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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 05:36 PM »

So long as you're mentioning Huxley, may I also mention Illuminatus

-Edvard (March 18, 2008, 04:41 PM)

Thanks for that link. I know of the concept of the Illuminati from playing the Steve Jackson game many years ago, but I never put two and two together and realized there was a book trilogy as its roots. I now feel quite stupid for not figuring this out on my own. I will have to read it/them.

And when I read the Wikipedia entry you linked to, I learned that the trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1986. And then I learned that the award is designed to honor classic libertarian fiction. As I stated earlier in the thread, I am a libertarian. So I was delighted to learn that such an award even existed. So now with the list of award winners my reading list has grown dramatically. (As we know the best way to insure I remain ignorant and brainwashed is to read only books I know ahead of time I will agree with, and not challenge, my views. LOL)

Any way...

Thanks for opening up this little rabbit hole.

P.S. Let's not leave out Philip K. Dick's Minority Report 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [request] Taskbar Displayed Only On <Win> Keypress

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 03:09 PM »

well he can limit amount of  time that key is pressed or not. If I am pressing 2 keys in less than .5 sec then that means  I am not trying to unhide the taskbar?

-kartal (March 18, 2008, 02:40 PM)

Which is fine from a programming point of view, but from a usability point of view I would introduce a latency of equal duration for the taskbar to appear if that is what you did want.

Currently there is no delay if I just want the taskbar, and if I want <Win> + something, the taskbar pops up and then goes back down. I would rather have the temporary popup than the delay.

The great thing about skrommel's program is that we have the source script and can modify to our personal choice. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [request] Taskbar Displayed Only On <Win> Keypress

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 02:25 PM »

One thing thou, I use alot of win+ key combinations to run my softwares. Everytime I press on win+e or win+r for example task bar shows up too. I is it possible to limit only win key?

-kartal (March 18, 2008, 01:58 PM)

skrommel is good, but he's not that good.    skrommel isn't a mind reader. All he can do is determine if you are pressing the <Win> key. He has no way of knowing what you intend to do next.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Generate List of Files on FTP

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 01:26 PM »

What type of access do you have to the server? That is the determining factor.

For example, if it is a *nix box and you have SSH access, then pipe a recursive file listing to a text file.

Or if you only have FTP access, then you have to spider the tree and compile a directory listing. A script based around wget and ls should get you what you need.

What are your options?

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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 01:22 PM »

Hmmm, it's amazing how little information Award provides on its own BIOS. Might this help? I guess that since Phoenix bought Award, this could be of some help as well.

A quick Google search seems to confirm you're not alone...

-Lashiec (March 18, 2008, 10:22 AM)

Bios Central was one of the sites I have bookmarked for just such occasions as this, but I am unable to find anything about this odd beep code on that site. It isn't even in the "proper" format according to references I have checked. Remember, I get three short beeps once and then it begins repeating four short beeps. I would expect to do three short then four short and stop or repeat the whole pattern of three short - four short - three short - four short - etc. IOW I would expect XY or XY XY XY XY but not X Y Y Y Y.

And there are a lot of hits, but nothing I can find that has the same beep code as I am getting.

So far, the only logical conclusion is that the motherboard itself has gone bad and it is reporting an undocumented diagnostic code. IOW I am SOL.

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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 01:13 PM »

Could it be a damaged fan connector on the mobo forcing the BIOS to think there is a fan problem?

-Carol Haynes (March 18, 2008, 10:12 AM)

I am able to get into the bios setup if I attempt to do so before it gets to the point of auto detecting the HDDs. When I do that I can get to the health screen. The CPU and case fans are both registering and are producing expected RPMs in real time. So, I don't think that is the problem.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [request] Taskbar Displayed Only On <Win> Keypress

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 09:15 AM »

I was looking for an existing application that did this and Mr. AutoHotkey himself shows up like it's the Make A Wish Foundation or something and POOF!! I get a custom built app. 

Thank you skrommel.

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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 07:14 AM »

It is an old board. I had a PCI video card in it. I already tried it with a known good AGP video card. Problem remained.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 07:12 AM »

Today I am going to spend time going through the iPython docs and learning some new tricks.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 07:02 AM »

tinjaw you arguably started us off with your first reply on this bad path, you should know better 

-mouser (March 18, 2008, 01:36 AM)

Sorry. 

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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery

« Last post by tinjaw on March 18, 2008, 06:56 AM »

That's just it. According to the internet there is no such beep code. That is why it is such a Mystery.

As for heat, yeah, that was what I originally thought was the problem, but an hour in a cold room didn't fix it. Nor did sitting overnight in the cold room. That's when I started to swap out parts and the problem persisted.

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Living Room / Re: Wanted: Setting/Option/Group Policy to Force Username On Each Printed Page.

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 06:54 PM »

We print out banner/separator pages on the regular printer, but they just sometimes end up in a shuffled mess after the students get to them. We want it on the actual pages so they can't get separated. One of the main reasons is that many students use a common color plotter to print maps. It takes forever and they forget to go pick them up. That's a big waste of money. If we could just get the user's name printed in the corner then we can deliver them to the students.

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Living Room / Mobo Mystery

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 06:47 PM »

I have a Asus A7V8X-X motherboard that is acting down right odd. I spent two days building a Windows 2003 Server with RAID. All was just fine. I unpluged it from the office and moved it downstairs into the basement. When I turned it on I got beeps and it won't finish post.

It is an Award BIOS.

When I power on it starts up just fine. It gets to the point in the POST just after it has autodetected the HDDs.

At this point I get three short beeps. Then I get 4 short beeps and the 4 short beeps continues until I shut down power. When the 4 beeps start repeating the video also starts flashing on and off at about 1 Hz.

I have stripped it down to just Mobo + CPU + 1 DIMM + video card.

This is the same with three identical CPUs. Two different video cards. Three different sticks of RAM.

CPU fan is fine. PSU fan is fine.

I used a PSU tester and all voltages are to spec and steady.

I cannot find *anything* on the Net about such a thing as this.

Any ideas?

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Living Room / Wanted: Setting/Option/Group Policy to Force Username On Each Printed Page.

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 01:43 PM »

At work we have a problem with people printing to printers they shouldn't. Especially the large color plotters. I understand that this can be logged, but what we desire is to force the username to be printed on every page of printouts from the network printers. This way you can just look at the printout and see immediately who printed it. This would have to be at the Group Policy or Print Server level so it can be done once and be in effect on every printer on the Domain.

Any ideas?

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Post New Requests Here / [request] Taskbar Displayed Only On <Win> Keypress

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 11:44 AM »

I would like the Taskbar to autohide and not popup when the mouse cursor goes to the bottom of the screen. I would like the Taskbar to popup when I hold down the <Win> key. IOW, I don't want <Win> to activate the Start Menu like it does by default.

Summary:

• Windows Taskbar is hidden by default.
• Moving the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen doesn't activate the taskbar.
• Balloons from the Taskbar Notification Area popup as normal.
• Pressing, and holding, the <Win> key brings up the Taskbar.
• Releasing the <Win> key autohides the Taskbar.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 11:36 AM »

I'm a libertarian so I don't like either side preaching.

But we have strayed OT too far, my friend. 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request: Copy Code To Clipboard

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 11:35 AM »

I forget where I saw it, but one forum had a neat bit of code that switched between code formatted for reading and code formatted for C&Ping. You would view it for reading, with line numbers, and clicking a button would change it to copyable code and select all so you could just <Ctrl> + C for the copy.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 17, 2008, 05:27 AM »

Cpilot,

I understand your criticism, but the book is not that simplistic. It has many different facets to it. My comments are about the surveillance of every individual 24 x 7 (a.k.a wire/email tapping). The never-ending all-consuming generic war (sometimes against Eurasia sometimes against Eastasia) that the government of Oceania perpetuates on the people (a.k.a. The Global War on Terror). The government telling people how they should live and think (a.k.a. the Religious Right that dominates the Executive Branch). I could continue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PHP IDE recommendations

« Last post by tinjaw on March 16, 2008, 07:32 PM »

I stumbled upon a list of Code Beautifiers and Formatters at Smashing Magazine. It is quite extensive and has screenies.

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Java / Re: Java to exe converters

« Last post by tinjaw on March 15, 2008, 07:12 PM »

Maybe this will do?

-jgpaiva (March 15, 2008, 06:56 AM)

I hadn't seen that before. That looks nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop

« Last post by tinjaw on March 15, 2008, 07:05 PM »

Restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual
environments (P2V, V2P and V2V).

-StorageCraft

I have read that Vista uses a new HAL that allows you to backup on one architecture and restore on another. And virtual machines is easy, since it is always going to be the same architecture.

Since Win2K and WinXP still have the separate HAL I wonder if that works only for Vista.

Either way, ShadowProtect has been on my wish list for over a year.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FTP - How do I duplicate / copy remote folder?

« Last post by tinjaw on March 15, 2008, 03:13 AM »

Anyone have a nice basic guide / tutorial that will get me up and running?

-Ampa (March 14, 2008, 08:50 PM)

Your main reference should be the red bean book. I would suggest you read the Preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2. You can worry about the rest later on as they are more advanced topics. That book will use the command line client. I suggest you use that and follow along, but that you should switch to TortoiseSVN after you have gone through those chapters. The TortoiseSVN help file will make much more sense then.

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Living Room / Re: questions for programmers

« Last post by tinjaw on March 15, 2008, 02:52 AM »

@ Tinjaw-What are you gonna turn me into? i really dont like the sound of that. lol.

-gally (March 14, 2008, 10:38 PM)

The inevitable question asked by new programmers is which computer language to learn (first). There has always been a (mostly) friendly rivalry between programmers of different programming languages. Python is one of the more recent languages created and my personal favorite. Programmers that programmer using Python call themselves Pythonistas.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 14, 2008, 07:21 PM »

You do of course realize that 1984 is a work of fiction, right?

-Cpilot (March 14, 2008, 02:35 PM)

Well, at one point it was, but now that the likes of Bush, Gonzales, Ashcroft have been in office, it doesn't take too much effort to understand that the GWOT is just another name for the war with Eurasia. No sir, 1984 is happening right here, right now.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984

« Last post by tinjaw on March 14, 2008, 01:20 PM »

You sure those quotes aren't from King George's President Bush's campaign speeches?