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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« on: August 24, 2015, 06:39 AM »

Watched "Edge of Tomorrow" yesterday.

The concept of the story hit me "live - die - restart". Isn't that we all have been doing with our WinOS all these years, install - use - reinstall. Did the director got the idea from Windows ?

Now MS is forbidding that. No more reinstall, as we will not have the CD or copy of the latest Win10 which will auto get updated to 10.0.12345677... , like Chrome.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 19, 2015, 03:11 AM »

 

does this mean that the previous problem has been solved?

What should I do ? Wait till "Get Windows 10" enables "Upgrade" option ?
I am afraid to click "Get started" in "Windows update" 

-anandcoral (August 16, 2015, 11:42 AM)

-Curt (August 18, 2015, 08:08 AM)

Yes.

Since I did not got any reply on that, I clicked on "Get started". It turn out that it will start downloading the Win10 updated then. I prayed to GOD to give stable connection for at least 3 hours to get it done, as I found out on each disruption of net connection, the Win10 download starts from zero.

The Cortana mesg I wrote while still in Win8.1, as my location shows far west at Mumbai in IP search.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 18, 2015, 06:41 AM »

I think MS had made the mobile team to work on desktop versions. May be cost cutting from mobile development.

These chaps assume that the "program" will always have the net connection, location, voice etc. (true for mobile device). So they code that way.

I am saying this from my 20 years experience in our organization. Our company put one team on another type of project and it takes another six months to figure out and clean up why a DBF/NTX database program crashing if the machine do not have net connection. 

Or MS is saving on developers money by making same Win10 code to run for both mobile and desktop. My desktop location says Mumbai due to ISP server, though the desktop is at far east Kolkata. Let me see what Cortana offers me in "my" location she sees. 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / win10 auto upgrade - confusing mesg

« on: August 16, 2015, 11:42 AM »

The "Get Windows 10" shows "still downloading",
"Windows update" shows "Start installing Win 10" !!

What should I do ? Wait till "Get Windows 10" enables "Upgrade" option ?

I am afraid to click "Get started" in "Windows update" 

Anybody faced this situation ?



Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Apologies for my sparse presence lately -- have been working on dc upgrades

« on: August 16, 2015, 05:53 AM »

Enjoy your vacation. Do not worry. We all are here to take care of DC forum.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone running Firefox 40.0 stable release?

« on: August 12, 2015, 06:39 AM »

Choosed menu Help > About
It showed downloading 40.0 and updated OK
Running 40.0 now.

Maybe they have different server for different location of the world.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 07, 2015, 02:48 AM »

I'm also sure someone will make an app that will reliably suspend the Windows Update service & hopefully, allow us to pick & choose which updates to install & which ones to blacklist. Until MS makes the registry a black box users cannot pick apart and analyze, there will always be intrepid souls who will work to leverage it in the users' favor.

-Innuendo (August 06, 2015, 08:40 PM)

Yes. It has happened before and it will happen now.

Already we have blogs and website giving steps to disable all those nasty privacy options, and program to automate them have started coming up.

I use 3rd party firewall, anti-virus, cleaner, uninstaller, video player etc. to keep my peace of mind in Win8. I will do same in Win10. I like to use an OS as OS only.

I hope, like we used Windows Blind to fully convert in visual and action a Win95 machine like Mac, some program comes like say, 'Better Win10' which runs as layer over Win10 and let us have our peace of mind.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« on: August 05, 2015, 12:05 PM »

TaoPhoenix, when I search DC I get columns with relevance, date posted etc. Generally for lasted I try date posted. Since I do not come to DC frequently I sometimes miss queries put for my NANY apps, so I try to check if any post for my NANY apps is there.

There is no smooth way but I get to it. I do not know anything about this change, I mean server, search logic etc. But I will be happy if there is some better way to search. May be some advance filter etc.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« on: August 05, 2015, 06:49 AM »

Will both DC and DC2 be online at same time ?

If I am unable to find something on DC2 but remember it was there, I may search in DC. I use DC forum a lot for googling, if I am allowed to say that, when I am stuck and it had helped me.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 05, 2015, 04:41 AM »

Hmmm... as I said and expected, the tool is here.

DoNotSpy10 free is here to cure all Win10 privacy concerns. As per GHack http://www.ghacks.ne...10-privacy-settings/,  It provides you with options to set privacy settings from within its interface with just a couple of clicks.

PCWorld gives steps to cure from p2p update of Win10 http://www.pcworld.c...tems.html#tk.rss_all

I haven't got my WIn10 yet, but I have the tools to make it as per my liking.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 04, 2015, 11:45 AM »

As wraith808 said "It's much ado over nothing."

Yes this is what I mean to say. We are unnecessarily fussing over something which will be same at the end.

I still remember there was much hue and cry over iPad. One can not type on it, keeping it on their lap. Every blogger or writer thought since they can not type easily on it, so it is useless. What is now ?
IPad remains as it is, the writers learnt to use IPad.

Same for Google reading our emails. Even MS highlighted it and assured they were not reading our email, see their ads. What happened ?
GMail still rules and we still use it.

Now we are worrying over something which MS has given option to disable. Well I know we all will be using Win10, sooner than later.

Keep in mind due to this logic of MS, we small developers are making our living by making tools to change the default of MS. Remember Start menu for Win8, how much fuss it created. Now we have so many tools to get the start menu in Win8. Similar tools will follow for Win10.

Cortana will be less useful to me, as I do not have steady network for her(?) to look into neither I use much of MS programs like outlook etc. I may use her as speech to text as Dragon dictate was too costly for me and now I am getting old. I will like to code by dictating. 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« on: August 03, 2015, 04:21 AM »

Well my take is simple. I use computers for living.

I do not like MS neither Google. I like my clients. If they use MS or G. and pay me to make something for it, I do it. I use computers for living.

I like Linux. I like my clients. If they do not use Linux and neither pay me, I do not use it. I use computers for living.

I like privacy. I like quick information for my work. If MS or G. knows what I do, I let them know. I use computers for living.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinToFlash Pro Sale 7USD

« on: July 29, 2015, 06:26 AM »

Installed VirtualBox and WinXp on it.

I am happy  Thanks a lot. In full screen WinXp looks like normal Xp machine and my son can understand the control panels correcly. Though the help was wanting Google helped in most cases. Also VirtualBox ver. 5 is better if not best from earlier version, as I found out.

I now feel this is better approach than the Xp boot usb.
1. I get to work in same file both from Win8 64 bit and WinXp, via shared folder.
2. No reboot
3. I can check my programs in Xp as a separate machine without all default installations in main machine. This helps to find out all missing dlls.
4. Can check my 16 bit programs, before converting them. My OS is 64 bit

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

« on: July 22, 2015, 04:28 AM »

 

Does it really validate an email ?
or is some joke !

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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

« on: July 21, 2015, 11:06 AM »

Yes, we have copied codes from "Learn in n days.." books and also have got some in accompanied CDs. But those were always taken , and were, sample codes.

Now in StackOverflow and other website they give solution to "How to I send mail in .Net ?" and these fellows think that they have got the gold mine. Just copy them and you can send the mails.

There is no understanding of the working of the copied code, forget about doing some testing on it.

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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

« on: July 21, 2015, 02:41 AM »

I was wondering, when a new appointee in our office developing a .Net project, was searching StackOverflow and copy - pasting codes in the project. Since he was not under me, I just wondered how he is going to get all codes for the project of our clients. 

As expected all codes were working except the product. The client ran away.

Now I see this is how all new programmers are learning to code, copy - paste.

Why there was no help for us when we were working hard to read a text file correctly, which had some lower ASCII characters in it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinToFlash Pro Sale 7USD

« on: July 14, 2015, 07:31 AM »

Thanks Innuendo

I checked and found I have WinXp and even Win98 CDs !!

Downloaded VirtualBox. Will inform after I install and check them.

Regards,

Anand

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinToFlash Pro Sale 7USD

« on: July 11, 2015, 03:29 AM »

I understnad this will make a usb bootable xp setup, like a cd/dvd.

I was looking for something like,
1. boot from usb
2. start Xp
3. more or less all standard options
4. access hdd for document files
5. all xp required files shd be in usb itself

Now that usb size are going GB and above, latest computer / laptops having os win 8 and above, I am finding it difficult to show the xp screen and control panels etc. as given in my son's school books.

It is difficult to show him Win 8.1 control panel and tell him think it is Xp control panel !!

My old Xp machine has conked and repairing it is costing more that a new Win 8 machine.

Any idea how I can get it ?

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: cannot copy/paste in word

« on: May 28, 2015, 10:29 AM »

This is news to me, that Office 365 do not have the standard shortcut keys defined. What we call this progress / new features ??

Thanks Curt, this will help save me time when I use this version.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?

« on: May 18, 2015, 02:30 AM »

Thanks for the website, Giampy.

The images are so clear and simple that understanding a knot is knot a problem.
It will help my son to learn and tie his own tie next time.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« on: May 04, 2015, 06:53 AM »

No need to install run any 3rd party program at customer machine.

File Explorer is the Win 8 'explorer exe'. All Win 8 customer will have it.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2015 10th Anniversary Fundraiser is Now Officially Over!

« on: May 01, 2015, 10:50 AM »

Congratulation mouser and thanks to all doners for breaking the DC record 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:26 AM »

Hmm.. so the requirement is,
to sort desktop icons of a customer,
quickly search for an icon (file),
do the job,
restore back the icons as they were.

My solution :
do not touch the desktop,
open File Explorer,
select desktop,
type in 'Search Desktop' for quick search,
or right-click to sort icons,
do the job,
the desktop icons remain as they were.








Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« on: April 29, 2015, 07:00 AM »

How about using DesktopOK, http://www.softwareo...e=Freeware/DesktopOK

From the website:
Save and restore the positions of icons.
DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.

I have used it long time back, in Win98 days.

questorfla, see if it solves your problem.

Regards,

Anand

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help and Spell - New Name?

« on: April 24, 2015, 05:42 AM »

Why ?

Even after you rename it something else now, you will find it not properly named after 5 years.

The technology keeps changing, advancing, so a name which looks perfect may seem wrong in few years. When Bill named his company Microsoft, then the micro computers and software was in his mind. Now there is no micro computers as we know and software has become apps. Also we know how people make fun of the name "micro" and "soft".

Even my app Overlap Wallpaper name looks wrong. It should be "Overlap a photo on the desktop Wallpaper" and people have pointed it to me.

My advise : Do not worry. "Clipboard Help and Spell" is not a bad name and it still signifies it purpose. Rest is up to you.

Regards,

Anand