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

« Last post by Ath on February 09, 2012, 02:12 PM »

Don't know what I did today, but my post-count is a bit messed up:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Ath on February 09, 2012, 02:08 PM »

Today I received my N.A.N.Y. 2012 certificate

I'll get a frame this weekend, and frame it, then I'll post a photo here:

 

Edit: Also added a photo of the envelope it arrived in. Some parts are a bit blurred for obvious reasons

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkey to 'Restore Main Window?'

« Last post by Ath on February 09, 2012, 02:01 PM »

Something OT hit my eye:



Can we haz beta?

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General Software Discussion / Re: numerical input

« Last post by Ath on February 09, 2012, 02:08 AM »

One possible exception would be strictly single digit numbers if the verbal integers didn't require an "Enter" or "Plus" between digits and the keypadder did.

-AndyM (February 08, 2012, 02:36 PM)

And even that will probably be slower, as voice recognition will take a few hundred milliseconds to process the audio.

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General Software Discussion / Re: numerical input

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2012, 05:41 AM »

Anyone processing numerical input I know, like bookkeepers, accountants and the likes, can far more quickly type the numbers they want (on a proper numeric keypad), than they can pronounce them. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual factor is 10 times faster or more!

The only plausible improvement I can see would be to add an external numpad on the left side of the keyboard, in addition to the numpad on the right side of your (standard) keyboard, so you have 2 hands to enter the numbers even more quickly .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2012, 05:33 AM »

Or sneakily integrate Gadwin Printscreen Free and call that from SSC

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2012, 01:33 AM »

Here are all my DC Mugs, including an extra NANY 2012 mug since the first one arrived damaged.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-Deozaan (February 08, 2012, 01:27 AM)

Great, looking good

Thanks again to mouser and the anonymous donor who made it possible for the mugs to be shipped out.

-Deozaan (February 08, 2012, 01:27 AM)

+1

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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by Ath on February 08, 2012, 01:30 AM »

(or even better, convert the code to c++).

-mouser (February 07, 2012, 11:01 PM)

But there are also a lot of examples in C++, why not start/try with those ?
Like this on CodeProject or this on StackOverflow

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to force "Register DLL"?

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 04:40 PM »

And what have the supplier of that DLL been able to tell you about this issue?

RegSvr32 normally always forces registration, but all it does is call the entrypoint for that, inside the DLL. If it fails, it's directly to do with the environment of the DLL, so Access denied, can be either or both access to a file, access to the registry, or missing dependencies.
Do you need to update some (MS C++?) system DLL's first, before this one will stick? (Windows Updates does wonders sometimes, even on Vista )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is WinZip still worth updating?

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 02:39 PM »

You'd better be aware jZip installs (or tries to install) add-ons, set your browser homepage and add a search-toolbar.
Read here the how-to for reset/remove/uninstall

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Coding Snacks / Re: Svn Conflicts Backup - Redo your subversion conflict resolves

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 02:31 PM »

hehe anything you can think I can do to help with that?

-justice (February 07, 2012, 02:19 PM)

Nope.
I'll probably have to put a big warning sticker on the monitor instead of the brand-logo, that says "BACKUP THE BACKUP" in red on white, hopefully that's enough

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Coding Snacks / Re: Svn Conflicts Backup - Redo your subversion conflict resolves

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 12:11 PM »

Thanks, sounds useful to me (yes we do use SVN every day, about 40 projects/repos)

But the biggest drawback is I'd need to be reminded in time to make the backup

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Internet Connection Test Demo

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 07:59 AM »

So far, I've only seen that when my wireless adapter was unplugged, or I deliberately turned off the router. But it should work if there's ever a temporary ISP service outage, shouldn't it?

-kyrathaba (February 07, 2012, 07:11 AM)

It's in fact only a signal that the (local) network for that computer isn't working, but that's the part that is 'always' working, when behind a proxy. Just a loose cable/adapter would trigger it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is WinZip still worth updating?

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 07:53 AM »

Hm, I fail to see any advantage of WinRar over a free compression tool. Despite your recommendations .

Any time I use WinRar (on someone else's machine) for a file I want to extract from a subfolder in an archive to a totally unrelated subfolder on disk, it insists on prefixing the file with the path inside the archive, so I have to move it in the intended location afterward. It's probably a setting somewhere, but it's just daft that it's on by default. Never have that with any of the other archivers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is WinZip still worth updating?

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 06:42 AM »

Vista and 7 have built in ZIP handling. <...>

-Josh (February 07, 2012, 06:33 AM)

Any MS OS since XP has, but it performs like a snail in a formula 1 racetrack, so no-go.

If you have 7-zip, or a possibly somewhat better-looking (though that's subjective) free alternative like PeaZip, why bother to pay for WinRar? It does nothing better than any of the free alternatives.

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

« Last post by Ath on February 07, 2012, 06:31 AM »

^+ Another winner

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« Last post by Ath on February 06, 2012, 04:56 PM »

Did you throw away the old SATA cables, and inserted new ones? That might be the only way to actually get rid of this problem.
Then use HDS Pro to reset the SMART counter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Uninstallers

« Last post by Ath on February 06, 2012, 02:21 AM »

Ever since Windows NT an Administrator (the actual user that should be installing/uninstalling software) can not reliably access the personal files of another user. Either because the files can not be reached in the other profile, stored on an AD controlled location, or because access-rights don't allow him in.
These files should in fact be manually deleted by the user. But most software do not provide instructions on how, where & what to remove after uninstall. That's what can be kind-of fixed by these uninstallers, for the current user only, ofcourse.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Fails to capture X-Plane screenshots

« Last post by Ath on February 06, 2012, 01:57 AM »

working with X-Plane and not working is Windows 7 64bit.

With X-Plane and XP Pro, Screenshot Captor worked normally.

-wheathe (February 05, 2012, 06:35 PM)

Windows XP and Windows 7 video subsystem & drivers are further away from each other than 32 bit and 64 bit Windows. Most graphics tools/games using either DirectX or OpenGL need specific features to allow capturing.

You can always grab/save a full screen using the game's built-in features, then open the image using ScreenShot Capture and do any editing/markup.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by Ath on February 06, 2012, 01:50 AM »

Nice writeup of version 3 in ghacks:
http://www.ghacks.ne...t-captor-3-released/

-mouser (February 05, 2012, 06:30 PM)

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Internet Connection Test Demo

« Last post by Ath on February 06, 2012, 01:32 AM »

Hm, that should work. Just try to read the file, and be prepared to catch any exception you get thrown.

Guess you never actually saw this error?:

Code: C# [Select]

1. MessageBox.Show("You currently are not connected to the Internet.", "Cannot check for update");

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling window in Firefox

« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2012, 02:08 PM »

Just tried some situations:

• If the background is selected before the scroll, then SSC can detect the margins quite well
• If the outside Windows frame is selected, then it doesn't detect the margins at all, so they have to be set by hand
• If the Quick Reply textbox is selected, then it can't detect the scrolling method correctly, even though SSC thinks it can after hitting the Test Window button, capturing is just crap after that (50 pages, as set for default)

As suggested by mouser in other posts and the Screencast(s), select the background of the page, then start capturing, but use the Test Window button to get the most optimal method.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling window in Firefox

« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2012, 01:49 PM »

Works fine here with FF 10, though sometimes you need to click on the page background first, and sometimes you need to select the outside Windows frame of FF first. It depends. Sometimes. And that's FireFox's fault, AFAIK

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Internet Connection Test Demo

« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Hm, looking at that code, I'm not convinced that it would really check if I have a working internet connection.
It just shows if I have a valid network connection, but doesn't reach out to an actual internet site to see if it can read data from there. And that's the only reliable way to check if the i-net is working.
I'm on a local network, and internet is handled by a Proxy server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Marker

« Last post by Ath on February 05, 2012, 09:15 AM »

Guess he's looking for a text marking tool like these but not limited to webpages, but all kinds of applications/files.