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General Software Discussion / Something similar to good old Norton Disk Doctor?

« on: July 14, 2010, 02:57 PM »

Need a nice piece of software than can perform a scan and repair (if possible) of a harddrive, like the old Norton Disk Doctor did. Scan for bad sectors, move the content to a safe area on the disk and mark the faulty sectors as bad so they don´t get used again. Are there such programs available anymore? I´m on Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and the check disk utility supplied with the OS is, to say the least, not good 

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Mircryption / Re: Questions about Mircryption and Psybnc...and some more

« on: November 05, 2009, 05:00 AM »

Thanks a bunch Mouser, i´ll try the above suggestions as soon as my damn flu is gone. No, it´s not swine flu 

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Mircryption / Questions about Mircryption and Psybnc...and some more

« on: October 29, 2009, 12:56 AM »

I am a long time user of Fish IRC encryption, but have also tried mircryption a few times and really like it. Its vast amount of features makes it superior to Fish. Using mircryption is not without problems though......A couple of questions.

I am using an IRC bouncer (psybnc 2.3.2.7) and when people messaging me through the bnc when i am not online i cant read those messages, they dont get decrypted. I know there´s a mod for psybnc 2.3.2.5 (mcpsybnc) but did that one ever got updated to run on 2.3.2.7? Are there any other way to get psybnc to decrypt messages? It works fine when i am online and using querys, but not reading offline messages.

Second, the compatibility mode for Fish works (+Ok) fine, but is it not supposed to be persistent through sessions? If i go to Commands>Mircryption in mIRC i can set the +OK mode there, but as far as i can see that setting does not stay that way when i close mIRC and restart it. I have to enable it again every time. Same goes for querys (private messaging), i have to enable the +OK mode every time.

Third, is the script for key exchange supposed to do that automatically? As of now i have to do it manually.

Using mIRC 6.35 on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 03:36 PM »

If you want something more streamlined, for some writers having the research within the application you write in is a great workflow advantage; no need to keep juggling different apps around. In this case there are a couple of programs that may be worthwhile:

Liquid Story Binder: http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/

Idea Mason: http://www.ideamason.com/

And though it is for screenplays, this seems to allow research and document import / management for free: http://www.celtx.com/overview.html

If you have access to a Mac, there are a number of of IMO superior writers tools, my favorite being Scrivener http://literatureand...e.com/scrivener.html which allows full keywording / searching in a beautiful writers interface. The "workflow" (yes, horribly overused word) is just astounding, and writing and researching within really makes a difference compared to juggling writing program + note taking for me...

-nontroppo (September 20, 2007, 03:20 PM)

Great pieces of software both of them, especially Liquid Story Binder seems very impressive. Not exactly what i am looking for right now, but i will surely keep them in mind if the need arise. I´m a nobrainer when it comes to Mac, i should have mentioned that in my initial post. Thanks for the information though.

Getting to like EverNote more and more, even if the "bloatiness" is pretty overwhelming But if it sits in the system tray and keeps quiet its not a big problem. Luckily im equipped with a very decent amount of RAM so the memory consumption is bearable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 03:07 PM »

MemPad seems like it fits your requirements; it's basically a text based hierarchical tree outliner.
http://home.mnet-onl...e/horst.muc/wmem.htm

I have it minimized on startup on my system tray and if I want to save a URL or copy/paste text to save for later review it's there at an instance.  Small program size, portable, can use windows encryption, search capabilities, auto save, etc.

-patthecat (September 20, 2007, 12:52 PM)

Have to check that one out, evaluating EverNote at the moment, extremely competent program, but in my opinion way to bloated. Also eats a whopping 30 mb memory just by sitting in the system tray.... Very versatile though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 12:33 PM »

ScrapBook (Firefox add-on) or EverNote.

-sri (September 20, 2007, 11:57 AM)

EverNote seems pretty nice!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 11:52 AM »

Firefox + ScrapBook + MinimizeToTray

-Nighted (September 20, 2007, 11:44 AM)

Jeez, you are the one that gived the words "quick answer" a totally new meaning! Thanx a million for that, im a hardcore Firefox user so this will eventually suit me just fine. I´ll check it immediately!

It sounds like you're in need of some good note-taking software

-Dirhael

Indeed, nice thread, i´ll go through it right away!

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General Software Discussion / Help with finding accurate software.

« on: September 20, 2007, 11:37 AM »

Hi guys, been a while since i posted here, but now when i find myself in somewhat of a distress i once again turn to the very source of knowledge and skill.

I do a lot of writing on different subjects, politics, computer related stuff, film, music, litterature and so on, and during my search for information on the Internet i sometimes stumbles upon pieces of information that i would love to save for future projects, like code snippets, pieces of text, URL:s and such. Usually i fire up Notepad and add the text or URL to a document and the saves it, but this is not really a convenient way. In the long run you tend to end up with a plethora of text documents with only a few words on each. So i need some kind of software that i can instantly fire up (with a press of a button maybe?) from lets say the system tray, and where i can add all those little pieces of information instead of creating a document for each entry. I then want to be able to save and at a later moment retrieve the information by searching keywords. I guess it sounds like a small and simple local database or sumthing. Does anyone know of such a software? Maybe one of the distinguished programmers here has come up with such a solution? 

Greetings from Sweden (where the winter very soon are upon us )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extend your keyboard/mouse, software?

« on: March 02, 2006, 10:33 AM »

But what's the problem with the sensitivity adjustings at the control pannel-> keyboard?

-jgpaiva (March 01, 2006, 03:41 AM)

They are intended for adjusting the speed of repeat rate and repeat delay, not really for adjusting how "hard" you have to hit the keys to get the result you want. But i tend to agree with brothers, most likely there´s no such software avail, it´s a pure hardware issue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extend your keyboard/mouse, software?

« on: March 01, 2006, 03:15 AM »

Or a software that extends the capabilitys of the keyboard/mouse beyond those found in the native software.

Is there any stuff like that out there?

-Got Milk? (March 01, 2006, 02:56 AM)

You asked in the right place!

Check https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1167.0 and https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

-brotherS (March 01, 2006, 03:03 AM)

I am way ahead of you    Been using that excellent software for some time now, giving me much easier access to commands in a program called Subtitle Workshop that im using to translate and make subtitles for different video material. But it cant change key sensitivity, even if it most probably can make you a nice cup of coffee (yes, its that good).

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General Software Discussion / Extend your keyboard/mouse, software?

« on: March 01, 2006, 02:56 AM »

Hi dudes and dudettes. I am using a Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard with its native software installed. It works pretty well, looks like i´ve had all the settings tuned so it suits me, but i am missing a feature. I would like to be able to change the sensitivity when pressing a key, for instance when typing. The MS software has the "repeat delay" and repeat rate" settings, but it´s not exactly what i am looking for. Yes, i do a lot of typing

I have not found any settings for that in the Microsoft software (or i might be blind) so my question is if there´s such a software available on the market?  Or a software that extends the capabilitys of the keyboard/mouse beyond those found in the native software.

Is there any stuff like that out there?

Best regards.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are There No Decent Mailing List Programs? - short article

« on: February 26, 2006, 03:52 PM »

Samlogic Multimailer 2005 http://www.samlogic.net/. Uses it for my mailing list with 4000+ participants, works just great!

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Living Room / Re: caffeine free week - who wants to join me?

« on: February 26, 2006, 03:48 PM »

Cant live without my coffee, but dont drink tea or CocaCola and stuff. How about joining me in my one-year-totally-free-of-alcohol instead?    I´ve done 10 months now, will be done april 24th.....guess who´s having a beer that day?

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets het to know each other a bit ... who are you, what do you do, wher

« on: February 26, 2006, 03:40 PM »

Got Milk? here, turning 53 this year, been into puter business for a long time, at least 15 years or so. I´m "retired" so to speak, my own choice, because i sold my PC tech support company and got, to say the least, a fair amount of dough to make me independent of salary and stuff for the rest of my days. Spending my time traveling together with the wifey thing, also spends a good amount of time in front of the PC monitor 

Living in Stockholm, Sweden (there´s no polar bears on the streets here, same as Norway ) but the overall weather conditions, especially winter time, slowly drives me nuts. Used to joke about us having only two seasons of the year, white winter and green winter Having major plans on moving to a much warmer place, somewhere in the Mediterranian area. Thats it! And i love donationcoder.com, been here several times for the Mircryption stuff, but when i finally took some time to browse the site i was amazed! Sent the donation right away!