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Living Room / Re: LV here I come!

« on: August 15, 2007, 04:42 AM »

Ok here's another novel way of forum spamming.

See here:  http://www.backgammon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1251

I'm locking this topic now, sorry DC guys you have wasted your time.

EDIT: confirmed by forum IP log, zach and frau came from the same IP (in Germany).

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: DC SMF Search Mod - an improvement search for smf forum (codename Zillarank)

« on: August 14, 2007, 06:41 PM »

Most likely. If possible send me a copy of your Sources/Search.php and I'll have a look.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: DC SMF Search Mod - an improvement search for smf forum (codename Zillarank)

« on: August 12, 2007, 05:00 PM »

Yay, finally it's approved by SMF!

http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=887

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« on: August 12, 2007, 09:20 AM »

if you find F+R slow to come up after it hasn't been used in a while, you could choose "Stay in Memory Longer" on the General tab option for "Inactive Memory Use".

-mouser (August 12, 2007, 09:17 AM)

Yup exactly the same setting here, and I believe that's the default option.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« on: August 12, 2007, 09:13 AM »

Yeah, for me that usually happens when farr has been idle in the tray for a long time and is suddenly brought to front.

And sometimes your typing gets affected if it's taking a bit long to search.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alterna

« on: August 12, 2007, 08:26 AM »

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR finds but can't open?

« on: August 12, 2007, 05:22 AM »

@CleverCat, apatt: What operating systems are you guys using? 

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: DC SMF Search Mod - an improvement search for smf forum (codename Zillarank)

« on: August 11, 2007, 02:37 AM »

Just uploaded the latest mod 1.1.1

Cleaned up code. Minor bug fixes. Added no single character search. Thanks to Aaron: http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=884

Folks at SMF carefully reviewed the mod and offered me some constructive ideas yesterday, now the new mod is in better compliance with SMF coding guidelines. Hopefully it will be officially approved by SMF very soon.


To upgrade from an earlier version:
   1. go to the package manager and UNINSTALL previous version
   2. Upload new package zip
   3. install new version

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Living Room / Re: New machine connection blues

« on: August 10, 2007, 11:31 AM »

Plug and Play loaded the Conexant AccessRunner drivers from CD.

According to a tech support guy on the Internet:

"Make sure that you installed the WAN drivers, NOT
the LAN ones (which are also on the cd-rom)."

If Windows PnP mistakenly installed the LAN driver, go to Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager and manually update it to the WAN one .

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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum

« on: August 10, 2007, 10:07 AM »

Thanks in advance, Darwin! 

We are still improving the forum search and all members are welcome to report bugs/inconveniences, post feature requests, and talk about your search experience here. DonationCoder will have the best search in the SMF world.

"The biggest room in the world. is the room for improvement." -- Anonymous

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is a reliable Imaging software for Vista ?

« on: August 10, 2007, 09:46 AM »

Acronis TrueImage is what I use to create images for backup purposes.

If you happen to own a Seagate drive (either internal or external), you may get a decent image tool for free: DiscWizard (which is a basic lite version of TrueImage)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« on: August 10, 2007, 07:14 AM »

Weird. It is really supposed to be able to kill running farr process automatically. Maybe there's a bug. What OS and anti-virus are you using (these details might help mouser diagnose the problem ) ?.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« on: August 10, 2007, 06:53 AM »

@DocSavage:

Were you trying to install the latest FARR (2.00.138) ?

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Official Announcements / Re: No August 2007 Discounts

« on: August 10, 2007, 04:30 AM »

To hear that someone else is finding fault in such a great place just because is flabbergasting.

Hmm, cthorpe (Carl Thorpe) is our volunteer official discount coordinator and he was not whining about no discounts for programs this month (or maybe he was? ).

Anyway I really don't think anyone was finding fault. Who would? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« on: August 08, 2007, 09:25 PM »

Firefox, mIRC, and phpDesigner. 

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« on: August 07, 2007, 07:29 PM »

Ken, all the best with your surgery and I hope to see you 24/7 on IRC channel soon.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: DC SMF Search Mod - an improvement search for smf forum (codename Zillarank)

« on: August 07, 2007, 10:50 AM »

Code: PHP [Select]

1. if (!isset($search_params['match_mode']))
2.                 $search_params['match_mode'] = $_REQUEST['match_mode'];
3.                
4.         switch ($search_params['match_mode']) {
5.                 case 'whole':
6.                 case 'smart':
7.                 case 'any':
8.                         break;
9.                 default:
10.                         $search_params['match_mode'] = 'smart';
11.         }

Your code does look v neat, thanks for sharing. 

I have a question, thou:

What if $_REQUEST['match_mode'] isn't set (undefined index) before usage? Doesn't it generate a warning in forum log?

Code: PHP [Select]

1. if (!isset($search_params['match_mode']))
2.                 $search_params['match_mode'] = $_REQUEST['match_mode'];

I'm so happy it's working for you TjaMe! 

Care to post us the url to your forum here? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 8start review

« on: August 07, 2007, 06:46 AM »

What do you think, ur1sn00per?

If you use FARR, what new exciting features would you like to see in FARR v2?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is a good partition manager for Windows Vista

« on: August 07, 2007, 03:48 AM »

So far i have not encountered any (noticeable) problem with Paragon (under Vista).

I remember I had to use Paragon because Vista partition management was very limited (it didn't even allow me to merge partitions without losing data).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is a good partition manager for Windows Vista

« on: August 06, 2007, 08:31 AM »

Paragon Partition Manager is what I use under Vista.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: DC SMF Search Mod - an improvement search for smf forum (codename Zillarank)

« on: August 06, 2007, 07:07 AM »

OK guys, feel free to try latest mod 1.1.0.0 (uploaded)

Works with SMF 1.1.3

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I uninstall .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 ??

« on: August 02, 2007, 03:38 PM »

It doesn't hurt to keep previous versions of frameworks and I would be wary about removing something anything that is so integrated into the OS.

When loading an .NET app, the OS will first check if the matching version of the .NET framework that the app requires is there (e.g. 2.0 code => 2.0 framework), if not, it will ask a higher version of the framework to take over and execute the code (e.g. 2.0 code => 3.0 framework).

In theory, all Microsoft .NET framework are designed to be backward compatible. However from my experience, there are minute differences regarding how different versions of .net framework handles the same app. (The UI of my ancient release of Mobysaurus, which was built specifically for .NET 1.1, get rendered differently and distortedly  in 2.0-only systems.)

So my suggestion is: if you have them, keep them all.

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Site/Forum Features / reserved

« on: August 01, 2007, 05:36 PM »

[reserved]

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Site/Forum Features / reserved

« on: August 01, 2007, 05:35 PM »

[reserved]

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Site/Forum Features / Part 4 (3): Sort search results live

« on: August 01, 2007, 05:34 PM »

Sort search results live

There's absolutely NO need now to go back to Advanced Search, select "sort by Most recent topics first" and start a new search -- if you just want to go through the most recent matching topics.

It's super-easy now, just click on the dark blue "Date Posted" link and you'll get all topics well sorted by date -- latest first, oldest last, and click on "Date Posted" again to sort in the reverse direction -- oldest first, latest last. Simple.

Sort results by relevance, reply count, or date, in either ascending or descending (default) order.