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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2018, 06:37 AM »

@anandcoral:
Re: Use of the "commercial at" symbol "@" as a prefixed Tag: You are not "making a mistake". For the purposes of improved communication, it is taught as being quite useful (depending on one's objectives in making the communication). This is typically useful within the context of circumstances where the classic communications model applies.

-IainB (June 15, 2017, 11:42 AM)

I only let him know as it doesn't do anything on this forum mechanically. Many have started to make use of it recently as some software alerts the named user of their mention.  As currently set up, DC does not.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2018, 06:34 AM »

Could some moderator maybe split this topic from post #12 down?

-tomos (June 13, 2017, 05:08 AM)

Done.  I didn't have the power when asked.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ZenTao fill up the role of QA tool in Jira

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2018, 06:21 AM »

I can't help but think that you are in some way related to the product you recommend and it may be the best thing since sliced bread, but with a bit of study you can really do a lot(!) within Jira itself.

-Shades (June 12, 2018, 07:45 PM)

Yes, you caught me   

I am trying to promote ZenTao internationally. Back in China, we have a lot of users who make good use of our open source version. So why not bring it to the overseas markets and see whether they like it.

-reneet (July 19, 2018, 04:19 AM)

Thank you.  We require those that are affiliated with software to clearly state that and the affiliatiin clearly or remove the post in question. Could you please edit the first post to show clearly that you are affiliated with the comlany, and to state what that affiliation is?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi for free? YES!! Delphi Community Edition is out!

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2018, 06:18 AM »

Up to some days ago the only free thing from Delphi was "Starter Edition" what is very crippled and beginners cant really learn since no sources are shipped with that edition.
Delphi CE is similar to Tokyo Professionial, here and there some license limitiations but product is full. (ie: you can develop for Win32/Win64/OSX/Linux/Android/iPhone)

-KodeZwerg (July 19, 2018, 01:37 AM)

Yes, I know.  That was the reason that I stopped even using Delphi at all. The Turbo versions were the community editiins, and were discontinued when Embarcadero bought it from Borland/Inprise.

License term lasts for one year (although once you have created a product you can still distribute it). Also your max income is limited to $5000, I would have to reread the license to see the parameters on that. As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to play with it but I would need a specific task I want to accomplish, and allocated time to work on it, before I even download it.

-x16wda (July 19, 2018, 05:36 AM)

That's almost verbatim the license terms for the Turbo versions.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi for free? YES!! Delphi Community Edition is out!

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2018, 09:55 PM »

So they figured out they should start this back up again, eh?

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General Software Discussion / Re: More Ads in Windows 10

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2018, 12:37 PM »

I'm seriously considering moving to Linux if they don't stop this crap, but there's a lot of stuff I'd miss from Windows

-f0dder (July 17, 2018, 03:28 PM)

Same.  And your entire post is what I've been saying for a while. A good OS hampered by idiotic decisions.

On another point (I might make another thread) Android has started taking pages from MS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to close a Fortran DLL routine when exiting Visual Basic (front-end) program

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2018, 12:29 PM »

The stack trace is from the exception and shows all of the stack frames that results in the execution path to the line in the code.

https://en.m.wikiped...org/wiki/Stack_trace

Article on MSDN about exception handlong in VB

https://msdn.microso...ibrary/ms973849.aspx

you should also be able to break in the debugger to get the same

using breakpoints on MSDN

https://msdn.microso...ibrary/5557y8b4.aspx

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2018, 09:09 AM »

I actually like him as an actor.  IMO he was the best Combination of Batman/Bruce Wayne, probably because of the fact that he was older than in other instances.  That one interaction with Will Smith in the Suicide Squad was one of the best scenes in the movie.  He was also good in the Accountant, the Town, Gone Girl, and Argo.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can I find approximate matches of numbers?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2018, 11:19 AM »

All of these are great solutions.  I still maintain that the problem hasn't been defined properly, so they could be for naught. 

Ath had the right questions in the initial reply. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Mind Collected on BDJ 2018-07-13

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2018, 11:14 AM »

Deal available again today, 14-July-2018.  I've figured out my problem with this program (and many like it)... it's single computer-centric, i.e. you have this collection, and it's only available on the one computer.  A couple of reviews on the BDJ page also have me giving a pass.

Worthless. I have multiple licenses for this software (I'm was very hopeful) and have sent numerous emails to the developer - who responds with boilerplate but never actually offers any help. File sizes quickly get enormous (a little over 1,000 thumbnails has created a Mind Collected file currently at 1,021,831KBs in size that either won't load or crashes immediately upon attempting a tag search). My need is simply to tag thumbnails, and search the tags, so I can quickly find them. I don't use any of the advanced features of this app so this shouldn't be hard (I think). I wouldn't mind (well, I could live with it) the massive file sizes the program creates if the program would then simply open and allow searches but it's painfully slow to open (4 mins, 30 seconds, with a fast i7 cpu, fast SSD & 16GBs of DRAM) - if it opens at all (it usually doesn't) and attempting a search is entirely futile (I last attempted to use it a month ago and it crashed 20 times on search in a row - I counted - this is when it opened at all). It might be the most aggravating piece of non-Microsoft software I've ever used. I'm still hoping an update happens one day (I really need what it should be able to do) but, currently, all my great investment in time and effort (basically at simply cataloging thumbnails) has been totally wasted. My advice is wait-for-an-update. Maybe it'll fix the mess that is this app?

I've had similar problems with WinCatalog (which often appears here on bits): VERY big db size, for the thumbnails, and NO virtual "cabinets"/folders, ie no gathering of files which originally are spread over different physical (NTFS or whatever) folders.

Then, I'm wondering about the silence of the developer, facing the above comments, interaction with a single developer being one of the bigger/biggest benefits of one-man* development ventures.

* = (deceased and) wonderful Karen Kenworthy being the sole (and tremendous) exception to that male-only rule in development, to my knowledge, up to now.

Also, I wonder where from to get visuals for originally-just-text elements in case, even just for my personal use: would it not be too much fuss, at the end of the day? (Since this tool is marketed as some idea-gathering tool, text-only ideas will be frequent after all?!)

So, yes, I'm in a line with other commenters here, wondering about the potential of such software, but not seeing it attained yet.

... and the following with the developers reply.

I purchased and used this software in the past (2015) at version 1.00. The issue I have is, it is only at version 1.00.37 in over three years. For all practical intents, it is dead software more than active or alive.
Just go into knowing you are buying software that apparently sees no time put into it by the developer to keep moving it forward.

Reply

Hello, thank you for your comment. It is true that we haven't release a new version. Partly that's because we focus on our flagship product Swift To-Do List, but Mind Collected is definitely not a dead software. We are prepared to update it if it's necessary. Overall this has been a very stable release.

If it's not a priority for the developer, then as a user, I'm not going to make it a priorty for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: More Ads in Windows 10

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2018, 03:37 PM »

Oh... I got the one about authenticator.  It just appears in the sidebar though, so I just ignore it.  I love that I can send all the prior bubbles and notifications to the sidebar and just ignore them...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Mind Collected on BDJ 2018-07-13

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2018, 10:09 AM »

Mind Collected on BDJ today 2018-07-13

http://www.bitsdujou...tware/mind-collected

Some people just work more efficiently when they operate on a visual basis. But databases just don’t seem to want to cater to the visually-minded – until now! Today’s discount software promotion is a powerful way to organize ideas and things visually, and it’s called Mind Collected.

Mind Collected lets you visually catalog ideas and things using photos, names, tags, notes, and interconnectivity. With Mind Collected, you’ll be able to automatically search and fetch images from the Internet that match what’s in your database, or use your own custom photos. Just input the things and concepts you want to catalog, make the connections to other things, and let your brain take over the rest!

The secret is this – by visually cataloging these things, you make them psychoactive, making your brain think about them more often without any additional effort. The result is a massive improvement in behavior that causes you to react more accordingly – recalling things better, making better food choices, the list is endless!

Has anyone used this?  It looks like an interesting concept.  Normally $49.99 - $19.98 today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can I find approximate matches of numbers?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2018, 11:34 PM »

Well, he wants to throw in a %match, so that wouldn't do it. 

There's also the matter of what kinds of numbers are in the lists.  And whether he wants individual matches, i.e. if you have 95 in one list and 100 and 105 in the other, would it be able to be 2 pairs?  Or only match the first one?  And if one is matches in the second list, is it gone for matches?

The spec for this is pretty non-specific. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: More Ads in Windows 10

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2018, 07:39 PM »

I already got entrenched, so strangely enough, I don't see any ads 

O365 was a better option than the other syncing options out there.  1TB per account and O365 to boot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: More Ads in Windows 10

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2018, 05:37 PM »

Do you even use OneDrive?

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Living Room / Re: Privacy (collected references)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 08, 2018, 09:32 AM »

What a VPN can do for digital privacy: One of the best tools that users can deploy to improve their privacy online is arguably by using a VPN. The post provides a good overview of what a VPN is, its benefits and how it can be used in conjunction with the GDPR legislation to protect your privacy. There are recommendations for the "best" VPNs for GDPR.

-IainB (July 08, 2018, 02:02 AM)

Always remember, a VPN is only as good as your VPN provider.  If they roll over and play dead, or are a "false flag" provider, you might as well not be using VPN at all.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Denuvo 4.9 cracked... and with a startling realization of how bloated it is.

« Last post by wraith808 on July 08, 2018, 09:29 AM »

That does remind me of the reason that companies still use this flawed technology.  The number of days to crack gives a number of days where people have to buy it in order to play.  This has been shown to raise the number of sales.  I need to find that study, because I could see the parameters being altered in order to make it look like this is the case (see how to lie with statistics).

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DC Gamer Club / Denuvo 4.9 cracked... and with a startling realization of how bloated it is.

« Last post by wraith808 on July 07, 2018, 02:28 PM »

“So I downloaded Puyo Puyo Tetris. I thought ‘it’s small game, it’d be easier to analyze’, but oh no no,” he said.

“The game executable is 128MB big, of which just 5-6MB is the real game code. The rest of it is Denuvo. It’s the most bloated Denuvo I’ve ever seen.”

Why don't they just stop?  That's insane!

https://torrentfreak...oksi-on-fire-180706/

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General Software Discussion / Re: How secure is a private WordPress post from public view?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 07, 2018, 09:34 AM »

If you're very concerned about security, I wouldn't trust WordPress, private or not.  Not that it's not capable, it's just that WordPress is a big target.  Keeping things that you'd rather not have anyone see but it's not disastrous if someone does?  It's probably fine for that.  But really secure things?  I'd suggest somewhere else, IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Abusing Emoji on your computer filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on July 06, 2018, 05:18 PM »

weird... and you have text too, so it should see that if not the emoji.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Setting process priority not working with Windows 10?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 06, 2018, 08:49 AM »

The link he provided leads to a post, which has some download links on it.  Do those links not work for you?  I see them as live, even though the forum munges the links.

quoting here (and altering the text so it doesn't show the munged URLs and it becomes a bit more obvious):

Unified win32 and x64 setup betas:

• Unified Setup

Or if you prefer portable version:

• x64 version: 64-bit portable
• and win32 version: 32-bit portable

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Living Room / Re: Abusing Emoji on your computer filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on July 06, 2018, 08:13 AM »

💔💔- Worked fine for me.  Chrome here.

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Living Room / Re: Abusing Emoji on your computer filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2018, 11:04 PM »

🚀👩‍🚀

Pretty cool!  Thanks for that tidbit!

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DC Gamer Club / Prime Day 2018

« Last post by wraith808 on July 03, 2018, 07:27 PM »

Prime Day is on the 16th of July, but there's a special for Twitch members that have prime.  For short periods, there will be several games available this month.

https://www.reddit.c...or_amazon_prime_day/

Readable for humans:

• Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition: July 2-4
• Metal Slug 3: July 3 - August 2
• The Last Blade: July 3 - August 2
• Twinkle Star Sprites: July 3 - August 2
• Q.U.B.E. 2: July 3-4
• Battle Chef Brigade: July 4-11
• Manual Samuel: July 5-12
• Gonner: July 6-13
• Next Up Hero: July 7-14
• Uurnog Uurnlimited: July 8-14
• Hue: July 9-15
• Deponia Doomsday: July 10-16
• Observer: July 11-17
• Tacoma: July 12-18
• The Bridge: July 13-26
• Brutal Legend: July 14-27
• The Red Strings Club: July 15-21
• Tyranny: July 16-18
• Broken Age: July 17-31
• The Framed Collection: July 18-31
• Serial Cleaner: July 18-31

So today, the following are available:

• Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition: July 2-4
• Metal Slug 3: July 3 - August 2
• The Last Blade: July 3 - August 2
• Twinkle Star Sprites: July 3 - August 2
• Q.U.B.E. 2: July 3-4

They end up on your Twitch account to be used with (yes, another one) the Twitch client.  All you have to do is link your Twitch account with your Amazon account and have Prime.

And don't forget, if you do have Twitch Plus with Amazon Prime, you can subscribe to one feed for free, and the broadcaster gets paid just as if you were a paying customer.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's TechSupportAlert website needs our help

« Last post by wraith808 on July 03, 2018, 03:34 PM »

Done!  I'll gladly give a donation or join, but don't turn off my adblocker for anyone.  Too much bad stuff out there that comes through Ad networks.