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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: How do we stop using folder Documents\DonationCoder\Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on August 25, 2016, 05:20 AM »

Edit the file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell\ConfigDir.ini" and specify the custom directory where you wish all CHS settings and data to be stored (don't forget to remove the // at the start of the line).

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Living Room / Re: laptop blacks out when starting Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2016, 09:32 PM »

My memory is that some antivirus tools can cause those problems when they block CHS from saving it's database.
One possible solution is to add an exception to ClipboardHelpAndSpell.exe to your security software.
Another might be to go to the Tweaks tab and change the "Temporary DB file location" setting and restart the program.

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Living Room / Re: Anybody on DC own an RV/Campervan, or completed a conversion?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2016, 02:32 PM »

I hear your logic but my brain heuristics tell me it doesn't compute.  I could be wrong but my guess is you are underestimating costs and troubles of actually building this, and overestimating how expensive it would be to buy something reasonable used.  My advice, keep enjoying planning it and keep looking for a used one to buy.

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Living Room / Re: Anybody on DC own an RV/Campervan, or completed a conversion?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2016, 11:38 AM »

I don't want to be the negative downer person, but I feel the need to add my 2 cents on one issue here.

There is immeasurable value and learning and satisfaction that comes from building something like this yourself.  But if there was ever a day where you could build something like this yourself for anywhere close to the cost and quality of buying an existing one, in my view those days are long gone.

If you do try to build something like this yourself, you should go into it assuming that it will cost you an insane amount of hours for the privilege of spending 2 or 3 times the price you would be able to buy an equivalent well maintained one used.

just my 2 cents -- not trying to dissuade you from the project just making sure you go into it eyes wide open.

i know from personal experience how satisfying it is to make your own piece of furniture, but also how wildly expensive it is these days to pay for that pleasure, both in time and money.

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Living Room / Re: Guide to Living with Introverts

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2016, 12:28 PM »

Let me add a piece that I think is missing from this picture of introversion.  Speaking for myself I have found that "unstructured" socialization can be extremely painful -- things like just sitting around at a dinner party talking to one another about random things.  Whereas structured social activities (board games) are quite fun.  I don't know if that's true for all introverts, so your mileage may vary.

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Living Room / Guide to Living with Introverts

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2016, 12:24 PM »

Nice little cartoon guide to living with Introverts.
It uses an analogy I've seen before, describing extroverts as being recharged by social interaction vs introverts as having to spend energy to engage in social interactions -- which rings true to me (though I don't think it's the whole story).

http://romanjones.de...-Printable-320818879



From http://www.neatorama.com/

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2016, 01:09 PM »

Skunks are friendly.. Cyclist has a lucky encounter with a family of skunks:

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Living Room / TV recommendation: Born This Way

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2016, 06:02 PM »

I'd like to recommend a two-season reality tv show on A+E network called "Born This Way":

http://www.aetv.com/shows/born-this-way

It's a show that focuses on the lives and struggles and achievements of a group of young people with Down Syndrome, and their parents.

Quite uplifting while not sugar coating things.  Highly recommended.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2016, 11:22 PM »

Mom Leaves Incredibly Detailed Parenting Instructions for Her Weekend Away From Home

http://www.pleated-j...kend-away-from-home/

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2016, 03:25 PM »

RetroFloppy folks responded to an email right away, and will try to read both of my disks and make contents available for me to download for $20.  Very fair.  I'm sending my disks to them. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: epCheck opening program issue ?

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2016, 02:32 PM »

Or it might assume the current directory- if so, you want to create a directory for the application, and put a shortcut on your desktop.

i believe this is the case.  So find another directory for the program to live.

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2016, 12:58 PM »

Great find Mark0, that looks like exactly what I need and very reasonable price. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The large amount of memory

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2016, 11:55 AM »

What 4wd suggested sounds like the best advice to me.. Use SC along one dimension to make very tall (or wide) stitched screenshots of a "manageable" size, and then you can stitch several of these together if you truly need a ginormous single image.

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2016, 11:18 PM »

Anyone else in the US have a working dos machine with a 5.25 floppy that I could send 2 disks to for extraction?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The large amount of memory

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2016, 09:38 AM »

As you surmised, SC will not be able to use 10gb of memory for the images, and will probably top out at 2-4 gb.

Have you considered whether you really want to stitch together all of these images into one giant 10gb image, or whether it might be preferable to just have a large number of appropriately named separate screen sized images?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The large amount of memory

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2016, 08:46 AM »

Im not sure what you are wanting to do.. Can you explain more about the task you wish to accomplish?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Signature

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2016, 06:58 AM »

Yep, do that already
Even when signatures and other items are not shown, moderators get emails when people change their profile or edit an old post and try to sneak in a link (which could otherwise be pretty effective way of inserting spam).  The emails include a score indicating how suspicious the edit/signature/profilechange is

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launch History

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2016, 06:42 PM »

The location of the files on networked drives is the most likely cause of the problem.
Look for the option on "Search Behavior" tab for "Do not add network drive paths to launch history" and maybe "Remove missing items from history".  Try unchecking those and see if behavior changes.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR No Longer Showing Result for a Specific File; due to Ignore Item In Future?

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2016, 03:51 PM »

Go to the options and find "Pattern Scoring" tab.  That lists all the scoring rules, with your newly added ones at the bottom.
When you choose to ignore an item in the future, it's done by adding a pattern scoring rule here with a large negative score.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Signature

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2016, 03:47 PM »

I was wondering if the reason for the non-useful posts was to get past the threshold to post links in their sig?

i doubt they are thinking that cleverly, they are probably just posting to old threads in hopes of sticking their links/signature where people won't notice.  But we have a good community hear and such posts never survive a day without being reported

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Signature

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2016, 02:26 PM »

I have updated the forum code so signature (and similar linkable fields) will not be displayed until a member has been registered for 3 or more days.
The only downside is that it may make it harder to spot spammers.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Links in Signature

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2016, 01:42 PM »

There are rules in place that won't show someone's signature at all until they have made 5 or so posts, although it will let them put on in.

While this does mean that you'll sometimes briefly see a signature with links for a new user who has only been here a day who is posting a lot, this is an almost sure sign they are a spammer, so it's useful for finding them.

What I could do though, is add a one week delay so you won't see signature spam by brand new users.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR feedback/first impressions

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2016, 02:23 PM »

I appreciate the post -- your explanations are clear and compelling -- and I have to say when I hear about people who want to switch to one of my apps but find features missing, it catches my attention.

Let me try to address your issues:

1. Control panel without typing alias keyword "cpanel" first.
It's definitely nice to have the "cpanel" alias because you can see all the control panel items at once in an immediate list without any searching.
But I can see how you might not want to have to type cpanel first.  There are two ways around this: First you could create your own subdirectory of shortcuts to control panel items, and then just add this subdirectory to farr search path.  Second, you could make custom aliases for your most common control panel shortcuts.
Having said that, it's not a crazy idea for me to add a feature that says for any given alias (like cpanel), always consider it as a candidate for searching when the user searches for anything.  I will consider that.

2. Farr doesn't memorize searches just results.
Yes, this is something I should probably add.. I may try to bump it up in my priority list and get it done sooner rather than later.  Note that there are a nice little ctrl+up and ctrl+down shortcuts as well as the "historys" command to actually browse the list of previous searches.  But as i understand this request, it's to remember that when you last typed "firef" you ended up launching firefox, so if you type "firef" again, firefox should be an immediate top results.

3. Problem with searching using diacriticals.
Unfortunately this is a more fundamental issue with farr not supporting unicode.  Without unicode, some keyboard layouts will allow diacriticals some won't.  I'm afraid the move to unicode farr won't be happening anytime soon, so that may be a deal breaker for some.

4. Passing parameters to arbitrary file launches.
You can actually do this.  See the help page titles "Passing commandline parameters/arguments": "You can now pass commandline arguments to any launched program by typing "++ any args here" at the end of your search string. For example 'ping.exe ++ donationcoder.com -n 2'"  This will work on both arbitrary file find results, and on alias results.  See the help page for more info.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR search Chrome bookmarks?

« Last post by mouser on August 12, 2016, 06:14 PM »

I'll have a look.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR search Chrome bookmarks?

« Last post by mouser on August 12, 2016, 04:32 PM »

well you could ask farr to search that directory, but i guess what i meant was to save them in a format that was text friendly for searching...
but if its standard json, i could update my farrfox addon to search them.