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Living Room / Re: How many people work from home?
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 05, 2008, 08:31 AM »
Don't work from home at the moment, but spent well over a decade working in my own Design business. I miss it, but I also enjoy the communal aspect of working in a larger company.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 03, 2008, 09:40 PM »
Justice that adds to bottom of the text, is there a way to add to beginning of the text file?

You'd have to (using a batch):
1. write your line of text to a new file
2. write the old file to the new file
3. delete the old file
4. rename the new file to the old file

Or easy enough using a script (VBS,JS,AiT,AHK, etc) to use concatenate the two (in the correct order) and overwrite the original file.

But reading your original question I thought you were wanting to write to a specific Wiki page? If you use the Original Gadfly Database Type then each Page/Word is saved as a different file. Then you'd be able to add text to the end of the file.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any app to auto-replace Notepad ??
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 03, 2008, 07:28 AM »
PSPad has many different areas of system integration. What you're specifically asking for Curt is achieved by a small 8K exe that you can copy over the top of notepad.exe.

System Integration
Open TXT files
When checked this sets the association for .TXT files to PSPad. otherwise .TXT files are associated with notepad. Note: If Windows notepad.exe is replaced with the version of notepad.exe supplied with PSPad then this option is, effectively, ignored.

Register in System context menu
When Checked you can open any file in PSPad or PSPad HEX editor by clicking right mouse button on it and selecting corresponding item in context menu.

Link on the DeskTop
Adds or removes desktop shortcut for PSPad editor.

Link in the START menu
Adds or removes Start menu shortcut for PSPad editor.

Link in Send To menu
Adds or removes Send To item for PSPad editor in Windows Explorer context menus.

HTML Viewer in IE 5+
When checked, sets PSPad as default HTML viewer for MS Internet Explorer.

HTML Editor for IE
When checked, sets PSPad as default HTML editor for MS Internet Explorer.

HTML Viewer in OPERA
When checked, sets PSPad as default HTML editor for Opera. Note: If OPERA browser is running, this option is disabled!

Editor for Total Commander
Sets PSPad as default editor for Total Commander. Note: TotalCommander is running, this option is disabled! You must have TotalCommander shareware installed for this option to function.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 03, 2008, 07:03 AM »
Hey guys: what great ideas  :Thmbsup:

I really liked the day page idea:
Second, I do not use scratch pad at all. I have daily record wikipage I use to put random bits

Thanks Kartal: it's a great way to organise stuff that's not necessarily organised so that it can be organised later...

And thanks Justice for your kick start... I've never done anything in AHK before (always used AutoIT myself), but nearly everyone here uses AHK so I'd always thought of getting started (but never really starting  :-[).

So I've combined Kartal's idea of a day page into your script and bingo: wonderful  :Thmbsup:

My Attempt at an AHK Script
Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. ; WikidJot
  2. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  3. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  4. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  5.  
  6. #j::  ; Win+j hotkey
  7. Gui, Add, Text,, Enter note:
  8. Gui, Add, Edit, r9 w400 vClip
  9. Gui, Add, Button,gButtonOK, &Copy to Clipboard  ; The label ButtonOK (if it exists) will be run when the button is pressed.
  10. Gui, Show,, ClipJotter
  11. return  ; End of auto-execute section. The script is idle until the user does something.
  12. return
  13.  
  14. ButtonOK:
  15. Gui, Submit  ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable.
  16.  
  17. ; run wikidpad or switch to it
  18. IfWinNotExist, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad       ; Look for a specific Wiki ("MyWiki.wiki")
  19. {
  20.   Run, G:\Programmes\WikidPad\Wikidpad.exe  -w G:\Documents\MyWiki\MyWiki.wiki  ; comment this line with correct paths
  21.   WinWait, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, , 5
  22. }
  23.  
  24. ; ThisDay is the page where all "today's" notes will go: it's date based and will appear in the ParentLess View
  25. ThisDay := A_DD . "-" . A_MM . "-" . A_YYYY    ' eg: 04-04-2008
  26.  
  27. WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad         ; Use filename just in case other windows are open
  28.  
  29. Send, {CTRLDOWN}o{CTRLUP}                   ; Open WikiPage
  30. WinWait, Open Wiki Word                     ; Wait for the window
  31. IfWinNotActive, Open Wiki Word, WinActivate, Open Wiki Word
  32. WinWaitActive, Open Wiki Word
  33. Send, %ThisDay%                             ; Enter the PageName
  34.  
  35. WinWaitActive, Open Wiki Word
  36. Send, {ENTER}                               ; Close the Open Wiki Page window
  37.  
  38. WinWaitActive, Create , , 1                 ; Wait to see if the Create Dialog is displayed
  39. IfWinActive, Create
  40. {
  41.   Send, {ALTDOWN}y{ALTUP}                   ; Of course we want to create a new page!
  42. }
  43.  
  44. WinWait, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  45. IfWinNotActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  46. WinWaitActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  47.  
  48. ControlFocus, wxWindowClassNR2              ; Set the focus on the editor in case it's not
  49.  
  50. {
  51.   ; The 3rd section of the Status Bar displays where the cursor is, use this to show when we've reached the end of the page
  52.   StatusBarGetText, BeforeText , 3 , MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  53.   Send, {PgDn}
  54.   StatusBarGetText, AfterText , 3 , MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  55.  
  56.   if AfterText = %BeforeText%
  57.     break
  58. }
  59.  
  60. IfWinNotActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad, WinActivate, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  61. WinWaitActive, MyWiki.wiki - WikidPad
  62.  
  63. ControlFocus, wxWindowClassNR2              ; Set the focus on the editor in case it's not
  64.  
  65. Send, {ENTER}{ENTER}                        ; Add a couple of lines
  66. Send, %Clip%                                ; Insert our text
  67.  


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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 02, 2008, 08:37 AM »
Have to say this was a great tip, I'm still using WikidPad to access shared information between work and home via Jungledisk (amazon s3) and it never fails to deliver.

That's good to hear. I generally run mine off a USB between home and work.

One thing that I have not quite figured out is that when something pops into my head that I want to catch WikidPad invariably is not yet running, so starting, finding a spot etc takes a bit too long. I know I should have it running anyway really  :-[

What I think I want is something in the tray that can capture my thought quickly, run the programme if needed and then stick it into the Scratch Pad for later? I'll probably have a fiddle with AutoIT...
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Backup Guide / Re: Information about Backup4all 2.3.2
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 30, 2008, 09:50 PM »
If you are already running a CentOS box, Veign had a good suggestion.

I think that I've had a lot of hair pulling because of this: my backups live on a Synology NAS and the only way to get B4A to work somewhat regularly was to use a local temp folder and alternate zipping (which is not what the Help file suggests)  >:(

I'll have to test it again, but last go worked  :)
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Backup Guide / Re: Information about Backup4all 2.3.2
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 30, 2008, 01:07 AM »
As you can see on my screenshot, tomos, it also works here, I did exactly as you (too) directed, but what about the size of the backup: 3 MB backing up 100 GB?? No way! How many GB are you backing up, and how much space does the produced backup files take?

Are you backing up compressed files? I know my B4A spits the dummy when it tries that: generally it says that I have not got enough room.

Edit:  :-[ Re-Looking at your screenshot... those file are the B4A index files, not the actual backups. The backups should be probably in a zip file.

The backup of my documents directory looks like this:
Screenshot - 30_03_2008 , 5_42_42 PM.png

The actual backup files are contained in the Directory:
Screenshot - 30_03_2008 , 7_08_02 PM.png

And it also looks like you're backing up your backups??? Is that right?  :-\
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Living Room / Re: We need to do something about Skrommel.. but what?
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 30, 2008, 12:35 AM »
How do you solve a problem like Skrommel?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Skrommel?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!

Many a thing you know you'd like to tell him
Many a thing He ought to understand
But how do you make him stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand

Oh, how do you solve a problem like Skrommel?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

Darwin: This needs to be converted into an audible file!  :D  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: New kind of spreadsheet: Resolver One
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 28, 2008, 06:24 PM »
Very nice idea.. They have some screencasts too that help shed light on what it does  :up:

Here are the links:
Screenshot - 29_03_2008 , 10_22_59 AM.png

Screenshot - 29_03_2008 , 10_26_42 AM.png

Screenshot - 29_03_2008 , 10_30_41 AM.png


This certainly looks like an interersting application!

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Living Room / Re: Google
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 28, 2008, 06:17 PM »
That's how any standard addiction works  :D
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  • tinjaw
  • darwin
  • Perry Mowbray
  • cranioscopical
  • wraith808

Hey TinJaw: what do you think about maintaining this list in your original post? That way it's easy to see the latest  :-\
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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 09:35 PM »
i use ninjawords, nice and fast
www.ninjawords.com
(have it as a search in opera)

NinjaWords has a nice clean interface  :up: , I see it uses Wiktionary as its main dictionary (is a vote for Ninja a vote for Wiktionary? Not function wise, but accuracy wise it will be??).
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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 07:14 AM »
Even though it's not a dictionary per se, we should take this opportunity to post about the very cool FreeThesaurus.net by DC member Wordzilla (Anderson Hu): https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8416.0

Good point!! Maybe we should get FreThesaurus added to OneLook (which is why I forgot about it  :-[ )?

Edit: I've just suggested that FreeThesaurus be added.
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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 07:11 AM »
-Perry Mowbray (March 27, 2008, 06:35 AM)

Yes, I saw that when I was marking it up: they point to the same URI too. Wasn't sure what it meant, but didn't know which one to delete  :D

odd that's listed twice (at onelook.com too) with same url but different amounts of words
must try it out - onelook I mean
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General Software Discussion / On-Line Dictionaries
« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 06:35 AM »
After being soundly and justifiably corrected for posting off topic (thanks tinjaw ;) ), I thought that exposing the OnLine Dictionaries in a Poll would be both interesting and useful.

To vote I've given you the top 14 Dictionaries by Popularity from OneLook.com to choose from, plus OneLook (of course  ;) ), and an "Other" for your own favourite if it's unlisted. I'm assuming that the popularity on OneLook is gained by counting the clicks on the Dictionary links? The options list is in order: It'll be interesting to see if the results here match OneLook's.

My all-time favourite OnLine Dictionary is OneLook.com, which offers a range of Dictionary survices:

These guys are brilliant and are definitely in my favourites!  :Thmbsup:
-Perry Mowbray (March 26, 2008, 09:08 AM)

But they do not do all this Dictionary stuff themselves, they actually use other dictionaries! The 109 General Dictionaries (sorted by popularity) are listed here; all in all though, they've indexed 12,833,697 words in 1061 dictionaries (a huge number in anyone's language):

Of course you get all the above (plus many more) Dictionaries with OneLook, for me it's a simple choice...
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I'm surprised more people don't use OneLook, or maybe it's just me that appreciates the layout and tools?


These guys are brilliant and are definitely in my favourites!  :Thmbsup:
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The three amigos, the three musketeers, the three stoog... nevermind  :o

I was going to start adding my own "threes", but I think this link will suffice  :D
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There need not be an end point. I picked one because I honestly thought we would have over 10 people wanting to do this. I'm happy to wait until we get a few more interested folks to join us.

 :Thmbsup: More than agreed.

I thought 10 would be easy too  :-\
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I, like Darwin, am in no hurry and would probably prefer more of a discount. So if everyone is happy to wait, I am.

Does there need to be an end point? We've already had one that's come and gone?
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Renegade: is it ReCaptcha?
-Perry Mowbray (March 18, 2008, 07:22 AM)

YES! THAT'S IT!

Check the credits at the bottom of the page:
Carnegie Mellon University

Cool: I saw that too (just didn't paste it in)...
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Renegade: would that be Project Gutenberg? Can't find any reference to captcha on their site with a "I'm mega lazy" search, though...

Renegade: is it ReCaptcha?
Use reCAPTCHA on Your Site!

reCAPTCHA helps prevent automated abuse of your site (such as comment spam or bogus registrations) by using a CAPTCHA to ensure that only humans perform certain actions.

  • It's Free! Yep, reCAPTCHA is free. The only reason we might charge is if you require special services from us.
  • It's Useful. Why waste the effort of your users? By using reCAPTCHA instead of other CAPTCHA implementations, you are helping to digitize books.
  • It's Easy. reCAPTCHA is a Web service. As such, adopting it is as simple as adding 4 lines of code on your site. For many applications and programming languages such as Wordpress and PHP we also have easy-to-install plugins available. We generate and check the distorted images, so you don't need to run costly image generation programs.
  • It's Accessible. Most other implementations of CAPTCHAs block visually impaired individuals, who cannot read images of distorted text. reCAPTCHA, on the other hand, has an audio test that allows blind people to freely navigate your site.
  • It's Secure. reCAPTCHA is run by the original creators of CAPTCHA and has the highest security standards. Many other implementations of CAPTCHAs can be easily broken.
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Also it's how I can stop spam yet still let anonymous users  post. Logged in users obviously don't need the captchas. Maybe there's spam technology that's smarter than most captchas, but from my experiences it's like this:
No captcha = Plenty of offers for viagra, used cars, penis enhancements etc.
Captcha = 0 - zero - offers but some perfectly valid anonymous posts.

That's my experience too. After reading Renegade's Post I felt a little depressed, but thankfully that level of sophistication is not everywhere (Captcha still works for me).

I wondered about OpenID too, but is that moving toward everyone having a verified on-line identity?
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Two other criticisms I have:

  • They are always western alphabet/number biased
  • They often have mixtures of numbers, upper and lower case characters. When you see, for example, 'l' is it the number one, the lower case L or the upper case i ??? Same goes for 'o' ?
-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2008, 09:01 PM)

Both equally valid. I run b2Evolution as my blogging software and its Captcha implementation includes the ability to define the font and characters used. So, if my blog was mainly for non-western people I could choose a corresponding font.

Choosing the characters means that you could simply have A-Z, or A-Z + a-z, etc. Choosing the font makes a big difference when comparing upper case i and lower case l as well.

I'm not sure how much tweeking can be had with the larger blog sites?
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It is particularly annoying that they are creeping into generic forums that are widely used - surely developers of popular products should be aware of accessibility issues!
-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2008, 08:46 PM)

The balancing act they are walking is trying to allow as easy commenting as possible but exclude the machine generated spam (which can be huge and can cripple sites).

One alternative is to only open your site/forum to members, but this will rule out the casual commenter, which most people don't want to do.

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They are a pain for sure.

On most Captcha you should have a button to re-render the image, which I'm often using to get one that I can read OK.

Of note on Wikipedia are their Critisms of Captcha:
As systems owners make it more difficult for computers to interpret the characters on the CAPTCHA, many humans also find it hard to read the characters and often get stuck in a 'loop' until they enter the correct letters. This has led to three recommendations:

1) The CAPTCHA should be no longer than 6 characters
2) The letter O and the number 0 should not be required (which causes confusion).
3) CAPTCHA surrounds (pixels added arround the numbers or letters to prevent computers from interpreting the characters) should not resemble letters or part-letters.
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