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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Automatically Refresh Photo Directory

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2011, 03:54 PM »

I've uploaded a beta with folder monitoring support.  Hopefully it will work even on network shares..

It would also be possible for me to add ways to trigger certain behavior through a commandline call if people think that would be useful; so i could add commands that would tell MPQ to refresh it's images or quotes, or switch in and out of away-message mode. Added to beta.

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Developer's Corner / The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake: Nice article about programming design goofs

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2011, 02:31 PM »

Fun article:

The best candidate I have been able to come up with is the C/Unix/Posix use of NUL-terminated text strings. The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?

http://queue.acm.org...etail.cfm?id=2010365

from The best candidate I have been able to come up with is the C/Unix/Posix use of NUL-terminated text strings. The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Automatically Refresh Photo Directory

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2011, 10:41 AM »

Hi kendrkin,

I'm glad you like the program.  It's not one i get much feedback about so it makes me happy to hear someone is using it -- seeing the photo of it in use on the wall made my day. 

I've actually been meaning to add that feature for quite a while, and this is perfect timing for it.

I'll try to add it today -- if not today then definitely this week.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2011, 12:29 AM »

40hz, i live for recommendations like this.. thanks, ordering..

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Mircryption / Re: How do decrypt irssi logs if i have the key? Also question about compiling M.

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 04:57 PM »

A point about key size:

My understanding is that all of these implementations of Blowfish, are Blowfish 448, which supports a max key size of 56 bytes.

It may "accept" a 98byte key, but it don't believe it is using more than 56 bytes of it.  though the question is (and the incompatibilities emerge from) which 56 bytes it is using.

I'd love to hear someone with a better understanding of Blowfish448 talk about this, since i've forgotten most of what little i once knew.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 03:58 PM »

A while ago i wrote:

I think the dirty little secret of google+ and twitter, etc. is that a huge number (the majority?) of accounts are actually created by bots for a variety of reasons.  Of course no site wants to admit this because they love the headlines that make it look like huge numbers of people are joining.  Maybe google is just deleting some of them.

Here's a peak at the shady underbelly:
http://gawker.com/58...r-followers-are-fake
It discusses how a politician has paid for over 800,000 fake twitter accounts to make it look like he is popular.

When you read how some web service has millions of "people" signing up per day.. There's a good chance that almost all of those accounts are fake accounts creating by bots for various purposes, all bad.  The incentives are completely one sided for this kind of thing -- the companies make money from the fake accounts, and the services get the benefit of looking popular and trendy.  There is no incentive to not inflate the account numbers wildly and look the other way while it happens.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Problems with Ghoster

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 11:18 AM »

thanks for sharing ylavi

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 09:47 AM »

Featured on ghacks today (Aug 2, 2011):

http://www.ghacks.ne...s-clipboard-manager/

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Official Announcements / Scheduled DC Server maintenance scheduled for aug 3 and aug 4, 2011

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 08:40 AM »

Softlayer (our hosting company) has some scheduled maintenance set for aug 3 and aug 4 (2011); expect a little downtime.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [CH&S] Quick Paste list "empties" regularly

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 07:43 AM »

thanks for the reminder, changing it now for future versions.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 core alias tables

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 07:42 AM »

The built-in calc function got replaced by a plugin called fcalc, which still works well:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8769.0

And then there is another calculator plugin which may be a little bit more tricky to set up but has some advanced features (like letting you create your own functions in javascript), and that's the one in czb's plugin pack: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=17153.0

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: No html / wysiwyg support?

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 07:19 AM »

Image support was finally added in the last couple of months.. i'll try to add more formats like html/rtf later this year.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2011, 12:30 AM »

v2.03.01 - August 2, 2011

• [MinorFeature] Rearranged options to add more info to some.
• [BugFix] Window watching timer was left running until restart if disabled from options.
• [BugFix] Temporary database files were not being stored in configdfir/database/temp directory; useful for excluding from antivirus engines to avoid locked file issue; now files are put in \temp subdirectory for easier cleaning.
• [MinorFeature] Added help file note on dealing with locked dbisam database error which could occur because of antivirus program.
• [BugFix] Was not saving the page url with clips when using opera.
• [BugFix] Statusbar text was black even in custom display themes when it shouldn't be.
• [BugFix] Metafile error could occur if metafile format could not be converted; added option to ignore metafile images.
• [Feature] Added custom date/time prefix/suffix in formatter dialog.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.96.01 - Aug 2, 2011

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2011, 10:57 PM »

Hopefully this latest release will fix some issues people have been having with last version.. If I introduced any new issues in the process please let me know.

v2.96.01 - Aug 2, 2011

• [MinorFeature] You can now reselect the last selection region location (see Edit menu); useful for selecting same area in multiple files, or reselection region after an undo.
• [MinorFeature] Added new option to help aero transparency capture of child windows; note that you now have to make sure the child window is off of the parent background form to get a good aero capture.
• [Feature] Added GoTo menu for quick jumping between favorite folders; moved some File menu items into it.  Startup screenshot folder auto-added to list.
• [MinorFeature] Added option to hide tray icon completely; not recommended.
• [BugFix] Captures from Opera did not get url;
• [BugFix] Captures from chrome on https pages had incorrect urls in notes.
• [Feature] Added commandline screenshot emailing option, and includes the sendmail.exe commandline tool; useful for people who need to be able to send secure smtp emails or who want to use a custom batch file for sending emails. (If you plan to use this feature you need to download the sendEmail executable from http://caspian.dotco.../Software/SendEmail/).
• [MinorFeature] Built with lastest shell browser library for thumbnail panel.
• [BugFix] Update check dialog could be missing Close button.
• [BugFix] Last build may not have been configured to use the new CommonControls from windows, which fix a few bugs mentioned in past updates).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Panel losing filenames deleting

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2011, 04:34 PM »

I'm going to update the thumbnail browser code in upcoming version to be released today or tomorrow, let's see if it helps.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Panel losing filenames deleting

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2011, 02:32 PM »

that is really odd.. can i ask what operating system?

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Mircryption / Re: mircryption (CBC-Mode) compatible clients for MacOSX (Lion)?

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2011, 10:46 AM »

You might also check out: http://www.aquaticx.com/rnotes.htm

Let us know what works best.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor v2.95.01 won't extract

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2011, 08:52 AM »

I haven't changed anything - you should still be able to extract as normal.  Try renaming it so that the extension is .zip and then try extracting.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone have an old mac mini or macbook with intel chip they want to give me?

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 08:46 PM »

I don't know too much about memory, however.. i have 2 sticks in the pc already and i'm guessing that new memory should be similar.

The memory i have now is two sticks of:
OCZ2T800C42G
2gb each stick, PC2-6500U DDR2-400

So i'm thinking i should have 6400 not 5300.. though i really don't know about these things.

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General Software Discussion / Re: alternative to filehamster?

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 08:06 PM »

Regarding AutoVer, I'm definitely going to try it soon, but posts about version 2 beta on their forum made me feel like i should wait a bit.

Right now i've uninstalled FileHamster and I'm using the new file monitoring and versioning ability added to Super Flexible File Synchronizer, an excellent backup/synchronization tool which has been written about before.  It seems to be working well, and is convenient since I already use SFFS for normal backing up (mirroring) other folders on my system.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: "Metafile is not valid"

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 06:50 PM »

Ok I think i see where this is probably happening, and i think i have a fix -- email me so i can test my new version before making it public.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Auto-push/pull clipboarder?

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 06:46 PM »

Glad you like the new features jeme! Sorry for the delayed reply.
I agree a stack position indicator would be useful.. But its a bit tricky and i'm afraid there are some other requests higher in the todo list that i'm afraid it will never get done, so i wouldn't hold you breath for it.

As for your other comments about powerpasting type modes.. It's not that i can't see logic of them.. I can see in very specialized scenarios benefiting from such intricate pasting operations.. I', just afraid that once again it's such specialized stuff that it's probably better for me to concentrate on improving the things in CHS that are used constantly that still need improvement.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: "Metafile is not valid"

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 06:16 PM »

It sounds like maybe it's an issue with getting information about a non-text clip..

Let's not worry about subsequent behavior after that error, since that is probably enough to stop the program from working.

If you exit the program and restart it, do you still get that error on startup?

If so i will send you a new version to test -- email me ([email protected]).

You might also try unchecking the "Capture Images from Clipboard" in the Image Capture tab, and restart -- and see if that solves the error; if so at least we will have a clue about the problem.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone have an old mac mini or macbook with intel chip they want to give me?

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 05:08 PM »

Ok so no one has an unused mac mini sitting on the shelf.. so if i go the virtual-macosx route, i'm going to need more ram..

Does anyone have 4-8gb of ddr2 desktop ram (in 2gb or 4gb sticks), sitting unused in a box somewhere that they might be willing to send along?

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2011, 02:41 PM »

I've sent a bunch of decks out and still have more to send in monthly drawings.
Would be nice if those who got the decks took photos of them playing it.