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Living Room / Re: Why do children love CAPS LOCK?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 27, 2008, 09:56 AM »

I personally tap Caps Lock randomly 

-electronixtar (May 26, 2008, 11:41 PM)

Oh cOme on, don'T You have A mAcro for thaT?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 10+ suggestions to make FARR the most interesting launcher

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 26, 2008, 11:53 PM »

Welcome aboard, electronixtar.
I have had FARR (great name in my opinion) lurking in my system tray off and on for months: I've been too lazy or unconcerned to explore it.
You have already found out more about it than I. To be honest, I think it takes some detective work to discover how best to exploit FARR (not that I would say so if I thought mouser were listening ).

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Living Room / Re: Wireless Internet signal allergy

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 25, 2008, 08:12 PM »

So they'd have to remove all Pine trees from the area too...
I wonder if these people complain when they get too close to a tree

-Deozaan (May 25, 2008, 06:50 PM)

Certainly not, they're within the cone of silence!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synology DS207+ NAS

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 23, 2008, 02:23 PM »

That's really very well done, Perry.
Even if I don't buy one I can learn quite a bit by reading your review and following various links.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker vote, stage 2, final voting

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 23, 2008, 02:13 PM »

a pimple of FARR's butt

-Tekzel

Guys, you have to simplify: SexyBot.

-Lashiec

I think I see a fundamental trend in the right direction!

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 23, 2008, 02:06 PM »

Anyone else want to tweak me off and get me started?

-Renegade (May 23, 2008, 12:17 PM)

Yes 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: ReadMe: Find out and rant about bad companies

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2008, 02:50 PM »

I had a problem with Best Buy.com.  I ordered 2 TV sets...

-stansrailpix (May 20, 2008, 01:53 AM)

TVs seem to be a source of dismay today!  This response not recommended!

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General Software Discussion / Re: More on Super Flexible File Synchronizer; Updates Anyone?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2008, 02:04 PM »

I'm debating whether to pay for an upgrade to version 4. Anybody got any comments on their experience?

-tinjaw (May 20, 2008, 12:34 PM)

Here's mine, though unrelated to performance.
I recalled Tobias offering a free upgrade to 4 somewhere on DonationCoder...

I am the developer of Superflexible. It is true that in the current version, it takes a bit of hand work to make it auto-start with Windows. This will be made much easier in version 4.0. I hereby promise a free 4.0 upgrade to anybody who reads this. Just send me an email when you need the updated registration code.

...so I emailed him to ask about it. His response was rewarding.

FWIW I prefer the layout in 4, though I see that some do not.

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Living Room / Re: Best Programming Jokes

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2008, 01:55 PM »

as soon as I can find somebody who would get the joke

-tinjaw (May 20, 2008, 12:47 PM)

Make a collection, throw in one about Python, and you'll have the full monty!

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DesktopCoral / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DesktopCoral- 1.02.01 - May 03, 2008

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2008, 01:49 PM »

"coral" is what grows in the sea...
...you've probably heard it a thousand times.

-Daleus (May 20, 2008, 01:39 PM)

It was brave of you to reefer to it atoll!

(I have the same reaction to the name.) 

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Developer's Corner / Re: The internet hijacked

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2008, 06:18 AM »

Anyway,.. who cares about the hat?

-Gothi[c] (May 20, 2008, 03:13 AM)

Well, I don't think you should beret the idea!

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Living Room / Re: Top websites for saving money with coupon codes

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2008, 05:22 PM »

Thanks, Chris.  It never occurs to me to look... I'll try to remember 

4038

General Software Discussion / Re: HP Smart Web Printing

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 18, 2008, 11:35 PM »

So, you're not in favour of HP then? 

I agree with you about the 500's, great little machines.
I've always found their laser printers to be excellent and amazingly durable.
Found their scanners to be a pain.
Neither like nor use a lot of the software that comes with their latest printers.

(I have one IIID that's still in service after 20+ years)


But... this software has nothing to do with HP hardware that I can see.
And... the price is right.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 18, 2008, 10:39 PM »

I was about to chip in again, but I've stilled my typing finger.

I know I've contributed to this thread but, in hindsight, I wish I had not.

FWIW I don't think DonationCoder is the best forum in which to air our different views on this.

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General Software Discussion / HP Smart Web Printing

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 18, 2008, 10:28 PM »

Here is something from HP that aims to make printing (and collection) information from the Web a little easier.

It claims that you can choose and then combine and keep stuff from a variety of web pages, all in one if one wants to, and then both print it and edit it (if desired). It also claims to fix automatically the 'where the heck is the right margin' problem that can occur when printing web pages.

It's free.

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Living Room / Re: More Abuses of Technology - Government Surveillance - Computer Confiscation

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 18, 2008, 07:50 AM »

It's grim.

Nobody seems to have a firm grip on the reins.

Further, if you or I ran a business with such a lack of culpability we'd either be in jail or filthy rich.

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Living Room / Re: What to do when you receive bootleg videos?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2008, 07:15 PM »

I enjoyed filling it in a lot

-Carol Haynes (May 17, 2008, 03:55 PM)

I bet you did!

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Living Room / Re: What to do when you receive bootleg videos?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2008, 03:17 PM »

Yes - I managed to get the PayPal reps. name and employee number. I noted the call time/date and content of the response.

-Carol Haynes (May 17, 2008, 02:44 PM)

Oh, good for you!
You may yet force them into behaving responsibly.
 

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UrlSnooper / Re: YouTube Tutorial on UrlSnooper and Live TV Streaming with VLC Media Player

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2008, 01:32 PM »

You really think that video is helpful?

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Living Room / Re: What to do when you receive bootleg videos?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2008, 01:23 PM »

What she doesn't know is that I just telephoned PayPal and they have assured me that telling me to return the items was an error on their part and that they never expect fraudulent items to be returned. I apparently have to supply some form of verification that they are counterfeit and that the items have been destroyed.

-Carol

Thanks for updating us all on this. It's interesting to see your progress, and we may learn something from your adventuring.

Too bad the morons can't respond properly without your having to dig in and phone them!
Have you any record of your call, such as a confirming email? Somebody's name? Get the uncomfortable feeling that nobody will be aware of your call in any follow-up stages? I hope your local plod are more helpful than are the boys in blue around here. (P.C. 49 where are you now?)

The eBay performance is all too typical of irrelevant or pointless 'support' responses.
To be fair, I guess these knee-jerk reactions do sort things out for a great many issues, but they surely are tedious and time-wasting for those of us who need the first contact message to be parsed with intelligence.

As an example, recently I had a bad installer with a product from one major vendor.
(The installer interface appeared on screen but its items weren't populated properly -- hovering over any of the interface buttons showed "undefined" and clicking on the buttons did nothing at all).
No big deal to work around this but I contacted support in case the issue bit someone to whom it would matter.

The response from the vendor offered:

• a canned list of irrelevant solutions, such as "How to rebuild a Mirrored RAID array on an xxx Dual-drive storage system"
• the profound diagnosis that something was wrong with the installer.

[What's the smiley for a huge sigh of exasperation?]

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Living Room / Re: PIN-code

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2008, 12:35 PM »

recently I had to ask for new pin-code of my card because I have not used it for nearly 2 years and already have forgotten the PIN.

-czechboy (May 17, 2008, 08:17 AM)

I decided to use my corporate direct debit card the other day and then realized that I'd have to enter a PIN, which of course I couldn't recall. Needless to say there was a line of people waiting for me to complete this transaction. After a minute I had the thought that the PIN might be on my PDA, which it was, in encrypted form. Then I realized that I'd forgotten the password to unlock the encryption!
 

I quite liked the old days when stores were happy to take a cheque.

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Living Room / Re: Pirating abandoned content?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 16, 2008, 10:07 PM »

The only abandoned software I've pirated is FARR.

-Deozaan (May 16, 2008, 08:56 PM)

Hey, that's not farr fair!  It is funny, though -- or furry as we dyslexics would say.

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Living Room / Re: Options to use Donation Credits to purchase stuff

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 16, 2008, 10:42 AM »

For $100 in donationcredits we will send a life sized Cody to your door so you can get a singing telegram from the DonationCoder mascot.

-mouser (May 16, 2008, 10:26 AM)

And, just as a follow-up, for $200 in donationcredits we won't   


Here's a thought for readers of this thread,

I think the ideas expressed above are good ones.  DonationCoder trinkets are fun to have.

In addition, I'd like to offer an alternative thought.
DonationCoder is a valuable source of interesting material for me as it almost certainly is for you if you're reading this.

For those of us with unused credits, how about donating 30% of them to the site.... right now, while you think of it?
Keeping DonationCoder in good shape is the best value I can get from my credits.

I'm off to do this immediately and hope that, perhaps, others will follow suit.

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Living Room / Re: Pirating abandoned content?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 15, 2008, 05:25 PM »

If you say that it's fine for a company to make such a restriction, then would it be ethical if a computer or car salesman told you that the computer you just bought could not be given to a friend or family member when it outlived it's usefulness for you?

-mouser (May 15, 2008, 11:35 AM)

It would if you knowingly signed a contract stipulating that condition.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 15th, 2008 - Codename "Feathered Friends"

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 15, 2008, 12:10 PM »

Thanks for the effort that you put into this newsletter, mouser.

after a long period of dormancy, during which I was focused on earning a living, you can expect to see some substantial updates to my software programs

-mouser

It is a farr, farr better thing that you do...