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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now

« on: June 13, 2017, 12:07 AM »

    How would you rewrite that snippet in your current language?
[…]
    Yes

-wraith808 (June 12, 2017, 10:09 PM)

O_o?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: June 03, 2017, 05:51 AM »

So... I suppose Anime Music Videos are OK too ? :]

Here's one with a song from Within Temptation:

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General Software Discussion / Re: help needed for batch change of jpg 'created time'

« on: May 19, 2017, 06:10 AM »

Hello there .o/

When I moved my files to this computer (x64 Windows 10 Home), I accidentally & unfortunately used a program that has erased almost all original info   and changed every jpg "Created Time".

-Curt (May 18, 2017, 05:36 PM)

The way I understand it, the "created time" is when space was first reserved on the drive to write the file to it. So it would be normal behaviour, not an issue related to the program you used to perform the copy.

Anyway…

Do 'you' know of a program that can do this? Or can & will 'you' write a script to make it happen?   

-Curt (May 18, 2017, 05:36 PM)

I actually remember making such a batch script a few years back, which made use of a freeware command line tool named smarttimestamp (available on Softpedia : http://www.softpedia...mart-Timestamp.shtml but you should probably use the latest version from https://sites.google...ralev/smarttimestamp )
I'll try to find it when I get back home (currently at work) and to remember to post it here :]

Edit : after re-reading the thread from back then (here, in french), you don't even need to make a whole script :

[Select]

smarttimestamp . *.jp* /cd-modified /ct-modified

shoud do it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 17, 2017, 09:22 AM »

Thanks for the update \o/

I actually use it almost every day at my workplace :}

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« on: May 12, 2017, 06:44 AM »

So huh… basically this is a teaser for some thread that will actually start tomorrow? ^^'
Well, also with an invitation to download said software for free, so it's not completely pointless for today, I suppose… thanks for the notification then

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 12, 2017, 06:39 AM »

I currently see two ways to handle the problem, one of which seems better in my opinion (and I'll explain why):

1 - check if the window is minimized or not when saving the settings
2 - check the desktop's "visible area" limits/coordinates when starting the program

I think option 2 is better because it doesn't only handle the case of the program being minimized, but also other cases such as the user having switched from a dual to single monitor desktop, for example someone with a laptop and an external monitor on its dock, who obviously doesn't have that second monitor available when travelling.

Of course, I suppose you could do 1 and 2.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 11, 2017, 10:52 AM »

Hi there .o/

I found some sort of "bug", which is actually something I've seen in several applications so far.

Here are the steps to reproduce:
- have the program's window opened, but not maximized
- reduce it to the task bar
- close the program by right-clicking its button in the taskbar and selecting "Close this window"

When you run the program again, its window doesn't show, even if you click the button on the taskbar (which would normally restore the window).

From what another developer told me a while back, that is related to how Windows treats window reduction: it just moves the window to coordinates "far, far away" outside of the desktop's resolution. Thus when you close the program, it saves those coordinates... and when it runs again, its window is always at a position outside of the desktop.

You still can make it visible again by maximizing the window (using the system menu which you can bring up with Alt + spacebar), but it's kinda not cool having to do so.
You could also edit the coordinates in the user.config file somewhere under "%localappdata%\TextManipulationUtility" to have it back into the visible area of the desktop… but it would be much better if the program checked whether or not the coordinates specified in there are visible or not according to the current desktop's resolution, and if not, reset the window's position.

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Living Room / Re: Get legal access to paywalled research and science papers free with Unpaywall

« on: April 19, 2017, 06:52 AM »

unpaywall.org doesn't resolve at this end of the globe.

-Shades (April 17, 2017, 10:03 AM)

Can you use other DNS servers, or are you behind the great firewall of China ? ^^'

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Bug: The forum thinks that all links are web links

« on: April 12, 2017, 06:24 AM »

Testing : ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1700920044/

Edit : Well, that one wasn't even recognized as a link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?

« on: April 11, 2017, 07:53 AM »

Hi there ^^

[…] combine several pdf pages into one pdf file.[…]

-cyberdiva (April 10, 2017, 08:56 AM)

For this type of stuff, I'd recommend using PDF Split and Merge Basic (aka "PDFsam"). Preferably version 2.x, since version 3 dropped the "visual composer" option, which was a pretty useful feature.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« on: April 05, 2017, 11:10 PM »

Hi there ^^

I'm surprised but it seems that Predator: Dark Ages hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Search in internet for .bos file extension files

« on: March 24, 2017, 05:30 AM »

Hi there ^^

Did you try filetype:bos in Google ?

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Living Room / Re: Cross-utilization?

« on: November 04, 2016, 06:36 PM »

Wait, what's the point to defrag a flash drive anyway?

I mean, it's not like fragmentation really has any effect on access times for non-mechanical drives... so unless perhaps you plan on making partitions on that drive… ?_?

However, if you still want an answer then: "Sure, why not? As long as you have a defrag program that can run on those devices and access the usb drives..."

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: November 04, 2016, 06:23 PM »

Hi there .o/

How to tell if your new Galaxy Note 7 is safe

-Arizona Hot (September 15, 2016, 02:06 PM)

BTW that reminded me of another "Public Service Announcement" :

How to spot Molex to SATA adapters that won't catch fire.

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Living Room / Re: computer not recognizing scanner

« on: November 03, 2016, 11:36 AM »

If no OS recognizes those devices, maybe they're just f*cked.
Like, there was all that talk about "BadUSB" a few months back... perhaps those devices got pwned? Or somebody just tried to update their firmwares and it failed?

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General Software Discussion / Re: how should I roll back java?

« on: September 16, 2016, 08:35 AM »

I forget the name of that vid player that uses an orange and white road safety traffic cone for its icon?

-holt (September 16, 2016, 08:00 AM)

VLC ?

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Living Room / Re: robots are killing

« on: September 02, 2016, 01:30 PM »

OK, thanks :]

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Living Room / Re: robots are killing

« on: September 02, 2016, 12:58 PM »

Huh, can anyone please explain the issue for non-programmers ? :p
(Other than the fact that there actually is a command to kill humans in the code, even if it probably wasn't supposed to be triggered.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Replace text months to digital months

« on: August 02, 2016, 04:41 AM »

Isn't this how everyone does it?

-magician62 (August 01, 2016, 02:21 PM)

Well, unfortunately, no.
I tried explaining to my mother how much more logical it was to proceed this way, but...

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General Software Discussion / Re: how should I roll back java?

« on: July 27, 2016, 06:23 AM »

Hello there ^^

I don't know of any graphics driver that relies on Java, so unless you're talking about a Java based game (Minecraft?) I don't think the problem is related to that update, and I wouldn't advise rolling back Java due to security issues.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Replace text months to digital months

« on: July 27, 2016, 06:20 AM »

[…]
Thus, you can always find/sort documents by date (thus putting the date to good use), and there's no easy mistake about dates in ISO format.

-IainB (July 21, 2016, 08:06 AM)

Yup
Also, http://xkcd.com/1179/ (kinda relevant)

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Living Room / Re: Zip Drives revisited

« on: May 30, 2016, 08:11 AM »

I have an IDE 100 MB Zip drive stored with other old stuff… back then I didn't think the IDE ports would disappear.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win 10: the terrible CompatTelRunner is back!

« on: April 27, 2016, 04:39 AM »

Hi there .o/

Not sure if that is applicable as I don't have any Windows 10 machine available to test, but under some machines running Windows 7, I've noticed there are scheduled tasks (in taskschd.msc) that seem related to that stuff, under « Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience » and under « Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement program ».
Try disabling those tasks and rebooting?
I'd also disable the "diagnostics tracking service" aka diagtrack service if it exists.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: October 22, 2015, 02:29 PM »

Is it aligned using tabulations, and assuming a monospace font?
I'd guess you'll need to specify how many spaces a tabulation equals then (for how many are required to get to the end of the longest line from a shorter one would depend on that).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rename files with incremental timestamp

« on: October 14, 2015, 09:35 AM »

Interesting, didn't know of this utility. Back when I had an mp3 player, I used DriveSort. (Now my "mp3 player" is actually a netbook running Windows XP :p)