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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2015, 05:50 PM »

and/or the location of the .ini files should be user configurable (preferably and)

you can customize this by editing the ConfigDir.ini file in the program directory.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2015, 04:59 PM »

The other thing I change is default save location (to desktop) sometimes I lose that, it reverts to ...\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots, not sure of that's coincident with losing hotkeys -

hmm it sounds like it may be losing your settings file completely and reverting to defaults.. that's odd.

is your user documents directory on a network drive?

did you "install" SC by copying it from one machine to another?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkeys don't persist

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2015, 09:03 AM »

I've not heard of such a problem -- but it could be something else taking over the hotkeys..
SC saves its settings, by default in "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.ini"

One thing that shouldn't happen but has been known to happen is SC not being able to save its settings at system reboot/shutdown.  To check if this is the case, change your hotkeys and then manually exit and restart SC and check the settings.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Focus on search filter with Crtl + F

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2015, 08:44 AM »

You seem to be right, Ctrl+F is not working for me either.  Let me try to fix asap.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2015, 12:26 AM »

The haunted photo has been printed and framed.  Looks amazing.
Just waiting a few more days before i sneak it up and photograph it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Black tray menu

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 11:41 PM »

Good to know 

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 11:41 PM »

I really don't care about what is posted... just the fact that it was shoehorned in.

this is a pet peeve of mine too -- when political content is posted in threads where it really doesn't belong -- it has a negative effect on the thread and tends to derail conversation.
no one is saying you can't have your political views (and express them in the basement area), but everyone please try your best to refrain from putting them where they don't belong.

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Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 05:32 PM »

Well, i haven't paid attention but there can't be much doubt about their being significant savings since i had a 6-12 100w incandescent bulbs on at any given time.
Whether the savings make up for the high up front cost I don't know.

But if you read my first posts you'll see that my main motivation was to decrease the HEAT generation that was contributing to summer overheating, and in that respect I think i can anecdotally report an improvement.

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Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 05:07 PM »

Just reporting in that I'm still quite happy with my switch-over to LED bulbs.

A few observations thought:

1. I've had quite a few go bad.  CREE (manufacturer) replaced them though i had to pay shipping to send them the bad ones.  They seem to go bad in certain fixtures and not others.
2. I have a couple of Phillips ones that do a good job of lighting, but make a buzzing noise.  Very annoying.
3. Soft White is the only way to go, the cool temp bulbs get annoying very quickly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launch a website and close

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 12:40 PM »

Welcome to the site, sl5 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: FCalc v1.12 (Mar 25, 2015)

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2015, 08:21 AM »

I have FARR with FCalc installed, under Win10 Pro, and experience no problems. Seems to work just fine.

this could be the key -- it may be that fcalc is trying to save its history/settings in a directory it's not supposed to on a normal install, and that win8 put up with it, but win10 isn't..

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: FCalc v1.12 (Mar 25, 2015)

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2015, 04:50 PM »

Not heard of this before but win10 is new territory... can you reproduce the problem reliably on a specific set of actions?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nirsoft's Antivirus Hall of Shame

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2015, 04:48 PM »

Just do not go throwing up a siren telling the user that malware was found in some program if you aren't damn sure it has been.

-mouser (October 19, 2015, 03:15 PM)

Let me preface this by saying that I totally agree with you... but to play Devil's Advocate, sometimes when new virii are released into the wild, there have been massive outbreaks because they just didn't know.  With this way, I'm sure that some have been caught that wouldn't have otherwise.  So how do you toe that line?

-wraith808 (October 19, 2015, 04:18 PM)

I really don't think it's that difficult to do.  I think it's less a matter of changing the functionality than the communication with the user.

Let the user choose whether to include these highly-sensitive heuristic checks or whether not too (almost all do this already).

When such a heuristic detection is encountered, EXPLAIN TO THE USER THE HIGHLY UNRELIABLE NATURE OF SUCH HUERISTIC CHECKS.
Explain that this could very well be a false positive, and that the file analyzed could in all likelyhood be completely safe.
But block access to it by default, and give them some links to help them figure out whether the file really is malicious.  Help them perform a multi-engine analysis easily (auto upload to virustotal, etc.).

And make it easier for software authors to get their non-malware false-positived software excluded if it ever does trigger a false alarm, by having staff that can verify and whitelist software quickly.

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General Software Discussion / Nirsoft's Antivirus Hall of Shame

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2015, 03:15 PM »

Martin over at ghacks writes today about a recent essay posted on the Nirsoft site, discussing the issue of false positives, and ranking antivirus tools.

False positives are when an antivirus tool flags a program as being a possible malware when it really isn't.   They can be a huge pain for small developers, creating unnecessary fear among users.  And some antivirus companies are outrageously irresponsible about these kinds of detections, not explaining to the user the difference between a known malware and a complete half-assed guess about something they don't understand.

We've talked a LOT about this issue on the DonationCoder forum over the last 10 years, and have been bit by these lazy antivirus coders on more than one occasion.

Anyway, the nirsoft post goes into some detail ranking antivirus tools according to their false positives.

Full Nirsoft essay: http://blog.nirsoft....es-of-nirsoft-tools/

(see also the ghacks summary: http://www.ghacks.ne...virus-list-of-shame/)



I do think it's worth repeating what I've said many times -- I don't expect the antivirus tools to be 100% right all the time -- I understand that sometimes they want to be better safe than sorry.  But the thing is, if you want to tell a user that you have found a file that you haven no experience with, and it has some patterns that remind you of something similar you may have seen before which might be a malware, but might not, fine, i have no problem with that -- TELL THE USER WHAT YOU KNOW AND TELL THEM HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION AND TELL THEM HOW TO LET YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE WRONG.

Just do not go throwing up a siren telling the user that malware was found in some program if you aren't damn sure it has been.

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General Software Discussion / The Hostile Email Landscape

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2015, 01:02 PM »

There was an interesting post on slashdot today about how we've entered an age where only the big players in email domain hosting can reliably expect their emails to be received and not discarded as untrustworthy.

While it's not *yet* impossible to just run a mail server from your local domain, it is becoming increasingly likely that if you do, some recipients will have your mail automatically filed in their spam folders or outright rejected.

To me this is just another consequence of the big players slowly exerting their dominance over the rest of us.. there is just no incentive for them not to do this, and every incentive for them to make it harder and harder for small players to coexist with them.

As we consolidate on just a few major email services, it becomes more and more difficult to launch your own mail server. From the article: "Email perfectly embodies the spirit of the internet: independent mail hosts exchanging messages, no host more or less important than any other. Joining the network is as easy as installing Sendmail and slapping on an MX record. At least, that used to be the case. If you were to launch a new mail server right now, many networks would simply refuse to speak to you. The problem: reputation. ... Earlier this year I moved my personal email from Google Apps to a self-hosted server, with hopes of launching a paid mail service à la Fastmail on the same infrastructure. ... I had no issues sending to other servers running Postfix or Exim; SpamAssassin happily gave me a 0.0 score, but most big services and corporate mail servers were rejecting my mail, or flagging it as spam: Outlook.com accepted my email, but discarded it. GMail flagged me as spam. MimeCast put my mail into a perpetual greylist. Corporate networks using Microsoft's Online Exchange Protection bounced my mail."

http://tech.slashdot...tile-email-landscape

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2015, 09:27 PM »

Kitten grows up with ferrets as brothers:

http://imgur.com/gallery/Z3c11

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2015, 03:59 PM »

We figured out a major issue with naming and organizing of urls/pages that was holding us up. I hope things will go more smoothly now..

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: Idea Thread for NANY 2016

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2015, 07:08 PM »

One of the truly TERRIBLE ideas in recent versions of windows is that icons in the system tray are BY DEFAULT set to hide unless they produce a message.
This can frequently (for me at least) lead to me having programs running in the background that I didn't realize were still running.
The option to hide icons is great.  The default behavior is not.

It might be nice to have a program that changed the system setting to always show icons for newly discovered apps.  That is, the utility would run in the background, and the first time it encounters a new exe running, it would check registry for an entry saying to hide the icon, and change that to say to show the icon.  If the user goes so system tray options and chooses to hide it in the future, there will be no effect, as this app is only modifying the setting the first time an app is seen.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2015, 04:09 PM »

How Dogs Forge A Bond With Rio’s Homeless That Is Life-saving For Both



https://theintercept...that-is-life-saving/

One of the most striking aspects to the testimonials one hears is how often the dogs are credited with literally saving people’s lives. The dog is often the catalyst that liberates them from self-destructive drug or alcohol addictions, or suppresses the suicide impulse, or alleviates depression, or creates a determination to stabilize and improve their lives. Professor Irvine told me, “This is the redemptive value of the relationship, which one hears over and over as you talk to the homeless.”

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Living Room / Re: Patch your Flash! Version 19.0.0.226 (October 16, 2015)

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2015, 01:30 PM »

Thanks for the heads up. 

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2015, 08:13 PM »

Fox cub and dog are friends:

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2015, 06:26 PM »

Well, frankly we are more than a bit behind.. There are just soo many pages..
One of the issues I've struggled with is dealing with url naming and maintaining a nice hierarchical organization of pages..
But we're about to get back into full swing I hope.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: column to show the actual folder name

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2015, 05:25 PM »

it's an interesting idea.. let me consider.
i could certainly resolve it in dialog shown when you edit the path.

Also, right now if you are ever curious, you can go to the Tweaks and Debugging tab and at the bottom test the resolution of any expression with % stuff like %mymusic%

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Thumbnails not showing

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2015, 04:15 PM »

It's probably that your SC is using a date format with periods in the automatic naming template, and that my code to fix up filenames happens BEFORE the date is inserted.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2015, 03:16 PM »

when you get that far, I'd love to see photo of framed print on the wall

i will absolutely take and post such a photo.

i'll also report any emails i receive from building residents asking me how this happened (i'm not going to tell anyone ahead of time just quietly swap out one of the existing paintings).