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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Target on April 16, 2014, 12:40 AM »
Or in case of Photoshop, should that not .giffed children?
-Shades (April 15, 2014, 10:30 PM)

DOH!!  I feel like I've just been png'ed :huh:
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Target on April 15, 2014, 08:02 PM »
That's funny. But could be considered a photoshop fail. Look at the book's spine. (c:
-Deozaan (April 15, 2014, 07:10 PM)

ahhh, but is that proof of a photoshop fail, or that the method doesn't work?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Windows desktop productivity tool
« Last post by Target on April 14, 2014, 02:02 AM »
curious to know how many files we're talking here as well (10, 100, 1000?)
479
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Windows desktop productivity tool
« Last post by Target on April 13, 2014, 10:15 PM »
but at least we've ruled a couple of things out :Thmbsup:

can we assume that you want something like the fences functionality, ie separating and confining the folder icons to a certain area of the desktop?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Windows desktop productivity tool
« Last post by Target on April 13, 2014, 07:53 PM »
what about soemthing like fences?

2 different versions that I know of

Stardock Fences, or

Tago Fences
481
General Software Discussion / Re: Working with excel row and columns
« Last post by Target on April 07, 2014, 09:25 PM »
it's not exactly transposing (that was my first thought)

and the transpose formula is built in to both excel and libreoffice (no need for an addin)

FWIW here's a bit of VBA I found on the web that does what you want, though the output is to a delimited string (pretty sure you can work it out from there)

[Select]
Function MYVLOOKUP(lookupval, lookuprange As Range, indexcol As Long)
Dim r As Range
Dim result As String
result = ""
For Each r In lookuprange
    If r = lookupval Then
        result = result & "," & r.Offset(0, indexcol - 1)
    End If
Next r
MYVLOOKUP = Right(result, Len(result) - 1)
End Function

paste it into your (excel) personal macro workbook, then call it as a user defined function from the FX dialog box (syntax is the same as a normal VLOOKUP)

myvlookup.png

credit for the code goes here - http://www.mrexcel.c...ell-concatenate.html
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Living Room / Re: Once again, magically expensive items are only different in your mind
« Last post by Target on April 07, 2014, 06:50 PM »
seems like we might be hardwired to make those sort of decisions :-[

Dan Ariely on YouTube


Sure throws a spanner in the works of any value judgements you might be trying to make ;D ;D ;D

There's also a book - Predictably Irrational.  Note that I'm not affiliated with either the author or the publisher in anyway
483
General Software Discussion / Re: Nice blog post on the parasitic software hosting sites bundling junkware
« Last post by Target on April 01, 2014, 03:16 PM »
and there's nothing to say that they have to wrap/bundle the original install anyway.  Their 'installer' could just be a middleware (cr)app that calls the original installer from the parent site
484
Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by Target on March 27, 2014, 09:25 PM »
I'm a bit surprised this one hasn't gotten a guernsey yet - Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko

IMHO it's a good read and a great resource

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Target on March 27, 2014, 09:05 PM »
this might strike a chord with a some here...

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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on March 21, 2014, 03:01 AM »
at the risk of poking the snake with a stick, still seems like guilt by association to me.

as far as I can see all you've managed to do so far is paint TED black with someone elses deeds.

I'm not defending any of the parties here, I'm pretty sure we all know that many of the big commercial entities are far from paragons, but I've yet to hear anything that indicates that TED does anything other than provide a forum.

Is there an agenda there?  I have no idea, and given the breadth and depth of both subjects and presenters I'm guessing it would pretty hard to see anyway.

meh...
487
DC Gamer Club / Re: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
« Last post by Target on March 20, 2014, 03:23 PM »
I missed the chat about this, but i might be persuaded to participate if I knew what server you guys were using  :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on March 20, 2014, 03:16 PM »
See! I'm not a 100% raving mad lunatic! ;D
-Renegade (March 20, 2014, 11:42 AM)

that's not a given, there could just be 2 of you now :o
489
Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits
« Last post by Target on March 19, 2014, 03:37 AM »
For those interested in the Arduino, Little Bird Electronics have a Kickstarter project up.
-4wd (March 18, 2014, 07:29 PM)

are you going to back it?
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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on March 18, 2014, 05:20 PM »
so TED does something other than facilitate public forums on random topics?

then there's a certain irony in the latest (?) presentation

Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn’t we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury … could we help the brain re-grow morality?
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Coding Snacks / Re: Seeking autohotkey code to make input stop
« Last post by Target on March 18, 2014, 03:28 PM »
if it's not a folder you use often (and it's not a system folder of some sort) then a password protected archive (ZIP, 7Z, etc) would do the trick, ie move the folder into the archive and only extract it when you need it (updating the archive as needed of course)
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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on March 18, 2014, 03:22 PM »
so all this boils down to guilt by association?

TED is guilty because some of it's sponsors have questionable ethics or morals

Speakers (who are in fact guests) are guilty because they participate in a forum?

seems like it mightn't bode well for any of us :-\
493
Developer's Corner / On HTML...
« Last post by Target on March 17, 2014, 01:05 AM »
rather enjoyed this rant(?)

https://www.usenix.o...03_02-08_mickens.pdf
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Target on March 16, 2014, 09:53 PM »
I was most amused to get this error message this morning

Todays error.png

I'm not sure who administers travel between the universes, or what approvals I'm going to need, but I'm guessing it's not easy ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Utilities for an excel book
« Last post by Target on March 04, 2014, 07:59 PM »
so you're heading him off at the pass? ;D ;D ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Utilities for an excel book
« Last post by Target on March 04, 2014, 07:14 PM »
if you don't want the overhead of a(nother) addin here's a bit of vba code that will do the same thing

[Select]
Sub addlinks()
Dim rowno As Integer, i As Integer
rowno = 2

Worksheets.Add before:=Sheets(1)

For i = 2 To Worksheets.Count
    Sheets(1).Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=ActiveSheet.Cells(rowno, 2), Address:="", SubAddress:="'" & Sheets(i).Name & "'!A1", TextToDisplay:=Sheets(i).Name
    rowno = rowno + 1
Next i

End Sub
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Internet browser that for sure will browse?
« Last post by Target on March 03, 2014, 08:56 PM »
FWIW that wasn't necessarily a recommendation.  I've used both those browsers but far to briefly to make any sort of comment

be interested to see how it goes for you though  :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Internet browser that for sure will browse?
« Last post by Target on March 03, 2014, 06:12 PM »
what about avant or lunascape?

they apparently incorporate multiple engines...
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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on February 26, 2014, 12:26 AM »
Exactly.  Why it's upheld as a forum for exactly that (the cornucopia thing) is more and more beyond me.
-Edvard (February 26, 2014, 12:08 AM)

probably for the same reason that best sellers are, well, best sellers  ;)

I think that has more to do with the people who are 'extolling it's virtues' than it does to TED itself (perhaps it's a bit like the apple thing...)

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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks
« Last post by Target on February 25, 2014, 11:48 PM »
gotta say I think you're going at it all wrong - TED is not a cornucopia of ideas, solutions, or answers to all the worlds questions, it's just people talking.

In some cases they're peddling their political views or some thinly veiled advertisement, other the stories are exciting or inspiring (for any number of reasons). 

But they're just stories.  Take what you can use, and discard the rest
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