Savyg

Savyg

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Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Someday I might play Civ 5 and get what the hell you guys are all ranting about. I might not too. Games based on history never interested me, be they fact or fiction. But since I'm here and talk too much, I will say I'm very glad to see more top tier talent on Elemental, especially as expansions and sequels will undoubtedly benefit in a big way. I'm not into mods much. By the time they're polished, I've usually moved onto other games. So if the expans

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Reply to What's a reliable firewall? (free and not-so-free) in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="51" id="2858867"] The new MS Security Essentials seems like Microsoft if learning - but I will wait to see about that one (time will tell). For a good 3rd party one, Zone Alarm is your best bet. [/quote] MSE 2.0 doesn't change anything in the firewall. It just uses Vista and 7s filtering platform to check for malicious traffic.

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Reply to What's a reliable firewall? (free and not-so-free) in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I just tried Comodo's firewall for the first time in a while. The web installer installed 5.0, even though 5.3 is available. (Really? It's practically 2011. This is still happening?) BattleForge repeatedly crashed when setting up a map for some bizarre reason I can't fathom. Defense+ still annoys the crap out of me also. I installed 5.3 just now and the jury is still out, but at least BattleForge works and I disabled Defense+. Hone

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="43" id="2856864"]usb 2 is BETTER than usb 1.1 OR parallel OR even SERIAL, but I have only seen parallel, usb 1.1/2.0/3.0 & esata drive boxes harpo [/quote] yeah, it's also better than ps/2 ports and VLB and ISA cards. ...but what does that have to do with anything?

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I understand that, and that's fascinating, but aside from loading things faster nothing would really change. It's not a necessity IMO.

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I just picked up an ASUS All in One PC and sold my laptop. (Well, am selling my laptop, the buyer isn't ready yet.) It's got HDMI in so when my brother isn't here I'll be using it for its screen :p Way better than mine :p I can see snagging a 128GB in 2011 since I've already been waiting and the prices are becoming decent, but I can't see what I would actually do with it that would be all that fascinatingly different from what I'm doing now.

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Indeed, I was wrong - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx Guess I should look before I talk, but usually I remember the facts right [e digicons]O:)[/e]

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Reply to If you’re not running Windows 7 64-bit yet, please do so soon in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Allquixotic" reply="183" id="2848649"]If that's too expensive, at least turn on the Large Address Aware bit, so that people with the /3GB switch enabled or running a 64-bit OS can take advantage of 3 or 4 GB of virtual address space, respectively. I wrote a console program that will turn on LAA on an arbitrary program from the command line[/quote] I can't seem to download your tool, but I did find this guy which claims to do the same thing for any app <a href="http://

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Reply to Researchers Reveal New IE Zero-Day Vulnerability in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="39" id="2853695"] I didn't think you'd seen it, and didn't want your computer to be possibly vulnerable until February. [/quote] http://www.oneitsecurity.it/01/03/2010/interview-with-charlie-miller-pwn2own/ That guy thinks IE8 is one of the more secure browsers. I'm not using IE8 anyway, so I'm not terribly worried.

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Reply to Elemental unable to detect DirectX version in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Svecke" reply="2" id="2853687"]Thanks for the tip, but when I run this it only says that I already have the latest version of directx installed. I'm still unable to run the game and I get the same error message as before. [/quote] I had this happen in Generals when I had a video mode selected that my graphics drivers disagreed with. See if you can find the config file and delete it (should be in Docs/My Games/Elemental)

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Reply to Researchers Reveal New IE Zero-Day Vulnerability in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="35" id="2853677"] ole IE will still be there lurking in the background whether you like it or not... True. Every time I run CCleaner it finds temp files in IE. I don't use it so where they come from is a mystery to me. I'm gonna find a way to disable it ... if that's possible. [/quote] You use it if you load Impulse.

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Reply to Researchers Reveal New IE Zero-Day Vulnerability in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="21" id="2853553"]From my OP: Although the company said it would patch the problem, it is not planning to rush out an emergency update. The next regularly-scheduled Patch Tuesday is Jan. 11, but because Microsoft usually updates the browser every other month, and just did so last week, it's possible the vulnerability won't be addressed until February. Microsoft's usual practice is to release an emergency fix only if attacks appe

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Reply to Researchers Reveal New IE Zero-Day Vulnerability in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="3" id="2853316"]Lightof Abraxis, it's called that "zero-day" -- because the flaw becomes public before a patch is ready to stop its exploitation. especially now that it's the buggiest and slowest of the browsers. [/quote] The problem is that 'vulnerability' could be anything from 'can look at the files in one directory' to 'can smite your box.' MS will usually fix vulnerabilities even when there isn't even a verifiable threat due to other

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="27" id="2853372"]I guess I'm just looking for a little more reassurance that other people configured their laptops with their swap space, cookies, etc. on their SSD drive (and they've been doing okay for awhile) before I go out and get a laptop with nothing but a 128GB SSD. [/quote] If you're talking Win7, it won't use an SSD for a pagefile last I read about it. I'm not 100% positive on that, but pretty sure.

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Reply to Last person to post wins, unless they are a moderator or admin. in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="9580" id="2850688"]I liked the Beta of Guild Wars and when it launched, they had yet to jack up the system. Then I got far enough and the story was terribly predictable AND they nerfed the ranger to the point where no one would team up with me. Sad cause I was one of the most useful on the team before that. Same happened to the ranger on BloodyMare. No one likes ranged units. Meanwhile, I feel especially stupid for leaving a firearm unsecured for 30 m

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