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Living Room / Re: Auto close tags

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 05:56 PM »

So many options I should have already known about

Thank you everybody

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Living Room / Re: Auto close tags

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 04:36 PM »

Currently I am doing something somewhat crude, sending keys using powerpro, it's like pre-saving some common closing tags and pasting them with a click when one is needed. Regarding HTML-Kit, I tried this but it didn't work on my machine, not really sure why.

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Living Room / Auto close tags

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 03:51 PM »

Continuing my ongoing pointless questions

Does anybody know of a freeware html or text editor that has support for automatically inserting closing tags?
I type the h1 tag for example, add the text and then the closing tag is added automatically. Vim I believe does that using Ctrl+X+O, are there any free software that do the same or similar?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Keyboard cleaner

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 01:24 PM »

Hadn't noticed Toddler Trap, will try it thanx

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Keyboard cleaner

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 01:16 PM »

I believe that mac one blanks the screen, but I wonder if there is a way not to do that or not to lock/get the login screen

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 01:12 PM »

I am a big fan of powerpro along with skwire's Icon Menu Launcher

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Keyboard cleaner

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 01:05 PM »

I was browsing and came across Keyboard Cleaner, a mac app that "comes in handy when you want to clean your keyboard, but you are afraid you might trigger a command or change or delete some of your current work beyond repair and undo...It shields your desktop and intercepts every keystroke you might accidentally make — except for Command-Q"

I don't think I have seen a Windows equivalent. If there is no such tool (perhaps using AHK?) for windows it could be very useful.

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Living Room / Re: Choosing a new PC package for a relative.. Post your recommendations

« Last post by rgdot on November 17, 2009, 12:31 PM »

It might be worth mentioning that netbooks might be nice for some basic needs but lacking built-in CD/DVD drives limits them in terms of remote support for the reasons Innuendo mentions (ie OS restore and similar issues)

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Living Room / Re: I'll donate $20 to Donation Coder if DC member PMs me a valid Google Wave invite

« Last post by rgdot on November 16, 2009, 03:44 PM »

What is so cool about Wave anyway? i hear it's like a cross between a chat and wiki, i just don't see the appeal.

-gexecuter (November 16, 2009, 02:26 PM)

FWIW
http://mashable.com/...ogle-wave-use-cases/

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Living Room / Re: I'll donate $20 to Donation Coder if DC member PMs me a valid Google Wave invite

« Last post by rgdot on November 16, 2009, 01:42 PM »

I will PM you an invite

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Living Room / Re: Lenovo Reliability

« Last post by rgdot on November 15, 2009, 04:26 PM »

Thank you and yes Asus motherboards at least.
I am leaning towards getting one like this http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16834220637

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: FIFA 2010 coming up.. should we update the World Cup Predictor?

« Last post by rgdot on November 14, 2009, 09:43 PM »

Looking forward to it and ready to help if needed as well

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Living Room / Re: Lenovo Reliability

« Last post by rgdot on November 14, 2009, 01:07 PM »

Does anybody have any thoughts on Asus laptops? It seems I (almost) only see them widely rated and available on newegg.

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Official Announcements / Re: DONE: DonationCoder.com Server Maintenance on Nov 13,2009

« Last post by rgdot on November 14, 2009, 02:36 AM »

Thank you John and mouser

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to add URLs in RUNit?

« Last post by rgdot on November 14, 2009, 02:35 AM »

When adding new ones try entering something like this in 'Path'

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe*www.donationcoder.com

* between path and URL

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft openly challenges Vmware in new ad campaign

« Last post by rgdot on November 13, 2009, 01:35 PM »

Ineffective ad in my opinion, but for a corporate buyer perhaps not.
MS has started to make products that are relatively speaking well received and has responded to user needs even. Server 2008, Windows 7 and down to OneNote. Times have changed.

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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 November 12, 2009, 09:19 AM »

Welcome Gilbert 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Google Go

« Last post by rgdot on November 12, 2009, 12:47 AM »

Not sure if this will be a big issues but:

"Reported by fmccabe, Yesterday (28 hours ago)

I have been working on a programming language, also called Go, for the last 10 years. There have been papers published on this and I have a book.
I would appreciate it if google changed the name of this language; as I do not want to have to
change my language!"


http://code.google.c...o/issues/detail?id=9

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by rgdot on November 12, 2009, 12:25 AM »

Finished reading Smart Networking by Liz Lynch
To me books that attempt to teach relationship or networking skills always lack something and it is not a fault of the author. For someone to be able to do all they teach one must already be able to jump the greatest barrier, ie the first and initial step to get into the door.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« Last post by rgdot on November 10, 2009, 03:10 PM »

Bitnami basically allows you to install and run Redmine (and many other web-based tools) automatically and easily on your local machine, without worrying about getting all the necessary supporting apps - Apache, Ruby on Rails, etc. Then you just access it locally on your machine through a web browser, easy as pie.

-JavaJones (November 10, 2009, 02:58 PM)

Wish XAMPP had Ruby 'support'. Torn between downloading Ruby binaries or going the Bitnami route. Redmine looks very nice.

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Living Room / Re: Large hadron collider shut down by bird dropping bread

« Last post by rgdot on November 10, 2009, 12:14 PM »

Important science, with many practical applications, developed with public funds and used world wide. Many R&D and Science spending in general are the best success stories ever, many have  generated massive profits for the private sector after the public funding phases have moved on to other projects.

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Living Room / Re: Large hadron collider shut down by bird dropping bread

« Last post by rgdot on November 10, 2009, 01:49 AM »

Those who watched Angels And Demons would know why this happened 

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Living Room / Re: I'm Going to HELL! Please feel sorry for me... :(

« Last post by rgdot on November 09, 2009, 06:26 PM »

Southern hemisphere=summer coming. For that reason alone I would trade places   

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

« Last post by rgdot on November 09, 2009, 01:32 PM »

No problem, you already got the invite itself? Google have gotten faster 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by rgdot on November 08, 2009, 06:35 PM »

Excellent post grapeshot.

If your OS version is a couple of years old, you begin to find that new software won't work with it, forcing you to upgrade.  In the Windows world, you can reasonably expect your OS to last you for the better part of a decade.

I hear that from Mac users once in a while and to me it's almost incomprehensible, I don't mean solely from a technical stand point but from a practical one.