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General Software Discussion / MusicIP 1.9beta3 (new 1.9 version) released
« Last post by urlwolf on May 06, 2008, 06:11 PM »
See the changes here:

http://forums.musici...x.php?showtopic=3494

Lots of new features. It seems they improved the algorigthm for mixing too. I wonder if the slow tagging problem is solved...
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This is a left-field choice, but if you can cope with the fact that ctrl + x does not do 'cut' :)...

http://orgmode.org/

an emacs mode to get organized.
Good:
  • plain text (portable as it can be).
  • table support
  • Free software
  • reminders
  • reuses the awesoma powa of emacs (it even has a browser)
  • good word completion (hippie completion)
  • outlining (supergood)

Bad
  • Need to have 8.5 fingers in each hand play chords like in a church organ
  • Need to forget shortcuts that took you years to learn and get new ones
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I like using tweakUI "focus follows mouse" with any settings, but it's even better for dual monitors...
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerCmd on Bits du Jour
« Last post by urlwolf on April 29, 2008, 03:12 PM »
My big question is can it use alternate shells, or is it stuck with cmd.exe?

Apparently it doesn't and it doesn't play well with cygwin or vi  :(

It's a no go for me.
cthorpe, try http://en.poderosa.org/ if you must use cygwin.
Nice split windows.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron? Hardly
« Last post by urlwolf on April 26, 2008, 05:46 AM »
I upgraded to 8.04 (andlinux) and it borked anything java-related. In my case, netbeans, which is a must.

Working under linux warrants you will be losing about one day of work per week chasing bugs and googling config files, at least in the initial period. The TCO of linux is that: time.

Still, it may well be worth it (once it's properly configured in a mythical day called tomorrow).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Dragonfly
« Last post by urlwolf on April 25, 2008, 01:58 PM »
Well, looks like FF is taking the opposite road: having too many possibly conflicting extensions gets you a buggy, slow experience. They seem to be taking more things into the core it seems, because the current barebones FF is... insipid.

Maybe they should both meet in some happy medium point.
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iphigenie,

I had the same question. I alter the tags of lots of oggs and would like to update only those that have changed; and if the delta copy moved just the tags, so much better. Unfortunately, Tobias said it's beyond SFSS's capabilities. A bit of a bummer.
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Here's a quick BasKet review.
The good
Really, really fast.

It has a great tag for 'code'. Unfortunately, no syntax highlighting :(.

Animations for notes (useless, but cool)

Shorcuts assignable to notes

Very good tagging.

Three column mode can be really nice to fit a lot on information on the screen. Good also to compare three things feature-wise.


The Bad
No proper highlighting when searching either. You will not see the yellow words we are so used to see when searching. The filter will remove notes that do not contain the word you look for, but where in the notes is the word? Mostly every other program will tell you. Not basket.

It won't do OCR and find text in pictures like oneNote

It doesn't keep indentation, nor does it do folding. It's not a very good outliner.

No indexing/database

No table support

No spelling

Basket has no developer anymore

It won't keep formatting when copying and pasting from a browser

No autocomplete (I use intellicomplete). Not BasKet fault; there's no such a thing for Linux. But this is key to my productivity

Conclusion

Lots of promise here. Best notetaker for linux I have found. Some features outclass OneNote (so fast). Still, moving to it would make my productivity drop. So I won't do it. THere are rumors that oneNote may work under wine. 
Also, for basket to really work for me it must be able to import from onenote (or any format onenote can output to).

OneNote really is the killer app in windows right now.
That, and the fact that Opera's scroll on linux is pretty bad, whereas it's the best on windows, prevents me from fully switching (I live in a broswer).
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I did that; I checked, and the drivers (or whatever logitech installs... is kind of an entire suite to configure any of their products!) are the latest. However, my logitech is not detected. Control panel opens ok.
Update: The problem with crasing when clicking the mouse in contrl panel is gone. Still, logitech cannot find my mouse. It seems to be using the default drivers. When I plug the wireless receptor into the usb port, it finds some hardware, installs something, but concludes that 'a problem has happened an your hardware is not installed correctly'.

Hmm...

Getting better, but not there yet...
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anyone going into a similar quest with notetakers for linux?
I love onenote but I'm planning to move to linux full-time...
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Could be. Actually, I cannot even enter the mouse section in control panel. It dies with a horrible error. It also ignores most of my attempts to install drivers for a logitech MX 610 mouse. So something is deeply borked with mouse drivers.

But I don't feel like reinstalling windows just to get this back to work :)
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Thanks lanux, and sorry, I seem to have missed your reply the first time around and reposted (!).

I've looked at tweakUI; it has a repair option at the end, but there's no 'repair registry' that I could find. It repairs icons, and fonts, but not the registry. Any idea why?
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Living Room / smooth scroll setting (IE7) reset when rebooting. Why?
« Last post by urlwolf on April 18, 2008, 03:54 PM »
I don't use IE7, but the chm abd RSS reader I use need this engine and I like the smooth scroll setting. However it's reset when rebooting (to non-smooth). Any idea Why?

Thanks
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General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender now works under Vista
« Last post by urlwolf on April 16, 2008, 06:27 PM »
This is one of the things I'd miss being 100% on linux.
My guess is that it'd be hard to port, since there are so many graphic libraries, window managers, etc.
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yeah, the yoking problem seems to be hard.
I wonder if some of those smarty-pants windows managers (shell replacements?) can do that. Hard to say. Anyone has a clue here?

I tried Skrommel's tool. I think it's great.
The way it saves a click on the taskbar slots is genious.

However, it does bring the window to front; I don't want that, it's very disorienting.

It may be trivial to fix that; I looked at the code and it seems he sends a mouse click to bring the focus (so it inevitably will bring the windows on top). So I don't know how to mod the script at first sight; it'd require some changes on the design I think (definitely possible with ahk).

Thanks!
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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow
« Last post by urlwolf on April 14, 2008, 05:50 PM »
http://forums.musici...php?&showforum=4

They revamped the looks of the site. Seem to have deals with hardware manufactures (samsa?).

But I agree the MusicIP player is mostly abandoned. A pity.
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instead of having to click to assign focus, focus follows the mouse cursor. You save one click.

You can make it so the window on focus is brought to front as well.
Kind of disconcerting at first.

Easing way to test it is to install that tweak UI powertoy. It's harmless.
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Living Room / Re: mibbit.com - high quality irc chat via the web
« Last post by urlwolf on April 14, 2008, 12:02 PM »
looks great! Are you going to install it here at DC?
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I'm using an editor and a terminal most of the time.
It'd be great it they could be 'yoked' so they could be minimized together, get focus, etc.
Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm also using the tweak UI powertoy to have x-like focus follows mouse behaviour. It's great.

Thanks.
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I've switched to musickube.
Impossibly small in memory usage, a full library.
Better tagging than anything I've seen (so fast!).
Great piece of art.

My full library (that makes MM be over 200mb in memory usage!) is only 24-34 mb.

Downsides:
lacks replaygain
no cover art
no shortcut to send/retrieve from tray.

Other than that, perfect media player.
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I can't believe how lastFM.exe is eating up ram.
What are they doing? Wasn't this supposed to be a tiny daemon sending something to a server at the end of a song? Do they need 100mb for that?
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Thanks Phil.
Hard to believe, but the last.fm plugin uses more memory than the player itself (!).

Any other plugins you recommend?
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I really like tiny apps.
I liked XMplay, but this AIMP2 is even better.
It uses BASS too.

Homepage:
http://www.aimp.ru/i...mp;skin_name=english

Screenshot:
http://www.aimp.ru/f...ages/aimp2screen.jpg


The good
   Tiniest footprint ever, even with library open. I have a large library. Mediamonkey used ~100Mb + 100Mb virtual. Aimp uses 10-30mb
   Tabs
   Global shortcuts work (minimize to tray)
   

Things that I miss
   Last.fm
   Auto-scan directories for changes
   Editing tags from the library is really bad
   No docs, site in russian

Other reviews
http://fileforum.bet...ew/1189013260/1/view
http://www.neowin.ne...re/08/03/15/aimp-211
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dirhael: iirc Wubi uses NTFS root FS.


Indeed it does, but the problem still remains that some programs and utilities will still probably not work as intended due to file permissions and other things that are handled different by the various file systems. Also, I don't really understand why anyone would want to take the performance hit.

In any case, if you're just playing around and testing linux I think you would be better off just running it in a virtual machine seeing as there are several completely free alternatives out there today :)


Or using andlinux.
I don't know how they do it, but you do have an ext3 FS. at least, it says so in /etc/fstab.
And you save the install process of Wubi.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux and Windows andLinux
« Last post by urlwolf on March 24, 2008, 01:23 PM »
Actually, I think windows just has no idea of what linux is doing.
Here's an example.

Top shows CPU 99%, but process explorer doesn't even show 8% for total cpu usage, and the anlinux demon is mostly iddle.
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