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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?
« Last post by barney on July 19, 2012, 12:54 AM »
People would say how great Linux is and recommend that you try it, but when you do and ask a question, you would get derided for your lack of knowledge or ignored.  I know that all Linux users aren't like that... but I ran into enough of them
-wraith808 (July 18, 2012, 07:32 PM)

I haven't seen very much of that except where somebody was treating forum or irc members as their own personal unpaid support staff and getting indignant when unlimited help wasn't forthcoming.
-40hz (July 18, 2012, 08:44 PM)

Well-l-l-l ... that wasn't my experience when I tried the Ubuntu forums ... reputedly (at least by Ubuntu folk) the most gracious, newbie-friendly forums on the Internet.  I received more RTFMs than I ever encountered on Tek-Tips  :P.  (Methinks I've mentioned before that DC is the only forum where I've never, to date, had someone imply that I had not RTFM.  That was not my experience with the Linux arena.)  I quit asking questions, started buying books that still didn't answer my questions, went back to MS.
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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !
« Last post by barney on July 18, 2012, 12:45 AM »
Takes ~10-15 minutes to mix, another (unattended) 20 minutes or so to let it rise (if its a yeast bread), about an hour (unattended) to bake.  Once you've done that, got the basics, so to speak, let your imagination run wild ... almost any result will be edible  :P :P.
-barney (July 17, 2012, 10:17 PM)

Or just dump all the ingredients in the bread-maker you got given for xmas, push the button, walk away and come back when it goes Ding!

Then after the novelty has worn off, put the bread-maker back in the box, stick in a cupboard for the last 5 years and go to the supermarket :D
-4wd (July 17, 2012, 11:13 PM)

Yeah, that as well.  But I wore out one (1) breadmaker - a Black & Decker, I thimk (go figure) - then decided I could do better.  I did.  And do.  In the space of three (3) hours, give or take, I can give you - well, I could if you were close  ;) - just about any bread you care to designate.  You like zucchini bread?  Or (one (1) of my favourites) banana bread?  How about raisin?  Or potato (another favorite)?  How about a loaf with a ground beef or shredded pork core?

It is not all that different from writing code:  you try a lot of different systems, throw away the ones you don't like, and settle down with just one (1) or two (2), maybe a few.  I just settled for something better than that with which I started, definitely better than I could obtain commercially  :P.  More fun, healthier (usually), mostly less trouble  :-\ ;).

Oh, yeah ... I usually come back to computational task refreshed and much more attentive to what I'm doing  :P :P :P.

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 10:17 PM »
but I do eat a lot of bread ... that I bake myself. 

Since I make it myself, I have great control over what goes into it:  no preservatives, sometimes meats, sometimes various vegetables. 
-barney (July 17, 2012, 09:47 PM)

I've often wanted to do that, but I just can't get motivated enough. Cripes... I've still got this homemade beer-kit that I haven't started on the next batch with... :P
-Renegade (July 17, 2012, 09:52 PM)

What a horrible waste of a beer-kit  :P.  Actually, making your own bread isn't all that difficult - nor time-consuming - once you get started.  Find a basic recipe on the Web (or, like me, buy half-a-dozen books  :huh: that you'll seldom use after the first few loaves).  Takes ~10-15 minutes to mix, another (unattended) 20 minutes or so to let it rise (if its a yeast bread), about an hour (unattended) to bake.  Once you've done that, got the basics, so to speak, let your imagination run wild ... almost any result will be edible  :P :P.
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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 09:47 PM »
Well-l-l-l ... I'm not a typical housewife, being male  :P, but I do eat a lot of bread ... that I bake myself.  

Since I make it myself, I have great control over what goes into it:  no preservatives, sometimes meats, sometimes various vegetables.  

However, my closest friend, also male, is a meat eater par excellance.  His typical diet, apart from hamburgers when hes' in a hurry, is a lot of fried chicked (KFC, Popeyes, Pete's brands) or a lot of beef brisket, grilled pork of various varieties, grilled steaks.  He is basically a carnivore, with just enough vegetables to stay healthy.

Mind, we are not typical food consumers:  I'm not certain there is any such thing, at least in the US.  I say that because, while he's a carnivore and I'm an omnivore, we both enjoy rice (jasmine rice is delicious) and other various fruits or vegetables.

We partake of a lot of fast food, but we can find restaurants of almost any nationality/religion/dietary preference in any even semi-large city.  Since I'm in the Southwest, there is a lot of Tex-Mex food, almost always involving [pinto] beans and tortillas (very flat bread  ;)), and usually a variety of beef, pork, or chicken (not a lot of mutton) servings, usually chopped, ground, or shredded and wrapped in the afore-mentioned tortillas.

I don't really thing you'll find a standard diet here.  Maybe some regional preferences, but not much standard nationwide.  Oh, there is a general push to drink milk.  Problem is, we lose the ability to process milk within a year or so of birth.  (Milk is a much-touted source of vitamin D, but the adult human body simply cannot assimilate it - how's that for a Mother Nature practical joke  :P).

Good luck with your research  :up:.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Network Notetaking...
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 06:53 PM »
Barney, on looking at CintaNotes it's advising that it can sync across multiple PC's using Dropbox or SugarSync, both of which I run already (and I've just starting using the free FTPbox http://ftpbox.org/ so theres another option yet again).
Looking at how CintaNotes (and Evernote too for that matter) have the single continuous note system it might pay me to revise my expectations and consider using filters within CintaNote to provide the "Action Lists" I'm after. My main concern is that I might lose something in the great mass of info where on separate lists I'd be more focused for that lists specific activity.
Remains to be seen how simple the capture of a note in CintaNotes is. Will provide some feedback here after I've played round with it for a few days. Thanks !
-davcom (July 17, 2012, 05:23 PM)

Yeah, I didn't mention the cloud stuff - neither use nor trust it.  In regard to your Action Lists, one of the things I love about CintaNotes is that when you select - via Shift- or Ctrl-click in Win environments - multiple tags, you see only the notes that have all the selected tags.  Set 'em to sort in date order, and you have a minimal time line.  This has been a virtual life saver for me, as I can fine down to a single note, if I tagged it properly, or just see a list of everything in a less tagged, more extensive selection of notes.  All done on the fly, as it were. 

Oh, yeah, you can maintain separate databases for a more dedicated approach.  As an example, I have one (1) for Win software, one (1) for Win 64-bit software, one (1) for Linux software, one (1) for recipes, ..., and more.  When the recipe database gets too big - and it will  :o! - I can break it down into deserts, appetizers, main dishes, or perhaps veggie, beef, pork, pasta ...  The modification capabilities are near endless.  The only downside, for me, is lack of RTF capabilities in the notes (I like italics, bold, underline, strikethrough, colour, and the like - visual separation works better for these old eyes  :P.).
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Developer's Corner / Re: Help me think of a small ipad app idea to code
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 04:37 PM »
... whose every step feels like it has been designed with the sole purpose of demonstrating the worst case vision of bureaucratic dystopia.  Whether it was signing up to be given permission to pay $100 to develop applications ...
-mouser (July 17, 2012, 04:11 PM)

Yep, that sounds like Mr. Jobs' company, right down the line.  A visionary he might have been  :-\, but anything else  :down:...

Side note:  never have been amenable to the whole concept of paying to be allowed to create something that someone else will sell for a ~thirty percent cut.

BTW:  DC's spell check wanted to replace dystopia with dustpan ... not inappropriate in this particular instance  :-*.
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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 02:29 AM »
I use Debian; ergo the easiest package manager on the Planet
-Edvard (July 17, 2012, 12:53 AM)
Debian uses yum?  :P
-Tuxman (July 17, 2012, 01:39 AM)

No, thank God and the developers  :P!
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Living Room / Re: How do I turn off image attachment previews in Gmail?
« Last post by barney on July 17, 2012, 02:24 AM »
You know what's really freaky? Gmail itself  is marking these as important. If I mouse over the important icon, it says "marked important mainly because of the people in this message."
-daddydave (July 11, 2012, 06:21 AM)
Do you consistently mark them down (using the little yellow thingy in Gmail) as "not important"? I thought Gmail had a default rule that something is important, but you can teach it otherwise this way. It works for me, anyway.
-IainB (July 17, 2012, 12:27 AM)

Consider yourself either lucky or well-informed  ;).  Gmail pays no attention to whether I mark missives as important or unimportant.  It (the software) marks things as important that it has not seen me open for years, and ignores things that I mark as important - unless I set important in a filter, anyway.

Gmail also says it'll remove any messages in the spam or trash folders after thirty (30) days.  Does for my friend, never has for me - I have to manually go into and delete from both my trash folder and my spam folder  :huh:.

When I first discovered this, I had three (3) years of spam and trash accumulated ... thirty (30) days indeed  :P!

On the plus side, I don't seem to have the problem upon which this thread is based  :-\.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Network Notetaking...
« Last post by barney on July 16, 2012, 11:24 PM »
I do much of what you describe - not all, by any means - with CintaNotes.  Mind, I don't aspire to your degree of preliminaries, but the ability to set/define multiple tags on the fly works well for me.  As for replicating across multiple boxes, either Syncless or Beyond Sync (sorry, no links) should resolve that issue - at least it does for me.

Not an ideal solution for your dilemma, but at least a possible start.

P.S.
I quit EverNote when it went cloud  :o >:( ;).
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 12, 2012, 10:57 PM »
You put in the email address the software was registered to and the 'user ID' you get when you buy the software, and the licensed installer (with your license details embedded in it) gets generated and downloaded.
-mwb1100 (July 12, 2012, 06:23 PM)

I have several [very] old programs that I can no longer run just because of that particular method.  I cannot begin to recall the email address I had at the time, nor the user ID  :(.  It's reasonable scheme, but it has its own downside(s).  Mostly the currency (and I don't mean money) of the product.
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 12, 2012, 05:49 PM »
which I thought would be useful for copying things into a plain-text outliner like MemPad, retaining the links.
-rjbull (July 12, 2012, 03:01 PM)

Hey, thanks for the concept :Thmbsup:.

They have never had downloads generally available - you always got a link to the full version that was active all the time.
-J-Mac (July 11, 2012, 11:42 PM)
I don't like that either, and there's a steady if sluggish stream of worried queries in the Yahoo! Group, what do I do if I lose my original full version.
-rjbull (July 12, 2012, 03:01 PM)

Fookes has tried more product delivery methods over the years than I'd care to count  :o.  He seems to be one (1) of the oh-so-many developers that fear the world will end if even one (1) product gets distributed w/o remuneration  :P. 
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 11, 2012, 11:06 PM »
It likes CSS3, HTML5  :Thmbsup:.
Added CSS highlighting, maybe better HTML highlighting  :Thmbsup:.
Search has improved, somewhat  :-\.
Word count is a bit different  :-\.
SEO stuff, but I'm not certain how relevant/important that might be to most  :-\ :-\.
New Web templates(?)  :-\.

If your usage is Web stuff, it's prolly a worthwhile upgrade.  For most other stuff, maybe not.  Thass OK, I bought it anyway  :P.
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Living Room / Re: How do I turn off image attachment previews in Gmail?
« Last post by barney on July 10, 2012, 08:42 PM »
Gmail "learns" what is spam
-IainB (July 09, 2012, 08:41 AM)
Well-l-l-l ... yes and no  :-\.  Gmail is pretty good, I'll grant, but it doesn't always recognize source URLs, and has a [bad] habit of not recognizing email subscriptions.  I'll see half-a-dozen to a dozen emails daily that should have come to my inbox.  I literally have to mine my spam folder to recover email that I need, e.g., software registrations, purchase acknowledgements, and the like  :(.  Daily review does help keep my spam folder emptied, though  ;).  (Oh, you're gonna say that it deletes all over thirty (30) days?  Not on my box(es)  :mad: :P.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 09, 2012, 07:48 PM »
The question for me is always, why would I use one of these instead of the free and extremely capable Notepad++?  If you can answer that, the possibility of the wallet coming out is there.
-superboyac (July 09, 2012, 07:25 PM)

The answer to that question, of course, is personal preference.  It's like cars:  do you prefer a Ford or a Chevrolet, an Audi or a BMW?  That's why there is such a plethora of editors available.  It doesn't really matter what your preference might be, what matters is that you have a choice.  cyberdiva likes UltraEdit, that's her preference.  I like PSPad, TreePadX, NoteTab, depending upon what I need to do at the time.  All of these editors have their strengths, things they do better than any other editor.  So, ya pick the one (1) ya like, pay for it if need be, and go on yer merry way  :P.
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 09, 2012, 05:22 PM »
I think Tuxman has a good point -- if you are not a programmer you are probably unlikely to pay $40 for a text editor, so it makes the most sense to judge them from a programmers perspective.
-Jibz (July 09, 2012, 03:57 PM)
Well, yeah, that is a point to be considered  :-\.  But it doesn't take into account little things like
  • regex search[ & replace]
  • block edits
  • word count
  • character count
  • thesaurus
  • ... and more.

I had use for all of that long before I started serious coding.  Granted, all that can be done other ways, but it's just so much nicer when it's all in one (1) package  ;).  It's not just coders that need more capability than Notepad provides  :P.
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General Software Discussion / Re: NoteTab 7 editors released
« Last post by barney on July 09, 2012, 10:46 AM »
NoteTab doesn't get much love in this stronghold of coders, but it's still a good editor if you aren't a coder.
-rjbull (July 08, 2012, 03:20 PM)

Actually, with its snippet storage and Clip Libraries, it's pretty darn good for coding, too  :up:.  Been using it since ~v3.x.  Tried a plethora of editors over the years, but NoteTab is the one (1) I keep coming back to for yeoman duty.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers
« Last post by barney on July 09, 2012, 12:31 AM »
If it's Windows 7 you should be able to set the service to Automatic (Delayed Start).

Automatic (Delayed Start) specifies that a service should be started approximately 2 minutes after the system has completed starting the operating system.
  • The Automatic (Delayed Start) startup type is preferred over the Automatic startup type because it helps reduce the effect on the system’s overall boot performance.
  • An example of a service that use the Automatic (Delayed Start) startup type is the Windows Update service that scans for applicable security updates for the system.
-4wd (July 08, 2012, 09:56 PM)

I am absotively, posilutely certain I tried that  :huh:.  So I probably thought about it, got distracted, and failed to implement  :-[.  At any rate, I just tried it [again?].  Lo! And behold!  It worked  :Thmbsup:!

Thanks, 4wd for applying impetus where it belonged.  I keep thinkin' that someday I'll learn, but obviously not lately  :P.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers
« Last post by barney on July 08, 2012, 01:59 PM »
There was some reason I went back to 2.2 from 2.4, but I do not recall what it was  :-\.  Some kind of conflict, I think.  However, that seems to be the next step.  At least that should give me some clue(s) as to what is happening.  Frustrating, though, when 2.2 runs just fine on the other two (2) boxes  :huh:.

I might bypass the problem, but I'll never know what it was - or how to correct it  >:(.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers
« Last post by barney on July 08, 2012, 10:12 AM »
OK, that didn't work.  This is maddening:  I can start the service manually, but it will not autostart.  That breaks a few other things that are set to start on boot  :mad:.  Oh, well, back to DuckDuckGo  :huh:.

OK, Ath chimed in while I was typing. 
Have tried ports 80, 81, 83, 8080, 8081 (currently back to 80) - I don't think this is a port issue.  n.n.n.130 is the system IP, which I also have changed manually several times, just in case.  (I don't use DHCP because too many elements demand a fixed IP for access.)  I'm using Win7 firewall & AV, no special adjustments, just plain vanilla, same as on the Gateways.  If it were the security stuff, I'd expect to be blocked when I start manually, but I'm not as conversant with those elements as I could be.  I do have some Comodo and Revo stuff installed, but they're for install tracking & removal.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers
« Last post by barney on July 08, 2012, 09:31 AM »
Had these three (3) errors after changing port to 8080
~~~~~ start paste ~~~~~
The Apache service named  reported the following error:
>>> (OS 10049)The requested address is not valid in its context.  : make_sock: could not bind to address 192.168.1.130:8080     .


The Apache service named  reported the following error:
>>> no listening sockets available, shutting down     .


The Apache service named  reported the following error:
>>> Unable to open logs     .
~~~~~  end paste  ~~~~~
Changed port back to 80, same error set.
Rebuilt C:/Windows/System32/WBEM/Repository, no change.

I've tried a good half-dozen fixes that apparently worked for other folk, but still getting the same problem.  Interestingly, haven't seen 0x80041003 in the event log for the last few boots.  That, apparently, was not the issue  :(.

(skwire chimed in while I was typing, so I'll try his suggestion after posting this.)

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General Software Discussion / In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers
« Last post by barney on July 07, 2012, 11:04 PM »
Folk,

This has me at my wit's end (not a particularly great distance  ;)).  I have Apache 2.2 installed on a laptop as a service.  But it never starts when system is started/restarted.  Two (2) other laptops work just fine.  They are Gateways, however, and this is a Toshiba.  None of my searches have turned up a viable methodology to correct this situation.  Pareto Logic PC Health was recommended, but it does naught but list a plethora of error conditions.  For correction, ya hafta buy da damned t'ing  :o :P.  MS FixIt didn't work.  

The problem is most often described as a conflict other software using port 80.  However, I can start the Apache process via the monitor after the system has booted, so nothing is occupying - at least, long-term - port 80.
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator
« Last post by barney on July 07, 2012, 03:34 PM »
I think he mines DC once in a while  :P.
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator
« Last post by barney on July 07, 2012, 02:09 PM »
Martin Brinkman over at gHacks has a nice little blurb about it.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Create a file list from multiple folders
« Last post by barney on July 07, 2012, 12:57 AM »
I'm not certain I understand all your requirements, but you might take a look at the late Karen Kenworthy's Directory Printer.  It's extremely flexible.  I use it frequently to create CSV files for folders/subfolders content.  It's a VB6 program, so if you're using windows, you prolly have all the necessaries already installed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Another experiment in free software profit models from Bryan Lunduke
« Last post by barney on July 06, 2012, 08:01 PM »
I dunno, as a non-techie this bothers me. I can't compile my own binaries so to me it just becomes another form of paid software.

The line I like better is contributors get to vote on what he works on for the second week of a month. So instead of just $2 for 2 votes, a power user could just blast it with like $100 and win the vote then you get a dev for a week making a custom feature!  8)
-TaoPhoenix (July 06, 2012, 09:11 AM)

Hm-m-m ... I'm not wild about that model, either.  Boils down to hiring a programmer for a week for  next to nothing.  Great for the consumer, but no so much for the coder. 

I don't compile (any more) either.  But if I do require some app modification - or even a new app - I expect to pay for it.  skwire and mouser may be able to chip in on how well donations work, but I don't see that as life-sustaining.  Nice bit of reverse lagniappe if you have a[nother] reliable source of income, but that seems to be about it.

Methinks the FOSS advocates/aficionados assume providers as hobbyists, not as folk trying to make a living  :o.

Mind, I'll take advantage of free as long as it is there, but at least I know that I'm taking advantage, not demanding it as a right  :huh:.

There's yet to be developed a reasonable FOSS model, to my mind, one (1) that is fair to both provider and consumer  :(.

A bottom line here is that creating/modifying a program is hard work, and should be compensated.  That compensation model has yet to be [widely] established, save for entities such as Microsoft, Apple, et al.
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