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

« Last post by ewemoa on January 29, 2009, 08:48 PM »

In my recent research into these types of devices, I noticed a comment about some models falling over -- I hope this isn't that common (if it really does happen).

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for January 28th, 2009 - Codename "New Years Revolutions"

« Last post by ewemoa on January 29, 2009, 08:45 PM »

Thanks again for this ongoing effort!

I feel more relaxed in reviewing my unread posts / topics because I have a strong suspicion that 1) there may be an upcoming newsletter and 2) it is likely to contain many of the topics I would find to be of interest

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: PuTTY (preliminary discussion)

« Last post by ewemoa on January 29, 2009, 08:30 PM »

Hmm, if KiTTY is what you are going to use is there a point in me changing my plugin to handle the original PuTTY only?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: PuTTY (preliminary discussion)

« Last post by ewemoa on January 29, 2009, 08:56 AM »

Thanks for the feedback

Hmm, I will consider it -- at this point though, I have a version that works w/ more than just the original, so I'd be going back to remove/disable some portions before releasing.  I don't mind doing that in theory, it will just require some work if I decide to proceed with that course

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Living Room / Re: Culture of Computer Scientists

« Last post by ewemoa on January 27, 2009, 08:07 AM »

accomplishing stuff is a side effect that kind of happens when you put everything everyone does everywhere together.

-Gothi[c] (January 27, 2009, 04:11 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Culture of Computer Scientists

« Last post by ewemoa on January 27, 2009, 02:26 AM »

Have you folks seen the following Grady Booch lecture?

http://yuiblog.com/b...7/05/28/video-booch/

He seems to have a rather different opinion about how much computers (and/or software?) matter -- or that is the impression I got from parts of his talk...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: SokuGin - Some More Searches

« Last post by ewemoa on January 26, 2009, 07:48 AM »

For the time being I have done the following:

• Modified the installation instructions in the first post.
• Attempted to address the .dcupdate file issue (it appears I had never uploaded a versioninfo.xml file, so I did so)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - right click on results Command prompt here option

« Last post by ewemoa on January 26, 2009, 05:16 AM »

FWIW, I'm testing a feature out in the Akete plugin [1] that augments a result folder or drive's context menu with an item which essentially packages up the command line posted by macs.

On a side note, I'm a fan of the Control-R key sequence for results items 


[1] In a version as-yet-unreleased at the time of this writing.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: SokuGin - Some More Searches

« Last post by ewemoa on January 25, 2009, 10:59 PM »

Thanks for taking the time to test and provide detailed feedback.

I intend to investigate these points and hope to address them soon

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Living Room / Re: IRC chatroom - web or client - problems?

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 07:32 AM »

I can't find anywhere in Chatzill to set SSL connections or set ports. Any ideas?

-Carol Haynes (January 21, 2009, 06:01 AM)

Have you tried using an ircs URL?

http://chatzilla.hac...rus.com/faq/#connect (see the end of 2.2)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 05:35 AM »

Ok, I think the "right-clicking on a result which has an extension that has no related configuration" issue has been addressed -- hopefully in an appropriate manner.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 05:10 AM »

Thanks for testing again and noticing the issue with non-configured file types.  Very good point

I tested a change I made to address the issue and it seems to be working here.

I've uploaded a new version and I have my fingers crossed.

Edit: there may be an issue w/ right-clicking on a result which has an extension that has not been configured -- looking into this now.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 03:37 AM »

Terribly sorry -- completely my fault.  Sorry to have wasted your time.

I have uploaded a version with a work-around [1] -- this time I tested the installation from the downloaded file (like I should have done to begin with!).


[1] I had code for determining the directory of the plugin that was specific to my atypical set up -- as I understand it, a future version of FARR should make the work-around unnecessary (though I'll need to update the plugin to make use of the feature).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 03:07 AM »

Thanks for the report.

Hmm...May I ask how you performed the installation of the plugin and what version of FARR you are using (I'm using 2.45.01)?

FWIW, the new plugin has some code split out into a separate file so upgrading is no longer a matter of replacing fscript.js -- on the off-chance that that's what was going on

Edit: I managed to reproduce the error -- investigating now

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2009, 01:11 AM »

I've put together a new experimental version -- the first post of this thread should contain an updated download link as well as the associated README.txt in the spoiler section.

I think I have made initial attempts at all of the features discussed in this thread.

If you give it a try, I'd appreciate knowing how it works (or doesn't ) for you.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias help needed

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2009, 11:19 PM »

Would using a batch file to perform manipulation of session.ini filenames be of any help as a piece of this puzzle?

FWIW, the following removes the .ini portion (along with double quotes) of a string passed as a first argument to the batch file:

REM based on http://groups.google...msg/923423bf3143fcdd
REM try to manipulate first argument to batch file
SET inifilename=%1
REM remove .ini
SET inifilename=%inifilename:.ini=%
REM remove double quotes
SET inifilename=%inifilename:"=%
ECHO %inifilename%

It may be that using double quotes may be important depending on the file path being manipulated.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 03-09

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2009, 10:38 PM »

Thanks as usual

I confess to being in the same camp as Deozaan w.r.t. 11.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xenon Portable File Manager - Portable Associations!

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2009, 03:42 AM »

@fenixproductions: thanks for contributing

C.A.F.E. is something I put off looking at because I wasn't sure if it was actually going to get developed further (and I don't communicate well in French).  When I looked into portable file associations a bit back, I had noticed that there seemed to be a number of efforts in this area, and I've just been waiting to see if any of them actually releases something that is usable...

Another one which looked to me like it might be stalled was PortableFileAssociator.

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Developer's Corner / Tech Presentations (site)

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2009, 02:17 AM »

Recently, I came across the site "Tech Presentations" when researching specific presentations.  So far, I take "Tech" in this context to mean mostly related to the Internet.

From the about page of the associated blog:

Authors of this blog are digging up technical presentations from different conferences and events.

Quite often such presentations share information that can’t be found in books or articles and can give you insights at technology advances, company culture and even people personalities.

One nice thing the site provides is different views of the collected presentations, including by:

• Conferences
• Presentations
• People
• Companies
• Locations

http://www.techpresentations.org/

Perhaps other folks will find this to be of some use at some point

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xenon Portable File Manager - Portable Associations!

« Last post by ewemoa on January 18, 2009, 11:15 PM »

I hope a slight tangent will be tolerated

One of the things I had considered for the FARR Akete plugin is to try to work w/ the file associations stored by various file managers -- in Xenon's case, there is a file named "assoc.ini" which seems to contain relevant-looking information.  So far I haven't ended up using Xenon very much -- and I'm interested in knowing how people find it.  IIUC, some other file explorers allow one to have portable file associations, e.g. XYPlorer:

http://www.xyplorer....r/index.php?page=pom
http://88.191.26.34/...le_File_Associations

May be folks know of some others...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias help needed

« Last post by ewemoa on January 16, 2009, 06:01 AM »

For investigative purposes, would you mind letting us know which SSH implementation you are using?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 16, 2009, 05:44 AM »

Thanks for the feedback -- I really appreciate it

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2009, 10:47 PM »

I'm thinking of providing a way of handling files with no file extension.

My current candidate for doing this is via the user variable Options.NoExtension.  Possible associated values should be the same as for a file extension.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2009, 08:38 AM »

I think I'll go with a default of "with" as the prefix, provide a way to change the prefix, and leverage any existing file extension association configuration so that it may be used with a keyword (e.g. if you have an association defined for 'html', then the plugin should recognize the keyword 'withhtml').

I discovered that one can use period-separated names for both section names (e.g. "Akete.Options") and variable names (e.g. "Options.KeywordPrefix") in FARR User Variables.  Also, that:

  [Akete.Options]
  KeywordPrefix=test

ends up being the same (?) as (at least as far as requesting the value from FARR is concerned):

  [Akete]
  Options.KeywordPrefix=test

I'm currently leaning toward suggesting the use of the variable names in the official documentation.

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Site/Forum Features / Viewing Subsets of Unread Posts?

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2009, 07:06 AM »

I was getting overwhelmed by the number of unread posts I encountered via "Show unread posts" so I tried fiddling with various URLs.  Below is what I've been using for some days now and I feel a bit less swamped:

• Open Discussion
• DonationCoder.com Software
• Reviews and Recommendations
• Special User Sections

I access these via my browser's bookmark bar -- may be there's a better way, but this is what I've come up with at the moment.

May be there are better ways to get at subsets of unread posts.  Any ideas?