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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM error #11013

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 10:27 AM »

This is an old thread but solutions are presented here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25938.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Windows Desktop Virtualizers?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 08:26 AM »

Pheonix you are using a term that is confusing.  As aryq points out, when people think of "desktop splitters" they think of tools that divide up your screen into areas for docking applications, like jgpaiva's wonderful GridMove tool.

The more common term for the kind of tool you are looking for is a "Virtual Desktop" tool (less commonly called a "multiple desktop" tool).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Delete every N files, or keep only every N files

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 07:56 AM »

From the cpu patterns, but more significantly the memory patterns, use you are describing, it sounds like what may be happening is that the delete function (perhaps because it is sending files to recycle bin), is being run asynchronously and creating a new thread for each iteration of the loop, so that essentially the loop is creating thousands and thousands of threads trying to delete files at the SAME TIME, while the loop runs super spawning all of the threads/processes -- rather than it processing each one in turn.

Alternatively, it could be an antivirus program having the same effect.

It would be one thing for the cpu use on one of your cores going to 100%, but the memory use suggests that each iteration of the loop is causing something to be spawned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can someone help me with some useful information about Yii framework?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 07:33 AM »

I haven't played with it in years, but the last time I used it, I was very impressed with Yii.

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 07:26 AM »

Don't forget hand-cleaner.

Thanks for the reminder.

May I suggest Harbor Freight Tools.. You may have a store near you.

There is one quite near me -- I bought my floor jack there (consensus seems to be that their floor jacks are good).

I presume you have an alternate form of transportation?

Yep, i'll have someone with me to help in case of problems.

always pull a wrench, never push it

yep, i have heard that -- i will try to remember it; i have a good breaker bar.

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DesktopCoral / Re: How to get Desktop Coral to stay on Primary Monitor when switching screen setup?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2015, 12:21 AM »

Hi jiexi,

I'm not sure exactly how to solve your issue, but i suppose as a first step let me tell you that the config file, on win vista and later will be a file called DesktopCoral.ini in your documents\DonationCoder\DesktopCoral directory.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 32: April 17th-20th, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 09:41 PM »

power ostriches

 

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 09:24 PM »

Well, it's official -- we have just broken our past fundraising record. This is absolutely wonderful.



Even more impressive than the amount raised is the fact that it's been raised from over 800 individual donors.
 

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 08:15 PM »

And if you can't get something wrong in that lot you ought to be doing your own maintenance

i estimate the likelyhood of me breaking something during each procedure at 5%.
unfortunately that puts me at about a 45% likelyhood of needing to have my car towed to a mechanic before i'm through.

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 07:44 PM »

Too late to turn back now, i have purchased an obscene amount of tools and materials and will soon be jacking up the car and:

• Changing oil
• Changing the brake pads and rotors
• Flushing tranmsission fluid
• Flushing coolant
• Flushing Transfer case and rear differential fluid
• Flushing brake fluid
• Flushing power steering fluid
• Replacing spark plugs
• Rotating tires

I've watched dozens of youtube videos, read a half dozen books, I'm ready to bond with my car through the experience of learning how to care for it

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 04:53 PM »

Nod5, can you redownload the new beta i've uploaded and tell me if that's any different wrt win8 icons?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 04:04 PM »

Win 8.1 pro on laptop with high dpi screen:
- no icons

ok i need some assistance -- i just installed farr on a win8 virtual machine and i see icons.
what settings do you have that you think might be responsible for icons not showing?  can you give me any more info -- does it show no icons in any scenario, whether the icons are from typing "cpanel" alias or from browsing directories?
can you check that you have icons in windows explorer?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request : Shortcut key to re-establish clipboard chain

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 02:34 PM »

quite possible -- let me look into the function and see if i can add options for it.
but what apps are you using that are messing up the clipboard chain so frequently?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 01:18 PM »

Well "actively" might be stretching it.. however i've recently been updating farr -- new update coming in next few days -- and while i haven't implemented indexing yet, i've been thinking about it a little more and i'm still committed to adding it -- as an option (many people like farr specifically because it does live search and doesn't mess with indexing).  Hopefully sometime towards the end of this year.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.145 - Apr 22, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 01:09 PM »

no, you can skip this update.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 12:36 PM »

Ok so I got a follow up email from the other person experiencing this bug -- he tracked it down to the fact that CHS was saving its data to user's document directory, which was on a NETWORK drive.
Solution was to modify the ConfigDir.ini file in the ClipboardHelpAndSpell directory to point to a local drive (in his case CONFIGDIR=%APPDATA%).

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request : Shortcut key to re-establish clipboard chain

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 12:33 PM »

by the way, I assume you've already tried this:

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Living Room / Re: Inquirers questionable business IT Tech nomination survey

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 11:51 AM »

I've changed the topic to something that doesn't make people here who read it think it's something they will be interested in participating in.. I think with our limited mental attention spans, i think it's important not to send people off to surveys that sound like they should take them when they aren't for them.

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Living Room / Re: Inquirers questionable business IT Tech nomination survey

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 11:46 AM »

I visited the page -- calling this "Tech Hero Awards" seems really odd to me.. these are very specialized group of nominees for an exceedingly narrow specialty area of "tech"..

Here's the page (click to expand):

to something that doesn't make people here who read it think it's something they will be interested in participating in..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request : Shortcut key to re-establish cliboard chain

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 11:42 AM »

I can do that. 

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Living Room / Re: Automakers Want to Outlaw Gearheads From Working on Their Own Cars

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 11:37 AM »

Outrageous and unacceptable.

Now I can see that there will be safety concerns as modifiable software takes over more and more of the operation of cars. You can imagine a scenario in the not too distance future where someone downloads an "unofficial" patch for their latest auto-parking car, and it turns out a virus causes the car to speed up to 100mph randomly or causes brakes to fail.. After all, if it's possible to do something, someone somewhere is going to try to do it.. So i'm not saying that some concerns aren't warranted.   But this idea of blocking people from being able to hack their own stuff has to stop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to easily shuffle around parts of an image

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 11:29 AM »

Can you elaborate on what you want to do with the result? Do you actually want to make it like a puzzle? What's the motivation for this?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.9.6 - Apr 22, 2015

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 10:49 AM »

Sorry about that -- try now.

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 10:21 AM »

Ehtyar!!!!  

What an awesome read.  As much as I shy away from most human contact in real life, I'm just loving hearing updates about people's lives here in this thread.  As I said before -- no need to apologize or feel guilty for moving on to other interests.. It's just great to hear from you!
(I'm afraid I left my PhD program, which remains a tender issue for me, but that's for another day).  Thank you -- and everyone else -- for sharing part of yourself here.  It's been such a pleasure to be able to share a small slice of life with you all.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2015, 09:32 AM »

Mr pearce, have you tried the new feature where you can drag and drop images to append them?

Video here:
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc30/sc30.html