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Living Room / Re: IT Pornography: Is Getting It All Obscene?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 29, 2007, 02:28 AM »

hehe i love it Ralf, but i really hope it isn't doing anything important 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bug-free software that does -- nothing

« Last post by Grorgy on November 28, 2007, 06:40 AM »

Ahhh its a marvelous thing, now if only all programs did what they said they would as well as NaDa things would run a lot better 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??

« Last post by Grorgy on November 27, 2007, 03:38 PM »

Thanks for that Curt, I'd always assumed it had come from somewhere but i dont remember hearing the song 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??

« Last post by Grorgy on November 27, 2007, 02:34 PM »

I'm a bit of a believer in the bigger hammer theory, you know the one, if a little hammer doesn't do the job try a bigger one, well Curt, for you given that your computer sounds as though its almost dead anyway, id give it a go, if you kill it, you are forced to get it fixed upgraded whatever  (a good thing!), otherwise you may just improve things slightly (another good thing), who knows   

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Living Room / Re: Save Fred!

« Last post by Grorgy on November 25, 2007, 09:44 PM »

  what more can be said really

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Living Room / Re: Color Theory

« Last post by Grorgy on November 25, 2007, 09:39 PM »

Thanks Ralf, looks good 

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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)

« Last post by Grorgy on November 25, 2007, 06:14 PM »

I was pleasantly surprised with the new winamp to. all my music was at once available easily, even though my tags and some of the directory structure is absolutely stuffed    (we live and learn i hope lol) and its sound is as good as any other i've tried to my ears so what more can you ask for?  Ohh and i think it looks good to

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Living Room / Re: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader

« Last post by Grorgy on November 23, 2007, 01:34 AM »

I doubt it works in the bath

Maybe not but soggy books are a bit difficult to lol

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Living Room / Re: How often do you reboot your primary workstation?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 23, 2007, 12:57 AM »

Wellll once a day is what i voted, I usually turn it off at night or whenever i decide to go to bed whenever that may be, but i will reboot at other times if/when needed

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpySweeper from Webroot, trustworthy?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 17, 2007, 04:57 PM »

just make appropriate grunting noises Darwin, i find that effective   

I noticed that with spysweeper.  It wouldn't work on my system anyway, kept causing the whole thing to stop, so i removed it, real quick.  I even told them why as they take you to one of those annoying, why did you uninstall pages, but never heard anything, oh apart from their newsletter which I think is an opt out one rather than opt in.

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Living Room / Re: Free Rice: Increase your vocabulary while you feed the hungry

« Last post by Grorgy on November 16, 2007, 02:02 AM »

hehehe ive told 2 people about this so far, and they are both already addicted    good idea it is, i hope they get enough sponsors to actually provide the rice

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EverNote - Free today at GAOTD

« Last post by Grorgy on November 15, 2007, 12:24 PM »

Evernote, on the other hand, appears to have its own built-in sync feature.

-CWuestefeld (November 15, 2007, 11:23 AM)

Yes, but in order to sync, you have to also purchase the USB version. Sycn works very well though.

-edbro (November 15, 2007, 11:28 AM)

I have been synching between desk and laptop via a USB stick and it doesnt need the USB version to work. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Money Management Software

« Last post by Grorgy on November 13, 2007, 04:15 AM »

A free alternative, which looks pretty good, tho i havent actually used it yet, (and its portable) http://www.thezeal.c...php?Money_Manager_Ex  probably doesnt have all the features of some of the commercial software but its free, doesnt want you to put information on line or anything silly like that.  Worth a look at any rate

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ideamason on special

« Last post by Grorgy on November 11, 2007, 07:11 PM »

I mainly used it this last semester to link to documents and some brief notes, i was always being so efficient that to try and use something I was not 100% familiar with to write an essay when it was already overdue just wasnt going to work    But i found it very useful for that, and at that price I'd buy it, well i did lol but i needed dual licenses as it only is licenced for 1 computer.  So not a lot has changed since my last comments on it really, i need to practice more with it as it isnt an easy thing for me to learn, but that may just be me.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« Last post by Grorgy on November 11, 2007, 01:08 AM »

Perhaps since he is the developer and doesnt like dual pane file managers, he'll just go on developing the worlds best single pane tabbed file manager

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General Software Discussion / Re: A rant about how I finally ditched iTunes... :D

« Last post by Grorgy on November 09, 2007, 12:47 PM »

Remind me again why people love Apple so much?

I think i heard it was the plain cardboard box it comes in, sort of reminiscent of those mail order businesses that would send things in a plain brown wrapper 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small program i could run to restart a stubborn service?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 09, 2007, 01:23 AM »

i did a google search for it curt, cant remember the exact place but its easy enough to get, and the one i used was timeout.exe

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small program i could run to restart a stubborn service?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 08, 2007, 03:16 AM »

Thank you Eoin, makes for a much prettier startup    and just the one line in the bat file, gets better all the time!

Cheers
Grorgy

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small program i could run to restart a stubborn service?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 08, 2007, 02:26 AM »

Well I've used the timeout.exe and have it in my startup folder with both the stop and start and it works ok, so thanks for that Ralf.  Carol's solution would be the ideal way to go, but i can't code to save myself, tho i once wrote a cobol program that said happy xmas and punched it up on those cards that used to exist, but thats all ive ever done lol  So thanks saves me some effort and i learnt a little more, 

Cheers
Grorgy

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small program i could run to restart a stubborn service?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 07, 2007, 07:04 PM »

ahhh nooo ralf, the timing and delay issues at present are all solved in a purely manual way lol.  I watch the first one, then run the second to restart it    I have 2 bat files,, first 1 stops it,  i then run the second to restart it, and its the manual bits of all this I'm getting sick of     The way im doing it is easier than going to services and a bit easier than using the FARR plugin but its not ideal (of course ideally the service would start ok but it doesn't)

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General Software Discussion / Small program i could run to restart a stubborn service?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 07, 2007, 05:13 PM »

Hi
I'm looking for a little program to restart a service that refuses to do what it is supposed to when i reboot the computer, the service starts but it doesn't actually do what it should till i stop it and restart it  .  At the moment I'm using a couple of bat files to stop it then restart it, this works fine but is beginning to be a bit tiresome, particularly if i forget to do it, so what I am looking for is a program that i could run that would restart a selected service or services and then I could have this set to run at startup.

Does such an animal exist somewhere that anyone knows of?

Thanks
George

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Official Announcements / Re: November Discounts and Giveaway

« Last post by Grorgy on November 07, 2007, 04:04 PM »

Darwin, there is an option just to do the indexing anyway, or at set times of the day but it is a fairly disk intensive process as you would know and given my usage, set times are next to useless.  letting it do it when idle is by far the best option for me.  I dont actually have a need for cpuidle, my computers are both running well, no apparent over heating or other such nasties.  I'd rather have a search function, and i gotta say I'm pretty happy with copernic, less resource intensive than the others Ive tried, and with archivarius and locate for the more specialised searches it fits in well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Perfect Software?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 07, 2007, 02:26 AM »

Thats a coincidence, or maybe not, appaholic, relequestual from the forum here, featured metapad, a notebook replacement just the other day which hasnt been updated for years, tho the help at the website has been updated to to include instructions for vista.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: For those with a System that Works -- Post it!

« Last post by Grorgy on November 06, 2007, 04:48 PM »

Nothing can possibly be so bad that I can't put up with doing it for that long.

Housework goes really really close tho   

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General Software Discussion / Re: A rant about how I finally ditched iTunes... :D

« Last post by Grorgy on November 06, 2007, 03:55 PM »

So, everybody, go out to buy Sansa and Creative players, dammit!

Love my Sansa