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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

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

« Last post by Ath on January 31, 2014, 05:21 AM »

A few questions upfront:

• How to determine the number of columns?
• What's the standard file-format, Excel (xls, xlsx), CSV, LibreOffice (odf)?
• What's the desired output? Messagebox, console, file: format?

(More to follow, probably, depending on the answers )

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader

« Last post by Ath on January 30, 2014, 08:47 AM »

What application name to use, sImgurUploader?
AFAICS, it requires a callback URL, suggestions?
And where can we change/replace the API key used by sImgurUploader? Found it, {userprofile}\AppData\Roaming\Skwire Empire\sImgurUploader\sImgurUploader.ini

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General Software Discussion / Re: The nightmare of the programmer languages

« Last post by Ath on January 30, 2014, 02:35 AM »

I fail to understand this quest for old software.
Please try to explain why you would want to start using this very old, and unsupported, software. There are so many, much better and modern, alternatives available.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by Ath on January 22, 2014, 04:17 PM »

I can't download:

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to access this section

-DeVamp (January 22, 2014, 04:09 PM)

Get the file at the bottom of the first post, *not* the 'Download' link... Now it's fixed.

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

« Last post by Ath on January 21, 2014, 02:31 PM »

Today I received my NANY 2014 mug, so by tradition I took a photo of it in a 'related context', being a tablet that I wrote my WinButtonsWebServer plugin for

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General Software Discussion / Re: The nightmare of the programmer languages

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2014, 04:43 PM »

^ +1 for both josh' and 40hz' posts 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The nightmare of the programmer languages

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2014, 04:39 PM »

I would like to convert Borland dBASE for DOS version 5.0 to AutoHotkey_L or viceversa

-Contro (January 20, 2014, 03:33 PM)

Why?
There is a compiler for Clipper/dBase code for modern OS's, called Harbour project, at http://harbour-project.org, and a commercial fork called xHarbour builder at http://xharbour.com, based on the oss xHarbour compiler at http://xharbour.org

I would like to convert AutoIt to AutoHotkey_L or viceversa

-Contro (January 20, 2014, 03:33 PM)

Why?
AFAIK, AutoIt was created from the AHK codebase, because some people found the AHK 'language' was too unreadable in their opinion...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?

« Last post by Ath on January 15, 2014, 05:22 AM »

... remove error message “the compressed (zip) folder is invalid and corrupted"? ...

-marrysimon (January 15, 2014, 04:37 AM)

Never, ever, use Windows Explorer to unpack zip-files (the Compressed Folders feature of Windows Explorer). That cr@p-tool is unable to pack or unpack a zip-file correctly.
Always use any of the (free) archive tools designed for that purpose.

I'm personally a fan of 7-zip, and (have used and) know that peazip is working just as well, but any other compression tool should do fine.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by Ath on January 15, 2014, 05:11 AM »

I'll upload the next release somewhere else.

-phitsc (January 15, 2014, 01:25 AM)

You could attach it to the original release-post, so it's stored somewhere in the forum-space, and always available as long as the forum is

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Roundup Prep

« Last post by Ath on January 11, 2014, 10:01 AM »

Year Planner

-kyrathaba (January 03, 2014, 05:42 PM)

AFAICS this entry didn't make a release?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Transfer data from Win7 to a new installation?

« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2014, 08:42 AM »

Hm, sounds somewhat dodgy that you're converting to x86 systems, as x64 is quite the standard nowadays. And if you're converting to systems that don't support x64, then you must be having a whole different story there

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2014, 07:24 AM »

Can you re-download the new version and let me know if i fixed it?

-mouser (January 03, 2014, 03:00 AM)

Now I get nice positive values in the message, great

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2014, 02:40 AM »

Small issue maybe; with high memory values, ProcessPiglet is reporting negative numbers:


while the overview windows show normal, positive, values:


System is Windows 7 x64, with 16 GB total RAM

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Roundup Prep

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

Hm, creating a screencast of a rather static screen only showing an url and the last 'button' pressed isn't worth the trouble, imho.

I have added  a screenshot to my NANY entry 'NANY 2014 Release : WinButtonsWebServer plugin for WinButtons' though

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / NANY 2014 Release : WinButtonsWebServer plugin for WinButtons

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2013, 03:18 PM »

NANY 2014 Entry Information

Application Name	WinButtonsWebServer plugin
Version	1.0.0.0 beta
Short Description	A plugin for WinButtons 4.0, using a new plugin interface of WinButtons
Supported OSes	Windows XP and newer
Web Page	WinButtons homepage (not updated with this beta yet)
Download Link	Attached to this post
System Requirements	WinButtons 3.9.9 (beta)/ 4.0.0 (included) Some .wbuc/.ini configurations for WinButtons
Version History	2013-12-31: v1.0.0.0 beta: First release for NANY 2014
Author	Ath

Description
This is a WebServer plugin for WinButtons, allowing button configurations to be displayed by a webbrowser on the local network, f.i. from a tablet or mobile phone, using the WiFi network.

Features
Generate and display a .html/.js page presenting the buttons from a WinButtons configuration file (.wbuc/.ini)

Planned Features

• Complete generation of the button-attributes available for the GUI version of WinButtons
• Add an auto-refresh feature
• Fix any bugs found

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Unpack the contents of the zip-file on top of an existing (copy) of a WinButtons 3.6.1 installation

Using the Application
After starting WinButtons, run a webbrowser against the url shown in the WinBtnWebServer GUI.

Uninstallation
Remove all files

Known Issues
This currently is beta quality software!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Q-FlashCards for Android

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2013, 02:53 PM »

Well, currently the notification is the only way to get to the screen where you answer the questions, so there is obviously no option to disable it... But it makes sense as a feature request to allow using as most of other similar programs work - answering questions only on demand. But the notification is actually the whole point and main idea - it reminds you of a word not just once a day or whenever you remember, but rather whenever you need to answer it to memorise it well.

-TPReal (December 30, 2013, 02:17 PM)

Yep, that sounds reasonable, but then, a way to turn the whole thing off until I turn it back on, would that be feasible?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Q-FlashCards for Android

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2013, 02:03 PM »

Well, your app is quite well-polished, that's no reason not to publish to the Play Store. A (Play-Store)page listing all it's features is nearly ready when grabbing all information from this thread's first post, including the screenshots.

There is one feature-request though: I want to be able to stop all notifications. I've tried turning off everything I could find, but it still pops up in the notification area. I dislike most stuff that puts itself there, unless I explicitly allow it. Currently I'm unable to achieve that

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Q-FlashCards for Android

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2013, 07:57 AM »

That is looking very nice.

I'd advise you to publish, with a proper description and seo wordlist ofc, to the Play Store, so you get some real exposure.

I expect to use it for learning a language too, most likely, just not Norsk or Italiano , and being able to download a library of words for that language would be really helpful. Typing in 3000 or more cards on my phone/tablet sounds really horrible
Uploading a card-set I created could be rewarding as well

Ps: I'll be testing after January 1st, as I'm still working on my own NANY 2014 entry

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Post New Requests Here / Re: So, about wallpaper changers...

« Last post by Ath on December 25, 2013, 03:36 AM »

Again, this is a prototype to test functionality.

-skwire (December 24, 2013, 10:00 PM)

So you have another NANY entry?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrade to Windows 64-bit

« Last post by Ath on December 21, 2013, 08:09 AM »

You can't have a parallel install of 64 and 32 bit of Windows 7 on the same partition, as Shades already explained. In fact, the last installed OS will replace the existing OS. Separate partitions (or disks) is the way to go for this feature. It would require a reboot to switch to the other install, though.
Hassling with Hyper-V from Server 2008R2/Server 2012 is only for the not-fainthearted (IOW knowledgeable) IMHO, so instead of that, I'd advise to create a clean install of Windows x64, and run (after possibly doing a P2V conversion) the 32 bit incarnation in a virtualized solution like VMWare Player (or better the non-free Workstation) or VirtualBox. Ample RAM memory is a requirement for such setup ofcourse, but 8GB for the host system should suffice, allowing the 32bit install 2 GB with enough space for normal use.

A re-install of Windows x64 is required, and advised, though.

If there are no reasons to keep the 32 bit OS around, then that's an easy solution as well, bite the bullet and just stop running the (virtualized) 32 bit OS

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "Merge field" function

« Last post by Ath on December 19, 2013, 04:31 PM »

Ah, now I see what happened, you downloaded the old, obsolete and 'security'-hampered AutoIt release, that tries to get the data from the Excel file by opening it using Excel and then using select-all/copy to clipboard. There are issues with that method, as reported by others in that thread, giving the exact same error...
All these issues are resolved by the completely rewritten 2.x (Java) release, that can be downloaded from my dcmembers page, referenced in that thread (typing this on the tablet, so quite difficult to add the link here, sorry).
Maybe you could try that version.

I removed the AutoIt-based files from the Excel2Html thread.