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[DSF Guest 8]

OK... I get tons of IM's and PM's asking me questions. I am sure Binary does too. Let's not clutter up the other threads with questions. Just ask them here. I know Binary has his ask Binary thread and I have my reviews thread but Binary probably feels like I do... He wouldn't want to jump in on my thread and I wouldn't want to jump in on his.

So if you got a technical question, a software problem, or something about technology your wondering about ask it here.

-Pen and (assuming he is ok with) this Binary

P.S. There are often times more than 1 way to accomplish the same goal. There is no right or wrong way as long as the end result is accomplished.

Great idea. I am sure you guys answer some of the same questions multiple times. If the answers are in this thread it might save you from repeating yourself.

[Mr Handlebars]

Pen .... I think this is a great idea. Just one small suggestion if it can be done. Index it, so you can refer ppl to a posting rather than having to keep repeating yourself. I'm a nobdy when it comes to you guys in tech, so an index would also keep me from asking the same questions, I could just look at the questions and see the responses quicker that way than having to search the whole thread or hopefully reduce the # of lazy ppl of asking the same question over and over again.

Just a thought. Take it for what it's worth. Either way keep up the good work.

[DSF Guest 8]

Thanks... I will consider an index... to be honest I am not to good about that . I also "spoke" with Binary and he is all good but he may be a bit slow in responding for a day or two.

[Mr Handlebars]

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We know binary is a bit slow. After all he works for the post office. Need I say more??

[Mrs.BlackCrypt]

Not to be rude, but just a thought, how many times has someone had to say "use the index" or "use the search feature" in one of the apps etc. threads? So does an index work? Further does the built in feature the board provides of searching even work? People will ask because they're lazy. Sorry for my cynicism.
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I dont want to add any extra posts to this thread so i will say something within your post if that's ok...

The search feature works well in some instances. Band names, movie names and such work well. Questions will not work well. If your question is "What should I do about my computer that is running slower than normal?"...well the search engine is going to find every instance of all those words which are all very common words. You can limit the search to this thread but as the thread gets longer the more false positives you will get. So basically, the search is not very effective in this situation.

--Lucas

[Striker]

Question:

Anyone gotten SP3 for XP yet? Apparently it has been out on Automatic Updates since July but I don't have it which means it's not coming down as a critical update.

[Trips]

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I do man. Honestly can't tell the difference.



Also, my sister's order got the green light. Fuck yeah

[DSF Guest 8]

bump... cause it needed it.

I d/l'd SP3. don't know what it did. But I'm an idiot, and figure MS knows what it's doing.