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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 05:27 AM »

no change here -- still only shows on primary monitor.

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 04:33 AM »

I think these are good points.. making people go through hoops before they know they want to keep the program is not a good idea.. and perhaps DC needs to re-evaluate asking people to sign up so soon after they start using a program.. it's so hard to get the balance of these things right.

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 04:23 AM »

Thanks for your comments Marcel and welcome to the site, hope to read more from you 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 04:18 AM »

great stuff ewe, very clear and great functionality!!
the only thing that would be nice is maybe to think of something shorter than "openwith" as the prefix needed for that function.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Final Release: CZB package

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 03:25 AM »

bottom line: if you dont use Find and Run Robot program, and you dont know about czb's amazing plugins, then this isn't for you.  if you do, it's wonderful

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Developer's Corner / Re: CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Revealed

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 02:46 AM »

Jeff Atwood adds his comments to the list here:
http://www.codinghor...archives/001210.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Extremely slow searches when adding whole drives to the search folders

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2009, 02:38 AM »

Sometime in the near future, indexing will be added as an OPTION to farr.. some people want it, some dont.
Right now FARR is not the right tool to do full disk search, unless as phitsc points out, you use locate32 and the locate32 plugin.

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Living Room / Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 03:35 PM »

Now this is not good news..  remember to back up everything people..

SEAGATE'S FLAGSHIP desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers.

A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.
...
According to data recovery experts Seagate has diagnosed the problem and issued a new firmware to address it. However, drives that have already been affected can't have the firmware applied to them due to their locked-down status.

http://www.theinquir...udas-7200-11-failing

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Songsmith

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 10:52 AM »

Deo, thanks for pointing that out -- i thought it was free.

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DcUpdater / Re: idea: Install program via downloading single .dcupdate

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 10:30 AM »

unless as justice said, its a zip type.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 09:21 AM »

I think if you uncheck this it will revert to old behavior where things are scored purely by their recency of being launched, rather than a combo of recency and frequency.  Either way you are still better of increasing from 9 to 30 or even 50 or 100.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:59 AM »

yes, you could uncheck it in the heuristic scoring tab.. but first why dont you try changing history from 9 to 30 and see if that solves your problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:54 AM »

well it incorporates a scoring feature to insure that very frequently launched items dont get pushed off the list to easily.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:44 AM »

yes.
setting it higher wont affect being able to launch with numpad.

probably whats happening is that the newish feature that increases scores for history items that have been launched repeatedly is meaning that some newly launched programs dont make it onto the list.  try setting is to 30 or so.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:34 AM »

that means i'm an idiot and forgot to attach my screenshot and didn't even notice when it told me so. see now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:15 AM »

make sure you have settings similar to these:

If yours are different -- how?  the history scores option, if not checked, could cause the behavior you are talking about.

One thing you could do is go to the "Launch History" tab and clearing the contents..

--

ps. make a copy of your settings ini file so you can always restore it if you do something bad to it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR freezing for a few seconds

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:04 AM »

30-60 seconds

!!!! something is very wrong.. maybe trying to scan a network share?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not saving history anymore..

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 08:03 AM »

did you ever get this reolved?
you might try:
1) uninstalling all plugins -- problem still persists?
2) exit farr, rename settings ini file so that a new one is created -- problem still persists?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: blank pages

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 07:22 AM »

well this is a great clue.. and probably means an easy fix.. ill see what i can do.

Boy, you really have to DRAG the info out of us "users", don't you?

not at all -- i really appreciate the patience you have shown and the willingness to test things.. i firmly believe that for every person who posts about a bug, there are probably 10 or 20 more users who experienced the same bug and just uninstalled the program out of disgust.  so i am grateful for your willingness to help me diagnose the problem! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: blank pages

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:56 AM »

and then the second capture from then on is always good? does it save the blank image to file?

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DcUpdater / Re: idea: Install program via downloading single .dcupdate

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:55 AM »

very good ideas justice.

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DcUpdater / Re: Option to install all checked items

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:55 AM »

this was done on purpose really to make you think about what you are doing before you install 1000 things 

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DcUpdater / Re: suggestion: web path changes

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:54 AM »

mirrors is a good idea.. and perhaps some kind of central repository where mirrors can be posted after the fact.. ie a central dcupdater home where if someones server goes offline, an admin could post a trusted mirror for the server that went down.

or put another way, if we assumed that EVERY update file has a mirror on the dcupdater server if the main authors server goes down.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:49 AM »

good idea.. shouldnt be too hard.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Autoscroll capture still needs work

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2009, 06:48 AM »

thanks for the report and sorry for the late reply..  can you see if its just happening in gmail or all websites.. if its just gmail then it may simply be some dynamic stuff that is confusing screenshot captor.