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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Using SlimBrowser?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 05:49 PM »

See my adventures with Request Policy.

So separate from active x, for me add-ons are the Thing for me on browsers. How would you deal without some brand of ad blockers?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Caveman NoScript?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 02:01 PM »
This is very close!

The last piece of the puzzle is maybe just using adblock to block certain annoying scripts. For example (unless they change it next week) this is PcWorld's script for the Recommended For You "Shove Script".
http://www.pcworld.c...m/www.idgcsmb/js/thm

Nuking another one finally killed Rotten Tomatoes' rotating slider.

So, I think these together are very good! Request Policy with "Block by Default" is VERY close! It's so good that I can almost turn off Adblock, if it were not for the script level features there!

And it's nice to see nice, clean pages "loading Forbes.com. Done."
And ending with that fading glory of a site, Slashdot, it's winning the record for attempting over SIX THOUSAND site actions (with adblock off) !!
:mad:

And a nice way to gauge a page is "how much stuff did RequestPolicy have to kill to made it liveable?"

So, thanks, and if I find any other secondary little helper addons, I'll holler!





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General Software Discussion / Re: Caveman NoScript?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 11:28 AM »
Or you could try RequestPolicy.

https://addons.mozil...addon/requestpolicy/

That looks like a really good start! I'll go try it in a minute. Meanwhile, the dev posted this:

"RequestPolicy's new version is under development as RequestPolicy Continued. Ultimately, I'd like RequestPolicy Continued to replace RequestPolicy."

https://requestpolic...continued.github.io/
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General Software Discussion / Caveman NoScript?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 09:10 AM »
I do Adblock, and I have heard of NoScript, but one problem with NoScript type approaches is I don't want to get all wrapped up in Whitelisting stuff, because a ton of times it's news pages I'll never see again. But then again, sometimes it's "my favorite sites" doing stuff.

What if there is a brutally simple app/addon that you toggle on and off that simply blocks all scripts that come from anywhere else but the local domain. Extra key feature is if it can make a list of all the crap the page tries to load!

I often see this stuff in passing in the status bar, and I think it would be educational to see the printed list of just the crap that really goes on. I think even most new / low-skilled users would get grumpy if they were presented with a list like

Hai. Your newspage tried to load the following:

Ping.charbeat.net
Widget.perfectmarket.com
a.fsdn.com
player.ooyala.com
googleadservices.com
(something like) quilt.jrain.com
b.scorecardreasearch.com

Now me this could almost be as simple as a coding snack, but I'm sure I'm missing some of the legit complexity or something. To me it feels like the following pseudo-code:

10 Determine local domain user actually is visiting
20 IF Load_Anything_Else THEN STFU No!
30 collect list of crap page tries to load
40 present and offer a couple of options of processing/saving the list

For example the above partial list is from Slashdot.

An interesting alternative / extra feature is to whitelist certain kinds of scripts that are "absolutely essential" for pages such as news pages when they want to show videos, but then block all the other scripts even from the local page, because news pages are about the worst for "sliders" that jump up about twenty seconds later

VOTE BABY CODY FOR PRESIDENT! BABY CODY HAS A FRESH NEW TAKE ON THE US NEWS TODAY! LIKE US! REFER US!Click here to close


Now back to your article
Especially since the 3rd party stuff is among the last to load. Incidentally this might *also* eat more ads after regular adblock is done.

Thoughts? Is this Snack sized? Or am I missing something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome software for kids
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 08:56 AM »

The Last Ludum Dare had an interesting game about mythpology that could be cool for kids.

"Kids software" doesn't have to have that "stripped and sterile" look to it!

If I get the mood I might do one of my writeups on that if I can find it again, for this thread.

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Nice to see you finally post :D
-Stephen66515 (June 04, 2015, 03:44 AM)
you're welcome. i hope i can participate in this wonderful community :D

Yes! Yes you can!

 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 06:25 AM »
716C3E4538625.pngAnd y'all keep your eyes out for Stephen's next one!

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 04, 2015, 06:24 AM »
100!

Nice!

Anyone capture the picture?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 02, 2015, 01:45 PM »
Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be free?  lol.

A PlaysForSure music player and a Zune got to talking about Microsoft consistency of marketing...

 :)
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 02, 2015, 01:39 PM »
There are two sets of people in the world.  Those who pigeonhole people and enlightened.  Unfortunately, the enlightened set is a singleton. 




Ra and Buddha got to talking...

 :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 02, 2015, 02:25 AM »
Heh so everyone can mark May 1 2016 (or so) on their calendars to be within the upgrade window, and by then more information will be available! And probably at least two minor horror stories! Go Microsoft!

But well before that, it feels like the July 29 release will be pretty bumpy. I'm def interested in the overall evolution of this version of Windows, but MS is kinda known to be rough at the seams with a big OS release.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 01, 2015, 12:14 PM »
But I'll have to decide what their timetable is, and whether if whatever they would call 10.1 with their rolling updates contains any bugfixes that sound really important.

What worries me is that they want to do everything using the Window Update.  That is just too much work if something blows up.  I even had several machines balk at installing ordinary service packs.  Never mind sifting through all the updates to see what to put on and what to leave out.  The descriptions are not very informative.  I feel like I am working for them at no pay when I start reading through all that stuff.  I try to stay away from Windows Update if at all possible.


I'd normally prefer to just install all updates, but I recall some of the stories about how not all of the 8.x updates connected smoothly. Now imagine that with the entire OS involved with lots of updates! You can have say 20 updates that go just fine, then "that one update" hoses everyone or something.



Well, I meant from the perspective of not installing it at all until "10.1", but yes, I am also quite distrustful of their "rolling forever" approach - because let's just suppose it doesn't work, then they change their minds again (!!), and "go back to classic distribution", but in the meanwhile the early adopters become guinea pigs!

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And ... some of the over-reaching provisions are starting to expire and lapse! Yay!

And then someone's spin doctor got the green light, because the following is among the most inflammatory writeups of that event I have ever seen!

>:(

http://news.yahoo.co...fails-070641402.html
"Senate takes up House bill but fails to avoid spying lapse"

(THAT headline?! Really?!)

The rest of the article is more slanted than a snow-resistant roof on a house!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on June 01, 2015, 09:56 AM »

Hmm. If the release date is July 29, that's not so far away!

The kinds of bugs people are reporting above bother me, because they feel so "simple". Last I knew the "mood", Win 7 was solid, Win 8 was taken over by the Interface discussions, so I was hoping by now the backbone of the OS is supposed to be really polished!

I'm especially keeping an eye that the 8.x updates were far from smooth! Summarizing my big posts elsewhere, I'm keeping an eye on Win10 for its "place in the timeline". But I'll have to decide what their timetable is, and whether if whatever they would call 10.1 with their rolling updates contains any bugfixes that sound really important.

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Living Room / Re: Audio clipping in MP4 and MP3
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 30, 2015, 06:00 AM »

Guessing - maybe in the export settings of YTD, there is on the audio "allow clipping". Because that is there on the audacity side when you are exceeding some sound thresholds.

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That's a pity.

Meanwhile, in the middle of some other discussion thread, an Anonymous Coward over on Slashdot posted that these projects also got affected by similar things:

"Other projects recently hijacked by SF include many Apache projects (Allura, Derby, Directory Studio, the Apache HTTP server, Hadoop, OpenOffice, Solr, and Subversion); Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and FireFTP; Evolution and Open-Xchange; Drupal and WordPress; Eclipse, Aptana, Komodo, MonoDevelop, and NetBeans; VLC, Audacious, Banshee.fm, Helix, and Tomahawk media players; and many others."

Dropped there as an Info-Blob - I'm not all that interested in a detailed rundown. Just if this is the thing they are doing, via your note, it's an FYI level item to me.

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That's disturbing! Because it's "not about Gimp", it's about any account whatsoever being locked out in this manner. Last I knew, Sourceforge had a decent reputation, but this could really damage it if it proves not to be a 1-time thing!

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Hmm. It doesn't seem to be in PaleMoon.

I set it on, in FF Dev Ed. I'll try to test it / get vague impressions.

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wraith808: Shame it isn't fully standard in the spec, but crumbs, you're right - the \Q...\E does indeed work to treat chars as literal, at least in Notepad++. Asking at SuperUser.com produced no response, and it was missing from practically all of the tutorials I saw from searching with Google, so I assumed it was impossible.

It's going to be a lot easier to create this hypothetical program than I anticipated, since I thought of the (now obvious) idea to use Regex as a middleman. My program simply becomes a sugary wrapper for Regex.

There's a couple of nice points there.

Asking at one forum (SuperUser) and checking the Tutorials is a "fair effort". So that's far beyond what usually gets derisively replied as "RTFM". Lucky that DC has some smart people!

:Thmbsup:

And next, from what I understand, making backbones and frameworks is hard. But there's a great need for little apps that borrow an existing backbone and make it friendly to people who are only middle-skilled users. Because then your "engine" is there - and you can add features a little easier because they can be explanatory / useful features, rather than trying to re-invent a wheel that isn't a wheel and getting your head wrapped into a pretzel on meta design issues!

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"Synology Note Station appears to be a proprietary multi-text and even multimedia (image, video and audio) scrapbooking and note-taking system which is locked-in to only run on Synology NAS devices."

Can you help us with a basic note? I don't even know what a Synology NAS device is!

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I'm getting a message not compatible with my version of Pale Moon.

Try Resurrect Pages if the page you're visiting has died.
 (see attachment in previous post)

No, the server is there, but the addon is "not compatible" with my version of Firefox and won't install.

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I'm getting a message not compatible with my version of Pale Moon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 23, 2015, 09:41 PM »
Maybe we could consider whether it might be useful and worthwhile pooling our collective knowledge of computerised project management tools and training in same, and documenting it somehow in this site?
However, I'm not sure whether - in that way - expanding the scope of purpose for this site would necessarily be a good idea.

I don't know either. That sounds like a ... project!
Sometimes the quick tips address specific little needs. You seem to be worried about scope creep on those, but I'm also not sure where the middle grounds are between "too many little disjointed tips" and "let's make a 50 page manual".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 23, 2015, 06:54 PM »
The key question here is: are the horrible fonts introduced in office 2013 (not cleartype, but whatever new B/W tech they are using now) the default for more apps in the OS? If so, I'm out. I'm only tolerating windows thanks to mactype, an ancient, unsuported app that fixes fonts for good.

Quick guess is even if they are, if it's just fonts, there could be a way to load your own fonts and then use a utility to make them default and global and stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 23, 2015, 06:53 PM »
I find this kind of advice interesting, based on the small similarities I once encountered similar to his situation, but it depends if you get an incoming file already in project format and if his bosses need some kind of "killer feature" only available in MS - P.

Sure, but aside the killer feature scenario, software like RationalPlan can import/export MS Project file format.

Perfect crisp tip!

I wonder what that could have meant to me back in the day when I had my whatever-it-was assignment!
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