AJCrowley

AJCrowley

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OT: Swearing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ok, we're all adults here, and we know not to swear on this message board, though I'm sure that a one off misdemeanour would be overlooked with a warning. It has recently come to my attention though, that some words that were never swear words before have entered the realm of naughtiness. This came to my attention, because my girlfriend likes to read the Big Brother 2 message boards. I was just wondering at what point the words "Hell" and "Damn" became swear words. I hope not to offend anyone he

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Reply to Best Shell Replacement for win 2k??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm using a base litestep configuration in conjunction with DesktopX and ObjectBar. Between these programs, there's pretty much nothing you can't do. Ever since ditching explorer, my windows has yet to crash, and Litestep has a much lower CPU/memory overhead than explorer.

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Reply to WindowsXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

No no no, it seems you misunderstand, I'm used to having the warning about viewing system folders in 2k, this is not the problem I am discussing with XP (though it would be nice to get rid of it). The problem is that no matter how you set up your network file shares, you cannot access these folders. When you try and get into one of them from the remote machine, XP will simply return an access denied error, whether you navigate there from the root, or explicitly share that folder. The MS help fil

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Reply to FauxS-X Project goes Open Source? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Dammit, please excuse the double post, this is the second time I've done this today, my finger slipped and I double clicked the submit button this time. Please read my other post about adding an edit/delete post feature to the board

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Reply to FauxS-X Project goes Open Source? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

When you say release the Corel source, I assume you mean CorelDraw! image files? I think this would be nice, and would give people some great examples of how to make DX objects, but was there anything else to the project? I haven't been to the homepage for a while, and can't seem to find it again, but what I'd really like at this point is some examples of DX plugins and any other ways to extend DX. At the moment, the only app programming language I know well enough to write a DLL is VB, but I'm

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Reply to FauxS-X Project goes Open Source? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

When you say release the Corel source, I assume you mean CorelDraw! image files? I think this would be nice, and would give people some great examples of how to make DX objects, but was there anything else to the project? I haven't been to the homepage for a while, and can't seem to find it again, but what I'd really like at this point is some examples of DX plugins and any other ways to extend DX. At the moment, the only app programming language I know well enough to write a DLL is VB, but I'm

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Reply to WindowsXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey Berzerka, you're right, it does pay to take the time to look around, but I did exactly that, and the issue is that there's just things (such as sharing protected folders) that are hard coded into XP, and I don't like it one bit, no sir. And just FYI, XP RC1 has been available on MSDN since mid-June when I originally got my copy.

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Reply to Suggestion for forums in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well, I consider myself to be "pretty tasty" with ASP, having a few years experience in that department. So if any siteops happen to read this and like the idea, drop me an email, and I'll do it, FOC of course.

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Reply to WindowsXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey Tarkus, the folders I'm referring to are known as "protected folders" in XP. They include anything under the "Documents and Settings" tree, "Program Files", and "Windows". I know that the point of making these folders unsharable is: a) So people don't screw with system files over the network. b) So people can't go through your private documents. However, I work over 3 machines, and while I suppose I could've easily made another folder for "My Documents", it's just

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Suggestion for forums in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi, I don't know what package is being used here, or how easy it would be, but would it be possible to add a feature to edit your posts? Myself, and I'm sure many others have hit the stop button to tweak something, praying it's on time, only to find a double post. It would be very nice to have, and I'd be willing to help out with the coding. Cheers, AJ

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Reply to Virus Inundated in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've received the email in discussion a few times now, but each time, the attachment has only been a 59byte ATT0004.DAT file. There's no way a file this size could carry this virus, so I opened it up in HexEdit, as I always do with viruses to find that it was empty. I checked my machine for symptoms of the virus, and it came out clean. Just interested if anyone else is receiving this version of it, or if anyone has actually seen the mystic .exe that's supposed to be attached? Cheers,<br

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Reply to WindowsXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey Tarkus - just to clear the matters up: When I said "It's basically WinME on an NTFS drive", I was speaking figuratively - insofar as it felt a lot more like WinME than 2K from a user perspective, in that it's more of a home OS than a production one. I have a thorough understanding of NT security, as I administered several networks, from NT 3.51 to 2000 in my network admin days. I had no trouble setting that it, but (in build 2505 anyway), the OS makes it impossible to share

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WindowsXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey, Just thought I'd share with the group on this matter. Well, I installed my RC1 of WinXP a couple of weeks ago, and must say that it was very stable for a release candidate. That's where the good parts stop though. It was basically windows ME on an NTFS drive, and while it offers increased stability (from ME/98), it is horribly resitrictive, not allowing me to share "protected" folders, such as my documents, program files and windows across my LAN, with no way around this. The networking int

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Reply to Is this a rip? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Wow, long thread, this will probably never get read, but it looks like our friend has done the right thing and pulled the skin, either that or the good folks over at winamp.com did it for them. I ran into a similar issue some months back - I am a website designer/developer, and I did a site for a friend, partly as a favour. Within 2 weeks someone sent me a link to another site that had ripped the entire thing, even the graphics, and just changed the text. At first I was pretty mad, but I sent th

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Reply to Adobe Atmosphere in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Tried it out, but I don't think it will really take off. The application lacks practical use for a website, and doesn't offer anything that Director 8.5 doesn't already do better. Just my $0.02.

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Reply to Deviant Art Needs to Start Moderation in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I don't know what it was, but after some of the horrors of the internet that I've already witness, from goatse.cx (if you don't know that one I implore you never to click such a link) to the girl who swore that she was the best photoshopper in the world, and had a whole site dedicated to some of the most ghastly pieces of "art" I've ever seen. There was perhaps a time, but it's long since gone. What was it btw?

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