Recent content by nick8571

Don't get me started on all the stupid, unnecessary hoops MS make you jump through to achieve a clean Windows 8.1 install. That said, if you check out the MyDigitalLife forums, they have links to the MSDN/Technet Win8.1 ISOs there (or at least the leaked Wzor/WZT ISOs which are bit-for-bit...

Backlight bleed in the bottom left-hand corner seems to be a known problem with the P2414H - no doubt some are worse than others, but I ordered and returned three (from different suppliers) before I gave up on the model as a bad job.

I don't know... Windows might still be leaving data in temporary files on the system partition, and although the risk might be pretty small, if the entire drive is encrypted at least you can be sure you've got everything. I don't bother encrypting my home PC, but my laptop is encrypted with...

I'm not sure what that link to a software vendor is supposed to prove, and the fact that strong encryption available to consumers is "well-documented" doesn't make it any easier to break. If the cryptography is done correctly both with regard to the algorithms used and the way they're...

"citation needed"

To be fair, Dropbox employees can access your data if they deem they have sufficient reason to do so, and if you dare use SkyDrive to send your sister a picture of your kids playing in the bath, or a snapshot of a Botticelli nude you took at the British Museum, you risk having your entire...

My thoughts are that it's not very polite to post referral links, unless you clearly state what you're doing and give reasons beforehand.

Wuala also does client-side encryption, but if you're after a pure backup (as opposed to syncing) solution, I'd agree with the Crashplan recommendation (or maybe Backblaze as an alternative).

An 8-hour audio file in uncompressed PCM format (1411kbps) would be nearly five gigabytes in size (may or may not be a problem, depends what he wants to do with it), and lossy>lossy transcoding is never a good idea, regardless of the output setting. He *might* not be able to hear an audible...

errmmm... yes it does, and it has done since 1973. It just declined to adopt the Euro as its currency when many of the other partner nations did in 1999.

More a case of an arrogant American company thinking it can do whatever the fuck it likes anywhere in the world, with no repercussions coming its way. Even if Apple technically complied with the order in the first part of their statement, the UK judiciary correctly adjudged that the remainder...

You could also download the Windows 7 Enterprise trial, which you can use for an initial 90 days, and then you can rearm it up to 5 times, giving you 540 days in all (600 days if you also use the full 10-day grace period each time). I'm not saying you *should* do this (unless you only intend to...

Unless I've completely misunderstood, that's *not* what he's trying to do, which makes the rest of your post a waste of everyone's time. All he wants to do is find a convenient way of launching program setups without using the physical discs - he seemed to be under the impression earlier that...

It's always worked for me, although I can't say with complete certainty that it will always work in absolutely every instance for every single program - for example, maybe some particular apps require the installation CD or DVD to be physically inserted for copy protection purposes. Still, if...

If you're dead set against using ISOs (seems completely illogical to me but, hey, whatever), why not just copy the installation folders to a location on your HDD and leave them as they are, without compressing them into a single SFX? That way you could just run each setup.exe as required without...