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Living Room / Re: The Longest Joke in the World

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 02:07 PM »

oh dear. i fit into the 3rd group.

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Living Room / local pc shop owner speaks truth on xp license - or takes me for a fool?

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 01:54 PM »

i went to the local computer shop today to enquire about a budget system that someone has asked me to sort out for them.

the interesting part was that the store owner assured me that a typical single xp license is for 3 machines - that being 3 machines that you own personally. so, his recommendation was to get the key for the xp license from the machine that the person already owns (the fact they currently own windows 98 doesn't help much) and then just use it to validate xp on the new machine.

something he does regularly he says.

is this information correct or is this going to lead to more troubles later on when the new machine starts going through all that windows genuine advantage stuff, i.e. i don't want to have to start sorting out a problem that shouldn't have been there to start with (although i'll probably get paid for the trouble of doing it).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 12:03 PM »

that screenscroll program appears to be a command line thing - i don't quite understand the point of it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 10:27 AM »

i like the dragqueen/screen joke so i'd pick that at the moment - screen might be a better description of what happens also as it is a 'screen' of windows that you drag - not just a single 'window'.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 03:35 AM »

just a quick suggestion for when things are finished - does a name with the word 'drag' in it sound more fitting than the word 'scroll'?

maybe 'desktop' might give the wrong impression also - as it is the open windows that move but not the desktop itself.

maybe something like 'dragwindows' or 'screendrag' fits more? any thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Ralf Maximus - MIA?

« Last post by nudone on February 18, 2008, 01:25 AM »

i'd like to see him return.

i really miss the humour he brought to DC. and he knows i'm a big fan of his writing.

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Living Room / tip: check your mouse before going to red alert.

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 04:17 PM »

a couple of days ago my computer suddenly started acting strange - like it had a mind of its own.

i'd be dragging a window across the screen only to have the cursor suddenly lose its grip on the window. or, i'd try and move icons around and they wouldn't move at all - or they would if they were in a certain area.

i suspected that either the pc was infected or a piece of hardware was about to fail.

after pondering on the doom scenario of the pc dying i eventually thought i better swap the mouse for another. whilst doing that i noticed a thin white hair (must have been a dog hair) covering the lens on the underside of the mouse. i removed it and everything now works perfectly again.

maybe it was coincidence. it does seem a little odd that the hair was effecting mouse clicks but i shall just assume that somehow the camera information the lens picks up was going crazy and some how sent the mouse funny.

moral of the story: keep your mouse clean - even optical ones.

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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 04:02 PM »

nudone: an easy solution for you, without using custom dns servers etc, would be to just put the ip for donationcoder in your hosts file.

-Gothi[c] (February 17, 2008, 03:37 PM)

thanks for the tip. i'll wait a bit longer before dong anything to see how things progress in this thread.

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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 03:27 PM »

i can't help there but it's peculiar how other things hosted at DC don't suffer the same problem.

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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 02:21 PM »

You also might want to try these:

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4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3

No advertising when you mistype an url

-Gothi[c] (February 17, 2008, 01:53 PM)

no advertising sounds better 

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Living Room / Re: can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 03:34 AM »

okay, thanks sri, i'll give that a try next time it happens.

why is it happening though?

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Living Room / can't access donationcoder.com sometimes unless i use a proxy

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 03:15 AM »

i once put this question forward in the irc channel and obviously sounded like a lunatic as i thought donationcoder.com kept going down regularly.

f0dder gave me an answer/solution but at the time i didn't really understand what he meant.

anyway, here's the question again:

why can't i access donationcoder.com (or anything related to the url) when the site is still up and working perfectly. this happens to me on an almost daily basis - usually first thing in the morning. and then, by magic, after an hour or two everything suddenly starts working as you'd expect - without any messing about from me.

after stubornly accepting this problem for a couple of years i decided to use a proxy today - and, of course, everything worked fine.

i only have this problem with DC - it doesn't even affect the other websites that are hosted at DC - it's only the donationcoder.com url stuff.

does my computer hate me and simply won't allow me to view DC sometimes or is it something beyond my control?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 17, 2008, 03:03 AM »

excellent. looking forward to it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 16, 2008, 06:22 AM »

well, win + k doesn't seem to do anything. providing the keys are easy to access AND easy to remember i wouldn't mind what they are over in that area of the keyboard.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 16, 2008, 06:01 AM »

i think jumping a whole monitor screen (or whatever) makes sense using something like win key plus arrow keys. or what about win key plus the keys under the right hand in touch typing. so something like 'win + i' goes up, 'win + ,' goes down, 'win + j' goes left and 'win + L' goes right. well, something like that as i see that 'win + L' currently goes to the log on screen.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 16, 2008, 05:09 AM »

ah yes, i use maxthon with mouse gestures ALL the time, so the right button wouldn't be good for me either.

it looks like the win key is all there is. maybe middle mouse button but i think i probably prefer the win key method.

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Living Room / Re: Amelia: Youtube Dance/Ballet Short

« Last post by nudone on February 16, 2008, 03:58 AM »

you've probably looked at the other lalala human steps links but if not i think 'human sex' still stands out http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related i remember seeing this on the tv in 85 and couldn't believe what i was seeing. i'm not sure it will have the same impact today as modern dance has become a little more energetic anyway.

i'm not a fan of modern dance nor ballet BUT i think the more recent work from DV8 Physical Theater is incredible - they seem to be in a league of their own. earlier stuff is probably just for real dance fans as i found it tedious. check out this trailer for their 'Cost of Living' http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=itDRZlc7d8U the full film has stuff i gaurantee you'll never have seen before.

the full version of 'Enter Achilles' is also pretty amazing. here's a snippet but it doesn't really give you the right idea http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=17hNNfIkxQU

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 16, 2008, 03:18 AM »

i like how the current version is working. the speed of the scrolling, etc.

i have some weird things happening like maxthon vanishing off screen never to be found - so i have to close it from the taskbar. perhaps this sort of thing will suddenly fix itself as you get further on with the code - or maybe it's a conflict on my machine.

the 2x2 screen area feels about right - it would still be nice to have a border to indicate where the edge is.

perhaps it would also be useful to prevent a window from going outside of the boundary so that you know you've reached the edge of the work area.

that .ini file you mentioned would be good too.

edit:
forgot to say that i never got to try the 'jump' version as i was offline whilst you were playing with it.

edit:
i also forgot to say that perhaps it could be an option to just use the mouse buttons to drag rather than use a key press. right button drag on it's own should be okay shouldn't it? and maybe instead of win + click it could be left mouse button + right mouse button click. my reasoning is just to make it as fast to use as possible - just using mouse buttons requires even less effort by the user than having to hit the keyboard.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 12:51 PM »

i notice that 'alt+tab' and taskbar click sometimes works and sometimes does something unexpected.

other than that, i must say i'm very impressed with how it's behaving.

i can already see when laying out two large windows side by side it is good to navigate between them using dragging instead of alt+tabbing as you would normally. like if you are coding in one window and checking something in the next window. it is pretty much like using dual monitors.

i think this must be because there are a lot more visual references for your eyes to fix onto as you drag the windows about. when you simply alt+tab (or use virtual desktops) you have to readjust your view and quickly figure out where you should be looking within the program window. doing the dragging method is more natural and gives your eyes time to work out where things are within the program window.

in fact, i think it's brilliant. just messing about doing it now dragging left and right between two large windows full of text side by side.

this program will, of course, allow you to have a program window opened up beyond your physical monitor screen, i.e. you could be working/searching within an editor with long lines of code and you could stretch the window out to be double it's normal width and height. then you could quickly drag around within this window seeing how code is arranged without having to collapse the line lengths like you normal have to do.

that is also a potentially fantastic way of working i think.

this util is set to revolutionise computer and human interaction from this moment on 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 12:27 PM »

have you uploaded a screengrab by mistake?

the keep focus window i don't quite understand - or perhaps what is happening on my screen is hard to understand.

it looks to me that it would be best to just keep windows fixed in there place unless the user manually moves them.

at the taskbar will flash to indicate a program window requires attention the user can quickly just use the drag feature to get to the correct area location.

if the 'jump' feature is implemented then i don't think it will be a big deal to do a quick 'short drag jump' action.

hmm. i think i've only just realised something. when you wish to navigate through the extended screen area without using the mouse, i.e. using alt+tab. that's what you were trying to figure out i see. i didn't quite appreciate that but now i do.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 12:16 PM »

not sure what's happening but the 'ctrl' + click feature isn't working for me with the latest version. i'm not too sure what's happening with the move focus window too.

sorry. just seen that it's using the win key now and not ctrl.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 11:39 AM »

could the usual 'click on taskbar' or 'alt+tab' be used to make the screen jump to the program. if not then a win + click sounds okay.

one thing that might also be worth considering - and this might be good to have as a user setting - is the ability to 'drag' or 'jump'.

what i mean is, at the moment, things move as you'd expect by dragging objects about. what would probably be more practical is if you still 'dragged' the screen about but it jumped or snapped to the next area.

so, if i began dragging from top to bottom, even though i've only dragged about 50 pixels down, the screen would jump the full length of what is currently viewable and 'snap' to the area that was hidden above out of screen.

this would make the whole process super quick and would mean less messing about positioning the screen after you've dragged it. it would be similar to using virtual desktops but instead of using an 'alt+tab' kind of swap you are using the direction of the 'drag' to indicate which screen area you wan to go to.

it would nice if there were TWO drag methods:

1. very short quick drag means 'jump' a whole viewable screen/zone so the next zone come into view. (perhaps a whole 'zone' jump is too much and just half a zone or a third would be okay - perhaps this would be incorporated anyway when the 'snap' feature is implemented.)

2. long drags (eg. at least twice the length of the short drag setting ) makes the drag movement work as it currently does - with the screen moving along with the mouse cursor.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 11:20 AM »

these are the results i have for kmplayers window. i've posted three screengrabs because i noticed the classNN changed depending on where i put the cursor over the window and i didn't know if the result was important.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 11:08 AM »

That's true, nudone.. Probaby ctrl+drag isn't a good idea.

Do you know anything that uses win+drag?
I like your idea about using backslash, maybe that's a good solution.

-jgpaiva (February 15, 2008, 10:01 AM)

didn't see this earlier. i don't know of anything that uses the win key plus mouse dragging.

now, this might just be me but the beauty of using the spacebar is that it sits right under your thumb - this is obviously why they use it with graphics editing programs. it's very quick and easy to hit and use.

the win key is not so easy to hit. perhaps the combination of spacebar plus ¬ (or whatever that key is in the top left on your keyboard) isn't too easy to hit either.

i'm just thinking of keys that are best suited when you have your left hand resting over the keys in a touch-typing position. AND that don't conflict with stuff like photoshop where many key combinations are already in use.

perhaps just the ¬ key on it's own without the spacbar is enough (or whatever the top left key is under the escape key). it's easier than hitting the win key and PROBABLY doesn't conflict with anything else.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: bigger screen area than monitor size - with quick scroll features

« Last post by nudone on February 15, 2008, 11:00 AM »

these are just cosmetic suggestions so if they reduce the smoothness then i wouldn't bother with them - something to perhaps try at the end of everything else anyway...

how about a border being visible so that you know you've reached the end of the container, something just like a 5px thick line or something.

something probably way too advanced: how about a little diagram graphic thingy that indicates where you are within the big grid. i've seen virtual desktop programs use this type of graphic helper widget type thing. it might be nice to have but would it be worth the trouble involved.