craeonics

craeonics

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Reply to Whose Internet Is It, Anyway? in Internet WinCustomize Forums

As the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out. There are some people here with a rather skewed view of the world, politics and history. And I don't mean the occasional drive by posters. They display such poor reasoning skills, that they drag all kinds of unrelated matters into the discussion. Back on topic: the whole argument stems from the idea that (if I recall correctly), a government controlled agency holds some level of control over

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Reply to Server Error in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

This site is hosted on T-Man's old laptop in his toolshed. So at times, the processor can't quite handle the traffic and drops out with error messages like the above. The subscription drive they're currently holding is meant to buy some serious hardware that should be able to handle serious traffic (read: get T-Man a new laptop). After all, this ain't no knitting circle, so it needs some raw bit crunching power.

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Reply to Emperors New Clothes in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

Transparency lets you escape the dullness that is the square nature of windows. Translucency lets you blend the windows together. Skinning is about possibilities, not practical use. A user is content with what he/she sees. A true skinner will want to know what lies beyond the horizon.

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Reply to RIAA kills off eDonkey, WinMX in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

More on the WinMX story: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=921 And more on that (alledgedly false) eDonkey rumour: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=923 Last time I checked (years ago), eDonkey/Mule was well on its way of becoming serverless. So it's pretty hard to shut the technology down.

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Reply to Anyone use Litestep? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Most of the alternative file managers go overkill on features and/or are in desperate need of an interface makeover. But since alternative shells and Explorer don't really like each other at times, it's best to use something different. I'm currently using xplorer² lite, which offers just the necessary enhancements. Tabs, optional dual panes (I'm not too keen on dual panes, I rather use tabs or multiple windows) and it remembers your ope

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Reply to Firefox 1.5 RC2 released in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

Link points to 1.0.6. 1.5 is not beta yet, it's 1.5 Beta Release Candidate 1. The beta will follow later. Quote MozillaZine: We haven't released 1.5 Beta 1 yet. Please don't jump the gun and blog or post reviews saying we have until we actually have. Thanks - http://mozillazine.org/article

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Reply to Site Ranking Services in Internet WinCustomize Forums

CareBear.org -> 3,218 Tek -> 46,979 Ha ha, got you beat, bearman. Alexa, by the way, is soooo not dependable. Statistics are generated solely by users of the Alexa toolbar. And come on, who would use that?

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Reply to Rewriting the Paper in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Saw it last week. About time something more than just buzz came out. Good thing about this stuff is that, a) it's foldable; and b) the image will remain on the paper even when the there's no power. There are already electronic paper devices on the market in Japan, by the way. Can't recall the name of the manufacturer.

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Reply to RAR vs. Winzip in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

7-zip has a great commandline (for those that do serious things) and supports lots of formats. WinRar has one distinct advantage over it still: the ability to check the integrity multiple archives at once. Both are power user things, so for the average bloke, it shouldn't really matter what you use.

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Reply to What is your computer's name? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Nifl(heim), the underworld, a land of frost and mist. The other machine in this house is called Muspell, which is the opposite, the land of fire. Both are the primordial worlds in Norse mythology which existed before time and creation. I always use mythological names for my systems. One reason for that is that there's plenty of exotic names to choose from that way. All my drives/partitions are named after dragons, demons and other monsters f

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