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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Google Chrome Problem

« Last post by rgdot on July 21, 2010, 02:19 PM »

<Blatant thread hijack>

Every Windows session where I use Chrome my power settings stop working. Even when I close Chrome completely (and make sure via task manager and other process apps that it and all (that I can see any way) dependencies are killed). Only remedy is when I restart PC or go to power setting and 'reapply' the Turn Off Monitor and other settings. It has been happening for so long (various plugins have come and gone) that I am sure it can't be anything else, only thing in common is when Chrome is used.
I have never tried to post about it in Chrome forums or groups or whatever...because I suspect I will get 'Chrome can't possibly do that' line

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Living Room / Re: A special gift from Veign.com to DonationCoder - thank you!

« Last post by rgdot on July 12, 2010, 09:59 AM »

Congrats Skwire, so many valuable and useful coding snacks, well deserved.

Thanks Chris.

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Finished Programs / Re: organize text

« Last post by rgdot on July 11, 2010, 12:25 PM »

1) I want about 10-20, but practically unlimited
2) both, it would be better to have both options, but for me clicking a button on a window would be faster than a combo

-kalos (July 11, 2010, 08:30 AM)

If you want unlimited, I don't see how you expect to create a unique hotkey combo for each destination file.  Your thoughts?  Also, did you have any sort of GUI design in mind?

-skwire (July 11, 2010, 11:25 AM)

Destination files or folders can be something like Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, etc. can't they?

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Finished Programs / Re: organize text

« Last post by rgdot on July 10, 2010, 07:50 PM »

I can see this being very useful to one text file sitting on my desktop right now.

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Living Room / Re: How can we fix government? (U.S.)

« Last post by rgdot on June 30, 2010, 03:02 PM »

Broadly speaking...I have two words: Third party

More than two words: Being part of the "two" party establishment means you are done. No matter what catchy slogans you have. Junior staffer, senior general, it's all the same in my opinion.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we add tags to forum?

« Last post by rgdot on June 26, 2010, 10:21 PM »

To me tags are useful for the same person creating them (like if I use tags in my note-taking app).

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Odds Are Increasing That Microsoft's Business Will Collapse

« Last post by rgdot on June 24, 2010, 08:57 PM »

One thing which I don't understand but I have seen numerous people be quite happy with is doing everything with smaller screens. I am surprised to see how many people are happy to watch movies on screens as small as those on an ipod touch.
The future will be about what people accept, for so many reasons I do not want to do any computing on a netbook, even if future generation netbooks come with high end processing power I still don't get small screens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: This Mac devotee is moving to Linux

« Last post by rgdot on June 22, 2010, 07:46 AM »

^ That's it I am now using Linux 

The masses you are talking about has problems using Windows too. A geek will notice that the reason the print output is poor or not working is because of Ubuntu's lack of driver support, another person will almost certainly not. Despite mass adoption and all that stuff we are still not at a point where users can 'fully' play and work with Windows out of the box. I still get questions about where to plug in the USB, and not only from grandparents.

What I am getting at is the entry point to computers is still an open entry point. If a Linux loaded computer is sitting at a shop and the customer has some familiarity with (through marketing for example) it then it has a chance and the person wouldn't know the difference between 'no linux driver support' and 'windows BSOD' when something doesn't work

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Living Room / Re: IP address on public network

« Last post by rgdot on June 16, 2010, 05:52 PM »

Router's Routing table will save the interface that the IP/computer is 'attached' to. Switches will save Mac addresses in their Mac tables.

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Living Room / Re: Need to Convert .wav to .aac

« Last post by rgdot on June 12, 2010, 10:15 PM »

SUPER might

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

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Living Room / Re: Saturn's moon Titan could host Aliens

« Last post by rgdot on June 07, 2010, 04:14 PM »

Never mind aliens, soon we will need to live there ourselves

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Living Room / Re: Honestly, who here actually owns an iPad? be honest!

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2010, 09:28 AM »

Nothing Apple here,
Phone...Droid or BB,
Tablet...will probably never buy one of any kind.
Desktop or Laptop...is and probably will always be one of Sony, Asus, Dell, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Why do we always wait for apple's stuff before making a i[blank]-killer??

« Last post by rgdot on June 06, 2010, 09:25 AM »

The idea that setting up stores makes it more comfortable for users is theoretical. People trained to be salesmen are not too likely to be helpful in terms of product support. I doubt, in fact I am pretty sure, many employees are qualified technically. A franchise kind of place or small store perhaps selling exclusively PCs is more likely to employ someone who by chance or by design knows PCs inside out. You can buy Apple Care which I have heard good things about so may be that's good.

I think one of the roots of the majority (safe assumption I hope) opinion here is what Apple offers you. There are 8 or so year old Fujitsu (not the biggest tech innovator ever) tablets that have USBs, docks, drives and even the thing to view landscape or portrait, I don't even know what it's called.

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Living Room / Re: Why do we always wait for apple's stuff before making a i[blank]-killer??

« Last post by rgdot on June 05, 2010, 10:28 PM »

I think those products existed and in many ways were just as good, I am not implying any body is dumb or everybody just forgot about the other, older, products but I believe Apple manages to redefine the perception of mp3 players, tablets, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a perfect blog editor? Does anyone care if there is?

« Last post by rgdot on June 05, 2010, 09:02 AM »

It is one of those things that I search for and try to find better ones.
Many I know are satisfied by Windows Live Writer, I found it ok but I am not using it. ScribeFire seemed buggy (in getting formatting right, etc.) but I don't know its current status. Long ago I tried Thingamablog and it was ok as well.
But overall it doesn't really matter I think, recently I have been typing stuff in Google Docs and copy pasting into Wordpress.

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by rgdot on June 04, 2010, 04:07 PM »

This is a great thing, thanx

* rgdot just seen this thread

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: FIFA World Cup Predictor 2010 - A Contest For Best Predictions?

« Last post by rgdot on June 04, 2010, 03:28 PM »

I believe mine is reasonable
05-28 rgdot

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Living Room / Re: Has SEO ruined the web?

« Last post by rgdot on June 03, 2010, 03:49 PM »

The answer to the thread title is yes, a good example to illustrate it is something I was doing just yesterday.
I was searching for an online stream of a soccer game not available on TV (putting aside the illegalities of streaming) google search results gave me pages and pages of "team x vs team y June 2 2010". I will let you all guess how many of those pages actually had the stream for the game.

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Living Room / Re: Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2010, 09:48 PM »

Reminds me of series of articles in eWeek where few editors switched to macs for a year or so and noted down their thoughts  like this

My Apple journey started as a test of whether and when Apple hardware and software had a place in a mostly-Windows corporate world. In the year since, I've come to appreciate computer systems that just work, and my switchover has been eased by products such as Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition. With that said, however, Mac desktop and notebook systems are still a departmental, not an enterprise, concern for IT managers

What are they really gaining productivity wise, surely the number one issue 'in the enterprise' and what of the repeated notion that security is in the hands of the user

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General Software Discussion / Re: AbiWord 2.8.5

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2010, 01:48 PM »

I could never get spell checking to work, despite various efforts and using various versions. Otherwise it is good in my opinion.

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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft*

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2010, 09:30 AM »

The biggest money maker for MS has always, at least in the last 15-20 years, been software (Office)
My opinion on Apple remains the same....power of hype and marketing and little more.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rgdot on May 31, 2010, 09:28 AM »

Welcome RingtailedFox, from another Canadian

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Living Room / Re: Google demonstrates new communication platform "WAVE": mail, chat , wiki, ..

« Last post by rgdot on May 29, 2010, 01:33 PM »

I think too much of the culture of "web 2.0" is skewed or geared towards mash-ups. There is so much love at places like google to invent something that someone else can do something with it. Map with traffic overlay, real-time chat with a translator bot, etc.

Wave in trying to be all things to all people overdid it and wasn't even ready. It is kind of the same with twitter, still getting the whale over capacity thing and being slower than molasses sometimes.

Offer something to people and roll the dice that people will get it, like it and tolerate its short comings.

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: FIFA World Cup Predictor 2010 - A Contest For Best Predictions?

« Last post by rgdot on May 28, 2010, 06:52 PM »

Doing it for fun, not any prize, because my bias always and almost entirely unconsciously gets the best of me any way  

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: FIFA World Cup Predictor 2010 - A Contest For Best Predictions?

« Last post by rgdot on May 28, 2010, 06:41 PM »

Spreading the word and participating too

And by the way Forza Italia, not that I think they have the team to win but still