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General Software Discussion / How much trouble is a 64-bit OS right now?

« Last post by urlwolf on February 03, 2009, 02:03 PM »

How much trouble is a 64-bit OS right now?
In my experience (Ubuntu): a lot. You are on your own compiling stuff, in the best case. Or you just don't have some niceties, like flash.
On the other hand, I do need to address 8Gb of memory (or more) so I have to live with it.

I'm considering moving to win 64-bit if there things are more solid.

Anyone with day-to-day experiences? Which flavor of windows would work best on 64-bit?
Should I wait for Win 7 or even use the beta?
How difficult would it be to pimp out Vista 64 so it's not as annoying, and is it worth it at all?

Thanks
PS: I'd also would like to hear from the OSX crowd

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General Software Discussion / Re: pasting together FF and Thunderbird

« Last post by urlwolf on February 03, 2009, 04:34 AM »

Edvard: I'm using SeaMonkey as my default browser right now.
What I miss: lastpass and zotero. also, a heap order for ctrl + tab. Not even multizilla does this on SM, which I find silly. it's such basic functionality, all other apps in the OS (but vim ) do it this way.

Thanks lanux, those may work, but I'm still missing a global shortcut to pop up the compose message window on Thunderbird.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« Last post by urlwolf on February 02, 2009, 04:04 PM »

If you are obsessed with speed you may want to try seamonkey 2 alpha. It has the JS engine of the latest FF and it's actually very stable.

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General Software Discussion / pasting together FF and Thunderbird

« Last post by urlwolf on February 02, 2009, 03:33 PM »

Is there any way of pasting together FF and Thunderbird?
I want:

• press a shortcut in FF, ctrl M, and open a 'compose message' window in TB
• 'send this page to' in right click
• hide to tray, retrieve from tray for both TB and FF
• ...and all other niceties that you get with Seamonkey

I don't discard that this could be done with global shortcuts in ahk or some combo of plugins... but I'm asking just in case anyone here uses those two and have found a similar solution

Thanks

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Living Room / should intel concentrate on HD access instead of pumping up CPU Ghz?``

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2009, 07:32 AM »

Interesting read at joel's

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout

« Last post by urlwolf on January 30, 2009, 10:28 AM »

Hmm, I love the idea of having an ahk tool to play music.
However, I cannot get it to work. It just doesn't show up... I reported my problem here. Of course this is my computer only. I'm just posting here in case anyone (skwire?) knows what all the programs that don't pop up have in common. I use other ahk tools and they do pop up fine.

Thanks!

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Living Room / Re: puzzled by applications that pop up on the taskbar but do not produce a window

« Last post by urlwolf on January 26, 2009, 02:53 AM »

Thanks Shades, I tried that.
Sounded like a good idea, but it didn't work. For Rapid Env editor, the 'Window > Bring to front' doesn't do anything. For skype, the SMS window (that's the one that pops up hidden) doesn't present 'Window > Bring to front'. Window is grayed out.

I wonder what causes this!

Anyone?

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Living Room / puzzled by applications that pop up on the taskbar but do not produce a window

« Last post by urlwolf on January 24, 2009, 01:52 PM »

Sorry, but I'm having one of those days in which you don't even know where to start troubleshooting... I', puzzled by applications that pop up on the taskbar but do not produce a window. This has started recently. I wonder if it's just some nVidia drivers update, or the fact that I'm using an external monitor with weird resolution (Samsung SyncMaster 2345BW, 2048x1152), or what, but things like skype and my beloved rapid environment editor cannot produce a window. They are in the taskbar, but no window to be found.

Any idea how to troubleshoot this? How to even google it?
Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: IronAHK - .NET and Mono port of AutoHotkey

« Last post by urlwolf on January 22, 2009, 10:20 AM »

The absence of AHK under Linux is possibly the only reason that prevented me to switch to Ubuntu permanently.

In addition a more active development cycle is planned with features such as:

    * Arrays, 128bit math and Unicode
    * Data mining functions - XML, JSON, SQLite and MySQL

Nice !

-ak_ (January 22, 2009, 06:56 AM)

ooh! Arrays! in ahk !
I know, it sounds pathetic that a programming language doesn't give you arrays (it's like eating with no bread), but this was exactly the case for ahk.

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General Software Discussion / Incredibly funny parody of Linux first experiences :)

« Last post by urlwolf on January 21, 2009, 12:02 PM »

Incredibly funny parody of Linux first experiences

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General Software Discussion / Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by urlwolf on January 20, 2009, 09:16 AM »

http://chandlerproje...icationPaperOutline2

This must be some classic. I wonder how I have missed it.
If you use a notetaker, have read the long notetaking thread, etc you owe it to yourself to read this one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: REQUEST: Add input to a topic I made in Opera's forum

« Last post by urlwolf on January 18, 2009, 12:42 PM »

Just a quick note: I have complained a lot before about Opera, but never found a viable solution.
For the last two weeks I have lived in seamonkey. I'm preparing a long doc explaining how I solved all the issues to set up seamonkey just right.

In summary: seamonkey 2.0a2 rocks.

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Living Room / Re: Can a Linux man survive in Windows Land?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 17, 2009, 03:43 AM »

I'm considering server 2008 for my personal computer 

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Living Room / Re: Switching to Linux for a week

« Last post by urlwolf on January 14, 2009, 04:53 AM »

I still think trying linux for a week is bound to fail. You need long-term commitment for that to work out well. In a week you will not learn enough to see the advantages, and you sure as hell will see the downside.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Songsmith

« Last post by urlwolf on January 13, 2009, 12:15 AM »

It's almost as if Microsoft found a way to reverse-engineering 'cool', then proceeded to make the program that would minimize it.

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General Software Discussion / windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)

« Last post by urlwolf on January 08, 2009, 10:31 AM »

Here is the announcement.
Will you try it?
I was toying with the idea of installing Server 2008. The fact that this beta will be installed by many people seems like it could improve the final product faster than the standard way of not releasing it free as a beta.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Mark Forster seeking beta testers for Autofocus

« Last post by urlwolf on January 05, 2009, 11:34 AM »

Carol,

Here's the direct link:
http://www.academicp...Interview2vbr175.mp3

Looks like we changed the link structure to a more verbose one and that old link didn't work after that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Wrap Up

« Last post by urlwolf on January 04, 2009, 08:23 AM »

Thanks Perry, and congrats Mouser... DC is generating a special 'mojo' that makes people happy. And dedicate time to it . Very interesting community here.

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Living Room / Re: 'fit to witdth' feature in opera: any way to replicate it on Firefox?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 31, 2008, 12:45 PM »

mwang:
no it doesn't. It scales down the fonts (!). It's stupid, it goes from unreadable because of long lines to unreadable because of small fonts.

What opera does is to 'force wrap'. It's a really smart idea. Try it.
This is particularly important if you use portrait screens.

I realized I asked this before a year ago or so:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7234.0

No solutions, I guess.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by urlwolf on December 29, 2008, 01:35 PM »

I think oneNote can do audiorecording and time-tag what you write while recording.
I've never used this, so I cannot comment, sorry, you may know how it compatres to perfectNotes.

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Living Room / Re: Official DC meet-up in Berlin, Germany: January 3rd @ c-base

« Last post by urlwolf on December 27, 2008, 04:57 AM »

I'm in!

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by urlwolf on December 25, 2008, 10:37 AM »

zim (the notetaker I use on linux) is evolving a lot too.
It's being ported to python. It offers an equation editor. It runs on windows (not trivial, not portable, but interesting). Open source. PLus it's actually a personal wiki, could be very useful to crack down a site in a flash.

Version control included.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics

« Last post by urlwolf on December 25, 2008, 10:33 AM »

Mathematica 7 is out and it does some crazy cool thing with graphics.
You can stick a graph into an equation.

No idea how useful this is. Visual, yes.

I have not used sage much. I code mostly in R. I envy the notebook concept though.

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Living Room / Re: twitter updates from a desktop application with a global shortcut. Possible?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 25, 2008, 10:22 AM »

I forgot to mention, it should not be adobe AIR based. AIR interferes with my debugging of actionscript
Thanks though

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Teaser: Trout

« Last post by urlwolf on December 24, 2008, 03:14 PM »

fantastic what one can do with ahk