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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2016, 10:17 AM »
I tried in my experiment to go to hotmail.com and open the account that I'd not been in for a while from there.  Redirects, sure.  But a loading screen?  No.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 04:46 PM »
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 04:43 PM »
I guess what I'm saying is that if it does not happen on all platforms, I doubt it's intentional, but there's something behind it.  I just tried on Firefox, and no splash screen.

* wraith808 shrugs

What happens is once you log in using the outlook page rather than hotmail, from then on you end up in the new interface no matter where you come from.  But it surprises me that Opera doesn't go there.  Maybe it relies on some feature or capability that did not exist when Opera 12 was coded.  I'm just guessing.  MS definitely wants you to go through the new portal.  Otherwise there would be an Opt Out mechanism in the mailbox display settings.  It probably has to do with hitting you with targeted advertising.



I log in from the outlook page.  I don't get it.  I've never seen that page that you screenshot other than in your screenshot.  I even tried an account that I'd not accessed in a long time that had never used the new UI.  I ended up in the new UI, but never got that loading screen.  If it is targeted advertising, it's a pretty bad job of it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 04:02 PM »
I guess what I'm saying is that if it does not happen on all platforms, I doubt it's intentional, but there's something behind it.  I just tried on Firefox, and no splash screen.

* wraith808 shrugs
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Posts
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 09:54 AM »
That isn't a new threat is it? It's just another thing spammers have always done.  It just requires a little more thought to figure out if they are a spammer, but the punishment is the same: delete and ban :)

But they go directly to malware or malware sites.  Seems like the others that have appeared have been more obvious in their phrasing.  And all of the posts by these bots are not obvious, and a bit more innocuous.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 09:53 AM »
I don't get that.  Could it be because you have so much spam?  It does process the messages, and when I'd not been using my account for a while, it did that when I first logged in again.  Currently, however, mine goes to a login portal, then directly into my inbox in less than a couple of seconds.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 08:02 AM »
progress bar?  What are you referring to? I've never seen such.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Links in Posts
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 08:01 AM »
It appears that the bots have a new approach.  They put links in responses to posts.  In some cases, even creating the topic, and then responding with links.

What do we want to do about this new threat?
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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online
« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2016, 08:03 PM »
Stranger Things

p12991665_b_v8_aa.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/

Very good.  I was skeptical at first, especially as you can't really explain it without giving too much away, so everyone was just saying watch it.  And now I'm just saying watch it. :)
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From the questions he's asked before related to his company, I don't question that.  ;D  He seems to have a hell of a group of cats to herd.
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He explained it very well, I thought.  Sometimes, people link the words http://www.google.com to http://www.malwareRus.com in PDFs.  He wants to strip out the links.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2016, 03:24 PM »
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^ There's actually a pretty cool show now on HGTV about this movement.

http://www.hgtv.com/...iny-house-big-living
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Living Room / Re: Guide to Living with Introverts
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2016, 09:20 AM »
Let me add a piece that I think is missing from this picture of introversion.  Speaking for myself I have found that "unstructured" socialization can be extremely painful -- things like just sitting around at a dinner party talking to one another about random things.  Whereas structured social activities (board games) are quite fun.  I don't know if that's true for all introverts, so your mileage may vary.

That works for me. If there is a purpose to an interaction, I'm fine ... But trying to  engage in casual conversation (e.g. "Small Talk") I completely short circuit.

Same here.  I didn't even realize what the problem was until my wife pointed it out.  I can't make small talk.  I've tried, but as Stoic said, I completely short circuit.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2016, 04:47 PM »
Is it available for purchase?  Then the link should be removed.
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Should have known not to get involved with those.  I like not having to have a web browser open to do certain things- or just not having to have them integrated with the browser.
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^ I've used it before, and it works great.  What stopped me from using it was their business practices fiascos, i.e. changing the terms and your signatures with no notice.  Caveat Emptor.  Or... Caveat Disputatio if you don't pay.  Which seems do be the differentiating factor.
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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2016, 10:06 AM »
RetroFloppy folks responded to an email right away, and will try to read both of my disks and make contents available for me to download for $20.  Very fair.  I'm sending my disks to them.  :up: :up:
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Make a photocopy of them first, b4 u send them - just in case.

That's silly, everyone knows the best method is to read them with an electromagnet and then reverse the polarity to write them out on to new blank media.


Just send them unsecured through the postal service.  Same effect, less effort.  ;D
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Understandable, but what's being lost in the optimization process, is both adjustable, and in the default settings virtually imperceivable. But I'm guessing there is a great deal of cruft in the PDF format. Part of which is the boiler plate header trash that froths on about how cool Adobe is, and the rest is duplicitous formatting and object description code.

The example that sold me on the program was a 35Mb (in house created) sales brochure that one of the staff was trying to stuff through our mail server. I ran it through NX and it gave me a 3Mb file that looked (and printed) identically to the bloated original.
I'd guess that they main problem with your sales brochure was large jpeg image files embedded within it and that most of the size gain came from reducing the resolution of those.

PDF editors like Adobe Acrobat and PDFXchange Editor provide optimization tools that give you full control over the size and compatibility of a PDF file.  How you handle the many different options depends on what you want to do with the PDF.

Many people don't do that, however, and you can be stuck with the results if you don't have an editor, and the time to check the settings.  Having something do that for you is well worth it.  I had someone accidentally distribute a book unoptimized.  A bit later, they redistributed the optimized version, but this would have made me not have to even deal with opening a 256MB PDF in the meantime.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck
« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2016, 10:01 AM »
When a show is a repeat or not on how dose epCheck Indicate it by color or something else ?

A repeat of what?


I'm assuming not a new episode, but a repeat of a prior episode.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: epCheck opening program issue ?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 17, 2016, 04:32 PM »
ok thanks some other question for you

1. I searched for the show Empire on Fox Network could not find it is it on their it says it is on here which epCheck uses

http://www.thetvdb.com/


That one, skwire is going to have to answer.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: epCheck opening program issue ?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 17, 2016, 02:26 PM »
It looks like configuration information.  I haven't opened epCheck in a while, but I think there's a setting to tell it where you want it to store data.  You want to change that somewhere other than your desktop.

Or it might assume the current directory- if so, you want to create a directory for the application, and put a shortcut on your desktop.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2016, 11:24 AM »
Exceptional use of a GoPro by a squirrel.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2016, 10:38 AM »


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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2016, 10:13 AM »
Interesting "stuff"There’s a new way to make strong passwords, and it’s way easier


Excellent timing! It's just what I needed to drive a nail through a "discussion" that's been plaguing me for weeks.

Thank you!

Obligatory XKCD Post: https://xkcd.com/936/

This is not new.  I use the XKCD Password Generator with my own settings to do this all the time.

https://xkpasswd.net/s/
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