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Living Room / Re: How long do hard drives actually live for?

« Last post by Target on May 20, 2014, 08:37 PM »

I'm no expert here but unless it's extreme I suspect temperature isn't necessarily a good measure.

obviously it needs to be monitored but I was always of the understanding that it was the hot/cold cycle that does the damage, so using a data centre where everything runs at a pretty steady rate 24/7 isn't going to give you a good comparison (unless perhaps you're looking to build a data centre )

And while there are going to be natural variations between components (see the graph in the previous post) I would assume a higher but steady temp in a stable system was 'acceptable' unless it was extreme.  Sudden spikes or significant increases over time would be cause for concern, otherwise...

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General Software Discussion / Re: 4 (Maybe more) Absolute top go-to programs

« Last post by Target on May 13, 2014, 06:59 PM »

Heh wow this is turning into an awesome thread! There's some *forty* programs combined of which each is part of someone's list of four(ish) super must have programs!

-TaoPhoenix (May 13, 2014, 05:55 PM)

what this thread needs is for someone to consolidate the list into something that's readily accessible/digestible, something like...

• program 1 (10 votes)
• program 2 (9 votes)
• program 3 (6 votes)
• etc...

the ideal would be for Tao to edit his first post to incorporate the 'results' (hint hint...)

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by Target on May 08, 2014, 07:43 PM »

That reminds me of being stuck in a doctor's office with a loud tv set; it's possibly justifiable when there are others present, but not when I'm the only one in the waiting room.  At times like that, I find myself wishing I had a universal tv remote control hidden in my shoulder bag.

-bit (May 08, 2014, 07:08 PM)

google for TV-B-gone...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them

« Last post by Target on May 08, 2014, 03:14 PM »

right now it cuts by nnn characters
is it possible to make it cut back TO nnn characters instead?

should be possible, though there is a likelyhood that you'll end up with nonsense filenames.  And what do we do where the path is the offending portion of the string (eg path lengths of 175+ characters)? 

is it possible to make this as a plug-in for Directory Opus (or work as a toolbar button)

I don't use dopus so I can't help with this, but plenty here do so someone else may be able to advise

is it possible to add this to shell:sendto context menu.
meaning:
I would select a number of files, then select context menu "Maim The File" - and 'send' the files to Main The File so they are then cut back as per settings saved in Maim The File.

possibly... it could certainly be added to the context menu, but what you're asking for is more of a batch operation which is something I'll have to look into...

(Maim - what does this stand for?)

to maim is to injure such that a permanent disfigurement results.  It was a play on words given the potential for damage when renaming files

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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

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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?)

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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

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

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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)

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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)



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

There's also a book - Predictably Irrational.  Note that I'm not affiliated with either the author or the publisher in anyway

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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

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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...

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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 

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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!

-Renegade (March 20, 2014, 11:42 AM)

that's not a given, there could just be 2 of you now

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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

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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



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

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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?

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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

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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