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Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 11:01 PM »

great! i think i better split this thread off so others can find this trick..

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review: ArtRage 2.2 (free and full versions)

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 10:46 PM »

Wonderful mini-review!!!!

(ps. people please remember to send some credits to mini-review authors!)

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Living Room / Re: engineer joke

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 09:13 PM »

I *think* the joke is that the computer engineer suggests the nonsensical idea that amounts to basically just "try it again", must like if your computer crashes, you just try rebooting it and hope it starts working. 

However my personal experience tells me the computer engineer's solution is by far the best:
1) it only takes a minute to try it, and if it works you've saved yourself a ton of time and effort vs the other suggestions.
2) let's face it, sometimes when you "try it again" it works..  the world is a mysterious place.

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 01:14 PM »

the thing -> one of my favorites.

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 12:39 PM »

masu, how could we forgotten the terminator series?  terminator 1+2 were one of the most unexpectedly best scifi movies ever.

BUT,
all who have posted so far should hang their heads in shame for not mentioning: 2001.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.71 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 4, 2007

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 08:21 AM »

great idea regarding searching history.. i'll be releasing the farrfox plugin source code with the plugin system this week.. hopefully someone will add that feature

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General Software Discussion / Re: removal tool for ScreenShot Captor

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 07:56 AM »

you probably uninstalled it while it was still running in the system tray, which prevented it from completely uninstalling.
solutions:

1) you could do the old trick of re-installing and then re-uninstalling. (just make sure its not running in tray when you uninstall).
or
2) just delete the C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor directory

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 01:17 AM »

the good news is that at least the world is not totally insane.

the bad news is that this method of downloading a file is not very useful, because it doesnt allow url snooper to spy on the network traffic which is what you really need to do to get most sneaky urls.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2007, 12:36 AM »

ok i think that ip network is a clue that something is wrong.
the thing that is confusing me so much is how it can be seeing packets but not urls.
im going to re-enable a debug mode version and see if by looking at packets we can figure out what is going wrong.

question:
if you type http://www.c-span.org in the "Manual Scan a URL" box and hit "Download" button, does it then find some resulting urls?

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:58 PM »

you forgot Alien and Aliens !

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:54 PM »

The reason i told you to go to sites youve never been to is that it's possible your browser could be cacheing results and thus not actually fetching them from the internet, which url snooper requires.

Your long essay on networking is appropriate -- as you say it's hard to know with the cable modems these days if traffic from other users is passing by you and exciting url snooper

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Best Text Editor / Re: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:44 PM »

yep -- this was a wonderful fix.
ps. i cant help but think our review, which IDM read with care, helped inspire them to add this feature that i complained about it missing 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.71 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 4, 2007

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:42 PM »

Latest update adds a bunch of stuff, but most importantly perhaps is a bug was fixed that could cause the display of the window to be a bit slow when restoring from the tray.  The first time FARR displays it wont be faster, but subsequent displays should be.  Thanks to Ravi who emailed me and convinced me of this bug's existence.

ps. Plugin SDK should be released later this week.

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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Re: What did you think of the review?

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:06 PM »

a LOT of us are looking forward to bc3! 

for me, the full screen editing is the one thing i dislike about bc2, which i otherwise love.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 11:02 PM »

1) there are some good youtube download addone for firefox so that if your desire is to record youtube you might try one of those.

2) as for filter keywords -- these are only used to REDUCE the # of urls shown, so leave that blank always, unless you get too many urls shown.

3) im not understanding your think abour commandline $url stuff.

your comment here troubles me:
toggled off "only this computer" (packets stop if I turn this on)

are you on a network? i wonder if somehow its scanning packets from your network other computers and not yours.
how about try checking that option even if it looks like packets stop, but then click sniff and go to www.c-span.org, and hold ctrl+shift while you hit the refresh button in your browser, or just go visit some other random sites, and see if the packet counter at the bottom statusbar ever increases.

try some sites you've never been to before like: http://www.di.fm/

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Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 10:32 PM »

hmm, i have v4, maybe that's the problem.  anyone know the dll function for wordweb 5 assuming it's different from ShowRunDLL?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 10:30 PM »

the thing is, if its sniffing so many packets and you go to a site like c-span, then it's near impossible that it wouldnt be finding stuff...
unless perhaps you have something specified in the "Keyword Filter" box, which would prevent it from matching most urls.

go to advanced mode, then in the protocol drop down box select "Show All" and in the Keyword Filter box make sure it's empty, then make sure you are sniffing and open your browser to www.c-span.org and see what urls it shows.

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Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 10:15 PM »

what version of wordweb do you have installed?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: not freeware !!!

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 10:14 PM »

that's an interesting idea.  I see it on beta versions a lot actually, for just this reason.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-stop refreshing

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 04:53 PM »

dr leech can you send me you screenshotcaptor.ini file, maybe that will help me to be able to reproduce the error.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-stop refreshing

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 04:50 PM »

well i will add a way to remove it, but if i could impose on you - you are now my #1 way to test this bug and fix it, so i dont want you to escape before i can use you to track down the problem

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-stop refreshing

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 04:27 PM »

damn it.
do you know how to reproduce it reliably? ie. can you cause it to happen consistently after exiting the program and restarting it?  the problem is it's so hard for me to find the problem because i can't get it to happen for me.  but if you can reliably reproduce it even after installing a new version, then you are like my golden goose and i will try to send you some test versions..

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General Software Discussion / ProcessMonitor 1.1 released by SysInternals

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 03:31 PM »

Thos of you who have heard about Filemon and Regmon but not the newer Process Monitor need to check this out.  Process Monitor is a great tool for watching what processes do in the background..

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.

http://www.microsoft.../processmonitor.mspx

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Living Room / Read/WriteWeb Roundup: Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 02:44 PM »

Read/WriteWeb Roundup: Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared
Another nice long comparitive review by Read/WriteWeb

Having previously relied on the Yahoo! online television guide to know what was on the boob tube, I was annoyed when a simple and easy-to-use product was replaced with such a clunker (more on that in the review of Yahoo!'s TV page below).

So, I set off on a quest to find a replacement for Yahoo!'s television listings. At times, as I dug through the various online tv listings services, it almost seemed that there were as many ways to find out what was on TV as there were channels to watch! Below, in alphabetical order, are quick reviews of 10 such services that I tried (including Yahoo!'s).

http://www.readwrite...ervices_compared.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graham does it again: Why not to start a startup

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2007, 01:05 PM »

Not only is Farming a job, but Farming may have been the original Start Up.