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2001

DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Notey - An anti-procrastination/pro-productivity tool for Students

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2016, 05:18 AM »

3. We have ad filters at work. All I see at the download link is a bunch of "Access blocked - content alert" windows and a download link. Like... LOTS of content blocked. MediaFire?  Eww.
    -  I will upload elsewhere if Mediafire is causing issues.

-Stephen66515 (February 08, 2016, 04:34 PM)

Using Firefox + uBlock + ask-to-activate Flash here: with uBock disabled, I just saw a bunch of ads.
In other words, with an adblocker it's fine imo.

2002

Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2016, 01:12 PM »

I discovered Wilhelm Kempff this week.
I also discovered Beethoven's Tempest Sonata [..]

-tomos (February 05, 2016, 06:16 AM)

Very nice. I've been listening to this lately; at the time, poor Isaac Stern looks like his health is about ready to fail at any moment, but his playing proves him ever the Master. Isaac Stern & Jean-Bernard Pommier - César Franck Violin Sonata in A major - 1st & 2nd mvt
César Franck Violin Sonata in A major - 1st mvt
César Franck Violin Sonata in A major - 2nd mvt

-holt (February 08, 2016, 09:50 AM)

thanks, looking forward to those
Took  me a while to figure out the links though :-) they're back to front: link is actually the video title (I fixed it in the quoted text).

2003

Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2016, 12:58 PM »

Mouse poison (they're always getting into the car, and with those cookies and things...)

-CWuestefeld (February 08, 2016, 12:45 PM)

I usually keep something sweet in the car and was wondering lately about animals trying to get into it -- round here I'd guess the martens keep the mice at bay and either arent able to get into the car, or arent bothered (they more interested in chewing cables in my experience).

Dehydrated water (just seeing if anybody's paying attention)

-CWuestefeld (February 08, 2016, 12:45 PM)

just add water :-)

2004

Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2016, 11:34 AM »

Probably not a bad thing, because who knows how long g+ is going to last anyways...

-tomos (February 07, 2016, 08:04 AM)

Hopefully a while.  There's quite a bit of activity on there, no matter what all of the pundits who are waiting for it to fail say.  And their communities are better than boards in the format of them, and definitely better than facebook.

-wraith808 (February 07, 2016, 08:28 AM)

Yeah, I can see that, but I was thinking what with google's history of killing off stuff that isn't fully successful...

2005

Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2016, 08:04 AM »

I see my YT comments haven't been showing on my g+ page since last August. I dont have a lot of interaction via my g+ account but used to have some (none since August though).
I care, but not a whole lot.
The g+ page was good for giving me an overview of my recent YT activity -- that's what I miss most.

Comments on YT *are* visible when not logged in.
Comment history is no longer shown on my YT channel.

I did check g+ settings: everything was as it should be.
(I did disable and re-enabled some settings, so should check see if that made any difference with new comments -- older comments still not displayed on g+.)

So, g+ and YT alienate me yet again
Probably not a bad thing, because who knows how long g+ is going to last anyways...

2006

General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 04:19 PM »

It's a link to a WinPatrol web page for the mystery number; 1454789523; as such, I didn't believe it would cause a problem for anyone. Sorry.

-holt (February 06, 2016, 03:00 PM)

ah, okay, no worries -- I guess you've got to be on Winpatrol Plus to see that page properly.
(FWIW I have it but not on this machine)

2007

Living Room / Re: Windows Phone Narrator should be punished!

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 02:52 PM »

Still, people that want to do all of their computing with their phone, I will never understand. Buying every kind of peripheral, play games, play movies etc. ...it is just a phone! No matter the size of its screen, it is too small to truly enjoy a movie or other form of media. Is this a problem of me being old-fashioned or not accepting sub-par computing/media just like the rest of the world seems to be so eager to do? I don't know.

-Shades (February 06, 2016, 10:16 AM)

Hm... I'll go with old fashioned, damned if I know, and me too.

-Stoic Joker (February 06, 2016, 02:34 PM)

I think that a movie for one, or two intimately, is fine on an average size smartphone these days.
Me though, I'm afraid of going there [edit] hang on a sec, I didnt mean the intimate bit [/edit] : I enjoy having a percentage of (awake) life that is relatively internet free. Why I enjoy keeping smartphone use to a minimum.

2008

General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 02:41 PM »

Anybody want to click that link for me? 

-Stephen66515 (February 06, 2016, 02:34 PM)

Okay, feeling brave...

[PLUS Info...] is one of the Bonus features of WinPatrol PLUS. Our Community Shield data is now available to make WinPatrol even more valuable.

We only want you to upgrade if you really like WinPatrol. You can also tell your friends that you found valuable free software without toolbars or other crapware.

Your support helps continue the development of WinPatrol allowing us to tell toolbar company's where to stick it when they offer us big bucks to install their crapware.

If you've been using WinPatrol Free version for years, we need you.  WinPatrol v32 has been hard work and this is a good time to upgrade to PLUS.

ehh ...
@Holt -- what was your problem?

2009

N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 01:00 PM »

^  hi david842,
NANY is still going strong. Here's the 2016 one:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=323.0

Earlier ones you can find here (scroll down for more recent):
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=210.0

2010

Living Room / Re: Now that AI has mastered 'Go,' are all our jobs next?

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 11:43 AM »

AI is no match to our intelligence.

-anandcoral (February 06, 2016, 04:12 AM)

lol, we've come a long way

2011

Living Room / Re: Windows Phone Narrator should be punished!

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2016, 11:02 AM »

I was trying to persuade myself into buying a cheap Win-phone, to compare the experience to my Android (personal) and iOs (work) phones, but this story increased the downside with another mile or so, so it'll take a lot of upside points to compensate again

-Ath (February 06, 2016, 03:57 AM)

Nothing so dramatic but I did find there were a few annoying aspects to Android (only have experience with 4.4 and haven't used it in a while).

Been using a Lumia 730 for almost two months, but at a very basic level.
Writing texts is hugely better with Win.8.1 -- the keyboard is much better; tbh I still dont fully understand how auto-correct works -- it seems to replace a word when it knows what you've written is incorrect, but it doesnt always; gives a great choice though for auto-correct.

It has no concept of back-up to SD, or save contacts to phone -- everything goes online (google or outlook). Using gmail I have yet to be able to search archived emails -- this not a big deal for me atm but may be important in the future, so I hope find a solution.

2012

General Software Discussion / Re: Copy Being Discontinued as of May 1, 2016

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 12:14 PM »

... every time I use Mega I become more and more impressed with it. It also has mobile apps (iOS/Android) and desktop clients for Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as browser extensions. And the 50GB of storage is nice, too.

-Deozaan (February 04, 2016, 10:53 PM)

I cross-quoted that here -- if you have any experience with sync between devices via Mega do let us know

2013

General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenCaptor scrolling screenshot

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 12:09 PM »

it deletes any selected object(s) you've added to the image.

-Ath (February 05, 2016, 11:31 AM)

most logical would be if it just kept going and offered to delete the screenshot once all objects are gone (naturally requiring confirmation).
I realise this may not be feasible, but think it would be the ideal.

EDIT// of course now I've posted I see it is complicated by the fact that there may be undeleted and unselected objects -- okay, forget that idea !

2014

Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 06:16 AM »

I discovered Wilhelm Kempff this week.
I also discovered Beethoven's Tempest Sonata -- via Nokia's 'Silver' ringtone which is a variation on the start of the third movement :-)
 

Beethoven's Tempest Sonata - Third Movement

(no other performance I've heard on youtube touches this one)

2015

Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 05:47 AM »

Seeing as it's a new car you're may not have to really worry much about this aspect:

I know from using jump leads between cars that the quality of the cables and connectors make a huge difference, i.e. cheaper ones sometimes work, but often dont, for no obvious reason.

2016

General Software Discussion / Re: Sync Laptop & Desktop

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 04:03 AM »

From another thread:

For what it's worth, Dropbox fits my needs most of the time, but every time I use Mega I become more and more impressed with it. It also has mobile apps (iOS/Android) and desktop clients for Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as browser extensions. And the 50GB of storage is nice, too.

-Deozaan (February 04, 2016, 10:53 PM)

another option, especially for lots of data. (No idea how or how well the sync works though.)

2017

DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 03:17 AM »

Re the commenting on a blog post:
the idea each blog post (automatically?) get a forum thread - which thread would then be shown in the sidebar --
that could work well.

And there's still lots of sites that require registration to comment, so I dont see a problem with that here (would probably have some advantages too -- less throwaway posts).

2018

DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 03:13 AM »

> *drumroll please*

looks great

EDIT// this was doing my head in -- I had to hide it

Spoiler

2019

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Key Code

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 03:07 AM »

McAfee, ouch! Maybe it's gotten better but it certainly used be a monster -- possibly not the best for an old machine with little resources...
I'm reminded of someone I know well who had a Vista machine with Norton running with everything enabled. And I dont know was it one or two GB memory. Was a nightmare to use, at any rate.

2020

General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenCaptor scrolling screenshot

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2016, 02:54 AM »

I had such a heck of a time with this program I uninstalled it. I had a screen capture in the window and was trying the various tools, like hi lite, arrows. I could not figure out how to get rid of it when I was done. Tried everything. Saved it to my desktop and then deleted it. Deleted it from over at the side where the shots appear.

-Sophy (February 04, 2016, 07:07 PM)

I know you've uninstalled it, but as you say, you can delete by focusing the file thumbnail on the left and using the delete key.
Delete screenshot is in the menu under 'File', and also there is a delete icon in the toolbar.

@mouser, is there a reason the delete key doesnt work when the image has focus in the main pane?

2021

General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenCaptor scrolling screenshot

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2016, 06:19 PM »

hi Sophy,
not sure I've seen that message before. There is a similar one which is a little more specific:

Application being captured: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ATTENTION: A number of methods were attempted to scroll the contents of the target window, but nothing worked.

Sometimes when this happens it simply means you have to first click inside the actual content area of the window to be captured.

You could try clicking inside the target window where the content is, and then click the "Re-test" button; or choose manual scroll method below.

Alternatively, if you selected a full application window, click the "Back" button and re-select a more specific scrollable content area.

sometimes, if you click in the scrolling window, and have another go it will work.

btw, which OS is that?
Is that horizontal scrolling that is required?
(On windows 7 here atm, there's nothing to scroll in the Start Menu so I cannot test.)

2022

General Software Discussion / Re: Sync Laptop & Desktop

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2016, 03:13 PM »

P.S. And it's also for situations when you want to force the direction of the sync, i.e. when you want to ignore certain changes for certain files or folders on one machine and overwrite them with older versions from the other machine.

-dr_andus (February 02, 2016, 06:30 PM)

Just to clarify when this might be useful. Image you have the same already synced copy of a database file on the desktop and on a laptop. Then you do a lot of changes on the laptop to that file.

Then you reopen the same database application later on the desktop, to check something without changing anything. However, even that would have modified the file, as lots of database type apps might modify a file when you just open it to look at it.

Some cloud services might pick the desktop version as the latest version and overwrite the laptop version that has the important changes. Allway Sync allows you to review the files and force the sync in the direction in which you want it to happen, not which file was changed last.

-dr_andus (February 03, 2016, 12:16 PM)

a good argument for also having good local backup on each machine with multiple versions saved -- for that time when you just forget that you opened that database...

2023

Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2016, 05:33 PM »

Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down. The show mentions social issues such as teenage pregnancy, peer pressure and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence, and to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.

Grease (musical) - Wikipedia

-Arizona Hot (February 03, 2016, 03:53 PM)

interesting :-)
The movie was one of the first I saw in the cinema. Was censored to boot, which made for some confusing sequences.

2024

Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2016, 05:24 PM »

GOD.COM: Universe reboots in three minutes. Log out now
                                   [ OK ]

-rjbull (February 03, 2016, 03:57 PM)

But you can't because your PC has begun updating to Windows 10.

-MilesAhead (February 03, 2016, 04:50 PM)

hopefully that'll stump the universe reboot as well. Or maybe they're using linux....

2025

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

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2016, 05:15 PM »

^

and here's how to learn Dublinese (possibly not safe for work -- if they can follow the accent anyways):

How to Speak Dublin