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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 10:06 PM »

oh i see.  does it remember other changes? if you add items to the dock it remembers them?
and it will let you undock and re-dock to your chosen monitor -- it just doesnt remember?
does it always behave like this even if you dock to any side of the screen?
if you right click and choose to "rebuild dock" does it shift over to first monitor or stay on the other monitor.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 09:53 PM »

ok so the problem only occurs when LBC runs at startup when windows boots?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 09:46 PM »

LBC is designed to work well on multimonitor systems.

here's a question, if you exit and restart lbc manually, not on system startup, does it work?
do you have it docked to the screen?

what operating system?

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Living Room / Re: Cat & Dolphin Make Friends

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 05:51 PM »

I love it 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 08:12 AM »

Keep up the great ideas, suggestions, clues, etc.  Definitely some good ideas on this thread and I know gothic (dc server admin) will be trying some of this stuff to see if it has any effect or triggers any epiphanies.

What are the chances of a file system glitch making the server think the file is smaller than it really is?

Seems unlikely to me -- if that was happening, i would think the server would be experiencing much graver catastrophic crashes in all kinds of operations.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 07:18 AM »

thats a very good point.  can anyone think of cases where they wouldn't want the alias regex matching to be case insensitive?  if not i will make it case insensitive.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:47 AM »

Ok let me see if i can fix.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:45 AM »

it might be.. if someone could explain how or what could be wrong that could cause this..

i'll repeat the point i keep trying to emphasize -- the internet is a giant heap of malfunctioning junk powered by an infrastructure of software that is insanely retarded.. but even so, when downloading a file if you have connection problems, your browser knows that the download has not finished and waits there until the connection recovers, or else aborts and knows that it has failed with an incomplete file.  and the communication protocols know when there is packet loss and request packets to be resent, etc.

the salient point about this mystery is that something is truly malfunctioning in this normal process which causes downloads to stop in the middle, and the browser is getting completely confused into thinking that the download has completed successfully.

the question is how can this happen -- in what specific way are things getting so fouled up as to result in the browser thinking it has successfully downloaded a complete file without error when it hasn't, bypassing all of the normal processes that normally detect and recover from bad transfers?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:38 AM »

Let me try this and see if i can figure out what the timer issue is.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Windows error msg - "No Disk"

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:36 AM »

what oblivion says is exactly right -- it means that the program is checking some location that no longer exists.
if it really is happening in CHS, there are very few file locations that CHS actually checks.  go to the options and see if maybe you have a sound file path specified that does not exist.

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UrlSnooper / Re: What do you use to record rtsp://?

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:35 AM »

It's not free but Net Transport is an awesome program for this: http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowsterTraySwitch v2.06.01 beta (oct 22, 2010)

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:33 AM »

not yet but maybe the best solution is to install a program like Browser Chooser and then use BrowserTraySwitch to memorize it as one of its known browsers.  Then you can switch to it when you want to be asked when a url opens.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Repositioning of windows / Fixup OnTop Status - can it be optimized?

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:27 AM »

This is an excellent point.. You are right that there are really two things that are happening when you choose that option -- and i should be able to make a faster simpler operation that just fixes up positioning.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icon Size - small too small, big too big - medium size?

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:24 AM »

It's not a bad idea but i'm not sure it's worth the trouble

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icon display: mean quality

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 06:22 AM »

Could you send me the launchbar (mcf) file? And i will try to fix.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 05:36 AM »

Hopefully all this is moot and they've found a fix already

Nope. Let me clarify this -- We are at a loss as to how to fix this and what's causing it -- that's why I posted.

It's not a new phenomena but it seems to have gotten worse since the server move in January.  It's obviously not just our server suffering from this, as a web search reveals.

But this is not something easy -- as you have noticed it's very intermittent and random and hard to reproduce.

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Living Room / Re: Cannot send screenshot window by default setting.

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2011, 05:13 AM »

Hi jitske,

The may sound strange but I think that sometimes when this happens, what is really going on is that it has sent the command to your mail program, and your mail program is trying to show a dialog message and ask you to click, but the dialog is invisible.

The next time this happens, try hitting enter or escape or selecting your mail client window, and see if your mail client is waiting for you to do something.

Or choose the alternate non-mapi way to send mail.

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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2011, 01:59 PM »

I voted for my 2 favorites, Quinn and Genice.

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Living Room / Re: Downloadsquad shutting down - Another one bites the dust

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2011, 01:24 PM »

Whoa.. wow that is crazy. it was a good site.

I wonder what the decisions looked like -- was it just not profitable enough? or?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2011, 12:39 PM »

it's usually the bigger exe setup files i think.. but i'm not sure there is a real pattern to it other than that the files are usually several megabytes large.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2011, 05:09 AM »

that's great

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 06:07 PM »

Its not limited to a specific browser brand -- it happens in all browsers.  It's random.  Its not a corrupted byte, it's a download that stops somewhere in the middle but ends up with the browser thinking it has successfully downloaded the entire file.  And yes, at that point the browser is so convinced that it has successfully downloaded the full file, that it will refuse to redownload it, and will serve up the cached copy when the user tries to redownload -- making the problem much, much worse and more confusing for the user.

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Living Room / Re: What the heck has happened to Google search?

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:44 PM »

yep, posts on the forum are now in google an hour or two after they are made, which is very cool.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:40 PM »

loss of packets is quite possible -- but normally in this case doesn't the browser detect that it is having communication problems and stall, etc.  I mean thats what i see happen when we know there is a packet loss issue.  The result is slow downloads not corrupted ones.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:24 PM »

The thing i find strangest is that the browser is not figuring out that the download is incomplete.. that's what's really throwing me for a loop -- i mean normally the browser knows when a connection has failed, etc.  What's particularly bizarre in this case is that the browser and server are somehow convinced that the download has fully finished successfully.