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General Software Discussion / Re: Inadvertent Googling in Spanish

« Last post by Deozaan on January 14, 2008, 11:46 AM »

I'm not sure about any solutions to your problem, but I've noticed Google always forgets my preference to have more than 10 results per page, even though it remembers my Safe Search preference.

And I DO have a Google account. What's the deal with that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Logitech's Setpoint

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 03:13 AM »

No, not gaming mice. I have a Logitech TrackMan (no special buttons) and a Logitech MX 1000 Cordless Laser. The MX 1000 is too erratic with the cursor sometimes not responding or jumping across the screen suddenly so I use it on my computer I don't use very much. I also don't use any of the special buttons on it. All I need/want are right and left clicks with a scroll wheel.

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Living Room / Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 02:57 AM »

thanks Deozaan! love ya..

-lanux128 (January 11, 2008, 12:32 AM)

Oh my!  What will my wife think?

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Living Room / Re: Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 02:15 AM »

Here's another article where Bill Gates says pretty much the opposite about Vista:

Are you proud of Vista, because a lot of people are questioning whether you should be.

No, I'm very proud of Vista. Like all of the products we ship as soon as we get it out we hear how we could do this differently and that differently but it has been a very important product for the industry a lot of great things were done in Vista. Now we are hard at work on what comes next.

-http://kotaku.com/343235/gates-360-to-be-the-most-reliable-console-available

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Living Room / Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 12:28 AM »

Here ya go

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General Software Discussion / Re: Logitech's Setpoint

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 12:23 AM »

I just stopped installing Logitech mouse drivers. Default XP drivers work fine for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 12:14 AM »

I don't know much of anything about setting up an FTP server. Can you resume transfers at any time without any problems?

Resuming transfers is the best thing in the world. I don't understand why browsers don't do that by default.

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Living Room / Re: Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 11, 2008, 12:12 AM »

Gizmodo's title (and mine  ) was only to catch people's attention.

-Armando (January 10, 2008, 11:47 PM)

Gotta love sensationalism in the media. 

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Living Room / Re: What should I do with my audio CDs?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 05:55 PM »

I recently went through and tossed a ton of my CDs.

As to the legality of keeping the MP3s after getting rid of the physical discs, my rationalization is that who is to say you hadn't backed it up and lost the CD? Or you didn't get it from iTunes or other digital music service.

I still have some CDs, but most went in the dumpster because I'm too lazy to try to scrounge up a few bucks by listing them on eBay or going to a pawn/music shop. I'm not even sure if anyone would pay for them.

I suppose you could donate them to your local library...

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Living Room / Re: Beware Domain Searching at Network Solutions!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 03:10 PM »

Hey guys, check out DailyChanges.com:

ReservedDomainName.com (the domain Network Solutions is using to "reserve" these domains) has gained over 50,000 domains just today. I don't think Renegade was the only one with the script idea. I tried to click the list but it crashed Firefox.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Radiohead video of Scottish Mist

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 03:05 PM »

This may be slightly off topic, but would it be considered illegal/unethical to share the original download with other people even though it was free in the first place?

And I thought the physical CD they started selling on Jan 1 had a few more songs than the download. What happened with that?

Anyway, Radiohead is a truly great band in my opinion, and in "DonationCoder" spirit I think it would be worth the low price to pay for the album to show support, even if you already got it for free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 02:57 PM »

I like Pando's more direct torrent approach, too. Great post and links, patteo, thanks!

-zridling (December 10, 2006, 07:17 PM)

I also like Pando for sending large files privately to other people. It's limited to 1 GB but most archiving programs can split archives up into multiple files if you need to send more than 1 GB of files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Radiohead video of Scottish Mist

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 02:25 AM »

Surely you know that the entire In Rainbows album is/was freely available for all to download? For free.

Why would you want a recording of a low quality stream when you could get the nice version free?

As for software, your computer can record anything that plays through the speakers using Sound Recorder if you configure it correctly.

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Living Room / Re: iPod Touch - any opinions?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 02:20 AM »

Avoid! 

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Living Room / Re: Beware Domain Searching at Network Solutions!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 02:17 AM »

The executable is buried deep in there. Some instructions on where to find it would be useful for people who might have a hard time finding it.

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Living Room / Re: Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just...

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 12:49 AM »

No. He didn't.

He may have implied that Vista needed more polish, but Windows is a long line of products and his statement was clearly not about every single Windows released.

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Living Room / Re: Beware Domain Searching at Network Solutions!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2008, 12:39 AM »

I believe the only reason people still use them is they don't know there are alternatives.

-tinjaw (January 09, 2008, 08:23 PM)

I've never even heard of Network Solutions until now.

I use xwhois for information on domains.

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Living Room / Re: Beware Domain Searching at Network Solutions!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 09, 2008, 06:17 PM »

Renegade, I'm sure that there are people here and on the forums the story originated from who would be very happy to run your little program.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder powered by logo's

« Last post by Deozaan on January 08, 2008, 10:04 PM »

Didn't I already make some of these with the Userbar Generator?

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 08:11 PM »

* Deozaan is defeated.

* Lashiec gains 30xp.

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 08:00 PM »

* Deozaan aims his flamethrower at Lashiec.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove ALL of Firefox?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:36 PM »

You could always format your hard drive... 

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Living Room / Re: World Question Center 2008: "WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?"

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:31 PM »

I've changed my mind about kittens (and cats in general). They're not all cute, furry animals. Some are viscous creatures that will eat your food, then scratch and bite your hands.

-icekin (January 06, 2008, 05:26 AM)

Actually, they're ALL vicious creatures that will eat your food and then scratch and bite your hands and other body parts. The good thing is that most kittens eventually grow (mostly) out of the scratching and biting. But they never stop eating your food.

My mother got a kitten a few weeks ago from the pet store and it gave her ringworm. The doctor misdiagnosed it as something that wasn't contagious and so when the whole family was together for Christmas she spread it like the plague! Actually only 4 other people got it that I'm aware of, and her dog.

Interesting fact: Monistat 7 (vaginal cream) is an effective treatment for ringworm.

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Living Room / Re: Smilie Charades

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:23 PM »

That's for that trout slap there Deo. I needed it.

-tinjaw (January 06, 2008, 07:21 PM)

Yeah but now my knuckles hurt. 

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 06, 2008, 07:22 PM »

Who's Monday - it is Monday here already ... 

-Carol Haynes (January 06, 2008, 07:20 PM)

Don't answer mouser! She's just trying to calibrate her topic sniping program!