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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking for available domain name = giving it away?

« on: January 23, 2011, 12:47 PM »

If you crash badly enough on a motorcycle that a helmet might save your life, you'll probably end up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life - better off dead, then.

-f0dder (January 23, 2011, 10:59 AM)

But sitting in a wheelchair, it's probable that I'd still be able to do coding, so I'd better be alive to prove that

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking for available domain name = giving it away?

« on: January 23, 2011, 04:35 AM »

I check 'em directly at the local TLD registrar site, as they offer a 'who owns this domain' service. Never failed, and never got an unregistered domain grabbed right before my eyes.

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex Suggestions

« on: January 20, 2011, 03:31 PM »

Hm, IMHO you already have quite a few issues on Redmine that need to be taken care of, before new features should be added

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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« on: January 20, 2011, 03:17 PM »

No. What for?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dual Booting Win XP and Win 7

« on: January 18, 2011, 11:56 AM »

... and then Win7 in Virtual  PC.  Their would be no reason to Dual Boot , instead use it on Virtual PC.

-hulkbuster (January 18, 2011, 11:33 AM)

But then don't make the mistake of installing VirtualPC (any version)!
Use at least VirtualBox for that, or get a free or payed copy of VMWare's stuff (Player 3 or Workstation) to get a decently working virtual PC image, that can actually be configured the way you want it. And has working USB support.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« on: January 18, 2011, 06:04 AM »

Oh, and Skype hides the cursor when you are typing, so I'll add that to the ignore list when we have that
The cursor is moved to the designated position, though, as expected

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« on: January 18, 2011, 05:54 AM »

Ath, have faith. There is some reason why I could not give more than 10 keystrokes.

-anandcoral (January 18, 2011, 05:12 AM)

Don't worry, but I was already afraid, when you didn't go past 9, it was something special...

1. Is the 'park relative to window' option working correctly ?
3. Is this option keeps the mouse cursor in the secondary monitor where it was originally, instead of moving to the primary monitor ?

-anandcoral (January 18, 2011, 05:12 AM)

Yup, it solves my dual-monitor request for now.

2. Is this option works perfectly with x-mouse behavior enabled ?

-anandcoral (January 18, 2011, 05:12 AM)

Don't use that, so can't comment on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mother of all video player discussion threads

« on: January 17, 2011, 02:43 PM »

What recommends MediaRevolution over free, powerful, play-anything options like KMPlayer, SMPlayer, SPlayer, etc?

-JavaJones (January 17, 2011, 02:42 PM)

Guess 3 times.... End of the week small money ofcourse

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: dot Net complaints

« on: January 17, 2011, 12:23 PM »

I helped worstje getting his Inno Setup installer for JottiQ into place, for that I grabbed an existing feature from the internet, and expanded that to support .NET 4.0. It's also posted back on the internet, ofcourse. Everybody was quite happy, including me

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 Breaks Week Numbering

« on: January 17, 2011, 01:52 AM »

AFAIK, January 1st and 2nd are part of week 52 of last year or indeed week 0 of this year, depending on convention. This with Monday being the first day of the week, that is
I've been implementing this 'week' (or was it 'weak' ) function some 15 years ago, and had kind of the same trouble then, but without the internet to search it was a lot harder to find a proper solution... eventually the 3 or 4 day minimum length (depending on Sunday or Monday as the first weekday) for week 1 popped up, and I was able to resolve it by dropping the extra days in week 52/53 of last year. Week 0 has always seemed quite impossible to me...
Though it looked odd to me for a long time, I've just been ignoring the 'strange' week numbers at the start of the year, but ofcourse in my case there's nothing life-threatening depending on it.

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex

« on: January 16, 2011, 04:14 PM »

And the %hour% in tha example should probably %hour12%

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« on: January 16, 2011, 11:42 AM »

Hi Anand,

Thanks for the update. 
I requested a higher number of keystrokes, before the cursor would be parked, and still think 9 is a very low number. The original request of 140 was no joke, but any limit removed would also be just fine, imho. It's just that a spinner wouldn't be needed any more then, just a suggestion that 5 to 10 keystrokes would be a nice default.
The other feature requests I'll wait for a bit more

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Developer's Corner / Re: C# & Visual Studio Problem

« on: January 16, 2011, 05:40 AM »

Ugh, what a nasty VS bug . Glad you caught it, I guess I can help some ppl with that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Processor OS

« on: January 16, 2011, 05:20 AM »

Thanx 4wd, that's a really good find!

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Developer's Corner / Re: C# & Visual Studio Problem

« on: January 15, 2011, 07:30 AM »

You have compiled in Debug mode, I presume? Try a Clean and Build on the project/solution.
Is it targeting .NET 4 or a lower version?
And pressing the refresh buttons doesn't make a difference?
Any plug-ins messing up VS (2010 I guess?), try to disable 'm one by one to find the culprit. Or reboot your PC, or at least restart VS (but I expect you did that already).

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Developer's Corner / Re: Executing a file from a link

« on: January 14, 2011, 02:33 PM »

I wanted the links in the report to be "live" so that you can do <a href="file:\\c:\DCDisplay\DCDisplay.exe c:\path\file.cbr">FileName</a> but this doesn't work.

-nharding (January 08, 2011, 09:36 AM)

Does it help if you use forward slashes instead of backslashes? And I recall a 'file:' prefix needs a triple-slash if a local file is involved, like file:///c:/DCDisplay/DCDisplay.exe bladibla

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« on: January 13, 2011, 03:51 PM »

...Looks a bit old, but hey, I haven't got too big and important needs anyhow,...

-worstje (January 13, 2011, 03:34 PM)

If you look at HelpScribble, you'll notice it's also not very modern, but since XP, Vista and 7, all stuff created/screenshot'ed in the Windows 98/2000 era looks archaic...
The last time HS was updated was September 2010, so it's still 'alive', but the history shows that it's a 'slow mover' these days.

You don't happen to know any specific arguments that took you to H&M or away from other tools, do you?

-worstje (January 13, 2011, 03:34 PM)

I wasn't involved in the selection process, so I don't know what or why, but I'll ask around, somebody should know

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skwire's DC member site marked as suspicious

« on: January 13, 2011, 03:28 PM »

You must have been leaching that site way too much

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« on: January 13, 2011, 03:25 PM »

@worstje
We are using Help & Manual in our company, after being with Robohelp for many years until they sort of 'gave up' (we also did).
H&M was chosen after a thorough selection procedure over several other packages because of robustness, usability and support-options, features that Robohelp didn't (properly) have.
I'm not one of the guys working with this tool, but you can give it to anyone that's a bit of a writer and at least computer-literate, and get very nice result from it.

If you shouldn't win it here, and the price is a blocker; I've always been fond of HelpScribble (created by another Dutchman ), I bought when I ran my little software firm.

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex

« on: January 13, 2011, 02:42 PM »

... despite the mention of "bugs" 

-timns (January 13, 2011, 11:49 AM)

I did get my Redmine account today, and plan to write up some of the issues I see with Auspex later, but yes, there are some...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Just How Many Programs Have You Written and Never Released?

« on: January 13, 2011, 02:19 PM »

Well, after being in this business for over 25 years, I've got my share of good apps, crap apps, abandoned stuff, trials, and the likes.
At first it always is hard to get going on a new idea (or even have a new idea ), but if it starts being a working 'thing', it's getting more and more satisfying. It's also harder and harder to focus my mind on the daily job, and not be distracted with 'that idea in the back of my mind that needs some fix or improvement...'
And when it finally is doing what it should do and it's (fairly) presentable, and the momentum or the original motivation of writing that thingy isn't gone, then eventually it will be presented to the audience... if any.

Guess that, like most of us experienced, about 10 percent of what turns into a project of some kind is actually released or used, and the rest is just what it has always been: collateral damage (mostly because of the diskspace it takes)
But then, most likely, there are some gems, hidden in the debris

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Processor OS

« on: January 10, 2011, 04:56 PM »

Are you sure you need a computer-like device for that? A simple paper notebook (yup, the kind that you can tear pages off of) and a pencil would do, I guess?

If it has to be something electronic, the Chrome OS on it's special laptop, by Google could fit in nicely, but you'd have to make Docs your startup-page then

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: January 10, 2011, 05:17 AM »

7-zip is a free download for Windows and Linux (but JottiQ still isn't going to work on Linux with Mono because of the WPF requirement)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so difficult to hide the Title Bar?

« on: January 09, 2011, 02:38 PM »

Ath, both Photoshop and Chrome have the same elegant solution for most of the problems you mention...

-paulobrabo (January 09, 2011, 11:34 AM)

I'm afraid that's a matter of taste, and that's not mine

The discussion on the lack of pixels in height of monitors is a whole different one, and would have been easily solved if you had gotten the U2711 model (2560x1440 with 0,233 mm pixels)
I bought an Iiyama E2607WS with 1920x1200 resolution a year ago, and it works for me, but I'm still searching for a monitor with at least a 3840x2160 resolution (16:9) and 0,30 mm pixel size (without seams, else 4 panels of 1920*1080 would do)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so difficult to hide the Title Bar?

« on: January 09, 2011, 11:25 AM »

And you would want to close, minimize or maximize all apps from their auto-hiding menu's (press Alt to bring that into view) or from their Taskbar icon (W7 assumed, without taskbar labels enabled) ??
How are you going to drag that window around your desktop if it doesn't have a 'handle' to drag it by?