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Living Room / Re: Guides or tools to help with adding GMAIL to Desktop Outlook 2016 in Windows 10

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 24, 2016, 08:33 AM »

Even Google has spread out their "Fact-Sheets" to show multiple methods and all of them were much more difficult than just entering the correct mail-server, port numbers , encryption methods etc.

-questorfla (September 24, 2016, 12:16 AM)

Since everything from Outlook 2007 on has been auto configure (statement assumes IMAP connection), why would you be trying to enter any of that stuff? Are you - or they - trying to get a Gmail account to POP/SMTP?? If they are then you would need to ensure that the target account had Access for Less Secure Apps enabled. We frequently have to enable this for people that want to do Scan-To-Email using a Gmail account.

Other than that I really don't recall having a problem with it ... Outside of a (origin unknown) reflexive tendency to discourage that sort of configuration. Outlook always seems "happier" (more stable/less bitchy) when it's only servicing one target. But it certainly can handle multiple targets just fine.

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Living Room / Re: Trying to remember quote about design and beauty

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 23, 2016, 06:34 AM »

Both in the ballpark...but still not the one I'm looking for.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 16, 2016, 02:23 PM »

^ROFLMAO

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 14, 2016, 03:42 PM »

Gole1 is an Affordable Windows 10 Mini PC with Multi-Touch Display

-Arizona Hot (September 14, 2016, 02:48 PM)

Who the hell has pockets that big??

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Living Room / Re: The Walled Garden Closes In

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 08, 2016, 06:48 PM »

Does what you say mean that iPad users will no longer be able to listen to audio via headphones on newer iPads?

-IainB (September 08, 2016, 05:36 PM)

Yes, they're dropping the venerable 3.5mm stereo jack in favor of forcing people to go with the newer-fangled Bluetooth device$.

...I guess that's why they worked so hard to get it renamed - in people's minds - to the "iPhone Jack" ... So nobody would think to miss it anymore when they killed it off.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Was Firefox 47.0.1 the end of the line for you as well?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 01, 2016, 03:20 PM »

How does one tell which type (32 or 64-bit) one has? It's not mentioned in the "About" section.

-IainB (September 01, 2016, 12:06 PM)

Considering you have to dig through a layer of warnings against using the x64 version, to download the x64 version ...(if you don't remember the ruckus)... I'd be inclined to just assume it's x86.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Was Firefox 47.0.1 the end of the line for you as well?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2016, 07:02 AM »

@Curt: You're a bit late, but welcome to the party. Go to http://www.slimjet.com/

-IainB (August 18, 2016, 03:55 AM)

Holy shit, that thing is fast!!

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Living Room / Re: Guide to Living with Introverts

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2016, 11:28 AM »

Let me add a piece that I think is missing from this picture of introversion.  Speaking for myself I have found that "unstructured" socialization can be extremely painful -- things like just sitting around at a dinner party talking to one another about random things.  Whereas structured social activities (board games) are quite fun.  I don't know if that's true for all introverts, so your mileage may vary.

-mouser (August 20, 2016, 12:28 PM)

That works for me. If there is a purpose to an interaction, I'm fine ... But trying to  engage in casual conversation (e.g. "Small Talk") I completely short circuit.

-Stoic Joker (August 22, 2016, 07:00 AM)

Same here.  I didn't even realize what the problem was until my wife pointed it out.  I can't make small talk.  I've tried, but as Stoic said, I completely short circuit.

-wraith808 (August 22, 2016, 09:20 AM)

IRL I'm a quiet, stoic, man-of-few-words...and the one question that is most likely to piss me off almost instantly is 'Why don't you smile'. I'm quite happy in my "Little Ball" and if one tries to pry me out of it (e.g. a high energy pest) Shit. Will. Hit. The. Fan...

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Living Room / Re: Guide to Living with Introverts

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2016, 07:00 AM »

Let me add a piece that I think is missing from this picture of introversion.  Speaking for myself I have found that "unstructured" socialization can be extremely painful -- things like just sitting around at a dinner party talking to one another about random things.  Whereas structured social activities (board games) are quite fun.  I don't know if that's true for all introverts, so your mileage may vary.

-mouser (August 20, 2016, 12:28 PM)

That works for me. If there is a purpose to an interaction, I'm fine ... But trying to  engage in casual conversation (e.g. "Small Talk") I completely short circuit.

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Living Room / Re: XP Password work around?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2016, 06:56 AM »

The Trinity Rescue Kit has one that should work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting compression ratio difference between file compression tools.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2016, 11:47 AM »

^Quite True

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting compression ratio difference between file compression tools.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2016, 06:35 AM »

No. I hadn't. I had thought that was what archive compression tools were for. Maybe I was mistuken.
I had not wanted lossy compression.

-IainB (August 18, 2016, 03:39 AM)

Understandable, but what's being lost in the optimization process, is both adjustable, and in the default settings virtually imperceivable. But I'm guessing there is a great deal of cruft in the PDF format. Part of which is the boiler plate header trash that froths on about how cool Adobe is, and the rest is duplicitous formatting and object description code.

The example that sold me on the program was a 35Mb (in house created) sales brochure that one of the staff was trying to stuff through our mail server. I ran it through NX and it gave me a 3Mb file that looked (and printed) identically to the bloated original.

I bought the program immediately thereafter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting compression ratio difference between file compression tools.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 17, 2016, 10:21 PM »

^^That may well be the case, but it's only PDF files that I want to zip up!   

-IainB (August 16, 2016, 07:59 AM)

Have you considered optimizing them first? I've gotten exceptional results using NXPowerLite on PDF's to reduce their size by upwards of 70% without appreciable quality loss. After that kind of treatment it shouldn't matter much what you zip them with.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 16, 2016, 06:42 AM »

Interesting "stuff"There’s a new way to make strong passwords, and it’s way easier

-Arizona Hot (August 12, 2016, 08:44 PM)

Excellent timing! It's just what I needed to drive a nail through a "discussion" that's been plaguing me for weeks.

Thank you!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Signature

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 16, 2016, 06:40 AM »

I have updated the forum code so signature (and similar linkable fields) will not be displayed until a member has been registered for 3 or more days.
The only downside is that it may make it harder to spot spammers.

-mouser (August 15, 2016, 02:26 PM)

Can you log the qualifying events somewhere (Email?) to draw attention to them?

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Living Room / Re: Trying to remember quote about design and beauty

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 12, 2016, 03:11 PM »

Robert Marshall?  "Look what a beautiful mechanism that is. It's obviously designed to do what it does. It must have been made that way."

-skwire (August 12, 2016, 01:01 PM)

Nice, but no.


The thrust of the quote was that the mechanism's beauty was by virtue of the efficiency of its function.

Another rough-ish guess at what it's supposed to be (something like): If the a machine is designed to do something extremely well, and does, it is by it nature beautiful

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Living Room / Re: Trying to remember quote about design and beauty

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 12, 2016, 11:21 AM »

Nope, none of those. it was something along the lines of if a mechanism was designed to work well it would subsequently be beautiful.


I do like this one, but it's not the one I'm looking for.

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Vopt 9 defragger free

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 12, 2016, 07:12 AM »

I like the screen in Vopt and others where you can see all the little squares changing in colour as the defragging proceeds. I find it quite restful - almost hypnotic.

-IainB (August 12, 2016, 06:49 AM)

Anything graphical will tend to slow down the process activity it's depicting ... But yeah, I totally get where you're coming from.

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Living Room / Trying to remember quote about design and beauty

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 12, 2016, 07:08 AM »

There was a "famous" quote mentioned here once (years ago) that was something to the effect that a machine that was designed to work well/efficiently would therefore be beautiful. It was a much more eloquent way of stating - my favorite "rule" - Form Follows Function ... But I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

Any Ideas what it might be/have been??

TIA

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Vopt 9 defragger free

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 12, 2016, 06:46 AM »

The creator died and he made clear in his last will and testament that this software should become freeware after he died.

-Shades (August 11, 2016, 02:43 PM)

Wow! That's totally beyond cool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Workbench Design SW :: $10 bounty for 1st accepted answer

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 09, 2016, 06:27 AM »

For simplicities sake - especially for a one off project - I'll vote for pencil and paper. But then again I generally work from a picture in my head and write down almost nothing except for hard (environmental constraint) measurements that can't be deviated from.

I've yet to see a UI that can keep up with what's going on in my head. *Shrug*

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Living Room / Re: Upgrade your PC or build a new one with Logical Increments

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 03:30 PM »

I've heard of some schools offering a deal along with computer-related majors of a free account to Microsoft's TechNet Subscription, which includes free licenses for every available version of Windows that could be installed on 10 different machines. (But that was probably close to 10 years ago when I heard about it, so things have probably changed.)

-Deozaan (August 05, 2016, 12:19 PM)

TechNet is gone, but there are still MSDN subscription (in the $500 range) that include Multi Activation Keys. They are only for internal use - legally... - However...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 09:55 AM »

Oh Yeah... After going through the usual turn-off-the-nosey-bits part of the install. Cortana seems just as off as it has always been in previous versions ... So I really don't quite get what all the hub-bub is about.

Cortana is removed (e.g. is removable) from the TaskBar - I hit the Windows key, type what want, get what I want, and go on with my day.

*Shrug*

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 09:40 AM »

So, on he plus side...the anniversary edition upgrade is blazingly fast. And I say this because it only took 30 minutes to do on the - i5-4440 with a mech drive - test machine I've been fighting with.

Originally it had decided to auto load the 'Home" edition of 10 (instead of asking me...), which forced me to do an internal (enter new key...) upgrade of it to the proper Pro edition I needed to get it on a domain. And this is the part that apparently previously went horribly - Horribly... - wrong. Because while it said it had completed successfully...it hadn't...not even close ... Which appears in retrospect to be why it was being such a - completely impossible - pain in the ass to log into.

Everything is back where it belongs after the 1511 pro to Anniversary Pro upgrade.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 05, 2016, 06:27 AM »

Backdoors are one (separate issue) thing, nailing my (Admin) side door shut OTOH is flat-out infuriating beyond words.

I flattened it, and went with the older 1511 build to get it to act right. Now I gotta "upgrade" it back to the WTF (Adversary) build and see what happens. Jesus Christ, I ain't got time for this silly shit.