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Living Room / Re: Kensington lock toilet paper hack

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 05:50 AM »

Good thing i never use kensington locks!
Anyway, i'd never leave my own computer unattended..

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Living Room / Re: the first 20000 users - well done, mouser!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 05:48 AM »

Hurray!!! 

20k users! I'd say that deserves to have lots of happy people jumping around!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Eject!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 05:24 AM »

Ooops.. little twists of having a laptop. A laptop's drive cannot be closed by hardware, only by hand. I didn't know that didn't close the tray.
Well.. If there are interested parts, I can alter the script in some way to do that.

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Living Room / Re: fun kid friendly puzzle game - guide the cows home

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 05:05 AM »

fun kid friendly puzzle game - guide the cows home

-mouser (March 17, 2006, 02:07 PM)

Kid game?? That means i'm stupid? some levels further on became a bit too dificult for me :S

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Eject!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 04:58 AM »

I don't quite understand.. Why having a script for ejecting when you can right-click the icon at my computer?
Still, i could adapt this script to eject the cd.tray when the tray icon is clicked, or something like that.
But there are numerous utilities out there to do that, i think.
(can Wizmo do it for you?)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: typeadrun

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 04:53 AM »

Oh... i thought that'd happen
The author didn't answer me one e-mail i sent him, and i stopped using it. I'm now using farr and run box for that matter.
typeandrun actually has a completetion list, you access it with alt+down, i think, but it's not very handy :S

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: gmail backup

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 20, 2006, 04:25 AM »

Allen: Thank you so much for that pointer. It looks like it's getting time for me to start setting up a backup for my gmail account..

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Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 19, 2006, 07:48 PM »

Me too, I am a Wireless Router owner myself, and mine is protected. But I live with two compulsive-downloaders, who would blow my bandwidth limits out of scale if they used our network. So, they use a unprotected one. But the owner doesn't seem to care, since he doesn't protect it... 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: gmail backup

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 19, 2006, 07:44 PM »

restore the email by resending via smtp. 

-serchend (March 19, 2006, 06:01 PM)

I don't know if it is exactlly what you want, but you could use gmail's own Forwarding to another mail of yours (see under settings ->  Forwarding and Pop)

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Living Room / Unprotected Wireless Lans?

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 19, 2006, 06:54 PM »

After having seen this matter being discussed lots of times in the IRC channel, i decided to make a poll about it.
Unprotected Wireless Lans is a common "problem" among less-informed people, and it can represent a real issue if you have a low bandwidth limit. (I call it a "problem" because it can be really good for some people - the ones that don't actually own the router )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 17, 2006, 07:00 AM »

Lanux, that was a pretty cool post!
How did you do that?  Professional secret?

-dantheman (March 17, 2006, 06:59 AM)

Check this, dantheman: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2784.0

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Living Room / Re: World's Smallest Website!!!!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 17, 2006, 05:49 AM »

eheh.. And that pacman sure is a special one!

4188

Living Room / Re: Microsoft Origami

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 17, 2006, 05:29 AM »

Yeah, Tablet PC meets Notebook Lets see how many similar portable PCs will be available.

-brotherS (March 17, 2006, 05:10 AM)

You know, BrotherS i'm hoping it'll be "tablet pc meets wrist clock" meaning maybe someday, everyone will have one of these.
(actually, i don't use wrist clock  )

There already are computers being sold in least-favoured countries at wrist-clock prices.
It'd be nice if that kind of "cheap" technology in conjunction with origami's technology could generate and affordable product, since:

The price is about 500-1000 US-Dollars.

-OGroeger (March 04, 2006, 11:52 AM)

That might be a problem

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PageSpy - A swiss army knife for web-developers

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 17, 2006, 05:20 AM »

Congratulations JoTo on your first (and not last, i expect ) review!
This review is an example of how this section of the forum is important.
I'm not a web-developer, but I bet this mini-review will be a big help for those considering buying PageSpy!
Thank you, and wellcome to the community! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 07:11 PM »

Although i'm not a firefox user, i found MozBackup. Looks interesting.

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc.

-http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Farr's go away

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 05:36 PM »

  kfitting that's not the issue.
I don't like to use pause (it's too far ), and alt+space has a strange focus behaviour.
I do like to use ctrl+space, but sometimes, i just want to disable it, that's what this script is for
I just execute "exit", and when i want to use farr again, i press ctrl+f

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Finished Programs / DONE: Farr's go away

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 03:10 PM »

Since farr still doesn't have internal commands, i made this small script for myself, and decided to post it here.

Using ctrl+space to bring up farr can be a problem, for example, the selection in emacs won't work, since it's bound to that same key, and also, you can't select various items in explorer, by pressing ctrl+space.

I configure it like this: Add it to farr's directory of scripts.
Then, when i want to use ctrl+space, i press ctrl+space to bring up farr, and i type exit[enter], to execute this script.
The script closes farr, and keeps itself in the tray.
It creates a hotkey, so that when i press [windows key]+F, it runs farr, and exits.

It's just an easy way of being able to use ctrl+space, and still be able to call farr up real fast again, since farr is all about speed and productivity

(.ahk file attached, .rar contains .ahk and .exe)

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Delete double lines (all but the first) in a text file

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 02:51 PM »

Install MinGW or alike : DevCPP does this for you excellently...

-Gerome (March 16, 2006, 02:41 PM)

That's good, i'll give it a go next time I need to compile C. But by now, and for the next 4 months, I only see Lisp, Pov-Ray, VRML and Java
Maybe next semester. But thanks by the pointer, it'll surelly be useful!!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Delete double Lines (all but the first) in a Text-File

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 02:33 PM »

To jgpaiva from TW

No, what I meant was the message box now works fine,
but the blank lines are still stripped out of the output file.
Was this supposed to happen?
I was hoping to preserve the blank lines in the output file, (repeated or not). I cant see why they are stripped out but they are:

-TWmailrec (March 16, 2006, 02:31 PM)

They are because I thought that was what you wanted
I'll make it copy blank lines.

@Gerome I can't install gcc under windows, only through cygwin, and that's not worth the effort..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Delete double Lines (all but the first) in a Text-File

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 01:57 PM »

It's algorithm is quite good, but ahk is a script language, so, it takes more time than C, for sure.

-jgpaiva (March 06, 2006, 05:57 PM)

-Gerome (March 16, 2006, 01:42 PM)

Can you read?
I do know that can't handle a big input file.
And i also know that the same script in C would take about 10 seconds to solve that problem.
Implemented with an hash table in C, probably would take even less.
And i also know how to implement it in C, i even have the code, because i did it for school.
I could even use the solution that PhilKC presented.
If I wanted to do that search in an efficient way, i'd code it in C, and use it under linux.
My problem is that i've never compiled any C program in windows, and the original post on this thread required something that i thought ahk could solve.

Many thanks to jgpaiva for the new program mod.

-TWmailrec (March 15, 2006, 10:53 PM)

And it did.
The question here, is that noone else presented a better solution. I presented mine.
I did the best thing I can do in windows. It sure does run faster than other executable presented at this thread.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: The new forum is up!!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 12:50 PM »

I have just found the following icon: in every message i've posted.
It allows for edit (modifying) of that specific message, inline, just like the quick-reply!

This is a fantastic adition, it makes editing errors in posts a much faster task!
Thanks! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: keyboard shortcuts

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 12:46 PM »

Good to know it works!

Hope it'll be useful to others. BTW, alexp did you solve your problem?


(ps: m_s please change your post, and put the code under the tag Code (the black # above the OK smilie), so as everyone understands it better)

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General Software Discussion / Re: keyboard shortcuts

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 12:09 PM »

SORRY m_s!
I really shoud have informed myself before saying anything.
here's the solution for your problem (i think):

[Select]

hotkey,SC174,down
hotkey,SC175,up
return

down:
Send,#&{PgDn}
return

up:
Send,#&{PgUp}
return

It seems that for creating a hotkey with VK/SC, this syntax has to be used.
Basically, on the first part, you declare the hotkeys, then, when each of one is pressed, the program goes to the label that it's designed to go.

Very sorry to have caused you so much stress..

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General Software Discussion / Re: keyboard shortcuts

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 11:19 AM »

Oh, i think what you're looking for, is the Send command. You can send the key {volume_down}, or {volume_up}, instead of using the soundset command, which alters the volume directlly.

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Living Room / World's Smallest Website!!!!

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 16, 2006, 11:04 AM »

How Crazy is this???

Ok, that is really original. But be careful, if you don't have a browser capable of zooming, you might end up with a big headache