RE: [DQSD-Users] Amazon search

2002-11-03 Thread Glenn Carr
Wolfgang,

One thing you might consider is using the global variable 'language' to set
the correct domain.  'language' should be set to the ISO code for the
current language if that helps.

Glenn

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Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DQSD-Users] Amazon search


Here is a suggestion for an enhancement of the amazon search.
It always bothered me that it only searches in the .com shop, while I want
to search in the .de shop most of the time. So in the past I just modified
the source of the search directly, which just isn't really satisfactory.
Well, to make long story short, I have added an option to the amazon search
which is called /domain and it takes as an argument a specific amazon domain
to search in.
Currently, the following domains can be specified: com de uk jp ca fr where
com is the default, so if you use the search as  before, it should behave
exactly the same.
Anyway, with this switch, I was able to make a handy alias like:
amazde|amaz %s /domain:de
No more editing of the source code :)

I have noticed, however, that the other domains don't really support the
mode-parameters (dvd, vhs, ...) like the com-domain, so the other switches
will probably only make sense for .com

I have also taken the liberty of refactoring the search to remove some code
duplication :)

Find it attached

Thanks,
Wolfgang



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[DQSD-Users] RE: dqsd: updates to calendar. Translations. 1 question.

2002-11-03 Thread Glenn Carr
Harry,

Great!  I've checked in your changes.  Thanks for your help

Glenn

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> From: Harry-Anton Talvik [mailto:harry-anton@;gmx.net]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: dqsd: updates to calendar. Translations. 1 question.
>
>
>
>  Hi David and Glenn
>
>  While I have to contact one of dqsd project admins anyway, I'll send my
> updates right away.
>
> Basically there is one major one: user can choose now which day
> is the first
> one in a week (here in Estonia we are used to see that Monday is the first
> one; maybe Robinson on his island likes it turn to Friday..).
> So, calendar.js and preferences.js got modified (latest ones from CVS).
>
> Other things are translations -- modified is strings.js and new file is
> holiday.et.xml (seems that xml parser doesn't allow any "weird"
> characters like
> ü=ü, ä=ä, õ=&otlide;, even comma (,) is not allowed).
>
> Hope somebody has time to put those files to CVS. I currently don't apply
> for a developer status.
>
> One question too:
>   preferences.js Rev 1.48 -- Why localprefs.js was refactored _out_?
> Where should I store now my local settings, for example for
> 'clockshortform'
> (and for new one -- 'weekStartDay')?
>
>  Best regards,
>   Harry-Anton
>
>
>
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RE: [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

2002-11-03 Thread David A. Bloom



i'm not sure if 
this is relevant, but i had lots of trouble on 2 win2k sp3 machines running 
zonealarm.  zonealarm cause random reboots on the slower pentium machine 
and explorer lockups on the faster athlonXP machine.  i switched to 
outpost firewall and don't have any problems at all.  of course, i switched 
a few dqsd versions back. 
 
check  
system tools > event viewer > application and system events -- if you have 
a bunch of vector service errors, perhaps switching firewalls will help.  

 
this is just a 
semi-educated guess.  hope it helps.
 
--db

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  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 
  SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 4:37 AMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my 
  PC very slow
  Hello everyone,
  I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more 
  convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm 
  seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the 
  bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and 
responsiveness.
  What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and 
  block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going 
  on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary 
  technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if 
  someone told me how to, and collecting log files.
  Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?
  Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?
  I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, 
  dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.
  I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has 
  truly become more limited for me...
  
  
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RE: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

2002-11-03 Thread Daniel Martin



Yeah, 
certainly doesn't sound like memory is your problem.  I have no idea why it 
is slowing you down.
 
-Dan

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  SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:58 AMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] 
  [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow
  Hi Dan, 
  thanks for your comments. I don't think it's memory. I didn't reboot but 
  turned dqsd on and off to take down my numbers. I have 512MB physical memory. 
  Task manager shows 197364 / 884604 without dsdq running and 203144 / 884604 
  when it's running. Explorer takes up 16788 w/o dqsd and 20796 w/ dqsd. 
  Stefano 
   Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
  

The question I have is how much memory do you 
have?  How much is being used?  Open your Task Manager.  
In the lower left hand corner of the Performance page, how much 
memory does it say by "Mem Usage:"?

Is 
that number very close to your total RAM?  Is it higher than your total 
RAM?  If so, you are probably experiencing slowness from using the 
cache often.
 
 
Now switch to your Processes tab and find explorer.exe.  How 
much memory is explorer.exe using?  

 
If 
you want to know how much DQSD is impacting you, close the DQSD search 
bar and reboot.  Now check the memory used by explorer.exe again, and 
note the difference.  
 
For me, I go from about 6 megs in explorer.exe without DQSD to 
16 megs when I load DQSD.  So, DQSD impacts me about 10 
megs of memory.  But, with plenty of RAM it 
doesn't slow my machine down.
 
If 
you are running tight on memory, DQSD and anything else that takes up memory 
will slow your system down.  You may need to get rid of DQSD or 
something else - or get more memory.  Of course, 
your problem could be something else.  But, it's worth looking 
at.
 
-Dan
 

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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 
  SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:37 AMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] 
  dqsd makes my PC very slow
  Hello everyone,
  I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more 
  convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm 
  seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed 
  the bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and 
  responsiveness.
  What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" 
  and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand 
  what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the 
  necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug 
  version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files.
  Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?
  Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?
  I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 
  6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.
  I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web 
  has truly become more limited for me...
  
  
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[DQSD-Users] DQSD freeze fix?

2002-11-03 Thread Sharad Khanna
Hi SGP,

It's not necessarily a RAM issue. I have about 384MB (more than enough
for most apps) and DQSD is hardly a guzzler. This might be because DQSD
has this auto-update check feature which on and off tries to access the
internet. I know because DQSD makes itself heard by not letting me
access my taskbar and ZoneAlarm kindly lets me know that DQSD is doing
so. I also run win 2K tho I don't think it is a platform issue.

You could try change the >>> checkForUpdate = true; <<< setting in the
preferences.js or the local one to false. This might be worth a try if
you haven't already tried it.

Sharad.

> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 01:36:32 -0800 (PST)
> From: SGP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

> convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that
I'm > I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE
6.0.2800.1106, 
> dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.





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[DQSD-Users] Message size.

2002-11-03 Thread Sharad Khanna
Hi DQSD users,

I have already posted on this issue once before. I just got a 321 kb
sized email which has 2-3 posts and a big bunch of this crap. This is in
reference to the digest mode of the mailing list -> (DQSD-Users digest,
Vol 1 #245).

 
sZupW3WnCpFFKnTYNMqTUWcD6CwImj4PtorCoy4qgjvlKbKkCqOW+Vs2ddVCqbCJHl95PSKa
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E9GqU0yzGisSmiiIYCpmLD6Aox1REcZwQbfN3vs7WB71f/V3Pp6PZ2sD3q/+rufT0tImvMXL
Ai3H

I also get a lot of html tags and I have asked for plain text messages.
I do not know what to do with this, isn't the sourceforge list supposed
to cut out any unnecessary tags, encryption, etc... 

It is quite a big nuisance especially so since I use dial-up
connections. Is anyone else also experiencing this? If so how did you
get around this other than unsubscribe?

Sharad.



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RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

2002-11-03 Thread SGP
Hi Dan, 
thanks for your comments. I don't think it's memory. I didn't reboot but turned dqsd on and off to take down my numbers. I have 512MB physical memory. Task manager shows 197364 / 884604 without dsdq running and 203144 / 884604 when it's running. Explorer takes up 16788 w/o dqsd and 20796 w/ dqsd. 
Stefano 
 Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 


The question I have is how much memory do you have?  How much is being used?  Open your Task Manager.  In the lower left hand corner of the Performance page, how much memory does it say by "Mem Usage:"?

Is that number very close to your total RAM?  Is it higher than your total RAM?  If so, you are probably experiencing slowness from using the cache often.
 
 
Now switch to your Processes tab and find explorer.exe.  How much memory is explorer.exe using?  

 
If you want to know how much DQSD is impacting you, close the DQSD search bar and reboot.  Now check the memory used by explorer.exe again, and note the difference.  
 
For me, I go from about 6 megs in explorer.exe without DQSD to 16 megs when I load DQSD.  So, DQSD impacts me about 10 megs of memory.  But, with plenty of RAM it doesn't slow my machine down.
 
If you are running tight on memory, DQSD and anything else that takes up memory will slow your system down.  You may need to get rid of DQSD or something else - or get more memory.  Of course, your problem could be something else.  But, it's worth looking at.
 
-Dan
 

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Hello everyone,
I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness.
What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files.
Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?
Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?
I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.
I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me...


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RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

2002-11-03 Thread SGP
Hi Dan,
thanks for your comments. I don't think it's memory. I didn't reboot but turned dqsd on and off to take down my numbers. I have 512MB physical memory. Task manager shows 197364 / 884604 without dsdq running and 203144 / 884604 when it's running. Explorer takes up 16788 w/o dqsd and 20796 w/ dqsd.
Stefano
 Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


The question I have is how much memory do you have?  How much is being used?  Open your Task Manager.  In the lower left hand corner of the Performance page, how much memory does it say by "Mem Usage:"?

Is that number very close to your total RAM?  Is it higher than your total RAM?  If so, you are probably experiencing slowness from using the cache often.
 
 
Now switch to your Processes tab and find explorer.exe.  How much memory is explorer.exe using?  

 
If you want to know how much DQSD is impacting you, close the DQSD search bar and reboot.  Now check the memory used by explorer.exe again, and note the difference.  
 
For me, I go from about 6 megs in explorer.exe without DQSD to 16 megs when I load DQSD.  So, DQSD impacts me about 10 megs of memory.  But, with plenty of RAM it doesn't slow my machine down.
 
If you are running tight on memory, DQSD and anything else that takes up memory will slow your system down.  You may need to get rid of DQSD or something else - or get more memory.  Of course, your problem could be something else.  But, it's worth looking at.
 
-Dan
 

-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow
Hello everyone,
I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness.
What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files.
Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?
Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?
I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.
I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me...


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[DQSD-Users] Amazon search

2002-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Here is a suggestion for an enhancement of the 
amazon search.
It always bothered me that it only searches in the 
.com shop, while I want to search in the .de shop most of the time. So in the 
past I just modified the source of the search directly, which just isn't 
really satisfactory.
Well, to make long story short, I have added an 
option to the amazon search which is called /domain and it takes as an argument 
a specific amazon domain to search in.
Currently, the following domains can be specified: 
com de uk jp ca fr where com is the default, so 
if you use the search as  before, it should behave exactly the 
same.
Anyway, with this switch, I was able to make a 
handy alias like:
amazde|amaz %s /domain:de
No more editing of the source code :)
 
I have noticed, however, that the other domains don't really support the 
mode-parameters (dvd, vhs, ...) like the com-domain, so the other switches will 
probably only make sense for .com
 
I have also taken the liberty of refactoring the 
search to remove some code duplication :)
 
Find it attached
 
Thanks,Wolfgang
 

  amazon.com
  
Search specific stores on amazon.com. Searches all stores by default.
Switches:
  	
/domain:extension - Search in specific country by domain-extension. Possible values: com de uk jp ca fr (com is the default)
		/books - Books
  		/music - Popular Music
  		/mp3 - Music Downloads
  		/classical - Classical Music
  		/dvd - DVDs
  		/vhs - VHS Tapes
  		/movies - Local Movie Showtimes
  		/restaurants - Restaurants
  		/toys - Toys
  		/baby - Baby Products
  		/computers - PC Hardware
  		/software - PC Software
  		/games - Video Games
  		/electronics - Electronics
  		/cellular - Cellular Phones
  		/photography - Camera & Photography
  		/tools - Tools & Hardware
  		/magazines - Magazines
  		/garden - Outdoor Living
  		/kitchen - Kitchen
  		/travel - Travel
  		/outlet - Outlet
  		/auctions - Auctions
  		/zshops - zShops
  		/scientific - Sci. Supplies
  		/medical - Med. Supplies
  		/industrial - Indust. Supplies
  		/cars - Car Parts
  		/home - Home Furnishings
  		/lifestyle - Lifestyle
  		/pets - Pet Toys
  		/arts - Arts and Hobbies
  	
Examples:

  		amaz moxy fruvous /music
  		amaz harry potter /books
  	
  
  Shopping
  http://www.amazon.com/
  Dan Sanderson, Ryan Edwards
  
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search";
method="get">



  

	
  
  http://www.amazon."+defaultDomain+"/exec/obidos/external-search";;
  document.amazf.mode.value = "blended";

  var args = parseArgs(q, "domain, books, music, classical-music, music-dd, mp3, dvd, video, vhs, movies, theatrical, restaurants, toys, baby, computers, pc-hardware, software, games, electronics, photography, tools, magazines, garden, kitchen, travel, cellular, wireless-phones, outlet, auctions, zshops, scientific, medical, industrial, cars, home, lifestyle, pets, arts");
  if( q == "" )
openSearchWindow("http://www.amazon."+defaultDomain);
  else if( args.switches.length >= 1 && args.switches.length <= 2)
  {
for (var i = 0; i < args.switches.length; i++)
{
			sw = args.switches[i];
			switch(sw.name)
			{
			  case "domain":
if (sw.value=="" || domains.match(" "+sw.value+" ") != " "+sw.value+" ")
{
  nullArgs("amaz","?");
  return false;
}
			domain = sw.value;
if (domain == "uk" || domain == "jp")
	domain = "co." + domain;
document.amazf.action = "http://www.amazon."+domain+"/exec/obidos/external-search";; 
break;
			  case "movies":
document.amazf.mode.value = "theatrical"; break;
			  case "video":
document.amazf.mode.value = "vhs"; break;
			  case "mp3":
document.amazf.mode.value = "music-dd"; break;
			  case "computers":
document.amazf.mode.value = "pc-hardware"; break;
			  case "games":
document.amazf.mode.value = "videogames"; break;
			  case "photography":
document.amazf.mode.value = "photo"; break;
			  case "cellular":
document.amazf.mode.value = "wireless-phones"; break;
			  case "auctions":
document.amazf.mode.value = "auction-redirect"; break;
			  case "zshops":
document.amazf.mode.value = "fixed-price-redirect"; break;
			  case "scientific":
document.amazf.mode.value = "moc-scientific-supplies"; break;
			  case "medical":
document.amazf.mode.value = "moc-medical-supplies"; break;
			  case "industrial":
document.ama

[DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow

2002-11-03 Thread SGP
Hello everyone,
I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and my PC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness.
What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files.
Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled?
Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions?
I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362.
I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me...Do you Yahoo!?
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