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

« Last post by tomos on April 21, 2011, 05:29 AM »

If I could, I would gladly live without a phone. Jobs would be in prison in my dictatorship until he could explain himself over this stunt. And his company would go broke paying all the customers he listened to. If he refused in any way, I could think of more creative ways to make sure billionaires learn to behave.

-zridling (April 20, 2011, 07:25 PM)

Withdraw his entire worth in pennies, and make him eat every single one of them. Twice.

-f0dder (April 21, 2011, 05:06 AM)

ahh f0dder, I see you're a fan of recycling . . .  eeeuuuuuwwwww

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Living Room / Re: The Evil Side of Nature

« Last post by tomos on April 21, 2011, 03:39 AM »

But nature isn't all evil~!
...

That's impossible not to love~! 

-Renegade (April 20, 2011, 08:06 PM)

agreed !
top voted comment says:
ITS SO FLUFFY IM GONNA DIE

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« Last post by tomos on April 21, 2011, 03:25 AM »

@BartelsMedia,
personally I think the first post should have been deleted (as a first post, I dont think it's on) but there is a tradition of non-censorship here (I'm not a moderator btw).
I certainly dont support it (the first post) and dont really see the point of it.

I actually thought your first response was fair enough, but I took you up on one thing you said, because I thought it was unreasonable:

But if you re-read their post [OP] you will see that this is an assumption as well:-

Now, as you seem to be an established DC member, would you please tell us the reason why you don't post with your real DC account but use a dummy account for that? Is it, because you are a jealous competitor or is it, because you know that your posting is not true and you don't want to harm your real account's reputation?

-BartelsMedia (April 20, 2011, 03:58 AM)

-tomos (April 20, 2011, 06:10 AM)

at which stage you took off - in the style of the OP (or worse)

I think this thread should be locked at this stage.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 11:02 AM »

I tried an exercise ball for a while, but it kept rollling (forwards or backwards - I cant remember).
Maybe it was too big, I dunno...

I've seen a small exercise ball in a metal "frame-chair" - seemed comfortable - but I just sat in it briefly, & have no idea if they widely available.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 09:48 AM »

At least you have a sense of humor

Of course, I thought it would be the other way. Some folks look so grumpy here at DC.

Boys, we have been severely accused and offended by this troll and you expect us to ignore that? Sorry, but this is quite difficult, especially as it was so easy to pull the plug out of his pointless arguments.

-BartelsMedia (April 20, 2011, 09:21 AM)

The first post is pretty foolish imo (I'd be happy to see it removed - a first post like that is not on, imo)

But,
if you respond like this (conspiracy theories, personal atrtacks), you are only fulfilling all the negative descriptions of the OP . . .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint about Bartels Media \ the PhraseExpress people

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 06:10 AM »

The first poster made a lot of assumptions, using circumstantial evidence (I wouldnt want to be on trial with them as the judge...)

But if you re-read their post you will see that this is an assumption as well:-

Now, as you seem to be an established DC member, would you please tell us the reason why you don't post with your real DC account but use a dummy account for that? Is it, because you are a jealous competitor or is it, because you know that your posting is not true and you don't want to harm your real account's reputation?

-BartelsMedia (April 20, 2011, 03:58 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Apple is Still Apple - Sue After Stealing...

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 06:00 AM »

Some of the patents are comical . . .

I'd like to patent a rectangle with rounded corners
worthy of Monthy Python

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Living Room / Ashampoo hacked

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 03:49 AM »

We regret to tell you that we also detected an unauthorized access to one of our server systems. We assume that the attackers were able to purloin data of customers. Sensitive data such as billing information etc. is not affected by this, because Ashampoo does not store this data.

We summarized all pieces of information concerning this incident for you and would like you to read the following website: http://www.ashampoo.com/datatheft

     

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Living Room / Re: Is Amazon the new Apple?

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2011, 03:26 AM »

On their developer blog, Amazon responded the following day, stating simply that the policy in question was from a dated text file, and that a PDF elsewhere on the site contained the correct terms.

The response seems fishy. The IGDA's letter states that they reached out to Amazon several times and that Amazon were unwilling to change terms. If it were simply a matter of referencing the wrong terms, surely they would have pointed that out. Secondly, Amazon's response doesn't actually address the concerns stated in the IGDA letter. Even taking Amazon's 'correction' into account, many of the IGDA's concerns still seem valid.

-http://www.kimpallister.com/2011/04/implications-of-amazon-igda-spat.html

-Deozaan (April 19, 2011, 07:30 PM)

seems like that (if it were true) would be fairly easy to check...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2011, 02:15 PM »

I notice I'm not able to remove older backedup revisions of a file - so I had to remove the database file completely from the SpiderOak backup
(which deleted 3GB space!)

-tomos (April 19, 2011, 12:26 PM)

I'm curious... How do you plan to solve this uploading/backup issue (same as mine, basically) ?

-Armando (April 19, 2011, 12:58 PM)

I dont really know... I do plan to contact SpiderOak, but I busy this week, so it will have to wait a little.

I like to keep at least one backup online, I can probably set one up one with Super Flexible File Synchronizer & Amazon S3.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2011, 12:26 PM »

I notice I'm not able to remove older backedup revisions of a file - so I had to remove the database file completely from the SpiderOak backup
(which deleted 3GB space!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2011, 01:23 PM »

My current solution will be to stick with dropbox until this is fixed -- I don't have this problem with dropbox, as I said. They must use a different delta backup algorithm.

-Armando (April 18, 2011, 12:49 PM)

That, or DropBox uses special handling for certain files, including access databases?

-f0dder (April 18, 2011, 01:02 PM)

FWIW:
Dropbox was unable to backup my database until it was closed -
SpiderOak is able to back it up while it's open

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2011, 10:16 AM »

As you probably read, I wonder why my DB is re-uploaded each time it's backed up (i.e. : I periodically send the DB to a folder monitored by spideroak -- the DB is RC4 encrypted). I understand the UI doesn't mirror everything happening behind the scene. But I can definitely see the amount of uploaded data each time.

-Armando (April 17, 2011, 11:33 PM)

Thanks for pointing this out Armando - I seem to have the same problem. My 1.5GB of backups has turned into 4GB+ over a period of a couple of days so I'm presuming this is the problem (InfoQube database, encrypted, 50 copies of it showing on SpiderOak).

> But I can definitely see the amount of uploaded data each time.
how do you see/check this?

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Coding Snacks / Re: Windows Reorganizer

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2011, 09:09 AM »

is there a difference?

Thread name = Documents Organizer

Do you know a soft to scan a folder and subfolders and output all in shorcut's mode to a destination folder organized cronologically.
That's :
source folder : By example Y:\datos
to destination folder : by example Y:\Crono
with the subfolders 2011 to make reference to year
containing the subfolder 06.2011 to make reference to month
and finally containing the subfolder 12.06.2011 to make reference to the date.
Able to control years, months, and days of the creation file.
Able to exclude from the source folder some extensions of file.

-Contro (April 10, 2011, 08:38 AM)

This thread:

I would like :

Source folder : a folder of my election containing files and subfolders.
Each file has a creation date. We can exclude system files and other extensions not proper to control.
The basic idea would be : reorganize documents, audios, videos, images, and usual files by crono.

Destination folder : The coding snack give the possibility to generate or use a previosly created.
The destination folder is a crono folder :
First level of subfolders control the year : 2010 , 2011, 2012 .
Second level of subfolders control the month : 01.2010, 02.2010, 03.2010, 04.2010 , etc
Third  level of subfolders control the day : 12.01.2010 , 13.01.2010, 14.01.2010 , etc.  (for me is usually enough control the month)
This may be configurable....

Mechanic to get : when the scan found a file in the source folder analyze the creation date and copy a shortcut to the year, month , and day specified in the creation date of that file.


In other words. Is an utility organization copy creating in the destination folder the shorcuts of the original files.

-Contro (April 08, 2011, 09:45 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Documents Organizer

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2011, 08:42 AM »

might be worth studying these to see if they could be modified (they move the files as opposed to creating shortcuts):

IDEA: Moving selected files to date based folders

New App! File/Folder Date Organizer

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General Software Discussion / Re: BM-productions: useful & free

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2011, 09:24 AM »

forgive me if my legs are too short, but your comment went over my head.
"BMs"?

-Curt (April 17, 2011, 04:48 AM)

time for the urban dictionary:
http://www.urbandict...efine.php?term=B%20M


[edit] first one on this list [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Growing Green != Going Green

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2011, 11:55 AM »

Prime reason all kinds of drugs isn't legalized is not public health issues, it's the cash flow. The corrupt politicians want their bribes, and the police/military/etc wouldn't want their funding cut or lose the ability to play with a lot of fancy toys. The general population would be better off, though, we'd see crime rates drop quite a lot, and organized crime would lose a helluva lot of their cash flow. But it just ain't gonna happen.

-f0dder (April 15, 2011, 06:41 PM)

reminds me of:
around about 2000(AD :p), crime rates went down a good bit in Dublin; politicians & police were happily claiming credit - but it turned out the reason was a surplus of heroin on the market which reduced prices, thereby reducing mugging quotas per junkie....

Too bad, remember what happened once the alcohol prohibition ended?

-f0dder (April 15, 2011, 06:41 PM)

eh, no?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2011, 11:29 AM »

^ I had the same problem with Jungle Disk & S3 (account created summer 2008) - unreadable in Cloudberry. Which discovery, combined with a failure of JD -with no warnings- prompted me to start using SFFS to backup directly to S3.
Also I was wary of what the future might be bringing... [edit] (for Jungle Disk/S3) [/edit]

-tomos (April 13, 2011, 04:47 PM)

What is SFFS?

-wraith808 (April 15, 2011, 10:33 AM)

sorry about that wraith,
it's such a mouthful of a name: super flexible file synchronizer (http://www.superflexible.com/)
There's a few threads about it here on dc.


[edit] it's really a backup &/or a sync programme (the name is a bit misleading). Here's a screenshot of one of my S3 backups being edited: [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Salaries of Charity CEOs

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2011, 05:56 AM »

Coincidentally I just came across this today about a charity called "ONE":

ONE has since been forced to remind confused civilians that it is an advocacy organisation and not a grant-making organisation. This became necessary after the New York Post revealed that in 2008, the most recent year for which tax records are available, ONE took $14,993,873 in donations from philanthropists, of which a thrifty $184,732 was distributed to charity. More than $8m was spent on executive and employee salaries.

Who knows, maybe they use the money well...

from an interesting Guardian article: Bono: the celebrity who just keeps giving. (including a very entertaining urban myth in the first paragraph)

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Living Room / Re: Photos of the Surprise gifts I won from the April Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2011, 05:05 PM »

you might find something interesting

-mouser (April 14, 2011, 04:28 PM)

Didn't you promise not to fudge this?

-cranioscopical (April 14, 2011, 04:53 PM)

mmmmm fudge....

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Living Room / Re: The Universe Within - very cool flash image zooms from galaxy to atoms

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2011, 02:35 PM »

wow,
very good!

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Living Room / Re: Growing Green != Going Green

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2011, 09:31 AM »

And of course every marijuana user is a hippie, very good. I couldn't agree less.

-housetier (April 14, 2011, 09:17 AM)

I thought that too (as a response) but then I saw the point was that, [of the dope smokers,] it's only the hippies that care about global warming
(poor Deo get's a hard time...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deduplication, encryption, security and... Dropbox

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2011, 05:10 PM »

another one = amazon cloud:

Food for thought... No privacy on Amazon's cloud drive.

Less so than other cloud storage?

-Cloq (April 12, 2011, 08:04 PM)

I'll just throw this out there:
Does it really bother you though ?


[edit] on rereading the article, and thinking about it a bit, you dont have to answer that question ;-) I guess I'm sort of relaxed about it myself, cause the important stuff I have on Dropbox is encrypted (locally) [/edit]

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine Error # 11949

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2011, 05:02 PM »

Well,
after a break of about a year (or probably more), I'm using CH+S again - without any error messages (knock on wood, etc)
Still on XP - did install SP3 since last use of CH+S.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2011, 04:48 PM »

The thing I don't like about SpiderOak (the software) is that if you try to restore from a backup (after a format, for example), it will copy everything back to the original directory locations and doesn't give you an option to download the content to a different location.

-Deozaan (April 07, 2011, 05:17 PM)

I went and restored a whole bunch of settings etc. and it did ask me whether I wanted them in the original location or a folder of my chosing.

-iphigenie (April 09, 2011, 12:03 PM)

Default is to add it to your Download folder (here it was aimed at My Docs/Downloads, which I've actually never used) but it also allows you to customise the default location. Downloads (restored files) have the correct last-modified-date timestamps.