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Living Room / Re: Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

« Last post by Josh on November 28, 2011, 06:15 PM »

Does the EU have a 99% group too?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Josh on November 27, 2011, 08:33 PM »

If it is just a single PC behind the router, you don't need the VPN. My setup has 7-8 pcs behind each router/firewall and as such, forwarding 3389 can be problematic. Either way, a 3rd party app would have to be installed and neorouter/hamachi wouldn't interfere with anything else on a standard setup, from my experience.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by Josh on November 27, 2011, 07:30 PM »

A combination of neorouter (or hamachi, whichever is your poison. I use NR because it has a native android client) and remote desktop/remote assistance is what I still recommend. Remote assistance allows the user to send you an invite to join their PC. This allows them to observe what you do, vice remote desktop which takes over control of their system and sends them to a lock screen. Used with neorouter, I can access any of mine, or my family's, computers anywhere I am.

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Living Room / Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation

« Last post by Josh on November 24, 2011, 04:48 PM »

Total Commander is nice but I would prefer a dedicated program. I've never been into explorer replacements as most of them do not fully replace the file management capabilities in Windows. Looking for more of a dedicated metadata tool.

Thanks for the suggestion thou

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General Software Discussion / Re: WorkTimer: A free web app for freelancers

« Last post by Josh on November 24, 2011, 10:25 AM »

What Spam? ;-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Exceptional : Ad Muncher Basic free for 1Y today on GOTD

« Last post by Josh on November 23, 2011, 06:56 AM »

Be advised, basic only updates once per week.

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 09:35 PM »

I would also like it known that once YUMPS is complete, I plan to help mouser test it with an upcoming project for the site. I guess you could say that is why I hope to motivate him to continue the hard work he is doing on it. Please, do not take my joking as an attempt to insult mouser, but more a way to drive him to continue the many great things he does. I know what is in store and I think this new idea will serve the ideas behind DonationCoder quite well. I am very anxious to get started on it and can't wait for YUMPS to be completed!

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Living Room / Re: What is a mouser? What does it mean to mouser someone?

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 09:25 PM »

$10? My word, am I in the hole! I must owe you several grand.

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Living Room / Re: What is a mouser? What does it mean to mouser someone?

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 07:54 PM »

It is all in good fun

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 07:49 PM »

I vote we rename this program from Yii User Management and Project System to one of the following

Yet Unother Mousered Programming School (He wants to use this for the 3rd programming school)

or

Yet Unother Mousered Program, Sigh.

For those of you who do not understand the "mousered" reference, please see here

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Living Room / Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 03:23 PM »

exif details in a file, tags added to mp3s, etc. Basically, most of what you see when you look at the details tab in a file's property window.

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Living Room / Batch MetaData tool recommendation

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 02:51 PM »

Does anyone know of a good tool which can do batch modifications to metadata contained in a group of files? Operations such as modification, removal, and even metadata searching within files in a folder or group of folders?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint: Freemake

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 08:42 AM »

That is just it though, the software IS FREE. Even with the adware, you DO NOT pay a dime as you CHOSE to install the adware. You are not being forced, and the program does not advertise by itself, the third party bundled items do, however. In fact, this program makes it very easy to opt-out of the advertising. The software becomes ad supported when YOU install the adware component to support the author. I do not know about the FFmpeg issue, but I do know that the background service was removed. My issue ties deeper into the whole adware area. You are FREE to use the program without adware. Your system does not get loaded with the adware until you CHOOSE to install it. If the program installs ad-supporting material without asking the user, or bundles it into the core UI, then it IS adware.

I do not see any issues with them promoting this as free because, in all reality, it is free. The user is still not paying a dime even with the adware installed. Once you are required to pay something to use the program, then it stops being freeware. How about we stop trying to make 200 categories to classify a program? This is why services like geek squad exist and continue to rape users of their money, because consumers are no longer able to determine what is what. This software is free and does not attempt to deceive in any way. You are clearly presented with the option to not install the revenue generating component.

You say "ask for donations or charge a fee" and that ties into my original post. How many users will actually PAY/DONATE and how many will just complain that the author is even attempting to ask for money and move to something else? The pay/donate model often does not work for products that start out as free. Notice, I did not say always, but often. Users feel they are entitled to use software for free nowadays, without any sense of the amount of work which goes into coding the products.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint: Freemake

« Last post by Josh on November 20, 2011, 08:07 AM »

Again, since malware has been running rampant for many years now, at what point do we require the end user to take some responsibility to watch the things they put on their computer? I would hope that educational programs exist to let users know to not click blind links, accepts attachments from strangers, or blindly click next through an installer.

As it is, this software is being given FOR FREE. How many users, like any other freeware, do you think actually contribute to the author? Many use free tools without any thought of compensating the author, and then whine when the author does something like this or makes the software payware, at which point they move on to another free product. At that point, the cycle goes round and round while the original product is bad mouthed for "selling out". Yet, what percentage of the user base actually supported the product with even a $1 donation?

If you being required to PAY ATTENTION, *GASP* what a concept *GASP*, during a one time installation is all that is required, how can this be considered bad? At what point is the author going outside his rights to ask for some form of compensation or support from the user community so he can receive some sort of compensation for his work?

This all ties into what I call the "entitled generation". Free software is nice but as soon as the develop shows any intent of trying to earn money, people whine and rage over it. I see nothing wrong with what Freemake is doing. The user IS RESPONSIBLE for what goes on their machine. They should be required to PAY ATTENTION and not just blindly click. I would rather see users take a stand against computer non-education and show users to pay attention and accept responsibility.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint: Freemake

« Last post by Josh on November 19, 2011, 07:07 AM »

Sounds like a fair deal to me...How dare the user be responsible for paying attention to what they are putting on their computer!

The software is free in that even with the bundled crapware being installed, you are still not paying a dime for the software. Free is free, let's not start making the word mean more than it should. That is why prisons are now "correctional institutes" and trashmen are "waste disposal engineers".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need replacement for MS Uptime.exe

« Last post by Josh on November 15, 2011, 08:43 PM »

From a command prompt

systeminfo | find "Time:"
systeminfo /s \\192.168.1.1 | find "Time:"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need replacement for MS Uptime.exe

« Last post by Josh on November 15, 2011, 06:58 PM »

Was getting ready to suggest psinfo. It works really well too. I actually forgot I could use it for that until I read about the newest sysinternals releases.

Good find Phil!

WOW! Just checked out NTToolkit, another great find! Now to make it portable!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need replacement for MS Uptime.exe

« Last post by Josh on November 15, 2011, 06:03 PM »

http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com/#

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General Software Discussion / Re: SyncBackSE V6 and SyncBackPro V6 Backup Software Released

« Last post by Josh on November 15, 2011, 07:11 AM »

15 Bucks for an upgrade is discount enough for me I love SBPro!

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

« Last post by Josh on November 12, 2011, 07:35 PM »

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe mouser has stated that unicode will not be coming due to the amount of work involved.

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

« Last post by Josh on November 12, 2011, 02:20 PM »

I am with JJ on this one. I have been of the mindset that a core indexing option should be developed that is INTEGRATED into FARR or developed as a plugin and maintained by mouser. The issue with plugins by 3rd parties is that if the developer loses interest, functionality will inevitably break and the users will be out that functionality. But as long as mouser continues to develop and maintain FARR, we can expect indexing to continue to work. This is part of the reason I would prefer to not see reliance on a 3rd party program but instead see this functionality built into FARR or implemented as a core plugin to FARR, so those who do not want it can do without it.

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

« Last post by Josh on November 11, 2011, 04:51 PM »

Armando: I think this is going the way of the dodo, much like Mousey's home appliance repair skills

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC+FARR = Metro UI alternative

« Last post by Josh on November 07, 2011, 04:56 PM »

I was loading up my vm as you replied

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC+FARR = Metro UI alternative

« Last post by Josh on November 07, 2011, 04:46 PM »

LBC + FARR + GridMove == Metro!

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Living Room / Re: Is "Thank you for your service" enough for veterans?

« Last post by Josh on November 05, 2011, 06:38 PM »

Thanks mouser.

And I would like to point out that receiving "kudos" was not why I posted this topic. I thought this article/opinion piece hit on an important topic that others should read.