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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on August 04, 2008, 04:46 PM »

If you like, I can easily throw in some "French" switches for you, like /domaine, /priorite, etc. That would only take a few minutes of my time. Those would be undocumented features, of course.

-jpijper (August 04, 2008, 03:43 PM)

That's a very kind offer, jpijper! But don't worry, I'll manage. 

Thanks Armando! Which version of Outlook are you using?

-jpijper (August 04, 2008, 03:43 PM)

Outlook 2003. I didn't bother upgrading to 2007 -- money + not sure it'S really worth it.

Thanks again!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on August 04, 2008, 03:31 PM »

jpijper : just wanted to say that everything works really well here (v1.3 -- can't find the other one). 

I actually modified the alias a bit to have all the switches (explained in the readme file) to appear in the farr main window (as numbered "fake options", since it's just text). I used the (?#my comments) regex to insert comments -- that is because I don't use outlook's field for the same purpose... and I need to remember what switch is for what... 

[Select]

Do $$1 | %ALIASDIR%do.exe $$1 /ICON=icons\do.ico
EXEMPLES
(?# URGENCE /p or /priority or pri or /imp or /importance - The priority of the task -- normal, high, or low )
(?# DATE /d or /duedate or /due or /date - The due date of the task - the date when the task should be finished - e.g. tomorrow)
(?# CATEGORIE /c /cat /category - - One ore more category names - spaceseparated - to which the task is assigned )
(?# PROJET /m /mile /mileage - ex -- tgsPdivt tgsPPlVa )
(?# DOMAINE /comp / ex -- tgsPsaé ) )
(?# ABCD Priorité /bill )

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Linux is xclosest to whats used in apples OSX?

« Last post by Armando on August 04, 2008, 11:37 AM »

Agreed!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Linux is xclosest to whats used in apples OSX?

« Last post by Armando on August 04, 2008, 01:21 AM »

as long as you don't have a NVIDIA GeForce 8/9 card (NVIDIA have been writing some really <insert not-so-positive adjectives here> *nix drivers for these cards when it comes to 2D and it doesn't look like it's about to change anytime soon).

-Dirhael (August 02, 2008, 08:46 PM)

not so long ago, ATI was the black sheep...

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Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?

« Last post by Armando on August 04, 2008, 01:15 AM »

It's not about skimping or splurging...it's about quality, and when does it matter.

-app103 (August 03, 2008, 04:57 AM)

Right. Pretty much what I'm thinking, but splurging can have a flavor of its own. So does skimping.

Let's be vague.  Here are my 2 general rules:

Splurge : if necessary, when it helps me reach my goals and projects and is in line with my values**. And sometimes when I feel that I should go against my values, goals and projects, just for the pleasure of entropy, variety, surprise...


Skimp : anything that doesn't have any real incidence on my general happiness, or is not in line with my values, goals and projects (ie : spending more would not help achieving more or better, etc.). And sometimes... when I feel that I should go against my happiness values, goals and projects, just for the pleasure of entropy, etc.   


In most cases, splurge is probably -- ahem -- not essential (hence the term "splurge" -- which doesn't mean that I think it's "bad"... considering that "variety is the spice of life"... Splurge/skimp both have their place and can allow different phenomenons, realities, feelings to blossom...). Especially that humans seem adapt to any condition, whether good or bad (hedonic adaptation -- yes, some researchers will say it's not true, but... there seems to be massive evidence for it).

According to studies (for an easy book on the subject, see Sonja Lyubomirsky's The How of Happiness and of course all the studies on the subject...), the context (material possessions, where you live, etc.) accounts for only 10% of a persons' global happiness. 50% is genetic, and 40% is in the individual's "hands": voluntary cognitive (in the wide sense) and behavioral changes. So a big portion resides in one's attitude towards life (... in general : attitude towards relationships, individual activities and thoughts-emotions, external events...). Now isn't this encouraging?  (OK 50% is a pretty big number...  but so is 40!)



**Sometimes skimping means going against my values : buying stuff -- clothes, objects, services, whatever -- from a company that's not respecting human rights, that's not being ecologically sound, etc. So I'll splurge instead --> it's in line with my values and goals.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File extension filter

« Last post by Armando on August 03, 2008, 11:34 PM »

OK, thanks!

So here's a screenshot, for those who wonder...


PS : missed the first sentence in first post... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Armando on August 03, 2008, 09:02 PM »

As a daily VERY enthusiast user of SQLNotes, I think it's important to remember that SQLNotes is still beta and will have rough edges, bugs and missing features (for some) until V1... but less and less as the software gets closer to release time... 
Heck... I use it everyday to do increasingly complex stuff!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Whole Disk Encryption Just Wishful Thinking?

« Last post by Armando on August 03, 2008, 01:23 AM »

I agree. A, ahem...weird, disgusting policy... Its main goal is probably only to cause fear and legitimate other more severe infringement to privacy, and human rights in general. Usually, the people suffering the most from these practices aren't the true criminal. I mean... what criminal is going to carry a laptop (or a cellphone, a PDA, pocket trash ...) with critical data, knowing that it could be confiscated?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Whole Disk Encryption Just Wishful Thinking?

« Last post by Armando on August 02, 2008, 08:54 PM »

Thanks CWuestefeld. Good link.

Another link on the page is giving some good advices -- in my opinion.

http://www.schneier.com/essay-217.html


I wonder what's the true proportion of people experiencing laptop "confiscation".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy is now available for Linux (!)

« Last post by Armando on August 02, 2008, 07:33 PM »

farr was almost working with wine a while ago. Anybody tried it with one of the newest builds?

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: Create Beautiful Word Clouds

« Last post by Armando on August 02, 2008, 06:31 PM »

Very nice applet. Thanks for the link app.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File extension filter

« Last post by Armando on August 02, 2008, 04:51 PM »

Do you do this in the pattern scoring section?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 10:11 PM »

This is nice stuff.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 10:10 PM »

Cool! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Truspace 7.6 Available for free download

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 09:59 PM »

So... who's liking it? 

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder/Veign Programming Contest Results Posted

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 09:57 PM »

Great software, great work!
Impressive.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: too many updates !!!

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 04:41 PM »

From a development standpoint i think these mini beta updates are great and probably help Mouser isolate new bugs quicker however i am all for a new flag type for beta builds in the updater program which perhaps only notify you of 2.x updates instead of 2.2.x updates.

-s.newave (July 30, 2008, 11:39 AM)

Agree totally.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 11:59 AM »

Edited my previous post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 11:52 AM »

I still think it has something to do with the fact that I deleted some items from the grid, and that caused something to happend.

-superboyac (July 31, 2008, 11:26 AM)

Deleting some items, if they are parents of other items, cans sometimes have that effect.

Let's pick an example happening in the "Inbox" grid (if you still have it in your setting).

1- the grid's source corresponds to the "Inbox" field (ie : the Inbox field needs to be check for any item to appear in the Inbox grid, as it's originally set). Note that this field doesn't have the "value-->sub-item" option checked (in fields properties). It means that only the parents will have the "Inbox field" checked, not the children -- unless you decide otherwise on a case to case basis.

So : for an item to be displayed in the Inbox grid there can be 2 options : 1) the "inbox" field is checked, 2) or the item is to be the children/sub-item of a parent/top-level item already matching the grid's source (this is the case in SQLNotes default configuration).

2- in the "Inbox" grid, if you  you delete some parents, their sub-items won't have parents anymore, and because they didn't necessarily have the "inbox" field checked (sub-items now don't meet the source as top-level items - unless you manually checked the "inbox" field or added the the items through the "add item" window ctrl-alt-n), will disappear from the grid too and will end up in... "no grids land".... They will still be in the database, just invisible.

[EDIT : This is coherent with the "folder metaphor" : remove a parent and the chidren disappear to. Unless you move them elsewhere before you do so.]

It seems complicated, and it is a bit... That's why I usually work with the "value-->sub-items" option turned on for most of my simple sources. It prevents these things from happening : If I delete parents from the grids, the children/sub-items still meet the source. If I turn the "flat view" option on : I see all items, even the sub-items. Etc.

There are a couple small drawbacks in using inheritance (value-->subitems) -- a bit more CPU intensive maybe, and a couple hierarchy display bug -- but not many. I've made the decision to stick to it. Much more coherent with the "add item" window which will automatically assign a specific field to new items, and allows one to have a true flat view of all items displayed in a grid -- essential to me. [EDIT : the "value-->subitems" option can also more easily make some items appear in grids where you don't want them, if you're not careful; but this can be fixed "manually", as everything else!]

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by Armando on July 31, 2008, 11:06 AM »

Hi superboyac,

Like you I use the software daily, and apart from the transient html problem I've never lost a thing.
the reason why items might disappear from a grid are (usually) only because of filter/source related problem (ie : your items characteristics/properties don't match the source/filter).

Don't forget that grids don't "contain" items. They're just displaying items depending on the relation between : the grid's source/filters (open the source bar to see these : alt-s) and  the items' properties (shown in the properties pane : filled fields).

To "move back" (or, rather, "have your grid display") your items in a grid or another : just change the grid's source and filters accordingly, or make sure that your items match the source by filling the right field (with the right data...).

There might be situations where items are pasted in a grid (XML mode), and maybe a few other situations (I'd have to check), where items do not automatically get assigned the right field values to match the grid's source. You should also make sure that, if your grids have complex source, you have automated whatever needs to be automated for the items to match the source (see the "manage grid" window --> Data -> autoassign the following fields... Note that items get automatically the right values to meet the grid in grids with simple sources)

Pierre : maybe could the "autoassign the following fields" option always be filled with the default value (ie : what's automatically added in the case of simple sources), so one knows what's going to happen to new items...

[edit : Pierre was first... went fo check my coffee, and there he was... I was too slow  ]

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 29, 2008, 07:16 PM »

ahahah! Holy cow. Great work! Really cool. 
I'm going to try that tonight.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Article: Performance Comparison: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Jython, JRuby, Groovy

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 10:10 PM »

ooops... forgot the link -- thanks f0dder (the screenshot is now linked to the article). (Thanks for the comments too! will wait for other points of view.)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 07:26 PM »

Nice work! 
I agree with Tom about the logo. I'd try continuing the line farther across the page.
I'm not a big fan of animated  stuff either -- unless it allows me to experience (or have  access to) something different, that other parts of the page/links, etc. don't/can't allow. I'm all in favor of pictures/graphics though, when they make the content of the different articles more explicit (like the ones you put to illustrate your different articles).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 07:16 PM »

It works really great here too. 

If there were (**non essential**) additions, the only thing I see :  more switches for those (like me...) who work with other common task fields, like : mileage, billing, company, contact, etc.

At the same time, maybe would this defeat the primary purpose of that alias (errrr.... plugin???)? : quick task entries... But, contrarily to most users and developers, I'm always for more options and flexibility... 

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Developer's Corner / Article: Performance Comparison: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Jython, JRuby, Groovy

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 06:59 PM »

I thought it was an interesting read. I was surprised at java's fairly high performance (unless I'm not interpreting the numbers correctly...), especially compared to C++. But... as I'm just starting to get into programming (Java and Python), I'm NOT able to grasp all the implications/applications/limitations of that article (and the method used...).
Any educated comments are welcome.