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DC Website Help and Extras / Donating with Paypal doesn't work

« on: January 31, 2007, 02:15 PM »

I wanted to donate today via Paypal.
I got to the Paypal site, I log in - and I always get

We are sorry, we are experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later. If this error occurred while making a payment, avoid duplicate payments by checking your Account Overview before resending a payment.

Message 3504

that's happening the whole of this week
German Paypal site....

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Find And Run Robot / ndff - could it be of use for FARR?

« on: January 28, 2007, 01:46 AM »

already a couple of months ago I discovered ndff, a blazing fast commandline search for the NTFS file system. it's very quick but I never used it much....
could it be made useful for FARR by integrating its searching techniques?
http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/index.html

NDFF is command-line utility that performs extra fast file searching on local NTFS partition. The main advantage over any other file searching tool currently available (including the one found in Windows Explorer) that it looks for file directly in MFT, which is system data table of NTFS. This approach lets avoid reading all the directories contained on the volume, thus speeding up the operation by many times. For example, my 30 GB large partition full of files and directories is scanned in less than 10 seconds, while it takes several minutes to scan it in traditional way.

The main disadvantage of the approach is that the tool cannot look for the file in directory subtree. NTFS partition is the only scope understood by it. Of course, the utility could have filtered out the files that are not located in subtree of interest, but this did not decrease the time to scan the scope wanted. In other words, file search time depends only on number of files located on partition, and cannot be decreased by any hint from user.

This makes the utility useful for searching the files that user does not have an idea where they could have been placed of. On the other hand, it is not efficient to find the files that are known to be located in a dozen or two of subdirectories.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR: One Commandbox to rule them all...

« on: January 25, 2007, 09:22 AM »

Hello,

I have a vision of FARR: One Box that I can input text and that then transfers the input to either

- start a programm (like FARR does now)
- open a folder (like FARR does now)
- transfers to input my favorite desktop searchengine (e.g. Copernic Desktop Search, Google, or Locate)
- transfers the input to my favorite command line (e.g. monash)
- transfers the input to the inbuild Opera Mail Search

any other box I put my mind to  (= some sort of a plugin system; Launchy has e.g. a plugin for Firefox favorites)
One could e.g. work with prefixes (like "S" for search, "C" for command, etc.)

See what I'm up to? Something like Finder on Mac in advanced...
You only have FARR to start stuff, search for stuff etc... FARR would just pass on input to other search boxes on the computer
Because I don't like all those boxes on my desktop.

Would that be possible?


Cheers,


jajaja

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UrlSnooper / URLSnooper Standalone Version?

« on: February 13, 2006, 09:44 AM »

hello,

I have, like some others I think, problems with the correct winpcap and urlsnooper comibination. somehow i don't get it to work correctly...
what about releasing urlsnooper as a 'standalone' version that brings a network driver with it (something bullet proof...)?
I think that could solve some problems...


best regards and thanks for all your great stuff,

wurst