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576
Darwin, here's the sequence: (from wikipedia)
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393

Oops! you left out a few GoogolGoogol numerals.  :P 

FYI - 10l to the Googol power is the quantity monikered as "Googolplex."  Try to imagine how vast Googol to the Googol power really is?   Then go do something a lot less useless!  <vbg>  (Read:  a lot more useful than trying to imagine the incomprehensible)

577
Shouldn't Fibonacci go up to 109 or even 174? I know nothing about the sequence but it looks like 65 and 44 should be added together to get to the next number...

Anyway, interesting idea but I haven't got a clue how to respond as I have never given these types of sequences much (any) though before!

Yes, Fibonacci (or any other) sequence/iteration could go on ad infinitum, but I only presented the sequence until the "total" was as close to 150 as the sequence would allow to correlate with this thread.  I have often been impressed how much order as opposed to chaos exists.  Think about this... there is no way in mathematics to create chaos.  Even in Poson's(sp?) Therory of Random Distribution there is an order and not a chaos.  I was attempting to explore the application of the mathematical "orders" to human interactions.
578
I wonder if there is a "type (depth?)/quantity" correlation between the relationships and certain mathematical iterations?  Each sequence below has the nearest total to 150 as possible for the sequence.

Fibonacci Sequence

1
2
3
5
8
13
21
44
65

{Can't Remember :( } Sequence
(1x1=1, 1x2=2, 2x3=6, 6x4=24, etc.)

1
2
6
24
120

In looking at these sequences although, the Fibonacci numbers are well represented in our world and beyond, I am persuaded the latter iteration above is more indicative of human "quantity~quality" correlations, at least in my experience. Even on DC this bears out, in my case.

Any thoughts?





579
Living Room / Re: Ralf Maximus - MIA?
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 22, 2008, 08:52 PM »
Or simply put, where is Ralf?  :)

... I don't know him well enough to PM him...,

FYI - I have made it a regular habit to PM members I don't know very well.  That's how I got to know them. :D  Sometimes they reply and sometimes not, but I always try!

Glad to hear Ralf is maintaining.  Facing some "issues of life" myself, I wish him the best and hope to see him back. :Thmbsup:


580
Best E-mail Client / Re: Pegasus Mail?
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 19, 2008, 11:40 PM »
Yes, this is a very old thread, but it provokes a thought...

One of the reasons I have stayed away from OL (and other email clients) is due to the mail file being in a "proprietary" format.  To me this says if a corruption occurs the mails the file contains are irrecoverable.  If T-Bird fails I can read find/read my mails via any text editor, right?
581
Find As You Type for Internet Explorer

Stays out of your way until you need it.  When you need it just "CTRL + F" and start typing!  Works just like FF, Maxthon and Opera, but with some options.  Source code in all languages is available and the developer has other software too!

Enjoy!  :)

582
Find As You Type for Internet Explorer

Stays out of your way until you need it.  When you need it just "CTRL + F" and start typing!  Works just like FF, Maxthon and Opera, but with some options.  Source code in all languages is available and the developer has other software too!

Enjoy!  :)

583
General Software Discussion / .Displaying picture attachments in Outlook
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 07, 2008, 07:12 PM »
This is only a pointer to this post.

Please keep in mind that this is for Outlook 2002, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked in other versions too. :)
584
Absolutely first class! Works a treat. Thanks driver!! That little ditty is going to avert untold frustration. 

(Just for the record, I had a handle on all the step-by-step. Just couldn't stop to try to figure out the problem with the code. But your excellent guide will make it easy and a pleasure to share your script with other frustrated Outlook users.)

You're welcome!  Like I said... you are no computer novice!
585
You're a prince. I don't care what they say about truck drivers!   :lol:

Thanks for the flowers! :) 

Try these instructions above
586
It's choking on the quotes (") in the first column. If I remove the first one it chokes on the ampersand (&).

Clearly, I don't know what I'm doing.  :-[

Not our doing... the SMF software is wrapping the lines and busting the syntax.  I will make a text file (no formatting) and attach it to the above post in just a minute.
587
Sounds interesting. And thanks!

... when I try to copy/paste your script into the VB editor it keeps throwing in CR/LF's and it won't run. Needless to say, an avid participant I am. But a coder I'm not!


Jim, You may not be a coder, but you are no novice to computers! :)  I chose to make the directions pretty granular so even the least experienced should be able to make this work.  In time, I should be able to automate the following, but for now it as to be manual.  Let us know how it goes.

Ok, follow these directions and it should get you going... 

The first thing we need to do is open the macro editor...

  • In OL, click on the menubar... Tools >> Macro >> Macros.
  • When the window opens type "ThumbViewer" in the "Macro Name" box and click the "Create" button.  This will open a "Visual Basic for Outlook" (VB) IDE.  Leave this open.

Second, we need to open the attached text file which has the syntax we need and send it to the clipboard....

  • Now, come back to the attached text file on this post and open it.  It is just text and will open fairly instantaneous.  You can save it if you want to.  Make sure it only opens in Not Pad or other text-only editor.  It will be unusable if it opens in MS Word or other word processor because there are hidden formatting characters that will be copied which will corrupt the syntax.
  • Click anywhere on the text.
  • Press "CTRL + A" to select the entire text.
  • Press "CTRL + C" to copy the text to the clipboard.

Now we have the code in our hands we need to put it into the IDE and save the project

  • Switch back to the IDE window.
  • Click anywhere on the text.
  • Press "CTRL + A" to select the entire text.
  • Hit the "Delete" key to clear out all contents.
  • Press "CTRL + V" to paste the syntax text from the clipboard into the IDE.
  • Save and close the IDE.

Now that we are back in OL and if everything worked OK you should be able to select any email(s) with a picture attachment(s) and execute the "ThumbViewer" macro.
 
  • In the list of emails, select one or multiple emails.
  • In OL, click on the menubar... Tools >> Macro >> Macros.
  • When the window opens, you should see "ThumbViewer" in the "Macro Name" box.
  • Click the "Run" button.  This will open a simple browser with all of the picture attachments displayed in "single-file."  You will have to scroll down to see the rest of your pictures.



588
2) Since you are using Outlook, you can use VBA (or any scripting language compatible with the scripting host, like Jscript) and interact with Outlook.

I sure wish somebody would do that. It's so annoying that Outlook handles attached images so poorly. M/$ says it's because of security. Humbug! From time to time I go hunting for a solution and am again amazed that there seem to be few or no solutions available.

Hi Jim,

Me too!  I am looking into this as I am not satisfied with the way OE handles it.  I know "what" to do to make it work, but I have to learn "how" to program it (read: learn syntax).   

I had an application a while back (can't recall the name just now) which worked OK. Would have gladly coughed up $10 for it but all the links to buy it were dead. Then the trial expired and it gaged.

The app didn't display the images in the message but when you clicked on any of several attached images and your viewer launched you could then page through all of them instead of having to go back to the message and open each one individually.

The macro I posted in the first post above will provide the function you have described.  :) 
After the macro has been saved, I reccomend creating a button to put on the toolbar in OE.  When you have picture attachments in a mail, just click run the macro and voila!  A simple browser will open with all the pictures and if you select multiple mails in the message list, it will display all the pictures in all the mails in one window.  Scroll down to see all of them.

Hope this helps.

Fair winds!

589
General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 03, 2008, 01:35 AM »
... Bugs that I haven't able to deal with have been responsible for starting from scratch in doing a complete re-write.  :-[

Ouch! That must have been a nasty bug!


Technically, it may not really be a "bug."  I had failed to model properly before I started coding and my architecture limits didn't show up until about the 2nd beta. <Calvin gets charlie horse while trying to kick himself in the rump>  :-[

Live and learn! :)  ... and thanks for the sympathy.
590
Below is some code I scavenged from the Internet for a macro that will take attached images in Outlook 2002 and display them in a window. 

Does anyone know how to intercept an email w/ pix attchments in a locale Outlook client and "rewrite" the HTML so the pix display in the body automagically?

I have tried some experiments with the code below, but I don't know how to intercept the email before it is displayed in my client.

Is this possible?


Thanks! :)



Code: Visual Basic [Select]
  1. Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
  2.  
  3.  
  4. Sub view_attachments()
  5. '***************************************************************
  6. ' ver. 1/30/04
  7. '  - Select one or multiple emails.
  8. '  - Copies files to 'Temporary Internet Files\view_attachments'
  9. '    (previously copied files are deleted each time it's run).
  10. '  - Only image files are displayed (no others are executed).
  11. '  - Right-click images to 'Save As', 'Email', 'Print', etc.
  12. '  - Hover over image to see original size & scaled size.
  13. '  - Clicking each image will toggle between original size
  14. '    & browser width (unless original size is smaller).
  15. '  - To scale all images to browser width, resize the browser,
  16. '    right-click on background & choose 'Refresh'.
  17. '***************************************************************
  18. On Error Resume Next
  19.  
  20.  
  21.     Dim oOL As Outlook.Application
  22.     Dim oSelection As Outlook.Selection
  23.  
  24.  
  25.     Set oOL = New Outlook.Application
  26.     Set oSelection = oOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection
  27.     Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
  28.     Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  29.  
  30.  
  31.     vTempInt = objShell.RegRead("HKCU\software\microsoft\" _
  32.       & "Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cache")
  33.     vPath = vTempInt & "\view_attachments\"
  34.  
  35.  
  36.     If fs.FolderExists(vPath) Then
  37.         fs.DeleteFile (vPath & "*.*")
  38.     Else
  39.         fs.CreateFolder vPath
  40.     End If
  41.  
  42.  
  43.     vBkgrColor = "000000"
  44.     vFontColor = "FFFFFF"
  45.     vHTMLBody = "<HTML><title>View Email Attachments</title>" _
  46.       & "<body bgcolor=#" & vBkgrColor & " link=#" & vFontColor _
  47.       & " alink=#" & vFontColor & " vlink=#" & vFontColor _
  48.       & "><font face=Arial size=3 color=#" & vFontColor & ">"
  49.  
  50.  
  51.     vEmailNum = 0
  52.     For Each obj In oSelection
  53.         vEmailNum = vEmailNum + 10
  54.         vSubject = "Attachments from: <a href=""Outlook:" _
  55.           & obj.EntryID & """><b>" & obj.Subject & "</b></a><br>"
  56.         vHTMLBody = vHTMLBody & vSubject
  57.         vAttachNum = vEmailNum
  58.         For Each Attachment In obj.Attachments
  59.             vAttachNum = vAttachNum + 1
  60.             vImg = "document.img" & vAttachNum
  61.             vWidth = "document.body.clientWidth - 20"
  62.             Attachment.SaveAsFile (vPath & Attachment.FileName)
  63.             vHTMLBody = vHTMLBody _
  64.               & "<b>" & Attachment.FileName & "</b><br>" _
  65.               & "<a href=""javascript:fWidth(" & vImg & ");"">" _
  66.               & "<center><IMG name=""img" & vAttachNum & """ alt="""" hspace=0 " _
  67.               & "src=""" & vPath & Attachment.FileName & """ align=baseline " _
  68.               & "border=0 " & "onload=""vOrig=String(" & vImg & ".width)" _
  69.               & "+ ' x ' + String(" & vImg & ".height);vRatio=(" & vWidth _
  70.               & ")/" & vImg & ".width;" & vImg & ".alt='Original Size: ' + " _
  71.               & "vOrig + '\n  Scaled Size: ';if(" & vImg & ".width <=" _
  72.               & vWidth & "){" & vImg & ".alt=" & vImg & ".alt + vOrig;}" _
  73.               & "else{" & vImg & ".alt=" & vImg & ".alt + String(" & vWidth _
  74.               & ")+ ' x ' + String(Math.round(vRatio *" & vImg & ".height));}" _
  75.               & "if (" & vImg & ".width >" & vWidth & "){" & vImg & ".width = " _
  76.               & vWidth & ";}""></center></a><br><br><br>"
  77.         Next
  78.         vHTMLBody = vHTMLBody & "</a><br><br>"
  79.     Next
  80.  
  81.  
  82.     If Not vImg = "" Then
  83.         vHTMLBody = vHTMLBody & "<script>function fWidth (vImg){" _
  84.           & "vCRLF=vImg.alt.indexOf('\n');vOrgWidth=vImg.alt.substring" _
  85.           & "(vImg.alt.indexOf(':')+2, vImg.alt.indexOf('x')-1);" _
  86.           & "if(vImg.width == " & vWidth & "|| vOrgWidth <= " & vWidth _
  87.           & "){vImg.width=vOrgWidth;vImg.alt=vImg.alt.substring(0,vCRLF)" _
  88.           & "+ '\n  Scaled Size: '+ vImg.alt.substring(vImg.alt." _
  89.           & "indexOf(':')+2,vCRLF);}else{vImg.width=" & vWidth & ";" _
  90.           & "vImg.alt=vImg.alt.substring(0,vCRLF) + '\n  Scaled Size: '" _
  91.           & "+ String(" & vWidth & ")+ ' x ' + String(vImg.height);}}</script>"
  92.     End If
  93.  
  94.  
  95.     vHTMLBody = vHTMLBody & "</font></body></html>"
  96.  
  97.  
  98.     Set ie = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
  99.     With ie
  100.         .toolbar = 0
  101.         .menubar = 0
  102.         .statusbar = 0
  103.         .Left = 100
  104.         .Top = 50
  105.         .Height = 750
  106.         .Width = 1000
  107.         .navigate "about:blank"
  108.         .document.Open
  109.         .document.Write vHTMLBody
  110.         .document.Close
  111.         .Visible = True
  112.     End With
  113.  
  114.  
  115.     vTimer = 0
  116.     Do Until ie.readyState = 4 Or vTimer = 10000
  117.         Sleep 10
  118.         vTimer = vTimer + 10
  119.     Loop
  120.  
  121.  
  122.     Set ie = Nothing
  123.     Set fs = Nothing
  124.     Set objShell = Nothing
  125.     Set oSelection = Nothing
  126.     Set oOL = Nothing
  127. End Sub
591
General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 02, 2008, 11:36 PM »
I am always quite vocal about software that misses the mark, including my own. >:(  If a bug becomes apparent I "squash" it.  Bugs that I haven't able to deal with have been responsible for starting from scratch in doing a complete re-write.  :-[
592
Hi,

Anyone know of a full-blown PIM that will allow dual-direction synching with my Palm T|X?  The PIM must have the following...

  • Email client that can display inline-HTML images as well as displaying image attachments inline.
  • Calendar
  • Task Manager, preferably with the ability to have the tasks integrated with the Calendar so Due Dates are displayed.
  • Memos, Letters and large Writings (small novels, etc.)

Some things that would be nice to have are...

  • Create/play sound files for relaxing or verbal emails.
  • One-click integration with a Text-to-Speech reader.

My laptop is useful, but I need to be ale to pop the PDA in my pocket and step away from my laptop quite often. 

I have been searching this forum's history and have read everything I can find on DC, but without success.  I have searched the internet as well. 

The best combo discovered so far is...

  • Outlook 2002 (I have a license) - Outlook is the only one I have found with the One-Click TTS.
  • Agendus Pro by iambic.
  • Documents-To-Go.
  • Text Aloud or NaturalReader
  • <Off Topic> IE7 also has the "One-Click" buttons too. </Off Topic>
 


While this setup can fill my needs, I am interested to see if anyone knows of a comprehensive alternative.

Thank you. for your help. :)
593
General Software Discussion / Re: How much email do you keep…and why?
« Last post by CodeTRUCKER on February 02, 2008, 06:12 PM »
The reason I keep my emails is very simple... I can aways throw it away later, but once it's gone....
594
k... also in establishing what's worth preserving and what isn't.

I would suggest keeping it simple to start, i.e., "Product" micro-reviews (a single, concise formatted post within a thread).  The de facto case is everyone's individual experience would be valid and usable info provided that enough info on their system was included to provide comparative  data .
595
Yeah, a wiki (only editable by DC members with some amount of posts, to avoid drive-by graffiti!) is probably the way to go. We've taken that approach at the ASM community. But it requires a massive amount of work... also in establishing what's worth preserving and what isn't.

596
In theory this would be great, but it would take significant effort to keep information up-to-date and accurate.

Sounds like a job for a wiki to me...?
597
The actual framework should probably by different for different subject types, but thinking about software reviews/experiences/comments, I've always thought that an organisation that:

1. Separated the software into Categories and/or SubCategories
2. Had an "article" that gave an overview and collated results of Member Reviews (a bit more Wiki-like that could be co-authored)
3. Member Reviews (or Mini-Reviews) as its children, which should also include some standard Review items (Synopsis, Score, Conclusion for example)
4. Comments/Experiences can be posted about the software against the Review/Mini-Review
5. Members can vote for various aspects

So for example we had the Category: Productivity Software / Text Editors. And imagine that there were 10 reviews of 7 applications.

The main Text Editor article would present the standard scores and findings of the reviews (maybe Averaging the multiple values) and include Synopsis and Conclusion from the reviews. As reviews are updated and more done, the main Article is updated as required (maybe old reviews are dropped off as they are not appropriate for newer versions?). Comments about the Reviews and experiences of other users are added to the Reviews (much like the Mini-Reviews are now).

For software I'd love to see a Poll like counter that members could post that they use the software, and/or it's their main application for that class.

All well and good  :-\ but the main point in what I'm saying is that I think having a little more organisation, structure and co-authoring would help develop and present the wealth of talent and experience we have here.  :Thmbsup:  :Thmbsup:
598
Right now we are using a very primitive "tagging" system using the blog engine i wrote for the forum, to permanently create special pages like:

But a more powerful tagging system could help us provide some content-organized sections easily, to supplement the pure search-based methods of finding stuff on the forum.
599
 :Thmbsup: Since this looks like it has a core sufficient to make this happen and I have a reason for keeping this thread specific to "interest" in the project,  I am splitting off this thread to...

Phase II (Ideas for Implementation) - DC User's Resource

Please post all ideas for implementation there.

All other's wishing to express their "Interest" please continue to do so on this thread

Thank you  :)
600
Out of 130+ views of the "Phase I" thread there have been 13 responses to this point.  This provides a represents sample of a 10% response rate, but out of that 10%, 11 out of 13 responses were either "Yes" or "Yes and I would like to help!" This equates to a positive response of 85%!  There have been no dissenters and only two of the responses were neutral.

Given the above, it appears that it is safe enough to move forward with "Phase II - Ideas for Implementation."    

FYI - I have copied the ideas from the previous thread to this one for your convenience.

Keeping in mind that this should remain a membership-driven and membership-maintained initiative, is a wiki the only/best course to follow?  What other ideas does anyone else have in mind?

Also, the only way this will come to reality is if the workload of initial implementation and maintenance is not over-burdensome.  What is realistic for DonationCoder?

@Mouser - is establishing a wiki with a membership-only, minimum post count requirement (per f0dder) a doable and realistic plan?  Can the "wiki" be set up with minimum of inconvenience to you and the staff?  Further, how would a "wiki" dovetail into the tagging initiative?

@f0dder & @Ampa - you both indicated that there would be considerable maintenance required to make a "wiki" work.  Could you please explain in detail?

Everyone - For those that have not yet expressed your level of "Interest" in this project, please vote in the poll and leave a comment about your feelings/thoughts in the DC User's Resource - Phase I (Interest survey - Please post comments) thread and then return here to offer your ideas/plans on how to make this happen.

Thank you.
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