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Living Room / Re: most weird Ctrl key issue *ever*?

« Last post by Ath on January 05, 2011, 01:30 PM »

Do you have more then 1 keyboardlayouts installed in Windows? Often these keyboard anomalies happen after inadvertedly switching the layout using ctrl-shift.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on January 04, 2011, 05:39 PM »

Or you can rename JottiQ to VirusTotalQ, that would make a nice (and probably quick) NANY2012 pledge

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on January 04, 2011, 05:35 PM »

Hm, bummer

Or to quote an older Dutch ad pay-off "Het waren 2 geweldige dagen" (It where 2 fabulous days)

I get a feeling this grew indeed a bit bigger than anyone, mostly Jotti IMHO, could have imagined, so he will probably have to restructure his service (or fix bugs in the Hash search, as that doesn't really seem to work), or get a bigger sponsor
Lest just pray he gets his act together, and JottiQ can provide it's useful service to the public again

The current errormessage of 'Jotti only supports files upto 0,00 B.' just says it all, I guess, maybe a next version of JottiQ should say 'Service temporarily unavailable' or something in that order? (But it shouldn't be needed I hope)

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Living Room / Re: Need recommendation for wireless adapter

« Last post by Ath on January 04, 2011, 04:56 PM »

I'd buy at least one of a known brand, not just the first white-brand (Chinese) adapter at the flee-market, because with the next big update (or switch) of OS's, you are not going to find any new/fitting drivers for the thing...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on January 04, 2011, 04:47 PM »

Hm, maybe somebody has some cpu-cycles on a linux host to spare, to relieve the load of the Jotti service? But then that Jotti service must be (made) capable of off-loading work to others ofcourse.

@worstje, does JottiQ add information about itself during the upload? In that case Jotti could put the requests on a lower priority (though that's not nice to the JottiQ users) but at least a temporary solution. And maybe you can now persuade him into accepting donations, so he can actually afford to buy more hardware...

An idea for improvement on the Jotti side (didn't see a forum over there) or maybe a JottiQ Quick Win (if not implemented yet...):
The 'Hash search' feature could be used on each entry, before a file is uploaded, because a database lookup should be much faster then 20 AV scanners to run across a file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« Last post by Ath on January 03, 2011, 03:34 PM »

As they are only Soluto referencing Assembly-cache installed assemblies, just throw them out. They should really be uninstaller properly, for that you have to know the original names of the dll's (that's shown) and use gacutil -u on each of them, as documented here

But I'd send an e-mail to the Soluto guys and dolls, to warn them that their uninstaller doesn't remove all pieces of their software, as a proper uninstaller should

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on January 02, 2011, 11:58 AM »

...auto-download during installation. Harmless details like that can make some people go crazy in a non-productive way

-Bamse (January 01, 2011, 04:05 PM)

As unfortunate as that (user)behavior may be, the JottiQ installer really throws a big Yes/No messagebox, listing all prerequisites and their sizes, at the user if (any of) the pre-reqs need to be downloaded and installed.

It might be a good practice to pre-announce that with the download-link (but not offer any links), so a really paranoid user can download these pre-reqs himself from the source he wants/trusts.
This installer downloads the proper web-installers from Microsoft and installs the frameworks, including their proper language-packs, as and if required by the OS at hand.

Undesirable workaround hidden here...

If it gets really problematic, I could add a feature to select something like changing the Yes/No to Yes/No/Cancel, to either Yes:download & install, No:skip the pre-reqs & continue or Cancel:halt the complete installer, but that could  lead to a non-working installation of JottiQ (or anything else that uses the script-parts I used) and would not really be desirable, IMHO.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Ath on January 01, 2011, 01:15 PM »

A "NANY" installer would be interesting. Something to install all NANY software.

But that's probably a bad idea unless people all create an installer that installs to */NANY 2011/author/program name.

-Renegade (January 01, 2011, 12:45 PM)

Hm, that's actually quite a Good Idea (tm), I really feel for a pledge for NANY 2012 on this one

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Speed Monitor

« Last post by Ath on January 01, 2011, 06:00 AM »

Hm, missed this pledge and it's interim releases, just found out now you've released, sorry.

Seems to work alright, but a few 'nice to have's':
- For a newby user it's a but confusing how to add a new url, some hint or menuitem would come in handy
- Drag and drop for url's would be nice
- Can the captured data be reset in some way, without losing all url's
- The initial interval is quite aggressive, a bit more conservative, like 60 sec., would probably back-off the malware scanners' warnings
- I like charts, but they really miss a time-line

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Ath on January 01, 2011, 05:52 AM »

Just installed it, and it has really gotten better! The extra features just make the difference, and the UI improved by applying 'Less is more' .

And thanks for the credits it was a nice job to do.

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Official Announcements / Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 FROM EVERYONE AT DONATIONCODER!

« Last post by Ath on January 01, 2011, 05:43 AM »

Well, by now everyone should be into 2011. Happy New Year to all of you.

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 05:44 AM »

Anyone hacked a Kinect already?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any EASY Windows Forms Skin Kits for C#?

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 05:38 AM »

Also found this library on CodeProject

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any EASY Windows Forms Skin Kits for C#?

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 05:35 AM »

Would this stuff from DevExpress be of any help?
Or maybe this recently declared dead (but oss) project Guiss?

'Jake Opines' blogged about the subject, and gives quite some info/links on it as well. (I didn't investigate all of them, though)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Compare It! and Synchronize It 25%OFF

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 04:56 AM »

It is not a valid discount code! Probably ran out right after Christmas.

-Curt (December 31, 2010, 04:51 AM)

It's quite a pity that Igor doesn't keep his site and blog up to date, he's a lot less active than he was a few years ago. Sent him an updated translation weeks ago, but it's still not on the site. He probably needs a reminder again...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any EASY Windows Forms Skin Kits for C#?

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 04:45 AM »

Re-GUI in WPF perhaps? or is that too big an effort

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Compare It! and Synchronize It 25%OFF

« Last post by Ath on December 31, 2010, 04:44 AM »

Anyone know how this works with images? - there's no info about it on their site (that I could find)

-tomos (December 31, 2010, 03:22 AM)

I've been using both CI and SI for over 10 years, but I've never been able to catch them comparing images to anything other than size/timestamp. Selecting 'content' for comparing is quite useless, as a diff of 1 byte is enough to trigger as a difference.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Compare It! and Synchronize It 25%OFF

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2010, 03:24 PM »

Then you have probably missed the announcement on the Grigsoft frontpage that you can get a 50% discount, during this holiday season, using the coupon code 'MY-XMAS' in the ordering process. That's an even better deal

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2010, 10:33 AM »

@Curt Would WinDiff/WinMerge help you out?
They have been highly praised and are regularly updated. I'm a Compare It!/Synchronize It! registered user, so I don't use em...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PDF to EPUB $39.95 -> $00.00

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2010, 07:25 AM »

I'll be interested to know what you make of it.

-Dormouse (December 30, 2010, 07:15 AM)

I won't be using it until somewhere in the near future, but just jumped in to be prepared. I'll chime-in here when I do.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PDF to EPUB $39.95 -> $00.00

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2010, 03:48 AM »

Thanks, I have it running and registered already!

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2010, 03:36 AM »

What brand/model monitors are you using?

-40hz (December 29, 2010, 09:47 PM)

I'd like to add that Iiyama has a 26" model that has the 1920x1200 resolution, so I choose over the 27" model because that only has 1080 pixels vertically, and it has good brightness etc. (at least when connected with DVI, there's also a model that adds hdmi). I'm aiming for 2 of those at work to replace my 22" 1680x1050 and 19" 1280x1024, and already have one at home that I'm really fond of.
I selected it for both resolution and pixel size (0,285 mm), (age comes with imperfect eyes).

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Living Room / Re: 150 Hours of TV / Month?

« Last post by Ath on December 29, 2010, 10:33 AM »

Sounds like they averaged the hours per actual users, instead of the US population. Marketing figures, it's all a bunch of ... (fill in your favorite term on the dots)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« Last post by Ath on December 29, 2010, 10:26 AM »

Thanks Ath for the feedback and suggestion   .

-anandcoral (December 29, 2010, 10:21 AM)

You're welcome.

Like the dual monitor, I do not have such facility neither any of my colleague, so may have to go by the books and may need someone's help here in testing it.

-anandcoral (December 29, 2010, 10:21 AM)

Count me in

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mimic a shell environment (or terminal env) for a 3rd party program

« Last post by Ath on December 29, 2010, 08:57 AM »

Doesn't it have a command-line parameter to force direct update? Might be it's 'poking' directly into graphical memory, and the output is delayed/buffered by windows before being channeled back to your app. Maybe an update-rate can be set/increased somewhere? (Just some blind hints, sorry)