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Living Room / Re: The 10 most annoying programs on the Internet

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2008, 04:36 PM »

Service Control Plugin for FARR by taichi: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9084.0

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2008, 10:02 AM »

in case people overlooked this post by p3lb0x i thought i should emphasize it:

If you post your creatures with a pic like Mizraim you can actually use the pic to open the creature in the editor, Just by dragging it into the window while having the build screen open.

in other words, the attached PNG files contain extra data that describe the creature so you can open and modify the creature in the program just by dragging and dropping the png file attached to the forum post.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Better Printing of Web Pages

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2008, 08:51 AM »

Cool, i'm going to go have a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NewEgg

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2008, 08:33 AM »

Sucks that you have to go through a support call (and to India, ugh) before you can just fill out a bloody RMA slip

i think deo just said he wanted to call tech support to get some support; newegg has never required a call to get an RMA to my memory.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review-John's Background Switcher

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 10:36 PM »

Sounds very cool, thanks for posting this y0himba 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to get best juice out of FARR?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 08:27 PM »

yes to all armando.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to get best juice out of FARR?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 08:12 PM »

let me try to get the new save/load options code written and then you can take a look again at startup time -- some people experience very slow startup/shutdown times due to an unusual interaction with antivirus tools.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NewEgg

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 06:59 PM »

NewEgg is a reliably great place to order hardware from.  On the rare occasion I've had a hardware problem they are more than happy to exchange it.  Prices are good and they are FAST to ship stuff.

The user reviews on newegg are also invaluable -- there are a lot of knowledgeable and expert hardware people who order through newegg and their comments on products really help.  The user comments alone make it the first place i ever go before buying hardware (in the same way that when ordering a book i always go to amazon.com first to look at reader reviews).

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Living Room / Re: Looking for help identifying hidden domain owner...

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 06:47 PM »

I forgot to say thanks for taking time to write about your experiences, 40hz, very helpful.

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 06:37 PM »

Gothic says please put the video on youtube and i agree.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 06:23 PM »

I've uploaded a new version which puts back the old quickdoc launcher. just redownload and reinstall to go back to the old method.  I'll ask for more help testing the new mode before i try it again.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 06:04 PM »

s.newave: The stable version (which is a few versions back) is linked at farr's web page

it used to be but i made this the latest stable version. oops.

i may just go back to the old quickdoclauncher for now until i understand better why this behavior is occuring. so strange.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 03:07 PM »

what happens when 2.10.01 tries to launch it.. nothing? or some error or?

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 02:24 PM »

i couldnt hear any sounds

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 01:53 PM »

Deo that is amazing!!! I kept trying to turn up the speakers to hear what Cody song sounds like.. 

So great!  Who knew Cody was such a good dancer!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 12:48 PM »

That is an excellent guess Tuck.

I'm using HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT which is described here, and *should* use user customized settings and then falling back on system settings.  But whether something is going wrong is possible.

cedardoc, could you check those two registry keys and see if you find differences in how your spreadsheet files are classified, and in what way?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to get best juice out of FARR?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 11:38 AM »

if what you find is that trying the same search many times in a row is only ever slow the FIRST time, and not if you try it again right after, then what you are experiencing is the delay when the operating system loads the directories into cached memory.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 11:34 AM »

this is very interesting.. as if you have two separate sets of file associations..

i could certainly put an option to toggle between old and new method of launching, but i'd love to know why it's doing what it's doing.

let's try this -- attached is the older version of my document launcher helper that farr uses to try to be smart and fast about opening documents.  replace your current one with this and see if it makes it behave as before (no need to restart farr).

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 11:29 AM »

i'll offer up a couple more $10 spore creature reimbursements if anyone wants to keep trying.

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 11:28 AM »

damn deo that's good!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 10:59 AM »

farr does not change any file associations.

HOWEVER -- i did change slightly the way far tells the system to open files.. and it may be that this method is not obeying some "open with" preferences that it used to?  does anyone have any further cases of this or insight?

For what it's worth, my txt files still open in UltraEdit, my system-configured text file opening editor (rather than notepad).

[for the technically minded, i changed from ShellExecute to ShellExecuteEx, AND i added code to find the document class in the registry before invoking the "open" verb.  i suspect it is this document class lookup that is causing the change in behavior, though i'm not sure why.  the change was done to fix the problem some people were having with some documents not opening at all, and it seems to have solved that problem for them, but now it seems to have caused a strange change in behavior for others].

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Living Room / Re: Looking for help identifying hidden domain owner...

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 10:16 AM »

If you want to stop them from doing what they're doing, don't waste time trying to catch them in the act. They're already caught. Their ISP will most likely archive a copy of their site to cover their own butts once you send a DMCA notice.

still, it wouldn't hurt to make a mirror of the website and grab all evidence you can, while you can.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "The browser is the new OS" ...(really?)

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 10:15 AM »

how is webware proprietary when it uses open standards like HTML and ODF, and to a lesser extent, PDF?

Do not confuse the VIEWER being open source with the backend software and data being open source.

The browser, which is the device you use to interact with the web service may be open source, but with web services this is like saying your keyboard is open source.  It tells you nothing about the software and data actually doing the computation behind the scenes.

And even though many backend web services and tools are open source (wordpress, etc.), BUT even so that doesn't tell you anything about how you can access your data when it's stored on the company services.  If you're using a web-based mail program -- your mail is all stored on their company server.  It doesn't help you that your browser may be open source, that's meaningless.  An important question is, how easy is it to get at your data and move it to another service, and are you satisfied not having complete control over your data?  I'm not saying you shouldn't be satisfied with how things are now, i'm just saying that i personally do not like it.  I want to be in control of my data.  Personally i view this as more important than the issue of open source (should we call it "Open Data"?).  I can always write a replacement program if a proprietary piece of software goes rogue.. but if i can't move my data out of a company's web server then that leaves me in a precarious situation.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for June 13th, 2008 - Codename "Programmapalooza"

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 09:45 AM »

Thanks for the encouragement.. sometimes it can be hard to get motivated to put together the newsletters.. knowing that people like them makes it worth while.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrID file identifier

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2008, 09:32 AM »

Congratulations Mark0 on the recent round of recognition that TriId has been getting.  Mentioned today in LifeHacker (http://lifehacker.co...h-unknown-extensions) but i've seen it praised in several places recently.  Lifehacker emphasizes how nice it is to provide a probability estimate of file id -- is that a new feature? I wish the antivirus programs would follow your lead and start doing this.