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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A program to notify when audio is muted?

« on: June 02, 2008, 08:40 AM »

https://www.donation...94.msg67042#msg67042

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A program to notify when audio is muted?

« on: June 02, 2008, 08:36 AM »

This has already been made by that AHK guy on this site. I've been using it for a month. Let me find it...

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Living Room / Re: Hosting options for new website

« on: May 30, 2008, 12:48 PM »

I'm from the UK but use USA based http://www.sbhostingsolutions.com/

Little business but the couple of guys there make a new definition for the term support. Fantastic.

Standard hosting @ $11.95/month = $143. And at US-UK conversion rate that's cheap as chips for us.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveawayofthe2days

« on: May 22, 2008, 02:29 PM »

If you read the blog it explains.

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Living Room / Re: Omega Tower Defense 2

« on: May 22, 2008, 11:49 AM »

I couldn't even manage 5 minutes on easy on the first map

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General Software Discussion / Re: Website Watcher - Administrator Privilege?...

« on: May 19, 2008, 03:36 AM »

As an IT support person I don't think I've ever turned down a request for software on a PC (except people who want malware filled toolbars and cute screensavers or who want something unlicensed installing on the quiet). So my question is why you are unable to just request for this software to be installed.

The only reasons I can think of are
a) You have broken computers before and have had your rights revoked
b) Your organization wants to know what software is being used and you are trying to keep it hidden
c) You can't be bothered asking

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General Software Discussion / Re: Website Watcher - Administrator Privilege?...

« on: May 18, 2008, 05:54 AM »

1) Ask IT to do it
2) Try installing it to your documents and settings / username / application data folder

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Developer's Corner / Re: First real program - Probably need help throughout

« on: May 15, 2008, 05:12 AM »

This all seems to be going remarkably easily. I've been making individual programs to try out all the steps and they seem to be working exactly as they should.

I've got

• System.IO.File.Copy moving files from folder to folder
• Timer waiting 10 minutes before checking the watch folders
• System.Diagnostics.Process.Start starting up squeeze
• Processes.GetProcesses checking through the open programs to see if my program is already running

Next step is getting the program to check files in and out of a mySQL database. I've done it with a MSSQL database so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Then I'll just have to put it all together.

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Living Room / Re: An idea for the forum regarding disclosure

« on: May 14, 2008, 06:27 AM »

I liked this forum because it was open and I could just jump in and ask questions. Mouser's forum must be exclusively first time users asking a support question and the announce your product is for people to promote themselves.

You're asking people who are purposefully lying to be honest in a forum box. If you trust them to be honest you could put a

[ ] Disclosure: I am professionally associated with the product being discussed

To mark up a full disclosure message at the bottom of the forum post, but presumes honesty.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: More false virus warnings in compiled ahk utilities #*(%&*(#*(&#(%

« on: May 14, 2008, 04:34 AM »

Well Sophos got back

Hi Graham

thank you for your email. The file that you sent to us for analysis was producing a false-positive report which has now been corrected. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance.


Regards,

Martin Elliott
Sophos Technical Support

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Living Room / Re: JJJunk: Miraculous coincidence - sites that praise DC software are cool sites

« on: May 13, 2008, 09:03 AM »

I can see this is a battle of 'looking through the referrer logs to see who's linking' between both parties.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: More false virus warnings in compiled ahk utilities #*(%&*(#*(&#(%

« on: May 13, 2008, 05:58 AM »

Sophos has just caught Accents as being Generic Malware-A.

I've sent the program to sophos support.

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Developer's Corner / First real program - Probably need help throughout

« on: May 12, 2008, 04:01 AM »

A task at work would be easier if I wrote a program to handle it, so I'm going to try and write a C# Application. As I'm new I thought I might document my progress here so you can tell me if I'm being noobish with something or I've missed things.

I learn best by trying and then improving, so this should help me.

The overview is that we have a program called Squeeze that converts files into Flash FLV files. We have a filestore on the same server and Squeeze has 'watch folders' that when you put a file in the folder it will automatically convert it.

This program will have to

• Check that squeeze is running
• Look in a database or text file to see which files need moving into the watch folder
• Move files in and out of the watch folders
• Move some special files into different folders
• Send resultant files into a network drive

Things that I don't currently know how to do

• Check that a program is running
• Check that a network drive exists and works before sending files to it
• Most unexpected errors

I'll update you as I go along and please chip in if you see a way of helping.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Office Ultimate for only $59

« on: May 10, 2008, 02:42 AM »

UK one finished last week. Very good deal, but as a member of staff at a university I get it free anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Verifying if an email has been spoofed

« on: May 09, 2008, 06:34 AM »

I think the bigger problem is that the servers don't trust each other (or fail to distrust bad servers). Once servers know which other servers are legitimate then trusting the home user should be easy.

For example, if yahoo trusted hotmail and ignored any email from hotmail.com that wasn't from the hotmail server you could presume it was spoofed and spam. Hotmail would then do some protection to ensure that you are who you say you are. Comcast could do the same, but ensure that the user was on their network or authenticated somehow.

Making the end user responsible won't work imho, because the recipient has no way of knowing that the email they are being sent should be signed.

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Living Room / Re: Studeous: Free web service for teacher+studen collaboration

« on: May 05, 2008, 05:24 AM »

Moodle is a pretty good way to throw up a course and have assignments. I currently look over www.languagehouse.soton.ac.uk for the university. They do pre-arrival language courses for non-english speaking students coming to Southampton.

Nice thing about moodle is you if you put up the courses people can self enrol onto all the courses and do the exercises and teachers should get notification of assignment handins. On the other hand, the nice thing about the programming schools here is that it is all self contained.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How much should Microsoft charge for its Home software subscription?

« on: April 28, 2008, 06:46 AM »

There is a link on that site to a microsoft.com/education page somewhere. Plenty of people here (University of Southampton) have successfully bought their license.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How much should Microsoft charge for its Home software subscription?

« on: April 28, 2008, 02:15 AM »

Well office for Students (which is nearly the same as office for home users) is currently £12.95 per year - http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/ - but the US version of this offer doesn't seem to have a yearly cost - http://www.theultimatesteal.com

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Living Room / Re: Xeno Tactic: Flash Game of the Week (Tower Defense Style)

« on: April 27, 2008, 04:55 PM »

It's good but damn... that's small writing.

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General Software Discussion / Returnil virtual system

« on: April 25, 2008, 05:52 AM »

I've never seen so many thumbs up for a GAOTD

http://www.giveawayo...tem-premium-edition/

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Living Room / Re: might be a bit off BUT i would like advice about a game ( not another one)

« on: April 24, 2008, 06:29 AM »

Do you get the same lag if you play single player or host your own server?

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Living Room / Re: Windows is Trying Hard to Push Me Over To a Mac...

« on: April 23, 2008, 09:37 AM »

Should be easy enough to tell. Turn on the laptop holding the Ctrl key (I'm fairly sure it's ctrl, if it isn't it is the Fn key) and then run the memory test.

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Living Room / Re: Windows is Trying Hard to Push Me Over To a Mac...

« on: April 22, 2008, 04:05 AM »

I like whining so I'll jump in.

I spent Christmas with a work macbook to try and learn it (my job is in IT support). I spent my time making a flash media server security module and a flash video player to communicate with it. After Christmas I just love my windows pc more.

OK, so the first couple of days were the generic 'how the hell does this work' stuff, but it mostly wasn't. OSX crashed every time you close the lid while connected to VPN. The speed of connecting to a share is at least 3 times slower than on XP and twice as slow as Vista. Also Flash would crash every 30 minutes or less. It was practicatlly a case of saving the file every time I clicked on a new frame or did a preview as I would expect it to fail.

My other half has just got a M1330 and it is lovely. Currently quick, she likes the fact that her old games are working on it despite being unsuitable for Vista and she has got the hang of vista quickly.

My recommendation for your laptop? Get your discs out and put Vista on it again, install your apps and get yourself a copy of Ghost / TrueImage / etc and make yourself a nice rescue disc. Partition your space to give you a applications and documents on different hard drives and then you can recover a new operating system any time it goes bad.

It probably won't, but it just gives you the oppotunity to thrash and trash the OS whenever you like.

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« on: April 18, 2008, 05:36 PM »

Excuse my English, it's only my first language. By sockets I mean network sockets. So I had a 10 port switch and 2 of the network points were plugged into two different network sockets on the wall causing a loop. The loop basically caused a DOS attack on itself and didn't allow any other traffic. It meant that all users couldn't get on any file servers for the building as they were on the same 24 port switch in the switch room.

So 'took out a building' was a buildings network, not the concrete or anything.

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« on: April 18, 2008, 04:27 PM »

I nominate myself for this award today.

I managed to plug (accidentally) a switch (network hub) into two different wall sockets and took out a building. You really wouldn't think it was that easy....