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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Forte Notation free until Sep 14

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 03:09 PM »

Last day for this great deal for some great software!  Just wanted to give a final heads up!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chocolatey...opinions? portable?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 02:34 PM »

^ That is the packagers fault.  Each one is going to behave differently depending on how it's packaged.

I also thought that maybe I should clarify what I mean by "what do you mean by portably".  Did you mean the repo?  Or the application installs?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chocolatey...opinions? portable?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 09:39 AM »

I use it all the time.  What do you mean by 'portably'?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 09:37 AM »

If you want to adapt it for him for the Text Overlay Tool, let me know what you need.  The class for the main window is TextOverlayToolView

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 12:47 AM »

Here you go... I didn't put in the global hotkey as your ahk seemed to be working:

https://www.dropbox....OverlayTool.zip?dl=1

TextOverlayTool is made to display text in a transparent window.  It has the following features:

1. Opens Text or Markdown files (if the file is formatted in markdown, it displays the markdown format)
2. Can export to HTML or PDF (determines which one you want by filename used)
3. Borderless, movable, resizable minimal interface
4. Window background can be set.
5. Transparency can be set
6. Can be set to always on top
7. Watches chosen file for changes, and updates on the fly.

Planned enhancements:
1. Global Hotkey to enable control no matter where the cursor is
2. The ability to change the font style and color.

Let me know if you have any issues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 06:00 PM »

@wraith808 - Still standing by for your solution.  After all, I did give you quite a laundry list of specs, eh?

-CodeTRUCKER (September 12, 2015, 03:21 PM)

Still going to do it.  Unfortunately, I'm not Skrommel.   But if everything with my upgrade goes well, it should be done by early in the week.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 03:18 PM »

then made *Mozilla* turn add-ons into Chrome Compatible things.

-TaoPhoenix (September 12, 2015, 02:02 PM)

Where is it that they *made* them do anything?  I thought that the Mozilla foundation *decided* to do it and were not pressured into it by someone else?

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 03:15 PM »

It's 56% off on Cult of Mac right now: https://deals.cultof...om/sales/scrivener-2

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 01:31 PM »

There was formerly a section in your profile that displayed your key.  Setting up a new computer, and realized that's no longer there.  I was able to, of course, browse to https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php, but it took me a little bit to remember where that was.  It was definitely more convenient being on your profile...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pale Moon and Firefox - The Honeymoon Period is Over

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 12:27 PM »

Also, in a similar vein, why use Firefox over Chrome?

-Innuendo (September 12, 2015, 10:18 AM)

I agreed with you up until this point.  There is a very real reason to use Firefox over Chrome.  Though I don't out of laziness since my company has standardized on Chrome and IE as of right now (and the NPAPI thing hasn't helped that use of two browsers), Firefox, even using Chrome extensions, is a different codebase, uncontrolled by Google.  That's a very real draw to some people.  Sharing extensions consolidates the core of developers and the development effort, and benefits both browsers.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Buy a mystery game with GOG's Indie Piñatas!

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 03:59 PM »

But for now it seems like throwing $3 into a black hole and hoping something good comes out.

-Deozaan (September 11, 2015, 02:33 PM)

Exactly.  I'm playing endgame in ESO and SWTOR right now, which is basically do the same thing every day, and get a random prize.

RNG's really don't like me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Tips

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 12:05 PM »

Are you obligated to use 'HomeGroup' in Windows 10?

-Shades (September 11, 2015, 07:40 AM)

No. You can still use Password Protected Sharing (same way same place) in a normal workgroup in 10. I've got several 10 machines in a workgroup with a mixture of other stuff (2k/nt4/7/8/Linux) in my virtual lab network.

-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2015, 11:13 AM)

Does the non-regedit way join you to a group?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Buy a mystery game with GOG's Indie Piñatas!

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 12:04 PM »

My thoughts when I first thought about that were "There are quite a few games that I'd buy for $3, so until I get those, I'm staying away from RNGs.  They just don't like me." 

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 10:53 AM »

Got the [Invalid Attachment] bug again... was hoping knowing the post could let you replicate it.

https://www.donation....msg388899#msg388899

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

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 10:53 AM »

Damn, I was hoping to sneak in under the radar

-4wd (September 11, 2015, 07:29 AM)

no chance of that ;-)

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-tomos (September 11, 2015, 09:13 AM)

I wonder if mouser could make a script to catch them for this thread... while he's in a coding mood

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Developer's Corner / Unity Errors in Configuration File

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 10:52 AM »

This could be subtitled How I've wasted 2 days 3 times on 3 different projects

I have a common logger, that allows me to inject different behaviors depending on how I want to log.  It works well.  But Unity configuration sucks!  Or it might just be me.

And when I say unity, I mean the unity application block, not the unity for gaming.

So at the top of my configuration file, I have the following to register the System Information Gathering module for the application:

Code: Text [Select]

1. <register type="ISystemInformationProvider" mapTo="SpecificInstanceSystemInformationProvider" name="SpecificInstanceSystemInformationProvider">
2.   <lifetime type="singleton"/>
3. </register>

Then later on, I have to use it.

Code: Text [Select]

1. <register type="ILogBehavior" mapTo="CriticalErrorEmailNotificationBehavior" name="CriticalErrorEmailNotificationBehavior">
2.   <lifetime type="singleton"/>
3.   <constructor>
4.     <param name="formatter" dependencyName="CriticalErrorEmailFormatter"></param>
5.   </constructor>
6.   <property name="Recipients">
7.     <array>
8.       <value value="[Redacted]"/>
9.     </array>
10.   </property>
11.   <property name="SMTPServer" value="[Redacted]"></property>
12.   <property name="From" value="[Redacted]"></property>
13.   <property name="SystemInformationProvider" dependencyName="SpecificInstanceSystemInformationProvider"></property>
14. </register>

Notice that the SpecificInstanceSystemInformationProvider dependency is in there twice.  But I always forget the second one... and the resolver complains about the FIRST one when the SECOND one is the problem, because I still have the class for the default use, instead of replacing it.  I know... search and replace.  But I just do a C&P on the first one... and then spend 2 days looking for it.

ARGH!  It's really cool... when I can get past my own stupidity and unity's build up error reporting!  I just had to rant... I have a love/hate relationship with Unity...

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Living Room / Re: TSA's master keys leaked, 3D printed

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 09:50 AM »

Or the $2000 laptop you stored away,

-Stephen66515 (September 11, 2015, 03:57 AM)

What?!?  You put your laptop into checked luggage?  Even without this, that's a recipe for disaster...

I'd say that is far more serious than say....having your e-mail account broken into......

-Stephen66515 (September 11, 2015, 03:57 AM)

From some of the stuff I've seen happen from having e-mail accounts broken into- and the length of time the damage lingers, I'd rather someone break into my luggage personally.

-wraith808 (September 11, 2015, 07:56 AM)

You ever lost something of your wife's....that shit goes on for far longer than anything that could happen with my e-mails 

-Stephen66515 (September 11, 2015, 09:20 AM)

I'm thinking of that guy's account that got hacked... and he lost everything on every laptop and device. 

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Living Room / Re: TSA's master keys leaked, 3D printed

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 07:56 AM »

Or the $2000 laptop you stored away,

-Stephen66515 (September 11, 2015, 03:57 AM)

What?!?  You put your laptop into checked luggage?  Even without this, that's a recipe for disaster...

I'd say that is far more serious than say....having your e-mail account broken into......

-Stephen66515 (September 11, 2015, 03:57 AM)

From some of the stuff I've seen happen from having e-mail accounts broken into- and the length of time the damage lingers, I'd rather someone break into my luggage personally.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Tips

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2015, 01:47 AM »

I guess our definitions of easy are different.  That gif annoyed me, especially because I noticed it after it started.  And there were no text instructions on the page.  Editing the registry is much more straightforward and easy to me.

My next one is to run the command prompt, powershell, and well... anything as administrator from a shortcut, instead of having to right click the shortcut and select run as administrator.

Right click on the desktop, and select New -> Shortcut.  Browse to the application, and finish creating the shortcut as normal.  Then right-click the shortcut, select properties, and click Advanced on the Shortcut tab (which should be the one that comes up).  Click run as administrator, and you're done!  Every time you run that shortcut, it will be as administrator.

That still doesn't give you the ability to run powershell scripts, however- for that you have to use Set-ExecutionPolicy.

For that one, from an admin powershell prompt, run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted.  You can also use Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass.  You can also set these on the current user only by using -CurrentUser.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 11:21 PM »

^ Man, thanks for that!  Haven't watched the whole thing (have to get to bed), but what I did watch was pretty killer.

On a side note, I felt really old today when I told someone "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."  Then said "Rush!".  And they had this blank look on.  Sigh.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA, Resharper, etc) moving to a pure subscription model

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 09:28 PM »

The bad thing about resharper is it's subject to Visual Studio working with it for your perpetual license to mean anything.  So even if you get it now and think that you've gotten over, when VS 2016 comes out and it doesn't work with it anymore, you're SOL.  I'm *still* using PHPStorm 5 to this day.  And Webstorm used to be a lot less than PHP Storm.. .they're now the same price?!?

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General Software Discussion / Windows 10 Tips

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 07:01 PM »

I figured I'd start a general thread about Windows 10 tips that people come across, so we can have them all in one place.

One thing that I've gone through on both of my machines that have it is that I can't seem to figure out how to set the stupid network to private the first time.  It has to be there... but for some reason, I just overlook it!  And it's a pain to change it normally.  But I found out that the type of the network can changed in the registry:

In regedit, under the branch HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles\

Change the key Category.  It's a DWORD value that translates as follows:

0 = Public
1 = Private

Anyone else have any interesting information to share?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Scores Bethesda!

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 06:37 PM »

Erm... Does this have anything to do with GOG or Bethesda?

-Deozaan (September 10, 2015, 03:23 PM)

Well, Humble's not GOG, and Ubisoft isn't Bethesda.  And you know what they say about double negatives.

-mwb1100 (September 10, 2015, 05:24 PM)

Ok... that's just wrong 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What online services do you pay for?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 06:36 PM »

But otherwise there is a limit as to how many subscriptions I'm willing to have. That's the problem with the subscription-based model. It's an ongoing expenditure, so that makes me not to want to shop. With the traditional one-off payment model, I was happy to try and buy new software.

-dr_andus (September 10, 2015, 05:39 PM)

Well, I look at it this way.  If it were software, then your argument would hold water with me.  For subscriptions, you pay less, and can cancel at any time if you decide not to use it.

How did you get a lifetime sub to ginkgo?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2015, 08:14 AM »

Surely we need some color! 

-mouser (September 10, 2015, 12:35 AM)

I agree.  White is just too... white.  Especially at night.