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Living Room / Re: Send me on a click adventure

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 17, 2010, 01:18 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kierkegard

-MilesAhead (July 16, 2010, 03:11 PM)

Kierkegard qualifies as off the beaten path, that not many people know about? How about Plato^w? Nietsche^w? Marx^w?

They're all in the "Western Philosophy" category.

-Deozaan (July 16, 2010, 04:56 PM)

I don't think any of these guys have blogs. 

-app103 (July 16, 2010, 07:36 PM)

Try Rodney Dangerfield.  He's dead but he still may be bloggin'.  Still has more of a sense of humor than you guys.

I think, therefore I don't feel like existing.

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Living Room / Re: Send me on a click adventure

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 16, 2010, 03:11 PM »

I just ran into this one today.  The guy is a barrel of laughs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kierkegard

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giving away Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (free)

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 16, 2010, 03:09 PM »

All I know is if I hit the SuperGigaZillaBucks or whatever they call it, I wouldn't be on TV saying "even though I now have 20 $Billion I'm going to keep my job at the Post Office because I love pushing the mail around that comes in on the conveyor belt."

-MilesAhead (July 15, 2010, 04:41 PM)

I have actually thought about this, and I would keep my current job, if I won the lottery - I like what I do, and the people I do it with.

-Stoic Joker (July 16, 2010, 06:06 AM)

If $20Billion doesn't change your thinking, I guess you wouldn't play in the first place. I mean, what's the point?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Req: quote only selected text?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 16, 2010, 03:04 PM »

it only works erratically here, no matter which setting (also FF 3.6.6)
it will work for a while and then not - no obvious logic to it...

-tomos (July 16, 2010, 04:01 AM)

Doesn't work for me at all in Chrome, even if I disable AutoCopy.

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Living Room / Re: Flicks that struck you as odd or different in a good way?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 08:32 PM »

Men Who Stare At Goats

Since Starman I guess I get sucked into quirky [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/[/url]Jeff Bridges films.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giving away Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (free)

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 04:41 PM »

It is more like, will I ever win something in my life after entering so many things.        Maybe some day!!

-tbelleman (July 15, 2010, 04:37 PM)

All I know is if I hit the SuperGigaZillaBucks or whatever they call it, I wouldn't be on TV saying "even though I now have 20 $Billion I'm going to keep my job at the Post Office because I love pushing the mail around that comes in on the conveyor belt."

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giving away Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (free)

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 04:14 PM »

Very simple (since I know lots of DC members are against Facebook), all you have to do is leave a comment on the blog post on why you want it and what you'll do with it.  Couldn't be easier.

Link:
http://www.veign.com...-ultimate-with-msdn/

-Veign (July 15, 2010, 12:52 PM)

I have one suggestion.  They should award me a copy so that I can come back here and testify it ain't one of those contests where nobody really wins anything. 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Req: quote only selected text?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 04:13 PM »

Works for me IF I have the "look and layout" options in my profile preferences set to
Use quick reply on topic display: show, off by default.
That allows me to quote part of a line.

Quoting was erratic when I had it set to "don't show at all",  or "show, on by default" .

(Firefox 3.6.6)

-cranioscopical (July 15, 2010, 04:07 PM)

I looked in preferences and didn't see it, prolly cuz it wasn't in the check box list. Now I have it!  Thanks.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Req: quote only selected text?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 04:10 PM »

(solved)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature Req: quote only selected text?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 02:52 PM »

As a follow-up, this no longer seems to work.  Tried it in both Chrome and Firefox.  Also when I do a Quote it seems all I can get is Quick Reply. I don't see any button to switch to Advanced mode.

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Living Room / Re: Flicks that struck you as odd or different in a good way?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 02:42 PM »

The most amusing flick I've seen in awhile is District 9

Marrying the boss's daughter does have its perils.

-MilesAhead (July 14, 2010, 07:18 PM)

Ou yeah, specially if daddy is some kind of capo di tutti capi

-Emma Morales (July 15, 2010, 04:02 AM)

'ayyyyyyyyy, sometimes ya' gadda' do whut ya' gadda' do!!

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Living Room / Re: Flicks that struck you as odd or different in a good way?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 15, 2010, 02:28 PM »

Another one that I can watch over and over is Shaolin Soccer

This flick got me hooked on Stephen Chow films. I think it's still his best work. Total genius.

edit: but you have to make sure you watch the 112 minute version.  There's a shorter version out there.  This version eviscerates the film by cutting out the entire funny sequence when Vicki Zhao Wei shows off her make-over. There are some other differences that change the whole gist of the film afa motivation and character development.  Looking on Net Flix it seems the one they have is the 87 minute crap version.

However I believe the good cut was used for the BluRay.

This film gets to me right from the intro with the homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey
(another of my all-time favorites.)

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Living Room / Flicks that struck you as odd or different in a good way?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 14, 2010, 07:18 PM »

The most amusing flick I've seen in awhile is District 9

Marrying the boss's daughter does have its perils.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Script to set a system restore point; win7

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 14, 2010, 06:58 PM »

This one looks like it has the bases covered:

http://www.winhelpon...ploads/createsrp.vbs

edit: btw if you want a different default string, just change "Manual Restore Point" to "my default string".  This way you can still back out by pressing Cancel.

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Living Room / Re: More ammunition why patents are EVIL

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 13, 2010, 07:23 PM »

The one I liked was the automatic top hat tipper. No need to reach up to the brim. If you were the first on your block to have the automatic top hat tipper in your top hat, you merely inclined your head slightly and the mechanism would do the rest!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 2.4

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 12, 2010, 04:16 PM »

PromptHere v. 2.4 Smoothed application of the blur effect so that the prompt doesn't show black, then change color. The blur behind is active when it appears.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 2.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 12, 2010, 03:08 PM »

PromptHere v. 2.3 Now you can hotkey on the Desktop to get a prompt if it is the "active window."  The default directory for the prompt when clicking the desktop is C:\ but you may set it using "DesktopDir" setting in .ini file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 2.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 12, 2010, 12:59 AM »

PromptHere v. 2.2 Added .ini file option UseGlass.  May be set to 0 to disable blur behind glass effect on Vista/Windows Seven. Set it to 1 (the default) to enable.


edit: btw, the download includes ahk source to MilesAhead.ahk, which has misc. functions including _EnableBlurBehind() and _GlassEnabled() used by the app, and PromptHere.ahk.  Also there's a Readme file and the program icon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 2.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 11, 2010, 05:50 PM »

PromptHere 2.1 The Glass feature of 7prompt has been incorporated into PromptHere.exe.  The prompts snap up faster since an external exe no longer needs to be launched(other than cmd.exe that is.)

Thanks to Michael Michta for showing me the way to EnableBlurBehind() in AutoIt3.
I translated the function to ahk for use in PromptHere.

Here's a link to a screen shot:

http://www.favessoft.com/prompthere.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 10, 2010, 04:06 PM »

PromptHere 2.0 now includes an AutoIt3 program called 7prompt by Michael Michta, that I modified with permisson of the author.  If running on Vista or Windows Seven with Glass enabled, the command prompts feature glass "blur behind" semi-transparency.

Version 2.0 is on my site for download now.  Softpedia should update early next week.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Latest BD Rebuilder Beta now allows avs filter entry

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 08, 2010, 07:49 PM »

Just did a run burning in an .srt sub!!  Came out nice!!

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Living Room / Re: More ammunition why patents are EVIL

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 08, 2010, 03:05 PM »

Well I guess if you are paying the lawyers all that money anyway, you have to keep them employed doing something until the lawsuits show up. 

-steeladept (July 08, 2010, 12:43 PM)

Which is why many people argue against having a full-time legislature. 

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General Software Discussion / Latest BD Rebuilder Beta now allows avs filter entry

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 08, 2010, 01:40 PM »

http://www.videohelp...m/tools/BD_Rebuilder

Now we can burn in subtitles instead of messing around with external .srt files and OCR.

I haven't tried it yet.  Next job with full subs I'll run it through.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Buzz Folders - Open/Save Dialog Box Extender ( + Free Version )

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 08, 2010, 02:33 AM »

Hi MilesAhead,

Thanks for the bug report. 
The "Remove Missing Links" bug is fixed as of Version 11.20. Update appearing soon.

I'm not familiar with RocketDock but I'll check it out when I get a chance.

It's good to know you've got great taste in music!

-DanJak (July 08, 2010, 12:19 AM)

The RocketDock thing seemed weird.  I don't know why a folder association would disconnect for one folder and not the other.  But in any case I hope the info helps a bit. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Buzz Folders - Open/Save Dialog Box Extender ( + Free Version )

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 07, 2010, 11:01 PM »

Hmmmmm, I noticed some side effects with RocketDock.  I have a shortcut to my download folder.  It was in the (Buzz) list.  I did Control Click to quick download from my browser.  After that when I clicked on the download folder shortcut in RocketDock it asked me what program to use to open it. The folder shortcut right next to it in RocketDock still worked.  I have to assume it's a side effect from the Buzz utility running.

I don't think I've ever tried a utility that added gizmos to the Explorer window that didn't have some unpleasant side-effect that prompted me to remove it.