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General Software Discussion / Re: One more reason to like independent SW developers

« Last post by Ath on July 19, 2012, 06:00 AM »

Same here, he wins a lot of kudo's

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« Last post by Ath on July 15, 2012, 01:41 PM »

I'm alternating between A and C

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Auto-apply edge border effects after snap?

« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2012, 02:11 PM »

Check out the Post-capture options in Preferences, there's a whole lot of options to choose from

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General Software Discussion / Re: Customize Snap DB?

« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2012, 01:28 PM »

Upon more thinking another option is to go with one Word doc per part number, and all the PN docs in one folder.

-garyreif (July 13, 2012, 12:15 PM)

Then Data Crow or any other database management tool (even MS Access ) is definitely a better solution!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Customize Snap DB?

« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2012, 09:54 AM »

If I can throw in a suggestion: Have a look at Data Crow, that's for keeping 'collections' with a lot of bells and whistles, but would be a fine candidate here, imho.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips

« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2012, 04:07 AM »

should it make any difference on a 64-bits Win 7 if PlayTime is placed in Program Files or in Program Files (x86) ?

-Curt (July 13, 2012, 03:33 AM)

Nope, it's just a location, PF/PFx86 has no extra special meaning, other than being more protected from modification by access rights, so you can't (shouldn't) store user-stuff there.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: want to invoke PrinterDialog, using -setprinter?

« Last post by Ath on July 12, 2012, 07:51 AM »

Changing the default printer can be done using rundll32 like this:

Code: Text [Select]

1. rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /q /n "Printer name"

Source

Some more info on PrintUI can be found here

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Developer's Corner / Re: Vala - A C#-Like Language for GNOME

« Last post by Ath on July 12, 2012, 01:59 AM »

Fun (Or should I have said 'Vun' )

Thanks

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Final Release: Tell When Done

« Last post by Ath on July 11, 2012, 05:22 AM »

Yes, the checksum is for the exe, as the values are also in the hash.txt file in the zip file, for anytime reference by the user.

I will mention so on the website, to clear any misunderstanding in future.

Regards,

Anand

-anandcoral (July 11, 2012, 05:12 AM)

It would be more helpful to (also) publish the md5/sha hashes for the zipfile, as I'd be (theoretically) able to replace the exe, update the txt file with new hashes and publish a new zip-file...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2012, 01:19 PM »

unless I can continue using the 32-bit version of Delphi.

-tranglos (July 09, 2012, 11:29 AM)

32 bit software, as most IDE's are, runs just nicely on 64 bit Windows, I've been doing it ever since the release of Vista x64, ~6 years ago
Development for x64 requires either special compilers and project settings, or a complete x64 environment, depending on the tools used. Delphi for x64 is just an optional part (compiler/linker only) of the Delphi XE2 suite (depending on the level of the suite), and AFAICS the IDE itself is still 32 bit (just like Visual Studio 2008/2010).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Freehostia (Free Website Hosting)

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2012, 01:06 PM »

Conclusions

Find a different provider.

-Stephen66515 (July 09, 2012, 09:46 AM)

Thanks for the warning, Stephen

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2012, 11:50 AM »

Can you somehow delay the start of the service, by using a tool for that (never used/searched for 'm but they've been mentioned here, AFAIK), could be something else dependent that's slow to start, blocking a proper start of Apache.

OTOH, could be an issue with Apache 2.2, can't you upgrade to the vastly improved 2.4 version (httpd) ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2012, 09:55 AM »

Is 192.168.1.130 the actual, connected, IP of your system, or is it an IP of a virtual networkadapter of one of the virtualization solutions, like VMWare or VirtualBox, that'll take a few seconds longer to start?
You could try port 8081 or 8090, if both 80 and 8080 are (temporarily) occupied by other applications, or your AV package could block binding of the port during startup.

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Living Room / Re: Help me design my next Tattoo!

« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2012, 06:49 AM »

Haven't seen any of your tats, but I'd suggest to have a Donation Coder/Cody/Baby Cody tattoo. Nudone did a lot of nice designs, so you'd be able to pick one you like best

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2012, 04:29 AM »

We (probably) all missed an event: Skwire's 3000th post! Congrats Skwire, and thanks again for all of 'm.

I investigated a bit and think it was this post that completed his 3000:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Visual Basic or Visual C++

« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2012, 04:19 AM »

Java, using the Eclipse or Netbeans IDE, could be a feasible alternative to any of the suggestions, but you can't (easily) create a single-exe application from that, also requires the installation of a runtime environment, and selection of a GUI library/technique where .NET comes with 2 built in (WinForms and WPF) (both support web).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Visual Basic or Visual C++

« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2012, 03:58 AM »

Would love to see that backed up with any real statistics...

-db90h (July 06, 2012, 02:19 PM)

Something like this ohloh graph ?

It shows that Java is quite dominant in what they measured, but MS/VS doesn't have a Java-language any longer (though C# is close in some areas). It also shows that C# is quite a bit more used than VB or C++.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wakoopa discontinuing service

« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2012, 02:15 AM »

OT, but for the record: Comma-separated_values^w

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General Software Discussion / Re: Visual Basic or Visual C++

« Last post by Ath on July 06, 2012, 01:53 PM »

None of those 2, choose Visual C#

You won't be able to create proper single-exe programs with VS without installing a runtime-part anyway, and most modern computers (should) have the .NET runtime installed anyway, so select the language that the majority of Visual Studio programmers is using: C#

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Living Room / Re: Noisy PSU advice

« Last post by Ath on July 03, 2012, 01:28 AM »

Sure it's the PSU fan? usually a system like that has a CPU-fan and a case-fan as well, so those could be the culprits too. You'll have to investigate by turning on the power while the case is open and you're watching/listening closely what's happening where.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2012, 03:34 PM »

Sounds like a possible job for mouser's Web Link Captor

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Script to send email, but ....

« Last post by Ath on June 26, 2012, 10:53 AM »

I am doing something bad.

My screen is too little.

-Contro (June 26, 2012, 10:46 AM)

Right , how about dragging the window a bit larger by grabbing it by it's lower-right corner, like any other sizable Windows-window can be resized?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: 14 days with SmugMug and Zenfolio

« Last post by Ath on June 26, 2012, 05:48 AM »

Great review Jibz, thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: DemoBlock - my new (now titled) video game

« Last post by Ath on June 25, 2012, 03:35 PM »

Looks nice

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: ReOpenDitto

« Last post by Ath on June 22, 2012, 04:11 PM »

Put the command 'start' in front of the goldmine command, and a space after it. It'll start as goldmine a separate 'thread' and the batchfile will exit.