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Another to check is GMX, although they are larger, they are making a USA push

GMX have recently returned to the UK too.

'throwaway' (temporary) web accounts if you don't want to give out your normal email.

Spamgourmet is another approach for that, but looks too computerish for nudone's couple.


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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« Last post by rjbull on March 07, 2008, 03:16 AM »
Yes,
BIG THANKs to ALL, mouser Gothic wordzilla for all the hard work

I guess you guys are still busy (or sleeping)
but if you get a chance
...please take this time to walk outside and remember what your family looks like. ;)
:)

+1.  but I thought DC was pretty close to being family...   :-[

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General Software Discussion / Re: books/blogs on database design?
« Last post by rjbull on February 29, 2008, 03:37 PM »
I heard - from an article in the computing section of the paper, I think - that the following is "the one." The details are those from our county library record.


Author    Date, C. J., Christopher John 1941-
Title    Database systems
Publisher    Addison-Wesley
Price    £27.99
Summary    Covers the whole spectrum of opportunity from design to retail, from fashion journalism to modelling. Fully updated 5th edition.
Contents    (Each Chapter begins with an Introduction and concludes with a Summary, and each Appendix begins with an Introduction): I. PRELIMINARIES 1. An Overview of Database Management 2. Database System Architecture 3. An Introduction to Relational Databases 4. An Introduction to SQL II. THE RELATIONAL MODEL 5. Domains, Relations, and Base Relvars 6. Relational Algebra 7. Relational Calculus 8. Integrity 9. Views III. DATABASE DESIGN 10. Functional Dependencies 11. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF 12. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms 13. Semantic Modeling IV. TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT 14. Recovery 15. Concurrency V. FURTHER TOPICS 16. Security 17. Optimization 18. Missing Information 19. Type Inheritance 20. Distributed Databases 21. Decision Support 22. Temporal Databases 23. Logic-Based Databases VI. OBJECT AND OBJECT/RELATIONAL DATABASES 24. Object Databases 25. Object/Relational Databases Appendix A: SQL Expressions Appendix B: An Overview of SQL3 Appendix C: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
Description    For over 25 years, C. J. Dates An Introduction to Database Systems has been the authoritative resource for readers interested in gaining insight into and understanding of the principles of database systems. This exciting revision continues to provide a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology and to provide some ideas as to how the field is likely to develop in the future. The material is organized into six major parts. Part I provides a broad introduction to the concepts of database systems in general and relational systems in particular. Part II consists of a careful description of the relational model, which is the theoretical foundation for the database field as a whole. Part III discusses the general theory of database design. Part IV is concerned with transaction management. Part V shows how relational concepts are relevant to a variety of further aspects of database technology-security, distributed databases, temporal data, decision support, and so on. Finally, Part VI describes the impact of object technology on database systems.

Amazon UK link:  http://www.amazon.co...195/virtuallibrar-21


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Living Room / Re: Timeline Software
« Last post by rjbull on February 28, 2008, 02:39 PM »
Maybe Gantt2 by Jan Verhoeven?  His Web site appears to have moved here but it doesn't seem to be there now, hence attached (434K).
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by rjbull on February 27, 2008, 03:39 PM »
Just go to Allgemein > Lokalisierung (General > Localization) and switch from Deutsch to English. But - as far as I know - the help file is only in German.

I tried a LOT of applications of this kind, but Shortcut is - in my opinion - by far the best one.

Hmmm...  Good software coming out of Germany, e.g. Horst Schaffer's programs, but I think I'd rather wait until everything has an English translation, including the licensing terms.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Typing Assistant - Free at GAOTD
« Last post by rjbull on February 27, 2008, 03:33 PM »
It adds every word you type to your personal word list. So the first time I typed "Chaim" it wasn't a choice, but it was the second time. I think this autoadd functionality might be what pushes me into the auto-typing camp. I am sure other applications have this feature, but it has never registered with me if it has been mentioned. If other auto-typing applications have this feature it may be worth mentioning, if it hasn't been mentioned yet, as this is what is convincing me that this type of application may be more useful than I first thought.

tinjaw,

If you haven't seen them already, here are some DC and other links on text expanders, completers and correctors (see the message by imtrobin for the difference):



External links:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Typing Assistant - Free at GAOTD
« Last post by rjbull on February 27, 2008, 03:26 PM »
PhraseExpress and Typing Assistant can co-exist and complement each other well.

So, from your comment about LetMeType, PhraseExpress is a text expander, while Typing Assistant is a text completer?

Are you using the free-for-personal-use version of PhraseExpress?  I have a dim memory of someone saying that it started to nag you after a while.
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by rjbull on February 24, 2008, 02:22 PM »
> ShortCut (http://www.typer.de, I think the homepage is only in German but the program is also in English)

Looks like a text completer or abbreviation expander?  Is that right?  Is it payware or freeware, and which versions of Windows does it run on?

Thanks...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Typing Assistant - Free at GAOTD
« Last post by rjbull on February 24, 2008, 02:16 PM »
This is similar to LetMeType.

I find it faster than similar applications and quite useful. Get it. :Thmbsup:

sri,

I thought you used Phrase Express, which, AIUI, isn't quite the same as Let Me Type; but, which of these do you now like best?

Several other programs of this kind exist - latest one I've seen is ShortCut, mentioned in this message.


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Living Room / Re: wanted: free web-mail + forwarding
« Last post by rjbull on February 23, 2008, 02:35 PM »
GMX stopped offering their services in English a few years ago, so only German. It's quite good though.

They're back.  GMX is advertising gmx.com and gmx.co.uk addresses in one of the UK magazines, PC Advisor, April 2008.  Advert says, in part:

  • State of the art, high security servers
  • Over 99% guaranteed availability
  • 5 GB storage space
  • Up to 50 MB attachments per mail
  • POP3 and IMAP supported
  • Mail Collector to manage existing e-mail addresses from one platform
  • Seven-fold anti-spam measures



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General Software Discussion / Re: ArsClip 3.1.0 released
« Last post by rjbull on February 22, 2008, 05:50 AM »
Update, 2008-02-22: 3.1.0b has been released, replacing the previous download, to solve a problem with saving permanent clips.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ArsClip 3.1.0 released
« Last post by rjbull on February 21, 2008, 06:08 AM »
rjbull: I am running this program now. I set the Popup key to ctrl+V.

Not sure about this, but, Ctrl-V is the standard Windows key for Paste in just about all programs.  You may have a conflict, i.e. ArsClip has let you define a key that can't really be redefined.  Suggest you temporarily try, say, Shift-Ctrl-Z for the popup, which is what I've used for ages and works well for me, and see if it makes a difference for you.

ArsClip 3.1.0 also defines Win-V for Paste Clipboard as Plain Text.  I don't know if there's any conflict there as well, but it seems to work OK here, not that I often paste fancy text.

HTH...

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General Software Discussion / ArsClip 3.1.0 released
« Last post by rjbull on February 21, 2008, 03:26 AM »
The excellent ArsClip clipboard enhancer has been updated.


ArsClip is a FREE (freeware) utility for the windows clipboard. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program.

Features

- Multiple permanent items groups
- Picture, RichText, File Copy, Unicode, HTML support
- Keypress emulation
- Form Mode for pasting multiple fields
- Highly configurable


Requirements

This program was written with Delphi 6 (now Turbo Delphi) and requires no installation. It has been tested on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional. Tested on Vista started with version 3.0.1.


New: XP/Vista Theme Support
New: Updated look for the main popup and the system tray icon popup
New: Option to replace new formatted text clipboard items with plain text
New: "Edit Clipboard" sytem tray icon command
New: "Edit Selected" popup menu item
New: "Move to" right-click option for items on the Permanent Items window
New: Permanent Item edit window now has an option for saving the item to another group
New: Current Clipboard item shown when the system tray icon is clicked
New: Popup hotkey shown on tooltip when system tray icon hovered
New: Option to use a case sensative text item list
New: Included Removed Items in the "Move to first" when selected option
New: Option to show the Edit Item window instead of the popup when highlighted items are detected
New: Pressing Tab simulates pressing the cliptype icon on the main popup
New: "Application" keyboard key can be used instead of a right-click on menu items

Fix: Crash creating a permanent item when no default group exist
Fix: Ctrl+Click configuration option not loaded correctly
Fix: Improved the display speed of the tooltip when the item contains a very large amount of text
Fix: [Program Options->Shift+Insert] setting was not working
Fix: "Current" Permanent Group missing from popup under some configurations
Fix: Some Configuration items re-worded and re-organized
Fix: Hotkey was not being show on system tray's tooltip when "flashing" the icon setting disabled
Fix: Permanent Item name wasn't set when editing certain types of clips
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I'd have to use an Web-based online service because I'm not online 24/7, but was put off by a comment in one of the UK magazines that some eBay sniping sites are centres of ID theft.  Any comments on that, please?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unix utilities for Windows - book/manual
« Last post by rjbull on February 20, 2008, 04:38 AM »
Thanks, folks!

My first thought was to look at the O'Reilly site, as they seem a good source of good books on Unix, but couldn't quickly find what I wanted.  Most books are, obviously, aimed squarely at Unix users.  I'm still hoping for something for the occasional user of ports to the Windows environment.  The point that used copies are dirt-cheap is well-made, though, so one wouldn't lose much.



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General Software Discussion / Unix utilities for Windows - book/manual
« Last post by rjbull on February 18, 2008, 05:46 AM »
I use a number of command-line Unix utilities in ports for Windows or DOS, but usually have to read the instructions each time.  And there's the rub; GNUish is a language that looks like English, but is a lot less intelligible.  Please, does anyone know of any good books or online manuals/tutorials?  I already have The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, and the first edition of the Dale Docherty book on AWK and SED, but here I'm thinking of things like grep, csplit, cat, unique, paste, etc.  The slight differences in syntax for how you enter /regexps/ into the shell - how you quote them, etc. - get frustrating.

Thanks...

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Hotkeys/keyboard macros??
« Last post by rjbull on February 15, 2008, 04:20 AM »
I use Horst Schaeffer's Calendar.  Just edit the INI to have whatever date and time formats you want.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 14, 2008, 05:14 AM »
Yeah, sorry - that's the direct link for updates, (of which it should be noted that's an old one).

No problem!  I see the author site is Russian.

What happens if you explicitly tell wget to not use a proxy ?

I hadn't thought of that, but everything else I've tried doesn't work.  That is, ones that expect a direct Internet connection are defeated by the proxy.pac, so I assumed everything else that doesn't get the proxy automatically from IE would be too.

Otherwise, the only way I think you're going to get out is by using some form of tunneling to bypass the firewall/proxy.

I don't have control over it, and it's over a network, so whatever I use on the local PC has to get through the network system...

Thanks again.  If something else turns up, I'll let folk know  :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 14, 2008, 05:10 AM »
so what's your verdict - the search continues? :)

Yes: though for now, I've bitten the bullet and am using FDM.  At least it works, which makes me wonder why I'd bother paying for one of the other download managers, which are just as likely to sprawl all over the Registry and have problems with proxies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 13, 2008, 09:25 AM »
some googling could locate the file for you and here is the first result.

What I meant was that 4wd's link was a direct download.  I was expecting the file to be embedded in its author's Web site, so that truncating the link would get to the program's home page, and that didn't work.  I tried Googling as you suggest, and this link seems most helpful.  But, USDownloader is special-purpose:


The few limitation of Universal Share Downloader include unable to download normal download links (it works on those file sharing/hosting services only)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 13, 2008, 05:43 AM »
Here's another downloader you might like to try

Thanks, I'll take a look.  The odd thing is it doesn't seem to have a home page as such.  Your link goes direct to the file, and truncating the end of the URL just gets forbidden pages?



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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 09, 2008, 02:52 PM »
A bonus is it will read from a file of URLs.

wget --input-file=<file>

Only thing is I believe you'll need to input the proxy manually - could be a problem if you don't know the authentication.

I don't.  I suspect that's why I can't get Web Downloader to work.  It lets you enter the proxy, but there's a separate field for authentication.  Yet, programs which auto-detect proxies by using Microsoft Internet Explorer do work; applause for Firefox, K-Meleon, Great News, WebSite-Watcher and Local Website Archive.  Oh, and Free Download Manager, but I'd rather avoid it; it spreads a load of stuff throughout the Registry and it's rather too "busy" a program.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 08, 2008, 08:42 AM »
Hmm i fell for the blurb that it did support proxies, somewhere in the config files.

Configuration does have settings for proxies.  It's likely that either it doesn't like proxy.pac files, or, more likely, that it needs authentication - and at work, I don't know the settings for that.  Programs that auto-detect the proxy settings used by Internet Explorer work perfectly well.

wget is always a good choice

I struggle with GNU-speak manuals  :(  and may still have the same problem with permissions.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 08, 2008, 04:49 AM »
Thanks, folks...  It didn't occur to me that portability and scheduled operation aren't really compatible, but I see what you mean.  I think I should drop "portable" in favour of "no-install," i.e., not needing full admin rights on the computer (tinjaw, you hit the nail on the head).  That still leaves me feeling uneasy at FDM, for example, which in "portable" mode still writes to the host computer's Registry.  It clears up when it exits, but that won't happen in a crash, and also apparently doesn't remember all its settings when used in portable mode.  There's a message in their forums about this, without any replies.

I'm not so bothered about browser integration as I expect to compile lists of URLs manually.  There are utilities like tranglos' VISIT, for example, which capture URLs from the clipboard (I haven't tried this one yet).  I assume most host computers will already have schedulers built-in.  I normally use the one in PowerPro, but could use something else if necessary.

@iphigenie:
i find this http://www.webxpace....et/software/#Downldr - i havent tried it much and most of it is controlled via a text config, but it seems to be an "unpack and run straight" type of tool

That looks nice, small and truly portable.  Apparently the author listens to his "customers," too.  However, it doesn't understand proxy.pac files, nor is there any provision I can see for scheduling.  Star Downloader is another one that expects you to have fixed proxy details, which rules it out for me.  Much kudos to Martin Aignesberger for WebSite-Watcher and Local Website Archive, also to Firefox, K-Meleon and Great News, all of which can be set to use whatever proxy stuff IE is using.

@4wd:
I was scared of wget on the grounds I probably wouldn't understand GNUishness   :-[  I suppose I'll have not choice but to check it out!  Thanks for the link, especially for the GUI shells.



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General Software Discussion / Simple download manager?
« Last post by rjbull on February 07, 2008, 04:38 PM »
I thought of adding to an earlier thread, but SMF pointed out it was over 120 days old and would I like to start a new one...

I'm interested in a "simple download manager," in that all I really want to do is schedule downloads for slack times.  However, I ideally want it to meet these requirements:

  • Run on Win98
  • Can use a proxy.pac file, or read whatever proxy Internet Explorer is using (is that wininet technology?)
  • Portable, avoiding he Registry and using relative paths
  • Either built-in scheduler, or, easy control from external scheduler
  • Can be used in a commercial environment

I haven't yet seen anything that matches all those; even FDM isn't really portable.  Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Thanks in advance...

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