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Living Room / Re: What were these architects thinking?
« Last post by Ath on December 08, 2011, 05:44 PM »
Am I the only person who sees this and thinks "Tetris gone wrong"?
-Josh (December 08, 2011, 05:27 PM)
Yes :P
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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 08, 2011, 05:43 PM »
I can reboot fine, it just doesn't make any difference to the MIMO. I can never really predict what will be required to make the screen work.
-nudone (December 08, 2011, 05:17 PM)
Ah, it might be my sloppy reading, but I didn't get that detail, sorry. But the net result is bad enough.

But, honestly, I'd be happier if the pc would just stop bluescreening.
-nudone (December 08, 2011, 05:17 PM)

You might need that bug to be taken out first, before investigating anything else. (Start with the memory modules)

If this second set of hardware (same company/shop, right?) is (nearly) as crappy as the first, then they have a QA issue, and you'd probably need to find another supplier.

It might be worth to investigate the qualities if the MIMO on the other system you talked about (with the Cintiq screen?), as it could turn out to be a faulty main-system after all.
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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 08, 2011, 02:29 PM »
Just installed the latest DisplayLink driver for my MIMO, and, after a whole lot of screen flashing (going on and off) 8), a reboot, and a re-recognition of the MIMO hardware, it works just fine. By the next reboot I'll know if still flashes so often during system startup.

This convinces me more that the MIMO owned by nudone is technically faulty in some way, as it prevents a reboot of the system when connected, and gives all kinds of troubles :'(


Every time I try a different web site I have to draw the page from scratch  :o
-cranioscopical (December 08, 2011, 10:35 AM)
;D ;D
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Living Room / Re: Community outsourcing... Awesome idea
« Last post by Ath on December 08, 2011, 02:17 PM »
That's just nicely inbetween full selfemployment and being a job-slave :D
Just enlist to all that you can afford, and see what it brings you. With your positive attitude you're going to be just fine :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug: Cannot copy _both_ file path and image
« Last post by Ath on December 08, 2011, 12:10 PM »
and Jira where I need to upload a file
-eekboom (December 08, 2011, 11:06 AM)
Even rather old Jira versions (4.0) have a nice page where you can paste an image (jpg/png)  from the clipboard to be attached to the issue.
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Living Room / Re: Kicked Off the Plane for Games
« Last post by Ath on December 08, 2011, 10:27 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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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 07, 2011, 10:37 PM »
I've an iPad and that seems about the best touchscreen at the moment. Maybe they should all be named something other than "touch", perhaps "heavythumbprodscreens".
-nudone (December 07, 2011, 12:04 PM)
That's in fact the difference between a Capacitive touch screen (that the iPad and most of the smartphones have) and a Resistive touch screen that the MIMO has, the technology diff explained in this Wikipedia article
2508
N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Pledge: PinPics
« Last post by Ath on December 07, 2011, 01:44 AM »
Still, a bit vague... ;D ;D
2509
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Google market promo: $0.10 apps
« Last post by Ath on December 07, 2011, 01:34 AM »
Anyone know of a workaround so I can buy the apps I want?
-Deozaan (December 06, 2011, 06:24 PM)
  • Find someone with a sufficiently capable Android device
  • Switch his/her device to your Google account, connected to your phone
  • Download, install and buy (in the appropriate order :))
  • Uninstall the app, and switch the device back to the original Google account

It's a hassle, don't know what the side-effects are (haven't tried :tellme:) but it can be done.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.2.0.0
« Last post by Ath on December 06, 2011, 05:53 PM »
It's a tad early, but I took the liberty of making it already official:

NANY2012 Release of Printer PaperSource Explorer version 1.2.0.0.

From the Changelog:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 2011-12-07, v1.2.0.0 (Release)
  2. - Added option to show the location of a printer
  3. - Added option to show the known Media and Sizes (driver-data, not printer-data!) (In Other Information submenu)
  4. - Added option to show the known Mediatypes (driver-data, not printer-data!) (In Other Information submenu)
  5. - Added options to be stored between sessions, including the position and size of the main form. (per user: %APPDATA%\PaperSourceExplorer\PaperSourceExplorer.config)
  6. - Changed Expand All Nodes to not expand the Media and Sizes and Mediatypes nodes if enabled
  7. - Improved to have application icon on the main window
  8. - Improved printed summary to have all selected optional information
  9. - Changed processing order to first display the main form with Loading... text, and then retrieve the printer data
  10. - Changed Installer to also offer to open the Changelog.txt at the end of the install

Get the update either by running Help/Check for Updates (using DCupdater), or download the installer form the first message in this thread.

The ToDo that's still open I can't say for sure to be released before/at 01-01-2012, as I'll be busy helping some family members move to their new house from next week on :-[
I'll check the forum for bugreports and feature requests as usual (maybe a bit less frequent), and release updates when needed :up:
2511
DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs
« Last post by Ath on December 06, 2011, 01:48 PM »
And blocking new topics for a couple of hours isn't helping much, as at least half of the spam posts is a reply to a, often old, thread.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: Apply checked out files
« Last post by Ath on December 06, 2011, 10:04 AM »
Sounds interesting, have colleagues that are going to like it too :up:
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General Software Discussion / Re: make USB port disabled or delayed enable on startup - any util do this?
« Last post by Ath on December 05, 2011, 08:07 AM »
It's too late to send back to Amazon, I've checked. I suppose I could send it back and say it's not fit for purpose or something but I suspect that it will work fine if I plug it into a system with less monitors attached. So, not fit for purpose isn't really the truth.
-nudone (December 05, 2011, 06:23 AM)

You should be in time to claim it's faulty and have it replaced by another one (record the serial to be sure it's replaced), if you're luck they'll send you a complete new one from stock.

I'm not prepared to keep messing about with it anymore.
-nudone (December 05, 2011, 06:23 AM)

I fully understand what you are saying, I'd go the same route with such a bad experience.
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General Software Discussion / Re: make USB port disabled or delayed enable on startup - any util do this?
« Last post by Ath on December 05, 2011, 05:53 AM »
As I wrote before, I did encounter some minor issues while starting up, having all black screens for several seconds, but eventually it just works. And I do have 2 dual-screen systems, at home both connected using DVI, and at work both connected using DisplayPort (DP), that I added the MIMO to.
I'm kinda disappointed that it won't work in your environment :(, as originally a touchscreen seemed such a good idea :huh:

You'd better try to get a refund for your device, as you wrote in the other thread.

Oh, could there be a chance you're running the monday-mornin' model? The one they defunct on purpose, just to please the guys at their service desk? It's a bit hard, without someone with a similar device in the neighborhood, to swap it temporarily to find that out. :-\
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Found Money
« Last post by Ath on December 04, 2011, 11:52 AM »
I gotta start walking the same streets you are walking (just 5 minutes ahead of you ofcourse :tellme:).
I never in my entire life (and I've been around for some decades) found this many coins and bills, that you found in a few months :o now I see why you needed this app
2516
General Software Discussion / Re: software directories
« Last post by Ath on December 04, 2011, 05:29 AM »
A bit difficult to search, but github also has several gems

@DerekHal: sf.net (as mentioned by the OP) is a working redirect for Sourceforge ;)
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on December 04, 2011, 03:58 AM »
And skwire hit another marker: he's probably getting used to it :D

Screenshot - 04-12-2011 , 10_59_26.png
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.3.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 10:36 AM »
Updated Printer PaperSource Explorer to version 1.1.3.0-beta.
From the Changelog:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 2011-12-03, v1.1.3.0-beta
  2. - Added matching a known bin when the bin-number is in the printer name separated by #: (as seen in Windows Server 2008 R2 on VMWare)

Get the update either by running Help/Check for Updates (using DCupdater), or download the installer form the first message in this thread.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.2.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 10:27 AM »
SJ,

My original intent, back in 2007, was to be able to detect/determine the (low-level) bin numbers (the BinNr.:x at the end) to use for some older software that directly drives the printers with PCL5/PCL6 code and needs to select the correct numbers in the PCL code it sends. I had been testing with an old LJ4Plus that had an extra tray mounted underneath the main tray, and all was simple/well.
Eventually it turned out that the drivers used by the more modern (both HP and other brands) printers reported totally different numbers from the actually required PCL-code numbers >:(
Though the list of possible trays was useful in some situations, this was still one of the reasons this project was shelved back then, as I couldn't find more accurate data :huh:

To be able to match possible paper trays, as gathered from the printer driver, and what's actually installed in the printer, I (have to) query Windows components. I (currently) don't intend to try and query the printers directly to retrieve that information, as that would be a project of several years, just to acquire the knowledge of retrieving it from all the printer brands available. (What are standards good for?)
Seeing your LJ2100, and the totally different (read: 'lack of' for Win7) information available on XP and Windows 7, I don't have much hope for better information from a lot of other drivers.

If you need/want the information on the paper sizes, I can try to squeeze that info in the view, though atm, I'm unsure I can directly match it to the tray at hand.
I'll release 1.1.3.0 first with an added bin-detection method.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.2.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 06:33 AM »
Updated Printer PaperSource Explorer to version 1.1.2.0-beta.
From the Changelog:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 2011-12-03, v1.1.2.0-beta
  2. - Improved matching algorithm because of an issue with PDFCreator bin names on Windows Server 2008

Get the update either by running Help/Check for Updates (using DCupdater), or download the installer form the first message in this thread.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.1.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 05:59 AM »
Updated Printer PaperSource Explorer to version 1.1.1.0-beta.
From the Changelog:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 2011-12-03, v1.1.1.0-beta
  2. - Fixed wrong website url in .dcupdate file
  3. - Remove surrounding whitespace when comparing tray names

Get the update either by running Help/Check for Updates (using DCupdater), or download the installer form the first message in this thread.
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 03:35 AM »
Thanks, ewemoa.

Yeah I saw that 1111, and captured it myself, but hadn't thought of upping the version for that ;D would've been nice.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.0.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 03, 2011, 03:30 AM »
The "Visit program web page to download update" button on the update checker sent me to a 404 here:
http://ath.dcmembers...ersourceexplorer.php

Did I show up to early?  :D
-Stoic Joker (December 02, 2011, 05:17 PM)
I mis-typed the url, have to fix that in the next update, sorry :-[ The download link from this thread's first post is correct, as you found out.


I can now see why on your Win7 config it didn't match the AutoSelect unrecognized tray: Half of the driver-trays have a space pre-fixed to the name. I'll have to strip that off during comparing ;), missed that from the previous screenshots, but now it seems obvious.
I can only agree on the crappyness of the HP drivers, as they have IMHO been for the recent 10+ years.

The WinXP display seems quite accurate, doesn't it?
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.1.0.0-beta
« Last post by Ath on December 02, 2011, 04:47 PM »
Updated Printer PaperSource Explorer to version 1.1.0.0-beta.
From the Changelog:

Code: Text [Select]
  1. 2011-12-03, v1.1.0.0-beta
  2. - Use Windows PrintServer runtime information to separate Active from Hidden/Disabled bins
  3. - Load printer data at startup only, and when Refresh is used, to improve display speed.
  4. - Added Edit/Expand All Nodes option
  5. - Added Edit/Display Hidden/Disabled bins option
  6. - Added Edit/Display Runtime bin-names option
  7. - Added Edit/Display Unrecognized Runtime bin-names option
Get the update either by running Help/Check for Updates (using DCupdater), or download the installer form the first message in this thread.

@Stoic Joker: Hope you can find some time to check this out, please report any issues here
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General Software Discussion / Re: RANT: Google UI Developers should be SHOT!
« Last post by Ath on December 02, 2011, 01:52 AM »
Localized Google pages tend to get updates like this later, the .com one get it first, usually. Can't see what page you are using, ofcourse ;)
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