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Anyone doing NaNoWriMo?

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on October 17, 2009 - 10:08pm

Just wondering, because I heard about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) last year, and it was intriguing, and it came up this year (on wikiHow), and I think I just might do it. I got 2 weeks to think of a basic plot, but the rules say you can't actually start writing until the 1st of November, 12:01AM (00:01 international) local time.

Living Reality

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Submitted by digitxp on October 16, 2009 - 4:58pm

Keepass has been a breath of fresh air for me. The reeally secure part of encryption, without it being integrated into the browser (which would also explain why Firefox crashed on me :)). So now I'm wondering how I could build a completely browser-independent system. Namely:

  • Independent Password (Keepass) [DONE]
  • Independent Bookmarks (that's troubling)
  • Independent Downloading

Any ideas? Biggrin

Keepass 2.x

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Submitted by digitxp on October 14, 2009 - 9:21pm

I've just started using Keepass a lot lately. The Autotype feature has me drooling over my feet (master password in Iron Portable! :D). Then I went further into the docs and saw 2-channel autotype obfuscation, which had me drooling over the floor...
Since just about every Windowz computer I use is XP, and all of them have Word '03 or '07 (assuming MS word uses .NET a lot), how would I go around to setting up a launcher that launches the appropriate version of KeePass based on the .NET version (Keepass settings are interoperable, right?)?

Impossible Idea--Copy2Ram

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Submitted by digitxp on October 11, 2009 - 8:59pm

Portable Browsers run really sloooowwww...
Small Linux Distros run relatively fast...
What's the difference, other than the 100 MB?
Small Linux Distros have a copy2ram function that copies the entire OS into the ram.
Portable Browsers do not.

Would it be possible to make a Portable Browser that copies the whole of itself into the ram to

POP and IMAP, and practicality of Thunderbird

Submitted by arinlares on September 26, 2009 - 1:42am

I was trying to set up Thunderbird, so that I don't need to use my internet browser to check/send emails, as my internet connection is a bit buggy where I am, when I was confronted with these two protocals: POP and IMAP, I believe they are.

I know not every email service supports these (Yahoo, for instance, makes you pay to use these protocols). But, if I were to use Thunderbird, or any email client, to send emails that can be read via any service, what should I do? Is Thunderbird more or less convenient for non-business users?

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