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ProcessTamer / Re: A little request

« on: April 27, 2005, 01:52 AM »

strange request..
i guess i could add something like this.. i have a few things to add before that though..
but i will put it on to do list as i was thinking of adding a set of "advanced rules" and maybe i can support things like this, or other unusual rules.  if you can share the kind of application you were thinking of using this for it might help, if you feel like it.

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Living Room / Re: BACK FROM THE 10th CIRCLE OF HELL WITH FULLY RESTORED FORUM/BLOGS

« on: April 26, 2005, 07:20 PM »

hell yeah it is.

i'll definitely tell you guys about this episode tomorrow though because there are some intersting aspects to it.

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Living Room / BACK FROM THE 10th CIRCLE OF HELL WITH FULLY RESTORED FORUM/BLOGS

« on: April 26, 2005, 07:08 PM »

well...
it's been a painful 15 hours.. but i think we are just about back to where we were 24 hours ago, without any loss of data.
the server we were hosted on had a drive replaced without notice, and accounts were replaced with data that was over a week old.  it looked reallllly touch and go for a while, but we're now back to where we were with no loss of posts.

lesson #1 -> don't just back up the mysql forum databases once per week - i will setup a daily cron job to do it from now on.

lesson #2 -> i'll save it for my blog on friday... or for a further post after i get some sleep.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 26, 2005, 01:49 AM »

that sounds like it would be a great web page; if you want some web space for it let me know, or else post a link to it here when you finish.

i was so impressed with pspad when i tried it.

but you must agree that the word wrap feature is so bad that i will not use pspad.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Years on awards?

« on: April 25, 2005, 09:40 PM »

hehehe.

yeah, the thing is, year isnt ideal, since its not really a natural way of specifying the lifespan of the review, but it seems like there could be a serious problem if a year later we award best XXXX to some new program, and 2 companies now have the indentical award for identical category...

the alternative would be like

put an edition number on it.

like

Best In Class
Phase 1

vs.
Best In Class
Phase 2

to indicate that phase 2 is a more recent award than phase 1.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug?

« on: April 25, 2005, 07:32 PM »

what might be causing it is that the actual shortcut links might be slightly different, like difference in case, even though they show identically in the list.  it should be fixable in the next release, just make a note will you of a string you can type to generate some so that we can check to verify i've fixed it.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 07:04 PM »

yes, a special review dedicated to programmer's editors will be in the works eventually, and include ue studio and slickedit,multiedit, and probably return to zeus, etc.   it might have been smarter if i talked about the different uses for a text editor and said how this review was really focused on evaluating an editor for general purpose use, rather the use as a hardcore programmer's editor, and left programs like Crimsons and Zeus out of the review completely.

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General Software Discussion / Re: software i love

« on: April 25, 2005, 06:58 PM »

thanks for reminding me - hierarchical note takeing apps are one of those programs like wsw that many people dont use and which i consider to be one of those kinds of apps that can make such a difference.. so they really need a review and advocacy.  going to be a tough category to review though since there are so many to review and most implement basic functionality pretty well.  maybe this would be a good review to do in a manner less focused on a single best program, and more focused on advocating the category.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Hide < 1% CPU Usage - Request

« on: April 25, 2005, 06:55 PM »

good idea - i will add this, or an option for it.

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ProcessTamer / Re: BetaNews listing

« on: April 25, 2005, 06:54 PM »

nice to have a betanews users here, welcome war59312.
 betanews rocks.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug?

« on: April 25, 2005, 06:53 PM »

f&r will get a real update soon - i have some features i really want to add, and f&r is in need of some tweaking. i will try to find some time in the next 7 days to do the update for it and address these issues.

if you can find a specific search that yields duplicate entries, please write it down so we can test to make sure i fix it in the next release.  i will see if i can improve the focus isse - i seem to remember experiencing this myself at some point..

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Any new ideas for small utilities?

« on: April 25, 2005, 06:48 PM »

i think such a program probably already exists;
very easy to program.

if cant find a good freeware tool to do this, submit it for this weeks upcoming 2-5 hour game and i will write it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: software i love

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:56 PM »

well that describes my problem as well scott, so now i'm definitely going to check out tu3.

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General Software Discussion / Re: software i love

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:48 PM »

ive been using ashampoo uninstaller to track installations, but total uninstaller 3 looks interesting; going to give it a look.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: monthly contest: most useless app that takes 2-5 hours to write

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:46 PM »

good point... assuming i understand your point..

since these jobs should only take a few hourse it's not so much of a worry that more than one programmer might be working on it,
but i think the best policy would be that members should post ideas for silly little programs and any programmer who plans to work on it should say so, should make a post to that effect when they start working on it, so that other programmers can skip it unless they want to try as well.

so if you are a programmer, you must make a post before you start working on it, and after you finish, so that you save another programmer from working unnesc. on something they wouldn't have started if they knew someone else was working on.

my intention was that we have these things at the end of the month, but i dont see any harm in letting people suggest and code whenever they want.  i am making a page to host the programs, and associated source code if appropriate.

try to be creative people!! let's get some funny silly stuff coded.
prizes will be awarded for creativty, originality, humour, etc.
and hey, if you can think up a non-useless app that can be coded in 5 hours, go for it.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral 1.00.04 BETA DOWNLOAD?

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:23 PM »

quite right, sorry.  v now 1.00.05 uploaded, but it still doesn't fix the desktop shortcut issue yet.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: monthly contest: most useless app that takes 2-5 hours to write

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:10 PM »

i'd like to hear some useless 5 hour screensaver ideas too..

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ProcessTamer / BetaNews listing

« on: April 25, 2005, 03:08 PM »

Latest version of ProcessTamer was listed on BetaNews today (http://fileforum.bet...s_Tamer/1111857421/1).

Betanews is a great site that announces beta releases of applications, along with user comments about the programs.

if you love software but don't visit betanews daily (http://www.betanews.com), then 2 things are true:
1) you're missing out
2) you're not visiting the DonationCoder.com links page (https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html)

no excuse for either of these..

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 12:48 PM »

you know, the idea of holding control key to quickly toggle between column and normal selection mode is a good idea.
not having a menu item in edit or view menu to change selection mode, and having to hunt for it in program options, now that is silly.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 12:40 PM »

answering my own question, you can select the DEFAULT selection mode (column or line), and then use ctrl key to toggle.  column mode doesnt seem to be able to insert, but still its not a bad solution.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 11:19 AM »

perhaps i should add some comments about vim for hardcore users; i know there are people that swear by it.  for me, when i moved from using a text-only terminal to using a graphical OS, i decided that menus and buttons were a good thing, and i'm not a fan of these programs that can only be controlled by hitting 5-key alt+ctrl+escape combinations.

hehe column mode in zeus-- now its all column mode and i cant select anything BUT column mode, exactly as you said.

did i do something to put it into column mode, or is it ALWAYS in column mode and cant do normal selection, which would be much more insane!!! and can you figure out a way to get it to wrap on window boundry automatically without inserting CRs into source code?  if so i'd love to know.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 09:37 AM »

usability definitely matters - if you see how i ammended the vim review you'll see my basic attitude.

i've finished updating the review and adding boxer and zeus.  i actually ended up recommending zeus at the end of the review as a very good cheap programming editor.  Again, this is really pushing the scope of the review, as if i was reviewing programming editors i would have included slickedit and multiedit, and others.  and both boxer and zeus have very poor wordwrapping, which basically disqualifies them as general purpose editors, in my way of thinking.  however, zeus+boxer are cheap enough that they probably deserve a mention.

as with other modifications, see the upper left of the review in the sidebar, for quick links to changes.

sinbad - you're alerting us to programs we missed is much appreciated - this is exactly what i had hoped would happen with these review forums - provide a way for members to help make sure the reviews are thorough.  i just would like to figure out a way to get the reviews up in draft form so we can have some comments before they go public.  we will try this from now on.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 09:13 AM »

im trying zeus again and im being very impressed with it as a text editor.
i can see you must know the field of programming editors quite well.
let me finish evaluating zeus and i'll repost.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 08:55 AM »

boxer added to review;
indeed it has some very nice features.

however it is also rendered completely unacceptable by a bad wordwrap implementation.
funny that's 2 good editors that i consider unusable because of their word-wrap functionality.

however i can see that making these reviews more open to member suggestions before publication is going to really improve their thoroughness; it's awfully hard for one person to know about every program in a class.

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« on: April 25, 2005, 08:24 AM »

hi sinbad; i'm going to try boxer now; i've tried zeus a while ago for programming and was not satisfied but i haven't used it in a while and i will evaluate it now for text editing. i will report back.

i probably shouldn't have included vim in my original review at all - i understand some keyboard-centric people like it but it is just too unintuitive for me to really consider it seriously. but i thought i should mention it for people who like such things.  reading the built in help is extremely painful, and i couldnt find any hex/column modes.. could you tell me how to use them?