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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2015, 07:04 PM »

I think it's nearly perfect. 

A couple of suggestions:

1. Three buttons seems like one too many.  I would suggest merging the "Keep enabled" and "OK" to one button "OK, keep enabled".
2. I'd remove the sentence "This usually requires" and change it to "No personal information or extra data is transmitted during this check." (or something to that effect).
3. You *could* also add a sentence like "You can change this option at any time from the preferences dialog".


Having said all that, i think people have become completely used to the idea of update checks, and so a pre-warning dialog like this is not strictly necessary (i don't use one in my apps); i think the important thing is having a way for user to disable it.

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Developer's Corner / Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2015, 06:25 PM »

So here is another article on someone who build a dice fairness machine:
http://science.slash...hine-opencv-analysis

And here's a video of their device:

Basically its an arduino controlling a cup that shakes up a die and then a camera that senses what the die rolled, and it is used to test whether a die has equal probability of landing on each face.  [results show that physical dice are always somewhat off from fair].


I *love* this idea as a piece of modern artwork.. I'd love to have something small and beautiful, a standalone little thing that i could put on little coffee table (i'm thinking like an old ticker tape stock market machine), where you could just drop in any die, and have it do some automated testing for several hours and report out the statistics of a die.

I'd be willing to collaborate on writing the software if someone would do the hardware..  Raspberry pi, arduino, whatever.

Key is it has to be BEAUTIFUL and SMALL -- i'm interested in this as a piece of art.  Something like:




Other web pages that have done this kind of thing:
http://www.markficke...f/artPage.php?id=389
http://timothyweber.org/dieroller
http://deltasdnd.blo...nced-dice-power.html

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2015, 12:40 PM »

I understand the frustration -- we aren't the best at explaining our methods sometimes..  It's hard trying to balance the comittment to keeping the software free and full, while at the same time trying to encourage donations in a world where they are increasingly rare.

We do try to make up for that in being helpful and real human beings.
If you email me I can send you a non-expiring license key.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: hotkeys no longer working in version 4.15.2

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2015, 09:45 AM »

Easy enough, this could actually be useful just for people who occasionally want todo multiple arrows in a row without text -- just because i think by default (there is an option to change this on the Drawing Objects tab) you can't normally draw a bunch of arrows without re-clicking the arrow tool each time.

So I'm thinking the new function will be accessible from the object tools menu, and be something like "Draw and label (step 1, step 2, etc.) multiple arrows..", and then present user with a small dialog with text edit defaulting to "Step #" and the user can accept or change that text (e.g. "Stage #"), and possibly change starting # (useful when continuing from prior labeling) and then it would let you draw one arrow after another, auto labeling them with the proper step #, until you select a new tool.

Any thoughts?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: hotkeys no longer working in version 4.15.2

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2015, 01:00 PM »

Yeah i like the idea of adding a mode where making an arrow auto-added some numbered text (step 1, step 2, step 3), so it would just be a matter dragging startpoint to endpoint, and repeating this process as many times as you want, each time it would add a new arrow with appropriate text.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: hotkeys no longer working in version 4.15.2

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2015, 09:42 AM »

Autonumbered stamps is an interesting idea.. I could add without too much trouble.

Do remember that there are clipart "STEP #" objects you can drag and drop (just click the Clipart button on toolbar), and of course you can add text to the ends of arrows.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: hotkeys no longer working in version 4.15.2

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2015, 07:07 AM »

my guess is dropbox.
thanks for the report! glad it is working now.
if it stops working again, check dropbox options.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2015, 06:54 PM »

Shades you are full of surprises!

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2015, 06:10 PM »

Very cool -- thank you for taking the time to share that with us -- i get a big kick out of seeing things like that 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: No 'About' in Help

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2015, 05:48 PM »

hi spectrekitty, and welcome!

Let me show you where it is:


Does that help?

ps.
Thank you for your donation!!

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 09:08 PM »

The Great British Baking Show

Very sweet british amateur baking competition -- everyone is nice to each other.



http://www.netflix.com/title/80063224

See also here for more info.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to add FARR to file explorer context menu

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 01:55 PM »

ok let me look into it and try to fix it, there's no reason it should be launching a second copy.
remind me what OS you are using.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to add FARR to file explorer context menu

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 01:34 PM »

are you saying 2 copies of farr end up running?

are you sure both copies are FARR are located in same directory?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias for multi threaded file download with aria2

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 01:33 PM »

nice, thanks for sharing!

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Living Room / Re: Rejection Therapy

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 12:55 PM »

Great stuff.  I'm not about to play the game but I love the idea of learning to not fear rejection.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to add FARR to file explorer context menu

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 09:56 AM »

thanks for sharing that!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alert on File/Folder Access

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 09:28 AM »

The thing to remember is that stopping an application from accessing that one file is not going to help you much because all your other files are vulnerable.
The only thing that might help is if you somehow triggered some emergency protocol that locked down all files on the computer, but that seems especially hard to get right and avoid triggering on some harmless process.
That's why i'm thinking the best way to think of this is just as an early warning system -- unlikely to save you from much harm but perhaps able to give you a very early heads up that you've got a problem.

A possible compromise defensive mechanism might be a mode that when it sees a process trying to access the test file, immediately KILLS that process and puts it on a list of processes to be killed instantly if they restart.. The only danger there is false alarming on a legit process.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alert on File/Folder Access

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 08:15 AM »

Presumably if something sneaks onto your system it will run as the user who was active when it snuck on, or as SYSTEM.

identifying what USER the process is running under is not so important -- but identifying the PROCESS is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alert on File/Folder Access

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2015, 06:25 AM »

and should not allow the action to complete.

this requirement may take this tool from easy to hard, and i'm not sure it's critical to the idea, at least from my standpoint.

my idea was that the monitored file is more like a canary in the mine -- detecting an attempt to access it is to help alert you that a rogue process may be scanning (modifying) your files, and that you should investigate the possibility of some kind of malware/ransomeware.

actually preventing the test file from being modified has little value in this case.

identifying the PROCESS that tried to access the file would be important though..

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General Software Discussion / Re: set the default contents of clipboard to contain two <cr> or add them after load

« Last post by mouser on November 27, 2015, 03:23 PM »

You can do this easily in Clipboard Help and Spell, by creating and saving a Text Formatting Preset (which added to CRs to clip and any other changes you wanted), and then use the quick paste menu to trigger the pasting of the modified clip text, or even faster, define a custom hotkey for the saved Text Formatting Preset.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2015, 11:29 AM »

franstam found this nice ssd on sale: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=41941.0

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UrlSnooper / Re: Cannot find network adapter

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2015, 08:08 AM »

Did you switch to Advance mode and try to select adapter manually?
Maybe try rebooting?
Are you saying it worked on previous version but not latest version? Nothing has changed that should have that effect.

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Living Room / Re: A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2015, 10:00 AM »

Remember when these things used to come with extensive printed documentation - sometimes in snazzy 3-ring binders - and in nice plastic boxes or sturdy slipcases?

-40hz (November 25, 2015, 09:49 AM)

yep, those were the days. Nothing comes with printed documentation now.

the infocom adventure games were a formative experience for me.  great stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alert on File/Folder Access

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2015, 09:47 AM »

This came up as an idea a while ago -- i think it's a great idea -- especially as an early warning tool.

Maybe someone could work on it as a NANY 2016 project.

A nice option would be the ability to alert on read and/or write, and the ability to exclude certain processes from triggering an alert.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2015, 08:05 AM »

The original Mr.Show with Bob and David was one of the funniest shows in recent times.  That clip from the new one is great -- can't wait to see their new stuff.