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Living Room / Re: Ram Problem Update

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 28, 2008, 04:23 PM »

Thanks fo the follow-up, Bob.

It's always interesting to see how these things resolve.
One never knows when the info might be useful.

Glad to hear you have some grounds for optimism.

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Living Room / Re: Knock, Knock, It's the FBI

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 28, 2008, 08:53 AM »

I don't know why anyone wants to live in the 'land of the free' any more.

-Carol Haynes (April 28, 2008, 06:14 AM)

Or the U.K.
Aren't you under visual scrutiny 24/7 these days?
I especially admire the plan whereby the same cameras are used to collect fees and spy on the guilty (until proven innocent).
And doesn't the government keep handing out 'secure' information on its citizens in a sort of monthly 'hunt-the-lost-cd' contest?

And, while we're at it, is this your suitcase that somebody just delivered to me? It bears a sticker that says 'T5'.

More later, I hear a knock at the door...


 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xara Xtreme 4 and Pro 4 released

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2008, 10:08 AM »

For some of what I happen to do Illustrator is a must.

Illustrator is like trying to win a point-to-point horse race while riding an elephant...
not as fleet of foot but it'll stomp across country, over any obstacle, to finish first in the end 

I find Xara to be delightfully nimble, and just right for some less complex jobs.

Horses for courses, which is why most of us have a full stable.

Oh for the Aldus days!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need to track missing space on my Hard Drive

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2008, 09:58 AM »

FWIW, when something goes sour here on XP, forcing an ungainly reboot, I sometimes find large files in %temp that Windows can't see but that I can deal with from DOS. The amount that you're missing sounds about right for that.

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 25, 2008, 07:51 PM »

Thanks too to cranioscopical for his helpful comments via PM.

-Carol Haynes (April 25, 2008, 07:17 PM)

Probably more helful than helpful 

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 24, 2008, 06:41 PM »

Mouser already did it with Dr. Windows

-Deozaan (April 24, 2008, 02:05 PM)

A little discretion, please!  This is a family site.
KATR isn't due for another nine months.

Spoiler

Kiss And Tell Robot

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xara Xtreme 4 and Pro 4 released

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 24, 2008, 06:11 PM »

For my money the best new feature of Xara 4 is the text repel.

-Ampa (April 24, 2008, 05:11 PM)

It's impressive to watch that 'live' while dragging a complex shape over a large body of text!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista Aero vs. Linux Compiz

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 23, 2008, 08:47 PM »

Which laptop does your father have?

-MrCrispy (April 22, 2008, 11:05 PM)

There's a great title for a thread of its own!   

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Living Room / DoCo mascot's ugly side revealed

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 23, 2008, 01:05 PM »

Kick out the ass,
   don't go to war,
      throw in a 'd',
         and it's pretty obvious that the name is a thinly-veiled reference to the dark side of our avian Jekyll.

Pictured here on Hallowe'en. You can run and you can Hyde.

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Living Room / Re: How to make a wawed-off USB Key

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2008, 08:28 PM »

Pretty cute... but... what's the point?

-Darwin (April 21, 2008, 10:42 AM)

Frayed we can't say

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Resource Tuner 50% off on Bits Du Jour Tuesday, April 22

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2008, 12:51 PM »

I tried again, using the information supplied by Yuri and everything went smoothly.

This is a nice example of a responsive company moving quickly to remove an obstacle.

I should emphasize that the original problem arose from the payment-processing outfit,
Digital River GmbH, and was never the fault of the software company itself, Heaventools Software.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Resource Tuner 50% off on Bits Du Jour Tuesday, April 22

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2008, 10:38 AM »

Lost a potential sale to me as the ordering system (at Digital River GmbH) persists in identifying my email address as a 'free e-mail address' which it is not.

I don't need whatever hassle is involved in sorting that out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Weird software names

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 19, 2008, 06:11 PM »

My vote goes to squidalyser.

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Living Room / Re: British money is about to get really cool

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 16, 2008, 07:36 AM »

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

-mwb1100 (April 16, 2008, 12:29 AM)

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 16, 2008, 07:31 AM »

It's fun but -- and perhaps this is the whole point of it -- it almost forces Monster into a fight.

Good to see when people stand up for their rights. 

We should all do more of it with the way the world is moving.

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Living Room / Re: British money is about to get really cool

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2008, 10:08 PM »

diesel is now £1.20 per litre (~ $2.36US, $2.40 CAD or 1.49 EUR).

-Carol Haynes (April 15, 2008, 07:33 PM)

I know Brits usually suffer much more expensive prices, but that's actually a really good price for fuel compared to my area. Gasoline here is about $3.20 and diesel is above $4.

-Deozaan (April 15, 2008, 09:00 PM)

Deozaan,

I think you're talking gallons and Carol's talking litres.  It seems that Carol's cost for diesel is roughly $8.90USD per US gallon.

  or, depending on which side of the pond one is, perhaps that should be

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Living Room / Re: British money is about to get really cool

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2008, 08:46 PM »

Incidentally how long have US and Canadian dollars been on a par?

-Carol Haynes (April 15, 2008, 07:33 PM)

Since about September 2007.
It's been great for buying stuff from the U.S. but it's not helping our economy overall.
The previous occasion was about 30 years ago.

I have the feeling (perhaps wrongly) that when small-denomination coins are withdrawn no vendors round down.   

Spoiler

One could buy quite a bit with a farthing. 
And as for the silver three-penny piece WOW!
The old white fiver was something of which we only dreamt.

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Living Room / Re: Problem Opening Attachments

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2008, 03:27 PM »

And here

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2008, 09:44 AM »

The whole world would be eating boiled food

-iphigenie

Nothing wrong with grey meat and limp vegetables, I grew up on them I see your point!

exhume always comes to mind - a verb for "dig up dead people", how crazy is that

-f0dder

Crazy?  From where do you think all that boiled food comes!?

Surely everyone knows you can't eat raw dead people.

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Developer's Corner / Re: batch file question re cmd + color

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2008, 09:26 AM »

From your batch file try

cmd /T:30

(from a command prompt see color /?)

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Living Room / Re: Idea: "DC Member Book X - Volume 1" - Request For Volunteers

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2008, 04:38 PM »

Deozaan,

You realize, of course, that grammar police is merely an anagram of real comma prig.  Excellent credentials in either case 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista Aero vs. Linux Compiz

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2008, 04:31 PM »

I, too, like the idea of a move to Linux.
Business stuff that I use (both hardware and custom software) locks me into Windows.
Were I to close out the business stuff I'd probably be happy to change.

For me, it's not worth the bother of running different OS's on different machines. I did that for enough years, in the past, that the fun has rather drained out of it. Come to think of it, it never was all that entertaining having to reconfigure the floppy drives (yet again) to handle a different dialect of, say, CP/M.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista Aero vs. Linux Compiz

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2008, 01:15 PM »

even if you polish a turd, its still a turd

-Josh (April 14, 2008, 11:16 AM)

Have you tried this ?

-Carol Haynes (April 14, 2008, 11:55 AM)

It's been done before!

Spoiler

http://goldenstool.org/

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Confirmed: UAC designed to annoy us!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 13, 2008, 12:47 PM »

UAC is a half baked, half arsed, half solution.

-Carol Haynes (April 13, 2008, 11:06 AM)

Not half!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Confirmed: UAC designed to annoy us!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 11, 2008, 05:57 PM »

Didn't we all know that if Microsoft kept at it long enough they'd succeed at something related to Windows?