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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: DimScreen + DimSaver = MonitorTintFixer?

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 04:46 PM »

Trouble in paradise for you:

Backlight bleeding is caused by the casing and the display panel/backlight assembly not mounted completely light-proof, so a little bit of light is leaking (bleeding) at the borders of the display. A mechanical/construction issue.
There's exactly 1 way to fix that: Take the thing a part, fix the size and mounting issues of the parts and re-assemble it. That may prove to be impossible.

Sorry

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Living Room / Re: Ground Hog Day - failed system image restoring yet again

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 03:37 PM »

I admire your determination to keep telling me to check the machine out. I think I will, but not until February at the earliest.

-nudone (December 13, 2011, 03:14 PM)

It's just that I know how you feel. I've been there too, several times, with several types of equipment, and the only way to get things back on track...

Being an experienced optimist , this aparatus started out wrong, and it'll be really hard to get it right.

I'm not trying to push you anywhere, just expressing my sympathy.

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Living Room / Re: Ground Hog Day - failed system image restoring yet again

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 02:43 PM »

So, despite the 24 hour (or was it 48, forgot that detail) burn-in test done, the system is not stable.

the problem being that I can't afford to test it right now; if it fails then I've got a week's worth of installing and setting up to do.

-nudone (December 13, 2011, 02:13 PM)

You just have to set up that machine right. And it might involve a full re-install of Windows.
I know you said you updated all and every driver in the system, but that doesn't mean Windows isn't corrupted in some way. I've seen that happen from Windows 3.11 MS-DOS 2.x to Windows 7, and all versions in between. Just starting over with a format c: /s and restarting the tedious job of re-installing Windows and all your required software will eventually fix the issue. I understand you are not (yet) ready to go there.

About 15 % chance the memory (probably just 1 module) in the system is the cause of trouble (even after a burn-in test!)
About 10 % chance the video adapter/drivers is the cause of the trouble
About 5 % chance the hard-drive (boot/swap) is the cause of the trouble
About 0.01 % chance the PS/2 keyboard is the cause of trouble (saw that about twice in about 2000+ PC's in all my years building of PC's)
The rest (~70 %!) is caused by Windows not installed/decompressed right.

(Percentages are estimates)

Just my  

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General Software Discussion / Re: AdBlock Plus To Not Block All Ads

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 02:06 PM »

Isn't this the same that 'happened' to Ad-Aware some years ago? Nearly everyone used to use that to remove ad- and spy-ware from their computers, until that 1 update where they decided that some type of ads where 'allowable' (iow: you could get on that 'exclusive' list by paying). Ad-Aware still sort of lives on, but it never recovered from the damage they did to themselves.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Virtualization to Create Single EXEs from Mixed Assemblies

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 01:13 PM »

I too want such a program, for me it would have been helpful. How can I get the key?

-JulsSmile (December 13, 2011, 01:09 PM)

Euhm, buy it from the publishers?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 07:25 AM »

Using the instructions of Hollow I've successfully downloaded and opened the file

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 07:03 AM »

But the downloaded file can't be read by 7-zip

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 07:00 AM »

Just opened that page using FF 8

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General Software Discussion / Re: AdBlock Plus To Not Block All Ads

« Last post by Ath on December 12, 2011, 05:23 PM »

That's as sure a way to oblivion as putting a knife in the heart with a slow force

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Living Room / Re: Elvis Sighting

« Last post by Ath on December 12, 2011, 05:11 PM »

I hear special music playing, oh no, that's mouser making funny sounds

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Cautomaton

« Last post by Ath on December 12, 2011, 05:09 PM »

Is there any hope to fix the issue with the "Previous versions" choice on the context menu? I need it for my Excel recovery project...

-socrtwo (December 12, 2011, 04:40 PM)

Please elaborate, iow: What are you asking?

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Living Room / Re: Sansa Clip Zip: Wow!

« Last post by Ath on December 12, 2011, 03:05 PM »

Sexy! 

I learned a bit of that tube-technology when in (high)school, but was luckily born in such a year that I also was thought digital technology with 8 bit microprocessors

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by Ath on December 12, 2011, 03:00 PM »

All I saw was that today the forum-backup had shifted forward (as in: later than usual) 1 hour, but that could be on purpose, or have to do with the server time setting issue there was after getting re-powered, as rgdot pointed out earlier in this thread.

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by Ath on December 11, 2011, 01:08 PM »

Just watched the video, and I'm very impressed
Great program.

Had to use the DC hosted version, as the screen-text in the youtube release was nearly unreadable for me

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Living Room / Re: Patent Wars: Motorola Hits Apple in EU

« Last post by Ath on December 11, 2011, 09:25 AM »

Sounds like Google is testing what they bought

I expect the German judge to conclude in a few days that he and/or his court isn't qualified to rule for entire Europe, like a few months back on the Apple vs Samsung case

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 11:18 AM »

Did you ever try connecting both of its USB inputs?

-cranioscopical (December 10, 2011, 10:39 AM)

The 7" model only has 1 input, and only 1 connector on each end of the cable (that are each in their sockets), for what I know, so, what both USB inputs?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Big Bang Theory Sound Quotes (for Android devices)

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:50 AM »

There's another one with exactly the same name, you're the 'Droid on Roid' publisher name I guess?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Big Bang Theory Sound Quotes (for Android devices)

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:46 AM »

Looks nice, I'm now only curious about it's size, as my phone's memory is nearly filled

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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf, word, etc files based on their text content

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:40 AM »

I'd be going nuts trying to find that file I stored and it got renamed to something totally different

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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf, word, etc files based on their text content

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:27 AM »

skwire is still busy I guess

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:19 AM »

Wow! At Last! Great

The MIMO is connected to a USB port on one of the DELL 20" monitors (I assume this is a powered USB port).

-nudone (December 10, 2011, 09:04 AM)

I do remember someone (a colleague I guess) saying that he could even power an iPad from one of those Dell ports (that iPad really needs a lot of power, exceeding the formal USB 2.0 specs, most Apple laptops have 1 port with extra power, AFAIK), so I guess it's a power issue, combined with that BIOS update, that fixes this.

I first thought that 30 to 40 buttons would the right amount (or even more) but I now think it's way too many. Keeping layouts to around 20 buttons or less will, hopefully, be easier to remember.

-nudone (December 10, 2011, 09:04 AM)

You can run several instances of WinButtons (by giving it a -f filename command-line parameter for a specific file, and -t xxx -l yyy for a specific desktop position) that are positioned side by side so you have quicker response when switching apps in a context-sensitive config (less buttons to redraw), and because of less screen updates, there's less distraction for the user.

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General Software Discussion / Re: font/raster/vector/icons/logos/stockphotos/etc and generally design repositories

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:07 AM »

DeviantArt.com ?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Download Microsoft Learning Suite Free

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 09:05 AM »

No issues here, it's just TheWindowsClub, a Microsoft-friendly kinda group AFAICS

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: SPAM email

« Last post by Ath on December 10, 2011, 07:45 AM »

Probably the same as this thread: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=29211.0

The mail you received is'n just a PM notification?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Overhead of cross platform development

« Last post by Ath on December 09, 2011, 08:20 AM »

I'd say: Start small, and grow into it.

Nevertheless, we'll need continuous integration for both platforms

-phitsc (December 09, 2011, 08:02 AM)

Jenkins should be able to handle that for you, we're running it here both on Linux and Windows (mostly for Java and .NET stuff though, but it should handle standard make stuff with ease), and it's quite easy to run, once you've installed a bunch of plug-ins.