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Finished Programs / Re: Alphanumeric Telephone Number Converter

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 20, 2009, 11:32 AM »

Thanks, Ordstrin!  Nice of you to share.

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Living Room / Re: Secure deletion: a single overwrite will do it

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 19, 2009, 08:15 AM »

He swears that the amount of data recovered was much more than the actual capacity of the hard disk.

-nosh (January 18, 2009, 11:59 PM)

Hey!  I started with 1TB and now I'm down to 40GB.  Tell your friend that I want my data back!

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 17, 2009, 10:16 AM »

Well, since you ask about rooms for improvement...

                                                                    ...have you dusted that desk yet?

mouser command post

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 17, 2009, 09:52 AM »

The best line-oriented editor for PCs is probably Kedit for Windows, an emulation of IBM's XEDIT mainframe editing environment. It's not likely to be anyone's only editor, but it provides capabilities unmatched by any other that I know of.

-xtabber (January 16, 2009, 10:46 PM)

+!  for Kedit 

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 16, 2009, 11:28 AM »

change the pin for clicked user to green.

-mouser (January 16, 2009, 06:02 AM)

That seems a good idea!

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Living Room / Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 15, 2009, 09:58 PM »

I think he deserves a DC award?

-CleverCat (January 15, 2009, 04:41 AM)

Nincompoop of the year still up for grabs?

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Living Room / Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 15, 2009, 09:53 PM »

[it's going to be hard to top that one

-mouser (January 15, 2009, 04:22 AM)

To try would make me goggle-eyed.

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Living Room / Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 14, 2009, 09:30 PM »

I knew that medical bills were large, but that is excessive!

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Living Room / Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 14, 2009, 06:12 PM »

I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.

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Living Room / Re: Switching to Linux for a week

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 14, 2009, 05:55 PM »

you have to work your way up to the position you took the school for.

A happy ending nonetheless...

-Edvard (January 14, 2009, 12:40 PM)

Please!  This is a family site 

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Living Room / Re: What may you be missing?

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 13, 2009, 11:54 PM »

organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people

-Curt (January 10, 2009, 02:43 PM)

I'm not sure I believe this... I think they're trying to fiddle.

Oxford English Dictionary

Fiddle v. To cheat, swindle

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Living Room / Re: What may you be missing?

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 13, 2009, 10:15 AM »

but the worst must be people just ignoring you

-tomos (January 13, 2009, 03:43 AM)

Ever tried playing dinner music?

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Living Room / Re: Switching to Linux for a week

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 13, 2009, 10:05 AM »

Thanks for the link 40hz

Like many others I dip into Linux every now and again.

I *have* to use Windows for a few things and so cannot find the motivation to run a second OS.
What I have satisfies what I need and I can't make a complete break.
My days of tinkering just for the heck of it are more or less over (been there, done that).

That said, I'll be interested to read the article.  Thanks again for the post

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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 cranioscopical on January 12, 2009, 08:21 PM »

Dear me, I retired at 49.... I'm doomed! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Direct Access - text expander - Complaints about company

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 12, 2009, 08:12 PM »

I always appreciate having developers participating in our discussions.

-Darwin (January 12, 2009, 07:47 PM)

Indeed, it's great when they do.  And I very much appreciate developers' posts.

I hope both will continue to participate, constructively.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Direct Access - text expander - Complaints about company

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 12, 2009, 07:28 PM »

To:
BartelsMedia
and
nagar

May I advance a personal point of view?

While watching a little of your bickering might be entertaining, I do wish, now, that both of you would squabble somewhere else.

I, for one, am perfectly capable of looking at two pieces of software and forming my own opinions.
Perhaps I am alone in this view but, then again, perhaps not.

It doesn't matter to me who began this but I'd certainly appreciate a tie if you'd both drop it at the same time.

All the best to you both for 2009!

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Living Room / Re: Whole Earth online!

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 12, 2009, 04:53 PM »

I suppose neither of you wise guys has heard about the gravy-browning thing either...

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Living Room / Re: World's First Flying Car Prepairs for Take-off

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 11, 2009, 08:54 PM »

First, huh?
I still haven't pressed that damned suit!

The W-5 Arrowbile, designed in 1936, was called a "hybrid flying auto." On roads, the all-metal, three-wheeled Arrowbile could travel up to 70 mph; and in the air, 120 mph. Because it had three wheels and a single headlight, the DMV actually classified it as a motorcycle. The Arrowbile was quite easy to operate, as demonstrated by the fact that a businessman with only 35 hours' flight experience flew one from Washington, D.C. in his business suit.

W-5 Arrowbile 1936

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Living Room / Re: Do you guys have any experience with routers? because i have some questions

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 10, 2009, 10:47 AM »

Chris - is it connected to the internet...? I take it that the answer is "no".

-Darwin (January 10, 2009, 10:11 AM)

[gof]
No, it simply exists in it's own little world.
More and more I realize that the internet now is both the biggest convenience and the biggest curse on the planet.

This thread is another painful reminder of the prodigious amounts of money and time wasted on trying to make our machines safe.
[/gof]

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Living Room / Re: Whole Earth online!

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 10, 2009, 09:02 AM »

Thanks for the link!

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Living Room / Re: Do you guys have any experience with routers? because i have some questions

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 10, 2009, 08:54 AM »

Off topic a bit here (surprise!)

Please put aside your initial reactions of "Good heavens, are you mad/what about...?/haven't you considered...?"

I have just set up a machine that is to be used for a limited set of business purposes only.
It has no need to be connect to another machine in any way.
It just sits there, isolated, doing its job.
None of its capacity is wasted on trying to protect itself.
What a relief it is to deal with something so simple.

Those Luddites had something!

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Custom Screensaver Packager

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 08, 2009, 01:51 PM »

Okay.
How much do I have to pay to avoid receiving a stand-alone version of you three playing Xmas bored games?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: simple & easy way to exchange sensitive information?

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 08, 2009, 01:49 PM »

Re fSekrit

Sorry for the self-promotion, but it was the first thing that sprung to mind

-f0dder (January 08, 2009, 06:00 AM)

My first thought, too.  I find it extremely useful.

FWIW I'd never want to be in the situation where any issuer could prove that I'd voluntarily handed out my card details.  
I'd try my utmost to find another way round what justice wants to achieve.

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Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 08, 2009, 01:14 PM »

Just bought someone an ASUS 1000HA
It has XP on it, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, 10" Screen
3 USB ports and external monitor support.
I expected it to be rather slow and under-performing (but okay for the recipient who is an XP user).

I'm impressed. It's snappy.  XP runs on it just fine, thank you.
Plenty of free HD space.  Runs 'grown-up', graphical office software.
I might not want to try too many games on it

It's a whole lot closer to a real laptop that I'd expected.
FWIW, the recipient is a world-class typist and hit 140+ wpm on the cut-down keyboard within half an hour of setting up the machine. I mention this because so many other, smaller devices seem to be a triumph of form over function.

I'm perversely tempted to buy another for myself, just because it's a neat little machine.
Were I to do so, I'd probably wait for the new tablet version(s) to appear in local stores.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 01-09

« Last post by cranioscopical on January 03, 2009, 05:18 PM »

#7 British politicians going mad now - I thought there was a recession - of course this would create a few nice jobs, for some people .... but I'm surprised they think it's even worth while
- idly wondering how much corruption there might be involved in such a big project

-tomos (January 03, 2009, 02:48 PM)

U.K. gov. "loses" critical data about 3 times a week as far as I can tell.
Cut out corruption, cut out the middle-man, sell the data directly to every malcontent on the planet.

U.K. has gone totally nuts.
Privatize... private eyes... public eyes... public cries.