Off Topic Forum

I'm sure some of you have heard that Firefox 3.7 will do away with the address bar, which, to me, invokes images of IE 7. When Microsoft did that with IE and WMP it seemed foreign and strange, but 3-4 years later, here comes Mozilla with a similar design.

But that's not the end of it. Firefox 4 will look more like the Chrome of today than Firefox, save for the name.

Theme/UI Revamp

Are they joke?

I'm just amazed by the number of false positives McAfee seems to be generating at the moment. I've never had a particularly high opinion of it and this has done nothing to enhance my view.

Now granted false positives are a fact of life but you'd think they would be less with giant corporate anti-virus solutions since they probably have more programmers than they known what to do with. I've had a few false positives with Avira (Antivir back then) and I found their programming team to be very responsive. They had a solution within 24 hours. That impressed me a lot.

Happy birthday, gluxon!
Hope you have a great one, and may you have many more!

Can i throttle a specific MAC address and bittorrent downloads through a program?

The computer is connected to the router through LAN and the rest through WIFI. Everytime "someone" uses the WIFI (and uses bittorrent), internet crawls and it takes a minute to open google.

The router was provided by the ISP. It doesn't have advanced settings like throttling.

Hey, Im curious. . . does anyone have any suggestions what portableapp I could use to create a database or catalog of things. I know that was a pretty vague description, but a friend of mine has created a story of sorts that blend various universes (Star Trek, Star wars, Battlestar Galactica, and I think even Terminator) as a fan fic, role-playing game. Anyway, I need to be able to cataloge something like the following

•Faction
>Faction 1
- Race
a.)race
b.)race 2
c.)race 3
d.)etc
>Faction 2
- Race
a.)race
b.)race 2
c.)race 3
d.)etc
>Faction 3
- Race
a.)race
b.)race 2

John,

I have been reading threads about sync files and related stuff a lot and I was thinking that it can be a good bussines to you if...

I know that you know Dropbox and Ubuntu One... what if PortableApps.com include a service like that to cloud syncing and backuping portable devices running portableapps.com's apps? I mean a similar service like DropBox or UbuntuOne but specially configured for PortableApps.com profiles (or apps, or the entire portable unit).

With all that cloud computing around and that fashion in apps like Dropbox, maybe PortableApps.com should try it...

Has anyone else out there heard about MUDs? (For those that don't know, they are essentially a text-based multiplayer game.) There's some pretty good ones out there (for example, Discworld). How many people here actively play MUDs?
If there's enough interest I'll put MUSHClient Portable up for beta testing

They approach the maximum performance offered by USB 2.0

Corsair today announced a new family of USB flash drives that the company said approach the maximum performance available from the USB 2.0 interface, which offers 480Mbit/sec throughput.

The Flash Voyager GTR family of USB flash drives have maximum read speeds up to 34MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 28MB/sec. If those read/write rates are accurate, they would surpass anything Computerworld has tested so far.

Is the life of a portable hard drive (specifically, a WD Passport) any different from the life of an internal hard drive?

Out of curiosity...

If you play AssaultCube what username do you go by (and Clan if applicable)?

If you've seen Darkbee getting his butt kicked then that'd be me.