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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Syncovery at 50% off - BDJ

« on: December 28, 2013, 08:17 AM »

Does anyone know of a tool similar to SFFS/Syncovery for Linux? SFFS has v5.71 available but it lacks realtime monitoring which is crucial for me. I am looking to simulate RAID-1 with drive mirroring. I used to run Syncovery on Windows to achieve this. I realize I can do this with rsync, however, the problem there is that since these drives have already been formatted NTFS that each file appears to be new on the source volume, thus resulting in a copy to the destination. This would be fine for a small amount of data, but I have nearly 4.5TB of data to mirror :-/

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Year End Top 5/10 List Here

« on: December 25, 2013, 11:27 AM »

Top 5 Computer Games

• Defense Grid - The Awakening
• X-Com: Enemy Unknown
• Worms Revolution
• Bit Trip Presents: Runner 2 - Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
• Plants vs Zombies - GOTY edition (Part 1)

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Year End Top 5/10 List Here

« on: December 25, 2013, 11:17 AM »

For some reason I played a lot of computer games this last year -- there were many good ones.

Mouser's Top 5 Favorite Computer Games Played in 2013

• Mafia II
• Dishonored
• Far Cry 3
• Saints Row IV
• Sniper Elite 2

ps. I use Web Link Captor to automatically find and add web links to a plain text list and format the output.

-mouser (December 17, 2013, 08:23 AM)

That explains FARRv3!!!

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Living Room / Re: Ghacks.net website asking for donations

« on: December 24, 2013, 09:58 AM »

Done!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer offers 50% competitive discount for Directory Opus users

« on: December 22, 2013, 03:42 PM »

Fully concur. If I come across as attacking, it is not my intent, merely my personal take on the ad. I would like to see that page changed to include the comparison I mention above.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer offers 50% competitive discount for Directory Opus users

« on: December 22, 2013, 03:34 PM »

Please note that this was not an attack on the product, merely the way it is advertised. If I see an ad, I want to know what the product can do. If you are trying to get me to invest extra money, when I have a solution already in place that works, you have to tell me WHY and not light me up with marketing propaganda. I want to know what this product excels at, per the author's view, that DOpus lacks. I only see an attack on "bloat" which I personally do not experience with DOpus.

Price is really the only negative for me with regards to DOpus. I am looking to see how much I will have to pay to upgrade when it comes time for DOpus 11, having just purchased v10 in April of this year, which was a very significant purchase. So yes, I want to see feature comparisons and not statements which basically associate myself as not being a "professional user" simply because I do not use XYplorer. That statement, in and of itself, is actually kind of insulting.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer offers 50% competitive discount for Directory Opus users

« on: December 22, 2013, 12:08 PM »

Just my two cents here, but I find this advertisement in very poor taste. Rather than focusing on the strengths of your product, you have chosen to bad mouth another. You also throw in vague comments about what the "professionals use", or "Where the action is". This does not tell me anything about the product and sounds like marketing propaganda. It is akin, in my eyes, to the use of the phrase "Free download", when the product still costs money.

I would have much rather had a table displayed exhibiting where XYplorer excels in areas that DOpus lacks. As an avid software fan, I am always looking for tools that help me be more productive. This ad tells me nothing other than the fact that you are offering a 50% discount to switch. I see no mention of WHY I should switch given an already existing investment in another tool.

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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server

« on: December 21, 2013, 08:48 PM »

Tao: We have been using fake money that looks like real money in order to help her associate it with the real thing. It has been working very well and I am actually quite happy with the progress we have made so far.

Right now, I am playing with magento CE which actually offers a nice page editor that does not rely on TPL file editing. I am still open to ideas thou!

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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server

« on: December 21, 2013, 12:03 PM »

Josh came up with this concept all on his own! (checks to see if the wife is looking)

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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server

« on: December 21, 2013, 08:05 AM »

I was getting to you next wraith I just needed coffee, first.

The solution does NOT have to be a LAMP solution, it was just my preferred method based on the information I had. I am still playing with various ecommerce suites in an attempt to find one that fits the bill. I like the idea of an ecommerce solution as it provides a great deal of flexibility and can also help me teach our daughter about online shopping, how things work, etc.

I am open to any and all ideas, however

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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server

« on: December 21, 2013, 07:04 AM »

<explanation>

Tao, let me preface this explanation below with the fact that our daughter is autistic. We use fake money because this started as a physical catalog-based store that we created in publisher and printed out as it was modified. The original intent was to teach monetary concepts and help her learn to save while also helping to enforce desirable and positive behaviors in place of certain non-desirable behaviors or actions. We are simply trying to move this one step further. Store credit would not give her the physical representation of money that she requires to fully understand these concepts. Think of the physical money as an immediate reward for her when she engages in a desirable behavior.

As a person living in the digital age, I can already tell you that I've watched many people (including myself as a teenager) get into trouble with things like non-physical money (debit cards, digital currency accounts, etc.). The reason for this is the idea that you are spending money diminishes as you use just swipe a card or login to an account. This is what we eventually want to lead up to with our daughter, but the physical money helps to enforce these concepts, and gives her something to represent how much she actually has. A big issue we have encountered is her lack of impulse control. Teaching her to save her money for the larger items in the store (A game she really wants, something of choice at the local stores, etc.) has proven difficult.

We will eventually move to all digital when we feel she has a grasp of money concepts (which isn't that far off as she is only very recently beginning to understand "a lot" VS "a little"). Additionally, we don't want to jump ship too quickly to all digital until she is able to better exhibit impulse control.

So, needless to say, she earns money in a lot of different ways throughout the day. At night, once per day, she is allowed to buy something out of the store. We include lots of little things for her as well, not just big ticket items. However, we do include things she wants that are higher priced in hopes that she will save, or learn to buy something little every now and then vice HAVING TO buy something every night.

</explanation>

Does this help?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher End of 2013 sale

« on: December 20, 2013, 04:12 PM »

Ad Muncher has not been updated in almost a year and a half (July 2012). Murray, their lead developer, has not been active on the forums since September 2012 (Last post, with only a single visit between March and November 2013). Any emails that come out from him keep pushing his new "leap touch" initiative. Jeff (list maintainer) keeps advising that they have no idea when 5.x will be ready and that it will be done "when it is done". Additionally, IE11 and Windows 8.1 support will not be ready until at least 5.0, according to their forums. So...yeah, make of that what you will.

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Living Room / PROJECT: Children's home store server

« on: December 20, 2013, 04:09 PM »

OK, if you are reading this, then you must be immediately killed because this project is top secret...no, just kidding.

Anyways, this idea came to me after my wife and I implemented a "store" in our home to help reward our daughter for appropriate (desirable) behaviors. This allows her to earn fake money for things that we add to the store. It is based around a central catalog which we maintain. Unfortunately, maintenance and printing this catalog has become quite tedious and I have decided that I want to take a stab at digitizing the store.

Enter the new project. So, we have a media server running on an old dual core laptop. For what we use it for, it works well (DLNA to our PS3s). I have since installed a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) suite on the laptop in hopes of setting up an "ecommerce" site for my daughter. This would help us by allowing us to more easily add items to the store, while also re-enforcing memorization of things like her address, birthday (birthday specials), family birthdays, etc.

The need: Here is what I am looking for. Right now, I have installed and have actively running a copy of Zen Cart, Open Cart, Presta, and soon oscommerce. I am looking for an ecommerce solution that is simplistic enough to where I don't have to edit every conceivable attribute for a "product" in order to add it to our catalog. I would like for her to be able to submit orders, payment type of "check", and check the status of these orders. This will not only help us re-enforce proper money use, but it will eventually allow us to involve "fake checks" and a "fake credit card" system that we want to implement as well.

So, I am looking for suggestions on potential open source products I can implement to help get this under way. One shortcoming I have found is the lack of page editing capabilities without having to modify TPL files. I would like some form of basic WYSIWYG editor.

Other than that, I am open to other ideas.

I am open to any and all suggestions. What does everyone think?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« on: December 19, 2013, 08:38 AM »

I am hoping that this will soon be not needed with mouser planning on indexing for FARR! Go mousey!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: The real barrier to Linux for new users

« on: December 13, 2013, 11:53 AM »

That is my biggest pet peeve with most F/OSS software. The software works as a free alternative, but since it is free, it is often left in the "Good enough" state. Often times, when someone complains about a F/OSS product, one of three responses comes about:

A. If you don't like it, don't use it. It is free after all
B. You can't complain about something that is free.
C. Take the source code and write your own.

In most projects like this, everyone wants to do the sexy pieces of the project that everyone sees. No one wants to take the time to make the UI fluid, eliminate graphical glitches (Yes, they matter to the average user and indicate a level of quality in the product), or to perform proper logic within the application.

This is what turns me off to most graphical based (which is what the average user will want) programs in the F/OSS world. I can't tell you the number of times I watch programs create artifacts or react unpredictably each time I use Linux (And yes, I use it daily. Namely, #!, Fedora, and Suse (Backtrack if you count work)). Predictability is huge and is definitely a piece that Windows/MAC have a leg up on when compared to Linux.

Is there going to be a "Time for Linux"? Probably. Is it any time soon? Not until applications and windowing/UI systems mature.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013

« on: November 29, 2013, 02:42 PM »

You tweaked the installer to allow for "Launch on complete". THANK YOU!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 - New Apps for the New Year - Welcome Thread

« on: November 24, 2013, 11:48 AM »

Mouser, what are you going to pledge for NANY 2014?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Winamp to shut down December 20, 2013. Get the latest version if you want it.

« on: November 20, 2013, 09:12 PM »

That was back in the day when you had to MANUALLY install a 3rd party mp3 codec!

Like this one... http://www.free-code...eg_layer_3_codec.htm

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

« on: November 19, 2013, 09:42 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Adblock Plus Letting Ads By

« on: November 10, 2013, 03:21 PM »

We could take a lesson from the ad companies and pay to have the ads blocked. Choose a software with an actual business model that doesn't include accepting bribes from ad companies...perhaps Ad Muncher, which will work with any browser (without a plugin), any desktop RSS reader, any non-browser software that pulls in ad banners from an external source.

-app103 (July 09, 2013, 06:13 PM)

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I wanted to ask..what is the current thought on ad muncher? Is this still a viable option? Development seems to have halted and looking at the forums shows that the developer hasn't been present since March.

That said, I am quite happy with Ad Block Plus.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR V3 Discussion

« on: November 05, 2013, 11:38 AM »

So,

I wanted to throw this out there and see what the thoughts were on FARR v3? Mouser, as we've spoken about, I think there are a few core features that should be thrown into the FARR v3 release.

1. Indexing for faster result display and searching.
2. Network Share Browsing (Not mapped drives, but UNC path such as \\SERVER\Share) while using file/folder browsing.
3. Incorporation of alias launches into the results window (So, if I launch a cpanel alias, I can see it in the recent history)
4. Integration into other DoCo tools (CH+S, SsC, LBC)?

For everyone out there, I am trying to help "persuade" mouser into starting on FARRv3. Indexing the biggest thing I see that could boost the speed with which FARR operates.

What does everyone else think?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 - New Apps for the New Year - Welcome Thread

« on: October 29, 2013, 03:39 PM »

So Mouser, what is your pledge for NANY 2014?

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General Software Discussion / Re: So-called upgrades that ruin good programs

« on: October 21, 2013, 02:52 PM »

Reminds me of Collectorz.com and Collectorz.com Again

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alt+Tab

« on: September 13, 2013, 12:55 PM »

Mouser,

I can confirm that with "Show on taskbar" enabled, the FARR process does not show in the alt-tab list. This occurs when the main farr window is open (after hotkey activation). FARR still remains in the taskbar, but does not appear in the ALT+TAB listing.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Coming Soon: STEAM FAMILY SHARING

« on: September 11, 2013, 02:00 PM »

Hell yeah! Now I can get my wife to nerd out with me!