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Find And Run Robot / Re: Display extended results list

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 01:11 PM »

type +sall on your search to show all results.
i can't remember what the extended list count is used for, i think it (used to be) for directory listing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Home design software

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 08:24 AM »

Here is interior design: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7891.0

looking forward to what people say about external design software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which free burning software can you recommend?

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 05:06 AM »

see: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8452.0
CDBurnerXP and ImgBurn seem post popular and very capable.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] I hate scroll bars

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 05:05 AM »

yeah jgp that's the real bug.
maybe ill take another shot at fixing that. (or at least do as i say and make a manual overide window height adjustment option).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] I hate scroll bars

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 03:39 AM »

ah i should have thought about that too. still seems like something that farr should prevent from happening so maybe ill try to fix.
thanks for reporting the fix though 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] I hate scroll bars

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 03:17 AM »

i'll try to fix it, i know the basic cause but not specifically why it kicks in.
the easiest thing may be for me to put a special override setting in the font customization dialog that would take care of this problem.

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Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 03:08 AM »

Great comments Carol 
We are setting up a kind of alias system for dcmembers on the new server and you've pointed out some stuff i hadn't thought of.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] I hate scroll bars

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 03:08 AM »

do you have custom font settings configured?
this problem can occur when FARR miscalculates the needed height for the window.

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General Software Discussion / Re: No choice for screen size

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2008, 12:43 AM »

the short answer is no.
if a program is not designed to let you resize its window then you can't really bypass that in a useful fashion.

the technical answer is that you could probably use a third party experimental program to force the window to a different size, and you might be able to do some resource editing of the form data to resize it.  the first technique is likely to result in a smaller window but all the controls on it messed up.  the second technique is probably not feasible but could theoretically yield a solution but would require a skilled reverser and its hard to know how feasible it would be.

best advice is look for a 3rd party replacement program that is designed better and will work with your weatherstation.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone Here Using a Drobo?

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 04:44 PM »

the military seems to be the origin of many acronyms.. i would be surprised if there weren't such very old such acronyms found there.  but i'd love to know.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Intermittent Firefox Issue 3.0 with Process Tamer

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 04:07 PM »

it's hard for me to imagine a case where its not showing that process.. not that i doubt you of course.. i'm just not sure what it could be that would be causing PT to not show it.. what operating system are you using?  is it possible that ff3 is running under one user and pt under another? (not that that should really make a difference)

do you see anything unusual about the ff3 listing in the other task managers where it shows up? maybe the name is blank somehow and its causing PT not to show it..

i will check out the PT code soon again and see if i can spot anything, and maybe make a debug version to help test.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Intermittent Firefox Issue 3.0 with Process Tamer

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 03:33 PM »

are you sure you havent checked the option telling PT not to show processes using < 1% cpu ?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:45 PM »

just uncheck the upper right checkbox to turn off all use of aliases in a given file.

or wait a few days for me to implement that feature im talking about.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:45 PM »

ALL.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:40 PM »

One of the features i want to add very soon is an OPTION to say that FARR should not try to match aliases or plugins unless you start your search with a special character.  this could help avoid situations where people are having aliases accidentally trigger when they dont want them to.

so if the option was enabled for example then if you just type search words it will only match against files on your disk.
and to get an alias you would do like @music, at which point it would ONLY match against aliases.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:33 PM »

ok first of all, there is a music alias that may be causing this trouble for you.
go to the alias tab in options, select Core_Aliases\Core-Search.alias at top
and UNCHECK the music alias (or if you prefer, disable this entire alias group by unchecking checkbox at top right).

see if that helps.

if not, go to your search folders tab in options and disable all but start menu folders. see if that helps.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new farr: aliases now requiring [enter] twice

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:17 PM »

It kind of seems like the installer may have done this.

i wonder if somehow when the installer forced FARR to exit it caused the ini file to get corrupted.
the farr code specifically wont overwrite the past ini file until it knows its saved it successfully but then i did change the ini file writing code recently and maybe something got messed up there.

HOWEVER:
go in your FARR directory
and look for a subfolder named: BackupIni
you might be (pleasently?) surprised by how many backup ini files are in there

the truth is i became paranoid about the thought of people losing their ini files at one point and so did this backup ini
the irony/problem is that this was really motivated mainly by the fear that people would lose their ALIAS definitions, but now aliases are stored in separate files so this wont help in that case.  i might need to backup alias user alias files.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new farr: aliases now requiring [enter] twice

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 12:57 PM »

farr v2 has an entire hotkey tab page where you can configure multiple hotkeys that work in different ways.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases no longer launch on hitting enter (for first result)

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 12:32 PM »

I believe this is fixed now in version 2.23.01.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Bug] Farr no longer auto completes custom alias after "tab" (v2.12.03)

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 12:32 PM »

I believe this is fixed now in version 2.23.01.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new farr: aliases now requiring [enter] twice

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 12:31 PM »

I believe i have fixed the double-enter requirement for aliases with new version 2.23.01 today (July 19).

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Living Room / Re: The Long Tail and it's Doubters

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 12:25 PM »

A really important essay on the problem with the Long Tail from a content *creator's* standpoint:

http://www.kk.org/th.../wagging_the_lon.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 10:42 AM »

Just a minor update but fixes an annoying bug people have been complaining about (sorry it took so long to fix):
[BugFix] - Pressing enter when a partial alias with one result should launch the alias but was autocompleting it instead; fixed.

I hope to have another release this weekend with some new good features.

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Living Room / Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 10:28 AM »

My internet service provider just got bought out by another company and decided they would discontinue the old email addresses.  So now i have to go around to every site i've ever signed up at and change my email address.

So some advice:

• Never actually use your ISP provided email address when you sign up at places, and never give it out to friends and family.
• Set up another email account like gmail or one through your own domain name+hosting, and use that.
• It's fine to just forward email sent to your other account to your isp account, and then do everything from there, but the key is not to ever become dependent on an email address that is tied to your isp, since it's not reliable as a permanent address.

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Official Announcements / Re: Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2008, 09:39 AM »

Sorry for the delay, we hope to announce results and post info before monday.