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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2017, 01:51 PM »

I hadn't known this - though I guess it could be a logical continuation of the US Govt's. savvy WW2 "Operation Paperclip" philosophy: (emphasis mine)
Without undermining the creative genius of Steve Jobs or the supply chain mastery of his successor Tim Cook, Prof Mazzucato found that almost every piece of technology in the ubiquitous smartphone had its origin in a government programme, dispelling the myth that the success of Silicon Valley was largely the work of eccentric entrepreneurs tinkering in their garages and savvy investments made by venture capitalists.
-IainB (October 02, 2017, 10:37 AM)

I heard that claimed by Yanis Varoufakis for larger EU countries, but couldn't tell you in which video.
(Wonder did the government/s get patents and get their chunk of the goods that way.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: kaspersky Anti virus

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2017, 04:03 AM »

hi zazhota
we're not that kind of site.

Either go to kapersky website,
or get a free anti-virus (windows anti-virus is quite good FWIW)

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Living Room / Re: Alt codes for Maths Symbols

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 09:40 AM »

Curt! you're looking different

How to enter Unicode characters in Microsoft Windows
-fileformat.info

also, https://ufonts.com/download/arial-unicode-ms/197925.html
-Curt (September 29, 2017, 09:24 AM)

Curt, you presumably have a european keyboard:
could you try Alt247 (247 from the numberpad) in your word processor & let me know what you get?
Thanks

From your link there I'm using this method - it works for some characters, for others I get unexpected results -- it's not currently important to me why, but I would still like to know why

Method 3: Code-page Specific

This method depends on the specific code page you have installed.

Press and hold down the Alt key.
Type the decimal codepage value on the numeric keypad. Do not type any leading zeros.
Release the Alt key.

You can see which code page you have by typing chcp at a command prompt. Check the grid for your code page from the list of known code pages to see what characters you can enter this way.

The entries in the Unicode character information section are using code page 437.

I checked the code page & see it is using Code page 850^w

850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page in ... e.g. in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada), whilst other English-speaking locales (like the United States) default to use the hardware code page 437.[4]

Systems largely replaced code page 850 with, first, Windows-1252 (often mislabeled as ISO-8859-1), and later with UCS-2, and finally with UTF-16.[nb 1]

Code page 850 differs from code page 437 in that many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters, and various symbols were replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving support for Western European languages (all characters from ISO 8859-1 are included). At the same time, the changes frequently caused display glitches with programs that made use of the box-drawing characters to display a GUI-like surface in text mode.

In 1998, code page 858 was derived from this code page by changing code point 213 (D5hex) from a dotless i ‹i› to the euro sign ‹€›.[5] Despite this, IBM's PC DOS 2000, released in 1998, changed their definition of code page 850 to what they called modified code page 850 now including the euro sign at code point 213 instead of adding support for the new code page 858.[nb 2][6][7][8]

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Living Room / Re: Alt codes for Maths Symbols

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 07:17 AM »

Don't know if it matters/helps, but (in Word) Alt 247 with Calibri gives me the equivalent symbol here. Notepad with (default) Consolas does as well.

Region/Language/KB layout all set to US.
-Stoic Joker (September 29, 2017, 06:47 AM)

do you mean the correct symbol as shown in OP i.e. ≈
?

I will have a look at language, and keyboard layout

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Living Room / Re: Alt codes for Maths Symbols

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 06:13 AM »

The special character has to be available in the font you are using. Not all fonts have the entire unicode character set.
-Ath (September 29, 2017, 05:12 AM)

something weird going on:
I can find the character in charmap (Arial), copy paste it, and convert it to most other fonts --
but the Alt247 gives me something else :-/

Screenshot - 2017-09-29 , 12_57_21_ver001.png

Screenshot - 2017-09-29 , 12_57_21_ver001.png

but at least I'm sorted with charmap

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Living Room / Re: Alt codes for Maths Symbols

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 05:53 AM »

from charmap you can always copy and paste: ≃
-x16wda (September 29, 2017, 05:31 AM)

yes, of course, thanks

Run charmap.exe, . . . It reports that to get the Asymptotically Equal To symbol you would press U+2243.

I am still trying to figure out how to find the U key (as opposed to Alt), several sources say use the Alt but it hasn't worked for me yet.
-x16wda (September 29, 2017, 05:31 AM)

likewise, I saw the U codes elsewhere but couldnt figure them out either

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel PRO - Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 05:11 AM »

Hard Disk Sentinel PRO is 50% off on BDJ today
http://www.bitsdujou.../hard-disk-sentinel/

The standard version is free

EDIT//
comparison page:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/store.php

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Living Room / Alt codes for Maths Symbols

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2017, 05:04 AM »

I found a helpful page showing Alt codes for Mathematical symbols
http://usefulshortcu.../maths-alt-codes.php
(I've confirmed the numbers given correct at other sites)

Some of them work for me, but some dont e.g. I get the wrong symbol with Alt247.
I get a ¸
I'm wondering is this to do with the font -- would I need a special font for some symbols?
Or could it be to do with using a qwertz (German) keyboard?

I'm specifically looking for the 'equivalent' symbols:

Screenshot - 2017-09-29 , 11_48_35.png

[Alt 247]

(Couldnt find an Alt code for this one! It seems to be not that common, or not commonly used for maths)

Copying and pasting of symbols (from wikipedia) does not work either e.g. with first example I get a ~

Anyone got any ideas here?

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2017, 05:49 AM »

^ I kind of followed that lol

So sometimes older computers still don't "drop pieces" "inhuman" but the moves are almost recognizable.
-TaoPhoenix (September 28, 2017, 05:18 AM)

meaning inhuman in the sense they willing to sacrifice a lot?

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2017, 04:17 AM »

What is the best free chess software ?
-Contro (September 27, 2017, 03:54 PM)

Arena looks nice.
I suspect it is what is used in the video above -- but amn't sure about that.

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Living Room / Re: Chess?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2017, 04:12 AM »

I'm pretty up on chess lately.
-TaoPhoenix (September 27, 2017, 05:25 PM)

hi Tao, do you have any sites to recommend?
Do you play online?

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Living Room / Chess?

« Last post by tomos on September 27, 2017, 02:06 PM »

Any Chess lovers here?
I just know the *very* basics of chess, but have started watching and really enjoying a YT chess channel:
ChessNetwork -- I particularly enjoy his analysis of famous chess games.

https://www.youtube..../ChessNetwork/videos

Also discovered a great site (www.chessgames.com) where you can 'replay' a game e.g.

Nigel Short vs Jan Timman -- "A Long Walk Off a Short Peer"

Related video from ChessNetwork:

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2017, 08:30 AM »

FWIW I didnt follow any links:
I think you've got to give some related info or query first
-tomos (September 26, 2017, 08:22 AM)

What can I do ?
-Contro (September 26, 2017, 08:25 AM)

okay, I understand now --
"Server not found" at that link
http://moby.donationcoders.com/

oddly, it's also blocked by uBlock Origin:

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

http://moby.donationcoders.com/

Because of the following filter

||donationcoders.com^
Found in: Malware domains

(I think I reported that problem with 'donationcoders' before though)

PS Contro, sorry for getting impatient, but I still think you can give more info in your posts

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2017, 08:22 AM »

FWIW I didnt follow any links:
I think you've got to give some related info or query first

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2017, 08:18 AM »

eh . . . what?

can you give more info in your posts please?
e.g. give us a quote of the relevant info from your link
-tomos (September 26, 2017, 08:17 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: freeware app to detect sensitive info in documents (doc, pdf)

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2017, 08:17 AM »

hi Contro,
can you give more info in your posts please?
e.g. give us a quote of the relevant info from your link
Thanks

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2017, 04:07 PM »

^ great

for once I post something with a video, filmed (on film!) by Paul Thomas Anderson^w

Haim - Right Now (Live)

two other tracks were filmed live, see:
https://youtu.be/Jc2x5aHCs6g

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Problem inserting license key

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2017, 02:59 AM »

I have looked under the manager utility and cannot figure out or remember where to put in the license key .
-kurasov1965p (September 23, 2017, 12:22 AM)

hi kurasov1965p,
what's the manager utility?

Instructions for using this license key:
•Select and copy (Ctrl+C) the multi-line license key above.
•Open the "About Box" in the program of ours that you want to register (from menu choose Help->About).
•Click the "Enter New License Key" button.
•Paste this text it into the application and Click "Accept."
•You can check or change your license status at any time from this About box.
•Click here to watch a video of what to do to put in your license key.

https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Welcome - READ THIS FIRST!

« Last post by tomos on September 22, 2017, 09:59 AM »

I was hoping someone could show me any particularly good threads that I should have a read of first, so I can get up to speed here?
-kurasov1965p (September 21, 2017, 06:42 PM)

worth looking at what's currently being posted in to see if anything of interest there.
Just in case:

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Living Room / Re: Cassini Saturn Voyage Ends

« Last post by tomos on September 21, 2017, 12:29 PM »

This free NASA e-Book celebrates Saturn as seen through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft:
https://saturn.jpl.n...7/?category=graphics
-panzer (September 21, 2017, 06:23 AM)

looks great

unfortunately all the image text is white on black - after a few pages my eyes start going a bit crazy (reading pdf on a good desktop monitor)

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