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Living Room / Re: Advice on portable dedicated GPS devices?
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 17, 2010, 05:55 PM »
OK...answer me this:
What's to stop me from using an unlocked Android device and loading some really nice third-party software for GPS on it? 
Try reading that as you're driving. Free magnifying glass with every model?
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Living Room / Re: Advice on portable dedicated GPS devices?
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 17, 2010, 02:39 PM »
My first point of confusion is regarding the Garmin high end and low end products.  The low end stuff is under $200.  The high end stuff is over $400.  What does the $400 really provide that is so much better?  I can't tell what that is.
Almost nothing.

FWIW I've had a 5-inch Garmin nüvi 760 for some time and find it excellent


Were I to buy another today (I almost just did so) it would be the 1490W LMT, which is around $250CAD where I live.

L means lane assist
M means free map updates
T means free traffic info

I pefer a 5-inch unit to the smaller ones.
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Living Room / Re: New Toys :D
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 17, 2010, 08:10 AM »
Just had to tell someone -- it's always exciting starting up a new production server!
Well, good for you!  :Thmbsup:
I haven't the first idea about setting up any kind of server (outside of a restaurant) but I enjoy the kick from new toys.
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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 17, 2010, 08:07 AM »
You probably should buy one because it's a slick little gadget that doesn't seem to give any trouble, and has a really nice interface (sample of one).
As with just about everybody else, I don't like the idea of the Apple lock-in. In reality that's no problem for me as I don't buy stuff to load onto it.
FWIW, I use mine when I'm doing noisy stuff that needs ear protection — it's audio only.

What kind of iPod have you in mind? I see they range in price from about AU$70 to AU$330 at your Apple store.
Thought about eBay?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 16, 2010, 01:05 PM »
Hopefully, something. Probably nothing.
You must be prescient — that answers my next question, viz. 'What happens when I'm required to decide for myself?'
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 16, 2010, 12:57 PM »
Having problems minimizing, closing and freezing but I can't pin it down though it seems to happen after closing to tray via the red cross and then using 'Show' in the tray context menu to open again - after that I can't minimize nor close.
Just to make life difficult, that was happening to me in the previous version, but has now ended with .64  :o
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 16, 2010, 08:47 AM »
Well, it's a pretty useless feature outside of testing
Fair enough.

Please see #26 above
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 16, 2010, 07:55 AM »
For the quintessentially lazy, it'd be neat to have an option for XXX,YYY that positions the pop-up relative to the console window.  ;D

What should I see from a console in response to, say
Cautomaton /i:a /m "Win&Zip | Add to &Zip file..." readme.txt
versus
Cautomaton /i:w /m "Win&Zip | Add to &Zip file..." readme.txt
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 15, 2010, 07:02 PM »
.63 here I come  8)


Damn, looks as if I'll have to make do with .64  ;)
Also, what a relief to have minimizing working properly again (here, at least).

Icons are interesting. I don't think I want to apply a few hundred manually; my eyes can't take it.

Charmap's useful.
Bearing in mind my slow-witted nature, I popped it up and then couldn't remove it until it occurred to me to expand the window. Worth an additional context menu item as an alternative means to send it away?

WhereIzzit.png
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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 15, 2010, 02:23 PM »
While you can use secure deletion software that is often touted as "military secure", US security policies for data deletion require incinerating the drive.
So, if I turn off all of the fans in my machine…
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 15, 2010, 12:21 PM »
Sorry for the time lapse, I was lunching  :)

That screenshot is mighty interesting. What application is it that you compare Cautomaton's popup against? The custom theming makes me assume it isn't explorer. I'm pretty curious why some of those items (Run sandboxed, Kedit this) are in different spots.

Duh… never forget that you're dealing with a moron here! That menu was from Directory Opus. I was clinging to my favourite adage, 'act before you think.'


As for the rename option... it is an oddball. I can definitely get the option to go in, but Windows itself doesn't handle it. I'd need to handle the command within Cautomaton, and then the question becomes - how? Popup a dialog and let someone type something there? Return an exit code that tells the calling application rename was selected so they can handle it? A new flag to let one pick between those two choices?

There is a lot of paths the code can take, and it would be pretty easy to have an addition break some other usecase as a side-effect. So before I throw myself onto that particular problem, can you give a usecase where you would use said rename option?

Usecase? Heavens, no! Merely pointing out its absence. I don't use it ,but simply haven't bothered to remove it from my menus. Good idea to leave it out, if you ask me.

Here's Cautomaton/Explorer on my system
comp3.png

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 15, 2010, 10:54 AM »
Looking good  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
I now have a hat in the bottom left corner of my console.

I also have this
comp2.png
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Living Room / Re: The Secret Life of Machines
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 15, 2010, 10:21 AM »
Seeing the topic The Story of Stuff brought to mind a TV series I saw a couple of years ago:

(why make a dc link https?)
The topic title does say that it's a secret  ;)
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 09:13 PM »
Well done  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 08:36 PM »
Ok, so that officially makes it a Cautomaton bug. *scratches head*
Unless somehow you two have the same software installed that messes stuff up in Cautomatons specific case, but with 100% of the XP users having this problem I'll have to dive into finding an actual cause and solution. :)
I do have a bunch of custom sub-menus under that '… Stuff' menu

I just checked, I can call items from that sub menu using /m… using the results from /a… either by item name or #ID

If I hit the key accelerator ('h') for 'Open With' Cautomaton dies.
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Twigatelle
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 08:29 PM »
Feature request:

Can we have an option to play Twigatelle in the Auspex window, please?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 08:22 PM »
On XP SP3

Just a note; Cautomaton dies here if I hover over "Open With" from the popup - before even I can left-click on it.

From inside the Cautomaton folder I type this;
cautomaton /a readme.txt

Here's a comparison of right-click menus
Comp.png
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 07:33 PM »
That's very nifty!
Just tried it out using 4NT.
Works well, just have to stick automaton in my path and/or make a command-line alias for cautomaton  ;)
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 14, 2010, 07:22 PM »
Cautomaton sounds intriguing… I'm off to try it out  :Thmbsup:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: E Text Editor - a very mini review
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 11, 2010, 08:31 PM »
Interesting review, thanks. Nice and concise.
I liked the way you tied in those adjuncts.
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Living Room / Re: Too Stupid to Own a Computer
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 11, 2010, 08:26 PM »
just a little petrochemical humor
What a gas!
2172
General Software Discussion / Re: pin a document to start menu
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 11, 2010, 02:14 PM »
Ctrl-RightButtonDrag to start button, and then up to desired position, then release works in the XP start menu non-classic mode.
In classic mode you get the option to create a shortcut when the rmbutton is released.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: All known drawings of Cody, the DC mascot
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 11, 2010, 12:42 PM »
beak polish  ;D

... they're not all the same you know
Some are very expensive… use the wrong one and you'll get an inflated bill.
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General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 11, 2010, 06:51 AM »
Hmm... maybe I should just try to learn proper English?
What a fantamazing idea!  ;)
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by cranioscopical on November 10, 2010, 02:10 PM »
you know you could use an Auspex regex to fix that:

"Oh [G|g]o{1,2}d!" -> "Oooh goody goody the joy is with me!"  :P

 ;D ;D ;D

Hoist with my own petard!
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