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General Software Discussion / Re: Gigaget

« on: February 11, 2006, 01:04 AM »

for download managers I have tried many but my favorite is ReGet Deluxe.  Nice GUI, stable, and has just the right amount of features for my taste.  Although it's not freeware, you get what you pay for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: nice and small screensaver

« on: February 11, 2006, 12:35 AM »

well it's certainly FAR from a "low-resource" screensaver, but far and away my all time favorite (and current) screensaver is electric sheep.  Simply beautiful, and never gets boring or repetitive.  And I feel that my computer is keeping herself entertained while I'm away.   

But, if simplicity and minimalism is what you're after, might I suggest PowerDimmer from WhitSoft development.  It's Donationware, and quite system-friendly.  It uses alphachannel to dim the screen so you can still see what's happening "underneath" even when its dimmed.  Quite pleasing. 

Oh, and it's only 3kb !

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« on: February 11, 2006, 12:18 AM »

well I have done some digging in the AHK help file and made 2 small code changes to IdleMute and it seems to have fixed the problem of the program not un-muting upon mouse movement.  I recompiled this as v1.8a and  I have sent the mod to skrommel for verification that it works and then I assume he will post it for everyone.  It works for me!    so happy to have my favorite tray utility back in full effect!!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« on: February 10, 2006, 11:06 PM »

skrommel?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 06, 2006, 05:19 PM »

I made one more tweak, inifile and window name are now variables

[Select]

#SingleInstance,Force
OnExit,EXIT

x=
y=
w=100
h=100
pause=1000
color=000000
inifile=Alive.ini
wintitle=Alive

IfExist,%inifile%
{
  IniRead,x,%inifile%,Settings,x
  IniRead,y,%inifile%,Settings,y
  IniRead,w,%inifile%,Settings,w
  IniRead,h,%inifile%,Settings,h
  IniRead,pause,%inifile%,Settings,pause
}

Gui,+AlwaysOnTop +Resize
Gui,Color,%color%
Gui,Show,x%x% y%y% w%w% h%h%,%wintitle%
WinMove,%wintitle%,,%x%,%y%,%w%,%h%
SetTimer,CHANGE,%pause%
Return

CHANGE:
If color=000000
  color=00FF00
Else
  color=000000
Gui,Color,%color%
Return

GuiClose:
EXIT:
WinGetPos,x,y,w,h,%wintitle%
IniWrite,%x%,%inifile%,Settings,x
IniWrite,%y%,%inifile%,Settings,y
IniWrite,%w%,%inifile%,Settings,w
IniWrite,%h%,%inifile%,Settings,h
IniWrite,%pause%,%inifile%,Settings,pause
ExitApp

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« on: February 06, 2006, 05:02 PM »

hey skrommel, I saw AHK released a new version a few days ago.  Any chance of recompiling IdleMute to see if it fixes these little bugs?  or did you contact Chris (ahk author) about it? 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 06, 2006, 04:55 PM »

hey thanks skrommel!
actually it needs one more line:

[Select]

CHANGE:
If color=000000
  color=00FF00
Else
  color=000000
Gui,Color,%color%
Return

and also, initial color must be set to black instead of red (line 13), otherwise color never changes:

[Select]

color=000000

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 06, 2006, 02:25 AM »

hey skrommel!  thanks-- works a treat

I need to learn AHK one of these days! 

Can you tell me how to modify this app so it just alternates 0000FF and 000000 colors? (black/green).  I assume you can set a variable, something like....

if var=000000 then set var=0000FF else set var=000000
change color to var
..

but I dont know how to do this in AHK 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 03, 2006, 11:31 AM »

Tomorrow, if i don't forget, I'll post a version with an ini-file configuration

-jgpaiva (February 03, 2006, 11:09 AM)

wow great stuff!! thanks a lot jgpaiva!
 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 03, 2006, 11:06 AM »

1 more suggestion:  how about an .ini file that stores the last window size/position so it gets preserved between launches? that would be nice!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 03, 2006, 10:33 AM »

thanks jgpaiva, this is cool and seems to work great!
3mb for this app is a little high but since you are using AHK there is not much you can do. 

One question, why did you put an additional "X" button in the top left?  something wrong with the normal close button in the title bar?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Group Policy Object Editor Search

« on: February 03, 2006, 02:07 AM »

count me in for this if anyone decides to code it.......... it would be immensely useful      2 thumbs up

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Finished Programs / DONE: Across-the-room Stability Monitor

« on: February 03, 2006, 02:05 AM »

this idea might be pretty easy to code hopefully.... let me explain:

I do a lot of CPU overclocking and stability testing, burn-in etc and am always building and testing new systems.  This often involves long time-consuming sessions of running various torture tests such as Prime95, SuperPI 32M, OCCT, Memtest etc.  It is boring to stare at the screen for 4 hours straight so often I will go to the next room and watch TV or listen to music etc.  I like to glance over my shoulder to make sure the system is still up & running and has not BSOD'd, rebooted, crashed or frozen.  Sometimes its hard to tell if the system has frozen from across the room.

So, I am looking for a program that does the following:

1) opens a window that shows a "heartbeat" which can be something like alternating flashing colors, changing patterns, some sort of color cycling animation, etc.

2) this window ideally should be resizable so that it can be made larger depending on the resolution of the monitor being used.

3) pattern or colors should shift once per second, or maybe once every 2-3 seconds.

4) cpu + ram usage of the program itself should be as minimal as possible so as not to interfere with or steal resources from the other stability testing programs.


This would make life a lot easier for testing these systems.... 
Any takers?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« on: February 01, 2006, 06:35 PM »

ok thanks! nice to see you back in this thread 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« on: January 27, 2006, 08:31 PM »

skrommel?  are you still watching this thread?
just wondering if you saw my last comment...  it seems once IdleMute mutes the speaker, it doesnt automatically un-mute it anymore when I come back.......... any ideas? 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 25, 2006, 12:00 AM »

also, for those who don't know, nnCron (which I have written that code snippet for above) is a very excellent and powerful program which can automate just about any task you can imagine.  If you know the Forth programming language, you can develop your own plugins for it to further enhance its amazing feature set.  The program has very low resource usage and is extremely stable.  Some examples of things I am using it for:

• automatic log-rolling of my process logs each month
• send commands over serial port to control lighting in my lizard tank according to sunrise/sunset times each day
• monitor Event Logs and display balloon popups for my user-defined list of specific events
• sync time with NTP time servers
• download latest episode of an internet radio show that I enjoy every day
• monitor a custom list of folders with individual quotas for each and display alerts if any of them go over quota (temp folders, etc)

and now, thanks to mouser and MiniCap

• take screenshot of my desktop each 10 minutes to keep a history of work done

I dont work for nnCron I just think its a great app and deserves some mention.
http://www.nncron.ru

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 11:16 PM »

Well, I have already worked around this using nnCron:

[Select]

#( auto_screen_capture
NoLog
Time: */10 * * * * *
Rule: PROC-EXIST: "*.scr" 0=
Action:
FILE-EXIST: "C:\Screencaps\%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%\NUL" 0=
IF
DIR-CREATE: "C:\Screencaps\%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%"
THEN
StartIn: "C:\Program Files\MiniCap"
BelowNormalPriority
START-APP: minicap.exe -save "C:\Screencaps\%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%\$customdate$.png" -customdate "$Y-$m-$d__$H$M" -captureregion 0 0 1279 1023 -exit
)#

But I'm not sure...... if it is going to add a lot of overhead to MiniCap, then I would say leave it out and just don't crash.  If it won't slow it down much, then I guess it would be nice to add this feature.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 11:01 PM »

I found one "bug" .. not really a bug just a "missing feature". 
If you specify an invalid target folder for the screenshot (i.e a folder which does not exist) then MiniCap crashes, instead of exiting gracefully with a non-zero exitcode.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 10:59 PM »

this is just making me so happy 
it's alive!

http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alive9kt.png

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 08:50 PM »

mouser you are a genius!
thank you so much, this is really perfect!!
 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.02.04 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 07:56 PM »

that is great news 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.02.04 - January 24, 2006

« on: January 24, 2006, 07:48 PM »

mouser this is awesome!! i've already got it working using nnCron + some easy commandline args:

[Select]

MiniCap.exe -save "C:\Screencaps\$date$_$time$.png" -captureregion 0 0 1279 1023 -exit

can I make one small suggestion?   
1) can the $date$ and $time$ substitutions expand to zero-padded values?  That way when I have a folder full of these, they will sort correctly

this is just great and I am quite sure this is going to help me a great deal...... 

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Finished Programs / Re: Timed desktop screenshots -- not for spyware!

« on: January 24, 2006, 06:56 PM »

I also contacted Alexander Avdonin, Russian programmer and author of the incredible TaskSwitchXP and also WinSnap.  He has agreed to add command-line support to his WinSnap util in the near future.  I am going to test out using MiniCap combined with nnCron as a solution, but I believe that either MiniCap or this future WinSnap version will be the solution.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: commandline screenshot options

« on: January 24, 2006, 06:53 PM »

Thanks mouser!! downloading now....... 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: commandline screenshot options

« on: January 23, 2006, 10:50 PM »

well so far the only thing I've found is this:

http://www.svet-soft.com/cap.shtml

it costs $39 but may be worth it.. I am going to try the demo version.