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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 23, 2017, 11:46 AM »

It's easy to go back or change it in lots of ways -- it's just css.
I'm just thinking we need SOME improvement over the old style.  I kind of like this one but I'm still cogitating on the suggestions.
What would be nice is if someone made some alternative css styles for it and shared. Then we could see which we liked best.

-mouser (November 23, 2017, 11:22 AM)

So perhaps remove the quote, make the right and left bars something that goes more with the style of the site, and make the font a bit lighter?  Which CSS file is it?  Or can you just post the current CSS?

I see this in https://www.donation.../css/index.css?fin20

Code: CSS [Select]

1. /* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
2. .REN_DISABLE_blockquote.bbc_standard_quote, REN_DISABLE_blockquote.bbc_alternate_quote
3. {
4.         font-size: x-small;
5.         color: #000;
6.         line-height: 1.4em;
7.         background: url(../images/theme/quote.png) 0.1em 0.1em no-repeat;
8.         border-top: 2px solid #99A;
9.         border-bottom: 2px solid #99A;
10.         padding: 1.1em 1.4em;
11.         margin: 0.1em 0 0.3em 0;
12.         overflow: auto;
13. }

Is that the CSS that would have to be played with?

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Living Room / Re: Happy Thanksgiving to DonationCoder folks - 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 23, 2017, 11:05 AM »

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!  And safe travels for those traveling!

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 23, 2017, 10:24 AM »

I think skwire's view (previous format was better) has considerable merit.

-cranioscopical (November 23, 2017, 09:08 AM)

Perhaps there's no way to easily go back to the previous format?  I would think that if he has not already considered that rather than making changes to the CSS, then perhaps that is a reason that it has less than considerable merit?

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Coding Snacks / Re: SHORTCUT SHMORTCUT

« Last post by wraith808 on November 23, 2017, 06:44 AM »

Hi Guys.

Not sure I can make my request any clearer.

I would like to be able to left click on a desktop shortcut with the end result being that the create shortcut wizard opens.

Sorry if I sound facetious - that is not my intention.
All suggestions are really welcomed and appreciated.

Altikaka

-altikaka (November 23, 2017, 04:46 AM)

Well, if you have to use the Create Shortcut Wizard, the answer appears to be no, unless you use something like AHK to simulate that process.  From what I've been able to see, they have not exposed that wizard to be invoked programmatically.  After finding that out, I asked my question above- but if nothing else will suffice, I think you're going to be stuck with that.

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Coding Snacks / Re: SHORTCUT SHMORTCUT

« Last post by wraith808 on November 22, 2017, 03:52 PM »

Hi Guys.

Does anyone know any way of creating a desktop shortcut (win10) to the shortcut wizard, which is normally accessed by a right click > new > shortcut  route ?
Thanks
altikaka

-altikaka (November 22, 2017, 07:47 AM)

What is your final purpose?  Do you want to create a shortcut or do you want to bring up the shortcut wizard?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 21, 2017, 09:36 AM »

I didn't change anything yet, but I agree with the general consensus.. Tomos can you send me (or post) your css fixes?

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 09:08 AM)

Strange. Mine now shows up like this:

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 21, 2017, 08:33 AM »

I think you've changed it, and it does indeed look better.  I did like the band on the left of the quote, which seems to have gone away now.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on November 21, 2017, 06:22 AM »

I thought that was an improvement, it's what I've been using for a while on the test cms site.. But I'm open to suggestions for how to make it look better.

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 02:07 AM)

I like it, though perhaps the colors could us twaeking to match the color of the forum

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

« Last post by wraith808 on November 20, 2017, 04:37 PM »

^ That was good!  Reminded me of this one...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot start Microsoft Outlook

« Last post by wraith808 on November 19, 2017, 06:32 AM »

What version of Outlook and Exchange?  What version of Windows (Client and server)?

You might get better help going to the Outlook Help Center: https://support.office.com/en-us/outlook

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Uploading images

« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2017, 09:23 AM »

@wraith808
The third picture in the first post ("a Clueboard Rev 2 that I paid full price for") is 4.616 KB - and that is a lot for a poor connection or a so-called smart phone.
I don't think you can see any difference between the original (huge) PNG and this (compressed to 80%) 347 KB JPG :

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-compressed jpg

So, less quality and more compression will let you upload all of your pictures into the one and same post ;-)

-Curt (November 18, 2017, 04:09 AM)

In my ire, as I had many different versions of those photos, I might have attached the wrong one, as I'd reduced the size on all of them.  It just doesn't tell you which or why in those terms.  So I was over and over selecting images, resizing them, etc.  I have a version sitting there that's 253k.  But in my having to delete and add and redo posts, I selected the wrong one apparently- it's not even the literal image I meant to upload.  I was getting frustrated by that point.

Which brings me to another issue- the attachment numbers.  They have attachment 1, 2, 3, etc beside them.  But that doesn't adequately show the number that will be in the attachthumb.  And if you're not naming them (as I wasn't in many of them that I uploaded) that can be frustrating and make them non identifiable.  In the post, that particular image is labeled attachment 4, i.e. [ Invalid Attachment ].

Looking at the post, attachment 4 is the redscarf.  It appears to be something in the way things are renumbered when an attachment is deleted, though it doesn't change the tags in the posts.  Maybe.  The correct image is there now, and as shown it's 107KB.  I was paying attention, but a lot of it was my own frustration at the process coming out, especially with the lack of clarity in the errors.

Interestingly enough, when posting this, I noticed this clearer (if not correct) note following the posting:

Allowed file types: txt, jpg, jpeg, gif, mpg, png, zip, rar, 7z, ahk, fbs, mov, avi, mpg, rm, exe, mid, mp3, wav, grid, opml, tgz, gz, xml, ini, alias, wma, ogg, xz, pdf, apk, wmv, mp4, asf, webp, webm
Restrictions: 50 per post, maximum total size 16000KB, maximum individual size 16000KB

So perhaps if we increase it to that actual amount, or make it agree with the error.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2017, 09:19 AM »

quotes got a bit messed up there wraith, but point still clear.

-tomos (November 18, 2017, 03:58 AM)

We'll have to agree to disagree.  He's not sending because of the value is a very salient rebuttal to the he's not sending because of some other reason.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Display program and / or command that triggred mouse Wait cursor?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2017, 09:17 AM »

That would only work if the window that's doing it is known, wouldn't it?  Or is there some other functionality that I just don't know that's there?

Oh, and the minimal instructions on using it can be found at https://msdn.microso...242713(v=vs.60).aspx

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 10:38 PM »

Bitcoin has a problem when one its most ardent supporters you know says things like this:

Quote from: Renegade on November 11, 2017, 01:21 AM
I don't send my friends BTC. I send fiat.

-Deozaan (November 17, 2017, 10:09 PM)

That was taken horribly out of context.

I don't send my friends BTC. I send fiat. Because it's less valuable. I HODL.

-Renegade (November 10, 2017, 11:21 PM)

In other words, he sends fiat because fiat won't go up in value.  Bitcoin will.  BTW, HODL means to hold, as many people do with stocks.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 04:56 PM »

Quite the collection you've got there!

Approx. how much does one of those things cost to make?

-Deozaan (November 17, 2017, 04:51 PM)

It really depends.  In the 40% family picture, there's this one custom one - the kb45p (which is the one on the bottom left).  That's my cheapest one at about $100.  You can make them cheaper- I just had to get custom plates cut which drove up the price.  That purple one that I just made on a whim was about $102.  Both of those prices are without the keycaps.

The economy of scale and quality come into play quite a bit.  One-offs are inherently more, and if you can get a lot of people to join in, they're inherently less.  And mass market is definitely a lot less.  But for a keyboard in a reasonable range, of reasonable quality from a storefront, I'd say about $150 or so without the keycaps.

My wife and daughter's keyboards, I started with a standard keyboard I purchased from amazon, and just got the custom keycaps for the boards.  So those were a lot less, as they keycaps on those are from non-top line manufacturers.

My daily drivers (the two clueboards) were $180 just for the keycaps, and the boards themselves were $229 for the dent and ding board, and 260 for the non-dent and ding. 

Then I had to provide the switches; I tend to get them on massdrop in bulk when they have them, so they were just sitting around.  For 120 gateron brown switches (which is what I tend to run) it's about $25 from there.

My most expensive board is probably my JD45- that was a complete custom with custom case and bluetooth.  OR my ergodox, which I haven't put together yet: 276.98 for the kit, but not sure if I'm going to switch out the keycaps which would drive it up more.

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Site/Forum Features / Uploading images

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 04:51 PM »

I'm not sure if this is where this goes- I though there was a section for problems with the forum.

I was updating a post with a lot of images.  I was going to use imgur, but because of the size of the images when placed, I decided to try to upload them to the forum.

The bane of my existence:

Your file is too large. The maximum attachment size allowed is 8000 KB.

Does it mean the individual file?  I don't think so, since I reduced them by a lot.  One is 2.75MB, and it gives me this image.

So then I thought it might mean the total of all the files, and the message was just stupid.  Nope, experimented with that (i.e. removing an image and then adding another one) and got the same error.

I'm close to giving up on the post, since I've been trying to do this for an hour and can't get past it, even splitting it.

The posts start with this one:
https://www.donation....msg414427#msg414427

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 04:48 PM »

And a family picture of all of my 40% boards:




The sad thing is I have more assembled and unassembled.  I'm hoping to move into my new office soon, and have shelves to put them on and display them to make me at least think that I don't have a problem.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 04:31 PM »

More keyboards:

Two that I put together just because I have a problem:





The one on the bottom I took to work to replace this one:



This one I did for my daughter:


And one I did for my wife:

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 04:04 PM »

I've been working more lately on keyboards- but forgetting to post them here!

First up is one I did for Halloween.



It's a 75% board- it has the arrow keys, and a column of keys to the right.  It also has the function key row.  But it's still pretty compact.  I updated it with a couple of Halloween themed artisans (a ghost and an orange gradient), mostly because my daughter got on me that a starburst and an anchor are not Halloween themed!

One of my daily drivers:



It's a Clueboard Rev 2 off of Dent and Ding.  Silver Case and GMK Plum.  Interestingly enough, even though I got the parts cheap because of dent and ding, I can't tell that there is any imperfection!

My other daily driver is a Clueboard Rev 2 that I paid full price for with a gray case, and GMK Honeywell.



The one below that in that image is a Red Scarf Ver.B.  It was my daily driver, and I can't bring myself to break up with it.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 03:50 PM »

That's the thread, but I just haven't updated.  Need to do that! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on November 17, 2017, 11:49 AM »

Just got a notification on my laptop about installing it, and it gave reasonable timeframes and the option of a reminder instead of automagically doing it

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2017, 05:32 PM »

Updated to 1709 on my laptop today. Only few minutes so far, the only thing I have noticed so far is Settings is slower to open, noticeably slower, not sure why ....

-rgdot (November 16, 2017, 04:58 PM)

THat's bad as it was already very slow on my desktop to open.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New faster Firefox browser released

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2017, 07:24 AM »

Even so, I think Vivaldi is going to remain my primary browser for the time being.

-Deozaan (November 16, 2017, 12:25 AM)

I've been trying that out... it hasn't usurped Chrome for me yet...

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2017, 07:22 AM »

It would help if you gave a country, not all mobile networks are the same, ie. the bands available in one country might not be available in another thus limiting what model to buy and where from.

-4wd (November 16, 2017, 06:13 AM)

It would seem to be Japan from the signature...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: pCloud

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2017, 07:09 AM »

A virtual drive I've not seen in OneDrive, but it does act as a virtual folder that will let you pick and choose how much of what (if anything) will get synced to the local machine (Account tab--> Choose folders button).

The lack of encryption with OneDrive makes me a bit nervous ... I've been thinking of scrapping mine.

-Stoic Joker (November 16, 2017, 06:37 AM)

I've seen and make use of that feature- some things I want to sync to the cloud, but don't want to sync to other machines, and I use this to facilitate that use case.  As for the encryption bit, most of my use of it doesn't have sensitive information.  PDFs, ePubs, Media, and such.  For encrypted things that should be secured, I use s3 and encrypt it client side, though it seems like 3.99 a month for pCloud client side encryption would be a more seamless and less manual approach.

And I think Deo was referring to OneDrive Files-on-demand.  That's been in there a while, and I've tried using it before, especially because of integration with O365.  It seems to use a uri to the file to manipulate it directly in the place you sync to on the server.  I've had problems with reconciliation that requires a manual fix, and documents that were supposed to be there and synced, but I can't find anywhere for extended periods of time from another computer. 

I haven't tried pCloud on another machine, so maybe it has similar issues.  I did use JungleDisk in this manner before they discontinued it for consumers, and it worked flawlessly, so hopefully pCloud will also.