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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 27, 2011, 01:14 PM »

I've had image stuff in and out of Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign (CH+S doesn't 'see' text copied from Illustrator btw) as well as a bunch of other graphics stuff. Haven't bumped into a problem yet. If there is an issue, you can bet it'll occur in the middle of some crucial work and not while I'm playing around As long as it works with Photoshop I'm happy as that alone accounts for about 70% of my need for clips

This is very nice to have and, in my view, an invaluable addition to CH+S  

@mouser, this vector/bitmap (and other formats) is what I mentioned recently and it seems as if you are on the case.
I didn't try vectors in Illustrator as I pretty much knew what to expect.

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 27, 2011, 06:35 AM »

My Optimus Maximus keyboard prize arrived two minutes ago; I haven't had a chance to unwrap it yet. I'm just posting to tell how excited I am - especially because I have been so worried about what the tax guys would say. The rather unexpected but thrilling good news is, they didn't charge me a dime!!

-Curt (April 27, 2011, 03:17 AM)

Have fun!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2011, 09:40 PM »

Anyone want to beta test?

-mouser

Sure, make us do all the work!
I suppose you could force me, kicking and screaming all the way  

Can't wait to get at it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2011, 10:17 AM »

    YES!     YES!     YES!


      Really  Great  Bonus

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Living Room / Re: Techno-Addicts

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 25, 2011, 10:10 PM »

Only the game of Cricket is harder to understand.

-40hz (April 25, 2011, 12:20 PM)

Oh come now, your slip is showing!

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 24, 2011, 09:22 AM »

-cyberdiva (April 23, 2011, 09:19 PM)

Some of us have already been there.
[/quote]

Twice 

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Finished Programs / Re: Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.0.0

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2011, 09:16 PM »

I've taken some time (and a work project that could nicely use it )

-Ath (April 22, 2011, 03:43 PM)

Why work for money when you can work for nothing?  

Looking forward to delving into 3.0  

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Living Room / Re: What's your experience with 3rd party color inkjet ink replacement?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2011, 06:27 PM »

One of my printers is a Canon all-in-one and I really like it.
I stuck to Canon ink for a few years and then decided to try cheap stuff.
Everything went well and I congratulated myself for being astute… until cheap-ink change #4 clogged the print head.

I can't buy this model now and, like almost everything else on the market today, the newer model has an increased shoddyness factor.

That experience will probably persuade me to stick with brand-name ink in future.

It's possible to take the view that printers are themselves so cheap that it's more economical to run with off-brand ink and dump any printer that's harmed by it. The trouble is, it really goes against the grain for me to see another lump of nasty hardware going into landfill. I just can't bring myself to do it.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 21, 2011, 05:01 PM »

I would slide forwards - but my trousers would stay in the same place

-tomos (April 21, 2011, 06:42 AM)

Thank goodness you didn't go in reverse!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 20, 2011, 12:40 PM »

We've seen a complaint and a rebuttal, not for the first time.

Surely that is enough.

My vote is to avoid responding further in this topic before it beomes something with which the community at DC becomes uncomfortable.
Spats are not our way.

For myself, I choose to ignore this topic from now on.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 20, 2011, 05:39 AM »

Not I…  but in the summer I'm quite pleased with my hammock support.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo remove ALL of Firefox EXCEPT login infos?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 19, 2011, 01:22 PM »

Inside your firefox profile folder, backup these files:

• key3.db
• signons.sqlite
• signons3.txt
• signons2.txt (this may or may not exist)
• signons.txt (this may or may not exist)

-app103 (April 19, 2011, 11:32 AM)

That's useful, thanks. I've not bothered to work that out for myself and it just might come in handy!

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Official Announcements / Re: Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 19, 2011, 01:20 PM »

Well, here it's like watching treacle pour over molasses but it certainly makes one appreciate 'normal service'.

I'm sure it'll be fixed one way or another.
Keep smiling!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 18, 2011, 07:53 PM »

Congratulations! Did you have a panel of beta testers?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011) Now resolved

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 18, 2011, 01:32 PM »

But I can't type with my eyes crossed...

-Stoic Joker (April 18, 2011, 11:20 AM)

In that case, you already know why I made the request 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 18, 2011, 10:27 AM »

The card is now working and the machine is running fine.

Yet another driver clean-out/re-install, plus some software repairs, and it looks okay. A whole lot of commotion created mainly by my uncertainty about whether using this particular card had any hardware ramifications.

Thanks for your help! now, if you all will keep the relevant parts of your anatomies crossed…

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 17, 2011, 06:41 PM »

Reminds me of a card I bought once.
Everything was green, sent it back and ordered a better one.

-cmpm (April 17, 2011, 06:23 PM)

With mine I'm beginning to see red and feel blue. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 17, 2011, 06:16 PM »

Thanks for the further thoughts!

The problem card's in an Antec case with a 430W PSU. There are 2 HDDs and a CD-ROM and that's about it for power draw. That ought to be enough ought it not?

Meanwhile, I've ordered an el-cheapo 256Mb DDR2 replacement card and my next step, when that arrives, will be to try that in the machine and see what transpires.

I notice the software that comes with the card to adjust its clock speed etc. doesn't affect anything, so I'm beginning to wonder if this individual ZOTAC card is flaky. Seems unlikely but stranger things have happened to me.

@cmpm; good idea about the drivers, thanks for the link. As it happens, I'd updated to 266.58 almost immediately after installing the card.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 17, 2011, 10:29 AM »

Thanks!

@nudone; good thought, there's no extra power connection on this card
@fodder; I'll check the PSU

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General Software Discussion / Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011) Now resolved

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 17, 2011, 08:29 AM »

Dear Aunt Agony,

Can someone be kind enough to give me a piece of information about hardware?

My wife's machine runs XP SP3.

The computer has an ASUS P5LD2 motherboard (ASUS P5LD2) with 2 Gig DDR2 memory. This board uses PCI Express X16 for video, and its video card died. The dead card was an Asus GeForce 7300 GS with 256 Meg DDR2 SDRAM. The machine died and then came up with vertical lines on the boot screen, a munged Windows start screen, and then failed… every time.

My extremely limited hardware know-how (more properly don't-know-how) does run to replacing a video card but I live in the middle of nowhere, so there's not much choice locally. Just about any video will do for this machine, however.

All I could get on short notice is a ZOTAC(?!?) GeForce GT 430. This has PCI Express 2.0 support and 1 Gig DDR3 SDRAM. So, that's what I bought.
I removed the old drivers, powered off and inserted the new card: machine came up perfectly well.
Installed the new drivers, rebooted: machine came up perfectly well.
Updated the drivers to the latest version, rebooted: machine came up perfectly well.

The trouble is that, once I start to access some software pffft, down it goes. With the new card installed the machine runs okay in safe mode with network support and, to my surprise, at 1600x1200.

So, before I start digging, can someone tell me if there is something inherently problematic, from a hardware point of view, about replacing this 256 Mb DDR2 card with a 1 Gb DDR3 card that has PCIE 2 and DX 11 support? Or, is it going to be driver conflicts etc… ?

Yours truly,

Lost, in Limbo

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2011, 06:16 PM »

the WB-Editor-GUI

-Ath (April 15, 2011, 02:04 PM)

One is agog!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2011, 11:08 AM »

Ok, I finally got a hold of some testing environments (XP, Server 2003, Win7 on 125%, all on VMWare) and lo and behold: I can reproduce the same 'bleed through' issues you have!

So I re-researched the transparency style-settings of the window, and expect to have it fixed (works OK for me now on all my available environments).

-Ath (April 15, 2011, 04:09 AM)

Bingo! Well done! Thanks for the perseverance.  Not just off to the races but first past the post. 

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Living Room / Re: When Growing Online Pressures Backfire

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2011, 10:45 AM »

I think I kind of monkeyed up what I wanted to say in the original post...

-Renegade (April 15, 2011, 07:30 AM)

It wasn't perfect but probably good enough 

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Living Room / Re: Salaries of Charity CEOs

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2011, 10:45 AM »

Why limit that rule to charities only?

-Shades (April 14, 2011, 10:36 PM)

I've been trying to introduce it for governments, believe me!
The plan is a little rough around the edges as yet; we're having a trial run in Libya right now.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A very good (and free) captcha class in PHP (Recommendation)

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2011, 10:32 AM »

i'm now sitting here and typing. *sigh*

-JoTo (April 15, 2011, 02:56 AM)

And thank you for the effort!
It's good to learn about items like this, to keep in a back pocket in case of need.

That mouser, what a slave driver!