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General Software Discussion / Re: Media Monkey 3 is the most exciting audio player yet

« Last post by urlwolf on February 10, 2008, 02:24 PM »

I agree, MM would be the finest player out there (thanks to the scripts)... if it worked. For me it's been the application with most bugs in my entire history. A pity.

And, yes, it takes Winamp plugins, but the ones I tested crash the application in a way that ony reinstall will fix.

I have a love-hate relationship withh this app, similar to the one I have with Opera. I don't know if I'd rate these apps a 1 or a 5 (out of five)!

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General Software Discussion / Re: ScanFS: an alternative to locate? Free indexer, file previews and other niceties

« Last post by urlwolf on February 10, 2008, 07:12 AM »

Hey, this thing can find text and show a preview.
It can use regular expressions (!).

looks like a new-found jewel!
I don't use vista, I know it has some search facilities, but are they comparable to scanFS?

Great to find music duplicates too.

@Dormouse: Last time I used Dopus, it didn't create an index of your files (it just searches them linearly). Maybe they have added a catalog later, I don't know.

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General Software Discussion / ScanFS: an alternative to locate? Free indexer, file previews and other niceties

« Last post by urlwolf on February 10, 2008, 06:53 AM »

Here's an alternative to locate.

ScanFS

it's a free indexer; What does it have over locate? media file previews, live preview of file contents based on keywords or regular expressions, exports search results to excel, etc

Features
   ▪ Search in single directories or directory groups
   ▪ Search and replace in multiple files
   ▪ Supports simple or regular expressions for filenames and file contents
   ▪ Live preview of file contents, without the need to rescan the file system
   ▪ Live preview of images
   ▪ Windows Explorer integration (by clicking the search button, or pressing F3)
   ▪ Search using multiple file patterns
   ▪ Save/Load search criteria
   ▪ Full unicode support (filenames, file contents, search results, search and replace)
   ▪ Refine search mode (search within catalogs or existing results)
   ▪ Copy/Move/Delete/Rename files and/or directories
   ▪ Drag-drop support, e.g. drop files in explorer windows
   ▪ Can be used as a visual replacement for the command-line grep comman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple audio DB app. to launch default player

« Last post by urlwolf on February 05, 2008, 04:47 PM »

MusicIP can be set up to play with an external player.
Its db is lightning fast.

It has some issues; tagging speed is not very good, GUI usability is so-so, and doesn't support APE tags, but overall it could be a good contender.

It has some niceties derived from having fingerprinting: fix tags, fig artist are some of them. Worth a try I'd say. It does support drag and drop, but not to foobar

I think mediamonkey can use an external player as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?

« Last post by urlwolf on February 04, 2008, 11:49 AM »

I started switching back to Mediamonkey 3.
Oh!
The pain!
There are bugs in the bugs!

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General Software Discussion / Re: subline text: some innovative text editor!

« Last post by urlwolf on February 02, 2008, 09:34 AM »

Well, the unthinkable happened

 

I had started evangelizing (forum posts, blog post), when the following happened:
1-double-clicked minimap
2-open dialog pops up
3-Entire system froze; not even the task manager works (looks like a GDI leak).
4-had to do a hard reboot.
 
This is, as a fellow developer, as bad as it can get. Having to reboot my system without saving first makes me remember NEVER to open that application again.
 
If this is a beta (which is not according to version numbers) you should say so.
I have a long list of suggestions, and a lot of hopes for this tool that have just evaporated today.
Minimap is a brilliant idea; but vim has 2^38 features that this editor doesn't have, and it has never crashed my system this badly in over 10 years of use.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: FastStone MaxView Mini-Review

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 11:10 PM »

what I miss in most viewers is the option to zoom into a selected area of image

-tomos (February 01, 2008, 07:07 AM)

Oh, but MaxView won't let you down on that! Try pressing ctrl and dragging with left button!

-jgpaiva (February 01, 2008, 07:24 AM)

ahhgh SUPER!! -I'm sold!

^^ But Irfanview does that too...

-tomos (February 01, 2008, 07:41 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: subline text: some innovative text editor!

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 09:07 PM »

for $59, it better give me Stallman's superpowers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: subline text: some innovative text editor!

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 09:03 PM »

syntax files and snippets are very few and rudimentary.
If this guy manages to get some early adopters, an active forum, and contributors, he might get a good bite of the market.

He seems to be very resposive to feedback;
If this really is python + Qt, it must be portable.
He's onto something.

Vim is gtk, thus easy to port.
The problem is that matching vim community may take years

it's $59; a bit expensive for a notepad replacement

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General Software Discussion / Re: subline text: some innovative text editor!

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 08:59 PM »

Well, functionality is not that great now, ... I guess on par with braindead editors (that most people have no problem using day-to-day), but nothing compared to A-class editors (vim, emacs, ed, slickedit, textmate).

I *hope* future versions do add features.

It's lightning fast, that's for sure.

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General Software Discussion / sublime text: some innovative text editor!

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 06:36 PM »

http://www.sublimetext.com/

Good ideas here:
bird-eye of the code (tiny pic of the entire file).
Multi-insertion points
search on the bottom line (command line, like in vim).

Still far away from being a serious competitor to vim, but if it does some of the snippets magic that textmate does (and that vim cannot fully emulate as of yet) it might be interesting.

Coded in python by an ex-google guy.

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General Software Discussion / Richard stallman is the new Chuck Norris. I've never laughed harder...

« Last post by urlwolf on February 01, 2008, 04:34 PM »

I've never laughed harder looking at a screen in my life.
http://reddit.com/r/...info/675jj/comments/
 
(this thread came after this:"Richard Stallman does not use a web browser.
At all"
http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/)

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General Software Discussion / Paul Graham releases ARC

« Last post by urlwolf on January 30, 2008, 11:40 AM »

http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

Will have a look as soon as possible...

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOTHIC!!!

« Last post by urlwolf on January 30, 2008, 04:10 AM »

Happy B-day!

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General Software Discussion / Re: preparing for a phone interview: best books on algorithms/programming practices?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 29, 2008, 12:07 PM »

These are really excellent sites, thanks patthecat!

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General Software Discussion / Re: preparing for a phone interview: best books on algorithms/programming practices?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 29, 2008, 07:10 AM »

Thanks iphigenie, great resources.
I was unsing the wolf book (algorithms in perl) right now.

There's a nice list here:
http://www.philosoph...om/2007/11/21/books/

Somewhat C# oriented (guy is a microsoftie).

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General Software Discussion / preparing for a phone interview: best books on algorithms/programming practices?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 28, 2008, 08:57 PM »

I'm preparing for a phone interview.

What are the best books on algorithms/programming practices? Note: I'm not a CS major (self-taught programmer) so all the basic stuff taught on CS courses is something I didn't have to do. I mean, I may know what a bubble sort is only because I found the need for one in the wild... but not all the classical algorithms are found that way . That means I may be missing a lot, which I plan to to complement in 2-3 days of serious reading.

Recommendations?

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General Software Discussion / Matt Cornell (GTD productivity consultant and blogger) at ap: send in a question

« Last post by urlwolf on January 28, 2008, 08:27 AM »

Just a quick heads up. We have Matt Cornell (GTD productivity consultant and blogger) available for a question/answer session over at ap.com (see link on sig). I've beeing following his progress and he is doing excellent work on his blog (and I can guess on his consultancy too). This is a good opportunity to throw at him anything that may be bothering you about GTD in general.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: TimeKeeper v2.20c by TSM, Kevin Pluck, Crypto-Central

« Last post by urlwolf on January 25, 2008, 01:59 PM »

Yes,
the problem is that it's monitoring applications you tell it to so it can switch to interruption time if you enter one. This is a CPU hog. There was another method that was not CPU demanding, but it failed quite often.

If you want to have no CPU usage, just switch off the option to "chalk off as interruptions the following applications".

A pity that this couldn't be achieved better. Anyway.

There's one user who wants to rewrite the interruption in ruby. He may do a better job at it. In the mean time, just do it 'by hand' (if you know you are in a procrastination streak, at least press the key that marks it as an interruption )

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 25, 2008, 07:19 AM »

Digg has just changed their algorithm to prevent this.
Consequence: users are on strike

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: TimeKeeper v2.20c by TSM, Kevin Pluck, Crypto-Central

« Last post by urlwolf on January 25, 2008, 07:15 AM »

I stopped using timekeeper and created my own, the interruptron.
Does the same thing and it's a lot simpler and lest obstructive.
You can get it (free) from the second url in my sig.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Alpha Five 60% off

« Last post by urlwolf on January 24, 2008, 06:28 PM »

I'm not sure point and click is always faster than writing code... but other than that it looks ok.

Deployment issues are mentioned. It needs their own server application (windows only). That takes it out of reach for 90% of folks.

Reducing development time of database frontends is exactly what modern MVC frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, PHPcake, code igniter, etc) do.

They are of course a lot more flexible than this. You can barely personalize the looks of the final page, right?

It does have an script language, Xbasic, but why would you go with a weird language, with little code examples out there, instead of say PHP , python or ruby?

THis product fits the niche of non-programmers doing web apps that talk to dbs. Is there such a niche? I don't know...

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General Software Discussion / Re: starting a revolt against Opera. Worth it?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 24, 2008, 06:53 AM »

Not to mention that they won't abandon the 'passe' paradigm of tree-like local bookmarks and embreace tagging/del.icio.us...!
I really miss FF's perfect suplantation of del.icio.us bookmarks instead of crappy local bookmarks.

Opera thinks it can compete with del.icio.us using the Osync feature. What a sorry joke, they completely miss the social part: I might want other people to see my bookmarks, see what my neighbors are bookmarking, etc.

I wonder if people who make decisions like this at Opera are even connected to the web... They often show they have no clue. This is really a dilbert's PHB sotuation (pointy-hair boss with no clue about tech stuff making decisions).

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General Software Discussion / Re: starting a revolt against Opera. Worth it?

« Last post by urlwolf on January 24, 2008, 04:47 AM »

What is the particular feature? I'd be happy to support a constructive cause, Vive la Revolución!

For a start, the quote button doesn't work anymore in the latest beta

Well it's not so much about which feature they didn't implement. It's the utter lack of respect for all the people reporting why (in their educated opinion) opera is not perfect and could be easily improved.

Examples: PGP, copy-paste full clipboard (with formatting: right now it forces plain text!), select text with keyboard, etc.

If they can ignore a thread with hundreds of requests, and not even post a reason why they do it, I call this being just plain rude. They are insulting the user who spend time writing the feature request down.

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General Software Discussion / IDEA: create a social network graph of DC users

« Last post by urlwolf on January 23, 2008, 01:54 PM »

I'm sure there must be software out there to do this. It's kind of a fun problem, but I really don't have time to tackle it.

Let's draw a social network graph of DC users.

Each node in the graph is an author, and links between authors are created when authors interact by posting in the same thread. The length of each link connecting two nodes is inversely proportional to the strength of their interaction, determined through the frequency of participation in the same threads. Each author
can be weighted by their authority, as determined by their propensity to spark discussions with many interactions.

What do you think? Make this general (i.e., for any forum) and you have a very cool plugin that people can stick to their forums