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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2011, 04:41 PM »

I do like the "old-fashioned" way where you pay a set upgrade price from the previous version. So your upgrade price is valid till another new full-version is released.

But the times they are a changing - at least they're not charging per year.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2011, 04:36 PM »

I personally find this "limited time" thing offensive - instead of making me want to buy it before the time runs out it makes me want to move to another file manager.

-tomos (May 01, 2011, 12:18 PM)

Ever been to a supermarket? Or do your servants do that for you?

-michaelkenward (May 03, 2011, 04:31 PM)

no, I'm poor actually (honestly!)


[edit] silly thing to say really. Compared with really poor, I just have to pick and choose what I buy. as for the quote... :p [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

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

damn, we need a bit of good news around here

-tomos (May 03, 2011, 03:49 PM)

Sorry, I thought it was good news... *Shrug* ...For those of us what don't have any iLife.

-Stoic Joker (May 03, 2011, 03:57 PM)

yes, point taken

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2011, 03:49 PM »

so they have been lying, oh surprise...
(not that I'd expect any better of most corporations)

damn, we need a bit of good news around here
(no, not shooting the messenger lol)

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2011, 03:19 PM »

What bothers me about the whole thing is: this idea that you can win a war. I suspect the only people who really believe that, are people who have never been invaded, or have never lived in a warzone.

Think about it this way, say you want to teach someone a lesson. Beating the crap out of them is one way of doing it, but they're probably not going to forget and/or forgive for a very long time. As to whether they actually take your "lesson" on board, well...

I grew up in a time & place where, within a couple of hundred miles of me, people were killing each other on an almost daily basis - for twenty years and more. Each side was trying to persuade the other side of something, or get "justice" - or revenge - or all of these things. People talked about atrocities that happened decades, even centuries previously. At one stage, I even believed that one side was "right". I didn't condone what they were doing, but "understood" where they were coming from. All BS in the end. Cause violence as a solution to a problem just makes things worse, and worse, and worse.

I'm not saying I have alternatives, or god help us, the answers. I'm just pointing out: it's not as simple (unfortunately) as lots of people would like to think it is.

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Living Room / Re: Nifty Gmail feature

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2011, 08:07 AM »

Thunderbird has similar heuristics.

-f0dder (May 03, 2011, 07:37 AM)

I've been using Thunderbird for many years. Can't remember ever having seen that. But then I never read the help file

-phitsc (May 03, 2011, 07:39 AM)

it's been asking here since an update a while back (couple months ago).

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by tomos on May 02, 2011, 11:53 AM »

... but please do come back

-f0dder (May 02, 2011, 11:44 AM)

+1

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by tomos on May 02, 2011, 11:18 AM »

Ugh... I think there might be some misunderstanding here.

Tomos, I think housetier meant to say time... (the end of your post) ...off and you took it to mean f*** off?

-nosh (May 02, 2011, 11:16 AM)

thanks, maybe doesnt matter now I think.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by tomos on May 02, 2011, 10:53 AM »

...off.

-housetier (May 02, 2011, 09:02 AM)

thanks a lot


[edit] removed the unhelpful bit... [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by tomos on May 02, 2011, 08:53 AM »

Hey, housetier,
the reality is that this forum is a mix of different people with often (very) different ideas of what's acceptable or not. I thought the response was very mixed - yours was the clearest to say it was unacceptable. You cant persuade anyone of anything at the end of the day though, so really, what more can you do?

It's definitely still your forum, so take some time....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2011, 12:18 PM »

Anyone know are they going to do that again this time around, where the 40% upgrade price is only for a limited time?

-tomos (April 30, 2011, 05:07 PM)

For a limited time, ...

-Curt (April 30, 2011, 04:27 PM)

-Curt (May 01, 2011, 01:06 AM)

I personally find this "limited time" thing offensive - instead of making me want to buy it before the time runs out it makes me want to move to another file manager.
Dont get me wrong, I love Dopus, and I respect that they make it an expensive product - in general it lives up to it's price.
But this limited time thing is like a slap in the face, first they make it very expensive which, as I say, is absolutely fair enough. But to put the pressure on and say:- if you dont get it now, it's going to be even more expensive - that's too much for me.

I'll see have they implemented anything I want or need...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2011, 05:07 PM »

Anyone know are they going to do that again this time around, where the 40% upgrade price is only for a limited time?

I cant remember the exact details with version 9. They did announce per email at the time, that the upgrade price was for a limited time only (a few months?) - after which a new and more expensive upgrade price went into effect...

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Living Room / Re: The great toilet paper debate

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2011, 04:46 PM »

I get my toilet paper from Penny-Markt (.de) -
it's called "Happyend"

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Living Room / Re: The great toilet paper debate

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2011, 05:08 PM »

Over.

I get annoyed if it's facing the wrong way, and I definitely correct the error - also if I'm visiting other people

-f0dder (April 29, 2011, 10:43 AM)

I've gotten in trouble for that ("correcting the error" when visiting others...)

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Living Room / Re: USA Deadly Tornadoes

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2011, 07:13 AM »

And a simple foul language forecast (I love it!)

-app103 (April 29, 2011, 06:45 AM)

haha wonderful love it

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Living Room / Re: Apple - not quite grasping the concept of privacy.

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2011, 03:57 AM »

@tomos

I'm not so sure about the truth of that.

-Renegade (April 28, 2011, 07:59 PM)

me neither lol

Still, I would be interested to read from someone that would actually do an impartial and clean investigation to find out exactly what is happening. Or at least up to the point of the Apple "black box".

-Renegade (April 28, 2011, 07:59 PM)

+1

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

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2011, 03:51 AM »

i could add -- a full screen/window gallery of all thumbnails in the current group/entire database.

-mouser (April 28, 2011, 09:17 PM)

I could see myself using this (but more if vector support were introduced) - the thumbnails would definitely need to be proportional here (to original clip).

So, I guess that's a +3/4 :p


EDIT/ where's the link for the most recent beta?
is it still here (bottom of page 1 of this thread) if so, I'm okay

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

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

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

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2011, 03:46 AM »

interesting stuff going on here 

So my question is, is this something people think is important to have an option for -- an option to size menu thumbnails for clips to preserve their aspect ratios?

-mouser (April 28, 2011, 07:08 PM)

this could certainly be helpful, but could be a PIA in terms of space used in the quick-paste list [=undecided]

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Living Room / Re: Apple - not quite grasping the concept of privacy.

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2011, 12:28 PM »

they do claim that:

The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone.

which should be easy to check - and does not excuse the underhandedness of it all [edit] and probably still makes it fairly easy to track a person, if you wanted to [/edit]
(from Renegades 2nd link - "From the horse's mouth:" http://www.apple.com...4/27location_qa.html)

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2011, 08:19 AM »

40hz on form




[edit] had the wrong post - not so important I guess... [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: My beloved illustrated children's story about badgers (What was the name??)

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2011, 08:16 AM »

Maybe The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908?

-adarkstar (April 28, 2011, 05:07 AM)

he found the book! - but speaking of Wind in the Willows - I just got a copy lately,
so I could, as superboyac says "relive some pretty bitchin childhood memories"

I just love those illustrations by Shepard



http://bibliodyssey....wind-in-willows.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2011, 02:34 PM »

https://addons.mozil...ddon/mclickfocustab/

A new favourite of mine: MClickFocusTab. No more "right-click > Open in background tab", just middle-click the link, and it will open in background tab/window.

-Curt (April 27, 2011, 11:06 AM)

but Ctrl+Click does that already - or is that only with Tab-mix-plus? 

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

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2011, 10:15 AM »

what app is it that you are testing vector stuff on?

-mouser (April 27, 2011, 08:57 AM)

well I'm using FreeHand which is defunct as a piece of software - but illustrator** works (roughly)  the same way AFAIK - I've pasted basic vectors between the two - without problems - so I think windows seem to be able to cope with them...

In fact I remember being very surprised one day when I accidentally pasted part of a vector contour map into a FileHamster comment window - which saves comment/text files - I even have a screenshot of that somewhere :-)


** I actually have a recent copy of illustrator, but after a very destructive install, I removed it and still havent reinstalled it. I plan to install it again but seem to be putting it off until really I need to I guess

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

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2011, 08:51 AM »

Working fine here
(havent gotten the last minor update yet)

I notice it converts vector clips to bitmap images - I mean 'pixel' images. I've seen this in other clipboard extenders as well.
It uses a very low resolution though - the clips are useless really.

I presume it's not possible to save vector clips "as is"?
If not,
my ideal would be to convert them to a much higher resolution, but also give the option to disable saving of vectors

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Living Room / Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2011, 08:37 AM »

A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of my all time favorite books. There's also a sequel, but he doesn't appear to have read that.

-allen (April 27, 2011, 07:35 AM)

I read that years ago - I never would have guessed it's so old - 1961. A very good book all right.