106 pages long

Even skimming it for graphics is hard work ;-)
interesting though:

• sold in 2011 in Germany - Gold in:   monitors=1,645 kilos; laptops=740;   smartphones=240
• sold in 2011 in Germany - Silver in: monitors=6,090 kilos; laptops=3,100; smartphones=2,350

and the font (Times New Roman?) and paragraph formatting, they're certainly not easy to read on screen...

_________________


Is (one) part of the problem that people tend to want to get stuff as cheaply as possible?
I believe that that's the reason that after-sales service is suffering, at any rate.

I know I fit in that bracket - I want something, and I want it cheap. But you get burned that way - poor quality products that dont last long and you got to spend again.
And I do also want good quality - I check reviews and look at amazon etc customer reviews (in particular the one to three star ones) - mind you most of those are not about long-term performance.

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Living Room / Re: facebook tracing

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2015, 02:37 PM »

thanks but your reply is very generic
how do I restrict that specific information to be revealed? (my exact location)

-kalos (April 23, 2015, 02:19 PM)

look at your FB settings, I would suspect.
I personally wouldnt trust FB with that kind of info, but that's another matter...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2015, 03:52 AM »

A Defense of Comic Sans

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=GUCcObwIsOs

-Renegade (April 22, 2015, 11:30 PM)

interesting :-)

on a lighter note, it reminded me of this one:

...
You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes f***ing Gutenberg.

http://www.mcsweeney...m-comic-sans-asshole

-Edvard (April 17, 2012, 08:04 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a very flexible timer

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2015, 03:25 AM »

 

and yeah -
that with 4a is good then

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 06:56 PM »

^eM became unusable for me a while back (hogging cpu). I gave up waiting for an update - and then I heard this news. So I'm using the 'bugware' Thunderbird - seems fine to me FWIW (not using IMAP with it though).
Will be interesting to see what they do for it.

This does sort of blur the lines though, between the standard and pro versions (€30 extra for Thunderbird?!)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 04:04 PM »

^ never heard of google duckduckgo?  

http://www.freeoffice.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 03:34 PM »

btw Kingsoft Pro compares to Softmaker Pro pricewise:

• does Kingsoft have any comparison page between versions?
• can you use free version commercially? (I presume not but couldnt find any comparison)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request : Shortcut key to re-establish clipboard chain

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 03:27 PM »

Is that on Windows 8.1 Armando?

I've been having recurring problems copying text on 8.1 - but it usually works after a few attempts (and I dont use the machine very seriously so dont pay a whole lot of attention to things).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 10:17 AM »

So I will want to try the spreadsheet module and compare it to Kingsoft.

-TaoPhoenix (April 22, 2015, 08:41 AM)

go for it Tao !
It would be very interesting to hear a comparison

(I'm very happy with Textmaker's compatibility with Word - but couldnt really comment beyond that.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2015, 09:54 AM »

^ you have to give an email address, they send a serial number.
Current beta is only valid till April 30, but I presume there will be a new beta by then.