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Living Room / Re: Please tallk me off the ledge... Intervention needed!

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2009, 03:55 AM »

NANY 2009 Release: WishList Maker
mind you I'm half afraid to write down all the things I would like ...

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Living Room / Re: Please tallk me off the ledge... Intervention needed!

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2009, 09:50 AM »

buy something else for "$300 [to] $450" ??
ouch

you know you could get one of those cheap eee type laptops  - I better go here before I get lynched lol

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis TrueImage 10 available for free

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2009, 05:50 AM »

There is now no download link now on the Registered Products page - it just says:

"The installation package can only be obtained from a promo campaign partner."

Edit: If you can't find the file anywhere check out this thread http://www.hotukdeal...?t=331457&page=5

-Carol Haynes (February 06, 2009, 03:52 AM)

those links seem to be "expired" now too
wouldnt mind, cant even buy the mag here (it's on the disc)
ah well

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2009, 09:16 AM »

okay, I compromised & read it quickly
and I have no idea what you are saying re GOE 2009 - sounds to me almost like you're saying the idea is a waste of time ?

About the group thing, personally I reckon with productivity that really each person has to figure it out for themselves - I mean they can get help, ideas from others, but at the end of the day it's my head, my "things" (that need to get done) etc.

Have you read the ideas contributed earlier in this thread ?

P.S have you tried Mark Forsters AF list yet?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2009, 08:43 AM »

tomos, ok, here's an idea (did I interpret your post correctly?)

-Paul Keith (February 05, 2009, 04:52 AM)

well, we are dc
and you have as much say as I do (or anyone else) in what/how this will be run, especially I guess if you were to get involved in the organisation of it

my problem with responding here is: I already spend too much time here in dc - so your very long posts tend to get put on my todo lists - and that means sometimes they get read, sometimes they're still waiting ... I'll print this one out & take it with me
Any chance of a summary on those extra long posts Paul? (I suspect I mightn't be the only one to have a problem with the length of some e.g. here)

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by tomos on February 05, 2009, 08:31 AM »

thanks for all the help to get a better understanding (Fenix, urlwolf)
mercurial does sound especially good for collaboration all right

just btw,
from the link I gave above, author talks about different options (SVN Git CVS) and says at the end

1.6.5 ... As an example, Subversion is a good choice for working with frequently edited binary files, due to its centralised nature and support for file locking. If you’re averse to the command line, it currently has better GUI support than other free revision control tools. However, its poor merging is a substantial liability for busy projects with overlapping development. I personally find Mercurial’s properties of simplicity, performance, and good merge support to be a compelling combination that has served me well for several years.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

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

hmmm, thanks for all that Fenix

your explanation is very helpful -
the tutorial was a bit over my head
I found this PDF "Distributed revision control with Mercurial" which has a bit more of an introduction
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf  (or same online:  http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.html)
Neither, unfortunately, clearly explain the basic principles (like most experts they presume you know a certain amount all ready .. in fairness the PDF is quite good that way)

I suspect I'd consider this too much of a learning process considering I'm fairly happy with FileHamster

But I'll chance asking a couple of basic questions (if you do answer you can keep it simple/basic cause as I say I'm unsure if I'd want to invest the time in this now):-

1) Is this correct (roughly!) ? -
The basic idea is that revisions are created locally (automatically when I save files?) and then after a period of time, these revisions are [manually?] synched with another location (or the reverse, originals + revisions in another location and synched to local directory)

2) could I e.g. use Amazon S3 as a location?

3) is there a lot of maintenance work involved?

4) would you say it's flexible - e.g. with FileHamster I can say: "Ignore *.pdf files" or "ignore this folder" or "ignore this file"
4a) Could project location be moved to a different directory - FH has a certain amount of flexibility there - the backups can be easily moved

5) if I had a bunch of projects is it easy to keep track of them

6) Damn, I've forgotten #6   

thanks, Tom

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: mod to Windows FileOpen and FileSave dialogs to select folder(s)

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 10:52 AM »

if i understand correctly there's a bunch of programmes that help there
see
Revisiting (XfilesDialog, File-Ex, Direct Folders)
and
CFDButton - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

Superboyac has a brand new post about Direct Folders on his blog this week
http://aram.dcmember...ware/direct-folders/

I use FileBox eXtender myself
I would love to get one that replaces the default folders (shown as icons) on the left - I think ObjectDock does that but at a (too expensive to me for what it does) price

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: the block me (when you are your own worst enemy)

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 10:44 AM »

nice idea nudone (could do with something like that at times - we could start a dc support group lol)

You can't make it standard application because Ctrl+Alt+Del will allow you to kill it. Not service because you can stop running services. You can also uninstall driver, if it comes in such form.

-fenixproductions (February 04, 2009, 10:13 AM)

I could see myself closing it down all right,
or stopping a service - but I wouldnt go as far as uninstalling something if I'd gone to so much trouble setting it up etc.

Re money, while I agree if you pay for something it gives you incentive to respect it I can't see a usable structure - I mean I wouldnt trust someone I dont know and I'd feel funny paying someone I do!

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 10:17 AM »

How does the Getting Organized Experiment work?

There seems to be a huge disparity between the 2006 and 2007 version.

-Paul Keith (February 04, 2009, 09:12 AM)

how would you like it (2009) to work

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine Error # 11949

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 08:02 AM »

Been using Evernote more lately (& still using SQLNotes) -
I get the error with both so it appears to be somehow HTML related

otherwise CH&S works fine

Just wondering:-
I use system default time of YYYY-MM-DD
and notice 0000-00-00 in the error
---------------------------
Error..
---------------------------
DBISAM Engine Error # 11949 SQL parsing error - Expected NULL, Date, Time, or Timestamp expression but instead found '0000-00-00 09:19:34.485 AM' in UPDATE SQL statement at line 1, column 156
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

do you think could that be confusing something somewhere?

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 05:15 AM »

Mercurial, been using for a month and must say: it's great. IMHO it has better tools and is easier to handle than TortoiseCVS (or SVN).

-fenixproductions (February 04, 2009, 04:23 AM)

thanks fenix,



that looks manageable
can you add "comments" to files as you save them or does it work in a different way?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to show us a dialog with who program will open a file(association)

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 05:06 AM »

I thought the key bit was from cthorpe's post:

I then associated jpg, png, and gif with ChoiceEditor

I wouldn't have thought of that myself...

-rjbull (February 04, 2009, 04:55 AM)

thanks rj, I lost the last bit of the link when I quoted myself above (corrected now)
maybe your post will help clarify things

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by tomos on February 04, 2009, 02:56 AM »

thanks Shades
It's great to get a couple of pointers
I'd heard of them, even started reading up on one of them a couple of years ago but gave up (think it was CVS, like Carol looked at - "clear as mud" lol)

First of all, I'm definitely no expert but I was under the impression that anybody who makes a living of creating software had (at least) heard of these systems..

-Shades (February 03, 2009, 07:09 PM)

you're forgetting - we're not all coders here (some of us arent even power users )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to show us a dialog with who program will open a file(association)

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2009, 10:43 AM »

did you read this post

Lanux's post send's you here
https://www.donation...55.msg60809#msg60809

-tomos (February 02, 2009, 06:58 AM)

[edit] link corrected

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2009, 07:11 AM »

Mouser, are you still looking at kicking off GOE 2009, I'd like to help out..

-kwacky1 (February 02, 2009, 06:30 AM)

Kwacky,
Had you ideas for it?

also, have you seen the thread about Mark Forsters new organisational method ?
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16438.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2009, 06:36 AM »

So why even bother with a product like FileHamster?

-Shades (February 02, 2009, 03:47 PM)

cause we're not all experts at CVS or SVN ?
cause it's easy ?  - Filehamster I mean
cause most FH users are probably (?) working on and backing up one file at a time

Are you saying CVS or SVN are easily accessible? (I know next to nothing about them)

For Windows are also open source/freeware graphical clients and shell extensions available.

-Shades (February 02, 2009, 03:47 PM)

any tips/links there?
thanks..

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Living Room / Re: Man, those British folks sure know how to live

« Last post by tomos on February 03, 2009, 02:19 AM »

No one has commented on the picture of Hugh Laurie in his pre-House days...

-Darwin (February 02, 2009, 04:11 PM)

is that a comment then Mike

That looks like Blackadder - he was in that, wasnt he? Yes, he was, now there's something to spend a snowed in day watching

Pre-"House" - I'm out of touch - is that good then?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to show us a dialog with who program will open a file(association)

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2009, 10:35 AM »

with choiceeditor you must have the total commander .. i dont know if it works without it .
I downloaded yesterday but it does not associate with filetypes from registry ..

-divsoft (February 02, 2009, 10:03 AM)

from the post I linked to

ChoiceEditor works great for this!  I don't have TC, and it works.  Thanks TucknDar!!!!

-cthorpe (May 09, 2007, 05:14 PM)

it does not associate with filetypes from registry ..

-divsoft (February 02, 2009, 10:03 AM)

do you mean you tried it and it doesnt work?

EDIT/ I'm not saying it does work - I had problems with it but I didnt hear of anyone else having trouble with it

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to show us a dialog with who program will open a file(association)

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2009, 06:58 AM »

i mean a program that for example any time i open an mpeg file, a dialog will be opened with the associated programs that opens it .. and u choose whatever u want to play the file.

-divsoft (February 01, 2009, 05:52 PM)

I know ...
I could have been more specific but it's there in that thread:-
Lanux's post send's you here
https://www.donation...55.msg60809#msg60809

is an example there at that link

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: File Hamster - Birthday Discounts... 50% off everything

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2009, 05:23 AM »

Just discovered that File Hamster is having a birthday sale, offering 50% of everything.

-Ampa (November 14, 2008, 03:37 PM)

They're still advertising this so I presume it's still valid

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2009, 05:19 AM »

Commenting generally on Filehamster:-

while I'm a big fan of Filehamster,
I find support can be poor and/or very slow - it exists all right so it could be a lot worse!

Personally I would like to see more development on the main programme, specifically re the UI, management of watches (e.g. it would be great to be able to group them in a tree format) and more flexible options.
In fairness they have done some work in directions that dont interest me (team plugin)

All in all though I think it's worth the investment - and I dont know has this been reported elsewhere but

To celebrate the second anniversary of FileHamster all prices have been reduced by 50%.

which makes it 15$ or so, a steal
http://www.mogware.c...downloads/index.html

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to show us a dialog with who program will open a file(association)

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2009, 04:55 PM »

this has definitely come up here before -
here
"Open With" alternative for Windows

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 05-09

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2009, 03:25 PM »

well, #1 was entertaining, if troubling as ewemoa says

#11 dont know anything about this stuff, the music industry never impresses though ...
Eircom simply trying to avoid an expensive court case maybe? Ireland is a very big sueing country*, like the US, maybe they were afraid of being burned somehow

* can have it's plus side - they brought in complete smoking ban very early to protect workers in smokey conditions (= afraid of loads of claims/court cases)

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General Software Discussion / Re: XP SP3 blocks .NET security patches

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2009, 02:55 PM »

hmm,
I'm getting offered this even though I only seem to have NET3 installed - I also have NET2 Servicepack1 but no sign of NET2 itself - what a mess

Worthwhile installing 3.5 do you think?

btw, I never bothered with SP3 (just mention in case relevant)

For those of you that have to update your Windows Installer to 3.1 first, you'll find that here.

-app103 (December 06, 2008, 08:18 PM)

I notice version 4.5 is available.
This I know nothing about - do I need to   ??