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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable alternative for Cathy (cataloging freeware) that runs on Win7 64 bit?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 05:51 AM »

Congratulations

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Conditional Pledge: Simple picture gallery

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 05:44 AM »

It was a sign of appreciation

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox: Unwanted Interaction Between History and Location Field?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 05:30 AM »

Thanks for the feedback.

I also hope it gets fixed...and soon.  It seems to me that in some cases it could be a bit of a security problem...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable alternative for Cathy (cataloging freeware) that runs on Win7 64 bit?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 05:27 AM »

A couple more questions:

  Have you tried running Cathy.exe without any other files in the same folder?

and:

  If you hook up some external drive (or have some other partition) and place a folder there with Cathy.exe in it, do you still get the same results?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Conditional Pledge: Simple picture gallery

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 05:23 AM »

Just wanted to say:

  Nice paintings!

and:

  Mmm, read-ahead cache for slideshow?

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General Software Discussion / Firefox: Unwanted Interaction Between History and Location Field?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 16, 2012, 02:34 AM »

Today I noticed that although I had pasted https://donationcoder.com in to the location field, the browser ended up at http://donationcoder.com -- i.e. no SSL (Firefox 16.0.1).

Here are some steps to reproduce:

• Fresh installation of Firefox 16.0.1 (I used the portable version from portableapps)
• Start Firefox
• Type http://donationcoder.com in the location area and press Enter
• After seeing DC's page, exit the browser
• Start Firefox again
• Using Notepad, type https://donationcoder.com/, select the text and copy it to the clipboard
• Paste the copied URL to Firefox's location area and press Enter
• Observe no lock icon to the left of the displayed URL in the location area (or choose Tools -> Page Info and examine the results)

mouser confirmed that he experiences the same issue.  Any one else?


One work-around appears to be to apply what's mentioned at:

  http://superuser.com/a/187094

That is, via about:config, set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false.

Another may be to use HTTPS Everywhere, though IIUC you'd need to ensure that you've got appropriate settings for all of the sites you want to use https with.  FWIW, for DC, there is:

  https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29671.msg292513#msg292513


Thanks to Deozaan for pointing out that the content of this post gets mangled if accessed via http -- changed the post content to address the issue.

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Living Room / Re: List of 50 Free Courses Granting Certificates from Great Universities

« Last post by ewemoa on October 15, 2012, 07:12 PM »

Thanks for sharing this -- interestingly, the number I see now is 60

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Living Room / Re: Dumbing-down of the educational system?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 15, 2012, 04:36 AM »

Oh - Check here:

http://www.youtube.c...t=PLB14C115443F2A882

Looks like part 7/10 is missing, but the rest seem to be there.

-Renegade (October 15, 2012, 12:22 AM)

Thanks!

I think I found the whole thing as a single piece -- a couple of options:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43-Zr2tbX9Y
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ77AJUENCQ

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Living Room / Re: Dumbing-down of the educational system?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 15, 2012, 12:15 AM »

https://theultimatehistorylesson.com/

-Renegade (October 14, 2012, 11:09 PM)

When looking into this a bit, came across:

  What You've Been Missing

A special episode of that may be?


There's a youtube link on that page to the first episode which resulted in something about the video not being available due to copyright reasons...

Ironically, when searching for an alternative, came across:

  GNU MediaGoblin

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PDF-XChange Viewer ($FREE version) - Mini-Review (as at 2012-10-04)

« Last post by ewemoa on October 14, 2012, 09:06 PM »

Here's some related info for DarkScreenSetup.exe (MD5: 2ec0f52b393e4d55bb5a59ffb4a5eecb), FWIW:

  http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/814b05e22c8250ec22d3a721424b96adeb2ae509
  http://metascan-online.com/results/md2w6vleeyzn6b8524kssher4qyzmgxd

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pause/Break Key has never been able to invoke the FARR!?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 14, 2012, 06:24 PM »

In a separate Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installation, this didn't happen.

This was a fresh OS installation as well as a fresh FARR installation.

-ewemoa (October 06, 2012, 06:59 AM)

Tried running IE with admin privs and FARR using the privs of the logged in account.  Pressing Pause/Break with said IE focused does not appear to bring FARR's main window up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable alternative for Cathy (cataloging freeware) that runs on Win7 64 bit?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 13, 2012, 08:07 PM »

Have you tried making a new user account and testing from there?


For reference, the following is what I get when I start the application (2.28.3) up for the first time using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What are Automatic & Custom Destinations in FARR?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 12, 2012, 07:26 PM »

FWIW, I see a "Custom Destinations" in what looks to be an analogous location on one of the pcs here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable alternative for Cathy (cataloging freeware) that runs on Win7 64 bit?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 12, 2012, 07:30 AM »

I recently started using Virtual Volumes View.

I'm using a portable version (see links under News section at: http://vvvapp.sourceforge.net/download.html).

I don't have enough experience to speak about your points 2 and 3 though.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What are Automatic & Custom Destinations in FARR?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 12, 2012, 07:27 AM »

The first answer at:

  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/issues-with-two-stray-folders-automatic/e2fb5cef-219d-4fb3-bac0-a47cc7c19059

mentioned:

They store the recent / pinned jump list files which should be automatically re-created when files are pinned or accessed.

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Living Room / Re: 20 famous corporate logos that hide secret messages

« Last post by ewemoa on October 10, 2012, 10:05 PM »

Didn't recognize many of the companies, but of those I did, definitely had missed some of the hidden features

Thanks for sharing!!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 08, 2012, 05:53 PM »

The previous link for Rai stones results in an error. This link will take you to the Wikipedia page

-Shades (October 08, 2012, 05:14 PM)

I went through what I thought were all of the Wikipedia links in question and they all worked for me...May be I missed one?

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 08, 2012, 02:36 AM »

Rai stones, any one?

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Living Room / Re: DC Sci Fi Book Club!

« Last post by ewemoa on October 08, 2012, 02:04 AM »

Regarding Steampunk, I don't know if the following counts, and I didn't finish it, but there was:

  The Difference Engine

May be you can enumerate more of the ones you didn't like

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux Distro features matrix?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 07, 2012, 05:01 PM »

Too...many...features...

Sorry for the useless post

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Living Room / Re: DC Sci Fi Book Club!

« Last post by ewemoa on October 07, 2012, 05:00 PM »

I don't intentionally read fiction these days, but in earlier times found the following to be of interest:

  Stories of Your Life and Others
  True Names
  The Peace War
  Marooned in Realtime
  A Fire Upon the Deep
  Maneki Neko
  The Left Hand of Darkness
  Eon
  Aristoi

+1 for those 2 Neal S. books too

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General Software Discussion / Re: AHK_L tray code to clear orphaned icons that actually seems to work

« Last post by ewemoa on October 06, 2012, 07:02 PM »

Thanks for sharing this

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pause/Break Key has never been able to invoke the FARR!?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 06, 2012, 07:45 AM »

Odd...now that I look closely, I see that the notebook in front of me has one key for Pause and one for Break -- though I have to press the Fn key to get that functionality to work.

They don't both lead to the same behavior FWIW.

Pause works as expected and Break brings up a context-sensitive menu and then acts like Ctrl+Break (Toggle FARR and Copy Selection)...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pause/Break Key has never been able to invoke the FARR!?

« Last post by ewemoa on October 06, 2012, 06:59 AM »

In a separate Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installation, this didn't happen.

This was a fresh OS installation as well as a fresh FARR installation.


May be an ownership / permission issue...?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Even Paul Allen is a little confused by Windows 8, but it gets better

« Last post by ewemoa on October 05, 2012, 04:19 AM »

A guess...

From History of computers during 1980 to 1990:

Apple files a copyright infringement against Microsoft for Windows 2.03 and Hewlett Packard for New Wave in comparison with their Macintosh operating system.