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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Email Extractor?

« Last post by Ath on April 02, 2014, 08:39 AM »

Hm, sounds kinda legit, I guess

Maybe downloading the pages to a local directory using HTTrack, and parsing those with a regular expression-capable tool?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by Ath on March 27, 2014, 02:53 AM »

For those using/interested in GIT this Infoworld article might be useful: Git smart! 20 essential tips for Git and GitHub users

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help please! - Unable to install MS SQL Express 2012 on laptop.

« Last post by Ath on March 27, 2014, 02:45 AM »

For installation on a non-server version of Windows (like Win7 is) you either need the SQL Express edition, or the SQL Server Developer edition. The other SQL Server editions only allow to be installed on a 'proper' Windows Server OS. This has been enforced from at least SQL Server 2005 and maybe even earlier versions.
UAC hasn't been an issue for me in years, regarding SQL server installs.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Free book for the Tiny Core Linux distro

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2014, 03:26 AM »

May be some hints here?

  http://forum.tinycor...g68122.html#msg68122

-ewemoa (March 12, 2014, 10:30 PM)

Ewemoa, why do you disable automatic links in your posts? 

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Living Room / Re: usa job stats

« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2014, 11:39 AM »

What are you planning to do with that information? Sell it? Publish it?

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Living Room / Re: company directory

« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2014, 07:05 AM »

any hint about admin's email?

-kalos (March 08, 2014, 06:59 AM)

At the bottom of the page you linked, there's a section called 'Links' ...

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Living Room / Re: company directory

« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2014, 03:45 AM »

Usually, you can't. To avoid the data to be 'borrowed' (aka stolen), that kind of broad selection either isn't available, or only behind a paywall. You'd better contact the admin of the site on how to get that data/information.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 11 Released!

« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2014, 04:27 PM »

"I purchased the product in a state where those updates had already occurred."

-peter.s (March 06, 2014, 03:11 PM)

Peter, please use the standard quote mechanism of the forum, your use of actual quotes around the quote makes it nearly unrecognizable as a quote

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« Last post by Ath on March 03, 2014, 09:31 AM »

And not a word on why they just had to call it 'Atom', like there are not already other useful things called atom

nsfw

Pedantic pr...cks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick and Easy way to change all IP's for several Maped drives

« Last post by Ath on March 02, 2014, 11:52 AM »

Write a bat file that does the net use k: /d and net use k: \\x.y.z.n\share /persist=y for all drives.

But you should really consider to start using the server's name instead of the ip, as windows is perfectly capable of resolving that, even in a workgroup.
When replacing a server, just turn off the old server, and give the new server the same name.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2014, 06:01 AM »

I keep finding stuff in the 'nice numbers' category: Even though I missed the 444444th signed up user, now I captured number 445464:

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2014, 05:50 AM »

We have some CleverCat that made his her 1100th post:
....
 

-Ath (March 01, 2014, 04:38 AM)

FTFY

-tomos (March 01, 2014, 04:56 AM)

Hm, I didn't get that clearly stored in my head then, sorry

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2014, 04:38 AM »

We have some CleverCat that made his her 1100th post:



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Book Tracking

« Last post by Ath on February 24, 2014, 03:37 PM »

For collections of several varieties, Datacrow is often used, it has several templates leaning in that direction, and a highly optimized database back-end.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows moving around after monitors wake up

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2014, 05:29 AM »

Well, with modern display-drivers and screens, it seems the entire display is inhibited when in standby/off, and Windows shakes/resizes all it's visible windows to the last, or the primary, awake monitor it still sees. And also resets the other virtual screens to something like 640x480 pixels.
I see this behavior on my dual-DP setup, where I leave the (work) computer running overnight, but turn off the screens to preserve some power. Any window I leave open is moved and resized to the left-upper 640x480 of my primary monitor
My current solution is to close all (well, almost all) applications, auto-saving their last window-positions and sizes, and re-opening them the next morning. Exceptions here are Outlook, that I minimize to the tray by default, and other trayed apps like SSC, that aren't affected, unless I forget to minimize them.

Haven't found a solution, other than to minimize all windows to the system-tray, to avoid this behavior. But, I haven't yet done a thorough search for this either

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows moving around after monitors wake up

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2014, 03:41 AM »

How are the monitors connected to the computer? HDMI, DP, DVI, VGA?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on February 19, 2014, 02:42 PM »

Tomos missed my 2100th post, a few days ago, so I'll put it here myself

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot captor is not accepting the key for registration

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2014, 03:48 AM »

What (error) messages, if any, do you get?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Beware the Samsung rootkit

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2014, 05:49 AM »

Another approach could be like we do here: Despite the fact we have several Samsung phones and tablets, we never installed the Kies software, just let Windows install the usb-driver on first connect, required to access the memory, and install updates directly from the phone/tablet.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Drag+Drop Robot config for 7zip

« Last post by Ath on February 12, 2014, 03:12 PM »

Small typo in the second line? Replace .7z with .zip, IMHO
Edit: It's corrected.

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Living Room / Re: Project Christine - Modular PC from Razer

« Last post by Ath on February 11, 2014, 02:30 PM »

Well, no more vendor lock-in than laptops and such... right?

-wraith808 (February 11, 2014, 10:00 AM)

Well, yes and no, with this concept you get the illusion you can replace components easily, and it probably is true now, but come back in 3 years or so, and there are still no 3rd party components available/allowed because of license/copyright issues, and the original vendor is either out of business or no longer supporting this type of replacement modules, but you can of course buy their new product... then what's the use of even spending any energy on it? You still need an upgraded/improved/extended computer.

Conclusion: This one's not for me.

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Living Room / Re: Project Christine - Modular PC from Razer

« Last post by Ath on February 11, 2014, 09:12 AM »

2 remarks:

1) This shouts "Vendor Lock-In" all around the place, at volume 12+

2) Seen similar before in the early 90's: Tandon Computers modular upgradeable computers (no pictures, unfortunately )
(disclaimer/spoiler: I worked for a Tandon Computer Dealer at that time)

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Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?

« Last post by Ath on February 04, 2014, 08:10 AM »

LG 27EA83R-D

-mouser (February 04, 2014, 06:42 AM)

If you're aiming for a single-screen solution, I'd definitely have a look at this or a similar, super-high res, monitor. But do have a good test in the shop to view the actual brightness of the screen, that is, IMHO very, important too. You may need to make use of the return-policy, when available, if it's not good enough in your environment (like a very bright, sun-lit, location or whatever).

The price definitely sounds right

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014: Mug-shots here

« Last post by Ath on February 02, 2014, 04:21 PM »

Here's mine:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-skwire (February 02, 2014, 03:55 PM)

Wow , looking great

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General Software Discussion / Re: SOLVED: One of these thing is not like the other - Finding Unique Numbers

« Last post by Ath on February 01, 2014, 04:15 AM »

I hope I havent put you to too much trouble on this one Ath, and thanks for the offer

-tomos (January 31, 2014, 07:15 AM)

NP, I was just investigating/interested, hadn't started working on anything yet