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Living Room / Re: Looking for a newsgroup news reader

« on: May 29, 2009, 09:13 PM »

Actually http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/ was the first one I tried and I could not get it work It was connecting to any news server at all. No idea.

For downloading multiple binary files, I like XNews, but for browsing and reading newsgroups, I have yet to find anything that compares to MicroPlanet Gravity, once a commercial app, but now open-source and free.

http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

-xtabber (May 29, 2009, 08:49 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: copy paste between 2 computers on separate networks?

« on: May 21, 2009, 11:09 PM »

Such a negative person.

-4wd (May 21, 2009, 08:38 PM)

If you can show me where my negativity was I will send you 1 million dollars(cash). I was just stating a functional and pragmatic issue. Was that harsh for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: copy paste between 2 computers on separate networks?

« on: May 21, 2009, 08:07 PM »

Too bad ctrl+alt+v interferes with many other applications. At this point I just cant use it because of shortcut issue.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr worst case scenario

« on: May 18, 2009, 05:24 PM »

mouser,
It would be nice to have options like "random" searching. For example instead of starting top down (from A to Z in the folders) Farr would start from(g,z,f, etc) starts from a random letter folder name (say Gfoldername) even more maybe next folder name letter(say ZFoldername) will be a random one as well. This is specifically for when Farr is in folder search mode(Farr cannot find the search item in history) .  But the thing is that Farr would finalize the search by making sure that all the folders are hit properly so this  is not about random searching rather its about random starting point.

Lets say you have an exe file under \\Zfolder\\Zapp\\Z.exe, what would be the fastest way to get there? Alphebetical top down search or random access? I know it depends but random access might increase the speed of hit in certain situations. Since Farr is not an indexer, anything that cans peed up searches would be great

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Find And Run Robot / Farr worst case scenario

« on: May 18, 2009, 05:01 PM »

Hi


Farr is the best app out there but it hits a worst case scenario in sorting which is if the user wants to find an application that is under "\Zfolder\Zappname.eze" where Z is the first letters of the app the user tries to find.

I was wondering if there is a way to force Farr to do random pattern-reverse pattern etc access rather than standard alphabetical order?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 18, 2009, 12:49 AM »

I know I said I would stop posting in this topic but this is the last one really I think that app103 laid out the case pretty well. Now I hope those who feel uncertain about what to think about OC, please read app103`s reply indepth.

They should not leave stuff behind, that is bad house cleaning. If I see one more OC registry-dll(without my consent) in my system  I will start an anti-OC group, and not kidding.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 18, 2009, 12:36 AM »

mouser, I did not think that you were trying to pick on me. But the way wraith808 laid his cases sounded like he wanted to ridicule the idea little bit. I do not have any personally issues with any personality on this board

I think everyone said enough of their opinions regarding OC case including myself. All I did was trying to inform people.

I would stop watching this thread from now on because I really do not have anything to add for now. But I will add any bad behaviour that OC might implement in the future to this thread later, again to inform people.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 18, 2009, 12:26 AM »

Installshield (and several other installers) do the same thing.  How is this any different?

-wraith808 (May 18, 2009, 12:22 AM)

Install shield does what?  Does it install secret advertising network dlls?

The thing is that OC dll is irrelevant, it is not needed to run the application, thus it is irrelevant. Irrelevant dlls, exes etc should not be installed with an application. I am not sure why some of you think that it is ok to install irrelevant dlls, but this is not ok to me. And that is why I am stating my opinion and informing those who have no idea. I am the one opened this thread, if it was not to me most of you had no idea either. I do not think I should be the one who is picked out here.

wraith808, if you tell me what installshield does, I would evaluate what it does and start my crusade against installshield as well. At least I would stop using applications that comes with installshield.

I also would like to state that I do not think the way most of you think in certain cases. For example I do not carry the "but everyone does" logic. I really do not care if everyone does or not I just look at the case and bring it on the table, dissect the matter and make my informed desicion. IF you want to inform yourself based on what others does go ahead but "but everyone does" is neither scientific nor any debatable standard. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 17, 2009, 10:02 PM »

Well,

The thing is that OC installs itself(in the program directory as dll and in the registry) and does not tell the user about it even if the user does not want to install the recommended software, based on my experience. I do not know why you keep claiming that you wont do anything bad or wrong but in my standard this is bad and wrong. Because first of all most people wont know that OC is included in the installer of the application until they open the installer. Second most people wont even have any idea what the heck a dll or registry is. Clearly you are targeting this majority of people and I believe this might be called an abuse of trust that is shown by those people who though that would just get a free application. You need to make it explicit.

I just cleaned up couple OC registry entries that should not be there in the first place(I think they came from Miro) .Please refrain from such unpleasant behaviours and make sure that the applications that are in your ring clearly points out that they are part of OC network.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gnu grep how can I get colored output in ms concole?

« on: May 17, 2009, 09:44 PM »

Thanks people, I will check out these stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 17, 2009, 09:42 PM »

Any chance that Donation Coder can get a discount on Archivarius?

-cyberdiva (May 17, 2009, 08:54 PM)

I wont deny such opportunity really. I hope there will be one?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 17, 2009, 02:11 AM »

Well then my task on this planet is done for now

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 17, 2009, 01:32 AM »

well If I predict what they are going to do in the future, they will give up those intentions since they will be exposed earlier:) I am serving a good purpose here

mouser you are right. To be fair I do not know who they are, what they are up to ,what they will do in the future. My own prediction of their future activity is personal assumption based on patterns displayed by others, so it is unfair to display such judgement maybe. But how do we make sure that this stuff wont turn into more dangerous than what it is now? My problem is that generally speaking people overall do not understand or do not care about these kinds of stuff so these practices become daily applications, they become norm, people accept them and move on. In reality they should not be a norm, they should not be accepted such easily.

I just would hate to see my favorite applications adapting to this service one by one. Although if they do I would just drop them, no exception.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 17, 2009, 01:05 AM »

ok here is my bet, I am putting my 100$ if anyone wants to bet on it.

I am %100$ sure that in 2 years OC will become an application that will try to install hidden stuff and spy on your download-installation activity. If anyone wants to bet I am accepting bets. Since we do not want to gamble lets keep the amount not more than 100$.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 16, 2009, 11:04 PM »

Darwin, thanks. I know it was a weird one to worry about when you buy an application but I would like to spend my money on good software from good people

I guess I am set

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General Software Discussion / Re: copy paste between 2 computers on separate networks?

« on: May 16, 2009, 10:34 PM »

Ok I just read the thread because I was looking for similar stuff. The thing is that most of the answers are quite off and not that related to what he is asking. He was not asking for copying and pasting text rather he is looking for hybrid solution. Offering things like "ftp" or browser based solutions sounds quite off to me to be honest. I hope people do not get me wrong about this

I used InputDirector in the paste it works well actually (text-files) but I dropped using it because it is windows only. So I am looking for standalone application(it can be windows only no prob) that will support copying pasting of "text/files". Please no browser-ftp based solutions I already have quite a lof of workarounds here including using commandline jabber tools, but I am looking for a streamlined solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 16, 2009, 10:18 PM »

[The sending of information to the OC server, while harmless in my view, especially compared to what info websites track every day, is one reason that i personally wouldn't use OC though.  Not because i think it's evil to collect such information, but i just don't think it's worth the nervousness that it causes people.  Though if you made it opt-in to send the info, but let users uncheck the option, that would mostly solve that.]

-mouser (May 16, 2009, 09:26 PM)

mouser do not you think there is a big difference between web-medium and desktop medium? These are not blurred as much as some wants and I personally would like to keep things seperate. Because websites have ability to track does not mean installers should do the same. This is like public place vs private property. Web=public place, desktop=private property, and I feel like entities like OC does not want to respect that at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 16, 2009, 09:08 PM »

This is about the time when andrew is probably regretting he ever joined in this discussion, since answering the posts in this thread has become a full time job for him 

If it's any comfort -- i do think the thread is an overall positive thing for OC -- in letting you explain the workings of it to people who might be initially skeptical.  Not everyone will like it, but at least this thread will be a place they can find out more and see both sides discussed reasonably.

-mouser (May 16, 2009, 08:19 PM)

word up

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:23 PM »

Actually I have one more question, rather might be  irrelevant to some but it is important to me. Because I hate giving my money to wrong kind of people(aka jerks) . Does he/she sounds like decent personality? Sometimes developers seems to have super-egos and it is hard to deal with those kinds of people. Based on the responses I got from you he/she sounds like  a decent human being. Any confirmations, negative or positive?

Edit: Please reply me in person if you want to answer this rather relative question Sorry I did not articulate my message properly.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: File Locator Pro Discounted

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:19 PM »

Is this available?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr could read Environment variables PATH?

« on: May 16, 2009, 11:17 AM »

Cool, it looks like exactly what I am looking for then.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr could read Environment variables PATH?

« on: May 16, 2009, 10:51 AM »

I would like Farr to read Environment Variables and use certain paths like "PATH" for scanning executables or other files. For example Grep is in listed under Sytem Path so as you know when I can just type Grep, it would run from any directory. I just would like to be able to type "grep" and run it in Farr  because Farr would find it in the system path and would increase the score based on whatever I think Env Var should carry as far as scoring goes. So instead me adding all the paths in the En V one by one Farr would just scan it for me automatically and would list it under search folder section.

The nice thing about this is thatFarr would be in sync with Env V at all times if the user wants. Otherwise I would keep adding those paths myselfs anytime I add new env variable path to my system.

I hope it makes sense.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:42 AM »

fair enough, thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:32 AM »

How about user requests? Are they quick to adress issues at least answer questions? Forums are great but sometimes email is most convenient.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Pydoc and getting results in Farr

« on: May 16, 2009, 12:36 AM »

very tight man, it works great