CygnusXII

CygnusXII

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Reply to What Is It About A Pipe? in Blogging Stardock Forums

Additionally I think pipes remind folks of their Grandad. I know that's what I think about. I put my pipes away when my Mom had cancer. Not out of fear mind you, but in sympathy to her quitting smoking cigarettes, and as a sign of solidarity with her plight. I still have my Peterson's, GBD's , Savinelli's, pots and free hands languishing in a trunk. I still have my love of the Briar. I still peek into the trunk every couple of months and make sure they are there, and let them know they are mi

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“If it was a snake, it would have bit me!” in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So the other day I developed a problem with my laptop. Whenever I had a large Windows Explorer, Shell window open with a lot of files showing, or I had an Internet Browser window open that contained a horizontal or vertical scrollbar showing, my scrollbar went nuts. [e digicons]X|[/e] Now I had noticed some odd behavior from the PC recently. I put the errors down to my recent experience of downgrading the PC from Windows Vista to Windows XP. I say

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Free Software alternatives a small, personal collection of information. in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

Hello All, I thought given the holiday spirit and all the frantic scurrying for gift buying, I'd post a list of often used uttilities, I use that do not cost a dime. I know we all are feeling the pinch of the economy and want to maximize our resources, so I have scoured the Net over the years and come up with a stable of good program, that help me make it through the day, and thought others might benefit from what I use on a daily basis. I k

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Reply to Save Internet Radio! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Unfortunately Amateur Radio has it's own kettle of fish to worry about. The User base has eroded to a shadow of its' former days. Increased solar activity is effecting the spectrum. Not to mention the wholesale auctioning of the spectrum, and Broadband over Power Line corruption. Granted the FCC has introduced the new license types, to try and stave off the attrition rates. My worry on the Ham front is, how long before it is deemed a homeland Security threat, and abolished,<b

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Reply to Save Internet Radio! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Not to sound like a kook, but if we let the archaic media types and other organizations, diminish the growing abilities and legitimacy of the Internet, then we have lost. Every time the media paradigm shifts the previous media moguls try to marginalize the up and coming front runner. Here we have a prime example. Additionally some folks can remember when Digital Tape Recorders first came about, same song, same dance.VCR / Betamax Same song, same dace. Laser Disc, well you get my point. We are se

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Reply to WinCustomize 2007 Launches! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Kinda freaked me out at first. I yawned, and got out of bed. Trundled over and popped open WC, and my brain said.... WTH!!! After the initial shock, I must say.. Looks pretty slick. I haven't had time to peruse the categories and what-not. As with life there comes change, and change is good. I am sure it will take a little tinkering to get it running smoothly. Good job, so far gang. I appreciate the hard work, and look forward to the future. Guess this explains why WC has been running drag-assed

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Reply to Updating the biggest suite ever made : Heavy Equipment in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Wow, now that brings back memories. I would love to see this re-envisioned, retooled or what ever you would like to call it. "Fake Movie Announcer Voice" HE-II, Heavier! Bolder! Tougher! The Roughest, Toughest Skin Suite on the Planet. This isn't a Skin Suite for your grandma. Known to break bones, crush cars and frighten small, woodland Creatures. Brought to you again by the Gnarliest bunch of Graphic Hooligans to grace the P

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HardOCP Freebie Review in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Here's a good review of one of Alienwares Machines. The reviewer throws a freebie, Stardocks way. Nothing better than a little word of mouth advertising. Exspecially when it concerns a good product on a decent machine, and proffered by a good review site. Look towards the middle of the page for the quote... "One actual freebie that we did get was the "Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager" – which is basically a modified Ali

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Reply to 2005: Where were the pundits right and wrong in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I know Ubuntu and Kubuntu topped the charts this year, knocking Redhat, mandrake and Suse off the top of the block at Distro watch. A real nice and simple Distro, that just seems to work. Plus! You can get multiple CDs free-o-charge and pass them out willy, nilly. It may not have been the break out year folks thought, I think that will come in 2006 when Vista launches and folks see what MS has in store for them. The bells and whistles that Vista promis

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Reply to Does Copying Music = Stealing? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I pay for a satellite connection and use software to record my music, then I catalog the files and have my mp3s'. I wonder if I am covered under the Sony BetaMax case. I mean I think I am covered recording the music to VHS, so why wouldn't I be covered recording to a digital format?

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Reply to Now I see it .. Now I dont ... where did the Concept WB Skin go that I saw this morning. in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

(Z71) Initially I tried to draw your attention to a problem, that could have been fixed very simply. There was no need to go down the path you chose to go down. You started off by blaming the End User. I mean "My God!" How can I the End User, dare let two skins of the same name get into my Windowblinds Directory? Umm.. I dunno? Seeing as there are so many Different skins, in the Library, I thought this was an honest oversight,

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Reply to Now I see it .. Now I dont ... where did the Concept WB Skin go that I saw this morning. in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

The Concept skin conflicted with an earlier work, by another author. LightStar created a work called Concept 09-30-05 https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=5327&LibID=1 I noticed that when I installed the Concept skin, published yesterday that it broke LightStars skin. Maybe the author of yesterdays skin is fixing the problem? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

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Reply to Dumb tech supporters suck... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I have an HP Laptop and 1 month after I bought it, the LCD developed a bad, blotchy strip of white allalong the bottom edge of the screen. Then the power adapter port quit working. They immediately took it back under warrenty, then fought with me for 2 weeks stating that the damage was my fault, and that the motherboard was bad. They then tried to stick me for $650 for a new Mobo. I put up a fight, and got my machine back, and

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Reply to Sony and a rootkit - perfect together in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Yeah but apparently now, the side benefit is that you can exploit the program and hide other programs and files, by appending $sys$ to the filename, or something similar. They are saying this is a boon to the WoW users against the Warden Software. Being able to generically use the hiding prefix on files, could be further exploited in multiples of ways, and might even been a boon to less suave script kiddies. I can see them taking this tech, and running

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Reply to WinCustomize: What happens next in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

As many times that I have reloaded my pc's, found myself prowling late night through the archives of skinz past and present, seems like a bargain to me. Coughed up my wooden nickels and forked over some greenbacks, to help carry the weight. Everything seems to be getting sorted out, and it wasn't like something like this wasn't going to happen eventually. I guess it all sound reasonable. Now I am going to go back to my corner and be quiet. <img src="ht

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Reply to Didn't you know capitalism was bad? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Jafo, how did you know I had on a TinFoil Hat? Also you strike me as a very smart person, and also very astute. I see your point. My Mum always told me I had that problem. Seriously. The Frog and The Scorpion parable comes to mind. http://tinyurl.com/55y9p [allaboutfrogs.org]

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Reply to cd has a bad block in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

I think the CDRW Drive controller is going bad. Put a hard Drive on that IDE Channel for a bit, and see if it has data issues. If you have a speare, that is. I have had a Hard Drive, and a CDRom Drive suddenly stop working on a particualr IDE Channel Setting, and function only as a SLAVE for no apparent reason.

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Reply to cd has a bad block in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

Have ya tried reflashing the Drive, if it allows it? It could have become corrupted. Also when a device is on an IDE Chain alone it needs to be set as Cable Select, not Master or Slave. Some machines are forgiving and will work if they are set as M or S, but the device alone actually doesn't qualify for that category. How can a device alone be a Master? See my point? In my personal experiences, I have found that one of the first things

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