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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows equivalent to GNOME's typing break?

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 04:25 PM »

Workrave is a good programme but I found it far too intrusive (in fairness it was aimed at people who already had problems so it forced them to take a break) - but maybe it's evolved since I tried it a few years ago (yes, I see it has - I will try it again)

Instant Boss I used for years, it is a great app, but I did have a problem with it that if I hit spacebar, or return, when it's "break" window shows - it gets dismissed in a manner that it doesnt show again (IIRC it went to something like 'extend the break'). Hours later I'd be (probably surfing and) wondering what happened. This was a big problem for me cause I work with a drawing programme where I'm constantly hitting return and the spacebar... (also a big problem cause if I didnt get the reminder again, I'd just end up surfing instead of working)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 04:46 AM »

I dont know if this is a beta issue:

everytime CH&S restarts it reselects the bottom two options under Backup maintainance/Automatic filing
(I had them deselected)




it's working well here otherwise

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Living Room / Re: Charities

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 04:02 AM »

I chose #1 but I dont donate money, but donate my time.

I see you say: If you make monetary donations to charity, please consider voting. - I can remove my vote if you only want preople who make monetary donations

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 03:48 AM »

But LastPass was supposed to be the last password I'd need to remember.

Ever.

Says so right on their website and Twitter profile.

-Deozaan (May 06, 2011, 06:41 PM)

I followed the suggestions in the link quoted below - & changed my email password yesterday to an easy to remember phrase (three words, a little quirky so it's not too easy).

Nobody dismisses '"brute force" cracking techniques as being impractical any more. Today's multicore CPUs make it an extremely workable crack for most passwords people are able to commit to memory.

-40hz (May 05, 2011, 09:55 AM)

Check this out concerning brute force cracking of passwords. Was posted just recently somewhere.

-phitsc (May 05, 2011, 10:12 AM)

I was trying to change my LastPass password yesterday and couldnt - I think it was overloaded...
[edit] Still overloaded - Sorry! We are a bit overloaded right now. Try again in a few hours. [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Anti-Virus that allows EASY reporting of false positives ?

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2011, 04:59 PM »

I'm looking for an anti-virus that allows easy reporting of false positives.

I've been using MSE anti-virus for a couple of months now. It's been very quiet until recently when it decided that the source code of GridMove was a Trojan or something.
Those details aren't important - what is important is that I was not given a choice to easily remove this from the "threatened with quarantine" list - I added it to the exclusion list but I had to wait till I rebooted before the tray icon went from red, for danger, to green. I dont see any way of reporting false-positives - maybe the "spynet" option would work but the idea is not mentioned there either...

My previous AV was Avira, the paid version - this has a very good reputation - at the expense of being a bit enthusiastic, i.e. more false-positives. This would be fine if they made it easier to report them, but they dont. I started four threads in their forum on the subject and there was zero interest in changing how things worked - they were happy to take the details per forum post or per PM - but to me that's not the way to go (there were other routes that also worked in a roundabout manner). I want ease of use (not just for me naturally - I want to be able to take advantage of everybody else's easily reported false-positive reports)

There were a few threads a while back about giving the AV industry a hard time - if there were an AV with this "feature", and we would support it for that reason, we would be sending a message to the rest of the posse... or at the least we might have a decent AV

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2011, 02:52 PM »

I would user it and love it!

-DaveTheDuffer (May 06, 2011, 01:48 PM)

V2 Beta with image support is here:
https://www.donation...elpAndSpellSetup.exe

-mouser (April 26, 2011, 11:32 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2011, 11:00 AM »

He also understands Basic German Commands:

-y0himba (May 06, 2011, 09:01 AM)

that must be why they're called German Sheperd in 'European English' - they're also called Alsatian

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Living Room / Re: You're Only As Young As... Oh... Scratch That...

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2011, 08:09 AM »

around that time I was watching dodgy karate movies and I saw .... Grease 

I would have been much better off seeing:-

Did you realize that

Star Wars (First movie)

came out

nearly 35 years ago?

And I saw it in the theater. 

and I  AM  NOT   OLD!!!!   

-Rover (May 06, 2011, 07:42 AM)

me neither lol

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2011, 03:20 AM »

nice nmharleyrider,
the roses are just coming out here, spring/summer is always wonderful, but especially appreciated after a hard winter...

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 5th, 2011 - "Calming Breeze"

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 03:23 PM »

Thanks as ever

I cant seem to find info about the discounts - BonAView PhotoManager & Color Schemer Studio - I think the thread(s) might not have been posted yet?
or I'm being blind & missing them...

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 09:59 AM »

I was not forced to change my master password, but I did. It proceeded to re-encrypt everything.
now though, when I log in, I'm getting this message:
-------------------------------------
An error has been encountered while loading your site
Please relogin
------------------------------------
it is recognising the new password - it actually briefly showed my page on one attempt, but with most text not showing & with some weird unicode characters. I dont even know if I have a backup of this stuff (but I did just recently import most of it from Roboform).
So I suspect a problem with their re-encryption...

-tomos (May 05, 2011, 08:33 AM)

^ this is sorted now -
NOTE: they no longer store your password, which I guess is safer - but I dont know if it now works as renegade describes:

Instead of storing salt and the like, the database had strong encryption and was only ever decrypted on the client. (IIRC) If you ever forgot your password, you were screwed though because YOU were the only one that ever had access to it. As such, warnings were BIG and LOUD.

-Renegade (May 05, 2011, 05:30 AM)

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 08:33 AM »

Re LastPass:

I was not forced to change my master password, but I did. It proceeded to re-encrypt everything.
now though, when I log in, I'm getting this message:
-------------------------------------
An error has been encountered while loading your site
Please relogin
------------------------------------
it is recognising the new password - it actually briefly showed my page on one attempt, but with most text not showing & with some weird unicode characters. I dont even know if I have a backup of this stuff (but I did just recently import most of it from Roboform).
So I suspect a problem with their re-encryption...

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Developer's Corner / Re: WTF is Wrong with Web Developers? (Rant)

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 03:34 AM »

Deadlines?

-fenixproductions (May 04, 2011, 02:36 PM)

Probably. Some idiot project manager would rather have something that doesn't work now, than have something that works next week. Sigh...

It just seems like a lot of site use some form designer and forget that data needs to be verified.



I sooo do not feel sorry for the school...

-Renegade (May 04, 2011, 07:41 PM)

a simple apostrophe in a name (e.g. O'Connor) often causes problems...

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General Software Discussion / Re: ShadowProtect Desktop just did an awesome job for me

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 03:09 AM »

I'd certainly like to hear from someone who has used the built-in imaging feature in 7.

-tranglos (May 04, 2011, 08:42 AM)

+1

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 03:06 AM »

The latest beta works nicer with text in Freehand:
Current clip keeps foramtting etc as expected
Older clips paste as text.

Thanks!!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2011, 03:01 AM »

I'm presuming that current behaviour is of no use to you either...

-tomos

It's not ideal, no. It is light years ahead of having no image clips, however.

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 03:48 PM)

absolutely! I wasnt clear though - I meant current behaviour with regard to text from graphics programmes

The combination of arm-twisting 'clients' and mouser's generous indulgence could well produce something spectacular.

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 03:48 PM)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 10:18 AM »

Just to clarify (I've been confusing even myself above):

Ideally CHS would remember associated data and try to paste a body of text with formatting etc.
Ideally if it cant do this, it would paste as plain text.

Should there more to the ideal options there?

I dont know if this is feasible, and/or how this would relate to text formatting in other (rich-text type) programmes

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 09:57 AM »

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

-Tomos

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled.

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 09:13 AM)

as I said to mouser, I would like to see the "slew of associated stuff" handled by CH&S, but in the case of text, I would very much prefer it were handled simply as text and the associated stuff dumped rather than the way it's currently dealt with...

-tomos (May 04, 2011, 09:20 AM)

I could live with that but might there be the possibility of choosing to toggle how it's handled?

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 09:35 AM)

Chris, do you mean something like:
Toggle (in options?):
just text / or text with associated data. **

Or maybe ideally it would remember text + formatting etc, but if pasted in another application that cant read associated data, then the text would be favoured?


** [edit] I'm presuming that current behaviour is of no use to you either...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zoner 13

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 09:28 AM »

I see it's on offer Bundlelytic, Nitro PDF Professional, Sticky Password PRO, Zoner Photo Studio

What's the verdict in general on the programme ?
(I'm looking for something to organise my photos)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 09:20 AM »

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

-Tomos

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled.

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 09:13 AM)

as I said to mouser, I would like to see the "slew of associated stuff" handled by CH&S, but in the case of text, I would very much prefer it were handled simply as text and the associated stuff dumped rather than the way it's currently dealt with...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 09:13 AM »

^ that's the trick
____________________________


Well, I took the plunge as well.

I bought it from the german site HAAGE&PARTNER (site & shop - both in english) with the added bonus of getting free SFTP & USB **
BE WARNED, my initial install was german, but then I used the german language shop. I dont know if the install from the english language shop is in english - but i suspect not. You then have to find the option to change language to English.

** I got these 'free' with the upgrade (but they dont know how long this will be the case), for a couple of euros more than the gpsoft price (i paid €40 - there's 19% vat also included in that price - I dont know if that's charged for all countries).
NOTE free SFTB & USB is only advertised for when buying 10 new - I asked about it for the upgrade, they said it's currently the case but they dont know for how long.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 08:39 AM »

I just discovered that my folder aliases all now resolve to C:\Documents and Settings\[path]
Thus, for example, if I enter Art as a lister path, and Art is aliased as G:\Art
DOpus 10 thinks that it means
C:\Documents and Settings\Godfrey\Art
not G:\Art

These were working fine in DOpus 9 

Could someone be kind enough to check that out before I contact GP Software?

-cranioscopical (May 04, 2011, 02:57 AM)

I havent used aliases, but just made one - if I enter is as a lister path it tries to go to:
C:\Program Files\Directory Opus[\alias name here]

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 03:07 AM »

... (CH+S doesn't 'see' text copied from Illustrator btw) ...

-cranioscopical (April 27, 2011, 01:14 PM)

this is a big problem for me - even if I'm editing text and copy it, it gets saved/displayed as a thumbnail
I mean, if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 03:02 AM »

^ I forgot to say:
the presets weren't available. There was some option there but unfortunately I didnt keep a record of it.

After two restarts the whole thing seems to be okay now...

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2011, 02:36 AM »

upgraded to latest beta from an older one (last week sometime)

First got this message:
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Clipboard Help+Spell
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TableClips: Field 'Index' not found.
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OK  
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Then when I open the main window I get this and cant find anything...



Tree & Grid tabs are just grey. My favourites still exist when I paste but I dont see any quick paste clips - i.e. clips I just copied