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General Software Discussion / Re: IE8 on the loose!

« Last post by nosh on March 20, 2009, 01:21 PM »

Digital Inspiration has some informative posts about how to use IE8's new 'Web Slices' on your site.

Tutorial: How to Write an IE8 Web Slice for WordPress Blogs

Turn your RSS Feed into a Web Slice for Internet Explorer 8

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE8 on the loose!

« Last post by nosh on March 20, 2009, 12:33 PM »

I am running the latest FeedDemon beta, but on XP-32 so I can't really compare.

It did break EmEditor's shell integration though, I confirmed this by installing IE8 on a virtual machine where I faced the same problem. Probably because I've used some dirty hacks to replace notepad.exe and the text editor is installed in c:\windows.
Uninstalling IE8 got me back to IE6 but that didn't fix anything, so I've upgraded again and got the text editor integrated manually using the registry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE8 on the loose!

« Last post by nosh on March 20, 2009, 07:09 AM »

I removed it as doesn't seem to play nice with feed demon.

-a_lunatic (March 19, 2009, 11:10 PM)

What's broken? I haven't faced any issues with FeedDemon.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Does anyone know if there is something “very useful” in IE8?

« Last post by nosh on March 19, 2009, 03:14 PM »

IE8 seems to update the core rendering components used by other applications. Shouldn't this be a good enough reason to upgrade?

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 11-09

« Last post by nosh on March 17, 2009, 01:14 AM »

Technically, they did break the law, though I don't see any harm done. If I owned one of those infected machines I'd send them (or you, if you'd done the same thing) a thank you card. 

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Living Room / Re: Eset False Positive Fiasco

« Last post by nosh on March 17, 2009, 12:51 AM »

And I thought they could do no wrong.

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

« Last post by nosh on March 17, 2009, 12:40 AM »

http://encyclopediad...om/Image:Patriot.jpg

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 11-09

« Last post by nosh on March 17, 2009, 12:02 AM »

#4
I found the special mostly voyeuristic. It showed how easy it was to operate a bot network once you managed to procure one (the relatively difficult part), the presenter was definitely in awe of the control panel software that came along with the zombie army. It ended with the usual Windows update, firewall, anti-malware advice and with the infected goobers getting their machines back (along with a brand new BBC wallpaper). I don't think they deserve to be sued, though they almost certainly encouraged some potential spammers!  It was a gutsy exercise for a mainstream organization like the BBC to carry out, not something I'd expect of them. 

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

« Last post by nosh on March 16, 2009, 11:03 PM »

They've got their countries all "mixed up", but this one's brilliant! 

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Living Room / Re: How to get data from dead flash drive?

« Last post by nosh on March 16, 2009, 02:18 AM »

I've shorted out a cable modem & a bluetooth hub by plugging them into the same faulty USB socket, so I'd look at that angle too. I don't know how you could test a faulty USB socket (that's emitting more power or whatever) other than by sacrificing another device. Hopefully somebody knows a less destructive way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any software that could generate screenshot like this [pic]

« Last post by nosh on March 15, 2009, 08:10 AM »

Thanks guys,

I've heard of these utilities but I was wondering what the connection between enabling a button(?) and making Extended Window Capture work was. 

Edit: Oh! OK, the penny dropped... you enabled the greyed out text input box for specifying height. Nice! Off to get one of these utilities now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft's Turn-off mode in IE8 not enough, says Opera.

« Last post by nosh on March 15, 2009, 03:36 AM »

Decoupling IE completely from Windows, I'm all for.
Giving Mr."Less than 1% market share" a free piggyback ride with Windows? Naah! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any software that could generate screenshot like this [pic]

« Last post by nosh on March 15, 2009, 02:23 AM »

I used some "Gray Button Activator" hack input height.

Sounds interesting, can you elaborate on this?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any software that could generate screenshot like this [pic]

« Last post by nosh on March 14, 2009, 07:10 AM »

SnagIt does let you do this, provided the window isn't maximized.



To capture all the content + the status bar just specify a height that exceeds the amount of content in the window, it doesn't capture anything beyond the window.

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

« Last post by nosh on March 14, 2009, 12:52 AM »

NSFW ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which flavor?

« Last post by nosh on March 14, 2009, 12:44 AM »

You can verify your file system by seeing your drive properties in My Computer. AvaFind has been out of development for a long time, it's an excellent program otherwise. Everything, OTOH, is very actively developed. You can convert your volumes to NTFS, which is an overall superior file system but there's no going back, so be sure you don't need FAT32. To convert read f0dder's post here.

BTW, Copernic looks inside your files and indexes their contents rather than just their file names, it belongs to a different category.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'Everything' is one FAST file search engine

« Last post by nosh on March 13, 2009, 12:00 PM »

You're welcome, superboyac! 



BTW, people who want to be updated about beta versions should subscribe to the feed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft's Turn-off mode in IE8 not enough, says Opera.

« Last post by nosh on March 12, 2009, 03:01 AM »

What about Opera Mini forcing Yahoo as the default/only search engine until recently? Almost everything Apple comes out with is locked in/tied down - their latest Shuffle confines you to using their own headphones. Sure, you don't have to buy it but doesn't the same thing apply to Windows? Opera's attitude stinks of desperation and double standards.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Portable Software

« Last post by nosh on March 11, 2009, 11:54 PM »

I love the site design, simple and aesthetic.  

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID

« Last post by nosh on March 11, 2009, 05:55 AM »

I'm a fan, FWIW. 

And LMAO at your clown badge, which I only just noticed!

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID

« Last post by nosh on March 10, 2009, 04:23 PM »

I went to Dopus and navigated to my start menu and simply highlighted the four shortcuts to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access and hit ENTER.

That didn't work for me using X² - it would just start Access and stop at that so I had to write the stupid batch file. 

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID

« Last post by nosh on March 10, 2009, 03:44 PM »

I just put these lines in a batch file that I ran from the same folder in the start menu as the shortcuts

access.lnk
powerpoint.lnk
word.lnk
excel.lnk

System Specs:
Core2Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz (no overclocking)
Mobo Gigabyte EX38-DS4
Corsair DDR2 4 GB
ATI Radeon HD 4800 512MB
WD Velociraptor 10000 RPM

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID

« Last post by nosh on March 10, 2009, 03:06 PM »

I can start the four Office (2003) apps together in under a second on my system. I was hoping to see Windows starting up (post BIOS) in a couple of seconds or so.

PS: It took 18 seconds to open 53 programs, the SSDs could handle a load of 36GB, give or take a couple, in that time - surely the programs didn't size up to all that. 
The SSDs were impressive but the system obviously had bottlenecks.

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Living Room / Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID

« Last post by nosh on March 10, 2009, 02:09 PM »

A viral video picked up by Ghacks.



Somehow, not as impressive as I expected it to be. 

Edit: Image links to the video.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Moving from yahoo mail to gmail

« Last post by nosh on March 10, 2009, 01:49 PM »

I personally hate Yahoo! Mail (not so much because of the functionality but for their evil step-mother approach towards free users -  deleting the inbox after a period of inactivity, for instance.)

So, I would probably just manually migrate my mailing lists to gmail. It would have the added benefit of dropping some of the less used subscriptions. If you want to use POP with Yahoo there's always YPOPs which has been around... I dunno... forever? I haven't tried it but I assume that means it works.