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Living Room / Re: TrackMania Nations Forever! w00t!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2008, 08:50 PM »

Although, I do need to patch mine a bit. People can get creative when they are under time pressure about exactly HOW they make it to the finish...

-wreckedcarzz (May 08, 2008, 07:34 PM)

Heh. "Creative." That's a very nice way of saying I'm always looking for shortcuts.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for April 23rd - Codename "Summer Feathers"

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2008, 08:46 PM »

I'd like to have the Podcast back. Those were so fun!

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Living Room / Re: 10 Dirty Little Secrets

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2008, 04:05 PM »

You do have to register with the site to use that though.

-Carol Haynes (May 08, 2008, 04:40 AM)

That's another complaint/rant. The good news is I just got BugMeNot working again.

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Living Room / Re: 10 Dirty Little Secrets

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2008, 04:27 AM »

Interesting article.

I'd just like to take a moment and rant: I hate sites like this that make you click every single comment you want to read. Why not just show them all? Or show 50 at a time or something? 

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Week: Armed with Wings - Beautiful Atmosphere

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2008, 01:33 AM »

It looks cool but it's boring.

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Living Room / Re: TrackMania Nations Forever! w00t!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 07, 2008, 03:18 AM »

lol, mine are from the spy kids 3d movie

-nite_monkey (May 06, 2008, 08:13 PM)

Oh is that all it is? I thought it was those electronic ones with screens for lenses that cost $300.

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Living Room / Re: TrackMania Nations Forever! w00t!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2008, 10:44 PM »

I downloaded it too. Add me as a buddy. My username is Deozaan, of course.

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Living Room / Re: Registry hack needed: Full date in the tray clock

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2008, 01:49 PM »

Ooh, 3 levels :cringe:

-Edvard (May 05, 2008, 01:35 PM)

No that's only 2 levels. The tray icons are just small enough to fit 3 in that same space.

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Week: Rollercoaster Creator

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2008, 01:44 PM »

Looks like a Roller Coaster themed Line Rider.

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Living Room / Re: Registry hack needed: Full date in the tray clock

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2008, 01:25 PM »

Not sure. My task bar shows the date just fine when it's 2 levels high.

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Living Room / Re: Shutdown Day!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2008, 11:12 PM »

I'm one of those typical addicts in denial: I could do it if I wanted to. But I don't want to, so I'm not going to. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this the holy grail to solving windows-out-of-resources bugs?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2008, 11:04 PM »

I never ran into the problem before that I can remember on this particular machine, but just to see if it improved performance I changed it to 8096 or whatever amount he said was working fine for him in the article.

I haven't noticed any difference though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this the holy grail to solving windows-out-of-resources bugs?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 02, 2008, 03:56 PM »

12288 sounds more than brave to me! 

-Curt (May 02, 2008, 01:02 PM)

I admit my ignorance in exactly what this is used for, but I don't understand why that sounds brave. That's just 12MB. I have ~2,000MB RAM on this machine. Most people these days have at least 512MB if not 1GB of RAM.

On my system, Firefox often takes up around 150MB by itself. So that's why I think 12MB is nothing.

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Living Room / Re: Knock, Knock, It's the FBI

« Last post by Deozaan on April 28, 2008, 02:56 AM »

Anyway, I think I made the point once that everyone should use stuff like TOR - not because they have anything to hide but because you never know when something innocuous will suddenly become somthing to hide, and because the mass of users adds to the anonymity of the system

-iphigenie (April 28, 2008, 02:20 AM)

What is TOR?

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 11:25 PM »

Maybe IE had a cached CSS file?

Everything I ever learned about CSS & XHTML (which I've all forgotten since it's been ages since I did any web design) I learned from http://www.w3.org/

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 08:05 PM »

Thanks guys for the helful and positive comments.

If I make the sheep active as a link it ends up with a box round it - anyone any idea how to remove that in CSS or Dreamweaver? I looked everywhere fort he option but couldn't find it. Tickling the sheep was my original intention!

-Carol Haynes (April 25, 2008, 07:17 PM)

I'm not sure on the exact CSS method, but in the <img> tags you can add (for example) <img src=sheep.jpg border=0> to get rid of the box. My example isn't xhtml compliant, but I think you could just add a border=0 to the CSS for img tags.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 06:44 PM »

And how could I not immediately think of AOL?

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 06:25 PM »

My natural inclination was to click on the sheep, though; so I'd make the sheep a button too. I'm always slightly irritated by having to look for the enter button. In practice,I prefer having the menus available on the first screen, but that may just be me.

-Dormouse (April 25, 2008, 06:21 PM)

I had to scroll down to see the "Click here to enter" link, which I think should be a big "no no" for a website. Just to give you an idea of how "bad" this is: My resolution is 1280x1024. My browser window isn't maximized, but it takes up most of the screen. Dormouse's suggestion would help, but I think you need the "Click to enter" somewhere up higher so people can see it and know what to do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 06:00 PM »

So, what programs make you sigh when you sit down at someone else's computer?

-CWuestefeld (April 25, 2008, 03:15 PM)

Pretty much any bundle-in browser toolbar (Yahoo!, Google, etc).

Pretty much anything Yahoo! for that matter.

McAfee Antivirus.

I used to really hate RealPlayer and QuickTime but it's been a really long time since I've used them or seen them so maybe they've changed.

Any sort of software that comes with a digital camera, like Kodak EasyShare software for photo albums and things.

iTunes.

And last but not least: OSX 

EDIT: This one is kind of the opposite of your question. Things that annoy me when they're not on someone else's computer:

FireFox.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Weird software names

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 05:42 PM »

Bunjalloo - An Internet browser (homebrew) for Nintendo DS

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: spring cleaning

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 05:33 PM »

I was just sent an e-mail from http://TigerDirect.com saying I haven't bought enough from them recently, so to woo me back they offered me a $20 coupon if I spent more than $200. It expires May 2, and I don't plan to spend that much before then. So I'm offering it up for grabs.

If anyone plans on buying something(s) for more than $200 at TigerDirect.com, I'll send you the link to redeem the coupon.

It's a unique, one-time use coupon so I don't want to just post it for anyone to use.

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Living Room / Re: Wii Browser

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 12:56 PM »

Posting this from my Nintendo DS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstallers - do any of them work?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2008, 12:40 AM »

Yep. I was just in my Application Data folder today and I found all sorts of left over files from programs long ago uninstalled. Who knows what the registry looks like!

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« Last post by Deozaan on April 24, 2008, 09:42 PM »

Mouser already did it with Dr. Windows

-Deozaan (April 24, 2008, 02:05 PM)

A little discretion, please!  This is a family site.
KATR isn't due for another nine months.

-cranioscopical (April 24, 2008, 06:41 PM)

I was not expecting what I said to be thought of that way! 

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: False Positive on Software (Generic.Dx) by McAfee Today: McAfee Response and Fix

« Last post by Deozaan on April 24, 2008, 02:25 PM »

Maybe software authors should start informing users about McAfee's clumsiness using a nice dialog box displayed right at the install phase. Mention that you're not the only developers affected & even urge users to change their AV to something more reliable. I'm sure if enough authors do this it's bound to get them off their asses. Hit right back if the bastards don't listen!

-nosh (April 22, 2008, 10:10 AM)

Sorry if I seem like a pessimist, but I'm still convinced that ignorance is the main problem here. I'm not sure how effective this would be, because everybody I know who uses McAfee AV also fits into the same category of people who don't know much about computers and just look for whatever button they can press to make those pesky dialog boxes go away. Along the same lines, I think they also just click Next -> Next -> Next -> Finish when installing things. I don't think they read it anything. That's how they end up with Google Dekstop/Toolbar or all that Yapoo! crap that's bundled in.