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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on May 23, 2011, 05:26 AM »

It's not only the number of posts (for some users) that's impressive, also the number of registered users.
I shot this (and anonymized a bit) a few minutes ago:

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 23, 2011, 01:25 AM »

Everything is simply too small. Mobile software is designed for 10-year-old girls' fingers. Not mine.

-Renegade (May 22, 2011, 08:16 PM)

I do agree, but the high resolution (& quality) screen of my Motorola Milestone (aka Droid) allows me and my big hands to use multicon to get more icons on the screen without problems

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows file manager with single-click navigation?

« Last post by Ath on May 22, 2011, 12:17 PM »

xplorer2 has that option, but the 'lynx' navigation it doesn't, AFAICS. It does feature navigating using BackSpace and Enter keys, though, much like Norton Commander and many of it's look a likes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a program to close other program in a batch

« Last post by Ath on May 22, 2011, 12:11 PM »

taskmgr pro

-ha14 (May 22, 2011, 10:56 AM)

Auto Kill Any Process

-ha14 (May 22, 2011, 10:56 AM)

SmartClose

-Curt (May 22, 2011, 11:02 AM)

These would have fitted nicely in the previous request post that brought us eventually Movie-ize, and would have saved 4wd a bit of effort. But I'm quite sure he enjoyed creating Movie-ize

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« Last post by Ath on May 21, 2011, 11:04 AM »

I assumed you where creating an application yourself, having this feature request..., as usual any assumption is wrong by default

It's the Desktop App running on Win XP...don't know which language is made with...

-marvis (May 21, 2011, 08:42 AM)

In that case: You can't. (Without creating an external 'monitor' tool that detects you/the user opening the combo and pointing at an item, offering a clickable link based on a list you provided earlier)
Hmmm, come to think of it, my WinButtons can detect the executable being loaded, and showing a specific window with buttons, that could open a webbrowser when clicked. But it can't (yet) react on a specific control selected, or hide while it's not selected. Ah, a (double/triple) feature request for WinButtons!  

@mouser: You'd probably better move this one to the Coding Snacks/Post New Requests Here board, I'll pick it up asap.

Edit: I finally see it's specific to FLM,  missed that earlier. But I'm quite sure a combobox can't offer clickable links for each item, next to the normal selection, though a listbox could be made to do that, AFAICS.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« Last post by Ath on May 21, 2011, 08:30 AM »

What environment? (desktop app, mobile, web), what OS?, what programming language?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Allowed Characters in Windows Environment Variable Names

« Last post by Ath on May 21, 2011, 06:42 AM »

Though Windows seems to support Unicode environment variables, not all applications support them, and probably wont get that support until they are 'upgraded' to support Unicode from the ground up .

Any time I've had to define my own, I sticked with plain ascii characters a-z and 0-9, and sometimes an '_', anything else could turn up problematic in a batch file (where I use environment vars primarily).

If it's for use in your own application, and you want users to set them from the standard Windows configuration screens, I'd stick with things typable on a standard US keyboard, or else the instructions to set them could be awkward, at least.

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Living Room / Re: favourite hardware hacking resources

« Last post by Ath on May 20, 2011, 01:23 AM »

^+1, but please feel free to share your adventures here

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] TimeClue - a simple time reminder that fades the desktop

« Last post by Ath on May 20, 2011, 01:18 AM »

Any chance of a x mins before fade warning ...

-ewemoa (May 19, 2011, 09:42 PM)

I'd go for the x seconds before fade warning, 15 seconds should be enough to press Ctrl-S once more

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.

« Last post by Ath on May 19, 2011, 05:57 AM »

Actual batch file in use:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Pilgrim\My Documents\Received Files\Frameless\Frameless.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Pilgrim\My Documents\Received Files\001_screenshot_1.jpg" 100 100

The exe path has spaces, so should be quoted as well. (corrected above)

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 18, 2011, 07:54 AM »

The story continues, not with high dpi's but a 27" with lots of pixels combined with fine viewing angle and touch capability press release

That would make a huge smartphone 

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 17, 2011, 10:46 AM »

There's more 300 dpi coming to consumers, obviously, though this press announcement is 'merely' about e-paper, but it's cool, IMHO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Ath on May 17, 2011, 06:05 AM »

@tajuta Welcome to DC

I like the way you pick up these issue-reports, great

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Ath on May 17, 2011, 01:36 AM »

I really like the way it's starting to shape up, but it's still quite buggy, unfortunately.

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 08:49 PM)

You did report that to the developers, I presume?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 05:50 PM »

^+1, and we (NL) didn't make it to the final 20 contenders, again, this year

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General Software Discussion / Re: PC Lock software for "Free"

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 03:32 PM »

Two words (besides the obvious two): Axcrypt and Truecrypt. 

-40hz (May 16, 2011, 09:27 AM)

40hz already gave the 2 most obvious away 

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Living Room / Re: Help with new computer build

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 10:23 AM »

My mantra is always: "Wire if you can. Wifi if you must."

-40hz (May 16, 2011, 10:09 AM)

I'd expand that with: "Powerline if all else fails"

Only read about these adapters, and the current generation seems to be doing quite fine, but you really need good quality wiring, and no electric motors (or other distortion sources) running on the same wiring, to have a reliable connection.

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Living Room / Re: The end of the line for cursive writing

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 08:43 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Visual Studio lost my solution

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 08:42 AM »

For a SVN server solution, the free version of VisualSVN would do nicely if you have a local PC running some kind of Windows NT based OS (XP and up would suffice), and is probably a lot faster too. Not necessarily safer though.

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Living Room / Re: Visual Studio lost my solution

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 07:16 AM »

check out the files it produces (in the root of the drive or in dir00001 style directories)

-Ath (May 16, 2011, 06:07 AM)

where do I find the files?

-Fred Nerd (May 16, 2011, 06:42 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Visual Studio lost my solution

« Last post by Ath on May 16, 2011, 06:07 AM »

Try a chkdsk like operation, and check out the files it produces (in the root of the drive or in dir00001 style directories), sometimes you can find pieces of sourcecode there.

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Living Room / Re: PORTAL 2 AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER

« Last post by Ath on May 15, 2011, 09:28 AM »

DirectX is usually faster than OpenGL because most hardware manufacturers only develop decently optimized drivers for DirectX and not (or at least much less optimized) for OpenGL, as most games support/expect/require DirectX. And .NET graphics' subsystem is optimized for DirectX as well (WPF only shines/performs well on video chips with Direct9c+ hardware support with the correct drivers installed).

Open standards are indeed better because they are open, not technically better in all cases.

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Living Room / Re: Intel Xeon E3-1275 compatibility.

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 08:52 AM »

Long answer: Going straight to the sources here (Asus) and here (Intel) give you all the specs.
Starting with the most important one, the socket LGA1155, they seem to at least physically match.
Next check is looking for what CPU's the manufacturer made the board for. There's no mention of this Xeon there, so I'm quite sure it's not going to work as you would like
Then try to find the matching Core ix processor, which looks like a Core i7 2600(K) would match closest.
Then look at the price of both Xeon $339,-; Core i7 2600 $294,-; Core i7 2600K $317,-
I'd ask: Why would you?

Short answer: No. Unless... (you can get your hands on both and just try without obligations)

This Tom's Hardware article explains why you'd want a real server-chipset for that CPU.

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 05:31 AM »

We can go to higher dpi's if anyone needs that: http://www.diginfo.t.../13/11-0097-r-en.php (4.8" @ Full-HD + 3D)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chromium 13.0.758.0 build 84548 feels snappy

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 04:45 AM »

Just upgraded my Chrome from 12.something dev to 13.0.761.0 dev-m and I can confirm it is blazingly fast, WOW!

Just have to check if the some of the quirks, like password storage and listbox behavior, finally are unbroken (they've been broken IMHO since at least 9.x), so I can re-instate it as my default browser for all the Jira stuff I do in my daily work.