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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 04, 2010, 09:52 AM »

But does a normal XP license (which seems to be what is included) work for tablet edition?  From other tablet sites I've frequented, I seem to remember that it doesn't... and if you install standard XP, you don't get tablet functionality.

Update: That link is pretty cool!  However, you can get a tablet for a little more (from what I found when I was looking) with tablet already installed, making initial setup a bit less intensive.  I think that the older models of motion pcs have reached the wholesale market and you see a lot of these on there stripped down.. many with no HD.

Here's one on eBay that's a *slight* bit more after conversion...

http://cgi.ebay.com/...RE-XGA-/270628900810

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 10:51 PM »

A normal XP install cd doesn't install tablet edition... and that's the point of getting a tablet, isn't it?

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

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 07:29 PM »

I think with a true tablet pc, some of the software that you mentioned becomes obsolete.  That's the reason that I'm trying to develop something that will let me launch items in a pen environment.  There are some, but they go further, using gestures and such.  I want to be able to navigate and click with a pen, visually, rather than mnemonically.  FARR, LBC, and DOpus just don't really work for me in a pen environment- they're built around a different paradigm IME.  I've also tried circle dock, radius, object dock...  the closest I've come so far is Beryoko and/or Fences.

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 02:38 PM »

I wouldn't do that one... no OS/Restore CD means a lot of trouble to even get started...

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 01:16 PM »

What would you suggest starting out with to try heroscape?  It seems like something my son might like...

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 12:28 PM »

^ That one is a bit on the large side to me.  That let's them stuff a *lot* into it in addition to the ruggedness, but it seems like it would quickly become annoying.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 07:23 AM »

One thing about the ipad... you'll have to spend more money to get good handling of PDFs.  Then more money to get good handling of office documents.  And truthfully, there isn't much difference when it comes to speed... most of it is an illusion, using the always on/great battery life to cover for the fact that it's not exceptionally fast.  Try to open a large pdf on it, and you'll see what I mean.  Applications launch fast- yes.  But loading large documents... no.  So keep that in mind- especially if PDFs are your main bit, and doubly if you're using large PDFs.

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2010, 07:18 AM »

3.3 isn't so bad in a tablet.  That's actually a *really* good device from what I've read.  My original tablet was a motion, and they do make good tablets.  If it wasn't for the fact that my tablet was an interim solution, I might have gone with that.

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 02, 2010, 07:14 AM »

If you may never use either machine... I'd say go the cheaper route.  That's one of the reasons I started down this road- I didn't know how much I'd use the machine.  And I'd suggest getting a dock... they're pretty cheap on ebay, and several come with an extra adapter (and you'll get around that whole plugging a drive into the usb port thing)

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2010, 04:55 PM »

well, it seems unfair to blame the seller. i've had the tc1100 for a few days, turned it on and off several times - installed a few programs after transferring stuff with a usb memory stick.

so, it's not like the machine was faulty.

-nudone (September 01, 2010, 01:01 PM)

Ah... I misunderstood.  I thought that perhaps the combination of connecting the drive and the machine caused the difficulty.  I just can't see connecting a drive causing such a catastrophic failure on its own, so assumed that it was the machine.

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Living Room / Re: tc1100 tablet pc dies before i've even set it up

« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2010, 12:51 PM »

Sorry to hear that.  I haven't posted my experiences yet, but I've been doing quite well with mine (other than the fact that the external I got with it didn't work- thankfully for me, I also purchased the dock).

If you purchased it off of ebay, and used paypal, I'd say contact him... then dispute if he won't do anything about it.  I'm not sure of the outcome, but I've gotten some pretty good resolution once I hold the dispute hammer over someone...

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General Software Discussion / Re: ComboFix=GREAT rootkit cleaner. (Kaspersky failed me big time).

« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2010, 03:15 PM »

I did a full computer scan with Kaspersky IS 2010, and it caught a bunch of stuff

Then I used malwarebytes anti-malware program to clean, and that found some stuff also

Maybe you should focus on not exposing your "workhorse" to so much "stuff".

-mrainey (August 31, 2010, 02:00 PM)

Actually, the point of an AV program is to protect my computer in case I encounter such things.  As careful as I am, I do a lot of computing and things in general on the net, so I would have to disagree with that.  What if i wasn't a big time computer supergeek?  Does that mean I have to be afraid of everything I do?  No.  That's why we pay for the AV programs.  If it's just a matter of being cautious, why do we run AV programs which slow our computers down?

-superboyac (August 31, 2010, 02:59 PM)

Agreed.  I use my computer that I develop on for pretty much everything, so I don't have the luxury of not exposing it to 'stuff'.  I don't go to questionable places, but even reputable places can have problems, thus antivirus.  If you can't depend on them, then they are just giving you a false sense of security.  The fact that he's not had a problem for years depending on kaspersky says that it's most likely not a user issue...

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2010, 12:02 PM »

I'll join in by recommending UR.

My BGG Review
Very easy to learn, but quite difficult to master.  The only luck involved is what tiles are where at setup.  I've had games where the way to victory was easy, and others that felt like a knife fight in a phone booth.  Recommended.

Key Features
The concept is very easy to grasp
While abstract, there is enough theme to grab you
Other than the tile placement, there is no chance involved
Once you read the rules, there's no language involved

Weaknesses
It is quite abstract, so if one is not used to abstract games, it can be hard to grasp the subtleties
No chance, so winning is based purely on skill which can be offputting to new players
Better with 4 players, though playable with 2 or 3.

Game design interests
The fact that your turn is composed of a move that is a choice of one of a few totally different actions can put people into a crisis of indecision.

Final Rating: 8 out of 10

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Living Room / Re: List the crappiest websites you know here. (warning: potentially NSFW)

« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2010, 06:25 AM »

Experts-exchange you can see the answers if you visit the site via google search results. Some are actually good but as far as 'business model' goes it's pretty much anti-spirit-of-internet

-rgdot (August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM)

Does that still work?  I'd read somewhere that this was because of the way that google cached the site, but they'd complained and google stopped caching certain sites.

A bad site in my view is something like godaddy.com, when trying to buy or manage a domain, a mish mash of extra options and extra screens just to get to where you want to go.

-rgdot (August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM)

That doesn't bother me because they put a button there to stop annoying you and go to checkout.

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2010, 02:26 PM »

I think he meant your opinions on the security of that setup, since you brought up security...

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2010, 08:01 AM »

I think he means both.  Have a tiddly-wiki in a dropbox folder so you can edit it anywhere you use dropbox.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2010, 08:01 AM »

A couple more links for you on the tm2t (if you haven't seen them already)

http://www.laptopmag...touchsmart-tm2t.aspx
http://www.engadget....uchsmart-tm2-review/

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Living Room / Re: Dropbox and Evernote problem

« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2010, 08:33 AM »

So it worked fine for a bit, then started again?  Perhaps it's the combination of those processes and something else that's not as obvious?  Something that doesn't run all the time?

An experiment: turn off the computer, then restart.  After Windows is finished loading (and Evernote and Dropbox), try to go to standby again.

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Living Room / Re: Dropbox and Evernote problem

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2010, 10:03 AM »

It still would be helpful for troubleshooting, especially as you say *either*.  It could also be the installation of one or the other that's causing the problem, and this would uncover that also.  I run both, on my tablet and my laptop, and have no problem with either.

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Living Room / Re: Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2010, 07:34 AM »

Ah...   Yeah, most EULAs on software purchase from large corporations are pretty obscure, but I don't think that software for online services covers using a different online service other than theirs with it.

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Living Room / Re: Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2010, 05:57 PM »

Is the privilege of using the server separate from the cost of the game?  I don't think the license actually allows for that...

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2010, 10:40 AM »

I guess 'dirty little secret' is subjective anyway. If I'd keep a diary I think I'd want everything in there to be secret, also the non-dirty stuff.

-phitsc (August 20, 2010, 09:51 AM)

The difference between journal and diary, IMO- which is why I refer to it as a journal.

I view a journal as more of a retrospective on the day.  What happened, my responses, what worked, what didn't, and what I'd want to take away from it.  A place to articulate my thoughts... "Those who don't learn from history", on a more micro scale.  I find myself too caught up in the day to day that I don't take the time to integrate it into the wider view of things, which is probably why I have problems doing it to begin with.

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Living Room / Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2010, 09:02 AM »

I've heard of private servers (and even searched for one for Tabula Rasa when it was shut down- I really miss that game), but I've never really delved into the scene.  So I was pretty surprised at the numbers that were being thrown around in the recent private server prosecution.  She made $3 million?  Off of micro-transactions?  From 420,000 users?  That's pretty major, though I found out to take it with a generous amount of skepticism after I read that she didn't appear to defend herself.  But if it's anywhere near that, it's a pretty big deal, and I always thought MMOs were pretty pirate-proof.

Zam has an article about this issue, and the future of DRM.  A pretty good read, and well-researched to boot.

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Circle Dock / Re: Circle dock doesn't find disk D:

« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2010, 08:27 AM »

The versions after the one which is available from there are no longer available.  There will at some point be an upgrade with some bug fixes (which is what sarge alluded to), but after that, it will depend on if anyone picks up the project.

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« Last post by wraith808 on August 20, 2010, 08:26 AM »

I never really looked at a journal as a place for dirty little secrets- just my perspective, I suppose.