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Living Room / Re: Help me choose a new bank (software related)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 21, 2009, 06:00 PM »

Awesome!

My credit union allows "Direct Connect" with Quicken for FREE!  That's great.  The credit unions continue to surprise me with their service compared to the large banks like Bank of America.  I'm closing BofA and transferring everything to the credit union.

Furthermore, it seems that the credit cards, unlike the big banks, allow the Quicken service for free also.

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Living Room / Re: How to stop junk [snail] mail?

« Last post by superboyac on December 21, 2009, 02:27 PM »

Here in Norway you can go to the post office and get some stickers for your mailbox with text like "junk mail not wanted" "No advertisements please" etc.

Check your local post office!

-TucknDar (December 21, 2009, 02:12 PM)

Interesting, I'll give that a shot.  Go Norwegians!

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Living Room / How to stop junk [snail] mail?

« Last post by superboyac on December 21, 2009, 02:08 PM »

My mailbox is just filled with junk mail.  I'm sick of it.  How can I stop this?  I know some of you know the answer!

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 21, 2009, 01:11 AM »

OK, I'm annoyed by a couple of other things in opensuse:

--I have to keep entering my admin password for any kind of tweaking, even though I keep checking the "remember the password" option.  How do I just remain logged in permanently as an admin?

--I have a lot of little crashes in programs.  I was just just clicking around the different programs, and I got a couple more.

The thing is, I'm sure all of these things can be fixed easily if you are familiar with the system.  But I don't have the time at this point.  I was hoping that it would be really easy to use.  Maybe I'm overthinking it.  I don't know at this point.

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 21, 2009, 12:38 AM »

Geez, 40hz, I said it before and I'll say it again...is there anything you don't do??  I feel like you are me, only you've done everything a couple years before I have!  Tell me, what does the future hold for me? 

cyberdiva, I didn't mean to sound berating or anything.  I was more talking to myself, sorry.  It's part of the process I'm going through to open my mind up to non-Windows OS's.

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 20, 2009, 10:24 PM »

I gave up temporarily.  Flash IS crap.  Not necessarily the software itself, but the installation, the update notices, all that is surrounding it.  Such an obnoxious program.

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 20, 2009, 06:33 PM »

ok, i can't figure out how to install flash and I'm super frustrated.  What a pain.  i give up.

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 20, 2009, 06:26 PM »

haha, yeah 40.  Just to be a hypocrite, I will reserve the right to say I LOVE certain software, because that's something positive.  I just love it when things are done the right way.

Anyway, I've been having a nightmare of a problem installing flash on my opensuse.  I went to youtube, it said I needed flash, so i went to download it.  Then I installed it using something called YUM, but that didn't work, I got an error.  Then I downloaded a tar.gz file, used the Ark software to open it.  That keeps crashing and crashing over and over.  So, that's not good.  Something as simple as flash should install relatively easily.  Just a heads up.  This thread may turn into my linux journal.

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Living Room / Re: I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 20, 2009, 05:11 PM »

cyberdiva, yes I love the programs I use on Windows also.  But there are a couple of things to consider there.  First, why have we adopted the software we use?  Well, because we're using Windows, we have to use Windows-compatible software, and we don't even look at the programs available to other OS's.  There must be awesome programs we've never even thought about because we wouldn't be able to use it on our Windows.  So, this is an opportunity to check those programs out.  And according to Zaine, there are plenty and they are pretty good.  And even though I don't use Macs, I've seen some pretty cool Mac programs.

The other thing to think about is since the large majority of computer users are Windows users, obviously we're going to find more programs for Windows.  More free, more shareware, more bad programs, more good programs, more of everything.  This is my primary area of concern for switching.  I love being able to find EXACTLY what I want because there are so many options.  However, in defense of the others, just because there aren't as many options doesn't mean that what's available isn't what you're looking for.  All it takes is one program to satisfy you.  Frankly, as we all know, there's a ton of crappy Windows software out there.

Anyway, it's all a matter of being able to experiment and opening our minds up.  Let go of emotions, and be rational about the whole thing.  After all, it's only software, there's no need to be emotionally tied to it.

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Living Room / I'm beginning my experiment with Linux and other OS's.

« Last post by superboyac on December 19, 2009, 07:19 PM »

Well, after havng it on my mind for a long, long time, I'm finally experimenting with a Linux installation.  For now, I've gone with openSuse because Zaine raves about it so much.  I just installed it, so I don't have much to say at this point.  It was a pretty painless and fast install.  But if I remember correctly, Windows 7 was pretty easy also.  Anyway, so far so good.

Now, first thing to mention is that it is fast.  There is no hint of the sluggishness that I'm used to with Windows.  Again, I have no technical stats to back this up, this is all on personal feel so far.  In defense of Windows, on my latest computer which is really nice and powerful, I don't really have any problems with sluggishness.  However, my whole gripe with Windows is that it needs way too powerful hardware to do what it does.  Anyway, this is something I'm sure I'll have more to say on as I go along.

My primary reasons for doing this is the following:
--My love/hate relationship with Windows.  I've always been a Windows geek, so I'm attached to and love all the software I use.  But I hate how you have to be constantly tweaking it and taking care of it to make sure you have no problems.  If I wasn't the person that I am, my computer could quickly degenerate into a sluggish, chaotic mess that would run into issues every other minute.  I'm older and busier now, i don't have time to indulge all my geek desires.  And no matter what anyone says, I strongly feel that for the power of any given pc's hardware, Windows makes very poor use of it.  I feel like with what this current computer has, everything should be so fast that it's blinding.  But of course, it's nowhere near that.  Don't get me started on 5 year old computers.

--I'm just curious what involved in the Linux world.  I don't know jack about it at this point.  The visual feel of opensuse certainly looks familiar to me, so I'm able to get around.  I don't quite understand the idea behind files, folders, executables, etc. at this point.  It all looks normal and Windows-like.  That's all I can say.  I know, not very deep.

Zaine, my cloud computing experiment is not far behind.  Although, I'm not a big fan of doing things on the web.  But I'm wondering if there is still a place for it in my life for the less important things like communication, accessibility from everywhere, etc.  It's just that I want all my files locally and I want to control everything locally, or have it backed up locally.  I don't know yet.

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Living Room / Re: How to stop Firefox from opening youtube searches in new tabs?

« Last post by superboyac on December 18, 2009, 06:24 PM »

yes, just youtube.

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Living Room / How to stop Firefox from opening youtube searches in new tabs?

« Last post by superboyac on December 18, 2009, 12:30 PM »

All of a sudden, and I have no idea how it happened, whenever I search youtube, the results open up in new tabs.  It's very annoying.  I don't know what I did.  The only thing I can remember, is that recently I installed some little programs, and one of them had an option to also install the Ask.com toolbar (we've all seen this), and I must have forgotten to uncheck that option, because it got installed.  Well, I uninstalled it, but ever since then (I think) the youtube search in new tabs is happening.

This is exactly why no matter how these authors do it, they should never include this kind of BS in their installers.  We had a debate here a while back about the OpenCandy stuff in installers.  Nothing good comes out of it, no matter how you argue it.  The best you can hope for is that these things are unchecked by DEFAULT.  Yeah, this problem of mine is no big deal, but it shouldn't have happened (assuming that was the cause).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: A powerful free video & audio converter

« Last post by superboyac on December 17, 2009, 07:30 PM »

I also like Format Factory.  I mentioned it in another thread I started here about good converters.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 16, 2009, 07:23 PM »

KMPlayer can do all the fancy offset stuff, fairly customizable, both for audio/video and subs. I think you can even save offsets associated with a particular file name for future use...

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (December 16, 2009, 05:47 PM)

There's pretty much nothing that KMPlayer can't do.  But Light Alloy is significantly faster in starting up (double-click launch).

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

« Last post by superboyac on December 16, 2009, 11:52 AM »

link updated, it's Beyonce "Single Ladies"

-mouser (December 16, 2009, 11:42 AM)

Is this the one that Kanye West said was like the greatest video of all time in the history of all videos, or something like that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: A content management system that lives up to the name

« Last post by superboyac on December 16, 2009, 10:41 AM »

Thanks for the update.  Hopefully, you will be the pioneer for this kind of cms, just like you were with keynote for notetaking.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FenixContacts

« Last post by superboyac on December 15, 2009, 05:52 PM »

fenix, thanks for replying to my comments.  I agree with whatever direction you take.  It's really an ambitious project, so I'm just grateful you are taking it up.  I can definitely help with icons and stuff.  When you are ready, just let me know your requirements.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Offers of Assistance

« Last post by superboyac on December 14, 2009, 04:44 PM »

fenix, I can help with your addressbook project.  But I have zero programming skills so it would have to be in other areas.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FenixContacts

« Last post by superboyac on December 14, 2009, 04:01 PM »

I totally missed this thread!  This is one of my most favorite kinds of software.  To this day, I have not found an addressbook software that I love.  In fact, when I first joined DC, I made a big thread about it:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1898.0

I'll repost the suggestions I had for it, in case you are interested:

--Be able to insert email addresses (or other info...telephone #, street address, etc.) wherever the cursor is in whatever program.  This is similar to one of those clipboard managers that can insert text to wherever the cursor, except in this case, it only applies to addresses.  But the program should be called up and used in a similar manner

--The address details for each entry should be fully customizable as far as what fields go in.  (first name, last name, street address, etc., as well as the ability for custom fields of course).

--Should be allowed to attach pictures to entries.

--There should be a live search-as-you-type filter to quickly select the address you want.  And you should be able to search ALL fields, not just the name or something.  This is almost identical to the program PowerMarks, which is a bookmark manager that does exactly what I'm saying here.  In fact, it's so similar that I asked the author of that program to consider making this software, but I don't think he was interested.

--The program should be very lightweight, fast, and SIMPLE!  I can't stress that enough.  Nothing bulky.

--There should be a fairly complex way to share fields of information between different entries.  For example, let's say you have an entry for a husband and a wife.  They have different first names, but same last names, same address, different email addresses, different cell phone numbers.  So there should be some way to link the common information together and keep the other information separate.  And by "link" I really mean link, not just copy the same field.

I also did big mini-review of several of the programs, you can find that here:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2292.0

Thanks for doing this, fenix!  It's no small job.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 11:09 AM »

if your time is worth anything it would long ago have been cheaper to simply purchase that $20 license, wouldn't it.

-Curt (December 13, 2009, 09:40 AM)

Curt, I've already bought a license years ago.  I'm just having a little fun.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 02:30 AM »

Shoot, I thought I almost had one!

Question: Fish in the sea - a tail on a fence. (roughly translated)
Answer:  Beaver

But it didn't work.  I though the answer was beaver because it swims and build a dam, but it didn't work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 02:26 AM »

Another one:

The more from it you take, the more it becomes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 02:21 AM »

OK, I've almost figured it out.
The author has programmed a bunch of riddles into the program's registration dialog.  So if you leave it in Russian mode, there will always be a different riddle in the "registration name" field.  If you know the answer, put it in the bottom field and you will succeed with registration.  I'm trying to figure it out using some online translators, but i can't seem to figure out any of the riddles.  The closest I've come is the current one I'm trying:

What has five closets and one door?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 02:05 AM »

OK, I'm getting closer...
If you leave the program (Light Alloy) in Russian, and then go into the license registration screen, you will see that there is something prewritten in the "Registration Name" field:


So that must be a prompt or something.  Maybe it's a question, and the answer is the key, and if you put it in, the registration is complete.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by superboyac on December 13, 2009, 01:45 AM »

No, the program doesn't phone home.  If you enter the correct key, it will register (it's internally programmed).  It's a riddle.  I also found another forum yesterday (i'll post the link if I find it again); in the forum (which was also in russian), a bunch of russian people were trying to figure out what the answer to the riddle was.  No one in the thread seemed to have found it.  So, I'm not sure how the free registration actually works.  I think the author is just having fun.

[edit]
http://programki.net...l.php?pr=20&pg=3
There's the forum.  If you translate it, you can read how they're trying to figure out the riddle.