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Living Room / Re: How to Use a School Project to Score Political Points 101

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 09:11 PM »

I think it is a very good thing that there are people that confront the politicians and do not just sit and complain about them. This is what we all should be doing. Even if the student is not right or if the video is edited to make the politician look bad (shame on them in this case!!!), I think we have something to learn from this.

-bgd77 (June 21, 2010, 07:28 AM)

That was exactly the point I was trying to make & probably didn't succeed very well at doing it. Everyone who is in a position of power should be made accountable for their actions.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Total Commander 7.55 FINAL for Windows released!

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 09:09 PM »

In case nobody noticed the latest release of the world's best file manager 

-rjbull (June 21, 2010, 03:33 PM)

I noticed, but thought I'd leave the announcement of the new version to someone else as I probably beat the Total Commander drum a little too much around these parts.

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Living Room / Re: Why does the computer have to pause when you stick in a blank dvd/cd?

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 09:07 PM »

Back in the Amiga days, they implemented a custom chip to handle all disk i/o, and the pause that gnaws was eliminated. It's something that has bugged my britches since I started using PCs.

-Daleus (June 21, 2010, 11:27 AM)

The Amiga was pure distilled awesomeness condensed into a beige-brown box. There are things the Amiga could do that modern computers *still* can't (won't?) do.

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Living Room / Re: install win7 32 or 64 bit on a 4 gig ram machine - opinions, please.

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 09:05 PM »

Having said all that I agree with steeladept - I have performed more BIOS updates than I can remember and have never (touch wood) killed a motherboard yet by doing so.

-Carol Haynes (June 21, 2010, 06:55 AM)

Oh! Oh! :: jumping up and down ::

I've killed one! It was an ancient Compaq & I booted up the PC, inserted the disk with the upgrade on it, and started the flash routine. The flash program checked to make sure the BIOS file was the right one for the PC, it flashed the file, read it back again to verify the integrity of the flash, it said everything was A-OK and to reboot.

Turned off the PC & turned it back on and....a glowing power light with no other activity. Nothing could revive it. Stupid Compaq....

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Living Room / Re: install win7 32 or 64 bit on a 4 gig ram machine - opinions, please.

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 09:02 PM »

W7 had trouble with my tv tuner card (ati), working for a bit then loosing the tuner's signal.
Works fine with XP media center installed, glad I had called for that disk long ago.

-cmpm (June 21, 2010, 04:24 AM)

I use an ATI tuner card with Windows 7 & it works great. I record stuff off of cable all the time....when I remember I have a tuner card in my PC! I went so many years without one I often forget it's there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: This Mac devotee is moving to Linux

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 08:55 PM »

My point is, that Linux never will be a major system until women easily can operate it.
- and this should give people like me a chance as well ;-)

-Curt (June 21, 2010, 11:56 AM)

But...but...Curt! I thought the deficiency of women not being able to operate it was solved with the release of Hannah Montana Linux!

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General Software Discussion / Re: OpenOffice at the crossroads

« Last post by Innuendo on June 21, 2010, 08:45 PM »

40hz, you took the words right out of my mouth.

When you talk about open software, Novell & Oracle are two of the absolute worst companies that should be leading the charge. They know absolutely nothing about open software & have in times past have gone out of their way to try to squash it.

Then when you go talking about showing some actual innovation with a piece of software & doing things in a radically (better?) way, Novell & Oracle are not your go-to guys in that department, either.

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Living Room / Re: install win7 32 or 64 bit on a 4 gig ram machine - opinions, please.

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 10:23 PM »

If I could do it over I would have bought the W7 64 to read all my memory.
But I don't know if that would blue screen either, cause I haven't tried it....yet.

-cmpm (June 20, 2010, 09:00 PM)

Did you buy OEM or retail? If retail MS will ship you the 64-bit version for a pittance of shipping and handling. If you bought OEM MS won't ship you anything which I think is a bit of a rip. In such a case if I were you I wouldn't have any guilt over obtaining a 64-bit disc by other means.

The 32-bit & 64-bit versions even use the same keys so it's not like you'd be pirating anything because all the software manufacturers drill into our heads it's not the media you are buying it's the license key & if that license key can be used with both versions of Windows 7 I think that's a legal avenue to explore.

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Living Room / Re: Buy / build new system (from CCLOnline) - opinion sought

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 04:05 PM »

(last board had ULi - since bought by nvidia - and it worked great, very stable compared to the nvidia chipsets I had).

-4wd (June 20, 2010, 02:04 PM)

Didn't know Nvidia bought ULi. Wonderful. Now ULi will either entirely disappear or Nvidia will botch them up like they did their own chipsets.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Side-Step of Copyright; Also Porn

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 04:02 PM »

Hmmm... Do we have a challenger to dethrone Zane as the resident porn authority?

-Renegade (June 20, 2010, 09:54 AM)

Sounds like a trick question to me. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there an ultimate file extension manager (to work with windows 7, at least).

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 04:01 PM »

Here's my entire list, nudone. There's a few that are disabled right now as I'm contemplating removing them entirely. Also, TACO 3.0 is supposed to supplant Ghostery so I need to make up my mind which one of those needs to hit the bricks as well.

Everything should be self-explanatory.


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Living Room / Re: How to Use a School Project to Score Political Points 101

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 09:24 AM »

I have no opinion on the actual politics of this article as I despise all politicians and political parties equally, but I am extremely pleased when someone calls a politician on a controversial vote *and* has the irrefutable evidence right there to back it up so there's no chance of being able to weasel out of anything.

Kudos to that student!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Side-Step of Copyright; Also Porn

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 09:17 AM »

The adult film industry has always pushed the envelope when it has come to many areas. Many experts say the adult film industry was a major force in the adoption of VCRs in the home. The same is also said in regards to DVD players and the proliferation of the internet, especially high-speed access to the internet.

It doesn't surprise me at all if the adult film industry also pushes the envelope in the way everyone views copyright law.

This Ain't Avatar is nothing new. While adult parodies have been around forever, the "This Ain't..." series has been around a long time as well. Other "This Ain't..." titles:

This Ain't....

...Batman
...The Brady Bunch
...I Dream of Jeannie
...Three's Company
...Good Times
...Happy Days
...Charmed
...The Munsters
...Star Trek
...Gilligan's Island

Well, you get the idea....tons more I didn't even mention.

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Living Room / Re: Buy / build new system (from CCLOnline) - opinion sought

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 09:05 AM »

Whereas, both people at my PC group and I avoid ASUS because of troubles with their boards in the past, (generally use Gigabyte only these days).

-4wd (June 20, 2010, 06:15 AM)

That's interesting to hear. I had heard Asus had a bad run there for awhile, but I thought they had gotten their act together. There was a time when I wouldn't buy anything but an Asus board. There was a time when they had superior workmanship & their BIOSes were superior as they didn't stick with the stock images from Award & AMI. They had programmers that heavily customized and optimized the BIOS images for each board.

These days I, too, only use Gigabyte. With all the scares in past years about bulging capacitors the fact that Gigabyte now only uses solid-state Japanese capacitors on their boards.

I may one day return to the Asus fold, but they'll need to get on the solid-state capacitor bandwagon first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there an ultimate file extension manager (to work with windows 7, at least).

« Last post by Innuendo on June 20, 2010, 08:56 AM »

ah, very good. thank you very much for pointing that out Innuendo. i'll try again, though, i had decided to abandon my win7 experiment. i shall try again...

-nudone (June 20, 2010, 08:03 AM)

I moved from Maxthon years ago to Firefox when I thought Maxthon had lost the plot so I know your migration path. Here it is some time later & I'd never go back to Maxthon. My customized Firefox can do everything Maxthon did at the time & a lot of things Maxthon today still can't do.

If you need any advice on extensions let me know. I'm running 40+ extensions without ill effects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Add-on: SiteDelta

« Last post by Innuendo on June 19, 2010, 02:35 PM »

Seems to be intriguing enough to try out. Hopefully, I'll find it useful enough to keep.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there an ultimate file extension manager (to work with windows 7, at least).

« Last post by Innuendo on June 19, 2010, 10:03 AM »

the DragIt extension doesn't work with the latest version of Firefox - so now i have to uninstall firefox, reinstall with an older version. reinstall the extensions i was already using. on and on and on.

-nudone (June 17, 2010, 02:55 AM)

All is not lost, nudone. You need DragIt v0.7 in order for it to work with Firefox 3.6.4. You can get it from this mozillaZine forum. Direct link to the needed version:

https://addons.mozil...0.7-fx.xpi?confirmed

You can even download the 1.0 beta from there as well, but it's not compatible with 3.6.4 yet, either.

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Living Room / Re: 20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt

« Last post by Innuendo on June 19, 2010, 09:58 AM »

parkint, what a shame. The pre-screening version would have made it a much more powerful story.

Oh well...what do you expect from audiences that were scared senseless by The Tingler.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SourceForge

« Last post by Innuendo on June 18, 2010, 09:04 PM »

I use Flashgot with Internet Download Accelerator in Firefox & it seems to work very well with getting things downloaded from SourceForge.

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Living Room / Re: 20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt

« Last post by Innuendo on June 18, 2010, 08:54 PM »

Ya know... I'm not entirely sold on the modern (faster-est paced) movies are better to be frank. The 50's flicks, while a tad corny, did rely on a suspenseful-ly told story and the viewers imagination to (best) fill in parts that would today just be gushing gore. Because nobody knows what really scares us better than we do (kick in imagination->done).

-Stoic Joker (June 17, 2010, 07:09 PM)

I'm of the same opinion. And I wasn't even alive when those movies were made!

So if you're looking for a superspy, rockstar, scientist, brain surgeon, astronaut, racecar driver ... look no further than the Adventures of Buckaroo Bonsi - It is by far the stupidest movie I ever totally loved (I still whistle the rather catchy theme music from time to time).

The DVD that was recently released a couple years ago gave an excellent treatment of the Buckaroo universe. Lots of things are explained in the extras that were never explained in the movie.

And if you thought the theme song was catchy, somewhere I have an MP3 of the never-released alternate version of the theme music which was supposed to originally be the ending credits theme, but never made it to the final cut of the film.

....and it's Mr. Bigboo-TAY!! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DAEMON Tools Pro Standard at GAOTD (June 17, 2010)

« Last post by Innuendo on June 18, 2010, 08:35 PM »

For most people, the free Daemon Tools Lite is sufficient.

For the record, I have never have experienced a conflict with any AV I have ever run. I strongly suspect PEBCAK.

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Living Room / Re: 20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt

« Last post by Innuendo on June 16, 2010, 10:37 PM »

A person either loves 50's sci-fi and horror movies or they don't. There's no middle ground.

EDIT: This was in reference to some not liking that movie posters & movies of the time didn't always sync up or may not be as fast-paced as modern films.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there an ultimate file extension manager (to work with windows 7, at least).

« Last post by Innuendo on June 16, 2010, 10:35 PM »

i use the super dragndrop for searching and for quickly opening up links in a new tab (which is an instant click and drag and release). it's the way i browse - seems like only Maxthon allows browsing in this way so i'm forced to use it - and i can ignore the other problems with it (i think).

-nudone (June 16, 2010, 07:02 PM)

I used to use Maxthon with the super DragNDrop feature exactly the way you use it. Now I use Firefox with the DragIt extension. It bills itself as "THE Drag and Drop Extension." One look at the options and you will never look at Maxthon the same way again.

https://addons.mozil...firefox/addon/10875/

Check out the screenshots. One is of one tab of the many options you can set to make drag and drop work your way for text, image, links, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Monitors - Resources - Recommendations

« Last post by Innuendo on June 14, 2010, 09:24 PM »

sometimes things do go right (with computers). very glad to hear that you got a good piece of hardware, Innuendo.

-nudone (June 14, 2010, 04:35 AM)

Thanks for that, nudone. The monitor is always component I always have the most anxiety about when the time to replace comes. I'm still keeping a watchful eye as I hear sometimes dead/stuck pixels will develop in the first days/weeks of ownership.

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Living Room / Re: Monitors - Resources - Recommendations

« Last post by Innuendo on June 13, 2010, 10:13 PM »

How would you know, anyway? Nothing I see in the specifications mentions TN, *VS or *-IPS.

-Deozaan (June 13, 2010, 09:35 PM)

Usually you have to go to the manufacturer's web sites and dig in deep to find the type panel used. If I seem to recall correctly, you can get a pretty good gauge of the type panel used by looking at the viewing angle bullet point in the specs. If it's listed as 170 degrees, chances are high it's a TN panel.

Margins are so thin on the smaller sized panels I don't think any panel under 22" is anything other than a TN panel anymore. NEC made a 20" IPS panel LCD monitor a few years ago that many consider to be the holy grail of image quality at the time, but that model has long been discontinued.