Recent Posts

3676

General Software Discussion / Re: nag window software

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 17, 2013, 01:47 PM »

ClickOff seems close.

3677

General Software Discussion / Re: recommend an app to snapshot & restore a folder? (like version control?)

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 08, 2013, 02:54 PM »

Especially if there are a large number of files in the folder tree, using the OS folder change notification tend to bog the system.  A version control as suggested, or just zipping up the folder tree, may be simpler. If you use Restore Points Shadow Explorer freeware gives a way to retrieve old versions from restore points.

Vax VMS operating system had file versioning built into the file system.  Glindra
tries to make simulating this behavior simpler.  But it's command line based.  I used it for a short time. It's just that I tended to forget about it since it wasn't intrinsic to the file system.

3678

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Eye dropper app to get pixel color for HTML background color

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 06, 2013, 01:41 PM »

Have you tried Pixie

I think it's the one I used for color matching. If I remember right, it's just a standalone exe.  Run then copy paste the info in the format of your choice.  At least I assume the numbers are selectable. It's been awhile since I used it.

3679

General Software Discussion / Re: How to get rid of underlined entries in Q-Dir

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 02, 2013, 09:41 AM »

I have only dabbled with Q-Dir off and on. I too like the 4 pane paradigm. Have you tried playing around with various versions?  When I was using it the developer seemed to release a new minor version every few days/weeks.  Maybe you could find one close to new but without the flaw.

3680

General Software Discussion / Re: Is there anything such as 'Scheduler' Application?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 01, 2013, 01:33 PM »

I also found a Windows port of the Linux cron utility:
fxcron

3681

Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 29, 2013, 02:03 PM »

I was surprised by this version of On The Road

It has much more of the Kerouac "feel" than any other treatment of his writings that I've seen. It's one of the last films I watched before I had to flee the condo.

I also liked Chronicle
but I'm a sucker for stuff about Telekinetics. The "card trick" sequence was very cool.
Unfortunately the "magician" managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

3682

Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 29, 2013, 09:35 AM »

  Well let's see now, after 12 back surgeries and my back is still "out"......

-Tinman57 (July 27, 2013, 07:18 PM)

Ouch!! It hurts just reading that. My back doesn't bother me often. Mostly if I've been crouching like arranging stuff in my pack. Then when I stand up sometimes I have to drive the back of my hands into the kidney area to take the stress of standing up straight. I've been pretty lucky in that respect.  My body is mostly well behaved.

3683

Living Room / Re: town in Canada getting 1 Gbps internet cheaper than Google Fiber

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 27, 2013, 02:50 PM »

I wonder if it will come to the point where ISPs like Comcast will be forced by law to allow fiber optic services to lay in cable along the same trenches/byways/channels .. whatever the term is .. similar to how the phone company was finally forced to let competitors use their lines?  That would really shake up the world!!  1 Gb/s service for $19.95/Mo.   

3684

Living Room / Re: did you ever throw your back out?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 27, 2013, 09:59 AM »

I literally threw my back out 10 pin bowling.  I went with 2 friends from work.  I was first up. On the very first ball I thew a strike and I got this really nasty ache in my back.  Not cool to quit and go home on the first ball. So I finished out the string.  Turns out one of the fellows was a league bowler.  He had the glove, the hook spin etc.. In fact every time he rolled this popping noise was produced as his thumb was released from the hole in the ball.  After 6 consecutive strikes he felt pity for us and chucked every subsequent ball into the gutter (or "channel" as educated people my call it.)  Invariably this gutter ball was followed by an exclamation of "aw shucks." I don't know how many hours he practiced a day but it seems the repetition succeeded.  

3685

Living Room / Re: Why you should avoid using social media

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 20, 2013, 09:26 AM »

Oh... Did I mention it's a wireless monitored alarm system...so it'll dial 911 for me ... That way I can concentrate on aiming..

-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2013, 03:39 PM)

It's just too bad that it's the guys standing on the front porch that'll get the call.

-4wd (July 18, 2013, 07:45 PM)

By that time it'll all be over. You ever hear the one about the guy that called in a robbery and was told it would take 2 hours, so he called in a shooting and they were there in seconds??

It ain't a joke.

When my old house got broke into...they showed up 2 hours after I called.

Shooting that happened next door...there in seconds.

My faith in them ... F'ing Zero. The alarm just keeps my homeowners insurance rate down.

-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2013, 10:16 PM)

The announcement that free coffee and donuts are being served may provoke the desired alacrity.

3686

Living Room / Re: Why you should avoid using social media

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 18, 2013, 02:28 PM »

1- Non-public Facebook profile: Check
2- Dog owner: Check
3- Fake security system sign in front yard: Check

-Edvard (July 18, 2013, 02:03 AM)

Maybe you could combine 2 and 3 with a sign something like:
"Beware of Dog named Brinks"   ??     

3687

Post New Requests Here / Re: C++ program problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 17, 2013, 02:42 PM »

luckily its not a graphic, it is text, you can't highlight it, but it is text from a text box

-heretic06 (July 16, 2013, 12:49 PM)

Have you tried SendMessage API using WM_GETTEXT message to the control?  Get the handle of the active control when the box pops up.  Send the WM_GETTEXT msg to the control.  Then you'll have to pull it apart in sections like first number, operator, second number etc..

Use a window spy to see the controls on the box so you'll know the identifier to use with SendMessage.
If you can get the text then it should be pretty simple to add or subtract after comparing the arithmetic operator to '-' or '+' etc..

In AHK you'd just use ControlGetText()

3688

Post New Requests Here / Re: C++ program problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 16, 2013, 01:13 PM »

As skwire is the mod maybe he can speak to whether we're supposed to circumvent anti-bot code. I'm not sure. I don't know how to do it anyway, off the top of my head.

3689

Post New Requests Here / Re: C++ program problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 16, 2013, 12:48 PM »

If it's a graphic to avoid automated response you're probably stuck. Unless they did a really bad job of it that is.

3690

Post New Requests Here / Re: C++ program problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2013, 03:39 PM »

I agree with skwire.  AHK or variants such as AHK_L make detecting new windows easy.  It has functions that can get all handles of windows of a certain class etc.. out of the box.  With C++ you'd have to roll your own functions for the most part.  Anything more complicated than getting an individual handle to a window you'd likely have to code yourself.

3691

Living Room / Twinky widthdrawal .... really?? Oh please!! :)

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 11, 2013, 12:28 PM »

Twinky widthdrawal ....  really??  Oh please!!     People can't be without twinkies for a few lousy weeks/months?  Geez!! I've been waiting since the mid 90s for Entemann's to resume production of the round Cheese Coffee Cake.  That thing was the most decadent ever!!  Full of cheese with a thin brown crust on top that's covered with icing!!!  I gained 40 LBS in a couple of months after quitting smoking and eating one of those a day.  I can't imagine why they stopped making them unless they lost money on each sale.  No way people wouldn't buy 'em if they were available.

I doubt I could even find a picture of one online now.   

3692

Living Room / Re: Possibly the ultimate $21,000 computer desk/chair combo?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 10, 2013, 12:07 PM »

I get nervous when the TV in the hotel room is suspended up on the wall. I keep waiting for that bracket to come loose and for the damn thing to fall on me just as I'm walking under it. (Not much danger of that now since I'm long gone from the hotel.. but I remember the paranoia every time I had to duck under the stupid thing.)  I think I'd be distracted waiting for the monitor bracket to let go.

What happened to the good old "hologram in front of your eyes" gimmick?  

edit: also I have to wonder if the chair section can be replaced with a love seat.  It sure would make watching porn, er, I mean, documentaries, more efficacious.

3693

Living Room / Re: This Just in: From the You Gotta be Shitting Me Dept.

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 09, 2013, 04:14 PM »

I can imagine your frustration. I can remember early one morning my friends and I were returning from a party. The owner of the car was wasted so he let another of us do the driving.  I was in the back seat of this small station wagon.  We are sitting at a red light.  Behind us comes this drunk.  Fortunately he was only doing about 30 MPH. Because my foot got forced by the impact, through a gap at the bottom of the front seat. It took me like 5 minutes of struggle to get my foot free.  (If the car was on fire that would have entailed some serious sadness.)  But what took the cake was, the drunken driver opens his door, staggers to the driver's side window of our car, leans in and says "Hey!  Wassa' Matta' wit' ya'??  Didn't ya' see me comin' ?

Yup! It was all our fault for sitting at the red light.  We shoulda' ran the damn thing.  After all, "nobody else" was out on the road.   

3694

General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2013, 09:49 AM »

Seems like a good candidate for a simple AHK drop target.  Have the shortcut of an ahk program on the desktop.  Drag the file list and drop it on the icon.  Click the "open with" that Explorer gives you.  Then what remains is selecting the target folder.  The AHK program could use a BrowseForFolder dialog etc..

If you do this operation quite a bit you may want to request a Coding Snack.  That is, if you think the drag & drop method would be convenient.

3695

General Software Discussion / Re: chrome (main process) taking an entire core. How to debug?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2013, 09:15 AM »

What I usually do is try various chromium snap-shots until I find one that's stable and doesn't hog the CPU. I download the win32 zip, not the installer.  Once you set up a snap shot, save it and it's profile to folders with the build number as part of the name. If you try a new stanp shot that's worse, just copy back the saved contents of the prfile and exe folders.

Also it's important to save the profile because if  you try a newer version and try to back it off to the old, if there's a new setting you'll get an error about "some setting" not recognized or what not.

But now FF is comparable in speed.  Unless you load a zillion extensions FF should seem just as quick off the dime too.

3696

Living Room / Re: Dannon "fruit on the bottom" yogurt missing in Miami

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 03, 2013, 12:54 PM »

Hmm, too bad I have no way to keep the stuff refrigerated.  Or I'd ask for a Care Package.   

3697

Living Room / Re: Dannon "fruit on the bottom" yogurt missing in Miami

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 03, 2013, 12:24 PM »

To my taste the Publix version has too liquid a consistency.  Plus there's a bit of a tang to the white part that's not neutral to the stomach the way the Dannon is.  I like that thick white part on top.  It almost has the consistency of Crisco shortening.  It doesn't run when you tip the container.  In fact if my stomach is a bit upset, one strawberry and banana Dannon settles it right down.

Second to Strawberry Banana I like the Mixed Berry. I don' t think I ever tried the Boysenberry.  Although I did try Boysenberry Smucker's Jelly or Jam at some point in the past I believe.  Probably because of the Paul Simon lyric about "I'm a Citizens For Boysenberry Jam Fan."   

We should get this some Presidential attention.  Nevermind all that silly stuff like wars and the lousy economy!!  I mean, we can't get Dannon here!!!  

3698

Living Room / Dannon "fruit on the bottom" yogurt missing in Miami

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 03, 2013, 09:33 AM »

I noticed Publix stopped carrying Dannon "Fruit On The Bottom" Yogurt in favor of its own house brand.  The Publix offering is similar, but not the same.  Using Dannon's "store locator" with 33101 as zip code and 6 oz Strawberry Banana Fruit On The Bottom as product.. the results are nil at a radius of 80 miles.

Is nobody really selling it?  Strawberry Banana was always the most popular.  Seems like it out to be available someplace in and around Miami.

3699

General Software Discussion / Re: License Key BS

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 01, 2013, 02:22 PM »

All the apps on DoCo are of high quality ....

-Tinman57 (June 29, 2013, 08:53 PM)

I'll refute that!

At no point have I ever tried to make any of my apps high quality, and I'll vigorously defend my right to not do so!

If at any point someone finds that one of my miscellaneous small programs/batch files is of high quality, please tell me and I'll fix it.

-4wd (June 30, 2013, 10:19 PM)

In some cases mediocrity is its own reward. 
I like to make my software easy to code and use.  Not necesarily hard to break. 

3700

General Software Discussion / Re: open files of a folder--- Open Files Folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 22, 2013, 09:42 AM »

If you still have a copy of UrlPack I believe you can set that folder as the link source folder.  That should enable it to work with the "open one in each tab" requirement.

sorry my site is closed and UrlPack is not one those stored by Softpedia.  I have no way at present to upload it.
The About  box or readme file should have the command to change the shortcut folder. I can't install software on the library computers. So I don't have the ability to look and see myself.