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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by tomos on May 11, 2020, 05:00 PM »

I did an evaluation of the extent to which this system meets my needs as expressed in the thread above and it feels positive. Very long post, so I've hidden in a spolier.

-Dormouse (May 11, 2020, 04:12 PM)

I haven't read your long-post spoiler yet, but just wanted to say this has been a very entertaining thread. And if you ever publish something for the general public Dormouse, let us know, because what you've written here has always been a pleasure to read.
Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a little help with an Excel file please

« Last post by tomos on May 09, 2020, 10:47 AM »

Unfortunately I am unable to upload an XL file as it is not supported in Attachments, Allowed file types.

-Stephen McBride (May 09, 2020, 10:30 AM)

Can you zip it? I think it should be okay then

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on May 08, 2020, 03:14 PM »

The concept of 'Schadenfreude' is all to real, I'm afraid. According to Wiki, there is a word in the English language that covers this concept too:  Epicaricacy 
Yet, schadenfreude "sticks" better. At least in my mind it does.

-Shades (May 08, 2020, 03:07 PM)

yeah, there's that aspect.
Freude is 'joy' :-) that's taking pleasure in other's pain/whatever  -- still not humour to me, but what the heck...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on May 08, 2020, 02:33 PM »

^ really enjoyed some of those Panzer, but dont understand why knowing someone is about to break their neck or be otherwise seriously injured would be classified as 'funny' (?) I understand that 'fail' videos are shown as entertainment, I watched a few when I came across them first. But funny?

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2020, 09:58 AM »

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-skwire (May 01, 2020, 06:33 AM)

Where is a mug from 2007?

-panzer (May 01, 2020, 08:37 AM)

The 2006 one was actually for new years day 2007, so I guess mistakenly numbered.
It's an impressive row of mugs

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2020, 04:15 AM »

International post is undependable atm... But I guess it would have been posted well before all this

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Android Apps / Re: DiscussionList for android

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2020, 02:31 PM »

^ okay, got that thanks.
So was there even a bug... 

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Android Apps / Re: DiscussionList for android

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2020, 09:39 AM »

I updated
Am I doing this right:
Tools / Import... /...data from URL

Using your link (https://kk.org/thete...-unsolicited-advice/) I get the error (ocr therefore bad formatting):

Failed to open downloaded file
content://downloads/all_downloads/6841
Import aborted: java.lang.Exception: Error
parsing import file: Unknown file format for import data. Should be json or simple
text that whose first line starts with
@FILEFORMAT:#.

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Android Apps / Re: DiscussionList for android

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2020, 04:04 AM »

Sorry if it still isn't available.  Google rejected my update because in the description I wrote:
"My wife and I use this app to review a small set of relationship questions each week during a long walk."

-mouser (April 29, 2020, 04:39 PM)

Just reporting: still not available

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Android Apps / Re: DiscussionList for android

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2020, 06:07 AM »

Added a new "book" of items you can download from the Tools->Import->Browse suggested online list:
https://kk.org/thete...-unsolicited-advice/

-mouser (April 29, 2020, 02:23 AM)

It crashes each time I try to do this.
V. 1.0.8 (ist that the most recent?)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2020, 05:07 PM »

That was good fun to play  :Thumbsup:
and enjoyed the timelapses too

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« Last post by tomos on April 11, 2020, 05:24 PM »

^ That was very good
apparently he *is* a professional sports commentator:
https://en.wikipedia...g/wiki/Andrew_Cotter

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on April 07, 2020, 05:05 PM »

Fox runs away with phone:

-mouser (April 07, 2020, 10:50 AM)

ha, I've been watching a few videos from them lately

Finnegan (a friend of Dixie's) is very vocal...

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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic

« Last post by tomos on April 07, 2020, 12:59 PM »

Trick is you gotta remember to lick both sides of the memory module before snapping it into the motherboard, otherwise the current flow won't be fully primed and the buss width will be cut in half..

-Stoic Joker (April 07, 2020, 09:34 AM)

So that's what I need to do now to stave off the boredom

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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2020, 03:49 PM »

^ Thanks for the review mouser.

I spent half a day attempting to assemble one computer from two old ones. It took me so long because I dont have a clue what I'm doing -- I've never built a PC. But now I do have more of a clue. (Unfortunately it didnt work, but that didnt bother me too much as I really did learn a lot doing it...).

Will try and build something at some stage (with new parts), but also would now feel much more confident about changing something within a machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2020, 07:44 AM »

Good review of Affinity as a photo editor in today's AskWoody newsletter.

I believe you need to be a Plus member (donation) to read it.

-xtabber (April 06, 2020, 06:53 AM)

thanks
I think it would be okay to quote the conclusion (if you think otherwise let me know, here or per PM, & I will redact)

Affinity Photo is a great value, given the depth of tools it offers. Take advantage of the free trial to see whether it fits your workflow nicely.

Pros: Clear video tutorials and automatic adjustments that save a lot of time.

Cons: No print equivalents of the video tutorials. The RAW processing seems slow, and the controls for perspective distortion are limited: the results were unsatisfactory.

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Living Room / Corona curve/s graph/s math/s

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2020, 11:03 AM »

A couple of graphs -- I probably dont fully understand how they work, but did find interesting:

The Coronavirus Curve - Numberphile

How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19

The animated graph the above video is based on is here (updated at link)


(note: logarithmic scale; time implied (neither on x nor y axis -- explained in video)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell Extended Clipboard Format Data Discussion Thread

« Last post by tomos on March 31, 2020, 05:38 PM »

v2.52.1 alpha uploaded:

...

• [Feature] Advance rules can now specify to ignore hash on certain formats.

-mouser (March 30, 2020, 06:15 PM)

this works for the inkscape vector clips
I set CHS to ignore the inkscape svg (image/x-inkscape-svg) hash, now duplicates are recognised as such. (If I modify the object slightly it is recognised as a new clip )

Here the description of the problem in an earlier post:

The [format/s] that are different are the svg [formats].

[ Invalid Attachment ]

[ Invalid Attachment ]

on the left from folder chs1, right is chs2
Clips look identical when pasted.

This looks to me like Inkscape is titling all 'id numbers' differently. I guess that could be filtered, (please note for me this not so important -- I'm going to save clips occasionally to favourites. Beyond that I wont mind duplicates... Willing to keep checking though if you want: my main machine is down so currently no access to illustrator.

-tomos (March 09, 2020, 01:51 PM)

[/list]

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinProductive by relipse

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2020, 06:37 AM »

Cool.  It would be nice if the output was shown in table style with columns.. And maybe with option to sort columns.

-mouser (March 30, 2020, 06:13 AM)

(I haven't tried it yet) or exportable as CSV file?

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Living Room / Re: Archivarius questions (help using)

« Last post by tomos on March 29, 2020, 03:36 PM »

^ thanks 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor grabbing focus.

« Last post by tomos on March 29, 2020, 07:39 AM »

Possibly related focus issue (on a windows 7 machine):
SC is set to 'Save but keep main window minimized' after capture.
With SC window open in the background, take a screenshot -- in a test of six screenshots (full screen), two screenshot caused the main SC window to gain focus i.e. come to the front. It's possible it depends on when the SC window last had focus -- more recent causes it to opo up, I think). Possibly only a problem on win.7 (in which case not really worth looking at...)

I know this was reported before, and *think* it was fixed at the time (?) but not sure :-/

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Living Room / Re: Archivarius questions (help using)

« Last post by tomos on March 29, 2020, 06:19 AM »

So, here's the good news, finally.  The "problem" was in a deep setting located in the program ... If you open Archivarius, select an index, and then select "Settings," there is an option titled "Morphology."  The program is defaulted to create an index in "morphology" mode, which dictates in turn how the search will function.  ... you must build the index without this morphological setting.
... I decided to give this thing a whirl.  And thank God (truly), it worked.
... so simply change this setting, and then rebuild your index.

-Yatom (March 28, 2020, 09:37 PM)

I'm curious:
once you've indexed thus, is Archivarius able to do a 'fuzzy' search of same text?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: GIFExplainer

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2020, 12:17 AM »

Nice to see a decent mini-review again
Thanks wraith 

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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2020, 03:59 PM »

Turn off the TV (the little psychosis factory) and throw it away.
I've done this the day after 9/11.
I've lived happily ever since...

-YannickDa (March 25, 2020, 01:12 PM)

I did that about 12 years ago. But then I got lost in the internet ...

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Mini Newsletter for Mar 24, 2020 - Coronavirus Lockdown

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2020, 05:26 AM »

^ a big plus one to that. Thanks Margot