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General Software Discussion / Re: Keyboard shortcut of the day

« Last post by Edvard on March 21, 2013, 01:24 AM »

A handy combination that I had to search like hell to find. If a program's window disappears from the screen but it is still open - meaning the window has moved to a location off the screen:

Alt-Tab to the missing window, then Alt-Space, M, then any arrow key. Now move your mouse and the missing window will suddenly pop back onto the screen.
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-J-Mac (December 01, 2012, 10:15 AM)

I wonder if I can make an Autohotkey macro to do it. Then I wouldn't have to remember it with my brain.
-dojibear (December 06, 2012, 03:42 PM)
How's this? Control+Alt+Shift+S to invoke:
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-ewemoa (December 06, 2012, 11:07 PM)

When I've had that happen in the past, I kept an autohotkey script on my desktop that would grab the last active window and center it. So I would select the hidden program in the taskbar, and hit the script, but I agree a custom hotkey would be better.
Since abandoning Windows, I don't have a copy to reference, but this may do the trick, anyone care to test?

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

WinActivate ; grabs the [url=http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/LastFoundWindow.htm]Last Found Window[/url]
WinMove, (A_ScreenWidth/2)-(Width/2), (A_ScreenHeight/2)-(Height/2)

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Living Room / Re: Wrigley Making Caffeinated Gum - New Alert Energy Caffeine Gum

« Last post by Edvard on March 21, 2013, 12:08 AM »

Oh dear, diet Ritalin in gum form

Seriously, I was a gotta-have-at-least-one-cup-a-day coffee drinker, and never had sleep problems, etc. until the day I ran out of coffee and money on the same day. I got a headache that would kill a horse (good thing I'm not a horse, *ba-dum-pish*), and began weaning myself off caffeine that day. I still enjoy a good 'cuppa joe' made with the best decaf I can afford, but even the best methods for removing caffeine unfortunately remove some flavor as well.
Waiting for the day Coffea Charrieriana^w becomes widely available...

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

« Last post by Edvard on March 17, 2013, 05:08 PM »

Some rock musician humor:

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Living Room / Re: NULL

« Last post by Edvard on March 16, 2013, 08:17 PM »

#DIV/0!

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Living Room / Re: Linked In... too linked in?

« Last post by Edvard on March 12, 2013, 08:28 PM »

I always figured it was a case of "six degrees of separation". I get "you may know X" emails all the time and it's somebody I vaguely remember from a place I worked at 15 years ago, but since I've been in and out of the same industry for ~20 years, it's somehow not surprising.
I used LinkedIn strictly for job networking, and so they have my work history, but not much else, to go on, which prolly explains a lot. I NEVER gave them my address book nor my Facebook friends list or any of that jive, so my 'real life' friends don't show up, and they don't have my personal email either; I made a new one strictly for business and job hunting.

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Living Room / Re: Google Glasses BANNED!

« Last post by Edvard on March 10, 2013, 08:01 PM »

I totally agree with the proprietor's cultural view there. The 5-Point's motto is "Alcoholics serving alcoholics since 1929", and they are one of the best joints to grab an old-fashion plate of eggs and browns on a Tuesday morning when you can smell the rain is going to clear in a half hour or so. That and they really do kick out scumbags, I've seen it.
Good on them. No complaints here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else building Hadoop Clusters?

« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2013, 12:52 AM »

Linky:

http://hadoop.apache.org/

Sounds very interesting, I've always wondered about other practical uses for clusters besides monstrous number-crunching, and your illustration of cards and 10-year olds is eminently descriptive.

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Living Room / Re: Grab 50GB of Box Online Storage Free for Life (2013-02-12)

« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2013, 12:46 AM »

Looks like a project has been started for Box (and others) synchronization. No code yet, but looks promising:
http://www.syncany.org/

Also, nice article on keeping a davfs mounted folder and a local folder synchronized with unison:
http://seb.so/50gb-o...n-linux-with-webdav/

Keeping it sync'd with cron is an OK idea, but I like the footnote of syncing when file changes happen. Apparently, the two options mentioned there, FAM and Dnotify, are deprecated on some distros (re: Debian). Dnotify has been replaced with Inotify in the kernel and a little research seems to show Incron to be the better option to interface with that (Gamin being a drop-in replacement for FAM but uses inotify):
http://www.debian-ad...ion.org/articles/581

I tried to see if syncing could be done more 'properly' through the Box API, but you need to register your software with them to get an API key. I'm not writing software, just seeing if some shell script magic could be done... $:-\$

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Living Room / Re: In Car Gadgets & Doodads

« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2013, 02:54 PM »

Couldn't find anything in the Kansas laws against them, but then again, tl;dr:
http://kslegislature...08_000_0000_chapter/

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Living Room / Re: In Car Gadgets & Doodads

« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2013, 10:04 AM »

I always thought those "suicide knobs" were illegal. Something about moonshiners using them to do be able to do trick turns and evade the authorities. The local after-market dealer had a box of them on the counter and a friend of mine asked about it. The guy at the counter said "because you got a tractor... right?"

Apparently, they aren't as illegal as some would have me believe, and are even required in some states if you have a disability. See here:
http://www.suicidekn....net/state_laws.html

...Except in my home state of Washington, where it's a "possible violation"

I would also add to the list one of these doodads that plug into the cigarette lighter and transmits whatever's plugged into it to your FM radio:
http://www.amazon.co...&rnid=2885686011
Handy if your car stereo still sports a cassette deck...

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Don't load tabs until selected" in Chrome? (Like in Firefox?)

« Last post by Edvard on February 27, 2013, 11:55 PM »

Cool. Going to test now...
In the meantime, relevant:

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General Software Discussion / Re: New cross-platform Vector app [looking for your support]

« Last post by Edvard on February 27, 2013, 08:00 PM »

And yeah, cloud/web/SaaS/'subscription model' is all the rage in tech investment circles. And probably will remain so until the day some super-popular online/cloud product does a major crash and burn on its users. But until that happens, web is where it's at.
-40hz (February 27, 2013, 06:57 PM)

mumble, mumble... Aviary... grumble...

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

« Last post by Edvard on February 24, 2013, 03:33 PM »

Yes, his humor was disquieting because it was so self-deprecating, but that was his whole schtick; summed up in his famous tagline "I don't get no respect". It's funny because we all have some degree of insecurity, and in some smaller or larger way can then sympathize; thus it becomes cathartic to laugh at those small insecurities brought larger than reality via the guise of absurd theater.

... or something like that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How-to on taking ownership of your new UEFI equipped PC

« Last post by Edvard on February 19, 2013, 07:25 PM »

From the blog of Jim Bottomley comes a mostly complete step-by-step on pwning your own UEFI PC:
-40Hz

Bookmarked.

some really lame, especially laptop, BIOSes turn NX-support off without offering you a way to enable it, even though the CPU is capable. One has to wonder, sometimes
-f0dder

My single-core 64-bit is nx-capable, but I can find NOWHERE in the BIOS how to enable it. Wonder, indeed.
From lshw:

*-cpu:0
   description: CPU
   product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
   vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
   physical id: 3
   bus info: cpu@0
   version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
   slot: Socket 939
   size: 1800MHz
   capacity: 3700MHz
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 200MHz
   capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good nopl pni lahf_lm cpufreq

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera to move to webkit/chromium rendering engines

« Last post by Edvard on February 19, 2013, 07:19 PM »

What the hell, is Webkit just that effbombing awesome that it really would be cheaper to re-tool around it than continue with Core when Core has had this many years to mature? Really? I mean, I use Chromium as my default browser now, because for the most part is just works and stays out of my way, but the rendering isn't THAT awesome, or am I missing something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: One for the FailBlog from our friends at Apache Hadoop

« Last post by Edvard on February 15, 2013, 01:00 AM »

This one?

Agreed, losing your docs in a transfer and then having to ask your users if they'd be so kind as to commit a copy they may have into the tree; very facepalm.

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Edvard on February 14, 2013, 06:42 PM »

I just tape a piece of paper on my tablet the same size as the working area. Works great!

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Edvard on February 14, 2013, 06:17 PM »

That is why originally recommended to use a tablet (computer) device. More specifically, a Windows 8 tablet.
-Ath (February 14, 2013, 01:55 AM)

Most tablets generally suck at precision, which is required when doing proofreading markups. Don't know of any modern tablet computers that take pen input AND run Microsoft office. Do the Surface tablets have pen input?

Cheap is not a realistic requirement, in the context you've drawn.

Sadly, I agree. Most cheap digitizers sacrifice quite a lot on the lower-price side of things. The best option IMHO, is Wacom's Cintiq line, which is basically a pen-input second monitor with lots of very cool functionality. Unfortunately, it's like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer; more tool than is needed for the requested task.

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Edvard on February 14, 2013, 01:17 AM »

1- You can pick up inexpensive digitizing tablets on eBay or Amazon. Look for older models or the Bamboo line, not the Intuos or Cintiq ones. Mine cost 20 USD IIRC, picked up on eBay. Just make SURE if it's a used unit that it comes with the pen. The pens are rather expensive to find replacements for. Take your risks with 'off-brand' tablets from Monoprice or DigiPro; Wacom has been in this business for a long time and reading a few reviews will reveal the subtle flaws in other brand graphic tablets. (EDIT: this glowing review of the Monoprice 6.25" x 10" tablet may beg to differ: http://frenden.tumbl...cs-tablet-that-could)

2- Admittedly, the lines aren't very good. LibreOffice treats each line as a separate graphic element, and it likes to do some "smoothing" of squiggly lines and square corners. No such thing as simply drawing on your document. Microsoft Office might have better tools for graphic annotations, I don't know. I only worked up the screenshot to show it can actually do the job you are looking for, and if you zoom into the page about 150% or so, you can get a little more exact.

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Living Room / Re: proofreading on pc

« Last post by Edvard on February 13, 2013, 08:19 PM »

Like I said, just get a what-you-can-afford Wacom tablet, and see if Office lets you do graphic markups. Here's a sample from Open/LibreOffice, done with my Wacom Graphire 3:

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Living Room / Re: Grab 50GB of Box Online Storage Free for Life (2013-02-12)

« Last post by Edvard on February 13, 2013, 08:00 PM »

I just manually link and login as needed since I generally don't like to automount anything that resides on a server I don't own.
-40hz (February 13, 2013, 07:51 AM)

If you don't want to autosync but just want to use your Box account as a network mounted share, this will show you how to set Box up in any Linux based file manager that has a "Connect to Server" option.

Gigolo does this on Xfce, but it has dependencies on gvfs, which has caused problems for me with Thunar, and the only fix was uninstalling gvfs. Apparently, thunar has been fixed, so I'll be trying again.
EDIT: mounting normally with 'mount -t davfs https://www.box.com/dav /home/edvard/Box' works fine, but Gigolo mounting with davs://www.box.com/dav results in 301... $:-\$
Maybe I'll just be content with manual mounting in a terminal, or whip up a shell script or maybe a GUI with Yad and call it good.

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