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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 11:51 AM »

edit/ it's the square brackets in it - confuse the bbcode

-tomos (October 04, 2011, 10:39 AM)

Thanks, and yes, I should have figured that out 

Still waiting on my final confirmation. An email said it could take 4 to 24 hours??

-bob99 (October 04, 2011, 11:04 AM)

How did you pay?  I used paypal and it was pretty much immediate.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 09:07 AM »

Just as an FYI- the following link is available for the 50% discount for the next 24 hours (straight from the developer)

https://secure.share...it/cart.html?PRODUCT[300330156]=1&cartcoupon=1&COUPON1=HDSPH5

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Living Room / Re: How many slaves work for you?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 04:13 PM »

42.

-wraith808 (October 03, 2011, 03:24 PM)

That 42?

-Ath (October 03, 2011, 03:34 PM)

I was wondering how long before someone said something about that. 

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Living Room / Re: How many slaves work for you?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 03:24 PM »

42.

On a side note- I noticed a little flicker then it skipped - it seemed like the skipped page said something about how many times have you paid for sex...?  Anyone else see that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 03:12 PM »

Thanks wraith, that looks really good but a little bit expensive ...

-joiwind (October 03, 2011, 03:00 PM)

from http://www.snipitpro.com/tryItFree.html

If you have a blog or website, just post a review or mention Snip-It Pro, linking to http://www.snipitpro.com/ and we will send you a free license key. Just send an e-mail to [email protected] letting us know where the review or comment is. Help us spread the word.

I'd say try it, see if you like it, and if you do, post a mini-review (or a review on your site).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 01:30 PM »

I use snip-it pro, and have really been satisfied with it.  One of the biggest selling points to me is the integration with snipplr, but it's good enough on its own.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.10 (7/12/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 12:13 PM »

ps. you can turn off automatic update checking in farr, it's in the options somewhere.

-mouser (October 03, 2011, 10:47 AM)

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Find And Run Robot / FARR Update Check

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 09:39 AM »

Today, while running FARR, a dialog popped up for Update check with a notice that a new version was available.  This update dialog had no way to close it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 05:09 AM »

50% off today, 10-3-2011 only for 17.50

Link to Deal: http://www.bitsdujou...ntinel-professional/
Link to Software: http://www.hdsentine...nel_professional.php

One positive comment from a user on the site (which doesn't necessarily mean anything), but the developer has been quite responsive to questions on the listing, and the answers have seemed very thorough.  I'm still on the fence...

...does anyone have any experiences with it?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: A new Humble Bundle

« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2011, 01:09 PM »

The latest bundles have unfortunately had things that I already have.    I guess I buy before they bundle!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2011, 10:18 AM »

To me, it still comes down to this simple thing:  people won't pay if they don't HAVE to pay.  Ever.

-superboyac (September 29, 2011, 09:47 AM)

Not always never...

I do.

Quite often in fact. 

(I'm such a boy scout about stuff like that.  )

-40hz (September 29, 2011, 10:15 AM)

I do also.  Not just about being a boy scout- it's more about understanding the value of the service provided IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Is Kindle Fire set to be the Apple/MS slayer tablet?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 28, 2011, 02:16 PM »

Take a look at this post on gdgt- it has some interesting inside info on the tablet, that definitely points to it not being any kind of slayer, and more pointed towards the NookColor (and it's basically a playbook... and we know how *that's* working out).

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by wraith808 on September 27, 2011, 09:32 AM »

I think anything to do with money or time is going to turn some people off.  That's just the way of the world, unfortunately.  Time and money represent the measurable things in our lives, and most people are very conscious of both.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by wraith808 on September 26, 2011, 08:23 PM »

As far as the ear touch thing, her proximity sensor must be on the blink- I can't get that close without the screen kocking for input during a call.

And yes, you need to register with iTunes. That's a known quantity. But these reports of android interface differences are off putting as well. Each is a tool, and you use the one that appeals more to your sensitivities, and works best for what you do. The existence of one doesn't obsolete the usefulness of the other.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by wraith808 on September 26, 2011, 12:35 PM »

^ +1.  That sums up my feelings too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 01:22 PM »

Good point about installers recommending that people turn off AV software. (I don't think it should be necessary, but that's just what I think.)

In the past, most of the problems I've had with false positives have been rooted in either compression or encryption. Was the licensing issue you had due to network traffic or encryption/compression?

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 09:46 AM)

I think it was due to encryption, but I couldn't say that with 100% certainty.  From the work I had to do, I know that compression wasn't used, and I don't *think* there was any network traffic associated with the solution; it was put in place to replace the dongle solution that they used before, and they called it 'software dongle emulation', though in retrospect, it was more like software license management, where you have a licensing server that validates keys against the keys that are on the DVDs of the connected computers, so the DVD itself acted as a sort of dongle.  Really complicated (and complicated the mastering process) and really pointless IMO.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 01:10 PM »

Well, thanks for your reports- I was very close to buying one of my own.  I still might, but I also might wait.

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 09:07 AM »

I think it depends on the implementation.  Much "Donationware" is just download it, use it, and if in the future you want to pay, give what you want.  Some "Pay What You Want" software involves the act of going through a payment, even if its zero, in order to get full functionality, or non-time limited functionality.  It's like "Shareware", but the registration just gives you the option of what to pay.  The lack of a common set of definitions for the terms makes defining what fits in what categories pretty difficult.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 08:58 AM »

This is just a case of two different understandings of what "false positive" means.

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 12:46 AM)

Agreed on that point.

Whether it's OC or DevExpress or Infragistics or whatever, they all just seem like components to me. They all have a purpose. Saying that it's not a functional part of the software is only expressing an opinion on what level of utility one perceives in it.

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 12:46 AM)

To help drive this point along, in many installers there is the bit about disabling your AV software.  I used to work at a company where we had a pretty tight licensing system, that used an implementation of a third-party licensing component.  I had to write a lot of code to get it to work and integrate with the product.  But apparently some AV programs looked at the licensing as virus-like activity.  In that case, would it not have been the company that was affected and so the company that should have a right to pursue remedies, instead of waiting for the developers of the licensing component?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 24, 2011, 05:07 PM »

^ re the last line there:
it's good to be clear, but jeez app, give the man a break
he's already made his point and wished the site good luck:

[...]
Good luck with things. I hope that you can get the AV companies to stop dropping the ball so much.

-Renegade (September 24, 2011, 02:23 PM)

-tomos (September 24, 2011, 04:30 PM)

That's sort of my point.  Renegade is a pretty respected member of the site, and is pretty level headed and logical in his arguments.  He's also done quite a bit of research into the OC thing, even before using it.  However, whenever this comes up, he gets piled on, either in a passive aggressive manner or just an aggressive aggressive manner.  I know this is a hot point, but it seems like we can agree to disagree without the strife that seems to come up on these threads- I mean, its obvious that its in his software; he's even said as much, openly.  He's not trying to hide anything.  But the negative feelings towards the malware seems to spread out onto him, as if he's part of the problem.  That's my big problem with the whole thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: notetaker that uses the filesystem and has powerful search?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 24, 2011, 03:23 PM »

Well, I spoke too soon.
Scrivener for windows is a great piece of software, but not suited for collaborative notetaking. Basically, the rtf files it saves do not have descriptive file names, just numbers. It makes no sense to look at the filesystem to see what has changes. In the forums, people make it clear that collaboration is out of the picture.

In fact, I don't know of a single notetaker that can do this, other than onenote + sharepoint (out of the question, people using macs are potential collaborators).

Does anyone know of a good solution for collaborative notetaking?
I'd be happy with:

• An indexer that can produce live searches, highlighting the matches inside the text in rtf files.
• An small rtf editor
• the filesystem itself as a db

But I don't know of any good solutions for te first two items, on windows.

-urlwolf (September 24, 2011, 02:02 PM)

Do you know of any solutions on any platforms?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 24, 2011, 02:23 PM »

I disagree- a false positive is a false positive

-wraith808 (September 24, 2011, 12:33 PM)

This is FALSE, because they detected OpenCandy as OpenCandy. It is a classification issue, which is different than a false positive. We can NOT get into classification debates, period.

Those who believe bundles are a non-deceitful practice are welcome to start their own site ... However, they will not be part of THIS site because we need only the most EGREGIOUS and CLEAR CUT examples of harm. I said it all above. I will not repeat further. Reference my explanation. We simply can not allow borderline cases, because the system would not work. I discussed and thought about this for a hell of a long time with security vendors, so do not tell me that it is short-sighted. I *KNOW* bundles help you pay you bills, but ... they are deceitful in nature, in my opinion, and considered 'borderline' cases. Even though the user can opt-out, since almost nobody wants the bundled software, the clear intent is to 'get' those few who miss the checkbox.

I understand they pay you $$$... so you bundle supporters will never agree with this, so I invite you to start your own site. Argue no more, because this policy WILL NOT CHANGE. Read my first post, I explain it quite clearly. If we allow borderline cases, the whole system degrades into nothing but debate about what is good and what isn't. Instead, we want a site that demonstrates OBVIOUS mis-ratings and false positives... not debated classifications.

Again, the developer has the option to NOT include that bundle.. so it *is* Open Candy's fight, and they have plenty of power to fight.

-db90h (September 24, 2011, 12:34 PM)

I am not a bundle supporter, nor am I paid for anything, so classifying such in an aggressive post against what I said seems a bit out there.  I do tend to post in support of Renegade on such things, because he gets so much crap for stuff, i.e. the unaddressed issue of posting that it was his fault that an AV company decided not do business with you, rather than placing the blame with them for their own decision.  And if a third party component in your software does something that the AV program detects as malicious activity, then that becomes your problem, also.  Libraries *can* do the same thing, and result in the same sort of false reporting, i.e. the use of AutoHotKey.  It's not the program itself, its what it was made with in that case.  And the developers of the programs that are in AHK can't argue the point of their program?  I call BS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 24, 2011, 12:33 PM »

I disagree- a false positive is a false positive, and I think that the suing nature of OC has come from the antagonistic relationship that has developed because of the lack of accountability for false positives.  And it is a false positive, and IMO unfair to blame that on Renegade's post.  And saying that the fact that a bundled software causes false positives is not in your ability to fight the battle is short sighted to say the least, especially since it's not their product in the end that's getting flagged, but the developer that includes it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Mac or Windows computers

« Last post by wraith808 on September 23, 2011, 06:15 AM »

At first sight, ShareMouse seems to replicate the remote control feature of MaxiVista.


The core difference is, that in MaxiVista, the remote control mode is internally tied to virtual video drivers of the extended screen feature.

This difference leads to some significant benefits of ShareMouse, justifying a separate product.


* MaxiVista is Windows-only. ShareMouse supports Windows and Mac OSX.

-BartelsMedia (September 23, 2011, 02:29 AM)

Ah!  I didn't see that the KM works only with windows on MaxiVista, since I don't use it that way.  I use it purely for screen extension.

Thanks!

And nudone, you might still look into MaxiVista- it costs a bit including the ipad app, but its well worth it (and you can get more use out of your ipad ).  Just make sure that you optimize your connection to the ipad when you first use it by the instructions.

And I figured the answer would be something like that; it's a shame.  I use my iPad to control my PC sometimes; it would be great to be able to hook up a mouse to it in any form.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by wraith808 on September 23, 2011, 06:09 AM »

Why is it that marketing couldn't do the same for notepad or wordpad?

-Paul Keith (September 23, 2011, 12:46 AM)

They're free and MS includes them as a courtesy as part of the FS so they don't care about it?

This doesn't mean the above are extremely good examples but the point is, your point does not conflict with superboyac's points. It only does so if we quibble on what "needs" truly mean. Not when it has actually entered the consciousness of the consumer. It also belies the fact that marketing can't solve anything. Google Wave had the marketing. Had the initial hype. It was killed off eventually.

-Paul Keith (September 23, 2011, 12:46 AM)

I wasn't quibbling on the word need.  My point was that need doesn't drive consumption necessarily.  In the other situations that you refer to (dropbox, evernote) it was marketing, also.  People discount marketing, then talk about the church of Jobs/Apple.  Truthfully, on an innovation level, they aren't doing anything differently than they have been for years.  It's all about the marketing.  Look at their history, and IMO its pretty clear to see.