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Living Room / Re: Born in the wrong time...

« Last post by brotherS on July 14, 2006, 08:16 AM »

What is a lot of fun is to go back and watch movies like that of Doris Day and Rock Hudson's Pillow Talk, whose story is comprised around the technology of the late 1950s. What I wouldn't give if we all dressed and talked like Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.

-zridling (July 14, 2006, 04:47 AM)

You got me there, I've been planning to watch Pillow Talk for about two years now. But since we are talking about old movies here... I hope you all saw Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? From 1964, this is a Stanley Kubrick classic, well deserving it's #19 in the IMDB's TOP 250 list.

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Living Room / Adobe announces: this is a PDF file

« Last post by brotherS on July 14, 2006, 06:04 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Born in the wrong time... (or maybe not)

« Last post by brotherS on July 14, 2006, 01:25 AM »

Broadband is worth far more than any old actress

In my opinion this is the perfect time to live!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stumbleupon - better pass your time on the web

« Last post by brotherS on July 14, 2006, 01:18 AM »

http://news.zdnet.co...g=feed&subj=zdnn

The 4-year-old company produces a browser plug-in that recommends popular Web sites to its users based on their stated preferences--such as photography, science or cool gadgets--and the endorsement of others in the Stumbleupon community within those categories. It's like channel surfing with a Web remote that knows what you might like.

The application now has 1 million registered users from Mozilla Firefox, the primary browser it supports, following improvements Stumbleupon made to it in May, according to the company. And next week, Stumbleupon will unveil a public version for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which commands the majority of the browser market, in the hopes of expanding its membership by the millions.

[...]

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Living Room / Re: hydroflyer: amazing driving flying watersurfing remote controlled toy

« Last post by brotherS on July 13, 2006, 01:55 AM »

Thanks for posting, mouser! I saw that video 6 to 12 months ago and wondered that they didn't (then) bring it to the market.

Can't wait to read some real live review here

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Mail Web Clips - RSS support for the email client I like best

« Last post by brotherS on July 09, 2006, 04:46 AM »

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Mail Web Clips - RSS support for the email client I like best

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 03:06 PM »

EDIT: How cool! When you switch from the Inbox to Spam, instead of RSS feed items Google will offer links to Spam recipes! I just saw Spam Breakfast Burritos, French Fry Spam Casserole and Vineyard Spam Salad!!

-brotherS (July 08, 2006, 03:18 AM)

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Living Room / Re: finally! - rubik's cube solver

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 07:01 AM »

I just stumbled upon this interesting website which features a robot that solves rubik's cubes - all by itself!

-housetier (July 07, 2006, 08:36 AM)

Nice! A loooooong time ago I stumbled upon a Rubik's cube solver done in Lego!
Check http://joi.ito.com/a...er_done_in_lego.html

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Mail Web Clips - RSS support for the email client I like best

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 05:31 AM »

I've been using this for a while, but for me it has a big issue: it doesn't display exclusivelly the rss content you asked for. Sometimes, it displays advertising instead

-jgpaiva (July 08, 2006, 04:41 AM)

You are right, I saw a few ads too. But I won't call that a big issue. Maybe a very minor annoyance. You aren't forced to click to open the target page, might even have a good laugh (if it's not related but funny), and with one click you are reading the next RSS items.

All good

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: warn if IE has been running for too long

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 03:27 AM »

Ok, this should do it:

[...]

-jgpaiva (July 05, 2006, 04:43 AM)

Thanks jgpaiva, I will try it!

i found this:
Another way to stop processes after a time limit
Limiting the time processes can run

-kimmchii (July 05, 2006, 04:48 AM)

Both things won't do what I need - I just need a warning, I have to check what is going to be closed first

Fascinating idea that anyone would want to keep IExplorer active on the desktop for 48 hours. Why?

-Carol Haynes (July 05, 2006, 06:20 AM)

Easy: I use them as reminders... some book I consider buying, some (long) article I plan on reading, etc. Sometimes other tasks or life in general also interferes, so I just let it rest on my desktop for a while

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Google Mail Web Clips - RSS support for the email client I like best

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 03:18 AM »

Google Mail yet again added a nice feature, RSS feeds above your emails!

It's perfect for those you-don't-need-to-read-every-feed-item-feeds that you casually enjoy reading, I like this!

This is how it looks (I added the yellow highlighting) - by clicking the backwards/forward button you can easily browse through new feed items:

The settings are pretty self-explanatory also:

By using the search on that page you can easily add feeds that aren't in Google's standard lists (they added the most popular already for your convenience).


EDIT: How cool! When you switch from the Inbox to Spam, instead of RSS feed items Google will offer links to Spam recipes! I just saw Spam Breakfast Burritos, French Fry Spam Casserole and Vineyard Spam Salad!!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stumbleupon - better pass your time on the web

« Last post by brotherS on July 08, 2006, 03:06 AM »

I agree, it's a great way to kill a few hours!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AlertBear 104 -- First Impressions

« Last post by brotherS on July 06, 2006, 11:38 AM »

I quit using Trillian Pro

-y0himba (July 05, 2006, 08:21 PM)

Good decision Did you read https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1201.0 ?

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: warn if IE has been running for too long

« Last post by brotherS on July 05, 2006, 04:16 AM »

Hi,

I need a script that checks every 5 minutes if iexplore.exe is running - if iexplore.exe has been running non-stop for the last 48 hours, it should pop up a warning.

The script (which I want to add to my main AHK script) doesn't need to be extremely fancy, it's just that I can't come up with a good idea of how to approach this problem...

Reason why: if I let IE (typically several instances) run for several days, a "msiexec.exe" process will sooner or later show up. I'm not totally sure if it's my A/V trying to install something there or whatever, but if I don't close all IE instances, the existance of the "msiexec.exe" process will result in high(er) CPU loads, which result in more noise, more energy consumption and more heat.

I failed in monitoring the "msiexec.exe" process directly (no problem with other processes), Microsoft somehow keeps that info hidden from AHK.

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Living Room / Re: Salaries of Charity CEOs

« Last post by brotherS on July 04, 2006, 05:00 AM »

There are some more quotes to be made:

But it's fair to ask: Is one charity automatically more worthy than another just because its leader is paid a lower salary? Not necessarily, says Charity Navigator, a Web site that evaluates and compares the financial health of charitable organizations.

Marsha Evans' salary, generous as it seems, amounts to only .15% of American Red Cross' annual expenses. By contrast, Brian Gallagher's salary is .97% of United Way's total expenses, and W. Todd Bassett's compensation amounts to .29% of the Salvation Army's annual expense budget. All these figures are well below the annual average calculated for the thousands of organizations in Charity Navigator's database, 3.4%.

I admit that $40,000,000 salaries for some CEOs are out of touch with reality, but let them have $400,000 if they do a good job! They are managing many, many people, and the bigger the organization the more fires they have to put out every single day.

Just don't look at the amount of $ they get but also at what they lose: many CEOs are so busy that their kids are running to mom when they return home at daylight, screaming "there's a strange man in our house!" - because they are working 80+ hours a week.

Also, you need to consider if they'd limit their salary to say $100,000 the best CEOs will probably go to some regular company instead of chosing the charity. This could lead to bad decisions, which in the end could result in attracting less donations, so the charity might lose way more than it saved in the CEO salary.

So, regarding all that, I say: let them have their $200,000, $300,000 or even $400,000 if they do a truely good job successfully managing some big charity!

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Living Room / Re: Cody Figurines

« Last post by brotherS on June 30, 2006, 04:34 AM »

I was thinking he's inflicting some major pain on his plaything there!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?

« Last post by brotherS on June 30, 2006, 04:13 AM »

Please read https://www.donation...index.php?topic=4191 and reply there - poll!

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General Software Discussion / Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?

« Last post by brotherS on June 30, 2006, 04:12 AM »

I quote zridling to add this poll

If so, let us know. If not, tell us why and what you'll be using instead.

   

(I'm both curious and ambivalent.)

-zridling (June 30, 2006, 03:59 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Fetching Cody

« Last post by brotherS on June 29, 2006, 02:18 PM »

i don't think you were looking close enough - after using my blade runner photo inspector gizmo i found this...

-nudone (June 29, 2006, 01:31 PM)

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Living Room / Fetching Cody

« Last post by brotherS on June 29, 2006, 10:58 AM »

There's a movie!! 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475271/

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Living Room / Re: Coolest superhero... ever!

« Last post by brotherS on June 26, 2006, 01:24 PM »

Hm...

He's your cousin, right?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DupeTrasher

« Last post by brotherS on June 24, 2006, 11:12 AM »

DupeTrasher is 10 times faster than DoubleKiller (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1693.0) (havent tried the pro version).

-kimmchii (June 24, 2006, 05:37 AM)

I doubt that's true, but to truely compare both you'd need to try DoubleKiller Pro

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DoubleKiller Pro - FAST and great to find duplicate files!

« Last post by brotherS on June 24, 2006, 11:11 AM »

kimmchii told us about DupeTrasher, another tool of this kind. Check https://www.donation...index.php?topic=4122

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Living Room / Re: Recommendations for good external hard drive solutions?

« Last post by brotherS on June 22, 2006, 01:15 PM »

I wonder why noone mentioned Samsung HDs? 

In the last years I only bought their SpinPoint HDs and am very satisfied, especially with the extremely low noise they make. They did win contests because of that, perfect for silent PCs! 

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Living Room / Re: What do you do at Donation Coder?

« Last post by brotherS on June 22, 2006, 03:37 AM »

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+ inspire others to use great programs*
+ be inspired to try new, great programs

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