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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Windows moving around after monitors wake up
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on: February 20, 2014, 05:29:58 AM
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Well, with modern display-drivers and screens, it seems the entire display is inhibited when in standby/off, and Windows shakes/resizes all it's visible windows to the last, or the primary, awake monitor it still sees. And also resets the other virtual screens to something like 640x480 pixels. I see this behavior on my dual-DP setup, where I leave the (work) computer running overnight, but turn off the screens to preserve some power. Any window I leave open is moved and resized to the left-upper 640x480 of my primary monitor  My current solution is to close all (well, almost all) applications, auto-saving their last window-positions and sizes, and re-opening them the next morning. Exceptions here are Outlook, that I minimize to the tray by default, and other trayed apps like SSC, that aren't affected, unless I forget to minimize them. Haven't found a solution, other than to minimize all windows to the system-tray, to avoid this behavior. But, I haven't yet done a thorough search for this either  |
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Project Christine - Modular PC from Razer
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on: February 11, 2014, 02:30:20 PM
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Well, no more vendor lock-in than laptops and such... right?
Well, yes and no, with this concept you get the illusion you can replace components easily, and it probably is true now, but come back in 3 years or so, and there are still no 3rd party components available/allowed because of license/copyright issues, and the original vendor is either out of business or no longer supporting this type of replacement modules, but you can of course buy their new product... then what's the use of even spending any energy on it? You still need an upgraded/improved/extended computer. Conclusion: This one's not for me. |
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?
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on: February 04, 2014, 08:10:03 AM
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LG 27EA83R-D
If you're aiming for a single-screen solution, I'd definitely have a look at this or a similar, super-high res, monitor. But do have a good test in the shop to view the actual brightness of the screen, that is, IMHO very, important too. You may need to make use of the return-policy, when available, if it's not good enough in your environment (like a very bright, sun-lit, location or whatever). The price definitely sounds right  |
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: One of these thing is not like the other - Finding Unique Numbers
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on: January 31, 2014, 05:21:25 AM
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A few questions upfront: - How to determine the number of columns?
- What's the standard file-format, Excel (xls, xlsx), CSV, LibreOffice (odf)?
- What's the desired output? Messagebox, console, file: format?
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Special User Sections / N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader
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on: January 30, 2014, 08:47:46 AM
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What application name to use, sImgurUploader?
AFAICS, it requires a callback URL, suggestions?
And where can we change/replace the API key used by sImgurUploader? Found it, {userprofile}\AppData\Roaming\Skwire Empire\sImgurUploader\sImgurUploader.ini
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?
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on: January 15, 2014, 05:22:00 AM
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... remove error message “the compressed (zip) folder is invalid and corrupted"? ...
Never, ever, use Windows Explorer to unpack zip-files (the Compressed Folders feature of Windows Explorer). That cr@p-tool is unable to pack or unpack a zip-file correctly. Always use any of the (free) archive tools designed for that purpose. I'm personally a fan of 7-zip, and (have used and) know that peazip is working just as well, but any other compression tool should do fine. |
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