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Q When I view a PDF in Firefox on my Mac, the file doesn't display inside the Web browser the way it will in Safari. It opens in the Preview program instead, and I have to remember to delete the downloaded PDF later.
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Elizabeth Smith has a new post to her blog today covering some of the fun she's been having with compiling things like Gtk+ and PHP-Gtk2.   So I've been using microsoft visual studio (actually it's Visual C++ Express, but uses the same stuff behind the scenes) to work on getting things compiled on windows. PHP-Gtk2 allows for some nifty extensions, well at least on linux. So I've been working to get versions of libglade, scintilla, gtksourceview and mozembed working on windows. It's a long, slow process. Here's the deal so far.   She talks about her current situation (what's compiling and what's not) and the software that she's trying to get up and running. She also mentions a problem she's been having with an error message talking about "unresolved external symbols" she'll need to track down (or get some help on - anyone out there seen it?)
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Youâve downloaded a file from the web and you canât remember where it came from. No problem â read this weekâs tip to see how you can easily find out.
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ANS Forth for Win32 and Linux/x86 (used to compile the following SF projects: acWEB, acFTP, acFreeProxy, acSMTP, Forth-Script)   SP-Forth for Windows is a reliable and comfortable forth system producing optimized native code.     This release features fixes and improvements in kernel, adds more documentation.   Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17919  Notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=17919&release_id=569286
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Recently I had lots of time on my hands visiting relatives and in-laws. Most of the time I was able to get an Internet connection. Sometimes I had to leech my connection from unsecured wireless access points. Some of my relatives and friends posted videos on youtube.com but they wanted to save other flash videos on their hard drive or USB drive. At first this can be frustrating if you don't understand what is going on. So I decided to download them the hard way. For the faint-of-heart, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the easy way to download flash video and audio files.    Why do this the hard way?  First I wanted to understand why it was less than straight forward to do. I understand why proprietary software developers are scared right now. Software is slowly moving to Internet applications. As most of you know, the Internet is wide open, even SSH and SSL to some degree.    With youtube.com, Google video and some of the more popular video sites you can download and install software to automatically grab the video or audio flash file. However, I had a lot of time on my hands and there are many sites where a video downloader does not work for the particular site.    If you find doing it yourself interesting then here's one way to download flash video files. Keep in mind this only works with embedded flash video or audio streams.
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In previous versions of FlickrFan you could only see today's picture downloads and code updates on the Events page. A feature request came in saying it would be nice to be able to go back in time, and I totally agreed. That's the way it works in version 0.43, released this morning. Details, screen shot.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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ClamWin Free Antivirus version 0.36 introduces faster checking for new virus database files using DNS queries. Please upgrade to the new version in order to reduce load on virus database servers.   It also fixes couple of annoying bugs such as:      * Failure to detect HTML viruses;     * Failure to operate correctly if a user name or profile folder name contains non-English characters (this often happened on a non-English version of MS Windows);     * Hanging and consuming 100% processor time when scanning a file with .. or .... in the file name;  Other changes are:     * upgraded to python 2.3.3     * upgraded to pywin32-203     * upgarded to py2exe 0.5.4     * upgraded to innosetup 4.2.7  This latest release can be found here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105508&package_id=113616
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Help is on the way - from Microsoft. The software giant is readying a new help and support Web site -- scheduled for the fall -- that has promised benefits such as product-specific troubleshooting and assisted support, centralized options, personalized views, and improved search functions. Microsoft has also simplified its incident submission process, providing easier access to outstanding support requests.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Windows makes it easy to quickly download files to iPods and other portable storage devices--a little too easy in the minds of many IT managers.
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The Transform SWF framework parses and encodes Flash (.swf) files. Classes for each of the tags and data structures in the Flash (SWF) File Format Specification are provided along with utility classes for a high level API for generating Flash files.   This release contains new convenience classes to simplify handling and generating flash files. FSHeader for getting information on files without decoding them completely; FSFrame for grouping together all the objects associated with a frame in a move and FSLayer for creating separate time-lines when displaying objects.
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The 3ds Max NIF Plug-in allows 3ds Max users to open or import NIF files and also to export 3ds Max scenes to new NIF files. It is incomplete and likely will always be.      It does support importing and exporting of scene hierarchy, meshes, textures, materials, and skins bound to their skeleton bones, transform animation, limit collision mesh support for Oblivion and more.    Pre-compiled versions of the plug-in are available for 3ds Max 5, 6, 7 and 8. If you have a different version, it should be able to compile from source. Note that there is so just extract the files from the zip into your 3dsmax directory.    Changes in this release:      0.2.7   ----- o All - Add options to disable certain parts of plug via INI * Added so people who only want importer can disable exporter. - Enhancements from NifLib including support for Freedom Force - Max 5 build is available but untested.  o Exporter - Fix bug with NiTriShape export which created corrupted files. - Add option to Update Tangent Space (for Oblivion) - Add option to Collapse Transforms on meshes (mostly a debug aide)
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Froogle, directories and search clippings by SMS
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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StopBadware.org will ask the FTC to investigate FastMP3Search.com.ar, a Web site that offers free MP3 search software.
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Now Old Grumpy goes for a (Micro)soft target Column Iâm a fan of shell extensions â those plug-ins for Windows Explorer which provide easy right-click access to all manner of context sensitive actions. For example, my favourite ZIP compressor is WinZip: simply right-click on a folder and you can instantly create an archive containing everything within that folder. Magic! But having said that, shell extensions, like other things, should be used in moderation; they can seriously impact system performance if you invite too many of âem to the party.â¦
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Continuing our focus on find perl pipelines we begin by processing filename arguments. Additional topics are defending against grep's messes, recursive grepping, using findxargs vs. Perl alternatives, reliable timestamp sorting, multi-word filenames and more. By Tim Maher. 1204