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Since there was no link to MinimOther in your post I googled and found that
a) it's by skrommel!  8)
b) lifehacker reported about it too! http://lifehacker.co...ndow-with-minimother - interesting comments.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: All Startup Programs Have Been Started
« Last post by brotherS on April 24, 2008, 11:15 AM »
I searched to see if this had already been requested and didn't see it.  Basically something to notify the user that all startup programs have been completed (or started).  This would allow people with a lot of startup programs (everybody?) to know when they can really start using their computer after bootup.  There could be a popup that says "All startup programs have been initiated" with a timeout or maybe a tray icon that shows yellow while programs are starting and green when they are complete (or all started).

A check for 'completeness' is not even possible (some programs have a built-in delay that a 3rd party program knows nothing about), but you could use Startup Delayer (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1399.0) to see when everything is launched (and delay entries for optimized performance). There's a graphic indicator on your desktop while it's delaying stuff so you see when everything had been started.

Try it. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: ripping a streamed news show to HD?
« Last post by brotherS on April 16, 2008, 03:15 PM »
have you tried URL Snooper? btw, i presume that the HD stands for "hard-disk" not "high definition". :)
No, I did not try it, because their interface looks so elaborate that I doubt I will get some kind of result I can do anything with... 8)

And yes, you presumed correctly. ;)
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I'm a bit of a neat freak always smilingly-nagging at my wife [...]

If you'd ask her she'd probably tell you she's noticing your nagging more than your smiling. :-[


@app103:  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 15, 2008, 03:38 PM »
if you're going around glowing with "happiness" all the time - I dunno :-\

Actually, quite a few people think happiness and a feeling of inner peace would be boring, they think that they need drama and suffering to keep life interesting.

Having experienced both, I can say that's a wrong assumption of people who only really experienced the latter.
:)
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http://www.amazon.co...ed-Fly/dp/0316114758

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

Is your workspace a complex but personal jumble of information, data, and stuff? Is your home a comfortable space that has some black holes of organization? Then you may be on the track to greater productivity, creativity, and happiness, according to the authors. Reader David Freedman makes this a friendly listen as the authors reveal such details as the possibility that the discovery of penicillin would not have occurred if the lab had not been a mess.

If you believe that being very organized is always best, you will be shocked when you read this book. You'll discover that there is little to no research proving that you save time by plannig your day, but that there is extensive research showing that you can lose a lot of time by over-planning your day.

Really interesting!
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 15, 2008, 11:31 AM »
Right on, you both have a point there. :)
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 15, 2008, 09:20 AM »
When questioned, people - on average - have a happiness level of about 80. So that peak around 80 in the results here makes total sense.

What surprises me a bit is that quite a few folks who voted here are not just not "very happy" but REALLY unhappy.
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Just got the Codex email update about the Head Dart (Spartan Joy specification) - cool!  :D
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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?
« Last post by brotherS on April 09, 2008, 08:36 AM »
I do, though, like most people in the west, own too much stuff.  I dont mean I am a packrat - I'm atually quite good at getting rid of stuff. I dont mean I am anything like those people on TV, house looks nice and tidy, not cluttered. But I still have a lot more stuff than I need. So much stuff it weighs me down, so I have started clearing down.

I agree, and I want to throw more stuff out too. What you wrote reminds me of two quotes:

"Neat and organized are not the same thing."
-- David Allen, author of Getting Things Done

"The things you own end up owning you."
-- Tyler Durden in Fight Club


I did read a book a day for a while and as a result I own 1500 books (counting cookbooks and comics and stuff). That is not a collection to me because I do not seek any kind of coverage or completeness or topic or anything

Speed reading? I imagine I could read a comic or cookbook a day, but some 300 pages of information? No way! :D
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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?
« Last post by brotherS on April 09, 2008, 08:13 AM »
Knives are natural collector items, given the art (and tech) that goes into them. I've known some custom designers who have spent a year making one knife! I also knew a guy who collected everything that Apple ever sold. He had a high-paying job and could afford it, but his house was useless because he had entire rooms filled from floor to ceiling with Apple hardware devices. What a waste of cash.
Err, yeah, I wouldn't do that. On the other hand: if everyone would stop wasting cash, whole economies and industries would collapse.
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Fixed. Many thanks to allen!
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Living Room / Re: Do you collect anything?
« Last post by brotherS on April 08, 2008, 03:21 PM »
Another interesting topic :)

I used to collect some physcial items, these days it's more virtual. Nothing obsessive. And yes, I still 'collect' books, but not in a way to get to a complete collection of something (say all German philosophers of the last 2 centuries), but to learn what I like to learn more about.

"Who we become are the people we hang out with and the books that we read."
-- Author unknown

"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book."
-- Jim Rohn
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Hi,

I need someone to make a few changes to my WordPress contact page form. Anyone here able and willing to do that? I don't mind sending you a few $ for it.
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 07, 2008, 03:29 AM »
What a difficult thing to calculate . . . where's the "I don't know" option?  :P
If it stresses you, calculate it into your vote.  ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linspire Inc. (Rant) [Explicit Language]
« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2008, 03:59 PM »
I also suggest you use iphigenie's idea.

Getting all worked up around this only harms your health. I'm - since last year - trying to get company A to send me invoices for their services. They auto-collect the money just fine, they suddenly just weren't sending me any more invoices (with the details of what was billed). Company B failed to send me the promised adapter (whch wasn't delivered with the original shipping), which left me with a piece of hardware I can't put to use. It's seems to be a special kind of adapter because I couldn't get the right one myself.

I contacted both companies several times, but to no avail so far. Do I like the result? No. Do I get angry and does it reduce my happiness? No. Life happens.
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 03:28 PM »
BrotherS, I had cancer when I was a younger man. So I know from my own experience. 

What I was saying that %90 of people on earth have alot of reasons to be happy or emotionally steady during a day. Happiness is one of the feelings humans experience. We do have more complex emotions that cannot be explained as just simple happiness.

 I am generally against the idea of pursuing happiness as a goal of life. Because most end up as dumb consumers during that path.

OK, then you are against pursuing happiness for that reason, but agree that true happiness is a good place to be?

Because in my opinion you can only have it if you handled those "more complex emotions" that you mentioned accordingly. And if you consume to become happy... well, I think we all agree that that's not happiness.
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 02:30 PM »
Happiness should not be the purpose of life. To me one can be happy without being happy really.

I'm not sure I totally understand what you mean...

Being thankful can make everyone happy in life unless you suffer from serious health conditions where being thankful is not enough anymore. So i am at %100 constantly

Sure, being thankful for 'the good stuff' that you have helps. What's even more fascinating (to me) are people who get cancer or lose their legs and find even more happiness in their life through that.

"What if I prefer to be sad instead of feeling good?"
"Go ahead, do whatever makes you happy!"

Everything we do we do to feel better (and "less bad" is better too), even if it's sometimes not obvious.
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Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 02:20 PM »
being 100% happy might be like getting a perfect score when playing a videogame on beginner setting.. solution is to hit the Reset switch and start over on "Normal" difficulty level :)

... and what's REALLY cool is when you then try it again on "Hard" and finally manage to get high 'scores'! :)
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Living Room / Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 09:50 AM »
Fascinating! :o  :up:

Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to the user. On a standard Canon, for example, the fastest shutter speed option offered is 1/1,600 second, but the hardware can handle much more than that -- up to 1/60,000 of a second.

CHDK, the Canon Hacker's Development Kit, is an open-source software project that can be loaded on cameras using Canon's DIGIC II or DIGIC III firmware platforms. [...]

http://howto.wired.c...Source_CHDK_Firmware
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Living Room / Re: Cylon Mania Blazes Back in Battlestar Galactica
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 07:30 AM »
I wonder how many percent of WIRED readers 'got it'. ;D
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Living Room / Your happiness right now
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 06:12 AM »
Let's see! :)
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Living Room / Cylon Mania Blazes Back in Battlestar Galactica
« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2008, 06:05 AM »
By lucky accident I stumbled upon this article: http://www.wired.com...2008/04/bsg_preview#

Great picture! And yes, if it reminds you of something else, you could be right. 8)


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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by brotherS on April 03, 2008, 02:58 PM »
Thanks for the review!

I thought about using/trying TiddlyWiki a few times - but didn't yet - and won't use/test WikidPad any time soon, but it's great to know what to expect.

For the time being, I'm using .txt files that I can easily find with Locate (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1385.0) and MindMaps for developing connected thoughts.
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General Software Discussion / Re: WordPress / online WYSIWYG html editor?
« Last post by brotherS on March 31, 2008, 02:15 PM »
Ah, the wonders of html! :D

Your code is interpreted looking less like I want it to look, so I'll stick with the <cr> - but thanks for the inspiration, might come in handy later.
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