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Living Room / Re: RAM contact spray?
« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2015, 04:30 PM »
Oh, and even a sticky-note would live long enough to clean 4 DIMM's (yes, it's normal for the paper to get thorn by the sharp edges of the connector). And I usually have plenty of those lying around.
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Living Room / Re: RAM contact spray?
« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2015, 04:24 PM »
The pencil-eraser _could_ leave some goo when used, and by the time I've found a pencil that has some eraser left, I've walked past the printer half a dozen times... ;)
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Living Room / Re: RAM contact spray?
« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2015, 05:41 AM »
Step by step plan:
  • Take out DIMM
  • Fold a piece of ordinary printing paper
  • Put the fold over the contacts of the DIMM
  • Move the paper a few times with thumb and indexfinger each on a side of the paper in the length of the DIMM (like using it as sandpaper)
  • Voila, Bob is your uncle!

(worked for me for 25+ years in my computer-repair history)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to open groups of programs.
« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2015, 04:08 PM »
it's been over a year since the last post.   :-[
-skwire (February 05, 2015, 03:53 PM)
I was about to suggest a NANY 2015 based update :up:
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Coding Snacks / Re: Encode/decode cipher/decipher crypter/decrypter ASCII HEX Binary Base64 URL etc.
« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2015, 02:33 PM »
Please give a reasonable use-case for such a tool?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox won't play videos unless I keep moving the mouse! Ugh!
« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2015, 02:29 PM »
Check your virus scanner.

[Case:]
Today we had an issue that one of our service executables wouldn't work properly. It's sole task is to listen for incoming connections on a port, and run a connector exe when requested through that port (yeah, sounds like a web-server, but it isn't)
Adding the connector exe to the process-exclusion list of MS Forefront (unfortunately our AV solution), and restarting the service executable, solved the issue.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to open groups of programs.
« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2015, 02:19 PM »
I think that is one of the scenario's Skwire was thinking of when he published Splat for NANY 2015 :D
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Coding Snacks / Re: Encode/decode cipher/decipher crypter/decrypter ASCII HEX Binary Base64 URL etc.
« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2015, 02:15 PM »
In npp, converting the following is not fun.
-ashecorven (February 05, 2015, 11:25 AM)

The npp standard plugin Converter turned that into this:

01001001 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100001
 
:o

And back into hex in about as many milliseconds it took to convert to ascii...
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Coding Snacks / Re: Update of NirSoft's ZipInstaller
« Last post by Ath on February 04, 2015, 01:55 PM »
No, Inno Setup is a full-fledged installer builder (compiler), that you, as a developer, write a script for. It comes with a built-in wizard to generate a basic script from a set of files you point it at, but that still needs some work to make it nice and clean. There are some 3rd party automation tools that can generate a script, or part of a script, for you, but eventually, installation of many software tools usually requires more than a simple shortcut to an exe file. And most software that needs to be installed comes wrapped in an installer, often using Inno Setup or an NSIS installer (that I have next to none knowledge of, except from using it to install tools on my systems ;)).
And for portable software, there are several ways of handling the 'install' process, indeed often just an unzip/create shortcut(s), but what if the user has his own home-brew starter/menu script?
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Coding Snacks / Re: Encode/decode cipher/decipher crypter/decrypter ASCII HEX Binary Base64 URL etc.
« Last post by Ath on February 04, 2015, 07:25 AM »
A lot of programmers editors have features like these, either directly built in or as a plugin. At least Notepad++ has plugins for this
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Coding Snacks / Re: Update of NirSoft's ZipInstaller
« Last post by Ath on February 04, 2015, 07:23 AM »
Use Inno Setup. :up:
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Living Room / Re: Process Tamer don't tame when Nero Vision 9 automatically detects chapters
« Last post by Ath on February 01, 2015, 09:49 AM »
Is that a 64 bit application?
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by Ath on January 24, 2015, 05:15 AM »
I need to get some help making better icon
-mouser (January 24, 2015, 05:06 AM)
Well, the icon image in itself is quite alright, just the width/height sizes seem to be somewhat off
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by Ath on January 24, 2015, 04:31 AM »
Well, now that it's been like a due date since the release of WL, and there hasn't been much complaint about that, I'd opt for the dual solution: both a due date or a last done date are very useful.
I can understand you don't want to create bloatware, but both feel quite natural for a productivity-type app like WhenLast :up:


Another finding: The graphic used for the WL icon doesn't seem to be really square. I'm using MultiCon to have 4 app links in the space required for a standard homescreen link (so I can fit everything in 1 homescreen ;)), and the WL icon seems to be somewhat malformed, where other (often round/circle) icons are resized perfect by multicon. Can this be verified?

Edit: Added screenshot:

WhenLast 2 Screenshot_2015-01-24-11-37-44.png
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to run programs with elevated permissions?
« Last post by Ath on January 23, 2015, 09:20 AM »
The standard solution for this issue is to use the runas command
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.9.3 - DEC 31, 2014
« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2015, 03:19 AM »
That's there already, for aeons, AFAIK.
For your bear minimum requirements, go to Preferences:
- Interface Options: After Capture Show: should be set to 'Stay Minimized' or 'Show Main Form' (away form the 'PopUp Choice Dialog' default)
- Post Capture Options: Copy to Clipboard: select 'Image bitmap' from the combobox
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General Software Discussion / Re: Onscreen notification in Windows8 Similar to Outlook incoming mail but for other
« Last post by Ath on January 18, 2015, 03:58 PM »
I'd have a look at Growl for Windows, maybe you have applications that support it?
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 - NEW APPS FOR THE NEW YEAR 2015 - START YOUR ENGINES!
« Last post by Ath on January 18, 2015, 03:53 AM »
^Having an alternative design (so I can order 2 mugs, like I did with NANY2013 8)) feels like a bonus, so please update/enhance your design, IMHO.
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by Ath on January 18, 2015, 03:46 AM »
So far I like the way reminders work, but there are some notes:
  • After a reminder has been 'activated', but no response has been made, I'd expect it to signal again after the original time has past. I realize this is one of the discussion items, above, but it (now) kinda feels natural, after some testing/use
  • The resolution is now minutes, and planned to be defined in days, but I'd find it quite useful if it could (also) be set in hours, or maybe even in minutes. Maybe the unit of delay (minutes, hours, days, weeks) should be a parameter?
(maybe some more notes later...)
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)
« Last post by Ath on January 15, 2015, 01:40 AM »
    + Added "Play audio file" action.  (Thanks, lujomu)
-skwire (January 14, 2015, 07:42 PM)
And it would be very convenient to be able to stop any sound-clip playing, especially if you either have it wait to finish playing, or have selected a very long sound-clip.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook 2013 Way to edit embedded graphics
« Last post by Ath on January 10, 2015, 03:42 AM »
Adding a hyperlink to some text in Word is achieved by selecting the desired part of text and pressing <Ctrl-K> where you can then paste or select an url in a popup window. Could also work for images (not on Windows atm, so can't check)
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on January 09, 2015, 03:19 AM »
Today another one in the 'nice numbers' category: Palindrome user-id 473374

Screenshot - 09-01-2015 , 10_16_02.png
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2015, 12:52 PM »
And he has a few of the same remarks that are noted here ;)

Great review, imho. :up:
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Entry: SedTester
« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2015, 09:35 AM »
Released: SedTester 1.0.1.0

Made SedTester usable on Linux with MONO (Mono is not really .NET Compatible...)
Several other improvements
Details in the OP
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Non-Windows Software / Re: List of 40 inexpensive single-board Linux friendly computers
« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2015, 04:21 AM »
USB Armory seems intriguing, what's everybody's opinion about it?
-rgdot (January 02, 2015, 11:48 AM)
Well, for me it's too small, too application-specific and too expensive compared to many of the other contenders.
I'd go for an RPi-compatible board with more horse-power, as the RPi is 'rather sluggish', to say it nicely :-[
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