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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 05:44 PM »

Hmmm... I'd actually disagree.  If you want a dead simple installation... wordpress is as dead simple as it gets.  Now there's more behind the scenes as you add stuff on... but to get the basic themes up and running, even self hosted, you can do it with very minimal technical experience.  It just depends on who you get for hosting at that point.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 05:42 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Gmail - how to use the label:^smartlabel operator to filter/label Receipts.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 09:59 AM »

I use Slice for this, and it works very well... and includes tracking.

https://www.slice.com/

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Some guidelines and rules about posting on the forum

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 09:56 AM »

And also there are some places that don't want you to download and use the image, but rather link to it.  Is this a hard and fast rule mouser?  Or a preference?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 09:19 AM »

Actually, speaking from experience, in the short run wordpress.com is less work, but in the long run, it's way more work, and way more hassle.

As she visits other wordpress sites and sees the cool things that they have, or her needs evolve, you're going to be hampered, nickeled and dimed, and restricted by wordpress.com.  With your own site, not so much.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2013, 09:13 AM »

Can we just take this as a learning experience and get back to the silly humor rather than the rationalizations/explanations?    We're never going to agree on everything- that's what makes DoCo cool in my book, the ability of such a homogenous group to let things go, and discuss the commonalities rather than argue about the differences.  And to let things go when it seems like we're heading down such a path.  I think that everyone has been on both sides at one point or another.  It takes a community to keep things together.

To help... a gif.

Life Imitates Art

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2013, 04:24 PM »

With Wordpress.com you can at least

export your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags; uploads and images may need to be manually transferred to the new blog.

Self-hosting sounds like more work to me 

-dr_andus (May 28, 2013, 04:02 PM)

It's actually not... .and not as daunting as it may first appear.  And you definitely get a *lot* more flexibility for the effort.  If you're looking into doing it, I'd suggest taking a look at one of the links I posted earlier- you'll see it's quite easy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2013, 04:22 PM »

I haven't actually spent three days... more like 3 hours at the most.  And considering what my wife uses it for (photoshop, lightroom, other photographic stuff), I can't just get any computer, unfortunately.  The 5 fans are including the two on the CPU heat sink, two in the box and the one on the video card, so it's not as many as it seems.  One draws air in from the back, across the heat sink, then out of the other side.  The airflow then goes through the video card and back out the back through the last fan.  I upgraded that prior to this when the CPU was having heating problems, and they brought it right down to spec.

But thanks for the input.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2013, 03:18 PM »

Porn blogs are marked as nsfw, and can be fitlered from the stream inside the tumblr news and also never came across places where tumblr is blocked. Which are these places that blocks tumblr? I never knew tumblr porn was that bad. I guess i never come across hardcore stuff, due to my feed being bombarded with comics from "cyanide and happiness" and other comic strips.

-mahesh2k (May 28, 2013, 02:32 PM)

Most filtering companies are not known for their granularity- no one wants to be the one hit with the problem when they *don't* filter porn.  I know at work I can't get to tumblr AT ALL.  I had a yard sale tumblr, and it was blocked.  It was also blocked from several other places...and that's when I noticed that tumblr in general is classified as such, including on larger filtering sites such as OpenDNS.

It's definitely a problem to keep in consideration.

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2013, 09:14 AM »

I swapped to an SSD for my system drive about a year ago, and couldn't go back to a hard disk. The increased speed is worth it, to me. Although I used many of eleman's tips when I first installed the SSD, I recently moved my browser cache to the SSD to speed up browsing. I'm willing to take the risk of shortening the SSD's life for the speed it brings. The SSD is imaged regularly and all important data lives on hard disks.

-johnk (May 28, 2013, 01:20 AM)

My main computer doesn't have an SSD, but my media computer does.  When my wife's computer died recently, she started using it full time until I replaced it.  I'm very surprised to see that with an SSD, it's only a little slower than a full sized computer.  And it's one of those book-sized computers.  It's a given that there's some things it can't do... but the SSD makes a huge difference.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2013, 09:12 AM »

I personally think tumblr is the most simple when it comes to website and blogging.

-mahesh2k (May 28, 2013, 05:12 AM)

The one thing to keep in mind with tumblr, is that it's full of porn.  Why does that affect you?  If you don't have a custom URL, you'll be blocked some places just because you have a tumblr address.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2013, 11:49 PM »

The reason behind this is that it looks at the image as it was originally.  Edits don't change the baseline as much as they layer them, thus making the same image appear as the edited image.  If you look up Nancy Reagan, it's pretty obvious that's not actually her picture as edited- she doesn't look like her husband.... 

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

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2013, 12:28 PM »

@x16wda: Apologies for my ignorance, but is that US Pres. Regan? If so, then cruel to dress him in drag (or was he that way inclined?).   
What uniform was Pres. Clinton dressed in in that photo I submitted above? Do you know? Is it a US military one?
I think I saw news photos of Obama dressed in that ceremonial Kenyan uniform, or something, a couple of years back, but I don't know of he ever wore a US forces uniform. I gather that all US presidents are/were "Commander in Chief", but I'm not sure if that necessarily means they have/had a uniform.

-IainB (May 27, 2013, 12:22 PM)

I think the point was that the one for Obama was not a uniform, but rather the traditional dress of the country he was visiting.  The one for Clinton was a band uniform from high school.   Both have been used in political campaigns, in the exact fashion shown here, rather than for humor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2013, 10:08 AM »

But CPU+MB won't do anything.  Which is why I'm going with what Stoic said.  I sort of knew it... but I was hoping I was wrong.  There's no codes at all for the no ram.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2013, 12:31 AM »

haven't tried taking out all gfx cards... but I have switched it out to no avail.  Do you think that it might be the card slot or something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2013, 08:10 PM »

Yup... restored the bios to defaults.  Actually tried it both ways... with defaults, and restore... and both had the same results.  The only thing I didn't try was flashing it, but I have doubts that could be it unless someone tells me otherwise.  never seen a bios that needs updating start flaking out like this...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2013, 06:49 PM »

The CPU is tied to the MB.  So if I get the MB hoping that it will work... I can't really return it after installing.  So then I'm tied to the 775 socket.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2013, 12:57 PM »

Well, I guess it's the money.  $200 is a lot more than $60.  But then if it's the CPU, that CPU is running $70 when I can even find it... bringing the cost up to $130 for two year old tech.  And the fact that the CPU isn't available anywhere for rush shipping at a reasonable price.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2013, 09:19 AM »

^ Heh.  Good comeback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2013, 09:17 AM »

So, hard reset of the bios and replacing the battery didn't work.  So the only thing left is MB/CPU.  My question now is, how likely is it that it is the CPU?  I found a decent MB on Amazon so I can get it Wednesday (yuck) Gigabyte MB.  But for $200 I can get a core-i3 sandybridge with motherboard and 4GB RAM, so I'm wondering if I have to take it all apart anyway, if I shouldn't just go with that.

Thoughts?

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Best Text Editor / Re: Notepad++ has Help file; hex editor plugins

« Last post by wraith808 on May 25, 2013, 11:41 AM »

The site isn't getting *any* compensation for clicked links.  In fact, I personally talked to IDM about getting a discount for our members a while ago, and they wouldn't even do that.  There is no affiliation anywhere.

The reviews and such were done by DoCo as a service to the community a while ago.  And at that time, the difference was that stark. Doing something for nothing for the community might be alien in many cases, but that's just how DoCo is.  And as such, it takes a community of volunteers to keep everything going... and that's one part of the site that's fallen down. 

No one is disagreeing that the review is out of date.  No one is making excuses for the fact that it is there.  But it just hasn't become a priority... it will get fixed as it does, and as long as it has a date on it, it seems that it's not that big of deal.  Especially not for as big of a fuss as you're making over software that I'm assuming you have no connection to?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 25, 2013, 11:25 AM »

^ I hope you're wrong.  I already tried that test, and just assumed that newer motherboards wouldn't boot without RAM as I hadn't tried that in a while.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 25, 2013, 10:38 AM »

So, more information... it's not the RAM.  I put one stick at a time in, sat in the BIOS, and it hung with either.  So I noticed that while in the BIOS, everything would be going fine, then the time would reset to 00:00:03 and the date would reset to some date in 1980 (assuming date.min for the system).

So I did the reset as suggested, and it seemed to work... for about 15 minutes.  So next is to try the hard reset by removing the battery.  Not sure after that how I determine the difference between needs a battery and needs a MB.  But yeah, I'll just assume MB I think after that.  Just hate waiting until Tuesday/Wednesday to get anything in.

Got a stupid CSM thinking that when I needed it, it would be in stock.  And no, two years later, it's not. 

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« Last post by wraith808 on May 24, 2013, 08:54 PM »

I think there shouldn't be any stipulations, other than to eat healthy for your goals, and exercise for your goals, so that we can be more inclusive than exclusive   Some people can't eat certain foods in order to remain healthy, while others can.  Same with exercise.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 24, 2013, 08:51 PM »

Well, more information.  I let it sit for a few hours, then started again.  When I did, I went into the BIOS instead of letting it boot to Windows.  Temp looked fine (25C MB/25C Proc) and fan speed looked fine.  after a few minutes, it failed.  So I'm leaning towards RAM, and crossing my fingers.  Thanks for the suggestions, and I'll let you know!