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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]
« Last post by wraith808 on September 19, 2011, 12:54 PM »
Would it be possible to add a recently used folder list of some kind? having to repeatedly use the standard folder selection dialog is a pain.
-Jibz (September 19, 2011, 12:37 PM)

This!  I love this program, and am testing the TFS integration before dropping money on the edit functionality (I might drop it anyway- this is a great program!), but this is a major pain!  Recently used and favorite folders would be very nice!

One last thing that would be nice along these same thoughts- to use the open dialog instead of the browse for folder dialog so that you can type/paste the path that you want to work with.  If you had that, then with Listary I personally wouldn't need anything else.. :)

UPDATE: To my delight I've found that Listary *does* work with Depeche View.  It would be nice to have the above features, especially in the case of opening a new folder.  But it definitely works a lot better for me now.
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Living Room / Re: UI Roast #1: cruel but harmless fun!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 19, 2011, 12:52 PM »
What's in the other menus if this one is so... overcrowded to be nice?
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Living Room / Re: The Boozernet...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 19, 2011, 10:56 AM »
You mean that literally?
-Renegade (September 19, 2011, 09:33 AM)

Unfortunately, I do.  I ripped it out corrected it, but still...
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Living Room / Re: The Boozernet...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 10:58 PM »
You think I kid... from some production code...

Code: C# [Select]
  1. try{
  2.  
  3. }
  4. catch (Exception ex)
  5. {
  6.     throw ex
  7. }
  8. finally
  9. {
  10.  
  11. }

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 07:19 PM »
We can have more than one... (and I say that as someone who was thinking about doing this too...)  ;D
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Living Room / Re: The Boozernet...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 07:18 PM »
And I get drunk even less than that. And I have a firm belief that computers and booze don't mix*, so there will be no drunk coding, posting, gaming, online shopping or anything else from me...ever.
-app103 (September 16, 2011, 11:07 AM)

Gotta agree with App.

FWIW (and all kidding aside) I can honestly say I never met anybody I liked more with a drink in them than without. Especially if they happened to be female.

But maybe that's just me?  :)



-40hz (September 16, 2011, 06:42 PM)

Psht.  You've not experienced some of the nightmares I have in consulting.  Some of the code drives you to drink.  Not necessarily get drunk... but it does take the edge off...

...or is that you off the edge...
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Living Room / Re: The Boozernet...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 04:03 PM »
Everything's better with vodka.  Especially code.  ;D
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 04:01 PM »
This is a *great* utility!  I have a quick question- does this (or especially the pay version) have the ability to shell out commands?  I'd like to put a command in there to do a get from TFS.  I was also thinking of purchasing the pro version, and wanted to know if it would be able to be integrated into a workflow that includes TFS (and others).

Thanks for the utility!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 7 boot management more broken than ever?
« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2011, 06:57 AM »
Unfortunately, this helped me, as my machine just crapped out, and I would have been stumped as to why it wouldn't boot with just my boot drive installed.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop
« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2011, 04:48 PM »
text with no other window elements would be very nice if that were possible - but I would still have the problem of what colour to make the text -
Here's the Rainlender notes "window" with some sample text - it seems to have a background with a tone as opposed to a colour (?) i.e. it darkens the background colour which help the text show clearly.
 (see attachment in previous post) (see attachment in previous post)
-tomos (September 15, 2011, 02:52 PM)

It's not darkening it- it's a transparent overlay.  The transparency is blending with the background (i.e. the degree of transparency) and that's where the darkening is coming from.
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2011, 05:00 PM »
To me the most important thing is that those who died on 9/11 are honored and remembered in positive ways.
-JavaJones (September 14, 2011, 02:44 PM)

Agreed, with emphasis put on the positive by me above.  There are two types of tributes in my opinion/experience- constructive remembrances and the equivalent of pyres.  I hope that we're to the point where we can be constructive in our remembrances.
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2011, 01:25 PM »
my understanding might be wrong
-wraith808 (September 14, 2011, 09:34 AM)

Mine might be as well. I'm sorry for any confusion I've added. Please don't take offense at anything I've said, I often see connections that to other people aren't really there.
-daddydave (September 14, 2011, 12:16 PM)

Oh, not your comment.  I do appreciate the perspective that you gave- it made me think about the fact that my understanding of the original post might indeed have been incorrect.
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2011, 09:34 AM »
I'll take one last stab at this. I'm simply agreeing with app that citing a line from a poem which is loosely associated with a religion is a very poor basis for disallowing the building of a structure by members of that religion. Beyond that, I don't care, or it's a choice of either declaring it a self evident truth or writing a 10 page essay, and I don't have time for it, nor am I as eloquent as app.
-daddydave (September 14, 2011, 04:56 AM)

I didn't get that from her post.  Which is why I posted the other- my understanding might be wrong.  And with the other (unneeded?) comment on this exchange, I'll withdraw from the conversation.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A unified solution for note taking and task management
« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2011, 03:29 PM »
^ You might want to put a little blurb above whatever you have in the center of your two textblocks with the name of the site; Whatever you have between doesn't show up for me, so your post seems a bit lacking in details. :)
-wraith808 (September 13, 2011, 02:43 PM)

Sorry. Come again?
-Paul Keith (September 13, 2011, 03:05 PM)

I see now it's a Youtube video (from the tags).  But youtube isn't always available.  Re-read your post without the video.  It's not really understandable, at least IMO from seeing it in that manner, so I was suggesting to maybe say the name of what you're referring to, as it's not specified in your post anywhere.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A unified solution for note taking and task management
« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2011, 02:43 PM »
^ You might want to put a little blurb above whatever you have in the center of your two textblocks with the name of the site; Whatever you have between doesn't show up for me, so your post seems a bit lacking in details. :)
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Finally! More game-based productivity tools
« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2011, 12:55 PM »
That looks cool!  Thanks for sharing!  I've never been sold on the whole technique- but this will make me give it a try!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source
« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2011, 10:22 AM »
Which brings me back to an idea i had a couple of years ago, which would be to make simple but distinct paths for users..

  • So imagine a software page where it had a fixed price on it: $29.95 which you click to buy like normal software purchase.
  • But also a button saying: Show me alternatives to paying this.
  • If they click on that button they have choices like: I want to choose how much to donate; I cannot afford to pay anything now; I am not willing to pay anything but I would still like to use the software; etc.
-mouser (September 13, 2011, 09:46 AM)

That reminds me a lot of that payment form where you choose to take a deal instead of paying cash for the project (I can't remember what the name of it is now).  I wonder how different their conversion rates are because of that option... though this is a bit different, it still falls into that pattern of "I have to click something else to get the other options, so maybe I don't want to" trap.

I think that perhaps the humble indie bundle way might work better, i.e. show all of the options up front, but show the average donation, and one of the options is the average in addition to the set price.
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Living Room / Re: XBOX 360 with Kinect or Wii?
« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2011, 09:15 AM »
+1 for the Xbox 360 and Kinect.

It's a BLAST... Games are pricey, though.
-Darwin (September 13, 2011, 07:58 AM)

I look for deals- I've not paid over $30 for any games (other than Kinectimals because my wife got it spur of the moment at Wal-Mart).  Gamefly is good also, especially to see if you want to keep them (and then the keep price is a whole lot less than the buy price in most cases).
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2011, 02:15 PM »
And it seems that he was citing something that wasn't there in order to incite violence?  At least from the charges... so I don't think they're really similar.
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Living Room / Re: XBOX 360 with Kinect or Wii?
« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2011, 01:19 PM »
I can't offer an actual comparison, because my experience with Wii is very limited. But I can tell you that my 360 with Kinect leaves me sweating, so it would seem that I'm getting some aerobic exercise.

Before getting a Kinect, ensure that you've got sufficient space to use it. They want you to be (iirc) 6-10 feet back from the sensor, and have about the same amount of width to work in. My family room itself is OK for this, but the geography of furniture, and where I need to put the furniture due to doors, windows, and fireplace, really compromises the available Kinect space.
-CWuestefeld (September 12, 2011, 12:08 PM)

Agreed on all of the above.
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2011, 01:19 PM »
It doesn't appear from that link that they are similar, but maybe I'm reading it wrong?
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Living Room / Re: PCWorld recommends DonationCoder.com and says: "Give a Little, Get a Lot"
« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2011, 09:17 PM »
Well, there is a case where the refund would not be possible.. If the donation was specifically sent by the donator to an author, and the author cashed out the donation after 30 days, and the author didn't have enough donations in their credits to handle a refund, we wouldn't be able to refund it.  This has never happened but it is possible.  I suppose I should add some asterisk to the refund statement about this.
-mouser (September 11, 2011, 07:15 AM)

Maybe if it's within 30 days of the donation - any donation.  So if I donate X today, then Y some days later, 30 days after X donation, I couldn't get it back, though I could still get back Y within it's 30 day window.  I think that's more than fair.
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
« Last post by wraith808 on September 10, 2011, 09:54 PM »
"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan, quoting from an Islamic poem.

And I seem to recall this from a very popular Christian hymn:

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
   with the cross of Jesus going on before.
   Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
   forward into battle see his banners go!
-app103 (September 10, 2011, 09:18 AM)

I don't know about the original reference, but I do know that this is being taken out of context.  It's not meant literally, but in terms of spiritual combat.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source
« Last post by wraith808 on September 09, 2011, 02:56 PM »
I like this!  None of the software really appeals to me unfortunately, but I might contribute just to support the idea.  I wish we could get something like that going here in as an addition to the donation credits system.
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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 08, 2011, 04:34 PM »
^ I saw that, but I wasn't sure if he got a better price on it, and his experiences.  But thanks. :)  And, I wonder if his experiences with this were better than yours with the HP hardware.

I found a couple of impressions on it, and it does seem promising...

http://www.engadget....xopc-slate-hands-on/

http://blog.laptopma...eve-been-waiting-for

http://www.engadget..../exopc-slate-review/

http://makingwindows...-exopc-slate-review/

http://www.techradar...-slate-913878/review
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