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[PKCS7]

The encrypted PayPal link code is standard HTML format, you could handle the actual HTML tags (to avoid security issues) and just allow people to enter the encrypted part of the code, which is just an encryption of the email address etc.

Here is mine:

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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<input type="hidden" name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7----- Lots of encryption junk -----END PKCS7-----
">
</form>

As far as I can tell the "Lots of encrypted junk" is just that, not executable code. It is decoded on the PayPal page referred to using the PKCS7 routines embedded in the PayPal page.

the first three lines are standard (you could supply them so that you know they are OK along with the <form> tags). The only user customisable bit is the image file used for the button. You could choose that as a site default (or even use a DC specific image for the button).

The only user specific info required is the 'Lots of encrypted junk' which could be cut and paste into a user profile field, and automatically used to generate the button script (a trivial PHP script could do that).

If invalid data is supplied PayPal would not be able to decrypt it and generate its own error (and anyway it would not be ina DC page - so no threat to DC). If some one used somebody elses code they would effectively send all their donations to them, but the same thing could happen now if someone copied another users URL from the 'donate' button on the forum pages!!!

Just a thought.

How about allowing user to put a PayPal encrypted button script on their profile page (like you have added the ad control stuff) and then point the icon to the profile for people who have set it up?

That would be a really neat idea.

Actually something related I would like is a program starter which could start a group of programs in sequence. I would find this particularly helpful at startup as I have all sorts of stuff that starts up with Windows because I can't face starting it all up manually, but it does slow down system start and there is a distinct bottleneck of applications fighting to start at the same time.

What would be nice is the ability to set up program groups, but in sequences and allowing delays before attempting to start a particular app, or even with a default 'sequence delay' say 1 or 2 seconds before attampting to load the next in sequence.

The nice thing about program groups is that you could have effectively multiple startup configuartions which you can choose from a common interface.

Here is a workaround for anyone else having problems with this script ...

Basically it uses the cliboard to paste the code into the text. If it doesn't work, then simply press control V to paste the clipboard contents:

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:^+!q*:.img::
InputBox, SearchWords, Forum - enter image, Enter the image URL:
SetKeyDelay 0
ClipBoard = [img]%SearchWords%[/img]
Send ^V
return

:^+!q*:.url::
InputBox, FullURL, Forum - enter full URL to link to, Enter the full URL (inc. http://, ftp:// etc):
InputBox, URLlabel, Forum - enter text display label, Enter text label to display on page: 
SetKeyDelay 0
ClipBoard = [b][url=%FullURL%]%URLlabel%[/url][/b]
Send ^V
return

I have tried modifying it so there isn't an obvious clash, but it still doesn't work in Maxthon ???

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:^+!o*:.img::
InputBox, SearchWords, Forum - enter image, Enter the image URL:
SetKeyDelay 0
SendRaw [img]%SearchWords%[/img]
return

:^+!o*:.url::
InputBox, FullURL, Forum - enter full URL to link to, Enter the full URL (inc. http://,

ftp:// etc):
InputBox, URLlabel, Forum - enter text display label, Enter text label to display on page: 
SetKeyDelay 0
SendRaw [b][url=%FullURL%]%URLlabel%[/url][/b]
return

The hotkeys work, in that the boxes pop up ok but when it tries to past it doesn't produce any text ???

Huh?   Works perfectly here... are you maybe using some other scripts that conflict?

Must be a Maxthon compat issue as it works in FireFox

Biggest problem to me is bloat - a lot of the features are never used by 99.99999% of users.

I'd settle for MS compatible files in an app that doesn't support all the bells and whistles but works efficiently. When I start up an MS Office app I sometimes think I may as well go and make a coffee!

Neat - so now you could adapt that for urls too ...

[copy or print]
:o*:.img::
InputBox, SearchWords, Forum - enter image, Enter the image URL:
SetKeyDelay 0
SendRaw [img]%SearchWords%[/img]
return

:o*:.url::
InputBox, FullURL, Forum - enter full URL to link to, Enter the full URL (inc. http://, ftp:// etc):
InputBox, URLlabel, Forum - enter text display label, Enter text label to display on page: 
SetKeyDelay 0
SendRaw [b][url=%FullURL%]%URLlabel%[/url][/b]
return

Only problem I can see is that I can't get them to work here in the forum edit window (which precisely where you want them).

They work fine in other windows though like NotePad !!!

[I just looked at your TV spec - it doesn't mention PAL support at all ... If you haven't got a PAL compat TV you won't be able to watch European DVDs ...even with an MR DVD]

Sorry ignore - I misread your message and didn't realise you are in the US (I have deleted the message I typed)

I just looked at your TV spec - it doesn't mention PAL support at all ... If you haven't got a PAL compat TV you won't be able to watch European DVDs ...even with an MR DVD

MR still produces the original output it just removes region control.

Your right it isn't that easy to find multiregion stuff in the US market. Finding PAL support isn't always that easy, but I didn't realise HDTV would also cause a big issue (we haven't really discovered that in the UK yet - give us another 20 years!)

I would have say avoid the cheapest you can find and go for an established brand. I bought a cheap MR DVD from Logix ... who you might ask, but that's the point a lot of these companies don't exist for very long, and consequenly there is no support or firmware updates to deal with bugs. I have also found the video and sound quality are not too good in some of the cheap brands, and audio/video sync can be an issue. IMHO it is worth spending a few more $$$ to get something that works properly and has good video and sound quality.

That was quick ... email response within about 30 minutes ... (something really positive for ESET and NOD32 ... can you even email Symantec any more? Even when you could it took ages to get at best a limp response.)

Anyway:

thanks for the update. I'm sure I've done this before and it did reset all the settings but, if not, then unfortunately I think you'll have to uninstall and reinstall as per your first email.  If it's any consolation NOD is extremely quick to install or remove, it usually only takes a matter of seconds , compared to Norton which I have sat watching uninstall for nearly ten minutes before!

I also asked a question about stopping false positive with some NirSoft installers when doing a manual scan. They are password recovery tools which NOD32 doesn't seem to like, and if I run a manual scan there doesn't seem to be a way to exclude them ... response:
 

Regarding exclusions, if you've got these set up in AMON, then the files/folders are only excluded from on-access scanning, not on-demand scanning.
 
If you run the on-demand scanner, by default it'll still scan your whole C: drive. However, you can untick the C drive and instead add specific folders or files to be scanned, by using the 'add' button.
 
Also, the files you mention may be detected by Advanced Heuristics, in which case it may be better to usually scan with AH disabled, and just run periodic scans with AH enabled. (This is recommended anyway, as scanning takes much longer with AH enabled).
 
If any files are detected heuristically and you believe they are legitimate, you can also zip them and send them to samples@eset.com for analysis. They usually cannot reply to individual emails as there are simply too many, but if a legitimate file is being wrongly detected then they will update the virus signatures to stop this.

Thanks I wondered how you did that (and was too lazy to dig around the PayPal site) ...

I don't know if it is a UK PayPal thing but if you specify an amount (where you say suggested amount) then the PayPal donation page created has that as a fixed amount. On the site it says leave blank if you want people to enter an amount.

Of course it does have the unforunate side effect of making your paypal email address visible on every post you make, and available to spam bots ...

Is there any way to add the encrypted button HTML to signatures? (I'd guess not)

Hmmm .... shame it doesn't actually work (just tried it and it left all settings as I had changed them)

I'll reply to ESET and see if they have a solution.

In the meantime, a lot of the Setup dialogues have a default button (but not all), and for those the default settings appear to be shown in the help file windows.

I asked about this the other day in another thread.

If you are like me you fiddle and tweak stuff. Trouble is you end up sometimes with settings that aren't ideal and can't remember what you started with!

I emailed ESET yesterday and got this reply - which seems quite useful to me ...

There isn't a 'reset' button as such, to restore default settings. However, you can quickly reinstall NOD over the top of itself and choose the option not to keep existing settings. This is much quicker than doing a full uninstall and reinstall, and can be done by running the setup.exe file in C:\Program Files\Eset\Install

I decided to give GDS a try but your script didn't work for me immeditaely. I have modified two things:

• If the bar is in autohide mode it moves the mouse to the left of the screen and waits for it to open
• I have put in different coordinates to suit my screen size (1280x1024)

;Google Sidebar search with Ctrl+g
;http://www.donationcoder....um/index.php?topic=1252.0
^g::
if WinExist("ahk_class _GD_Sidebar")
{
    WinActivate
    MouseMove, 0,950   
    Sleep, 600
    MouseClick, left, 50, 950
    return
}
;Google Sidebar search with Ctrl+g

I wanted to find a better way of opening that hidden window but unfortunately the window doesn't have any title text to identify it by and all the commands I tried needed title text to unhide the window??? Anyone got a neater solution? 600ms is a bit long but it was the shortest period that seems to work consistently - the window opening speed depends on what else your system is doing at the time.

That looks really nice and neat. The one real drawback I can see is that it doesn't support any of the Camera RAW formats.

Crawling back from under my stone, I think I have now twigged ...

I think he wants a script to enter a URL and generate/insert the BBcode to produce a link like this that will work in all bulletin boards.

So preumably: a hotkey to bring up a dialogue, you enter URL and name and the appropriate BBcode is inserted at the cursor? Is that correct?


.... or shall I crawl back under my rock ...

Saw this today - REALLY neat idea - now it's almost worth buying VMWare for me ...

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

he's not talking about for this forum, but in general on other forums;

Oo err ... knuckles duly rapped ... I'll crawl back in my hole and be quiet ...

I'm not sure I am understanding exactly what you want, but to enter a URL into these messages I do the following:

Usually I am copying a URL either from a shortcut or the address bar in a browser, so I use the mouse to highlight and copy it to the clipboard.

I then type the text of my message, eg.

Try looking here

To get "here" highlighted and linked, I type it, highlight it with the mouse, click on the globe above the edit window. that produces here with the URL tags around it. I then click inside the left URL tag, just to the left of ] and type =, then mouse right click and paste.

apart from the = and copy/paste clicks I can't see how it could be simplified further ???

Thanks Mike, looks fun

If you look at the list you quoted above, it looks like Nationwide is the ONLY UK institution offering background bacnking in MS Money !!

Says it all really, well done for choosing Nationwide - maybe we should all move there to prove a point ...

Now where is my nearest 'Nationwide' branch ..... er, about 40 miles away I think ... bit of a trek for the hole in the wall ...

Must be a hell of an avatar to use 25Gb per month bandwidth ;-)

PShop Elements is too expensive, I may as well just get the archiver which does the job I want really neatly. I already have a full version of PhotoShop 7, so there isn't much point in buying Elements.

No just automatically updating transactions would be great !!!

My friend just ordered his new Powerbook. It's brand-new, from Apple's newly announced line of Powerbooks, which were announced just yesterday! It's 15", 1.67GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HD, new high-res and brighter display, slot-loading super drive 8x DVD and CD burner/reader. He also bought an iSight camera and a mighty mouse with it. The total was something like $2350.00 including tax. Shipping is free.

Nah, there is a 200%markup to cover shipping costs - you could build an equivalent laptop from components for less than a third of that (and probably get higher spec components).

I'm not bashing anything, nor am I trying to raise Apple to new heights with raves. I'm just putting down my observations and opinions, and well, as it is Apple really impresses me not only with design, but with how functionality seems to be behind every single design choice they make. That's why they impress me so. It's not just that they build pretty technology, the make the pretty facade so useful that in pretty much all cases, it easily matches its counterparts, but in some cases surpasses them with ease--and style.

But their technology is pretty much always at least a year behind the cutting edge ... look at the list you quoted at the top of this post ...

While I agree with you that Apple seems to be out for profit, I disagree with the notion that that's their prime motivation.

Apple (like MS) is a multinational - their only motivation is market share and profit.

They really seem to strive to innovate and make beauty extremely useful. That's why I really respect them. They may be overpriced, and that sucks, but what you get really stands out from the crowd in more than one way.

Another way you could look at it is 'also-ran hardware' in a 'minimalistic design' that reduces choice and expandability.

I don't have a particular axe to grind with Apple, and I'm certainly not an apologist for the MS empire, but genuine innovation has been lost these days because the innovators can't compete.

Apple were innovative in the Apple II and early Mac days, now they just shift pretty boxes.

MS were innovative in the early years, but are now purely cash driven (which is why almost identical versions of Office are released every year that many neither want nor need).

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Looking back in time there were some really innovative companies. For example, Acorn in the UK invented RISC technology, and spawned ARM (how many people know the name used to be short for Acorn RISC Machines) but sadly Acorn have been completely lost to the PC consumer world. I still have an Acorn RISC based computer. It is about 15-20 years old now, and still runs faster than modern Windows boxes (and could do things like Desktop publishing far more efficiently than many modern systems) and that was based on a massive 8Mb of RAM and 120Mb of Hard Disc.

Anyone come across XARA graphics package on Windows - an excellent Adobe Illustrator substitute. It was originally written for Acorn Machines and still runs like lightening on those machines.
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