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2026
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 31, 2010, 07:55 AM »
Hmmm... Better than the last time I had to eject a DVD on my Mac. Ended up taking it in for repair... Only had about 20 or 30 disks in it too. :(
That might have been your problem; I think they're meant to accomodate only one.
2027
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 pledge: GOE 2007 "MyHelp" remake for web
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 31, 2010, 07:53 AM »
I was very busy with house constructing and job obligations, and just couldn't make some extra time to finish what I've started...
Life's like that, disappointing for you but at least you have your priorities in the right order   :(

But I WILL finish it in the days that come, and let you all see it when it's done... :-)
Looking…  forward to it
2028
Oh yeah!  I particularly love those who try to pick one's brains with the "I have problem X, what would be your solution to that?"
2029
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: dotTech shareware freebies still available
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 30, 2010, 04:34 PM »
Thanks for taking the time to post these things, Curt!
2030
Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 29, 2010, 11:13 PM »
What brand/model monitors are you using?

These are Samsung 275Tplus. It's increasingly hard to find monitors with 1200 vertical res these days — at least I find it so.

I've found Samsung, the company, totally unpleasant to deal with, incompetent, careless of their customers, and slipshod. I'd avoid them and their products if I could. Unfortunately, when I bought these, one of a pair of previous Samsung 1600x1200s had failed and they could produce only an unsatisfactory replacement under guarantee. Needless to say, that didn't match the remaining functional monitor. So, I needed a matched pair of reasonably large screens in a hurry and these were the best of what my local supplier could deliver the following day. (I gave the remaining monitor from the previous pair to my wife and she's happy with it, and it's still going strong.)

The downside with multiple screens is that when one of them fails it's often necessary to buy another set of screens because the current models don't match the previous ones. As you know, models change very fast and a screen more than a year old will probably be difficult to replace with an exact counterpart. I don't like working with mismatched screens.

The up side of equipment failure is that one can use it as an excuse to upgrade.

I'm quite pleased with these screens, precise colour matching isn't crucial to me, so I can afford to be less fussy than some. As I said previously, they provide quite a lot of real estate, almost all of which I can see at a glance.


<Edit for typo>
2031
Living Room / Re: Naming and Shaming Bad Forums with Bad Ethics
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 29, 2010, 03:53 PM »
@40hz- re: bunch of lungs

don't even *think* of trying it.  :-))

And don't for one moment consider calling him brainy!
2032
Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 29, 2010, 08:56 AM »
These days I use 2 side-by-side 27" (1920 x 1200) monitors. That's a physical run of 4 feet by 16 inches.
That gives me somewhat over four US-letter-size pages, portrait, at actual size, which is important to me as I still work with physical documents
I can see all of what I want without any significant head movement (except for nodding off occasionally).
2033
The compleat respondent — WD40hz!

What don't you know?
2034
Living Room / Re: So, when you're working, do you...
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 29, 2010, 08:44 AM »
i find that i can only listen to music if working on tasks that i'm familiar with.

anything requiring real concentration, i.e. problem solving, and i can't listen to anything - sometimes i need ear plugs to cut out the slightest sound.

That's pretty much the same for me (has to be classical music when I'm working). The tougher the going, the quieter it must be. Random noises (dog barking, phones going etc.) don't count as they're filtered out automatically.

I prefer where I'm working to be well lit, probably because I need recourse to a fair amount of hard-copy reference material.

One dominant personal preference is to avoid work like the plague.
2035
Living Room / Re: Naming and Shaming Bad Forums with Bad Ethics
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 28, 2010, 12:48 PM »
Why anybody would want to waste the effort of 100+ words just to say "no" to a complete stranger is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Well, it's like this — and you may or may not agree and, frankly, whether or not you do is of little consequence to me because I, personally, have never contributed any post that is other than fatuous — but having nothing useful to offer results in people trying to seem as if they might have something worth saying, notwithstanding their inability to contribute meaningfully, and thus they are prompted — often without a great deal of forethought (possibly because that is something of which they are incapable) — to enter somewhat empty and often unpleasant material that some might say would be best left aside and which is always negative.
2036
Circle Dock / Re: Merry Christmas | happy Solstice
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 24, 2010, 01:32 PM »
And the same to you with (Christmas) bells on!
2037
Living Room / Re: The Candy Enthusiast Blog
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 24, 2010, 01:30 PM »
Remember

                Pecan.png so always point uphill!
2038
Living Room / Re: My Blackberry Is Not Working!
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 23, 2010, 08:55 PM »
Pretty good for an eighty-year-old!
2039
Circle Dock / Re: Version 1.54 released
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 23, 2010, 12:06 PM »
I've just released version 1.54
Mark
Thanks for the info, and Merry Christmas!
2040

groovy  :D
I do so hate to be picky, tomos, but when referring to turkey the correct spelling is g-r-a-v-y!  ;)
2041
Living Room / Not thrilled by you Christmas gifts - could have been worse
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 23, 2010, 10:17 AM »
2042
Post your 2011 top-priority feature requests for Clipboard Help+Spell here.
Images!
2043
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Quick Cliq
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 22, 2010, 10:36 PM »
Thanks for sharing this through NANY!
2044
Living Room / Re: USB Daisy-Chaining gone haywire
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 22, 2010, 03:47 AM »
I think this thread's in decline…

yeah, I'm bacon you guys to stop!

Okay, I'm cured.
-cranioscopical (December 21, 2010, 09:58 PM)

SNORT!!
Thank goodness we have you to do the grunt work!
-cranioscopical (December 21, 2010, 11:23 PM)

To err is human; to forgive, porcine

I know you do your best but do try to keep up. (See #10)

Chop chop!
2045
Living Room / Re: USB Daisy-Chaining gone haywire
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 11:23 PM »
I think this thread's in decline…

yeah, I'm bacon you guys to stop!

Okay, I'm cured.
-cranioscopical (December 21, 2010, 09:58 PM)

SNORT!!

Thank goodness we have you to do the grunt work!
2046
Living Room / Re: USB Daisy-Chaining gone haywire
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 09:58 PM »
I think this thread's in decline…

yeah, I'm bacon you guys to stop!

Okay, I'm cured.
2047
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 05:42 PM »
timns

You know, the minimizing stuff is still not right.                                                   
I'm talking about when minimize to tray is set on.                                                   
Launch, then hit close to minimize to tray.                                                               
Goes to tray but also sits on the task bar (XP SP3).                                                 
Double-click on the task-bar item and nothing happens.                                               
Can't right-click restore from the task-bar item either.                                                   
                                                                                                     
Also, doesn't respect 'not show' splash screen (I know it's lovely but… )                             
                                                                                                     
That'll give you something to think about as you hang around in frozen airports for the next week or so.
2048
General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 05:24 PM »
Games gifted.  =]  Enjoy.   :)

Ain't this guy great?  :Thmbsup:

He's a treasure.
2049
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 05:11 PM »
Could someone else try this too please?

Works okay for me [email protected] expanded from mnemonic te test.png
2050
Living Room / Re: USB Daisy-Chaining gone haywire
« Last post by cranioscopical on December 21, 2010, 09:36 AM »
An
That you comment here is very poor sign!
-cranioscopical (December 20, 2010, 11:22 PM)

strange as it might seem you're not the first one to make that observation :huh:

Is that some kind of a rind up?

All in all, I think it's time for you to trotter long.

and who made you lard of the manor?

Just someone who went hog-wild…
-cranioscopical (December 21, 2010, 12:55 AM)

And ain't it swill he did too!

I wondered when you would iron that out.

I think this thread's in decline… hic, haec, hoc(k).
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