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Mouser's Zone / Re: Chocolatey

« Last post by phitsc on June 05, 2013, 01:48 AM »

Now has over 1000 unique packages.

https://groups.googl...ocolatey/LIr19K61r8g

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« Last post by phitsc on May 14, 2013, 03:10 PM »

There was quite a good intro to how SSDs work in Communications of the ACM recently called 'Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive'. While in my memory the article looked nicer (i.e. nicer layout), I think the contents is identical to this one:

http://queue.acm.org...etail.cfm?id=2385276

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some thoughts on the Project Wonderful Ad Network and web advertising in general

« Last post by phitsc on May 14, 2013, 01:44 AM »

I'm starting to share your dislike for Google. The fact that I as a (admittedly non-paying, well, at least not directly paying) customer have no control over availability of service and most importantly the use of my personal data is discomforting me more and more. But that only as an aside.

Concerning advertising: It might sound naive, but wouldn't it be perfect for a site like DC to have permanent related advertisers or sponsors, like magazines or sports associations etc. do? Let's say programming-related tool manufacturers (e.g. Microsoft) or Universities or SW manufacturers (e.g. Adobe). It could also be an interesting place to advertise for smaller companies (let's say the size of XYplorer, etc.). These would just pay a fixed monthly / yearly contribution (donation) to have fixed advertising space. I think DC could be very attractive for such advertisers because of the people frequenting the site. The long outstanding (and planned) site update might also help to convince possible advertisers that they are investing in a modern and evolving site.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Opinions wanted: Best SVN client for use on a Mac

« Last post by phitsc on May 09, 2013, 02:29 PM »

I have no experience with any of the tools on your list. Nevertheless, I can give an opinion on one of them:

Cornerstone by zennaware is being co-developed by a former teammate of mine (he's one of the founders and owners of zennaware). I can tell you that he's a very talented and dedicated programmer. I have no doubt that Cornerstone must be an excellent piece of software and well worth its price.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Looking for the best widget for numeric input

« Last post by phitsc on May 09, 2013, 02:11 PM »

If you haven't done so already, have a look at how it's done in Adobe Lightroom. You can use both keyboard and mouse. You can set a specific value either by entering into the edit box (at the end of the slider), or by clicking on a position on the slider. You can "move" the value both on the slider and the edit box. If these elements would be big enough I'm sure they would work well for touch input. You can re-set to a default position by double-clicking the slider handle. I don't think your multiple "good values" requirement is covered though.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by phitsc on April 05, 2013, 03:53 AM »

It's not a bad idea. Maybe the new web site, once put in place, will allow to implement something like that.

Concerning a simpler way to install FARR plugins: have a look at DcUpdater. While it does not support installation of all of the available plugins I guess most of them are there.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by phitsc on April 04, 2013, 02:39 AM »

Concerning

... and there is a better way to report what is broken and what is not....

-destiny_ruler (April 03, 2013, 08:05 PM)

The typical way this is currently done is by posting a bug report in the respective plugin's thread. When you say 'better', do you have something specific in mind?

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by phitsc on March 20, 2013, 09:24 AM »

Maybe they need the space for their upcoming new dead project.

-Tuxman (March 20, 2013, 09:23 AM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by phitsc on March 20, 2013, 09:22 AM »

Yes, I know. But they could just have left the menu entry until July 1 as well.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by phitsc on March 20, 2013, 09:18 AM »

They said July 1, 2013. But since today there doesn't seem to be a menu entry for Reader in the google menu bar any more (and it already was under More anyway)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by phitsc on March 14, 2013, 11:17 AM »

Also, I am the one to blame for Reader's demise. Just this morning, while taking a shower, I thought what would happen if Google killed the service. Well, there you are

-Lashiec (March 13, 2013, 09:42 PM)

I suggest you never take a shower again or else they go and shut down Gmail.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.6.0

« Last post by phitsc on February 11, 2013, 02:03 AM »

The problem with FarrWebMetaSearch is that it doesn't operate on a Web Site's official API, but instead tries to collect search results by grabbing content directly from a Site's web page (using regular expressions). Unfortunately, a slight change on the side of the provider of the respective Web Site can cause such a regex to not work any more, making the concept of the plugin somewhat flawed.

Which search did you try?

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Living Room / Re: [Reddit] I couldn't learn Erlang so I invented it

« Last post by phitsc on January 28, 2013, 02:30 AM »

A very cool post. Thanks for sharing.

I honestly disagree with his opinion about VCSs and IDEs though (assuming he doesn't mean it ironically).

Concerning the successor to OO: it's not really a successor, rather a new trend: functional programming. Many popular once predominantly OO (or already multi-paradigm) languages now integrate functional programming concepts.

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Living Room / Re: Why touch screens will never rule the world

« Last post by phitsc on January 24, 2013, 03:35 AM »

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by phitsc on January 21, 2013, 03:54 PM »

That will make a complete shutdown though, not a "Windows 8 Shutdown".

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on January 20, 2013, 04:03 AM »

Just to confirm what I said above: 512 characters (actually, bytes) is the maximum length allowed for any FARR result item string.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Extract text PDF using AHK

« Last post by phitsc on January 18, 2013, 09:10 AM »

I have used pdftotext for my NANY 2013 entry pdfautomv. The code / script is in Ruby and can be found here: https://bitbucket.or...automv.rb?at=default

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General Software Discussion / Re: Disable Win+V in Windows 8

« Last post by phitsc on January 18, 2013, 01:58 AM »

That's an interesting piece of information. Thanks for sharing Curt.

Sounds like Win+... shortcuts can be "overwritten" by an application then. Maybe an API that has changed with Windows 8.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Disable Win+V in Windows 8

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 02:41 PM »

It's especially annoying since with Windows 8 they now use so many of the Win+SingleLetters, and for stuff which I really don't care about. The fact that applications like Visual Studio and applications with similar complexity have basically used up the whole alphabet for shortcut keys further complicate the matter

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 02:33 PM »

I just tried with a task having 369 characters and it displayed and worked flawlessly. Can you be more specific in where you see a problem? (maybe make a screenshot)

-phitsc (January 17, 2013, 07:01 AM)

screenshot
Only 511 characters. Breaks in the middle of a word "przez"

all text: "Asus planuje portfolio smartfonów z systemem Windows Phone 8. Być możne powstanie nawet smartfon połączony z tabletem na kształt androidowej serii Asus Padfone. Benson Lin, wiceszef Asusa, powiedział w wywiadzie dla Wall Street Journal, że koncepcja Padfone'a ma sens również w przypadku Windows 8. Biorąc jednak pod uwagę, że w Padfone'ach cała moc obliczeniowa, jak i sam system zainstalowane są w telefonie, wizja Asusa może być trudna do zrealizowania. Wszystkie systemy Windows 8 - od tych komputerowych, przez Windows 8 RT po Windows Phone 8 bazują na tym samym jądrze, to jednak za mało by umożliwić prostą transformację smartfonu w tablet i tabletu w netbooka. Są dwa wyjścia z sytuacji. Jednym z nich jest zainstalowanie Windows Phone 8 w telefonie i Windows 8 w tablecie, z olbrzymią dawką dodatków umożliwiających synchronizację systemów. Drugim, umieszczenie Windows 8 RT w smartfonie i dodanie do systemu aplikacji umożliwiających wykonywanie połączeń głosowych. Być może pojawi się jeszcze bramka numer trzy, czyli chęć współpracy nad nowym produktem ze strony Microsoftu i przebudowa interfejsu na działający w dwóch trybach. W przypadku Androida ujednolicenie platformy nastąpiło wraz z premierą systemu w wersji 4.0, który instalować można zarówno na telefonach, jak i na tabletach. W każdym razie, po zapowiedzi ze strony LG, będziemy mieli kolejnego dużego gracza ze smartfonami wyposażonymi w system Microsoftu."

Mayby polish letters - ó, ą, ć, ś, ń generate the errors ??

-Judykator (January 17, 2013, 12:54 PM)

512 is a "common" buffer size in computer programs (2^9). It might be a FARR limitation. I'll check tomorrow (or ask mouser).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 02:29 PM »

Changing the date of a task does not work. Clears the date completely.

-Judykator (December 22, 2012, 10:54 AM)

If you mean changing a task's due date: I just tried that and it worked. Can you be more specific in what you're doing exactly (an example maybe)?

-phitsc (January 17, 2013, 07:00 AM)

OK. It all depends on how I write the date. Previously, I wrote, "31 stycznia 2013" (polish 31 January 2013). Like on RTM website. When I wrote "31-01-2013" - it works. What formats does it work?

-Judykator (January 17, 2013, 12:45 PM)

FarrMilk uses the computers locale settings to parse dates. So if your computer's locale is set to polish and "31 stycznia 2013" is how you'd write a date in Poland then what you're trying to do should work, i.e. if it doesn't work it's a bug in FarrMilk.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 07:01 AM »

I have a problem that when tasks with longer names - plugin displays only about 196 first characters of the name. Can be done to show the whole name, even the longest?

-Judykator (August 29, 2012, 03:59 AM)

I just tried with a task having 369 characters and it displayed and worked flawlessly. Can you be more specific in where you see a problem? (maybe make a screenshot)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 07:00 AM »

Changing the date of a task does not work. Clears the date completely.

-Judykator (December 22, 2012, 10:54 AM)

If you mean changing a task's due date: I just tried that and it worked. Can you be more specific in what you're doing exactly (an example maybe)?

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General Software Discussion / Disable Win+V in Windows 8

« Last post by phitsc on January 17, 2013, 04:06 AM »

I've been using Win+V to activate Paste in ClipX. Unfortunately, with Windows 8 Win+V is used for something else (by Windows itself). But since it's something I don't need, I'd rather disable the functionality for Windows and keep using it for ClipX. Anyone knows if this is possible and how to do it?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: pdfautomv 0.2

« Last post by phitsc on January 09, 2013, 04:15 PM »

Rule files now have to be UTF-8 encoded. Allows filenames such as 'Pämienabrechnung.PDF'.