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Living Room / Re: Everyone is brokenhearted.

« Last post by Innuendo on August 04, 2014, 07:58 PM »

Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat.  He gave you such a disgusted look.  You slow down in reaction.  Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.

-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)

Yeah, well...I remember that tall man in a gray suit with a gray felt hat. I slowed my skipping enough to give him a hard kick in the shins and resumed my skipping.

All these year later I'm still skipping and he hasn't been foolhardy enough to show his face around me again. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 06:34 PM »

In my experience, Avira stopped a couple of things; MSE nothing yet - but I think I've only had one attack since I started using it (probably a couple of years ago now).

-tomos (July 29, 2014, 05:03 PM)

I conducted a fun (and very telling experiment) with MSE a couple months ago. I took an external hard drive and filled it with all sorts of 'sketchy' stuff...lots of viruses, trojans, malware, pupware, cracks and keygens.

MSE detected every single crack and keygen on the drive. Every other file MSE triumphantly declared as being clean. This should tell you what Microsoft's focus is when it comes to their 'security' software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 06:30 PM »

This ain't script-kiddie stuff she got hit with. This is definitely the work of pros.

-40hz (July 29, 2014, 01:39 PM)

There are a lot of criminal elements in Europe and what used to be the Soviet Union who have concentrated all of their resources on this kind of stuff as it is far more lucrative than the 'conventional' crime they used to engage in.

Is anti-virus software a waste of money? There is a very good possibility it may be.

Is anti-malware and security software a waste of money? There is a very good possibility that it isn't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 06:18 PM »

I think I might have to give AdGuard a try. I am tired of waiting for AdMuncher to work on https: websites.

-J-Mac (August 02, 2014, 08:31 AM)

AdGuard isn't perfect....

BUT...

It's much better than what Ad Muncher has become these days. Ad Muncher would miss a *lot* of stuff it should have been catching when I was using it.

And now that I think about it...if they are going to make a version of the Ad Muncher 4.x code that is free why don't they just release a registration code to enable the current version to be free instead of letting the money keep rolling in?

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Living Room / Re: I bought a pineapple today...

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 08:41 AM »

He Lives There:

-AbteriX (August 01, 2014, 02:50 PM)

[whispers]...under the sea....[/whispers]

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Living Room / Re: Seagate starts shipping 8TB hard drives, with 10TB and HAMR on the horizon

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 08:37 AM »

Some random thoughts:

Yes, for any drive over 2TB you are going to need a 64-bit OS with support for GPT in both the OS and the motherboard. UEFI is not a hard requirement, though. My Gigabyte motherboard shoe-horned GPT support for drives over 2TB into its Award BIOS. I'm running two 3TB drives along with an 128GB SSD happily.

With Seagate's latest marketing they've taken a really scummy turn in the way they are representing their products. It'll be a long time before I buy one of their products again.

Sadly, other than Toshiba (whose drives have major QC issues), the only other hard drive manufacturers are Seagate and Western Digital. Every other company has been swallowed up by those two.

As for Drobo, when last I checked into them, they were the Apple of the NAS world. You'll get a nice streamlined interface with only the basic options while being afforded the privilege of paying a premium for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Innuendo on August 02, 2014, 08:24 AM »

Disclaimer: I'm running the latest AdGuard beta.

I signed up for their beta program anticipating having to make a lot of bug reports and I've really been surprised. It's cleaned up my web browsing experience. Very few ads/banners missed and the ability to use Adblock filter lists is a welcome addition.

Don't know what's going on with your system tray menu. Adguard's is just as clear as every other menu sitting in my tray.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Pro

« Last post by Innuendo on July 18, 2014, 06:31 PM »

Basically, if you can get an 8.1 Pro ISO you can activate, (not install), with an 8.0 key.

-4wd (July 12, 2014, 10:46 AM)

And...if you search Google you can find out the documented official Microsoft way to alter your new ISO to not ask for a key when installing. You can then skip it & then enter your legal key once you hit the desktop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Innuendo on July 01, 2014, 06:29 AM »

Josh, this is only one more mis-step in a long line of mis-steps. It's like any other disaster. People's attention are captivated by the drama, but as time goes on they get numb to the misfortune playing out and walk away shaking their heads.

Right now as far as anyone knows, Ad Muncher v5 is merely a tortured vision in Murray's cow-addled mind with no basis at all in reality. No one has seen a product roadmap, a UI mock-up, or the now infamous demo video he was supposedly made months ago of Ad Muncher v5 in action. The biggest news on his blog is a post announcing his research findings regarding toast sweat.

No. I'm serious.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Innuendo on June 29, 2014, 10:11 AM »

I used to be one of Ad Muncher's biggest supporters. There was a time when it was the ultimate piece of software and its author could do no wrong. Unfortunately, missing features, broken promises, release dates being perpetually pushed back, the author disappearing for well over a year and the crummy treatment of customers when they dare to ask difficult questions has eaten away all that good will.

About a month or two ago I discovered AdGuard. The current release version is pretty good, but the beta version is where it's at. As a bonus, people who volunteer to be beta testers get free licenses so there's been no entry fee for me yet.

So far I like what I see. It's as good as Ad Muncher *used* to be. It supports gzip, https, and all the other things that Ad Muncher's been promising for years and won't/can't deliver. This version 5 of Ad Muncher will have to fairly spectacular for me to entertain thoughts of going back. Forget for a second the promises of it being free. It's *still* been in development for 6 years and no one has seen so much as a screenshot or a feature list yet. Anyone can promise something's going to be free if it's never going to exist. Maybe General Motors should promise that the 2015 Pontiac GTO will be free when it's released as well. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Pinnacle Game Profiler - Flash sale (75% off - $5)

« Last post by Innuendo on June 29, 2014, 09:53 AM »

But is it any good?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend less known macro apps and text expanders

« Last post by Innuendo on June 26, 2014, 08:43 PM »

My gloss on that:

• Text completer
  Program comes with a dictionary.  You start typing, program offers a choice of full-text alternatives starting with the stem you've typed, on a "live search," "find as you type" basis.
• Text expander
  Program allows you to create your own arbitrary shorthand forms matched to full text: e.g. "ys" = "Yours sincerely"
• Text corrector
  You make a typo, program automatically corrects it: e.g. "teh" = "the"

-rjbull (June 15, 2014, 03:25 PM)

First of all, thank you for digging that list of definitions up for me. Second, Comfort Keys will definitely work as a text completer and a text expander. I don't see where it will act as a text corrector, but the options for this program need a real overhaul. Options that should be grouped together aren't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend less known macro apps and text expanders

« Last post by Innuendo on June 14, 2014, 06:22 PM »

in one of them someone makes the point (I'm quoting from memory and may not be perfectly accurate) that we should distinguish between text completion, text expansion and text correction.  IT majors on expansion, Breevy adds correction, Typing Assistant and Phrase Express offer everything.  Text Accelerator looks more suited to programmers who can write scripts for it.

-rjbull (June 10, 2014, 04:21 PM)

Well, please help me understand the differences between text completion, text expansion, and text correction. I looked at the product pages for IT, Breevy, and Typing Assistant and Comfort Keys *appears* to do most of what they can do, but I could be overlooking something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tizen OS declared 'dead in the water'

« Last post by Innuendo on June 14, 2014, 06:17 PM »

Tizen was (is?) Samsung's attempt to take Google out of their smartphone equation. Unfortunately, Tizen doesn't offer anything that would make switching from Android appealing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Loss-Proof Text Editor

« Last post by Innuendo on June 14, 2014, 06:15 PM »

For instance, there is a plug-in for Notepad++ that allows you to auto-save on a fixed timer.

-Jibz (June 13, 2014, 05:26 AM)

That plug-in is no longer needed as Notepad++ now has built-in 'snapshot' functionality that will save a file every x number of seconds.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend less known macro apps and text expanders

« Last post by Innuendo on June 08, 2014, 10:39 AM »

I missed this thread the first go-around, but I've always been perplexed as to why text expanders are usually so expensive. Maybe it's because they are used so frequently in the medical and legal professions where people don't blink an eye at high software prices.

Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything from Comfort Software on this list. They have a program called Comfort Typing that is a text expander that has macro support and it only costs $9.95 or $19.95 depending on whether or not you want a lifetime license or not. For the privacy-conscious, it offers 448-bit Blowfish encryption for your saved data as well.

For $10 more you can step up to their 'suite', Comfort Keys which adds in a hot-key manager, on-screen keyboard, clipboard manager, and a few other things.

Might be something for the budget-minded to check into as Comfort Software's pricing is pretty reasonable compared to some products in this thread.

I own a lifetime license for the Comfort Keys suite, but probably don't use it to its full potential. The non-lifetime version was offered free on Bits Du Jour one day & I picked it up...then the next day the developer sent out an email to everyone who took advantage of the offer the opportunity to upgrade to the 'pro' lifetime license version for $10. I figured it was a no-brainer at that price point.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off

« Last post by Innuendo on June 08, 2014, 10:19 AM »

(I actually thought 64bit and multi-threading were synonymous )

-tomos (June 07, 2014, 05:53 PM)

I think multi-threading is a feature of the programming language one uses rather than the CPU architecture.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off

« Last post by Innuendo on June 08, 2014, 10:17 AM »

Personally, I think the lack of multi-threading is a lot worse than being 32-bit, if you want to worry about something.

-Jibz (June 07, 2014, 05:33 PM)

Multi-threading was the next thing I was going to ask about. I simply can't live without that.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off

« Last post by Innuendo on June 06, 2014, 07:34 PM »

So it's not exactly seamless, but it's a step in the right direction if 64-bit extension support is important to you (personally, I consider it a bug for the software that's installing the extension if it doesn't install both the 32-bit and 64-bit extensions on a 64-bit system).

-mwb1100 (June 06, 2014, 12:15 AM)

Glad it's a step in the right direction, but I'm a little disappointed. I think XYplorer is the last hold-out among the major file manager players to not have a 64-bit version.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off

« Last post by Innuendo on June 05, 2014, 09:41 PM »

Has there been a 64-bit version released yet? Their site seems to indicate there hasn't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Forget about resume if Pale Moon crashes

« Last post by Innuendo on June 01, 2014, 06:48 PM »

Using Download Statusbar didn't help a wit.

-MilesAhead (June 01, 2014, 12:36 PM)

Yeah...Download Statusbar just shows the download information of your browser in a different format. It doesn't offer any download manager capabilities, but....you know that now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Innuendo on June 01, 2014, 06:43 PM »

As a German, the centricism isn't too bad for me. 
But thanks for the "comparison" though.

-Tuxman (May 31, 2014, 11:15 AM)

There was a time when I could give you an in-depth comparison of every Windows file manager available (and some Mac & Linux ones as well), but I'm afraid these days my knowledge is a little dated. Total Commander, FAR, and Directory Opus are the most powerful and the most versatile, extensible products on the market. Every other file manager is just a sub-set of those three.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Fight for the PC Ecosystem - AMD vs nVidia - via Watch Dogs

« Last post by Innuendo on June 01, 2014, 10:05 AM »

Nvidia has demonstrated time and time again that they are a very unscrupulous company. I'm not saying AMD is any better, but Nvidia has an unmistakable track record. From inflated benchmarks, knowingly selling defective products and doing nothing about it, and a laundry list of other shenanigans, they have a reputation for not playing nicely.

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Living Room / Re: We Drove a Car While It Was Being Hacked

« Last post by Innuendo on June 01, 2014, 10:01 AM »

The problem isn't that the default passwords are simple, because most if not all of them are well documented and therefore readily available. The problem is that so many people keep using them in production environments.

-Stoic Joker (May 31, 2014, 10:24 AM)

What I meant to include in my original post (but didn't because I sometimes type faster than I can think) is the real problem is often the manufacturer offers no way to change the default password in the product. It's set at the factory to a universal default with no way to alter it...like that Bluetooth-enabled toilet that anyone could connect to and flush.

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Living Room / Re: We Drove a Car While It Was Being Hacked

« Last post by Innuendo on June 01, 2014, 09:59 AM »

And this attack sounds "fast", aka that researcher just sorta stood there and "did it", not like taking months of planning or whatever. So I am terrified if someone does a wide band attack within an hour on all million cars in NYC! You would never clean that up. The damage would last for months!

-TaoPhoenix (May 31, 2014, 10:18 AM)

Oh, it *is* fast...as in 'drive up along-side your target on the freeway and 30 seconds later you're in control' kind of fast. Studied this a bit in school. It's very alarming.