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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 31, 2015, 06:40 AM »
Hm... lotsa spam here this morning, is that an artifact of the upgrade or just a happy coincidence?  :P
-x16wda (August 31, 2015, 05:52 AM)

I think it's a co-incidence but since "most of the point" of the upgrade is to help relieve Mouser's headaches with his growing spaghetti code, I asked earlier if there are new methods that can help anti-spam. The "brutal" (but it turned out to be effective!) one another site I know that began to have growing spam problems, is the first post must be approved by a moderator. This doesn't stop the *really* clever ones from posting a "legit" comment then spamming, but those guys tend not to be that smart. The only downside is as we try to grow members if that turns away new legit members, and the whole philosophy here is pretty balanced. (I keep saying the "Basement" is a stunning innovation that fixed like 12 random "gray zone" problems!)

Other ways are some kinds of semantic analysis but those risk false positives and negatives. So it's never a clear concrete answer.

Edit: And Mouser just beat me to it!

well the good news is that with an upgraded forum we have a few more weapons we can deploy against spammers -- and more importantly adding more custom code to stop them isn't so painful -- so any increase in spammers is only temporary :)
-mouser (August 31, 2015, 06:39 AM)
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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 30, 2015, 07:44 PM »
Well I'm still lost! Maybe I'm a GUI Menu kinda guy, but I just preferred picking my attach type because all I see are Thumbs and can't for ex see how to get inline full and stuff.
-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2015, 07:25 PM)

So you want to attach something that's not a thumb? Try taking the "thumb" out of "attachthumb" :Thmbsup:

[attach=#]
-Deozaan (August 30, 2015, 07:42 PM)

So is that Inline or attached below?
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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 30, 2015, 07:25 PM »
well my assumption was that the attach image button is just basically a reminder of syntax -- most people attaching images regularly wont be using that button.
-mouser (August 30, 2015, 06:51 PM)

I disagree. It's easier to click that button a few times than have to manually type [attachthumb=#] five times. In the past, I pretty much always used the dropdown menu to get the text in the text area at least once, then I might just copy and paste it the remaining time.

But yeah, I used that button/menu a lot.

EDIT: Oh hey, I just noticed the links down by the "Choose File" button that will automatically add the text for me. OK. I'm satisfied now. :Thmbsup:
-Deozaan (August 30, 2015, 07:06 PM)

Well I'm still lost! Maybe I'm a GUI Menu kinda guy, but I just preferred picking my attach type because all I see are Thumbs and can't for ex see how to get inline full and stuff.
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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 30, 2015, 06:47 PM »
there was a big dropdown in text on inserting attachments with different types.
ah yes, i remember that now.. perhaps i will bring that back.

or i will just elaborate the text that is shown when you hit the image button (far left button on 2nd row of bbc buttons) to explain how to use the different tags.
-mouser (August 30, 2015, 06:43 PM)

Well the way it is now, it "has added attach thumb" so it would be work to remove it and do "attach inline full size" or whatever. So in a sense it feels anti-intuitive and a bit like what Chrome did vs Firefox by keeping replacing English menus with strange compact buttons!

And yes, Deo's comment too! Plus for me I'd have to make like a little note on my desk on the different syntaxes because there were like 5 ways to do it.
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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 30, 2015, 06:38 PM »
I don't understand how to do attachments here. The old version had some five options for thumbnails, full size, and stuff.
-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2015, 06:21 PM)

new forum should have same exact options -- perhaps there was some help text for the old forum?
-mouser (August 30, 2015, 06:22 PM)

I'm not sure what this question means.

In the old one, after you posted or previewed, there was a big dropdown in text on inserting attachments with different types. I don't see anything like that here.

I do see a button to insert attachment but it seems locked to thumbnails.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 30, 2015, 06:21 PM »

I don't understand how to do attachments here. The old version had some five options for thumbnails, full size, and stuff.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 27, 2015, 07:10 PM »
Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories

Is this the Onion?!?  :huh: :P ;D
-wraith808 (August 27, 2015, 10:34 AM)

Well other than the stunningly mind crunching syntax, it's actually a disturbing story!
:tellme:
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Context Note
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 26, 2015, 06:17 PM »
And there are subtle issues when you do like it so much you create like 400 stickies over time.
-TaoPhoenix (August 26, 2015, 04:53 PM)

I think you might have misunderstood the term 'subtle' ;D ;D ;D
-Target (August 26, 2015, 05:36 PM)

I don't think I did.
:P

"So, you open the master repository of stickies in Dexpot node seven, then you can create new stickies relevant to the context in the other six nodes, but if you ever have to close down your stickies program you lose the context awareness and they all get smashed together when you re-open it".

Subtle.

:)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Context Note
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 26, 2015, 04:53 PM »

So what happens if the attached Window no longer exists?

And I think Anand has something like this.

And there are subtle issues when you do like it so much you create like 400 stickies over time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MySpace anyone?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 26, 2015, 04:49 PM »
Same crap trying to sign on through facebook.  No button.

-MilesAhead (August 26, 2015, 07:38 AM)

This statement just bothers me ...

"Try to sign up to MySpace through Facebook" ...

That just feels so wrong on SO many levels!
:tellme:
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Living Room / Re: First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 25, 2015, 02:28 PM »
...
Cortana disabled in India, so will know after I meet her.

...
Regards,
Anand
-anandcoral (August 25, 2015, 11:42 AM)

This caught my attention as being very odd. I can see if certain accents may not get good voice responses or whatever, but "Cortana is disabled in India"?! What does that even mean (not the sentence), but why disable software for India?!
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PhraseExpander Professional for PC 79% off $29.99
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 24, 2015, 07:02 PM »
....

I went through that exercise a few years back, with similar criteria (I needed something that worked right out of the box and required the least steep learning curve). One good way to do that is to evaluate them all on the same day, one after the other. Just download them and get started and use them for a few minutes each, and it becomes pretty apparent immediately which ones are the easy ones to set up, learn, and use, and whether you come across a killer Pro feature that justifies the price.

The "killer feature" will probably vary on the basis of your needs. For me the key thing was not to have to remember abbreviations (which ruled out most of the free ones), which requires that a box pops up by the cursor after I type two letters, with a specified number of phrases to choose from, which then gets filtered as I keep typing more letters, with the desired phrase rising to the top and which then I can quickly select by hitting my chosen key (tab, in my case). There were only 2 or 3 that could do that at the time.
...
-dr_andus (August 21, 2015, 07:06 AM)

Drifting a little off topic, but this is a pretty good approach so I am writing a broader comment.

If you're hunting for "a program to do stuff" and the point is you don't entirely know what you are even looking for, it's how I have sometimes called it "Jeopardy without questions".

All you're working on is some really vague gut feeling but that's a zillion miles from writing up an IainB level spec to what you think you need. So you just pick a good day, hopefully with some sleep behind you, maybe some caffeine in there, and then be ready to fall over at the end but you just *look* at like 20 software programs all over the map, trying to convert that nebulous feeling into something concrete enough you can begin to make rational decisions about.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 24, 2015, 06:02 PM »
No pen no gain !
-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)

Oh! Are we talking about Linux Distros? No Penguin, No Gain?
:D
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General Software Discussion / Re: The stupid windows 10
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 24, 2015, 06:01 PM »

Easy answer to that question. There will be no Windows 11. This will affect be the last version of Windows. It will evolve going forward and people can buy a license for Windows, but Windows is no longer a product. Going forward it is a service.

-Innuendo (August 23, 2015, 06:03 PM)

"The people in charge of PlaysForSure and the Zune have been hired for the marketing of Windows 10."

:P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 23, 2015, 05:07 PM »
I might be crossing threads, but this looks like "they let the spokesman out of the cage" about a year late.

"Is this going to be the norm from now on? If the August [cumulative] update breaks something, will there be a broken chain from there?" asked Goettl, afraid that if one of those updates crippled, say, a specific application used by a business and Microsoft was not able to fix the problem, the customer would be stuck not only with a busted app but also out of the future patch loop because patches will only download and install on an up-to-date system."

We've been hollering about this for a year ... nice to know it finally hit "media". And "a specific app used by a business: .. could be anything. No clear mention of "what are first or second or third line apps". So for ex my MyInfo notes program could be "used by a business" ...

And I seem to recall "broken chains" with some kind in Win 8 / Win 8.1 mess!

Bleh!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla to replace add-ons with Chrome compatible extensions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 23, 2015, 04:20 PM »
...
Requiring an extension be certified before it will work (in the name of "better security" for end-users) just the old walled garden argument once again. I'm pretty disgusted to hear Mozilla saying it. But Mozilla is like so many other "open" projects that woke up one day and realized they were (theoretically) giving away a few million and not seeing much in return money-wise. Do I detect a hint that they're having some hopes Google will buy them out eventually?

Time was when the open project crowd had more faith in their users - as well as considerably more respect. The philosophy used to be: "We can only advise. You're free to do whatever you want - including completely borking your system if you choose not to listen to our advice. It's your system and your decision - not ours."

((Tao Comment - though also they used to try really hard to make levels of fixes if you did indeed torch your system - not quite as ruthless as the original statement made it sound.))

Now it seems that Mozilla (having previously decided - after much faux hand-wringing - to cave in and embed DRM support in FF) has now determined that their users also need a nanny.

My but how times have changed!

(It's enough to make me sick.) >:(

-40hz (August 23, 2015, 08:07 AM)

But yeah, Mozilla and FF used to be the vanguard of moving away from Microsoft's old domination. It was the first (and fairly easy) experience of deciding what Choice meant.

And the Add-ons are STILL why I use FF clones today - no other browser has the spread of them. So if they're "doing things" to all that, I'm nervous ...

... "giving away millions" ... that was the point, right? So that we could work on "level three" problems or whatever (made up terminology on the spur for this post), so we didn't have to keep re-inventing level-1 solutions. That's what crushed a lot of great potential B+ grade scientists in the past - they kept having to start from nothing so often the B+ types gave up and faded away.

But I'm trying not to see this as a 15 year Long Con - I do truly think the philosophy was once there, but people with money and long memories maneuvered us out of it.

 >:(
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General Software Discussion / Re: The stupid windows 10
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 23, 2015, 04:02 PM »
Doesn't your story just confirm that Goldmine CRM isn't yet tested/updated for Windows 10? That should have probably been your first investigation, before taking the deep-dive into Win10...

For now I'd suggest to revert to your previous Windows (8.1), and wait for an official update of Goldmine to get Win10 compatiblity; the free upgrade to Win10 is available up-until July 2016 :up:
-Ath (August 23, 2015, 03:53 AM)

A little off topic, but it seems to me that the OS drives the dicussions. So this is what y'all are doing: upgrade (getting into low level glitches etc), then seeing what programs have been re-written for Win 10, or not. There are some thousand programs out there, so if the raw OS works, sounds like this story will repeat for various scenarios of each application program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Take a list of PDF tabs and create a text file of the links?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 23, 2015, 03:55 PM »

I will try to use your ideas when I have more energy.

But first let me apologize for a disastrous typo!

I meant *web browser tabs*, not PDF tabs!

So I don't know what that means. A long time ago I comissioned a prototype program to create PDF pages out of web tabs, but now my use case is just generating a list of links.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Windows 10 won't run games with commonly hated DRM platforms
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 20, 2015, 07:03 PM »

This is actually a fascinating new angle to the DRM wars!

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Living Room / Re: IRS Lawsuit ?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 20, 2015, 10:49 AM »
Just wondering if anyone else has received recorded phone messages regarding: "...the IRS is filing lawsuit against you..."

Scam? You bet.
-crabby3 (August 20, 2015, 12:43 AM)

I haven't, but I have heard of a couple of those this year.
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General Software Discussion / Take a list of PDF tabs and create a text file of the links?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 18, 2015, 12:03 AM »

I don't know if we already did this as a snack, or if someone knows something out there.

I'd like a program that can just read the browser and spit out a text file list of the links.

Any ideas?

Unknown if I'll need any features.

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Living Room / Re: Getting Things Done revisited
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 17, 2015, 11:33 PM »

New use:

I keep doing research and get all kinds of web links. Bookmarks and all don't work for me because those are "stuck in the browser". If I am going to integrate into my note program, what I can do is just open nodes and copy - paste the links in there!

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Living Room / Re: Getting Things Done revisited
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 17, 2015, 11:28 PM »
New process:
I need to severely curtail my stickies!
It "traps data old school" (without the kewl kid k spelling skool)

The weakness is when I make detailed ones, I'm stuck.

What I really need to do is master the habit of using my note program which really is good. It's gotta be FASTER because I type at a decent speed. Then if I ever want to do anything with the info, I'm not stuck re-typing it.

What was holding me up was what to do with the "obsolete stickies". I didn't realize I can use the same trick I do with my desktop notes and just make "holding collections" like "Sept-Oct old notes". Then precisely what the program does, I just drag them there and because the program "rolls up" categories, POOF! Away they go! But then a few of them "zombie themselves", so fine. Move them back somewhere.

And back to the GTD theme, it's really a good program (MyInfo) for those periodic "sweeps" to see what changed and all. And I already made the mechanism of date tagging the initial note, then I put "Update1:" into the topic, so the same topic can keep accumulating.

Then of course, it's now digital info, so it does all digital-y things like traveling to emails as needed.

Bonus: Clean desk!

 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 15, 2015, 06:13 AM »
Re: Epson and ink
I kept going back to my old reliable dot matrix printer after trying several ink hogs. Our latest was a pair of Epson Stylus NX415s. Now one is idle and my wife uses the other. I use one of two old Panasonic KX-P1150 printers bought second-hand at a very low price. I got ten replacement ink ribbons when they were being discontinued for $1.88 each and I'm working my way about a quarter the way through two boxes of paper. At current consumption rates I might run out by about 2035 but I doubt if there will be any OS to run it on then. That is one bandwagon I'm not getting back on. Ha.
-sword (August 06, 2015, 02:25 PM)

If I ever get the money, I might want one of the small home laser printers because all I print is basically black and white text and the laser printer can do whatever it wants to faux represent an image on a page. Right now it's like I can't even get 200 pages out of my Brother printer even with a 500 page Black cartridge because it rips through the color ones like the first part of the Epson article.

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Living Room / Re: New vulnerability found in old Intel processors
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on August 09, 2015, 12:59 PM »

"Willing but maybe not able" is an interesting category I might fall into.

"Willing" is an hour's worth of convincing. But if it's harder than "upgrade PaleMoon/Floash/Java" then we might be stuck.

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