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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?
« on: March 03, 2013, 09:56 AM »
The Man from Earth

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/

Just a guy telling a story (the setting and supporting characters are irrelevant).

But the guy is 14,000 years old and it's a great story.  Most entertaining.

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Living Room / Re: Select ENTER with mouse click
« on: February 12, 2013, 09:27 PM »
The problem with clicking someplace outside the window you are working on is that you will change focus, so any <Enter> or <Return> at that point wouldn't happen in the correct window, at least not with only a few lines of script.

I use mouse rocker combinations (hold down one button and click/doubleclick/triple click the other, hold down one button and click the scroll wheel, hold down one button and roll the scroll wheel) for a variety of things: cut, copy, paste, delete, return, escape, close tab.

Each assignment is a few lines of Autohotkey script.  I use LeftButton/ScrollDown for <ENTER>, maybe that sort of thing would work for you adjusted to the trackball.  A snippet of code I lifted/copied/adapted from someone/someplace else:
~LButton & WheelDown::
    Send,{LButton Up}
    GetKeyState, State, WheelDown
    If State = U
        {
            Send,{Enter}
            ToolTip, Enter
            SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 2000
        }




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Have you tried surrounding the complete path and filename in quotes?

"C:\Program Files\Bulk Rename Utility"

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Living Room / Re: Global Warming & Statistics
« on: February 04, 2013, 01:04 PM »
So a 1/4 acre is a ~52' square .
~104', it's a square

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you can also get help with this sort of question at the Autohotkey forum

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Living Room / Re: Name 1 Technological Feature That You Think Is Good
« on: January 15, 2013, 06:48 PM »
Distributed electricity (alternating current)

pretty much nothing in our modern world is possible without it

Hail Tesla!


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Living Room / Re: Electric shock from USB cable
« on: January 11, 2013, 08:35 AM »
If that didn't blow the mains fuse,
;D ;D ;D

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What does the Link Alert icons look like?
Sorry, can't figure out a way to capture them on my system (I also have the url pop-up, but both vanish when I try to capture the icon).  Plus I'd only be able to do one at a time.

But the icons are small (I like small icons).

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Check out Link Alert, looks similar but different icons.

https://addons.mozil...ox/addon/link-alert/

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Living Room / Re: Audio Timestamping from Electric Hum
« on: December 14, 2012, 11:24 PM »
No argument with what you are saying, except for the idea that a UPS "filters" rough generator power.  People think UPS's work the way a charger/battery/inverter setup works, with all the 120v power being converted to 12v and back to 120v via the inverter 100% of the time.

But that's off-topic, sorry.

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Living Room / Re: Audio Timestamping from Electric Hum
« on: December 14, 2012, 06:44 PM »
the UPS, that way the whole system is operating off-grid with the UPS filtering the ragged power from the generator.
If the UPS needs to be unplugged to force use of its internal inverter, then wouldn't there therefore be no filtering of ragged generator power?

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Living Room / Re: Facebook seems to be erased from existence?
« on: December 10, 2012, 08:06 PM »
Still don't understand the attraction...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script for word microsoft
« on: December 10, 2012, 08:04 PM »
VBA ?

Another Autohotkey ?
For Office applications (Word, Excel, etc) far more powerful.

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I figured you could do this with a short batch file.  Refreshing my memory re the FOR command, I found the FOR /R command.

Looks like you could use the FOR /R and RENAME commands together right at a command prompt.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« on: November 13, 2012, 04:19 PM »
^give the OP some time and benefit of the doubt to read all the "litanies" that just got posted.

Fair enough, good point.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« on: November 13, 2012, 01:07 PM »
Apology is not needed, but do message me with details of what you think was deleted so I can look into it.
You're a class act mouser, no surprise to anyone who's paid even a little attention.

But this caught me on a cranky day, so one last snipe and then I'll go back in my hole.  I note that you've received no reply to your offer to resolve the problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?
« on: November 13, 2012, 12:52 PM »
clean -

It's been an hour and a half since your post.

It's still here but your apology isn't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 start button + menu: €5
« on: October 27, 2012, 08:40 AM »
I've gotten used to the Start button over the years, even find it handy for a few categories of occasional tasks.

Still, at it's inception I thought it was a lame and limiting feature (I moved to Windows from OS2), dumbing things down.  I've never changed my mind.

It's a crutch best eliminated,  so I won't be going out of my way to duplicate it when I move from XP to Windows 8 (when someone gives me a new Surface).

Getting rid of the ribbon in Office and reverting to the more useful classic menu/toolbar setup?  Now that's a different story....  ;D

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Coding Snacks / Re: Single click focus, double click bring to front
« on: October 02, 2012, 10:52 AM »
There you go, Topmost Toggle should do the trick.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Single click focus, double click bring to front
« on: October 02, 2012, 09:58 AM »
Nothing built in that I know of, but most all macro/scripting/filemanager utilities include the ability to keep a window on top regardless of focus.

I use AutoHotkey and MacroExpress for stuff like this, one is usually easier than the other for any particular thing.  In this case I use MacroExpress for keyboard shortcuts and mouse shortcuts that turn AlwaysOnTop on and off, pretty much one-line macros.

There's an AutoHotkey command that will do this.  You could easily assign turning this on or off for the focused window with two hotkeys.  A toggle using only one hotkey would take an extra few lines of code - you'd have to check the status of the current window and then reverse it.  If instead of a keyboard shortcut you want a mouse click on a window part, that's so easy in Macro Express that I never learned how to do that in AutoHotkey.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Single click focus, double click bring to front
« on: October 01, 2012, 11:54 PM »
... covering the window that is most important for me in doing my work
Why not simply make the "most important window" Always On Top"? 

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There's an AutoHotkey command (WinSetTitle) that will do this.

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... audio mavens
« on: August 13, 2012, 08:53 PM »
that looks like the same one I got at Monoprice, except the one 4wd found is cheaper:

http://www.monoprice...p;seq=1&format=2

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... audio mavens
« on: August 13, 2012, 03:44 PM »
I'll look up where I got my optical/mini converter (I think I got it to get audio out of my Apple tv into an old flatscreen).

The TOSlink Splitter that 4wd mentioned should take care of the other part.

Back later...

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... audio mavens
« on: August 13, 2012, 02:00 PM »
Not sure what I'm missing.  Why can't you split the optical feed to the soundbar, one branch to the soundbar and the other to an optical/mini convertor to feed your wireless broadcast unit?

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