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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by ewemoa on October 04, 2012, 08:51 PM »

This sounds reasonable 

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

« Last post by ewemoa on October 04, 2012, 05:56 AM »

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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 04, 2012, 05:18 AM »

Thanks for the review


A few comments as a fellow user...

I follow the instructions here for portable installation -- IIRC, this may bypass the AskStub app running (haven't checked recently).

My favorite feature is the bookmarking support.  Between this app and JPdfBookmarks (useful for import/export of bookmarks), my PDF bookmark needs appear to be met for the most part.

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Developer's Corner / SHA-3 Contest Winner

« Last post by ewemoa on October 03, 2012, 06:10 PM »

NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition

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Developer's Corner / Brian Kernighan Interview

« Last post by ewemoa on October 03, 2012, 06:04 PM »

An Interview with Brian Kernighan on C and The C Programming Language

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool New Malware/Spyware ;)

« Last post by ewemoa on October 03, 2012, 05:58 PM »

For reference, I think from a bit back:

  Emerging Security Issues Involving the Presence of Microphones and Video Cameras in the Computing Environment

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Screenshot Captor / Re: My experiences with Screenshot Captor

« Last post by ewemoa on October 03, 2012, 05:51 PM »

This technique works here too


The poster's point about the red x does seem worth considering though -- I think it's at least confusing.  FWIW, verified that it happens here.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture wonderfulness

« Last post by ewemoa on October 02, 2012, 08:30 PM »

I recently use ScreenshotCaptor's scrolling capture to successfully capture a few pages from a site and combined the results into a PDF (ImageMagick) and added a table of contents (PDF-XChange Viewer / JPDFBookmarks).  Worked very nicely

One snag I hit was with a long web page -- if I had been more careful in reviewing the results I would have noticed that more scrolling was needed.  Didn't know that it was long though so wasn't on the look out...I don't suppose that the preview could consist of two portions -- one for the top or currently displayed portion and one for the bottom portion...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Search Result Context Menu Item and Underlining

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

Thanks

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Find And Run Robot / Search Result Context Menu Item and Underlining

« Last post by ewemoa on September 29, 2012, 11:06 PM »

Puzzled by difference in behavior...

With some search results in FARR (2.200.01) under Windows 7 Professional:

  Right-clicking brings up context sensitive menu with no letters underlined

  Pressing the apps / menu key on the keyboard instead of right-clicking brings up a context sensitive menu that does have underlined letters

Any ideas why?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Demise of the Desktop (Free ALTools licenses too!)

« Last post by ewemoa on September 27, 2012, 06:33 PM »

Some (?) rechargeable vacuums? 

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Living Room / Re: Interview with Richard Stallman

« Last post by ewemoa on September 24, 2012, 11:41 PM »

When the Linux Action Show (or GNU/Linux Action Show for this episode ) decided to celebrate their 200th show with something special, they scored a major coup by getting RMS himself to be on the show for an hour of give & take. It's interesting to watch with RMS on his soapbox and Brian Lunduke trying to work around something (that for RMS) is already settled. In many respects it's the perfect example of why this argument continues - and where both sides of the argument come up short and fail to reach any sort of agreement.

-40hz (September 24, 2012, 09:03 AM)

Thanks a lot for this.   FWIW, the interview looks to be starting around 0:10:19 here.


I have found it worth my time to read what he has to say -- may not agree with it all but definitely worth attention IMHO.

...

One of the difficulties I experience is his use of the concepts of Good and Evil.

Been working through Free Software Free Society (PDF with table of contents) and have found the issue of control being expressed clearly.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by ewemoa on September 24, 2012, 11:26 PM »

v2.107.04 is a new update with substantially improved search speeds in some cases, especially directory listings

-mouser (September 23, 2012, 05:32 PM)

A subjective comment here, but it does feel faster with directories

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Living Room / Re: Interview with Richard Stallman

« Last post by ewemoa on September 24, 2012, 03:39 AM »

Thanks for posting this


Not sure if it's my environment, but I ended up navigating to 12:14 or so to see the interview.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

« Last post by ewemoa on September 21, 2012, 10:07 PM »

Brief testing under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit with FARR 2.107.01 (tried running as admin as well as non-admin):

Dialog displays for (works as expected?):

  System
  Display

Nothing seems to happen:

  Mouse
  Keyboard

Error dialog (sorry non-English text which I didn't manage to parse):

  Fonts
  Speech

With 2.107.02 seems much better -- though the dialogs that came up before were different...


After typing cpanel, it seems to take a while for the control panel items to show up here -- if I didn't know to wait I might wonder whether it was working correctly  With 2.107.02 seems much faster  


Side note: didn't see mention of this thread in the beta thread -- if it hasn't been mentioned there, may be it would make sense to?

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Living Room / Re: I want a Sony Xperia SX, but I think it's stupid to buy one.

« Last post by ewemoa on September 20, 2012, 05:36 AM »

I have a pretty hard time with web browsers on mobile phones due to my finger size -- things are easier for me when the screen is responsive to finger nails, but that type of screen seems to be mostly a thing of the past.

Pure speculation: For a company that makes money on more time being spent using the network, use of things like web browsers (of course not via WiFi or Bluetooth) seems helpful for revenue.  Smaller screens might translate into less use of the web browser (and of course many other applications) and consequently less revenue.

More speculation: If the smart watch idea (I've heard it referred to some place as "first screen" -- I presume meaning the first point of screening or first screen one looks at) starts to spread, the amount of time one spends needlessly using the network might get reduced significantly.  Perhaps good for users, but seemingly not so for entities that are positioned to make money off of network use.

What do you think?

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Pro will now include option to downgrade to Windows 7

« Last post by ewemoa on September 16, 2012, 01:39 AM »

I find it ironic that the more expensive 'full' or 'retail' license carries fewer privileges than the less expensive OEM license does.

-40hz (September 15, 2012, 07:01 AM)

Is it the case that OEM licenses are purchased in bulk by OEMs?

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Pro will now include option to downgrade to Windows 7

« Last post by ewemoa on September 15, 2012, 02:59 AM »

The article also mentioned this:

Traditionally, downgrade rights are available only from OEM copies of Windows, those that are pre-installed by computer manufacturers. It looks to be the same with Windows 8: The software license for the retail version of Windows 8 Pro omitted the section on downgrades.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New kid on the block - Pipy

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

.NET appears to be a dependency.

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Living Room / Re: How much soda (pop) do you drink?

« Last post by ewemoa on September 12, 2012, 06:16 PM »

Pure, White and Deadly does look like it's scheduled to be available in the U.K. in November 2012:

  http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780241965283,00.html


On a side note, the above page mentioned that the lecturer in the video (Lustig) has a book scheduled to come out in Autumn December 2012:

  Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

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Living Room / Re: Modern and creative electrical outlets, power strips, sockets and switches

« Last post by ewemoa on September 12, 2012, 07:25 AM »

Some nifty-looking things there

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Living Room / Re: Perhaps About the Coolest Book EVER~! =D

« Last post by ewemoa on September 09, 2012, 05:44 PM »

Imagine... a print book that (when plugged in) can also present active text and media elements using the printed page as the control interface.

-40hz (September 09, 2012, 01:37 PM)

Similar to some of the technology ideas in The Diamond Age?

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Living Room / Re: It's Not Privacy vs Security, it's Freedom vs Control...

« Last post by ewemoa on September 06, 2012, 11:23 PM »

It reminds me of this lecture:

Don't Talk to the Police

-Renegade (September 06, 2012, 12:28 PM)

Thanks for this

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General Software Discussion / Re: IDEA: Portable application, file browser, specially for using on large screens

« Last post by ewemoa on September 03, 2012, 10:58 PM »

Are you referring to:

  http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html

?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Advanced Aliases

« Last post by ewemoa on September 03, 2012, 10:02 PM »

You can now specify multiple programs to launch within one alias by separating them with ;;;

How would the syntax look

-dewin (September 03, 2012, 08:59 PM)

As an example, made an alias with the following in the "Result(s)" field:

[Select]

"c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://reddit.com;;;"c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" https://donationcoder.com

It brought up two IE windows here.  When I tried with Firefox, I got two tabs.