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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 23, 2014, 10:41 AM »

Because of the FUD, expense and setup of transitioning to Windows 7(let alone Win Eight), many people will turn to Linux. But, which Linux? Will may people try the Linux below?  Does anyone here know much about it first hand?
 (see attachment in previous post)
Welcome to RoboLinux

-Arizona Hot (January 23, 2014, 03:31 AM)

This is the phrase that's bothering me:
"...what if you could also run all your Windows applications natively inside Linux?"

How is that even possible?

-TaoPhoenix (January 23, 2014, 09:54 AM)

VM - you can "Download The Robolinux One Click Windows XP & 7 VM Installers" for $40ish + 1hour support. Not bad I guess for us noobs ;-)

of course you'll need a windows key too.

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Living Room / Re: BitCloud: BitCoin concepts applied to... everything else.

« Last post by tomos on January 22, 2014, 03:04 PM »

I agree that "Where we are today is the result of a people problem" and that "Things never change overnight but change is possible" (but amn't 100% sure about the 'never' there :p).

But, I dunno, to suggest that we should vote instead, or organise for change -- I'm struggling with these responses...
you vote: you most likely vote within a corrupt system; you organise: no offence intended, but I've never seen anything organised that hasnt degenerated into something comparable to what it's replacing -- and even if it could work, it's just one possible solution -- why not be open to the possibility of another possibility i.e. let's *not* just give up with a whimper (or: I dont see any particular reason to see things that way -- YMMV naturally).

The way I see things, they are most likely to change through something grass-roots so long as it involves something outside the box of the current societies' world-view -- seems to me something like that could have a chance.

I'm not even commenting on the topic itself here -- I am very interested in the possibilities presented by the bitcoin protocol, but I just got an itchy typing finger when I read them responses ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 22, 2014, 01:30 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Do you see the arrow between the "E" and "x" ? I had never noticed it before.

-kyrathaba (January 22, 2014, 07:10 AM)

I've read it was intentional, but if so, I think it's a bit understated...

is it clearer here:



?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014: Mug-shots here

« Last post by tomos on January 21, 2014, 03:20 PM »

^ Lovely mug there Ath

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General Software Discussion / Re: The nightmare of the programmer languages

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2014, 03:50 PM »

I've no experience with code, but do have a bit of experience with trying to export/convert files from one format to another. You often end up with so much work that you wonder if it would have been better to recreate the file from scratch.

Surely with code, you will need to be able to code anyway, in order to correct all the minor things that dont convert well (?)

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

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2014, 02:04 AM »

^a couple of good laughs there - in spite of the groaner theme (Gloria Gainer's ghost lol)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Websense (Directly and via VirusTotal) - DonationCoder is Malicious

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2014, 08:42 PM »

Has anyone found a way to report a false positive to these Websense jokers?  It never ceases to amaze me how these security services have no problem classifying things as malware for no reason and then make it almost impossible to contact them to have it corrected.

-mouser (January 19, 2014, 07:30 PM)

towards the top of the page -- under "Classification" there's a link "suggest different classification".

That's bizzare -- it's an incredibly specific report -- I wonder did they get two different reports mixed up or someting

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2014, 03:59 AM »

^ Yeah, it was odd -- I hadnt broke 25000 in that release myself.
Just got in the flow for some reason only started losing ships in level 11.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's thrashing my hard disk?

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 04:56 PM »

What have you checked so far?
(I'm presuming you've had a look in Task Manager or equivalent?)

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 04:46 PM »

... meanwhile in the EU, the backlash seems to have subsided to a token lip service.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 03:10 PM »

Well, I finally broke the 50k mark - and properly



in the first game today. Think I'll retire there for the day ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2014 Submission: FTP File Uploader

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 03:51 PM »

Reviewed on iLoveFreeSoftware
http://www.ilovefree...-mentioned-file.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 04:35 AM »

Well got my highest score in a while -- but the new scoring wasnt implemented yet in the online version.

Will have to download the version for windows (is a donation preferable via dc or through the itch.io site - or is it all the one?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 04:13 AM »

^ ah, so there's hope for me then ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 01:58 AM »

thanks skwire

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 03:34 PM »

Minor quirk:
I disabled wallpaper switching.
Right-clicked tray icon & clicked 'Next Wallpaper' -- I thought this would just change the wallpaper once, but it actually enables wallpaper switching again.
Yet when I open the Spews window, I see this: "Enable wallpaper switching" --



(not actually bothering me but thought best to report anyway.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 09:03 AM »

3. The Metro hater's guide to Windows 8.1

-Curt (January 16, 2014, 08:11 AM)

had to laugh at that

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 07:14 AM »

Technical stuff can be a pita (I helped a friend translate something similar once -- never again -- well... maaybe if there were a 2.8K cheque involved :p).
If you reckon you'll get it done in 90 mins you're on the pigs back. Or something like that :-)

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 05:00 AM »

FWIW, I did think about it again wraith, but I'm no novel writer. I mean it's actually overkill for what I want to do/write (I wouldnt make use of those great compiling features). My pim is more suitable for me (so I've no excuses for *not* writing!)

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - RAT (Renegade Audio Transcoder)

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 10:10 AM »

Wow, I completely missed this last year -
it's something I could well use too - thanks for bumping Ren

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 09:42 AM »

IainB posts #4000



although I almost posted this the previous day:



... I think I spend too much time here

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 05:08 AM »

I've never used it but have read a good review - Diskinternals (free)
http://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/

That good review was here:
http://www.techradar...86146#articleContent
-- doesnt seem to mention which version of windows they used it on.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 03:30 PM »

I get to the MEGA site just fine, and it loads and then displays a download button, which I click and then:

It gives me an error message:

Doesn't include any valid URL!

-HankFriedman (January 14, 2014, 02:04 PM)

It does show progress. I only get an error message at the end and no file is actually downloaded (it says 0 bytes)

-HankFriedman (January 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)

Odd, fine here too...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Login in Facebook

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 02:49 PM »

Would a different browser for each profile not work?
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and what Deozaan said

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 02:09 PM »

^wow. That kind of deserves a thread of it's own.
Is that true, all that? I mean, I dont suspect him of lying - but is it a realistic analysis?