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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 03:51 PM »
This is not going to end well  :P
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Living Room / Re: Software Alliance's FRAND proposes to have Free software outlawed in the EU?
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 11:21 AM »
Guys and gals please take a deep breath.. especially long time members.. this is not the DC way -- we are supposed to go to extreme lengths to not insult and attack each other, and not to name call.  Please for the benefit of setting a good example try to be kinder to one another.  You can disagree without being personal.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launch, stay open and continue searching
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 10:30 AM »
let me chew on it a bit.. i see what you are saying im just not sure how to handle it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I Need DC Input
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 06:55 AM »
right ok.. so now you know the optical is good.

your possibilities now are:
1) the one sata cable is bad.  this can be tested if you have a spare or by swapping cables. possibility is medium/low?
2) the one sata connector on your hd is bad. possibility low?
3) the one sata connector is disabled in your bios or on a jumper. possibility medium?

my first thing would be what 4wd says -- if you have a sata connector on the motherboard you havent tried yet, use that one instead of the one that doesnt appear to be working.
then if that doesnt work -- you want to test if is the cable.  you can do that by simply swapping that suspicious cable, both endpoints of it, with one connecting a drive that is detected, and see if it stops working.

tip: write down the connector and mark the cable on the drive that is currently not being connected, so you remember.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I Need DC Input
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 06:40 AM »
another question, when you look at the sata connectors on your mother board where the sata cables come from -- do you see any spare connectors you could try instead? did you make sure the current sata cable to the optical is well seated at the motherboard side?

some motherboards have jumpers (or bios settings) to enable certain sata connectors, that would be the next thing to check if it turns out your optical is recognized when you put it on the other connector cable.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I Need DC Input
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 06:38 AM »
Did you try swapping the SATA data cables between the devices to see if the optical shows up and the HDD disappears?
If it doesn't show up then it's possible the SATA optical is toast and we'll have to play musical devices again.

excellent thinking!

this would be next thing i would try. unplug the sata cable going into one of your hard drives and plug it into the optical, and vice versa, then boot into BIOS (dont go to windows).

and see what bios sees now.

if it sees the optical but not the hd, then either your sata cable is bad, unplugged, or its not enabled/working on the motherboard.

if it still doesnt see the optical, but it sees all the hds -- then something is funny with your optical drive.  the chances of that seem quite low to me seeing as how it powers up.
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Mircryption / Re: Eggdrop tcl error [mcpshandlepubOK]
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 05:22 AM »
well it is related to mircryption so this forum is appropriate BUT the the problem is we dont know much about eggdrop/tcl here and this looks like an eggdrop/tcl specific issue.

maybe you can drop by the #mircryption irc channel on efnet, there are a couple of good tcl/eggdrop people that *occasionally* hang out there.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I Need DC Input
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 05:19 AM »
Everything works except my SATA optical not found in Windows

the first thing to do, after making sure the plugs are all firmly seated and that the drive is getting both a power cable and sata cable,
is to reboot the pc, and go into bios before windows boots.. usually by hitting delete key a bunch while it is first starting, or paying attention to other instructions.

then see if the optical is recognized in your bios -- if so, then you know its connected and its just a matter of convincing windows to recognize it.  if not then its a hardware thing (it's also possible there is some option in bios to enable optional sata ports, so look for that while you are in bios).

once you know that answer you can proceed.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Licence key
« Last post by mouser on February 29, 2012, 12:15 AM »
Email me ([email protected]), I can help.

Note:
The most common problem people have is that they click on a link for a license key for a different program -- the free license key page has different links for each program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 08:49 PM »
Keep us updated on your progress -- it will be interesting to hear how you find linux.

I would rate your chance of success much higher if your goal was not so much to "transition" but rather "explore and use and embrace".. Not that transitioning isn't possible it just might be the case that you find that Windows is more useful to you for some projects, and linux for others. You tend to be quite picky about your software experiences -- It will just be interesting to see how that plays out in the linux world.. I have my doubts.  However, zaine is a legend -- if he can do it, it can be done.

Just my 2 cents!
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Living Room / Re: Paypal: Censors in the name of Profit
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 08:40 PM »
Ok so some clarification, from http://www.the-digit...cumbs-to-censorship/ makes it clear that it's not (just) about chargebacks but about "obscenity" and paint paypal in a slightly more favorable light:

On Saturday, February 18, PayPal’s enforcement division contacted Smashwords with an ultimatum. As with the other ebook retailers affected by this enforcement, PayPal gave us only a few days to achieve compliance otherwise they threatened to deactivate our PayPal services. I’ve had multiple conversations with PayPal over the last several days to better understand their requirements. Their team has been helpful, forthcoming and supportive of the Smashwords mission. I appreciate their willingness to engage in dialogue. Although they have tried their best to delineate their policies, gray areas remain. Their hot buttons are bestiality, rape-for-titillation, incest and underage erotica.

And then:

I had another call with PayPal this morning. Our conversation is continuing with them as I seek to achieve a less onerous, more sensible result.

There’s a sliver of hope that I might be able to obtain a more positive, less restrictive outcome than I communicated on Friday, yet it’s unlikely we’ll achieve the true result I want (no censorship) in the near term. Today, PayPal hinted at a more relaxed definition of prohibited content as, according to them [I'm paraphrasing], “prohibited books would be those for which rape, bestiality and incest are the major theme. If rape, bestiality and incest are incidental plot points, then that content might be allowable.”

This represents a significant clarification in our ongoing attempt to delineate the gray areas and push back the onerous, unfair and restrictive definitions as they now stand. It’s an opening, but it’s not the final word from PayPal. Our friends at PayPal are trying their their best to help Smashwords authors and publishers.


More importantly, the complaints about censorships are complaints that paypal is pressuring the publisher smashmouth to make changes to censor their authors.

And the publisher does indeed start by saying: "Like many writers, censorship of any form greatly concerns me."

However, as he does talk about some of the other areas that they are now forbidding, it's clear the publisher has decided they don't want to publish some of this stuff. On rape and bestiality:
"I don’t want to publish it, sell it, or distribute it. The TOS is now modified to reflect this."

So it's clear that at least some of the new resitrictions (aka censorship) are coming from the publisher's desire to stop publishing certain kinds of books.

A comment about the "higher chargebacks" issue -- I really don't know that I believe that -- it sounds like an excuse on paypal's part to me and bullshit.  However, if it is true, the point they seemed to be making is that *THEY* eat costs from such chargebacks because mastercard/visa charge them when that happens.  If this *is* really the case, I think the solution would be to pass on those charges to seller rather than ban the content.

SO..

As usual the real issues are a little more nuanced than our first reactions.  I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying life is more complicated than it first appears, and paypal is not being as evil as was first suggested.

Having said that, I do think it's really important that people pushed back and continue to push back against any pressure from middle man companies like paypal to influence content.  And it certainly does appear that we saw the standard thing where a company (paypal) overreached and tried to pressure a small company to do something that was only overturned/adjusted when enough people complained that the policy was not evenhanded or applied fairly.  We see this pattern all the time -- the big guys play fast and loose with rules when dealing with small fish until someone can raise enough of a rebellion to get them to act properly.

Read more about the issue:
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Living Room / Re: Paypal: Censors in the name of Profit
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 08:24 PM »
because the number of chargebacks is increased on such business.
that does not sound like an acceptable reason.
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Living Room / Re: Paypal: Censors in the name of Profit
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 01:42 PM »
what the? why are they doing that?  what do they say the reason is? and who decides what's acceptable to them? did they post some kind of standards?  i don't see what business it is of theirs to decide what people can charge for -- unless some law enforcement is telling them the books are illegal. I'm a huge fan of paypal, but wtf?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 7 Days of Free Downloads from VideoBlocks.com
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 01:38 PM »
Like Innuendo says, if you used a credit card like mastercard or visa, and not a bank debit card -- you can complain to them -- they can be pretty good about disputed stuff.

But more importantly -- try to get hold of someone at videoblocks, let them know how upset and tricked you feel, and about how you are going to warn everyone never to use their site and spread the word on some popular computer forums!
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 7 Days of Free Downloads from VideoBlocks.com
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 01:14 PM »
I consider it extremely disreputable that a company would do that and apply such a charge without a huge warning that the free period was over.

Curt I would not give up so easily -- dispute it, complain loudly, yell and scream.

That is really unacceptable -- and if they really do insist on that charge sticking I suggest everyone who reads about this thread stay far away from VideoBlocks -- this seems like very sneaky bad behavior to me.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.131.01 - Feb 28, 2012
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 12:05 PM »
Update with a bunch of fixes, plus now packaged as separate setup and portable zip form, with digitally signed exes:

v1.131.01 - February 28, 2012
  • [Feature] You can now use commandline invocation to show a menu under the cursor for a running LBC menu node.
  • [BugFix] Restoring a hiding/sliding dock from the tray could cause it to reserve desk space when it shouldn't.
  • [BugFix] You should no longer see the floating dock temporarily while it is starting up before restoring its last position docked to the side of the screen.
  • [BugFix] When triggering a pop up menu with a hotkey that contained Control key, the folder of the menu was also opened simultaneously; pop up menus also now start with keyboard focus.
  • [BugFix] Captions were showing temporarily on submenus configured as toolbar buttons, when switching between them.
  • [BugFix] Docks (typically multiple docks) were forgetting whether they were docked or floating.
  • [AdvancedFeature] You can now configure a node with submenus to be a "Treat as tool button" menu, which will make one submenu the active button at any given time, with bottom choices to switch.
  • [MinorFeature] Added additional configuration tab for docks; added button to reset dock/window size/position from configuration.
  • [BugFix] Automatically checks for if floating docks are off screen or too large, and repositions.
  • [MinorFeature] Position of configuration tree dialog is now remembered.
  • [Feature] Now using a dual package (installer and portable zip), with portable zip preconfigured for portable use; installer and executable are now signed.
  • [BugFix] On large font displays the docks were taking up more space than they should.
  • [BugFix] Tab Page menus with captions were not updating captions properly when switching tab page menus.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS tip - retain last clip's formatting with an AutoHotKey workaround script
« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2012, 07:24 AM »
Interesting.

It makes me happy that you like CHS enough to use it despite it not doing everything you need.

Eventually CHS will support saving fully formatted text and you won't have to go through such hoops.

But in the meantime i think i might be able to come up with an easier workaround for you:

You have diagnosed the problem, which is that when you ask CHS to paste the last clip as plaintext, it overwrites the current clipboard. I can try to fix that.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias action
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 10:17 PM »
It may be a bug -- FARR may be handling folders incorrectly in this case. I will look into it.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Timezone problem on archiving screenshots
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 10:16 PM »
Ah very interesting point! let me look into it and fix.

Welcome to the site  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: @mouser, I have a small quibble about your donation system ...
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 01:53 PM »
Fair enough.

But did you know that if you go to your Profile page, look under "Donation Credits" for Recent Activity link, and you will see exactly how much you sent and received as well as to/from whom and when.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR wiki: BookOnAStick
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 01:35 PM »
Damn i missed having the first reply.. but then you cheated me out of it!

Anyway -- great work on this and thanks for sharing it!  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Disk Imaging tool that can restore from external HDD
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 01:23 PM »
I've always had very good luck with Acronis, though it is getting bloated.  Macrium Reflect (free), is a very nice program to use -- though I've found it reallly slow compared to Acronis.
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Living Room / Re: The problem with online ads
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 10:49 AM »
Fair points mahesh  :Thmbsup:

Different approaches are suited for different situations.
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Living Room / Re: The problem with online ads
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 10:09 AM »
I think a helpful way to read this debate is that this article is not addressing at all the issue of truly free/opensource services and products that are released without any one trying to make a business out of it.

It's really just drawing attention to the fact that we are pretty deep in the rabbit hole now where almost everything is trying to be (or appear to be) free to users, while setting up this secondary system for trying to make money from their users by advertising to them (or selling statistics on their behavior or finding ways to get them to buy other stuff, etc.).

And it's trying to say that perhaps things have gone too far in this direction, and it's time to consider the much more straightforward concept that if you are going to try to make money from your users, maybe the cleanest way to do so is to charge them for the service you are providing -- a concept that's starting to seem novel in 2012..

Again -- this is not knocking open source or free software.  It's simply saying, if you're going to try to make money from your users -- maybe it's better to do it directly.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias action
« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2012, 09:41 AM »
that looks right -- but note that your alias should be named play not +play.

you add the + only in the search box to activate it.
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