Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 24th at 2:54pm 2007
Anywhos...
I recently discovered this.
It is a pure miracle software. A must have! The version I had been using had a time limit, but it won me over lock stock and barrel. It cut my time spent by 1/2.
This program moved into my hall of fame and joined XAT in its greatness.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 27th at 2:46pm 2007
Don't'cha just hate it when you buy something, but when you go to the website, the part isn't listed?
Anyway, my wife knows about my fixation with thermometers. She bought me a Radio Shack weather forecaster/thermometer. Its kinda cool.
Sadly, Radio Shack doesn't even list the model. Must be a part no longer made. Oh well, its neat none the less. 
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 28th at 10:33pm 2007
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by French Toast on Sun Jan 28th at 10:43pm 2007
Is there a reason it's x3?
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 28th at 11:17pm 2007
Stupid host. There was only one, but I had to load it three times. I checked and there was but one when I left.
I dunno how the other two materialized afterward.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 1st at 9:50pm 2007
I heard about these on NPR radio this trip. My favorite is "Live the flavor"
Watch them all though cause they're all great. 
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 3rd at 6:31am 2007
A DLP HDTV on sale for $800. It's at a "thrift" shop (don't you wish you had thrift shops like mine?) There's a sign on it that says "works great", but the place has a policy of "return for store credit only" and that doesn't bode well with me. I've gotten electronics from them before, one actually busted after about 2 years (which isn't that bad considering it was probably already 10 years old), I bought a monitor there that's fantastic (it was also $15).
I just would like to really try the thing out before I even think about purchasing it. To clarify it is Widescreen (duh) and is 44". it has the 44" sticker still on it though, so I'm thinking, maybe, it was a floor model at a local Best Buy, maybe. I wish I payed more attention to the brand, I know it wasn't Sony, so I'm not totally against the tv yet. The only issue I really have is that I can't test anything HD on it, I don't have any HD stuff to bring with me to try out on it.
Oh well, it's only like $600 off a brand new one. (Unless the bulbs are close to burning out, then it's only $350 cheaper)
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Naklajat on Wed Feb 14th at 3:50am 2007
Schwing!
I knew a guy who had a very similar Ibanez, it was one of the nicest-playing guitars I've played.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Feb 14th at 3:57am 2007
*whispers*
RICKENBACKER
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by French Toast on Wed Feb 14th at 4:26am 2007
Oh man BvS, like you wouldn't believe. This guitar will make you a better player. Savin up for a new amp now... give it a couple months and I'm going to be shattering windows.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 1st at 11:45am 2007
Found out this morning that waking up to tornado sirens sucks.
Considering the alternative though, it didn't suck a lot.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 4th at 4:28pm 2007
Recently found this to be annoying as hell:
Why can virus and spyware scanners count down, instead of up?
I mean, it should know how many files and folders it needs to scan and count down. I on the other hand have no idea how many thousands there is and don't have a clue when the scan will complete.
/bemoaning my woes.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by French Toast on Sun Mar 4th at 5:47pm 2007
I recently found out by watching 'Sweet 16' on MTV that I hate people a lot.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Sun Mar 4th at 9:37pm 2007
? quote:
Recently found this to be annoying as hell:
Why can't virus and spyware scanners count down, instead of up?
I mean, it should know how many files and folders it needs to scan and count down.What piece of information gives you this idea?? I on the other hand have no idea how many thousands there is and don't have a clue when the scan will complete.Neither does the scanner!
/bemoaning my woes.
You would be more woeful if the scanner actually went through and figured out how many files there were on the computer. It would double the time complexity of the scanner because you'd be visiting each file at least two times. Keep in mind, that's also double the disc access', which are very slow.
No operating system keeps a running count of the number of files on the system because there's too many. The actual act of managing this constantly would incur overhead.
The only way I can think this could be approximated is look at the length of the partition ... but then that only says how large the disc partition is ... which is something you already know.
I think, instead, a better idea than a counting down file number (which would make the thing run twice as slow) is calculating about how long it would take to scan the entire partition(s). This could easily work by averaging the amount of time scanning has taken so far in regards to the amount of data you've processed and the size of the partition. That is the only feasible way you could do this!
No rebuttals of "well it would be nice if it worked this or that way", because it doesn't.
Live with it. Or develop your own computer system that does this accurately with no added overhead.
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