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Find And Run Robot / Re: Never show the tray symbol?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 06:09 PM »

try disabling that option in "Windows Options" tab about showing farr on taskbar.. when you combine that with they hide tray icon i think it should do what you want, though you may have to restart farr.

if not, let me know what OS you are using.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] TAB key working as DOWN key

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 06:06 PM »

you can do this already -- just go to "Keyboard Interface" options TAB and uncheck the box labeled "Tab autocompletes":

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DcUpdater / Re: Minor glitch

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 05:59 PM »

That is a bit of a glitch -- though i should say it's not that its showing EVERYTHING, its just on launch its restricting only to the app in question and dcupdater.
I should change it to not show the updater

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Living Room / Re: Monitor Choices -- Go For Touch Screen?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 05:45 PM »

I tend to agree with the comments here, that touchscreen is not a good solution for normal desktop user.  There are substantial penalties in terms of price and screen quality, and no real benefits for normal desktop user.

Now for specialty use -- for a wall mounted art project or media player control panel -- that's a completely different question.  But for a normal desktop, definitely not.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 05:40 PM »

You can read more about Yii's active record stuff here:

• http://www.yiiframew...e/1.1/en/database.ar
• http://www.yiiframew.../1.1/en/database.arr

Some of this stuff is definitely inspired by Ruby-on-rails stuff, but i don't know enough to speak intelligently about that.  Php and mysql do have their own tools for checking expensive queries etc., i don't think yii has anything extra for that.  But it does have function to help you see exactly what it IS doing behind the scenes.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Never show the tray symbol?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 03:50 PM »

Can you elaborate a little more about what happens when you check that option?  There is also an option in "Windows Options" tab about showing farr on taskbar that you might try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: alternative to filehamster?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 03:34 PM »

I thought the way it worked was to back up when you saved a file

yeah i think the 5 second thing isnt how frequently it's checked -- i don't think it makes much of a difference.

FileHamster just seems a bit buggy -- i've also had it crash and hang quite a bit on me.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2011, 08:10 AM »

One important caution to add about yii:

It has a very powerful and elegant ActiveRecord class that makes it convenient to grab database records in an object oriented way, and work with them in a very convenient high-level fashion.

However it's very hard to know how badly this will impact performance (memory and cpu) when dealing with large amounts of data.

Now there is nothing to stop you from doing low level efficient manual database querying, so you can always drop down to that when you need it.. Yii does use some fancy lazy-loading functionality which an be helpful -- but again it makes it hard to know how many queries are happening behind the scenes, etc.

In short -- if you are not working with large datasets, you are really going to benefit from these features.. But if you are, you may have to be careful about relying upon them.

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Living Room / Re: Was Stuxnet Worm Built to Attack Iran's Nuclear Program?

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2011, 09:35 PM »

New excellent long article on stuxnet:
http://www.wired.com...phered-stuxnet/all/1
"How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History"

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2011, 01:24 AM »

Excellent find J-Mac -- GoogleMonkeyR works quite well! (took me a while to find that the options dialog is available under the upper right Gear menu on search results screen). 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2011, 12:48 AM »

This calls for a custom profile field

good idea, i shall add.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2011, 02:31 PM »

Quick update:
I've spent the last couple of weeks now coding a large project in Yii, and have had a real opportunity to put it through its paces doing some slightly unusual stuff.  My initial positive reactions have only intensified, which is rare for me.  Yii epitomizes the notion of making it everywhere easy to do the common things, and possible to do the uncommon things.  Definitely two big thumbs up from me.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb backup method - lost several years of notes

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2011, 06:51 AM »

What happened to you happens to most of us.. we *think* we are backing up stuff but we're never called to test our recovery systems until it is too late.
This is one of the reasons it's useful to occasionally migrate from one machine to another, just to force yourself to find and copy all of your important data.

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Living Room / Re: A M A Z I N G ! - I got a total refund without any questions asked.

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2011, 05:45 AM »

Excellent.
Overclockers deserves some real praise then.  Being able to return a custom computer after a few days of use is a huge thing -- since if a machine is going to fail it's probably likely to do so in the beginning, and it can happen to even the best built machines.

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 09:49 PM »

I tried 3 greasemonkey scripts that failed:

• Google Search - Remove Redirection (v2.02)
• Disable Google Search Result Redirect
• Scrub Google Redirect Links

And then finally one that worked (thanks sri and Lashiec!):

• Google Tracking-B-Gone

Having said that, it's been strongly suggested to me that I simply stop using the google homepage to search from, and I think i will probably do that, and maybe start using duckduckgo or scroogle, or one of those.

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 09:22 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.  Now to pick one or more of these solutions..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A hint to those moving FARR with settings from XP to Vista/Win7

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 02:54 PM »

If I just unzip FARR and CHS into a folder they do not have the portable switch turned on?

correct -- you have to manually edit the configdir.ini file to make them work 100% portable.

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Living Room / I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 02:51 PM »

Anyone know of a firefox or other addon to get rid of this garbage?

When i do a google search result the results LOOK normal, but if you try to copy the link you get something like:
http://www.google.co...rLfm4ffQ&cad=rja

im really sick of this crap that makes it hard for me to copy and share links.

there has to be a firefox plugin to put a stop to this, and honestly it's more than a little bothersome that google insists on tracking every link i click in their search results.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A hint to those moving FARR with settings from XP to Vista/Win7

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 11:09 AM »

does this mean that Win7 does not allow completely portable applications

no.  in fact you can use all of my apps portably by editing the configdir.ini file and uncommenting the portable=true line.
then you can run farr or chs with all files in one directory.

HOWEVER -- this directory must be one you have full permission to write in -- and thus cannot be your normal Program Files directory.

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Find And Run Robot / A hint to those moving FARR with settings from XP to Vista/Win7

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 09:20 AM »

Joto asked me today in the chat channel about moving his installed FARR directory from an XP machine to a Windows 7 machine, so that he wouldn't lose any settings.
Joto just copied the Program Files\Find and Run Robot\ directory from his XP machine to his Windows 7 machine.
And all worked fine *except* that his custom aliases were gone.

The reason is that on Windows 7, by default FARR is required to store user data (including the MyAliases subdirectory) in the My Documents folder (wheras on Windows XP it's in the program files directory.

So, IF you want to move your FARR with all your settings from XP to Vista/Win7, just make sure to move your MyCustom subfolder to MyDocuments\DonationCoder\Find and Run Robot\AliasGroups.

ps. I believe your settings file will automatically be copied over to MyDocuments folder on first use so you don't have to manually move that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Gentlemen (and Ladies), Start Your Engines!!

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 09:14 AM »

As discussed earlier, a certificate will be part of this year's nany rewards. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: List Numberer

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 07:32 AM »

patforkin, that doesnt really sound like a job for listnumberer -- would you like me to split it off into a new thread?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Picture Grid Arranger

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 06:11 AM »

i wasn't particularly interested in any effects -- the main goal is to make one new image that combines them all, by letting user easily and quickly arrange the thumbnails.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Picture Grid Arranger

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 04:35 AM »

This is an idea i've been meaning to code for a long time but as it's not really my area of expertise I thought i would put it out there in case anyone else was interested.

The idea is for a program that would let you drop in a bunch of photos and would let you move around their thumbnails to arrange them in some kind of grid, and then save the full sized montage.

An important aspect would be snapping behavior.  If you have ever used the windows multiple-monitors settings dialog, that is what i had in mind:


This would let users easily arrange photos in a horizontal strip, vertical strip, grid, etc.

I can see some additional nice flourish options such as a function to autofit a grid, options for some kind of automatic bordering feature, resizing options, and ability to drag and adjust relative sizes of images.

This is a program that is 90% user interface.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.10 (7/12/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2011, 04:09 AM »

This is not so great as product updates in this case are not available from my website

i didn't fully understand the 3 options you proposed, could you elaborate on them and which you would prefer?
do you just want me to let the .dcupdate file specify an alternative web page the user should visit to get the update?
so that dcuhelper would present 2 buttons, one would say like "visit program website" the other would say "visit registered user update page"?