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

« Last post by mrainey on February 11, 2011, 10:30 AM »

Apparently Light Alloy is now freeware.  I used the Google translator and scrolled to the bottom.

http://www.light-alloy.ru/

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway - Winners Posted

« Last post by mrainey on February 04, 2011, 02:02 PM »

You've done an amazing job, Perry.  Many thanks!

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway - Winners Posted

« Last post by mrainey on February 04, 2011, 01:04 PM »

I won!  I'm planning some major rewrites this spring, and can't wait to incorporate a supertool like "Dr. Explain Advanced" into my development efforts.

Can't thank the folks at Indigo Byte Systems enough.  You're pretty cool too, mouser.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mrainey on January 25, 2011, 01:48 PM »

Buddy, hunkered down and getting ready for a nap.

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Living Room / Re: Miss America Hates Wikileaks, Might Be An Idiot =D

« Last post by mrainey on January 20, 2011, 10:34 AM »

Apologies in advance to my American friends  Wink

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

Why the subtitles?  I guess they figured that people who watched the video would be just as lost as the people in it.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: A piece of Sh**

« Last post by mrainey on January 13, 2011, 06:35 PM »

A person has to earn the right to sound that angry.  A first-time poster with that attitude is beyond help.

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Living Room / Re: complete 180 on mouse preference - what's the best cheap mouse?

« Last post by mrainey on December 27, 2010, 05:45 PM »

You don't have to keep it on a flat surface is one benefit.

I find that the padded arm of my easy chair, or even the side of my leg, works just fine as a mousing surface.

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Living Room / Re: complete 180 on mouse preference - what's the best cheap mouse?

« Last post by mrainey on December 24, 2010, 11:32 AM »

I've been using cheapo, reliable Microsoft optical mice for years.  Mine have two buttons and a scroll wheel.  I just bought a new one from MWave, on sale for three bucks.  Currently ten dollars, shipped ( http://www.mwave.com...%20/Keyboard%20/Mice )

Can you live without that third button?  

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Living Room / Re: Connections problem has me stumped ...

« Last post by mrainey on December 07, 2010, 09:24 PM »

Maybe run this tweak tool and see if it gives you any ideas?

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Explorer 14

« Last post by mrainey on November 17, 2010, 09:22 AM »

with 12.04 (running here) the process only dies on window closing IF Options > Hide when minimised is deselected

v14.0 behaves that way as well, on my system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Explorer 14

« Last post by mrainey on November 17, 2010, 07:41 AM »

I find that PE disappears from Task Manager 10-15 seconds after I close it (with XP).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« Last post by mrainey on November 06, 2010, 04:23 PM »

Has anybody worked with SciTE?  It looks to be an open-source text editor with syntax highlighting, regex, column mode, code folding, and lots of other stuff for programmers.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How many times do I have to update my mutherf---ing Flash??

« Last post by mrainey on November 01, 2010, 07:21 AM »

Relax.

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Living Room / Re: Kindle and iPad Books Take Longer to Read than Print [STUDY]

« Last post by mrainey on October 29, 2010, 10:16 PM »

I find reading on a Kindle to be very pleasant.  You can set the font size, line spacing and rotation to suit.  Page turning speed isn't an issue for me.  I like being able to download the first chapter of most any book for free.

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Living Room / Re: antivirus false postives - let's do someting about it

« Last post by mrainey on October 15, 2010, 10:08 AM »

For me, avast! is about as friendly and trouble-free as it gets.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a calculator that can easily calculate different shaped volumes

« Last post by mrainey on October 13, 2010, 08:25 AM »

I wrote one years ago.  It's free.

http://closetoleranc...e.com/MEWeights.html

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Living Room / Re: Why do support people never answer questions?

« Last post by mrainey on October 08, 2010, 02:16 PM »

I would have interpreted that answer as "No current plans to support TheBat".

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Living Room / Re: Why do we go out of our way to be unhelpful in forums?

« Last post by mrainey on September 29, 2010, 05:14 AM »

I also tend to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Agreed.  And many of us don't have the time to spend on molehills, especially when the subject is so often something along the lines of "Why does EVERYTHING SUCK?"   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: crack tracker

« Last post by mrainey on September 23, 2010, 08:19 AM »

If I google ThreadPal crack I get dozens of hits.

If I use ThreadPal as the search term for Crack Tracker, I get nothing.   

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by mrainey on September 07, 2010, 09:08 AM »

Yesterday afternoon on Speedtest I recorded 12.82/2.13, this morning it's 19.93/2.13

This with Charter.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by mrainey on September 06, 2010, 09:06 PM »

My Charter service has been pretty reliable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ComboFix=GREAT rootkit cleaner. (Kaspersky failed me big time).

« Last post by mrainey on September 03, 2010, 06:37 AM »

I'm going to continue to rely on an AV program, a bit of caution, and weekly backup images.  I'm reasonably capable with computers, but nowhere near as smart as some of the bad guys are.

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Living Room / Re: List the crappiest websites you know here. (warning: potentially NSFW)

« Last post by mrainey on September 01, 2010, 07:13 AM »

Now they've got a big  DIV covering the answer...

When I scroll down, the solutions are visible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ComboFix=GREAT rootkit cleaner. (Kaspersky failed me big time).

« Last post by mrainey on August 31, 2010, 02:00 PM »

I did a full computer scan with Kaspersky IS 2010, and it caught a bunch of stuff

Then I used malwarebytes anti-malware program to clean, and that found some stuff also

Maybe you should focus on not exposing your "workhorse" to so much "stuff".

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Living Room / Re: Google PowerMeter: One step closer to the Google Toilet

« Last post by mrainey on August 31, 2010, 08:10 AM »

Are they going to come in the night and confiscate my 100-watt light bulbs?