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Living Room / Bluescreens and then reboots too quickly for me to read what it says
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 02:26 PM »
Whoever came up with the idea of having the system crash with a big blue screen with tiny text filling the screen and somewhere on there having a clue to what went wrong, followed by 500 milliseconds of delay and then a computer reboot that clears the screen, is a super genius.  i mean truly that is really something special.

now just for fun, does anyone know a way to figure out what the text might have been on a bluescreen that results in a system reset before you can read it?

ps i've been getting these bluescreens once a week lately and i suspect it's because i was crazy enough to install windows xp 64bit, but that's another matter.
24052
Find And Run Robot / Re: add launcher "keywords" to farr?
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 02:22 PM »
That makes me really happy to hear, thanks for posting that.  :-*
24053
Living Room / Re: Sleep is killing my mouse
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 02:09 PM »
i think i have the answer, and this is a very important trick to know.

There are at least 2 different kinds of Standby modes (S1 and S3) that a PC can go into.  S1 leaves the fans and usb connections on, S3 turns off the fan and usb (this is the quite mode).

If you have a USB hardware device that does not wake up properly from sleep, then your solution might be to go to your bios and force it to use S3 mode instead of S1.
24054
General Software Discussion / Re: Memory Secrets
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 12:36 PM »
Nice find  :up:
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Find And Run Robot / Re: add launcher "keywords" to farr?
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 12:26 PM »
You just add more programs to the same alias group in the same way.
(by the way you can also drag and drop new programs into an alias group dialog as another way of adding them to an existing alias group).
24056
General Software Discussion / Re: Best program to manage information collections?
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 10:48 AM »
The longest running thread in DC history deals with this:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2362.0
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Definr.com plugin
« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2008, 10:24 AM »
 = character would be good since its same as used with calc maybe?
24058
Find And Run Robot / Re: sort matches strictly based on date created criteria?
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 04:18 PM »
this cant really be done in current version.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: add launcher "keywords" to farr?
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 04:01 PM »
you absolutely can do this.
here's the easiest way:

first search for the file normally by typing its name, like: notepad.

now if you launch it once, it will get a high score and appear right away in your default list or as soon as you type anything like it.

BUT, if you want to create a special keyword for it, just right click on it and select "Add to Group Alias -> New Alias" and then type the name of the keyword you want to use as the group name, for example: np.

now when you type np up comes your notepad result.

You can also then:
  • put more than one file under the NP keyword -- now you get a menu when you type np of your items to choose from
  • customize the text that gets displayed for your item

FARR alias groups do everything that you can do with keywords for files, while also providing group menus, regular expression matches, etc.
24060
Living Room / Re: Cooking my PC: what NOT to do
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 01:56 PM »
I think that should be put on a t-shirt and sold:
"No more pampering the stupid CPU."
24061
Living Room / Re: Myth or Last legend
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 09:44 AM »
do i need to set up a special sub-forum on the site for LochNess Monster Related Discussions?
24062
Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi Contest: Create Fancy Applications for Fame & Glory
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 09:43 AM »
ps. it occurred to me that i should say something perhaps about why i always try to get the coders here to enter programming contests on other sites, etc.

it's not that i really think coders need encouragement to program -- if you like to code, you code, if not then no encouragement is really going to make a difference.

i just think the forum gets better each time a new coder comes by and participates and interacts with the rest of the coders and non-coders on this site.  and so i'm just trying to show some solidarity on DC with coders who have their online homes elsewhere but feel like stopping by here and sharing a bit of themselves with DC, and at the same time encourage DC coders to explore the world wide web outside of DC as well.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi Contest: Create Fancy Applications for Fame & Glory
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 09:31 AM »
Any Delphi coders from here entering?
If you do let us know (and i'll send you a DC mug as well just for fun)
24064
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 08:26 AM »
the real thanks go to ecaradec and czechboy for making this plugin possible  :up: :up:
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 07:21 AM »
try typing a period at the end to tell it to GO.
24066
Living Room / Re: Tower Defense games collection update 26-1-08
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 05:29 AM »
When is someone on dc going to make a defense game staring cody!
24067
UrlSnooper / Re: Urlsnooper is great
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 04:02 AM »
damn ungrateful users.  :P
24068
Living Room / Re: Cooking my PC: what NOT to do
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2008, 12:57 AM »
No more pampering the stupid CPU.


i love it  ;D
now that's the proper attitude if you ask me.
24069
Dr.Windows / Re: Access violation
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 11:27 PM »
that's just an easter egg  ;D ;D

just kidding, i don't know why it happens.
24070
General Software Discussion / Re: Request from Blueberry for BB Flashback v2 Beta Testers
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 04:50 PM »
maybe just what country you are in and your email.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Calculator
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 02:36 PM »
it seems like i need to add 2 things:
let user hit enter to activate the plugin (instead of having to type a special character).
and maybe some kind of way to send the plugin a signal after a short delay of no typing, so that plugins like this could query an online source after a short delay so it wouldnt have to check every character, but could still check "live" without requiring enter to be hit.  what do you think?
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 beta behavior with multiple monitors
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 02:33 PM »
mhermes, I think your second post hit the nail on the head.
FARR remember where it was last displayed -- so if you last used it and had it show on one monitor, and then you disconnect that monitor, when you bring FARR back up, it will be located OFFSCREEN, and so won't be visible.

I'm adding to my todo list to make sure FARR is visible and move it to a visible monitor if not.  I may also add an option to always popup farr on current monitor that the cursor is on.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Request from Blueberry for BB Flashback v2 Beta Testers
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 02:22 PM »
thanks Deozaan, corrected.
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General Software Discussion / WordFlashReader: Open Source (Free) Utility to Help You Read Faster
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 01:35 PM »
This looks like a very interesting project.  Make sure to check out the short review at freewaregenius, which is helpful as always, and where i saw this mentioned first.

Want an efficient way to do on-screen reading of web-pages, email, and other electronic texts? Try WordFlashReader -- its a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) program that makes on-screen reading easy. Its free, open-source, and works on both Windows and Linux. Try it out!

This program works best with text files and html files, but can open pdf files as well. WordFlashReader works by flashing each word of the text or book sequentially on the screen (pausing for punctuation). Not only is this way of reading off of a computer screen less straining on the eyes than the normal method, but also after a little practice you may discover that you can read at multiple times the speed you normally do.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free Microsoft Coding Tools For Students (Visual Studio and more)
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2008, 01:04 PM »
Looks like phil beat me to this: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=12380
sorry for the duplicate post.
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