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Living Room / Re: How much Soda/Energy-Drinks you drink / week?

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2009, 03:19 PM »

okay, thanks. i'll give it a try - maybe. i've since been shown a few things about how harmful caffeine can be - so i may just forget about what i said earlier (the caffeine powder i ordered has arrived so i guess i should try it - looks like you can do yourself some harm with it).

-nudone (October 09, 2009, 04:14 AM)

I'm reminded of a remedy I got for flu in a small country supermarket about 20 years ago - I think it was called 'Mrs Cullen's Powders' and consisted of powdered aspirin and caffeine that you had to snort - I cant remember, you had to mix it with water I guess
It came wrapped in paper like a tiny envelope (also suspicious looking).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2009, 08:10 AM »

[/i] Also, is there a thread here, or a forum somewhere, where people share buttons / commands that they have made?

-Lefax32 (October 09, 2009, 06:25 AM)

I suspect you will need to go to the Dopus forum for that (there's the odd tip scattered about here but not much really)

On the "Drives" toolbar:
- left click on a drive button opens in the left lister
- right click on a drive button opens in the right lister

-Lefax32 (October 08, 2009, 01:58 PM)

Yes that's a correct interpretation. To do this, you need to add the 'multifunc' argument to the drives button.

Enter customize mode and you'll find the drives button shrinks down to a single item, edit that item so that the command is:

Go DRIVEBUTTONS=multifunc

The multifunc argument will force the lister into dual mode if it's not already in it when you right click to open a drive.

There are a number of other arguments which can be used here, seperate them with a comma. For example, my hdd button is:

Go DRIVEBUTTONS=hideempty,-ghmn,multifunc

Which does the following:

- Hides Empty Drives (usb etc)
- Filters out CD Drive  (they're shown on another toolbar for me)

-tanis424 (October 08, 2009, 04:52 PM)

sounds great!

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Living Room / Re: Helvetica makes google beautiful again, greasemonkey scripts for tired eyes

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2009, 01:34 PM »

I'd thought I'd like it (Helvetimail) but I actually found it harder to read than the straight-forward minimalist theme (not sure what the font there is?)

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2009, 04:23 AM »

tomos, thank you for giving me nightmares 

-mouser (October 08, 2009, 04:01 AM)

I thought he was kindof cute with a trunk

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2009, 03:00 AM »

Four months old now, and already doing one-legged push-ups!
 (see attachment in previous post)

-cranioscopical (October 07, 2009, 11:11 PM)

with the first quick glance at your photo I saw something like this



with apologies Chris!
(he does look like he's enjoying life)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any Desktop Theme Software on Windows?

« Last post by tomos on October 07, 2009, 03:14 PM »

P.S. Where are you working? I could swear that I saw the same settings as yours on some training video recently

-fenixproductions (October 07, 2009, 03:03 PM)

they must have copied from one of my screenshots here at dc

macs also use a very lite grey -
maybe they copied me too

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any Desktop Theme Software on Windows?

« Last post by tomos on October 07, 2009, 02:41 PM »

not me -- i prefer the plain minimalist windows 2000 (Windows Classic) theme.  makes me feel all calm inside

-mouser (October 07, 2009, 10:39 AM)

I had the same thoughts for years but since I found SlanXP2 theme I changed my mind...

-fenixproductions (October 07, 2009, 12:16 PM)

SlanXP2 theme looks good,
maybe a bit dark for my taste http://lassekongo83..../SlanXP-2-0-51492944

I usually use the classic theme as well - but I dont like the default grey especially, and I tend to mess around with the colours on top every now & again

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: UltraRecall discounted on BitsDuJour.com today (2009-10-07)

« Last post by tomos on October 07, 2009, 07:57 AM »

have you had a look at the comparison page -
I dont use UR myself but it looks to me like the Pro version has a lot of worthwhile advantages.

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Finished Programs / Re: SuperClick

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2009, 07:17 AM »

Oh wow, sorry. The script I had up accidentally had the bottom cut off, fixed that. I also re-uploaded the new SuperClick EXE, so it's using Right Shift now, too.

-937o5 (October 02, 2009, 05:22 AM)

thanks  

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2009 - 4 Free

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2009, 07:14 AM »

Overall, the company is a leading proponent of scareware for their registry cleaner garbage.

-Steven Avery (June 17, 2009, 05:04 AM)

Last week I was checking out csrss.exe (cant remember why but unimportant here anyway)
Uniblue's site first of all says it's a trojan and that it should be removed:

1) csrss.exe is a process which is registered as a trojan. This Trojan allows attackers to access your computer from remote locations, stealing passwords, Internet banking and personal data. This process is a security risk and should be removed from your system.

Then they offer a scan,
and only then do the let us know that it's removal will probably cause BSOD's (sounds like it might cause a lot worse even!)

2) The Microsoft Client Server Runtime Server subsystem utilizes the process csrss.exe for managing the majority of the graphical instruction sets under the Microsoft Windows operating system. As such Csrss.exe provides the critical functions of the operating system, and its termination can result in the Blue Screen of Death being displayed [etc.]

(my emphasis)

This from a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner (whatever that means... )

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General Software Discussion / Re: BlueScreenView by NirSoft - find driver causing blue screen

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2009, 03:13 PM »

one more question

First a summary:
1) there is onboard sound on the mobo but when I got the PC I got a cheap soundcard put in it.
2) soundcard driver is (I believe) causing trouble (and always has).
3) I disabled soundcard driver/software (can't figure now how to get the onboard hardware working)

the question is - will I have to open the box & disconnect the soundcard (or do anything else?) before the mobo sounds can be made to work ?
thanks for any help

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Living Room / Re: DIY - Home made in-car camera mount

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2009, 03:00 PM »

[...]
Note: I took every shot from the opposite side of the street the houses were on. At no time did I leave my car or park on anyone's property. I just pulled over (on public streets), took two or three quick shots [...]

-40hz (October 05, 2009, 12:28 PM)

40hz cases the joint ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: BlueScreenView by NirSoft - find driver causing blue screen

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2009, 10:36 AM »

I'm a little confused, Tomos. You say there are CMedia audio drivers installed on your system, but keep saying you have a Realtek soundcard. Those are two different companies & a Realtek soundcard isn't going to use CMedia drivers.

-Innuendo (October 05, 2009, 10:17 AM)

apologies for the confusion - the soundcard is TerraTec (I got it wrong earlier)
The onboard sound on the mobo is from Realtek

I tried what 40hz suggested & disabled the Terratec drivers and have yet to reboot

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General Software Discussion / Re: BlueScreenView by NirSoft - find driver causing blue screen

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2009, 02:27 PM »

it has directed my towards an Audio driver

-tomos (October 04, 2009, 11:48 AM)

I've had numerous problems with RealTek High Definition Audio drivers at various times.

Usually occurred right after I loaded a "recommended" update.

Might try rolling them back if you've recently updated.

-40hz (October 04, 2009, 02:02 PM)

I thought it actually was a realtek sound card I have that I have never been happy with (I could remove the card & use onboard sound but dont like messing with (=opening) the machine).
but I'm not sure:

The problem file is:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\cmaudio.sys
version is  5.12.01.0646

It's not quite clear - various sites say it's a soundcard driver, e.g. here

cmedia is here:
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/drivers.html

[edit] added corrected the version number
[edit2] there doesnt appear to be a more recent version, I presume it's related to the Realtek soundcard, which hasnt had any updates since I installed the already old driver from cd that came with it (2 years ago now I think..)
[edit3] times like this I hate computers - it could be the first offer on the list in the cmedia page linked to above. I might do a backup(=image) and try it out...

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Living Room / Re: DIY - Home made in-car camera mount

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2009, 02:12 PM »

Oh Mark0, great idea, quality images, but I feel a bit car sick...
yes, maybe double the photos next time!

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General Software Discussion / Re: BlueScreenView by NirSoft - find driver causing blue screen

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2009, 11:48 AM »

unfortunately in my case I had an error report for the Dr.Watson debugger last year - MS's 'solution' was to disable it - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949820 (I remember at the time it was seizing up and created a multi GB log file).
That means I dont have any reports in BlueScreenView since May 2008
- still, it has directed my towards an Audio driver so I'll have to check that out..

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Living Room / Re: Be warned - Acronis Backup and Recovery

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2009, 06:19 PM »

It that was the message it is more than likely a faulty driver.

If you want to track down past BSODs try http://www.nirsoft.n...lue_screen_view.html which allows you to look at past BSODs and lists the drivers involved.

I have found this incredibly useful for troubleshooting.

-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2009, 03:50 PM)

I made a thread about that cause I'm going to have some related queries (but need sleeep now...)
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=20161.0

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General Software Discussion / BlueScreenView by NirSoft - find driver causing blue screen

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2009, 06:17 PM »

BlueScreenView

It that was the message [IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL...] it is more than likely a faulty driver.

If you want to track down past BSODs try http://www.nirsoft.n...lue_screen_view.html which allows you to look at past BSODs and lists the drivers involved.

I have found this incredibly useful for troubleshooting.

-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2009, 03:50 PM)

http://www.nirsoft.n...lue_screen_view.html

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Living Room / Re: Be warned - Acronis Backup and Recovery

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2009, 04:02 PM »

Thanks ! This does look excellent.  I'll use it next time it happens.

-MerleOne (October 03, 2009, 08:50 AM)

- it appears you can use it for past crashes - must try it out here, I have an occasional problem with some driver (thanks!)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2009, 02:13 AM »

okay german addresses working now
as said above the 'state' is unimportant here (it's never used as such) - I just mentioned it cause googlemap used to use it (at times at any rate) & I thought that might have been related to problem of saving german sites.

Is there a way to know if a marked site is "Private Location (viewed by you only)" without going into edit mode ? (if not would be helpful)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2009, 10:27 AM »

The links at the top and bottom are hard to read (Home, etc.)

I dont have a problem with most sites I visit so I dont think it's anything todo with screen resolution

When I change country the States option doesnt change (remains at the N.Ameerican options) - I think that might be the problem. The State ('Bundesland') is actually unimportant here.

Here's a german shop address (address checked in google map)
Karstadt
Fackelrondell 1,
67655 Kaiserslautern

The 'state' is
Rheinland-Pfalz  =  Rhineland-Palatinate (English version)
but note that this is never used in the (postal) address

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2009, 09:19 AM »

Website:

• Links are almost unreadable here due to combo of very small font size and bold formatting.
• I find it initially confusing - dont know where to go, what to click in order to get going.
• How about if you had an "Add new place" link on first page (after login) -
  I havent actually saved any thing yet & realise I can have many maps but the "Add new place" link could bring you initally to the "My Places" page where presumably you would select your map or make a new one (correct me if wrong)

Ah, it only works for N.America?
I added a marker & tried giving it City & Country (Germany) but that didnt work.
Also tried adding a German address - no joy there either.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2009, 07:52 AM »

yes, very nice idea Veign

I was wondering:
could it be possible to add things that arent shown on google maps?
i.e. I find the location on the map and mark it manually?
e.g. I live in the woods - I could recommend a lot of places to go that dont have addresses as such

Re navigation:
with google maps (in FF) I can use Ctrl+mousewheel to zoom in on the map  - this makes navigation very easy.
I dont know how they do that because in FF Ctrl+Wheel normally zooms the whole page - if you could get it to work, the google maps way would be great.

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Finished Programs / Re: SuperClick

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2009, 04:16 AM »

with the script I get this message on start

--------------------------- SuperClickRight.AHK --------------------------- Error: Target label does not exist.  The current thread will exit. Specifically: EXIT    Line#    062: Return    065: MsgBox,,SuperClick Controls,RShift and Left/Right/Middle Click (SuperClick) Tap RCtrl for Delay information. Tap RShift for Clicks information. RShift and Down (-1 Clicks) RShift and Up (+1 Clicks) RShift and Left (-100 Clicks) RShift and Right (+100 Clicks) RShift and Backspace (2 Clicks) RCtrl and Down (-1ms Delay) RCtrl and Up (+1ms Delay) RCtrl and Left (-100ms Delay) RCtrl and Right (+100ms Delay) RCtrl and Backspace (50ms Delay) RShift and Esc (Exit)    066: Return    069: Menu,Tray,NoStandard    070: Menu,Tray,DeleteAll    071: Menu,Tray,Add,Settings,SETTINGS    072: Menu,Tray,Add,Controls,CONTROLS --->   073: Menu,Tray,Add,E&xit,EXIT    074: Menu,Tray,Tip,SuperClick    075: Return    079: SetTimer,RemoveTrayTip,Off    080: TrayTip    081: Return    081: Exit    082: Exit --------------------------- OK   ---------------------------

it shows in the systray but there is no option (on right clcik) to exit

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The exe works but I'm confused - it works with left Shift - maybe you forgot to change the exe?

edit/ corrected last sentence (Left Shift instead of Left click)

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Living Room / Re: How much Soda/Energy-Drinks you drink / week?

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2009, 03:21 PM »

When I say coffee addict.. I mean it 

-ChalkTrauma (October 01, 2009, 02:44 PM)

I didnt even know you could buy unroasted coffee beans lol

I enjoy the occasional expresso (sometimes I mix decaf & 'normal' coffees), also the occasional black tea, otherwise I usually drink water, herbal teas or beer.

After I gave up cigarettes I drank various sweet carbonated drinks for years - similar oral kick, hits you in the back of the throat - funny, even though I get a wonderful kick from black tea (hits the back of the throat. big sigh. tension released you didnt even know you had..) - while at times I would say I wuz hooked, I never drank a whole lot of the stuff (i.e. couldnt do without the cuppa in the morning and afternoon, but that was it more or less)