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General Software Discussion / Re: GIMP: Cursor Obscuring Image When Using Free Select Tool

« Last post by ewemoa on November 06, 2011, 06:13 PM »

OTOH, I don't know of any further hidden secrets besides how getting comfortable with the hotkeys makes working with Gimp faster

-Edvard (November 06, 2011, 01:02 PM)

Indeed!

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 06, 2011, 03:11 AM »

I forgot to thank lanux128 for pointing me at SFV Ninja.

Thanks lanux128

On the issue of additional hashing algorithms, I think OpenSSL supports a variety of hashes and is theoretically buildable on Windows -- licensing info from Wikipedia follows:

OpenSSL is "dual licensed" under the OpenSSL License and the SSLeay License.  OpenSSL License is Apache License 1.0 and SSLeay License is 4-clause BSD License. The common usage of the term dual-license is that the user may pick which license they wish to use. However, OpenSSL documentation uses the term dual-license to mean that both licenses apply.

As the OpenSSL License is Apache License 1.0, but not Apache License 2.0, it requires the phrase This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/) to appear in advertising material and any redistributions (Sections 3 and 6 of the OpenSSL License).

Also, licensing info from the OpenSSL site:

  http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by ewemoa on November 04, 2011, 03:00 AM »

Hmmm...got caught red-handed

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

« Last post by ewemoa on November 03, 2011, 08:25 PM »

I have come across a site that appears to return a JSON array as a result (with mime type plain/text).  Is this format of data something FarrWebMetaSearch can handle?

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General Software Discussion / GIMP: Cursor Obscuring Image When Using Free Select Tool

« Last post by ewemoa on November 03, 2011, 02:11 AM »

Under GIMP (2.6.1) I noticed that the pointer cursor would sometimes obscure the image too much causing difficulty while using the free select tool.  After some not-too-successful searching, I learned that there's a preference that seems to help:



Perhaps there are better work-arounds.  If anyone knows of any, I'd be interested in hearing about them -- apart from changing the system's pointer cursor, that is

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Small pictures when pasting into a new e-mail

« Last post by ewemoa on November 03, 2011, 12:25 AM »

isn't everyone using SC via hotkey on keyboard? it's hard to imagine any other real way to use it.

-mouser (November 02, 2011, 11:15 PM)

I admit to also using it via the tray area icon -- as I didn't find a default key sequence for "Restore main window".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Open Source file-sharing app: HTTP File Server (HFS)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2011, 08:02 AM »

Seems to work just fine with 2.3 beta (build 279).

Thanks a lot for your help

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Open Source file-sharing app: HTTP File Server (HFS)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2011, 07:54 AM »

Aha.  I appear to be using 2.2f -- will try with 2.3 beta (build 279).  Thanks for the tip!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Open Source file-sharing app: HTTP File Server (HFS)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2011, 07:39 AM »

Thanks for your response!

I examined a tar file I downloaded via the folder archive feature of HFS and compared it to one I made via 7-zip.

In the former I noticed that the file name portion (as described here) appears to use backslashes for directory separators, while in the latter, forward slashes appear to be used.

From my cursory research, my impression is that the tar file format expects forward slashes to be used for directory separators.  Perhaps someone with more definitive knowledge can chime in regarding this.


P.S. Sorry to hear you don't have more time -- a Python-based version sounds nice to me

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a GUI that does...

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2011, 02:23 AM »

Haven't tried the following yet...wonder if it might be relevant:

GUI for Command Line

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Open Source file-sharing app: HTTP File Server (HFS)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2011, 02:07 AM »

More than 3 years later ...

Echoing the general sentiment here -- finding HFS to be quite nice 

Particularly appreciate that it works under WINE -- nice to have quick file-sharing under *nix without much hassle.  Also nice is the file-uploading feature.

Wondering whether others have encountered difficulties with the folder archive feature -- the resulting tar files seem to cause difficulty for tar under *nix (at least in some Debian-derivatives).  (I think this can be worked around via 7-Zip / WINE.)

Any thoughts?

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

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

Thanks for the update!  Double-clicking and right-clicking both give expected results here now

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by ewemoa on October 31, 2011, 08:04 PM »

I'd like to be able to copy a checksum to the clipboard...but I haven't figured out how.  Is there already a way?

I noticed that double-clicking on a row seems to result in a value getting displayed in the cell corresponding to the checksum column.  I'm guessing that what I'm seeing is a CRC32 value -- even when in MD5 or SHA-1 mode.  Is this expected behavior?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review/Tips: "Scanning - VueScan and Associates" Pt.I: Intro & Bookscanning

« Last post by ewemoa on October 31, 2011, 05:07 AM »

Here is a video which shows ScanTailor's new ability to dewarp scanned text lines, which at the moment is still done manually. This is a very important feature when scanning books, since the text lines towards the spine of the book tend to get bent.

This feature is in the new test version which can be downloaded here.

-brahman (August 16, 2010, 09:22 AM)

Scan Tailor is quite a find.  Thanks for mentioning it

Saw it here too and there appears to be a "development" portable version.

Came across this fairly clear video tutorial by the developer.

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by ewemoa on October 31, 2011, 04:18 AM »

Find me a free, stand-alone commandline executable that will spit out an SHA-256 checksum and, sure, I'll add it.

-skwire (October 30, 2011, 11:06 PM)

How does sha256deep.exe from md5deep look?

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by ewemoa on October 30, 2011, 09:54 PM »

Awesome tool, Sir Skwire

Any chance of SHA-256 support?  I came across:

  http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/digest.rdf

and failed to find other checksums...

Oh...and is there some hidden feature in the Help -> Contents dialog?


P.S. No official checksums for SFVNinja itself?

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Developer's Corner / Re: OpenCTags and Notepad++

« Last post by ewemoa on October 30, 2011, 02:07 AM »

FWIW, some screenshots:

Start off by generating a tags file...


Specify tags file location...


Choose an identifier and bring up candidates via Alt+Space...


Decide on destination and end up at...

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Developer's Corner / Re: OpenCTags and Notepad++

« Last post by ewemoa on October 29, 2011, 06:14 PM »

I've tried with both shell (0wn) and python (kupfer) code without problems.

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Developer's Corner / Re: OpenCTags and Notepad++

« Last post by ewemoa on October 28, 2011, 06:12 PM »

FWIW, I am using a portableapps.com version of Notepad++...strange.

Perhaps I should test generating tags files with other bits of source code.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery

« Last post by ewemoa on October 27, 2011, 06:24 PM »

Have restored a number of times for various reasons and it appears to work well here.  Once booted into Redo, the actual restore takes a little over 3 minutes (though shutting down takes more than a few seconds).  The partition being restored is about 12GB and it is about half full -- though the actual restore image files total to a little under 3GB.

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Developer's Corner / Re: OpenCTags and Notepad++

« Last post by ewemoa on October 27, 2011, 05:28 PM »

I upgraded to Notepad++ 5.9.5 (unicode version) and did some brief testing.  Haven't noticed anything specific yet.  Using XP SP3 here too.  Any details related to "very unstable"?

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Developer's Corner / OpenCTags and Notepad++

« Last post by ewemoa on October 27, 2011, 05:35 AM »

Started using OpenCTags (1.2.2) with Notepad++ (5.9.3) to navigate to definitions.  After generating an appropriate tags file, one can use "Open Tag" (Plugins -> OpenCTags) to bring up a pop-up window that displays candidate destinations.

Any one using something similar for Notepad++?

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Living Room / Re: Common Hiding Places for Passwords

« Last post by ewemoa on October 25, 2011, 10:23 PM »

May be this might help if one has been too clever in hiding one's password

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery

« Last post by ewemoa on October 25, 2011, 02:33 AM »

Succeeded in placing redo 1.0.1 on an internal hard drive, leveraging grub4dos.  This is documented at:

  https://sourceforge....169663/topic/4568603

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Disk Management Console Problem

« Last post by ewemoa on October 14, 2011, 09:26 AM »

As a side note, I wish to express my thanks to the authors of Disk Management Console as this incident provided an opportunity to finally try out TestDisk.  Thank you (nameless?) folks at Microsoft(?)