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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 9 plan to repair the damage done by Windows 8

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2014, 05:04 PM »

yeah,
it's funny how little common sense a corporation can have....

Yet, I think it really needs very little done to make it a much more usable experience (I rarely use my win8 laptop..) It was just too aggressively rub-our-noses-in-it for the desktop (even if it were a touch screen desktop).

From one of the comments from the original article:

WRowland            on Jan 11, 2014
[...] all the really good things it sounds like W9 will fix - more unified development across the whole ecosystem, metro windows (turning it into being able to do mobile on a PC instead of trying to dumb down the PC by forcing it into mobile), etc.

(my emphasis)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2014, 02:04 PM »

Andreas Antonopoulos - blows me away all the time.

-Renegade (January 12, 2014, 07:46 AM)

a big plus one there Ren
I've only watched the first 30 mins yet, and want to watch it again -- there's a lot in there.

I've listened to, I think, four videos by him -- each about different aspects of Bitcoin, and he really is *very* good. He's got great vision -- but with his feet firmly on the ground. It's refreshing to hear someone who supports bitcoin say that the US dollar is in reasonable shape (for a fiat currency).
He's also the only one I've heard or read so far who addresses the questions I had about possible problems with bitcoin. (I'll have to try find a suitable video by him on the practical aspects of Bitcoin to post here.)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: No Preview

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2014, 01:17 PM »

hi grimmlock -
it's not greyed out here - but I'm not getting any preview either.
(Wondering is that an OS thing or a SC thing? Win7 x64 here)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 13, 2014, 07:37 AM »

^ I tried that:

• 1. delay is between .5 to 1 second
• 2. much longer delay - a couple of seconds
• 3. unclear -- do you mean leave CHS main window open? I did leave it open and copied nine small clips quickly from Notepad2 - only five were actually copied.
• 4. as 3 -- but nine out of nine clips were copied

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 12:39 PM »

There's nothing obvious here - no filters, settings for New & Old seem to be default.
If there's anything else I can test - let me know - I could increase the New folder size again - and e.g. disable AV.

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Living Room / Re: DuckDuckGo over 1 BILLION searches in 2013

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 12:15 PM »

I whitelist it... pretty much like any place I actually use

-wraith808 (January 10, 2014, 07:33 PM)

I have reformed -- (from the jayisgames thread):

After a recent comment from wraith, I've started paying more attention to sites and adblock/ing

-tomos (January 12, 2014, 12:12 PM)

to be fair (to me!), up until now: if sites have asked, I have whitelisted them.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting funding discussion regarding JayIsGames.com

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 12:12 PM »

After a recent comment from wraith, I've started paying more attention to sites and adblock/ing. Have to admit I hate most 'flashing' ads (usually Flash I think) and would be slow to 'allow' them. Others in the comments were avoiding these for bandwidth reasons.

Some of the comments and attitudes shown over at JayIsGames are beyond belief.

God, are there ever some utterly 'precious' and self-righteous freeloaders out there...

-40hz (January 12, 2014, 09:16 AM)

the first ten comments were supportive... gotta admit I gave up after that.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 11:50 AM »

Yes, it is a problem, i.e. you can only delete after posting - otherwise it's start again in a fresh page :-(
I was thinking of starting a thread asking for a couple of minor improvments in forum software - I know there was talk about changing the whole thing, so not sure if there's incentive to improve current forum soft.


Back to CHS - I did not understand your previous post. Thanks for clarifying: "not sorted" - more :-(

I have 30,000 items in Old'.
I have about 150 items in 'New'.
As it is now working well here, it seems clear that the problem (again here) was with too many items in the 'New' section.

You have almost 600 items in 'New'.

• First question is: *why* do you want to keep them in new/ not move them to old? (Related question for mouser below.)
• Second question is why not try it with less than 200 in 'New' and see if it works?

Query for mouser: is there an advantage to keeping an item longer in the 'New' folder?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 04:17 AM »

^ I'm unclear - are you saying it's sorted now? [edit] which options did you tick? [/edit]

In my case I *just* moved clips to 'Old' - I didnt move 'Old' clips to bin after X hours, nor empty-bin-after X
(btw, cant check right now how many clips I have.)

--------------------------

oh, btw, you wrote
"when you modify your post, there's a list of attached files under the edit box - untick "

eh ... where to 'untick'?

-dcwul62 (January 12, 2014, 02:33 AM)

Ah okay,
my explanation was for how to remove an image from a post which has already been posted. I then get this:



I think before posting, you cant remove the image, which is limiting...

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 12, 2014, 01:34 AM »

New group can be seen by opening the main window (you may need to open the 'Tree' panel).
By default 'New' gets moved to 'Old' after X hours.

later:  you mean THIS ??

-dcwul62 (January 12, 2014, 12:46 AM)

if you activate the first option there under 'Automatic Filing' -- setting the number of hours (I have mine at 72).

I'm not sure does this affect what shows in the quick paste menu (?)

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 05:17 PM »

lol... we need a user version though:
User tries to drink out of glass, nothing comes out, liquid starts pouring out the sides...

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Laptop utility to run any program on Lid Close

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 05:10 PM »

There's a chance I may be able to take a class or 2 at Miami Dade College (if I don't miss that deadline for admissions) so I'm trying to get that going. 

-MilesAhead (January 11, 2014, 03:52 PM)

best of luck with that Miles

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 01:41 PM »

Thanks for that Deo

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 12:58 PM »

On another note - I'm curious how the scoring works:
one time I got to level #9 with only 6.5k points - my highest score is over 12k - but only at level #8 (?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 12:54 PM »

It's a lot harder now to break the 10k mark. (But I done it - eventually...)
Slowly starting to get more aware of where the mouse is - move it out to aim accurately, back in so as I can rotate more easily.

I have had the experience a couple of times lately where the brand new ship gets killed before I can even start - i.e. the 'repulse' effect doesnt work - this is hard when it's your last man ship - could that be because I dont have the mouse button fully pressed (dont think so but I'm not sure).
-
It happens when the asteroids are too close to the new ship when it first appears, there is then no replulse effect -- ship dead before it can even get going.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 11:52 AM »

If you bring up the main window can you check how big your Clipboard -> New group is? maybe try moving items from the New section elsewhere.

-mouser (January 11, 2014, 11:37 AM)

oddly enough the 'New' section is huge, the 'Old' one very small.
What dictates that? Okay, I seem to have disabled 'Automatic Filing' on the 'Backup/Maintenance' tab.
- I reactivated that and this seems to have sorted out the problem here - will report back if there's any related troubles.
(thanks jesse )

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 11:32 AM »

Assume it is not the database getting too big?

-dcwul62 (January 11, 2014, 04:24 AM)

I never delete anything
Maybe I should test with an alternative/portable install.

-tomos (January 11, 2014, 10:58 AM)

OK my problem CHS is an install version.
-
I setup a portable version - it works flawlessy, much more responsively too.

How big is your database dcwul62?
One here is years old - I guess I could delete it or archive it and start again...
ClipTable.dat is 45mb (not sure if that's the main file mouser?)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 11:14 AM »

I can confirm the problem when copying multiple items - with 01 through to 09, it only got half of them.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 10:58 AM »

Assume it is not the database getting too big?

-dcwul62 (January 11, 2014, 04:24 AM)

I never delete anything
Maybe I should test with an alternative/portable install.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cobian Backup

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 10:56 AM »

Of course sometimes the program writes directly the configuration in the system registry. In those cases i take a command to remember me I must have a security copy of a branch or key in the windows registry. .....

-Contro (January 11, 2014, 08:32 AM)

just curious:
how do you know if an install has changed the registry? Is there a software that does that? (I'm sure there is...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cobian Backup

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 04:23 AM »

^ can a portable version of Syncovery still setup the "run as a service"?

I reckon it can do pretty much anything you might want. Incremental; Delta backup of individual files; zipped delta incremental backup even; monitoring; etc. etc.. As I said before, my main problem with it is that it can do too much - at times I have gotten confused and made an incorrect selection in the profile settings.

Organisation of profiles is not great but can be done - they get grouped if they have the same first word in the name e.g.
FtoY IQ
FtoY Photos
FtoY documents

will all group under a collapsible heading FtoY

There's lots of info about it here on dc too, worth a search. Maybe most importantly is that it is very fast and very dependable. (Oh yeah, email support from author very good too.)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by tomos on January 11, 2014, 03:50 AM »

I have the problem of clips occassionally not being copied (I think you may have reported that a while back dcwul62) -- sometimes I actually *cut* text and it isn't on the clipboard.... Which makes me wonder if the problem is with the clipboard rather than CHS -  but have yet to disable CHS to check (Win7 x64).

p.s.: meanwhile, how to  DEtach a file from a forum post?

-dcwul62 (January 11, 2014, 02:56 AM)

when you modify your post, there's a list of attached files under the edit box - untick :-)

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Living Room / Re: DuckDuckGo over 1 BILLION searches in 2013

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2014, 05:40 PM »

It's right there on the page... just needed to run search 1 billion and 1 apparently  

https://duck.co/help...ising-and-affiliates

-wraith808 (January 10, 2014, 02:49 PM)

never seen them. Must be courtesy Adblock, I guess.

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Living Room / Re: Animated portraits by Romain Laurent

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2014, 05:28 PM »

Some very good ones there

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by tomos on January 10, 2014, 03:24 PM »

I wonder if it's because I'm in the US?

-mwb1100 (January 10, 2014, 09:41 AM)

I (in the EU) tried it not long after you did earlier (reply #109) and had the same result (disabled button)