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General Software Discussion / Re: Should MS open up Windows Update to 3rd parties?

« on: February 08, 2011, 03:07 AM »

Renegade: the whole point would be getting rid of all those FSCKING LAME "so ein ding mussen ich auch haben" 3rd-party auto-update tools, and have one centralized & stream-lined process to handle all updates. It would be very++ nice for the end-users.

-f0dder (February 08, 2011, 02:54 AM)

Isn't that where DCUpdater comes in and fills a niche? All can conform to that standard as it's quite easy to setup and use. Maybe the UI could use a little W7 sauce to make the Apple fanboys using Windows a bit less unhappy, but it has a pretty much the same use-scheme as Windows Updates already.

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Living Room / Re: which is more important, system ram or video ram?

« on: February 07, 2011, 06:12 PM »

@Carol,

Why aren't you going for top performance and buying an Intel CPU for the same amount of money as the AMD CPU, but with 25 to 50% better 'tsjakka' through the opcodes Thought it was speed you're after? And next thing is bang for the buck?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: two little steps - Paste and Go

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:25 PM »

Added -c, -cc and -cn options and released WinSendKeys 2.6

I updated the other thread (at the end, but the rest is important enough to at least see) with all the relevant info and an updated download.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:21 PM »

Another update and now WinSendKeys 2.6 is released.

Latest release & download moved to separate thread

The changelog for 2.6 since the previous 2.5 release:
; 2011-02-07, version 2.6
; + Added -c option to read keystrokes from the clipboard, as requested by mouser & kikon in this thread: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=25553
; + Added -cn option, like -c, but does not send an {ENTER} after each line, can be added after -c or -cc to disable the {Enter} being sent
; + Added -cc option, like -c but embeds the clipboard into the KeyStrokes commandline sequence using #$ prefix, see readme for details

Attachment includes AutoIt3 source, updated readme, a sample strokefile (.stro) and .exe

(Edit: typo fixed)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: two little steps - Paste and Go

« on: February 07, 2011, 01:13 PM »

perhaps someone can suggest such a commandline tool that could be run from farr?

-mouser (February 07, 2011, 11:28 AM)

I can add that to WinSendKeys, I'm away for about an hour now, and then I'll have a look at it.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: app to rotate multi-page images

« on: February 07, 2011, 01:11 PM »

Just retried from another place, with another tube connected to the intertubes, and, although slow to start, got it in a few seconds this time.

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Living Room / Re: which is more important, system ram or video ram?

« on: February 07, 2011, 06:18 AM »

What's the OS? Most likely XP, and though XP does run better with more memory also, the increase of 64 or 96 MB isn't going to make much difference
Take into account the sluggish harddisk, and you've got a bad performing PC by its specs.
I'd indeed go for a new system, and not invest money in memory you (probably) can't re-use for a more modern PC.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: app to rotate multi-page images

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:47 AM »

Hm, looks like that server needs a kick in the butt (or a disk is failing). It's slow as mud through a coffee filter... from about 2 MB of 3.55 and stopped at 2.34 MB, first part was quite OK

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Living Room / Re: which is more important, system ram or video ram?

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:05 AM »

I'd even say that system-RAM is more important than CPU speed; if you have to choose, based on limited money ofcourse, between an i7-860 with 8 GB ram, or an i7-870 with 4 GB of ram, then choose the i7-860/8GB because of better performance in the long run and with heavy loads.

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Developer's Corner / Re: [PHP] 'Dynamin variable name' ?

« on: February 05, 2011, 04:16 PM »

Do as the man says, use an array.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Social Media Icons with Vector Art

« on: February 05, 2011, 04:06 PM »

IconShock seems to be having MySQL errors. I can't access their site.

-Deozaan (February 05, 2011, 02:19 PM)

Instead of being slashdotted, the're DC'd

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway - Winners Posted

« on: February 05, 2011, 08:07 AM »

quote author=vlastimil

Wait, what? You are not a native English speaker? You fooled me! 

-app103 (February 05, 2011, 08:04 AM)

Usually the giveaway is in the name

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General Software Discussion / Re: New (Feb 1 2011) "Starter" Editions of Delphi and C++ Builder

« on: February 05, 2011, 08:05 AM »

It would be nice to see some life breathed into Delphi/C++ Builder.

-Renegade (February 05, 2011, 07:54 AM)

I agree that would be nice, been using Borland stuff for 25+ years also (had a turbopascal on MS-DOS back then), but I'm afraid that this action of Embarcadero isn't going to improve on that...

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex Build 1.1.1.92 uploaded

« on: February 03, 2011, 05:07 PM »

Found another minor issue in the 92 build:
When adding a replacement through the wizard, it gets auto-assigned a different icon then the one with index 0. That's fine, though it could be an option in the options screen. But when later selecting the replacement for editing, that icon isn't reflected in the Icon combobox in the editing area.

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Official Announcements / Re: Server Slow/Load Issue - Jan 22, 2011 - search temporarily offline

« on: February 03, 2011, 02:23 PM »

Ok, is there a time-window where backups are being made, so I can avoid hitting the barriers?

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Official Announcements / Re: Server Slow/Load Issue - Jan 22, 2011 - search temporarily offline

« on: February 03, 2011, 01:57 PM »

And somewhere about 1/2 hour ago, SMF couldn't reach the database, so here I'm back a few minutes later...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: List Numberer

« on: February 03, 2011, 01:53 PM »

If I ask for further changes could you implement them yesterday?

-cranioscopical (February 03, 2011, 12:05 PM)

Your further changes are already in there.   

-skwire (February 03, 2011, 12:09 PM)

I'm going to print this and stick it to my office door

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 03, 2011, 11:11 AM »

... where control+space is autocompletion for variables and functions. I don't think that keyboard combo can be changed?

-timns (February 03, 2011, 10:00 AM)

It's not Ctrl-Space, but a dead key, like ', followed by a space that produces the '. If it where Ctrl-space I wouldn't be able to use it either

@roberro: The dead keys are so natural and transparent in daily use that it's hardly documented, because most users don't want to live without it after they discover it
Most of them I have to help/learn to add the standard VS keyboard, and switch layout using left-ctrl-shift, because they have the need to disable it at times (mostly developers, using quoted strings in their sources).

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 03, 2011, 06:43 AM »

- Would it be possible to trigger with a popup?
  p.e. now I use \\a" to write an "ä"
        and \\a^ to write an "â"
        and so on
  It would be nice if Auspex can do this:
  write an "a" --> trigger --> popup with â,ä,à etc
         and "A" --> trigger --> popup with Ä,Â,Á etc

-robbero (February 03, 2011, 03:08 AM)

Windows does have the "US International" keyboarddriver available, that can be installed next to the much used US keyboard, and is easily activated/switched by a left-ctrl-shift press. Then it's even easier to type "a to get ä, 'c to get ç, ^o for ô. If you need the accent without the following letter, just press space.
I wouldn't use Auspex for that. It's correct that the standard keyboarddriver doesn't facilitate to show a popup.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I just want to play my mp3 songs nicely with my car studio...

« on: February 02, 2011, 02:02 AM »

.. and it supports SDRam

-tslim (February 02, 2011, 01:35 AM)

Guess you are talking about an SD card, not SD-Ram, that's totally not compatible with car-audio

(Edit: Added link to SD card wikipedia page)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Block/Unblock all network traffic button (one-click)

« on: February 02, 2011, 01:56 AM »

Has anybody here ever even seen an Itanium-based machine, let alone worked with one?

-40hz (February 01, 2011, 08:50 PM)

I have, both seen and worked with, but it wasn't running Windows but HP-UX. It's rock-steady, and performs quite good, for the tasks it was designed for. Not particularly good in any Windows environment though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes

« on: February 02, 2011, 01:35 AM »

Please re-read the readme file, it has samples and explanations, and weblinks to the key mnemonics to use.

Your sample could look something like this, assuming the title of your form really is 'UserForm1' :

[Select]

Shell "S:\WinSendKeys.exe -w UserForm1 {TAB} a"   'try to send Tab key &&  "a"  to UserForm1

But eventually, Excel vba offers enough methods to control that dialog directly, you don't need an external tool for that.
Probably someone with more vba experience can help out here?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Block/Unblock all network traffic button (one-click)

« on: February 01, 2011, 02:48 PM »

It's usually a troubleshooting reason.

-superboyac (February 01, 2011, 02:44 PM)

Oh, Ok, hm, I always just try to get it set up right the first time but that's without guarantees...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Block/Unblock all network traffic button (one-click)

« on: February 01, 2011, 01:49 PM »

Since I've switched to MSE from Kaspersky, there is one thing I miss: the "block all network traffic" button.

-superboyac (January 30, 2011, 12:03 AM)

Have you ever actually used that feature? And if so, what was happening that made you decide to turn your network off?

I've seen that (big) switch in ZoneAlarm ever since it was introduced, years ago, and I never understood what would have to happen, that I should switch the connection off

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: GetSerious0.1 - (don't expect much)

« on: January 31, 2011, 05:20 PM »

I think this behaviour is due to a vista theme where the progress bars animate from zero to their current spot.
and since I use xp, I didn't understand at first what you meant.

here's a customized version - see if it solves the problem for you.
and heh, I had to choose a color, green looks classic.

-kobi7 (January 31, 2011, 04:57 PM)

Pfew, that a lot less distracting. And that green is really classic, close to my car's color, British Racing Green 

When clicking a bit on the +1/-1 semi-button, it changes to some count (up and down with left/right mouseclicks), that has no relation to the number of app-titles shown, don't know what that's supposed to mean? The +1/-1 didn't return, but I could it to go to "15 items shown" (and more if I wanted to), though there are only 4 items actually showing