Lotherius

Lotherius

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Reply to Blog: Windows Handles, Web-based widgets, fun with SP2. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I would like to know too. I was shocked at how easily I brought my uber-stable box (XP 3200, 512mb Ram, nForce2 board) to its knees by having too many handles. This explains several mysterious slowdowns I get when there are too many apps open. I've had this box up for over 60 days without a reboot before, so it is otherwise stable. Load up too many apps, several of which I now know are "handle-eaters" and it drops to its knees. I can see now where slowdowns and related non-act

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Reply to ObjectDock VS YZDock in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Regardless of what's better, what's stolen or not, I don't think anyone has the right to hold ObjectDock's bugginess or lack thereof against StarDock (although it would be nice if that update I keep seeing would not fail every time!). Fact: Stardock gives ObjectDock away for FREE and does not offer official support for it. They can leave it is buggy as they want, it doesn't matter - you didn't pay for it. If, on the other hand, it's ObjectBar's bugs you want to complaina bout - that's d

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Reply to The Stardock Blog Navigator feature tour - Part I in Blog Navigator Tutorials JoeUser Forums

Btw... I did check it out. I'll probably use the free version to check out JoeUser, but as it is based around an IE control, I probably won't be buying it, since I no longer trust IE security (once hijacked from a banner ad due to bad IE security is once too many in my book)... Too bad - looks like one of the best layed out RSS readers I've seen.

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Reply to Political Machine beta released in Politics JoeUser Forums

Okay, managed to stay away from the "options" screen. I did manage to win my first game. First take: Really lacking in depth. Really it's a matter of click around and campaign more than your opponent, while remembering to raise funds while in the rich states so you don't end up spending two turns raising campaign funds in poor states so you can afford airfare out. There's very little strategy, at least on the 2cd up difficulty, to it. Take the

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Reply to Political Machine beta released in Politics JoeUser Forums

It runs for me, and I have sound. But like one previous poster, if I attempt to click on Options once in the game, I get booted out to the main menu. I'm running XP Pro SP1, 512MB Ram, AMD XP 3200+, nForce2 chipset, Geforce MX440-SE (the weak link). It looks fine otherwise.

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Stardock OS Wanted :) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm about to shell out cash within the next few weeksfor Object Desktop most likely, and I'm already a Drengin.net subscriber. A big portion of my decision to go ahead and buy Object Desktop is due to the fact that, hell, I just like the company and the way it does business and feel I should support it. Then I got to thinking.... There are lots of "people" who the are characterized as "pirates" because they don't pay for their OS software, or for their games. What would happen, however,

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Reply to Is GUI skinning fading? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Personally, I don't think that it's a matter of gui skinning having faded in popularity. If looking purely at the numbers of new skils/msstyles, I think there's a very clear reason there would be a slowdown over time. That is, unless radical new features come out which change the paradigm of application "frames", then most of the basic (that is, moderate, within the box) skin designs have been done. Most of what's left is either tweaking existing designs, or pushing the envelope with experimenta

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Reply to Error Updating Object Dock in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ahh... didn't realize that the update was that recent . I just installed objectdock from a file I had saved on my HD from months ago and it popped up with the update notice when I opened sdcentral to update galciv, so I figured what the heck... Owell, I guess I'll wait and see if it gets fixed! <img src="http://im

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Error Updating Object Dock in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have Object Dock 1.00 and have tried to install 1.00.008 through stardockcentral, but am getting the following errors: Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\Base\LaST (ObjectDock)\LaST (Cobalt) Lock & Gear.png_ Error: Invalid chunk data (4040 : 23695). Redownloading chunk 0 (attempt 1). Request header: Range: bytes=0- Error: Invalid chunk data (4040 : 23695). Redownloading chunk 0 (attempt 2). Request header: Range: bytes=0- Error: Invalid chunk data (4040

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Reply to O.T. Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ack.... the beta date moved back? I was expecting it tomorrow.... on the other hand, I do have a 20 page research paper due Monday, so maybe it's for the best. Personally, I'm not quite sure why I upgraded to Drengin.net. I had already bought GalCiv online, and while Political Machine sounds nice I probably won't play it for long. I guess I really just upgraded to Drengin.Net as a show of support for StarDock because I really appreciate the level of support they give to their p

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Reply to You don't have to be Texan to join New Texas Republic! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It is the idea of being in support of the region and the spirit of the region. If you absolutely hate Texas, then maybe it isn't for you. It's kindof like how you can join Greenpeace without being Canadian, or like French mercenaries fighting against the British on the side of the Americans way in the distant past (there were a few of 'em)... The idea is a central unifying theme and what it stands for.

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Reply to You don't have to be Texan to join New Texas Republic! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Shamelessly stolen from a LiveJournal entry, this obviously applies to the pre-Galactic Civilizations Texas: When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, "Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?" They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas. Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River

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