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PBOL / Re: Progress Bars of Life BETA v2 - With Zenos Alarm
« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2013, 11:14 AM »
Yes, when you uninstall it leaves your old settings. I'm not sure why the old version is balking with the new settings, but that's likely the cause.

However, your screeenshot about it not fitting -- just drag the bottom of the window to resize it -- that's normal that you might have to do that the first time.


ps.
I noticed that my initial sample settings may put the form off screen for people, so i'll have to release an update today I've uploaded a new version.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: EInvalidOp Error!
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 08:29 PM »
how strange, no error here when searching for it.. i wonder what it could be.. i've never seen this kind of problem before..
i might have to send you a debug version of FARR to help us pinpoint the place in code that it's dying.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: EInvalidOp Error!
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 07:58 PM »
how strange!!

can you zip and send me the batch file, assuming it's nothing sensitive?
([email protected])
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Living Room / Re: Looking for a seventies music title...
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 07:52 PM »
She thinks however she might be Finnish, so much for a non existing language...

wait.. you mean the Finnish language is a real thing?  I thought it was a made up language like Klingon..  :huh:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer offers 50% competitive discount for Directory Opus users
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 04:11 PM »
I do think we should strongly discourage developers from making negative statements about competing products. It's just not not our style here.
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PBOL / Progress Bars of Life BETA v2 - With Zenos Alarm
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 11:12 AM »
If you'd like to try the new version of Progress Bars of Life Version 2, with Zeno's Alarm feature, you can get it here:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: EInvalidOp Error!
« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2013, 09:35 AM »
I'm guessing there is a file in that directory that has a p in its name, that is somehow "evil" :)

Can you check the files in that folder, and look for one that might have a messed up date stamp, or messed up icon, or something else in it?

If there are a lot of files, you might try moving half of them out of their until you find the offending file (assuming i'm right that it has to do with a file that is somehow odd).
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Progress Bars of Live V2 feature - Zeno's Alarm
« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2013, 09:43 PM »
I've updated the first post in the thread to describe what it is and show a screenshot.
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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online
« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2013, 03:54 PM »
4 seasons of the great and unappreciated Farscape sci-fi tv series are now on Netflix:

Screenshot - 12_21_2013 , 3_53_45 PM.png
http://movies.netfli...36110?trkid=13462057
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Living Room / Re: Imaging to a new SSD drive from SATA drive question
« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2013, 12:05 PM »
Samsung Magician
http://www.tweaktown...apid-mode/index.html

Install that and it will help you ensure everything is optimized and set up correctly for the SSD.
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Living Room / Re: Imaging to a new SSD drive from SATA drive question
« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2013, 11:20 AM »
I don't know the answer to your question, which is a good one.

However: What brand is the SSD? Some manufacturers, like Samsung, have their own utility that you can use to ensure all the optimal settings are in place for the SSD.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrade to Windows 64-bit
« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2013, 11:13 AM »
i'd suggest you buy a new hard drive, do a fresh install of 64 bit on that.
with a cheap $30 usb dock you will be able to access your old documents and data on the old hard drive whenever you want, and revert back completely if you have issues.
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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server
« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2013, 10:06 PM »
Someone should do this for NANY -- by that I mean not coding the whole thing from scratch, but writing any necessary tweaks to modify or configure the open source components of a LAMP setup, and writing a step by step tutorial on how to set it up.
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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server
« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2013, 10:05 PM »
it might be useful for you to start a list on that thread of features required. some examples:
  • 1. needs to support multiple user accounts, so each child can have a login of their own
  • 2. for each user account, it must be possible for the admin to add money to the child's account easily
  • 3. user must be able to build a shopping card, and then "checkout" to purchase
  • 4. admin's must be informed when child makes a purchase of something, and then the money subtracted from user's account
  • 5. must be easy for admins to add "products" with pictures and prices
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Living Room / Re: PROJECT: Children's home store server
« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2013, 04:12 PM »
I love this idea -- it would be great to see this developed in a way that others can set it up for their households too.
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PBOL / Progress Bars of Life - Screencast Demo
« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2013, 03:45 PM »
Watch a video of what thee Progress Bars of Life program is all about:

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Living Room / Re: Why do my cookies look like that?
« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2013, 01:28 PM »
In depth look at science of Chocolate Chip Cookie Baking:
http://sweets.seriou...te-chip-cookies.html

(from boingboing.net)
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Living Room / Re: Micro-Fundraiser for the Official DonationCoder CodyMobile!
« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2013, 07:27 PM »
Now who has baby cody? Because he is going to want to be the first passenger in the car.
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Living Room / Re: Micro-Fundraiser for the Official DonationCoder CodyMobile!
« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2013, 07:24 PM »
I have picked out some car models (not actual car) for purchasing for the codymobile in 2014:

Pontiac Vibe (used, circa 2005):

Screenshot - 12_19_2013 , 7_24_52 PM.png

Ford Focus zx3 (used circa 2006):

Screenshot - 12_28_2013 , 2_47_23 PM.png
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Approach to Spam threads
« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2013, 04:24 PM »
I thought about this at one point -- the idea was to create a special section of the forum for dumping spam posts and then reporting them somehow.  There should be a good way to do this but there isn't -- and because there isn't a good way for us to "report" such spammers, i think leaving them in place might be beneficial to them.

We still kill a dozen spam posts a day -- but the fact that we so rapidly ban and delete such posts probably does reduce the number we get.. eventually people will learn there is no benefit to registering and spamming us.  i've even written special code to ensure people can't make future edits to add spam links without being detected, so we are dedicated to catching spammers.

One thing we COULD still do, however, is make a simple list of products and companies which have been caught spamming, and make a shame page for such companies+products, without any links that would benefit them.  the page would simply instruct people not to do business with such people.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to make ScreenshotCaptor PORTABLE?
« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 07:38 PM »
In short, the portable zip files are ready to use portably, you don't need to do anything else other than unzip them.  The installer is set up to run non-portably and use user document directory.

If you want to modify either of these behaviors you can, just create your own custom ConfigDir.ini file and tell the program exactly where you want the settings saved.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to make ScreenshotCaptor PORTABLE?
« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 07:37 PM »
Glad to hear it worked out well, and thanks for taking the time to let us know the fix  :Thmbsup:

I'll explain basically what my programs do with regard to those ConfigDir files, for others that might stumble across this same problem.

When Screenshot Captor (or other programs i've written) start up, the first thing they look for is a ConfigDir.ini file.  This file should not be created automatically during installation, so if it exists, its because user made it, so it takes precedence.  If this file doesn't exist, the program will then check for a ConfigDir_Default.ini.  This is useful because in my portable zips, i include one of these that says to save configuration settings in the current directory (that is, to run portably).

As an aside, the reason that the portable versions come with a ConfigDir_Default.ini and not a Configdir.ini is so that users can make their own ConfigDir.ini that takes precedence, which won't be overwritten if they unpack a new release on top of the old.

So the ConfigDir_Default.ini that comes in the portable zips explicitly says to save settings in the current directory.  Without that, the program will choose to use the users local documents directory.

So when you made your own ConfigDir.ini and COMMENTED OUT the lines that said to run portably, that combination was telling the program to save in users local documents directory, since that's the default behavior of the program if nothing tells it any differently.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to make ScreenshotCaptor PORTABLE?
« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 05:48 PM »
You shouldn't have to do a single thing if you downloaded the portable zip file, so something is going wrong.

Can anyone confirm they are experiencing the same behavior?

The portable version should be creating it's ini file in the folder you unpack it to -- just like you are saying you want it to.
You should not have to do anything other than unpack the zip file and run it, and all files should be saved in that directory.

The only thing that should change that would be if it can't save to that directory  for some reason (like it doesn't have permission to) or if you do something that would change/replace/relete the ConfigDir_Default.ini file or put a different ConfigDir.ini file in that directory.

Can you check that you have a Configdir_Default.ini file in that directory and no ConfigDir.ini file in that directory.

And give me some more information?

Did you unpack it into your my documents directory somewhere, or onto a usb drive? If you tried to manually install it into the Program Files or other similar directory, and you are using Windows Vista or later, it may be blocking the ability to save there.

What version of windows are you using?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot Grab Current Screen after Update
« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 05:21 PM »
It worked perfect before the update so I'm really frustrated.

That is really odd -- but it makes it all the more important that we confirm this is really the cause -- so please don't give up.
I can't think of any other change that would be responsible for it not working.

Can you tell us what security software you are using?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot Grab Current Screen after Update
« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 10:32 AM »
BUT...there is nothing captured, the screen is white or blank.


If it is capturing all blank/white, instead of the screen, it's probably a security program blocking screen capturing.

You just need to have your security program allow Screenshot Captor to capture the screen.

More info:


ps.
It's a lot easier to trigger a screenshot by hitting the PrtScr key then to go through the menus.
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