topbanner_forum
  *

avatar image

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
  • Saturday September 19, 2026, 9:05 am
  • Proudly celebrating 15+ years online.
  • Donate now to become a lifetime supporting member of the site and get a non-expiring license key for all of our programs.
  • donate

Recent Posts

Pages: prev1 ... 33 34 35 36 37 [38] 39 40 41 42 43 ... 73next
926
Living Room / favourite hardware hacking resources
« Last post by Target on May 19, 2011, 11:57 PM »
The inkjet thread got me thinking about this and a quick search indicates it hasn't been mentioned here before.

Does anyone have any favoured sites or resources on this?

(that's hacking as in modifying or re-purposing, nothing nefarious here )
927
Finally, again FWIW, folks that do a LOT of printing AFAIK usually add an ink tank setup, with tubes running from the much larger ink tanks to special cartridges.

thanks for this reference - I'd never heard of this before (though it seems perfectly logical now that I have)

seems there is a fair bit of info about on 'continuous inking systems', I even found an Australian supplier!

granted $150AU may be something of a shock for a set of printer cartridges (or maybe not :o), but they claim to hold roughly 5 times as much as standard tank, and they're refillable...
928
General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic document creation. How?
« Last post by Target on May 18, 2011, 05:39 PM »
Primavera is primarily known as the ultimate SCHEDULING program.  The word "schedule" doesn't appear anywhere on that page.  It's nonsense.  It's all marketing jargon.  It drives me out of my mind.

+1
Yeah... The ability to communicate is pretty rare. :(

that's because it's written by world leading experts...
929
General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic document creation. How?
« Last post by Target on May 18, 2011, 01:48 AM »
difficult to say without knowing what you have in the way of source files, and or how much (and could be I'm talking through my hat here), but i suspect you could set something up in word, ie use a macro to merge randomised text into a template...
930
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 10:19 PM »
Don't paint too sad a picture, the view all depends on which perch yer on.
-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 08:19 PM)

As an acrophobic I find it best to avoid high places ... Else I'll be Shetland myself. ;)
-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 09:08 PM)

I've also herd it can get friesian up there
931
Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:33 PM »
A recent concert with David Gilmour and Roger Waters doing Comfortably Numb:

If you're a Pink Floyd fan, it's a must see.

thanks for this - perhaps my greatest regret was not seeing them when i had the chance (Perth in I think 1989)
932
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:17 PM »
Have you more of those to trot out?
-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 06:12 PM)

it appears he has quite a stable full, and someones left the gait open
933
Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.
« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:16 PM »
you could try ArtSage.  It's an image viewer, but it presents the image full frame and without any visible toolbars etc.  Downside here is that it doesn't appear to display multiple images concurrently

another alternative may be Osiva.  This one seems to display images as separate instances (at their 'original' size).  It does display a floating toolbar, though you may be able to hide it (I didn't try)
934
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 12:48 AM »
At least you can without problems cross deep(er) rivers with these horses...

Drift you wood...
935
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 11:09 PM »
Don't be an ass, leave the donkey work to others!
-cranioscopical (May 16, 2011, 11:05 PM)

I have (keep up the good work!)
936
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 10:31 PM »
Try to keep to the mane topic, chaps, we don't want to be saddled with this!
-cranioscopical (May 16, 2011, 10:27 PM)

I don't think I like you're timbre...
937
Living Room / Re: Don't hit the switch - interesting toy
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 09:53 PM »

thanks for clearing that up :huh:
938
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 09:24 PM »
Are you implying that my 'horse' has trouble going from a canter to a gallop?  Them's fightin' words, pardner...

I saw your sig and figured it was probably already knackered
939
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 08:32 PM »
Come on, don't saddle me with sarcasm!  :D  Try to trot out something a bit more palatable.

too late, that horse has bolted

it occurs to me to wonder if there's something freudian in your POST about WOODEN horses
940
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 08:10 PM »
did you not twig to the references in my post?

Horses 'Neigh' and wear 'reins', right?  ;D

so do some politicians, but let's not take that tack

941
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:57 PM »
quit your nagging

Neigh, you need to reins things in a bit...  :D

wood be better if you'd stick to the topic :P
942
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:50 PM »
Alright, guys, stop horsing around...

quit your nagging
943
Living Room / Re: Don't hit the switch - interesting toy
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:49 PM »
just part of the magic of movies ;D
944
Living Room / Don't hit the switch - interesting toy
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:35 PM »
from hack a day - Don't Hit That Switch

945
Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 06:54 PM »
HiHo Sliver, away....

My father forwarded them to me via email, but the email didn't make any attributions about who the ladies are, where they're located, and no story attached.  Just a by-line "Ladies make horse art..."

any danger that they're trojans?
946
General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles
« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 05:42 PM »
I used to occasionally encounter that if the email had an attachment. Usually it was a PDF that was causing the problem although I also saw it happen with GIFs. Probably something in the attachment process caused a malformation of the email which resulted in an inbox hang in my mail client. Saw it happen mostly when using Thunderbird, although I had clients run into it with MS Outlook as well.

If I recall correctly, this only happened with messages originating from an AOL account.

interesting to note that your initial experience was with an email containing a PDF - this mirrors our experience where the first instance was a PDF search document from the Main Roads department which we couldn't download no way no how.  Subsequent instances haven't included attachments, though they have included images...

AOL is unlikely to be a factor here in Australia though...
947
General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles
« Last post by Target on May 15, 2011, 09:12 PM »
Much as I hate to rely on a cloud based service GMail may be the ultimate fix - given that it's unlikely that I'll get much assistance from the ISP and the fact that it's so intermittent it may not be worth trying to troubleshoot it (plus it insulates us from future ISP changes)
948
General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles
« Last post by Target on May 15, 2011, 06:46 PM »
Having suffered many different email problems over the years, I may be able to help.

Is your email server your own? Which server? An ISP email? (Run away!) Popular web mail?

I've seen some of those issues in the past.

it's the ISP email (BigPond) - our requirements are very light so no need for a personal domain or any such

email is plain vanilla - POP/SMTP, no encryption etc.

Both machines are standalone (no need for a network) and run AVG 2011 (in case that rings any bells - though fwiw I've already tried resetting to the defaults AND disabling the AV, neither of which had any impact).

949
General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles
« Last post by Target on May 13, 2011, 11:45 PM »
I would first quickly see if it is the AntiVirus causing the problems: First check the mails ready at the ISP server, to estimate if they are clean, then close the AV, maybe restart the email client, and then hit send/receive.

already tried this, no luck (thanks for the suggestion though)
950
FARRFARRFARR?
Pages: prev1 ... 33 34 35 36 37 [38] 39 40 41 42 43 ... 73next