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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PhraseExpress vs Direct Access
« Last post by Darwin on December 12, 2007, 01:47 PM »
Why not download PhraseExpress - it's FREE for home use today - the $10 is for a commercial license!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 12, 2007, 07:24 AM »
It reminds me of Autopilot - anyone remember that? Sunbelt was selling it for awhile. Here's a short thread that sound quite familar: http://my.opera.com/...s/topic.dml?id=90094
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 11:31 PM »
Update: it's gone. I spent the afternoon and evening playing around with eboostr doing its thing and, er, not doing its thing (that's a LOT of rebooting!) and concluded that my boot times were actually longer with it installed - explorer.exe goes nuts and all but freezes up for quite a while after my desktop loads rendering my taskbar, system tray, and start menu inaccessble - and there is no real difference in terms of stability or "peppiness" that I can perceive when loading and running applications. YMMV - I'm running 2GB of RAM, if you have 1GB or less this may well be the electronic equivalent of sliced bread.
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Living Room / Re: World's Fastest Vista Notebook: The Apple MacBook Pro
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 05:51 PM »
Hyundai and Samsung used to do this - crap for the Korean market (no competition anyway, courtesy of insane import duties on foreign goods) and better stuff for export. Note that as recently as 17 years ago products by both companies were considered good bang for the buck but service nightmares. My how things have changed! Incidentally, I don't *think* that they're still doing this in the Korean market...
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General Software Discussion / Re: avatars
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 05:17 PM »
;D sometimes I really love this place  :-*
-tomos (December 11, 2007, 05:10 PM)

Really? I love this place ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME  :-* :P ;D :Thmbsup: :D :-[
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 05:16 PM »
Alright, alright already... Yes. I agree. Curiosity kills the cat. Consider me a cat with a deathwish!

I couldn't help myself and have installed eboostr on my aging first generation centrino notebook (1.4Ghz, 2GB DDR PC2100 RAM, 120GB 5400 rpm harddrive) and am giving it a go. I set up three different caches on three different USB devices - two thumbdrives (394MB and 987MB respectively) and on my new USB 3.5" HD (4GB cache). So far I am not sure if I am experiencing the placebo effect or not... Certainly boot times are not affected as far as I can tell (though I *think* my desktop icons paint a wee bit qucker, but I need more observations) but general operation does *seem* brisker. Currently, I am runnig Word (all Office apps are 2003 Sp-3) with 5 documents open, Excel with 1 spreadsheet open, Endnote X, Maxthon 2.06 with 12 tabs open, Dopus 9.1 with two panes showing, no preveiws and no additional tabs loaded, Outlook and Powerpoint with three presentation open, one of which is 17MB (haven't optimized the graphics yet). I should stress that I was able to do this with minimal drama WITHOUT eboostr installed and set up, but I am certain that my machine bogged down a bit more than it is at the moment.

It's early days yet, but I think I'll give this a couple of days. I AM concerned about wear on my thumbdrives and on the external HD, though... Will report back when I have more to tell you all.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 03:38 PM »
Nice! Thanks Deozaan  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: avatars
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 02:56 PM »
Yeah, that's how I read it, but there is *just* this part of me that wonders if he is saying something else? I need more coffee  :o to bring some clarity to my poor, addled brain...
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General Software Discussion / Re: avatars
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 02:47 PM »
Er... Nighted, does the above mean that you flushed this app from your system ASAP, or...? Sorry, having a "dim" day today!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:53 PM »
Thanks Lashiec! I've been reading what I can about eboostr and opinions vary dramatically. I get the impression that *if* you have less than a gig of RAM and you've already a fast USB 2 thumbdrive this might be an alternative to increasing your RAM. Beyond that, most people seem to think that it's snake oil. I'd give it a shot but with 2GB of RAM and no complaints whatsoever WRT my system's performance I'd rather wait to see some conclusive results first!

PS I did find this review at OS9user, though, that also recommends Process Tamer  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:38 PM »
I've just made my 3000th post. If I'd been paying attention I would have made it in this thread, but I missed the opportunity...

3000th post.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:31 PM »
Here's a thread at neowin that goes into some detail about this. Conclusion? Bogus.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:25 PM »
PS Techspot has this to say about ReadyBoost:

It has been highly debated whether Vista's ReadyBoost actually works to speed up your system or is it an empty feature with a nice name. During a set of informal tests we performed prior to posting our Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide we saw a noticeable increase in system response when ReadyBoost was used on systems with 1GB or less RAM, furthermore we saw an advantage of using it on laptops that generally come equipped with slower hard drives.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:24 PM »
Ralf, this is one of the questions that I have about this technology as well... Ron Schenone is testing it with a gig of RAM; the other review I found (they're few and far between) stated was also running a gig...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:20 PM »
I'm reading a couple of reviews (first one says that there is no discrenible change in performance) and some more comprehensive descriptions of what eboostr "does". Can't say that any of it makes much sense to me (ie I can't see how this will work to improve system performance).

At any rate, Ron Schenone is just embarking on a two week trial here: http://www.lockergno.../blade/author/blade/
 
I'll be watching that space closely to see how he fares.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:08 PM »
Hmm... could be interesting. I'm going to look into this myself as this is one aspect of Vista about which I have been curious.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GemX - missing in action
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 01:04 PM »
As Pierre noted, check out SQLNotes (though it isn't the all in one solution you are looking for... yet!).

Superboyac and Pierre have been discussing the calendar this morning - read their dialogue starting with this message: https://www.donation...32.msg90399#msg90399
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General Review Discussion / Re: Best spreadsheet
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 11:35 AM »
Well... update time (of sorts): with a heavy heart I am about to uninstall Quantrix. I like it. A lot. But I suspect that once I get over the "gee-whiz, neato factor", I won't be using it much. *If* this does prove to be essential for my PhD I'll re-visit it at that time. Buying it now would be essentially buying a solution to a problem that I haven't defined yet...

I can see its power but I can't justify the investment required either to convert my large Excel databases into Quantrix and or to buy it (student funding long gone...  :().
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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 11:30 AM »
Pierre - the calendar mode looks SWEET!
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Living Room / Re: Better run like Hell!!! I AM BACK!!!!
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2007, 09:21 AM »
Welcome back, Joto! Your postcard from me is still sitting on my desk  :-[ Naughty Darwin!

I'm glad that you're back on your feet and recovering. Hope to see a lot more of you around DC now  :Thmbsup:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DivX Pro holiday download available for a limited time
« Last post by Darwin on December 10, 2007, 08:49 PM »
Yeah - good point. I took advantage of one of these giveaways two or three years ago and have never had a problem updating, including to 6.8. Can't quite recall if the original version I got free was 5 or 6, but I suspect 6...
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Living Room / Re: IE8!
« Last post by Darwin on December 10, 2007, 08:20 PM »
Story's pretty funny, too. I've seen other references to this - I must track down a clip of Billy-Bob making his comments, because I suspect that a lot of this reaction is to his tone/choice of words?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Max Alert = Max Ripoff
« Last post by Darwin on December 10, 2007, 08:17 PM »
I ameliorate registry difficulties by using a 3rd party uninstaller (Your Uninstaller Pro 2008). While registry scans turn up over 1000 "errors" my computer doesn't feel "compromised" and I leave well enough alone.

Regarding what doublewitt said about license terms and agreements -  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??
« Last post by Darwin on December 10, 2007, 08:14 PM »
Windows is telling me that SP3 is 70 MB not the 337 mentioned in the first post. Why is this?
-Stephen47 (December 10, 2007, 07:48 PM)

The FULL installer is 337MB, if you're using the hack to make Windows Update think that you're part of the beta team it will only download and install the bits that you haven't already installed...
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DivX Pro holiday download available for a limited time
« Last post by Darwin on December 10, 2007, 08:11 PM »
Pro IS free right now!

Here's the comparison:

DivX Pro.png

From: http://www.divx.com/...vx.php?cid=DP0000306
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