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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what pdf reader app is your fav?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 09, 2015, 07:04 AM »

Derp! ...Apparently I've been using the Editor for a while now and didn't realize it.





My PDF requirements are fairly minimal, just view and occasionally create (with Cute PDF)...but the view part must be fast. Apparently the Editor is a bit slower than the viewer - I had been wondering about that - but not enough to be really aggravating.

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Living Room / Re: Please help Archive Team save Friendfeed's content

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2015, 11:29 AM »

it's worth noting that VirtualBox will not work if you have a modified version of uxtheme.dll (which has to be modified if you want to use non-windows themes for the OS).
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13767

-tomos (April 07, 2015, 04:21 AM)

Damn, that's arrogant!

-f0dder (April 08, 2015, 03:26 AM)

That was my first thought, also- though I'd assume it would be possible to fork it and remove that check.

-wraith808 (April 08, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Not everything UI plays nice together. T-Clock had a similar check in its code for many years. For the most part I'd just left it there - trusting the previous author - to see if anybody ever complained ... which they never did. TBH I'm not entirely sure if it's still there of not.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 08, 2015, 06:44 AM »

Posting from within Spartan

Posting this from the new Project Spartan browser in Windows 10 b10049 ... It's definitely fast. Really, really fast.

-Stoic Joker (April 02, 2015, 02:10 PM)

Does it use multiple executables?

-MilesAhead (April 02, 2015, 02:49 PM)

Yes, I'm showing 4 listed in TM just to get here - New tab == new .exe instance.

-Stoic Joker (April 03, 2015, 06:49 AM)

Does it do that for every tab? One of the things previous versions of IE was smart about, was doing tab/process grouping - so, unlike insane-o chrome, you don't end up with a zillion processes not executables. The separation of "UI" and "Worker" processes seems like a sound thing to do, but each site in its own processes is... ugh (sure, there's some security implications, but mostly it smells like a "uh, threading and async is hard" thing to me).

-f0dder (April 03, 2015, 09:37 AM)

Sorry, it took me a while to get back to this (I didn't have time to fiddle with 10). It starts with 3 for the first tab/page, added a forth for the 2nd tab, then held there for the 3rd tab. Added another for the 4th tab, and held there for the next 7. The 8th tab finally added another instance of the .exe.

So...I'll go with yes on this one.

- I just saw an article that says a search bar (may?) be hard-coded to sit there starting at you in Win10, and it's part integrated with Bing.

-TaoPhoenix (April 08, 2015, 01:03 AM)

It is currently the - search every with tiled MSN like web highlights (ick) - default, but there is an option to remove it ... Which I'd sincerely hope they never drop.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 07, 2015, 10:27 PM »

For the record, my dick has never been photographed.

However, if the NSA is truly that desperate for cheap thrills... I will - as part of my patriotic duty - post pics to the forum of their choice for $3,000,000 (tax free). Payment in Bitcoin preferred: 1HQXMMLwvqNH4jrJD7YVMeLx9wqDgSswsi

 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 06, 2015, 06:47 AM »

^Hay, that's Groovy man!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 03, 2015, 06:58 AM »

Posting this from the new Project Spartan browser in Windows 10 b10049 ... It's definitely fast. Really, really fast.

-Stoic Joker (April 02, 2015, 02:10 PM)

Can you give a couple of examples of how "fast" affects normal websites? Such as a site (I will load here), and "before and after" aka Spartan vs FF&gang/Chrome&gang/IE/Safari or whatever.

-TaoPhoenix (April 02, 2015, 04:40 PM)

(In all 3 minutes I got before the VM locked up) Testing is strictly - click-->result - subjective. If I have to use a stopwatch to "see" improvement...there ain't none. But for the test sites I used (here/MSN/Bing image search), the get there and load (to usable e.g. I can scroll smoothly) times were as close to instantaneous as anything I've seen. Much faster than IE, FF, or Chrome on the native hardware host machine.

I'm lately deciding UI interface and maybe usability is my number one metric of software. (See my other Kingsoft office post today on the other thread.) So I can't even think of a time when I felt my browser was the culprit for not rendering a page. Often a site will be slow, but the status bar at the bottom will say things like "waiting for site at 3.14.15.926 to load..." so it's not the browser render fault.

-TaoPhoenix (April 02, 2015, 04:40 PM)

Funny thing you mention the status bar...because there ain't one that I can find ... So I can't see where I'm going when hovering over a link. Other than that it hasn't pissed me off, yet..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 03, 2015, 06:49 AM »

Posting from within Spartan

Posting this from the new Project Spartan browser in Windows 10 b10049 ... It's definitely fast. Really, really fast.

-Stoic Joker (April 02, 2015, 02:10 PM)

Does it use multiple executables?

-MilesAhead (April 02, 2015, 02:49 PM)

Yes, I'm showing 4 listed in TM just to get here - New tab == new .exe instance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 02, 2015, 02:10 PM »

Posting this from the new Project Spartan browser in Windows 10 b10049 ... It's definitely fast. Really, really fast.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 02, 2015, 01:58 PM »

(Notice timestamp of post above is/was ~8:00am this morning - And it's now ~3:00pm) Holy Galloping Horse Shit Batman!!! That took forever...but it did work using a .vhd, instead of a .vhdx.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 02, 2015, 06:58 AM »

Hm... Okay, after a bit of digging at the error code it appears to be a UEFI vs. BIOS issue. And since this is the first time I've tried playing with a .vhdx drive...which doesn't seem to want to let me get into the VM's BIOS...I'm thinking a switch to .vhd (where IIRC the BIOS shows up normally) should (should...) resolve the issue.

Testing theory now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 02, 2015, 06:37 AM »

Now I have an excuse not to VM 10041.  I'll just wait for the 10049 ISO. 

-MilesAhead (April 01, 2015, 04:04 PM)

10041 went in just fine (update & clean), it's the jump to 10049 that's killing me. I left the update running last night, and it did a fail and rollback to 10041 again. But at least this time I got an error code (0x8000000A - 0x20003) to play with ... Yay (F...).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 01, 2015, 02:33 PM »

Update: It finally finished, buy crashing, rolling back, and going up in flames.

FFFFuuuormat C:..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 01, 2015, 01:42 PM »

10049 Update Taking Forever!

While the 10041 update only took an hour or so ... Going from 10041 to 10049 has - so far - taken over 4 and a half hours ... With no end in sight.

Overall Progress is at 23%
Configuring Settings: done
Setting up: 78%
Applying settings: Yet 2 Go
Setting up a few more things: Yet 2 Go


Disk activity (single 6G/s SATA3 drive) on host machine (it's running in a Hyper-V VM) has been at 100% the entire time.

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 01, 2015, 11:11 AM »

^Nailed it!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 31, 2015, 06:48 AM »

I don't think I could give it a fair test in a VM.  Although I notice for some reason Windows x64 versions of Vista and W7 aren't all that slow in a VM on my Laptop.  But W10 I have to turn off a bunch of services to keep it from stalling.

I'll probably VM the new build today or tomorrow and take a look.

-MilesAhead (March 31, 2015, 05:46 AM)

You could cheat and try dual booting to a .vhd for the 10 testing.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 30, 2015, 06:40 AM »

Reminds me of drunk history
https://www.youtube...._query=drunk+history

-tomos (March 29, 2015, 11:25 AM)

One should bear in mind that History is written by the victuals.

-MilesAhead (March 29, 2015, 06:43 PM)

History was written by food?? ...And I thought that the new math was bad...but this new education system has really got me baffled.

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Living Room / Re: New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 29, 2015, 04:18 PM »

American Politics...I R Bored!

-Stephen66515 (March 27, 2015, 05:00 PM)

Patriot Act affects all of us, because of its sheer crazyness.

-f0dder (March 29, 2015, 05:15 AM)

+1 - It's a mad dog off its leash at best. Glad to see you back man!

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Living Room / Re: TV shows thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 28, 2015, 02:29 PM »

For some light campy mindless fun check out the new iZombie It's a knockoff of the 'Dead Like Me' formula, but very well done IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 28, 2015, 02:26 PM »

I'm totally qualified for that job~! °°hic°°°

Hell... I'm even Irish°°~! It°s in my DNA.°°°

I think he°s just a dirty poser! Gimme a bottle and I°ll prove it°!

-Renegade (March 28, 2015, 08:06 AM)

50/50 Portuguese/German mix here ...(I drive better shitfaced than most people do sober)... And I'll be applying for that job as well!

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 28, 2015, 07:51 AM »

The User is Drunk

Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it.
You can't test that. I'll do it for you.

WHAT: I'll get very drunk, and then review your website. I'll send you a document outlining where I thought the website needed help, and a screencast of me going over the website.

How's that for a job?

-app103 (March 28, 2015, 04:51 AM)

Considering you have like 3 seconds to either captivate or lose a visitors attention, I think it's a brilliant idea. I see way to many sites that play games with key features that no one should ever have to dig for. They should do this for application design too ... Never ever (Ever...) make the user dig..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to override usual window close button with superfast TerminateProcess?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 27, 2015, 07:02 AM »

You can try SuperF4 (free), http://superf4.googlecode.com/.

It is must have app for me. Since I develop programs, many a times they go into infinite loop. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F4 instantly closes them, even faster that opening task manager and searching and killing it.

-anandcoral (March 27, 2015, 06:09 AM)

Now that does look handy! Another (unrelated) item I noticed on the authors website is Elevated Startup. I seem to recall there being several threads discussing a need for what it does...or at least appears to do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 26, 2015, 06:46 AM »

No ISO yet.  You have to do the update method:

https://www.tenforum...ndows-10-builds.html

-MilesAhead (March 19, 2015, 04:21 PM)

This doesn't work for me. I can't get build 9926 to update to 10041. The instructions in that link don't do what it says it should do. I don't see a "Preview Builds" tab in Update & Recovery when I follow the instructions.

-Deozaan (March 21, 2015, 01:21 PM)

I missed this earlier, but had the same no preview builds tab showing issue with my VM. I did have some windows updates pending, so I let it install them and it pulled the 10041 update (which was not listed) in with them.


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On an unrelated note, the odd redirect behavior I'd encountered trying to configure Outlook earlier (in the thread) resurfaced after the 10041 update. I typed portal.microsoftonline.com in the browser, and ended up here:


After getting this error:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 18, 2015, 11:30 AM »

Maybe the Outlook/Office you were using hadn't all the necessary patches? That would be my first guess.

-Shades (March 18, 2015, 09:21 AM)

Yeah, mine too...that's why I did a quick upgrade to Outlook 2010 in case there was a hiccup in 2007's auto config code.

Besides, What version of Exchange is running?

-Shades (March 18, 2015, 09:21 AM)

It's a MS Hosted Exchange Server - Office 365 E1 package/Microsoft Cloud service.

If your Outlook is 2 versions older than the Exchange it connects to...your usually SOL.

-Shades (March 18, 2015, 09:21 AM)

Understood ... But this is something I've done many times from other OS's (WinXP - 8, phones, tablets, etc.) and never had a problem. It was only the Win 10 VM that wouldn't/couldn't connect. The Win7 VM I tossed together to use also used the same Outlook 2010 install...yet connected just fine. I tried 10 after 7 connected - incase it was a fluke - but still no joy. Last with Friday 10&10 no connect, this Monday, no connect, yesterday I didn't have time to screw with it ... And today (shortly after making to initial post) it strangely connected. But I also didn't get the redirected to a strange new service page when I tried taking Win 10 to the Exchange Online web access page today either..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 18, 2015, 08:01 AM »

I was going to put this in its own thread, but I guess I'll just toss it in here - Win 10 Outlook & Exchange not playing nice.

Okay, so for reasons that aren't important I needed to setup Outlook to connect to a users (Microsoft Hosted) Exchange mailbox. Being that for fun I though I'd try doing it in the Windows 10 VM ... I started with Outlook 2007 to see if/how compatible it might be. The auto configure ran, found the server, found the account, and then went into a loop prompting me for the credentials, which while correct were not being accepted.

 Being that auto configure was new in/for 2007, I then upgraded it to Outlook 2010, and that too exhibited the same credential prompting ill behavior. I didn't have time to try Office 2013, so that option got skipped. I had to use a copy of 2010 in Windows 7 to get the job done.

One thing I did notice during this is when I attempted to go the hosted Exchange login page (portal.microsoftonline.com) in IE, I got redirected to some other (apparently new) MS service page I've never heard of. So I'm wondering if that redirection - which appears to be buried in the bowels of the OS - is what was killing the Outlook auto config connection. Neither the VM host machine, or any of the other VM's got bounced to this other (odd service that I can't remember the name of - Sorry) page ... And it was a vanilla install of the latest Windows 10 CTP.

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Living Room / Re: 25x~100x faster 3D printing?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on March 18, 2015, 06:46 AM »

Okay, that's cool!