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General Software Discussion / Web developers spank M$
« on: December 13, 2007, 08:58 PM »
Users, Web developers vent over IE7
December 04, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft Corp. program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for not following through on browser upgrade promises and alienating Web developers.

In the posting to the IE team's blog, Tony Chor, the group program manager, used the passing of IE7's first year to tick off several milestones for the browser, including a claim that its user base recently reached 300 million. "This makes IE7 the second most popular browser after IE6," Chor said in the post. "IE 7 is already No. 1 in the U.S. and U.K., and we expect IE7 to surpass IE6 worldwide shortly."

Chor also said that IE7's integrated antiphishing filter stops an estimated 900,000 phish attempts each week, and that the support call volume for Microsoft's browser line is down 20% from a year ago. "This is typically a sign that the product is more stable and has fewer issues than the previous release," Chor said.

But while Chor was loquacious about IE7, he gave short shrift to news about the next edition. "While we're happy with how well IE7 is doing, as always, we continue to listen to our customers and find ways to further improve Internet Explorer. Look for more news on this front in the coming weeks."

That drove some users to question Microsoft's commitment to a statement made by Bill Gates last year that the company would upgrade Internet Explorer more frequently. In March 2006, Gates acknowledged that the six years between the release of IE6 and IE7 was too long an interval, then said Microsoft would crank out a new edition of Internet Explorer every nine to 12 months.

"Congratulations. In the same time frame [since IE 7's debut], Firefox went 2.0 and launched 3.0 beta, Safari has gone to 3.0, including a version for Windows," said someone identified as Paul. "Let's see ... six years for IE7, so you guys are on track to have IE8 by what, 2012? Your problem is you think in terms of years."

~snip~

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Living Room / Look at what got passed quickly and without much fanfare.
« on: December 06, 2007, 08:17 PM »
Do we really want these politicians passing this kind of legislation under cover?
Those Sneaky Politicians
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings--or face fines of up to $300,000.
That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, hotels, and even some government agencies that provide Wi-Fi. It also sweeps in social-networking sites, domain name registrars, Internet service providers, and e-mail service providers such as Hotmail and Gmail, and it may require that the complete contents of the user's account be retained for subsequent police inspection.

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Living Room / Re: Net Neutrality, Good for Innovation?
« on: November 26, 2007, 11:05 PM »
The link to the entire article is there, and from what I read that is his stance.
I pointed out the article and used it as an opportunity to rant a little about the coercive tactics of some of the providers.

I recognize that, and I did read the whole article.  I'm just amazed that Kahn's view seems to mirror that of the big providers.  Suspiciously so.  Wonder if they got to him?
-Ralf Maximus (November 25, 2007, 09:42 PM)
I don't know, but I do think that access and innovation can be handled differently and open high speed internet to more people.
The bundling of crap you don't want to get access IMO restricts reasonable charges for the service.
For example AT&T advertise $15.95 for DSL but you have to buy telephone service and select a long distance provider to get it. By the time they're done your looking at a bill (taxes, etc.) in excess of $85.00 a month.
I'd rather pay $25.00 or $30.00 a month for the DSL and they can keep their phone service, who needs the extra expense when you have a cell phone?
Cable is just as bad if not worse in some locations.

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Living Room / Re: Net Neutrality, Good for Innovation?
« on: November 25, 2007, 09:23 PM »
I'm kind of surprised -- I expected different from Robert Kahn; am I misreading his stance?
The link to the entire article is there, and from what I read that is his stance.
I pointed out the article and used it as an opportunity to rant a little about the coercive tactics of some of the providers.
If the goal is access for all then requiring people to purchase services they either don't want or need can block some from getting it.

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Living Room / Net Neutrality, Good for Innovation?
« on: November 25, 2007, 06:48 PM »
Half Bytes
The inherent problem is that if no one can profit from innovation then who can we count on to improve the internet?
Can we actually count on the government to provide the necessary improvements to the web to take it through this century?
Personally I can't think of anything the government has become involved in that turns out for the best, normally what you end up with is bloated and outdated bureaucracies that fail on too many levels to provide the essential services needed.

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Living Room / Re: Help Name Our Cat!
« on: November 17, 2007, 09:40 PM »
This is easy, I got the answer.
Bob.
Short, sweet, easy to spell and nongender specific. Who could go wrong with Bob?

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Living Room / Re: drum program
« on: November 17, 2007, 07:57 PM »
Well I think if you look under his avatar you will find the words "im so gay", so the question becomes....is he?
And therefore can he offend himself?
Nowadays an epithet becomes offensive by virtue of the one who uses it.

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Living Room / Re: drum program
« on: November 17, 2007, 06:39 PM »
Yeah, us coders like to be all manly and such eating Ho-Ho's in the basement and washing it down with 6 packs of Mountain Dew Game Fuel then crushing the cans on our foreheads.
You don't want to give us a bad reputation. :tease:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use scroll lock LED as hard drive indicator
« on: October 20, 2007, 12:16 AM »
You know when you get right down to it the AHK script is just a pretty light, but is in no way a reflection of HD activity.
It basically lags behind just about any other HD activity monitor, mine included.
Some languages are not up to monitoring system activity, it's nothing to be ashamed of, sometimes you have to accept the inherent limitations.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use scroll lock LED as hard drive indicator
« on: October 13, 2007, 12:28 PM »
Funny you should bring this up, I wrote a script a while ago that monitors HD activity, but it sits in the tray.
It may not be as annoying though so I'll up load it.
Source included.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 13, 2007, 12:13 PM »
Sorry I haven't uploaded yet but real life got in the way today, I'll work on it some more this evening.
BTW my version requires no framework to operate.
-Cpilot (October 12, 2007, 06:07 PM)

Hi Cpilot,

Been using your program for the past few days and it is working great. No need to rush the changes.
-wetsmellydog (October 13, 2007, 10:37 AM)
Glad to hear it, when I get it ready I'll throw it up here.
Sometimes real life can be a pain.  :D
It's a beautiful weekend here and it seems that my adult children have "activities" planned for me.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 13, 2007, 01:50 AM »
Heh....enough time invested...... Now time to take a shower ;)
-destiny_ruler (October 13, 2007, 01:29 AM)
Balloon tip constantly pops up making noise that it's been activated, cpu usage varies wildly between 6% to 11%.
WinXP pro SP2

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 12, 2007, 06:07 PM »
Sorry I haven't uploaded yet but real life got in the way today, I'll work on it some more this evening.
BTW my version requires no framework to operate.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 12, 2007, 10:16 AM »
I don't have a use for this at present, but...

Suggestion: if there will only be four boxes, one for each quarter of an hour, could you make them each a different colour, so you can see from a distance which quarter you're in?  Or at least make the background of the text a different colour?  And maybe make them so they tile, in case you're away from the computer a long time and more than one alarm goes off?
-rjbull (October 12, 2007, 10:02 AM)
I can add other features later of course, but this is wetsmellydog's requested app for a specific task, first I want to make it suitable for what he needs.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 12, 2007, 10:07 AM »
i love to see things like this  :up:
looking forward to seeing you create a little web page for this app cpilot.  :up:
-mouser (October 12, 2007, 07:55 AM)
I have a little web page already for some of my scripts, Half Bytes Coding page
I'll add it when I done with it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 11, 2007, 10:53 PM »
OK, you just want a short message then really.
I can add that without much trouble at all, I'll do that first thing in the morning and upload it for you and you can see if it's what you need. I can also have the message display in the tooltip if you'd like.
BTW closing the window just hides it, to exit the application use the menu on the tray icon.
If you want it prettied up or anything let me know.
-Cpilot (October 11, 2007, 09:35 PM)

I like that it does not exit when closed. It would be too easy to exit the program by accident.

I could ask for a lot of "while your at it" addons but you have really saved me a lot of headaches and adding the text feature will be good enough for me.

-wetsmellydog (October 11, 2007, 10:47 PM)
I'm OK with suggestions of what you'd like, I can just take them one at a time, this was just a preliminary script to see if I understood what the requirements are. If your happy with it then I can continue.
BTW I will include the source with any more uploads, why horde all the fun?  :D

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 11, 2007, 09:35 PM »
Cpilot,

I ran your program and it worked as advertised. I was even able to change the wave file used.

What I am seeking with the user defined message is that the popup box have a user defined message i.e. I could put in "Time to check temp" or "time to chart" and the box displays the text when the alarm sounds.

Thanks again, this is a great time saver for me just the way it is!
-wetsmellydog (October 11, 2007, 09:25 PM)
OK, you just want a short message then really.
I can add that without much trouble at all, I'll do that first thing in the morning and upload it for you and you can see if it's what you need. I can also have the message display in the tooltip if you'd like.
BTW closing the window just hides it, to exit the application use the menu on the tray icon.
If you want it prettied up or anything let me know.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time
« on: October 11, 2007, 07:44 PM »
OK, if I understand some of your requirements, I wrote this little script that sits in the tray and counts the quarter of the hours.
It pops up and sounds a user selected wave as an alarm and flashes. It will continue to alarm every 15 minutes.
I'm a little fuzzy on the "user defined" message though.
If you could expound on that it would help.
Anyway here's what I got so far.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!
« on: October 10, 2007, 11:41 PM »
No Cody decoder ring? :-\
That's what I really want.
-Cpilot (October 10, 2007, 05:02 PM)

Be sure to drink your ovaltine?
-Deozaan (October 10, 2007, 10:19 PM)
Everyday.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!
« on: October 10, 2007, 05:02 PM »
No Cody decoder ring? :-\
That's what I really want.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Back up files with a printer and scanner
« on: October 04, 2007, 09:30 PM »
Wow  :huh:
You know I just thought it was cool somebody thought of it and took the time to code it.
Must of been quite the learning experience.

I like the idea that someone did it just because he could.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Back up files with a printer and scanner
« on: October 02, 2007, 12:33 PM »
This is cool, I guess, but you can only store 500kB per page. Didn't someone invent a technique to store gigabytes of data on paper, using colored circles and triangles?

http://www.theregist...06/11/23/rvd_system/
-[deXter] (October 02, 2007, 12:29 AM)
Not sure, I just ran across this and thought others might be interested.
It's pretty rare to actually find anything truly new under the sun.

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General Software Discussion / Back up files with a printer and scanner
« on: October 01, 2007, 06:28 PM »
Backing up Data with your printer
PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps.

images added:
Screenshot - 10_2_2007 , 10_50_24 AM_thumb.png
options.gif

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Living Room / Re: UK Government wants your crypto keys... by law.
« on: October 01, 2007, 06:00 PM »
steeladept,
You won't find many opinions here to be sympathetic to your perspective.
I'm politically conservative and while I try to keep my politics off of this forum (after all it's called "donationcoder" not "democratic underground") others can't seem to resist taking their shots any way they can.
This forum is good for what it's set up for, but tone deaf to others political perspectives.
Save yourself some grief and do what I do, limit yourself to the software and coding discussions.
If you want a place to discuss politics PM me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 13 Reasons Why Linux Won't Make it to a Desktop Near You
« on: September 27, 2007, 12:10 AM »
I don't know the inner debates about this so i'm definitely not going to take sides -- and the truth is i'm friendly to the idea of retaining some control and guiding direction in the hands of a small group of people than many in the open source community, but i do find it interesting.
-mouser
I agree that having it in the hands of a small group would be preferable, if the group is responsive to users, I don't mean just geeks and nerds either.
They have to be responsive to all potential users also.
Unless it's accessable to the mainstream it will never evolve.

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