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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2010, 09:38 AM »

Margaret & Helen link is super Zaine

unrelated,
on Dilbert today:

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on November 30, 2010, 01:03 PM »

This is the most ass-kickingest blues saxophone I've ever heard.  The wonderful Jimmy Forrest with the legendary Count Basie orchestra.  Oh my.
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=_bcp4qFHt5U

(see attachment in previous post)

-superboyac (November 30, 2010, 08:22 AM)

I used to think I hated jazz - I just hadnt heard the right stuff I guess

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Sync Alternative?

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2010, 02:04 PM »

Don't you know how these two handle conflicting changes?

-yksyks (November 29, 2010, 04:38 AM)

DropBox renames conflicting files.

-Deozaan (November 29, 2010, 01:18 PM)

I've had the experience that dropbox was confused when I replaced a file with an older local backup - it renamed the version it had already (I think it added a date suffix), and copied the newly restored one - I was satisfied with how it handled the situation

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2010, 12:27 PM »

Ahem...
I just bought an ipad.

-superboyac (November 28, 2010, 01:41 AM)

ha-hahahaha whoo hoo :p
keep us informed lol


[edit] woops, I hadn't seen all the posts on this page...  [/edit]

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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 November 26, 2010, 03:42 PM »

Hi!

First i will introduce myself, my name is Mike. I´m 30 years old and i´m from Hannover Germany. I´m working as consulter and my hobbys are oldtimer. Here you can visited my site BMO and my hobby site Oldtimer Versicherung. If you need some information about oldtimers, let me know.

so long

-Oldi (November 26, 2010, 03:37 AM)

Hey, welcome to DonationCoder, nice to have you here!

Your websites look nice, cant read German so the first one didnt make sence to me, but I figure the 2nd link (http://oldtimer-versicherung.biz/) is about old cars? lol

-Stephen66515 (November 26, 2010, 11:02 AM)

Hi Mike, welcome to dc.
If you want to, you can promote your site(s) in the Announce Your Software/Service/Product section. Of course you can add a commercial site to your web link in your profile too (it will show under your avatar)

What oldtimer car do you have? - my car is working it's way towards being an oldtimer but isn't quite there yet ;-)
I saw an oldtimer show lately and I find I especially enjoy the cars from the seventies, probably because I can actually remember them...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2010, 03:23 PM »

fact is that I'm the result of the union of two lineages: one Yorkshire/Darbyshire and the other Scottish/Northumberland and I keep thinking about the 15 months left on my household license for VIPRE 

-Darwin (November 26, 2010, 01:45 PM)

Sure you're not Canadian at all then Mike :p ;-)

I actually bought a years 'supply' of Vipre in the sales ages ago & never used it (it's supposed to start only when registered but at this stage I'll probably just use MSE when the occasion arises...)

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Living Room / Re: Jeans pocket - the square-ish one on the right

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2010, 03:17 PM »

Don't forget, blue jeans were work pants ,,,

-Darwin (November 26, 2010, 08:32 AM)

Under where?

hmmm, trying to figure out cranioscopical's last comment...

-tomos (November 26, 2010, 09:20 AM)

-cranioscopical (November 26, 2010, 09:01 AM)

"pants", trousers, ambiguous, also underwear, but if so, under where?

-Curt (November 26, 2010, 10:24 AM)

thanks Curt
when I think of it, I havent heard the word 'pants' since I was a kid (in Ireland - "that's a nice pair of pants you have on you"- I don't know if it's used much in Britain either any more) so dont know how I managed to miss that

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Living Room / Re: Jeans pocket - the square-ish one on the right

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2010, 09:20 AM »

hmmm, trying to figure out cranioscopical's last comment...

Mark's Work Wearhouse jeans give a very generous sized watch pocket, so there is no leap to imagine a pocket watch going in there.  Keep in mind too that this wouldn't be yer fancy pocket watch for a fancy man.  *Real* men had their watch on a chain, and it was always tucked into their *vest* pocket.  Vests being for a gentleman, and jeans with a watch pocket being for the blue collar scum like me. And possibly you

-Daleus (November 26, 2010, 06:25 AM)

wondering where the chain went... possibly simply into the larger pocket?
I did read in wikipedia that wrist watches were introduced for women, and were considered poncy for men till after the first world war, at which time they started to realise the convenience.

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Living Room / Re: Going online @ DonationCoder on Thanksgiving Day

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2010, 04:33 AM »

999 times out of 1000 im at home on the holidays glued to DC.
today i've traveled to visit family and been playing board games all night, but that can't keep me away from saying hello to my online family at donationcoder.
-mouser

-awaymouser (November 25, 2010, 10:37 PM)

is that mouser?! did you forget your login details lol
(hope you having a nice break!)

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Living Room / Re: Jeans pocket - the square-ish one on the right

« Last post by tomos on November 26, 2010, 04:23 AM »

good question,
wikipedia doesnt have the answer *
I had an idea it was originally for pocket watches - but I think it too small for that

* look here http://en.wikipedia....Jeans#smaller_pocket
might have been originally for watches. Quote from a levis add:

Levi's ran an ad where a man uses the pocket to keep condoms ending with. "The watch pocket, invented in 1873, misused ever since."

not the best way to care for a condom

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Living Room / Re: Going online @ DonationCoder on Thanksgiving Day

« Last post by tomos on November 25, 2010, 11:20 AM »

Ah,
today's thanksgiving - have fun everyone!

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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2010, 11:25 AM »

[edit] scratch that request [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2010, 05:27 PM »

I tend to be skeptical until I see a trustworthy scientific source that tells me that things are actually okay - which [trustworthy] sources, as Renegade says, are difficult to come by (these days of caring corporation love)

[not that I've really conscientiously avoided any of this stuff either]


edit/ didn't mean to misquote Renegade there who simply points out that a lot of research is 'sponsered'

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Living Room / Re: Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick!

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2010, 10:42 AM »

So,
what's it doing to us guinea pigs...

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2010, 09:10 AM »

I use replacement inks for my canon printer - but I only use good quality ones (that have been tested/reviewed) - not the really cheap ones (the really cheap ones have no chip - and trying to add the chip from the old cartridge to a new chipless one is a royal PIA plus that you dont get notification of ink running low).

I dont believe that using replacement ink is why I've had some problems but I cant prove it either way at this stage.

I wonder are there any inkjets these days that dont use "chipped" cartridges?
I know kodak introduced a printer within the last year or two where the idea was to keep the manufacturer-ink costs low. I believe HP also have inkjet printers now that have much cheaper ink costs (I think they had a bad rep before).

It would be good to try find a comparative review that includes ink/printing costs if running costs are to be considered as well...

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2010, 08:12 AM »

I probably cant help much but FWIW I'll tell my experience with Canon.
I've had canon printers a good few years  now, and loved the prints, but I but havent had as much luck as you have in term of lifespan.
Things go wrong and I hear that *possibly* a new printhead, which costs half the printer price, *might* fix the problem. At that stage I've usually bought a new printer.
I've decided to get an Epson next, from what I have heard, they keep going for years - the older ones tended to get clogged but they actually work again if you clean out the printhead. You see some fairly old Epson printers on sale on Ebay. Obviously I'd need to research a bit more to decide what exactly.

I've found this forum to be very helpful re inkjet printers
http://www.nifty-stu....com/forum/index.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hotkeys to control windows?

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2010, 04:05 AM »

There must be a AutoHotkey script out there for minimising/'normalising'/maximising current window - anyone know of one?
I actually use PowerPro for this but it's really complete overkill as I use hardly any of it's other features...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 10:58 AM »

Like, I don't get what's so great about using Ctrl-<letter> instead of the arrow keys to navigate through a document

-superboyac (November 18, 2010, 09:18 AM)

The idea is that you don't have to move a hand away from the main keyboard to navigate (similar to the argument vi users make).

-mwb1100 (November 18, 2010, 10:02 AM)

And on some laptop keyboards, this becomes extremely important - perhaps not so much for arrow keys, but often pgup/pgdown and home/end are located at fscked up places, or require pressing a function-modifier key. I can definitely see why WordStar keybindings has appeal - and they're logically placed.

-f0dder (November 18, 2010, 10:44 AM)

Add to that, (according to the article linked to by rjbull above), the Control key used to be where the CapsLock key now is - this would probably have made it even quicker if you were fluent with the shortcuts.

Because of this, WordStar comes with a utility called SWITCH.COM to optionally swap the functions of the CapsLock and Control keys.

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 10:38 AM »

I'm using SharePod without itunes installed - but it *is* with an older ipod (sorry dont know the model)

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Living Room / Re: Are "you" "your friend"?

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 09:43 AM »

... I the conversation seems to be more intelligent when it's with myself.

-Eóin (November 18, 2010, 08:50 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 08:06 AM »

Damned right, when serving  duck a l'orange for breakfast it always should be accompanied by green beans, not broccoli!

-cranioscopical (November 18, 2010, 07:50 AM)

and a good Burgundy of course...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 07:55 AM »

Though this report may be premature, Auspex has expired.

-cranioscopical (November 18, 2010, 07:28 AM)

yeah, I just thought I'd give this version a go

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Information
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This version of Auspex has now expired. Please contact ...
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OK   
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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 07:13 AM »

Wouldn't want to live in that (second) northern most one, wherever it may be...somewhere north of Finland!

-rgdot (November 18, 2010, 12:18 AM)

hah, the northernmost one (off Greenland) is Cody

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Unfinished Requests / Re: One word, three dictionaries

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 06:54 AM »

How about the same word defined from the different sources appearing in one interface instead?

-wraith808 (November 03, 2010, 03:43 PM)

would that be possible wraith, were you thinking of have a go? or making a suggestion
or is there software out there that already does this well?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wikipedia Posts Report on Effects of Banner Appearance on Donors

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2010, 06:50 AM »

The thermometer banner was a great idea, it worked really well

This wikipedia banner got the most click-through rates (2.85%). I can see why - it's very strong, and the body page is usually graphically very 'weak'



the last fundraiser was fun, exciting even
I think once every two years would be a good average - or more importantly whenever needed.

edit/ I got that wikipedia page by clicking on random on the left there...