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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 10:30 AM »

Sorry, I should have been clearer initially:
I meant one for the language - spelling, punctuation, use of hyphenation as you mentioned, etc, etc.
(I presume the Smashwords style guide covers that too.)

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 09:40 AM »

(I havent been following the thread lately so sorry if I missed anything:)

do you have/use a style sheet (Style guide) ?

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 07:12 AM »

Okay, maybe I made a mistake -
maybe I should not have replied after you said:

Start a thread in the Basement to continue if you like.

-Renegade (July 17, 2013, 11:35 AM)

- that was good advice

I would have thought though, that if you disagreed with the content of the article, that you could say that here. In this thread. All of this about the site - while I can very much relate to it, and find it nice and juicy - and sure, it gives us context - but it's irrelevant in terms of rebutting the content of the article.
What you're doing doesnt seem to me that different from someone looking at, say, a libertarian site, and saying - oh, look, they're libertarians - everything they say is dodgy biased propoganda.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft responds to NSA allegations

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 06:22 AM »

^thanks for the translation Vurbal
that helped a lot

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General Software Discussion / Re: FileNanny

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 06:21 AM »

dunno if the one above (linked by cmpm) is the sme as dc member ak_'s FileNanny:
http://ak.dcmembers.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Shadow Defender Giveaway Today only

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 05:19 AM »

Sounds good. [edit] according to FB page, the giveaway is now over [/edit]

From the website:

Shadow Defender is an easy-to-use security solution (for Windows operating systems) that protects your PC/laptop real environment against malicious activities and unwanted changes.

Shadow Defender can run your system in a virtual environment called 'Shadow Mode'. 'Shadow Mode' redirects each system change to a virtual environment with no change to your real environment. If you experience malicious activities and/or unwanted changes, perform a reboot to restore your system back to its original state, as if nothing happened.

With Shadow Defender, you have the flexibility to specify which files and folders are permanently saved to the real environment. This ensures important files and folders are kept after a reboot.

and on dc:

Actually, Shadow Defender is NOT a backup or an imaging tool : it's a software like Returnil or Microsoft Steady State : you can activate it, perform some tasks like installing and testing some software, driver update, etc.  At reboot, all changes are lost as if you never performed these tasks.  But if your HDD gets physically damaged, you will not be able to do anything without a real backup or image.

-MerleOne (January 14, 2010, 03:05 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Sky Deutschland to broadcast adverts directly into train passengers' heads

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2013, 04:57 AM »

Random thoughts:

You may never fall asleep again in a train

"Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows. Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No one else can hear this message."

-
Can you imagine someone who's a bit mentally unstable leaning up against the window, hearing voices and flipping out...

It being Sky Deutschland, I presume by "trains" they mean Deutsche Bahn. It's not clear have they agreed to this (but it does sound like a done deal). I can imagine if it does happen, that the little transmitter will have to be well hidden, otherwise it will be a target of annoyed commuters, bored youth, and of course, anarchists.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2013, 12:01 PM »

^well, if someone coming from - we could call it "that point of view" -
if they think that:

1) a jury might aquit him
2) the public are alienated, and dubious about NSA, secrecy, government even

I dont see why I should disagree

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Developer's Corner / Re: In the WTF department: F*** off as a service

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2013, 11:33 AM »

  this is fun
 
http://foaas.herokuapp.com/donut/Tom/Tom

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2013, 11:24 AM »

Do I need to elaborate? Probably a bit. (I'll keep it short.)

-Renegade (July 17, 2013, 10:57 AM)

lol no you dont -
actually you've made a good and valid point - and one that I agree with.
But:
although the article is written from a conservative perspective, I dont think that affects the validity of it's content.

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

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2013, 04:37 PM »

This is actually a useful infographic, but it's done with some humor, so I think perhaps it qualifies for this thread.

How to live/interact with an introvert:
 (see attachment in previous post)
Source: DeviantArt.

-Deozaan (July 16, 2013, 12:48 PM)

that was an interesting viewpoint, and helpful advice.
I've actually used that approach fairly successfully when meeting independent-minded children - or cats, for the first time.

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Living Room / Re: digitising slides

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2013, 04:31 PM »

^I think you often wont get the dust off the negatives/slides without damaging them, or worse again, the dust/scratches are part of the image itself.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixed size window, in center of screen

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2013, 03:00 PM »

There are programmes that do the following:
say you have 200 photos of a person, they will 'center' the eyes in the same place in each image. I think they also resize image so face is the same. It's *possible* that you could use one of these programmes for your needs.

but what are they called ... anyone?
I believe (dc member) Perry Mowbray used something like that for one of his recent videos (?)
I gotta head here so hopefully someone else can expand on that

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Living Room / Re: Off-brand li-ion camera batteries - personal experiences/recommendations, please

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2013, 10:12 AM »

I got batteries on ebay for two different olympus cameras - from 3 different suppliers/manufacturers over the years. My experiences have been good, but I havent gotten anything in a long while - so cannot recommend any supplier. I went sort of intuitively I guess, and avoided the very cheapest offers.

Today I'd probably do as mouser suggests - check the reviews.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixed size window, in center of screen

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2013, 09:57 AM »

I could capture the whole screen (2560 x 1600) but how would I edit it down to 1024 x 768 with the chosen spot dead center?

-morganmd2 (July 14, 2013, 07:57 PM)

Most any batch resizer could do this for shots in a specific folder.
FastStone
http://faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
or others.

-cmpm (July 15, 2013, 03:49 AM)

I believe they wanted to crop to a particular part of the screen - *not* resize.

I'm not sure of the emphasis on the centre point - if it's always 1024x768 in the same location, any particular points - e.g. lop-left or bottom-right - are always going to stay in the same place.

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Living Room / Re: This Just in: From the You Gotta be Shitting Me Dept.

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2013, 01:46 PM »

...This is quite likely one of the fondest memories I have.

-Stoic Joker (July 14, 2013, 12:59 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Computers Outlawed in Florida

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2013, 12:17 PM »

It's hard to credit - hopefully if it's such a cockup, it will be (simply) repealed....

The internet cafe thing was mentioned/discussed a while back in a thread that was since moved to the basement (for other reasons) -

Customer stops stick-up at Ocala Internet cafe (Granddad Says Hell No!):

-Stoic Joker (July 17, 2012, 06:48 AM)

Superb. But then, a bit later, the narrator says that police have been trying to close down these Internet cafés because:

"...there's money there"

- or something.
What? That's some kind of reverse logic, right there.

-IainB (July 17, 2012, 10:51 AM)

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Living Room / Re: This Just in: From the You Gotta be Shitting Me Dept.

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2013, 12:05 PM »

Ever wonder what'll happen if you throw a car on reverse at 50 mph???

-Stoic Joker (July 12, 2013, 06:57 PM)

Ouch
and yes, LOL

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Living Room / Re: "Cool" Möbius

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2013, 02:37 PM »

I saw a similar video a while back - I *think* it was posted here on dc, and I *think* it used the same principles, but not sure.
Anyone else remember?

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Living Room / Re: "Cool" Möbius

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2013, 09:34 AM »

yes, very 'cool'   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Hot key

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2013, 09:03 AM »

you posted in "Clipboard Help+Spell" board, but you mention the print screen key so, I presume you are talking about Screenshot Captor(?)

> maybe you know how  get a list of all the hotkeys already in use
try Tranglos's Ethervane ActiveHotkeys -
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18189.0

Re the Winkey - I presume you tick it when you want to use the Winkey in your hotkey combination (I've never tried it myself though).

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2013, 08:32 AM »

You can add more sugar at the bottling stage, but depending on how much you've added blah blah blah, you could risk exploding bottles.

This has never happened to me, but during secondary fermentation (the 2 week period), you should store the bottles somewhere safe as they *could* explode in a "less-terrorist" but more messy kind of way.

-Renegade (July 12, 2013, 07:59 AM)

I wonder - with say, 200gr sugar, would the initial fermentation period not need to be longer (in order to avoid the exploding bottles part)?
Or does the yeast die after a certain period without air? (i.e. after having being bottled)
To be on the safe side use heavier bottles (e.g. as you recommend, beer bottles intended for resuse).

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by tomos on July 11, 2013, 04:09 PM »

How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with Police Militarization Expert Radley Balko

7 Ways The Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization

-wraith808 (July 10, 2013, 03:52 PM)

pretty depressing reading...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: screenshot captor

« Last post by tomos on July 11, 2013, 04:04 PM »

I have had problems with certain types of video in the past (not sure off-hand what it was).
Just got a couple of shots from a full screen youtube video without problem.
What were you trying to record?

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Living Room / Re: Possibly the ultimate $21,000 computer desk/chair combo?

« Last post by tomos on July 11, 2013, 04:48 AM »

This chair would still kill you in the (not very) long run. For this kind of money they should have built in a treadmill and a stationary bike at least...

-dr_andus (July 11, 2013, 04:27 AM)

it's impossible to say for definite from a photo, but it looks like the chair would push your head forward and down a lot.
Re health,
there is the option of learning to sit well without support (e.g. à la Gokhale with more further down the same thread).

Mind you, even with that, I've been doing anything lately rather than sit at a desk all day.