Almost everything is hookable in Windows. From win98 and possibly win95 on up. SOME of the Third Party solutions:
AutoHotKey, AutoIt, PowerPro
As well there's IronAHK, a DOT NET version of AHK.
Then there's the first party (Windows solutions):
PowerShell, VBScript/WSH/JScript.
While DOS/CMD.exe itself is somewhat limited to hooking into the system, all one would have to do is compile something like AHK's DLLCALL() or RegisterCallBack() for line command usage.
As well most of the useful GNU line command tools have been compiled for windows CMD.exe distributed as UnxUtils, or GetGnuWin32, UnWind and SFU (Services for Unix).
Interesting. I have the Scorpius M10: favorite keyboard of all time. (I just took it apart and phsically disabled the power button). And the Logitech MX518 (corded) + various AutoHotkey customizations to make the buttons do a multitude of tasks.
The original Dungeon Siege was pretty fun, once you modify it slightly to crank up the difficulty: 8 party members in do-or-die:-)
DS-II ruined the series for a lot of people, Super Powers, no PvP, the same insane abundance of useless treasure and reaming the available spell-lists down to a point where you don't even have options of what you'd like to use.
I was really hoping for a good Sacred2 (improvement on Sacred1), but the Abilities, skill-lists and Equipment modifiers are so complex as to make it almost impossible to make an educated decision about your character.
Opera's DragonFly is fairly robust. I'm not going to get into the whole fan-boi "my browser is better than yours" -- as I know both have their issues.
I haven't used Firebug enough to make a full comparison, but I know they're both useful and are missing some features of the other. They should copy one another til they iterate into the best;)
Because if you bother to open the Developer Tools/Error Console --- then you can see all the Warnings and Errors.
And when code does not run in Opera 10.62 and it does in 10.10, 9.62, FireFox, and IE. and the Error is visible in the console. Then gee maybe it's the new JS Engine? JavaScript: Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot convert 'toggler' to object
Assumptions? I've personally filed 2 JS bugs. Where the more recent versions of Opera completely choke on JavaScript errors that the previous JS Engine handled just fine as well as I.E. and Firefox.
At least three sites that I know of that are non-functional due to Opera's new JS Engine.
Opera definitely has issues with some websites and (some javascript with the new Engine) --- but Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo definitely work.
I'm on 10.62 and have all three open currently.
I'm on the latest, and I use that for the most part. Every now and then I need to fire up 9.62 or 10.10.
The new javascript engine can be touch and go atm. It's not very forgiving and fails on numerous things that work in every other browser (including Opera's older versions).
Just install Opera on a USB Stick.
Choose the option for a single profile.
Then the profile is stored in it's program folder.
The operaprefs_default.ini should look like:
Opera Preferences version 2.0
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding
[System]
Multi User=0 ; If enabled Opera will use Windows profiles to store individual user settings
Since I generally use the USB stick on Window's machines, I changed a setting in the
profile/operaprefs.ini to place the cache on the Windows machine so I'm not writing to the USB for that.
Yes, Ctrl+S is so much more difficult than: Shift+{semi-colon} w s {Enter}
2 Keys vs 5... Hmmm
And any half-ways decent editor has Column-block select, ALT+LeftClick Drag or a some kind of keyboard combination, EmEditor's is Shift+Ctrl+F8.
Every single editor in Windows has common-key controls, Shift+DEL (Ctrl+X), Shift+INS (Ctrl+V), Undo/Redo, Find Ctrl+F, etc etc.
Almost every command/function can be accomplished with 2 or 3 keys versus Vims 4 and more. That's hardly efficient.
Navigating with the keyboard? Ctrl+Right/Left, End/Home, Ctrl+End/Home, PgDn/PgUp.
Vim may very well be a powerful editor but it's definitely not easy to use, or learn and almost every single Vim command can be done easier and with less keyboard interaction with a basic/or Advanced windows text editor.
A long running site accidentally got the Joomla option "Enable Gzip Compression" turned on.
Interestingly IE5 and IE6 were the only browsers that were still able to render the site -- and only IE6 was able to change settings in the backend, as IE5 didn't react/interpret the JS on [Save] [Apply] buttons.
All the other browsers we tried (IE7-8, FireFox2-3, Safari) showed a warning page that they couldn't display the content, except for Opera (9.64, 10.10, 10.62) which just displays binary garbage on screen.
Let's see, since I can do a Regex search from Total Commander's GUI, use any of it's file-system plugins - from a GUI to add more rules to the Search requirements. Then feed the Results to TC Tab, Select them all... from a GUI and then Click a button to feed them to a one liner script to move them where they need to go -- of which the Script can take the destination input (From a GUI).
PNG can be lossless, if you choose 0 for compression level - then the image is basically a bitmap when it comes to file-size (except png inherently supports Alpha-channel transparency).
Similiar to Video - every time you change format you will almost-always introduce artifacts.
Also, JPG image quality can be greatly improved by choosing the option to disable color subsampling. JPG's tend to be smaller than PNG when you start with a BMP, but not always -- depends on the content of the image.
Interestingly,
BMP->JPG: Smallish File size.
BMP->PNG: Smallish File size, may be smaller than previous JPG.
YET...Take that JPG and save as a level 6 compression PNG and it will be bigger than it's parent JPG and bigger than the BMP->PNG.
At almost every level of the "Windows" UI/GUI almost anything can be exposed: to modify, append-to or straight-up block it completely.
Even a fairly simple language like AutoHotKey: (Script interpreted by an on-the-fly C++ compiler) can do amazing things with DLLCALL and RegisterCallBack.
Or even some of the work by BlackWingCat : BlackWingCat's KDW API Wrapper & Tools or OldCigarettes : OldCigarettes Windows 2000 XP API Wrapper Pack (OCW), which do API wrapping on Binaries like ntdll.dll, user32.dll, kernel32.dll and more -- which add Function calls into Win2K that only Exist in XP. Which enable software and games on Win2K that claim they need XP+.
Much like almost every Google app and feature: Disables Opera out of the box. It wasn't all that long ago that gmail and GoogleDocs needed to use a special string in the url to "allow" it to work with Opera, something like browserok=y or somesuch.
At least with Microsoft with this case all of the "neat" Bing features - just work.
Opera's Zoom reflows text -- unless you've zoomed the page to the point it can't fit on screen anymore: then click "Fit to Page".
Though unfortunately, Opera's whole 10.x series -- especially anything after 10.10 has been an unstable joke for any of the power users that open an above average number of Tabs.
Well except for Craig Ferguson -- while some of them are definitely there because of an agreement with the production company of "whatever they've done recently" -- Craig focuses far more on an interesting conversation than spending the whole interview talking about their latest gig.
I don't disagree with you per se, but I've rarely felt like I was watching an Advertisement when viewing the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Borders is better for used books. When you buy more than 1 book from a vendor you get shipping discounts.
And as far as I can tell most of the Borders used-book vendors are Brick-and-Mortar stores throughout the states.
I've gotten numerous Paperbacks and hardcovers through Borders (used books store) for $1.00 to $3.00; buy more than a couple books at a time and shipping drops to 2 or 3 bucks per book. As opposed to Amazon used-book sellers where shipping is a flatrate and usually $5 or more per book.
It's generally not even worth it to buy used books on Amazon due to the outrageous shipping -- since you can often get the same book NEW and free shipping.
I haven't used flashblocker, but on the user script side of things -- at some point in the 10.x releases the Dev's purposely broke: "document.addEventListener" (which numerous User Scripts used: it was the "recommended/suggested" way to add a trigger on load. ie
It was a serious PITA to find out why my own User scripts were suddenly broken-beyond-repair. I could only find mention of it on ONE of the Opera blogs from ~6months prior to when they actually changed it.
Also, all the queries about broken UserScripts on the Opera boards were either unanswered or given completely wrong information.
So if flashblocker uses document.addEventListener, it needs to be changed to "window.addEventListener".
The worst to my recollection would be WKRP in Cincinatti. The company that wound up with the rights to the show was unable to reach a reasonable deal for the music rights (possibly ASCAP et al) -- so all the shows (originals IIRC) were dubbed with other tracks.
In the 80s (and early 90s) at least, I know the CBC still had originals - though doubtful they would be allowed to air them if they still did.
You certainly cannot buy the DVD's as they originally aired.
I've yet to find a mouse that's better than Logitech's MX518. The position of the buttons (and slight pressure needed to press) makes them easy to use. With the scroll wheel not having side-to-side scroll the middle-click can consistently be pressed without accidentally scrolling left or right.
Compare to Logitech's MX610, cannot use the middle button due to the sloppy side-to-side scroll, almost all of the top-left-side buttons are difficult to press, and the thumb buttons require more pressure and are "harder". Very poor design comparatively.
This WarMouse beast doesn't even have easy-to-use Left/Right click w/o accidentally pressing some other key. No use of the middle-top space above/below the scroll wheel and middle of the body (like MX518) puts all the buttons in one place. The WarMouse doesn't look user-friendly or comforable to hold: not ergonomic.
Unfortunately all of Logitech's more recent designs have eschewed the MX518 design in favor of the MX-Revolution and its ilk. The MX518 with the Revolution's side thumb wheel would probably be the ultimate mouse imho.
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SOME of the Third Party solutions:
As well there's IronAHK, a DOT NET version of AHK.
Then there's the first party (Windows solutions):
While DOS/CMD.exe itself is somewhat limited to hooking into the system, all one would have to do is compile something like AHK's DLLCALL() or RegisterCallBack() for line command usage.
As well most of the useful GNU line command tools have been compiled for windows CMD.exe distributed as UnxUtils, or GetGnuWin32, UnWind and SFU (Services for Unix).
Interesting. I have the Scorpius M10: favorite keyboard of all time. (I just took it apart and phsically disabled the power button). And the Logitech MX518 (corded) + various AutoHotkey customizations to make the buttons do a multitude of tasks.
The original Dungeon Siege was pretty fun, once you modify it slightly to crank up the difficulty: 8 party members in do-or-die :-)
DS-II ruined the series for a lot of people, Super Powers, no PvP, the same insane abundance of useless treasure and reaming the available spell-lists down to a point where you don't even have options of what you'd like to use.
I was really hoping for a good Sacred2 (improvement on Sacred1), but the Abilities, skill-lists and Equipment modifiers are so complex as to make it almost impossible to make an educated decision about your character.
Opera's DragonFly is fairly robust. I'm not going to get into the whole fan-boi "my browser is better than yours" -- as I know both have their issues.
;)
I haven't used Firebug enough to make a full comparison, but I know they're both useful and are missing some features of the other. They should copy one another til they iterate into the best
Because if you bother to open the Developer Tools/Error Console --- then you can see all the Warnings and Errors.
And when code does not run in Opera 10.62 and it does in 10.10, 9.62, FireFox, and IE. and the Error is visible in the console. Then gee maybe it's the new JS Engine?
JavaScript: Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot convert 'toggler' to object
Assumptions? I've personally filed 2 JS bugs. Where the more recent versions of Opera completely choke on JavaScript errors that the previous JS Engine handled just fine as well as I.E. and Firefox.
At least three sites that I know of that are non-functional due to Opera's new JS Engine.
Opera definitely has issues with some websites and (some javascript with the new Engine) --- but Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo definitely work.
I'm on 10.62 and have all three open currently.
I'm on the latest, and I use that for the most part. Every now and then I need to fire up 9.62 or 10.10.
The new javascript engine can be touch and go atm. It's not very forgiving and fails on numerous things that work in every other browser (including Opera's older versions).
Choose the option for a single profile.
Then the profile is stored in it's program folder.
The operaprefs_default.ini should look like:
Since I generally use the USB stick on Window's machines, I changed a setting in the profile/operaprefs.ini to place the cache on the Windows machine so I'm not writing to the USB for that.
And UserCSS can hide elements, easily.
And then there's UserJS to override badly behaving JavaScript on the page.
Yes, Ctrl+S is so much more difficult than: Shift+{semi-colon} w s {Enter}
2 Keys vs 5... Hmmm
And any half-ways decent editor has Column-block select, ALT+LeftClick Drag or a some kind of keyboard combination, EmEditor's is Shift+Ctrl+F8.
Every single editor in Windows has common-key controls, Shift+DEL (Ctrl+X), Shift+INS (Ctrl+V), Undo/Redo, Find Ctrl+F, etc etc.
Almost every command/function can be accomplished with 2 or 3 keys versus Vims 4 and more. That's hardly efficient.
Navigating with the keyboard? Ctrl+Right/Left, End/Home, Ctrl+End/Home, PgDn/PgUp.
Vim may very well be a powerful editor but it's definitely not easy to use, or learn and almost every single Vim command can be done easier and with less keyboard interaction with a basic/or Advanced windows text editor.
A long running site accidentally got the Joomla option "Enable Gzip Compression" turned on. Interestingly IE5 and IE6 were the only browsers that were still able to render the site -- and only IE6 was able to change settings in the backend, as IE5 didn't react/interpret the JS on [Save] [Apply] buttons.
All the other browsers we tried (IE7-8, FireFox2-3, Safari) showed a warning page that they couldn't display the content, except for Opera (9.64, 10.10, 10.62) which just displays binary garbage on screen.
Let's see, since I can do a Regex search from Total Commander's GUI, use any of it's file-system plugins - from a GUI to add more rules to the Search requirements. Then feed the Results to TC Tab, Select them all... from a GUI and then Click a button to feed them to a one liner script to move them where they need to go -- of which the Script can take the destination input (From a GUI).
PNG can be lossless, if you choose 0 for compression level - then the image is basically a bitmap when it comes to file-size (except png inherently supports Alpha-channel transparency).
Similiar to Video - every time you change format you will almost-always introduce artifacts.
Also, JPG image quality can be greatly improved by choosing the option to disable color subsampling. JPG's tend to be smaller than PNG when you start with a BMP, but not always -- depends on the content of the image.
Interestingly,
BMP->JPG: Smallish File size.
BMP->PNG: Smallish File size, may be smaller than previous JPG.
YET...Take that JPG and save as a level 6 compression PNG and it will be bigger than it's parent JPG and bigger than the BMP->PNG.
At almost every level of the "Windows" UI/GUI almost anything can be exposed: to modify, append-to or straight-up block it completely.
Even a fairly simple language like AutoHotKey: (Script interpreted by an on-the-fly C++ compiler) can do amazing things with DLLCALL and RegisterCallBack.
Or even some of the work by BlackWingCat : BlackWingCat's KDW API Wrapper & Tools or OldCigarettes : OldCigarettes Windows 2000 XP API Wrapper Pack (OCW), which do API wrapping on Binaries like ntdll.dll, user32.dll, kernel32.dll and more -- which add Function calls into Win2K that only Exist in XP. Which enable software and games on Win2K that claim they need XP+.
Its not American.
Much like almost every Google app and feature: Disables Opera out of the box. It wasn't all that long ago that gmail and GoogleDocs needed to use a special string in the url to "allow" it to work with Opera, something like browserok=y or somesuch.
At least with Microsoft with this case all of the "neat" Bing features - just work.
This lawsuit has shown me the light. Slashdotters should collectively sue DikuMUD founders and Lars "LPMud" Penjske for their 1990s MUD addictions...
Opera's Zoom reflows text -- unless you've zoomed the page to the point it can't fit on screen anymore: then click "Fit to Page".
Though unfortunately, Opera's whole 10.x series -- especially anything after 10.10 has been an unstable joke for any of the power users that open an above average number of Tabs.
Well except for Craig Ferguson -- while some of them are definitely there because of an agreement with the production company of "whatever they've done recently" -- Craig focuses far more on an interesting conversation than spending the whole interview talking about their latest gig.
I don't disagree with you per se, but I've rarely felt like I was watching an Advertisement when viewing the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Isn't that what the Microsoft Retail stores are doing... without the +25% markup.
Borders is better for used books. When you buy more than 1 book from a vendor you get shipping discounts.
And as far as I can tell most of the Borders used-book vendors are Brick-and-Mortar stores throughout the states.
I've gotten numerous Paperbacks and hardcovers through Borders (used books store) for $1.00 to $3.00; buy more than a couple books at a time and shipping drops to 2 or 3 bucks per book. As opposed to Amazon used-book sellers where shipping is a flatrate and usually $5 or more per book.
It's generally not even worth it to buy used books on Amazon due to the outrageous shipping -- since you can often get the same book NEW and free shipping.
It was a serious PITA to find out why my own User scripts were suddenly broken-beyond-repair. I could only find mention of it on ONE of the Opera blogs from ~6months prior to when they actually changed it.
Also, all the queries about broken UserScripts on the Opera boards were either unanswered or given completely wrong information.
So if flashblocker uses document.addEventListener, it needs to be changed to "window.addEventListener".
The worst to my recollection would be WKRP in Cincinatti. The company that wound up with the rights to the show was unable to reach a reasonable deal for the music rights (possibly ASCAP et al) -- so all the shows (originals IIRC) were dubbed with other tracks.
In the 80s (and early 90s) at least, I know the CBC still had originals - though doubtful they would be allowed to air them if they still did.
You certainly cannot buy the DVD's as they originally aired.
I've yet to find a mouse that's better than Logitech's MX518. The position of the buttons (and slight pressure needed to press) makes them easy to use. With the scroll wheel not having side-to-side scroll the middle-click can consistently be pressed without accidentally scrolling left or right.
Compare to Logitech's MX610, cannot use the middle button due to the sloppy side-to-side scroll, almost all of the top-left-side buttons are difficult to press, and the thumb buttons require more pressure and are "harder". Very poor design comparatively.
This WarMouse beast doesn't even have easy-to-use Left/Right click w/o accidentally pressing some other key. No use of the middle-top space above/below the scroll wheel and middle of the body (like MX518) puts all the buttons in one place. The WarMouse doesn't look user-friendly or comforable to hold: not ergonomic.
Unfortunately all of Logitech's more recent designs have eschewed the MX518 design in favor of the MX-Revolution and its ilk. The MX518 with the Revolution's side thumb wheel would probably be the ultimate mouse imho.