JcRabbit

JcRabbit

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Reply to An interesting antitrust exhibit about MS/IBM and OS/2 2.0 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="8" id="3017667"]From a vintage when "no-one will ever need more than 640k ram...." With the benefit of hindsight just about anyone is an idiot....[/quote] Hehe, how true. When he said that, I had managed to write a whole Basic interpreter (with support for graphical windows, sprites, wire frame graphics, etc...) in just under *16* KB of Assembly Z80 code (God bless the Sinclair Zx Spectrum!). So I know where he was coming from - 640 KB of memory at

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Reply to An interesting antitrust exhibit about MS/IBM and OS/2 2.0 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

What I find most interesting in that email is Microsoft's position at the time that "OS/2 was plagued from the beginning by the late deliveries and poor code, demonstrating again that excellent software can only be written by small teams, at a single site, sharing a similar culture. " The Microsoft of today is the IBM of yesterday.

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Reply to Nexus Ultimate 50% off promotion for the next 24 hours! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="22" id="3017309"]Could you please go over the version numbering? I currently have Winstep Extreme v. 11.6 . Nexus as well as Nexus Extreme should be numbered the same, no? So what is 11.1 referring to? Your last release had them both updated at the same time to 11.6.[/quote] It's not v11.1, it's v11.*10*. Not '11.one', but '11.ten'. Nexus and Xtreme share the same version number to avoid co

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Reply to Nexus Ultimate 50% off promotion for the next 24 hours! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="21" id="3017304"]Any hints as to new features to make it worth renewing? Money is tight at my house and I'm sure I'm not alone in that respect. [/quote] I know, it's bad everywhere. [e digicons]:([/e] Anyway, v11.10 will be more of an 'emergency' release than anything else (meaning I usually like to amass lots more new cool features before releasing a new version) because of Weather.com's warning that it will cut the

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Reply to Nexus Ultimate 50% off promotion for the next 24 hours! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="roflmfaoo" reply="14" id="3017256"]It's a little late here I had misread, it's the winstep xtreme that conflicts and by conflict I mean take priority in skinning the actual taskbar of the shell etc... [/quote] It doesn't take priority, Roflmfaoo, it actually hides the normal Windows taskbar and replaces it with it's own version. Being skinned by Winstep so it matches the current Winstep theme, this taskbar replacement is not affected by WindowBlinds. <

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Reply to Nexus Ultimate 50% off promotion for the next 24 hours! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="CarGuy1" reply="8" id="3017238"]Jorge...on a side note, what's the latest version number? I currently have 11.6 and was waiting for an update to renew my sub.[/quote] Then you have the latest version. v11.10 should be released sometime next week, though - which is not a problem for those taking advantage of this 50% off promotion, because it includes the normal full year of free upgrades.

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Reply to Nexus Ultimate 50% off promotion for the next 24 hours! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Gmc2, not sure what your confusion is? This is a 50% off promotion for *Nexus Ultimate* (NOT Winstep Xtreme). Nexus Ultimate normally costs $24.95 and today you can get it for only $12.50 from Bits Du Jour. If you later want to upgrade from Nexus Ultimate to Winstep Xtreme, then you can do so for $14.95 - this means you would end up saving $12.50 from the normal Winstep Xtreme price of $39.90. So you can say it's a two-in-one promotion - what is misleading or dishonest abo

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Reply to DELETE THIS POST it is Obsolete Windows Experience index in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

For RAID (but I'm not an expert on it, mind you) you need as closely matched drives as possible, ideal being identical drives. So yes, assuming it would work, that SATA2 drive would bring the whole thing down to SATA 2 speeds, as data is stripped and the faster drive then has to wait for the slower drive. It *might* still be faster than a single drive, but I wouldn't build a RAID 0 array on anything other than identical drives.

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Reply to DELETE THIS POST it is Obsolete Windows Experience index in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="31" id="3012977"]And like yrag once said to me, if I wanted a faster rig I should, "buy a f**kin' bigger CPU." That man sure has a way with words, hey?[/quote] Hehehe, it has all to do with the cost/performance ratio. I knew the i7 920 was cheap BUT massively overclockable - which is why I chose it. As for putting the SSDs in RAID 0, that was the plan from the beginning. 240 GB is more than enough for a system drive, and SSDs, unlik

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Reply to Where does this go? in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="5" id="3012820"]I think you mean how much will be passed on to us... I don't have any way of estimating. Jorge will have to pay $977.98 for 2,000,000 downloads which is outragepous when you consider all the installing, deleting, trialware, etc. You can read his thread here: http://forums.winstep.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4432[/quote] Doc, that link leads to the Beta section of the Winstep forums, which is closed to non-registere

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Reply to Any redditors on here? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="21" id="3012404"] Quoting JcRabbit, reply 19so it's kind a mute point. 'moot', Jorge...[/quote] Oops! Thanks, Jafo, I'll remember this one! 'Moot' point it is. Just assumed the damn point was mute since I never heard him say a word. ;-)

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Reply to Any redditors on here? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jayde_drag0n" reply="13" id="3012221"]well why don't you come and show us! We would love to hear all about your nifty apps,gadgets, and whatever you've done to customize your computer[/quote] How about you go to http://www.winstep.net too and find out? :) [quote who="Uvah" reply="11" id="3012197"]Can't he just do it 'till he needs glasses?[/quote] lol! Hey, I wear contact lenses! :-P [quote who="R

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Reply to Any redditors on here? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="1" id="3012075"]I see all kinds of bad stuff about reddit on CNN. Child porn, etc. [/quote] Hey, I actually enjoy reading Reddit, plus it's linked to from Wired.com. Reddit is definitely not for children (then again, neither is DeviantArt, for instance), but they have some very interesting IAMAs (I am a...) and AMAs (Ask Me Anything...). Too bad those guys on reddit.com/r/customization/ h

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Reply to The last straw! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="iwontbeback" reply="39" id="3009521"]The last thing I will say is I don't quite get why me removing my gallery is ruining anyone's life. Quite frankly my skins were not all that great and I seriously doubt many people use them on a continual basis[/quote] Let me try to explain that one, JC. :) No, you are not ruining anyone's life, but you are *taking back* something which you created and previously shared with the world. Those skins you did are unique. When yo

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Reply to I am an a**hole (apparently) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="90" id="3007904"]The thing that pisses me off so much about political correctness, apart from the fact it was brought into being by wooses, wingers, big girls blouses and total pussies, is that minority groups and politically correct advocates always seem to have a legitimate argument with officialdom, yet we of majority groups, and those who are not politically correct, are just whining when minority groups call us assholes. [/quote] Respect and tolerance

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