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Developer's Corner / 'Sorting/grouping' methodologies

« Last post by Target on March 26, 2008, 01:10 AM »

I have a request from a colleague to assist with sorting and grouping data (in Excel) into blocks of X records (in this case 500), but I have no idea how to go about this

Sorting and subtotalling the data is not a problem, however I have no idea how to go about sorting the results into the requisite blocks (I'm presuming some efficiencies here, ie some sort of best fit type arrangement)

I've googled sorting without joy - clearly this isn't an exact fit but I really have no idea what what it is i should be searching for

The only examples I know of are tools like FillCD or Burn To The Brim (for filling CD/DVDs) but I have no idea how they do what they do

any suggestions?

Target

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ever have your tray icons disappear randomly?

« Last post by Target on March 25, 2008, 06:58 PM »

had no problem understanding the instructions, I actually wondered if anyone could deciper/understand the actual key values

I suppose I'm looking for the opposite of what this 'fix' does.

FWIW, I exported the key and I got a reg file that was (from memory) > 3M.

Viewing the file in a variety of editors showed only a l o o o o o n g string of what I assume is hex (note that using a hex viewer didn't help me either - YMMV)

If someone can read this, it would be possible to create a key that sets your tray icons just so (as opposed to just clearing any/all references to show/hide status)

Target

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ever have your tray icons disappear randomly?

« Last post by Target on March 24, 2008, 10:51 PM »

and on a sidenote - can anyone decipher these registry keys?

if someone can it would make it easy to maintain the tray icons consistently, ie I find some apps (notably AHK scripts) don't behave well in the tray, and don't remember their show/hide status between sessions

it's a minor gripe, but it irritates me that I have to reset this each morning when I log in

Target

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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim

« Last post by Target on March 20, 2008, 12:32 AM »

fascinating as this might be, it's getting a bit heated and I just can't help wondering what the issue is here

I get that trucker is looking for a different conceptual approach, but to what end?  Guarantee'd access to the forums???

I (like a lot of others) 'suffered' through the DC downtime, but ultimately it didn't really affect anything, ie the site was down, the issue was resolved, and the site came back up again (the world didn't end, and everyone is still here).

I probable that any such solution would be pretty resource hungry (cash, equipment, labour, etc) in the short term, and possibly longer.  How much I don't know, nor do I know whether or not the DC crew would or could support it, but I can't help feeling that guaranteed access to the forums (or anywhere, for that matter) to be an unreasonable expectation

Target

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Specialized anti-idle and 'modem booster'

« Last post by Target on March 19, 2008, 08:22 PM »

no probs, just offering another possibility

FWIW, task manager says it uses about 9M of memory on my machine (tecra A9 laptop)

Target

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Specialized anti-idle and 'modem booster'

« Last post by Target on March 19, 2008, 06:41 PM »

App, stumbled on this a couple of days ago - http://www.soundborb.com

it's an ambient sound generator.  i've had a brief game with it and it allows some customisation of the output (volume, intensity, happiness??) and there are quite a few alternative schemes available for download (program is an 18M D/L, schemes seem to be around 1M each).

it may not be quite what you're looking for, but it may get you by (you could even run it 'hidden' by starting it via AHK, or minimise it to the tray with one any number of apps)

Target

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

« Last post by Target on March 19, 2008, 01:34 AM »

Cody: ...someone hacked the server by exploiting some old software to get root access.  Thankfully they were only in the machine for 1-2 hours before I discovered them and locked down access to all services...
Mouser: a talking chicken, that's all we need...

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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery

« Last post by Target on March 18, 2008, 09:17 PM »

at the risk of asking an obvious question, have you tried booting just the bare board (ie no CPU, memory, video, or drives)? 

if you still get the same post error it would seem (to me, at least) to indicate the board

if you don't, then add peripherals till you do (and you'll be closer to the source of the problem)

you might also try flashing the bios (from a floppy or USB key)

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: The quiet disappearance of the top two mp3 cataloging software.

« Last post by Target on March 16, 2008, 10:31 PM »

can't speak for the search functionality as I rarely use it - I don't tend to collect loose tracks (it's generally the whole album) and i don't catalogue my HDD, so this may or may not suit your req's

I liked it because it was the only one that I'd found that displayed the way i wanted - by artist.

it's small and it doesn't try to be a one stop shop, which suits me fine

also worth noting that it used to be freeware (1.28 was the last I think - current ver is 2.4) so you may be able to find a copy of the free version if you google

target

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by Target on March 16, 2008, 09:27 PM »

got me there - serves me right for doing too many things at once!!

it isn't actually about the settings, it's a case of needing multiuser access to what would be a single account, ie everyone has access to the same account/store/box/whatever. 

this way our mailbox can be archived centrally (ie outside of PST files), and used and managed by a small group of individuals (any or all of which may be using the archive at any given time)

I had the bit about 'users can access there own stores...' going round in my head, i hadn't actually gotten round to thinking about whether or not multiple users could be assigned to a single account or not (I assume this is what you were getting at???)

thanks for the link to the docs, I shall have a read...

target

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General Software Discussion / Re: The quiet disappearance of the top two mp3 cataloging software.

« Last post by Target on March 16, 2008, 09:18 PM »

haven't seen this one listed anywhere else here, but a possible alternative is simon tellini's <a href="http://www.tellini.org/win/mp3cat/">MP3 Cat</a>

I tried a heap of these things several years ago and settled on this one (sadly it's no longer freeware)

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by Target on March 16, 2008, 08:58 PM »

Carol

got that, looks like it is feasible, as long as all users are admins (not that this is a particular problem in this case)

shall have to look at this further

many thanks!!

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by Target on March 16, 2008, 08:40 PM »

Carol

do you have any experience with this tool in a group environment??

reason I ask is we have been looking for a similar tool that can centralise archiving (for our group mailbox) and (this is most important) allow multiple users to access and search the archive - i browsed the site but don't see anything that indicates whether or not this functionality is available.

To date the only real recommendation seems to have been sharepoint, but this requires a server (which is not an option)

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by Target on March 11, 2008, 07:37 PM »

Er... but that's a frontend for FFmpeg

-Lashiec (March 11, 2008, 07:28 PM)

GAAAAAK!!!

try this - <a href="http://www.bestsecur...tent+index.id+16.htm">XP Firewall Commander</a>

Target 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by Target on March 11, 2008, 06:41 PM »

but wait, there's more (for fans of Windows Firewall, at least)

will it never end!!

another windows firewall interface popped up this morning <a href="http://www.winff.org/">WinFF</a>

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by Target on February 28, 2008, 12:58 AM »

apologies for resurrecting a dead thread, but it seems appropriate...

ran across this today on FWT - <a href="http://wareseeker.co...fwpam-0.2.zip/427395">WFWPAM</a>

haven't used it, so I can't comment, but there seems to be a lot of people here using the windows firewall so this might be of interest

Help the average user to change and manage settings of the embedded firewall

Is a free tool that can help the average user to change and manage settings of the embedded firewall in Windows XP giving many extra options regarding the firewall

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: urls: from .txt file to browser tabs. How?

« Last post by Target on February 25, 2008, 10:30 PM »

another possible alternative - <a href="http://www.tranglos....m/free/visiturl.html">VisitURL</a>

no longer developed, but I used it for quite a while (albeit sometime ago) and it's works a treat

can capture urls from the clipboard or (apparently) import from (or export to) a file - captured URLs can be opened as a batch in your browser of choice, and/or saved as 'permanent' list.

Target

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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey

« Last post by Target on February 25, 2008, 10:05 PM »

wasn't trying to hijack the thread (sorry to all ), but had been wondering how you were getting on

T

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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey

« Last post by Target on February 25, 2008, 09:29 PM »

hey Lanux

how you getting along with that mouse problem??

Target

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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey

« Last post by Target on February 25, 2008, 04:59 PM »

and consider participating in the DC coding school...

Target

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Target on February 21, 2008, 06:22 PM »

you might be sorry you got me started...

rudeness, and/or a total lack of consideration of others

people who insist on carrying on very loud <i>speaker phone</i> conversations in public places...

people who can't match the posted speed limit, until you get to a passing zone...

posters who drag a thread off topic (and those who go with them, and with them, and with them...)

flamewars, and/or name calling in a forum (what are you, 5?)

reality TV (seems like this has to be an oxymoron...)

and and and and...

Target (who is turning into his father, apparently...)

EDIT: the fact that I couldn't bite my lip and not post my list of pet hates...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dexpot: Probably the best virtual desktop manager around

« Last post by Target on February 19, 2008, 05:08 PM »

ran across this one this morning and it may be of interest to others

<a href=http://update.docs.kr/entry/Products-Shock-4Way3D-en>Shock 4way desktop - 3D</a>

it's a aero (?) style 4 pane virtual desktop manager (there is also a 2D version)

info on the site is pretty sparse, but it's listed as freeware...

Target

EDIT - registration (free) required...the effect is quite cool, whether or not it's useful is another (YMMV)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dexpot: Probably the best virtual desktop manager around

« Last post by Target on February 17, 2008, 08:48 PM »

Aston is actually an alternative shell, rather than a virtual desktop manager (perhaps it includes that functionality?)

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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club

« Last post by Target on February 14, 2008, 05:27 PM »

current 'project'...

Use VBA to generate a graphical representation of a hierarchical data structure in Excel

the real challenge here is that I have to do it primarily using the VBA help <i>only</i> as none of my texts covers this subject (drawing and/or diagrams) 

Target

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do You Purchase Software on Impulse?

« Last post by Target on February 12, 2008, 10:42 PM »

I suspect Vista would be classed as an impulse buy...

My own needs are meager, so I can always get away with freeware - last check I think I had about 2G hoarded away, of which I've probably only ever looked at about 5% (maybe...)

can't imagine how i'd feel if I'd done that with $ware 

Target