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

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 07:35 AM »

and the return version is Americans Try To Place European Countries On A Map
subtitled: :( :( :( :( At least the U.K. office didn’t fare much better with the U.S.
and
OK, in our defense, Europe is really complicated.
- which is true - I'd have trouble with a good few countries there myself..

http://www.buzzfeed....n-countries-on-a-map

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

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 07:23 AM »

As an American, I found this collection of images where Brits were asked to fill in the names of the states, to be much funnier: http://www.buzzfeed....to-label-the-us-stat

-app103 (November 28, 2013, 05:16 AM)

oh app, thanks for that !! It really made my day (and it's only 2pm yet here).

By the time I got to the one titled "That’s a lot of Utahs" where the author had written "I'm so sorry" in the corner - well at that stage I just couldnt stop laughing...


BTW in spite of having lived in ME for a year, I reckon I wouldnt do very well on this test either

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

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2013, 07:01 PM »

It's really nice to play with a trackpad btw (except my trackpad is a disaster but that's nothing to do with the game)

-tomos (November 26, 2013, 05:47 PM)

okay, it's not just my trackpad - sometimes, the mouse cursor is clearly moving around the screen, but the ship isn't doing anything. Maybe it the 'click' button. Or maybe it's the site simply not responding.

EDIT// seems to be a problem with the site beíng too busy - got kicked out of a game for the second time in half an hour.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE 11 screen stretches instead of scrolls

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2013, 02:48 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's up with Flash crashing all the time lately?

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2013, 10:26 AM »

Updated to version 11 yesterday
Keeps crashing Firefox (25.0.1) with Youtube today :-(

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 screen stretches like taffy

« Last post by tomos on November 27, 2013, 02:22 AM »

hi bit,
can you edit the first post, and change the title to IE11 screen...
thanks
Tom

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

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 05:47 PM »

It's really nice to play with a trackpad btw (except my trackpad is a disaster but that's nothing to do with the game)

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

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 05:08 PM »

Her name is KT Tunstall.

It's always pretty ballsy for anyone to try covering a Dylan classic. But she does it here with aplomb IMHO.

-40hz (November 26, 2013, 02:11 PM)

loved it - must go listen again....

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to download the text of webpages?

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 05:20 AM »

another possibility here on dc:
Tip: Fast saving of html pages in Firefox by renaming them with a short name

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

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 05:09 AM »

I think that having to press 2 buttons as well as move the mouse will just be too confusing.

-Deozaan (November 26, 2013, 04:45 AM)

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yes, I agree

I think what I'll do also allow you to press the spacebar to aim+shoot. Wherever the mouse cursor is pointing is where you'll turn to shoot.

-Deozaan (November 26, 2013, 04:45 AM)

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the spacebar + mouse sounds good

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my Firefox searching for updates when aut. updating not is enabled?

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 03:41 AM »

What are your settings exactly?
I get notification - have you that option enabled?



if so, I would presume it's simply checking what's available.
If not...

[edit] sorry I missed that in your screenshot there Curt [/edit]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AOMEI Backupper FREE + AOMEI Partition Assistant FREE - Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 03:06 AM »

Thanks Iain -
I'm trying to read slower these days, but in e.g. a review like this, there's a lot of info, so it's easy to miss something, I find ;-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: looking for MS Word freebie

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2013, 01:44 AM »

Compatability is not generally a problem. But you never know. Depends on what you're doing and how fussy you are.
I'd try a free suite first, you'll probably be fine with it.

Another aspect:
I presume that older versions of Word will not be able to open the docx files created by the newest versions - you'd be better off with LibreOffice from that POV (I presume AbiWord can handle them too - not sure about Softmaker's free version though).

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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2013, 02:44 PM »

^Yeah, I guess the baby will just get used to it... (phew, I'm getting sea-sick with that thing going non-stop).

I'm still struggling with the implementation. (I'm using a g+ account with my YT name.) They are trying to force YT/G+ users who aren't using their supposed real name, to either create a second 'real name' a/c (which will always be favoured over any other g+ a/c), or to change their account to their 'real name'.

For example, if I am currently logged into both YT and google (gmail etc) - I cannot [g+] anything - it tries to get me to open a real name account - in spite of having my g+ homepage open in the same browser.

So, the g+ dream is sort of along the lines of Facebook I guess. I guess they'll drive me away eventually, just like FB did before them.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2013, 08:23 AM »

^ very nice

it's thinking about snow here today (it's spitting snow ;-)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AOMEI Backupper (Free), used to clone a hard drive - Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2013, 08:05 AM »

It's always really great to know when something *actually* works

I'm wondering - it took about 8 hours to clone everything with a USB3 connection (I think?) - is that not very slow? Although I guess it does have to create the partitions etc.  

I suppose if your drive was failing quicker, maybe creating a system image would be better, in case the drive died.


EDIT//
I see they have two versions:

Download AOMEI Backupper Full Version 1.6
Platform: Windows 7, 8, Vista, XP and Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012
Size: 60MB

Download AOMEI Backupper for Win7 1.6
Platform: Windows 7, 8 and Server 2008 R2, 2012
Size: 20MB

which one did you use (with apologies if in review - I did look over it again quickly but couldnt see any ref).
Thanks! and thanks for the review!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: looking for MS Word freebie

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2013, 07:54 AM »

You'll get older MS Office software on ebay FWIW. Not free though...

On the free front:
LibreOffice/Writer looks nice - just installed it this week.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Running Windows XP Professional in Windows 8 (Not Pro)

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2013, 07:47 AM »

Patteo - about a year ago I created a virtual XP using VMWare Player 4.x on Win7 pro 64bit, and an OEM XP key.
It's almost impossible to find on their site, not sure if they've renamed it..
Found it, page link in quote -
down at the bottom you'll see this:

Free for Personal Use
Player Plus is licensed for commercial use but if you simply want to learn about virtual machines or run virtual machines at home you can always use VMware® Player™ for free!
Download Player for personal use.
- See more at: http://www.vmware.co...sthash.YVMTKQLy.dpuf

Note: I did a backup with Syncovery of the virtual XP - I did a successful restore from the backup shortly after. So a simple copy would/should work.

For the record, there was another thread about VMWare vs. other options:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=31974.0

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Living Room / Re: Your tax dollars at work: Now FDA proposes to ban a brand of cookie?

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2013, 03:14 PM »

Fat from butter worse than vegetable oil

-rgdot (November 24, 2013, 02:24 PM)

very much debatable there. Depends on a lot of stuff (oil - which oil?). Butter used be very much maligned, but not so much in recent years.

Fats in general were very much maligned for years. Again, scientific opinion has changed over the years. Now certain fats are considered very good for you. Then there are other theories e.g about combinations of certain foods being good or bad for you: meat + fat; sugar + almost anything (!); etc. etc. I guess the FDA cant regulate those (if proven).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As to the FDA, I do have a fairly strong opinion of them, but dont particularly want to air it here on dc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2013, 01:22 PM »

Yeah, I was impressed by the quality of some recent PayPal spam as described by bit. It even fooled gmail's spam filters, and they're usually very good I find.

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Living Room / Re: Your tax dollars at work: Now FDA proposes to ban a brand of cookie?

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2013, 10:20 AM »

I'm confused by the *artifical* label - are "artificial trans fats" & "trans fats" the same thing? [edit] they appear to be the same [/edit]

In europe you see relatively few products with trans fats in comparision to a few years back (usually labelled "partially hydrogenated oils" these days **). I personally dislike the taste of trans fats - if you taste a margarine with a high percentage of trans fats and one that has none, you'd probably agree with me. (Only eat butter myself.) I can often even taste if they are used in baked products. But it's because of the bad press healthwise, that it is now used much less here. I dont think it's regulated in the EU in general, but I'm not sure.

Do you know: is it used a lot in the States?

** I'm not 100% sure there - wikipedia says:

Hydrogenated oil is not a synonym for trans fat: complete hydrogenation removes all unsaturated, both cis and trans, fats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat

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

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2013, 05:50 PM »

Thanks, I probably should of made it clearer when I said "valid purchased license key".

-4wd (November 23, 2013, 05:21 PM)

lol, I was aiming that post at people like me -
read your post; read the article; it was only when I got to the comments that I started wondering... and read the comment I quoted in my post.

Guess I should read slower, but life's too short sometimes.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2013, 05:17 PM »

One of my new favorites...

-mouser (November 23, 2013, 09:22 AM)

I can see why it's a wonderful video.
Funny the way the magpie rolls on it's back and kicks out boxing style with it's legs just like a cat.

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

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2013, 03:10 PM »

^ that sounds good

Note: for anyone with OEM Windows 8, it will not work:

Spock
November 15, 2013

It needs to be a purchased version of 8.0, not one preinstalled with a bought pc or laptop. Most keys from a preinstallation won’t be accepted. I have a bought acer laptop and the key the system shows doesn’t work./quote]

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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2013, 02:48 AM »

Do I have to get the paid version of HitmanPro?

-bit (November 21, 2013, 11:41 PM)

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according to the post above yours: no

Hitman Pro is anti-malware - costs $
The naming is confusing - they have HitmanPro.Alert and Cryptoguard which I think are the same thing (free).

from paulobrabo's link above:

When the above alert is displayed, the malicious process is neutralized. It can no longer harm your files.

To remove the malicious code from your computer you click on the Scan with HitmanPro button which will automatically download the HitmanPro anti-malware application (if not already installed on your computer).

HitmanPro will scan your computer for malicious programs and allows you to remove them.

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the CryptoGuard thingy from Hitman is free - as a free app, I'd imagine it does not auto-update, but I dont know.