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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 30, 2011, 09:13 PM »

If you ever need anything more robust check out ScreenConnect (http://www.screenconnect.com/).  I found them after using (and paying and arm and a leg) for LMI123 for years.  Much cheaper and I can run on my own server.

-Stac (November 30, 2011, 09:36 AM)

Wow! ...If $275 a seat is a deal...I'd hate to see what you were paying!

-Stoic Joker (November 30, 2011, 11:12 AM)

Still, it's cheaper than a USB cable.

-4wd (November 30, 2011, 08:19 PM)

O_o WTF!!! ...That's completely insane. ...Wow! (you win )

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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 November 30, 2011, 02:03 PM »

Put Cody in place of the LSD chicken at the top, then replace the pilot with a maiden...

-Stoic Joker (November 30, 2011, 01:22 PM)

heheheh. didn't notice that bird. maybe we can have baby cody as the LSD chicken and cody instead of a maiden. (though, i don't mind the original suggestion either.)

-nudone (November 30, 2011, 01:55 PM)

I have faith in your skills to pull it off tastfully.

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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 November 30, 2011, 01:22 PM »

might be nice to put Cody into the mayan sky pilot image (or whatever it's commonly known as) as suggested by tomos.

-nudone (November 30, 2011, 01:11 PM)

Put Cody in place of the LSD chicken at the top, then replace the pilot with a maiden...

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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 November 30, 2011, 12:27 PM »

Perhaps something Mayan in keeping with the 2012 theme...


Or... What if everybody just took a crack at it? Grab paintbrush, a crayon, cat poo, anything... and just have at it. Then someone (hehe) would have to set us all straight ... By demonstrating the proper way to do it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 30, 2011, 11:12 AM »

If you ever need anything more robust check out ScreenConnect (http://www.screenconnect.com/).  I found them after using (and paying and arm and a leg) for LMI123 for years.  Much cheaper and I can run on my own server.

-Stac (November 30, 2011, 09:36 AM)

Wow! ...If $275 a seat is a deal...I'd hate to see what you were paying!

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General Software Discussion / Re: clock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 06:55 PM »

Okay, hang on a second... I've been playing with this thing for a bit, and it's working off a hardcoded limit of 1,000 for the X position. If somebody is good at binary hacking (I'm not) this could be a quick fix.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Pre-Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 06:30 PM »

Hm... It doesn't quite seem to have the same information as the print driver does for the HP LaserJet PCL drivers.



Note: The LaserJet 2100 has a maximum of 3 trays, mine only has 2 trays ... But the PCL drivers (all brands) always list the optional trays (even if they don't actually exist).

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General Software Discussion / Re: clock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 06:06 PM »

I found a copy of his site using the wayback machine. But it doesn't look like he ever made the source code available. If the author/source code could be found, I could modify it for you ... But I don't have the time to start from scratch.

It is a cool little clock (ran fine on Win7 x64), I saved a copy in my TClock variants (which suspect it may be) collection.

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Living Room / Re: Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 04:56 PM »

If I'd need 32 GB I wouldn't be putting that in a laptop, but in a proper desktop with a huge processor, not available in a laptop, for pulling all those Virtual Machines through the clay.

-Ath (November 29, 2011, 04:01 PM)

Amen to that! 

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Living Room / Re: Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 03:30 PM »

Yeah, the ECC part was because I was looking up a server at the time - There's a downside to doing things in a hurry...Ya know?

For Dell/Alienware (the name I suspect you're paying for...) US the 16GB config is +$400, and the 32GB config is +$2,000 ...Now that's freaking crazy!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 02:42 PM »

Probably not a shock ... But Remote Desktop (or assistance) works perfectly with the UAC prompts.

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fSekrit / Re: 2011 status report

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 02:09 PM »

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...vodka *does* make everything better.

-wraith808 (November 29, 2011, 01:43 PM)

  

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Living Room / Re: Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 02:07 PM »

Why do they have to use ECC memory? I have 16Gb in my system which cost under £100 for the lot!

-Carol Haynes (November 29, 2011, 12:37 PM)

*Shrug* ... Something to do with (stability under load) coordinating the multiple processor cores, with the multiple memory channels... I'm not an architecture guy, I just ran across the info shortly after recovering from the same sticker shock a while back.

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Living Room / Re: Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 12:18 PM »

My eyes just popped.

Alienware customisation on Dell's website offers an upgrade from 4Gb of DDR3 memory to 4x4Gb at a the very reasonable cost of £500.

Generously they also offer to upgrade from one model of Core i7 to another for a mere £900.

Are these people on drugs ???

http://www.dell.com/.../p/alienware-m18x/pd

-Carol Haynes (November 28, 2011, 01:37 PM)

IIRC The memory prices on Dells skyrocket after 8GB because they have to use ECC memory with a specialized buffer for those memory configurations (so the price (is about ~50% off) really isn't that bad).

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 12:08 PM »

These are dye sub printers, they use rolls of paper (not sheets). There are NO trays.
Auto rotating is a driver feature and ALMOST all dye subs do not have that feature.

-liquidriver (November 29, 2011, 07:43 AM)

Actually the driver only goes by the users portrait or landscape input, the autorotation is handled by the print device. While roll feed machines have some of their own behaviors, others are shared. You mentioned using a HP Office Jet 8500 inkjet at a test machine which is why I got started on that line of thought (I work for an HP Authorized Service Provider - So our main product is printers, print management, etc.). The HP roll feed devices (plotters) have an option that minimizes to amount of paper/footage used by storing, rotating, and arranging print jobs.

The issue is the software shows it printing in the correct orientation and it prints the opposite way.

-liquidriver (November 29, 2011, 07:43 AM)

Understood, and that is a common side effect of specifying to many settings in to many places. As devices get smarter, we get stuck having to trust them, because sometimes they follow instructions a bit too well...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ribbon UI - is it really THAT good?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 11:46 AM »

I played hell finding thing in the old MS Word UI, and I still play hell trying to find things in the new Word ribbon UI. For both I tend to fall back to using as many keyboard shortcuts as I can remember. While the ribbon does make it bit (and I mean just a bit) easier for me to find things on a normal desktop, I do think it is a step in the right direction for (finger world) tablet based computing.

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fSekrit / Re: 2011 status report

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 11:26 AM »

work has been eating up pretty much all my time & energy.

-f0dder (November 29, 2011, 10:04 AM)

* wraith808 raises a glass in commiseration. 

-wraith808 (November 29, 2011, 10:47 AM)

I'll drink to that! ...Christ, I burned out back in July...and I'm still dragging my carcase through the motions.

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Living Room / Re: Hard drive shortage

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 11:20 AM »

It been fairly even for me, with no clear most reliable manufacturer. While I usually go WD for most drives, I also tend to pick Seagate for SCSI applications.

Only time I saw mass failures was during the end of the OEM's were using 256MB of RAM era ... XP needed (much) more than that and was burning a hole in the drive where the pagefile wasn't anymore. Now I got a huge stack of those failures, but they're evenly spread across all manufacturers.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 06:48 AM »

Printers do have a tendency to freak out about paper sizes that may cause them to jam. 4(w)x6(h) will feed, while 6(w)x4(h) will cause most printers to freak and refuse to feed (or cycle) properly (which is amazingly easy to do when you start manually defining things). They also have the ability to auto rotate the content being printed to fit the media loaded.

Tray 1 is usually the safest (by design) for specialty paper ... Try resetting most of the media config back to the auto detect defaults, and run a few tests that way. Otherwise you may be inadvertently rotating to image twice...putting it right back where you didn't want it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: clock

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 29, 2011, 06:24 AM »

Not sure if a taskbar clock will do for what you're after, but  T-Clock is quite configurable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 28, 2011, 11:39 AM »

If it is just a single PC behind the router, you don't need the VPN. My setup has 7-8 pcs behind each router/firewall and as such, forwarding 3389 can be problematic.

-Josh (November 27, 2011, 08:33 PM)

There are two options available that don't require anything additional:
For multiple users, change the TS/RDP listening port for each machine to something else so each user has their own port to connect to (I set this up for the brass at work for after hours access).

For a single user, have only one entry point machine and connect to the other internal machines from it (I do this quite frequently on client networks - I've actually gone 4 sessions deep without issue).

Actually there's 3 options if you count the TS-Web option on SBS, but I try not to do that.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 28, 2011, 07:39 AM »

Hmm, interesting.  It should work fine but I must admit i've never tried printing on other than 8.5x11 BUT if i had to guess i'd say the problem was not with flipsuite/flipbook printer but with the virtual printer tools.  I will try it out and see if i get the same results.

-mouser (November 26, 2011, 06:01 PM)

(Sorry - Just thought I'd chime in with a few thought)

.JPGs don't have a paginated document size. They're at the whim of whatever application is formatting them for the printer.

Print driver's (suprisingly) aren't necessarily that picky ... especially if the job sent doesn't specify a size, and the data will fit on (what's available) 8.5x11.

If liquidriver wants to print on 6x8 media, they'll most likely need to define and specify that custom size during & for the device that is actually going to put the image on paper.

Printing the image to .pdf may allow specifying a document size, but that is not going to prevent it from being overridden by the app that prints the pdf (by default) to whatever size media that is typically handy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RunInTrayMod 1.0

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 28, 2011, 07:11 AM »

I added a call to EmptyWorkingSet() every minute in the idle loop.

-MilesAhead (November 27, 2011, 07:41 PM)

It's my understanding that calling that excessively can actually hamper performance. I generally only use it after completing some operation that required the application to allocate resources it otherwise wouldn't need to run/function. Like after closing a settings dialog. It could also mask a resource leak that could/should be fixed (not saying you have one as I've never even seen the application in question - I'm just sort of pondering this aloud).

Hopefully someone like f0dder will correct me if I'm off in the weeds here ... I just thought the ^question^ might help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 27, 2011, 01:23 PM »

But, SJ, if you use a VNC compatible instead of Remote Desktop they can see everything.

-techidave (November 27, 2011, 12:35 PM)

Correct, it's just a matter of what you're after/need at the moment. My preference is toward the MS integrated RDP because it's lighter, faster and simpler to use 99% of the time...For me... But I have had occasion where inability to truly share the desktop with the current user has been a problem. So I do keep a VNC based option in the wings in case of emergency (even used it once or twice in the last month).

If wraith likes Join.me that would definitely make it worth looking into IMO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mike Halsey article on firmware upgrades/updates ...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 27, 2011, 12:56 PM »

O_o Wow... You sure there was no (magic wand) miss-click on the LG firmware thing? Mine's got an option to check, but no auto/forced updating that I can see. Doesn't mean it wont decide to bone me tonight just for saying that...But we'll see...


On J-Mac's Asus/Nvidia "issue", Lie. Seriously, just lookup the latest firmware ahead of time (so you can quip it off), and if it isn't applicable ... Just lie and say it's up to date. That way you can force them to either go to step two, page next, or at least "escalate" the issue up to someone brighter than a trained monkey. I'm tired of this Knee-Jerk flow charting "Support Tech"  nonsense where their first response to any question is to update the firmware (see bricked machine commentary in earlier post).

HP is classic for this shit; 49 series "firmware" error ... Well lets update the firmware then... WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!! Try cleaning/replacing the memory first because that's where the problem most likely actually lies. Firmware doesn't just up and break one day, and it sure as hell doesn't (read can't) wear out... Try looking at where the firmware is copied to at load/run time that will be an item that is (OTOH, classically) grenade prone.

I'd dare say that HP's "support " personnel have cost our company close to $3,000 in bricked formatters because of this reflexive answer in the past year alone.