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Living Room / Re: Stop-motion videos

« Last post by Target on October 01, 2009, 06:39 PM »

here's another one that was posted at Freeware Genius this morning

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Living Room / Re: The Pricelessware Scam (Alt.Comp.Freeware)

« Last post by Target on September 24, 2009, 10:23 PM »

I wonder why every time there is major drama in ACF that someone from there escapes, comes here, and posts about it (usually in an attempt to start a flame war of some sort here).

Does ACF see us as their nemesis or something? Does anyone that disagrees with something there need to go find their "enemy" to dump the drama on, in some sort of effort to rally a team to back them up, before they go back to ACF to "battle"?

I don't get it. Why always here on this forum? Aren't there other software related forums on the internet?
-app103 (September 24, 2009, 10:13 PM)

I don't think it's just this forum, I actually suspect that the protagonists are just trying to extend their field of operations.

ACF used to be quite good, there was no spam, everyone was (generally) pretty courteous, and the focus was on sharing information (like here). Sadly those days appear to be long gone...

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Living Room / Re: The Pricelessware Scam (Alt.Comp.Freeware)

« Last post by Target on September 24, 2009, 06:42 PM »

What the link and the group have in common is it is overrun with frauds, thieves, felons (like Bear Bottoms) scammers and Ari Silversteinn types
-Bloss (September 24, 2009, 05:42 PM)

this pretty much sums it up, and (at least for me) the actual signal to noise ratio is now so low it's no longer worth the effort

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Post New Requests Here / Re: In huge need of a formula/macro in MS Excel

« Last post by Target on August 21, 2009, 12:25 AM »

One of the many things I like about Excel is that there is usually eight different ways to do anything

indeed, the proverbial cat comes to mind

Wasn't trying to knock your solution, just offering an alternative - with so many choices it's really a case of choosing the one that's most palatable to your situation...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: In huge need of a formula/macro in MS Excel

« Last post by Target on August 20, 2009, 10:35 PM »

I can't access the original files, so I don't know what your data looks like, but

Here's one way using a formula with the Match and Index functions (Vlookup is shorter but requires the lookup list to be sorted)

Rates.xls is a spreadsheet that has haircut rates (column C) for the 3 Stooges (column A). This would correspond to your "Archive" worksheet.

Formula.xls is a spreadsheet that will populate column C if you type a customer name in column A (only for rows 2 through 15, since the formulas in column C are only in those rows).

If there is no name in Column A, or the name in Column A is not one of the 3 Stooges, then the conditional formatting of C2:C15 hides the #N/A.

You could also populate column C with an Event Change macro, much more elegant.
-AndyM (August 20, 2009, 10:03 PM)

I can't access the original files, but a lookup would have been better in the example than using index/match formulas together with conditional formatting

index/match is the lookup you use when the value you are returning is to the left of your lookup value (ie if you want to lookup a value in column C, but return a value from column A)

and so long as the lookup values don't have multiple results (eg where looking up MOE could return 1, 2, or 3) vlookup is perfectly acceptable (sorted or otherwise, at least that's my experience, just use the exact match option)

error values in your results can also be avoided by using conditional statements, eg

=if(iserror(vlookup(value, range, column, TRUE)),"",vlookup(value, range, column, TRUE))

if the lookup value isn't found it returns a blank, otherwise it returns the lookup value

that could be extended so that blank cells don't calculate, eg

=if(cell="","",if(iserror(vlookup(value, range, column, TRUE)),"",vlookup(value, range, column, TRUE)))

if your reference range is only small, use absolute referencing, or a named range

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Coding Snacks / Re: Maximize Windows "partially"

« Last post by Target on August 19, 2009, 05:59 PM »

maybe not a perfect fit, but gridmove might be of interest

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Living Room / Re: Plans Unfolding - New and different paper PIM

« Last post by Target on August 17, 2009, 01:45 AM »

seems like a nice idea - note that on top of the 14M download (no install) it also requires MikTex (another 85M download)

There is a portable version of MikTex, but I haven't been able to get the above app to work with it (yet)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Explorer replacement with embedded modifiable console ?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2009, 09:56 PM »

Kill is not good word here: TC simply closes handles to used DLLs but all of them can be back again if you want to (without the need for restarting application). IIRC it just calls for FreeLibrary(HMODULE hModule) on each working plugin.
-fenixproductions (August 09, 2009, 09:33 PM)

that's the answer i was looking for - many thanks!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Explorer replacement with embedded modifiable console ?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2009, 09:09 PM »

There is TC command witch can be used (from button): cm_UnloadPlugins.
-fenixproductions (August 09, 2009, 08:58 PM)

would I be right in assuming that would kill all your plugins?

not that it matters at this point, but forewarned and all that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Explorer replacement with embedded modifiable console ?

« Last post by Target on August 09, 2009, 08:45 PM »

and once it's running, can you close it?

FWIW I can hide it, but not show it - for some reason the hot keys don't 'stick' (or at least the couple I tried didn't)

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Living Room / Re: Myer-Briggs Personality Test For Programmers (or anybody)

« Last post by Target on August 05, 2009, 11:25 PM »

in both those sites I came up as an ISTP (so I should be a race car driver, a pilot, or a legal secretary...)

out of curiosity I asked a work colleague and she said she hadn't realised I had a personality...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why can't my computer detect the 6th Sata drive?

« Last post by Target on July 29, 2009, 12:53 AM »

seems obvious, but first thing I'd be looking at was the BIOS...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Alternative shells

« Last post by Target on July 21, 2009, 01:13 AM »

another one for your list - BB Lean

it's a fork of blackbox (another shell) with the focus on being, well, lean. minimalist interface, easy to setup

I played around with shells quite a bit back in my win98 days (trying to get the most out of my aged hardware

), then ran with BBLean for a while but stopped after a rebuild - as others have noted there weren't enough benefits for me to bother with it

Actually it seems like most shells are as much about eye candy as anything else - litestep is probably the best example of this (the majority of the content on their sites is skins and screenshots).

if anyones at all interested, these sites may be of use...

shell-shocked.org (the sites been inactive for a long time, but the content is still good)
www.shellfront.org
wikipedia

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Windows needs: fully streamlined application installation at setup

« Last post by Target on July 16, 2009, 11:37 PM »

keep us posted on how you get on (please)

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General Software Discussion / Re: media box - any hints, tips, or recommendations...

« Last post by Target on July 16, 2009, 11:35 PM »

Perhaps dual boot between MythTV and FreeNAS ?

Choosing a filesystem that's common to both, (that might knock out using FreeNAS' ZFS).
-4wd (July 16, 2009, 11:04 PM)

I had considered that, however wouldn't the dual boot predicate a display and a keyboard?

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General Software Discussion / media box - any hints, tips, or recommendations...

« Last post by Target on July 16, 2009, 09:18 PM »

I was going thru my junk box the other day and I've got almost enough pieces to put another machine together

I don't need another machine, and it's relatively low spec but still too good to toss out (AMD 2600, 2G ram, GeForce 256 w/TV out)

the TV out part got me thinking that maybe it would make a reasonable media box (not that I really need one of those either, but digital TV is starting to come on line here at the moment)

I'm a total noob to this so I've been googling all over on this over the last few days and while it appears that the specs are adequate, I don't seem to be able to find much info on these sort of setups - there are plenty of forums for established or distro specific setups, but not much about how to go about choosing a particular platform.

As an added complication I would also like to be able to use it as a 'NAS' when I go to LAN days (windows network)

I'm OS agnostic on this (I'm familiar with Windows but not Linux

) and would prefer a 'headless' system, which I suppose implies some sort of server OS (again, something I'm not familiar with), and controlled via a remote or gamepad

Does anyone here have any experience with anything like this, or can point me at some worthwhile resources

TIA

target

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Living Room / Re: Members Only! A good way to randomly view DC

« Last post by Target on July 15, 2009, 09:00 PM »

it means they are viewing the top secret page that lists all people who are viewing the "what people are viewing" page.
someone has to watch the watchers after all!
-mouser (July 15, 2009, 08:35 PM)

it IS a twilight zone thing!!

does it ever end? (watchers watching watchers watching watchers watching...)

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Living Room / Re: Members Only! A good way to randomly view DC

« Last post by Target on July 15, 2009, 08:30 PM »

this is a cool feature, but I something i see on that page has piquéd my curiosity...

what's with with those visitors who's 'actions' are listed as 'nothing, or nothing you can see...'?
-Target (July 08, 2009, 05:23 PM)

or 'Unknown Action' - ? - maybe they're making donations
-tomos (July 09, 2009, 05:47 AM)

... or maybe they're composing a post like, "Members Only! A good way to randomly view DC."
-CodeTRUCKER (July 15, 2009, 08:27 PM)

or maybe it's a twilight zone thing???

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by Target on July 14, 2009, 07:03 PM »

@Target:
An Alaska Malamut? (at least that is the only name from type of dog that is known to me)
-Shades (July 14, 2009, 06:42 PM)

close, but not quite - he's a Siberian Husky

not sure about Malamutes, but in Sibe's blue eyes are relatively common - they can have blue or brown eyes, or a mix, in our case what's called a party colour where the eye is part blue and part brown

and with regard to his nature, his name says it all

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