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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by tomos on August 11, 2012, 01:58 PM »

I'm starting to sound like Renegade......

 

-4wd (August 11, 2012, 12:03 PM)

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

« Last post by tomos on August 11, 2012, 01:54 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 11:58 AM)

what's your man's name (English comedian I think?)

Fox is good, all right!

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Living Room / Re: Mass of volcanic rocks found floating off New Zealand

« Last post by tomos on August 11, 2012, 04:18 AM »

small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium

is Belgium that small


... never knew pumice floated ...

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by tomos on August 11, 2012, 04:16 AM »

Here's a screenshot of the new sWeather Options panel.

-skwire (August 10, 2012, 10:44 PM)

looks great


[edit] unable to download - or to reach your site, will try later [/edit]

[edit] no worries, got it! [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 10:05 AM »

CAN A FAN BREAK DOWN WITHOUT THE USER BEING NOTIFIED?

sure can.  i've lost a cpu when the motherboard fan failed.

there are tools to check fan speeds that should/might be able to tell you which fans are running and at what speeds.

-mouser (August 10, 2012, 08:54 AM)

I've used SpeedFan in the past

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 07:58 AM »

The guardian has found a unique way to get past restrictions on coverage of the Olympics.  A cool way to watch and give no money to the sponsors or the IOC.

-wraith808 (August 10, 2012, 07:18 AM)

that was fun

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 07:47 AM »

I'm not sure why he start talking about the smiling thing - maybe the police took it as meaning he was only there to protest?

-tomos (August 10, 2012, 04:36 AM)

They're profiling people looking for anyone that is too nervous/properly engaged with the event/etc., so he got targeted. And as usual the profiling got a bit out-of-hand. The fuzz deserve the ridicule and should just deal with it, learn from it, and move on ... They have no defensible position IMO.

-Stoic Joker (August 10, 2012, 06:56 AM)

You should be the journalist SJ - you've explained it a lot more articulately than any of the articles above

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds?"

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 07:14 AM »

[copy acceleration utilities] did seem to speed up massive transfers to and from networked drives.

-40hz (August 10, 2012, 06:42 AM)

there's at least one comment to that effect in the comments there.

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 04:36 AM »

Man arrested at Olympics cycling event for not smiling.

BWAHAHAHAHAH~!

http://www.prisonpla...ns-cycling-race.html

-Renegade (August 09, 2012, 11:43 AM)

Article goes on to say that he was actually arrested because they thought he was with a nearby group of protesters. I'm not sure why he start talking about the smiling thing - maybe the police took it as meaning he was only there to protest?
Unless I'm missing something, I cant understand why the writer takes that slant as well - I guess they're hoping we wont actually read the article too closely - or if we do that we please dont really care that the title is pretty much BS


PrisonPlanet goes down another notch in my estimation:
It's got good intentions, but the style and accuracy are just too trashy-tabloid for me.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: free ABBYY Screenshot Reader

« Last post by tomos on August 10, 2012, 03:26 AM »

^ Iain, I'm confused
-
Curt says his link above (reply #7) is for version "5988" which I presume is 9.0.0.5988.

If I am correct there, you're comparing two older versions (?)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Newbie's observations, suggestions

« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2012, 03:03 PM »

One other thing I noticed, CHS doesn’t seem to show up on the Win7 start menu, nor can I Pin it there.

now that is odd -- can any other win7 pros comment on that?

-mouser (August 08, 2012, 01:43 PM)

it's in the start menu here, (under all users) win7 64bit

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

« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2012, 12:00 PM »

I agree against any "congress" of baboons.

-Curt (August 08, 2012, 08:23 AM)

I'm confused there Curt -
agree and against contradict each other there...


PS I'm a big fan of QI - didnt see that episode though

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Living Room / Re: Apple's Marketing Mindset

« Last post by tomos on August 07, 2012, 05:13 PM »

No, I think the women theory doesnt work. (It would be interesting to know proportions of male to female owners of apple products - maybe that could back it up.)

As to the lack of manliness of Apple males,  I cannot comment, not having one :p and, living in the sticks, I dont see that many Apple males - or females ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Apple's Marketing Mindset

« Last post by tomos on August 07, 2012, 08:05 AM »

^ you sound like a man that's looking for trouble

so,
Apple brings out the women in men ...  or something

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a (dc?) app that generates words/ names

« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2012, 08:05 AM »

Perhaps my Simple Word Gen will suffice?

-skwire (August 04, 2012, 12:45 PM)

that's it, thanks Skwire! - uses “consonant, vowel, consonant” - I misremembered it as being with syllables (which of course it also is). I'll go try it out before I tie myself up in knots here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2012, 11:54 AM »

I find the whole import/ send from another address confusing; e.g. it says I "can use Hotmail to send and receive email from other accounts. To get started, enter an email address". I mean, what's hotmail got to do with it...?
 
Normally if I create a web account, mail sent from that account uses that email address. It's not at all clear to me what's going to happen here, I presume if I import I will have the choice of using multiple addresses including the new outlook one (but I guess I'm wondering is this an online email client, or a web address, or both).*

BTW I have imported email from another account (gmail). My local email client now does not download the most recent mails, presumably cause outlook has marked them as downloaded - anyone know how to fix that? both are using pop3.


[edit] * when I dig a bit I see that it is both [edit]

[edit2] I removed the gmail account [edit2]

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a (dc?) app that generates words/ names

« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2012, 11:23 AM »

I'm trying to find a particular app - I'm pretty sure this was a dc app:

it generated names/words randomly. By "words" I mean ones not in the dictionary!
AFAICR the user sets how many syllables, then it would generate a list of random words.

Anyone have any idea what that was?
TIA

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2012, 11:04 AM »

I love the ..01's:

-tomos (July 02, 2012, 02:13 PM)

and here's (belatedly) another,
from wraith808

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by tomos on August 03, 2012, 05:32 AM »

Some measure of success from [email protected]:

-IainB (August 03, 2012, 03:09 AM)

thanks

(probably no big deal, but the two long links in the quote in your post are using your moniker)

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General Software Discussion / Re: A strange Hijack

« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2012, 11:25 AM »

[...] such Hijack is affecting me or that website?

-Giampy (August 02, 2012, 06:22 AM)

a couple of years ago (XP admin account), I was opening tabs in the background, from a google search. The antivirus blocked the webpage, but the virus (or whatever you want to call it) was able to run, IIRC it played a siren sound (!) and opened a manically flashing window telling me I had a virus. The window could not be closed normally. I'll quote from my report to the AV company:

The app was downloaded in the background and it disabled AntiVir & the
Windows firewall. It started itself, telling me I had a virus
and I should register to remove it.
I panicked at the time, so I dont remember the details exactly, but I do
remember it was difficult to kill. I removed at least one app from the
startup, found the app itself - it was installed in:
Documents and Settings\*User*\Application Data\Desktop Securities
2010\securitycenter.exe
It also had a bunch of files installed in the temp folder which I
securely erased (some of these had been running and one was in windows
startup) Unfortunately I have no record of them.

because I panicked a little, and started killing & deleting things left right and centre, I didnt keep a proper record of the url or the files.
 
The app also created four files within legitimate software installs (Filehamster/FARR/Softmaker/Cloudberry). It took a name from a (random?) file in the install, and created an exe file with the same name. These files were later reported by my AV (Avira AntiVir paid version) and I noticed that the created date for them all was exactly the same as the time I got the infection.

I guess my point is that you'll probably know if you have a virus. And using UAC &/or a non-admin account would probably help a lot...

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Paste a screenshot in windows explorer

« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2012, 06:53 AM »

I didn't realize that this functionality is supposed to be present because I didn't see any options for it or suggestion that it was possible in the description I read :-)

-patku (August 01, 2012, 02:34 PM)

try using the post capture "Pop Up Choice Dialog" - you may not want to stick with it, but it will give you an overview of possibilities.
enable via:
Preferences > Interface Options 1 > Pop Up Choice Dialog

slightly dated image here in the online help file
https://www.donation...tcapturepopupdia.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: xplorer2 at Bits Du Jour soon....

« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2012, 04:24 AM »

xplorer² version 2.1! for Mac & PC - Today Only
50% off Pro & Ultimate @ BitsDuJour

21.5 hours left

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2012, 08:50 AM »

That's an old school formal writing guideline (and one I like!).

See for example:
http://answers.yahoo...0060719082151AAkfEeo

-mouser (August 01, 2012, 08:39 AM)

Okay (OK)

I remember reading somewhere that, in "proper" writing, one should spell out numbers, up to a certain limit (four or five?) and then use numerals (e.g. 6 or 7 - is numeral even the correct term for those?)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Paste a screenshot in windows explorer

« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2012, 07:27 AM »

[...Having said that, I see an unpleasant aspect -- when you hit Ctrl+V it will create a new image file, but the image file will be called "Clipboard Image.bmp" and be in bmp format.

-mouser (August 01, 2012, 12:09 AM)

Odd. I get nothing pasted in Windows Explorer, but a .png file in xplorer².

-IainB (August 01, 2012, 07:17 AM)

same here with Windows Explorer, and a jpeg file in Directory Opus...


(Win7, 64 bit)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Expressive - New cross-platform Vector app

« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2012, 05:53 AM »

to pan the Inkscape GUI as "Linux-like" and "ugly" strikes me as a bit churlish

-Edvard (July 31, 2012, 10:05 PM)

I agree,
I think it's a form of designers' snobbery. I guess their whole career is about making things look good, so many would struggle with an interface that doesnt have that as a priority.

Re the interface functionality. There's got to be a certain amount of the people trying inkscape out, who struggle with the interface because they dont take the time to learn it. I dont know how long it takes to adjust to new software, probably it depends how many years you've been using your old software ;-)

I use graphics software in a very limited way myself, but I do use it professionally. If you're doing something again and again, day after day, the interface and workflow become very important. I mean that's why there's so much interest here in text editors, and in software in general. I'd personally be slow to move to something open source where development is slow. The other side of the coin is a huge company like Adobe that really dont care that much, and do whatever they do, like it or lump it.