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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by tomos on November 13, 2007, 09:00 AM »

I'm almost convinced about making Caps Lock a backspace. Is it possible to do that without affecting the rest of the keyboard?

-JennyB (November 12, 2007, 11:22 AM)

AutoHotKey!
I changed app key to Ctrl key once but never got any further with it
but I'm sure someone here might be able to help - would be a good way of just trying it out as well

Heres a search for "That Pesky CapsLock Key" looks like a few good possibilities there
http://www.google.de...amp;client=firefox-a

and it's true f0dder, there was a thread here lately about changing keys had a quick look but no find

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 04:17 PM »

love the russian version ^^^^

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General Software Discussion / Re: SyncBackSE vs. SuperFlexible

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 03:37 PM »

IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files ($42)[/b]
http://www-306.ibm.c...ous-data-protection/
.... it may not offer all the full/differential/incremental/zipped/encrypted options we are used to

-tranglos (November 12, 2007, 03:10 PM)

ahhh,
I posted/quoted about that in the other synching thread - there's always another similar themed thread isnt there

IBM's Tivoli Continuous Data Protection http://www-306.ibm.c...ous-data-protection/.
...
Be it Tivoli or Diskstation software....they both use the same approach....a real time data copy based on a set of rules.  So I tell it what files to copy (be it filename matches, filetype matches or folder matches) and as soon as I save a file which meets the criteria, it copies it to a backup.  It also can save multiple versions and target files require no special software to open.....meaning the files are not imaged but real file copies.  I prefer this real-time backup as opposed to a scheduled backup

-johnfdeluca (May 11, 2007, 09:53 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Save the Earth! From evil parasitic power packs...

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 09:47 AM »

I'd say you'd have a market here in europe at any rate..

But those wee little black power bricks just piss me off.  Individually, they're nothing... but add together 10 or 15 of the beasties and you're talking about some serious current, all going to waste.

-Ralf Maximus (November 12, 2007, 08:50 AM)

I read (somewhere ) a while back that,
if all the people in germany turned off everything that was on standby,
the energy spared would be equivalent to that produced by one nuclear power plant (average sized I presume!).
That's 80ish million people here, now how many there in the states...

I generally try to have those "blackbricks" on an extension lead with a switch...

Oh and I wish there was a cable modem with wake-on-lan... so it can turn itself off and then back on when you use it again.

-iphigenie (November 12, 2007, 07:44 AM)

Times I'd love to be able to turn off the dsl router but our incoming calls come through the internet connection -
this can be changed (would also have to be changed back) but it is a bit of a pain & the box is so bloody delicate I'd be afraid to plug things in or out too much..

 

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 07:42 AM »

it breaks almost every shortcut my computer has!

-jgpaiva (November 12, 2007, 05:34 AM)

using english software on a german keyboard:
Z and Y are interchanged. Now that's a pain where you cant change shortcuts
When I've time I plan to check out the Colemak one more -
they have international versions as well

EDIT: no they dont:

Will there be versions of Colemak optimized for other languages? I won't have time in the near future to work on that.

http://colemak.com/FAQ

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 07:39 AM »

There's no proof you type faster/more accurate using Dvorak.

-wr975 (November 12, 2007, 03:16 AM)

I think the main idea is it's easier on your hands..

In some years we'll all use computers the way Johnny Mnemonic did and won't need keyboards anymore.

-wr975 (November 12, 2007, 03:16 AM)

soon as i saw it i thought of Neuromancer by the same author which i read in late eighties (hadnt read the Johnny Mnemonic one or seen the film..) - the internet has never lived up to it!

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2007, 01:35 AM »

here's another one I came across in the comments (Lashiec's link)

Colemak

Colemak is a modern alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. It is designed for efficient and ergonomic touch typing in English. ... Colemak is now the 3rd most popular keyboard layout for touch typing in English, after QWERTY and Dvorak.

What's wrong with the Dvorak layout?     * The main problem with Dvorak is that it's too difficult and frustrating to learn for existing QWERTY typists because it's so different from QWERTY. Colemak has been designed to be easy to learn.     * Placing 'L' on the QWERTY 'P' position causes excessive strain on the right pinky. Colemak doesn't place frequent letters where the pinkies stretch.     * 'F' is on the QWERTY 'Y' position which is a difficult stretch on normal keyboards.     * 'I' is very frequent but isn't on the home position.     * 'R' is very frequent but isn't on the home row.     * It is significantly lopsided so that the right hand does too much work.     * It's not comfortable to use Ctrl-Z/X/C/V shortcuts with the left hand while holding the mouse with the right hand. Colemak conserves those shortcuts in their QWERTY positions.     * Even though the design principles are sound, the implementation isn't optimal because it was designed without the aid of computers.     * 'L' and 'S' form a frequent same-finger digraph on the right pinky. Same-finger for the pinky is very rare in Colemak. In particular, Unix commands such as 'ls -l' are very uncomfortable to type.     * Some punctuation (in particular the curly/square brackets) is less comfortable to type on Dvorak. This affects mainly programmers and advanced Unix users.

-
notice anything odd?
No CAPS LOCK not sure why.. but they talk about it here:
http://forum.colemak.../viewtopic.php?id=34

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to track the time you spend on each project

« Last post by tomos on November 11, 2007, 12:06 PM »

To help clarify what i'm interested in.. im more interested in properly billing people for time, rather than in figuring out what kinds of things i do on the computer.

-mouser (November 11, 2007, 11:00 AM)

have a look at SQL-Notes (Beta) e.g.
http://sqlnotes.wiki...es.com/Time+tracking
https://www.donation...32.msg84924#msg84924
http://www.sqlnotes.net/

I'm only getting to grips with it but certainly has lots of potential (I think, once i figure it all out..)

I'm more interested in something where i can quickly click on tray to say "i'm working on project X now" and then "i've stopped working on project X" etc.

-mouser (November 11, 2007, 11:32 AM)

Skrommels TaskLog
https://www.donation...l/index.html#TaskLog
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4358.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by tomos on November 11, 2007, 06:34 AM »

Thanks! I'm asking because I didn't find that SFFS's delta backup technology accelerated my backups by that much, if any acceleration.

-Armando (November 10, 2007, 04:55 PM)

on my last computer I was using a usb1.1 connection sometimes -
partial file update made a BIG difference there
but also notice a speed difference with usb2

but I just have it running in the background anyways &
while I synch some big files, there's not many of them & I've never bothered timing them..

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by tomos on November 10, 2007, 03:19 PM »

that's a really interesting one -
I've never learned how to type....

anyone know if there's versions for other language keyboards..**
anyone here using this?

** only an option for us keyboards... boooo

interesting though, they have a Dvorjak, PLUS left AND right-hand versions

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser - a plea from your users!

« Last post by tomos on November 10, 2007, 11:21 AM »

"Find And Run Robot" "Clipboard Help+Spell", "Drag and Drop Robot"

me,
i like the robot theme too
of the three there CH+S is the only one I'd change -
who want to sound...

like a German megaconglomerate (CH+S, AG) that specializes in making precision grommets for Mercedes.

-Ralf Maximus (November 10, 2007, 12:16 AM)

(unless of course you actually make...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by tomos on November 10, 2007, 08:31 AM »

from the surfulater archives

IBM's Tivoli Continuous Data Protection http://www-306.ibm.c...ous-data-protection/.  Note:  I DO work for IBM, so I get this software for free vs the $36 USD normal price.  If I had to pay for the Tivoli software, I'd likely just use the free software that came with my Diskstation....not because Tivoli software is lacking.....my impression is it is top notch but I am just cheap and typically lean towards freeware if available.  Be it Tivoli or Diskstation software....they both use the same approach....a real time data copy based on a set of rules.  So I tell it what files to copy (be it filename matches, filetype matches or folder matches) and as soon as I save a file which meets the criteria, it copies it to a backup.  It also can save multiple versions and target files require no special software to open.....meaning the files are not imaged but real file copies.  I prefer this real-time backup as opposed to a scheduled backup

-johnfdeluca (May 11, 2007, 09:53 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Today is my birthday- when is yours?

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 07:03 PM »

its the 10th here but still your birthday there
happy birthday Brandon

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General Software Discussion / Re: ERUNT - Restore Replacement

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 08:37 AM »

It's on the UBDC4WIN boot disk which is fairly easy to set up

I have a low threshold for "difficult" so if I found it fairly easy...!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rename does not select file extension

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 08:32 AM »

Surely some small utility that does this must exist.

-justice (November 09, 2007, 04:00 AM)

or a BIG utility: Directory Opus

First just the file name is selected
Control+E selects just the extension
I think theres a shortcut to select name + ext

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 08:30 AM »

[SFFS] still requires checking each file in the "monitored" hierarchy for changes, instead of using filesystem event notifications?

-f0dder (November 09, 2007, 07:24 AM)

I believe so

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General Software Discussion / Re: Perfect Software?

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 04:56 AM »

I have an OCD like a lot of others to go with the newer, bigger,faster software

You and me both!

-Darwin (November 08, 2007, 07:09 PM)

I saw Darwins post/quote first & thought newer=faster, naaa
but I see nosh has it crossed out 

I have an OCD like a lot of others to go with the newer,bigger,faster software

-nosh (November 08, 2007, 06:20 PM)

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 04:51 AM »

axing questions

-tomos (November 08, 2007, 11:52 AM)

[Laughing dog ]

-Armando (November 08, 2007, 12:36 PM)

just BTW..
that wasnt meant to be a pun on "axeing" (would be then = cutting questions )
but rather a throwback to how we used speak as young ones -
before it was bet into us to speak proper like 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paint Shop Pro X2 - installation from hell ...

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 04:43 AM »

that's true, the TIME wasted
compo! compo!

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on November 09, 2007, 03:55 AM »

Think of it as:
1- a large spreadsheet. The grid is used to filters which row are displayed and which column is displayed, and/or
2- As a filing cabinet. You place items in folders (fields here). Selecting a field as a grid source, displays items in the folder (This is the Ecco Pro metaphor)

Hope this helps!

-PPLandry (November 08, 2007, 07:43 PM)

this is helpful

I've been struggling with the underlying concept
not having used database type software before is probably a handicap...

If I follow the logic and metaphor of point one -
lets see... using SQL-Notes, I dont understand (yet) how (exactly) you filter things so it's probably too soon to be asking questions -
but I'll have a go anyways

• Would it be possible to filter one item+subitems (i.e. one of many items) for example from ToDo to another grid?
• Is it possible to make new columns - I see there's a long list of them already.
• Is it possible to open a new "spreadsheet" ?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 08, 2007, 11:52 AM »

100 , still feel insignificant compared to others, but my first pin.   
...
Brett

-brett (November 08, 2007, 01:38 AM)

Congrats Brett!
for a 100 posts there's lots of good stuff there
(as opposed to axing questions all the time like me )

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by tomos on November 08, 2007, 10:19 AM »

have a look at SyncBackSE vs. SuperFlexible thread

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Coding Snacks / Re: [request] Hide Show desktop icons

« Last post by tomos on November 08, 2007, 06:39 AM »

it's Skrommels

Maybe I should just take a few hours out to look and extract and edit the code to do what i want.

-relequestual (November 08, 2007, 04:56 AM)

or
you could post in the Skrommels software board although he'd probably see it here..

or someone else might modify it ...

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Coding Snacks / Re: [request] Hide Show desktop icons

« Last post by tomos on November 08, 2007, 05:18 AM »

I tried using the icon hide show app on here,

-relequestual (November 08, 2007, 04:56 AM)

which app is that? 

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by tomos on November 07, 2007, 02:12 PM »

Instead i seem to mostly just organize things by project.

-mouser (November 07, 2007, 10:20 AM)

that's the way I've been generally thinking too
might give that a go myself - I did do project grouping before but didnt have proper homes for them...

When I did use cards by project, & then planning - say,
today & the next couple of days,
I enjoyed being able to lay all the "active" cards out on the rug & move them around a bit to help get an overview

Dont know whether that's a throwback to childhood or just my "visual" preferrences