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Mousee seems to automatically switch from left to right and back and forth. 
  phatmatt
 
07:44pm 23/05/2012
  I am a left handed person, so I set my mouse that way. All day today (on it's own, I SWEAR) it will switch to a right handed user. What would cause it to do that on its own? It just started in the last few days. I have Windows XP Home. I have scanned for viruses, and I don't appear to have any. What is wrong, and how do I fix it. Thanks for any help.  
     

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Something better than Roxio? 
  mopalia
 
01:23pm 27/04/2012
  The good news:  my new car radio will play a data disk, so I can have nice long disks without repeating.  The bad news:  the only disk burner program I have is Roxio.  It won't let me control the order of files on a data disk - it's alpha by name or path only.  It seems I used to have something better.
I have a Linux (ubuntu) desktop and a Win 7 laptop and can burn on either.  Suggestions for better software? Free is about what my budget can handle, too.  TIA. 		  
     

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SW Development 
  odcvalley
 
04:46pm 19/04/2012
  Hello! I'm looking for SW development  
     

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Exporting Gmail to Hard Drive 
  shadowshow
 
10:24am 03/03/2012
  I've been away from LJ for a long time, so I'm very sorry if this has been covered.

Does anyone know a way to export gmail to an external hard drive? Ideally, it would be great to move entire folders (containing all messages from one person, for example) instead of individual messages.

Thanks so much!		  
     

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  larryv
 
12:35pm 14/02/2012
  Are there any web developers in the the NYC area looking for a job? My company is looking for front end and back end developers, project managers, and a few other web type folks. We are holding a hiring event this week. If your interested, or know someone who might be please check out this link:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2866681321/efbnen		  
     

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Removing and reinstalling Service Packs 
  phatmatt
 
07:25pm 09/02/2012
  Is it safe to uninstall, and then reinstall the Service Packs for Windows XP? One of my computer video games crashes all the time and I was thinking MAYBE is because of a service pack. Was thnking of deleting them to see if, in fact, that is why my game keeps crashing.

I have Windows XP.

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PS1 to USB? 
  mopalia
 
10:49am 12/01/2012
  Is there any way to get my favorite old IBM Keyboard working again?  It's a PS1 - note, that says 1, NOT 2.  It seems to me that there used to be PS1-PS2 connectors, so in theory one could then link a PS2-USB connector in the chain.  I love this keyboard, and because it has removable key caps, I could just attach the Korean keyboard stickers without the visual clutter that comes with bilingual letters.  Any ideas?  
     

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Maximizing the browser  
  pleasant_muse
 
05:48pm 17/12/2011
  I am using Windows Vista and I am wondering if there was a way I can maximize the browser using settings that I want. Normally, when I maximize the browser, the scroll bar goes outside the screen area so I can't get to it. It just stays out of reach. If I could tell the computer to rein things in a tad, that would be great.

I'm already tried changing the monitor specs, but that just makes things worse.		  
     

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Maybe Microsoft should go into the concert ticket business 
  schpydurx
 
01:05pm 22/10/2011
  Originally posted by [info]schpydurx at Maybe Microsoft should go into the concert ticket business
Maybe Microsoft should go into the concert ticket business


  
     

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Barnes & Nobel Shelving Fail 
  schpydurx
 
12:37pm 22/10/2011
  Originally posted by [info]schpydurx at Barnes & Nobel Shelving Fail
Barnes & Nobel Shelving Fail


  
     

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A Duet with Siri 
  schpydurx
 
09:47am 18/10/2011
 
 
     

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Icons/thumbnails in VLC playlist 
  mopalia
 
09:41pm 15/10/2011
  VLC suddenly started putting icons/thumbnails of cover art next to every track in my playlists.  It makes them impossibly long and hard to skim through.  I didn't upgrade, but I must have toggled something.  I've tried every menu and searched the VLC help, but - nothing,  Removing the cover art .jpgs from the files didn't help.  Anyone know how to remove these and just get a text listing again? TIA.  
     

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Those Who Have Gone Before Us 
  schpydurx
 
11:34pm 12/10/2011
  Originally posted by [info]schpydurx at Those Who Have Gone Before Us
First Steve Jobs. Now Dennis Ritchie.

Folks, we're losing the greatest minds our industry had to offer. Who will take on their mantel? Who will walk in their footsteps?


  
     

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C++ style question 
  iamfitz
 
09:40pm 07/10/2011
  Hi everyone.

I started researching C++ and I'm finding it really interesting, so I've been reading about some (very, very) simple programs. The thing is, I've found three ways to pause a program in order to see that it's executed correctly before it closes. The first is pretty straightforward:

system ("pause");

Then I read that the same thing could be accomplished by creating a batch file:

theprogramyouwanttorun.exe
pause

But then I read that "pause" isn't recognized by a lot of operating systems and it's also resource intensive, so this is a better way to accomplish the same thing:

cin.get()

So my question is which is the "best" way to do it? It would seem to me that using a function in C++ itself would be the best approach, but maybe not. Am I missing the benefits of using a batch file? Are there benefits?

Btw, if anyone has any strong opinions about which free C++ IDE is the best, do tell.

Edit: (10/8/11) Thanks for the responses. A while after I posted this I found this thread on a forum about just this question. Seems like I'll be sticking with the last option. It seems a little irresponsible to me for writers to use the system() statement, since they don't know what OS their readers are using.		  
     

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this week i have mostly been... 
  recrea33
 
01:26pm 24/09/2011
 
...curing malaria
searching for little green men
developing artificial intellegence
improving climate models
searching for the higgs boson
predicting near earth asteroid orbits



this is the story that started me back on the distributed computing tip...
  
     

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How to Write an Android Phone Review 
  schpydurx
 
09:50am 22/09/2011
  Originally posted by [info]schpydurx at How to Write an Android Phone Review
If you ever need to write a review for an Android phone, just follow this trusty guide.
  
     

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How will Lion's New Security Model Affect things like Python? 
  schpydurx
 
11:46am 14/09/2011
  I'm curious to know how the new security model in OS X Lion will affect the future. Specifically, I'm questioning Entitlements and Sandboxing.

This isn't a question of whether or not these are good ideas. Rather, this is a question of best guess of what will happen in the future.

I'm curious about things like Python. My company makes a small Python App for emergency situations with out web-based software. This includes reading and writing to the file system.

Our app has no entitlements, namely because it's just Python code and we don't do any Cocoa wrapping. When the Mac App Store requirements that all apps have to be sandboxed and list their entitlements go into effect, I wonder if Apple will roll out an update to the operating system and say, "this is how we do security from now on and if your application doesn't meet our security model, it won't run because it's not secure."

I have mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, I think it's great for making consumer's machines more secure. Less rogue code and all that rot. On the other hand, it's going to make development a living hell for a lot of developers, methinks.

I also wonder if such an update should come out for Lion if the same update will be released for either Leopard or Snow Leopard. My thought would be not Leopard as it is two generations behind the current OS. Snow Leopard all depends on how long Apple wants to support an older OS.

So now I open it up to Apple developers to speak their minds on this topic and perhaps generate thoughts where previously there were none.

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Finding Old Wallpapers 
  phatmatt
 
06:56pm 31/08/2011
  Is there a way to find all old wallpapers you used for your computer? I had one, switched to another thinking, and knowing, how to get the previous one back. It didn't work. Is it possible that it may be stored somewhere?

I have Win XP Home.		  
     

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We've come a long way from DOS -  
  mopalia
 
04:38pm 18/08/2011
  and maybe not in the right direction.  Here's an entry from a friend's blog today:


"Dear Microsoft,
Nine separate progress bars is too many to install a game. Perhaps you
should reduce this. Two? Three? Maybe even five? Just fewer than nine.
Sincerely,
-Z


Explanation:
Age of Empires Online. Progress bars, in order:

* Download the installer.
* Run the installer,
which installs something . . .
* . . . and then installs something else.
* The second thing requires a Windows hotfix. Skipping the
entire issue of finding that hotfix, which was nowhere near
trivial, I then had to download that hotfix.
* And install, and reboot.
* Run the marketplace. Download the game.
* Install the game. (Seriously, why do I need to click the "install"
button? Why can't it just automatically install?)
* Run the game.
Step 1: "Now updating the patcher."
* Step 2: "Now
downloading the game."


Yes,
that's right. I downloaded a thing that installed a thing that
downloaded a thing that installed a thing that updated a thing that was
able to download the actual game."



  
     

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DOS games on W7 OS 
  mafiasaga
 
01:24am 19/08/2011
 
mood: discontent
Hi there, fellow geeks.  I'm a long time lurker, first time joiner.

Back in about 1997-8 I used to play a lot of DOS freewear games that belonged to a CD ROM  of games titled '1500  Games'. It says it's Microsoft Windows compatible, that the games are DOS and that they're copyright 1997 Nodtronics, with a Eurekasoftware logo on the CD face.

It had a lot of demos of all sizes, some may have even been complete games. Amongst the games I remember on there, there's  Wolfenstine 3D, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem, Maths Escape and Word Esape, Commander Keen, Chinese Checkers, Hugo II and III.

I'd LOVE to play them  all again, but whenever I play they CD, of course my comp is far too sophisticated. I suspect that emulators are my only choice. I'm not doing anything illegal (the games are shareware and I own copies anyway), but I have no idea if I can use an emulator to play the games  I have through the CD, or if I'd need to dowload the games elsewhere?

I have no idea what  kind of computer I had way back then, so I can't really be more specific than I have already been in my post.

 

Any help at all suggesting how to make the games playable would be madly appeciated.

  
     

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  computergeeks
 
 
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