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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on March 01, 2017, 03:17 PM »

(b) On the basis that people are entitled to whatever opinions they want to hold and I do not usually find any constructive purpose is met in debating or commenting on opinions (except for amusement/humour), I would generally avoid doing that and thus would not have responded.

-IainB (March 01, 2017, 11:10 AM)

and yet...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Target on February 28, 2017, 03:16 PM »

What if the Earth were a middle-aged adult and other comparisons...

interesting way to put some numbers into perspective

http://kottke.org/17...nd-other-comparisons

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on February 27, 2017, 08:28 PM »

<sigh>

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to find out what's mysteriously eating HD space (file sync)

« Last post by Target on January 23, 2017, 11:23 PM »

if its only a mirror, then why not just wipe it and re-synch?

if it re-occurs then you know you've got a problem

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General Software Discussion / Re: Download manager

« Last post by Target on January 19, 2017, 06:41 PM »

visualwget is a standalone (gui for WGET), or downthemall is a great FF addin

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Coding Snacks / Re: Drop file to rename it according to list of names

« Last post by Target on January 05, 2017, 06:57 PM »

this might be of interest...

http://www.ilovefree...ame-using-excel.html

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Living Room / Re: Antilock-breaking (ABS) vs Stabilty Control (ESP) vs Traction Control Video

« Last post by Target on December 19, 2016, 07:58 PM »

easy...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by Target on December 15, 2016, 04:53 PM »

ran across this today and it harks back to the OP.  It might not do everything you were asking for but it's worth a bookmark

http://www.allwinede.../standing-work-bench

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Living Room / Re: Thank you Donationcoder!

« Last post by Target on December 13, 2016, 03:41 PM »

Wife fixed me up :-D

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-Josh (December 12, 2016, 09:15 PM)

I liked the other mug better 

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2017 Announcement

« Last post by Target on December 07, 2016, 06:21 PM »

As an update, I have three full apps ready to go with a fourth in-development.

-skwire (December 07, 2016, 06:12 PM)

showoff 

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Living Room / Re: grab urls

« Last post by Target on November 29, 2016, 08:26 PM »

[Select]

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 4x and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want! Be in full control over your downloads, dedicated speed and number of parallel connections at any time. Use Metalinks or add mirrors manually to download a file from different servers at the same time.

DownThemAll is open-source and freeware. No Adware, no Spyware, no hidden costs!

feature list...

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Living Room / Re: This time of year I'm reminded how thankful I am for you folks

« Last post by Target on November 29, 2016, 07:46 PM »

Thank you, mouser, for having created DonationCoder and for helping to shape it into the wonderful community it has become over the years.

-Deozaan (November 29, 2016, 01:55 PM)

+ + + + +

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Living Room / Re: grab urls

« Last post by Target on November 29, 2016, 07:45 PM »

probably doesnt handle the login, but downthemall?

-Target (November 29, 2016, 07:01 PM)

Can I load a text file with the urls to that and it will use the cookie to authenticate and download?

-kalos (November 29, 2016, 07:34 PM)

have you looked at the tool at all?  did you actually read what I wrote?

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Living Room / Re: grab urls

« Last post by Target on November 29, 2016, 07:01 PM »

probably doesnt handle the login, but downthemall?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Auto Re-size Tables (MS Word)

« Last post by Target on November 17, 2016, 05:00 PM »

ok, some further questions then

when you say bigger, what do you actually mean?  In your OP you stated A5, so the page is sized accordingly and the table pushed out about as far as it can go (there are limits on margins that imposed by individual printers)

do you want the table at A5 size, or is there some other measure here?

also, it might be useful to know what version of word you're using.

There are several ways to approach the running a macro, simplest way is probably to press ALT-F11 to open the editor.  Put your cursor anywhere in the text and press F5.  Of course you probably wont see anything cos the tables already been processed, but we need to answer the layout questions before we worry too much about this part

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Auto Re-size Tables (MS Word)

« Last post by Target on November 16, 2016, 07:07 PM »

you know how to use macro's in word?

Can you confirm if the attached is what you're after?

if so, there's a macro in the file to make the requisite changes, albeit one file at a time.  Have a game and if it does what you want, it can be tweaked to loop thru a directory

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Auto Re-size Tables (MS Word)

« Last post by Target on November 16, 2016, 05:16 PM »

how many do you have, and can we assume you want to print them as hard copies?  Probably lots of ways to skin this cat, but if you supply a sample in word format people can have a game and work something out?

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Living Room / Re: Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again

« Last post by Target on November 10, 2016, 12:00 AM »

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DC Gamer Club / ubisoft giveaway

« Last post by Target on November 09, 2016, 08:52 PM »

haven't seen this posted, but worth a mention

Ubisoft are giving games away as part of an anniversary celebration - 1 game per month available to users with an acct (access it via their game manager)

This month its Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon, but previous titles included Rayman and The Crew - wild run

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General Software Discussion / Re: dvd players + video formats

« Last post by Target on November 03, 2016, 11:53 PM »

so it seems we have a winner - XVID seems to do the trick

I've yet to watch it, but can confirm that I can play the resulting file.  Curiously it seems to have generated some sort of 'extra' info at the beginning of the file, ie it plays, but there's nothing on the screen.  Jump to the next chapter and the vid proper starts. 

could be something in the source file (a H264 encoded version I prepared earlier, and which I couldn't play on the DVD, but neither version exhibits said artifact when played on the PC...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG's Monstrous Fall Sale, and free Little Big Adventure 2 game

« Last post by Target on November 03, 2016, 06:53 PM »

(Also was a tester on i-76/82, dark reign 1/2, civ call to power, heavy gear 1/2, mechwarrior 2/mercenaries, quake, tenchu, and battlezone)

-wraith808 (November 03, 2016, 04:36 PM)

clearly you got all the crap jobs...

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General Software Discussion / Re: dvd players + video formats

« Last post by Target on November 02, 2016, 07:13 PM »

ok, safe to say we're not in UHD territory . 

Device is a cheapo Audiosonic (Mod # CDV-992AQ) which isn't referenced on the site Miles linked to.  Googling the model number only shows 2 pages (almost a googlewhack these days). 

Generic searching for Audiosonic and formats indicates DIVX so I'm gonna go with that and see what happens (what could possibly go wrong?)

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General Software Discussion / dvd players + video formats

« Last post by Target on November 02, 2016, 12:51 AM »

any video authoring buff's here?

I'm trying to convert some vid's to a format I can play from a USB key on my DVD player. 

As usual, the destructions are less than useful here (compatible formats are avi,mp4,mp3,wma,etc,etc,etc)

I realise they're talking about the 'container' format here, and so far I've tried a number of things (H264 as MP4, MP4 as MP4, MP2 as MP4, MP2 as AVI, H264 as AVI, MP4 as AVI) but can't find a format that will play...it can see the damn files, but it won't play them.

There's probably a basic standard in play here, but I'm damned if I can work out what it is...

any idea's

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on October 23, 2016, 07:51 PM »

tech support?

http://imgur.com/a/5MIK9

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

« Last post by Target on September 28, 2016, 08:48 PM »

First rule of point club is: you don't talk about point club.

-mouser (September 28, 2016, 07:33 PM)

then whats the point?