Recent Posts

9351

General Software Discussion / Re: Leveraging Aamzon's Servers for your own Website

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2008, 11:16 AM »

thought this was interesting
from Amazon

We wanted to share a brief note about what we observed during yesterday's event and where we are at this stage. As a distributed system, the different components of Amazon S3 need to be aware of the state of each other. For example, this awareness makes it possible for the system to decide to which redundant physical storage server to route a request. In order to share this state information across the system, we use a gossip protocol. Yesterday, we experienced a problem related to gossiping our internal state information, leaving the system components unable to interact properly and causing customers' requests to Amazon S3 to fail. After exploring several alternatives, we determined that we had to temporarily take the service offline so that we could clear all gossipped state and restart gossip to rebuild the state. These are sophisticated systems and it generally takes a while to get to root cause in such a situation. We're working very hard to do this and will be providing more information here when we've fully investigated the incident. We also wanted to let you know that for this particular event, we'll be waiving our standard SLA process and applying the appropriate service credit to all affected customers for the July billing period. Customers will not need to send us an e-mail to request their credits, as these will be automatically applied. This transaction will be reflected in our customers' August billing statements.

-
via Jungle Disk forums
http://forum.jungled...t=16281&start=25

9352

Living Room / Re: Wordle: Create Beautiful Word Clouds

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2008, 09:04 AM »

on a blog i read sometimes i saw one of these, i didn't know what it was then, anyway here is the link http://wickedanomie....my-dissertation.html  - she is a phd student (and a teacher/lecturer) in the US somewhere and it is her dissertation, as the name of it suggests.

-Grorgy (July 22, 2008, 06:40 AM)

OOUPs
that made FF crash when I clicked on that image at that link - just got a Java update yesterday, probably todo with that...

9353

Living Room / Re: Wordle: Create Beautiful Word Clouds

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2008, 04:19 AM »

wow is right
looks really great

9354

General Software Discussion / Re: How far can you throw a paper airplane

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2008, 02:43 AM »

a little cheating though...just a little.

-knabel10 (July 22, 2008, 02:31 AM)

go on .. tell us how to cheat

9355

General Software Discussion / Re: Software that creates a txt-file for every other file in the folder?

« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2008, 02:40 AM »

Hello,

I'm searching for a software that creates a txt-file for every other file in the folder (incl. sub-folders). The name of the txt-file should be the same as the name of the original file(s). Any idea?

-Child-in-silence (July 21, 2008, 04:09 PM)

Hi Aron

you dont actually mean a list of contents ?

do you mean, say we have files
A.doc
B.doc
C.doc
that you want three new txt files created
A.txt,
etc,

There is a thread here somewhere about filenote
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=11218.0
that might help
or this one
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2712.0

9356

General Software Discussion / Re: How to prevent Win+S from sending the system to sleep?

« Last post by tomos on July 21, 2008, 02:05 PM »

in Opera at the moment,
Win+S selects the "Greetings tomos" text in top-left of page

9357

General Software Discussion / Re: Article: take a peek into MS Windows development

« Last post by tomos on July 21, 2008, 08:36 AM »

To be honest, I actually like the feature mentioned in the article (it's Vista's shutdown button), except for the fact that it comes predifined to "sleep", which makes no sense. After changing it to "shutdown", I think it's a giant step better than XP's dialog.

-jgpaiva (July 21, 2008, 08:24 AM)

wonder does it do this...?

Joel was talking about how sleep and hibernate can be merged. The Mac does this nicely. There is only one choice, "Sleep." At least with laptops, it hibertates the machine (writes RAM to disk) but then actually sleeps. That way, in case the power goes away by the battery wearing down, you just wake up as if you had been hibernating all along. (You can test this by sleeping a Macbook and then removing the battery. I don't feel like unplugging my iMac to see if it works the same way.) And if you never run out of power, you get the advantage of a fast wake-up time.

(from the comments there)

[edit] OOOUPs

Actually, that's not true. Mac's by default to the equivalent of Stand By in Windows, which is that it doesn't write the RAM to disk. If you take out the battery your data goes down the drain. However, if you put it to sleep, and it's sleeping drains the battery, it will go into a "Deep Sleep" that writes RAM to disk before the battery goes completely dead. When you wake it up it'll do a little progress bar and you're back.

(the comment following the previous somment ) [/edit]

good read allright, sounds like Dilbert land

9358

BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Browser TraySwitch aids in using the internet as my hard drive

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2008, 03:03 PM »

Thank you very much for taking the time to post this.
It's one of those programs I wrote that very few people use so it's always nice to hear it's useful for someone. 

-mouser (July 20, 2008, 01:28 PM)

I find it very handy myself mouser

My "usual" browser (FF) tends to have far too many tabs open & I use session saver so it opens with all those tabs
If it's not open I will set Opera as my default browser, if it is, I can choose to set FF as default

If my partner is using the computer I have a separate Opera install for her I can switch to -
so you could say Browser Tray Switch is my version of Log-off/Switch Users (which I've never actually bothered with)

9359

Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2008, 02:54 PM »

wasnt sure where to post this
Amazon S3 isnt functioning for a lot of people from all over - not sure if it's functioning at all actually

From a JungleDisk thread
http://forum.jungled...iewtopic.php?t=16281

According to amazon: 9:06 AM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates with S3. We are investigating. 9:27 AM PDT We're investigating an issue affecting requests. We'll continue to post updates here. 9:48 AM PDT Just wanted to provide an update that we are currently pursuing several paths of corrective action. 10:13 AM PDT We are continuing to pursue corrective action. 10:33 AM PDT A quick update that we believe this is an issue with the communication between several Amazon S3 internal components. We do not have an ETA at this time but will continue to keep you updated.

ironically the JungleDisk forums are also experiencing difficulties couldnt reply to thread myself/posts appearing dissapearing for others
is it all a sign

9360

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SnapSuite program family/Free online computer help

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2008, 10:20 AM »

seems to be going in an interesting direction Brandon
You'll be making a shell/explorer replacement next

9361

Coding Snacks / Re: Display Power schedule

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2008, 05:32 AM »

I copied Lanux's code, saved as .ahk and then d/l autohotkey and converted it to exe.  I then double clicked the exe and it puts an icon down in the tray by the clock.

But how do I set the options or where do I go to check them?

-techidave (July 19, 2008, 03:07 PM)

so you need to change the code before making an exe of it - or
you can also simply save code as *.ahk file in the scripts folder in AHK programme folder, then just start file to run it - advantage being you can edit it any time

If (A_TimeIdlePhysical>5*60000 And now<090000 Or now>=170000 And off=0)     Gosub,OFF   Else   If (A_TimeIdlePhysical>30*60000 And now>=090000 And now<170000 And off=0)     Gosub,OFF

so, you change the 5 or 30 or the times shown (I reckon anyways)

9362

General Software Discussion / Re: Which free burning software can you recommend?

« Last post by tomos on July 20, 2008, 05:13 AM »

yeah, it's an ever recurring theme, cd burning
I'm sure there's a bunch of other threads out there too on the topic

9363

General Software Discussion / Re: you tube downloader for a non techie

« Last post by tomos on July 19, 2008, 03:28 PM »

is there a way to search by date only and see all the posts?  if there is, I haven't found it yet.

-techidave (July 19, 2008, 02:52 PM)

do you mean date A to date B ?
You'd be looking at a lot of posts there unless you're just looking at posts for one or two days or so
Do you know you can sort your search by date (does that help maybe?)

9364

General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2008, 03:47 AM »

[offtopic] I am pretty sure there's a topic here on DC with a few text editors similar to the one 40hz just posted, I just can't find the topic [/offtopic]

-jgpaiva (July 18, 2008, 03:43 AM)

Darkroom is a similar Windows one based on a mac programme (WriteRoom?)
Darkroom is extremely basic, nice, but a bit buggy with cut/copy n paste so thanks for the tip 40hz

9365

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: use key to constrain mouse movements to horizontal/vertical

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2008, 03:29 AM »

Try the code above, I've changed it to use the Windows key.

Skrommel

-skrommel (July 17, 2008, 05:40 PM)

works perfekt both ways, thanks Skrommel

9366

Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on July 18, 2008, 03:18 AM »

Wasn't trying to offend.

-40hz (July 17, 2008, 09:55 AM)

nothing wrong with having a bit of fun 40hz

9367

General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 04:19 PM »

You can either donate $60 to WWF

-Carol Haynes (July 16, 2008, 07:08 PM)

$60 would be a bit steep if you were paying directly for it - it's unfortunately still a bit steep even if it's going to charity
at least there's still the free version

9368

General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt 6.0 released

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 04:16 PM »

What are all of you hiding?

-TucknDar (July 17, 2008, 04:01 PM)

 

9369

Living Room / Re: Anyone Here Using a Drobo?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 01:45 PM »

Quite - I have just started to try and learn about AJAX (which I always thought was a pan scourer) ... where do these names come from?

-Carol Haynes (July 17, 2008, 11:26 AM)

Named after Ajax Amsterdam Football Club maybe?
or is it

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

?
(Wikipedia)

9370

General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 09:20 AM »

Well, 1 GB for 80 tabs is not exactly a conservative usage of memory (nor very normal). I say this because the other day I had around 200 tabs in Opera, and memory usage was around 450 MB (for the browser, not total usage)

Were you using Facebook?

-Lashiec (July 17, 2008, 08:53 AM)

no
in fairness, before I rebooted FF was using between 5 & 600MB for the 80 tabs (cant remember exactly 5something )
I'm down to about 50 tabs now & 260mb usage [private bytes] for FF... commit history says 750 altogether currently

[edit] tidied up a bit

9371

General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:38 AM »

in Opera now with just a couple of tabs it goes down to under 500 and fairly steady
must be the 80 tabs in FF then   (or maybe one of them in particular)

9372

General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:34 AM »

I'll close down FF3 & see how it looks

Tray=
Windows update is telling me to go with SP3
spybot S&D
JungleDisk monitor
SFFS
AntiVirus
Process Explorer
TitleLog (from Brett here)
GridMove
CH&S
FARR
AHK
DOpus
Unlocker

9373

FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: Google Maps Directions

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:31 AM »

The semi-colon also involves shift key here hihi

-jgpaiva (July 17, 2008, 06:55 AM)

same here
this one is great Lanux
never did like getting going with googlemaps

9374

Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:27 AM »

I forgot, but 2001 is even better

9375

General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:23 AM »

thanks justice  
limit goes up to 5GB here, so looks like I dont have to worry about 1.5GB usage

(I had looked up "commit history" in Wikipedia, unfortunately they didnt connect the two)

oops, 2 new posts

Lashiec, just after rebooting I'm using 750mb and rising slowly

No Vista jgpaiva..

I do have 80 tabs open in FF(3) gotta do a spring clean