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Living Room / Re: Interesting calming essay about nuclear power plan situation in Japan

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 12:34 PM »

I fully agree. A clear and concise write-up of how and why things happened.

Didn't get to read it completely yet, but I'll continue later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: original win98 games

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 11:33 AM »

I recently setup a virtual 98 and am wanting to find the games.

-techidave (March 12, 2011, 02:50 PM)

Do you have a special purpose for that virtual? I can't see much use for it, besides the quick boot-time on modern hardware, but usually more modern virtual machines, like those running WinXP, revive from paused state quick enough and have a bigger feature-set and matureness over W98.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 11:26 AM »

Now you need a web page and a pad file so others can discover this.

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 11:23 AM)

The pad file I can take care of myself, but a site... If you could help out with that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 11:08 AM »

if we could pass in the window HANDLE.

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 10:49 AM)

I can take care of that

Another feature request taken care of: WinSendKeys 3.0.3

Latest release & download moved to separate thread

The small changelog since 3.0.2:
; 2011-03-13, version 3.0.3
; * Improvement: A numeric WindowName is now treated as a WindowHandle (HWnd), as requested by mouser

Source, exe and readme included the attachment

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Nice to see you keep working on this utility Ath, I like it 

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 10:49 AM)

Besides me being convinced that all known bug should be "taken care of", I'm eagerly awaiting improvement suggestions...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 10:41 AM »

OK, so I found a bug, all on my own , oh well, maybe that's not so good after all

The fix was small and easy, so here is another update WinSendKeys 3.0.2

Latest release & download moved to separate thread

Here's the changelog since 3.0.1:
; 2011-03-12, version 3.0.2
; ! BugFix in detecting an active application/window
; + Added application version to helpmessage
; * Minor cleanup
; * Adapted the helptext somewhat

The readme was cleaned-up a bit by removing the change history (it's in the source), the source and compiled exe are also included in the attachment

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 09:04 AM »

... Mouser has made Faar so great ...

-hanzo (March 13, 2011, 09:01 AM)

We know FARR a fine piece of software, but... have you tried to type FARR correct, or is there a malfunction in your keyboard?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Fresh PC Performance Optimizer(Freeware)

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 09:00 AM »

Have you read any of the reviews/tests of other software in this category? (There are dozens of them, not only in this site)

Reception of software in this category is quite skeptic, to say it nice, that should explain the lack of responses so far...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: A content management system that lives up to the name

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 08:52 AM »

now rinse/repeat ad eternam, with 2-5 years in each phase:

-iphigenie (March 13, 2011, 08:39 AM)

Isn't that what ALM is all about? but doing that alone can be something between daunting and boring, I guess

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 08:09 AM »

Hm, evaluating all (mixed) responses to this idea, I'm convinced that it should not be me, writing the promotional texts. The idea of having a choice of content is probably the best, categorizing between 'Just a mild hint that it's possible to donate through DC' and a 'Strong, almost begging, type of promotional marketing mumbojumbo', including an even bold link to the 'Donate to me please' page. And then some categories in between. A total of 5 choices (grades) should be enough then.
That should be a good compromise for everyone.

Because of the flexibility of the Inno Setup scripting language and the Pascal Script engine, that is all quite easy

Oh, and did I mention all labels and text are user override-able? And next to that, it comes with source (has to be included in your script), and the texts in a .rtf file (so colors, bold, hyperlinks, etc. are possible), so you are still in full control.

Then for grade 1 the title above the text could be more Author-oriented, like: (Also changed the 'Userpage' to 'info page')

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 05:41 AM »

If you would like to spif up the installer with a skin I've used this free tool for Inno Setup in the past:

-MilesAhead (March 12, 2011, 05:47 PM)

That's not something I'll be adding, I really dislike any skins beyond the default Windows stuff, and IMHO are a big waste of energy when applied to an installer, that is only run once.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2011, 05:37 AM »

I've thrown something together, except for the text that I got from the Lorem ipsum generator Renegade did a recent micro-mini-review of:

-Ath (March 12, 2011, 12:54 PM)

That was actually cranioscopical. I can't take credit for that.

-Renegade (March 12, 2011, 07:52 PM)

Oops my bad, I typed that up from memory, so that's where it went wrong
I'll fix that (both the memory and the text).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 03:11 PM »

Once you get it looking the way you want i'd like to see a version that is more focused on "Why you should donate to the author" rather that "What is donationcoder"

-mouser (March 12, 2011, 03:05 PM)

That's the kind of text I was asking for But I couldn't find anything that fitted the bill on the site, maybe it's there, then a pointer would help.

There is a transparent version of that cody image somewhere i can try to find it, if you can use it.

-mouser (March 12, 2011, 03:05 PM)

It has to be bmp format, and as I haven't checked for transparency settings in the image control, can't tell yet if that helps or even would look better...

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 01:38 PM »

Well, the mark is set, so somebody can start singing...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 12:54 PM »

I've thrown something together, except for the text that I got from the Lorem ipsum generator Renegade cranioscopical () did a recent micro-mini-review of:





And with the 'Donate to author' not #defined in the script (disables the creation of the link-control)




And for those where "Cody should be on the 'right' side"  , that's just a #define switch away


(Cody is clickable, hence the hand cursor)

Any replies are welcome,

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Living Room / Re: Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 11:28 AM »

You're sure the method was embroidery?

-cranioscopical (March 12, 2011, 10:29 AM)

I'm of good faith, I simply believed what they wrote up there, but your method also looks plausible

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 10:04 AM »

Is the site DoCo'd already? (Just like Slashdotted, but by DoCo users alone), can't get the page to show it gives an 'Error 503 Service Unavailable, Guru Meditation...' message.
Seems the service has rebooted and now it's working again.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 07:29 AM »

If the authentication for browsers is a webpage, then I assume it could be using cookies to store any previous used credentials, but that should be provided by the proxy, and is probably not re-usable by other applications.

Most other apps I use (Avast, Eclipse, and other stuff) have in their network page a proxy setting that facilitate optionally setting the authentication parameters, next to the proxy address, so I'm afraid that there's not much hope for a common solution. You could re-use the parameters of any of the other apps to provide these to the proxy, but what common app to choose?
It wonders me (too) that Windows Internet settings page doesn't have an option to define this.

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Living Room / Re: Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 05:15 AM »

Oh, and credit where credit is due: It came from my wife's Machine embroidery forum (all in Dutch, sorry), where she posted the link earlier today.

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Living Room / Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 05:10 AM »

http://www.urbanthreads.com/pages?id=695

I have a mostly typical if somewhat slightly dorky desk. It has a phone, a computer, a pencil holder, a slightly suspicious-looking robot, Cthulhu, and a keyboard.

OK, maybe your desk doesn’t have paranoid robots or cuddly gods of the netherworld, but I bet yours has other things. And I bet yours is missing something just like mine... something to rest those weary wrists on! And maybe something to up the geekiness level of your desk to new heights. Trust me, with this project, your desk will be the lord of geek. In a good way, of course. We at Urban Threads only take a positive view on geeks.

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Official Announcements / Re: UnReplied Topic Fridays on the DonationCoder.com Forums (URT-Fri)

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 04:57 AM »

Oh... It's not broken. It's just unintuitive.

I am confuzzled.

-Deozaan (March 12, 2011, 04:29 AM)

I can understand that, I'd (also?) like a few comboboxes allowing to select the criteria of the filter, on that page.

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 04:48 AM »

Maybe a special set of physical connector should be designed for this situation, unique to that lab, and only installed on the computers over there, ofcourse.
Quite a laborious job, but then no external devices could be used on those computers, and the USB sticks could only be used in that lab. Combined with USB-Switch you could have a pretty secure operation.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on March 12, 2011, 04:39 AM »

worstje:
The standard procedure with authenticating proxies and other authenticating services, is to set up the credentials in your connection object, and then make the connection. The connection stuff then either automatically performs the authentication or fires an event (.NET kinda standard behavior) that you implement and return the proper credential information.

It's quite useless (iow nearly impossible) to try and catch the login page fired at browsers, as that's often a javascript page, you will have great difficulty executing in your application (JottiQ in this case)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 04:45 PM »

Whereas I have been the industry's standard dummy for a much shorter time.

-cranioscopical (March 11, 2011, 04:38 PM)

You are not alone in this I presume

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 04:29 PM »

Hm, moving house is always a good time to throw out some old or undetermined stuff