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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for February 21st - Codename "Vertigo"

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2008, 02:21 AM »

well done Darwin

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Partition Manager for £7-95 - 68% off (via Ashampoo regular offers)

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2008, 02:12 AM »

I got that offer in the mail but it had my email address in the link

BTW the offer I got was for
Paragon’s Partition Manager 8.5

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2008, 01:39 PM »

I've got this circular problem sometimes

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: InstantBoss - For those of us which require motivation to work

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2008, 11:47 AM »

actually I think I may have found a way of reducing the problem a bit - when typing at any rate -

the problem being...
lets say youre typing (I have to look at the keyboard )
and without my noticing, the pop-up-window has popped up
I hit return or spacebar and it disappears without me even having seen it

The popup telling me to go "Back to Work" has the cancel button selected -
so if I hit spacebar or return when it has focus, it goes away and doesnt come back again to remind me..

Another programme I use a lot, I need to press return to get from the toolbar panels back to the main window,
again I often seem to press return just as the instant boss window pops - I dont see it sometimes or forget to check it after finishing what I doing

But I've just noticed if I leave the InstantBoss window open - without minimising it
and if I'm typing when the window pops, it stays in front, doesnt take focus and therefore return etc doesnt effect it

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: InstantBoss - For those of us which require motivation to work

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2008, 09:24 AM »

.....
Could [you] make the popup window only respond to mouse clicks
-
make it stay on top if not clicked on -
but maybe in such a way that you can still finish whatever you were working on - i.e. that it doesnt take focus -
that would give a bit of leeway as well as ensuring that you dont forget it!

-tomos (July 11, 2007, 04:25 AM)

hi App - a friendly bump to this request 

I dunno if it's just me,
but I just keep loosing that pop-up-window -Time to Work/Break- and then after an hour surfing I think OMG 
I'm supposed to be doing XYZ, not checking out Nessie on dc

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2008, 05:53 AM »

To conclude my introduction and as I promissed, I'm pleased to announce birth of our son Nathaniel today at 2:50 AM. Everything is okay, and he's absolutely gorgeous!

-yksyks (February 21, 2008, 03:48 AM)

congrats yksyks !!

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General Software Discussion / Re: How many active DC member are there? 150? (Dumbar number)

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 05:53 PM »

Mouser, how many active users does DC have (Users with more than 50 posts)?

-Josh (February 20, 2008, 05:33 PM)

Ummm.. does wiggling a mouse while visiting DC count as active?? 

-Cloq (February 20, 2008, 05:37 PM)

absolutely

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARRAltTab

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 04:50 PM »

Since I'm having troubles with two other plugins (Google Dictionary and Google Translate), I wonder if something similar could be the problem.

-Armando (February 20, 2008, 04:29 PM)

Armando,
they worked for me after installing (+ after the most recent updates) wierd, cant get out of this quote box 


edit by jgpaiva: fixed quote tag

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

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 01:25 PM »

You're welcome!
...

EDIT/
* in "WorkDone" I have files as Parent items but wont give them InvoiceIDs themselves
i.e. File has subitems that are given invoice number
- SQLNotes01.psd
- - Drawing of same - 2hrs - Invoice#200

-tomos (February 20, 2008, 11:33 AM)

Exactly. This is how I was imagining the structure. 

-Armando (February 20, 2008, 01:11 PM)

added a few more edits back there!

will try find, havent used it yet
BTW I just made a filters grid myself this morning

must try out the "alike" as well...

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Living Room / Re: Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 11:54 AM »

I was getting advice in a couple of german forums a few months ago
a budget case that everyone seemed to recommend is the
Cooler Master Elite 330
- you can put 120mm fans in it so not so loud (not sure what fans come with it)

http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16811119115
$35 without power supply

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Living Room / Re: Phun - 2D physics sandbox

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 11:35 AM »

Beautiful!

I'm off to play with it

-jgpaiva (February 20, 2008, 11:04 AM)

isn't it amazing

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

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 11:33 AM »

thanks for the indepth Armando!

I think the parents way is the best too at this stage
Actually,
I could in my "Files" grid make an invoice parent and then, in "WorkDone" use ID number for invoice related work*

So for each invoice the WorkDone will be available in a sortable field, and,
the Files worked on will be separately available on a per invoice basis in the "Files" grid

PS you've given me a few good tips on searching & other stuff there

EDIT/
* in "WorkDone" I have files as Parent items but wont give them InvoiceIDs themselves
i.e. File has subitems that are given invoice number
- SQLNotes01.psd
- - Drawing of same - 2hrs - Invoice#200

EDIT2/
then in files grid I have now added the invoice (as a file/link)
and copied the relevant files to it
- Invoice200.doc     - 4hrs - $2xyz
- - SQLNotes01.psd - 2hrs -  $xyz
- - SQLNotes02.psd - 2hrs -  $xyz

EDIT2/
under Invoices grid, using InvoiceID as source (based on first edit there) and if I show the "ItemParent" field
I should see
- InvoiceID #200                   - 4hrs - $2xyz   
- - Drawing - SQLNotes01.psd - 2hrs -  $xyz
- - Drawing - SQLNotes02.psd - 2hrs -  $xyz

so I have it doubly covered really Will go with this for a while and see how I get on

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Living Room / Re: Myth or Last legend

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 09:24 AM »

here it is

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Living Room / Re: Myth or Last legend

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 09:21 AM »

ironically the foto they use is

The famous 1934 'doctor's photo' of the Loch Ness Monster, revealed in 1994 to be a hoax involving a toy submarine.

http://www.foxnews.c...,2933,276793,00.html

EDIT/ they seem to have the video there but I cant get it to play on FF

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

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 08:16 AM »

two things vaguely related to last post

http://sqlnotes.wikispaces.com/Invoices is blank - (maybe you know)

in the most recent samples database (18Feb)
on the WorkDone grid there's one item with an "invoiceID" of SO01
for some reason this wont show here on the Invoices grid when source is set to "invoiceID"
(I havent changed anything except for the source of grid)

PS/edit/ - I really like that in the inventory grid where you can get all the other columns/fields to scroll behind the items column,
hadnt seen that before (that you could lock columns)

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

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 08:08 AM »

I've got an organisational challenge

In my WorkDone/Billing grid, when the work is invoiced it gets an invoice number in the invoiceID field
My problem is with files which show in WorkDone/Billing grid,
They get an invoice number - fine - but this is just the first stage, the same files/drawings will be invoiced again for further work at least once.

How to give a file more than one invoice number in such a way that I can easily see

• when it was last invoiced
• all files under say invoice #200

one answer would be to have a field for each invoice but that's not good I think
(or maybe if I had "invoiceID1", "invoiceID2" etc where I could add any invoice numbers - seems too messy..)

another way is simply to give it a second parent (i.e. Invoice#200) and hide that mostly somehow
not sure then - I guess just show two or more numbers in the invoiceID field

if you think there's a better way, shout...
or if it's too difficult I can use another method to keep track of which files sent with which invoice

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Living Room / Re: Myth or Last legend

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 08:07 AM »

I'm not from scotland but I can say it doesnt look like any eel to me
what does that leave

I wonder has it been analysed by now (the video I mean..)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Should I get my new laptop with hard drive partitioned?

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2008, 04:00 AM »

I don't think he's suggesting that one install the OS on one partition and apps on another? I've seen this mentioned elsewhere and, like you, have never understood the point, beyond a possible benefit to be derived from having a very small windows partition that would be good for... what?

-Darwin (February 19, 2008, 12:13 PM)

for very small image backups?
guess you'd have to backup the software partition too but not so often

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 04:21 PM »

Users must re-install using the setup program (no need to uninstall)

-PPLandry (February 19, 2008, 04:19 PM)

presume you mean just users that had problems ?

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 03:48 PM »

Congratulations Pierre : it works! 
I still don't know what it was, but you certainly do! 

-Armando (February 19, 2008, 03:21 PM)

super

hmmm
I should search the SQLNotes forum more good stuff Armando

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 03:11 PM »

durn
showed the FileName field, made it hyperlink, decided to hide it again,
was resizing columns and got
---------------------------
SQLNotes
---------------------------
Run-time error '9':

Subscript out of range
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------
I can report it proper if you want but gotta go now
it restarted fine..

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 02:46 PM »

Value-> Sub-items
....
the behaviour seems a bit unpredictable here - (or is that just my understanding agin!)
With "Value-> Sub-items" ticked for "Projects",
If I tick "Projects" for an item, subitems are now ticked as well
If I untick it all are unticked, as expected
But,
if I tick the same item again, sub-items are NOT now selected...

[edit again] also when I add files as sub-items to an item ticked "Projects" they dont automatically get ticked [/edit again]

-tomos (February 19, 2008, 03:59 AM)

I've found this behaviour quite helpful today actually - dont know was it intentional !!? 
but if you want to standardise it it's (obviously) no problem to use the properties pane to change stuff

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 02:43 PM »

in the item field, hyperlink wasnt ticked
works now

-tomos (February 19, 2008, 02:37 PM)

I would not recommend setting hyperlink on the item field, it may complicate editing this all-purpose field

-PPLandry (February 19, 2008, 02:38 PM)

now it's working in item field (without hyperlink ticked) - just needed a kick-start

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 02:41 PM »

hmmm
in my files grid, all the other fields at the moment are tick boxes,
guess I could create one for this - I'm sure I could find other uses for it too!

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

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2008, 02:37 PM »

in the item field, hyperlink wasnt ticked
works now