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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 08:14 AM »

None on your actual process... mine is different.  But I think that brings me to the point- I don't think that *anyone's* process is exactly the same, unless they're following someone else's.  That's the reason for the prevalence of GTD, Pomodoro, etc.  It's probably better to refine a process for you (especially since this is a personal need) and get people to help refine that in the software.  At least personally, I tend to do better with software when I can test it from a personal perspective.

Just my 

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 06:03 PM »

I was wondering... since there's no cow in that thread, just dinosaurs.  But then I go back to the official site and see one: http://www.admuncher.com/

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 04:26 PM »

One of the best threats ever

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 02:38 PM »

I don't care for Evernote, I use it but very sparsely. But boy did I lose data using Simplenote (using both Resophnotes and Cintanotes) or what. Apparently you don't have to be the size of an elephant to be bug ridden.

-paulobrabo (January 08, 2014, 02:13 PM)

And that was my point.  Thankfully, I use Dropbox with the combination, and so have been able to recover from those kinds of errors.  But they are/were definitely more serious than anything I've seen from Evernote.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 11:55 AM »

Well, whether or not Evernote users think there are bugs in Evernote, it looks as though the Evernote CEO thinks there are, and he's going to fix things. There's his very well-written response post to Kincaid's complaints on the Evernote blog.
Judging by a lot of the comments from self-confessed Internet users across the Internet on this, and by the CEO's post, this must all have been quietly festering for some time before Kincaid championed the cause.
It also seems - from @wraith808's comments above - that some users hadn't noticed or heard/read of anything to be concerned about.
As I wrote above:

Caveat emptor, it seems:

-IainB (January 04, 2014, 01:20 AM)

-IainB (January 08, 2014, 10:54 AM)

Of course there are bugs.  No one said there weren't- find me a piece of software that has no bugs and i'll show you software that has no users.

My point was that it is not a bug ridden elephant, and is not unusable.  And that the article is promoting FUD, and switching to other platforms that are just as buggy, if not more so.  I clearly state that. 

As far as the CEO's response, it is a PR spin put into place because of the pile on.  That should be clearly obvious.

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Community Giveaways / Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 06:43 PM »

For completing my renegade NaNoWriMo project, one of the items I received was a Scrivener coupon.  I already have it (used it during NaNoWriMo actually), so if you're a writer (and an active member of DC at my discretion) PM me, and the first one gets the coupon.  The coupon expires on the 30th.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Clipjump - Clipboard Manager

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 10:26 AM »

What would be really great would be if (say) @aviaryan and/or @mwb1100, or someone, were able to come up with a constructive approach to figuring a way around the apparent problem that something is inhibiting/blocking the downloading of the Clipjump program install for this user.

-IainB (January 06, 2014, 04:33 AM)

What would be helpful, it seems, would be if this user would perhaps delineate exactly what happened?  He gave you an alternative... but your snarky original post didn't seem to delineate your exact problem other than 'repeated hangs'.  Snark sometimes gets in the way of help.

Just an observation for future use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BrowserID - Mozilla's solution to the password problem

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 10:22 AM »

I like OpenID but I don’t get many chances to use it.

-J-Mac (January 07, 2014, 01:03 AM)

Large tech sites mostly allow a sign-in by OpenID, some board systems added that... well.

-Tuxman (January 07, 2014, 10:16 AM)

I don't know if you meant most, or that their implementation is shoddy.  If you meant the latter, well, on that I'd agree.

I ran my own bare openID provider endpoint on my own domain for years... and as time went on, more and more of them deviated from the bare specs to shoehorn the larger openID providers' requirements in.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 09:21 AM »

I was talking about the Low F# he hit (and sustained) more than anything else.  You can just barely hear it on substandard speakers being in the 44Hz range.  But, that's not even my favorite track of the competition from them... but that in and of itself is very impressive.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 08:25 AM »

^ Not exactly.

But that one is hopefully not restricted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BrowserID - Mozilla's solution to the password problem

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 08:19 AM »

And to be honest, OpenID isn't much better currently with regard to the number of sites using it, unfortunately. I like OpenID but I don’t get many chances to use it.

Jim

-J-Mac (January 07, 2014, 01:03 AM)

Bare openid seems to be going away.  I've had to change mine on every site that I formerly used it on.  Finally gave up and started using Google as my provider. *sigh*

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 09:30 PM »

Kung Fury!

-Deozaan (December 31, 2013, 06:07 PM)

There's actually a Kickstarter for that.  I kid you not.

5 Things I Learned as a Cop (That Movies Won't Show You)

Too much there to even find an appropriate quote...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 09:03 PM »

A Capella Group Home Free in the Finals...

1:13 is for our own 40hz... (never actually heard someone get to his note vocally before, even though he's about 44 hz (Low F#))  

But watch the whole thing

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Roundup Prep

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 08:21 PM »

Both are done and linked in their entries.

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 07:04 PM »

Well, not really reporting, as that's a search query string.  And yes to the flounder

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 04:38 PM »

^ well, *they* say it's fine.  But I wouldn't click it.  And agree with you on the humour.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 10:37 AM »

Yes, one could presume so. I guess you could check the several Evernote user forums/discussion boards for an answer.

-IainB (January 05, 2014, 02:05 AM)

I already follow and talk to a lot of people that use evernote- writers for the most part on writing boards and such- and that was the reason that I was surprised.  With the number of people using it for novels, blog posts, role-playing games, etc, if it was as bad as he made it seem, I'd have heard about it was my point.  If it was *that* endemic, I'd have probably run across it by now with the sheer amount of information I have in there.

Doing a bit more research, I came across a couple of other articles from someone that had a couple of other things to say in relating such things (and someone I trust a bit more from experience)

http://www.gottabemo...sues-in-mobile-tech/

http://www.gottabemo...plaints-but-not-all/

I can see where they'd be a bit perturbed - I don't use audio recording in Evernote, and that's apparently what the complaint was about.  But that open letter missive didn't make it seem as though it was just that feature that was pissing him off.  It seemed that it didn't do what it should at base - sync notes.  And the "cloud is falling mentality" by someone who is followed has people looking at abandoning ship to a service that I *know* has problems (even though I still use it; I just mitigate the problems by another method), SimpleNote.

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General Software Discussion / Re: It's about ... Vagrant (VM Web server)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 09:22 PM »

Looks pretty cool... but no, I haven't heard of it before this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloned software and licensing issues

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 07:56 PM »

I'm with app there.  A note if you believe their claims might give more visiblility to the possibility of the infringement.  But its not your place to do so.  Of course, whether I'd do it would depend on the wording of the request (any legalese at all, and I'd tell them to pound sand), and their communications.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Too many programs in my start menu!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 02:11 PM »

A Start Menu Organizer would work also.

I know of two:
http://www.winstep.n...artmenuorganizer.asp

http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml

I've made use of Tidy Start Menu several times, and love it enough that I purchased it.  I use other WinStep programs (Nexus mostly now), so you couldn't go wrong with either IMO.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 01:03 PM »

Ah... I didn't know if he was saying that he got it to work with nothing else.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 01:02 PM »

I use it quite extensively... on several different platforms.  And I've not experienced anything like what he says.  If it was so endemic, especially being a web application used quite extensively by the userbase that he quoted, wouldn't there be more of a record of said lapses?  More people rising up as their data was lost?

Inquiring minds wonder...?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 12:15 PM »

How did you do that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 12:14 PM »

It just doesn't look appealing to me.  And mwb, some people are expressing the same frustration on BDJ in the comments.

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Living Room / Re: Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 12:11 PM »

Finally, while I don't use an Android editor with your requirements, and so can't give you any recommendations, here is a place to start looking.

-xtabber (January 04, 2014, 07:22 AM)

xtabber -thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. Actually capturing notes on the go is not a problem, as my iPod touch 4th gen. is highly portable and great for that. It is more for the home and for work when I don't want to turn on or wake a PC/laptop/netbook. My old iPad fit the bill, but I didn't have a good keyboard for it.

I'd be more interested in the forthcoming Nexus 10 (2) with a keyboard folio case (but it would probably work with the Nimblstand as well). Big screen is better both for writing and for reading and annotating PDFs, for instance. Good to see there are now some decent Markdown editors for Android too.

-dr_andus (January 04, 2014, 08:38 AM)

I just bought a Dell Venue Pro 8 instead of an iPad Mini to hopefully start to get me out of the Apple infrastructure.  As a .NET developer, I can also directly develop for it, and it was cheap... $329 for 64GB and a full version of windows?  A no brainer I thought.

I'm starting to regret not going for the iPad mini.  From software to accessories, to ... just about everything.  Don't get me wrong... it's a great device.  And being able to program for it is great.  But I find myself picking up my iPad more than it... even in the cases that I bought the 8" tablet for.  It's more portable... so would be better to carry around.  But I still carry my iPad.  I tried only using it... but missed my iPad's ease of use.  And the apps.  That's the big thing.  Not the buy in of having them.  But the apps themselves and the paradigm of usage.

I positively hate iOS7 with a passion.  But at least it's internally consistent.  Most Windows tablet apps aren't really.  And programming for it, I see that MS left it more open than the Apple infrastructure.  And when I evaluated the Nexus and played with a friends applications and such, I could see the same disconnect.

Though I enjoy my Venue Pro, I think I'm getting an iPad Mini when i get a chance.  That same ecosystem that we as hackers and technologies skewer them for?  When you just need to get things done, and you're already used to it, it's hard to change to the wild west paradigm.

Oh... and what Markdown Editors do you use on the iPad?  Just wondering...