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

« Last post by Darwin on May 10, 2010, 12:18 PM »

Hmm... strange, Jim. I fired up XYplorer on my system and note that I have it set to dual pane with a preview of a jpg open. I checked the CPU usage before minimizing to tray - fluctuated between 0 and 2%, for a few seconds. After I minimized it, I watched it in TaskManager for about five minutes and it is absolutely steady at 0%. I maximized the window again and even with the preview displayed there has been absolutely no CPU activity for the past three or four minutes.

Win 7 64-bit on a notebook running an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (T9300 @2.5Ghz, though I am also running granola on this machine).

Heh, heh - just had a brief "blip" to 1% CPU on xyplorer.exe *32 and it's back to 00...

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Living Room / Re: Bought (or thinking of buying) an Apple iPad? You may have been duped!

« Last post by Darwin on May 07, 2010, 10:24 PM »

Mm, so far existing efforts to "petition" MS to actually make the thing don't seem too popular: http://www.petitiono...ourier/petition.html
http://www.petitions...ns/microsoftcourier/

Would a dedicated website make the difference? Who knows.

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (May 07, 2010, 06:37 PM)

It certainly can't hurt ... and I signed both of the above - Now that I know about them...

Perhaps the site could be a web ring hub of all the places to sign the various seperate petitions in an attempt to combine them all into one (louder) voice.

-Stoic Joker (May 07, 2010, 09:23 PM)

Me too! Just signed 'em 

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Living Room / Re: My new digital camera...

« Last post by Darwin on May 07, 2010, 03:50 PM »

Ham - that waterfall and pond are gorgeous (Darwin is green with envy).

Beautiful. Lashiec - thanks for the wallpaper idea!

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Living Room / Re: Bought (or thinking of buying) an Apple iPad? You may have been duped!

« Last post by Darwin on May 07, 2010, 02:21 PM »

I'm in... though I don't know how much help I can be. I've no web design skills whatsoever!

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Living Room / Re: Bought (or thinking of buying) an Apple iPad? You may have been duped!

« Last post by Darwin on May 07, 2010, 08:22 AM »

Amen to that, brother Renegade, amen to that! I REALLY want a Courier!

Maybe we should start a petition!

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Living Room / Re: Bought (or thinking of buying) an Apple iPad? You may have been duped!

« Last post by Darwin on May 06, 2010, 08:58 AM »

What annoys me is that its success has caused Microsoft and HP to shelve their own tablet plans. The Microsoft Courier was, in my opinion, quite a different machine from the iPad and much more in keeping with what I am looking for in the next generation of portable devices.

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

« Last post by Darwin on May 06, 2010, 08:36 AM »

+1 for what mwb1100 worte 

I tried and failed to write something lucid along the same lines, but it was late and I was tired, so I gave up!

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Living Room / Re: One of my cats, Titch, passed away yesterday

« Last post by Darwin on May 05, 2010, 05:05 PM »

Cranioscopical is right - 19 years is a good long life and I'm sure she was loved and cared for, and I'm sure she knew it and appreciated it.

Still, the vacuum that losing a pet creates in your life is vast. My deepest condolences on your loss.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BootRacer-Check Your Boot Speed

« Last post by Darwin on May 05, 2010, 05:02 PM »

But I guess I'm just cheap. I mean, I can't really see paying for software to tell me my stopwatch was off by a few seconds.

-sajman99 (May 05, 2010, 02:41 PM)

Isn't Bootracer freeware?

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

« Last post by Darwin on May 05, 2010, 02:02 PM »

Not to worry, Curt. Using advanced time travel techniques, I've managed to get it for you:

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by Darwin on May 05, 2010, 11:23 AM »

  Thanks Curt!

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by Darwin on May 05, 2010, 09:04 AM »

I have it installed under Windows 7 64bit with 4GB RAM and it's very stable and you don't even know it's there. Is it making a difference? I can't tell... I really bought a license (for which I received a free upgrade to 4) for either a netbook or my old XP machine with 2GB RAM. However, I don't have access to either at the moment so am playing with it under this setup. Hmm... wonder if it works on VM?

At any rate, I am pretty sure that it's effects are marginal at best on my setup, but I do think it's worth a look if you have older hardware on which you've hit the glass ceiling of RAM upgrade-ability (is that a word?).

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on May 03, 2010, 09:33 PM »

I thought it would be easy to find an HP 12c emulator/simulator, but everything I found was either 10 years old and wouldn't run on my Windows 7 system or shareware...

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 02, 2010, 05:32 PM »

I submit. You're too powerful an exponent of the rationale for me.

-cranioscopical (May 02, 2010, 02:40 PM)

Does that mean Darwin and you have reached a zero-sum situation? 

-rjbull (May 02, 2010, 02:53 PM)

Where would the percentage be in that?

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 02, 2010, 02:18 PM »

I love prawns, but can't see  how you'd collect them? I mean, I like to eat them, so they don't last long. If I stuck them in a fish tank, how long would they live?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Slide Rules

« Last post by Darwin on May 02, 2010, 08:06 AM »

This site is unbelievalbe - Sphere Research's Slide Rule Universe: http://www.sphere.bc...test/sruniverse.html

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 02, 2010, 07:47 AM »

I think you're going off on a tangent here. While I've derived a great degree of pleasure from the terms you've used (inversely proportional to their relevance), I wish you'd integrated your remarks with the topic better. Perhaps we should form a group to moderate these posts and regain our focus. Y coordinate, you ask? For consistency.

-tsaint (May 02, 2010, 03:15 AM)

Touche!

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 11:44 PM »

I'd better get this current obsession squared away before I start logging more purchases. At the rate I'm going, I'm going to have to get someone to co-sign a loan for further additions to my collection  I just wish I knew what was at the root of it all. There must have been a sign?

OK enough of this tangent... Tsk, so much hyperbole. I need to simplify my life, not make it more complex.

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 10:11 PM »

electronic calculators
slide rules

I shudder to think about what's going to be next

-Darwin

I'm sure you'll think of sum thing.

-cranioscopical (May 01, 2010, 06:02 PM)

I've no doubt that I shall - that's what has me worried. It's going to multiply my posessions AND create a division in my household.

-Darwin (May 01, 2010, 06:12 PM)

At least you'll have another product 

-cranioscopical (May 01, 2010, 08:41 PM)

 

With all the stuff I've collected over the years, what would be the difference?

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 06:12 PM »

electronic calculators
slide rules

I shudder to think about what's going to be next

-Darwin

I'm sure you'll think of sum thing.

-cranioscopical (May 01, 2010, 06:02 PM)

I've no doubt that I shall - that's what has me worried. It's going to multiply my posessions AND create a division in my household.

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 05:21 PM »

Where do I start?

Artie Shaw recordings
Beatles albums and bootlegs
Wristwatches
Pocketwatches
Fountain pens
Software

I'm really only actively collecting software these days... I've listed my passions in the order in which I acquired them - the Artie Shaw obsession goes back to when I was 7 or 8 years old, software to my early 20's (and going strong almost 20 years later!).

-Darwin (April 08, 2008, 09:03 PM)

Recent obsessions addictions interests have been:

electronic calculators
slide rules

I shudder to think about what's going to be next 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 05:08 PM »

No, Edvard got it right. I fell in love with the big desktop calculators with the tape when I had to take a 10-key class (all accounting students were required to do that, back in the 80's). Didn't get one of my own till I contracted a job that required me to have one. (early 90's)

-app103 (May 01, 2010, 03:57 PM)

Damn! I completely missed the hyperlink before I wrote my last note  Sorry, app, I just looked at the screenshot!

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

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 12:42 PM »

Ah... I did start using Firefox instead of Maxthon a year or two ago and discovered how to setup the equivalent of Maxthon's Groups feature within it (without every having heard of the Morning Coffee plugin). I've since ditched Fx in favour of IE8 and use the Favorites bar for the same purpose. Both IE8 and Fx support setting groups of pages as my start page, but I've long since stopped using the feature.

Haven't looked at Maxthon in at least two years. Loved it when I was running IE6 and XP but no longer see the point under IE8 and Win7 (though I still miss its mouse gestures feature, which was superior to any of the Fx plug-ins I tried). *Might* revisit Maxthon for that alone... or not!

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

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 12:36 PM »

Cloq - I just polished off an 8 cup POT of coffee (and I still feel like I'm trying to view the world with olive oil coating my eyeballs. Hmm... correlated, perhaps?!) 

I'm off to take a look at Morning Coffee now...

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on May 01, 2010, 12:34 PM »

Heh, heh - Edvard, I think app meant that she likes virtual calculators whereas I *think* you're assuming she meant the old, big desktop printing calculators?

FWIW, this is what I was talking about:



or this: