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General Software Discussion / Re: *ALERT* Debian warns its users to remove the Debian Multimedia repository
« Last post by ewemoa on June 14, 2013, 09:11 PM »
Thanks for the headsup, 40hz.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.3 - April 22, 2013
« Last post by ewemoa on June 14, 2013, 09:09 PM »
@mouser: in the latest release notes of SSC, there is a note:
[BugFix] Updated ScDx ScreenshotCaptor DirectX capture addon (separate download).

Where might I download this from, please?
-IainB (June 13, 2013, 05:56 AM)

May via a link at the following?

  https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30008.0
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Living Room / Re: Legitimate app breaks popular encryption - EFS, BitLocker, TrueCrypt ...
« Last post by ewemoa on June 14, 2013, 09:07 PM »
I am wary of programs that generate passwords / passphrases.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Resources for learning git?
« Last post by ewemoa on May 31, 2013, 02:49 AM »
The following seemed pretty decent:

  The Git Parable
930
DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 27, 2013 - Codename: Ready the Cody-Mobile!
« Last post by ewemoa on May 30, 2013, 09:14 PM »
Thanks for the newsletter :)
931
N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: Please post requests!
« Last post by ewemoa on May 30, 2013, 09:09 PM »
Thanks for reporting back!  Glad to hear that it seems to be working out  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: We Are the Idiots
« Last post by ewemoa on May 28, 2013, 02:13 AM »
  But yet they outlaw DDT......
-Tinman57 (May 28, 2013, 12:07 AM)

I smell a...arrrrrggggghhhhh!
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by ewemoa on May 26, 2013, 03:04 AM »
He he -- I use my digital scale daily to measure my tea leaves :)
-ewemoa (May 25, 2013, 06:34 AM)
dang!  i didn't realize the tea drinkers do that.  cool.
-superboyac (May 26, 2013, 01:50 AM)

Gotta be careful with powerful stuff that's ingested regularly, right? ;)
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by ewemoa on May 26, 2013, 03:03 AM »
There is also another non-retired analog scale here that can do calibration / zero-ing -- takes more time but doesn't require batteries :)
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Living Room / Re: Cool visualization of dial-up modem sounds and what they mean
« Last post by ewemoa on May 25, 2013, 10:42 PM »
Great stuff!
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Developer's Corner / Re: GoogleCode announces removal of file download feature for hosted projects
« Last post by ewemoa on May 25, 2013, 08:30 AM »
Seems unfortunate -- I found it a convenient way to get apks (older versions too) sometimes...for example:

  https://code.google.com/p/quickdroid/downloads/list
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by ewemoa on May 25, 2013, 06:34 AM »
He he -- I use my digital scale daily to measure my tea leaves :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Gnome-Pie: a circular 'dock' type launcher for Linux
« Last post by ewemoa on May 24, 2013, 10:04 PM »
A nitpick in the quote...

Many application launchers of today’s Linux desktops are made for people using their keyboard mainly. Launchers like Gnome-Do, Synapse, Kupfer, Unity’s Dash or Gnome-Shell’s Activities are designed for keyboard users. It’s necessary to type the first letters of the desired action in order to launch it.

AFAICT, this is not quite true.

I use kupfer, and typing 'fox' brings up Firefox as the first candiate.  Also, I presume the author of the above text didn't mean "action" only, at least not in kupfer's case (as, IIUC, the action is what's in the second pane, and I hardly ever choose a non-default action...)

Having said that, the matching doesn't seem as nice as what's provided by FARR's non-contiguous matching (at least not by default).

However, I agree about the importance of being able to get to things without knowing names (or portions of names).
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by ewemoa on May 24, 2013, 08:57 PM »
Recently got a replacement digital scale after deciding that it was time for the old one to move on:

scale.jpg

Some features:

  • Powered by 2 AA batteries -- less dependency on non-rechargeables
  • Largish LCD display for ease of reading
  • Tare / calibration / zero-ing functionality -- post and pre power-on
  • Supposedly can measure at accuracies of +/- 1 grams (up to 2kg)
  • Looks easier to clean than the white plastic of the older unit
  • Can be hung on wall (there is a hole on the back of the unit)
  • "Level" indicator -- for tilt?

Quite happy with it so far  :Thmbsup:


Only found a product page in Japanese:

  http://www.dretec.co.jp/products/kitchen_scale/KS-209.html
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best JAVA IDE
« Last post by ewemoa on May 22, 2013, 05:52 PM »
On a related note, was watching the "What's New in Android Developer Tools" Google IO 2013 session, and noticed that it looks like there's a fair bit of energy going into Android support for IntelliJ.  FWIW, there was an intro to IntelliJ functionality starting at around 03:27.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Proofed! Microsoft is actively scanning Skype traffic and uses the data
« Last post by ewemoa on May 15, 2013, 11:21 PM »
Mmm, I like those examples, Jibz :up:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Wine, Multiple Displays, and Black Edges/Borders/Bars...
« Last post by ewemoa on May 15, 2013, 03:02 AM »
On a related note, came across a handy alternative invocation:

wine explorer /desktop=root path-to-program.exe

via:

  http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-July/084921.html
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Living Room / Re: Animatable Wigglegrams - Jeffrey Friedl's Blog
« Last post by ewemoa on May 12, 2013, 05:19 PM »
Neat!  Never seen this sort either.

Thanks for sharing  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery
« Last post by ewemoa on May 12, 2013, 09:28 AM »
Hmm...looking closely at the thread content, I'm not sure the issue is so clear:

Finally, something that must be mentioned: As far as we know, the MBR and partition table are (currently) ALWAYS written to the drive at the beginning of a restore, without asking. Previous versions of Redo did not write the MBR after a restore, until lately. (This was done because some users reported being unable to boot after a restore, and it appears to have corrected that issue.) So be careful using Redo under the assumption that an older version won't completely overwrite your MBR and partition table using data from the backup image, because it probably is. (If it doesn't, it is more likely a "bug" than a "feature"!)

I got the impression that the developer(s)? are not confident about the matter...

At any rate, IIUC, at least in some versions the relevant code lives in the subroutine named do_restore.  In one version, some of the relevant bits appear to be:

Code: Perl [Select]
  1. print "*** Writing MBR to $dest_drive\n";
  2.   set_status("Writing master boot record to destination drive...");
  3.   system("dd of=/dev/$dest_drive if=$src_mbr bs=32768 count=1; sync;");
  4.   sleep(0.5);  
  5.   print "*** Restoring partition table to $dest_drive\n";
  6.   set_status("Writing extended partition table to destination drive...");
  7.   system("sfdisk -fx /dev/$dest_drive < $src_sfdisk; sync");
  8.   sleep(0.5);
  9.   print "*** Reloading partition table from $dest_drive\n";
  10.   set_status("Reloading new partition table from destination drive...");
  11.   system("umount /mnt/$dest_drive?* 2>&1");
  12.   system("sfdisk -R /dev/$dest_drive");
  13.   sleep(1);


BTW, I have extracted one of the versions of Redo from a live CD image and experimentally made an Arch-based live cd that runs Redo.  I tried this because it seems a lot easier to customize and tinker with Arch-based live cds as compared with the Ubuntu-based ones.  If there is interest in this, I might write up some relevant instructions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery
« Last post by ewemoa on May 09, 2013, 08:31 AM »
If I understand correctly, before version 1.0.3 (so 1.0.2 and earlier), the MBR was not restored.

May be the following thread has some relevant discussion:

  MBR restore to be optional
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Developer's Corner / URL for Youtube Video to Start at Particular Time (and other tips?)
« Last post by ewemoa on May 07, 2013, 09:09 PM »
Found the following (old!) tip handy:

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

via:

  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/

FWIW, the collection is from some years back -- and some of the comments suggest that some of the tips no longer work.


As an example of how this might be useful...

The following set of links show a sequence of design diagrams for the Yamba Android sample example application covered in the Android Bootcamp video series:


Didn't figure out how to not have the video automatically start playing though...
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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Vulnerable
« Last post by ewemoa on May 05, 2013, 08:07 PM »
I overheard a lord of JavaScript mention something about a clipboard and a link:

  http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036604/windows-8s-complexity-leaves-it-vulnerable-kaspersky-says.html

;)

In any case, thanks for the post!
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Living Room / Re: Celebrate 'Day Against DRM' today
« Last post by ewemoa on May 03, 2013, 10:27 PM »
Thanks for the heads-up.

Don't know how much time is left, but the Defective by Design page also mentioned No Starch Press as a participant.
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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)
« Last post by ewemoa on May 02, 2013, 04:46 AM »
SmartGit/Hg 4.5 was released recently.

Some interesting parts include:

  • Syntax coloring in some of the code viewing windows
  • Staging hunks from within the Changes tool window (haven't tested)
  • Additional polishing of Blame interface (tested a little)

via:

  What's New in SmartGit/Hg 4.5
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General Software Discussion / PC Clock in UTC or local time -- assuming Windows as non-guest OS?
« Last post by ewemoa on May 01, 2013, 09:32 PM »
Is there anyone here who runs Windows as (non-guest OS) and has their PC's (BIOS or other low-level) clock set to using UTC?

Reference:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac...5/mswish/ut-rtc.html
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