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Living Room / Re: Anybody else sick of hearing "OMG Facebook is spying on us!"?

« Last post by tomos on August 19, 2014, 03:42 AM »

Yeah, I think it's a case of use it or dont.
Using it, and bitching about it at the same time *is* a bit hypocritical.

FWIW I dont use FB anymore.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR will not start after latest Windows 8.1 update

« Last post by tomos on August 18, 2014, 09:55 AM »

I'm afraid to update now

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on August 18, 2014, 09:54 AM »

^at least one of the fish was still alive, and they were presumably caught at the same time - which would rule out the bad smell theory :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls

« Last post by tomos on August 18, 2014, 07:47 AM »

How do I know that?  Because I did it as a kid

-Edvard (August 17, 2014, 04:48 PM)

@E - I think that's a case of YMMV. Something that varies from family to family. That sort of thing hasn't been an issue in my family. Maybe it's luck. But we don't happen to think so. We like to think it's more how we bring our kids up. And our approach may not work for everybody since each family situation is different. So it goes.

-40hz (August 17, 2014, 07:25 PM)

I'm (still) in the odd position of agreeing with your recommendations, but being a bit overwhelmed by your attitude.

1) we dont get to choose our parents (I dont think anyways). If you got to grow up in a 'good' family, that's something you can be thankful about.
2) most parents do their best; if the parents have flaws, the children in turn tend to try and correct them in the next generation - of course this can be a bit 'reactionary' e.g. going from over-disciplined to being too lax, etc. etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2014, 02:34 PM »

This is being advanced in the name of "the children."

-40hz (August 17, 2014, 01:37 PM)

^that on it's own is not a reason to knock it either.

I suspect you dont have children from your response above (only those of us without kids could be so idealistic I think), but I still think you made good points

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General Software Discussion / Re: screenshots when not logged into computer

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2014, 02:29 PM »

Low tech option is a camera....

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

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2014, 01:39 PM »

my old dog Tia [...] her and her brother got stolen from my front garden about 8 years ago

-Stephen66515 (August 17, 2014, 10:57 AM)

jeez, that's the pits

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Living Room / Re: Win8 upgrade do-over

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2014, 01:37 PM »

Got to register, no thanks - not without being able to see something of what the offer

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling keys

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2014, 03:12 AM »

@Purecat, have a look at the little brother: minicap - there's a beta at the moment:
https://www.donation....msg361684#msg361684

more info in first post there:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2179.0

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Living Room / Re: HDMI vs Football

« Last post by tomos on August 15, 2014, 04:51 PM »

Too bad it's not available on my tablet. I'll have to check it out once I'm off the rack in a couple hours.

-Vurbal (August 15, 2014, 04:26 PM)

not sure why exactly you cant see it, but it was blocked here, so I found an alternative:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=yglCzRu9p4c

(for your *rack* entertainment :p)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: IdleClose - exit certain programs after x minutes of idle time

« Last post by tomos on August 15, 2014, 10:19 AM »

Fantastic! Thank you tomos for such a friendly and accurate response. The script works great. I'm going to love this site.

-burntpepsi (August 15, 2014, 09:21 AM)

great :-)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: IdleClose - exit certain programs after x minutes of idle time

« Last post by tomos on August 15, 2014, 08:18 AM »

Is Idle Close a finished download? I've tried the JustCloseSomeTasks and ProcessGuard but those don't do what brotherS outlined above in his code. I don't know what that is written in or I'd just use that. Sorry for bumping an old post, I'm new to the forum today.

-burntpepsi (August 14, 2014, 05:31 PM)

hi burntpepsi
looks to me that post #14 was the nearest to a solution - save the script in that post with an .ahk file-ending.
Download AHK - it's portable, so you can put it anywhere.
http://ahkscript.org
Open the saved script with AHK - it will show in the tray.

disclaimer: I havent tried the script, so not even sure what exactly it does...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on August 14, 2014, 12:29 PM »

^ (had to look up theramin) Brilliant

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [2014-08-06] GoogleTranslator+ | Translate Anything, from Anywhere

« Last post by tomos on August 14, 2014, 12:24 PM »

Thanks!

#2) can you include this link in the help file?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 04:33 PM »

^lol, congrats Ren

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Living Room / Re: R.I.P. Robin Williams

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 08:00 AM »

When I heard the news, the first thing that came to my mind (weirdly enough) was the Louie episode from season 3 (episode 6).  Louie and Robin Williams find themselves together at the grave of an acquaintance, and they have a very interesting time and discussion together.  In the end, they agree to attend the funeral of whoever dies first.  pretty eerie.

Here's part of it:
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=E1OJ3ifG0xA

-superboyac (August 11, 2014, 11:12 PM)

Just found a more complete version of that

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [2014-08-06] GoogleTranslator+ | Translate Anything, from Anywhere

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 07:20 AM »

hi ego.bizzin !

I updated to latest version today -
I just copied everything over to my GoogleTranslator+ folder. Unfortunately I noticed too late that you had an ini file included, so I lost my previous settings :-(

I cant remember how it worked before, but would be better if ini file were not included (?)
Also: I dont think there is a link for this thread in the help file (?) - would be a good idea imo

Thanks for the update

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 05:33 AM »

This one doesnt really qualify as a friends one, but it is one animal rescuing another - (and I dont see how they could have faked this one...)

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Living Room / Re: More good web comics you've discovered

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 04:59 AM »

Diesel Sweeties is sometimes very good, I liked these two recent ones:



http://www.dieselswe...ies.com/archive/3618




http://www.dieselswe...ies.com/archive/3620

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 04:29 AM »

with apologies for delay ;-)



Gillette double-edged adjustable safety razor

apparently aka Fatboy

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Living Room / Re: The REALITY of Virtual Flight and Other Simulators (Not Just For Simmers)

« Last post by tomos on August 13, 2014, 03:04 AM »

^thanks got it

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Living Room / Re: The REALITY of Virtual Flight and Other Simulators (Not Just For Simmers)

« Last post by tomos on August 12, 2014, 05:08 PM »

At one point does a simulation of a mind (or society) become a first-class thing deserving of the kinds of things we believe are due to living animals..

-mouser (August 12, 2014, 08:12 AM)

I dont understand "..the kinds of things we believe are due to living animals" ?

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Living Room / Re: The REALITY of Virtual Flight and Other Simulators (Not Just For Simmers)

« Last post by tomos on August 12, 2014, 05:06 PM »

[...] Like the real-life world, we as pilots of these modeled aircraft are constrained to operate our aerial vehicles according to the properties of the modeled real world; otherwise we will suffer the real modeled consequences. So, the next time you "fly," try to picture the tiny real aircraft that is being propelled through the tiny modeled world within the reality inside your computer."

-CodeTRUCKER (August 11, 2014, 03:26 PM)

In Tai Chi, one learns 'the form': most people think of it along the lines of a graceful slow dance. Many people learn it that way, but it actually has fighting application: each move is a blocking move, or an attacking move, or both.
Anyways,
we were taught to imagine fighting when doing the form, i.e. to imagine the fighting application of each move. (This naturally helps gets your energy/chi moving nicely.) But we were also told, that if we were ever to use tai chi in a real fight, we should simply imagine that we are doing the form.

Obviously pretty different, yet the quote above reminded me enough of it that I thought it worth posting.

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Living Room / Re: Laptop Battery Record!

« Last post by tomos on August 12, 2014, 04:13 PM »

Odd, cause lithium camera batteries run down a lot quicker in the cold.
But, in fairness, that is different from actually freezing the things...

And regular batteries will last a little longer if you warm them.

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Living Room / Re: Homebrewing

« Last post by tomos on August 12, 2014, 09:50 AM »

And, knowing how to properly open a super-mega-fizzy bottle is a learned skill. I tried a few ways, and have now settled on a solid method that works for explosively wild fizziness.

-Renegade (August 12, 2014, 09:37 AM)

you want to be careful you dont have exploding bottles

One last thing... Using a fermenter is way better than just doing it in bottles.

-Renegade (August 12, 2014, 09:37 AM)

no understand -
you mean instead of 'bottle-conditioned'? does a 'fermenter' make it like in a barrel?

Ren's Draught Ginger Ale