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Living Room / Re: SATA III - why no better rating than SATA II ?

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 06:07 AM »

Still don't really understand why SATA III drives on a SATA III interface don't see an improvement in system rating ???
-Carol Haynes (February 20, 2011, 05:37 AM)

That system rating actually measures the data transfer speed. As your SATA II interface already offers enough throughput to deliver the full potential of your disk, SATA III isn't needed, nor does it improve, the transferspeed to & from the disk.
You need a faster disk (or one with a higher burst-transfer, achievable by a big on-disk cache, but the system-rating probably has counter-measures to avoid falling into that trap) to require the need (and see any improvement) of a SATA III interface.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save file to user-selected desktop on a multiple monitor setup

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 05:37 AM »

IMHO the desktop is just 1 location (folder) for each user, plus 1 location system-wide ('All Users' desktop folder) that are merged into the view that you have on your screens. Just the coordinates of the short-cut-icon determines where it is 'located'.
AFAIK, new icons can't be easily 'steered' into a specific position. Windows just picks the first available position (top to bottom, left to right on LTR (left to right writing) Windows) on the main desktop.

Workaround:

Create folders on your desktop for each monitor you have (DL-Screen-left, DL-Screen-middle, DL-Screen-right)
Drag each folder to the corresponding monitor
Download any file into the correct folder, your initial download location should be 'Desktop', so you can browse easily into the right sub-folder

To make the last item easier, you could use separate browser-brands on each monitor (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera), but you'd have a bit of trouble keeping favorites synched.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Shortcut transformation

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 05:22 AM »

Do the suggestions at your original question-thread work for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever copy

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 05:19 AM »

Or the fine N.A.N.Y. 2011 entry PartialDownload could be useful?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever copy

« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 04:59 AM »

I'd suggest to only pursue this request at your new thread in the Coding Snacks section, over here. That's the best place for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ?

« Last post by Ath on February 19, 2011, 02:59 PM »

... But since I have perfectionist tendencies...
-Armando (February 19, 2011, 02:39 PM)

With that said: Do get some kind of VCS!

If working alone or in a small local team (in the same office): Get SVN, it's easy to set up (locally) and very well documented.
If working in a geographically 'wide area' or a large group of people, get GIT or Mercurial and a hosted central server, or create a project at SourceForge with SVN if somebody really wants that to be used.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 3-Day Money Back Guarantee~! WOW~!

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2011, 09:49 AM »

Oh, nearly as good as on Android, there's the refund policy (recently) changed to 15 minutes after download

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Developer's Corner / Re: [PHP] 'Dynamic variable name' ?

« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2011, 08:56 AM »

No reputation system, Eternal Gratefulness will also work nicely.
-jgpaiva (February 18, 2011, 08:50 AM)

Or a (small) donation to the person that helped you out so nicely

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Living Room / Re: USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 06:22 PM »

It came formatted Fat32.
-MilesAhead (February 17, 2011, 05:15 PM)

Bummer

But that's not something you can't easily fix.

If I'd need another thumb-drive I'd probably get one of those too, even without the LED indicator.
And I think it looks decent as well.

Thanks for the mini-mini-review.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 03:25 PM »

Isn't that just a collection of apps that happen to be portable?
-timns (February 17, 2011, 02:58 PM)

Yep, but there's a quite huge collection already. Most likely all the OP needs is there

I think the only true way to take your setup with you would be as a complete virtual PC running in virtualbox or similar.
-timns (February 17, 2011, 02:58 PM)

That would have 2 disadvantages:

You'd need a quite big USB drive
You still have to install the virtualization platform before you can do anything

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Screenshot Captor / Re: For Screenshot Captor "screenshot folder" option

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:53 PM »

Check out: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25539.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:52 PM »

http://portableapps.com/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Registrations on Websites: User Chosen Password vs. Assigned Password?

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:38 PM »

What happens when the user forgets their password?
-JavaJones (February 17, 2011, 02:35 PM)

They get slapped on the cheek, and sent to the KeePass website

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New tweaks to forum - Jan 27, 2011 (apc caching, server load info)

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 08:38 AM »

it shows how long it took the DC server to create and serve a page. That will normally be < 1second. If that is short and it took a long time for the page to load in your browser anyway, then you know the problem is not on our server but on the wider network.
-mouser (February 17, 2011, 08:25 AM)

That probably doesn't include the load-time of any graphics on the page, like embedded images and user-avatars. I get page times often between 0.02s and 0.04s, but the entire page can take up to 10 seconds to load. Mostly depending on the amount of graphics, IMHO.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: new software - dst

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:48 AM »

Is this just for fun or are you trying to create another msn/skype/im platform with a new proprietary protocol?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bulk Creating Folders

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 09:25 AM »

Wasn't there a CSnack creating directories listed in a file? (no time to check right now)

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 09:23 AM »

I'll pledge at least 1 from the Unfinished CSnacks section. (There's 1 I'm thinking about right now). And more if I can find a way to solve some more requests. I'll check that later this week (or weekend) and possibly re-pledge that one.

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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 04:34 AM »

XSLT and FOP is useful for presenting (structured) data, generated elsewhere, not being produced/modified from a wordprocessor or something like it. So you're correct in selecting (LaTeX/Any document management system) for maintaining your docs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How long can PC stay in Standby Mode in XP

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:40 AM »

It takes longer to start up from Hibernate on my netbook than doing a fresh boot. :-/
-Deozaan (February 16, 2011, 12:01 AM)

Still glad I didn't get one of those

It's totally not worth the annoyance.

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Living Room / Re: CPU Question: More Mhz per core or more cores?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:38 AM »

Okay, so I finally got some specs to compare to. I ended up building my sister a better machine for about $300 less than what the other person was trying to sell her.
-Deozaan (February 15, 2011, 11:29 PM)

Wanna share those final specs?

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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:33 AM »

It looks like at first glance that that tool will require some serious configuration to convert an xml file to a nice output.

Sure would be nice to have something automated that maybe could read an xml file and make some reasonable assumptions in order to generate a nice looking layout.. or maybe use a kind of gui tool to let you configure the arrangements of fields for pretty printing..
-mouser (February 15, 2011, 07:17 PM)

Quess there is a tool for that already. Didn't look close lately (researched it a bit about 5 - 7 years ago), but I wouldn't start a project without finding all the tools for creating either FOP layouts or full-blown XSLT layouts.

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