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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« on: September 02, 2013, 05:04 PM »
My green laser came a couple of weeks ago and I love it! It is awesome!

Very cool stuff!  I showed my five-year old Stellarium and then took him outside for a session with the "Star Pointer" and we have a blast!  He knows where Betelgeuse and Rigel are, and he can point out Cassiopeia ("Eopeia"). We've recently watched Jupiter and Mars in the morning and Venus and Saturn in the evening.  (But no, I don't let him hold it, even though he repeats to me we never ever point it towards planes, cars, houses or people!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: A new Dropbox Competitor
« on: September 01, 2013, 07:32 PM »
wraith, 5 more gigs for you from here. Signed up at Cubby too while I was at it... like you said, space is space.  :)

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Living Room / Re: send large file
« on: September 01, 2013, 06:52 PM »
unfortunately not for free

I see that now... wasn't that way last time I used it, but that was years ago. Drat.

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Living Room / Re: send large file
« on: September 01, 2013, 10:28 AM »
Won't ge.tt do that?

605
This is not an answer to the original question, but OWAtray does the same thing for Outlook Web App if you're doing Exchange based email.

606
I don't recall MLin's Startup CPL ever warning me

Mike Lin also did a Startup Monitor (here) that would ask you every time something tried to add itself to startup.

607
DC Gamer Club / Re: Pet Peeves in Language in Games?
« on: August 19, 2013, 06:49 PM »
unrelated, but I was most amused to note the schoolkid in front of me on the bus this morning working on a page titled 'English Assingment'...
Big sign, "National Ejucation Week" on the side of an elementary school a few years back... and me without a camera...

608
Living Room / Re: Why I Idolize Larry Ellison...
« on: August 15, 2013, 05:42 AM »
head_vise.jpg

(Drat, couldn't find that iconic picture of Uncle Fester...)

609
Here's a wildly funny bit of Catholic/Presbyterian humour:

http://trilliansthou...reet-from-each-other
 (see attachment in previous post)


I liked this when I saw I too, very funny!  Also be sure to look at this site.  But note that some of the signs might include cars in the background, which can be a clue if they don't change...  :P

610
There is another utility called cb.exe that does the same thing, though I'm not sure what source I got it from.  But you can also use winclip.exe to push stdin to the clipboard, or pull the clipboard contents into a file (or just to the cmd window if you want to see what's in there).

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(see attachment in previous post)
Mmm... now let's render that bacon and REALLY celebrate the starry starry night! Anyone bring biscuits?

612
I don't do flac or mpc, but would something like this work for what you have in mind:

Sometimes when I watch videos with MPC I find that I want to add some more videos to the playlist so that’ll they run after the video I’m watching. This can be done from the program, but you’ll have to muck about with opening the playlist and browsing through the programs little “Browse…” feature. It’d be very convenient to be able to add videos, songs, etc, to the playlist by just right clicking on them in Explorer (Like you’re able to with Winamp). Well, this is possible thanks to the command line switches MPC has.

In Explorer goto Tools -> Folder Options and select the File Types tab. Select the file type you want to enable this for (for example .avi) and press Advanced. Press New. As Action type in:


Enqueue in MPC

and as Application type in:


"C:\WINDOWS\mplayerc.exe" /play /add "%1"

That is, if that’s where your Media Player Classic installation is located. If you installed to another directory, you need to adjust the above line to fit your installation. When done editing, press OK three times to get out of the menus.

That’s it! Now you should be able to right-click on any .avi file and select “Enqueue in MPC” and the video should be added to MPC’s playlist. I suggest you also add this Action to the following file types: .avi .mp4 .mpg .m2v, since those are all fairly common for video files.
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The text implies that Winamp will let you add to the playlist from Explorer too.  If your favorite player has a command line interface with appropriate switches then you could probably modify this process.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF to Word converter comparison
« on: August 10, 2013, 11:46 AM »
That's good to know, but the whole Office 2013 suite is so geared to tablets & touchscreens that it has lost tons of usability and clarity in the interface. Pieces that disappear if your cursor isn't near them, window borders that extend past the window borders, no differentiation between window parts... anyway, I'm sure there's another thread about all that... I'm glad it has a good feature!  :P

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Any pastafarians here?
I think both my kids are followers, although they haven't reached the level where they don the headgear...

Possibly offensive:
Spoiler
but I guess pastafarianism has that same satisfying ritual cannibalism thing going for it that Christianity has, where you eat the body and blood of the deity...


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Living Room / Re: Internet Speed Test
« on: August 09, 2013, 06:52 PM »
Interesting site. It scored me at 24.2 Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up, which is more or less in line with what I think I'm supposed to get.  Ookla gave it 19.6 and 1.9 using a local server.

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Living Room / Re: can you listen what this file says?
« on: August 05, 2013, 09:46 PM »
Yes, looks like there are a number of "Leeds College Of"s around. I wonder how hard it is to enrol? Do they double check your transcript?

Screenshot - 8_5_2013 , 10_41_41 PM.png

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Not to be confused with the Concerto for Horn and Hardart by a completely different composer (P.D.Q. Bach)
Hardhat?

Horn & Hardart (from Smithsonian Magazine), or if you prefer, Horn & Hardart (Wikipedia)...

618
So where is the Mule to blow this all to hell and free us?
Doesn't matter, a few hundred years and we'll be back on track... :D

619
They stole that from Jerry Lewis!
<ahem> Leroy Anderson might think otherwise... also browse for Syncopated Clock and Sandpaper Ballet for more examples.

Not to be confused with the Concerto for Horn and Hardart by a completely different composer (P.D.Q. Bach)  :P

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Living Room / Re: Damn Hackers!
« on: August 01, 2013, 07:48 PM »
To add on to IainB's questions, did you have remote administration enabled on the router?

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USB 3.0?  hardly anything.  esata?  barely took off.  thunderbolt/light peak?  nothing.

Really? My laptop and desktop boxes (both 1-2 years old) have USB3 ports so I picked up a couple USB external drives. Impressive speed boost for backups especially. The two USB3 thumb drives I have (one of which has a hardware write switch) are noticeably faster than their USB2 brethren. And in fact we popped a USB3 PCI card in an old server (a Dell 2500) at one of our plants to add some quick capacity and it has been working great. (Seems peppier than USB 1.1!  :P) At home I also have three USB3 SATA enclosures from Bergtek that are awesome. And in none of these cases did we need to hunt around for the pieces parts.

(Although, to be honest, when I was given a laptop with an eSata port at work, I had to hunt a little to find an enclosure so I could back it up at a reasonable speed... for which I was grateful a week later after I overwrote the drive with a thin client we were looking at...)

No, what ticks me off is that they wait until I go ahead and buy a fair number of these things, THEN they give it the big speed boost...

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General Software Discussion / Re: ExtFS for Windows
« on: July 31, 2013, 07:04 PM »
...I've used Paragon products for many years and found them to be very reliable.

Me too; good stuff.

623
+1 everything that Shades said.  That said I have used hMailServer on Windows for some small special needs setups. And if you only are interested in outbound email you could use Blat combined with some scripting (although its use is not allowed for UCE).

What outbound SMTP restrictions do you find onerous?

624
only a .22 LR single shot... Not sure that'll do the trick...

One lawyer at a time... Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78... :P

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Developer's Corner / Re: High-bit Math? (128 or 256)
« on: July 24, 2013, 08:14 PM »
Did you look at this?

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