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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 10:06 AM »

As to overcoming the initial problem of stopping someone using your email in this way I have no idea...I have come to the conclusion the only solution is to filter them out in whatever way suits you and delete them. Reporting them to anti spam sites doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever (apart from using up your precious time).

Yes - I'd like to highlight this comment (emphasis is mine). It's been made before but must be made again - don't waste your time trying to stop this at the source as you will be wasting your time (sorry, I realise that this sounds defeatist!) - you're better off taking Carol's advice and filtering the offensive e-mails and getting on with your life! Of course if you do figure out how to stop this completely PLEASE let us know!

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 10:02 AM »

Curt - do you still have the offending e-mail? If so, have you "told" Spam Fighter that it is Spam? If not, I'd just identifiy it Spam Fighter as spam and move on. As fodder points out, your spam filter should be looking at both the header and the body (text) of the e-mail and shouldn't block legitimate e-mail from you. Try it and then send yourself a legitamite e-mail and see if it gets through - you can always go back to the original spam and tell Spam Fighter that it is not spam.

Also, my ISP and Yahoo both have a feature similar to PopFile built in. I have to access both via webmail to adjust settings, but I can configure both to insert a block of text at the start of the subject, enclosed in [] to identify it as potential spam. It's useful, though SpamBayes is so good it diverts these straight into my Junk Folder. Just a thought... Check out your ISP and webmail (if it's available) - you might find that you've already got this built in, so to speak.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 09:52 AM »

Don't know if you realize it, but you have always(?) been able to do this in Opera without resorting to extensions or customizing. If you simply shift-click any link or form buttons, it will open in a new tab (or window, depending on your settings).

This works in IE as well...

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Living Room / Re: Life without XP SP2 - is it possible?

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 09:49 AM »

When i first do a fresh install of the pc i get onto the internet with pw but not to the network. When i finally do a request to config a network connection through the proper id the house has with same pw,
it takes a few reboots (sometimes 5 or more) then it finally works.
Where am i getting to?

This may be completely off in the wrong direction, but reading between the lines a bit, this sounds your computer may be automatically connecting to a different network and is having trouble finding your home network. Check out your wireless network configuration utility and make sure that the only network it is configured to automatically connect to is your home network. When this happens, your computer will be able to get onto the interrnet and receive e-mails, etc. but you WON"T be able to get onto your home network. This might happen there is an unsecured network (ie not MAC address/IP address/password protected as it sounds your is) with a strong signal in range during times when your own network is not found by your computer. The next time you're on the internet but unable to connect to your network, don't reboot - go into your wireless config util (D-Link now, by the sounds of it) and check the name of the network you ARE connected to. I'm guessing it won't be your home network. Have the utility rescan for available networks you might have to do this a number of times before your home network is found.

On a related, but peripheral note, I had no trouble for years networking a Win2k machine to two WinXP machines (one Home one Pro). When I moved houses last summer I could NOT get my network set up. Hardware hadn't changed, settings hadn't changed. Couldn't figure it out. Finally resorted to buying a copy of Network Magic and have not had a problem since. The basic licence allows you to network 3 computers and peripherals like printers on top of that. It's nice because it protects your shared folders and files when you're connected to other networks. Anyway, the only draw back is that it is another program that runs at startup... Note that it will take over management of your wireless card (and configuration/maintenance of its connections) if you want it to. Works well, but I have left this up to Windows XP's default app...

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for August 27 - Codename "Mouser reinvents the wheel"

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:56 AM »

"Only" 46,000! That's still an impressive number. Congratulations, mouser! Look what you've built up  Like I said, I can see that the newsletter is important in getting people to participate in the forum and community - look at the audience and potential.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for August 27 - Codename "Mouser reinvents the wheel"

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:38 AM »

I'm impressed, mouser. It's too bad that more don't check the forum out more - provides an incentive to get more creative with the newsletters if around 63000 people are receiving the newsletter via e-mail it's a great way to advertise the forum and hopefully draw people in!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:36 AM »

Still haven't tried this - will download and do so now. Neglected to mention in my earlier post (it was quite brief!) that I didn't keep Secunia around for long. It kept botherin me to uninstall no longer developed/supported software and there was no way to disable it from running in the system tray other than to kill it via Task Manager.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for August 27 - Codename "Mouser reinvents the wheel"

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:31 AM »

84,510 at 11:30 PM... that's almost 150 new users in under 24 hours...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:28 AM »

Well put. It's an organic, fluid, symbiotic arrangement. I know that Opera and FF are wonderful browsers but it's like being outside on a crisp fall day in a t-shirt with the memory of how cozy the jacket that you're holding in your hand is... it just doesn't feel right.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] FARR2 as dialog extender?

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:24 AM »

How about the context menu? Right click within the dialogue and select "Search this folder and subfolders with FARR2" or something like that? Or a hotkey that would do the same thing? I guess in either event, we're still having to consider to the "will this work with Office dialogues" issue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:14 AM »

Yup. Fair comment, but I'm stuck in my ways! I just can't be bothered to learn how to do it all in FF, not that it would be so difficult... Sigh, colour me LAZY!

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:07 AM »

Heh, heh, nice one sri. It's not the look though it's the plugin support and support of groups in Maxthon that keep me here. I have a set up 5 pages that open up with Maxthon - can't live without that. And I love Roboform, which rules out Opera altogether. Then there are a myriad of little things that I can't list right now. I don't know... Like I said, as luck would have it I uninstalled both FF 2 and Opera 9.23 in a fit of what has been referred to elsewhere on the forums today as "software bulemia". I've been binging on software installations and got panicked and started purging. I'll be reinstalling them soon enough I suspect (I already regret the FF uinstallation as I didn't save its settings and I had it pretty tweaked)... I used them all on and off but live in Maxthon. I've never actually seriously tried surfing in IE7, just pales in comparison to either Maxthon 1.6.1 or Maxthon 2.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 01:02 AM »

What's the purpose of submitting a form to open up as a new tab?

-sri (August 28, 2007, 12:56 AM)

My take on the idea is that you can continue reading the page that you are on while the form is submitted on a different tab/window. This way, you can submit the form and then hit the back button on your browser and continue with whatever it is you are doing (or indeed simply keep reading the page that you happen to have been on) while the form is submitted (or opened) on the new tab/window. You can then switch between the tabs/windows. Multitasking! Men aren't good at it. This will help. Ooh. Aah.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 12:59 AM »

I actually use Maxthon (which, admittedly, is a front end for IE) and ironically uinstalled Opera and Firefox yesterday. I'm just too used to working with Maxthon and the plugins written specifically for it and for IE. Firefox was ok, actually, and I liked it - I just kept coming back to Maxthon (it's the Groups feature and that fact that I've got it configured out the ying-yang that keep me tied to it - setting up another browser and learning to work with it would be more than I can bear!).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: 8 x freeware PDF Readers / Viewers

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 12:42 AM »

As luck would have it, this review of four pdf creators just came out in PC Magazine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 12:34 AM »

Yes! Love it. I'd love to see something like this brought into the IE sphere as well...

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Living Room / Re: Any DC'ers in the Pacific Northwest?

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 12:10 AM »

Oops! Didn't follow my own instructions - I'm in Courtenay, 2 1/2 hours north of Victoria and about 3 1/2 hours from Vancouver.

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Living Room / Re: Any DC'ers in the Pacific Northwest?

« Last post by Darwin on August 28, 2007, 12:02 AM »

Yes. Avoids the verbose drivel that I posted in the post that went along with the poll. I like it. Right, off to rewrite it. Thanks!

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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:59 PM »

Ah gotcha. I like it. Yeah, that does sound harder to code, because of course that kind of functionality would be great in the context menu ("Open search in new tab") and would need to be setup as an IE/FF/Opera plugin, which makes it less universal across the membership because its unlikely Opera will permit it and there are probably lots of Linux users and other people using different browsers. An alternative might be to have a static left hand pane containing links to the search feature (and other important areas/features of DC). This way you scroll down the page but the links to the left are always there on your screen and visible from wherever you are reading... Just a thought.

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Living Room / Any DC'ers in the Pacific Northwest?

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:52 PM »

If you live in the Pacific Northwest and would be interested in attending a DC gathering, post what city you are from and how far you might be willing to travel to attend.

Thank you,

Mike

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRL DD #5 - BELLEVILLE, NJ

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:43 PM »

What, no west coast hookups? I'm officially ashamed  Right. Time to do something about this. Belleville! Chicago! Sniff. I KNOW we can do better out here on the other side of the continent.

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Living Room / Re: A joyful addition..

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:41 PM »

Young Jack is going into French immersion so not only will they be plotting against me, they'll be able to do it right in front of me!

-Darwin (August 27, 2007, 11:18 PM)

  i almost forgot that you're from Canada.. i am also trying to enrol my son into a 2nd language class but haven't decided yet..

-lanux128 (August 27, 2007, 11:31 PM)

Well, too early for me to be giving advice (though he's already done two years of French Immersion pre-school), but I sympathize with the decision part. It's a bit of a commitment but where we are anyway, any negatives are swamped by the positives, not least of which is the fact that we're essentially getting a private school education within the public school system - parents that put their kids into French Immersion tend to be more interested in, and supportive of, education and that rubs off on the kids in the program as well. That's the thinking anyway! Oh, and the little urchin should be fluently bilingual by grade 6. Scary.

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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:36 PM »

Thx lanux, but what'd be the most appropriate way to add such an option (for all forum users)?

-Wordzilla (August 27, 2007, 11:32 PM)

I remember Google, when it first came out used to return a page full of "hits" and provided a direct link and a secondary one that was labelled something like: "Open link in new window".

Don't know how easy/hard that would be to code. For me, I just use mouse gestures under Maxthon if I want to open a link in a new tab.

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UrlSnooper / Re: last try for help on stickam.com

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:32 PM »

Ah crap.

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UrlSnooper / Re: last try for help on stickam.com

« Last post by Darwin on August 27, 2007, 11:29 PM »

tinyvillager - did  you make that up?! I couldn't breathe for about 30 seconds because I was paralyzed with laughter. When I regained consciousness... I'm afraid to click on the links that you and the OP provide for fear of what might appear on my monitor. Oh crap, curiosity kills the cat - here goes... This better be good!