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General Software Discussion / Re: active extension filter for archive drive

« Last post by IainB on November 25, 2015, 10:25 AM »

^^ Having trialed Belvedere, I reckon that it might be able to fit the bill - more or less. However, I recall that it was a real CPU resource hog, which was why I stopped using it - and that was just when it was monitoring only a few files/folders on my hard drive.

UPDATE 2015-11-26 0817hrs:
   For information, these points are copied from my notes:

• 2014-10-28 0125hrs: d/l + install Belvedere - http://edge-cache.li...-Belvedere-0.7.1.exe
  
  • Belvedere Automates Your Self-Cleaning PC
  • How to Automatically Clean and Organize Your Desktop, Downloads, and Other Folders
  
  
• 2015-04-14 0713hrs: uninstalled as I did not use it (too CPU-intensive)
  

The github page indicates that development/maintenance stopped about 4 years ago (i.e., 2012), so v0.7.1 is still the current/"latest" version and it will presumably have the same CPU overload characteristics. I had the thing set to run at startup, but had to keep terminating the process due to it consistently maintaining a high CPU overhead even when it was "doing nothing". It looked to me as though the constant monitoring was keeping the proggie in a perpetual and inefficient bind (redolent of a certain early queuing algorithm in IBM's VM/CMS...).
I reckoned the concept was very good though    , and perhaps if I had had the time and inclination then I might have tinkered about with the code, but I didn't have either.

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Living Room / Re: Automakers Want to Outlaw Gearheads From Working on Their Own Cars

« Last post by IainB on November 25, 2015, 06:06 AM »

I was wondering about this (vehicle manufacturers blocking owners' access to computerised monitoring/control systems) when I posted this:

Re: Interesting "stuff" - VOYO OBDI port adapter to upgrade post-1995 cars.

OBDI = On-Board Diagnostics Interface

I have wondered for years why some bright spark hadn't done this, and had suspected that the auto manufacturers could have suppressed the technology with patents/copyright. I suppose they may yet suppress this initiative.

VOYO Connected Car Device | Pictures, Specs, Kickstarter | Digital Trends |
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)

By Andrew Hard — October 17, 2015

In the car world, it turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks.

San Francisco-based firm Voyomotive has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its new VOYO connected car device. Using the OBDII port on cars of vintage 1996 and newer, the small plug allows owners of older vehicles to enjoy a variety of modern tech features like fuel-saving Start/Stop, advanced diagnostics for engine codes, and vehicle immobilization.

Through the Voyomotive Cloud and companion phone applications, users can also lock and unlock their doors automatically just by having their phone on them, track vehicles and traffic in the network a la Waze, and log individual trips to analyze mileage, driving time, gas used, and even CO2 produced.

“If a consumer wanted to add all of the functionalities provided by the VOYO to their car individually on their own, it would cost well over $2,000,” said Peter Yorke, CEO of Voyomotive. “The VOYO provides all of these functionalities at approximately one-tenth of the cost, and will continue to expand on these capabilities.”

VOYO’s Start/Stop feature — called EcoStart — is definitely one of the highlights of the device, as it allows the driver to turn off their engine at a stop simply by adding additional pressure to the brake pedal. When they wish to set off again, just relax the brake and the vehicle will start by itself, all while staying in drive. VOYO also crowd-sources stoplight information through the companion app, so motorists will know exactly how much wait time they have left. However, EcoStart, as well as some other features, requires the purchase of additional relays.

Related: Movimento’s ‘On-The-Air’ software: a vision of the truly connected car

The VOYO controller will initially go on sale for $100, with extra relays available for $50 each. If its goals are met, Voyomotive will ship the first 2,000 units out by the end of 2015, with a full U.S. product launch planned for the first quarter of 2016.

According to the company, setting up VOYO takes just two minutes.

-IainB (October 17, 2015, 09:39 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: active extension filter for archive drive

« Last post by IainB on November 25, 2015, 04:37 AM »

Off the top of my head: (not sure whether this is what you are looking for)
If you listed in Everything the contents of a drive's  files filtered by only the particular extension - e.g., (say) .BAK - that you wanted to inspect, and displayed the file path and the file size columns in the resulting listing, then you could use Nirsoft's SysExporter (which grabs data from list-view, tree-view, combo box, WebBrowser control, and text-box) to export the data to an Excel spreadsheet, and carry out a quick  analysis of the numbers of files with that extension and the total disk space occupied by them in their various sub-directories and the disk in total.
You could then make some information-based decisions, including for example either:

• (a) determine whether to filter files of this type out of the periodic backup process (i.e., ignore them for backup purposes), or
• (b) delete them from backup if your backup software did not enable you (or was not set) to selectively ignore specified file types.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Focus on search filter with Crtl + F

« Last post by IainB on November 24, 2015, 10:46 AM »

Oops, sorry. I had forgotten to post feedback that the Ctrl-F Find function works OK now - just like a typical user would probably expect/want.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.32.0 - Nov 1, 2015

« Last post by IainB on November 21, 2015, 09:01 AM »

In the process of repeating the error described above, I discovered that:

• A. There needs to be at least one additional option to the menu for deletions of groups/folders:
  For example, there are currently two options in the menu:
  
  • Delete this group: moves the selected group and ALL of its contents, to the recycle bin.
  • Delete all clips in this group: moves ALL of the contents of the selected group to the recycle bin, leaving the group name and definition intact.
  
  Since these are logical groups (not actual folders), there needs to be one additional option:
  Delete the selected group name only: leaving ALL of the contents of the selected group intact in the CHS database.
  Not having that additional option left me a bit hamstrung when it came to deleting the error group and recreating it. I had to fiddle about with tediously deleting the whole group and its contents, and then restoring the contents thus deleted, to the CHS database.
  
  
• B.There needs to be more flexibility in the favourites/Virtual Folder sorting functionality.
  For example, Virtual Folders are apparently(?) sort-able by default only into ID# order.
  An option to sort them into (say) alphabetic (or other) order would probably be needed by most users (and certainly by me).
  I recall noting this sorting feature discrepancy ages ago, but probably I never mentioned it as I figured I might have been the only user who had observed/needed it. However, now that the powerful VF feature has been made less arcane to use, new users of VF will come in and likely will be frustrated by the annoying lack of sorting flexibility.
  

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.32.0 - Nov 1, 2015

« Last post by IainB on November 21, 2015, 08:14 AM »

Looks like a logic error in the newish CHS feature for Virtual Folders:
I hadn't needed to use it previously and was just now (2015-11-22) looking to see where in CHS the "new item in the right-click grid menu to help you to make a new VIRTUAL FOLDER group with just the searched for clips":

And don't forget you can also use the quick search box at the top to filter the clips you want and then drag and drop them into a different group.
In fact you've given me a good great idea to make a new item in the right-click grid menu to help you to make a new VIRTUAL FOLDER group with just the searched for clips -- i think that will help people use the virtual folder idea.  Working on that now..
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-mouser (October 05, 2014, 10:20 AM)

I did a search in my clips for "H G Wells" and several clips were displayed in the search results. I then selected them with the cursor, and used the menu to create an SQL VF (Virtual Folder) for them, based on the search, but the result had an error in the SQL, as below (see red error message at foot of image):
"Error X19: DBISAM Engine Error # 10051 Filter error for the table 'ClipTabIe' - Expected expression but instead found ) in filter expression at line I, column 1026 (Hint: check virtual group sql)"



The text of the SQL is:

(Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%h%') AND (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%g%') AND (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%wells%') AND

Removing the last "AND" in the SQL fixes the error.
This error was repeatable.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on November 18, 2015, 11:29 AM »

...I never dabbled in TM. ...
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-MilesAhead (November 18, 2015, 09:21 AM)

A bit off-topic: TM is simple and easy to do. It takes a bit of practice, that's all.
Here is practical TM explained in 5 steps:

• To start: Sit down comfortably somewhere relatively quiet and peaceful, hands on knees, and relax. Pick a meaningless (to you) word-sound - e.g., (say) "reerong". Say it out loud and keep repeating it. This is your mantra. It must have no real meaning for you. Keep saying it and close your eyes, then listen to the sound of your voice saying the mantra over and over. Make the sound of your voice saying the mantra your sole focus of attention. Do this for about 5 minutes, listening to the sound of your voice saying it slower, then faster, then slower, maybe a higher tone, then a lower one, so you become familiar with how you sound whenever you speak the mantra.
  
  
• Internalise: Then, still listening with the mantra as your sole focus of attention, slowly reduce the volume of your voice until it fades away into silence, but continue to to hear it in your mind, repeating the mantra endlessly, slower, faster, higher lower, whatever you feel "sounds" right. You are the only one who can "hear" your voice repeating the mantra in your mind, and the sound of it is your sole focus of attention.
  
  
• Practice: For the first time, do this silent mantra for about 10 minutes, then stop and slowly make yourself aware of the world about you. After that, perform this silent mantra meditation each day, twice a day if you can, working up to about 15 minutes each time - no more is necessary. Never use the mantra aloud after that first time, unless it is to remind yourself of what it sounds like in your voice whilst you are still learning how to do it.
  
  
• Distractions: As you meditate, external sounds or thoughts like bubbles will percolate up from your mind, and these will momentarily distract your attention from the mantra. When that happens, just gently come back to mantra. Don't get frustrated or annoyed with the distractions and bubbles, they represent your mind's natural state whilst being awake, so just calmly focus on getting back to listening to the imagined sound of your voice repeating the mantra in your mind.
  
  
• Skill: Pretty soon, with practice, the majority of your 15-minute meditation time will be spent purely on focusing on listening to the imagined sound of your voice repeating the mantra. Each time, stop after the approx. 15 minutes and slowly make yourself aware of the world about you. Then make yourself alert with deep breaths. Be kind to yourself and avoid abruptly snatching yourself back into alertness. Don't worry if the meditation makes you fall asleep. It can be a super way of calming the mind and getting to sleep when you are tired but your mind is buzzing.

That's all there is to it really. No mumbo-jumbo. You might be surprised at how it improves your state of mind and health.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on November 18, 2015, 12:43 AM »

I don't "get" any of those book titles.
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-Deozaan (November 17, 2015, 11:57 PM)

You have my sympathies.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on November 18, 2015, 12:33 AM »

NSFW - A guided meditation. 
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
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-Renegade (November 17, 2015, 09:52 PM)

   I reckon this might be almost as good as TM (Transcendental Meditation).

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on November 17, 2015, 11:49 PM »

From Charles Dickens (Channeling Jorge Luis Borges) Created a Fake Library, with 37 Witty Invented Book Titles:

[Charles Dickens] decided to fill two spaces in his new study with bookcases containing fake books, the witty titles of which he had invented. And so, on October 22nd, he wrote to a bookbinder named Thomas Robert Eeles and supplied him with the following “list of imitation book-backs” to be produced.

•     History of a Short Chancery Suit
•     Catalogue of Statues of the Duke of Wellington
•     Five Minutes in China. 3 vols.
•     Forty Winks at the Pyramids. 2 vols.
•     Abernethy on the Constitution. 2 vols.
•     Mr. Green’s Overland Mail. 2 vols.
•     Captain Cook’s Life of Savage. 2 vols.
•     A Carpenter’s Bench of Bishops. 2 vols.
•     Toot’s Universal Letter-Writer. 2 vols.
•     Orson’s Art of Etiquette.
•     Downeaster’s Complete Calculator.
•     History of the Middling Ages. 6 vols.
•     Jonah’s Account of the Whale.
•     Captain Parry’s Virtues of Cold Tar.
•     Kant’s Ancient Humbugs. 10 vols.
•     Bowwowdom. A Poem.
•     The Quarrelly Review. 4 vols.
•     The Gunpowder Magazine. 4 vols.
•     Steele. By the Author of “Ion.”
•     The Art of Cutting the Teeth.
•     Matthew’s Nursery Songs. 2 vols.
•     Paxton’s Bloomers. 5 vols.
•     On the Use of Mercury by the Ancient Poets.
•     Drowsy’s Recollections of Nothing. 3 vols.
•     Heavyside’s Conversations with Nobody. 3 vols.
•     Commonplace Book of the Oldest Inhabitant. 2 vols.
•     Growler’s Gruffiology, with Appendix. 4 vols.
•     The Books of Moses and Sons. 2 vols.
•     Burke (of Edinburgh) on the Sublime and Beautiful. 2 vols.
•     Teazer’s Commentaries.
•     King Henry the Eighth’s Evidences of Christianity. 5 vols.
•     Miss Biffin on Deportment.
•     Morrison’s Pills Progress. 2 vols.
•     Lady Godiva on the Horse.
•     Munchausen’s Modern Miracles. 4 vols.
•     Richardson’s Show of Dramatic Literature. 12 vols.
•     Hansard’s Guide to Refreshing Sleep. As many volumes as possible.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 17, 2015, 04:20 PM »

^^ Oops, sorry, I should've piped up about that too, as the ability to show recursive contents (inheritance) is something that I sometimes want and had always thought was a rather nifty feature in CHS (once I "discovered" it for myself).   
In fact, I find CHS to be a seriously nifty tool - e.g., for manually categorising/tagging, auto-categorising and sifting of clips - but the directions for doing things like that can sometimes tend to be sparse or, at best, somewhat cryptic, leaving it up to the user to dig around and find out by trial-and-error. CHS is not all that "user-friendly" in that regard, so it is sometimes a case of "every man for himself".
One of the reasons I put so much effort into documenting that set of "requirements" was that I was trying to retrospectively deduce and document what and why existing features had been built-in to CHS, a bit like Sherlock Holmes.

@mouser - by the way, there is still this: User Requirements for CHS
It could be used to save repetition by different/new CHS users. I put quite a bit of effort into that. Have not updated it in ages as no-one seemed interested. I think I left it as public and editable.
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-IainB (November 16, 2015, 10:05 AM)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on November 17, 2015, 02:53 AM »

Silly jokes/puns...

• I used to be a banker, but I lost interest.
• I wasn't intending to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.
• Did you hear about the man who got hit by a can full of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.
• Did you hear about the man in the London Underground who got hit by a train and lost the left half of his body? They say he's alright now.
• I just looked up the word 'apocalypse' in the dictionary. It was quite a revelation.
• Don't worry about the world coming to an end in the US today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
• "An adventure? Alpaca my bags."
• How did I escape from Iraq? Iran.
• He ate so much over the holidays that he decided to quit cold turkey.
• Did you hear the one about Sodium Hydrobromide? NaH BrO.
• Some gamblers are always looking for a pair-a-dice.
• Where does bad light end up? In prism.
• Why can't you trust atoms? They make up everything.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 11:37 AM »

Anyone else experiencing deletion problems?
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-mouser (November 16, 2015, 11:00 AM)

I don't recall ever having had any deletion problems in CHS.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 10:05 AM »

@mouser - by the way, there is still this: User Requirements for CHS

It could be used to save repetition by different/new CHS users. I put quite a bit of effort into that. Have not updated it in ages as no-one seemed interested. I think I left it as public and editable.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 09:53 AM »

Note that I have updated my first comment above to read:

Yes, I would echo SOME of the above,...
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-IainB (November 16, 2015, 05:12 AM)

I don't have an issue with CHS for a lot of what the writer states - e,g,, I don't require a right-click menu when editing a clip, though I sometimes find that I would like an "Undo" history (Ctrl-Z) when wanting to backout edits in a clip, but for my priorities that's just a "C" priority ("Nice to have") thing, rather than an "A" ("Must have") or even a "B" ("Highly desirable").

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 09:41 AM »

IN FACT -- IF YOU UNCHECK THAT, DOES IT FIX THE PROBLEM WITH IT SWITCHING CLIPS WHEN YOU CTRL+C?

-mouser (November 16, 2015, 09:19 AM)

Yes it does!   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 09:32 AM »

When I select a clip,  and highlight then ctrl-c a piece of the clip to place into a webpage or form, the CSH interface instantly shifts to some other, unrelated clip. I am no longer in the selected clip, and I have to find it and re-orient myself

ok that's a bug -- it's trying to switch to the NEW CLIP created by your ctrl+C, but im guessing you arent in the "NEW" group so it is getting confused. I will fix bug so that it doesnt change clips when you CTRL+C from within the program.
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-mouser (November 16, 2015, 09:16 AM)

Thanks.      I had previously thought that was "normal" behaviour by design.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 08:24 AM »

Mini Review: Skilhunt H02R Head Mounted Flashlight, For Cycling after Dark
...I want one.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some thoughts on the next version

« Last post by IainB on November 16, 2015, 05:12 AM »

Yes, I would echo SOME of the above, but the way CHS seems to work at present is as a CIM (Clipboard Information manager), whereas I would rather be able to use use it as a CIM with integrated PIM (Personal Information manager) functionality, and the requirements for the two would not necessarily be one and the same.
Bearing in mind that @mouser has indicated that CHS was originally intended/designed as a PIM, but got reduced to being a CIM, I don't really expect my requirements to be met.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff" - Zoetrope

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 12:43 PM »

Amazing stuff from Eytan Adar (Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Michigan):
http://www.cond.org/zoetrope.html

I can think of several good reasons why some people might feel that this technology needs to be suppressed.

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Living Room / Re: Is Excel the most dangerous software in the world?

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 12:06 PM »

I think what I'm missing here is that "on my better days" I was trained for my couple diff variants of accounting that every now and then you do a "sanity check" - a very fast and ugly-dirty approximate second calculation just to look for these kinds of random weirdness, plus intuition.
So if something begins to feel off, you smash out a "piece of paper and calculator guess" just to see if the results sorta make sense.
Maybe that's beyond the human mind at the big bank level, but "just believing" forever feels risky. So Excel itself isn't exactly the most dangerous software, it's just so generically useful in so many ways and the problem could be the operators maybe stretching the limits of what a mind can intuitively hold.
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-TaoPhoenix (November 15, 2015, 10:50 AM)

Yes, I reckon that you are absolutely right about the sanity checking bit - some spreadsheet "developers" don't even understand the need for or benefit of doing simple cross-casts of column totals in financial spreadsheets.
The worst offenders I have met in that regard ("Why would you need to prove your totals?") were mathematicians who apparently had never heard of that other mathematician - Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli ("the father of accounting and bookkeeping"). For years, all my spreadsheets have been built to self-check their totals, and to compare other totals where a difference would signify that there has been an error somewhere, and report on same in a dashboard.

However, humans are essentially error-prone (trial-and-error being our fundamental way of learning, after all), and our errors can be notoriously very difficult to identify and locate within spreadsheets - needle-in-a-haystack kind of thing - so they can often remain undiscovered, like a ticking time-bomb. I recall the NZ Treasury reportedly made a huge error in its announced budget forecast several years back, a main total apparently being out by a factor of 10, or something, due to a simple spreadsheet error. This was despite them having had a team of some of their best minds peer-reviewing the forecasting model and its results.

By the way, I would suggest that there's probably no need to have a mind that can "intuitively hold" all of a spreadsheet model, if the thing has been systematically built using good theory and "best" practice and with lots of internal checks and reports on same. If a spreadsheet could not be broken down into logical components, with each able to be checked independently, I would be very skeptical of its output, and if only (say) one man ("George" the developer) understood what the model was doing, I'd be even more skeptical.
As in science, mathematical models need to be accessible to see if they pass an independent test of falsifiability.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Questions about sorting and formatting

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 10:59 AM »

I am not aware of any Clipboard information managers that currently might be able to do what you require, though NoteFrog had rather looked as though it might be heading in that direction, eventually.
I use CHS all the time, and I find it to be an amazingly useful tool. I would be very interested in the possibility that it might be made to do what you are requiring, as I have long had the same/similar requirement.
However, the way I currently meet my needs in this regard is by using MS OneNote (part of MS Office) as the intermediate storage medium of material that I wish to keep the formatting of. It has become my primary PIM (Personal Information Manager).

You could also consider Zotero and Wezinc (both $Free) for these purposes. Wezinc integrates with (hooks onto) the Clipboard such that if you copy anything to the Clipboard, Wezinc asks you if you want to also save it into the Wezinc database. I'm still trialing Zotero and Wezinc - mainly as alternatives to the excellent Firefox extension ScrapBook, so am unable to give a conclusive view as to whether either could be useful for your purposes.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 10:29 AM »

Then there's this interesting clarification from the FCC:

Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates
by: Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering & Technology
November 12, 2015 - 12:09 PM

This week marked the closing of the reply comment period in the Commission’s radio device approval modernization rulemaking. The comments and replies are largely supportive of the Commission’s proposals, but one particular element generated thousands of comments from individuals concerned that the proposal would encourage manufacturers to prevent modifications or updates to the software used in devices such as wireless local area networks (e.g., Wi-Fi routers). I’m pleased that this issue attracted considerable attention and thoughtful submissions into the record and would like to make it clear that the proposal is not intended to encourage manufacturers to prevent all modifications or updates to device software.

As I wrote last month, this proceeding has taken on a significance beyond the Commission’s original intent. One of our key goals is to protect against harmful interference by calling on manufacturers to secure their devices against third party software modifications that would take a device out of its RF compliance. Yet, as the record shows, there is concern that our proposed rules could have the unintended consequence of causing manufacturers to “lock down” their devices and prevent all software modifications, including those impacting security vulnerabilities and other changes on which users rely. Eliciting this kind of feedback is the very reason that we sought comment in an NPRM and we are pleased to have received the feedback that will inform our decision-making on this matter.

In my last post I recognized the need to work with stakeholders – particularly the user community – to address these concerns in a way that still enables the Commission to execute its mandate to protect users from harmful interference. I’m happy to say that the OET staff and I have spoken directly with some of these stakeholders in the last few weeks.

One immediate outcome of this ongoing dialogue is a step we’ve taken to clarify our guidance on rules the Commission adopted last year in the U-NII proceeding. Our original lab guidance document released pursuant to that Order asked manufacturers to explain “how [its] device is protected from ‘flashing’ and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT”. This particular question prompted a fair bit of confusion – were we mandating wholesale blocking of Open Source firmware modifications?

We were not, but we agree that the guidance we provide to manufacturers must be crystal-clear to avoid confusion. So, today we released a revision to that guidance to clarify that our instructions were narrowly-focused on modifications that would take a device out of compliance. The revised guidance now more accurately reflects our intent in both the U-NII rules as well as our current rulemaking, and we hope it serves as a guidepost for the rules as we move from proposal to adoption.

There is more hard work ahead of us as we finalize rules, and we welcome continued input from manufacturers, users, technologists, and others.
 
Updated: November 12, 2015 - 12:09 PM
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Roughly translated: "Whoops! Ha-ha. Oh you spotted that did you? Silly me."

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage - or murder?

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 10:16 AM »

Ahh, now it all makes sense - it seems that it was because of Snowden that all those people in Paris were massacred yesterday: Edward Snowden and spread of encryption blamed after Paris terror attacks

Oh, but wait, maybe that was a bit hasty:

• Paris’ Bataclan Theater was BDS and terrorist target for years
• Le Point Le Bataclan Theater Headline
• Pourquoi le Bataclan est-il régulièrement visé ? - Le Point
• Was the Bataclan targeted for Jewish ownership and support for Israel? | i24news - See beyond

I can't believe that the French security services would have known for some time that the Bataclan was a defined prime Islamic terrorist target and yet apparently have done nothing to anticipate it and protect French citizens...

Nah, it must have been Snowden's fault.
Maybe French citizens should start pressing for the right to carry arms, to avert such "workplace accidents" as this?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by IainB on November 15, 2015, 09:48 AM »

Interesting bit of history: Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s Then Totally Blew It | Motherboard