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Living Room / Re: Hats off to USPS for innovative tracking scheme...

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 08, 2011, 07:18 PM »

I think I'll market myself as a political pundit who predicts the winner of the previous Presidential Election.

USPS tracking motto should be "you can't get there from here."

edit: on second thought, should be: "you can't get it there from here."

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do I get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 08, 2011, 05:23 PM »

Thank you, Miles

It looks almost dangerous...



I will take a closer look tomorrow when I have had some sleep!

-Curt (April 08, 2011, 04:18 PM)

A good way to back up your registry hives short of a Restore Point is ERUNT.
Restoring the registry from it is much less involved than using a restore point.

http://larshederer.h...e.t-online.de/erunt/

The dude Brink on the Vista site is in charge of the tutorials. He knows his stuff.  Still, it doesn't hurt to back up registry hives first. It's only around a 50 MB folder for a backup.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do I get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 08, 2011, 03:59 PM »

Curt I'd take a look at this tutorial:

http://www.vistax64....pen-add-program.html

Unfortunately they named the domain "vistax64" but it applies to all versions of Vista.  It's the best Vista specific site I've found.

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 07, 2011, 02:12 PM »

He can be a noose-ance at times.

-MilesAhead (April 07, 2011, 01:36 AM)

It's just a hemporary condition, soon to end as I can't keep my trap shut.

-cranioscopical (April 07, 2011, 08:29 AM)

That necktie is enough bring back the turtleneck. I knew I didn't like to wear them for some reason.

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 07, 2011, 01:36 AM »

Not more gallows humour, I'm already at the end of my rope!

check again, I think you'll find knot

-Target (April 06, 2011, 09:09 PM)

He can be a noose-ance at times.

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 07, 2011, 01:00 AM »

I read recently that hanging is to good for people who pun

they should in fact be drawn and quoted...

-Target (April 06, 2011, 05:41 PM)

Not more gallows humour, I'm already at the end of my rope!

-cranioscopical (April 06, 2011, 08:54 PM)

At this rate the first time they pull the wool over your eyes will be the last.

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 06, 2011, 04:00 PM »

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I was hoping he'd make coffee cups from the Styrofoam inserts and drink coffee out of 'em.

What he said about unboxing only being thrilling for the unboxer made me think of this LBJ quote:

"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Search Everything" with saved searches would be cool.

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 06, 2011, 01:27 PM »

Took me awhile to figure out where to make the substitution. Almost like a secret handshake.  Looks like they need a, er, search engine, for the web site.

-MilesAhead (April 05, 2011, 04:29 PM)

Well, you can't have everything  

-cranioscopical (April 05, 2011, 09:50 PM)

Trouble is you seem to be literally correct.  Everything is exactly what I can't have! And I mean Everything!!!! Dang!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Search Everything" with saved searches would be cool.

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 06, 2011, 01:26 PM »

Hmmm...thanks for the links. Surprising lack of information on the site. Wonder what the supposed problem with 1.2.1.452 was?

Kinda hard to hide everything, but they did a pretty good job.

-sajman99 (April 06, 2011, 12:07 PM)

It is weird the way they do things.  I could see if they had contributor-only betas or something.  But this stuff is just hidden.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Search Everything" with saved searches would be cool.

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 05, 2011, 04:29 PM »

Took me awhile to figure out where to make the substitution. Almost like a secret handshake.  Looks like they need a, er, search engine, for the web site.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.7.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 02, 2011, 05:04 PM »

FolderCache 4.7.0.0 Set Topmost attribute for PopUp Window to avoid it being "lost" on the desktop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 01, 2011, 11:54 PM »

I thought the graphic should have started a few years earlier.  No props at all to Mosaic or lynx. It's not like they'd have to research back to the 1800s or anything.

-MilesAhead (April 01, 2011, 08:50 PM)

A few years earlier is practically the 1800s in Internet time.

Opera's popularity over all those years is kind of pathetic. But at least it's still around! Unlike Netscape.

-Deozaan (April 01, 2011, 10:12 PM)

It's hardly a reason not to start at the beginning which was the 90s.  The reason has more to do with vying for market share now than any historical perspective.  IOW, it doesn't mean anything. Just more marketing twaddle.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: New MakeMKV beta 1.6.6

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 01, 2011, 08:52 PM »

version 1.6.6 is finally out.  I haven't run it through its paces to see if it's back on track. I've updated for the time being.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 01, 2011, 08:50 PM »

I thought the graphic should have started a few years earlier.  No props at all to Mosaic or lynx. It's not like they'd have to research back to the 1800s or anything.

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Official Announcements / Re: I regret to inform that Cody has wasted all of our fundraiser money

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 01, 2011, 06:34 PM »

Go bird!!! 

-40hz (April 01, 2011, 11:38 AM)

Took eating up all the profits literally apparently.

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 01, 2011, 06:31 PM »

He started the second dry wall company to pay back the IRS for misusing withholding tax from the first dry wall company, and on with the third.  He was a friendly upbeat guy.  Sometimes I wonder what number dry wall company he's on now, if he's still avoiding prison.

-MilesAhead (March 31, 2011, 11:20 PM)

I guess he felt he'd gyp some...

-cranioscopical (April 01, 2011, 07:59 AM)

Heh heh.  No way was I board with that pun.

Funny thing is, everyone liked the guy. I would guess his workers felt that if they left in a clump it would drive down their wages when they tried to sign on with someone else. Plus he was making payroll.  Apparently the paychecks didn't bounce.

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 31, 2011, 11:20 PM »

Anything I have online I have local copies.  The thing with some of these "businesses" is the CEO is satisfied as long as he can stay one step ahead of the IRS and the bill collectors, can keep his nice ride on the road, "talk business" on his mobile and write off some dinners and other entertainment expenses.

I knew a guy who ran a dry wall company.  When I met him he was on the third instance of it.  He started the second dry wall company to pay back the IRS for misusing withholding tax from the first dry wall company, and on with the third.  He was a friendly upbeat guy.  Sometimes I wonder what number dry wall company he's on now, if he's still avoiding prison.

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Living Room / Re: Strange subtleties of the Placebo Effect

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 31, 2011, 04:34 PM »

I have heard of studies showing the placebo medicine works even when the subject KNOWS it is a placebo. I'll try to find those; but I have a lot of feeds related to science...

-housetier (March 30, 2011, 08:00 AM)

The thing you have to watch out for are counterfeit placebos!! I hear IBM is going to bar code every pill and log it into a world wide database to ensure only genuine placebos are distributed in the third world.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Auto-mount ISO file on doubleclick, copy its contents to a folder...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 31, 2011, 04:31 PM »

All great suggestions, I guess there's not a need for an app to do this after all

Thanks a ton.

-FrankEBailey` (March 31, 2011, 01:30 AM)

Also once you have settled on the utilities you are going to use, you can always do a macro to push the buttons and drag the mouse etc. for automation. Or even batch with xcopy to copy everything to a folder.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Auto-mount ISO file on doubleclick, copy its contents to a folder...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 30, 2011, 09:31 PM »

(nevermind)

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Auto-mount ISO file on doubleclick, copy its contents to a folder...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 30, 2011, 06:06 PM »

I've been using this for double-click image mount:

http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

Once it's mounted, you can use my Tray utility to unmount just by selecting the drive letter radio button and clicking the Open Button. Or you can just right click the mounted image in Explorer and click Eject.

My Tray app is on the front page of my site:

http://www.favessoft.com/

afa copy to folder ordinary explorer drag & drop works fine.

One caution about these image mounters, if you try to access with multi-threaded app such as a multi-threaded video converter or multiple instances of a video converter they can often hang.  Still the emulator is a nice free utility. Once installed I forgot about it. I had to dig it out to remember the name of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BD Rebuilder Beta 0.37.07

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 29, 2011, 06:17 PM »

BD Rebuilder 0.37.07  See tail end of download thread for revision list. (Link is in first post in this thread.)

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: New Folder by F-key for Windows 7

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 29, 2011, 06:09 PM »

Well, not to upset you, but since using 1.5, all is working fine now hadn't thought you where still looking for a solution, as imho it's fixed, but I now realize I didn't post that here... sorry

-Ath (March 29, 2011, 03:29 PM)

Not at all.  I got some feedback on other boards.  Mainly because someone was using a highly customized shell.  Rather than chase around I figured I'd just include one with no class distinctions(pun intended.) 

I appreciate the feedback you gave earlier. It was very helpful.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: New Folder by F-key for Windows 7

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 29, 2011, 02:58 PM »

Ok I've taken another approach.  The download now includes 7FolderLite.exe including source. It does not use the class name at all to limit the hotkey. Use it as last resort in cases where the Desktop class name is not predictable.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Delete as well as Modify Button for own post?

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 29, 2011, 03:57 AM »

I think I posted in the wrong thread a year ago but since my post is in the chain, every time someone replies to that thread it shows up in "new replies to your posts" section.

It would be nice if after I realized I lame posted I could just obliterate it myself instead of calling attention to it.  Is it possible/desirable?

Also I think it a generally useful feature. Not just for the particular instance I noted.