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General Software Discussion / PawSense: catproof your computer

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 16, 2007, 07:30 AM »

Now here's an original piece of software!

When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it.

PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.

-http://bitboost.com/pawsense/index.html

http://bitboost.com/pawsense/index.html



Notice that this actually is payware software. I thought it was a prank, but it really is a very developed program.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 08:20 PM »

whoa, those are crazy big buttons!

Well.. There are better ways to make buttons, but the sire sure is out of the ordinary
As for the file type, you probably should be using png, since it's lossless. (those weird artifacts on your image are caused because jpg works well with gradients, not sudden changes of color. Thus, don't use jpg for anything other than photographs)

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove discussion.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 01:01 PM »

starting GridMove I got an error that the help file couldn't be found or some thing

-mitzevo (July 15, 2007, 12:58 PM)

Does that happen everytime you start gridmove?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Changing Location of My Documents/Music/etc. in Windows XP

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 12:49 PM »

Type "control userpasswords2" on the run dialog, and there's an option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". I think that'd solve your problem.

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove discussion.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 12:44 PM »

Actually, Mitzevo, GridMove isn't supposed to write anything out of the directory where the executable is... Are you launching it through a shortcut or something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the best LINUX software?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 12:14 PM »

Rythmbox! I think that's the one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Guy Tries Ubuntu

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 15, 2007, 09:57 AM »

"This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota"

Disregard this, the poor guy got digged

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the best LINUX software?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2007, 08:11 PM »

best linux software ever

Other than that... Opera (which doesn't feel quite right under linux, though), firefox (which i usually use on linux, although i prefer opera on windows). There's also a jukebox which is pretty good, but i can't recall its name.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug] v2.00.130 start farr via alias hotkey does not execute alias

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2007, 08:05 PM »

Well... I know it doesn't make much sense, but you can always call that alias "!"
The thing is: a regex pattern can't be filled out, as it can correspond to a lot of text.
For example: how should a pattern like ^([0-9]*)hello[a-z]*$ be filled out? That could represent 0089123helloaasdfasds or just hello or something else.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2007, 04:22 PM »

am i doing something wrong?

-justice (July 14, 2007, 03:30 PM)

Version 2.00.129 - July 13th, 2007
  [bugfix] alias results with urls were showing \ICON in results

-farr's help file

Isn't this the bug you mention in this thread?
Still not solved?

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD #2: DonationCoder Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 7/14, Champaign Illinois

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2007, 04:20 PM »

From left to right, Josh's wife, skrommel, Josh, mouser!

-mouser (July 14, 2007, 03:49 PM)

Hmm... Which one sucks more: my math, or my english?
The first picture only has 3 persons and i count 4 on that sentence.
Here are all the combinations i can make out of that sentence:

1 - Josh's wife is skrommel
2 - Skrommel is the imaginary person between Josh's wife and Josh
3 - Skrommel is a little girl, Josh is actually a woman and her "wife" has the looks of an army man

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.129 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 13, 2007

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2007, 04:55 AM »

"c:\program files" appears as the first result because that's intended to be launched by pressing -enter-. It wouldn't make sense not to be the first result, since that's the best match for the text on the editbox.

As for having -tab- autocompleting to the first entry after "c:\program files", that sounds a bit confusing, it'll probably surprise people.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 07:19 PM »

Thanks, that fixed it!

-kamansan (July 13, 2007, 04:26 PM)

Yeah, seems to work every time. I wonder why it does work, though :/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 04:19 PM »

Wonderful program that worked fine at work. But on my personal laptop, it crashes, am I the only one it's happening to?

-kamansan (July 13, 2007, 03:17 PM)

Damn... I can't understand why that happens.
Please try what's mentioned in in this post and report back

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 04:16 PM »

Does that make more sense?

-afm (July 12, 2007, 10:24 AM)

It does, and i think i have the way to do it. I'll get back to you later

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General Software Discussion / Re: Context menu editing

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 04:06 PM »

Thanks JGPAIVA. No more problems and I also learned something new!
JR

-jacquesrober (July 13, 2007, 03:07 PM)

You're very welcome. That's why we're here

That had happened to me, somehow i changed the default action of double-click on folders to -no action-, or something like that. It were weeks before i understood how to solve it, i really can relate to your suffering.

Now, the good part. There's a benign thing about that dialog. It allows you to add context menu items for stuff. I have a context menu "open in MPC" for video files, which i use when BSplayer isn't working properly

Still... Proceed with caution, it can have these nasty effects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Detecting RootKits

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 04:02 PM »

Lashiec is right with his translation.

Apparently, there are diverging positions on that blog post. The guy writes bad as hell, he shouldn't be allowed to have a blog!!!
Truth is that i couldn't figure out if there is a virus or not. Apparently, only AVG is finding it. (I'm stating to find AVG a paranoid-maker, these posts about false positives are becoming WAY too anoying)
Well.. But his conclusion is "maybe this is just a giant false-positive".

Really sorry for not being more helpful, but i really can't understand what that guy is trying to comunicate.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD #2: DonationCoder Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 7/14, Champaign Illinois

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 03:51 PM »

Lets see, I wont be tired because my wife will be driving I dont need home turf advantage because we train to fight on all sorts of foreign terrain. Mouser might have brains, but does he know how to use them ;-) My money is on myself and my trusty M24 sniper rifle with 2 mile optical sight.

-Josh (July 13, 2007, 12:40 PM)

I'd love to see that "fight" live

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Living Room / Re: Flash game/fun: The Cadaver Calculator

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 03:08 PM »

Cool, it works! Which one do you use for the hide/show button?

-Tekzel (July 13, 2007, 08:58 AM)

You're looking for the ]spoiler[...]/spoiler[ tag (reverse the parenthesis)

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Living Room / Re: Why is the 'N' key always the first to go?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 13, 2007, 04:32 AM »

For me, it's the B key. Strange, isn't it?

Hint: in Counter-Strike, the B key is used at the beggining of each round, to buy each piece of the equipment for the round

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to Slow down "notification area"?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2007, 04:17 PM »

This thread may shed some light on tray manager.

Basically, a tray manager is used to keep the icons you'd like to see always visible and the ones you don't like, hidden.
Also notice that windows XP already does this, you can configure this, the main difference is that tray managers to this much better and some of them give you a menu with all the icons and their names (which would make it easier to choose one).

Here's how to configure the icons on your tray:
-Right-click your taskbar and select "properties".
-A new window comes up. Select "custumize", next to "hide inactive icons"
-A new window comes up. There, you can select which icons you'd like to "hide when inactive", "always show" or "always hide"


If you'd like to always show all icons, on the step where you pressed "custumize", don't press that, just untick that box "hide inactive icons" and press OK

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General Software Discussion / Re: Context menu editing

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2007, 04:06 PM »

Actually, that's not related to the context menu. It's the default action for double-click on the file that is wrong.

Open windows explorer and go to: tools -> folder options -> file types.
Then, search for "drive" in the list. (should be like the second item)
Select it and press "advanced". There should appear a list of "actions". Select "find" and press "set default".

That should solve it. If it doesn't, i'm sure it's solvable though changes in the registry

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to Slow down "notification area"?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2007, 02:53 PM »

I'm sorry, but i fail to understand why you'd need such thing.
Why not just remove those at all, or use a tray manager to keep the icons you like always showing?

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Living Room / Re: Flash game/fun: The Cadaver Calculator

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2007, 01:01 PM »

$4940.00 here.. Not too bad

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to save all *.url links inside of an entire site?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2007, 12:58 PM »

I see steve. It must be using the cokies of internet explorer.
It probably doesn't save those pages because they require you to click on that <link> tab, which appears to be javascipt.

I'm sorry but i see no simple way to retrieve those links