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

« Last post by Ath on December 14, 2011, 05:16 AM »

You forgot that which is allocated to PEBKAC.

-4wd (December 14, 2011, 03:59 AM)

I hid that in the 70% "not installed right" part

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: EasyNotes (Beta)

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 05:25 PM »

And a feature request:

• Option to minimize the window

(Assuming the Move Window issue gets fixed)

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: EasyNotes (Beta)

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 05:23 PM »

I can see 2 minor issues:

• Select All doesn't list it's shortcut key (Ctrl-A)
• Closing without saving the data doesn't give a warning/option to save

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

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Before I'd go through that much trouble on a cloudy/crap-colored display, I'd get another, better, display. You're probably watching it a couple of hours a day, why accept mediocre?

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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.