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Developer's Corner / Re: AHK question : how to use modifier symbols as normal/literal characters?

« on: July 11, 2008, 01:55 AM »

don't you use ` (same key as the tilde for me)

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General Software Discussion / Re: get the text from html

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:04 PM »

not automated, but....

look at some of the html editors (and possible some of the better text editors??) - a lot of them have functions that will strip out any tags so you'll have a clean text file...

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows volume control setting

« on: July 09, 2008, 12:34 AM »

not to trump lanux here, his app sounds more a little more capable???

the attached zip file includes the setsound script and the aforementioned sound card analysis script both compiled and ready to go

Setsound_50.exe does what it says, sets the master and wave volumes at 50% then closes (50% was a nominal figure - if you want something else let us know).  Copy it to your startup folder and that should be it...

EDIT: updated the setsound script to toggle the mute status off (if it's already on...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows volume control setting

« on: July 08, 2008, 09:35 PM »

AHK is your friend...

the following 2 lines set the master and WAV volumes to 50%

[Select]

soundset, 50
soundsetwavevolume, 50

you can change pretty much all the sound controls this way.  Code could be compiled and added to the startup directory

The AHK helpfile also includes a soundcard analysis script which may be of use/interest...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone know an Antivirus Bootable CD or Floppy with NTFS support

« on: July 02, 2008, 07:46 PM »

of course if all else fails you could install the drive in another machine, and use the installed (and current) AV tools on that machine...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Ultimate Music File Organizer

« on: June 29, 2008, 10:07 PM »

the weak point of automating the process is where you have compilation or best of albums.  The tracks on these albums are likely to be mistagged because they appear on one or several other albums....

while certainly not automated, another tool you might be interested in (I find it indispensable) is Free DB Easy Navigator (F.E.N) - get it here http://www.klaimsoft.com/salvoravida/

this tool works with a local copy of FreeDB (something of a sore point - FreeDB changed hands in the last 12 months or so and the new owners don't appear to be maintaining it...grrrr).   

I use it in preference to an online search because it gives me a choice, ie for a given album there can be tens of entries, and the variations are quite amazing.  Using FEN I can search through all the entries, and in the absence of a definitive result (and i average the results on the basis that the majority must be closest to the mark) I can use it to make a more educated search elsewhere...

regardless, keep us posted on what you 'find'...

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Developer's Corner / Re: JazzScheme

« on: June 29, 2008, 07:49 PM »

this would seem to limit it's immediate potential...

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Developer's Corner / Re: HTML Tree menu help

« on: June 23, 2008, 09:21 PM »

never mind, i worked out I could paste the contents of the JS file into my HTML and retain the functionality...

now if I only understood it...

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Developer's Corner / HTML Tree menu help

« on: June 23, 2008, 01:58 AM »

not sure if this is the right 'forum' for this type of questions, but I'm looking for some assistance in tracking down what I expect will be a bit of javascript (I have no javascript knowledge)

What I want to do is build a graphical (tree) representation of a hierarchical structure.  What I have in mind is something pretty simple, ie no links or special effects.  The option to collapse/expand the tree would be nice, but not essential.

I have been googling and there appears to be plenty of builder app's, and plenty of CSS solutions, however I would like to keep this to a single file if at all possible.

Source data is in tabular (excel) format - I can see that a number of the CSS solutions use unordered lists as their source, and I can produce this relatively easily (in VBA).

What I don't seem to be able to find is a non CSS option (as usual, the problem is that I don't know the right questions to ask - then again, if i did, I probably wouldn't need to ask in the first place!!)

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Living Room / Re: How can I get hard drive space... without deleting (my) stuff?

« on: June 16, 2008, 09:18 PM »

Question: Can you install (and boot) GParted from a SD card? I have somehow lost my USB drive and all I have are 3 SD camera cards...

-wreckedcarzz (June 16, 2008, 08:31 PM)

you'll need to check the website on that one (If I remember rightly the D/L is an ISO)

do a bit of googling on this - there are several variants on this theme, some of which may offer USB solutions (sorry I can't be of much help here...)

mebbe try Parted Magic http://partedmagic.c...wiki/PartedMagic.php, QTParted http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/, and possible UBCD (not sure about that last one, though I have a vague recollection that there is a tool in there somewhere...)

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Living Room / Re: How can I get hard drive space... without deleting (my) stuff?

« on: June 16, 2008, 07:42 PM »

you'll need a partition management tool - try GParted (a linux based boot CD) or one of the variants

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Living Room / Re: How can I get hard drive space... without deleting (my) stuff?

« on: June 16, 2008, 07:37 PM »

can you clarify for us just exactly what it is you're trying to do (cos I'm unsure)

It's probably more practical to delete the second (empty) partition and extend your primary instead of trying to 'combine' the 2

however there's nothing to stop you from installing new apps to the second partition (I install all my games to a second drive which is equivalent to using another partition...)

The only fly here is if there is insufficient space on your primary for any files that must be installed to your primary (C?) drive

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite gadgets and gizmos?

« on: June 16, 2008, 12:58 AM »

I do like these for the workshop.

-cranioscopical (June 15, 2008, 10:16 PM)

cool!! sadly I don't seem to be able to access that site - I can get the home page but nothing else...

there's a chance of a cross over here - old HDD's are (apparently) a source of these rare earth magnets - you probably won't get 100lb's out of them and you can't 'turn them on & off', but they might be useful (but mind you're fingers!!!)

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Living Room / Re: cody spotted on You Tube

« on: June 11, 2008, 06:43 PM »

I never said it was good....

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Living Room / cody spotted on You Tube

« on: June 11, 2008, 01:42 AM »

spotted in this vid http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=h8yHguvYYyQ

(I think he was there giving tech support)

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Living Room / Re: Shipping outside USA not an option - workaround?

« on: May 28, 2008, 07:58 PM »

This probably breaks all sorts of international trade agreements, involves price fixing and is probably 'cartel' activity (which is certainly illegal in the UK) but some companies (Adobe is one - they actually told me they can identify the product source by the serial code) say they will not provide support or upgrades for products purchased outside the license territory.

-Carol Haynes (May 28, 2008, 07:43 PM)

interesting approach!

what happens if you move to another 'licensing territory' and you already own a legitimate copy of a given piece of software (shirley they can't expect you to buy another one just to meet their licencing requirements!!)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Modify Creation Timestamp for Files/Folders Alphabetically

« on: May 28, 2008, 01:59 AM »

You can do this with AHK (FileSetTime)

set up to loop through your files and/or folders with incremental changes...

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Living Room / Re: The last time your AntiVirus saved you!

« on: May 22, 2008, 07:54 PM »

short answer, never

interestingly though I appear to have had the opposite experience

I have always had an AV tool installed, but rarely used it.  I recently ran a scan (for no other reason than that I hadn't done so in about 2 years) and found a nasty - the app (AVG) 'cleaned/healed' it, but the result wasn't what I was expecting...

on rebooting there was no desktop - apparently explorer wasn't starting for some reason.  I could use an alternate shell no problems, but explorer was a no go. 

Googling didn't turn up any answers so the end result was another rebuild...

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Living Room / freeware game list

« on: May 21, 2008, 05:55 PM »

game threads have been making a semi regular appearance of late so this list of lists may be of interest

from freeware genius http://www.freewareg...ind-a-freeware-game/

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General Software Discussion / LoudTalk - anyone tried this?

« on: May 19, 2008, 06:14 PM »

ran across this at shell xtn city this am - http://loudtalk.com

it appears to be an IP based push to talk system (kind of like an intercom), albeit with some messaging functionality thrown in

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« on: May 14, 2008, 06:40 PM »

incomplete projects (I have hundreds...)

(free) software - I have several gig, 99% of which I've never tried...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« on: May 13, 2008, 02:04 AM »

They want to do all the usual stuff - burn discs, rip movies and music, make photo dvd's and albums etc.

-MrCrispy (May 13, 2008, 01:29 AM)

all these tasks are achievable, but it follows that they must develop some expertise just like the rest of us (otherwise they will just be getting you to do it for them )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« on: May 12, 2008, 06:04 PM »

Can it be that some (cheap) Compact Discs don't support CD-TEXT ??
- they were tagged as being "for audio", but "music" was not mentioned...

-Curt (May 12, 2008, 03:28 AM)

while not all discs are not created equal, they should all 'take' CD Text

Note also that not all players are CD Text capable

and FWIW, an old favourite of mine is BurnAtOnce - it's fairly old and development has stopped, but it works a treat (hint - check the context menus for extra functionality)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your fav' audio CD burner?

« on: May 12, 2008, 12:39 AM »

short answer is that there are as many choices as there are posters - they should all do audio CD's anyway's, ie given the plethora of highly capable freeware apps that do this there doesn't appear to be any compelling reason to purchase an app to do this...

can you clarify you're metadata requirements please?  i was of the understanding that audio CD's don't carry any metadata (ala MP3, OGG, WMA, etc).  They can include CD TEXT, which is what you see on the display of your CD player. 

Likewise, file naming convention on all audio CD's that I've seen are in the format TRACK1.CDA, TRACK2.CDA, etc (this is done by the software when you write the CD) 

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Living Room / Re: How to make a wawed-off USB Key

« on: April 22, 2008, 08:35 PM »

Pretty cute... but... what's the point?

-Darwin (April 21, 2008, 10:42 AM)

Frayed we can't say

-cranioscopical (April 22, 2008, 08:28 PM)

OHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO