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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by wraith808 on December 09, 2013, 03:00 PM »

Those are the equivalent of the fires of Mount Doom used to forge the One Ring, with the US being Barad-dûr.

Of course, Obama himself is only Saruman the White.  That leaves the identity of Sauron himself to the reader.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge + Alpha: Weather Station Warlock

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 11:44 PM »

Very nicely done!   

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 07:41 PM »

If you close the window, it doesn't release the file?  I'll check that!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 07:29 PM »

Thanks!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Post-Capture options

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 02:11 PM »

Just knowing that helps a lot... at a minimum, you might want to include a note about that in the interface.  I can imagine that someone might spend a lot of time confused because of that (ask me how I know).

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

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 01:03 PM »

Climate study: The Shire is New Zealand, Mordor is south Texas

That explains some things... 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Post-Capture options

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 01:02 PM »

Yes... "Save As" is totally different... just forgot the quotes.

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Screenshot Captor / Post-Capture options

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2013, 12:27 PM »

I've done some research into it, and there's a strange oddity to the post-capture options (and indeed what happens after capture in general), and I didn't know if this was intended.

When you capture and the dialog is shown, there are a couple of options. 
1. If you show, the window is shown, and a balloon tip is shown on the icon with what is saved.  The post-capture options are run.
2. If you hide, no window is shown, a balloon tip is shown, and the post-capture options are run.
3. To clipboard... same as hide.
4. Print... same as hide.

But Save as is totally different.  No balloon tip.  No post-capture options.

Thoughts?

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

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2013, 11:29 PM »

^ That might be something to do with your configuration.  32 bit and 64 bit on several machines, and I experience no degradation.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Out of System Resources error ONLY when trying to grab Selected Region

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2013, 08:42 AM »

Are you sure you are running the latest?  I was getting that with one of the versions- updating to the latest stopped that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2013, 11:23 PM »

A new version is posted- it's at the same link as above. 

This version implements the settings dialog with the ability to disable imgfloat on the fly so that SSC doesn't use it without having to edit SSC configuration.  It also introduces opacity controls, though I need to smooth them out a bit, and the ability to always exit ImgFloat when you close the image rather than having the tooltray icon stick around.  Note that it will take longer to load after each screenshot if you click it.

The settings dialog can be accessed from right clicking the tooltray menu, or clicking the little ghosted out cog in the upper right corner of the image overlay (it ghosts in a bit more when you mouse over it).

When you unzip, you'll notice that there's a PortableConfig folder.  This has a default configuration file; if you put this into your app directory, ImgFloat will be completely portable and not write to anywhere else.  If it is not there, it will assume that it should use the AppData directory.  The option to use the appdata directory is there because if you put it into program files, I can't write to the directory.

There is also an option to directly run the imgfloatservice.exe from SSC if you want to totally do away with the startup service; make sure that you have it set to exit after each capture if you use this, and it hasn't been extensively tested (i put it in for unit testing and debugging).  You'd just replace imgfloat.exe with imgfloatservice.exe in the SSC options.

Thanks to Chris for the great suggestions and feedback!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2013, 02:22 PM »

I wouldn't call it so much that as very aware of the married condition   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2013, 10:35 AM »

^ i don't like sleeping on the couch 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2013, 09:09 AM »

Oh... I have a domain.  And have her an address on it.  And on gmail.  And on a google hosted domain.

But since she's been using this for over 10 years, none of my efforts to get her off of it have worked...  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 08:38 PM »

I received it, and am not exactly casual   I can't decipher the yahoo DKIM, but it looks the same as one that's legitimately from her, and a couple of the keys for the yahoo SMTP server are exactly the same.  Wouldn't that tend to mean in some way it came through their server?  Or can someone legitimately sign the DKIM with someone else's SMTP key?

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Living Room / Re: Pebble...anybody got one?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 07:51 PM »

I don't have one... and I've heard not such good things about it also.  I was looking at it for a while, but glad after the fact that I couldn't support at the time of the kickstarter.  I'd check the Kickstarter page for more comments on it.  It gets pretty nasty.

'All the interest/excitement I had when I first came across it simply vanished the moment I got the product. I'm afraid it's mainly to do with the product itself. I was pretty unsatisfied with the build of the watch, so everything it can do became secondary once you saw that it all happened in what looked like - well, a Chinese-made toy.'
I went through that for a couple days. Given all the expectations, the final product seemed a bit weak. But, at this point, I'm so used to it that taking it off for an hour to recharge it drives me mad.
'I can tell you how many times I've worn the watch in the past few months by simply counting the scratches. One for every single time, and they're quite visible. I'm afraid to breathe on it now. Also the the screen seems to be glued on in what appears to have been a messy process. You can't see it normally, but the first time I looked at the watch with polarised sunglasses on, it looked SO unsightly, I was put off for good.'
I've never scratched mine. For a couple weeks, I had a screenprotector thing, but it annoyed me. My watch occasionally *looks* scratched, but it turns out to be nothing more than a bit of oil patterned to look like scratches by fingerprints; if I clean it off with my sleeve, it goes away.
About the polarised sunglasses: that's not glue. It's just the nature of LCD screens. Laptops and televisions have the same problem. The only thing my sunglasses don't cause problems with is my Kindle.

That's the most recent post.

Another interesting one...

Nice to see iPhone users are now getting what us Android users have had for months - constant bluetooth problems. I literally cannot believe that a fundamental piece of functionality - STAYING CONNECTED TO THE PHONE - is so broken it needs third-party apps to actually make the watch work as advertised. Meanwhile Pebble is busy posting dumb shit on Facebook and patting themselves on the back for other people making apps to make up for all the functionality they forgot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 07:48 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions!

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General Software Discussion / Spammer Question with Webmail server

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 03:53 PM »

My wife has a yahoo account, and every so often, people get spam that looks like it came from her.

It isn't in her outbox, and the headers look like it came from Yahoo servers, but it does include contacts from her contacts list?

Do spammers harvest e-mails/passwords and then use the mail servers directly?  Is that even possible with webmail, and is it a practice that anyone has seen?

I've advised her to change her password, but I was just wondering for general information.

Thanks!

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Developer's Corner / Re: How are these AutoHotkey script protected?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 03:48 PM »

The against the law part shows that they have some sort of a sense of humor... 

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Developer's Corner / Re: How are these AutoHotkey script protected?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 03:07 PM »

Admitting you have decompiled your own script with a 3rd-party decompiler.

WTF?  Giga-huh?

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Developer's Corner / Re: How are these AutoHotkey script protected?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2013, 12:14 PM »

What language is that, if you don't mind me asking?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2013, 08:02 AM »

I'd toyed with adding an option to make it so that when you close the window it closes the whole application... I've been kicking this around a lot which (in addition to NaNoWriMo) are the reasons I haven't yet posted another iteration.

It had also been suggested that there be a way to turn it on and off so that you don't have to configure it in SSC when you need it/don't need it.  There were two ways for me to do it, and I've vacillated between the two:
1. Since the relay application is so small, I could just check for that option toggled in imgfloat before opening the image/opening the main application.  There's still a slight hit to it, but not major.
2. Directly edit the SSC ini file.  I see how the tools are added, and could parse it with regex to add and remove it... but I'm really leery of this approach.

I'm leaning towards option 1.  My plan is to knock out a lot of these decisions this week, and post another iteration of it with the changes in place.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2013, 06:09 AM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-rgdot (December 02, 2013, 11:02 AM)

Someone needs to teach that kid that everything after the last slash is completely unnecessary.

-app103 (December 02, 2013, 12:11 PM)

Maybe it's so he could get referral money from Santa also!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Submission: Minecraft Mod ServerGitBackup

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2013, 02:02 PM »

I don't really do a lot with minecraft, but this is really cool!  Once you've got it ironed out, you might want to promote it on some minecraft sites too- I think you're on to something great!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 02, 2013, 03:46 PM »

^ Oh, I wasn't implying that it *was* malware in and of itself; just like a lot of other programs that get labeled as such, it's in the use.  And on that point, when someone does install a miner on your machine using your CPU to make money, that use of it becomes malware.  And it's interesting in this fact.  Just like the other forms of malware which are ways to get money (by taking your credit card and bank numbers, or encrypting your files so you can be held for ransom), this is worthy of reporting/being informed of for that very reason.  It's just we're keeping bitcoin confined to one thread, so I did that with this.  Perhaps I shouldn't have so it will get a wider audience, but ...