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Living Room / Re: Unjust Desserts

« on: October 04, 2016, 07:58 AM »

And after over a year searching with Bing I still cannot achieve my laudable goal of a free coffee at Starbucks!

-MilesAhead (October 04, 2016, 07:17 AM)

Didn't take long with Google to find the free coffee: http://www.usatoday....o-get-them/90727136/

It was 5 days ago. Looks like you just missed it. 

And while Starbucks did participate, they weren't one of the places giving away freebies to customers (just free coffee trees to needy farmers). Krispy Kreme was giving away free coffee and donuts, though.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: Desktop RSS ticker/floater

« on: September 24, 2016, 11:52 PM »

then I ran into a bug I think.

-Cloq (September 24, 2016, 11:14 PM)

I have never had that happen to me in the 10 years that I have used it. I don't know what to tell you. 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: Desktop RSS ticker/floater

« on: September 24, 2016, 02:22 AM »

Basically, Newzie seems to be using it's internal browser to display the rss article. Trying to avoid that. That seems to be what most rss applications do.

That was the beauty of Klipfolio rss, it just lists the headers of the rss page and when you hover over it, it shows you the first few sentences or paragraph and if you are still interested, click on it the header and then it launches in whatever browser you have open or associated.

-Cloq (September 23, 2016, 07:29 PM)

That's exactly what the Today window in Newzie does. Unlike the main window of the app, both the Today window and the ticker only show excerpts on hover, and if you want to read more, just click and it launches pages in your default browser.

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Living Room / Re: Cats and plants

« on: September 22, 2016, 10:56 PM »

And this is why I have some very realistic looking artificial plants. That and I don't want to have to worry about whether my plants are toxic to cats.

But if that's not something you really want to do, try growing some rye grass.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: Desktop RSS ticker/floater

« on: September 22, 2016, 10:30 PM »

the widget screen (right hand big window) is always there. You can't hide it it.

-Cloq (September 22, 2016, 08:51 PM)

I am not sure what you mean by this. Widget screen? What widget screen? And what do you mean by can't hide it? I don't recall Newzie ever having anything that forced you to have it on your screen at all times.

There's different modes, one of which is a large screen with a left sidebar, another is a tiny ticker that goes across your screen, and the one I am referring to, the Today window that pops up when there are new items (if you set it that way) and looks a lot like your screenshot, but color coded to indicate the age of the entries.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: Desktop RSS ticker/floater

« on: September 22, 2016, 02:01 AM »

Reminds me of Newzie's Today window.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: September 04, 2016, 11:45 PM »

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Curious flock to KFC's fried-chicken scented sunscreen

-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2016, 12:03 PM)

This is not a new idea. Back in 2008, Burger King released Whopper-scented cologne.

-Deozaan (August 23, 2016, 04:16 PM)

I think people have been covering themselves in oil and frying like chickens, for even longer than that, but now they can actually smell like it, instead of coconut. 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: September 04, 2016, 11:19 PM »

@app103: How kind of you to say so!   
However, I don't know that you are necessarily correct. For example, you apparently joined in 2006 and are already at 5,643, so, arithmetically speaking, you are doing quite well and there's not too far to go to 6,000 now, whereupon - who knows? -  the aptly-named (as you have pointed out) @Miles.Ahead could well be there to congratulate you too. (The insolent cad.)   

That will then make two of us who have been similarly knighted. I don't know, but there may already be more.

-IainB (September 04, 2016, 10:47 PM)

That loud noise is not a plane flying over your head.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: September 04, 2016, 10:35 PM »

@app103: Sorry. Perhaps surprisingly, the irony was implicit in the comment.
Do try to keep up.

-IainB (September 04, 2016, 10:16 PM)

Having to put up with people like you is precisely the reason why I may never reach 6000 posts. Now go pat yourself on the back. You earned it. 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: September 04, 2016, 08:32 PM »

Miles, when I got out of prison for impersonating a NIP (Non-Important Person) in 2008, I joined DCF, and  you joined in 2009 (according to our stats at any rate).
So how is it that I am now just over 6,000 posts and yet you are currently way ahead with about 7,100 posts and have the effrontery to congratulate me at getting to 6,000?
What? In my youthfull exuberance, was I not expected to be able to last the distance?

Enquiring minds need to know.     

-IainB (September 03, 2016, 10:50 PM)

I am amused by this. You are asking someone that goes by the handle of MilesAhead, why he's MilesAhead of you?

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Developer's Corner / WANTED: A Mac user who knows his way around Lazarus to compile something

« on: August 19, 2016, 07:26 PM »

I am unable to compile something for use on a Mac, and I have need for a small utility to be compiled, for one of the guys on my work team...the only Mac user on my team. (The rest of the team already has access to a version I compiled for Windows.)

It's just a tiny little thing to help make his work faster & easier. Source is attached at end of this post.

It's just a URL builder, which takes a Bitbucket user name and opens the URL for that profile in the default browser.

Screenshot of Windows version:


If you volunteer to do this, you'll have to compile it in Lazarus on a Mac, changing the fonts used in the memo & button to something that is actually on a Mac. I have no clue what fonts are on a Mac, other than Helvetica, so use your own discretion and choose something legible.

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« on: August 10, 2016, 05:35 AM »

Also catch Wentworth, if you have the time. (much better than Orange is the New Black.)

-app103 (August 06, 2016, 08:20 PM)

I was very confused for a sec.  At first, after you'd been talking Prison Break, I thought you were talking about Wentworth Miller. 

-wraith808 (August 07, 2016, 10:00 PM)

Strange coincidence with the name.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« on: August 06, 2016, 10:48 PM »

msconfig in Win10 will only show you Windows versions, and only ones that don't use a boot.ini file. That means only Vista+. The older versions will still be available and show on the bootloader menu, but I am unsure if it only shows them all as a single entry of "older windows version" and just hands off to the old boot.ini if you select it, and you then get hit with another menu listing each OS listed in the old boot.ini, or if it will list each older windows version from that file individually. And I will probably never know, unless I am willing to wipe the whole thing and start over, installing more old outdated crap than I could possibly ever need.

Ultimately, what I would like to do is add Xubuntu to the Win10 boot loader menu and have that menu be the default.

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« on: August 06, 2016, 08:20 PM »

On a recent 4-day trip to the hospital, I got to binge watch the entire first season of Prison Break, on a tablet, using the hospital's free wifi. 

https://www.netflix.com/title/70140425

https://en.wikipedia...rg/wiki/Prison_Break

Also catch Wentworth, if you have the time. (much better than Orange is the New Black.)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80013249

https://en.wikipedia...orth_%28TV_series%29

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« on: August 06, 2016, 01:00 PM »

I used to have that problem- it was solved by removing the other options.  If windows senses others installed, it shows you that bootloader menu.  Unfortunately, I forget how I got the others to not show up.

-wraith808 (August 06, 2016, 09:52 AM)

EasyBCD?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« on: August 06, 2016, 04:48 AM »

But somehow the grub bootloader only shows Mint and Windows. Then, if I select Windows, I get a Windows bootloader which allows me to choose between Windows and Remix OS.

-Deozaan (August 05, 2016, 09:12 PM)

That is exactly how it works on my multi-boot system, too. Grub shows Xubuntu and Windows 10, then if you select Windows 10, you get the Windows bootloader with Windows 10 and the other 2 options that were installed prior to my installing Windows 10 (XP & Win7).

I'd say that in my case, Linux is definitely at an advantage here, giving me more incentive to break away from using Windows, by choosing the fastest loading option. The whole setup makes it a royal pain to want to boot up into anything other than Xubuntu. Takes too long just to select anything else!

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General Software Discussion / Re: stickies Notezilla memoboard as full-blown personal note system

« on: August 04, 2016, 03:43 AM »

I doubt if anyone is reading our one-to-one conversation 

-conceptworld (August 02, 2016, 06:50 AM)

If it has to do with Noteilla and it's posted publicly, I'm reading it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Utility to track boots and uptime.

« on: July 10, 2016, 04:40 PM »

How about Whatpulse? (I earn 2 weeks of free premium features if you sign up through my referral link)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 26, 2016, 11:00 AM »

What about VLC?

- does it work properly like PaceMaker, or does it sound like Mickey Mouse when speeding up playback of human voices?

-brotherS (June 22, 2016, 02:08 AM)

That all depends how much you speed it up, but If you keep hitting Faster (fine), you'll come up with a speed that should suit your purposes, without it sounding too non-human.

I was able to speed up the MP3 of this song to about 2X, before David Draiman's voice started taking on a Drac-like quality, on long notes. (Enemy Mine reference).

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 14, 2016, 03:39 AM »

100+ Coats of Nail Polish

-Arizona Hot (June 13, 2016, 04:27 PM)

She could have been done with that in a fraction of the time, if she did thinner coats and every 3rd coat was Ruby Kisses Lightening. Then she wouldn't have had to wait as much for it to dry.



_{Doing my nails used to be a hobby of mine, before I acquired my first computer. I used to routinely layer on 25 coats of nail polish, plus artwork, then wear it (without it chipping) till I started to noticeably outgrow the polish, which was usually about 2 weeks.}

-app103 (June 13, 2016, 05:46 PM)

I won't ask... Ok, I will ask.  How do you happen to have this knowledge?

-wraith808 (June 13, 2016, 06:07 PM)

I've been a nail polish fanatic since childhood and you could say I was a pioneer in the world of nail art, doing weird things to my nails waaaay before it was fashionable. While other girls were still wearing a single color, I had stripes, polka dots, and pictures. I have tried a plethora of base coats, top coats, etc. And I know the brands that not only dry fast, but are capable of drying multiple layers of regular polish beneath them, and can be acquired at a low cost. If I had not taken up computer geekery, I could very easily have become one of those successful Youtube nail polish queens or nail art bloggers. I even entertained the idea of becoming a professional manicurist, at one point, but decided against it. I didn't want to turn a fun hobby into work, with the possibility of taking all the fun out of it.

By the way, I am still in search of a good quality nail polish in the perfect shade of "circuitboard green" for a project I plan on doing to my nails. I already have the gold striping tape and perfect polish in both color and consistency for "solder dots".

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 13, 2016, 05:46 PM »

100+ Coats of Nail Polish

-Arizona Hot (June 13, 2016, 04:27 PM)

She could have been done with that in a fraction of the time, if she did thinner coats and every 3rd coat was Ruby Kisses Lightening. Then she wouldn't have had to wait as much for it to dry.



_{Doing my nails used to be a hobby of mine, before I acquired my first computer. I used to routinely layer on 25 coats of nail polish, plus artwork, then wear it (without it chipping) till I started to noticeably outgrow the polish, which was usually about 2 weeks.}

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General Software Discussion / Re: svchost /k netsvcs [Problem on Win.7]

« on: May 30, 2016, 04:20 AM »

^ very interesting, thanks app
Wont get back to it till tuesday now probably -- I had already reduced windows update  to just notify -- will now turn off completely.
(So, I do end up following your advice miles :-)

A bit wary of not having an up-to-date machine for a basic user -- but it's better than a burnt out machine

EDIT// my own machine seems to be ok now -- just checked for updates, and it didnt arouse the CPU hogger.
Will sleep.

-tomos (May 29, 2016, 03:45 PM)

I have mine set to download, but notify before installing. I did not disable Windows Update. I only stopped the service when it started using too much CPU. That way it can start up again, on it's own. And I manually checked for updates after every reboot, and tried to install them (but usually failed, till after I changed ISP)

One thing I didn't think to do, at the time, was to take my laptop somewhere else that has free wifi, and try to manually run Windows Update there. If I had, perhaps the problem might have been solved sooner. (Or maybe not?)

So, if it's a laptop, that might be something you'd want to try, first. Either a friend's house, an internet café, or elsewhere, where you can use a different ISP to see if you can get it to download those updates it seems to be stuck on.

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General Software Discussion / Re: svchost /k netsvcs [Problem on Win.7]

« on: May 29, 2016, 03:35 PM »

I had a similar problem recently, and it turned out to be Windows Update that was hogging the CPU (discovered by turning off the service)

So, I just kept turning it off when CPU ran high.

And yes, Windows Update was hanging on downloading updates in my case, too. It couldn't seem to download anything, as if something was blocking it? (I rebooted machine and tried to run it manually, several times over the course of a month, with no luck)

Not sure what fixed it, but Windows Update could suddenly download and install all the updates and the excessive CPU usage stopped.

Only thing that I changed was my ISP. Not sure if it was a coincidence, but my issues seemed to solve themselves about 3 days after the ISP change. 

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« on: May 20, 2016, 06:44 AM »

Pi: Probably one of the best Sci fi movies Ive ever seen.

-AdrianMix (May 19, 2016, 11:36 PM)

I really liked that one, too! 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 16, 2016, 11:44 PM »

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18 of the most bizarre fast-food items ever created

Has anyone here eaten one of these?

-Arizona Hot (May 05, 2016, 05:39 PM)

I have not had the Doritos pizza from Pizza Hut, but I have had a taco pizza, topped with taco meat, melted cheddar cheese, lettuce, raw tomatoes, raw onions, plain tortilla chips, and taco sauce.

There was a local place in Clearwater, Florida, during the 80's, that had an all you can eat pizza lunch buffet, and they stocked it with a lot of weird stuff, including an assortment of dessert pizzas.