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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts
« on: February 28, 2011, 09:05 PM »
Ahhh I *knew* my paranoia about keeping everything local was in fact perfect sanity  :tease:

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Does anybody remember what the upgrade price was from 8 to 9? Is this cheaper than the upgrade price will be for 9 to 10? I remember it wasn't cheap.

It was 41% of 85 aussie dollars -> 34.85

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They used to say "you can't hurt hardware with software." 

I have managed that, actually  :-[ I found a 'poke' that activated a relay in my old BBC micro. Coupled with a timer, it made a faintly musical whizzing noise. Then it went bang...  :o

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Whoops sorry I only just spotted this post. Please go ahead  :Thmbsup:

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« on: February 28, 2011, 06:53 PM »
Why don't we start by compiling such a list, let's say,by Day 2? Or a tangible action plan to improve the site (excluding software/site maintenance)? Or a list of new major apps (> 2000 downloads) that have been released since the last fundraiser, etc.?
-lotusblossom

This harks back to another recent thread about making more of the software that is available, and I believe app103 will be working on this as part of the fundraiser. It gets a hearty +1 from me since I would love to see a page where one can see just how much software is available on this site by now. At the moment I think the landing page of DC is still hiding too much of its light under a bushel.  8)

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Living Room / Re: Should I add ads to my website?
« on: February 28, 2011, 06:45 PM »
Thanks all. At the moment I'm talking about an offer from a specific company to run their ads. I would certainly not go back to adsense.

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Living Room / Re: Should I add ads to my website?
« on: February 28, 2011, 04:59 PM »
You're not putting "ads" on the site -- you're making an escape route -- putting little freedom factories on it~! :D

Now that is a beautiful phrase. Right up there with "cellar door"  :Thmbsup:

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Living Room / Re: Should I add ads to my website?
« on: February 28, 2011, 04:30 PM »
To me this is a really easy answer and that is: YES, TRY IT!!

Try it and see what the results are.  Would be silly not to.

Only then will you get to the potentially much more difficult question of whether it's worth keeping an ad on your site.  That's when the hard question comes.

Problem is that I would have to commit for a year. Sorry, I should've mentioned that in the original post. Well, or can it and presumably have to pay all the money back  :D

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Living Room / Should I add ads to my website?
« on: February 28, 2011, 04:13 PM »
A question for the intelligentsia:

I have been asked if I would like to host an ad page on my cartoon site: Head in the Clouds

Apparently I would have to post some pre-defined text in my blog, and have it linked to a page where you are invited to download some wallpapers.

I actually removed google ads from my site a couple of years back - they were making it look a bit crummy. But this was an interesting, generous and slightly flattering offer from a large telecoms company so I promised I'd give it some thought.

I also figured it would be quite a fun thing to run as a poll - how do you guys feel?

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I thought WP had backup function built-in? It's in my menu - although to be fair, my WP is supersexy customized  :P
Isn't that what doctorfrog refers as "export the XML file"? (I know nothing about wordpress, so I'm just guessing :P )

No, it's true a backup of the tables.  :P

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I thought WP had backup function built-in? It's in my menu - although to be fair, my WP is supersexy customized  :P

An alternative to httrack is Web Copier Pro. Which is more gui-like. Tag line: "Feel the internet in your hands"

Ew.


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...and will they finally let me open an ftp connection as a tree? Actually, I must hop onto their forum and wibble about that. A whole bunch of us asked about it years ago, but the developer got all sniffy about it and not sure anything ever happened after that.

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Living Room / Re: Help: Recommend flash drive(s) for small files
« on: February 28, 2011, 01:44 PM »
Zip up your small files first?

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-thanks.
Did you have to first ask them, or is it enough to merely uninstall and move?

edited:
I now have a 32-bits, but I want my next to be a 64-bits. Still easy?

I must admit, I didn't ask them - I simply installed a new version, pulled my license info from the Help->License Manager, and transferred it across. I imagine the new DOpus install will phone home to find out if it's allowed to run. In my case, it all worked right away, including moving one license from Vista-32 to Win7-64.

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Yes - I have several dopus licenses and have moved them without any issues.

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Count me in - probably a nice way to spend a few minutes of my coffee break.

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If anyone's on the fence about DOpus - give it a try. Sure it takes a bit of effort to get the hang of, but it's probably the most powerful file manager out there.

The support's pretty good too - active forum.

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I'll take:

  • March 2nd for my mini-review
  • March xth for my how-to (just plunk it anywhere that there's a gap)
  • March 14th or later for my app, which will actually be under development for a long time thereafter, but it should at least be usable by then  :-[

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General Software Discussion / Re: Most Pirated Software?
« on: February 27, 2011, 11:21 AM »
I found this thread very interesting. Not so much the subject matter (which will always be contentious!) but I did enjoy a little glimpse into some of the personalities of the folks here on DC. May you *all* long continue to be such active members of the site  :Thmbsup:

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex Build 1.2.4.104 uploaded
« on: February 27, 2011, 10:20 AM »
Thanks for the portable mode. You should add that

-inifile t:\portable\auspex

also supports relative path, so for example

-inifile Settings

will use ini from in Auspex's Settings subdir.

Thank you - yes I really should add that  :Thmbsup:

... and a lot of other stuff, all rolled up into a nice help file. One day, soon.  :-[

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Companies all over the place are using Google Apps/Gmail, so either they don't care about security, or they've had assurances that it's secure somehow. All your email passes through multiple mail servers to get to you (and to get to your recipients) anyway so security with email is somewhat a moot point IMHO.

I wouldn't backup the full mail store every time, just do an "incremental" of sorts. The easiest way to do mail backup on Gmail for me is to run a POP or IMAP message sync. It will only update what is new. Then you just backup the resulting file (incrementally, ideally). Speed is not really an issue.

So what are these "weird things" that you do with email that Gmail can't do? Honestly I've still yet to hear a specific, concrete example, much less one that makes me think "Ohh, yeah, that makes total sense.". :D

- Oshyan

I have two objections:

1. What happens if we lose connectivity to gmail for whatever reason

2. An email coming through to me, yes, passes through countless locations. But that's temporary. GMail is a centralized target for attack. I may be completely wrong about this.

The "weird stuff" we do includes regex searches looking for "items of interest" also data extraction, automatic filing and auto-response, and some basic CRM integration which could be improved upon.

All of that feels like it's under my control at the moment. Call me a luddite, but I would not feel that way if all my email files were elsewhere.

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There are ways to backup Gmail. Other than the "local storage" issue, it answers all the other concerns as far as I can see. *shrug*

- Oshyan

Yes, and sorry to be off-topic. But I don't want to use gmail. Admittedly we do weird things with email here, and it's not stuff that we'd achive on google's servers. I'm sure cloud storage is excellent for most people. But we're not most people, and I even forgot to mention we have NDA's in place so shouldn't have files outside of locked buildings.  :-[

But for Joe Blow, I'm sure the mechanisms described above are super!

Out of interest, how long would a 4gb email backup take from gmail?

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Living Room / Re: DC Front Page
« on: February 26, 2011, 02:53 PM »
There's some real food for thought there Paul. Thank you for your continued postings on this and so many other subjects. I don't always follow or agree with every point you make, but I always appreciate you *making* those points.  :Thmbsup:

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I understand too the need to have all data locally. I do exactly the same.

But what do you need to do with your email, apart from classifying, sorting, filtering, searching and finding info in it?

Classify, sort, filter, search and find info in it - all the way back to 1995. I don't use Outlook, and if I only want to search my email, I find Thunderbird's searching ideal. I would not be happy having all of my email archive anywhere but on my local drive. It's over 4gb.


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So I register TOP2ONENOTEADDIN.DLL using RegSvr32...

Then how do I find the resulting CLSID? Just search the registry for the DLL filename?

Can you tell what was missing from the installer?
I wonder why the developer didn't finish it.

I don't know - and VS does not help: "unrecoverable build error" when trying to create the msi installer.

EDIT: the master finagler did it! Please see my original post for the updated link.

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