lifemaximum

@lifemaximum (302)

Malaysia • Age 41

Joined myLot 19 years ago

Lifemaximum - live life to max

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What makes Windows so popular?

TechWarrior @TechWarrior (207) • India 18 Feb 07

Why is the common PC user so hooked to windows inspite of so many good flavours of linux available in the market and that to open source.

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lifemaximum well i say the secret of their success is to the apporch that they took ,by not producing their own computers like apple, which apple is slowly shifting away from it now. But with the linux getting stronger and Mac OS X coming on intel chips and other pcs soon...

22 Feb 07

Linux or Mac?

andben @andben (1074) • Italy 8 Feb 07

Linux or Mac, which is the best? I currently use Linux and I tryed Mac for some time. I think Mac is better.

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lifemaximum well both are equally good , both are based on Unix which makes them very reliable, makes is all together and very easy to use and things gets down fast, and u dun have to spend lots of time setting it up it is a very good system and very user friendly. I use...

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Windows Vista So Beautiful, So Disturbing

hiretto @hiretto (64) • Italy 20 Feb 07

One mans surreal story of the changes Windows Vista has brought to his computing life and how he has come to terms with it. You know Microsoft should take a look. This story is really entertaining as well as a true representation...

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lifemaximum what story ? did u forget to post the story here.? or the link ?

21 Feb 07

An easy way to learn Linux???

thebeing @thebeing (657) • Romania 19 Feb 07

Do you guys know a website or have an e-book, or something, that teaches linux? I mean, not a too big refference for it, but something to teach what's the best version, how to install it, the basics of it's use, and things like...

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lifemaximum The best way to learn linux is hands on , u need to install a distro of linux on your system read up on it on the net join the forums post your problem and others will help u how to reslove issues one by one and slowly u will learn, the best source to learn...

21 Feb 07

Opera web browsers!!

deepuj @deepuj (591) • India 14 Feb 07

I have got firefox, IE n opera installed in my pc. but i used firefox n IE most of the time.Today i jus happended to use opera for a change, i observed a strange difference here.Anyone else using opera, are they experiencing...

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lifemaximum i am using opera rite now and i dun see any problem with it on mylot , it looks normal to me , anyway jus wanted to say that Opera has little followers and many of its features are unkown due to lack of publicity , but it is a very good browser it is knowns...

21 Feb 07

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who all uses the opera browser what is the benifits

deepak007 @deepak007 (514) • India 21 Feb 07

what are the plus points you see

opera browser

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lifemaximum it has lots of features 1, Widgets 2.Fraud protection 3.BitTorrent 4.Content blocker 5.Mouse gestures and a lot lot more visit the http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/ to see the list of all the features available, and u can download it for free...

21 Feb 07

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Windows Vista

christophermaloth @christophermaloth (19) • India 20 Feb 07

I am using Windows XP presently. I am really intrigued as to is it really worth it upgrading to this OS, and spending much more on upgrades of harware, like RAM. Graphic cards, etc, when my present OS fulfills all my...

windows vista

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lifemaximum u dun have to get Vista u can install a transformation pack and turn your XP into vista visually only of course, it is 30 MB program and u can also get the side bar from widget.yahoo.com i have a posted on that called" Trun windows XP to vista for free" u...

21 Feb 07

wat can be improve here at mylot?

baby88 @baby88 (695) • Singapore 21 Feb 07

ok guys, tell us wat can mylot do to improve? personally i think its a great site to know people from all over the world here. live chat is wat i think should be add on here. agree or not? say something.

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lifemaximum it is a good post that u have started here. I say it be nice if we can edit our own post after we have posted them , i personally make lots of mistake when i am typing so it would be nice to go back there and fix it. another feature that is good to have is...

21 Feb 07

Suggested language

hi_gourab @hi_gourab (242) • India 20 Feb 07

Which language you sugesst to learn. which is better easy then c,c++?

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lifemaximum I would say the best programming language is if u are on the Mac u can try Xcode it is quite intersting and easy to program with but basically it is based on C. or u could try Java, java is best for beginers who want to learn advance programming, it is free...

21 Feb 07

Windows prices and security A RIPP-OFF???

Dano11 @Dano11 (173) • United States 10 Feb 07

Before I go off, let me say that MicroSoft is Bill Gates business, and yes he can run his business any way he chooses and has the right to determine the price of his product, but sometimes people lose control, and greed becomes...

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lifemaximum U were rite microsoft is ripping ppl of, just watch this video i found on youtube about this guy who bought windows vista quite interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxDd9iDcZWY

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Even more questions about Linux

c45hfl0w @c45hfl0w (77) • Latvia 20 Feb 07

I`ll start with the fact I tried Linux knoppix (live cd) yesterday but I had problems: 1) the mouse cursor show`d up for few seconds and then lost, the mouse worked, I could see I was selecting something but I couldn`t see the...

knoppix

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lifemaximum using LIVE CD u can not use many of the features, the thing about linux is u need to spend sometime on it setting it up and setting up new features, if u tried to play MP3 u mite have not been able too cause the codec is not installed and it should be...

20 Feb 07

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Firefox, IE7 and Opera - I use 2 of 3, here's why and what is your preference?

Dano11 @Dano11 (173) • United States 10 Feb 07

I have for a long time used both IE and Firefox. I liked Firefox because of the tabbed browsing, and now MS has introduced IE7 which also supports tabbed browsing, and Opera 10 likewise supports tabbed browsing. MS has joined...

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lifemaximum There is no question on that Firefox is much better than IE , IE is the worst browser ever even though the IE 7 looks good and added some new features that firefox has ,but i still dun buy it , IE is the most valunerable browser, however firefox is not all...

20 Feb 07

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Why does firefox take up so much RAM?

pandu89 @pandu89 (350) • Canada 18 Nov 06

can I decrease how much it uses?

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lifemaximum if i am not mistaken FireFox has a meomory leakage, when u watch videos for e.g. on youtube it doesn't erase it after u close the page and it stays on the RAM, they fixed the problem by releasing a update, i think that is what the problem is , if u want to a...

19 Feb 07

Speech reignition software?

Chiang_Mai_boy @Chiang_Mai_boy (3882) • Thailand 18 Feb 07

Does anyone know of some good speech reignition software? If you do, would I be able to use it to post and reply on myLot with it? I am a slave to two finger typing and I would like to brake out of bondage.

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lifemaximum is there any open source speech recognition software as in free that u know of and is good?

18 Feb 07

Free Calls

silverflower @silverflower (519) • Pakistan 18 Feb 07

I want to call free of cost can you guys please help me out on how can I make free pc to pc and pc to phone calls. I think you must know something about it.

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lifemaximum you could try project gizmo, it is free for certain countries, and u download the software , create and account and than u are able to make pc to phone calls, but there is a limit i think , 5 mins a day or so , check it out at http://www.gizmoproject.com/...

18 Feb 07

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google video

ahmadpk48 @ahmadpk48 (228) • Pakistan 17 Feb 07

what u think about google video....there must be a downloading option

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lifemaximum there is another add- on called Media Pirate- The video downloader it is another firefox add on, that is for downloading those videos from websites who use those flash players to show their videos, I think this one will help u out , u can get it at:

17 Feb 07

google video

ahmadpk48 @ahmadpk48 (228) • Pakistan 17 Feb 07

what u think about google video....there must be a downloading option

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lifemaximum there is a plug in software or add-in whatever they call it that u can install on your firefox browser, u can get it from their site, and what it does is that it enables u to download videos from site like youtube and google video. i have used it once it works...

17 Feb 07

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Do You Like To Tweak Your Operating System?

jamz82 @jamz82 (1860) • Italy 17 Feb 07

When I installed Windows Xp I prefered doing a tweaked copy of it without internet explorer and without windows media player, msn messenger and programs like that I dont like. I removed windows Paint too. At the place of...

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lifemaximum I love tweaking my OS, i even tweaked firefox so it can upload pages faster it is great, best platform if u want to tweak your system is linux, there are so many possiblities, of course u need to learn first but it is the ultimate freedom in tweaking your os...

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