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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2010, 07:24 PM »

So are you still leaning towards the Dark Side?

-Renegade (August 09, 2010, 06:51 PM)

Don't underestimate the power of the Dark Side. 

-wraith808 (August 09, 2010, 07:13 PM)

just so we're clear here, the dark side is the white side, right?

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2010, 12:56 AM »

here we don't have the choices you probably do - and yeah, I suppose it is largely aesthetics

There are handsets available that don't include all the extra gewgaws, but they generally look like something you'd give you're toddler when they're teething...

but we digress...

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2010, 12:33 AM »

Do *you* see a need for this? Can you explain what *you* would do if you could "build your own phone"? I can all but guarantee that a phone exists that does pretty much what you want.

-JavaJones (August 09, 2010, 12:09 AM)

well, given the option, I'd build a phone that doesn't look like a crappy childs toy, and doesn't try and incorporate every damn gadget and/or function known to man (that I've never used and probably never will), ie no radio, or media player, or camera, or net access, etc, etc etc

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Finished Programs / Re: Exclude firefox from script?

« Last post by Target on August 03, 2010, 07:05 PM »

code needs to look like this

[Select]

MButton::
ifwinactive, Mozilla Firefox
    return

Send !{F4}
Return

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Living Room / Re: Learning from Cats -- My New Strategy for Dealing with Things I Don't Understand

« Last post by Target on August 02, 2010, 09:46 PM »

I'm so old, I remember when you can beat the living crap out of a dial phone...

-zridling (August 02, 2010, 09:43 PM)

I remember doing this with the valve TV...

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Living Room / Re: Learning from Cats -- My New Strategy for Dealing with Things I Don't Understand

« Last post by Target on August 02, 2010, 07:40 PM »

when in doubt, WHACK!!

is there a cross over between this thread and the one about support?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question about AutoHotkey scripting

« Last post by Target on August 01, 2010, 07:50 PM »

so.....is it correct to assume that it is not possible to create a hotkey combination in Autohotkey that is based on pressing two keys in rapid succession?

-jdd (August 01, 2010, 06:47 PM)

no sure I'd so far as to say that, but I'm not sure how I'd approach it...

perhaps a hotkey for K that watches for a subsequent (K) key press within a defined period 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any "Flip Text" for dekstop use?

« Last post by Target on August 01, 2010, 05:56 PM »

the fact that it's popular 'on facebook' should tell you something...

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Living Room / Re: sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 27, 2010, 08:05 PM »

I thought they were band...

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Living Room / Re: sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 09:18 PM »

or cut to the chase.

-Shades (July 26, 2010, 08:50 PM)

Chase? I usually cut to the cheese~!

-Renegade (July 26, 2010, 09:13 PM)

closer than we imagined!!

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Living Room / Re: sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 09:04 PM »

or cut to the chase.

-Shades (July 26, 2010, 08:50 PM)

either way it's close!

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Living Room / Re: sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 08:32 PM »

Another cutting remark , tooth be told.

just trying to razor the tone...

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Living Room / Re: sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 07:49 PM »

Thank goodness it's never required round here!
This place is bleeding edgy enough.

we're renowned for being incisive

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Living Room / Re: Get out your crayons to help Apple... ;)

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 07:02 PM »

there's actually a world shortage of white thanks to the success of the iPad <insert sarcasm punctuation here....>

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Living Room / sarcopaths unite!

« Last post by Target on July 26, 2010, 06:24 PM »

from the WTF department, found this on slashdot this morning - Open Sarcasm

seems there's a proprietry character (or at least an application that inserts that character) to denote sarcasm in text (SarcMark), and now an 'open source' alternative

'cos we really needed it....

Personally i count myself as something of a connoisseur and I can't decide whether this is bleeding edge sarcasm, or completely redundant (but YMMV...)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Calling All Volunteers and Entrants wanting a hand

« Last post by Target on July 21, 2010, 11:43 PM »

If you're interested in the Documentation application [Help & Manual Pro] or Help Authoring [Dr Explain] let me know...

always interested in trying new software

So far I've been using Vizacc's Helpmaker which seems to do everything I've needed (actually it probably does considerably more, but I just don't know jow to use it properly )

I'll hold off though until someone asks for assistance, that way if someone else needs it and can use it they'll have the opportunity

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Calling All Volunteers and Entrants wanting a hand

« Last post by Target on July 21, 2010, 10:50 PM »

happy to help out - testing, documentation (english only, sorry..), whatever

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by Target on July 21, 2010, 09:34 PM »

oh, nice tip.

i really wish i could do more with ahk myself.

-nudone (July 21, 2010, 09:26 PM)

you are

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by Target on July 21, 2010, 06:06 PM »

that auto reload appears to be working well. and helps me more than using a hotkey combination - as i will forget what that is. so, now, i can just use the ActualWindowManger tray menu to enable/disable the active screens - and the auto reload script does everything else.

(a few credits sent - hope that is, okay.)

-nudone (July 21, 2010, 04:18 AM)

glad to be able to help

not being able to test it I wasn't altogether sure whether or not it would work, so that's good news

FYI you can use both so you have the hotkey option as well if you want/need it

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by Target on July 20, 2010, 05:38 PM »

ok, here's an automagic method - use a timer to fire a routine that counts the number of monitors and if the numbers don't match, reload

put this bit at the top of your script (DialogMove)

[Select]

sysget, Count, monitorcount
settimer, Mon_Count,10000

put this bit at the bottom of your script

[Select]

Mon_Count:
sysget, tmp_, monitorcount

if tmp_ = %count%
    return

reload
return

 

you could reload any number of scripts/apps using run commands, or you could do this from a list (ini), but you need to make sure to add the run commands before the reload command, and any other AHK scripts will need to use #singleinstance, force

NOTE - I don't have multiple monitors so this is untested, but it should work

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by Target on July 19, 2010, 07:17 PM »

I've just had a quick look at the doc's and it appears that the switching is done via hotkey (I'm also assuming that what you're doing is disabling/enabling your 'secondary'monitors)

this being the case you can simply add the same hotkey to your AHK script (DialogMove?) that sends the hotkey AND reloads the script, eg

    ^!F12::
    send ^!F12
    reload
    return

    +^!F12::
    send +^!F12
    reload
    return

you'll need ot check the syntax of the send command (I rarely use it so I always need to work it out each time...)

the returns are redundant in this case but it looks wrong to leave them out

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by Target on July 19, 2010, 06:19 PM »

how do you intiate the switch between the...errr....2?

I'm thinking this is the point you'd probably want to look at

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Atrise Golden Section

« Last post by Target on July 15, 2010, 07:00 PM »

nicely done!

I'm not sure what I'd use it for, but now I can't help feeling I want one 

The problem with reading a review by you, Chris, is that one can never be sure it isn't just one giant pun.

-Deozaan (July 15, 2010, 02:26 PM)

don't worry, I'm sure there's a line in there somewhere...

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Living Room / Re: Slashdot Question: How to Recover Stolen Laptop if you Know Thief's IP Address?

« Last post by Target on July 14, 2010, 01:20 AM »

Let those authorities know, that laptop contains a) childporn b) highly confidential material about government etc... and voila, that laptop is being recovered in no time at all...

-simakuutio (July 13, 2010, 11:59 PM)

Not really. If you admit that your own laptop has illegal information (especially of that caliber) on it, they probably don't need the laptop as proof. Your own admission of guilt should be enough for them to arrest you.

-Deozaan (July 14, 2010, 12:32 AM)

actually you could turn this around and use it - you probably won't get your laptop back but you might put a serious crimp in the thief's activities

instead of reporting that you're laptop contains questionable material, let the relevant (anti-terrorist) authorities know you ran across some questionable activities and traced it to that IP...

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Living Room / Re: A special gift from Veign.com to DonationCoder - thank you!

« Last post by Target on July 12, 2010, 09:10 PM »

once again veign's generosity comes to the fore - many thanks!!

and congrats to skwire, I doubt I could think of anyone that could put it ot better use