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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?

« Last post by Grorgy on September 17, 2007, 07:01 AM »

you are right it does do more than a reader, but given there are so many free readers out there they need to add something to make people want to use their software and, when needed, purchase their complete solution, just another marketing ploy, but hey, if it works in our favour, i'm all for it

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Living Room / Re: How much RAM do you have on your PC?

« Last post by Grorgy on September 16, 2007, 03:52 AM »

i got 760 mb on my celeron 1.5 laptop, would gave got more but its too expensive, or was when i got it, but going from 512 to 760 made a big difference.  On my desk i just went from 1 to 2gb of ram.  Its a dual core amd and the extra RAM has made a noticeable difference in performance once up and running, booting is still a bit slow but ya cant have everything and we are only talking a minute or 2 at most for the whole process anyway

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Office 2007 Ultimate for $59.99 (if you're a student)

« Last post by Grorgy on September 15, 2007, 05:18 PM »

Yeah, I was vaguely tempted by the offer when it was available here, but I have 2003 pro which I can use on my desk pc and on my laptop, and the offer licence only allowed 1 pc to have it installed.  And I saw no compelling reason to upgrade.

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Living Room / Re: Before I head to the computer shop... (Memory slot problem)

« Last post by Grorgy on September 14, 2007, 08:41 PM »

Thanks for that steeladept, good tips.  Just for interest I now have 2 gb of ram, 512 in each slot and its purring away, even after all the abuse I hurled at it, that thread on expletives was most useful lol.

Edit, thinking about it and the way it was fixed, there must have just been a small bit of plastic sticking out in the slot, wouldnt stop it going in but stopped it getting a good connection

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Living Room / Re: Before I head to the computer shop... (Memory slot problem)

« Last post by Grorgy on September 14, 2007, 08:06 PM »

Thanks mouser, your 8 attempts made me keep trying, must have put it in and out 30 times at least,  so after trying to get some compressed air, none within 50Km of me, i resorted to a straw and a bicycle pump lol.  I then turned to the trusty toothpick, figuring the slot was dead as it was, so a bit of butchery wont hurt a lot, dragged it up and down the thing shoved the stick in and it worked   

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Living Room / Before I head to the computer shop... (Memory slot problem)

« Last post by Grorgy on September 14, 2007, 01:31 PM »

I just got myself an extra gig of ram which I tried to install.  I got a continuous sort of beeping tell me something was wrong, so I check it was all installed ok sitting right that sort of stuff, still beeped, so on a first in last out basis i took out the last stick, and it booted ok.  So after a bit of playing I've determined that there is most likely a dodgy memory slot as the memory (all of it) works in other slots.  I presently have the new memory installed in the first 2 slots.

So has anyone got any ideas as to what I might try before I spend more money 

Any help and most suggestions accepted gratefully 


It's a gigabyte ga-m51gm-s2g mother board with an AMD 3800 x2 processor

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General Software Discussion / Re: problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

« Last post by Grorgy on September 14, 2007, 05:08 AM »

temp and tmp are both directed to c:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp 

Edit, these are i think the default settings, never occurred to me to change them lol

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Kaspersky Internet Security 7

« Last post by Grorgy on September 13, 2007, 05:32 AM »

One thing I've noticed in the forums over at kaspersky is do not lose your licence key, the moderator of the forum keeps stressing that they will not give you a new key if its lost, you have to buy it again which could get a wee bit expensive.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Kaspersky Internet Security 7

« Last post by Grorgy on September 13, 2007, 05:20 AM »

yeah it does, in that first paragraph

Kaspersky® Internet Security 7.0 provides you with the same proven anti-virus protection as Kaspersky Anti-Virus together with additional features including Parental Control, a personal firewall, an anti-spam filter, Privacy Control and more.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Kaspersky Internet Security 7

« Last post by Grorgy on September 13, 2007, 04:41 AM »

KIS 6 has a firewall dont know about 7

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Living Room / Firm sues over comments

« Last post by Grorgy on September 12, 2007, 01:50 PM »

Here in the land down under we seem to have upset a certain maker of computer software and they decided to sue a community forum 

Firm sues forum to silence critics

Asher Moses
September 12, 2007 - 1:06PM
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In a move that could set a nasty precedent for Australian website operators and their users, a software firm is suing a community website over comments published on its message board.

http://www.theage.co...2/1189276778252.html for the full article

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Grorgy on September 12, 2007, 03:16 AM »

ahhh good to see some variety, i use explorer2 xyplorer powerdesk and windows standard one from time to time and for various things, keeps me amused anyway, trying to guess which one to use 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stay Away From Microsoft VISTA

« Last post by Grorgy on September 11, 2007, 10:36 PM »

hehehe

I still prefer books to e-books even though printed books are so 15th century. Just call me a Luddite.

  yeah me too, its a tactile thing i spose, could be why porn is so disappointing 

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Living Room / Re: Polar bear and dogs play together.. just a feel-good slideshow

« Last post by Grorgy on September 10, 2007, 09:42 PM »

I showed it to a friend, whose comment was, "why can't people get on that well at least sometimes" and with all our civilization the beasties out there show us up time and time again.

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Official Announcements / Re: FreeThesaurus.net - new official DC web service, is now up and running!

« Last post by Grorgy on September 06, 2007, 05:37 PM »

Its a great tool wordzilla, one of the few things I have sitting in the personal toolbar bit of my browser, and it just gets better    (and the Codys are cute to  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: GemX - missing in action

« Last post by Grorgy on September 06, 2007, 04:10 PM »

I can but its woefully slow, and only the main page, perhaps a note in their to do list to fix it lol

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by Grorgy on September 06, 2007, 06:55 AM »

i just start typing microsoft, they all come up and i hit the number, works a treat every time 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help Authoring Gem

« Last post by Grorgy on September 05, 2007, 05:04 AM »

there was a note in the blog at the site about errors, they have called in 'outside experts' who have worked for adobe in the past so they probably will get this up to scratch soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Using OmniPage and PaperPort?

« Last post by Grorgy on September 05, 2007, 04:02 AM »

Looks interesting OCRman, and welcome.  I will be very interested when you get to some of the cheaper and free alternatives, i don't do a lot of OCR work but its incredibly frustrating when you know thats what you need, but the price is just way too much for the amount of use versus other more important things. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a rich text editor

« Last post by Grorgy on September 04, 2007, 10:17 PM »

you might also like to look at roughdraft http://www.richardsalsbury.com/ which does some of that maybe all, i don't understand what you want in the last point completely

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Living Room / Re: New Nick for Darwin

« Last post by Grorgy on September 04, 2007, 04:51 AM »

perhaps just a new skull, though given all the money spent on software i spose this little 'gem' may be currently unattainable http://www.boingboin...n_hirsts_diamon.html

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by Grorgy on September 04, 2007, 04:29 AM »

The buttons on the web page are a little small don't you think?

-mouser (September 04, 2007, 01:58 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Online Dictionary that visually shows relationships among words.

« Last post by Grorgy on September 02, 2007, 09:21 PM »

I stumbled on this just yesterday, what a fun way of doing things, worth a bump in case people missed it first time i think 

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Getting Organized in 2007

« Last post by Grorgy on September 01, 2007, 05:32 PM »

I wasn't here for last years but i read a lot of what went on, got some good ideas, got to admit tho I've gone from being a disorganised procrastinator to someone who now knows exactly what i haven't done, so I'll be in it, see what i can pick up   

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Living Room / Re: Slashdot has officially Jumped the Shark into Permanent Irrelevance (again)

« Last post by Grorgy on September 01, 2007, 05:21 PM »

Funny you should mention that, i had deleted it off my list of feeds last night because I hadn't seen anything that was useful, except the odd thing that was on all the other sites anyway