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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« on: June 15, 2015, 09:30 PM »

watch out if you're going to tweak the slides, if you introduce a height difference across the drawer they may be inclined to jam (depends on how much clearance you have on each side of course).

claim it as a character piece, and see how many people actually notice (I'm guessing not many).  If someone does it becomes a conversation piece (everyone wins!!!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« on: June 15, 2015, 09:03 PM »

I still think making a new face for the drawer is the easiest and least risky option.  Once you start taking material away you can't put it back again if it's still not right (and then you've got 2 problems )

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading

« on: June 15, 2015, 07:48 PM »

OT - I am interested in the handwriting recognition feature, but after having watched a few review videos, there always seems to be a bit of a lag. You write a few words, then wait for them to be recognised. That's a bit like how dictation software works. I wonder how that would affect one's writing process, i.e. whether it would slow you down enough that you'd forget what you wanted to write? Anyone tried it for notetaking on the go or creative writing?

-dr_andus (June 15, 2015, 07:11 PM)

hmmm, I wonder what the buffer is like?  I've never used anything like this but I wonder can you write faster than it can read, and how far can you get ahead before it stops recognising your input, or skipping content to try and keep up?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« on: June 15, 2015, 06:34 PM »

make a new face for the top drawer?

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General Software Discussion / Re: automatically number images in word

« on: June 15, 2015, 05:50 PM »

your best bet with all these automation requests in office is to spend a little bit of time learning VBA.

It really isn't that hard and MS include a handy macro recorder to get you started

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Coding Snacks / Re: Excuse The Dumb Question, but I'm Generally Curious

« on: June 09, 2015, 10:13 PM »

FYI I don't do any of the social media things (apparently you have to have 'friends') so I can't help you, but there are a few here who do so good luck!!

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Coding Snacks / Re: Excuse The Dumb Question, but I'm Generally Curious

« on: June 09, 2015, 09:48 PM »

plenty of coders here, but they can't help until you at least tell them specifically what you want to do 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« on: June 08, 2015, 10:18 PM »

Wouldn't it be terribly insulting if you had a brain implant that connected it to the internet and your brain didn't meet the requirements to update to Win 10.

-Arizona Hot (June 08, 2015, 10:12 PM)

no...

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General Software Discussion / Re: A one line Dirt Simple way to Compare and delete one of a pair of equal Folders

« on: June 01, 2015, 11:13 PM »

why not just merge the folders then delete everything that's left?

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General Software Discussion / Re: why MS Word breaks format

« on: May 31, 2015, 09:47 PM »

if you go into OPTIONS, and select ADVANCED, the second section deals with copy and paste options.

I'd suggest you set to either MERGE FORMATTING or KEEP TEXT ONLY

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: import/export foobar keyboard shortcuts

« on: May 26, 2015, 12:34 AM »

if we could only work out the file format it shouldn't be hard...

if only...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch PDF printing

« on: May 18, 2015, 05:35 PM »

the obvious answer here is VBA. 

what's not obvious is how often you need to do this and the variables involved, ie for the given sample (1 file, in 5 parts) it wouldn't be worth your while batching it.  And if the variables change each time then obviously the overhead is going to beat you every time

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Living Room / Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?

« on: May 18, 2015, 01:09 AM »

Puns, what puns? This may come as noose to you but according to the panel you made a slip.

-cranioscopical (May 17, 2015, 09:30 PM)

you wood say that.  clearly you're not tongue tied

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 12, 2015, 02:02 AM »

There may have been 'rockets' or space travel, but 'garden of tubes' doesn't ring any bells.  It's been a long time and lots more books since I read it so you'll have to forgive me if I can't add much more

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« on: May 12, 2015, 12:39 AM »

sounds like something I've read also, but for the life of me I can't remember the title or the author (it was a good story though)

the plot though...

All the worlds land masses are covered by 'buildings'.  The hero (?) starts out as the lowest of the low living in the dark under the buildings.  He gets taken in and proves to be a genius, goes on to be hugely successful AND develops a means of traveling through time, or perhaps it was to parallel universes, i forget the detail.  Finally he is contacted by himself from another dimension (pick one) and is given a crucial piece of information.  In the end he dies, but his alternate self steps through and takes his place (nothing weird about that ).  Story ends with all the buildings being torn down and people returning to live on the land...

does that sound familiar, or jog anyone's memory?

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Living Room / Re: New Virus or ??

« on: May 10, 2015, 06:48 PM »

I'm surely no expert but this sounds more like a very old virus (if that's what it is)

to me the operation sounds very clumsy, more like something a script kiddy might produce

Virus writers have become far more sophisticated in what they're delivering and uninstalling/deleting a random somebodies files like this seems like a poor return on their effort

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Living Room / Re: What happens when a Kickstarter project fails to launch?

« on: May 07, 2015, 08:58 PM »

interesting read, although it kind of ran out of substance

It started out well enough, but by the end I was starting to feel like one of those 'jilted' backers...

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Living Room / Re: Technology moving anxiety...

« on: May 04, 2015, 04:26 PM »

Yes - it's like, "Oh, wait... I'm going to be without an Internet connection for **HOW LONG**???"

-Renegade (May 04, 2015, 10:35 AM)

rather ironic considering what you just wrote here

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Script for replace any substring in a text file accodring a csv data file

« on: April 30, 2015, 09:08 PM »

more detail needed, eg what criteria would you use to determine whether to add or replace

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« on: April 23, 2015, 05:33 PM »

Did you know that the lug nuts on the passenger side of a 64 Dodge polara are left hand thread??

-Stoic Joker (April 23, 2015, 05:05 PM)

just so we all know that the issue of 'standards' was around long before software was commonplace

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« on: April 19, 2015, 10:14 PM »

didn't think mrainey used windows any more?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Any play VoidSpace?

« on: April 12, 2015, 06:12 PM »

Has anyone tried VoidSpace?
http://www.playvoids...ce.com/new/index.jsp

-Renegade (March 13, 2015, 04:49 AM)

looks nice!!

have you played at all?

looks a lot like elite dangerous

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: is the member map down?

« on: April 08, 2015, 08:06 PM »

oh, then I'll stop looking then 

thanks!!

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DC Website Help and Extras / is the member map down?

« on: April 08, 2015, 07:54 PM »

or has it been removed?

I just went to change my location and can't find the map anywhere (and I don't recall hearing anything about its demise)

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General Software Discussion / what3words

« on: April 08, 2015, 07:16 PM »

saw a reference to what3words in our work newsgroups today

seems like a really useful mapping/navigation/location tool, though it may struggle with some situations (multistory buildings for example)

EDIT:  I'm not associated with this tool in any way, nor am I recommending it for any given purpose.  It just seems like a pretty cool tool to me but YMMV