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Living Room / Japanese (?) character readers - please tell me what my sake mug set says!

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 07:46 PM »

please help me solve this mystery.  i have a sake set and all around the main container and the little cups are writings.
i'd love to know what they say.  so many characters!!
i am assuming it's japanese but could be chinese -- correct me if i'm wrong!






NOTE: I attached 4 images since the text is repeated 4 times around the containers, but i see the characters are just repeated 4 times.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 06:39 PM »

How strange..
And if you go to those clips in the main window, and select one of them, do you see the _________ anywhere?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 02:37 PM »

Can you check this for me: Go to "Clipboard" tab of options, and look in the "Clip Naming (OPTIONAL)" field, and see if it's blank or has __________ in it.
And maybe give me a screenshot of the "Quick Paste Pop-up Menu" option tab?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: Iconus - a Handy Dandy Quickie Icon Viewer

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 12:12 PM »

Looking good 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2015, 01:53 PM »

Shouldn't you be presenting this as your NANY 2016?

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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2015, 07:46 PM »

Nice new video talking about how to decide on which kind of controller:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2015, 07:39 AM »

  darn it. sorry

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2015, 05:27 PM »

awesome, will test and report.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Partition Wizard Pro 9.1 - Free for subscribing to Gizmo's newsletter

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2015, 01:53 PM »

For those people who stumble onto this thread and don't know about Gizmo's Freeware newsletter/website (here), it' may be the best, most trustworthy, most wonderful freeware site on the planet.

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas 2015 (Feliz Navidad 2015)

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2015, 01:32 PM »

to be honest i've been feeling really miserable/bleak/desolate/dismal/hopeless lately.. i don't really want to get into it, just a bunch of things going wrong and can't see a good way out but truthfully i really don't want to talk about it.
what i should have said is that photo represents how i want to feel -- glimpsing a different, if uncertain, future.

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas 2015 (Feliz Navidad 2015)

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2015, 01:09 PM »

Happy Holidays to all.

(not my photo but it sums up how i feel)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2015, 12:32 PM »

Thanks IainB and 4wd 

Since I am a right-click person, I used 4wd's solution, and it worked like a charm (after I changed my security policy to run powershell scripts, see here; I opened console, typed "powershell" to start a powershell console, then typed "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned").

Works great, thank you! 


ps. This is just fine for me -- I was going to suggest baking up an installer and sharing it as a NANY app, but unfortunately the need to do this esoteric step of adding a security exception to allow powershell scripts to run does pose a bit of a problem in terms of making this more widely available to other folks

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Living Room / Re: help with data matching

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 09:32 PM »

You could think of the process in terms of two stages
1. Assign a score to every given pair of items (one from each datafile), where the score represents the likelyhood that they are matching entries (refer to same user).
2. Now for each item in dataset A you can identify its most likely (or top few) potential matches, and let a human make the final judgement.

Doesn't seem like its ever going to be possible to do this without human intervention at some point, but you could probably do a pretty good job of identifying good candidates and keeping false positives to a small number.

Now as for scoring algorithm,  i'm thinking the best approach would probably be to treat each entry as a single string, and use an existing algorithm that finds longest substrings in common.   something like that.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 09:27 PM »

fun!!!!!

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Post New Requests Here / Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 09:06 PM »

One thing I frequently do in my file explorer is right-click a file (zip file for example), and rename it to add the current date (MMDDYY).
It would be nice to have a right-click context menu extension to do this.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 01:17 PM »

I bought some of these window air conditioner "drip cushions" and they make a real difference in cutting down the annoying loud sounds when it rains on my window air conditioners.
They are just foam mounted on magnetic sheet; you just cut them to size and lay them on top.  No idea how long they will last, i'm guessing the sun will break down the foam over the course of a year or two..
Still, highly recommended if you have window air conditioners like me.


http://www.amazon.co...p/product/B008BOXEXC

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Find And Run Robot / Re: run FindAndRunRobot from command line ?

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 12:48 PM »

the main question is, what do you want FARR to do when you run that.
if what you want is farr to open up and display the results of that search, then yes you can.  see the commandline usage help page.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Intermittent BrowserTraySwitch (BTS) startup problems.

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2015, 11:54 AM »

hmm, let me look at the code and report -- it's been a while since i've messed with BTS.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARRCloneWithDatestamp -- FARR helper tool to make datestamped copy of a file

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2015, 01:12 PM »

Thank you for sharing this Nod5, 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARRCloseSelProc -- FARR helper tool closes process matching selected filename

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2015, 01:11 PM »

Awesome, thanks for sharing!! 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Spurious error or undocumented feature in CHS?

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2015, 08:38 AM »

That's a bug!  CHS does not (yet) save the full RTF text formatting in clips, so it should be clearing all such formatting before saving it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How do I save to Clipboard as a file from the edit screen?

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2015, 08:39 PM »

There is no direct way to do this, it's an interesting question though..
The fastest way to currently do what you want would be:
1. Select region, choose crop, then Save+ to save the cropped image as new screenhot with autoname, then copy image to clipboard.
OR
2. Select region, choose "Save selected region to new file", then select that new file and copy to clipboard.

It might make sense for me to add a new menu item in Edit menu copy to clipboard that said "Copy selected region to clipboard as bitmap"

But that wouldn't exactly answer your question if you need the region copied to clipboard as a FILE.

Thoughts?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Pledge: PINCode Grapher

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2015, 05:34 AM »

cute idea.  i wonder if you could add other things to help remembering, like some kind of mnemonic image on top of each bar, related to the number word.

like:

zero -> zebra
one -> ox
etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Low Audio Levels

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2015, 04:36 AM »

"Loudness Equalization" (see here) attempts to make quiet sounds louder and loud sounds quieter.
My advice would be disable this feature while you are trying to tweak and understand your system.

Can't help with the other questions.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2015, 03:25 AM »

I don't know, it is a gadget that some might appreciate 
Though it would be easier to judge if its spam if this wasn't the poster's first post