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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite LOL joke?

« Last post by tomos on November 03, 2009, 05:13 AM »

Spoiler

'And by the way, ' the blonde added, 'it's not a Porch, it's a Lexus.

-PPLandry (November 02, 2009, 07:52 PM)

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General Software Discussion / InfoQube - Vote for your most desired features

« Last post by tomos on November 02, 2009, 09:34 AM »

I quote Pierre from the IQ forum:

Vote for your most desired features
[you can suggest features too]

What features (new, changes, bug fix) would you like implemented in InfoQube ? Now you and others can propose new features and vote for them. This will guide us, and together, we'll make InfoQube, the best Information Manager System! Click here to access the feature list. This feedback system is powered by UserVoice. You don't need to register/login to use it (it identifies you by your IP address). If you do register, there are some small advantages. Either way, you are entitled to 10 votes.

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Living Room / Re: Seriously, wtf is going on with Apple's Mac vs. Pc ads?

« Last post by tomos on November 02, 2009, 08:23 AM »

It's interesting there is a blue screen [...]

-Carol Haynes (November 01, 2009, 03:16 PM)

it's the cliché isnt it - well, the mac propaganda cliché I mean.

It was the only one of the icons though with character, and is very lovingly drawn - all the other icons (all mac) look pretty much like something from a mac catalogue. Maybe the illustrator has a subconscious or deeply supressed love of 'pc's disguised by a blue screen

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Living Room / Re: Seriously, wtf is going on with Apple's Mac vs. Pc ads?

« Last post by tomos on November 01, 2009, 02:35 PM »

I thought I'd post here and leave the serious mac vs. windows debate to the other thread
I was looking for icons for a couple of filetypes and came across this beauty



I really like it, unfortunately I dont use large icons now but I'm saving it up (it's a bit lost at small size)

Ironically it was in with a bunch of very slick looking 'Macintosh icons' ('Generic PC' it's called). I think the 'PC' one is the only one with character though...

Hey, maybe it's really cool - to be uncool

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 07:02 PM »

Is there a point to your post?

-Bamse (October 30, 2009, 06:39 PM)

yes

I think I've made it already but in case you didnt understand it:
the point is that your response (to Innuendo) was bitchy & I was wondering why

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Living Room / Re: You have a computer backup plan.. but does it work?

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 06:28 PM »

What's important to me with an imaging programme is that it doesnt backup the hibernation file (2GB here) and the paging file if you have one on the C drive. Incremental backups are a big plus. Beyond that, of course (as mouser says) that it really works

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General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use - discussion

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 06:06 PM »

Why no one mention Privatefirewall? Is free for private and business use though not listed at such by Matousec site. http://www.privacywa...rsonal_firewall.html program as ugly as website, but I think only firewall I have tried where I did not notice it was running. HIPS stuff dont work with 64bit but some might just want a good old firewall.   

-Bamse (October 30, 2009, 04:16 PM)

http://www.privacywa...onal_firewall_2.html

Privatefirewall ― the proactive, multi-layered defense solution for Windows desktops and servers.   Get Privatefirewall today  ― it's absolutely FREE for personal and commercial use!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 06:00 PM »

You failed with that effort

-Bamse (October 30, 2009, 04:16 PM)

what's eating you

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paragon Drive Backup+Recovery 10 Free - good full drive imaging tool

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 05:58 PM »

and then comes the fourty dollar question; which is the better BackUp for my 32-bits Vista, the version 9 PRO, or the FREE version 10??

-Curt (October 30, 2009, 05:52 PM)

or the free macrium one? (I havent tried it but there seems to be a few happy users here)

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Finished Programs / Re: Group files from within folders

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 06:45 AM »

I've decided on "File Bucket" as the name.

-skwire (October 29, 2009, 08:54 PM)

Oh no, not another Spoonerism!

-cranioscopical (October 29, 2009, 09:16 PM)

now that would be a name that wouldnt be forgotten

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Metaproducts Inquiry Standard is today (2009-10-30) on GAOTD

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 05:30 AM »

strangely it's not on their home page today
try here
http://www.giveawayo...-standard/#more-9507

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Living Room / Re: Reocities: the GeoCities one-man rescue project

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2009, 05:14 AM »

Also who could ever forget the annoying midi files that ran in the background of so many of those sites

-rgdot (October 29, 2009, 10:38 PM)

it's all new to me   Another Midi Page

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Finished Programs / Re: Group files from within folders

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2009, 07:48 AM »

FolderGroupie
(?)

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Lazy Productivity: 10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2009, 04:01 AM »

nice post Paul

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2009, 07:06 AM »

(so why am I posting it here?)!

-Curt (October 28, 2009, 06:57 AM)

lol,
Curt, I couldnt find anything about the new feature at that link (or under the more details link there)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2009, 04:13 PM »

I think there's two things going on here -
there's been a good bit of gratuitous bashing etc, but, on the other had,
I thought that the responses to both those articles were actually quite reasonable (in fairness, one article wasnt really about mac vs 'pc' at all).

I have noticed in comments on any articles I've read about the topic that the mac users who respond are very reasonable and practical and NOT fanatics. Maybe that's part of the problem here - there arent really any mac users involved in the thread.

Was it last year that nontroppo moved to mac and wrote some very impressive stuff here about the OS.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2009, 03:13 AM »

Latest version (2.75) has improved save to PDF features in scanning functions.

-mouser (October 26, 2009, 06:20 PM)

look forward to trying that out  
just to report though - it's not being offered via check for updates or via dcupdater
(my version here is 2.72.01)

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Living Room / Re: Unauthorized Contest: Who's been the most helpful in the last 3 months?

« Last post by tomos on October 25, 2009, 01:08 PM »

rypple says I need to register.

-zridling (October 25, 2009, 11:54 AM)

after voting it asks you to login/register - it's not clear has the vote been accepted (?)

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Living Room / Re: You have a computer backup plan.. but does it work?

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2009, 04:38 PM »

These image backups are huge. I don't have an external HD that has triple the space of the current HD.

-Paul Keith (October 23, 2009, 01:10 PM)

Using a backup software that compresses backups and can do incremental backups:
I just checked & have 3 full backups and 14 incremental backups (so you could really call that 17 backups) - they take up 30GB space.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by tomos on October 22, 2009, 02:08 PM »

Atwood on PCs vs Macs. Oldie but goodie

-urlwolf (October 22, 2009, 12:16 PM)

the comments are more informative (both sides) and entertaining than the article itself (a good few from this year actually).

there's a link in the comments there for this NSFW article "Announcing the new apple iProduct" - doesnt look NSFW but some of the text is of a delicate nature

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Living Room / Re: You have a computer backup plan.. but does it work?

« Last post by tomos on October 22, 2009, 08:16 AM »

I just did my first restore a few months ago - was very nervous but thankfully it worked
I'll have to take your advice mouser and get myself another drive to restore to.

I'll probably just stick another drive in the computer - it'll be a third drive; I might, as suggested, get a rack

I love hard drive racks and the new sata racks are completely trayless and as easy as can be to use.

-mouser (October 21, 2009, 11:09 PM)

can you recommend one mouser ?  a search for "hard drive rack sata trayless" at NewEgg just gives three iStarUSA products which sound suspiciously like they only available in USA or N.America..

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux

« Last post by tomos on October 21, 2009, 03:04 PM »

@tomos

I don't really know terminal commands but maybe this article is what you're looking for?

http://ubuntuforums....owthread.php?t=35087

-Paul Keith (October 21, 2009, 08:53 AM)

thanks Paul 

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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 October 21, 2009, 12:55 PM »

Hi!

I'm Kingsmob a.k.a PunkRockKarl, a 36 year-old aging punk rocker.

-kingsmob77 (October 21, 2009, 08:54 AM)

haha - a punkrocker and a geek - I love it
welcome to the site Kingsmob, I was already listening to a bit of music on your webpage -
you could always add a few recommendations to this thread:
Recommend some music videos to me!

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux

« Last post by tomos on October 21, 2009, 04:31 AM »

I'm wondering -
if I were to install Linux-(or whatever) on a machine and back up any important data &/or keep it on a separate partition:-
Can I do regular image-backups of the OS so that if something goes wrong I can just restore the last functional version of the OS?

That way I wouldnt have to try figure out how to fix "a python backtrace when one of the thousand front-ends coded in it inevitably goes bottom-up, for example".

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by tomos on October 20, 2009, 05:37 PM »

There is little reason that software should be treated differently than other commodities (unless you want to get into the open source and FOSS debates  ) DOpus is, if not the most expensive, among the most expensive of its kind. Whether the feature set justifies it and sets it apart from others of its kind is only up to each individual user.

-rgdot (October 20, 2009, 05:10 PM)

well said

I think cost-wise that XYplorer at current lifetime licence for $44.95US is very worth snapping up. I do miss some things from DOpus (didnt upgrade to version 9, bought XY instead) but I suspect I'd also miss things if I was migrating the other direction. XY is much more affordable and being developed very actively.
If I had the money though, I'd buy both