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

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 16, 2010, 02:29 PM »

I changed my DPI setting to 100% (96 DPI) an the problem didn't occur, but strangely when I set it back to 150% it didn't recur until I restarted explorer - although normally it occurs all the time.

-sagji (May 16, 2010, 08:16 AM)

I do most of my testing With a Virtual PC running WindowsXP (Which makes for safer crashing) I set it to 150DPI, and discovered much of the T-Clock interface looks like crap that way. Are you seeing that also? But the Properties Dialog positioning remains (on screen) correct. Damn peculiar it is.

I have noticed a new problem. When the taskbar is set as transparent there are minor redraw artefacts. When I mouse over an Icon in a toolbar and move the mouse away there is a faint grey square round the icon. Also when a tooltip disappears there is a faint line round where it was, and when the transparency is changed the separator used between toolbars suffers a similar problem.
A screen shot would explain this much better - however the effect isn't seen in the screen shot - which also doesn't show the transparency at all.

That almost sounds like a driver issue - Vista had problems with stalling clock output (and etc...) when it was first released, but after a few MS updates the problem went away...Which is why I never looked into it. What OS and hardware configuration are you running?

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs Spars With Gawker Blogger Over Revolutions, Freedom, and Porn

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 16, 2010, 08:29 AM »

He's got a lot of nerve to say he is our friend...

Thanks Z, I needed a good laugh this morning.

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

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 15, 2010, 03:13 PM »

Actually I was thinking of alarms, not hourly chimes. The standard samples, and a lot of other suitable sounds, are so short as to be easily missed, but I don't want the alarm to repeat until cancelled.

-sagji (May 15, 2010, 02:07 PM)

Hm... Let me Mull that one over a bit - I got see how many worms come flying outa the can when I open it before comitting...

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 14, 2010, 09:41 PM »

@40hz - I think we just found the answer...

@Curt - I'm generally not a fan of the automated driver "Wizards" but if you're comfortable with it that's okay.

Yes, Network Adapters is a good place to start, Just make sure you're updating the right adapter - some machines have more than one (laptops), and sometimes FireWire can/will show up as a "Network" Adapter (Damn-If-I-Know-Why) ... so ignore anything with 1394 in it.

Also, not sure if it wasn't mentioned, or I missed it, but is this a desktop, laptop, Off-The-Shelf branded, or white box machine? Is the NIC built into the MotherBoard (e.g. OnBoard) or a PCI add-in card?

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

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 14, 2010, 06:44 PM »

I have installed the beta 6, and have noticed the following.

The properties dialog doesn't appear on screen - but it is in the window list. It looks like it is appearing to the right of the taskbar - however as my taskbar is on the right of the screen this places it off screen.

-sagji (May 14, 2010, 07:36 AM)

Unfortunately I can't seem to duplicate this behavior. I moved my Taskbar to the right side of the screen, selected T-Clock properties and it popped up to the left of the Taskbar as expected. I tried this on both the left & right monitor of a dual monitor (Win7 x64) rig and on a WinXP single monitor rig. Do you perhaps have another desktop customizing app that in bay be confused by/conflicting with?

If I open the properties dialog and go to the alarm page and press OK, or Cancel, - then after about 7 secs. explorer stops working. If instead I go to the clock text, or time format pages it works correctly.

I can't duplicate this one either - But I haven't dug at it extensively yet. Any other details you can provide will be appreciated.
nm I think I found it - Simular to the (now fixed) Mouse Tab Crash - I'll try to get an updated build posted some time this weekend.

The initial colour of the clock text is black - however the background is also nearly black, so the text is hard to read. While different OSs and themes vary I think that very dark backgrounds are much more common that very light ones, and that white would thus be a better default colour.

Now that one has been bugging the crap outa me, and is now on the ToDo list (I had been waiting to revamp the defaults till later).

When creating an alarm it is difficult to enter the time by typing in the time. In the hour field the cursor is usually at the beginning (even after typing a digit) and thus any typed value is discarded. The minutes field is a little better - or I was just more experienced at the field's oddities.

Damn, that is annoying, I'll see about changing its behavior to be more like the Create Timers dialog.

Alarm sounds tend to be short - often so short as to be easily missed. It would be useful to specify the number of occurrences - so that the bell could ring say 6 times at 6 pm.

Ring 6 times at 6:00pm - You mean for the hourly chime? The plain alarms have the repeat option which will loop the sound file until dismissed. Also for alarms, you can throw any sound file at it .wav, .mdi, .mp3 ... The sounds that come with are just handy examples to play with (Okay, granted I love the ClockChimes.wav - But it isn't mandatory... ).

Now the 6 rings @ 6 Hourly Chime thing I like, I'd actually been toying with trying that ... So it looks like I will be now.

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Living Room / Re: ANOTHER Lost/Stolen iPhone --- Hmmmm...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 14, 2010, 03:54 PM »

Hay! ...You could be on to something there.

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Living Room / Re: ANOTHER Lost/Stolen iPhone --- Hmmmm...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 14, 2010, 03:36 PM »

Didn't we go through this (denial) it's-a-fake phase last time they lost something too...?

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 14, 2010, 06:46 AM »

Just out of curiosity, have you tried a different NIC and/or NIC driver?

While DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is a driver issue I can't help but thing that tcpip.sys is getting caught in the crossfire of something happening elsewhere.

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Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 09:07 PM »

^^Yepper^^

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Living Room / Re: Company releases cracked version of their game rather than recompile it

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 05:12 PM »

So software cracks are now only to be considered dangerous most of the time...?

 

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Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 04:58 PM »

ROFL

A wise man once said: (sh)IT Happens - and he was right...

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Living Room / Re: How to uninstall driver in Windows XP command line safe mode?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 04:33 PM »

For the curious, GINA is Graphical Identification & Network Authorization.

By default there are 2 in Windows; the home user Welcome Screen, and the Corporate Style CAD Logon dialog.

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Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 02:26 PM »

It's as close to a sure thing as there ever was.

Note: Our company specializes in printers, printer refurbishing, & printing supplies ... So I am the "front line" of which you speak...

...and yes we wipe all our drives.

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Living Room / Re: ANOTHER Lost/Stolen iPhone --- Hmmmm...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 10:26 AM »

This is bad - I'm not supposed to be laughing hysterically (maniacally) at work...

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Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 10:23 AM »

^^^Nostradamus has spoken^^^

 

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

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 07:11 AM »

Now that's a good question. I'll have to look into it and see what the options/possibilities are.

I kinda got sidetracked into a nose dive with the Time Sync/Administrative Rights issue - Which after weeks of testing, ain't gona happen. I am going to leave the code (where I left off) in place for educational purposes, and as part of the Time Sync Easter Egg but it's buggy as hell.

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Living Room / Re: Identity Theft OFFLINE - Get ready to be VERY scared

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 13, 2010, 05:54 AM »

Count me as among those who didn't realize copy machines had a hard drive in them. Scary indeed!

Though I'm left wondering how prevalent that is. Would, for instance, my little HP All-In-One home printer also have a hard drive in it? How about my Brother MFC-7840W?

Or is this just a "feature" of "commercial-grade" copiers?

-Deozaan (May 12, 2010, 09:07 PM)

You'd be surprised just how low that line is (HDD's are cheap...) Pretty much any machine that offers "Job Storage" (fax machine runs out of paper...) gotta put it somewhere. For HP's AIO series printers I'd say no. But for the MFP class machine (the distinction is less than $100), yeah most have them. The brother I'd have to look up, but it will be listed (semi prominently - sales hype...) in the machines spec sheet.

Actually, if you really want to scare the shit outta yourself...Lookup IronGeeks printer hacking articles - Your printer/copier may be hosting Kiddie Porn.

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Living Room / Re: 93-page review of iPad apps and website usablilty now available for download

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 12, 2010, 02:06 PM »

I haven't read the full report yet, but by the sound of the summary it's not exactly glowing.

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Living Room / Re: Dagnabbit - I want my cercle!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 11, 2010, 02:58 PM »

This probably won't help...but, I thought it was funny.

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Living Room / Re: Two computers - one set of secreens etc. Ideas?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 11, 2010, 06:34 AM »

Even in that configuration, if you hold the power button for 5+ seconds it should still dump the box (if need be).

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Living Room / Re: Two computers - one set of secreens etc. Ideas?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 11, 2010, 05:43 AM »

most system boards also aren't fussy about having a keyboard attached anymore. or not from my experience anyway. you may need to fiddle with BIOS settings depending on what you have. but with all the headless home servers being made from old PCs that's a good thing.

-Gwen7 (May 10, 2010, 05:36 PM)

I can confirm this, I haven't seen a BIOS yet that didn't have some variation on "Stop on Errors: All But Keyboard" Which is what Carol should look for.

Good tip on the power button also - Our accountant has trouble with the 50/50 between System Power & the Eject Tape button.

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Living Room / Re: Two computers - one set of secreens etc. Ideas?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 10, 2010, 03:40 PM »

Why not use Remote Desktop? I use it daily to manage several servers scattered all over town.

-Stoic Joker (May 10, 2010, 01:56 PM)

Me too. But it's more viable using it to administrate a server than it is to work alternately on two or more 'desktop' machines.

IMHO a hardware KVM solution is still the best bet. Especially if you're running heavy graphics or media apps. I'd hate to try and edit video or do music composition over an Ethernet link.

-40hz (May 10, 2010, 02:13 PM)

Video I'll give you ('cause the frame rate just ain't there) But I quite frequently work with MSVS on UI design via RDP across town with no ill effects. Run across a LAN (depending on connection configuration) it's real hard to tell you're not on LM. It really depends on what Carol is doing, and with which OS (for dual monitor and peripheral support) - KVM has always struck me as being pricy & a bit antiquated.

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Living Room / Re: Two computers - one set of secreens etc. Ideas?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 10, 2010, 01:56 PM »

Why not use Remote Desktop? I use it daily to manage several servers scattered all over town.

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Living Room / Re: Samsung bada IDE and SDK released

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 08, 2010, 09:29 AM »

So outside of the wave mentioned on your site, how do I know if a phone is using the Bada platform?

UI Looks like Waves?
It'll have a Logo?
The pedestal keeps wiggling?

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Living Room / Re: Samsung bada IDE and SDK released

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 07, 2010, 09:31 PM »

...And the wife wants to go phone shopping tomorrow - Me put Samsung at top of list now.