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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« on: September 22, 2015, 12:36 PM »

It could be you on the line at some point.  And the protections that cover the companies with their teams of lawyers will most likely not apply to you- the scapegoat.

-wraith808 (September 22, 2015, 08:20 AM)

Yes, I have done it.

We make mostly accounting and inventory software. At times I have questioned about the purpose of a particular feature, which I felt was not correct. I got the standard reply, "How does it matter to you or us ? The client want software for this feature. You code it, I sell it. We get our pays. Done."

Many of my software are used to adjust accounting records as per need. If I say we do not make it. Whole lot of programmers and companies are ready to do it. Looking back, when there was no computers and I worked as an accountant, I have done this manually under my then boss. It is just that now I code it, for others to do the same more easily.

Sad, but we are bound to earn for our family and ourselves.

Regards,

Anand

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics in Technology

« on: September 22, 2015, 03:26 AM »

"Ethics in Technology" or in any other profession for the matter, do not exist in front of "Profit Making"
 
Look at Doctors, they forget that they should treat a "patient" no matter how poor he/she is.
The Charted Account help to dodge the Govt. laws to save tax.
And it is better not to speak about the Lawyers.

Same way Engineers of IT, Electrical, Civil etc. are used by their Bosses to make profit and a big one. They just work as servant to help some one make profit and in turn earn their livelihood, all over the world.

When one is caught, some clean up is done and then everything is back to one. Same will happen to VW and we will forget about it in few years.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 19, 2015, 10:36 AM »

fyi: Forum upgraded to v2.0.11.

-mouser (September 18, 2015, 10:26 PM)

What's new ?

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Living Room / Re: Some photos from our last walk

« on: September 19, 2015, 10:33 AM »

Looks like fun.  Thanks for posting this.

As an aside, this is the first Google Photos slideshow I've viewed, and I'm very impressed.  I'm looking into a photo hosting site, and will need to look seriously at that one.

-irkregent (September 19, 2015, 09:39 AM)

Yes, I also have to think G+ has some usefulness after all.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sudo and Kill commands for Windows

« on: September 19, 2015, 10:25 AM »

If you just need to edit protected files every now and then, it's easier to launch your editor with administrative privileges - fastest way to do that is launching it with Ctrl+Shift+Enter from the start menu/screen (silly it doesn't work with Win+R).

-f0dder (September 17, 2015, 05:06 AM)

Yes and also by right-click on taskbar icon I get administrative option. But I use SUDO from batch file to run a given program in administrative mode.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Sudo and Kill commands for Windows

« on: September 17, 2015, 04:53 AM »

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/09/17/sudo-and-kill-commands-for-windows/

I have to edit files / script which are in "\Program Files\" folder and need Administrative rights. Found SUDO useful as I can open the text editor via it in Administrative mode.

I already use SuperF4, still KILL can be useful from command line.

Regards,

Anand

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 15, 2015 - Codename: Upgrading Everything

« on: September 16, 2015, 03:30 AM »

Really Super-sized 

Great work mouser  and you have been busy with DC2 too   

As always the newsletter benefits people like me who get less time to visit DC and miss many useful topics.

Thank you.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: win10 auto upgrade - confusing mesg

« on: September 15, 2015, 03:33 AM »

MerleOne, if you have auto update on and depending on your net connection, windows will download all related updates and then show the icon. I got mine nearly 4 weeks after nearly everybody here. I was reading and commenting on Win10 without the icon. My net connection is very bad and I understand it was due to that.

Now I am a happy user of Win10 without Cortana  She will come when MS allows her in India.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: Some photos from our last walk

« on: September 14, 2015, 07:29 AM »

Wow Perry. The photos are very good and some worth for a wallpaper.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« on: September 13, 2015, 12:22 PM »

Thanks Shades.

These will come handy when needed.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« on: September 12, 2015, 10:47 AM »

Thanks Shades for the suggestions.

Can I get any help file, web link etc for the methods 2 and 3 ? They seem interesting and I may try them in case C: nearly fills up.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« on: September 11, 2015, 11:24 AM »

Thanks MilesAhead, tomos and Shades for the help.

I am more wiser now. Yes it does not look wise to gain 1/2 Gb with the risk of loosing 100 gb if anything goes wrong. I do not have Win10 clean installation CD, neither image of the hdd. UEFI/GPT is quite different from MBR system, as I found in AOMEI PA to convert between them for re-sizing.

So I have dropped the plan for these partitions. Better safe than sorry.

Actually I wanted to increase the size of my C: drive which is filling up faster now in Win10, but the above small gbs won't help much. Have to think some other ways.

Thanks all once again.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« on: September 10, 2015, 10:55 AM »

My Dell laptop came with Win8, got auto updated to 8.1 and now to 10. 
Now I find that there are 3/4 recovery partition on my hdd. I assume they are for 8, 8.1 and 10.



I want to delete those partitions and merge the space into C: partition. I have made USB recovery of Win10.
I googled for help on it and downloaded "EaseUS Partition Master" and "AOMEI Partition Assistant".

Before I start deleting and merging, my query is "Has anyone have similar experience ?"
Any advise on it is valuable for me at this stage.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 09, 2015, 12:11 PM »

I have added an undocumented/secret feature for this, add ";perpage=#" at the end of your request when viewing a topic, for example ";perpage=500".

-mouser (September 09, 2015, 12:03 PM)

I works  Thanks a lot.

Normally I or anybody else will not use it. We will use it only if we find interest in a message in a topic, which has become few pages long, and want to read back messages and find clicking 'prev' or 'next' time consuming.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 09, 2015, 11:48 AM »

Well my message again got lost.
https://www.donation....msg388318#msg388318

Maybe I was not clear then. I rephrase it.

Can we have an option to show all messages in a thread in one long page without any page break ? It will help me a lot.

Hope I get an answer this time.

Regards,

Anand

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Developer's Corner / Re: Double Clicking, Force Touch, and other strangeness

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:20 PM »

LOL!  No... it's the new thing invented with the apple watch... and that is now going to be on all iOS devices.

http://www.theguardi...ed-haptic-technology

-wraith808 (September 08, 2015, 11:42 AM)

wraith808, I read the link, but have doubt. Is this new hematology or name for long press ?
As in long press we are force touching / pressing !

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« on: September 08, 2015, 10:34 AM »

Back at home when I put the pen-drive in my machine, AVG stops and reports virus and I format it. This is a routine.

ha! I suppose if the pen-drive ever came back WITHOUT a virus you'd get suspicious, huh? 

-mouser (September 08, 2015, 05:46 AM)

You bet, if it happens though I doubt. They are still using XP, you see.

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:29 AM »

I've been using AVG and have been satisfied with it.. Here's what I'll say:

• 1. I'm using AVG as antivirus and firewall. I want a combined system.  I previously used ESET and was very happy with that except for a known bug that was bluescreening me on removal/insertion of external drives, which caused me to switch.
• 2. I haven't noticed it slowing down my system -- if i had then i would drop it.  It's possible of course that it is doing so on occasion but that I am not noticing it or not properly blaming it.
• 3. As far as being a resource hog, I haven't noticed it being so. Any tips on how to compare it (or web pages comparing it) would be welcome!

As a more general answer I should say that I'm more of a satisfactionizer than an optimizer when it comes to system tools -- once a tool works well enough i tend to stop looking for the best tool..

-mouser (September 06, 2015, 01:38 PM)

Ditto. Even with AVG Free.

The fun part is, when I give my pen-drive to the photo printing shop, they scan it with anti-virus (name withheld) and then copy the images to print. Back at home when I put the pen-drive in my machine, AVG stops and reports virus and I format it. This is a routine.

Regards,

Anand

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Developer's Corner / Re: Double Clicking, Force Touch, and other strangeness

« on: September 07, 2015, 04:18 AM »

I agree.

After burning my fingers in maintaining codes for newest UX, I now keep things simple in all my programs. In fact they all look and behave similarly.

Main menu bars then dialog box and buttons. That's all. I do make features which are not the main purpose of the program, say changing color of dialog window, in right-click menu. It is like testing features which do not affect the day to day working of the program, if useful, then may put it in menu bar or button.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« on: September 06, 2015, 03:55 AM »

bit, the message looks like from 'internet security' option of AVG which is in AVG PRO and can be enabled for 30 days in the free version.

AVG Free does not give any message for expiry. I have been using satisfactorily AVG Free since early days of AVG.

You may try this link http://www.avg.com/i...antivirus-protection to compare and download the free version, which will auto update but not expire. I have now AVG 2015 Free.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 04, 2015, 02:21 AM »

I am happy with new DC now and posting more messages then DC1 time. May be this new layout and colors attract me more.

I am using the "Print" option to read threads now. I have not-so-good net connection and sometimes get to check DC after 2/3 days. So the "print" option gives me all in a long scrollable message view to search and read.

Now the problem is, if I want to quote a message and reply, I again have to go back to normal per page view of messages and search in each page for that message to view and quote.

I hope I could explain above, I myself feel it became complex sentences.

Anyway, my suggestion is if we can give an option like "-allmessagesinonepage" in custom options, and show all the messages in a thread in one long page, without page breaks, it will solve the problem.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 02, 2015, 10:09 AM »

Thanks for the images Anand -- they are perfect in style -- but if i had my preference it would be nice to have one that was gender "neutral" if you know what i mean..

-mouser (September 01, 2015, 01:11 PM)

Well these looks "neutral".

      

Or both, if preferred.



Now it is your take and obviously if other members agree too.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free portable pdf editor with these features?

« on: September 01, 2015, 11:51 AM »

From the website http://pdfrider.codeplex.com/

PDF Rider is made upon the utility pdftk and can be used to:

* Merge PDF documents
* Insert pages from another pdf file
* Extract pages from a PDF document to a new document
* Delete pages
* Rotate pages
* Crypt and Decrypt a pdf file
* Burst a document into single pages

You have to check if it works as per your requirement.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: September 01, 2015, 11:44 AM »

2. The guest image, if temporary then ok, else I will suggest some blank face type image there.

im happy to get a replacement!

-mouser (August 31, 2015, 12:01 PM)

These and similar I use for staff / user photo place holder in my apps. See if they can change the current big smiley, as it does not indicate that it is the guest image. The images are as an idea and can be reduced or similar small image used.

      

Further if I press Enter after user name in Forum, then it asks for password but shows 259200 minutes to stay connected. I think it is six months converted to minutes, but looks, well...too mathematical.

BTW inserting attachment is big hurrah now 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free portable pdf editor with these features?

« on: September 01, 2015, 11:34 AM »

Not one but you can achive these by using two or three free alternatives.
PDF XChange for editing, stamping, text etc.
PDF Rider for add, delete pages etc.

Regards,

Anand