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

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2016, 03:59 PM »

David Bowie

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Pasting enlarges image. Is there a fix?

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2016, 03:16 PM »

I'll update, but this issue has persisted for me for several versions/years (different hardware too), I just put up with it. Not blurry images, they are just enlarged slightly when pasted into another app.

-starkiller (January 11, 2016, 02:16 PM)

ah, I thought you meant pasting within SC (reading too quick again). But, update anyways (there's not much point in making a bug report with an older version...)

What you're talking about is going to be dependent on what you're pasting into. I believe this was discussed a while back...
cant find the thread I was thinking of but this might help:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8892.0
=>
they having opposite problem (smaller images), but the solution could be the same (changing dpi in SC)

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Living Room / Re: Looking at an android tablet

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2016, 02:54 PM »

1. Has anyone heard anything about the Chuwi?

http://www.amazon.co...p/product/B019RDTS58

Everything I've seen has been complimentary.. which makes me suspicious.

-wraith808 (January 11, 2016, 01:38 PM)

Where did you hear about it? I've never heard of Chuwi and I see no customer reviews at that link.

But while we're talking about questionable tablets, you can find a few tablets that run both Windows 10 and Android on Everbuying.net. Here's an example:

$79 - Onda V820W Windows 10 + Android 4.4 Tablet PC Intel Z3735F Quad Core 1.3GHz 8 inch WXGA IPS Screen 2GB RAM 32GB ROM Bluetooth 4.0

-Deozaan (January 11, 2016, 02:39 PM)

Chuwi appears to be just the seller name -- tablet is Onda, as in deo's link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: YNAB moving to a subscription model

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2016, 01:20 PM »

YNAB 5 Is Not For Me

-dr_andus (January 05, 2016, 02:40 PM)

his favourite alternative there was Moneydance, even says he's moving over to it.
Their website was very generic (uninformative), so I tried asking about security:

I was unable to find any info about privacy and/or the EULA - I'd like to know a bit about all that before trialing.
Especially relevant for online sync: how securely is that done?
(Considering the potential sensitivity of the data, I think this aspect should be given space in the website proper.)

-Question

Unlike Quicken or Mint, Moneydance does not store any of your financial data on our servers. If you are not using the mobile sync feature all of your financial data is stored locally on your computer. If you are using the mobile sync feature the data is synchronized using Dropbox. In order to use this you need to set up an account with Dropbox. You are then agreeing to the Privacy / EULA of Dropbox.

While Dropbox encrypts your data in transit and at rest they happen to hold the keys to decrypt it. For this reason Moneydance encrypts any data that writes to your dropbox account for mobile syncing. This encryption is end-to-end symmetric AES256. Only your mobile device and your local Moneydance installation have the keys.

Ben Spencer
Infinite Kind Support

-Answer

http://help.infinite...s/22220-privacy-eula
(thread was locked after I thanked for answer)

That's as far as I got -- I intended to trial it, but havent yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2016, 01:04 PM »

512GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Metal Swivel High Speed Memory Stick Thumb Pen Gifts
$13.66 & free shipping
[..]
I'm thinking of buying, and seeking opinions. The laptop I was given is about 10 years old, and only has USB 2.0 anyway, so it would be pointless to pay more for USB 3.0 or greater. I do wish to be warned if the offers may be bogus somehow, because a few years back there were bogus thumb drives being offered on ebay, but times change and the technology seems legit in this case.

-holt (January 10, 2016, 02:42 PM)

it's hard to believe they're real at that price, but I dont know :-/
The negative reviews the seller gets are all related to SD cards that dont have the advertised space:
http://feedback.ebay...rkparms=negative_180
which would make me wary.

I suspect many people buy, see 512GB listed as size on PC and give positive feedback -- but AFAIK that can be 'fixed', and it's only when they run out of space @ 32GB or whatever, that they realise they've been conned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2016, 06:15 AM »

The waiting frustrated me too much , I'd advice to use the MCT, get it from here

-Ath (January 08, 2016, 09:11 AM)

I went for this today:
I got the same update-dialogue again -- then got a UAC prompt, then it all disappeared again.

Clicking on the 10 icon in the tray, I see the update-dialogue with no indication that anything is being downloaded. GWX using almost no resources.

I tried killing GWX and repeating the process, no change (cant see anything relevant in the task manager -- GWX remains gone).

Will try a reboot and see if anything 'evolves' ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: license key

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2016, 05:48 AM »

What software is available of this nature offered through donation coder. Thku for ur input

-jaklogan (January 09, 2016, 08:21 PM)

I dont think there's anything quite like that here (not sure what Stephen had in mind [howdy Stephen!]).

If you tell us what exactly you want to do -- and why you want to do it -- there are some experts here who would surely be able to advise.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2016, 05:43 AM »

The last time I bought a flash or 'thumb' drive, I remember paying one dollar per gig. I just found out I can get a 512gb for $14 with free shipping on ebay.

-holt (January 10, 2016, 12:07 AM)

how about a link to same?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2016, 07:02 AM »

It may be trickling in using BITS, so look for a hidden folder named $Windows.~BT on the root of the C: drive. In there you should have a - (getting) rather large -  install.esd file in the (IIRC) sources folder.

-Stoic Joker (January 08, 2016, 06:33 AM)

I unhid system files -- there's no folder by that name.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2016, 06:18 AM »

^ Okay, decided to go for it. The Windows upgrade window/dialogue said the machine is okay.

I clicked on Start download now, upgrade later
I got a flash of this window (or something very similar) - but it immediately disappeared:



I not sure what happened.

• Task Manager shows GWX running, using no CPU, and less than one MB ram
• I'm pretty sure there's nothing being downloaded
• Internet connection is working fine

So, I tried it again (I get the initial dialogue again), and got exactly the same result.

Any tips?
(I didnt get very far with online search)

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2016, 05:57 PM »

via the 'interesting' thread:

One of the first movies that got me into Sci-Fi in a big way wasn't Star Wars - but the Last Starfighter.

-wraith808 (January 07, 2016, 03:22 PM)

thanks for that tip wraith

The Last Starfighter (1984) (imdb)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Beating Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with assembly code

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2016, 03:21 PM »

I don't know about any of this personally mind you. I've just "been told." 

-40hz (January 07, 2016, 03:17 PM)

says 40hz ... the musician :-)


EDIT// forgot to say:
a very impressive video -- even to a non-gamer and non-coder

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2016, 01:48 PM »

Photography Without
   a Lens? Future of
Images May Lie in Data

nytimes article on various advances in photography:
cameras using glass sphere lenses; cameras with multiple sensors; cameras that generate electricity; and finally, cameras without any lens.



"[A] gigapixel camera phototype uses five sensors to capture light from a glass sphere. Because researchers know the exact way light diffracts through the glass, they can reconstruct an image from the five sensors using an algorithm.Credit Columbia Vision Laboratory/Columbia University"

via imaging-resource

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2016, 04:43 AM »

Any tips for upgrading to Windows 10 now?
=> upgrading from 8.1, I'm going try keeping programmes unless advised otherwise.

-tomos (January 06, 2016, 02:19 PM)

Yes: Check with the manufacturer of the computer if an upgrade to Windows 10 is supported.
In hindsight I found out why my upgrade adventures failed for my Lenovo Y580 laptop: Lenovo states that it is not possible to upgrade that specific model (and a few others) to Windows 10.

-Ath (January 07, 2016, 02:56 AM)

thanks Ath,
that knocks the idea on the head -- it's a Lenovo (n581) that is included in that list as not recommended. It doesnt clearly state why (that I could see), so I probably wont bother following up on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2016, 06:27 PM »

^ thanks guys

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2016, 02:19 PM »

Any tips for upgrading to Windows 10 now?
=> upgrading from 8.1, I'm going try keeping programmes unless advised otherwise.
I've installed all security updates for 8.1 (other updates *not* installed)

TIA 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias: download youtube video as mp3 audio file with youtube-dl and ffmpeg

« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2016, 05:56 AM »

^ it's been a while

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias: download youtube video as mp3 audio file with youtube-dl and ffmpeg

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2016, 02:51 PM »

Looking forward to trying this.

I also made a short video tutorial on how to do these setup steps, view it here
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

-Nod5 (January 05, 2016, 07:35 AM)

did I just get rickrolled 

the only reason I ask is: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Sorry about that.
Edit// but I guess if it looks like a duck, it probably walks sings like one too ;-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Pasting enlarges image. Is there a fix?

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2016, 02:42 PM »

Yup, there was a fix for blurry pasted images a while back, so I suspect the update will fix

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General Software Discussion / Re: [?] False Positive: 'donationcoders.com'

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2016, 04:08 PM »

I think maybe those links 'donationcoders' no longer work? (I tried the skrommel link in Firefox and got a 403 Forbidden.)

But still doesnt look good if they blocked for no reason...

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General Software Discussion / [?] False Positive: 'donationcoders.com'

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2016, 04:04 PM »

Following the link in this post (I had to add the link manually - please compare with source)

MouseMark - Press Ctrl+M to locate the mouse.

-skrommel (March 19, 2006, 08:58 PM)

Using:

• uBlock Origin version 1.5.1
• PaleMoon 25.8.1 (x64)

I get the following warning:

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

https://www.donation...om/Software/Skrommel

Because of the following filter

||donationcoders.com^
Found in: Malware domains

[Close this window]

Disable strict blocking for [www.dcmembers.com]

I'm not sure what's going on here, and unfortunately have no time to follow up on this (tomorrow neither).
Hopefully someone can follow up on it if necessary!

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General Software Discussion / Re: YNAB moving to a subscription model

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2016, 03:48 PM »

Oh, wait... Does this mean I can no longer buy a licence key for this one? It looks like I missed the YNAB 4 boat then 

Edit: or is this one still a legit way of buying it?
Purchase Budget Software that Will Change Your Life

-dr_andus (January 02, 2016, 08:41 AM)

^ any opinions on purchasing there?
Any opinions on where this any good for someone self-employed, or is it more aimed at those with a regular income?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Magazine creator

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2016, 03:18 PM »

Agreed: ouch!!

(Still not sure are you looking for some method of modifying other peoples work, or some way for them to get a better end result.)

I have no training in this field but can say: the minimum that needs to be changed is --

• obviously the background colours used :-/
• make space between columns a little wider
• text needs to be 'justified'
• more paragraphs in text with slightly wider spacing between lines after paragraph

In my opinion, it would be very passable (for what it is) if those changes were made.

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2016, 05:14 AM »

wow, much dancing

Happy new year all

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

« Last post by tomos on December 31, 2015, 07:31 PM »

Heh heh heh.  Too nice a day here in Miami to be getting annoyed at anything. 

-MilesAhead (December 31, 2015, 06:56 PM)

sounds good
happy new year to you and everyone here at dc