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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... assistance with a tenacious BHO ...

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2014, 02:26 PM »

barney, if I may ask, what security software are you using that let this thing slip through?

Might be time to start looking for a replacement.

-Innuendo (January 04, 2014, 12:11 PM)

It would be interesting to hear which anti-virus programmes *are* good against this type of thing -- I wonder if any are?
The laptop I cleaned was using avira pro which has a very good reputation - used use it myself but gave up on it cause it got too many false positives and didnt make it particularly easy to report.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2014, 11:13 AM »

I can give it a go later (say in 8 hours or so - only passing through now). Just downloaded it too - havent used it before.

-tomos (January 04, 2014, 03:51 AM)

have decided to not go with this - it installs java which I dont want. (I removed on both machines here after spending about 8 hours clearing a trojan from a friends laptop in the summer, I decided java wasn't worth the risk - have managed well without it so far.).

Best of luck working it out

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General Software Discussion / Re: Too many programs in my start menu!

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2014, 11:02 AM »

Move up to 7 and start all over again? :-) :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery.

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

Not a direct solution, but works for me - I have different screen-brightness settings for battery and electricity.

In Win8 I get a full screen banner when the battery is down to 10%. But have a good look around the power options as 4wd suggests.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2014, 03:51 AM »

I can give it a go later (say in 8 hours or so - only passing through now). Just downloaded it too - havent used it before.

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

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 02:30 PM »

^I wouldnt need it that much - I'm happy the way it is, thanks skwire

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 12:56 PM »

Thank you for the support, Tomos.

I usually start by asking nicely. My emails to wuala started out nicely, progressed to polite, but firm and in the last one I told them they had to provide more support or I was taking my business elsewhere. Still have not gotten a response.

-ericalynne (January 03, 2014, 12:26 PM)

doesnt sound good

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

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 12:54 PM »

Great!

I almost requested the ability to copy current-image filepath
Screenshot with what I can only call appropriate wallpaper ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 11:29 AM »

^ that situation is totally unacceptable for a business service.

For a business service, I would kick up a lot of a fuss - simply get *very* *very* demanding!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 05:38 AM »

^ you're doing well there Dave - my FF starts at 400+mb and goes up from there (also Win7 but x64 - maybe it depends how much memory is installed).


Edit// meanwhile the associated FlashPlayer plugin is using 1383mb... (playing a YT video is hard work!)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 05:27 AM »

^that's on third replay at the moment Curt


(It's hard to beat a good live version - I think it's better than the og myself)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Quick-Capture Bar

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2014, 04:07 AM »

+1 to this -
I still have trouble with the bar when closing 'half-screen' windows which I use a lot.

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Living Room / Re: Very thin hard disks

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 03:42 PM »

^ with a single platter, it seems to me like only half as much can go wrong.
But I've never seen any stats about failure rates, so I dont really know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... reasonable backup software

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 01:40 PM »

^answered in the other thread.

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Living Room / Re: Very thin hard disks

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 01:39 PM »

With reference to https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=35130.0 I take advantage of this thread to ask (again):  would you ever use those thin (*) external hard disks for backup?

(*) pocket hard disks, thickness 13...15 mm / 0.5" about (the only ones available in the shops)

-Giampy (January 02, 2014, 12:41 PM)

I know a couple of people using them without problem. I think the verdict above is also that they ok.
Do you have reason to think there might be a problem with them?

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Living Room / Re: Multiple Mini Reviews

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 12:49 PM »

^is it that you'd you want to be called a major one?



More thanks to IainB btw  

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Developer's Corner / Re: TClock

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 05:44 AM »

I have had TClock Light forever.  Windows98 and XP.  Is there a version that will work on Windows 7 and is there a version that will work on version 8.1?  Thanks

-smbdy234 (January 01, 2014, 02:30 PM)

Are you familiar with Stoic Joker's TClock 2010 ?
Works with windows 7, dont know about 8 (might not)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2014, 05:29 AM »

Love the name & icon

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF DONATIONCODER - 2014!

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2014, 02:26 PM »

Happy new year to all

Thank you all for sharing your time with me.
-mouser (jesse), 2013

-mouser (December 31, 2013, 11:37 PM)

and thank you for sharing your time/creativity/software/etc with us

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

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2014, 12:13 PM »

Hah, I need a cry-my-eyes-out emoticon = a very nice vídeo Deo, and a very nice score to boot
I keep blaming my trackpad for not reaching 50K, but tbh I'm usually below the 20K mark :-)

One mistake I keep making is moving the mouse too far from the ship - then when I need to do big turn I dont get there in time...
(Looking forward to playing the download version btw - but it'll have to wait a bit as I have a banjaxed wrist at the moment.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: eM Client 70% off

« Last post by tomos on December 31, 2013, 11:40 AM »

That free version is only a trial, isn't it?  The home version is free, but it seems like there are limitations.

-wraith808 (December 31, 2013, 11:16 AM)

main difference (far as I can see anyway) is free is up to two accounts only
http://www.emclient.com/pro-vs-free

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... reasonable backup software

« Last post by tomos on December 31, 2013, 06:55 AM »

Acronis had a nice feature that you could browse the image/backup and copy out files from that. But yeah, Acronis gets a lot of bad press. I havent used it for a few years - before that I was lucky and it worked for my purposes.

People always do say to check the image by restoring. I prefer to hope for the best with the image-backup - and then have multiple backups of important data. Backing up data is a pain though, unless you have a data partition and backup the whole thing regularly. My backup has grown organically, which means it's a bit of a mess and some things get more neglected than other. Might make a spreadsheet (or add info to outliner) to make sure everything is being backed up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... reasonable backup software

« Last post by tomos on December 31, 2013, 06:45 AM »

+1 to seperating data from OS/programmes. The data backups being ultimately the most important.

I dont fully understand the details of you losing the data, but it hurts to read it

When you say "I'll just restore the lost data bits from a recent [daily] backup"
   1) what backup software did you use?
   2) was that backup not incremental - i.e. did you not have older versions of it?


I'd recommend some sort of incremental backup. One that stores the files in zip so that tthe backup can be easaily manually browsed.
Incremental backup will build up, so, probably worthwhile investing in software that can weed out backups, saving one per week or whatever.

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

« Last post by tomos on December 28, 2013, 12:23 PM »

cmpm 2000

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

« Last post by tomos on December 28, 2013, 03:10 AM »

I just tried this and think it's really well done.  I love the smooth graphics and explosions.  I also like the fact that there's an extra challenge because the explosions can hide an oncoming asteroid fragment.  Really nicely done, Deo.  

-skwire (December 27, 2013, 02:16 PM)

+1 to all this - I've really enjoyed playing this game