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Living Room / Re: Download appears malicious - Google Chrome

« on: March 12, 2012, 07:06 AM »

I've found an explanation of the 'feature', but no solution:
http://chrome.blogsp...ed-and-security.html

To help protect you against malicious downloads, Chrome now includes expanded functionality to analyze executable files (such as “.exe” and “.msi” files) that you download. If a file you download is known to be bad, or is hosted on a website that hosts a relatively high percentage of malicious downloads, Chrome will warn you that the file appears to be malicious and that you should discard it. We’re starting small with this initial Beta release, but we’ll be ramping up coverage for more and more malicious files in the coming months. Remember, no technical mechanism can ever protect you completely from malicious downloads. You should always be careful about which files you download and consider the reputation of their source.

Emphasis added. Excuse me.

I'm now verifying my site with mywot.com and google webmaster tools, will see if Google flagged any downloads. If not, clearly they should use a blacklist approach not whitelist.

update: ok done: Google has not detected any malware on this site. Guess they're just flagging for the hell of it. Guess  You should always be careful about which browser you download and consider the reputation of their source.

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Living Room / Download appears malicious - Google Chrome

« on: March 12, 2012, 05:33 AM »

Anyone seen this before?


It's just an autohotkey compiled script (no executable packer) inside an innosetup executable. Jotti tells me there are no viruses found, so why is Google Chrome not happy?

Chrome's learn more links goes to http://support.googl...-GB&answer=99020 but it's typically unhelpful. Any ideas?
If now we have to petition the browsers as well as the virusscanners I will have to switch platforms..

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Living Room / Re: Moar lightsabers plz

« on: February 27, 2012, 03:30 AM »

Need moar lightsabers

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is not dead... Minimalistic UI Madness Never dies.

« on: February 22, 2012, 06:14 AM »

I always thought that steve's minimalistic approach towards UI is going to live forever.

-mahesh2k (February 21, 2012, 11:30 AM)

Where did get that from? Steve Job hasn't been minimalist towards UI design for the last decade.

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Official Announcements / Re: I want to try an experiment on the site for March 2012

« on: February 17, 2012, 08:35 AM »

I think that your success will depend a lot on where you put the ads. Do you have an example of an textad and where were you thinking of placing them?
For example put them on the right hand side and people will probably ignore them.
Put them in between the opening post and any comments could work very well but is a lot more noticable.
Put them after the thread but before the comment box and that might be a good balance to have eyeballs but not interrupt the reading.

If you want to discuss also similar ideas, you could think about dc member sponsoring a form board using their donation coder credits.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fork webpages?

« on: February 17, 2012, 07:34 AM »

I guess you can capture it with onenote, evernote etc, diigo. But if there was a webservice where you could see everyone's comments/updates on the pages that would rock. usually someone will have done the work.

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General Software Discussion / Fork webpages?

« on: February 17, 2012, 05:23 AM »

I’m looking for something a bit unusual. Say you are following the instructions for installing a software package (rl example: http://library.linod...in/installing-webmin). Now you find out the instructions are outdated, or incomplete.

How do you keep your notes/additional instructions together with the original? Now you have two problems, your instructions and the original can be updated independently. What happens when the original is updated, or a new version of the software is released?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could fork the webpage and update it (or even submit a pull request to the maintainer)?

Is there any practical way of working this way – or will I be stuck with a notetaker / blog / bunch of outdated textfiles?

A lot of questions – maybe one of you has the answer.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Level - Copy files from various sources into one flat folder

« on: February 16, 2012, 02:43 AM »

If you want to play with the latest source, you can now fork from Bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/svandragt/level

I'll keep posting executable releases in this topic when they're available.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Svn Conflicts Backup - Redo your subversion conflict resolves

« on: February 15, 2012, 02:55 AM »

If you want to play with the latest source, you can now fork from Bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.or...t/svnconflictsbackup

I'll keep posting executable releases in this topic when they're available.

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Living Room / Re: Would you buy me a $0.99 track on Amazon?

« on: February 09, 2012, 07:03 AM »

Amazon UK does mp3 music too. Maybe they are more liberal. If you download a track into a shared dropbox folder, does dropbox makes the infringement as it copies your song onto the dropbox of another user?

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Coding Snacks / Re: Svn Conflicts Backup - Redo your subversion conflict resolves

« on: February 07, 2012, 02:19 PM »

hehe anything you can think I can do to help with that?

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Coding Snacks / Svn Conflicts Backup - Redo your subversion conflict resolves

« on: February 07, 2012, 09:18 AM »

After wasting my morning wrestling with subversion, in particularly this question:
Subversion reverting resolved file

If I was to make an error in a file that I have marked resolved is there a way to go back to having the file in it's original conflicted state without reverting all changes and reattempting the merge?

No, there is no automatic way to do that. If you want to be able to do that, you'll have to manually back up the .mine file ahead of time so that you can get it back if needed.

Spoiler

I'm doing a merge. After merging I commit all files without conflicts. Then I resolve single files and commit them. If I make a mistake how do I redo the resolving (even if I haven't committed the resolved file yet)?

Contrary to expectation I cannot revert the file. When reverting back to any step after the merge none of the files become conflicted again. This means I have one chance to resolve correctly or having to revert the wc to a point before the merge and reattempt the merge - which takes a long time.

It seems when doing a merge the act of merging is applied as a property on the working copy root folder, and then the wc is considered merged, whether or not there are conflicts outstanding. Is it right that none of the conflicts are marked as such in the repository?

Deleting the file and doing an svn update did not succeed as I retrieve the file as if it wasn't merged and attempting to merge again does not find any changesets.

Well now you don't have you waste your time, you can redo your conflict resolves using the enclosed script. (included is the .ahk and .exe file). It's a bit spartan but the GUI will guide you throughu the process:

* Select working copy root
* Find all .working files
* For each .working file find all other extensions with the same filename (.merge-left.rXXXX  and .merge-right.rXXXX files and the actual file)
* copy these into a SvnConflictsBackup\<date>\<directory_structure>\file on your desktop
* Show Finished(remove) and Restore button
* Finish: exit and open backup folder for deletion by user
*: choose from all .working files and restore it and related files

When you are resolving conflicts, think of this utility and use it to back them up!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BARD - My software to help organise your sample library

« on: February 03, 2012, 02:00 AM »

Fixed an issue with the lite download link:
http://getbard.com/get/lite

Does this mean that my Bard from May 25, 2011 now is a Bard Lite?
it works like I want it to work ♥

-Curt (February 02, 2012, 12:25 PM)

I think that is similar to my internal version 0.3.0.3. Ther have been 101 changes since then to the main program file alone.
I'd recommend to start using Bard Lite. (feel free to backup your copy first)

Had a quick look for you Curt:

New stuff since 0.3.0.3 in Bard Lite:
Faster startup and loading of file listing
Bard works with more audio files thanks to new playback engine
Ask for a destination folder on first use
Ask for source folder if none has been selected before.
Feedback Options from within app
Only display destinations if they exist
Improved prompting when file exists.
Clarified interface text
Store created files in Application Data/Roaming so that writing rights to program files is not needed.
support for mp2,mp1, ogg, wave files
try deleting twice before giving up.
Added Option to stop Reset playback and reload sound engine.
Allow mouse click to play sample even if row is already selected and focused
Hotkeys only active on current window
No longer needing to reload the gui when adding/removing destinations.
Only reload filelisting if rename took place when invoked renaming
commandline parameters can now be given in any order

Bug fixes since 0.3.0.3 in Bard Lite:
When no files are selected it's no longer possible to try to play the column header
Fix for broken hotkeys
Fix issue where sample not not be renamed if it was playing.
Fix problem where button appears in starting location of window
Fix to allow clicking on hotkeys again.
Fix where we would store the dimensionso of the active windows instead of BARD which would cause issues when a second instance of BARD quits the first and the dimensions of the window where BARD is started from is active ow explorer)
Fix: folders with - in them are now fully supported as button names.
Fix: no longer reloads folder when pressing cancel on context menu operations.
Fix: Rename no longer shows subfolder on files that are in subfolders of the current working directory.
Populate destinations before showing GUI initially for aesthetic reasons ( does not slow down bard )
spelling fix thanks cranioscopical
Misc bugfixes               

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / BARD - My software to help organise your sample library

« on: February 02, 2012, 08:43 AM »

I'm very proud to launch my BARD software today!

BARD is a tool to organise your audio / sample library with minimal hassle. I made it in response to the posts about organising your library on the nuskoolbreaks forum. Music producers and other audio enthusiasts can use it to preview samples and instantly file them in a folder of choice. Everything in BARD has been crafted to help you get back in control over the thousands of sounds you have lying about in a variety of places.

Get BARD now and enjoy all the powerful features for less than the price of a night out. Or try out BARD Lite without limits and nags for free from http://getbard.com. Updates will be free.
   

Hey mate, glad to to help as this program is infinitely beneficial to me (and likely will be to many others) in getting my library under wraps finally.
   Doran, nuskoolbreaks.co.uk

   

Good luck man, think of all the man hours youre gonna save musicians around the planet  
   Ro Aneurythm / Erratech

GetBard.com

Any and all feedback is welcome.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: February 01, 2012, 08:31 AM »

The server mail sending functionality will be shut down Wed February 1st 2012.

-justice (January 09, 2012, 08:51 AM)

NoteMe versions before v1.1.0 can no longer send email as of now. Please update to the latest noteme. The Google account and it's Gmail have been deleted.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Introducing BaDa - the new way to build web based database applications

« on: January 28, 2012, 05:06 AM »

Very interesting, this competes with multi user MS Access, SQL Reporting Server and Qlikview am I right? I was thrown off initially by 'building a database application' as I understood it was to be used to make web apps. However it's more alike a data reporting tool from reading the website. A useful tool for business! And with forms you can use it for all kinds of replacement for paper forms (hot thing at the moment in education) - so now you are competing with Sharepoint/Infopath?

All the examples I mentioned are very microsoft centric so it will be good to see a viable alternative for some use cases when not using a microsoft stack. Very impressive!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Uninstallers

« on: January 25, 2012, 04:12 AM »

3. Does Windows even support true uninstalling? I say not. Because every single program that has a trial version leaves behind remnants, so you can't install it again and restart the trial.  And many programs never uninstall properly. e.g. crap like Acronis TrueImage, and leave behind tons of stuff.

I'll refer to InnoSetup's stance to clarify why this is happening on purpose (see [UninstallDelete] section, unfortunately not online:

NOTE: Don't be tempted to use a wildcard here to delete all files in the {app} directory. I strongly recommend against doing this for two reasons. First, users usually don't appreciate having their data files they put in the application directory deleted without warning (they might only be uninstalling it because they want to move it to a different drive, for example). It's better to leave it up to the end users to manually remove them if they want. Also, if the user happened to install the program in the wrong directory by mistake (for example, C:\WINDOWS) and then went to uninstall it there could be disastrous consequences. So again, DON'T DO THIS!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« on: January 20, 2012, 03:14 AM »

Yes it's the best morning coffeee / tea mug in existence because of its size

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« on: January 19, 2012, 03:18 AM »

My growing collection!

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request - FARR Alias install commandline switch

« on: January 17, 2012, 06:52 AM »

Problem
Currently it's up to the user to install aliases, and the folder in which they should install them in different depending on the OS and the type of alias (should it be editable or not by the user). From the help file:

These .alias files are located in the AliasGroups\ subdirectory of FARR, and are further broken up into AliasGroups\Installed and AliasGroups\MyCustom.

On my Windows 7 64bit machine, the AliasGroups folder is not there but in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups and the MyCustom folder did not exist.

Now when a third party supplies an alias to enable FARR to use the third party tool, the install will have to give instructions for the user for the correct operating system, plus a series of steps to know where the alias is stored after installation and where it should be manually copied to (and extracted, because there are usually icons and other related files).


Feature
I'm requesting a feature for FARR (based on discussions in the IRC chatroom) for FARR to install aliases for the user in the correct folder, using commandline switches. Third-party tools, can then simply read the registry key and call farr:

 (64bit)

Code: Text [Select]

1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Find and Run Robot_is1\InstallLocation

 (32bit - needs confirmation)

Code: Text [Select]

1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Find and Run Robot_is1\InstallLocation

Implementation proposal
The alias should be zipped but the extension renamed to .AliasZip, (with the extension registered to farr) so that one can install the alias by double clicking.

The Zip file should contain a folder called either MyCustom or Installed, with inside that a folder with the name of the alias (example) containing icons and the alias etc.


Example
With the feature FARR will extract the alias in a temporary folder, and then copy it to the right location, and refresh the aliases-list in FARR with the following code:

Code: Text [Select]

1. FindAndRunRobot.exe /installAlias "Path\To\Example.AliasZip"

Feedback welcome.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: January 17, 2012, 01:51 AM »

Not at the moment but that bit of the message should be marked as the 'signature' (the double dash) so your SMS tool might have a setting to ignore that. Hth

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: January 17, 2012, 01:41 AM »

Hi Harry thanks for using noteme.

The first line you type is the subject!
Start a new paragraph for the rest of the message. This keeps things streamlined.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« on: January 11, 2012, 07:08 AM »

the text in the box

You know what though, I really don't want to give you work like this - forget what I said I'm happy to order one of the available ones edit: and I've ordered now!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« on: January 11, 2012, 03:28 AM »

Hello ello I would really love to have a large mug with the design as in the opening post. ie the image of cody and nany 2012 but without the paragraph of text. This makes for a more iconic look with the awesome vintage Cody. (might have to resize cody to compensate). Happy to have a go at it if the image source is available if that helps.

edit: ah sorry I just read the no more suggestions post - sorry if this is too late!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: January 10, 2012, 03:26 AM »

So how does this work now? I have webmail, not Outlook / other. Will it still send notes?

-TaoPhoenix (January 09, 2012, 10:07 AM)

You will need to enter the SMTP (outgoing mail) settings for your webmail service. If you cannot find the information in the help section of your webmail provider, you might be able to find it at the Mozilla ISP Database site (I cannot guarantee the settings listed there are correct).

For GMail I am currently using these settings:

[Select]

[SMTP]
[email protected]
server=smtp.gmail.com:587
[email protected]
password=mypassword

Works well for me, however after entering the mail password (test email being sent) I get this.  (see attachment in previous post)

-rgdot (January 09, 2012, 11:03 PM)

This happens when sendEmail is waiting for the mailserver to respond, I noticed this today as well. I had set the server line for gmail incorrectly to smtp.googlemail.com:465, what is your email domain / mail provider rgdot? sorry for the unhelpful interface dialog.