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Living Room / Re: Amazon patents "anti-window shopping" tech
« Last post by wraith808 on July 17, 2017, 07:14 AM »
On a personal note: To be honest, if I'm in a brick-and-mortar store, I've already done my online homework, and I am there for the express purpose of buying something that I need that day, and I am fully aware that I am paying for the convenience.  On many occasions I have gladly paid Radio Shack (R.I.P.) 5 bucks for a 75 cent part because I needed it today.  No data plan needed.

When I'm in a brick and mortar store, it's usually to spend time out with my family.  My daughter loves to go to Barnes and Noble, and I just hang out and sometimes see something I want, so compare the prices.  Same with Best Buy.  I don't go in to buy, but to browse.
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Two posts where I showed my use of Fences if you're interested:

https://www.donation....msg386893#msg386893

https://www.donation....msg387094#msg387094

It wasn't so much a maturing past the use of it.  It's just that my workflow changed, as did my focus on computing.  I still think it's a great piece of software, and go back to it occasionally.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Organize files using virtual folders
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 08:27 PM »
Sorry, "apparently broken" per @jeromg's comment (2012-09-22, 10:41:22) re searches on native Windows Libraries not working.
I'm not sure whether they are/were actually "broken", or if it wasn't Search that was broken. If native Windows Libraries were OK, then the solution to the requirement for VFs would be within our reach - I presume. Or maybe it's just too hard to use them easily/flexibly as VFs?

For me, it's the latter.  They work for me; I set it up for my wife as she doesn't 'use' the file system very efficiently, and I was trying to set up her back up plan.  I put OneDrive on an external drive, and wanted her to save her pictures and artifacts from photo shoots there.  I also back up that folder to the NAS.  But she'd forget, not be able to find it, etc.  So I set up a library to include it, and have it set to be the default place where her documents are saved, but also included her local documents in the library.  It's been working swimmingly.  But she doesn't search, so I'm not sure about that.

For me, it's a pain to set all that up, so I don't use it, as much as I'd like to.  I use tag spaces instead.
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Living Room / Re: Amazon patents "anti-window shopping" tech
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 08:21 PM »
I think you're not getting the implications.  When in the physical store for Barnes & Noble, I sometimes check prices on Amazon.  Same in Best Buy, Costco, etc.  It's usually using the free wi-fi in the store.  This would prevent that while you're in the store and on their wi-fi.  I don't see what the use is other than to piss off customers that are currently on your store, however, as you could just turn off your wi-fi connection and use your cell phone's connection instead.  But there you go. 

Playing the long game to shoot yourself in the foot.
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Living Room / Re: Largest FREE Microsoft ebook giveaway EVAR!!
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 08:18 PM »
Somebody posted about that on here a few days ago.  I passed on it- mostly because I get all of this free stuff and never look at it  ;D

But it is a good deal if you're going to use it. :)
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I'm glad we could end on a better note  :Thmbsup:

I can see my own part in this... one of my pet peeves (I suppose from my Libertarian and/or Centrist leanings (not sure what the difference is)) is people categorically saying things about my (or indeed others') needs.  But that's not really what you meant- it's my own failing at not being able to let such things go.

As far as Fences goes, I think I have an image of my desktop at the time around- I might try to find it.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and I think it might do me well as my words fail.

Thanks for the conversation!
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It's a good idea, and maybe someone would jump on that, but unfortunately there's a place for 'snacks' which are smaller mostly single purpose programs, but nothing for larger prototypes and such.  You have to have an investment in doing so and committing to it- at least from my developer perspective, and knowledge of the subject at hand.  Hopefully someone sees this and is willing to look into it for you.
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[ Invalid Attachment ]I have found a trial I used some time ago . The web don't exists already.

AgileEra Personal Motivation Calendar.
Sometimes I had used under virtual machine. I have many virtual machines with virtualbox !!!!!
AgileEra

That looks interesting!  But do you have a link to it?  Doing a search didn't really turn anything up.  Seems like it may be abandonware from everything that did come up, but wanted to check.
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Great resource there Shades.  Thanks for that.  But I don't think it was self-hosted vs SaaS that was the focus of Contro's query, but more what good software application fulfilled the Eisenhower method.  It just happened to come up with my recommendation.
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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive SMART Stats - from the BackBlaze Blog
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 01:28 PM »
With the price of hard drives my opinion these days is that the first sign of the smallest amount of trouble from a drive means the data gets migrated off it and it gets put into retirement.

I'm getting to that point.  It vies with the fact that I really don't like to work on computers anymore, however.  Just disconnecting everything, removing the box from the mount, opening it up and making the change fills me with dread now.
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I'm sorry if you took it that my expressing my anecdotal experiences and opinions were in any way denigrating your own- I was just giving a contrary view, not trying to discount or discard your own.  I've found that I have taken a look at things in a different light when given opinions that run counter to my own, which is what I really enjoy about the conversations here.  People can have alternate views of things without taking them personally, and we can talk and disagree and still have conversations.  Apparently I failed in that with you, which I sincerely apologize for my part.

Your post above is definitely a lot easier to parse- I thank you for taking that into account, even though I know that you didn't have to do so.  The tone is a lot better also to me, and I thank you for that consideration.

I do disagree with the "I don't need them" not being a serious and respectable reply.  It speaks to your experience with it and reduces bloat in the software.  When I said I didn't need the visual indicators, I wasn't denigrating your apparent need for it.  I was saying that I've never looked into that particular thing.  I've seen how sharemouse does it.  And I don't like it.  I also don't use it in multiplicity.  It's a feature that I don't personally need, and so have no real opinion on.  It's gaudy in both cases in my opinion, it gets in the way for my particular workflow.  None of these work in some security instances, so I have a mouse connected to my separate computers, and indeed keyboards.  For example, on my laptop, it's encrypted.  I can't use a separate keyboard.  Also when accessing the security software that my company put on there, remote commands don't work.  So having the screen dimmed out at all is an inconvenience to me.  Therefore I don't need them and need to have a way not to have them is just as big of a feature need as your need to have them.  Which is the reason that having options in the software, and options in different software is a consideration in my estimation, and should not be discounted, in my humble opinion.

As far as Fences, what I liked about it was the fact that I was able to make zones where things when installed under certain conditions go.  I still use that functionality.  I also liked the fact that I could arrange my desktop into zones, and able to right click, draw a zone, and have that persist.  And able to integrate my desktop into the positioning of it, and integrate that into customization of my windows shell and view, which was the reason that I started using Stardock software in the first place.  There is a whole community around customization from a personal level and changing the look and feel of windows. That appealed to me at one time.  NextStart, Rainlendar, and other software appealed to me during that time also.  But over time, the effort involved in doing so, especially when the OS changed, and my own sensibilities changed.  That's when I moved away from those particular types of software.  At this point, I don't care about the look and feel as much, so go with something minimal- like my recent efforts to make use of the more powerful features of FARR and TLB. That particular pendulum may go back the other way at some point.  But it has no bearing on the functionality of said programs.  It seems to me that your particular issues with it, and your particular disposal of such as 'useful' software is also based on conflating your personal opinions on the software with the functionality, and declaring it useless for everyone, other than, but that's no reason for saying it's useful except for people unable to really sort their things.  I don't like it is always valid.  No one should like it is not.  And we're sharing personal experiences to broaden horizons, IMO.

And as a final note, I'm not trying to denigrate your posts.  I'm trying to understand them. And the use of the English language is very important in that understanding.  So when I state something about that use, it's to facilitate understanding of something that makes no sense to me.  It's in no way a personal attack on you or your opinions, nor personal in any manner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 10:49 AM »
Well said, Deo, and I'm another anecdotal testimony to the fact that it works well on such hardware.  I built mine in 2014 or so, and my daughters in 2010, and they work fine.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Organize files using virtual folders
« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2017, 10:47 AM »
I just thought I'd resurrect this thread by asking the denizens of the DC forum if they knew whether the apparently "broken" native Windows Libraries feature has been fixed and now works "properly" in Windows 10 - or at least "well enough" so that the concept of VFs (Virtual Folders) could perhaps be fully implemented in practice, using either (say):
(a) Drag-and-drop, or
(b) (ideally) nested VF categories and files being "smart-filtered" - e.g., auto-assigned to relevant VF categories depending on the text strings in their filenames.

When you say 'broken' what do you mean?  What didn't work?
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"took exception" - past tense? My question arose from the fact that you seemed to be personally-implied somewhat in one specific one of the tools I compared, relating my experiences with every one of them - such a real-life comparison cannot be found elsewhere up to this point; I had thought to be - and that others would have got - well informed by https://www.slant.co...virtual-kvm-software but as my post above shows, this was and is not so, so there has clearly been a need for such a personal (almost-) overall-review, and there's always the need for complementing it with new finds, and also for correcting any possible errors in it (see below).

Personally implied?  I don't get that.  Which was again, the reason that I thought that misunderstanding comes from a difference in use of the language.  I was trying to be understanding of differences.

No need to discuss textual misunderstandings, no need to run for shelter behind an alleged inscrutability of my texts when my sentence in question had been clear as day and had found a prominent place in your citation; I've got moments of inattentions all the time, so I'm happy to stand corrected a moment later, no need to feel get worked up over it, it's not a 1 instead of 0 in some moonraker. Ditto for your "load" vs my "didn't get woken up anymore", you were clearly referring to that problem of mine with your pet program; I never alleged your deflection - and deflection it was - had been intentional.

Which from the above, doesn't seem to have been taken well.

I was just laying out my personal experiences and objections.  I did bring my arguments, but you choose not to hear them nor take them for the fact that someone else can have a differing opinions or experiences.  Especially as currently, I'm using Multiplicity on differing OSes.  It's not my 'pet' program, nor do I have any particular investment in the company.  I've used all of the above in my quest for the same, and thought that I could provide an anecdotal experience of the one that I stuck with and have experience with.  My experience is purely as a consumer, and through that on their forums as that's what I stuck with.  Which also dovetails into your jab at my reading of Fences.  I tried to read it.  But the general format of that paragraph made it much more work than I cared to put into understanding to formulate a reply.  So I let you know that I might have missed something because of that- because I thought it was polite.  Apparently not.

As others have said, if you want someone to read your posts, you might try to formulate your posts in a more readable fashion.  They just aren't.  Or not.  But if you don't want to change or even try, don't attack others when they don't want to spend the mental energy to try to parse it.

To put it into perspective again, I continue to try to find the best approach for what I'm doing.  And sometimes, an approach is just as good as another. Or sometimes, though your approach is perfectly workable, someone comes out with a different implementation that you wish to try or you find that you like better, even though there is nothing wrong with the other software.  I really did like the implementation that I had, and it worked well for my Surface (which I still use it on, but it's not my primary computer).  In fact, it works better on my Surface for touch manipulation than TLB does.  They're all just tools, and you use whichever is best for your workflow.

At this point, let's just agree to disagree.  I don't like to 'discuss' when it becomes personal, which your coda above seems to imply this is descending into- not the only part, but that's where it's getting more pointed.
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dont really know, but doing a quick search, i came across this link that might be helpful

https://www.quora.co...me-management-system

specifically this software : http://weekplan.net
I don't like just because are online tools. You need an active internet connection.
proofhub is a SAAS, and accountsight.

http://weekplan.net/apps/

Though you are correct- you do need an online connection.
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I apologize.  I didn't read your entire response above (that paragraph that started with Re Fences), as it seemed like a rant against what I wrote, and the meat of it was one long paragraph that would have take more energy to parse than I was willing to put into this. 

But as I said, I use Fences to organize things that are installed automatically, and to categorize a few pieces of software that are tools, and used it as a launcher before I started using True Launch Bar, using c.gingerich's launcher in a fence that related to different categories.  That's my use case, and I find it useful.  If you don't, then that's cool too.  Apparently Fences doesn't work for you as an interface.  That's your preference.  But to say something is useless just because you don't see the utility struck me as wrongheaded, and denigrating others experience with the software seems a bit self-centered.

I did parse your sentence wrong above, and for that I apologize too- I find that when many words are thrown at something, it becomes easy to wrongly parse such statements.  I however didn't parse your sentence about the problems with your primary computer, but apparently you misunderstood what I meant by load.  All I was saying was that this wasn't a general issue, and that I'd looked extensively into it when I was troubleshooting, and it wasn't interfering with the main computer.  I apologize that my word choice caused you such consternation.

If the way that sharemouse does their UI is good for you, then good for you.  I just stated that I didn't see the particular need, which I'm allowed I think.

Stardocks is, above all, a game developer - you developing games, for Stardocks, too?

That's what I took exception to.  They are not above all a game developer.  Their start was with Object Desktop many years ago. This included Wincustomize (the site), WindowBlinds, WindowFX, IconPackager, and many more (even a shell, which I enjoyed using, but it took too much effort to use the full power, which is the reason that I think they dropped it.  The game portion came next, with the Drengin Network Games Subscription. They have re-branded themselves a few times (rolling Drengin back into Stardock, having their own Game/Software platform before selling it to Gamestop, spinning off ThinkDesk for productivity, rolling it back into Stardock, then spinning it off into Edgerunner, and rolling it back into Stardock).  I'm not sure how to parse that last bit- it was a question, but though it may be my failing, I couldn't parse it.  If you could rephrase it or unpack it, I can answer it if it was a question.

Otherwise, I hope you find what you're looking for in a KM/KVM solution.
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dont really know, but doing a quick search, i came across this link that might be helpful

https://www.quora.co...me-management-system

specifically this software : http://weekplan.net
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Developer's Corner / Re: Set a VBS file encoding
« Last post by wraith808 on July 15, 2017, 03:52 PM »
.Charset only works with type of adTypeText.  That could be the problem if you're trying to reverse it, as the open type is adTypeBinary.  You will probably have to play around a bit for your particular use case. 

The reference for ADODB.Stream can be found at https://www.w3school...p/ado_ref_stream.asp
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Developer's Corner / Re: Set a VBS file encoding
« Last post by wraith808 on July 15, 2017, 03:04 PM »
So you changed

.Charset = "utf-8"

to what?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Set a VBS file encoding
« Last post by wraith808 on July 15, 2017, 11:37 AM »
Code: Visual Basic [Select]
  1. Option Explicit
  2.  
  3. Private Const adReadAll = -1
  4. Private Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
  5. Private Const adTypeBinary = 1
  6. Private Const adTypeText = 2
  7. Private Const adWriteChar = 0
  8.  
  9. Private Sub UTF8toANSI(ByVal UTF8FName, ByVal ANSIFName)
  10.     Dim strText
  11.  
  12.     With CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
  13.         .Open
  14.         .Type = adTypeBinary
  15.         .LoadFromFile UTF8FName
  16.         .Type = adTypeText
  17.         .Charset = "utf-8"
  18.         strText = .ReadText(adReadAll)
  19.         .Position = 0
  20.         .SetEOS
  21.         .Charset = "_autodetect" 'Use current ANSI codepage.
  22.        .WriteText strText, adWriteChar
  23.         .SaveToFile ANSIFName, adSaveCreateOverWrite
  24.         .Close
  25.     End With
  26. End Sub
  27.  
  28. UTF8toANSI "UTF8-wBOM.txt", "ANSI1.txt"
  29. UTF8toANSI "UTF8-noBOM.txt", "ANSI2.txt"
  30. MsgBox "Complete!", vbOKOnly, WScript.ScriptName

From https://stackoverflo...ile-encoding-to-ansi
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Difference in the parsing (using RegexBuddy - I have to work with RegEx too much not to have a powerful parser.  Highly recommend it if you work with Regex)

Notice where the root is parsed. The expression is rooted, not the literal.  Not sure what Regex engine mouser is using, but you're correct- it shouldn't be working, because the inner portion should never satisfy that it's at the beginning of the string.  And it doesn't test right in RegexBuddy.
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Ah... that makes sense.  Thanks for the clarification!
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Jotun: Valhalla Edition free on Steam & GOG
« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2017, 03:48 PM »
Thanks!  I'd been looking at that for a while.
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So, it seems to me that Slack is like a modernized IRC and Twist is like modernized email with proper group support (solving the problem of reply-to-all and forwarding, etc.). Interesting.

What do you mean by proper group support?  If you've not used it recently, I can show where these features are for comparison.
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On the other hand, I don't see anything new there.  It's just the same kind of app from what I see.  Especially as Slack does have threading, and I like the fact that you can put the thread on the feed, or not, depending on what you want to do, and you can control your notifications on a more granular level, but people just usually don't configure.
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