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Living Room / Re: World's oldest still working digital computer gets rebooted

« Last post by Ath on November 24, 2012, 08:50 AM »

What I think is the most important is the fourth one: To revive disappearing expertise.

-40hz (November 24, 2012, 08:16 AM)

+1

But wouldn't it be mandatory to have at least 1 team-member under the age of 50
If only to motivate potential students, for not having to work with people as old as their grandparents (though nothing is wrong with that, IMHO)

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Living Room / Re: ~$300 Laptop/Netbook recommendations

« Last post by Ath on November 23, 2012, 11:27 AM »

Looks like you made a great deal! 

The i3 processor (and the rest of the system) is fast enough for kids of her age, for doing what they need/want to do, and by the time she has some real work for her PC, she'll need a new one anyway because of this one being too low-tech by then.

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Living Room / Re: Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

« Last post by Ath on November 23, 2012, 05:22 AM »

the E, A, S, and N keys are now blank.

-app103 (November 23, 2012, 02:28 AM)

The SANE keys?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: [Possible Pledge] OMG Reminders

« Last post by Ath on November 23, 2012, 01:33 AM »

Welcome to the site, and welcome to N.A.N.Y.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by Ath on November 22, 2012, 05:53 PM »

+1
and I think the bigger/smaller arrows are backward, aren't they supposed to point in the way the 'movement' goes?

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Living Room / Re: Hello Strangers.

« Last post by Ath on November 22, 2012, 04:51 PM »

WB you've been missed...
Sorry for the unhappy stuff that happened to you


And your personal health issues are not caused by being deprived of your daily dose of DoCo?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by Ath on November 22, 2012, 01:26 PM »

Not sure what consequences this has for Waterfox... "Turning off Win64 builds"

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Developer's Corner / Re: Going Over Old Code...

« Last post by Ath on November 22, 2012, 01:37 AM »

Simple logic, IMHO:
if (minor_fixes_only || noDevTimeAvailable) {
  keepTheOldStuffJustFixIssues();
} else {
  refactorIntoModernStructures();
}

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General Software Discussion / Re: removing all the touch-oriented features of Windows 8

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2012, 06:11 AM »

• Classic Shell is probably the best way to avoid the new 'Modern UI' with tiles etc.
• If no touch-capable I/O devices are detected, most touch functions won't have any impact on normal day-to-day use of Windows 8
  (and: Windows 7 already has integrated support for tablets and other 'touch' based devices too... )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2012, 06:06 AM »

Windows GPL anyone?

-Renegade (November 20, 2012, 10:51 PM)

Maybe this? http://www.reactos.org

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a Mouse/Cursor restriction tool ... ?

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2012, 03:31 AM »

The problem is probably somewhere in your Taskbar settings, like AutoHide or similar, or a rogue driver or tool disturbing your Taskbar behavior in some way

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2012, 03:26 AM »

I have written a C program which will do only what I had described as a requirement, ie.. wait till next day...

-sprint907 (November 21, 2012, 01:53 AM)

That is what my 1.0.0 version, released a week ago (parameter: -+1), can do already...

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - FreeNAS Brute Forcer

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2012, 03:23 AM »

Sounds useful, but I hope I don't need it...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text Parsing and Output ( Result in Excel, load multiple DOC,RTF,Word Files )

« Last post by Ath on November 18, 2012, 08:51 AM »

Updated ScriptLineCounter to version 1.6.0.0

What's new/changed:

• Added: New FileFormat nr. 4, based on doc-files supplied by Saira, the original initiator of this tool.
    note: This format is quite similar to FileFormat 2, so it may need to be forcibly used on some files/filesets.
• Added: Setting the FileFormat from the commandline using -ff parameter, or set from the ini file, as documented in the readme.
• Changed: GUI now has the Fileformat combo box enabled, to force a specific file format to be used.
• Improved: Some more robustness while handling the file contents.
• Added: A warning in the readme file to NOT use Windows Notepad for editing the properties files, as it inserts a BOM in UTF-8 files, not supported by SLC.

TODO: (in priority-order)

• Improve and expand the GUI interface (partially done)
• Add some unexpected features
• Fix any bugs or issues reported (3 until now )
• Possibly add headers and footers to the output
• Replace own logging system by log4j (already required/used by some libs)
• Handle pdf files for input
• Handle extra file-format extracted from samples received (4 file-formats supported now)
• Write a Readme.txt file
• Create a GUI interface

Download:

• From the ScriptLineCounter webpage

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: Pledge & Release: KyrTTS

« Last post by Ath on November 18, 2012, 04:12 AM »

Wow, great. Both this program and that you've entered the 'race'

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Blast Off!

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2012, 05:02 AM »

...if anyone has any image/modeling/texturing skills, it would be nice to have some simple models and custom, decent looking graphics instead of my awful programmer "art."

-Deozaan (November 17, 2012, 04:19 AM)

That's about the same level I'm at One of the reasons I'm not into game-development

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Blast Off!

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2012, 04:10 AM »

Great that you're on board with this year's NANY too

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

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 03:10 PM »

Great you caught that, but you should be mentioned as well for 6100 (and a few) posts
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: online sandbox

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 02:05 AM »

And after that: Get VirtualBox, and install the required OS for the application (XP should probably do fine, but Windows 7 would imho be safer/more robust). Don't allow the guest-OS access to network or local resources.

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General Software Discussion / Re: online sandbox

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 02:00 AM »

http://virusscan.jotti.org ? There are more services like this.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change name of particular file in all occurrences on hard disk

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 01:56 AM »

@nkormanik: What f0dder said:

Also, almost forgot: what's the symptoms when you try to launch the application? If it's a "Windows failed to load JVM.DLL" kinda message, it might be as simple as a x64 vs x86 JRE version issue.

-f0dder (November 14, 2012, 02:33 PM)

You have (also) installed the x86 version of Java I assume? It sure looks like the SAS application is x86, and those are not capable of loading a x64 edition of the Java dll's. (If the application just shells out to a Java.exe then it would have worked as expected.)

Best suggestion for this direction so far is that it runs fine on Windows XP. It's highly unlikely that you are running XP x64, and unlike other software, Java needs to be installed in the bitness (x86/x64) of the application trying to use it, not the OS. On my x64 Windows I only have x86 Java installed, as I use no application(s) that require a x64 JVM.

NB: Full-blown Java applications shouldn't care nor matter what edition of the JVM is installed, except that the x64 edition has more memory available for applications.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change name of particular file in all occurrences on hard disk

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 01:45 AM »

been using Virtual Box (VBox).  It was picked up by Cisco, but they haven't ruined it ... yet

-barney (November 16, 2012, 01:30 AM)

Isn't that Oracle? (www.virtualbox.org, check page-footer)

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2012, 01:39 AM »

I propose we have a thread where we can recommend gadgets that we like,

-mouser (November 15, 2012, 09:09 PM)

Gadget to be read as in 'totally generic gadget', or does it have to be software-ish?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2012, 04:09 PM »

SleepTill updated/reached version 1.0.0

By request I added a few parameters/features:
- Date and Time offsets from 'now' can be specified
- No longer accepts '-' as option-specifier (needed for the days offset)

The offset for days can be specified by using -+<days> instead of a date. (Both the - and the + need to be there!)
Specify the offset for hours or minutes (seconds is no useful option imho) by using :+<hours> or ::+<minutes>
If an hour or minute offset is given, it is calculated from the current time, not from 00:00, that wouldn't be usable.

The updated /? help message:

SleepTill 1.0.0 (c) 2012, Ath : Wait for a date/time to occur, then continue.
Usage:
SleepTill [date] [-+days] [time] [:+hours|::+mins] [/d] [/?]
[date] : Optional date in yyyy-mm-dd format, default: today
[-+days] : Add 'days' to current date to wait for
[time] : Optional time in hh:mm[:ss] format, if not supplied: 00:00
[:+hours|::+mins] : Add 'hours' or 'minutes' to current time
/d : Show some debugging info
/? : Show this helpmessage
Remarks:
- Either date or time, or both, should be provided to start the wait
- Date/time should be in the future to start the wait
- Pressing Ctrl-C stops the wait

Download attached zipfile and extract. Use as documented.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Run At Specified Time

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2012, 05:51 AM »

I can add a feature like that. I'm not sure when I'll be working on the dev-system where I've made this tool. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Please hang-on.