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General Software Discussion / Re: any word autocompleter working fine under Vista/2008? All I can think of don't

« Last post by urlwolf on June 22, 2009, 11:46 AM »

ok texter is a text expander. I.e., if you have an acronym or shortcut, it'll expand it. For what I can read comfort typing is in the same boat.
I have to explain: I don't want a text expander. I have ahk.

What I want is a tool that learns the words I use and suggest them. That is, tab completion for writing text.

Comfort typing does so much, and explains so little on what it does, that it may contain this functionality. Does it?
UPDATE: I tried it. It does work. Thanks rjbull!

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

« Last post by urlwolf on June 22, 2009, 03:01 AM »

7. Wired Marker - I only use it to Right-Click and highlight words with one of my saved colours. It's great because it's permanent.

-Lefax32 (June 12, 2009, 07:43 PM)

Nice one! I've for a long time wanted something exactly like that but for pdf files not html.

-Nod5 (June 13, 2009, 07:37 AM)

Well, there are many. Acrobat is the expensive, but best solution.
Check also adobe digital editions, Foxit, and Pdf Xchange viewer. The last one has so-so rendering quality on some systems (good on my laptop, bad on a big monitor), and printing is not its strong point, but other than that, is highly useful because it's cheap and offers mostly all features of Acrobat (but OCR).

The two adobe ones have best rendering quality + highlighting. The reader doesn't do highlighting.

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General Software Discussion / any word autocompleter working fine under Vista/2008? All I can think of don't

« Last post by urlwolf on June 21, 2009, 08:39 PM »

I used to use intellicomplete (abandonware), but last known version is from 2004 and doesn't work under Vista/2008?

A free alternative, also abandonware, is letMeType, but no luck:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7865.0

The newer contenders are Typing assistant and phrase express. None of them work on my box for different reasons.

Any other alternatives? Workarounds?

Thanks

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free Total Commander licences

« Last post by urlwolf on June 19, 2009, 11:52 AM »

Hi fenix,

Nice to see that you are using mercurial (Hg) as well.
You may want to remove the reg. person name from the screenshot (if you care for privacy).

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General Software Discussion / WP plugins: donating is not the solution

« Last post by urlwolf on June 16, 2009, 08:42 AM »

http://tomuse.com/wp...oper-business-model/

Worrying news.
DC is really an exception, it seems.

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General Software Discussion / Re: XYplorer 8.00 released with DUAL PANES (!)

« Last post by urlwolf on June 16, 2009, 06:28 AM »

Hi DonL,

Thanks for answering. This is a desktop machine, with fast disks, so I'm not usre either. The only different thing is that this is windows server 2008 64-bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: XYplorer 8.00 released with DUAL PANES (!)

« Last post by urlwolf on June 16, 2009, 04:23 AM »

Is it just me, or is the listing of long file list very slow?
I can estimate about 1 sec per 500 files.
Heck, even a few dozens produce a perceptible lag.
It's like using 'back' button on IE after using Opera for a while. The delay is tiny, but it bothers me a lot...

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General Software Discussion / Opera Unite: a server within the browser. Opera innovating as it used to

« Last post by urlwolf on June 16, 2009, 04:14 AM »

http://www.opera.com...releases/2009/06/16/

What do you think?

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General Software Discussion / Re: linux hater is back?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 15, 2009, 07:26 AM »

Well, it's not the same guy:

Introduction

Two days ago, the Linux Hater's blog closed up shop for good. In his final post, LH said,

    "So in true open source fashion, as the maintainer of this project, I am going to arbitrarily drop off the face off the of this earth for purely selfish reasons, and leave the entire cause in limbo. That is how open source projects truly die. But hey, all the material is out there for y'all to see (it's "open source" in it's own way), so maybe someone else will take up the cause. Carry on, lusers!"


So, in true open source fashion, I have decided to try to pick up where he left off. Unfortunately, I barely know a damn thing about the internals of an operating system, which puts me miles above most ASS (Anus Stripping Software) developers. So, here we go into the wild, lame yonder!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.0.22

« Last post by urlwolf on June 14, 2009, 05:50 AM »

oh there are shortcuts... never mind. I missed them. Thanks.

One thing: when I try to add an img, it dies with an unhandled exception. Did anyone have trouble with this?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.0.22

« Last post by urlwolf on June 13, 2009, 05:59 PM »

keyboard shortcuts would be good, but 

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 13, 2009, 02:56 PM »

I just tried to switch off UAC temporarily on windows server 2008 to see how life is.

It turns out that your user will not be able to do any system changes, not even optionally. If I want to change PATH or any system variable, the button is grayed out.
Since there's no sudo, I'd have to log off, log on as admin do the changes, and log in as my user again. It takes several seconds. This is a no go...

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 13, 2009, 02:28 PM »

So in any case, what is worse, to switch off UAC or to run as admin?

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 12, 2009, 06:20 AM »

What would actually be useful is to know WHY the prompt.
Is this installer trying to write to c:\windows? Is it adding something in the registry? What? etc

Right now, when I get a prompt, I'm blind. I just assume it must be ok to accept.

If the thing I'm installing has a big hoking trojan inside, there's no way for me to know that. How is UAC helping with security then? It's just making me exercise my fingers.

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 12, 2009, 04:13 AM »

I should add I'm running windows server 2008, that explains some discrepancies. I'm putting my userspace files in a different partition, not on the same one where the OS is (could be part of the problem).

Something that could be done is to set up a timer in which you are admin without more prompts.

Alternatively, one can run one filemanager app always elevated, and use it rarely, only for installs.

Yet another solution: give rwx permissions to your user, recursively, on pretty much every little corner of the filesystem but the most obviously wrong ones. Btw, what a long time it takes to change permissions recursively!

Unix is pretty bad in some aspects, but permissions, they got right. And the ubuntu way of doing things (timed sudo) is pretty good. Not to mention you can have a shell for admin and leave it open in a tab, where it's out of the way... something I couldn't do on console (replacement for cmd.exe).

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Living Room / Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 11, 2009, 06:06 PM »

UAC is "lets give the user Admin rights whenever he asks for it and trust that he will never do anything wrong with it."

This cannot be. It's asking for trouble.

And worse, users will automatize this, and will make no decision (i.e., always allow).

In this sense, it's better to run in admin mode and  be spared the 500 M prompts a day that you endure as a normal user. It feels like you are borrowing your own computer instead of owning it...

Please somebody correct me before I kill UAC forever... or run as admin.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Which Eclipse?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 11, 2009, 05:22 PM »

@kartal:
http://deadlock.netb...g/hudson/job/python/

@tinjaw:
New IDEA plugin released:
http://www.jetbrains...or+IntelliJ+IDEA+8.0

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General Software Discussion / linux hater is back?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 11, 2009, 08:46 AM »

Two blogs that look suspiciously similar, and claim to be the same guy:
http://linux-haters-redux.blogspot.com/

http://antitux.blogspot.com/

Actually, looks like he imported comments from one blog to another.
So the antitux one is the final one. No idea why he made all this fuss.

His style is a lot less punchy now. Is he running out of ammunition?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Total Commander: Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

« Last post by urlwolf on June 11, 2009, 08:33 AM »

fantastic list. Thanks!
And great to hear that 7.5 will work well under linux.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Total Commander: Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

« Last post by urlwolf on June 10, 2009, 07:00 PM »

@fenix:
Sorry, I'm not sure I asked you before... is TC under wine convenient? do you get icons? double-click opens the right tool? all unix paths work fine (e.g., what happens if I open dev/null?
Do plugins work?

I'd be interested in your list of plugins, definitely. I use a slimmed down version of TC UP.

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Total Commander: Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

« Last post by urlwolf on June 09, 2009, 06:14 AM »

one other thing that I like is that on windows most file extensions get a difrerent color and icon. Even if I ran TC under wine, I wouldn't get that, would I? and double-clicking would not launch the correct application right? I haven't tried (linux VM blew up!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Total Commander: Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

« Last post by urlwolf on June 09, 2009, 06:13 AM »

btw TC 7.5 beta 4 lists files a lot slower. There's about .5 sec delay that wasn't there before. Anyone experiencing this? I don't remember having installed any new related plugin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Total Commander: Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

« Last post by urlwolf on June 08, 2009, 05:50 PM »

Now, if only someone ported half of TC's features to linux.
Linux has 10^6 half-assed dual pane filemanagers. It seems to be the favorite pet project. None of them finished, or polished to a point where you can call them a TC replacement.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Which Eclipse?

« Last post by urlwolf on June 08, 2009, 09:21 AM »

@tinjaw, test one of the hudson builds of netbeans 7.0. Lots of goodies for python.
The REPL sucks, sure, but you can use an external one and ahk to send clipboard to it.

Netbeans has test coverage for python built-in (7.0). The debugger is pretty good.

IntelliJ has a python plugin, that is very primitive and beta but will be upgraded anytime soon. They also claim it'll support graphical test coverage.

I'm using Jedit for python nowadays.

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General Software Discussion / TopCoder: solve hard problems as a sport, get paid for it

« Last post by urlwolf on June 06, 2009, 07:58 AM »

I thought some people here might be interested:

http://www.topcoder.com/

Inc. Magazine review

In some contests, TopCoder asks hackers to solve a tricky math problem or algorithm, just for the sport of it. In others, TopCoder clients with a software problem pony up prize money, and TopCoder challenges its global network of computer nerds to come up with a solution. The winner gets the cash--which can total tens of thousands of dollars--as well as star treatment on the company's website, which includes baseball-card-like photos and stats on top performers.

Interesting for recruiters as well:

TopCoder gets a cut of each contest's prize money. But that's only part of it. Because each programmer must register before competing, the company has been able to develop a database of the world's most talented techies. Some of the smartest have turned out to be students or twentysomethings in places such as Taiwan, India, and Belarus--the kinds of people who never respond to formal job postings and as a result go unnoticed by businesses looking for brainpower.

Since DC has some very talented, unconventional coders, TopCoder may be appealing to them.