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Find And Run Robot / Re: What's wrong with this FARR picture?

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 05:17 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-daddydave (July 18, 2012, 05:03 PM)

it's overly helpful?
(I only get 6 results)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 05:12 PM »

This would give you 6 TB of data space with 2 TB of parity.  The simplest way to envision this is with math, i.e., 1+2+3=6 (D1 = 1, D2 = 2, D3 = 3, thus, P1 = 6).  If you lose any one of the "D" drives, you can easily calculate what you're missing.  Let's say you lost D2 and have replaced it.  The system starts to rebuild based data off the P1 parity drive information like this:

-skwire (July 18, 2012, 04:28 PM)

starting to get it - in conjunction with above explanation, this helped:
http://en.wikipedia....iki/RAID#RAID_parity


very impressive functionality - so long as it works

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 05:04 PM »

[img]http://www.icemark.com/blog/wp-content/upload/fish_chips_peas_and_pudding_01.jpg[/img]

YUM!

-Stephen66515 (July 18, 2012, 04:40 PM)

real chips, mushy peas, nice looking fish and ??_____??

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 04:23 PM »

^ no-one's going to steal that one anyway

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 12:43 PM »

I could use some tips on what to eat to get my weight back up.
Having lost too much from 2 surgeries (4 inguinal hernias) over the past year.
[...]
Louisiana has some great cuisine, [eat loads of the] fried stuff.

-cmpm (July 18, 2012, 03:11 AM)

have you not answered your own question there cmpm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2012, 12:28 PM »

^ I'm curious and know very little about RAID even, but the maths in your quote there dont make any sense to me.

So if you still have a couple of 500GB drives, and say three 1TB drives... you can protect the data on all of those with only one of those 1TB drives used as a parity drive.

that's 3x1TB + 2x500GB = 4TB total space.
IIUC a 1TB drive does to backup/snapshot of 3TB.
How does that work?

In some packages, like FlexRAID, you can pool them all together and combine the 1TB with the two 500GB for a total of 3TB of usable space (one of the 1TB will be used for parity, and it always has to be your largest drive).

it's not at all clear -there's possibly a typo in there ("the 1TB")- but I think they are using the same example as above of 3x1TB + 2x500GB. That would mean again that a 1TB drive does to backup/snapshot of 3TB.

Do they both use the empty space on all drives? (Apologies if this was covered already - I just skimmed the thread and the SnapRAID home & comparision pages).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a FREE pdf compressor tool

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 04:49 PM »

This is probably not practical,
but for individual files you could (I think!) print the PDF to a good customisable PDF printer (I use PDFcreator, watch out for toolbar install) and save with high compression levels and maybe even reduce image resolution settings.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: outliner with folding text & picture/icone/image support (org was editors)

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 04:42 PM »

Dont know how important this is to you gtrur:

most outliners will show images (usually in RTF or HTML content) in a second pane. As in the screenshot in the mini-review of RightNote wraith808 links to above.
There may be some that allow you to show images in the same panel as the items or entries. As I say, InfoQube can do this AFAIK - if you want help with it, best ask at it's forums (here)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program "Text Images", and sttmedia.com

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 04:29 PM »

TextConverter sounds good - and according to the quote above it's free of the "you must donate for this to work any more" problem

Replacing, deleting, inserting and formating of text or lines in many files at the same time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a FREE pdf compressor tool

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 04:18 PM »

There was a thread here which is old now but might be worth a scan:

Software to compress large pdf files
mind you, I dont think there were any free ones that were up to much at the time.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 04:10 PM »

and what about edit altdrag program?

-plander (July 17, 2012, 02:26 PM)

have you asked the author of AltDrag?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a "virtual scanner' software in one pass, outputting in PDF.

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 09:38 AM »

I'm pretty sure this idea was also discussed in another thread (with Contro requesting ?)

I'm not sure, but I suspect that, to some extent, the price may reflect the sophistication of the design and the technology in use.

-IainB (July 17, 2012, 03:16 AM)

-I hope you're right, IainB, because if I press Ctrl+Alt+PrtScr, FastStone Capture will create an accurate screenshot of the entire page, and offer me to merely click Save as Pdf - and I have a much better looking copy than any virtual pdf printer ever will give me - at a fraction of the price.

-Curt (July 17, 2012, 09:11 AM)

I'd imagine something like Omnipage would have the ability to do a higher resolution image though, and other stuff as Iain says.

if not looking for OCR you (one) could ask mouser if the ability could be added to screenshot captor, now that he has fancy scrolling capture, it could be captured at full-page-width in order to get better quality image. (There's already the request to save scrolling image shots as multiple files.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: editors

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2012, 07:41 AM »

What you're describing sounds more like a PIM or outliner to me.

e.g. I copied your last post below the quotes.
Pasted into what I use -InfoQube- and get a new item/entry after each return in the text (or all in one item if preferred).

Alt+ArrowKeys to move items up/down/around the hierarchy.



As you can see, I was not so successful with images (I think it can be done but never use that functionality & dont know how).
I'm not saying InfoQube is for you or your needs, but maybe some outliner out there is what you need - as opposed to an editor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shape Shift 1.0.9.0 and MoveIt 1.1.9.3

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2012, 05:49 AM »

MoveIt 1.1.9.3 Changed Arrow hotkeys to Alt-Winkey Arrow for move by large increment, and Control-Winkey  Arrow to move by smaller increment. This should remove conflict with commonly used hotkeys.

-MilesAhead (July 14, 2012, 09:03 PM)

that's a good choice, will test, thanks

edit/ it's working great

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Mouse Auto Clicker,free for all

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2012, 05:44 AM »

Did you make it?
Looks very good, I can definitely use this :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shape Shift 1.0.9.0 and MoveIt 1.1.9.1

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2012, 04:16 PM »

MoveIt 1.1.9.1 Added Control Shift Arrow hotkeys.  Works the same as Alt Arrow(which is still there) but moves the window by a smaller increment.

-MilesAhead (July 14, 2012, 03:41 PM)

This is very nice to have more control - but it clashes with Ctrl+Shift+Arrow which selects a word of text (in direction of the arrow). It's one that's very commonly used AFAIK.

Unfortunately I've also run into a problem with Alt+Arrow clashing with a software I'm using a lot at the moment - I had a false alarm with that before, but this one is real. I'll look at modifing the keys once I figure out a decent alternative shortcut - they mostly taken by one app or another
Considering Ctrl+Alt+Arrow but need to research a bit first.

Changed Snap Explorer to Quadrant to Snap Window to Quadrant. Now the Mouse Cursor Position is used to determine the quadrant rather than the window origin.  Any movable window may be snapped. If the window is not resizeable it is just moved. Otherwise it is also sized to fit in the quadrant.

See About Box and Readme.txt for more details.

-MilesAhead (July 14, 2012, 03:41 PM)

this sounds interesting, haven't used it yet this way, must check it out.

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Living Room / Re: First photo on the Web

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2012, 04:10 PM »

That image is clearly shopped. I can tell by some of the pixels. Also because I have seen many shops in my time.

-Deozaan (July 13, 2012, 11:18 PM)

From the department of "what are you saying?". The article gleefully announces that "the first photo on the web was a photoshop disaster". It wasn't even a technology test, it was in fact the world's first ad photo on the web.

-TaoPhoenix (July 14, 2012, 07:51 AM)

Deo was being silly.  He says this in IRC for every image we post 

-Stephen66515 (July 14, 2012, 08:17 AM)

well, I guess he got it right here lol

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2012, 03:31 PM »

^ I've seen a less polite version of that

OK, its not a video, but its cute, so it's going here:

[dog and deer]

-Stephen66515 (July 14, 2012, 07:12 AM)

that one looked shopped, but it prompted me to look on youtube

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Living Room / Re: SynAnHums

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2012, 04:36 AM »

"a human" / a person

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Living Room / Re: Petition - This Week We Kill ACTA - Or Get Locked Down In Monopolies For Decades

« Last post by tomos on July 13, 2012, 04:26 AM »

^ from that

The showdown over this thing called CETA continues in late August or early September at the earliest [after summer holidays]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2012, 04:22 PM »

think I'll retire from (my very short career in) the coding world, too many variables & unknowns there for me :p :-)

-tomos (July 12, 2012, 03:10 PM)

Ah ah, I understand your pain Thanks for the help!

-jgpaiva (July 12, 2012, 03:45 PM)

as a left hander, I'll probably use some variation of this when using the mouse (which unfortunately I have to a lot).
So, thanks for your help ;-) and to me_7834539 for the idea
Tom

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2012, 03:10 PM »

nope, I think it's a totally different problem. The error is that ":ShiftAltTab" is an unrecognized action. This indicates that the parser is identifying the first "::" as the hotkey delimiter, and using the last ":" as part of the action.
Hence, one of these might work:

[Select]

>!: ::ShiftAltTab
:>!::ShiftAltTab

-jgpaiva (July 12, 2012, 02:43 PM)

both of those are invalid hotkeys
also the following
(using "L" maybe a confusing choice [edit] get same results with "p" though [/edit]) -

L>!::ShiftAltTab
>!ShiftL::ShiftAltTab
>!RShiftl::ShiftAltTab

but this
>!>+L::ShiftAltTab
gets me:
---------------------------
The AltTab hotkey ">!>+L" must have exactly one modifier/prefix.
---------------------------

think I'll retire from (my very short career in) the coding world, too many variables & unknowns there for me :p :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2012, 02:22 PM »

Does this work?

[Select]

>!:::ShiftAltTab

-jgpaiva (July 12, 2012, 06:00 AM)

that gets a different error again:
---------------------------
Error at line 2.

Line Text: :ShiftAltTab
Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.
---------------------------

So it seems to be (possibly) two combinations that refuse to work as hotkeys:

• 1. combination of three keys
• 2. combination of Shift (and another qualifier key) and a key with two different characters e.g. :/;

maybe some AHK expert could confirm which one is the problem (or both) ?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2012, 05:00 AM »

If above is true, only solution is to avoid the third key (shift key)

This works:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. >!k::AltTab
2. >!p::ShiftAltTab

so that's
AltGr+k for AltTab
AltGr+p for ShiftAltTab

works well enough here in terms of ease of use

_______________________
EDIT/ I thought the L version of AHK was unicode?
It wont recognise the vowels with umlauts:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. >!ö::AltTab
2. >!ü::ShiftAltTab

---------------------------
Line Text: >!�ltTab
Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.
---------------------------

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.

« Last post by tomos on July 12, 2012, 04:58 AM »

This, using "L" instead of the dot:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. >!l::AltTab
2. >!>+l::ShiftAltTab

gives me
---------------------------
The AltTab hotkey ">!>+l" must have exactly one modifier/prefix.
---------------------------

which makes me think AHK cant handle shortcuts with three keys?