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Thanks. Just installed it. Love it.

f.lux is a wonderful tool, unfortunately I have found it incompatible with my nVidia graphics card, a GE Force 7100 GS, in Win 7 Pro 64: specifically, I cannot adjust contrast or brightness in the nVidia TaskBar application without over-riding f.lux settings, and within f.lux, you have a very limited range of adjusting contrast or brightness. This may be more problematic for me because I am using a large 32 inch, LCD tv/monitor (not full 1080p, native resolution 1366x768), driven by HDMI ? I have to continually adjust the contrast and brightness settings depending on the application I am running, whether I am watching on-line video, watching a DVD movie, etc. You can be sure that I have varied every aspect of the monitor's internal setting possible before concluding there was no "happy medium" where its high luminance could be "toned down," without sacrificing readability. I would assume f.lux does not work with other similar lower-end nVidia cards, but I am not sure. I cannot remember if I sent an e-mail to f.lux about this, or not. Since it has been over six weeks since I last tried f.lux, and nVidia's driver has been updated, I should re-test. Hope f.lux works for you: its interface is so nicely designed ! best, Bill ~ Confused by Windows 8 ? This may help: [^] !

Please post this as a question on the QA forum, clearly tagged with what tools/languages you are using (like: Visual Studio, C#, WinForms, etc.). If this is occurring specifically with C++, WPF, SilverLight, or Windows Forms, you might want to post on the Forums for those specific topics, rather than QA. best, Bill ~ Confused by Windows 8 ? This may help: [^] !

You need to post this in the right forum (i.e. "Here[^]"). This forum you have posted in is to speak about free tools, not for programming issues... [www.tamautomation.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

Eddy Vluggen wrote: Get the elephant out! Sorry, but I'm called whenever a LINQ-query does not perform. Strangely enough, TSQL ain't dead, and there's more people who know how to use the profiler than there were five years ago. Yes, but almost nobody knows where to get SQL Profiler for SqlExpress - or how to profile it without profiler. And yes - i also called whenever developers got troubles with LINQ/other modern framework/ORM/etc. That's why i'm sure - nobody cares 'bout SQL code :) Eddy Vluggen wrote: Correct. Because there ain't that much tools that actually add value. TSQL is alive and kicking however, and there's a huge amount of SQL-developers that are looking for tools to help in their daily tasks. IMHO developers are looking for tool which allows produce more sql code for less time but not tool to produce correct sql code, 'cause developers first of all are C/C#/etc developers and only in last turn - T-SQL developers. Not sure if i'll able to quickly write article in english but if somebody interested - they can read auto translated review (as for me - seems like the article translated "good enough"). http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fpost%2F151179%2F&act=url[^] HabraHabr - is something like IT-Tech news channel/forum/discussion board/etc. ps call me snooty but as for me - "i can easily find errors in my database" - this is enough big value. I'm not a salesman or something like, i'm technician and benefits of tool are obvious for me. But! I've worked on it more than 5 years and so what is obvious for me - is not obvious for other people I guess i should find someone with unblinkered point of view to write review.

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I switch file sync programs annually, it seems. Thanks for the tip on FreeFileSync - looks nice! FWIW I've been using GoodSync, which works well, but at $39 a pop for the version I can run directly from my backup drives, seems way too expensive - especially since you need a separate license per removable drive for their goodSyncToGo version. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

Dalek Dave wrote: The Drug Dealers approach. Exactly, I have searched all over for free CodeSmith Generator but :doh: found it nowhere