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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is The Bat! e-mail app better than Mozilla Thunderbird (or other e-mail

« Last post by Jibz on May 30, 2007, 02:17 AM »

Alt-L reformats the paragraph the cursor is currently in .

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Developer's Corner / Re: VersionOne Releases Free Community Edition of Agile Project Management Softw

« Last post by Jibz on April 24, 2007, 05:53 AM »

I am sure the company can be trusted (to the extent most major companies can be trusted), and if I were interested in the software I would have no problem giving them my e-mail address.

I was just surprised at the fact that I couldn't even see the on-line product tour without getting a form requiring my contact information first .

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Developer's Corner / Re: VersionOne Releases Free Community Edition of Agile Project Management Softw

« Last post by Jibz on April 24, 2007, 04:52 AM »

I went to the homepage to get an idea of what the program was about, and was rather surprised to be asked for an e-mail address when clicking the "Tour - take a look" button.

Clicking "Test sample system" gave another form asking for both e-mail and my phone number.

I must say that's the first time I've seen a company where you can't even find out what their product does without letting them have your e-mail address .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by Jibz on April 21, 2007, 09:51 AM »

Right, I've gotta get out of the house to go buy the new NIИ album that came out today (tomorrow in the USA) for £12. Despite buying his last five albums and turning a few dozen people on to his music, I don't get a free copy .

-Nudel

Hope it's not just an update of the previous album with a couple of new chords here and there then .

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina programming font for X11 use

« Last post by Jibz on March 13, 2007, 12:41 PM »

A while back I received the attached conversions for X11 and Mac, kindly contributed by Jamie Burns.

I was planning on including them in the package, but was hoping to find a reliable way to perform the conversion myself to make future updates easier -- but like you without much luck.

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General Software Discussion / A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

« Last post by Jibz on February 05, 2007, 05:35 PM »

Not sure if this has already been posted, but it's certainly an interesting read:

http://www.cs.auckla...pubs/vista_cost.html

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: License?

« Last post by Jibz on December 15, 2006, 06:38 AM »

It is an open source license, and as such items 2) and 3) make sure any source distributed remains under the zlib license. However there is no requirement in the license to distribute source.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: License?

« Last post by Jibz on December 15, 2006, 05:48 AM »

I quite like the zlib license:

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

    1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

    2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

    3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Basically: free to use, don't blame me if anything goes wrong, and don't claim you wrote it .

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Nudone's Current Cody Mug Design for NANY Participants

« Last post by Jibz on December 15, 2006, 02:44 AM »

No wonder he fell asleep -- he forgot to drink his coffee!

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Jibz's Tools / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DINA FONT - v2.88, October 30, 2005

« Last post by Jibz on October 16, 2006, 03:42 AM »

If you are using Softy, I would suggest saving each font (i.e. each size of regular, bold, italic, bold+italic) into a separate file while working on them, and then when you want to create your final file, load them all into one font.

You have to get the order in which you load styles correct, or the font will not work in certain programs. I think it's reverse order, but you'll probably have to experiment a little .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Abbreviation expanders for DOS boxes under Win9x?

« Last post by Jibz on October 16, 2006, 03:35 AM »

Ah, looks like I totally misunderstood the topic, sorry about that .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Abbreviation expanders for DOS boxes under Win9x?

« Last post by Jibz on October 15, 2006, 06:26 PM »

You could try 4DOS, which was a very nice commercial command processor which became freeware some years ago (bottom of http://www.jpsoft.com/download.htm ).

In Win2K/XP there is a built in completion feature, but you have to enable it through the registry .. check for instance http://www.sgr.nada....s/completion.html.en

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image for FREE

« Last post by Jibz on October 12, 2006, 03:45 AM »

so i didn't want to risk invalidating Jibz's serial number.

-lanux128

Just for the record, I wasn't the one who posted the download link.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image for FREE

« Last post by Jibz on October 11, 2006, 02:16 AM »

A search on Personal Computer World homepage gave this post on the forums:

http://forum.vnunet....=657585&tstart=0

Which lead to this download page:

http://www.computera...onistrueimage7/index

Exclusive Computeractive Download Offer -TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN

Due to widespread exposure of this free Computeractive download within public forums outside of the Computeractive readership, unfortunately we had been forced to temporarily withdraw this promotion due to a) the overwhelming demand placed on our server and b) that this is a closed download for Computeractive readers only.

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Developer's Corner / Re: API-Guide 3.7: A Windows API Programming Reference

« Last post by Jibz on October 02, 2006, 06:28 AM »

Hmm .. I tried

http://download.micr...FULL/PSDK-FULL.1.cab

which if I got the system right should be the first cab for the May 2002 edition, and I got a 404 .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 10:45 AM »

Btw, if I'm not mistaken, CreateFile returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE on failure, which is -1 .. so your program returns your success value of 1 even if the file does not exist.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 09:21 AM »

WTF 'standard' ?

-Gerome

How about the ANSI/ISO C standard:

If the value of status is zero or EXIT_SUCCESS, an implementation-defined form of the status successful termination is returned. If the value of status is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation-defined form of the status unsuccessful termination is returned.

Stroustrup (my K&R is in danish and I didn't want to post a translation .. it says basically the same thing though):

The int returned by main(), if any, is the program's return value to "the system." If no value is returned, the system will receive a value indicating successful completion. A nonzero value from main() indicates failure.

MSDN:

By convention, a return code of zero means that the program completed successfully.

For most programs it doesn't matter much what value you return, since nobody is ever going to inspect it anyway. But a program like touch is likely to be used in scripts and makefiles, and that's why I feel it's better to have it return the most standard values.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 07:41 AM »

I don't sometimes care of what can say the standards...

-Gerome

If I misunderstood that somehow, please enlighten me .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 07:29 AM »

And you don't like following standards?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 06:40 AM »

I am just trying to help and explain, no reason to get angry .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on October 01, 2006, 04:17 AM »

The problem with not following the generally accepted standards and conventions is that your program will behave unexpectedly.

If somebody uses your program in a script or makefile they will automatically assume that the return value will be zero on success, so they will be scratching their heads for a while wondering why your program keeps failing until they look at the source and see it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tiny 'Touch' 32 bits program in C (3 kb)

« Last post by Jibz on September 30, 2006, 03:48 AM »

The idea in returning 0 on success and a non-zero value in case of failure is of course that if the program succeeds we generally aren't interested in why, whereas with a failure it's nice to know why.

So a program can return 1 for running out of memory, 2 for pointer error, 3 for .. etc. That way you can check if there is an error by looking at if the value is zero or non-zero, and if you need to know more about what caused the error you can look at the actual value returned .

The C standard defines two macros, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, which can be used as appropriate return values to the operating system. They are respectively 0 and 1.

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Best Dialog Extender / FileBox Extender 1.91.02 - Now FREE!

« Last post by Jibz on September 21, 2006, 03:54 AM »

From http://www.hyperionics.com/

After a great deal of development work we have sadly concluded that it is not practical to adapt FileBox eXtender to work under Window Vista – the architecture is simply too different. By way of apology to customers who were hoping for an upgrade path we are offering anyone who purchased a license for Filebox eXtender after Dec. 31, 2005 a choice of a license swap for another of our products (either for yourself or as a gift for a friend), or a refund of your purchase price. To claim, simply email us a copy of your license key, together with your full name, company name (if any), email and postal address at the time of your purchase.

It is now a freeware - free to use by everyone.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: I wish I could punch the idiots that made TheBat!

« Last post by Jibz on September 13, 2006, 07:53 AM »

Sorry to hear you lost your messages .

For instance, when you download your mail you MUST click on at least one in order to delete anything. So, if you get 10 messages, and they all have viruses, you would HAVE to click on (AKA open) at least one virus laiden message in order to delete the rest.

-Hirudin

That's because Message Auto-view is turned on. You can turn that off in the View menu, or with Shift-Ctrl-E. After all, it's hard to delete something without selecting what to delete.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Turbo C and Turbo Pascal are back!!

« Last post by Jibz on September 05, 2006, 02:36 PM »

http://www.turboexplorer.com/downloads

Download page is up now .

Edit: Register this, download that, licence key here and there .. never thought I'd say this, but they could learn something from Microsoft and their Express editions .