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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Send a window to the Next or Previous Monitor in the same position.

« Last post by tomos on April 08, 2009, 03:25 AM »

^ stands for the windows key, ! is alt, ^ is control, + is shift.

-mmdoogie (April 07, 2009, 09:00 PM)

small mistake there!
# is the Win key

see also
http://www.autohotke...com/docs/Hotkeys.htm

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on April 07, 2009, 01:36 PM »

Haha I play futsal, headers rarely occur.

-Coeluh (April 06, 2009, 08:46 AM)

looks like a good game Coeluh (did a search on youtube), I hadnt come across it before - I know people who play "indoor football" (soccer) not sure, maybe that's the same? 
is there any videos about it you'd recommend?

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Living Room / Re: FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

« Last post by tomos on April 07, 2009, 12:32 PM »

that was hilarious 

especially loved the "natural remedies" alternative

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Living Room / Re: What is Twitter: A Funny Sarcastic Cartoon

« Last post by tomos on April 07, 2009, 05:34 AM »

Introducing Flutter: The New Twitter

http://slatev.com/pl....html?id=18328570001

-rgdot (April 06, 2009, 01:56 PM)

Very well done satire!

-Deozaan (April 07, 2009, 12:20 AM)

and 'shutter', even better

going back to the whale theme
a whale of a different colour in fact



(image links to source)

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Living Room / Re: partitioning first time - checklist (cleaning, backup, tools, etc)

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2009, 01:59 PM »

Aside from OS considerations, registry etc.. if you have a gulf between executables and data on the same physical drive you can get thrashing.

-MilesAhead (April 06, 2009, 11:46 AM)

you're making me rethink my organisation to this:-

Disk 1
# OS Partition
# Backup of Disk 2

Disk 2
# Page/Temp partition
# Data
# Images of OS partition

seeing as (good) backup involves seperate disks or seperate partitions at least - why shouldn't backup go on the OS drive if the space is there.
I know in an ideal world it should be on a third disk - which would really mean getting a smaller disk for OS - have to check see how many drives I can add to this machine ...
although I guess the really ideally could be

Drive: OS
Drive: Data
Drive: Page/Temp
Drive: Backup)                           

but that's going to wait a while

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Living Room / Re: partitioning first time - checklist (cleaning, backup, tools, etc)

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2009, 01:36 PM »

summary of a thread in Radified forum (a thread which mysteriously disappeared so I'll post it here)

Here's how I partitioned a new pc, late 2007.
I include all the details mainly because I got very detailed instructions on using GParted (on a Parted Magic CD) which I post below in the spoiler - they got me - who hadnt a clue about this type of thing through it, so ...


2 x 320 GB drives (new, empty drives)

HDD 1 C: OS/programmes (Primary active: 29GB) [D: Hidden Primary - 5GB original idea was for possible second stripped down XP install. I haven't used it..] E: Some app related Data, Portable installs, Downloads, etc. (50 GB) F: Data (the rest = 215 GB)

HDD 2 (no primary partitions) G: TEMP Folders & Paging file (FAT32: 19 GB) H: Photos etc (181 GB) I: For Backup & OS.images (the rest = 97 GB)

Sizes are a bit odd in GB's cause originally set in MB's - but also a certain amount gets "lost" somewhere - of course it may even be lost already when you get the disk in the first place, I cant rmemeber any more)

Here's the specific instructions I got (from Brian at the Radified forum: copy of same in spoiler)
These were for GParted 0.3.4 on a Parted Magic 1.8. CD

gparted instructions

After you boot to the CD and GParted loads you will see a dropdown menu at the top right. This is for selecting your HDs.....
/dev/hda and /dev/hdb (first and second HD). Make sure you know which one you are altering.

If you make a mistake, the Undo button will get you out of trouble. If you create an incorrect partition, delete it and redo the step.

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

Your first HD should be all unallocated space.


Let's start on the first primary partition.
Right click in the unallocated space and click New
Make the New Size 30,000 MB, create as Primary partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close
Right click in the new partition rectangle and click Manage Flags. Put a tick in "boot". Click Close


Now for the second Primary partition.
Right click in the unallocated space and click New
Make the New Size 5,000 MB, create as Primary partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close
Right click in the new partition rectangle and click Manage Flags. Put a tick in "hidden". Click Close


Now for the Extended partition.
Right click in the unallocated space and click New
Create as Extended partition. Leave everything else alone
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close
Right click in the new extended partition rectangle and click Manage Flags. Put a tick in "lba". Click Close


Now for the first Logical volume.
Right click in the unallocated space in the extended partition and click New
Make the New Size 50,000 MB, create as Logical partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close


Now for the final Logical volume.
Right click in the unallocated space in the extended partition and click New
Leave the New Size alone, create as Logical partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close


That completes the first HD.

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

Select the second HD. It should be all unallocated space.


Let's start on the Extended partition.
Right click in the unallocated space and click New
Create as Extended partition. Leave everything else alone
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close
Right click in the new extended partition rectangle and click Manage Flags. Put a tick in "lba". Click Close


Now for the first logical volume. The Page File partition.
Right click in the unallocated space in the extended partition and click New
Make the New Size 20,000 MB, create as Logical partition, File system FAT32
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close


Now for the next Logical volume.
Right click in the unallocated space in the extended partition and click New
Make the New Size 200,000 MB, create as Logical partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close


Now for the final Logical volume.
Right click in the unallocated space in the extended partition and click New
Leave the New Size alone, create as Logical partition, File system NTFS
Click Add, click Apply, confirm Apply, click Close

Exit Parted Magic.

We have created an active primary partition on the first HD. WinXP will be installed to this partition. All you need to do now is boot to the WinXP CD and choose this partition. The second partition will remain hidden until you are ready for a dual boot at some stage in the future.
After WinXP has been installed go to Disk Management and give each partition an appropriate label for easy recognition in the future.

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Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2009, 09:29 AM »

I see that Cody is so tired after collecting so many donated coins that he's fallen into a stupor!

-cranioscopical (April 06, 2009, 08:49 AM)

lol
looks very quiet up there too

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 14-09

« Last post by tomos on April 05, 2009, 06:41 AM »

8. so if I had the correct transformer could I simply hook up a 12v battery to my computer no, I guess not - you'ld have to have some way of getting it to kick in. I dont understand how that is more efficient energywise than a UPS but probably cheaper?
Re cooling - I dont know where they have their servers but somewhere cold would seem logical (Alaska?!)

10. I thought for a minute that the employee was the serial killer ... seems odd too that one person would be connected to all these cotton buds - but I presume it's those medical ones on a long thin piece of wood, so maybe not quite so odd

11. 

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Living Room / Re: OS Re-install Tips?

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2009, 06:07 PM »

I really hate the default xp theme so I removed that
(I know it wasnt necessary to actually remove it but I enjoyed that)

-tomos (April 04, 2009, 01:19 PM)

-cranioscopical (April 04, 2009, 04:25 PM)

Hmm seems those with XP put on a Vista lookin' theme, but if you have Vista you put on a W7 lookin' theme.  Guess if you get W7 Ultimate you have to put on a Windows 3.1 theme? 

-MilesAhead (April 04, 2009, 04:43 PM)

actually ...     I was always very tempted to try a vista look, but not enough to go to all the effort. I now use Classic Look

and
the Tango Patcher [edit] which replaces default system icons [/edit] and am quite happy with the look ... (really though, I wish I had been into computers when they had black backgrounds and glowing green type...)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: move mouse to active window

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2009, 01:27 PM »

Take a look at this:moving mouse to change active window.

-sunwei415 (April 03, 2009, 07:36 PM)

I get a "No Thread specified" message there

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Living Room / Re: OS Re-install Tips?

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2009, 01:19 PM »

What kind of tweaks? 

-CleverCat (April 04, 2009, 02:56 AM)

well I removed Windows Media Player (you can remove IE as well, but that seems risky to me)
I really hate the default xp theme so I removed that (I know it wasnt necessary to actually remove it but I enjoyed that )
I set it up so as on start that it would logon directly (probably not secure but ..)

I cant remember the rest ... I thought I had some helpful links saved in Surfulater but no, dont seem to ...

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2009, 01:10 PM »

apologies Paul, and to all for getting bogged down with this here
sometimes I should be more .. definite (? or something) - it really wasnt any big deal but butter put it to bed now !!!

1) mousers post

If we do go with this.. then it may make sense to try to get one person willing to volunteer to read all of the threads and post occasional summaries of people's different methods, and encourage everyone participating, etc.

-
2) your reply

The summary part I can also do if no one minds me being heavily critical though I can just keep that part of the post to myself.

Encouragement, no, not me.

-
3) I read that as "no, I dont do encouragement" - me, I guess I see e.g. constructive criticism as encouragement, hence the posts about criticism and encouragement etc. (and maybe I was trying to encourage you to be encouraging lol)

That was it, no big deal really, hope that buries it

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2009, 02:09 AM »

Hmm...that could be a failure of communication on my part. I don't recall saying anything like that. At least even if I do, I've never felt encouragement to be something I'm against and won't do.

-Paul Keith (April 03, 2009, 06:25 AM)

...
re-read your reply to mouser's post

If we do go with this.. then it may make sense to try to get one person willing to volunteer to read all of the threads and post occasional summaries of people's different methods, and encourage everyone participating, etc.

-mouser (April 02, 2009, 06:10 PM)

you could re-read my last couple of posts again as well in connection with your "criticism = insulting" interpretation - I really dont see where you got that one (I'm looking forward to the D.Allen video though, but will have to wait till later)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: LifeSaver diary

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 06:46 PM »

This may be mentioned elsewhere but I didnt notice it in the first post:
it looks like you have to uninstall older versions (well mine was around the 0.9.0.0) before reinstalling
It appeared to install but only really worked after I uninstalled the older version

thanks

EDIT/
I missed this, didn't I

Known Issues

• Previous version must be uninstalled before upgrading.

-CWuestefeld (December 07, 2008, 10:12 AM)

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: forced coffee/tea/cigarette break reminder

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 05:22 PM »

hi tempdonationcoder
have you seen app103's Instant Boss ?
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4602.0
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4430.0
it's got a different slant but certainly well worth a look

havent seen this one before must try it out, thanks!

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Living Room / Re: Check out my new avatar

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 10:12 AM »

I've blocked it -
not because I saw anything offensive (I can hardly figure out 40hz's screenshots & didnt get to see them) - I just hate frantically moving images ...

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Living Room / Re: OS Re-install Tips?

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 06:17 AM »

Isn't SP3 an updated SP2?

Then you'd first need a CD with SP3 integrated?

-CleverCat (April 03, 2009, 05:50 AM)

I'm not sure lol
I just wanted to point out that you need an install disc with SP2 (minimum) already and then ryanvm slipstreams the updates
I see they have a Windows XP Post-SP3 Update Pack as well

can you tweak the install as well ? - did you indulge there?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 05:56 AM »

I also don't know what you meant by encouragement.

-Paul Keith (April 03, 2009, 04:22 AM)

what I said:
criticism doesnt rule out encouragement (I only said it because you were saying something along the lines that you didnt do encouragement but did do criticism)
And naturally: encouragement doesnt rule out criticism ...

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Living Room / Re: OS Re-install Tips?

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 05:24 AM »

Have you tried Nlite? is a program that can help you put drivers, updates and hotfixes into a Windows XP installation disc. It can save lot's of installation time if used corectly.

-gexecuter (April 02, 2009, 01:29 PM)

I did a slipstreamed CD install last time using http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/

It worked great and I didn't have to spend hours updating XP!

Takes a bit of learning but it's not Brain Surgery...

-CleverCat (April 03, 2009, 04:05 AM)

Just in case: I think you need an XP SP2 install disk for that
There was a download link for an XP SP3 iso somewhere here a while back - I dont know could one use that?

You can download a full ISO version of Windows XP SP3 Pro and Home.

See http://www.tipandtri...via-http-or-torrent/

which has all the full ISO versions (and the links are to the Microsoft download site so they are safe - sorry I take that back all the links have now changed and they are at various other sites including torrents. The original checksums are given though so you can check the download is the original unaltered MS ISO file).

There is another thread with other references to SP3 downloads at https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12466.0

-Carol Haynes (January 30, 2009, 06:30 PM)

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2009, 03:45 AM »

Paul,
I take your point about criticism, but I'll ask:
does being critical rule out being encouraging? Criticism, if delivered fairly, can obviously be something helpful - as you say if Allen was more specific in his criticism we would now know a bit more about the topic. I'm not trying to force you into an encouraging role !! just throwing it out there

I dont think we're trying to change the world of productivity or whatever it's called. You keep focusing on that world and it's problems. Again, I'm not saying all that stuff isnt important - I'm just saying it's only one aspect.

I'm curious - what is it you would want from a GOE ?
I mean - not what you dont want !
(apologies if you've said that somewhere already & I've missed it - just redirect me!)

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Living Room / Re: OS Re-install Tips?

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2009, 04:08 PM »

Might be worth a try, either as a replacement for MozBackup - or a...er..backup to it?

-40hz (April 02, 2009, 03:26 PM)

why all the big fuss about thunderbird mail
copy the profile folder, restore as in the link I gave above. seems the easiest and most secure to me ...

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2009, 04:01 PM »

My criticism of it though is that the concept is turning a month only project into a productivity forum and that can confuse and stress people posting because no one knows if it's just a productivity forum or a monthly exercise so even their trial of systems might feel like another make it a habit in 30 days or your money back.

-Paul Keith (April 02, 2009, 03:17 PM)

well let's make it an open-ended ongoing thing/forum - I mean it might not last anyway but why limit it?

how about we look at things this way:
if you have a criticism, you/we look for a simple solution -> GOE 2009

I dont really have time (or interest?) in theoretical or in whether things were done good or bad, then or now - I realise straight away that that's a weakness .... but one can get bogged down in all that stuff just as much as any other (GOE, etc.) stuff

currently I'm thinking: I'm going to try and do my own personal GOE 2009 - I may or may not post here
[and I make no commitments as to when I'll begin it (lol)]

How about this
-
what would YOU [anyone] want from a "Getting Organised Experiment" ??
(Just in case: saying 'getting organised' doesnt qualify as a good enough answer)

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2009, 03:42 PM »

I like to play [...]soccer.

-Coeluh (April 02, 2009, 02:33 PM)

QUIT. NOW. Playing soccer kills the little part of your brain that helps you code, and IT NEVER REGENERATES!
You have been warned.

-scancode (April 02, 2009, 03:34 PM)

gotta play computer games instead 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2009, 02:46 PM »

Welcome Coeluh, PSV rule 

-rgdot (April 02, 2009, 02:38 PM)

I thought that sounded familiar

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2009, 02:23 PM »

Welcome daniel 

-mouser (April 02, 2009, 01:56 PM)

Thanks, mouser. I thought it was about time I formally introduced myself considering I'm on the forum so much lately.

-siouxdax (April 02, 2009, 02:07 PM)

yeah, sure we know you already!
welcome to the club