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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 18, 2011, 11:34 AM »

I can confirm the behaviour Robbero described.

Often with Outlook or Firefox the replacements don't work. Nothing happens 'til I open auspex with rightclick on the trayicon.
Also doubleclick on trayicon doesn't work at this time.
When any keyword in Auspex is clicked the software seems to wake up.

-ralfso (February 18, 2011, 11:05 AM)

There's a new release of Auspex this weekend - before I send it out I'll try it on a few other PC's and see what I can find. Thanks for the continued feedback.

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Living Room / Re: Rant: I hate cellphones

« on: February 18, 2011, 09:44 AM »

And this is the Rick Roll number:

985-655-2500

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Living Room / Re: We are doomed: IBM's Watson debuts on Jeopardy today (14 Feb 2011)

« on: February 17, 2011, 09:13 PM »

a utopian life of leisure and sitting around thinking deep thoughts

-timns (February 17, 2011, 08:30 PM)

You don't have that yet? Didn't you get your secret code in the mail?

-cranioscopical (February 17, 2011, 08:56 PM)

My mail-fetching robot probably shredded it!

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Living Room / Re: We are doomed: IBM's Watson debuts on Jeopardy today (14 Feb 2011)

« on: February 17, 2011, 08:30 PM »

I find it mortifying that we even have to work at all by now!

Whatever happened to those visions of a utopian life of leisure and sitting around thinking deep thoughts while our machine servants cranked out the daquiris?

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?

« on: February 17, 2011, 03:49 PM »

Exactly, yes, is 64gb "big" nowadays?

I'd be doomed without a hell of a lot of very specific software that I suspect would never be made portable - and in fact DCers saved my bacon a while back by helping me create a virtual PC that held some protected software from a company that went out of business without the decency to lodge their code in escrow.

So unless one's needs are quite basic, a simple suit of portable software is always too much of a compormise to be useful. But then again, I'm old and inflexible  

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?

« on: February 17, 2011, 03:02 PM »

By the way, this has no right being a word:

Portablization

 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: For what it's worth, DC Homepage is now google PageRank 6

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:59 PM »

Maybe we were hacked by some competing forum! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:58 PM »

Isn't that just a collection of apps that happen to be portable?

I think the only true way to take your setup with you would be as a complete virtual PC running in virtualbox or similar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anything better than Object Dock 2 Plus?

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:46 PM »

Very interesting - and maybe worthy of a poll.

Thank you, superboyac!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Registrations on Websites: User Chosen Password vs. Assigned Password?

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:39 PM »

What happens when the user forgets their password?

-JavaJones (February 17, 2011, 02:35 PM)

They get slapped on the cheek, and sent to the KeePass website

-Ath (February 17, 2011, 02:38 PM)

Or slapped on the ass and sent to the KeepCheek site 

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General Software Discussion / Re: anything better than Object Dock 2 Plus?

« on: February 17, 2011, 01:53 PM »

It's the sort of software I wished I'd found before getting too used to OD and setting it all up 'just so'

I like your suggestion of comparing desktops. I may kick off a thread about that and see who's got the ergnomic edge here  

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 17, 2011, 01:45 PM »

PM me the screenshots if possible.

-timns (February 17, 2011, 10:12 AM)

Don't think you can attach to PM's.  If you've found a way I'd love to hear of it.

-cranioscopical (February 17, 2011, 01:33 PM)

You're right! I've embedded screenshots before, and I suppose rembered that as "attachments are possible"

Luckily Mr Robbero has emailed me directly by now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anything better than Object Dock 2 Plus?

« on: February 17, 2011, 01:37 PM »

WinStep looks nice - but perhaps does not offer enough above ObjectDock to make me want to switch.

A combination of FARR and DOpus really takes care of everything else for me.

Something superboyac said just sparked something though: what IS expensive, for software?

Personally I have no problem paying a reasonable chunk of change for something that I am going to get a lot of use out of. The example of DOpus is a really good one. God knows how much I have used that software, and how many hours it has saved me both at work and at home. So is 80+ bucks a lot for that?

I think: no. I wouldn't blink at paying that for a decent pair of boots, say. Or a warm jacket. Or even a decent bottle of plonk. Hell, how about filling the car with petrol?

So I still struggle to understand why there's a very strange attitude to paying for software compared to just about anything else.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 17, 2011, 10:12 AM »

Robbero: what version are you running?

PM me the screenshots if possible.

I haven't seen any access violations for 2 builds.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anything better than Object Dock 2 Plus?

« on: February 17, 2011, 10:10 AM »

I've used ObjectDock for years, but in a more limited way. I have one tab bar at the top left of my left monitor, which rolls up. That works nicely for me.

I also use it to show only very important system tray icons, large in the lower corner. That way I can very easily see, at a glance: PC temperature, and if I have any email.

I used to also use it for quaint stuff like world clock, weather etc. but I subsequently moved to rainmeter which is spiffing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 11:13 PM »

Yes and no. Yes, to keep your life simple since you can easily put together a RegEx that works, but perhaps without really understanding what it is you've done.

If you'd like to really get into RegEx a bit, the Buddy is nice since you'll pick up a decent bit of knowledge due to the way it explains the component parts of the expression.

If you're interested in playing with some RegEx, please start a thread - sounds like there are some real experts on here, and I'd be interested in following along too 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 07:44 PM »

Can anyone compare EditPlus with EditPadPro please?

The features seem almost identical.

-timns (February 16, 2011, 07:31 PM)

I prefer EditPlus. I have an EditPad Pro license that Jan gave me, but I still like EditPlus. I think EditPad Pro is probably a bit more powerful in some areas though. I find EditPlus is cleaner though. Maybe I'm just used to it though.

Jan writes THE definitive regular expressions program though -- PowerGREP. Very expensive.

-Renegade (February 16, 2011, 07:40 PM)

Thanks! I have a powergrep license and it's paid for itself many times over. I'm tempted to go with his editor simply because he is Mr RegEx!

I'm getting too old and impatient to download all these trial versions of 10 different programs that purport to do the same thing. Thank goodness folks on here have such useful opinions... at least I can weed out the real pups in advance 

Oh, and sorry about going completely off-topic 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 07:39 PM »

One of the few pieces of paper I still have out on my desk the whole time is my regex crib sheet. I mean, I use them a lot, but dangit there are some things I still cannot remember without looking them up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 07:31 PM »

Can anyone compare EditPlus with EditPadPro please?

The features seem almost identical.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 07:29 PM »

This thing helps considerably:

Regex Buddy

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?

« on: February 16, 2011, 07:22 PM »

  I tried doing a regex thing yesterday...I don't get it at all.

-superboyac (February 16, 2011, 07:16 PM)

RegEx is one of those things that this phrase desribes perfectly:

"It's nice to live there, but you wouldn't want to visit"

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Timns Apps / Re: March Fundraiser Pledge: teaser

« on: February 16, 2011, 06:45 PM »

Thanks! It's bound to have something unique to offer...

... like new unheard-of-before bugs 

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Living Room / Re: [FOR FUN] Stupid Questions

« on: February 16, 2011, 05:56 PM »

I'd like to cross-post this - I think I am worthy:

https://www.donation....msg237163#msg237163

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Timns Apps / Re: March Fundraiser Pledge: teaser

« on: February 16, 2011, 05:44 PM »

Self-inflicted search failure. I looked back through my history, and I was looking originally at RSS readers... then I thought "hell, all I need to do is some nice scraping and parsing, and I'd have a DoCo reader"

Genius... 

Reminds me of the time I was driving along, fiddling with my "trip computer" (remember them?) which was giving me an average speed reading. I recall thinking to myself "wow, imagine if this feature could give a constantly updated indication of current speed as well?"

Then the penny dropped and I realised I'd just re-invented the speedometer. 

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Timns Apps / Re: March Fundraiser Pledge: teaser

« on: February 16, 2011, 05:27 PM »

It's enough to make you weep. Oh well, hopefully there'll be something in this heap to offer some unique appeal to DCers.

It's the most amount of recursive code I've ever written to handle the messages, and it's reasonably klever at collating threads and messages. I also have intentions to add the ability to handle PM's etc. if it all comes together.