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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 11:55 AM »

Does the server allow download resuming?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TELL me how many objects I am deleting!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 11:39 AM »

(only, "E" in English is "R" in Danish.
Plus, I have to keep pressing the Alt-button, while shifting from "R" to "I")

-Curt (April 11, 2011, 08:22 AM)

Hm... Shouldn't, I only press and hold Alt once while then hitting E, then I, then release. I should think the Danish R should behave much the same.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 11:33 AM »

2. I really like project wonderful and what they stand for, and their stated goals of bringing 'fairness, transparency, and profitability to the advertising process'.  But if you ask yourself the same questions about OC (i.e. are you tracked before you have a chance to opt out), the answer would be no.  As soon as you go to a page with the PW ads installed, you are tracked as a necessity for payment.  Even thing such as tickers at the bottom of the web page track visitors, and they don't ask you before they do so.  Is the only difference between these and OC the fact that OC has to be bundled into software that you use to install other software on your machine?

-wraith808 (April 11, 2011, 10:55 AM)

To me it is a simple matter of intent. OC's stated intent is to display one or two Ads, in the hopes that the person running the installer likes one of said advertised products. Fine. It is displayed only once during the install, and is then done. Which tracks with their stated intent.

Now, in the process of displaying the Ads, they (or the installer rather) load some code in the background, that has the potential to someday get misused (maybe). So. So do alot of things ... The question is what is the intent behind the code being loaded?

Let me put this a different way. I have a concealed weapons license, and frequently carry a gun. Banks have very high security concerns ... yet when I go to the bank, I am (and will be) carrying said a gun. Should I be accosted at the door because of what I might do? No. My actions are perfectly legal. Even though the fact that I'm standing in a bank, with a gun, does help facilitate robbing the place. It doesn't alter the simple fact that I have absolutely no intentions of doing so.

OC is simply asking for - and I feel deserves - the same courtesy.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TELL me how many objects I am deleting!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 07:03 AM »

-yes, nice one, Miles :-)

I don't know why some people want to decide if I should use Shift+Delete or not  [beep!][/beep!].  If you Delete a 10GB file, Windows will use a really long time to delete it. If you Shift+Delete the same file, it will be gone within a second. Other than that, I don't need to delete 45 files very often, but I need on a daily base to remove a few files, quite often one by one. This was my polite answer.

-Curt (April 11, 2011, 01:32 AM)

In situations like that where scrolling can compound the chance of a miss click. I usually highlight the files I want to keep first, because they're a much smaller group. Then use:

Alt + E (Edit menu)
Alt + I (Invert selection)
Shift + Delete

With practice it's much faster than it sounds ... and helps cut down on the swearing.

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Living Room / Re: The Evil Side of Nature

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 06:55 AM »

But oddly, from WP:

Mealworms are typically used as a food source for reptile, fish, and avian pets. They are also provided to wild birds in bird feeders, particularly during the nesting season, when birds are raising their young and appreciate a ready food supply. Mealworms are high in protein, which makes them especially useful as a food source. They are also commonly used for fishing bait.

 

-Renegade (April 11, 2011, 02:18 AM)

...And that's why chewing is so important.

 

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Living Room / Re: Charlie Sheen Sound Board

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 06:43 AM »

he could use the money for his certification as a Microsoft network engineer or something.

-gpetrant (April 10, 2011, 05:35 PM)

Given the apparent narcissism and other megalomaniacle tendancies...I'm thing the Apple camp might be a better fit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 06:34 AM »

A zero tolerance policy for advertising (much as I like the idea) isn't going to help anybody. And OC seems to be doing a fine job of walking a very fine line ... At least to me.

So while it is not something I have any plans to use, it is also not something that would deter me from using a given piece of software.

Ren, if nothing else, you have convinced me of its innocence.

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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 11, 2011, 06:20 AM »

+1 for Quinn

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 09, 2011, 04:05 PM »

but there is no doubt in my mind that it is due to the option being ON in T-Clock.

-movrshakr (April 09, 2011, 01:46 PM)

I'm inclined to agree at this point. Can you think of anything that may be unique about your config? Any security or system management software that it may be interacting badly with?

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2011, 01:01 PM »

date=1302271902]

LATER- can the font in the balloon be changed?  I need it bigger/darker.

-movrshakr (April 08, 2011, 09:11 AM)

Currently no, but I'll think about it (my to-do list is getting a bit out of hand... ).

-Stoic Joker (April 08, 2011, 10:56 AM)

Dang those users; always wanting more and more!

-movrshakr (April 08, 2011, 12:39 PM)

Meh, It's ok ... Gotta keep me off the streets somehow ... And I'm too young for Bingo...

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Apple “Lost” the PC Wars

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2011, 12:57 PM »

"Apple won the war of ideas, which was what really matters."

Marvellous. Yet again, Apple is all about mind control. That quote sounds like a piece of propoganda from 1984.

-nudone (April 08, 2011, 11:44 AM)

It's all part of that Different Thinking they seem to want people to do. Take yesterday for example:

I'm on site trying to troubleshoot yet another Snow Leopard vs. a printer issue. All I wanted to do was open a pdf file, send it to the printer, and see how long it took...Along with what if any errors it thew.

This exercise took about 10 minutes. Windows or Linux, I could have done it in 7 seconds. But snApple ... Is Different...

The "Print" dialog, which seemed to only give layout bangles info ... Had a secondary dialog popup that actually required a tertiary popup to explain the fact that clicking on the 2nd dialogs Print button didn't actually print anything... Okay, then WTF did they call it a Print button for?!? Save Miscellaneous Print Related Settings Didn't quite fit on the button perhaps?

The best part was that the "explanation" dialog stated that "If you want to print or save the document you must go back to the first dialog and click print button". ...Now if I really wanted to save a document WHY for the love of doyc would I have selected PRINT? ...Is that just to help the completely stupid "save" things to paper?

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2011, 10:56 AM »

Already does that, bottom of mouse tab.

-Stoic Joker link=topic=21944.msg244730#msg244730

Then ???. 
So. the current discussion is about ADDITIONAL variables that can be put in there?

-movrshakr (April 08, 2011, 09:11 AM)

Yes.

Guess I'll have to go look at what can be put there now.

-movrshakr (April 08, 2011, 09:11 AM)

All the same format specifiers options as the main clock.

LATER- can the font in the balloon be changed?  I need it bigger/darker.

-movrshakr (April 08, 2011, 09:11 AM)

Currently no, but I'll think about it (my to-do list is getting a bit out of hand... ).

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2011, 09:07 AM »

... I was thinking that the computer name & uptime combo might make a good default option for the tooltip popup that shows when you hover the mouse over the clock.

-Stoic Joker (April 07, 2011, 05:39 PM)

Or in options, have a place where user can select what he want to show on hover?

-movrshakr (April 07, 2011, 05:44 PM)

Already does that, bottom of mouse tab.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 07, 2011, 05:39 PM »

Okay, I'm currently working on figuring out how the alternate language feature got broken. But when that's done I'll take a stab at doing the computer name option. I was thinking that the computer name & uptime combo might make a good default option for the tooltip popup that shows when you hover the mouse over the clock.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Panda Antivirus & Internet Security 2011 (6 Months Subscription Free)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 07, 2011, 07:32 AM »

Actually the client did the install; straight through the defaults. Which should be fine as they were upgrading from the previous year, which worked fine, but I think was only the AV (now that you mention it).

It took them 3 days working with Panda's Tech Support to (fail to) get the license activated. However they did finally get it after doing a complete uninstall, running a (panda removal) cleaning tool, and then rebooting before the fresh install of the new version (my idea).

Then it hosed their network access  (hehe) *Sigh*

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 07, 2011, 07:05 AM »

I don't know if there are plans to use the "GetTickCount64" function instead of the "GetTickCount" function in getting the uptime but it would be nice.

The new function does not have the 49.7 day limit.
It is supported starting with Vista.
(It does not require 64 bit OS).

http://msdn.microsof...724411(v=VS.85).aspx

-paul_ray (April 06, 2011, 11:48 AM)

Hm... (there are now) That is an interesting option. Actually I had been planning to try using the other method that leverages the info stored in HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA ... But this sounds much easier/simpler/quicker - Not to mention a 585 million year wrap/limit should be sufficient for most folks...

Thank you!

Are there plans to use Environment variables for the display?
I would like to use the "COMPUTERNAME" variable in my display format, so I don't have to hard code the machine name.

This makes it easier for support when I need to know the computer name.

-paul_ray (April 06, 2011, 11:51 AM)

That's definitely an enterprise (only) level feature (me thinks). Are you from the company planing to do a T-Clock roll-out? Computer name shouldn't be difficult to grab/add, but what other environmental info bits (if any) might be good to toss in with it?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Panda Antivirus & Internet Security 2011 (6 Months Subscription Free)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 07, 2011, 06:35 AM »

Last time I encountered this "Security Suite", I was troubleshooting a network performance issue. Browsing folders across the wire was taking about 1.5 minutes to load/display the contents.

After uninstalling Panda, network browsing was instantaneous.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 06, 2011, 02:51 PM »

I've got a Dell Inspiron Duo (Netbook/Tablet Convertible) here for one of our users. It's actually quite nice from working with it so far.

-Stoic Joker (April 06, 2011, 01:36 PM)

I'd heard it was pretty lackluster.

-wraith808 (April 06, 2011, 01:47 PM)

Me too, although it was mainly a the screen isn't as cutting edge breath taking as it could have (thoretically) been issue iirc. But after playing with it for a bit, it's really quite good. It is a bit dim on battery - to conserve said battery - but as I understand it, it will learn your behavior and dim the screen less often with use.

And the android 1.6 was the sticking point for me.

-wraith808 (April 06, 2011, 01:47 PM)

I'm not much of a "consumer"...So I like having an "full" OS to play with. My favorite toy is the command line.  *Shrug*

How is the weight in tablet mode?

-wraith808 (April 06, 2011, 01:47 PM)

Shit, were you under the impression it (came apart) made a difference too?!? ...I almost broke the friggin thing. It's heavy.

And how is the responsiveness?

-wraith808 (April 06, 2011, 01:47 PM)

It go zoom. I just installed Office 2010 std on it; install only took a few minutes ... and word etc pops right open in seconds (1 or 2-ish)

Being that I don't have a ton of experiance with touch screens (most piss me off) I'd say it's quite good. I managed to do the entire OOBE & setup via the touch screen without swearing.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 06, 2011, 01:36 PM »

Hmm. I think I can feel the presence of the Dark Lord of the I's (as in "I"pod/player/phone/tunes) slowly corrupting my soul.

-nudone (April 06, 2011, 01:24 PM)

FTFY

Beware the Dark Side - Use the force Luke!

I've got a Dell Inspiron Duo (Netbook/Tablet Convertible) here for one of our users. It's actually quite nice from working with it so far.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 06, 2011, 11:27 AM »

It's just a casual, portable device to have with you.  Check time, check email (not necessarily write email), browse the web, watch some videos, go on facebook.

-superboyac (April 06, 2011, 09:52 AM)

  A portable device to check the time with?!?  Yeah, if you're in the habbit of buying wrist watches from Flavor Flav...

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 06, 2011, 06:43 AM »

...Having survived the encounter with Satan, nudon's exorcism has been canceled.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 05, 2011, 02:05 PM »

I took a quick remote peak at my x64 box and the path on it is indeed also:
C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 05, 2011, 12:47 PM »

Every time someone buys a Fruit Pad Cthulhu eats a kitten.

 

-Stoic Joker (April 04, 2011, 05:15 PM)

And another Shoggoth springs into existence in our dimension.

(If we don't knock it off, we're gonna be up to our asses in Shoggoths pretty soon...)

-40hz (April 05, 2011, 11:48 AM)

Just wear a black trash bag, and keep chanting Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! ... Se we can blend in when they take over...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lizamoon Attack Targets SQL Injection Vulnerability

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 04, 2011, 05:47 PM »

I gotta go with barney here, much vehemence is coming from the pulpit ... but no details.

Sure specific general statements are made about do X not Y ... But no how is given.

Many of the concepts mentioned in this thread could take a great deal of time to explain, or research, I'm sure. But if (say) 3 - 5 lines of code were posted with them outlining what is to should be happening. Well... That could ge a long way towards being part-of-the-solution ...Don't Ya think?


While wraith808's example might not have been the most perfectly correct answer. It was at least one of the best attempts at a clear straight answer I've seen yet.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 04, 2011, 05:15 PM »

Every time someone buys a Fruit Pad Cthulhu eats a kitten.