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General Software Discussion / Re: Should I get my new laptop with hard drive partitioned?

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2008, 11:23 AM »

1.  Should the swap file go in it's own partition on the second drive?

2.  Should I think about putting my data in a partition on the second drive instead of the first?  If I do that, can I still call the data partition "D:" or will the drive letters only go in order (eg C: and D: on the first drive, E: and F: on the second)?

3.  If I don't get the partitioning right the first time, any recommendations on a good, inexpensive partition manager utility?

-AndyM (April 17, 2008, 09:18 AM)

1. general consensus here was yes - first partition on second drive - (f0dder says you dont need one if you have 2GB ram )
I have the Temp folders there and Temp Internet files too. Just nice to have the messy stuff all in one package!

2. I would have data on one and back it up on the second, so I dont know if it would matter which you use 

3.

I used that [sorry! EDIT: Parted Magic] for the partitioning
with the help of this tutorial
it was very easy

-tomos (August 23, 2007, 08:27 AM)

http://partedmagic.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: ripping a streamed news show to HD?

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2008, 03:48 AM »

... it wants me to install a plug-in which i don't feel like doing right now. anyway, hang in there someone will come up a better solution.

Firefox users need to install the following ActiveX compatibility plug-in:

Windows Media Player ActveX plug-in

-lanux128 (April 16, 2008, 08:16 PM)

veering off-topic (apologies BrotherS)
seen requests for this plugin -
when this plug-in is requested would that mean one needs Windows media player installed as well?

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 06:15 PM »

A hero - an hero is one of the evil internet memes.

-f0dder (April 16, 2008, 06:06 PM)

reminds me of the Stranglers song about Trotsky

"whatever happened to, Leon Trosky
he got an icepick, and cut his ear off
..
No more 'e[a]ros any more..."


[words from memory]
edit/ in other words if you're from [parts, at least, of] England, "an Hero" is not necessarily an evil internet meme

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 05:56 PM »

... technical and beautiful ...

-mouser (April 16, 2008, 01:39 AM)

truly

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 01:12 PM »

hi Digerati* & welcome
-
from a page or two back

Yikes!  Something indeed is weird.

The first number (Install Date) comes straight out of the registry; I'm just reading the number and displaying it.  Reasons that number might be wrong for you (just guessing):

- Machine came from a vendor who pre-installed Windows years ago, then imaged it.  They build new PCs by installing the image.

- Some other app twiddled the registry setting in question for some mysterious and unknowable-by-man reason.

- Registry got "fixed" at one time in the past by restoring a backup from a registry cleaning tool, and the backup was from an old version.

The second number (alive time) comes from the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) "last reboot" date.  Again, that's the number handed over by Windows when that value is requested.  A logical person might assume Windows is actually resetting that value upon startup, but I'm not certain of anything anymore...

I'll do some research on when WMI resets that value and see what I can learn.  Anyone with more WMI knowledge/experience than I please feel free to chime in.

-Ralf Maximus (November 06, 2007, 06:02 AM)

* btw, do you happen to hang out/help at the castlecops forums?
just tried to go there for a look now but thing's moving incredibly slowly there at the mo

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo EASILY create image backup?

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 01:02 PM »

I dont think Cobain will restore your windows though -
that was part of what you wanted, wasnt it?

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Living Room / Re: How to change the forum username

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 01:00 PM »

Hi Mondane! - we're friendly, really

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Living Room / Re: Online Illustrated Manuscripts Gallery

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2008, 05:28 AM »

lovely stuff

so far I've looked at a beautiful early Koran,
first atlas of Europe and
early writing of Jane Austen (that I just last week read - "Catharine" Oxford classics)

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Living Room / Re: How to change the forum username

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2008, 02:51 PM »

Though with an investment consisting of a mispelled name and a single post on how to change it . . . really, it would be faster/easier to just sign up all over again rather than worry about a forum post followed by a private message followed by administrative action

-allen (April 15, 2008, 02:32 PM)

maybe it's someone else in disguise  

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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2008, 02:49 PM »

couple of comments -
not wanting to be nitpicking but I think there may be confusion about what happiness is/means

if you're going around glowing with "happiness" all the time - I dunno , I dont think I'd even envy you! (does it exist like that?)
Rethink: a nice quiet steady "happy" glow would be nice alright!

Look at a "happy" cat
It cant tell us exactly what's going on for it (well not in words anyways!), but looking at it, one would suspect it's more of a contentment thing -
throw in a good dash of awareness of what's going on around it - in fact it probably doesnt even think of itself as particularly separate from all that other stuff going on...
Let's see, add in total involvement with what it's doing (focus, awareness again) and with what it's feeling.
Which is often probably nothing no, probably never really nothing, but nothing major at least.
Just being there

That's where I often wonder as well - one persons "emotion" is anothers "feeling", for some there's a big difference between the two, for others none...
Also I'm wary when terms like the pursuit of happiness are used - I wonder what exactly is meant..

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Living Room / Re: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2008, 02:28 PM »

phew

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Living Room / Re: Ricky Gervais new audio show mp3 (from the british version of The Office)

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2008, 04:08 AM »

I foolishly never downloaded the first series from guardian and it's gone now, but,
at 5$ (link below) especially with exchange rate in favour of the euro it's gonna be got 

are series two and three (as) good ?
http://www.audible.c...p?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes
worth investing ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo EASILY create image backup?

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2008, 03:48 AM »

Then, if you can only boot from an usb flash memory key, IFW2 seems a better choice, but you really have to try before.  Some PC can and some other can't.  I am sure that you can build a bootable USB key with the demo version, then you can try.

-MerleOne (April 15, 2008, 12:50 AM)

I know that one (Image for Windows) has been recommended elsewhere here

Edit/ but does it do incremental or differential backups ?
no sign of it at their site

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Living Room / Re: Idea: "DC Member Book X - Volume 1" - Request For Volunteers

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 02:46 PM »

Each user will decide that they want to put on their page (a fictional story, their life history, pictures, poetry, political rantings, whatever).

-mouser (March 12, 2008, 06:05 PM)

can we put in images as well or would that have to be limited due to size
or is all that kind of thing to be decided...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: TodoTXT

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 02:40 PM »

funny thing czechboy,
it actually created the folder/s in "program files" folder itself !!

I guess it would do the same on a non english xp, e.g. a german one where there's no program files folder - "programme" instead. (?)
That might ruffle a few feathers

off to make a list for tomorrow 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: TodoTXT

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 11:41 AM »

thanks czechboy

I'm guilty on two counts - farr is elsewhere
and I forgot the comma

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: TodoTXT

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 10:48 AM »

more info comes later

-czechboy (April 14, 2008, 09:24 AM)

think I'll have to wait for that cause I'm not having any success on my own 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: TodoTXT

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 10:43 AM »

intrigued

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo EASILY create image backup?

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 08:35 AM »

Here's the link: Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD.

-yksyks (April 14, 2008, 07:35 AM)

I think the UBCD4WIN is a lot easier to make and as far as I know it comes with DriveImage XML "pre-installed"
http://www.ubcd4win.com/

edit/ mind you it was a couple of yrs ago i tried bartpe and only end of last year I made the other

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General Software Discussion / Re: yoke two windows so they minimize, and get to foreground together?

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 06:03 AM »

I cross posted on the other thread

btw whats this "x-like focus follows mouse behaviour" ??

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General Software Discussion / Re: yoke two windows so they minimize, and get to foreground together?

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 06:00 AM »

I was wondering the same thing while looking at the "Window Tags" thread earlier today

... here's KeySwitch - Use hotkeys to switch windows!

 1: Press Ctrl-T to start assigning a hotkey.
 2: Press Ctrl and 0 through 9 to assign that hotkey to the active window.
 3: To swith to a window, press the assigned hotkey.

-skrommel (April 03, 2008, 10:21 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo EASILY create image backup?

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2008, 03:57 AM »

I'm no expert Curt,
but that seems to bring you back to DriveXML which doesnt do incremental images but does has an accessible format as opposed to the others
or
there's always cheap older versions of Acronis around (9 seems to be recommended a lot - in fact more than the more recent versions).
Does 9 do incremental backup images? I think it does, anyone?
I had 8 (or was it 7 ) but it didnt recognise usb2 so no good
or,
what I did was -
get one of the free versions of Acronis (search - there's usually a couple around) and then you can upgrade for 29$ + tax
to be honest though, I'm sorry I didnt splash out the extra bit though for something else e.g. DriveSnapshot
The acronis11 install takes up a lot of space (hundreds of MBs) and I hear a lot of complaints about it (and the interface bugs me but thats very minor in the context...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice a good HW forum to ask for a LCD laptop problem

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2008, 06:23 AM »

or from "Best Forums for.." thread

Hmmm....There are several forums I'd like to recommend.
1) For questions about computers (hardware and software), the Internet, and related matters, I love the Neat Net Tricks forum at http://www.topfreefo...mforum=neatnettricks.  The expertise of the participants ranges from newbie to awesome, and I've found the atmosphere very friendly and helpful.  (I also like their multi-reviewer software reviews: http://www.neatnettr...reReviews/splash.htm)

-cyberdiva (February 08, 2008, 05:09 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice a good HW forum to ask for a LCD laptop problem

« Last post by tomos on April 12, 2008, 03:56 AM »

I cant personally recommend any but have you had a look at the dc links page ?
https://www.donationcoder.com/Links/

Best Help / Tech Support Tech Support Guy Forums Excellent forums dedicated to helping people with all hardware/software problems. Suggest A Fix Free Online Tech Support Forum.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« Last post by tomos on April 12, 2008, 03:47 AM »

had to do a double take there...