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Sitting in the back woods of Florida ... I'm wondering how many bullet holes it has in it.
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e question: I know stress plays a part in the health theater, and I'm up for a bit of an increase in that for the next two weeks as my floor lead is on vacation and my work expects me to fill her shoes while she's gone.  I've never been good at being a super-organized or management type, and she definitely is, so I'm wondering how that will affect me.  I'll prolly be tempted to do caffeine again, what's you folk's advice on that?

My assistant is gone for two weeks ... My strategy? Just say no. It's really quite cathartic. I can either try and push myself to try and accomplish the work of two people ... or ... I can just say no to the flood of incoming nonsense.

Requestor: Can I have X, Y, Z, M, K, F & R??

Me: No. I'll have X & Y in the morning ... But the rest will have to wait.

Requestor: But IT's an Emergency..!!!

Me: Yes, everyone's issue is an emergency ... To them. Feel free to come pickup X & Y at around 9 ... tomorrow.


No... It's a beautiful thing.
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Living Room / Re: More legislation regarding privacy.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2013, 02:07 PM »
Power like that is just too easy to abuse...which is precisely why the whole "Get a Warrant" concept got cooked up in the first place. Sure on some, isolated occasions, certain options might have potential usefulness. But this is why we also have the option of not crucifying someone if they happen to step over said line ... and that is fine. Moving the line OTOH is not. If officer X is willing to bet their career on an illegal wire tap/search/etc. that subject X is indeed a terrorist...Okay... But they better be triple thick double chocolate fudge with sprinkles and a cherry on top sure that they're right or they will be getting strung up in the town square.
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Living Room / Re: More legislation regarding privacy.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2013, 01:46 PM »
Because if they were honest with people it would make for a very short conversation.

Reporter: Hi, can we let the Thought Police have free access to your subconscious mind?

Citizen: F... No!

Now that's no way to keep a ball rolling when you're trying to "protect" people from the boogie man. Concessions need to be made to keep people "safe". Compliance is necessary for the safety and security of all ... You have nothing to hide...do you..?
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Our accountant is in his late 70s. He is not an advanced user by any measure. He recently made the jump from XP to Win8 on his home computer. Neither he nor his wife have had any major issues adapting to the new UI.

I think that may be more a function of their level of useage rather than an indication of how usable the interface actually is.

He uses an RDP connection from the home/8 machine to connect to the office and generate reports (From the accounting software to Excel) which frequently are transferred to either paper and/or the 8 machine for further processing/analysis.

Granted that ain't power user level interaction...but he ain't just farting around on FaceBook either.
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Devices and Printers (in control panel - Like where your printer drivers are listed) Not Device Manager in Administrative tools. Most media devices (which it qualifies as if it's not in storage mode) will show up there in Windows 7.
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Living Room / Re: Google forbids resale or lending of Glass
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2013, 11:29 AM »
If they're going to outlaw GoOgle glasses, then they're going to have to outlaw these devices as well.  Otherwise what are they going to do, have you strip down to bare-butt to attend a sensitive meeting or if your around when something "Goes down"?

Mandatory public nudity...in the interest of "National Security". Positively freaking brilliant man! ...Hay if the whole damn thing is going to go off the rails anyhow...I vote we start there!

Congress - now they look as stupid as they sound - should just love the exposure..

 :D
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Living Room / Re: Magnetic North Pole migration seems to be accelerating.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 06, 2013, 07:35 AM »
Oh hell no, the Mayan's already picked their day...and missed. They're not getting credit for this one. They'll just have to go sit in the false prophets box with the rest of the apocalypse pool losers.
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Our accountant is in his late 70s. He is not an advanced user by any measure. He recently made the jump from XP to Win8 on his home computer. Neither he nor his wife have had any major issues adapting to the new UI.

Advertising in general has devolved into a constant drone of pithy palpitating attempts to reach ones heart strings, funny bone, or G-spot. solely in the interest of avoiding any substantive information about anything...and frequently leaving one wondering wtf the product even is.

While MS's Apple-ish whoppie ad is annoying, it's not nearly as mind-blowingly stupid as many of the car ads today. Kia comes to mind with hampsters trying to look Kewl in a death trap, cracker box, Mp3 player with wheels that is blasting off into space. Seriously? ...I can't watch that ad without wanting to scream.
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Just Jensen Harris (who looks like Mini-Me's bigger sibling) smiling like a dork and talking about things like "cool" and being "excited" about cosmetic features and eye candy while demoing it on a (surprise! surprise!) Surface tablet.

Good god man with that intro for a description I sat at my desk (at work...) through the entire video with my hand clamped over my mouth and tears coming out of my eyes hoping no one would hear me cracking up. Gushing over rainbow colors, pretty pictures, and exhibiting a marked fixation with Marilyn Monroe ...(oh dear)... They are definitely trying to directly compete with Apple in the lowest loafer weight department.
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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 05, 2013, 11:56 AM »
I have all my RSS feeds in Outlook where they are, and can be quietly and conveniently collected, stored, and completely forgotten. I just checked...and I have just under 5,000 unread items.


Hint: This is not a recommendation.
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Living Room / Re: Patent wars - again
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 05, 2013, 11:48 AM »
I'm guessing whatever gets done will likely benefit everybody at first. But afterwards, certain clauses and interpretations will inevitably pull the rug out from under all but the biggest corporations when it comes to patent protection.

Kind of like stirring up a grassroots movement of lemming. Everybody cheers and runs for the goal not realizing the instigators have stepped back into the shadows as the crowd storms past (on their way to the cliff's edge).
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"Technology should be transparent and intuitive" - I like this guy!

Great video IainB!
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Been awhile since I've played with any of the phone drivers, but...

While I have a definite aversion to automated troubleshooters ... The one in Windows 7 is surprisingly good. Assuming the phone shows up in Devices and Printers (it should) just right click it and select troubleshoot. I've had it successfully sort out several sticky driver issues for me in the past.

It's either that or trying to hand feed the driver to each part of the device's listing in device manager to try and figure out which one is actually supposed to be installed first.
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Living Room / Re: Patent wars - again
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 05:35 PM »
Sears tried that many times in the past and always got their buttes in a sling over it.

Like the inventor with the one size fits all speed wrench they screwed just in time for last Christmas?
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 03:12 PM »
Almost a video I guess...:



So that's what happens when you juggle cats in Portal.
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 03:02 PM »
GitHub source code repository link added to first post/page.
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Living Room / Re: Magnetic North Pole migration seems to be accelerating.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 11:51 AM »
Or just Adele?

No reason the apocalypse can't have background music I can think of. :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Any one else have a bad Window update?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 11:41 AM »
Getting Win7 to go back to using IE8 (since IE9 was also problematic) once IE10 had been installed was great fun.

Strange, I just went through much the same with a medical client after our management suite decided to auto approve the optional browser updates and their access to the local hospital went poof last Monday morning. It seems the local hospital's ("Highly Secured") patient information portal requires IE8 with a build of Java no higher than 1.6b36. (you just said the F word didn't you... :) ...I know I did at the time)

I rolled them back to IE9, and then IE8. Jumped through a few hoops to get the antique Java build and all went fine.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 11:30 AM »
But as far as showing up in blue, I've never seen this in XP using Windows Explorer, all the icons are yellow by default.

No no, not the icons...the text label/file name will be in blue for compressed files and green for encrypted files. This has been a default behavior since Win2k. Folder Options->View Tab->Advanced Settings: Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.
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What stops some firm from just randomly inventing completely fake evidence just from lists of IP's?

Ethics? Oh yeah ...(Derp!)... We're screwed.
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Living Room / Re: Magnetic North Pole migration seems to be accelerating.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 11:21 AM »
How far can it shift before the sky falls?

Sudden polar shift will jumpstart the Zombies...eek!

It's those pesky Russians trying to steal the north pole ... Attack!!!
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 09:30 AM »
Sounds like a plan ... Thank you!
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 04, 2013, 06:45 AM »
In case you guys still want to know how to display the windoze calendar, its possible ;)
  • Find the tray window with class: "Shell_TrayWnd"
  • find control with class: "TrayClockWClass"
  • PostMessage: WM_USER+102,1,0
IIRC you already got that handle.. or at least a system to find such windows/controls. I just can't implement it myself as I'm a gcc developer and I don't want to convert your source :P

P.S. wParam=0 or WM_USER+103 will show the original tooltip... (which I prefer... not only because it will show different time zones)

I'd hate to admit how much time I spent trying to fond that information ...(and never did)... Thank you for making it available. I only wish I had the time to play with it.


If you like, I can add the link to your build to the first post so it's easier for people to find...else it might get lost back here on page 19.
-Stoic Joker (May 03, 2013, 07:20 PM)

I have nothing against it, but this link is temporary so it may disappear some time in the future, either when it's replaced by a newer version or somebody else publishes a better one...

I'm not sure about your source code licence, I haven't found any information about it. I could put up a repository on Github and also upload current source builds there. That would be a more "suitable" location for such things. (I wouldn't want to setup a real project page on my dev website because it's not my project.) But I couldn't really maintain the code, just update it from other locations and integrate ready patches. How do you manage your source code? Could you work with a Github repository as well? (It could save you from data loss as well... :))
-LonelyPixel (May 04, 2013, 05:49 AM)

Greetings, sorry about the delay...but I really wasn't sure how to answer the licensing question (I tend to find them annoying). The original author (Kazubon) created TClock as a teaching tool to show people how to code for the then new Windows 95 shell. So given that the original author intended it to be for everyone to use and learn from...(to my way of thinking)...I would be in extremely poor taste for me to impose any sort of licensing/restrictions on T-Clock's code. I have merely been the projects caretaker for the last decade or so. It is to belong to everyone.

I've never actually used Github or any of the other source management systems but if it makes it easier for you to manage your branch of the project... *Shrug* ...is ok by me ;)

Given that T-Clock's home (according to Google...) has been here for quite some time, I'd be happy to list/link to any of the builds here so they are easier for people to find if/when they go looking.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 03, 2013, 06:59 AM »
In XP all the update files are in hidden folders in the Windows directory. The only one that should never be deleted is the update history folder named $hfg_ something (I forget the exact name but it always at or near the top of the list). The updates will all be named $KBxxxxxx so they stay grouped together. In going with Ath's don't delete the updates from the last month or so recommendation I'd say to just use the standard behavior of Windows and delete the blue ones...as by default files that haven't been accessed in (IIRC) 90 days are compressed by NTFS and will have their file names listed in blue.

In a pinch if something went wrong later system restore can still be used to roll back to a pre-update state as in does not rely on these files...they are only used for manual uninstall of specific patches.
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