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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux Glass

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 28, 2014, 03:22 PM »

Ayyyy.  Looks like the Cinnamon links are old. 

Anyone else find some current Glass that looks this cool?

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Non-Windows Software / Linux Glass

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 28, 2014, 03:02 PM »

http://www.noobslab....-glass-theme-on.html

Maybe it's old hat.  I don't know.  But I've just started to putter with Linux again.  It's nice to see a Glass Theme.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 28, 2014, 05:21 AM »

I don't know what it is, but it seems like every time I try vanilla FF x64 it's a dog.  So I end up using PM as my installed FF.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 27, 2014, 07:29 AM »

I got ColorToggle to work(latest Pale Moon x64) just by changing the hotkey modifiers to Control and Alt.  I tried changing the letter before but no dice.  It just doesn't seem to like having Shift in the sequence. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Web Space if you already have free domain?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 27, 2014, 06:58 AM »

@hornet  thanks for the benefit of your experience.  The not much to be made from it seems prevalent no matter what it is these days.    My best bet for a steady paycheck is probably help desk.  The language barrier isn't likely to help any though.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 27, 2014, 06:54 AM »

Thanks.  I'll give it a go. 

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 26, 2014, 07:50 AM »

Yeah, I don't know who comes up with these "standard" interview questions.  If you really have a 5 year plan the surest way to thwart it is to tell someone what it is.  So they just want to get an idea how you lie.  I could understand it if applying for a position in Sales.    Otherwise what's the point?

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 25, 2014, 05:23 PM »

Funny clip.   

During the job interview when asked the obligatory question "where do you see yourself in five years?" I always wanted to answer "In five years I'll be your boss's boss.  At which time you'll both be fired."

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Living Room / Artie Lange Show R.I.P.

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 25, 2014, 03:46 PM »

I thought it might be from the picture on the web site.  I've been playing the podcasts in order so I didn't hear the one for the last show where it was announced the Artie Lange radio/direct tv show was cancelled.  It's too bad it had to go.  It often had stand up comics as guests.  Also some sports color analysts and former players.

I wonder if the fact that sponsorship was taken over by a site that specializes in extra-marital affairs was the real reason it got ditched?  I still haven't listened to the last show.  I have one in front of it.  Might as well finish the podcasts off in order.  


Now I have to find a podcast worth downloading.  

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 25, 2014, 03:39 PM »

There was a short bit in Mad Magazine one time about a guy handing in a job application.  In the next frame 4 identical HR workers say in unison "there are no job openings."

In the industrial park in the town where I live there was a factory that personified the Mad Magazine bit.  The had a permanent sign Help Wanted.  I went in several times over the years and spent 1/2 hour filling out the application.  When I asked about the openings they said they would call if anything came up.  I finally wised up and quit going there.  I think it was a make work for the HR guys.

On occasion I would happen by there years later.  Same Help Wanted sign.  It reminded me of one of those Pizza Places that never sold any pizza.  Tony Soprano hung out in the back room making phone calls. 

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 25, 2014, 12:37 PM »

There will be no end to the "background check" as more "factors" are appended.  For instance, since there is no government backed single payer health system in the U.S. the family history will be sifted for diseases that may cause health expenditures to spike.  Stuff like Cancer etc..

Then of course the DNA signature that denotes a high risk of insubordination will be isolated.  Must test for that.  Also creativity.  We know what a mess those kinds of people make of things.  Always upsetting the apple cart.  Even replacing the apple cart with one driven by internal combustion.  There's just no end to unpredictability unless these bad seeds are filtered.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Web Space if you already have free domain?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 25, 2014, 07:38 AM »

Thanks.  I started to play around with this tool I'm checking out.  I found a review for it.  It is definitely not for blog sites.  It's designed for static pages.  Might not be bad if the template may be designed easily.  It doesn't do drag and drop positioning bit stuff like banner titles and text blocks you just double click to edit.  It's Site Spinner and retails for $50.  It would seem made for personal pages.

Due to malware attack and other considerations I don't really want to be involved in the hosting end of it.  I just want to have the customer satisfied with it and publish it.  Then it's between the customer and the provider.  But we'll see.  Since I'm around MDC campus all the time and the only C++ Programming class offered is "Absolute Beginner" I'm thinking some unfortunate souls may take it as their first programming language.  Tutoring to the rescue.  That may be simpler to get started.

Thanks for your interest.  

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2014, 03:51 PM »

^^^ very cool.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2014, 01:25 PM »

I notice Color Toggle doesn't work in 27+ FF or latest Pale Moon.  Anyone have an alternative?

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2014, 10:10 AM »

Stoic Joker said:

Now at what point exactly during a routine traffic stop does a police officer have any rational need for somebody's ****ing Credit Report?? ...Or employment history for that matter.

Common scenario:  Two cops in squad car on traffic patrol.  They spot someone driving erratically.  They pull the car over.  One cop gets out and talks to the inebriated driver, then comes back to the patrol car.  Cop waiting in the car says "Is he anybody?"  Meaning if he's just a nobody they'll charge him with DUI.  But if he's somebody they might let him sleep it off in the car and get a phone number for later when they need a favor.

With the computer info it takes out the guesswork.  People who used to be somebody won't be able to rest on their laurels.  If they have fallen on hard times they won't be able to fake it. Nothing worse than letting a guy slide only to be unable to get the favor later.  

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 04:00 PM »

Heh.  On the under oath bit, Nixon served on th House Unamerican Activities Commitee(HUAC) in the 50s.  They got Alger Hiss for Perjury.  So when Watergate started to stink he kept saying that it's the coverup that gets you convicted.  They get you for Perjury rather than the original charge.

G. Gordon Liddy, one of the Plumbers, must have heard this.  Also he used to be an Assistant Prosecutor.  When the Senate Select Committee brought him in to testify in private session, the clerk held out the Bible and went through the ritual "Do you solemnly.. yadda yadda.." to which Liddy replied in a clear loud voice "No! I do not!"

They asked him to leave.

Likewise in John Sirica's Courtroom Liddy refused to testify.  I think he holds the record for time served in DC Jail for Contempt of Court.  But I don't think he was convicted of any of the Watergate charges.

I always got a kick out of Liddy doing that because I thought of that myself.  Clerk asks if you intend to tell the truth and you say "To be honest Your Honor, I intend to lie my ass off."  


Edit:  I give myself one demerit for retelling my favorites.  Perhaps the Clockwork Orange Therapy could ameliorate this tendency. 

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Living Room / Re: Netflix’s shame is the Internet’s gain thanks to SummaryBug

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 01:07 PM »

All I can tell you is I was in The Merry Marvel Marching Society and Stan Lee can wax pretty philosophical when in the mood. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO - Mini-Review.

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 01:01 PM »

I bought a series of HP desktop machines.  Without exception the most annoying time of ownership was between the first boot and the removal of the last vestige of Norton.  On the last machine even after I ran the Norton Removal Tool 3 times I was getting slow boots(like warm boot of 120 seconds.)  By looking at the boot log I saw the system was timing out waiting for Norton drivers to load even though Norton executables were gone.

I ran CCleaner registry clean to finally get rid of the last of it.  It's pure harassment.  Preloaded is the only way it would get on any of my machines.

Maybe next time I'll have the resources to do a build and retail copy of Windows.  Just get totally away from this aggraware.

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 12:53 PM »

I thought she looked hottest in Bulworth.



If they could get her to be twin sisters then I say legalize cloning. 

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Living Room / Re: Everything Is Broken

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 09:23 AM »

Hmm, I have no interest in hacking into sites... unless Halle Berry is working me over.  Instead of "Swordfish" that film should've been titled "Sword Swallower." 

There seems to be this myth that it's trivial to hack into systems.  I guess my I.Q. is much lower than I thought.  I've been programming for a long time and I can't even figure out how to add a dozen zeros to the end of my bank balance.  Talk about "free checking."  That account would pay you just for being there. 

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Living Room / Re: LastPass - it doesn't work in IE10 under Win8? Yes it does.

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 09:09 AM »

I've seen bug reports over a year old.  Talk about "you'll do it our way."  They just tell people where the setting is as if it worked.  Oh boy!   

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Living Room / Re: LastPass - it doesn't work in IE10 under Win8? Yes it does.

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2014, 08:23 AM »

As strange as it sounds it appears IE 10 only accepts one url one the command line even though it's a "multi-tabbed browser."  This is really poor.  Firefox and derivatives, chromium derivatives, Opera, all accept multiple urls on the command tail.

Not only that but last time I tried it(perhaps with IE 9) if you set it to open new pages in Tabs, then run iexplore.exe url on the command line, it insists on opening the new page in a new window.

The only way to program it is using ActiveX.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice needed about splitting or re-sizing a partition ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 22, 2014, 04:19 PM »

For those that may be interested MiniTools Partition Wizard professional version is free for a few days - go to chez Gizmo and follow the links and instructions.

-joiwind (May 20, 2014, 06:16 AM)

Thanks for the heads up.  Got mine.   

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Recommend Debian based image for VMWare Player on W8?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 22, 2014, 03:42 PM »

I do like this Mint.  Not sure if I want to follow it to 17 as I heard it's going down the Ubuntu tree and I'm prejudiced against that distro.  

I still haven't figured out how to try out Mate but that's small potatoes.  What I have finally figured out is with the VMWare Tools for each Guest OS installed I don't have to mess around with copying files via network etc..  Even clipboard sharing is enabled.  Nice to be able to just paste a url from a browser running on the Host to the one running on the Guest. File drag and drop between the Host and a Guest works as well.

This is more useful on a Windows Guest OS because I can just drag the entire Firefox Portable folder to the Guest window to keep them in sync.

If I had 8 GB on this Laptop I think the VMs would be perfectly fine for light use.  With only 2 GB for the Guest the boot up is a bit slow.  Just a slight lag in browsing.  I'd be very curious to see how they run with 4 GB ram.  But the best thing is the Player is very intuitive.  Not a lot of rtfm involved. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO - Mini-Review.

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 22, 2014, 03:29 PM »

I don't have command of all the particulars but my reason for recommending against running 2 av shields simultaneously is that they will both try to virtualize access to something to protect it.  This causes flaky behavior.  The 2nd av will try to virtualize something that's already virtual.

If MBAM real time doesn't do this then I see no reason not to run it, other than I like to get it for free that is.