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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Who has tried Radmin for remote access to PC?

« Last post by y0himba on July 13, 2009, 06:04 PM »

I have been using Teamviewer for my clients, at home I use UltraVNC on the LAN for it's chat and file transfer.  Both free, although Teamviewer allows purchase of a commercial license.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Download vids from crackle.com impossible?

« Last post by y0himba on July 13, 2009, 05:56 PM »

There is nothing wrong with the link.  I am able to stream crackle to my TV using PlayOn and the Crackle Plugin for it.  Interesting discussion here:

http://www.playonplu...php/topic,595.0.html

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by y0himba on July 10, 2009, 11:56 AM »

They call our house "Kathy's Zoo" (My wife's name) because of all the animals we have, as seen above.  We periodically take them in, nurse them to health or clean them up, and find them decent homes.

* y0himba likes a home zoo

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by y0himba on July 09, 2009, 09:00 PM »

Here's mine. (see attachment in previous post)

-cranioscopical (July 09, 2009, 07:47 PM)

Beautiful!

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by y0himba on July 09, 2009, 11:53 AM »

This Sheena, our other kid.  Spoiled rotten.  We were out driving by the lake one day about 5 years back, and I saw a guy kick her.  Not kick at her, but kick her.  I put the minivan in reverse, got out the crowbar, and offered the guy $25 (all I had in my wallet) or the crowbar.  He took the $25.  She had been never in a house, always chained to a doghouse, open sores on her, fleas, thin and beaten.  Took us over an hour to get her in the van, then 2 days and a lot of cheese to get her to leave the kitchen.  Most intelligent canine I have ever met. We love her, plain and simple.


Black and white kitty is David Hasselhoff, next is the mischievous Mr. Sebastien Ferret, Frik and Frak, our Cockatiels, and last but not least is Chuck Norris (A.K.A Ghost)  Can you tell my 15 year old daughter named the cats?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O@O Disk Image 3,5 Professional Edition - 4 Free

« Last post by y0himba on July 04, 2009, 10:51 PM »

http://www.10minutemail.com 

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Living Room / Re: IE to be removed from Windows 7 in EU

« Last post by y0himba on June 13, 2009, 08:02 AM »

So, you are saying is:

"No Internet Explorer for EU."
 

(Sorry, just had to)

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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite drink?

« Last post by y0himba on June 07, 2009, 06:47 PM »

Plain old run of the mill Iced Tea.  I always have my mason jar full beside my keyboard.

Close 2nd: A dark beer called "Blast Furnace" from The Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh PA.  I drive 2 and a half hours to get 2 growlers filled with it.  The smell, the individual tastes in it, the head on it...pure heaven. 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a newsgroup news reader

« Last post by y0himba on May 14, 2009, 06:20 PM »

I have used Newsleecher for years.  His supersearch has 370 days retention, and for $29.99 a year you get ALL upgrades and access to the supersearch.  The program is the most logical and best I have ever used. http://www.newsleecher.com

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Get a free copy of Speedball 2

« Last post by y0himba on May 12, 2009, 10:27 PM »

Is it legit though?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Discovery Involving Rented Servers

« Last post by y0himba on May 05, 2009, 08:53 AM »

Interesting article on Ghacks...

http://www.ghacks.ne...d-server-disk-wipes/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Firefox security addons?

« Last post by y0himba on May 05, 2009, 08:30 AM »

The NoScript author actually posted an "apology" if that is what you want to call it.  In it he blames the AdBlock author.
http://hackademix.ne...r-mozilla-community/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Firefox security addons?

« Last post by y0himba on May 05, 2009, 06:37 AM »

http://adblockplus.o...ntion-noscript-users

NoScript is adware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Appnews.net - A new collaboration between some of our favorite software bloggers

« Last post by y0himba on May 02, 2009, 07:15 AM »

I like this site, seriously.  I use the RSS feed in Astra, very useful. 

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Discovery Involving Rented Servers

« Last post by y0himba on May 01, 2009, 06:51 AM »

As for Windows, I use Eraser when working in Windows.  When I sell a computer or HDD, I use DBAN(Darik's Boot And Nuke).  Just boot form the CD/DVD/Floppy/USB stick, choose your options, and wait for a while. (Sometimes over 8 hours depending on HDD size).  Securely and completely erases and obfuscates data preventing recovery.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« Last post by y0himba on April 29, 2009, 07:58 AM »

I hope this is not a precursor to creating a shareware version. 

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Living Room / Re: The Worm Within: Disgusting and You Can't Stop Reading

« Last post by y0himba on April 29, 2009, 07:54 AM »

I think between 1900 and 1920 they actually marketed Tapeworm diet pills.  Of course there is always:
http://www.tapewormdiet.net/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: RealWorld Paint.COM 2009.1

« Last post by y0himba on April 23, 2009, 06:21 AM »

How does it compare to Paint.NET?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What happened to Kubicle and his "tinywatcher" app?

« Last post by y0himba on April 17, 2009, 05:55 PM »

I love Tiny watcher, so simple yet one of the more useful programs on my system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Name The Best UNZIPPER!

« Last post by y0himba on April 07, 2009, 06:48 AM »

Best Unzipper:  MY HAND.  Unzips everything perfectly, is free. 

I like 7zip.

And Pie.  Definitely pie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago

« Last post by y0himba on April 01, 2009, 12:19 PM »

In February of 2008 when I first received my new computer.  FedEx around here is notorious for their handling of packages, and every time I have a piece of electronics delivered to me with parts like a hard drive, it comes damaged.  I have had to replace every hard drive they have delivered.  Thankfully, all free.  I just received a Netbook and Inspiron for my daughter 2 weeks ago, I replaced the hard drives in both on Monday.  BTW, I am running Vista on all machines except the Netbook, and NEVER have had a problem other than failed hardware due to FedEx.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone had experience buying from www.buy.com ? Is it reliable ?

« Last post by y0himba on March 15, 2009, 07:47 AM »

Tigerdirect.com, Newegg.com, Amazon.com, PCMicro.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone had experience buying from www.buy.com ? Is it reliable ?

« Last post by y0himba on March 14, 2009, 03:45 PM »

I purchased from Buy.com 1 time only.  We purchased an LCD HDTV with a promised $150 rebate.  They never honored the rebate, and it has been about 3 years.  They stated the the company who offered the rebate went out of business, which was not the case.  They also stated that they were pursuing legal action, again, not the case.  No rebate for hundreds of folks who bought the same television.

They are among the lowest of the low as you will see if you Google them, seeing the shear number of complaints and rip offs.  In my opinion, do not order from them.

http://www.ripoffrep...0&submit2=Search!

Here is a case similar to mine, I had except mine was 1 year earlier(2006).  Same TV and company that did not go out of business:
http://www.ripoffrep...53/RipOff0253092.htm

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Quake Live

« Last post by y0himba on March 01, 2009, 08:27 AM »

Yeah that's going to be the problem is wait time.  Folks who FPS game hate to wait, they want to jump in and start fragging.

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Living Room / Re: Should I switch from Dreamhost?

« Last post by y0himba on February 22, 2009, 01:41 PM »

Member since 2005, 13 domains, I have had to contact support twice.  Price is incredible as are the resources you get for the price.  I wouldn't change.