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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: grid for one vertical and one horizontal monitor?

« on: January 09, 2011, 11:20 AM »

Could you give a suggestion for the grid you'd like on that setup?
Most grids are relatively sized, so should all work just fine on any size monitor, just pick a layout that fits your preference.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Wireless sensor

« on: January 09, 2011, 09:47 AM »

I've used this key/profile decription in the past to enable num-lock on the logon screen, so it could be worth a shot to try running/launching it from there.

-Stoic Joker (January 04, 2011, 06:49 AM)

That was on Windows NT, and for newly created accounts only, from W2K on it (sort of) remembered the last state of num-lock

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Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?

« on: January 09, 2011, 07:37 AM »

Sidenote:
That "HD Ready" moniker on a TV actually means you can feed it some of the recognized HD formats (sometimes as low as 1280x720 resolution, and there are lower HD resolutions), not necessarily meaning "Full HD". It's sort of the same as "High-Speed USB" that came with USB 2.0, and that says nothing about the actual highest USB speed available

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DcUpdater / Re: libcurl download error

« on: January 09, 2011, 07:28 AM »

I've a proxy here, and after setting the DCUpdater parameters correctly, it works just fine

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Living Room / Re: May be time to change password at Twitter

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:51 AM »

Another good reason not to have a Twitter account

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

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:49 AM »

I'm still using PCA, so probably it's going to stay for a while

Do you have something to test on dual-monitor setups, or added a white- or black-list already? (Didn't mention that last one before, but it's a possible alternative or addendum to a white-list ofcourse)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Finder

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:35 AM »

Murphy's law is still actively working as it always has.

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

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:22 AM »

In fact, why we still have Title Bars at all?

-paulobrabo (January 09, 2011, 05:11 AM)

To uniquely identify several instances of the same application, or find different applications holding nearly the same content (Wordprocessor and a pdf output of that same document? Which one to start editing...)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Finder

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:19 AM »

Thanks Renegade, for this improvement
I'm always extra careful, even with lots of backups, with all my photo's, so I'm usually waiting for this kind of improvements before I even install tools like these.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Programs close when switching to battery power (Win 7)?

« on: January 09, 2011, 04:40 AM »

Hm, I've seen that happen on laptops of colleagues. AFAIK The only way to get it 'fixed' is to re-install Windows, because there is some hick-up or clash of drivers (probably older versions currently already updated) that cause this. Ppl with exact the same laptops, 'installed' using the same image-file, and gotten the same updates (controlled by a local WSUS server), one can have the issue, while none of the others has.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ini manipulation tools (text manipulation tools) software

« on: January 09, 2011, 04:31 AM »

Nice Program. But perhaps is better more automation with no command line.

-Contro (January 06, 2011, 12:17 PM)

Huh? what's wrong with a commandline tool? It won't get more flexible then that.

I'd suggest awk in a Windows dress, part of the gnu-win utilities

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Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?

« on: January 08, 2011, 07:28 AM »

What's up with that?  Is there some gentleman's agreement in the industry that you don't talk about WxH?

-40hz (January 08, 2011, 07:13 AM)

Must I share my weight and height? Somebody'd probably be embarrassed

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs

« on: January 08, 2011, 06:33 AM »

Can't wait to get my first NANY mug!

-Apathetic_Coding (January 07, 2011, 09:48 PM)

Me too, but I'll (try to) earn it this year by taking the challenge (with time and myself)

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Living Room / Re: Good Code diagram by XKCD

« on: January 07, 2011, 01:15 PM »

Do they mean good code has to come from a cloud

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

« on: January 06, 2011, 05:20 PM »

It's really nice that Jotti opened the service again for JottiQ, congrats!

Now for all users to follow the presented guidelines on the intended-use-pattern...

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Living Room / Re: most weird Ctrl key issue *ever*?

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:30 PM »

Do you have more then 1 keyboardlayouts installed in Windows? Often these keyboard anomalies happen after inadvertedly switching the layout using ctrl-shift.

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

« on: January 04, 2011, 05:39 PM »

Or you can rename JottiQ to VirusTotalQ, that would make a nice (and probably quick) NANY2012 pledge

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

« on: January 04, 2011, 05:35 PM »

Hm, bummer

Or to quote an older Dutch ad pay-off "Het waren 2 geweldige dagen" (It where 2 fabulous days)

I get a feeling this grew indeed a bit bigger than anyone, mostly Jotti IMHO, could have imagined, so he will probably have to restructure his service (or fix bugs in the Hash search, as that doesn't really seem to work), or get a bigger sponsor
Lest just pray he gets his act together, and JottiQ can provide it's useful service to the public again

The current errormessage of 'Jotti only supports files upto 0,00 B.' just says it all, I guess, maybe a next version of JottiQ should say 'Service temporarily unavailable' or something in that order? (But it shouldn't be needed I hope)

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Living Room / Re: Need recommendation for wireless adapter

« on: January 04, 2011, 04:56 PM »

I'd buy at least one of a known brand, not just the first white-brand (Chinese) adapter at the flee-market, because with the next big update (or switch) of OS's, you are not going to find any new/fitting drivers for the thing...

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

« on: January 04, 2011, 04:47 PM »

Hm, maybe somebody has some cpu-cycles on a linux host to spare, to relieve the load of the Jotti service? But then that Jotti service must be (made) capable of off-loading work to others ofcourse.

@worstje, does JottiQ add information about itself during the upload? In that case Jotti could put the requests on a lower priority (though that's not nice to the JottiQ users) but at least a temporary solution. And maybe you can now persuade him into accepting donations, so he can actually afford to buy more hardware...

An idea for improvement on the Jotti side (didn't see a forum over there) or maybe a JottiQ Quick Win (if not implemented yet...):
The 'Hash search' feature could be used on each entry, before a file is uploaded, because a database lookup should be much faster then 20 AV scanners to run across a file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« on: January 03, 2011, 03:34 PM »

As they are only Soluto referencing Assembly-cache installed assemblies, just throw them out. They should really be uninstaller properly, for that you have to know the original names of the dll's (that's shown) and use gacutil -u on each of them, as documented here

But I'd send an e-mail to the Soluto guys and dolls, to warn them that their uninstaller doesn't remove all pieces of their software, as a proper uninstaller should

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

« on: January 02, 2011, 11:58 AM »

...auto-download during installation. Harmless details like that can make some people go crazy in a non-productive way

-Bamse (January 01, 2011, 04:05 PM)

As unfortunate as that (user)behavior may be, the JottiQ installer really throws a big Yes/No messagebox, listing all prerequisites and their sizes, at the user if (any of) the pre-reqs need to be downloaded and installed.

It might be a good practice to pre-announce that with the download-link (but not offer any links), so a really paranoid user can download these pre-reqs himself from the source he wants/trusts.
This installer downloads the proper web-installers from Microsoft and installs the frameworks, including their proper language-packs, as and if required by the OS at hand.

Undesirable workaround hidden here...

If it gets really problematic, I could add a feature to select something like changing the Yes/No to Yes/No/Cancel, to either Yes:download & install, No:skip the pre-reqs & continue or Cancel:halt the complete installer, but that could  lead to a non-working installation of JottiQ (or anything else that uses the script-parts I used) and would not really be desirable, IMHO.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« on: January 01, 2011, 01:15 PM »

A "NANY" installer would be interesting. Something to install all NANY software.

But that's probably a bad idea unless people all create an installer that installs to */NANY 2011/author/program name.

-Renegade (January 01, 2011, 12:45 PM)

Hm, that's actually quite a Good Idea (tm), I really feel for a pledge for NANY 2012 on this one

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Speed Monitor

« on: January 01, 2011, 06:00 AM »

Hm, missed this pledge and it's interim releases, just found out now you've released, sorry.

Seems to work alright, but a few 'nice to have's':
- For a newby user it's a but confusing how to add a new url, some hint or menuitem would come in handy
- Drag and drop for url's would be nice
- Can the captured data be reset in some way, without losing all url's
- The initial interval is quite aggressive, a bit more conservative, like 60 sec., would probably back-off the malware scanners' warnings
- I like charts, but they really miss a time-line

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

« on: January 01, 2011, 05:52 AM »

Just installed it, and it has really gotten better! The extra features just make the difference, and the UI improved by applying 'Less is more' .

And thanks for the credits it was a nice job to do.