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General Software Discussion / Re: SMF or phpBB... that is the question?

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 09:28 AM »

SMF is pretty great right out of the box and has proved very stable, and has a wonderful feature set and organization that just makes sense.

However the one thing I will say, and i think i've said this in another thread, is that SMF is part of the past-generation of web applications, where "add-ons and extensions" are not handled through hooks and signals, but are instead handled by actually *modifying* the code.

What this means is that addons and mods are not easy to maintain, and can be a bit hairy to deal with when applying updates to the core forum.

So SMF is a great forum system for someone who wants a powerful and easy to maintain forum system, but who isn't planning on installing lots of addons.   Although there are some great addons for SMF, if you are the kind of person who will want to install lots of addons and modifications for your forum, you should look elsewhere, in my humble opinion, because of the difficulty in maintaining and upgrading in the presence of addons.

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Living Room / Re: Snail Videos

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 12:28 AM »

I love the photo Edvard just posted.. it made me laugh and told me everything i needed to know to know i do not want to watch those videos.
Thanks for the saving me from some nightmares Edvard 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 11:20 PM »

yep, ok and the shortcuts are simple normal shortcuts.
i have all i need, now i will try to fix.
thanks for your patience!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 10:14 PM »

because the same problem occurs with all shortcuts for 64bit apps.

ok that's what i wanted to know.

ok let me look into it and see what i can figure out.

but.. actually if you could show me the property dialog for one of these shortcuts, it might help..
is the target path to it exact? or is there some path environmental variable involved?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 09:57 PM »

ok, now that i understand i can try to figure out how to fix it..

here's a question for you, if you look at the detailed properties of the xplorer^2 shortcut whose icon isnt displaying properly in windows file explorer right+click context menu for properties, do you see anything unusual about it? does it point to an actual correct location on the disk for the application? any other parameters passed to it? anything unusual at all?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 08:46 PM »

ok im still unclear about what you are saying the behavior is..

i'm sorry for being dense, but am i understanding it now that the problem is that when displaying a drop down menu of folder contents, it is showing the entry for a 64bit app, and can launch it ok, BUT that the icon is wrong/generic ?

i'm pretty sure that's what you are saying now.. yes?

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Inversion of the Open Source - Big Corporation Divide?

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 08:42 PM »

first, thanks for the links, those are useful.

but actually i've been reading quite a lot of writing by and about richard stallman lately.

i stand by what i've said.  i'm not trying to use his words -- i was paraphrasing and trying to simplify the main gist -- i know he has problems with the term Open Source.

i think my point stand though.  Stallman is interested almost entirely in the first principle that users should be able to access and modify the source code of all software, period.  anything that aids that is good, anything that detracts from that is bad.  the point i was trying to make is that i find this a terribly incomplete *ethical* goal.  I'm much more interested in figuring out an ethical long term philosophy/culture of open source / free software that helps individual independent coders and artists to survive and thrive as well as maximize the freedom of users.

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Programmer Libs / Re: MwImporter php script - Batch import html site into MediaWiki - v2.0 - 5/26/10

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 02:10 PM »

if your web server lets you run the php files from a commandline then it should work.
you say it can "find" the necesary MW files.. can you clarify if you are sure it can't fine them.. or if maybe the host is not letting them run?

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Translators Wanted

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:37 AM »

Unfortunately Screenshot Captor does not yet support the ability to be translated; it's something i need to add.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:35 AM »

Ok so just to clarify what you are saying:

1) if you ask LBC to display the contents of a folder in a menu, that has no problems.
2) but if you manually add a button to a LBC bar, and link to a shortcut, it doesn't show the button at all?

just so i fully understand, can you show me your LBC configuration screen where you have selected this button node and it's showing the details of it.

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Seedling's Software / Re: norton internet security sonar blocks mixtape and flags it as trojan

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:27 AM »

since i don't use norton i don't have an easy way to report to them that this is a false alarm -- can you and anyone else using norton please do so.
the mixtape maker download page is here if it helps: http://seedling.dcmembers.com/rmtm.html

(and it's an excellent program!)

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Seedling's Software / Re: norton internet security sonar blocks mixtape and flags it as trojan

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:25 AM »

ps. we've had a long running rant against the irresponsible behavior of antivirus companies with regard to false positives; see in particular here.

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Seedling's Software / Re: norton internet security sonar blocks mixtape and flags it as trojan

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:24 AM »

Ok so here's the virustotal report:

http://www.virustota...9805257e4-1288954986

This confirms that it is indeed a false positive and that there is no malware in the file.

Here's how you can be confident of that.  The scan of 43 engines shows 3 lower tier engines flag it with issues.  Of these three, two mark it as "suspicious" which is a term of art in the antivirus world meaning "we have no friggin idea what we are talking about but we don't want to get a lower score from a reviewer for missing something"; and the third company (ClamAv) is being a tad bit more honest, but exhibiting their stupidity, by identifying the "malware" as: "PUA.Packed.PECompact-1" which is basically complaining that the program is packed with a compressor called "PECompact" which is a highly reputable and excellent packing tool that has nothing to do with malware; they are basically saying -- we don't know how to scan inside this packed program so we are just going to throw up our hands and label this as dangerous.

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Seedling's Software / Re: norton internet security sonar blocks mixtape and flags it as trojan

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 06:00 AM »

hi nailzuk.

Thanks for the report -- i'm sure it's a false positive and just another case of a lazy antivirus company falsely labeling it.
I'm going to upload it now to one of the multi-engine scanners and i will post report, and then then contact Norton, and we will see how good they are at fixing false positives.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 05:54 AM »

Yes, i will add this.  it's a very good point.

May i suggest that you may want to install a program to handle this case of applications off screen if you frequently  unplug monitors.  In the past i've used i tiny old freeware called "Discover" but i can't locate it anymore.  It stays in tray and you double click it and it moves any windows that are currently offscreen back on screen.  there are surely other tools to do this -- probably one or two written by dc members that i'm not recalling at the moment 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 05:53 AM »

Different strokes for different folks as they say!  I think Lanux touched on my general feeling about trying to be too smart about learning what they user intends in a non-transparent way -- in general i'm wary of things like this because i feel like predictability is really important.  But everyone has different styles.

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UrlSnooper / Re: URL Snooper have some competition :)

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 05:51 AM »

It's good to have a program to recommend for *nix users.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 05:32 PM »

fair enough.. ill chew over your comments and think about if some of these things can't be done better in farr.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 05:30 PM »

also it might be FARRDIR instead of APPDIR.. i have been notoriously inconsistent with such things in some of my software (thankfully i have changed my ways since then but FARR still suffers from some of these inconsistencies).

anyway, glad you got it working!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Post Capture - Actions: Copy Image to Clipboard not working?

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 02:22 PM »

ah yes that's it.. it may also work from the popup but only AFTER you close the popup saying you want to keep the image.. at least that's what it should do.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SqlSpec

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 10:51 AM »

Welcome to the site Jesse, that looks pretty cool i must say.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Format Factory ASSHOLE installation of Ask.com

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 10:08 AM »

i always install new software in a virtual machine first, to see if i like it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Default alias for nircmd

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 09:50 AM »

nothing "loser" about it.  i suspect that your problem is that you are using %ALIASDIR% to locate the nircmd.exe but your myaliases.alias is not in same directory as the nircmd subdir

so i think instead of:
OpenCD | %ALIASDIR%nircmd.exe cdrom d:
you would use:
OpenCD | %APPDIR%\AliasGroups\Installed\nircmd\nircmd.exe cdrom d:
or would it be
OpenCD | %APPDIR%AliasGroups\Installed\nircmd\nircmd.exe cdrom d:


something like that

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Living Room / Re: I'm thinking about learning how to program.

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 09:18 AM »

decide how gentle an introduction you want.
then go to amazon.com and search for C# books, and look at the ratings and read the user reviews.

if you are already a programmer and are just new to C# you will want one kind of book; if you are completely new to programming you will want a different kind of book.

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Google Boomerang / Re: Google Translator Boomerang - Latest Version Info - v1.06.01 - Feb 16, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2010, 09:08 AM »

thanks sheyth,  i'll look into it.. probably something silly i'm doing wrong when forming the request or stripping the reply returned by google.