So who wants to KISS?

On one of my two machines where I had installed Valix, I uninstalled the GAOTD-installed copy, then downloaded and installed the “trial” version from the Valix website.

The resulting installation behaved the same: If either of the two copies on the same LAN is active, the other one refuses to run. The “trial” version displayed as still being registered to GiveAwayOfTheDay. Perhaps that’s the problem carried over from my previous v1.1 installation.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4576

I’ve also posted a more up to date flight sim called Flight Gear, a 3D platform game called Pandemonium, as well as some indie games called Darwin Hill, Rainy Day, Aether made by the guy who made Gish, and one browser based game based on Rainy Day called Bonsai. Oh yeah, there’s also another physics based game called The Virtual Contraption – Aether also relies strongly on physics simulations:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4581

I’m glad to see that someone else actually installed two copies of this and ran into the same problem as I did with additional copies refusing to run on the same LAN if one copy is already active. I suspect that most of today’s people did not install 2 copies and test this way, likely because they don’t have 2 machines.

That’s a shame, because then they are (understandably) misunderstanding what I see as the original main feature and point of this software title and missing out on the experience of instant results. No wonder they are comparing it to other mismatched products.

This makes me wonder if someone like an IT person in a business (the desired market, I would think) were to download the trial version and install two or more copies on their LAN, would they experience the same problems and crippled performance we are. Maybe I’ll try that.

I hope we can soon be offered a “fixed” version to evaluate to replace this one and what was (for me) the better-functioning earlier version 1.1 that I uninstalled.

Someday, I’ll post some detailed information on Windows Search, there are lots of errors and omissions in the Microsoft documentation, which is scattered all over the place.

I use natural language search with partial matching enabled, all of my examples are for those settings.

Usually, I search file contents rather than names, but sometimes file names avoid extraneous hits. For example, when I order software online, I keep a copy of the order, and always include “order” in the filename.

name order and type (html or mhtml or pdf or xps) finds files containing “order” in the name, of the various document types that I use (avoids extraneous hits from other file types). Note that type is not equivalent to the extension, and will search extensions as well as their descriptions (mhtml is actually a description, the extension is mht; similarly, I could have used acrobat instead of pdf). Type is more specific than the extension, as it doesn’t search file contents (the extension is just a string unless you qualify it with something like name), nor does it match against non-extension parts of filenames (again, an extension is just a string and can match non-extensions). However, if you’re searching a folder containing shortcuts, you might want to use the extension, as the type will be shortcut (it finds the extension inside the shortcut). (FYI, UnMHT for Firefox adds MHTML support to Firefox).

Windows Search 4 will match against property/tag field names before it will match against values. Many, many common words are used as tags or properties, which can cause your search to fail. You can quote them, or, if you have partial matching enabled, leave off the last letter (I usually do that for any word which seems common, you’d be surprised how many turn out to be undocumented property or tag names).

Natural language searching can do unexpected things, the parsing is strange. For example, on my PC, the property recording time is unique to recorded TV, so that generally saves me from having to specify folder “recorded tv”. GOTD uses the greater than and less than symbols for comment tags, so I’ll denote them as GT and LT. If I want to make sure that some recent recordings occurred without opening Media Center, I’ll usually use recording timeGT=yesterday (of course, recording time today works, but I often have programs recording around midnight). Those forms of expressions and ranges work fine, but the keywords before and after cause it to parse incorrectly; in those cases, I have to specify the folder, as in folder “recorded tv” recording time before 2009.

Unqualified day and month names are expanded to the full date relative to the corresponding starting value. So, if a week starts on a Sunday and today is Thursday, the unqualified names Sunday through Thursday expand to the dates in this week, and unqualified Friday and Saturday are unavailable, since they haven’t occurred yet. Since this is January (the starting month for the year), the only unqualified month which is available is January. Three-letter abbreviations are also valid. For example, recording time GT= sep 2008 LT= oct 2008 will list (existing) shows recorded in September and October of last year, and recording time tuesday will list (existing) shows recorded this week on Tuesday.

Grow Up!!!

The programming world has nothing to do with the native language that the developer speaks. Did you know programming has several of it’s “own languages”? Yes, there may be errors or incorrect sentences but that says nothing about the programs functionality or usefullness. Or the programmer for that matter. They are hard working people no matter where they come from, their skin color, or weather English is their first language. And yes, I misspelled it that way on purpose.

To me, your comments show your true “colors”. And to me, the world is better off not having people that think like that running or making any descisions for the world or anyone else. Your comments are like saying, “I better not buy anything that originated where English is not their first language”. Good luck with that one!!! Guess you’ll have an empty house and maybe no car depending on what “language” the maker speaks. Might want to move too. Maybe your house wasn’t built by people that used English as their first language.

And FYI, I speak ONLY English(I consider that ignorant of me), I was born in the United States, where my family and almost everyone’s family’s immigrated here many years ago (all but “Those whom were here first”). And to me, skin color nor language nor where a person is from has anything to do with how I think of a person, the products they make or the programs they write!!!!!!

Let the products and programs speak for themselves. And if they are no good or don’t do what you want, it has nothing to do with the fact that maybe they didn’t speak a single world of English. Nothing is ever going to be perfect for “Everyone”. Some things are good for some but not others. If you have no use for a program, fine. Don’t leave ignorant comments. Just move on and check back another day. I speak english as my only language. I make mistakes. I use incorrect grammer. Did you catch my incoorect spellings? Does that make me less of a peron because of it? No. I’m human. EVERYONE makes mistakes at some point in their lives. Nobody is perfect. Nobody!!!!!!

Just grow up. Keep you ignorant comments to yourself. The world would be better that way.

Seems simple to me.