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Find And Run Robot / Re: what is happening in this key sequence?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:50 PM »

by the way for any given custom regular expression you can add this feature yourself if you are daring.

You basically add a second capture group to the regular expression, and use that in the alias "Result Filter" box.

So for example instead of:
^tor (.*)
You would match on
^tor (.*) [--(.*)]?

(actually im not sure about that []? part but if you know regular exressions im trying to add a second expression that is optional).

Then in the Result Filter box you put $$2


Having said that i think it's smarter to add a generic way of applying result filtering to regular expression results and so i will add it, just have to decide on the special characters to use for it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Silly Idea? A program that counts out loud

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:41 PM »

Clever idea CPilot 
Now where is that online fbsl to exe  service that used to be available?

fowmow -- works perfectly    very fun stuff.

I'm going to try setting this thing to count to 10,000 and see if it helps me go to sleep.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: what is happening in this key sequence?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:30 PM »

It would be helpful to amend the help file then, where it still has the old binding.  It's under Advanced Use > Hotkey and Shortcut Summary.

Thanks, it will be fixed in the new update.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Conflicting shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:06 PM »

Thanks for reminding me about this, will fix asap.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: what is happening in this key sequence?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:06 PM »

To launch all results i think it's now Ctrl+Alt+Enter (not just Ctrl+Enter).. i forget why.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: what is happening in this key sequence?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 03:04 PM »

I can help a bit.

The torrent vs. tor issue is actually behaving as it should but it's problematic.
The problem is this:
The name of the alias is "torrent" but the regular expression keys on "tor (.*)"
SO, when you type the full word torrent it shows all results in that alias BUT it doesnt know how to regular expression extract.
So it really wants you to type: "tor searchwords"

Now a more subtle problem is that if you use regular expression you can't filter out certain searches.

I think there are two solutions needed in the ideal case.

The first one is easy and that is to make the regular expression for this group match on "tor[rent] (.*)" (whatever the regex for that is) -- that would solve the main problem.

I was also thinking that to enable filtering on regular expressions, we could add a special character that would filter and NOT get matched against regular expressions.  So for example you could type:
"tor searchword *FILTER WORDS"

and it would match as if you typed "tor searchword", and THEN do a filter on results using everything after the *.

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Site/Forum Features / Simple automatic hyperlinks in your posts

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 02:52 PM »

When you want to hyperlink a word or phrase in your post you normally select the text and hit the URL button (looks like globe) which surrounds your text with [url]TEXT[/url] tags.

If your text is a url like www.cnn.com then you are done.

If not you normally need to edit the tags to say for example:
click [url=http://www.cnn.com]here[/url] to visit cnn.


I've just made a small change so that if you dont put the = part it will link to a search for the item.


This is especially useful if you want to tell someone about some piece of software but you are too lazy to provide a link to it.  For example:

• "Check out [url]ccleaner[/url]" will result in:  Check out http://ccleaner.

It's also useful if you want to tell someone to search for something, e.g.:

• "Search for [url]accelerated c++[/url]" results in: Search for http://accelerated c++.

I hope this will encourage people to put links to items when they post lists of programs they use etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Custom Font Settings for FARR

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2007, 12:16 PM »

I'll see what i can do about this.  i think it should be a simple fix..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a screen resolution manager?

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 11:10 PM »

if you have multiple monitors then definitely look into Ultramon.

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DcUpdater / Re: Installed programs not recognized

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 09:16 PM »

shall i just downloading everything again via DCU?

no -- that won't make a difference.
I just need to figure out what is wrong. Email me and I can walk you through where to look to see what might be going wrong and why.

In general what we want to find is if the files in here:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DonationCoder\DcUpdater\RedirectFiles\

Are properly specifying where your programs are installed.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Outstanding bugs...

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 03:57 PM »

Ah yes, thanks for the reminder, i like that idea i just forgot about it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: RunScanner -autostart and antihijack control/analysis program

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 03:38 PM »

Welcome to the site Lusher,
I actually meant to post about this very interesting looking software earlier.  I haven't tried it but it looks very interesting.  Love to hear some feedback from our members on this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Be able to exec programs with Limited Rights by default

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 01:22 PM »

This is really not a bad idea at all.. i could make an option where you could tell FARR to launch programs via another tool like DropMyRights, pretty easily..  perhaps if it's an advanced feature we should have a system where you can for example say "programs that match this pattern should be lauched like this, and programs with this pattern should be launched like that.

Code6226, send me an email ([email protected]) if you are willing to do some testing and configuring of programs like DropMyRights and are willing to test a version of FARR which uses programs like this to launch items.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 12:41 PM »

yes that's a reasonable alternative as well.

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DcUpdater / Re: Installed programs not recognized

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 12:17 PM »

FARR plugins are in the FARR directory, so when FARR is found, they are found, so no you don't have to do anything other than run FARR once for it to find them.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 12:15 PM »

zajc, not a bad idea -- thanks for the suggestion i might just add that.

lethalrocks:

the problem I mentioned (removing the first few letters) still happens, albeit less often

i think i inadvertently added something that creates this behavior of farr in the last release or two when i added the new hotkey system.  i'll try to fix in next release.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Outstanding bugs...

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 12:11 PM »

I'll take a look at these and try to fix all for next release, i do thank you for the reminders.

The option to not autosave is in fact implemented:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Silly Idea? A program that counts out loud

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2007, 12:07 PM »

Cool stuff! i'm going to try these and report 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Download directly to CD

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 10:29 PM »

i like to save everything i download to dvd for archiving purposes.

what i would recommend in general is create a directory on your Hard Disk or desktop labeled MyDownloads or something, and get into the habit of always downloading into that folder.

every once in a while create a new subdirectory with the current date, like "Downloads_082107" and move everything new you downloaded into there.

then at the end of the month, or after you have accumulated a cd or dvd worth of downloads, burn that directory to cd and delete it and start again.

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DcUpdater / Re: Installed programs not recognized

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 10:26 PM »

3. after completing the downloads, i exited Farr & DCU and extracted manually into respective folders (C:\Program Files\DC\<program name>).
4. that's it. then i started Farr then launched DCU.

ah ok that's easy then..
when you extract manually rather than using the installer for each program, DCU won't find the programs until you run them at least once.  Running the programs will "register them" wherever they are.

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Living Room / Bugs of collective intelligence: why the best ideas aren’t selected? Blog Essay

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 09:35 PM »

Nice piece by member (and friend) alex3f, talking about group dynamics in decision making.  Alex has done a lot of work in this field and it's always interesting to hear his take on some of these studies..

Collective problem solving involves iterated innovation and selection of solutions. In his experiment, Matt decoupled the two by ensuring that the right solution was injected into the pool of solutions that group considered and yet he repeatedly observed that the group rejected the right solution. Apparently, the group evaluation of ideas was seriously biased towards accepting the inferior ideas of the senior members at the expense of other ideas, i.e. the senior status of the idea source overweighted the intrinsic merits of the idea. This is an example of subjective selectionist bias. Another common type of bias is temporal bias. For example, solutions proposed earlier can be preferred to solutions proposed later (or the other way around).

We can see these sources of bias working in many “collective intelligence” web 2.0 platforms, where people are supposed to select the fittest among several versions of the content based on the merit of the content. However, in reality, the selection is heavily biased by other factors that has little to do with the quality of the content.

http://3form.org/blog/?p=37

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DcUpdater / Re: Installed programs not recognized

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 09:20 PM »

that's troubling..
how did you launch the updater.. from the start menu or from another program?
can you remind me what OS it is?
i don't suppose you installed or ran the programs from one directory and then moved them?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Ugly selection drawing...

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 03:01 PM »

yeah it bothers me too i must admit.. ill see what i can do.
(you might try switching the options to small results mode see if you like that better).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 02:10 PM »

Thanks ken 

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Living Room / MOVED: Review Needed: Onecore

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 12:28 PM »

This topic has been moved to Announce Your Software/Service/Product.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9663.0