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Post New Requests Here / Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2014, 04:11 AM »

^Yeah, I think the thread moved away from the clipboard fairly quickly

Read the Manfred Kuehn link from dr_andus - that was very informative I found - and helpful in it's suggestions as to *how* to take notes. He's not so into the idea of simply copying quotes - more into your opinion of, and comments on, the quotes.

The basic strength of any IM is that each note is separate and can be moved around/"cloned"/copied/connected/tagged/filtered.
So when you say:

one long text file of heterogenous snippets is not a problem.  Don't bother parsing out into various categories and topics.  Keep all notes in one single shoebox (=folder).  The Grand Indexer, regularly run, and the Info/Data Manager would be the way to go.

-nkormanik (February 21, 2014, 03:08 AM)

makes me think: would it not be better to have each "snippet" as a separate note? Mouser's CHS uses a database for clips. I've never really taken advantage of that in any menaingful way, but it might be worth looking at it's capabilities and export options.
OTOH, InfoQube -- and probably many other IM's -- allow the option to separate a pasted text into individual 'items' (with a new item after each carriage-return). Also importing a text file in a similar manner is oten a possibility.

Re the indexing of your PDF's -- I think there are IM's that will allow search of linked files (maybe they're indexed?), or even store a copy within it's own db (that is gonna be dangerously big though imo). But not an option I need/use so I'm not well informed there.

But just index/search is not enough, hence the Info Manager. And I think that's where/what you've got to follow up on.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 12:11 PM »

Another review landed in my RSS reader today: Spews Review by Softpedia!

-Winkie (February 20, 2014, 12:00 PM)

from that review:

On the downside, there is no way to shuffle the playlist and all files seem to be displayed in the exact order they are stored in the directories. As such, the element of surprise is completely eliminated if the list is not rich enough

that's not the case here -
i.e. it's random images here (mind you I'm just using one folder, and ignoring subfolders - where they are using many locations)

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Living Room / Re: 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar - March 3-4, 2014 (NY, USA).

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 11:56 AM »

^thanks Attronarch

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody 2014!

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 07:50 AM »

I believe that superboyac still has him (hostage).   

-skwire (February 20, 2014, 05:12 AM)

poor Cody (lol)

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Living Room / Re: 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar - March 3-4, 2014 (NY, USA).

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 07:48 AM »

Just got a summary on Wkikpedia -
(Deming circle / PDCA)

-tomos (February 20, 2014, 03:49 AM)

I think you might find that that is not "a summary of Deming" or of anything much, but rather just a description of "the PDCA/PDSA cycle" (aka "the  Shewhart cycle").
Take care. The Wikipedia article you linked to seems to rapidly wander off into BS territory with the OPDCA and "Lean [insert word here]", where you'd probably need thigh-length gumboots to wade through all the management consulting BS.
I'd be very surprised if you found any of that at the seminar.

-IainB (February 20, 2014, 07:11 AM)

 
any more reputable summaries out there?

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Living Room / Re: Jazz Recommendation Thread

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 04:10 AM »

My taste in jazz has two feet: One foot in the canonical (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Dave Brubeck, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi), the other in the "suspected to be clinically insane" avant-garde (Sun Ra, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann, Skerik, Bill Laswell).
The listed musicians are by no means a complete list, just what I could throw off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned before.

-Edvard (September 27, 2013, 01:02 AM)

enjoying the Vince Guaraldi Trio at the moment - A Flower is a Lovesome Thing

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=JRzIVE5bbJI

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Living Room / Re: 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar - March 3-4, 2014 (NY, USA).

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2014, 03:49 AM »

Just got a summary on Wkikpedia -
(Deming circle / PDCA)

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2014, 03:26 PM »

^
failing miserably at my duties

well done Ath

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General Software Discussion / Re: Processing Delays!?

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2014, 08:18 AM »

In both Process Explorer an Process Hacker, keep an eye out for the entry called 'Interrupts'.

This value should always be as low as possible, preferably not exceeding 1 to 2% even when doing a lot of reading/writing to disk. Because if it does, it is the first precursor of your drive failing. This is closely related for making Windows 'pause' without apparent reason.

-Shades (February 19, 2014, 04:59 AM)

Thanks,
found this in the Process Explorer help:

Interrupts and DPCs
On Windows NT-based systems Process Explorer shows two artificial processes: Interrupts and DPCs. These processes reflect the amount of time the system spends servicing hardware interrupts and Deferred Procedure Calls (DPCs), respectively. High CPU consumption by these activities can indicate a hardware problem or device driver bug. To see the total number of interrupts and DPCs executed since the system booted add the Context Switch column. Another sometimes useful metric is the number of interrupts and DPCs generated per refresh interval, which you see when you add the CSwitches Delta column.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"

« Last post by tomos on February 18, 2014, 07:04 PM »

It was this article by Manfred Kuehn that got me started: Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General
and ConnectedText in Particular

-dr_andus (February 16, 2014, 05:11 PM)

that was impressive. Will have to read some more about the actual Zettelkasten system, as he doesnt really explain it there in much depth.

While reading, I was wondering if CT+Zettelkasten was useful for writing too - interesting to note he says this article was the first he wrote in CT. Occured to me it might be helpful to have notes in one app and write in another. What's your approach there?

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Living Room / Re: Very interesting images by Erik Johansson

« Last post by tomos on February 18, 2014, 06:42 PM »

^+1

I especially like the Escher style images, they dont even look like photos (I like that about them too) e.g. #57
...and
the X's and O's one :-)
and...

PS can anyone explain image #52 - a guy jumping - am I missing something there, or is it just different to the other images?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by tomos on February 18, 2014, 06:10 AM »

^Well, you were responding to my post where I was pointing out that some people here were "coping well" with Win8. What I was saying -- but maybe phrased badly -- was that they were/are happy with it (I since edited my post to reflect that).

... you're [probably] not dealing with people who are coping well [happy] with the change (they are out there - look at Josh/Allen/Innuendo/Josh's wife/wraith's son/etc./etc.).

-tomos (February 17, 2014, 03:48 PM)

Obviously your experience with your customers is relevant, but doesnt negate other people's positive experiences with it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name

« Last post by tomos on February 17, 2014, 04:12 PM »

Hi, I wonder if you could maybe mod this:

[Select]

^+d::  ; Ctrl+Shift+d outputs current date+time
   FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy-MM-dd HHmm  ; It will look like 2010-12-21 0353hrs
   SendInput %CurrentDateTime%hrs
   return

So that it would rather copy to the clipboard the ISO formatted timestamp as given by attributes/properties (rather than CURRENT timestamp).

-metaDCoder (February 16, 2014, 04:37 PM)

FWIW, I have an older script (2008...)
[edit] which did something completely different (pasted current date/time [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by tomos on February 17, 2014, 03:48 PM »

[...] since Windows 8 was released I have met precisely 1 customer who says they actually like the new interface - everyone else the first thing they say to me is 'how can I get rid of this'.

-Carol Haynes (February 17, 2014, 12:34 PM)

in fairness, [I presume] you're dealing with people who are looking for help, i.e. you're [probably] not dealing with people who are coping well [happy] with the change (they are out there - look at Josh/Allen/Innuendo/Josh's wife/wraith's son/etc./etc.).

Mind you - even after saying that - I reckon I'd fit well into your customer base

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2014, 01:57 PM »

I dont see anything wrong with having Metro there, it's just as you say, getting it shoved down your throat when you just want to be productive on a desktop - that's not a pleasant experience.
It *could* be like getting two OS's for the price of one. *Allowing* us to use it, would have been better advertising for it than the way it did happen. All they need to do imo is separate the two worlds, then leave us with the option, which to use and when. They're not that far away from that ideal - even in basic 8.

Be interesting to see where they do go with it now though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2014, 01:07 PM »

This.  The real place that windows 8 was a disaster?  Marketing and forcing things on people.  The same way that Vista was a disaster.  The OS in and of itself isn't that much different from windows 7- it's a few key decisions that they made for people (based on what focus groups, I'll always wonder) and a desire to push into tablets.

-wraith808 (February 16, 2014, 11:17 AM)

^ and this.
Unfortunately those few key decisions often make for very unhappy users (still on 8 here, going to wait for the 8.1.1 before 'upgrading').

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Post New Requests Here / Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"

« Last post by tomos on February 15, 2014, 11:42 AM »

Thanks dr_andus for answering that question.
@Tao, I think it can also depend on the topics. I dont write but I do tend to gather info -- topics which overlap and merge one into one other. Tbh a lot of it I havent orgnaised, and yeah, in a good organiser you can give an item/entry multiple parents ("clone") and tag it. Tagging can end up like another outline with decisions as to where I put this tag in the hierarchy (if it has a hierarchy - if not could be a pain too if there's a lot of tags).
Ease of linking to other items is very important I think. Hence my interest in the wiki suggested by dr_andus.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenShot Captor is a Mess

« Last post by tomos on February 15, 2014, 03:37 AM »

I suspect the problem might be in IrfanView with transparencies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2014, 07:24 AM »

Have a look here too:

http://www.lagom.nl/...cd-test/gradient.php
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/white.php

or some similar site/images where you can check your monitor settings

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2014, 06:26 AM »

Giampy,
when you say you see it dark - do you mean in the forum - or do you mean on the desktop as wallpaper - or are you looking at it in some other softw.?

In the forum here, the face looks well balanced on my monitor (with brightness relatively low on monitor settings).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Explorer now includes VirusTotal integration | 404 Tech Support

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2014, 04:10 AM »

Thanks for the heads up -
that's going to be a great help

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2014, 03:51 PM »

Chris will come along and flash us.

-wraith808 (February 13, 2014, 01:25 PM)

Yeah.  Puns are a reflex with him. 

-MilesAhead (February 13, 2014, 02:16 PM)

Not at all — as usual I'm waiting to see the latest developments before saying anything negative.

-cranioscopical (February 13, 2014, 03:41 PM)

ah yes, getting back to the old-school approach: maybe the chemicals will fix the problem?

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General Software Discussion / Re: It's not a valid windows 32bit application

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2014, 02:32 PM »

Do you read my mind ?

-Contro (February 13, 2014, 02:25 PM)

I hope so

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General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenShot Captor is a Mess

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2014, 02:29 PM »

@PhoneyVirus, I'd say: this one does a lot - if you dont want that, go try another app.
If you dont know any, try a search engine: there's a few comparitive reviews out there.
(After the initial outrage, I did have a laugh at your post, but dude, that's no way to get help )

[edit] mouser got in there ahead of me [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: It's not a valid windows 32bit application

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2014, 01:51 PM »

^ I say you need help from the malwarebytes forums

I was in an antivirus forum but the way they usually offer support don't go with me because the tell me : do this, do , do , do and gives no explanations at all. So finally i decided to do "searching" the web.....

-Contro (February 13, 2014, 08:06 AM)

-
I removed a virus last week - some things got temporarily messed up from the fixes recommended, but in general I'd say you're better off going with the instructions from the antivirus forum -- but that's easy for me to say now ;-)

*****
Do you have a recent image of the OS partition(s) ?