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Cellphone unlocking might become illegal soon ?

I understand the part about circumventing for access to copyrighted maretial, however, the documents specifically mentions jailbraking and/or (rooting) is legal. The rooting is hacking or circumventing software. But the carrier lock in itself is not software related in general. Meaning if you...
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- Post #19
- Jan 25, 2013
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Cellphone unlocking might become illegal soon ?

My only question is how is the DMCA at all related to locking a phone? Especially if rooting is still legal? I (kind of) read the entire document and did not find any reasonable connection between network and copyright. Unlocking a phone can in no way give you access to software you would...
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- Post #13
- Jan 25, 2013
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Is there such a thing as disk indexing software?

Last night I indexed all my drives or about 4 TB of data with Whereisit. The scanning was much faster when I disabled the plug-ins. It took just about 30 minutes to scan everything in that configuration, 4-5 times faster than the default settings. Best of all, all the catalogs only use about...
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- Post #8
- Oct 2, 2012
- Forum: Windows
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Is there such a thing as disk indexing software?

Thanks, wereisit seems perfect, if anything much more complicated than I need. I am trying it right now.
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- Post #4
- Oct 1, 2012
- Forum: Windows
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Is there such a thing as disk indexing software?

Recently a 1 TB hard drive died on me which was not backed up. It was a storage drive and any important data on it was backed up so I don't care that much that it died. However, I am upset that I don't know what exactly was lost, so I don't know what I now need to re-backup or re-install or...
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- Thread
- Oct 1, 2012
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows
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Stop Google redirects? Not a Virus.

There is no auto complete, but it also seems to interfere with the browser auto complete which is annoying.
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- Post #5
- Oct 1, 2012
- Forum: Security
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Stop Google redirects? Not a Virus.

Cool, I will look into it. One question, I like how I used to have auto complete on google store my previous searches before the whole instant thing. This does not work on DDG. Is there a way to enable it, the browser auto-complete which seems to be disabled by DDG and Google.
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- Post #3
- Oct 1, 2012
- Forum: Security
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Stop Google redirects? Not a Virus.

I noticed that Google is now sending all its search results through its own redirect engine, which does not improve things, and in many cases has made Google useless for me. As an example, I search for "anandtech". the first result points to www.anandtech.com, but if I right click on the link...
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- Thread
- Oct 1, 2012
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Security
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What are some useful things to do with the command prompt?

deltree, rmdir, or equivalent. The only way to clear a folder were files or subfolders may be in use. Explorer errors out and stops. Attrib. Cannot change many attributes with a GUI. With Microsoft limiting GUI options with later versions, I mind myself going to the command prompt or...
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- Post #13
- Jun 7, 2012
- Forum: Operating Systems
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HELP Windows 7 Rearranging desktop with monitor unplug?

Windows 7 has an issue or a "feature" where a DP or HDMI monitor is detected as removed when turned off. This leads to windows rearranging windows and icons on the entire desktop on the remaining monitor(s). Something nobody seems to have mentioned is what happens when you unplug a monitor in...
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- Thread
- Jun 7, 2012
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fix Windows 7 Window Managment.

To do some testing with Radmin Remote Viewer which allows me to see all my screens on my desktop on another PC. I noticed that any time I unplugged, plugged in or turned on/off a HDMI or DP device the screen flashed black on all displays for a second. During this time, every display switched...
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- Post #7
- Feb 25, 2012
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fix Windows 7 Window Managment.

The issue with DisplayPort and HDMI devices in windows 7 is that turning a device off or even changing inputs on the monitor/tv can be detected as the cable being unplugged. I don't unplug a monitor to often, usually just to re-route the cable. I do turn them off. I think windows is stupid...
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- Post #6
- Feb 21, 2012
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fix Windows 7 Window Managment.

I wanted to add the only time that nothing goes wrong is if the PC turns off the monitors. If I set the PC to turn off the monitors after 1 minute, when the monitors are off I unplug and turn off at will. As long as everything is plugged in and on when I move the mouse to turn the monitors...
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- Post #4
- Feb 20, 2012
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fix Windows 7 Window Managment.

Thanks, but unfortunately the AMD drivers did not help (Latest 12.1 cat). I have it set to manually detect but it still causes problems. When a monitor is disconnected I get a prompt saying that there was a link failure and windows can no longer display the configured resolution and then I...
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- Post #3
- Feb 20, 2012
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fix Windows 7 Window Managment.

Windows has an annoying feature of detecting DP and HDMI displays and automatically adjusting display settings. As described here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Understanding-multiple-monitors The problem is that it does not work most of the time. I set up one monitor...
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- Thread
- Feb 20, 2012
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Operating Systems

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