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Developer's Corner / Re: Launching Google search in Visual Basic - Help?

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on February 06, 2009, 05:27 PM »

Ah, alright, I'll have to try that. I managed to get Google working a while back, but the WikiPedia one is definitely cool!

Thanks for the info!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on February 06, 2009, 05:22 PM »

This is almost 4000 pixels wide! Don't blame me for using a 10.8MP camera

(The original image was 3MB, Paint took it to the current image size).

I'll try a re-upload now...

EDIT: No dice.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Nag@Me - very simple reminder application

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on February 06, 2009, 05:15 PM »

I just whipped up this tiny program for my dad, and figured it might help someone else out as well. Nag@Me is a very simple reminder program - you run it, tell it how often you want it to nag you, and what you want it to say. Hit OK and its off. To close the app, single-click the tray icon and hit the Cancel button.

Requires .NET 3.0+, Windows 2k or above

Screenshots:

Setup GUI:


Nag notification:


Tray icon (single click to restore Setup GUI):


Program info:


Hope someone finds it useful!

EDIT: New version available here: https://www.donation...16923.0;attach=38128

EDIT: Direct link: http://wreckedcarzz.wikidot.com/local--files/downloads/Nag%40Me.exe

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on February 05, 2009, 07:11 PM »

Everyone please dont use 3rd party image hosting services which can dissapear, attach images to posts instead please.

-mouser (February 05, 2009, 07:08 PM)

Sorry mouser, but it wouldn't upload my post w/ picture! I tried 3 times, and it kept bringing me to a blank page. Should not happen with a 500kb picture in JPG format.

EDIT: I'm more tired than I thought

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Circle Dock / Re: Few question about CircleDock...

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on February 02, 2009, 04:25 PM »

I haven't used CD for a month or so now, so I can't really answer your questions, BUT I can say that posting multiple times is just going to annoy people. Wait and see if someone replies and ONLY bump a topic after at least a couple days. It is just rude - kind of like asking someone something, and when they don't reply because they are thinking/doing multiple things, you poke/tap them.

On that note... BUMP.

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 11:29 PM »

I have the same computer (motherboard fried from a bad RAM stick, though) - yea, it is just as stupid as can be. And heavy for just a mobo, CPU and case (everything else has been stripped)!

Just another reason to build your computer from scratch, or go my route and mod your OEM to the point of having to ask "will XYZ void my warranty?". I'm sure the downside of my plan is having to explain that yes, this is STILL (technically) an eMachines, and YES, my warranty is (somehow) still valid. That, and my extended warranty through Circuit City was money (not) well spent, as all their AZ stores are closing (dunno about the rest of the USA).

EDIT: Also, that same RAM stick fried a friend's mom's computer when a certain moron (not saying his name, but he is 16 and his name starts with a "w" and ends in "carzz") put it in a 2nd computer - generating the SAME burning smell and smoke. Hmm... odd.

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Living Room / Re: Cleaning Inside the Case

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 11:24 PM »

Nod5, any online site for that?

-Paul Keith (January 31, 2009, 12:23 AM)

try Metrovac

-techidave (January 31, 2009, 09:13 PM)

http://www.cyberguys...ID=371&curpage=2

URL fixed

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 02:39 PM »

I didn't take pics - I will next time around though. It was an amusing sight (minus my cursing like an insane person stuck in a cage). Took me like 45 minutes to figure out that the cable was like 2" too short to reach it on the ground.

EDIT: His HD is on the BOTTOM of the case, screwed in. Don't ask, its an HP (their laptops rule, their desktops have hard drives that hit 150* F and are screwed into the bottom of their cases)

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 02:12 PM »

lol

Example: My dad had a massive computer problem about a week and a half ago and, conveniently, the day before I made a full backup with Macrium Reflect (found it here @ DC, too! ). I brought his tower into my room, connected the HD to my mobo (this was done by turning his whole computer upside down... ugh), and Windows was like "OHai new HD found!" (not literally ).

It also got disconnected several times after the backup (I was too busy to move it back), and I reconnected it with no issues.

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 02:05 PM »

Uhh... yea? I hot swap internal drives. IDE drives are recognized by windows, but not fully by the BIOS, so you can't interact with them until a reboot. SATA drive hot swapping is fine as long as the drive isn't in use.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Emergency Release - Dad's Around

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 01:51 PM »

Random info:

For any of the gamers out there that use DA: It closes NFSU2 within 1 second on a 1.6Ghz Celeron M.

I should build a list of how long it takes to close each app

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 01:47 PM »

i wonder if they have docks for IDE hard drives. now i have plenty of those!

-lanux128 (January 29, 2009, 12:14 AM)

I've found out the hard way that IDE hard drives (and, well, some SATA drives) aren't hot-swap friendly. Especially so when the said drive is, ya know, active. BSoDs and hard lockups aren't usually regarded as a positive thing.

But it WOULD be nice to have that ability with these so-called "HD toasters" (I'm hoping because of appearance, not heat! )

-wreckedcarzz (January 29, 2009, 12:27 AM)

"Safely remove hardware", buddy...

-f0dder (January 31, 2009, 07:05 AM)

You can't do "Safely Remove Hardware" on internal drives

EDIT: Although it would be a blast getting someone that pissed you off to "Safely remove C:\"

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Living Room / Re: Cleaning Inside the Case

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 01:42 PM »

I lean it up against a fence outside and fire up the electric leaf blower!!

-Edvard (January 30, 2009, 10:15 AM)

Lmao you can't be serious!!! I'll have to try that one day.

I have a USB powered vacuum, very similar to the one you linked - it isn't ... powerful like one would usually want, but it does get the lighter and bigger dirt (the obvious stuff). I used to put vent filters in my fans (i have 150mm fans so it fits just perfectly), but the air lost a lot of speed (obviously). It did pick up a LOT of dirt though. Kind of disgusting.

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Living Room / Re: Meme time! Five Things People Don't Know About Me

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 31, 2009, 10:55 AM »

• I get HORRIBLE migraines, to the point of literally screaming in my sleep and waking myself up (the sleep is my attempt to get them to go away, and I have one right now in fact).
• I can go from sitting down and sleepy to jumping up and down for no apparent reason, at any given time.
• I still collect my Pokemon!!!
• I have this massive love of the color blue. Blue computer, blue mouse LEDs, blue keyboard LEDs, blue speaker power LED, blue monitor power LED, and in most games I'll buy anything if it is blue.
• Like my dad, I'll count random items - example: if there is a garage door I am looking at, I'll start counting the number of decorative boxes or whatever on the thing - even though I already know how many there are, I do it anyways. Same with walking. I used to look down and make sure that I stepped an even number of steps in any given concrete "section", even if I looked like an idiot.
• The last time I went outside voluntarily, I was with a group of friends that described my appearance outdoors as "strange", "rare" and "random". Be that as it may, I think it was already highlighted by my "Geek Squad" shirt.

I could go on and on, but those 5 came to me the quickest. Oh, I like flip-flops, too.

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Living Room / Re: Can a Linux man survive in Windows Land?

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 30, 2009, 04:32 PM »

Because of misinformed people stating "OMFG VISTA IS TEH SUX BUT WIN2008 IS SO OMG LEAN!!11! one one"

-f0dder (January 17, 2009, 03:43 AM)

I laughed. Hard.

And if your going for whats "new" and "hot", why not just hop on the Windows 7 wagon? It's relatively stable from what I've heard...

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 29, 2009, 12:27 AM »

i wonder if they have docks for IDE hard drives. now i have plenty of those!

-lanux128 (January 29, 2009, 12:14 AM)

I've found out the hard way that IDE hard drives (and, well, some SATA drives) aren't hot-swap friendly. Especially so when the said drive is, ya know, active. BSoDs and hard lockups aren't usually regarded as a positive thing.

But it WOULD be nice to have that ability with these so-called "HD toasters" (I'm hoping because of appearance, not heat! )

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Developer's Corner / Random error, does not happen all the time (VB .NET)

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 29, 2009, 12:03 AM »

Alright, if you haven't done the BASIC Programming School here (that would be the language, the School is not BASIC ), and you plan on it, this may be a bit of a spoiler (not a lot, but there is code in the SS).

Anyways, I'm working on the 2nd Basic assignment. Easy stuff, nothing complicated at all - I've done it before. I whipped up a small little prog that does it quite nicely, except for approximately 1/2 of the time, this error appears in VB - A NullReferenceException has occurred. Alright... so I threw in a Try/Catch block to see if I could get the error to appear in a format that someone from planet Earth could read... and nothing. On Error Resume Next does the same thing. The error "details" make no sense at all.

I've stepped through the program using the debugging tools, and it won't trigger any debugging issues. What the heck, seriously?

Anyone got ideas?

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Circle Dock / Re: SETTINGS wont work 'error message' Please help!

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 07:16 PM »

Not a problem at all!

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ProcessTamer / Re: How to silently uninstall processtamer

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 07:14 PM »

"i have no damn idea if anything is wrong with this file" but i'll flag it anyway so maybe i get lucky or win some points in the next antivirus review showdown

-mouser (January 28, 2009, 10:16 AM)

  - Funny, but true

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ProcessTamer / Re: avengine.exe

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 06:18 PM »

It is probably spending the CPU time fending off Process Tamer, essentially attacking itself. You should be able to turn it off via Panda itself, although I've never used any Panda products.

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Circle Dock / Re: The Best Free Software of 2009 by PCMag.com (App Launchers)

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 06:16 PM »

I would not worry about CD's development halting, as not only is VideoInPicture (CD author) dedicated to what he does, but even if something were to happen, the source code is openly available for anyone knowing C#.

I agree with all the positive thoughts - I don't currently run Circle Dock, and I have purchased ObjectDock Plus, but looking back I probably used CD more than ODP. It's just much easier to setup, and like you said, doesn't get in the way when moving to the side of the screen (important for gamers like me).

EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the forum!

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 06:11 PM »

(3) log in on one of those pages, then I'm returned not to that page but to one of the other pages (maybe the one that I accessed first?).

-Nod5 (January 28, 2009, 05:13 PM)

Ugh, I HATE this bug. It goes to the last page you visited before logging in. Bad cookie setting would be my guess.

Out of those 3, that one would be my first to fix, because it affects all browsers.

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Circle Dock / Re: SETTINGS wont work 'error message' Please help!

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 12:57 AM »

Basically, your Tahoma font is screwed up/missing (probably because of Windows 7 being beta with problems still). This is NO fault of Circle Dock at all (just to clarify that).

Download the font below (save it), extract the font, right click it and Install it. The error will cease.

EDIT: Also, nicely formatted error report!

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ProcessTamer / Re: How to silently uninstall processtamer

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 12:48 AM »

try /verysilent

and that is somewhat odd... why would you want to silently UNinstall something. I can understand silent INSTALLS, but that's kind of odd.

I'm assuming your using this info for non-malicious purposes (assuming that the uninstall app even allows the /verysilent switch), right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: PlayOnLinux might be what the Linux world needs to succeed

« Last post by wreckedcarzz on January 27, 2009, 11:18 PM »

It was more-or-less random/wordplay. I'm a bit infatuated with... OO, CAKE! I mean, Portal. Yes. "Aperture Science, I'm making a note here..."

"Portal" in any context immediately triggers my need for Portal. *Wreckedcarzz head begins spinning in an endless paradox/Do Until i = 1 Step 2*

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