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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help with Vista Backup

« Last post by nudone on May 16, 2008, 01:05 AM »

is this problem due to not having the correct user permissions to view the folders, i.e. it's nothing to do with making them into archives?

not sure if it would work like that but that's my first guess.

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Living Room / Re: An idea for the forum regarding disclosure

« Last post by nudone on May 14, 2008, 01:12 AM »

what happens to those people that don't abide by the rule(s).

will their post be automatically deleted - or marked in some way as an example and maybe moved to the 'hall of shame' section of the forum.

1603

Post New Requests Here / IDEA: synchronise and store desktop files online - exclude "large" files

« Last post by nudone on May 09, 2008, 02:54 PM »

as usual, i'm expecting that this will already have been done - but maybe not.

something like a "desktop mirror".

i'd like to have my main 'desktop contents' available on the various computers i use. i don't mean remote access and control to a specific machine's desktop; just the files i seem to collect and leave scattered all over it - but not large files.

the idea works like this:

1. dropping/creating 'small' files like .doc, .txt, .jpg, etc., etc. on the desktop is immediately captured by a monitoring tool that uploads these same files to an ftp server.

2. you move on to a different computer that is also running the monitoring tool and it automatically downloads the stored files onto this machine's desktop.

3. any changes that are made such as file edits and complete file removal is also monitored and shared across the other desktops.

4. there would be an option to specify 'large' file exclusion, and i suppose file 'type' exclusion/inclusion.


hopefully someone can recommend a tool that already does this. i can imagine there are ones that will do something similar but will probably be lacking one of the requirements.

any suggestions or is this a util that needs creating?

thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mikogo: share screen or access remote PC

« Last post by nudone on May 05, 2008, 02:09 PM »

used this today to help a friend out.

crossloop failed to work with his machine so mikago gets a big  from me now.

1605

Living Room / Re: Comic Strip Generator (and March Caption Contest Announcement!)

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2008, 12:48 AM »

well done f0dder, i'm also looking forward to seeing the photo.

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Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.

« Last post by nudone on April 29, 2008, 08:18 AM »

thanks, tomos.

the new pictures are done using a 'wacom cintiq 12W'.


review here http://gizmodo.com/3...rdict-simply-amazing


i'd call it a good tool - but not "simply amazing". but they do say that a bad workman blames his tools so perhaps i shouldn't complain.

edit:
oh, here's the picture on the Transportica site that tomos was referring to...

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2008, 06:22 AM »

banner, er i meant top image, appears to be getting through the ad blocker fine now. 

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Living Room / Re: My New website ...

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2008, 01:23 AM »

great to see you've finally got the website up, Carol. 

the only thing i can add, and i think you must make this change, is that your top banner is being blocked by my ad blocker - which means it must be being blocked by a lot of other peoples ad blocker too.

if you just change the name from 'banner' to 'header' or something that doesn't sound like an advert it will work fine.

1609

Living Room / Re: Gorgeous Homebuilt PC Mod with instructions: Victorian Steampunk All-in One

« Last post by nudone on April 24, 2008, 01:02 AM »

very nice.

1610

Living Room / Searchme - another visual search attempt

« Last post by nudone on April 23, 2008, 01:30 AM »

here's another Search Provider attempt to return visual results of pages found (i'd guess to be picked up by google if it has any success).

it has a nice way of doing it.

http://beta.searchme.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: You know you're addicted to DC software when...

« Last post by nudone on April 23, 2008, 01:18 AM »

excellent video tutorial, nite_monkey. probably just at the right level for many computer users i've encountered.

i'd like to see more in this series; there's plenty of source material to go at.

1612

Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love..

« Last post by nudone on April 18, 2008, 08:30 AM »

heheh, that's brilliant.

1613

General Software Discussion / Re: The great free screen capture shootout for Windows! (Screenshot Captor gets nod)

« Last post by nudone on April 18, 2008, 01:20 AM »

congratulations to mr. screenshot captor. 

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love..

« Last post by nudone on April 18, 2008, 01:18 AM »

(yep, an human and an history are definitely wrong.)

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love..

« Last post by nudone on April 16, 2008, 07:06 AM »

great reading.

i'll remember not to buy any monster cable (and try to look for blue jeans cable instead).

it will be interesting to know what happens next.

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Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.

« Last post by nudone on April 12, 2008, 02:55 AM »

Did you know this one?

http://www.archimede...rafi/C_serafini.html

-kartal (April 12, 2008, 02:46 AM)

yes, mouser told me about it after i made him aware of the plans for the codex transportica. i think he once owned the book.

i've now seen the book (torrents are your friend). i think the artwork is great but i was expecting something a little more interesting overall.

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Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.

« Last post by nudone on April 12, 2008, 01:34 AM »

thanks, that's very good to know, Deozaan. 

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Living Room / Re: Cody shotglasses? What does the community think

« Last post by nudone on April 11, 2008, 11:43 AM »

sounds like we need it confirming whether they can do colour prints or not. if they don't do colour, do they require the image to be a simple black line art type image.

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Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.

« Last post by nudone on April 11, 2008, 06:49 AM »

thanks, BrotherS.

i'm glad to know you are following via the email updates.

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Living Room / Re: Most useless

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2008, 12:26 PM »

2) my mother bought me a t-shirt with the joker's face on it, not THE joker from Batman, oh no. this was a very badly illustrated version of something that was meant to look like the joker but without paying any licensing fees to do so, i.e. it looked awful. add to this i must have been in my twenties, don't care much for the Batman franchise and don't need my mother to buy my clothes for me - not even back then. i do wear t-shirts so she got that part right.

around that time she also bought me a baseball cap with my name stamped on the front of it - perhaps she thought i had trouble introducing myself to people.

i could go on. i've given up trying to be tactful with my mother over the terrible christmas presents she gives me.

3) useless pc item, probably a mini vacuum cleaner for cleaning the keyboard. battery powered and with about as much suction power as wafting a single feather around somewhere up in the upper atmosphere of this planet.

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Living Room / Re: So there IS a twilight zone!

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2008, 07:41 AM »

i have direct experience of this strange phenomenon. my hotmail sent emails often vanish; i know i wrote them and i know that i hit the send button and yet there is absolutely no record that they existed in the sent folder.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Call Graph: The free Skype call recorder!

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2008, 09:52 AM »

i like it too. had to recommend it to a friend that actually uses skype more than me though. and it does appear to be better than the paid for equivalents i quickly compared it with.

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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2008, 09:49 AM »

Apparently I collect ToDo lists. And like a true collector, I keep them in their original form. Nothing is checked off. I insure that I don't actually do anything on these lists so I am not forced to damage this collection by scratching something out. My collection is quite large and it is spread throughout my home and office cubicle.

-tinjaw (April 08, 2008, 08:32 AM)

hahaha. spot on.

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Living Room / Re: How many people work from home?

« Last post by nudone on April 05, 2008, 02:21 AM »

i do something at home. i think it's called work - or it might just be messing about.

ps.

i'd like to see ak_ do a version of cody one day. i really admire ak_'s style.

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Living Room / Re: Aviary invitations (I have 5 to give away)

« Last post by nudone on April 03, 2008, 03:01 AM »

i'd like to try please. i've been keeping my eye on aviary for a few months now.