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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by nudone on May 14, 2006, 01:27 AM »

how about a banner with everyone's avatar on it... that would look good i think.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 03:11 PM »

bizarre to say the least but i'm proud to get my avatar alongside mouser's.

like swimming around an egg yolk or something.

coooooool.

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Living Room / Re: Too Funny

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 03:05 PM »

this little story is true i'm ashamed to say...

i have a relative, don't see her much but a few years ago she bought a computer - probably a 486.

she heard about 'worms' infecting computers - she thought this meant real life tiny worms crawling through the modem cables and getting inside the case.

i heard from someone else that knew her that she also squeezed washing up detergent into the floppy drive - not entirely sure why she did this but i guess it was to make the floppy disk work???

i hate to imagine what other stories could be told about her.

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 07:48 AM »

thanks for the explanation, Carol.

truth is, i don't do enough video editing for it to really matter what i use - i still find myself using virtualdubmod (and virtualdubmpeg) for most of my encoding tasks.

i shall investigate the new vegas though.

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Living Room / Re: City of God - one of the best gangster movies you've never seen

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 02:38 AM »

agreed. there is also a tv series - 'city of men'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364801/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MyLifeOrganized - a journey in search of the perfect GTD software

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 01:28 AM »

if you are using paper instead of a pda you might like this...

http://www.pocketmod.com/

i've not got around to trying it but i have to say the idea of having a 'flexible' bit of paper stuffed in my back pocket seems like a better idea than carting a chunk of metal around with me all day, i.e. my pda. not really sure what to do about the 'flexible' pen bit - i suppose a small stubby pencil/pen will do.

(it's been mentioned before on this forum.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 01:18 AM »

thanks, skrommel, that looks perfect. 

thanks for the link, KPR, i'll try it but 'netmeter' look pretty much the same and IS free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« Last post by nudone on May 13, 2006, 01:13 AM »

Carol, i'm very interested to why you think Vegas 6 is better than Adobe Premier. this isn't to start an argument with you, i'd just like to know what your thoughts are.

currently, i'm using Adobe Premier 2 (not very often i admit) and the only thing i'll say about it is - where are the codecs? it seems to have removed itself from being an all purpose encoder (not that it ever was 'all' purpose really) and is now strictly aiming for DV and mpeg encoding. maybe i've missed something with it but i would have thought divx, xvid, blah, blah would be built in by now.

i've played with vegas in the past - looked pretty intuitive and had a nice set of features - i just left it alone because i thought 'you've got to use Premier if you are serious'.

anyway, what are the bits about vegas you like and the bits about premier you don't, Carol?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 12, 2006, 08:50 AM »

ah yes, so i see - just installed it.

all i need now is the ahk script to only let 'netmeter' run at the required times... 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 12, 2006, 07:34 AM »

thanks for the suggestion, i've used 'netmeter' in the past but i'll try it again and see if it has the cumulative bandwidth feature i'm after.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 12, 2006, 01:20 AM »

thanks for the link, Cpilot.

the problem is with the current bandwidth meters is that they monitor the whole period that the computer is online.

i need it to monitor between specific hours - outside of those hours i can download/upload an unlimited amount without penalities from my isp.

maybe instead of writing a little program to do what i originally asked for, i only need a util that will turn on a typical bandwidth monitor at a specific time - and then turn it off at a later set time each day. providing the bandwidth monitor keeps a running total it would work the same as my original request. 

any suggestions for a little util to run other apps by specified times?

thanks again...

edit:

just tried 'ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter' - very buggy on my system: strange output and won't unlock itself from its screen position.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 11, 2006, 04:00 PM »

i'm in the UK. a current trend here is for internet service providers to limit the download/upload limit you have each month - you pay more to transfer more or sometimes pay a hefty amount for truly unlimited (i.e. Zen).

my isp has decided that they are going to monitor the hours of 4pm to 12midnight - during this period the bandwidth is monitored and if you exceed a certain amount during the month then restrictions are enforced on your account. (currently they are actually monitoring from 8am to 12 midnight so it's even worse.)

the download/upload limit that is set on my account at the moment is 30 gig max (email warnings are sent at 24 gig). this isn't so terrible as i can download things through the night without any bandwidth restrictions but i have once exceeded their 30 gig limit and don't really want to do it again - they will expect me to upgrade my account - i pay £23 a month already so it's not on the cheap side here in the UK.

anyway, enough introduction, what i'd like is just a little meter running in the system tray that displays how much i've uploaded and downloaded - combined, during the hours of 4pm to 12midnight. this would need to start at zero each month and then accumulate until it was reset again the following month (or could be manually reset).

i'm hoping this could be done using autohotkey so that the script could be easily changed or included inside another ahk script. if possible, if the script could also output to a txt file i could then set samurise to read the output data into a meter i could create - i have a tiny samurise display running at all times that's on top of all other windows that would be just right to show the bandwidth level.

i've already checked to see if samurize could do the task i'm requesting but the problem is the accumulative specific interval monitoring.

hope that is enough info. a DC credits reward is on offer, of course.

thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« Last post by nudone on May 11, 2006, 07:41 AM »

want the coolest (or most foolish) keyboard on the planet?

have a look at this http://www.daskeyboard.com/

i'd buy it if all i did was type but i need to see where the keys are for shortcuts in certain apps.

the hardware spec sounds nice.

any takers?

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General Software Discussion / Re: completely unjust disregard for 'farr'

« Last post by nudone on May 10, 2006, 05:22 AM »

it's their loss, mouser.

let them wallow in the mire...

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General Software Discussion / completely unjust disregard for 'farr'

« Last post by nudone on May 10, 2006, 04:55 AM »

http://www.digg.com/...s_Keystroke_Launcher

on digg.com

loads of waffle about some program completey inferior to 'farr'.

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Living Room / Re: T.W.A.T. hardcore tech daily internet radio show

« Last post by nudone on May 07, 2006, 04:55 AM »

i think that answeres my question then.

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Living Room / Re: Days online --- seems odd

« Last post by nudone on May 07, 2006, 03:38 AM »

how about a countdown to the next DonationCoder 'event'.

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Living Room / Re: T.W.A.T. hardcore tech daily internet radio show

« Last post by nudone on May 07, 2006, 03:37 AM »

does twat mean the same in the US as it does in the UK?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on May 07, 2006, 03:35 AM »

Hey Nudone,

Alternative cure for you, not quite what you want but it does a good job. Teleport Cursor by Jason Hood XD auto jumps your cursor to the default button in that dialog only downside is if you click accidentally and the default isnt what you want , hopefully you get something that works perfectly for you

http://www.geocities.../telecurs/index.html

-SexyLilDarkPaw (May 06, 2006, 05:31 PM)

thanks for making the suggestion but that method is exactly what i don't like.

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Living Room / Re: moji mojizu, online community for artists drawing characters

« Last post by nudone on May 06, 2006, 01:26 AM »

well, now i've looked deeper, it's very, very nice. great find mouser.

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Living Room / Re: moji mojizu, online community for artists drawing characters

« Last post by nudone on May 06, 2006, 01:23 AM »

nice.

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Living Room / Re: Web Hosting Review

« Last post by nudone on May 05, 2006, 03:12 PM »

well said, Carol.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on May 05, 2006, 01:27 PM »

well done, jgpaiva, that has certainly cured the 'okay' button click problem for me. thanks.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on May 04, 2006, 01:37 PM »

okay, my 'remix' isn't worth spinning.

i now see that's it's a bit too dumb in how it works. there are a few dialog windows that i have gotten used to auto jumping to the cursor that the above method prevents from working.

just the AndyM original remix is sufficient for the short annoying dialogs.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on May 04, 2006, 01:31 PM »

well, i'm sure you'll be absolutely staggered at the advanced coding level i'm working at, here's the "nudone's AndyM's jgpaiva's DialogMove Remix"

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WinGetPos,WinX,WinY, WinWidth, WinHeight,ahk_id %ActiveWindow%
if WinWidth =
  return
WinGetClass,WinClass
WinGetTitle,WinTitle,ahk_id %ActiveWindow%
WinClass=ahk_class%A_space%%Winclass%
If NotDetectableWindow(WinTitle,WinClass)
  return
If DetectableWindow(WinTitle,WinClass)
  gosub movewindow

If WinHeight < 150                   ;AndyM
  gosub movewindow                   ;AndyM

If WinHeight > 151                   ;nudone
  return                             ;nudone
 
;If WinHeight > %PredefWinHeight%
;  return
;If WinWidth > %PredefWinWidth%
;  return