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Living Room / Re: Internet - from the 1990's point of view

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2012, 11:32 PM »

I haven't been back in years, had all but forgotten about that beautiful little corner of the web. . .
-allen (March 29, 2012, 07:41 PM)

I'm still there.

In a sea of faux communities, shifting fads, and pointless change for the sake of change, that small island of conviviality and colloquy remains unspoiled by all that has since come to pass on the Internet.
(see attachment in previous post)
It's still as beautiful. And best of all, you can always come back.

-40hz (March 29, 2012, 08:17 PM)

What the hell?? I need to check this out!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Can't get MediaElement.js working on my webpage

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2012, 02:48 PM »

i love jquery!!
http://tbgentertainment.com/index3.htm

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

« Last post by superboyac on March 28, 2012, 11:27 PM »

Waterfox is fast! And regular firefox addons work?? Cool.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Can't get MediaElement.js working on my webpage

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 06:10 PM »

Nothing visible in FF but it's there ... however it works (but I don't see any controls and had to right click and click Play) in IE9. That's a pretty good clue as to what could be wrong, something like proper declaration of it being a video?
First thought was jquery versions but it doesn't look like it.
-rgdot (March 27, 2012, 04:42 PM)

yes, i got the video up, but now the video won't play. I wonder if it's an html5 thing? But it's firefox! I love these jquery animations, so nifty. One minor issue I'm having with the jquery collapse plugin...it doesn't let me use it int he collapsed state as default. I want that video section to only appear when a video thumbnail is clicked on and hidden otherwise. But this is way easier to deal with than trying to get wordpress to do anything interesting.

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Developer's Corner / Can't get MediaElement.js working on my webpage

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 04:08 PM »

See here:
http://tbgentertainment.com/index2.html

I've been able to get everything I want working without a hitch with jquery. I can't seem to get this MediaElement.js video/audio player working. i did everything according to the installation instructions, but the video doesn't show up. It should show something above that bright blue bar.

Any advice? I'm sure it's some stupid little thing I'm missing. One thing the instructions say is:

### 3. Run startup script

Make sure this is not in the `<head>` tag or iOS 3 will fail.

   <script>
   // jQuery method
   $('video').mediaelementplayer();
   </script>

   <script>
   // normal JavaScript
   var player = new MediaElementPlayer('#player');
   </script>

Now, my html file starts out like this:

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<html lang="en"> 
        <head> 
                <meta charset="utf-8"> 
                <title>The Musical Rhythm Section</title> 
                <meta name="author" content="AC" > 
                <meta name="description" content="The baddest rhythm section on the planet" >
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ac2.css"> 
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/js/query.fancybox-1.3.4/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4/style.css">
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/js/mediaelement.js/build/mediaelementplayer.css" />
 
                <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.collapser.js"></script>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.collapser.min.js"></script>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/mediaelement.js/build/mediaelement-and-player.min.js"></script> 
                <script type="text/javascript">$('video,audio').mediaelementplayer(/* Options */);</script>
 
        </head>

But it doesn't seem like those "video" classes are converting the way the function is supposed to do it. i don't get it.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 03:45 PM »

I have to agree with Shades, Deo, Crainioscopical, and others regarding Microsoft's new interface "innovations."

What's good (in real terms) is what works and is understandable for the users - not some designer or developer. And all the wishful thinking in the world isn't going to change that.

Much of what Microsoft is doing and saying these days reminds me of the misguided efforts and arguments to replace traditional mathematics with "The New Math;" and English grammar with "Transformational Grammar" in public education.

Those who suffered through those two fiascoes will know exactly what I mean. $:-\$
-40hz (March 27, 2012, 10:37 AM)

I've been kind of pondering and half-studying the way I was taught stuff in elementary school. The New Math stuff seemed to have been very minimal, but I do remember some minor things about it. I don't really understand what happened...but around 4th grade, I was whisked away into math and sciences, while art and history got pushed into the very far background. I don't know if it was me, my parents, teachers, or what. it's weird because of how much I like art and history. Not sure what happened there. I never came back to those things until after college.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 02:46 PM »

OK...you guys know how I always complain about how programmers don't make enough pretty gui's and buttons to do things vs. command line, scripting, etc.?

Well, I've been creating my new website, but I didn't want to use wordpress or anything because it was too hard to get it to do things exactly the way I wanted. So over the years I became a little more comfortable with html, css, and copying other people's codes. I've been playing around with jquery...it's awesome! I can make the coolest webpages and all I have to do is tweak a few lines of code! So I'm officially warming up to the keyboard/text editor way of doing things. I was going to start a new thread, but I figured I'd just quietly hide it here in case I change my mind.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS - Open Source Desktop Publishing

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 12:16 PM »

Here it is:

Nothing special. But it was easy to slap together and I didn't have to bug IT to install Illustrator or Photoshop and all the headches/justifications/third-degree nonsense that goes along with it. And I know it looks like an engineer put it together, my artistic side sleeps during the day so it won't get me in trouble at work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS - Open Source Desktop Publishing

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 12:13 PM »

I'm using Scribus today to create a flyer for work. not bad at all! One problem so far: printing to a pdf has issues with transparencies. All the transparency settings I spent so long tweaking, they just print as opaque blocks.
-superboyac (March 27, 2012, 11:40 AM)

http://forums.scribu...ndex.php?topic=375.0

http://forums.scribu...ndex.php?topic=311.0

Luck
-40hz (March 27, 2012, 12:10 PM)

Thanks. The solution was to export to pdf and NOT print to pdf using the regular printer options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS - Open Source Desktop Publishing

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2012, 11:40 AM »

I'm using Scribus today to create a flyer for work. not bad at all! One problem so far: printing to a pdf has issues with transparencies. All the transparency settings I spent so long tweaking, they just print as opaque blocks.

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Living Room / Re: I'm Going to Build a PC. Suggestions?

« Last post by superboyac on March 26, 2012, 03:27 PM »

You might find this thread helpful:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16186.0

The people here helped me build that PC. I'm using it to this day, and it's great. Very helpful crowd here.

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Living Room / Re: How to manage large clipart collections?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2012, 07:53 PM »

Looks like Adobe's Bridge ~~Lightroom~~ is the only program that can do what I'm asking. Pretty steep price, $150, but this is sort of a very specific featureset i suppose. Still, if any of the millions of image catalogers could figure out how to add eps and ai files with thumbnails seamlessly, that would be the better option. But nothing really exists like that. Everyone says reading those vector files is a lot more complicated than it seems. So if anyone is following...~~Lightroom~~ Bridge is the only one that does this without any headaches.

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General Software Discussion / Re: xlsx corrupt file, password protected, can't open...need help

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2012, 01:16 AM »

Out of curiosity, when you password protected it, was that using native Office protection or something else?
-x16wda (March 24, 2012, 02:33 PM)

native office protection. Just a password protected workbook xlsx file.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2012, 05:38 PM »

If Windows gets rid of the desktop, does that mean Linux will have to be "it" as far as personal computing goes? I can see us holding on to Windows 7 for a few years, but then what? I think I can be ok with that, given enough years to adjust to finding replacement software, but from my other thread, Windows is still far easier to use than Linux once you factor in third-party tools that are available. What do the Linux people have planned as far as unified distros or third party tools that will work across all distros? I've now read a few blogs and videos, and I know we are far away from that kind of goal, but I also get the sense that the Linux community doesn't care as much as I do about the unification bit. If that's true, that means I better get comfortable with command line stuff and linux scripting, whatever that involves.

But I'm not alone. I can see a community forming of people like me who want the traditional windows experience on linux. I just haven't heard the linux community be quite as passionate about that kind of goal as I am. Most of them are more like "the scripting is good enough" type of people. But I also think they will quickly be in the minority once the Windows desktop is gone.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2012, 04:17 PM »

I think its a wise decision to do more planning and move to a more automated online system.

Setting up an ad hoc mechanism that uses your desktop mail program to send out serials would work but eventually you are going to have to move to an online system for handling this kind of stuff so you might as well do it that way to begin with.
-mouser (March 24, 2012, 03:52 PM)

Now that our product is more or less completed, we really shouldn't have to do all the manual work we are doing right now. So I want to now start thinking about how to automate everything. And i don't want to get ripped off for it in the meantime, which means I need to educate myself much better.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2012, 03:49 PM »

Thank you Steven.

I just spoke this over with my partner. It's too much to swallow right now, we're going to have to put this part of the business plan off. Seems like eventually we will revamp how we automate some of our stuff, especially once we move more towards digital content. We'll need to change our website, the way we handle emails, start using database programs, etc. OK...this will take more planning.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2012, 12:50 AM »

Hi,

You are talking about a mini-app. If someone has it available, modifiable for your needs, look it over. However, why not put it together in a database program where fields have an auto-increment function and where you could build around your first portion-app, to do more later. Filemaker and AlphaFive come to mind, 4D and Dataease and others, Filemaker still being the ease-of-use leader for simple apps with a good environment for writing letters and excel export and such. Some of these can run on a database like MySQL, and/or their own proprietary formats. This is an area where it is hard to find similar full functionality and ease-of-use in products from an SQL lineage (Servoy is an example, maybe there are others, things like Navicat come to mind, but there functionality is limited.)

Your only real "external" issue is triggering the activity from a received email. With a product like Filemaker and AlphaFive you ask (and search) on their forums and you probably get a few good answers. Should be fairly easy, a lot depends on the email product used (Note: Filemaker may have some email integration/hooks.) Let's say you use Eudora but prefer Thunderbird or TheBat! for this app. You should be able POP-ify a Gmail account so that you could work that account with Thunderbird/Bat so you do not have to change your own personal email preference. "Pushing" the email response should be fairly simple, built in to the product (one of the reasons you purchase an environment instead of simply doing more basic raw code, as in a scripting language).

Cost .. $300 or so for a program that may give you wide use for your business. And some hours of your time getting up to speed and putting together the mini-app. Again, for simplicity, Filemaker should be considered if you want an "out-of-the-box" learning curve.

Even if you want to contract out the app, you can discuss it on their forums. One big advantage ... when it is done you have a base of thousands of programmers who could modify it tomorrow.

(I looked around a bit for a freeware or $100 product that might fit the bill. It would be a good niche but have not found one yet. Maybe Access at $140, and there is WinDev Express ... free .. as a possibility. Real Studio has a personal edition for $100, but the environment is probably comparatively sparse, leading to coding time. Similar with Servoy, open source with a community edition. Open Office has Base .. or ooBase .. to consider. Not to mention the attempt to make spreadsheet programs like Excel into database programs.)

Steven
-Steven Avery (March 23, 2012, 11:20 PM)

Thanks Steven! I'll look into that immediately. My biz partner's computer is a Mac anyway, so Filemaker pro might be the perfect thing. Yeah, if the email hook can work, that sounds pretty good.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2012, 10:26 PM »

Supposedly this can do something similar with a vba script in outlook:
http://www.rondebrui...il/folder2/files.htm

I can't tell how easy or hard it would be to tailor to my requirements. Anyone have an eye for this, please let me know. Thanks.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2012, 10:08 PM »

Man, db90h, you are one sharp dude. I don't know if it's as easy for me as you say. I'd love to give it a shot, but this is something I'd need in the next 3 weeks. I actually am familiar with sql queries, if that gives me a head start at all. I wrote sql queries last year for work pretty regularly and I kept it simple, but it was effective.

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General Software Discussion / Re: xlsx corrupt file, password protected, can't open...need help

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2012, 10:03 PM »

...sigh...yeah. The last backup is from a month ago. I didn't want to rely on cloud services, so I haven't really figured out a good syncing solution with usb drives. I can use ftp from a static remote computer, which I use with SFFS, but with USB I need something a little more mobile and complex. So in the meantime, I haven't been backing up much and now I've paid the price.

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General Software Discussion / xlsx corrupt file, password protected, can't open...need help

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2012, 09:20 PM »

I've created a *valuable* xlsx file that I've been storing on my USB drive. Everything was fine until I copied a multi-gigabyte folder to my USB drive, which seems to have corrupted the xlsx file. Now, Excel can't open it. It gives the message "Excel has found unreadable content..." and asks me to continue if i trust it, so i say yes, and then another message pops up saying it's corrupt. This is all Excel 2010, by the way.

Now, had I not password protected it, I may have been able to recover it (not sure). i tried all the stuff on the internet about that message, nothing works. It probably is unrecoverable, but I figured I'd ask the gurus here just in case.

I'm not sure what the lesson to be learned here is, maybe multiple ones. Don't use xlsx, stick to xls? Don't put valuable files on a USB drive (although I'm not sure about a better way to keep valuable files portable that you need to work with all the time)? Don't protect valuable excel files, it's just not worth it?

It will take be many hours to recreate this work, but I can do it I suppose.

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Living Room / Re: Sansa Clip+ and Rockbox

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2012, 08:10 PM »

A word (actually quite a few) about the sound quality on the Clip+ that Superboy mentioned:
http://nwavguy.blogs...a-clip-measured.html
tl;dr -
Compared to the iPod feature-for-feature, the Sansa Clip+ loses (by a bare margin in most cases), but size-for-size it does VERY well.

I also didn't know the Sansa firmware has a pitch bug that Rockbox fixed.
Interesting.
-Edvard (March 21, 2012, 02:56 PM)

Awesome article and blog by that guy. It will make for a very handy reference site for me now. It's interesting, he says that the headphone amp won't help with the Sansa much, which is good to know. i was thinking that it may help because the output power is not as high as my Sony. But I really don't know much about headphone amps. So I plan to read his article about headphone amps:
http://nwavguy.blogs...dphone-ampsdacs.html

Thanks Edvard.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 2-, 2012

« Last post by superboyac on March 20, 2012, 12:40 PM »

Any chance the CrossHairs of Death can be (optionally?) removed on the next update?

yes; i almost added it in this release -- i will try to put it in next.
-mouser (March 20, 2012, 11:52 AM)

I do enjoy the crosshairs, though. It's similar to how I set up my Autocad crosshairs.

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Developer's Corner / Invoicing & inventory problem for my business.

« Last post by superboyac on March 19, 2012, 11:07 PM »

My business has a new problem. We have a set amount of licenses for taking an online exam. The license serial numbers and access codes are all set already (they are not going to be generated live). I need a way to send an email containing the unique license information automatically when a payment is received. The problem is that once a license is sent, it is "used up", and the next email has to use the next available license. I don't know how to do this. We use gmail apps for our business, but I also access it using the Bat. I'm pretty sure it's not that hard to do, but I can't figure out a way. It would have to work something like this:
1) Payment is received and my business receives the confirmation email.
2) As soon as that email is received, my business automatically sends the license email. It'll be a standard template, but the the license fields need to be pulled from an excel sheet, or csv file, or something like that.
3) Once the license email is sent, that license is not available any longer. The next license will need to be used next time. So something like a counter needs to be built into this whole system.

How can I do this? The bat has some interesting features in the quick templates, like the macro options involving cookies or attachments or something. But it's the Bat so there is no documentation, and I have no idea what it can and can't do.

How do you programmers manage your software licenses? Is there anything in what you do that I can steal? Are there software license management tools for developers that I can shoehorn into this thing?

Thanks.
I'll pay for it also, but I'd rather buy an existing system because I figure I'll spend hours fiddling around with it, and if I have to pay someone per hour, it would be expensive. We threw the idea at someone and were quoted $1500 with a delivery time of a few months. I'd like this by early April

. Any ideas are appreciated. i googled around, but the keywords make it near impossible to find anything (license, software, inventory management).

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Living Room / Re: Which decade was the most fun for you personally?

« Last post by superboyac on March 19, 2012, 05:58 PM »

Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!

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