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General Software Discussion / FireFox problem.. Downloads with unusual names close instantly dont download

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2009, 02:46 AM »

I've noticed over the last few months a consistent problem in firefox -- sometimes when trying to download a file, a beep is heard instantly after the file save name dialog is accepted.
The cause appears to be when the file name is slightly unusual -- nonstandard characters in the filename (% and such).  I suspect it's a security thing, but these files are really quite fine and the filenames aren't harmful.

Clearly this is not good behavior -- to close with a beep with no warning or error or any sign that anything unusual has occurred other than the beep.

It may be a firefox plugin or an option i have set.. any ideas? Anyone know what i'm talking about?

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Living Room / Re: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2009, 02:42 AM »

Wired.com's take on it:
http://www.wired.com...o-take-over-dns-too/

"We get it, Google. You are smart. You can do anything better than anyone else (except say social networking and online video). We get it already. But you are starting to get annoying, and you won’t be running my DNS anytime soon, no matter how nice your privacy promises are."

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Living Room / Re: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2009, 01:53 AM »

Thanks for the link Nosh -- that was a nice piece by Ulevitch. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Prize Graphics

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 06:17 PM »

Just seeing the prizes makes me want to participate

of course that has always been the plan.

also everyone should remember that there are no winners of NANY, we basically send the NANY mug to everyone who participates*

[* reserving right not to send mugs to anyone who tries to rig the system, like a team of bots creating 1000 silly script entries]

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 03:05 PM »

Nice review here today, and a cool site as well 

http://www.ilovefree...ent-for-launchy.html

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General Software Discussion / Another nice free software blog: ilovefreesoftware.com

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 03:02 PM »

I stumbled on this site because they had a nice post on my Find and Run Robot program, and may be the only people on the planet to have discovered the FARR videos that i posted on youtube (you can see the complete video set here).  But there are plenty of nice posts on the site to make it worthy of regular reading..

This website was created with the intention of presenting the best free software available all over the web. We are firm believers of the fact that there is a free software out there for almost anything that a paid software can do. Armed with this belief, we search the web for best free software, and include it here... We are husband and wife, both with degrees in software. I am Ishan (”the husband”), and Jaya is my better half. Apart from working on this website, both of us have good full time jobs as well...This website was created because of our passion about blogging in general. We chose topic of free software because this is what we love, and consider ourselves to be small experts in this field.

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 01:56 PM »

Thanks AC! but i think we may need something a little more polished and slick and unique looking in order to make the pr people at these companies drooling to have the award image on their page.. this is one of those cases where the award image really has to be something crave-worthy.  no offense meant, just this might be one of those things that few people can really pull off perfectly outside Nick Pearson and a few of the top designers who hang out at DC.  Well at least if we're going to make a real go of this.  In the same vein, we should probably de-emphasize the "DonationCoder" part -- we're not trying to advertise ourselves here, but rather make something that anti-malware companies would want to put on their pages.  Also i might add that my title for the award may be a bit lame.. i wonder if we can't come up with something more appealing "Honest Antivirus Award" maybe? but it lacks punch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 11:28 AM »

today i'm back to loathing drupal.. there is a lot good about it but there is so much bad, sometimes its unbearable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 10:49 AM »

barney, i think thats a really good point -- maybe we can add to the list that the alert cannot be accidentally triggered by a keyboard press.
there should be no way to accidentally hit a key to have some action take place.  maybe a time delay before it responds.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 08:39 AM »

A write-up about the avast freakout:
http://www.downloads...alse-positive-spree/

cmpm let's leave this post for working out the details of the award -- i dont think any antivirus company meets these requirements at this time.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Preference File

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2009, 07:26 AM »

They are in a file called ScreenshotCaptor.ini, which on versions of windows prior to Vista, will be in the C:\Program Files\Screenshot Captor directory itself along with the actual program, and on Vista and Windows 7 should be in your Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor directory.

Note that you can also tell the program to store this file wherever you want by editing the configdir.ini file inside its program directory.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Outliner/Diary application AllMyNotes Organizer (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 07:55 PM »

agreed 

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 07:00 PM »

on the off chance that there is something we can do to help, please let us know.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Instructions

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 06:58 PM »

A *HUGE* thank you to nudone for making the NANY 2010 image.. that image on a mug is going to be a beauty to behold.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Some system folders not working...

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 06:50 PM »

control panel special folder doesnt work.. the workaround is to use the special folder inside the LBC directory Shortcuts\My Control Panel
(and adding shortcuts to any others)

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 06:15 PM »

i like it! nice tiny icons to maximize workspace.

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 05:57 PM »

i'm at a loss for words.. i know there is nothing I can say that can make any sense.
we are here in the forum and on the irc chat channel day or night and any time you just feel like you need to scream and curse the world and have someone hear you.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Outliner/Diary application AllMyNotes Organizer (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 01:32 PM »

Cranioscopical reached out to Volodymyr (MetaRoot), and arranged a big discount for us on AllMyNotes (plus some free copies to give out), for december.  Stay tuned for details and thanks Volodymyr 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pledge to Participate Here

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 01:04 PM »

keep 'em coming this is so nice to see 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 09:27 AM »

one of the rare times i have to disagree with you app, about this being only for an advanced mode.
i could agree to an alert box with a very simple message and then a button to click for this more full info.

but my reasoning is based on agreeing with your statement:

Any alert from an antivirus no matter how simple is likely to put the user in a state of panic, in which they potentially will not think clearly.

these virus alerts scare the hell out of people.
and it is my impression that most of the time they are false alerts.

it is imperative that these bright red scare-the-death into you alert boxes tell people the concise information they need to know to make an intelligent decision.

the false positives are like the story of the boy who cried wolf -- you can't keep showing false positives and expect people to take you seriously when you really do find something wrong.

so the alert box, in default mode, has to help the user understand the real nature of the thread and HELP THEM make a decision about what to do.

the purpose of these guidelines are to establish a standard for information that needs to be available to users when an alert comes up.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Instructions

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 09:11 AM »

I'm so excited! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The DonationCoder "Superior Antivirus" Award/Certification

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2009, 06:30 AM »

yeah how does this sound on the marketing page:

"We are the only antivirus program to meet the stringent requirements of the 'Superior/Honest Antivirus' certification -- which establishes the highest standards for reporting possible threats to users. read more.."

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DesktopCoral / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DesktopCoral- 1.08.01 - Nov 1, 2009

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2009, 10:46 PM »

I just don't yet know how hard it will be for me to mimic that look so i don't want to get your hopes up.

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DesktopCoral / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DesktopCoral- 1.08.01 - Nov 1, 2009

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2009, 10:28 PM »

def looks better than having a background that doesnt fit in.. the purely transparent looks pretty reasonable to me.

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DesktopCoral / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DesktopCoral- 1.08.01 - Nov 1, 2009

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2009, 10:14 PM »

ok i just wanted to clarify what the objective was -- so your interest was in getting it to look like a nice semi-transparent bordered dock area.