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General Software Discussion / Re: [IDEA] copy on select
« Last post by 4wd on June 14, 2013, 11:36 PM »
The new in your idea is not copy on select, but paste on middle-click; many programs will offer to copy on select.

It's not really that new, it's a common X Windows feature, one that you can have in Windows by using TXMouse.

Unfortunately, TXMouse uses the default clipboard so it misses out on that point.
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@40hz, your name will be included under Proofreader's in "Acknowledgments" in next upload.

Thx! But shouldn't that be 4wd and not me? AFAIK I haven't proofed anything yet. I've just enjoyed the story so far.  ;)

Don't you start, you'll give him a persecution complex.

 :P
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Sorry, can't give you a page, I'm reading this on my phone.

A grammatical error:

Sethra was unlatched his toolcase and opened it.

Should be, (I think):

Sethra had unlatched his toolcase and opened it.

Chapter 5:
He peered out over the assembled for a few moments,...

Possibly:

He peered out over the assembly for a few moments,....

or:

He peered out over the assembled personnel for a few moments,...
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OK, forgive me for going Sherlock Holmes on you here but there is a rather large inconsistancy, (well, to me anyway), I've found.

See how I go:

Monday, June 11, 2283, 2014 hours
With a heavily encrypted brief message, Sethra announced an impromptu meeting in his cubicle, sending the chime to Byron, Zuzana, and Eddie.

By my count that's four people in his room, (the sudden introduction of Zuzana where I would have thought it would be Veronee throws me a bit but to continue), this is borne out further on where Zuzana says:

"I borrowed these from an Environmental supply cache. Four suits won't be missed, especially since they're disposable after each use."

And further on:

Byron showed off his pistol, and explained its function, which drew whistles and utterances of genuine admiration from the other three...

A bit further:

...and the foursome bumbled their way forward in darkness, then clumsily boarded the large robotic vehicle.

I think that pretty much establishes there are four people on the way to the Shaft yet when we get there, there are five of them: Sethra, Byron, Eddie, Veronee and Zuzana.

It seems someone has teleported in from somewhere  ;)

It seems Perry and I have little to do after midnight here...sleep is obviously not on our agenda  ;D
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I always think of yours as referring to vehicles (4WD ... even if it's not)

Rest assured, it does...or to be more precise, the activity I enjoy the most  :)

Oops, apologies 4wd :)

Only having a bit of fun with you :D
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Chapter 2: “So, we get our equipment in their, set it all up, and once Sethra has managed to isolate a significant fraction of the compound’s matrix computing power and storage, we plug-in. Sethra makes doubly sure that what he’s done cannot be traced.”

their -> there

Still plodding on  :)

... and correction of errors noted by 40hz and Perry Mowbray.

It's depressing to think I've been lurking around here longer than 40hz and despite having a nick one character shorter that people still get us mixed up....


I'm kidding :P
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Chapter 1: "But it was at just such moments as these, when the goal seemed impossible, than humanity had always triumphed, drawing upon a deeply hidden well of inner strength..."

than -> that

Chapter 2: "Eddie was surreptitiously running his right hand over his blue neoprene coveralls. It might have looked lude if it had been done three or four times faster, and if anyone were paying attention."

lude -> lewd

It's depressing to think that that far into the future some of humanity has doggedly held on to imperial measurements  :-\

But I digress, an entertaining read so far  :Thmbsup:
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What makes us think that any intelligent lifeforms out there somewhere are friendly?

I always did enjoy the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Manw.

 ;D
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Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy
« Last post by 4wd on June 13, 2013, 11:08 PM »
The only part of any plan that you can truly count on is that nothing will go according to plan ... Be flexible.

I've always preferred: Adapt or die.

Me too ... But it tends to make clients uneasy when you say shit like that onsite. ;) :D

Agree. In my neck of the woods it might even be considered "contributing to a 'hostile workplace'" and get you fired. :-\

How strange, I would have classed it as "incentive based employment".  :D
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Living Room / Re: My New Philosophy
« Last post by 4wd on June 12, 2013, 09:07 PM »
The only part of any plan that you can truly count on is that nothing will go according to plan ... Be flexible.

I've always preferred: Adapt or die.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by 4wd on June 11, 2013, 11:00 PM »
I have access to thousands of hot porn chicks at any given moment, none seem special.

It was back in the days of porn with a plot, (no matter how thinly disguised it was), and of 100% natural instead of 50% silicon....before your time  :P

Getting away from porn for a moment, for those who remember what a Drive-in was and want a trip back down Memory Lane, go grab a large bag of popcorn and check out the series of Shocker Internet Drive-In videos at the Internet Archive or their main website Shocker Internet Drive-In.

Shocker Week 1.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by 4wd on June 11, 2013, 08:52 PM »
(I say "technically" because there's something about her expression that makes me think she wasn't ever much of a minor, despite her age, once she left home.)

Of course there's all the conspiracy theories about who/why dobbed her in as being underage.

But after having watched NoTE last night, (even though it is horribly ham acted in places), I have to say she does looking extremely good in a bikini  :P

Managed to squeeze in The Brain Eaters last night also, which The Puppet Masters appears to be a remake of.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by 4wd on June 10, 2013, 11:22 PM »
Psht.  If I was going to watch a Traci Lords video, it would be Traci I Love You ;)

Yes well, is now a good time to admit that I have almost all, (95%), of her movies, (and TV series appearances), from 1989 onwards to date ?

 :-[

You could call me a fan  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by 4wd on June 10, 2013, 09:28 PM »
It's Roger Corman week for me, last night:

GoT.jpg

Starring (not) "My Favourite Martian", Joanie, Captain Spalding and Freddie.

Tonight, it'll be:

NotE.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Samsung device drivers failed to installed
« Last post by 4wd on June 08, 2013, 12:24 AM »
May i know which version you are using......

Directory Opus 10.5.1.3 (Beta)

I've had the same layout since DOpus 6 or 8, I forget which,
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Sync folders by renaming files
« Last post by 4wd on June 07, 2013, 10:39 PM »
What am I missing?

choice  :)

MS in their infinite wisdom included the choice.com/choice.exe DOS command in all versions of Windows from 3.1 and DOS 6.x onwards except 2000 and XP.

You can grab the choice.com command from a set of DOS 6+ disks - I've attached it below for Windows x86 only.

Also, I'm sorry to say, v9 SHA-1 calculation doesn't work due to the lack of Delayed Expansion, (enabling limits using ! in filenames), so I'm writing a small hash program so I won't have to use fciv.exe which is why I have to use the for loop to get the value I want.
Why they couldn't just output the hash value without any fluff is beyond me.  :-\

So, I should have another v9 up with a separate hash program later today.

Done.  Really slick batch file work, too, 4wd.

Spoke too soon there - give me a couple of hours though  ;)

OK, back with v9.5:
  • No longer requires choice.com, so it should work OK on W2k and XP.
  • Now has a dedicated hash program so the SHA-1 comparison works properly, (put it in the same folder as the batch file).
  • Checks to see if the Source and Destination are the same, it'll exit if they are.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Samsung device drivers failed to installed
« Last post by 4wd on June 07, 2013, 07:28 AM »
Win7

2013-06-07 22_28_47-K__.png
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Living Room / Re: International Currency Transfers
« Last post by 4wd on June 07, 2013, 06:40 AM »
The 7% included all charges, to my bank, to an intermediary bank, to the recipients bank, as well as a reduced exchange rate,
On the exchange rate alone there is a 5.2% reduction on market prices, that is about average compared to other UK banks.

Why is there an intermediary bank?

Given the IBAN/account number of the destination bank/account you should be able to transfer direct to it....at least, that's all we required.

The only fees were at the sending end and an exchange rate that was ~2p lower than market, (IIRC).
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Living Room / Re: International Currency Transfers
« Last post by 4wd on June 07, 2013, 05:17 AM »
I did a rough calculation based on exchange rate differences between the bank, the market, and the company, as well as charges.
By my calculations, taking everything into account (sorry about that  :)) it costs around 7% through the bank and close to 1% through them.
That is a big difference!

You need another bank, when we moved a rather large amount of AU$ to the UK a couple of years ago it worked out to ~2.5%, (IIRC).
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That's way cool. I immediately searched the web for "Alt Codes for Japanese characters", which led me to http://forum.wl.igg....thread.php?tid=58061, which led me to this. But although others are saying there "It works", it's not working for me so far. Am I missing some sort of character set download?

I think it's more like the person who wrote has missed explaining some intermediate step.  None of that works for me, as soon as I release the Alt key the character corresponding Alt+0253, (ý), or Alt+0254, (þ) is drawn.

It seems like there needs to be a "sticky" setting so that when you've typed the Alt Code it waits for the next keypress before displaying the character.

Found this here but it doesn't work either:
2952_600.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Samsung device drivers failed to installed
« Last post by 4wd on June 07, 2013, 02:20 AM »
Code: Text [Select]
  1. [attach=1][/attach][attach=2][/attach][attach=3][/attach] etc, etc
  2.  
  3. [attachthumb=1][/attachthumb][attachthumb=2][/attachthumb] etc, etc

Number corresponds to attachment.
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You could always throw a few Alt Codes into the password.

↑↓→←↔  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Samsung device drivers failed to installed
« Last post by 4wd on June 06, 2013, 09:06 PM »
BTW, most, (if not all), smart phones when they're plugged into a computer mount a virtual CD that usually has all the needed drivers on it or possibly provide links to get them.

eg. Here's the one from my Huawei

2013-06-07 12_05_49-G__.png

Who knows, you might get lucky.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Sync folders by renaming files
« Last post by 4wd on June 06, 2013, 08:57 PM »
I guess we can get skwire to move the thread to Finished then  ;)
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Living Room / Re: International Currency Transfers
« Last post by 4wd on June 06, 2013, 08:50 PM »
CurrencyFair appears to be equivalent to the age old Islamic hawalaw system as used by crooks, tax dodgers, pirates and terrorists the World over....so it must be good.  :)
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