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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 05:05 PM »

Hm... can you rotate the pie so that the calipers are measuring it? Currently they're both just kind of there without any interactive association.

Pie chart could stand to be a bit lighter, and maybe just blue/pink. Outline is definitely a good thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: best font for html email?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 04:00 PM »

Plain text Email annoys the hell out of me...Try to bold a key point and it fails?!? Jesus (at least) get with the 20th century for Christ sake.

I also like (and use) the Calibri font, but (sadly) Times is more reliable as far as everyone having it.

Size is a tricky one, I'm not sure if outlook uses pt or px, but Calibri 12 is what I usually use ... and I haven't had any complaints.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: P-FANCI: Petition For A New Cody Image! POST HERE!!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 01:36 PM »

If it's going on a (the) coffee cup, the calendar would probably show up the best.

Otherwise for a poster/wallpaper the acid chicken would be really cool.

Do we really have to pick (only) one...?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 01:30 PM »

(no rush but) I have the rest of Got Space? ready for final release, so let me know where we're at with the icon.

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Living Room / Re: A Friend of Mine Needs Help

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 12:17 PM »

Oddly, it's not actually a Microsoft utility (although it should be...), but the author's site appears to be here:

http://blogs.msdn.co...8/08/28/8904493.aspx

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O DriveLED4 Pro Christmas giveaway

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 08:18 AM »

Update: License key received - with no hinky strings attached.

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Living Room / Re: A Friend of Mine Needs Help

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 08:05 AM »

It's hard to view those posts in context as there is know way of knowing what has already been tried. I'm inclined to think that if there is a "Global Assembly Cache" question that it might be worth using the MS .NET cleaner to completely remove and reinstall all of the .NET stuff. Which I've had to do on many occasions for a variety of reasons/issues.

A link to the original thread might not hurt either ... If possible.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O DriveLED4 Pro Christmas giveaway

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 22, 2011, 07:45 AM »

Something rather odd about that website...

-IainB (December 22, 2011, 05:35 AM)

Indeed, but I've been on an O&O mailing list for a while (i forget why) and received the offer from them yesterday. The Email looked legit, but the site/page was unavailable. *Shrug* ...But it seems to be working now...and only asked for an Email address. So it should be safe enough.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 21, 2011, 02:30 PM »

Okie dokey...  I'm off to a good start.
http://i.imgur.com/KXNJM.png
or at least somekind of start!
I kept the same goddaweful colors that Microsoft uses, because that's what makes it visually recognizable to our brains.

-kunkel321 (December 21, 2011, 01:16 PM)

Indeed, good call.

The idea of "monitoring" or "seeing" suggests a magnifying glass, reading glasses, a ruler, or some other measuring device.  I think magnifying glasses are way over-used in app icons, so I found these examples of calipers on a Google Image search.  Thought I'd replicate one of them and have it measuring the pie chart.  Which do you prefer though? Plain old A, or fancier D?  I sortof like D better, but the icon should be recognizable even at 16x16 pix...  (of course I can always make a different image for low-rez/hi-rez).

-kunkel321 (December 21, 2011, 01:16 PM)

Yes, D tracks much better with the cartoon mad scientist measures monkey brain aesthetic which has best proven to please our target demographic.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 21, 2011, 12:50 PM »

We lost two dogs. Both were "rescue" beagles we had adopted from humane organizations.

-40hz (December 20, 2011, 12:08 PM)

Sorry to hear of your loss ... Our furry friends truly are family.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 21, 2011, 11:24 AM »

Maybe the '% Free' column could have a visual indication of the amount of free space? Like fill that percentage of the background of the cell with a different color, a bit like in TreeSize.

-Jibz (July 21, 2011, 07:40 AM)

Well... While it is abundantly clear that this can be done ... I am currently forced to resign myself to the fact that I can't pull it off. This is perhaps due to my insistence on using pure WinAPI C++, and the fact that I'm also a completely self taught hobby coder isn't really helping matters much either... *Sigh* However I do plan on releasing the source code for GotSpace with the final contest build so it can be expanded on by someone with a better understanding of what the hell I'm doing (or rather trying to do...as it were).

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 21, 2011, 09:14 AM »

Stoic Joker, GotSpace? looks like a pretty cool utility!  And BTW I've used T-Clock for years !!   

-kunkel321 (December 20, 2011, 03:56 PM)

Thanks, I'm hoping to get T-Clock back on the front burner after the new year.

Do you (or anyone) have any thoughts on what visual image corresponds to "ability to view drive space available?"
I imagine it would include a magnifying glass...  Or a ruler(?)

-kunkel321 (December 20, 2011, 03:56 PM)

I'm guessing something along the lines of the default drive properties dialog's pie chart. But not the boaring flat 2 dimensional type that I would end up creating (for me, art skills = no).  Actually I was hoping someone else had a better idea...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 20, 2011, 01:41 PM »

Well, if there are no other takers...

The icon I'm currently using for Got Space? is insanely huge 264KB, and not really discriptive of what the program does. So... If you're willing...I'm interested.

Thank you,

Stoic Joker

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... router recommendations

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 20, 2011, 01:33 PM »

Tomato firmware?  As long as I'm gonna play, might as well go all the way  .  One of the things that has frustrated with the LinkSys is anything resembling bandwidth measurement or control.

-barney (December 19, 2011, 02:55 PM)

Not a clue on the Tomato firmware...I never have gotten around to playing with it (Perhaps I should on my (8+ year old) WRT54G before it dies).

I played with the LG DLNA thing for a bit, then shut the service down because it used too much CPU time *Shrug* Just not a media guy...

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... router recommendations

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 19, 2011, 12:55 PM »

I've yet to see an N router with consistently good reviews ... So I tend to avoid them. Which is why the USB N dongle that came with my new TV is sitting on the shelf in favor of hardwiring the TV (which I did). If you want to have leave the house and count on it stable access, get separate devices. The added benefit is that you can disconnect the WiFi while you're away.

As far as a good cheap VPN router. The Netgear FVS318 has worked great for me on several small office (low buck) deployments. Happily taking the load of 3-5 people remoting in on a regular basis without needing fiddled with. They also have a new FVS318G Gigabit model.

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Living Room / Re: Flood of server hammering after sending out an email. Suspicious?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 19, 2011, 12:42 PM »

I've got a selection of diagnostic utilities that (frequently get deleted from my ThumbDrive by someones hyper-spastic AV software) I keep in a subfolder of our webserver for quick access. Its come in handy many times (I really hate AV software). Obviously these aren't sensitive files, but it does work in a pinch - depending on your needs.

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP system clock losing (lots) of time.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 19, 2011, 08:55 AM »

Have you tried running

Also, from all that I've read, Windows doesn't use the RTC once it's booted - it's then down to system interrupts.

-4wd (December 19, 2011, 07:58 AM)

True, have you tried running w32tm /reset to force is to recalculate the offset?

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP system clock losing (lots) of time.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 19, 2011, 07:52 AM »

'nother vote for the CMOS battery. I've run into this one a few times myself.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 19, 2011, 07:45 AM »

a client who's edge router just went tits up

-Stoic Joker (December 18, 2011, 11:45 AM)

That's what you get for letting them be on the bleeding edge!

-cranioscopical (December 18, 2011, 09:27 PM)

Well you're half right... They're right on the edge of a highway construction project, and the highway crew cut the fiber. Fortunately the local city owned fiber comes with grade A service. The head engineer came out and met us onsite within half an hour (on a Sunday!), and made arrangements to get the line crew out there shortly there after.

They are now officially my new favorite service provider!

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 18, 2011, 11:45 AM »

For example... Can you say "server down"?

-cranioscopical (December 18, 2011, 11:26 AM)

Actually yes. I'm on the phone with a client who's edge router just went tits up (e.g. their Exchange server is "down").

But, muster a damn chuckle I will!

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 16, 2011, 02:57 PM »

Who cares, update attached 

(But Seriously...) I did not do a full build/release for this update ... Only the .dll's have been recompiled to allow for the new POSIX Custom Format Specifier.



To use download the patch and extract the (32 or 64 bit) version of the dll you need. Overwrite the tClock.dll file in the install directory with the new one. Then adding POSIX as a format specifier wil give the number of seconds elapsed since Unix Epoch 1970-01-01 00:00:00

T-Clock 2011 Posix Time Patch.zip (116.76 kB - downloaded 755 times.)

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Living Room / Re: Apple, I hate you (again) and the web design community too

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 16, 2011, 02:27 PM »

If it doesn't work on Safari - Screw em...As long as it works in FF, Chrome, IE and Opera, nobody really cares.  Make them use a real browser instead of spending a fortune on closed-source systems.

-Stephen66515 (December 16, 2011, 02:03 PM)

Much as I hate all things Apple, I must disagree. Just because someone is using an iPad doesn't mean they are not going to want to goto/shop at your website. Apples native environment is/uses/requires Safari. So if you want to get money from the Apple folk (assuming the poor bastards have any left...) or just repeat visitors you gotta test to make sure your site will display properly on an Apple...with Safari (operated by a drunkin crackhead).


Last time I checked Safari on an Apple only supported about 6 if the new for HTML5 options. Oddly enough Safari on Windows supports all of them. Probably because Apple is to chickenshit to do any real testing on their own OS for fear of looking un-perfect.

P.S. I'm drunk...

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 16, 2011, 11:10 AM »

Yes, I googled it after posting. I can't guarantee anything (there's alot going on), but I'll see what I can do. Is there a specific time you'd like to have it by? It does sound easy enough, but the formatting code is about 8 pages long (And I'm not entirely sure where I stopped at... eek!).

-Stoic Joker (December 16, 2011, 08:27 AM)

No time table at all.  8 pages long?  Sheesh.

-superboyac (December 16, 2011, 10:18 AM)

LOL Actually it's 11 pages (I just checked). So now the curiosity has gotten the best of me (shit...) I started poking at it with a stick to see what would happen. Now there seems to be two different options for the output, one of which is just the current UTC time. The other is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00. So are they looking for:
Number of seconds UTC 1324054818
Number of seconds Locale Time (same as above -300 sec because I'm GMT -5)
Unix/RFC 2822 formatted date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:17 UTC


I'm assuming it's the first one. but want to double check before I get too far into testing this. I'm currently using the display at the top of the page at http://www.epochconverter.com/ as a target for the output.  


Note: if it's really just UTC time they're after the w+/-xx format specifier will give the UTC (or any other zone) time. So me being GMT/UTC -5, would use w+05 to get back to UTC instead of the usual 'h' in the custom format string.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 16, 2011, 08:27 AM »

Yes, I googled it after posting. I can't guarantee anything (there's alot going on), but I'll see what I can do. Is there a specific time you'd like to have it by? It does sound easy enough, but the formatting code is about 8 pages long (And I'm not entirely sure where I stopped at... eek!).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7 -- to x64 or not to x64, that is the question

« Last post by Stoic Joker on December 16, 2011, 08:10 AM »

I have seen quite a few people using official HP drivers that won't print multiple pages or multiple copies!!

-Carol Haynes (December 16, 2011, 03:44 AM)

Me too, Print driver > Device Settings, Disable Mopier Mode (and sometime HDD - if it ain't got one).

I've got a client with a HP LJ1000 running on Win7 32-bit. And IIRC it is not a Host Based driver...So there is a good chance it'll work.