Messages

651

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8.1 Preview

« on: June 27, 2013, 07:11 PM »

I'd like to get clarification of licensing or subscription changes... I could swear I saw something about a change, but haven't had time to follow up.

652

Screenshot Captor / Re: taking screenshot WITHOUT saving to file

« on: June 27, 2013, 07:06 PM »

If nothing else, you could go into the Post-Capture Options and use the Post Capture Commandline Tools to Run section to invoke a command to delete the screenshot file ("del %file%" assuming that quotes are included if needed).

653

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 24, 2013, 05:24 AM »

A chemistry joke:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-IainB (June 24, 2013, 02:34 AM)

You know, of course, if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate...

654

Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - Mini-Review (calculator)

« on: June 24, 2013, 05:22 AM »

It's a nifty animated GIF of Pi

-IainB (June 23, 2013, 11:33 PM)

How cool!

655

Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« on: June 23, 2013, 07:38 PM »

Alrighty, here is an old family recipe, straight from my great Aunt's family cookbook.  I can attest to its yumminess.  And as a matter of fact, last Saturday we drove up to Levering Orchard and picked the last batch of tart pie cherries (Frank led us to the "Balaton" tree, a variety derived from trees originally grown in Hungary), so we'll shortly be figuring out the right amounts of sugar & spices for the cherry version.  I don't think we'll need to add the lemon juice to these...

--------------
FRUIT COBBLERS (for 8-10 people)

It is said that if the devil should dare appear in Cornwall, he would be
caught and baked in a pastie. Should he dare to appear in the Beach Cottage,
he would be cobbled forthwith and rendered pleasant, harmless, and digestible.

COBBLER DOUGH

1 1/4 cups FLOUR
1 1/2 teaspoons BAKING POWDER
3/4 teaspoon SALT
BROWN SUGAR (to taste, depending on the tartness of the fruit)
SPICES (Cinnamon, Freshly grated Nutmeg, Ginger, etc. to taste)
4-6 tablespoons softened BUTTER (no substitute for best taste)
MILK (enough to make a soft dough)
1 teaspoon VANILLA

Place the DRY INGREDIENTS into a bowl and rub in the BUTTER with your
hand. (This can be done ahead of time.) Just before baking, add the
MILK and VANILLA to the dry ingredients and drop the dough atop the
fruit. Dot the dough with BUTTER, and sprinkle it with WHITE SUGAR and
additional SPICES.
Bake in preheated oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until done.

APRICOT COBBLER

Allow 1 1/2 APRICOTS per person
Wash, halve, and pit APRICOTS (they do not need to be peeled) and place
them snugly in a well-buttered large casserole dish. They may be layered.
Into the center of each apricot half place:
a dab of BUTTER
1/2 Teaspoon of BROWN SUGAR
1 thin slice of CRYSTALLIZED GINGER
If desired, sprinkle with GINGERED SHERRY
Cover with COBBLER DOUGH. Dot the dough with BUTTER, and sprinkle it with
WHITE SUGAR, Powdered GINGER, and CINNAMON.
Bake in preheated oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until done.
N.B. Apricots are the only fruit that does not require cooking before
the dough is added.

PEACH COBBLER

Allow 1-2 PEACHES per person, depending on size.
Peel and pit peaches, and cut into slices or chunks.
Place them in the bottom of a well-buttered large casserole dish.
Stir into the peaches: (to taste; amounts are hard to specify)
BROWN SUGAR
GINGER (crystallized, preserved in sherry, or powdered)
CINNAMON (if desired)
NUTMEG (if desired)
LEMON JUICE
GINGERED SHERRY (if desired)
Cover casserole with plastic and microwave on high until peaches are
soft and bubbling; try 3 minutes and increase time if necessary. Remove
from microwave.
Cover with COBBLER DOUGH. Dot the dough with BUTTER, and sprinkle it with
WHITE SUGAR, Powdered GINGER, and CINNAMON.
Bake in preheated oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until done.
N.B. NECTARINES or APPLES may be substituted for peaches.

BLUEBERRY, BLACKBERRY, DEWBERRY COBBLER

Allow 2 pints of berries for 8-10 people
Place them in the bottom of a well-buttered large casserole dish.
Stir into berries: (to taste)
BROWN OR WHITE SUGAR
CINNAMON
LEMON JUICE
Cover casserole with plastic and microwave on high until berries are
soft and bubbling; try 3 minutes and increase time if necessary. Remove
from microwave.
Cover with COBBLER DOUGH. Dot the dough with BUTTER, and sprinkle it with
WHITE SUGAR, CINNAMON, and NUTMEG.
Bake in preheated oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until done.
N.B. GINGER does not seem to work very well with berries.

656

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« on: June 23, 2013, 03:38 PM »

TED Notepad[/url] [/li]
[li]Metapad [/li]
[li][url=http://www.rlvision.com/notepad2/about.asp]Notepad2 Bookmark Edition

-rjbull (June 23, 2013, 11:00 AM)

Ted's Notepad has some really useful functions (and it's just a single executable) so I keep a copy in my path, but it's terribly slow on very large files (several hundred mb) from what I remember.

657

General Software Discussion / Re: open files of a folder--- Open Files Folder

« on: June 23, 2013, 03:25 PM »

Note that a lot of antivirus utilities will flag cmdow.exe as malware-related, since it can start hidden windows... just set it as an exception and keep on going.

658

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Program to Start another program, and then shut down after xx:xx time.

« on: June 21, 2013, 09:22 PM »

You know, a tiny little command line program that would spit out either its own pid or its parent's pid would be real convenient for this (and for some other tasks I've needed to do)...

659

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« on: June 21, 2013, 07:56 PM »

I think this code is just a command-line-way of doing what you're doing with the right click menu. "ftype" (and its associate command "assoc") are standard Windows commands for manipulating file type registrations. I just have those lines in a batch file in my utils directory so I don't have to do much hunting or mousing around when I set up a new machine.

I suppose it would make it easier to get things back the way I like if another program 'stole' those extensions, but that hasn't happened in my experience.

-mwb1100 (June 21, 2013, 02:48 AM)

I find Notepad's limitations really annoying, so I use Notepad2 also.  But when I install it on a box, it is kind enough to replace Notepad for me so I don't need to mess with any associations.

660

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Program to Start another program, and then shut down after xx:xx time.

« on: June 21, 2013, 07:27 PM »

With some restrictions this batch file should do it:

   start notepad.exe
   ping -n 61 127.0.0.1>nul
   pskill notepad.exe

This will fire up Notepad and then kill it a minute later.  The restrictions would be that you have to convert your desired run time to seconds (and add one), and in the end it kills all copies of the program.  In real use you'd use something like min.exe to minimize the cmd window (or something like chp.exe to hide it), you'd set the executable and time limit as parameters to pass, you could use one of several utilities to convert time to duration in seconds, and you might use one of Horst Schaeffer's utilities to let you choose the program to run, etc.  Tart it up real nice. 

A plain old batch file isn't as pretty as a nice exe, but if you don't need the efficiency of compiled code it can do fine.

661

Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy

« on: June 14, 2013, 07:35 PM »

I converted to Bokononism a while back.

-allen (June 14, 2013, 07:27 AM)

(phew) had to read that twice... first time through my brain told me "Boskone-ism"... too much Lensman in my formative years maybe...

662

Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« on: June 14, 2013, 07:26 PM »

What makes us think that any intelligent lifeforms out there somewhere are friendly?

-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 05:17 PM)

I always did enjoy the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man^w.

 

-4wd (June 13, 2013, 11:22 PM)

Yeah, enjoyed the remake too:

663

General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 4 released - tons of new features

« on: June 14, 2013, 07:21 PM »

I also have win7 64.

-superboyac (June 13, 2013, 07:58 PM)

Win7 x64 and win8 x64, no crashes here far as I can remember.

664

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates

« on: June 03, 2013, 08:45 PM »

I ran BeachBit, and from what I could tell it wanted to remove ALL of the updates/patches.  I just want to delete the superseded updates.  I'll see what KCleaner has to offer.

  On another note, BeachBit has a sneaky spyware installer.  The first install screen with what looks like the EULA is actually trying to get your permission to install spyware.  If you select 'Decline' as I did, you'll be taken to the actual EULA for BeachBit.  This is the reason why I ALWAYS read everything presented on an install...

-Tinman57 (June 02, 2013, 07:53 PM)

On the second item (the "sneaky spyware installer")  - where did you get your download from?  I just downloaded the 0.9.5 installer from Sourceforge (again) and installed on my 6 month old Win 8 box.  The Sourceforge download does not contain anything other than Bleachbit - you pick a language and the next box is the Gnu General Public License.  You didn't pull it down from CNet did you?  Sounds like someone repackaged it with OpenCandy in front.

(FWIW, it cleaned out 2.47gb of cruft on my box, and I did not select all of the options...)

On the first item, superceded updates may be sitting there in your SoftwareDistribution folder (have not checked) but they wouldn't be downloaded in the first place, would they?  Unless you tell your PC to download but not install updates, then you don't install updates...  If they're superceded then they won't get installed so there is no uninstall folder to clean out.  But one of the things Bleachbit does it empty out SoftwareDistribution which will get re-filled as needed next time you check for updates.

665

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates

« on: May 31, 2013, 05:24 AM »

My first line of defense in recovering harddisk space on a Windows XP system

-Ath (May 31, 2013, 01:29 AM)

Yeah, Bleachbit does a good job of rooting out all those folders and all the other cruft that accumulates over time.  I've recovered gigabytes on the first run.

666

General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« on: May 29, 2013, 09:52 PM »

Just for curiosity I installed Maxthon but I almost never use it. Can someone explain at least one reason to use it?

-Giampy (May 29, 2013, 03:20 PM)

[Ahem] My daughter informs me that the Webkinz site, which does not work properly in IE on her laptop-plus-monitor system, runs just fine in Maxthon. 

667

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 27, 2013, 06:39 PM »

Oh, the face is definitely Ronald, although someone did a passable job of photoshopping it over top of Nancy.  Turns out there is a whole site devoted to "Presidents in drag" (though most of the entries were so poorly done that I could almost have done them).

(Off topic, is "photoshopping" sufficiently generic these days that it doesn't get capitalized, like xerox?)

668

Living Room / Re: The Teardrop Memorial

« on: May 26, 2013, 09:07 PM »

Hm, never heard of it before.  Thank you for the reference.  And thank you Mr. Tsereteli.

It's a good piece, simple enough for even me to get, compassion in response to the horrific.  How could you reject that?

669

General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem

« on: May 26, 2013, 10:03 AM »

If you're going to shell out the cash anyway, just go with a hardware refresh and a rebuild.  Both will help.

670

Living Room / Re: Google Buys A Quantum Computer

« on: May 26, 2013, 08:12 AM »

@40 - I know there's a link to this somewhere else on this site, I fell down that rabbit hole last time I saw it!

671

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 26, 2013, 07:52 AM »

I don't know if this one is true either:

672

Living Room / Re: Microsoft keyboard sticking keys

« on: May 25, 2013, 09:31 AM »

It's also extremely useful to use a screwdriver with a slightly magnetic tip, and don't work over a deep carpet.

-bit (May 25, 2013, 01:24 AM)

Also try to convince resident cats or kittens that their assistance with the small pieces is not required.

673

Living Room / Re: Geoguessr. I'm addicted.

« on: May 24, 2013, 05:27 AM »

as I said above I dont move from the spot

-tomos (May 24, 2013, 04:08 AM)

Same here... I think if I run off too far it'll feel like an old game of Zork...

I did the first half dozen rounds without even googling anything, just looking at the landscape, plants, sign language.  Did pretty decently, but there's a limit to how close that can take you.

674

Living Room / Re: Geoguessr. I'm addicted.

« on: May 20, 2013, 08:58 PM »

Challenge game finished!
You won the challenge with 15636 points against 12564.

I, admittedly, got lucky.  On that last one, I got within 1km, giving 6k points.

-wraith808 (May 20, 2013, 08:00 PM)

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 17079 points against 12564.


Oh dear, what a time sink!  But I got that last one spot on, enough to make up for the one on in Australia that I thought was in Oregon.  

675

Living Room / Re: Kudos/Respect for Mouser

« on: May 19, 2013, 02:51 PM »

As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think I have much to do with this being a nice place to hang out -- things just happened and we are stuck with each other.. I feel lucky that so many interesting characters have decided to call this place their home.

-mouser (May 18, 2013, 11:22 AM)

There's a lot to be said for creating a welcoming place that can attract - and hold the interest of - so many interesting and talented people.  It's not pure coincidence.

I haven't progressed in improving the site to a new content management system and that there are still some very rough edges on the site

-mouser (May 18, 2013, 11:22 AM)

You can say that, but I constantly visit forums that are so... how to describe it... primitive and awkward for handling even basic forum-type tasks, that I am always glad to be back here.  (Which I am, every day, in contrast to most other places I could spend time!)

So - thanks very much!!