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Living Room / Re: I am getting a lot of connection timed out errors on here

« on: Today at 02:12 AM »

Maybe it is because there's still a huge number of guests online.

-Zero3K (March 20, 2025, 07:02 PM)

Between 500 and 1500 guests is quite usual, for this forum, as I've observed over the last 10+ years. Once it goes over 10000 it seems to be problematic for performance.

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Living Room / Re: I am getting a lot of connection timed out errors on here

« on: March 19, 2025, 05:29 PM »

Well, the check will be visible until the DDOS protection is turned off again.

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Living Room / Re: I am getting a lot of connection timed out errors on here

« on: March 19, 2025, 01:21 PM »

It is one of the most reliable services available,  once you allow cookies the id generated for your browser wil be recognized, and no interaction is required.

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Living Room / Re: I am getting a lot of connection timed out errors on here

« on: March 16, 2025, 07:08 AM »

This was also the case, the previous time the site returned from the cloud-flare DDOS protection shield, we had the past weeks. Looks much like a DNS issue, probably still pointing to the protection server that's no longer in use

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem auto-typing into Notepad??

« on: January 31, 2025, 04:25 PM »

has Microsoft done something bad to Notepad, of all things?

-rjbull (January 31, 2025, 07:22 AM)

Well, starting with Windows 11 they for sure broke Windows Explorer, so why not notepad...

AFAICS, they let some new interns, probably all younger than Windows 7, rewrite both Explorer and Notepad, and dumped the first alpha on the general public. NB: I've refrained from using Notepad for many years, as it's totally useless compared to any alternative available.

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PBOL / Re: problem with PBOL

« on: January 13, 2025, 04:23 PM »

Are those P: and O: drives local on your computer, or mapped to some network drive like a NAS and connected/available after PBOL has loaded?

placing the inis a system folder may help.

-Contro (January 13, 2025, 03:07 PM)

Have you tried this useful suggestion already? Or at least place the ini file, and the software, on your boot-drive (something like C:\Pbol would be a good choice).

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PublicDomainVic / Re: KeyStick (v0.1.0-alpha.1)

« on: November 02, 2024, 04:01 AM »

Would be interesting to read what it is actually supposed to do/solve... 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: What are Mouser plan for this tool?

« on: October 16, 2024, 04:40 PM »

I don't know (as I'm still on Windows 10) -- have there been problems with mouser's software on Windows 11 ?

-tomos (October 16, 2024, 02:50 PM)

Not with ScreenshotCaptor (used nearly daily) or any of the other tools, in ~2.5 years since I'm using Win11 (new laptop came with Win11).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Prevent launching file manager after capture

« on: October 14, 2024, 01:17 PM »

In the Preferences screen, there's a page full of 'Post capture options' to choose from. Most likely you've set one of the options there that's causing this behavior, maybe a Commandline tool?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: September 26, 2024, 01:14 AM »

It's been a while since someone posted in this thread, but I'm trying to keep it alive:

1 too late, but a nice one from tuxman:

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: August 14, 2024, 02:00 AM »

I have replaced them, on multiple M705, but only mediocre quality switches I could find on the interwebz, so, 6 months later the issue was back, and I couldn't find the motivation to replace them again

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: August 13, 2024, 04:05 PM »

hoping that the modern "gaming" mice will be more resistant.

-Tuxman (August 13, 2024, 08:21 AM)

After years of using Logitech M705 mice, where newer editions started double-clicking when not intended because of poor switches, I've since then bought the Razer Basilisk X, and that has proven to be of better quality, and still big enough for my not so small hands, but not as bulky and pricey as the Logitech MX Master. Another reason not to choose Logitech again was several reports of their sometimes poor quality from other ppl (colleagues, forum, tech-news).

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« on: August 13, 2024, 06:33 AM »

Nah, they cancelled that "(bad) idea" a few days after the announcement: https://www.pcworld....just-a-bad-idea.html

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 03, 2024, 03:36 AM »

Which assistants have you tried

-KynloStephen66515 (August 02, 2024, 04:50 PM)

None, opinion based on the crappy 'examples' / 'answers' that ppl posted in (another) forum.

Basically, I'm sitting out the storm, to see what eventually rolls out without the world crumbling to pieces. (Must be related to my age/experience and somewhat conservative approach to 'the latest hype')

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 02, 2024, 04:23 PM »

Do you mean the quality of the code? The LLMs themselves? or am I missing something

-KynloStephen66515 (August 02, 2024, 02:45 PM)

Any example I've seen so far seems to be a garbage answer, unusable or totally unfit to what it's supposed to be tailored to. I'll wait and see what's left after the dust of this hype settles

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 02, 2024, 02:27 PM »

Simple: Nope. To me that's garbage in, garbage out.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Unlock used files on the fly, in the background

« on: August 01, 2024, 12:29 PM »

As a nearly fulltime Windows user (software developer), I never have to deal with locked files, so I'm quite curious what you do that you need such tool?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Drop down categories are no longer at top but on the side..why?

« on: July 22, 2024, 12:32 PM »

You can just grab the toolbar with the mouse pointer, and drag it to where you want it. That's probably also how it got there where it is now...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Overexposed Screenshot

« on: July 19, 2024, 02:09 PM »

This type of odd behavior has been caused by graphics card driver issues, in the past. General solution was to update to the latest available WHQL certified driver to get rid of the deformations.

NB: No need to cross-post in multiple sections of the forum, Mouser has it all covered, though he seems to be busy on other projects lately.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: comparing two big different lists of strings/filenames

« on: June 05, 2024, 01:13 AM »

Wouldn't that all be fixed by handling strings as Unicode? Because stripping 'non-ascii' from titles would mean significant information being removed from these titles

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Toolbar at screen top does not appear when Windows opens

« on: May 30, 2024, 04:31 PM »

What I don't know is how it got unchecked.

-tigerdg (May 30, 2024, 03:04 PM)

One of the buttons in the toolbar hides it and disables that setting...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Toolbar at screen top does not appear when Windows opens

« on: May 30, 2024, 01:11 AM »

The Quick Capture Bar is in it's own settings page:

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Android Apps / Re: Any chance to update WhenLast?

« on: May 11, 2024, 12:13 PM »

Well, I just got an automatic update, so that part worked

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any good Control Viewer?

« on: March 26, 2024, 02:31 PM »

If you install AutoHotKey you'll also find the Window Spy, that does similar things like the Control Viewer. The AutoIt tool never worked that well for me, not even on Windows XP, 7 or 10.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 23, 2024, 04:45 PM »

that runs Windows 11, where it does not seem possible to create custom toolbars any more.

-ConstanceJill (March 23, 2024, 03:19 PM)

That major mishap of MS (one of many in Windows 11, for some reason they want to make Windows 11 look like Mac OS ) can be circumvented by installing ExplorerPatcher, that will make Windows 11 usable (bearable?) for power (actually: any) users.