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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Topic: NANY 2012 Pledge: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by ewemoa on November 27, 2011, 08:19 AM »

Yes, I am using XP Pro SP3.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Topic: NANY 2012 Pledge: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by ewemoa on November 27, 2011, 07:52 AM »

I deleted db.ini and restarted QSLL.exe but "c" and "fi" still cause similar crashes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Topic: NANY 2012 Pledge: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by ewemoa on November 27, 2011, 07:39 AM »

Thanks for the update.

It runs now.  When I tried typing "fi" (no quotes), got an error with details:

AppName: qsll.exe    AppVer: 1.0.0.1    ModName: qsll.exe
ModVer: 1.0.0.1    Offset: 00002253

Then the app went away.

"quit" worked

Some other combinations also caused crashes (e.g. "c" -- I was about to type a path).

I'm testing this on Windows XP Pro SP3.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Topic: NANY 2012 Pledge: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by ewemoa on November 27, 2011, 07:00 AM »

Tried to run it, but got something about not being able to find MSVCP100.dll.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ultimate Windows Customiser (Windows Club) - quick review

« Last post by ewemoa on November 26, 2011, 05:16 AM »

Looks pretty interesting!

When I get access to Windows 7 again, I may give it a try.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 22, 2011, 08:25 PM »

@Phitsc : I'm also getting the oleaut32.dll error, with an "access violation" message.

-Armando (November 22, 2011, 08:18 PM)

FWIW, I think I got this initially too -- when reading the earlier portions of this thread, I came across the FScript.dll version issue and upgrading it to 1.20 in one of my plugins seemed to resolve it for me.  But may be it's a different oleaut32.dll error...

A reference:

  https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18016.msg230415#msg230415

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 22, 2011, 07:01 PM »

I was able to test on a different installation of Windows 7 and had more success -- get results in FARR now

It is still puzzling to me though why via the windows key, "cmd" gives the result "cmd.exe" but with FARRWindowsSearch I get nothing.  Similar with "regedit".

Any ideas?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 22, 2011, 04:38 AM »

If you type 'search' into the 'Search Programs and Files' box, there's a 'Find and fix problems with Windows Search' item in the 'Control Panel' category. Maybe you can give this one a try? As you say, I would guess that Windows Search is enabled (and therefore indexing) by default in Windows 7.

-phitsc (November 22, 2011, 02:07 AM)

Thanks for the clarification and suggestions.  Haven't gotten anywhere yet, but intend to keep trying.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 21, 2011, 05:26 PM »

Thanks for the clarification.

I have been assuming that there isn't anything extra one needs to do for Windows 7 to get this working -- apart from installing FARR and FARRWindowsSearch (plus FARR restart)...may be there is some pilot error here with the assuming bit.

Signed,
Patiently waiting for phitsc's life [1] to give him sufficient resources to attend to us


[1] Or may be just timezone...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 21, 2011, 04:02 PM »

Normally you need to add a space after ws before typing ?

-Armando (November 21, 2011, 11:53 AM)

Not sure I follow you here -- in my tests apart from just "ws", I appended a single space after "ws" and before any other text.  Does that sound ok?  I don't suppose there is a suggestion here to type a question mark character...I tried that too but that doesn't appear to cause any difference in behavior.

Did you try changing the default alias ? I changed it to ^ws (.*), so actual search starts when I insert a space after "ws"

Gave this suggestion a try but didn't notice any difference in behavior.

Thanks for the ideas

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 21, 2011, 07:30 AM »

I got a chance to try out Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) for a bit, so am giving FARR Windows Search a try.

Unzipped 0.3.0 into the FARRWindowsSearch plugin folder and restarted FARR.  ws in FARR's main window brings up Options and About as search results.  I haven't had any luck getting any other search results to show up though...Is there some other configuration necessary to get the plugin to work?

Not sure if this is relevant, but typing the Windows key and typing in cmd gives one result of cmd.exe, but in FARR ws cmd gives nothing.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Lifecycle Factsheet (And Downgrade Info)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 19, 2011, 10:26 PM »

Thanks for finding and posting this

I guess at the moment it looks like I'd better be off of SP3 of XP before April 2014.

Looking at the "End of Support" row in:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Comparison_chart

I get the sense that support for Windows 7 Professional will last longer than Windows 7 Ultimate...seems a bit odd.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: [Short Review] - Screenshot Captor v2.103.01

« Last post by ewemoa on November 19, 2011, 03:37 PM »

Thanks for the review 

if SSC includes a few basic features such as Facebook and Flickr uploading

-Stephen66515

While looking into this, I noticed the following at the ZUploader / ZScreen site:



CustomUploadersHelp

It looks to me like Flickr might be supported and perhaps it's possible to put something together to get Facebook support to work using the Custom Uploader functionality.

Does this help at all?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

« Last post by ewemoa on November 18, 2011, 04:15 AM »

May be the following will be of some help:

  http://viewsourcecode.org/why/

There is some possibly related info that might help to explain why the links don't work in one of the initial paragraphs at:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery

« Last post by ewemoa on November 17, 2011, 06:54 PM »

Cobbled together a PDF version (with table of contents) of the perl script that is a wrapper around partclone (and a few other tools).

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

« Last post by ewemoa on November 17, 2011, 06:49 PM »

Making a second attempt through this.  Hacked together a version with a table of contents:

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Living Room / Re: multiple monitors vs large monitor?

« Last post by ewemoa on November 17, 2011, 08:29 AM »

I want a third monitor (that one again) to stick in permanent portrait mode.

-Renegade (November 17, 2011, 04:46 AM)

+1 for portrait mode!

These days I've been using portrait mode mostly for messing with the connections to my screens though -- easier to get at the connectors when the screen is rotated

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General Software Discussion / Re: 15+ useful Chrome Extensions you might not have heard of

« Last post by ewemoa on November 17, 2011, 01:16 AM »

Mmm, GIF Stopper sounds nice.

Thanks for sharing

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Living Room / Re: Sintel - Open Source Development Powered Movie

« Last post by ewemoa on November 16, 2011, 11:06 AM »

I particularly enjoy watching the "making-of" material from these folks.  IIRC, for this piece, the following is what I found:

http://www.sintel.org/news/sintel-documentary/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« Last post by ewemoa on November 15, 2011, 03:02 AM »

I hope you meant Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right

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General Software Discussion / Re: 15+ useful Chrome Extensions you might not have heard of

« Last post by ewemoa on November 14, 2011, 08:07 PM »

Started using XPath Helper today:

  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hgimnogjllphhhkhlmebbmlgjoejdpjl

This one generates expressions as well as provide interactive testing on pages in one's browser window.

It seems there are a number of different XPath-related extensions.

Any one have any recommendations?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Release: Tell When Done

« Last post by ewemoa on November 07, 2011, 11:53 PM »

Thanks for the response!  Looking forward to the updates

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Release: Tell When Done

« Last post by ewemoa on November 07, 2011, 03:28 PM »

This sounds great!

Any chance of recording and reporting the total time related to observing the processing?

On a tangential note, I didn't find a checksum on the download page (e.g. MD5, SHA1, etc.).  Is there something there?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by ewemoa on November 07, 2011, 03:22 PM »

About this Add-on
Bookmark Highlighter does what it says on the tin. Text links are highlighted with a blue background, and image links are highlighted with a dotted blue outline. This is a simple and effective way to see what's bookmarked among a sea of links.

-IainB (November 07, 2011, 07:47 AM)

Mmmm, sounds good!  Thanks for sharing!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.6.0

« Last post by ewemoa on November 07, 2011, 03:19 PM »

Thanks for the feedback

Results for the current case are an array of 2-element arrays, so look something like:

[Select]

[["something", "related"],["another thing","another relate"],...]