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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 18, 2016, 08:52 AM »
Looks interesting. Which one of these is the first saga?
-phitsc (July 15, 2016, 08:21 AM)
Who are you addressing?

If it's me for the two books by Pernille Rygg, then original publication dates (don't know whether these are original Norwegian, or more likely English translation) are:

The Butterfly Effect (1997)
The Golden Section (2003)
-rjbull (July 15, 2016, 05:09 PM)
It was related to a book series for which I can't see the post anymore. Either I was addressing a post which has been removed, or I had a digital hallucination.
-phitsc (July 18, 2016, 07:36 AM)

I prefer my hallucinations analog.  At least then there is some correspondence to reality.  :)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 18, 2016, 06:52 AM »
Museum crossword art defaced when visitor, 91, fills in blanks
-Arizona Hot (July 16, 2016, 12:55 PM)

that was funny :up:
-tomos (July 17, 2016, 01:33 PM)

That must have made the curator rather cross.  :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 14, 2016, 07:35 AM »
Thank you, MilesAhead.

Both of your tips were a winner. :)
-brahman (July 13, 2016, 07:28 PM)

Glad they worked out.   :up:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 13, 2016, 05:49 PM »
I actually like Vivaldi and have been using it as my backup pretty much since it was in alpha. I think it has come a long way and I like the concept. I am still sometimes using the old pre Chrome Opera but it is not working that well anymore.

-brahman (July 13, 2016, 10:48 AM)

I still have Opera x64 v. 12.x installed.  Sometimes it plays flash video better than all my other new browsers, slimjet, firefox etc..

2.) I want to start a new tab when I put in a new url, but it always overwrites the tab which is already open. At least with the old opera I could do a Ctrl-Enter and it would open the URL in a new tab, but in Vivaldi I could find no option for it.

Have you tried Alt Enter?  Most browsers now seem to open a new tab from the addressbar with that shortcut.  I don't have Vivaldi on my machine to try any of the key combinations.  I am struck now at how slowly all the browsers come up.  The only one I have that snaps open is SlimJet.  I remember what a dog Netscape 7.x was when it was first released.  The thing that made me try to live with Vivaldi was the fast startup.  But there were just too many frustrations for me to deal with.

On the Taskbar thing are you running Vivaldi maximized?  You might try sizing it to leave a small gap at the top so that the desktop can sense the mouseover.  I don't know if it will make a difference.  It is just a guess.
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Living Room / Re: Judge rules FBI can hack hack any time, any, place, anywhere
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 07, 2016, 06:45 PM »
Hmmm, the judge's name is Henry Morgan.  Which is funnier?  That it is the same name as the panelist on the TV show "I've got a secret" or that it is the same name as the pirate?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 07, 2016, 07:46 AM »
Whoa!  Six more and I'm there!    :Thmbsup:
-MilesAhead (July 06, 2016, 07:39 AM)

The big 7000!   Yay!!
-MilesAhead (July 06, 2016, 04:38 PM)

Miles congratulating Curt on his 7k makes 7k.
-wraith808 (July 06, 2016, 06:33 PM)

Based on context, I think Miles was congratulating himself on his 7k. Or rather just announcing it. :)
-Deozaan (July 07, 2016, 12:56 AM)

It seemed too much work to make a screen shot and post it.  I congratulated Curt first and myself second.  ;)
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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 07, 2016, 07:43 AM »
Huub I guess it is not so simple.  I tried a bunch of things but if I free up the drag operation then left click in the off limits zone leaks through the first time.  Just like my first script.  If the au3 script is working I guess I would go with that.

I did not get any response when I posted on the ahk help forum. So I am out of ideas.
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 04:38 PM »
^ oh, thank you!

I was aware when I posted # 6996, but at 7k I already had forgotten!


-Curt (July 06, 2016, 04:05 AM)

Whoa!  Six more and I'm there!    :Thmbsup:



-MilesAhead (July 06, 2016, 07:39 AM)

The big 7000!   Yay!!



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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [free] WiseCare 365 Pro 4.2.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 04:28 PM »
Wise Care 365 Pro 4.2.2

There is one day, nine hours and change as of this post time, left on the giveaway.  A simple download when you give them your email address.  No license key.  It is unlocked/preregistered with no expiration but also no updates.

I uninstalled Wise Care 365 Free and ran this installer.  It came up with no nag screen and nothing about having to register it.  Good to go out of the box.

https://topwaresale....re-365-pro-giveaway/

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 02:13 PM »
Tom Harrell - Buffalo Wings - from Sail Away album.  btw the drummer I mentioned before, Adam Nussbaum, is in the group.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 11:12 AM »
Sing Street

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

I enjoyed this a lot -
coming of age in the eighties helped; having lived a year in Dublin in the mid-eighties helped; liking the music helped.
But none of the above necessary I'd say ;-)
-tomos (July 06, 2016, 09:10 AM)

I always liked the coming of age genre.  Old English flicks with Rita Tushingham, Asian flicks such as All About Lilly Chow Chow, Drew Barrymoore's Far From Home, etc..

Life is the same old same old, but it is new to those just old enough to experience its joys and frustrations for the first time.  :)

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 11:03 AM »
Hi MilesAhead,

Thanks for your effort but this still doesn't work, I can still click on the systray clock icon with the left mouse button.
The script from 4wd worked only I got an error when I was double clicking the start menu button.
Is there a way of disabling the left mous click based on the mouse position x and Y area ?


br

Huub
--Huub- (July 06, 2016, 08:23 AM)

You simply need to use the Window Spy to get the name of the control/window under the mouse cursor and add to the If statement.  It will vary with version of Windows etc..

All I have now is Windows 8.0.  Also I only have a Laptop.  I cannot test other versions of Windows or multi-monitor stuff.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 08:02 AM »
Removing the #IfWinActive and making the LButton global seems to have done the trick.  Try this out if you will.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  2. ; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
  3. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  4. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  5.  
  6. $LButton::
  7. MouseGetPos,X,Y,Win,Contr
  8. If (Contr != "ToolBarWindow321")
  9.         Send, {LButton}
  10. return
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 06, 2016, 07:39 AM »
^ oh, thank you!

I was aware when I posted # 6996, but at 7k I already had forgotten!


-Curt (July 06, 2016, 04:05 AM)

Whoa!  Six more and I'm there!    :Thmbsup:


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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2016, 03:44 PM »
I posted my script on the AHK "ask for help" forum.  Perhaps someone there can get it to block single clicks when the focus shifts from another window.  It seems the system reacts to the mouse click before the click changes the focus.

This is interesting to me because many of my tray utilities will show an about box if the icon is left clicked once.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2016, 10:43 AM »
This one seems to prevent a double click.  But if an icon does something on a single click of the left mouse button it will still fire.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  2. ; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
  3. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  4. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  5. #IfWinActive ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
  6. $LButton::
  7. MouseGetPos,X,Y,Win,Contr
  8. If (Contr != "ToolBarWindow321")
  9.         Send, {LButton}
  10. return

Edit: If you are on Windows 10 the control name may be ToolBarWindow322.  You can use the Window Spy tool that comes with AutoHotkey to check the Class NN of the control.

I think ToolBarWindow321 is good for XP up to Windows 8.1.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2016, 10:30 AM »
Hi MilesAhead,

This blocks all left mouse clicks, I would only like to disable it on the far left icons, in this screenshot I have marked the area in yellow that I would like to disable the lefts mouse click for.
[ Invalid Attachment ]
--Huub- (July 05, 2016, 07:22 AM)

I should have known it would not be that easy.  :)

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2016, 06:53 AM »
Try this script

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  2. ; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
  3. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  4. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  5. #IfWinActive ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
  6. $LButton::
  7. return

To use it you need the free AutoHotkey tools from here:
https://autohotkey.com/

You can either run the script as is, or compile it to exe so that it will run on PCs without AHK installed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firemin: reduce FF memory usage
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 02, 2016, 02:52 PM »
^^ not responding drives me nuts.  Not only that dialog.  But at times it just will not scroll an already loaded page.  The other thing I do not understand is why it keeps a cache.  If I use the back or forward button it fetches the data from the net even if it is only 10 seconds old.

I do have Lazarus on SlimJet(a flavor of  chrome.)  It sucks except for the alternative of typing for 5 minutes and ending up with vanishing text.  :)

I am using SlimJet with the cache on a Ramdisk.  I only sacrificed 256 MB ram for the disk and set the cache to 200 MB.  Cache doesn't supercharge like it used to so no sense investing half a GB.  SlimJet can scroll in weird ways also.  But it doesn't get the long lags like FF.  But for some things I already have FF set up and working well.  So it is impossible to totally ignore it.

The thing I cannot figure out is why FF seems to react much snappier after a version update.  After the new version gets "stale" it is back to the same old same old hangs and lags.  The irony is these browsers insist on hogging ram and maxing out the CPU and they don't perform as well as Netscape 6.x.  Multicore CPU and GBs of ram and it still can't scroll a page without an RSVP.
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by MilesAhead on July 01, 2016, 01:20 PM »
mouser @36,000
-tomos (June 10, 2016, 07:00 PM)

I think forum software starts the Admin off at 30,000.  That way if you run a trouble free board you don't look like you are sitting around cooling your heels.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 47.0.1 (latest at Softpedia 1st again)
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2016, 10:21 AM »
releases.mozilla.org
-Curt (June 30, 2016, 03:30 AM)

Not this one?

http://releases.mozi...1/win32-EME-free/da/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Winkey g Google Search ahk quickie
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2016, 09:26 AM »
I got the idea to adapt the google quickie search hotkey, Winkey g, to utilize BrowserBunch.exe.  Now to google precede the search terms with "g " (g and a blank space.)  Also the search string is now scanned for spaces.  "%20" is substituted for spaces in the search string to avoid it being "chopped" at the first space on the command line.

Type in a URL instead to open a browser.  You will need to update the path to BrowserBunch.exe to match the location on your system.  I find this handy for bypassing stuff like the browser trying to open a Speed Dial before letting me type into the address bar.  Plus instead of relying on the default browser setting you can use the browser that works best or opens fastest etc.. on the page in question.

Here is the code snippet.  Edit: I don't know if there is a way to turn off wrapping in the edit applet thingie.  If you get errors look for wrapped lines that shouldn't be.  :)

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #g::
  2.   InputBox,SearchVar,Google Search,Enter Browser URL (precede with "g " for Google Search)
  3.   If (ErrorLevel)
  4.     return
  5.   StringLeft,TempStr,SearchVar,2
  6.   If (TempStr != "g ")
  7.     Run,C:\Utils\BrowserBunch\BrowserBunch.exe %SearchVar%
  8. else
  9. {
  10.   StringMid,SearchVar,SearchVar,3
  11.   If (InStr(SearchVar," "))
  12.     SearchVar := StrReplace(SearchVar," ","`%20")
  13.   Run,C:\Utils\BrowserBunch\BrowserBunch.exe  http://www.google.com/search?q=%SearchVar%
  14. }
  15.  
  16.   SoundPlay,*64
  17.   return
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General Software Discussion / Re: MoveIt 1.5.0.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2016, 09:10 AM »
MoveIt 1.5.0.0  Now pressing Alt Winkey Arrow moves the active window all the way to the edge of the work area.  This makes it much simpler to get the window against the edge or flush into a corner of the screen using only the keyboard.

Control Winkey Arrow still works as before.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 29, 2016, 05:17 PM »
Joe Henderson - Mode for Joe - RVG

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firemin: reduce FF memory usage
« Last post by MilesAhead on June 29, 2016, 03:54 PM »
And "Firemin runs the clean memory API call a few times per second."? That's just insane.
-f0dder (June 29, 2016, 02:10 PM)

It does seem overly zealous to say the least.  I think I have one tray utility where after each function it sets a timer to call EmptyWorkingSet() once.  And that is because the utility accumulates no data and spends most of its time idling in the tray.  There is really no need but I was curious about the results.  From what I can see in Task Manager it uses less than a MB instead of something on the order of 2 MB and change if left to the OS to monitor the memory.

To keep the FF memory leaks under control it would likely be more efficacious to set a reminder to restart it every couple of days when it is not busy performing some operation.  I wonder if this thing is a put on?  Perhaps version 2.0 will call EmptyWorkingSet() every 50 ms?  :)
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