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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 10:26 AM »

PS   Now stop reading these forum messages and get those websites finished!

Gonna take more than finishing ....

I really want to scrap them and start over ... somehow I think it is going to be a while before it happens ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE can, but Firefox can't access internet?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 10:24 AM »

Do you mean you can connect to DonationCode.com in Firefox but not other sites ???

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP - system process - high CPU use - any ideas?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 10:22 AM »

It also doesn't seem to like scanning inside archives (CAB and RAR)  too much (at least I think that is the problem).

Anyone know how to set NOD32 back to its out of the box settings? I did some tweaking and I am experiencing similar symptoms.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE can, but Firefox can't access internet?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 10:17 AM »

Some firewalls block all traffic if switched off or exited ...

Check in Kerio to see if Firefox.exe has been blocked ???

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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 10:14 AM »

What other processes and services have you got running?

Any of them showing unusual activity?

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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 08:37 AM »

PayPal is already there? Or it was when I joined ...

See https://www.donation...te/DonateMethod.html

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Living Room / Re: Needed: DVD Audio > MP3 or WAV recommnedations?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 07:03 AM »

If you can find him - his website is dead ....

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Living Room / Re: Needed: DVD Audio > MP3 or WAV recommnedations?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 04:46 AM »

Thanks Clif,

That works quite well to rip a sound track but again lacks the ability to pull tracks - just the whole thing.

Where it does score is speed ... ripping audio from a whole DVD takes 4-5 minutes. (Plus the time it takes to rip the VOB files to hard disc first as it only seems to like hard disc).

Is it just me or does any one else feel nervous about using software with a totally black interface, programmed by Dr Evil ???

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Update Notifications?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 04:34 AM »

One suggestion would be to have a link on each program page to link to something like www.ChangeDetection.com.

That way people could choose to easily recieve emails every time the app page is changed (eg. version number changes).

You could also have a new apps page with a similar link.

I have found changedetection very useful for some sites that I like to keep an eye on but only change occasionally.

It's a free and easy way to keep up to date without an spam implications (or other irritations)  that I am aware of, and best of all it would have little or no impact on DonationCoder's bandwidth!

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Living Room / Re: CDs... :(

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 19, 2005, 03:34 AM »

Who's your new avatar Carol?

-clif_notes (October 18, 2005, 09:20 PM)

Chosen for our glorious leader 

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Living Room / Re: CDs... :(

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 05:48 PM »

Here are a couple of interesting articles:

This one is an easy description of the problems.

This is a PDF file with a complete (supercomplete) description of possible problems and archiving solutions ....

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Living Room / Re: CDs... :(

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 05:10 PM »

Actually there are a lot of myths going around about oxidising CDs.

Most of the problems seem to have occured either in the early days of CD production when manufacturers were still learning (seems to be your case) or faulty manufacturing - there were various batches of discs produced in Germany and distributed through Europe that highlighted this problem a few years back.

The same is potentially true for DVDs.

However, most manufacturers seem to have fixed the problems quite a few years ago and esitmate CD archive life at 100 years plus.

Not a lot you can do though with CDs which have oxidised to the point of holes!!

I had a number of articles about this issue somewhere - I'll see if I can find them (just hope they aren't on a CD ...  )

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Living Room / Re: Polyphasic sleep?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 11:41 AM »

Shame there isn't a solution for when you want to stay awake less.

I didn't feel well yesterday evening and went to bed at 1030pm - unusally early for me. Trouble was i woke at 2am and that was that I was awake until about 5am, woke this morning feeling like death ...

Oh well ... maybe tonight will be a good night ...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: show control panel

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 08:41 AM »

It's always the simple idea's which are the best. You are a genius 

-alexp (October 18, 2005, 07:34 AM)

Nice of you to acknowledge that 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug / Issue — Paste of Images Changes their Aspect Ratio

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 07:03 AM »

Actually - slightly mea culpa - but still a bug in there:

The above images were different sizes - still doesn't explain why the aspect ratio was destroyed though.

However, the following image is two full screens joined (identical orginal sizes). I doubled the canvas width and cut/psted using the SC edit menu.

The right hand image should be identical in size to the left hand image, but is in fact slightly smaller. Aspect ratio however is preserved.

Strange ...

Also I noticed moving larger objects (like whole screen shots) is really slugish (like move about wait 20 seconds, move another bit ...)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug / Issue — Paste of Images Changes their Aspect Ratio

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 06:43 AM »

Yes I get the same thing ...

Here is an example shot ...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: show control panel

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 06:32 AM »

Don't know if it will work (haven't tired it yet) but how about adding a small folder and include it in the search folders with shortcuts to the control panel items you are interested in?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Streaming Media Recording Resources

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 06:29 AM »

I went to the site too, and was downloading a number of large files at the time. Slowing down page access this way was interesting ... watch the status bar at the bottom of the browser window as the site contacts ad site after ad site (I gave up after a while but there were loads of them chuntering through all of which chuck cookies onto your system).

Not nice ...

I can't help wondering if this is 'ezboard' or that particular forum causing the problem?

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Official Announcements / Re: NEW - Automatic Instant Activation after Donating

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 06:23 AM »

Good job ...

(ye gods I sound like an American ...HELP  )

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Official Announcements / Re: NEW - Automatic Instant Activation after Donating

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 04:48 AM »

One issue that might need to be made clear (I haven't looked recently so it may have been done) is that the PayPal account email address and the registered forum email address have to be the same (otherwise there isn't a way to connect the two). Personally I didn't want to do that, and caused myself some confusion at the time!! Obviously people can change the forum email after the Charter Member status is confirmed.

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Living Room / Re: Needed: DVD Audio > MP3 or WAV recommnedations?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 18, 2005, 03:27 AM »

Thanks tinyvillager and clif_notes,

DVD2AVI does the job in a crude way, but you have to edit the resulting file to break it into tracks (for music DVDs) which is very time consuming.

DVDShrink is something I have seen before but doesn't really relate to audio extraction.

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Living Room / Re: Needed: DVD Audio > MP3 or WAV recommnedations?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 17, 2005, 11:23 AM »

I have a couple of music concert DVDs which I would like to listen to in the car.

I have seem IMToo DVD Audio Ripper ($29) which looks to me to be identical to Xilisoft's version (just a different skin on the same product as far as I can see).

Actually I have had a copy of Intervideo's DVD Copy, which I just discovered will do this ...

The only drawback with the IV product is you have to manually enter all the MP3 tag stuff after the rip  - but it will rip audio , scale it and burn straigh to CD which is useful.

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Living Room / Needed: DVD Audio > MP3 or WAV recommendations?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 17, 2005, 06:14 AM »

Anyone know of any freeware/donationware apps that do a decent job of grabbing DVD soundtrack data and ripping to CD/WAV or MP3 format? Failing that inexpensive shareware apps.

Ideally I'd like something that can extract tracks (I have software that can rip an entire soundtrack but the editing into music tracks is time consuming).

Cheers

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Living Room / Re: use a real Wiki on this site?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 17, 2005, 05:33 AM »

Which ones are you involved in Brother_S ??

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Living Room / Re: use a real Wiki on this site?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 17, 2005, 04:01 AM »

For fear of repeating myself - a wiki could be used for ...

FAQs
Documentation project for site apps (including coding snacks etc.)
Tips and Tricks
Quick find links for software types/functions/categories etc.

My only worry would be the amount of maintenance necessary and the potential for abuse?

How do WikiPedia cope with these issues?