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ProcessTamer / Re: ok finally about to do a round of work on Process Tamer - make your requests now

« on: October 20, 2005, 05:48 AM »

that's quite strange, i've never heard of such a thing and i'm not sure when that would be the case..
if you find the pointer to it do post.

so what then would you suggest we do?
have a way to tell process tamers to set all other processes to low priority?  theoretically the effect should not be much different, except if somehow the dvd writing app is shelling out the execution of other programs which are suffering when the burning app itself is set at high priority..

one thing to look for in that case is if the cd/dvd burning app actually launches a second program to do the actual burning - in which case you'd want to make sure you add a rule to force THAT program to high priority always, rather than the main user interface program.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the QuickZip Joseph Leung ^_^

« on: October 20, 2005, 05:39 AM »

Hi Jospeh,

First of all, welcome to the site!

It's nice to meet you - I didn't realize you were the author of CAKE (Common Archiver Kit Experinment)!
CAKE is a beuatiful and extremely cool project and like you say, people may not realize they are benefiting from your generous work when they are using other compression programs

For those who don't know about it, you can read more here: http://cake.sourceforge.net/CAKE.htm

I think it speaks volumes about your generosity that you've released CAKE as open source, and just reading your forum and comments here it seems to me that you are one of those rare freeware programmers who really cares about his users and about making free software, and also making free components that other programmers can use to make their own software.  Most people do not realize that it takes a lot of effort to prepare components for other programmers to use, and it takes a special person who has the generosity of spirit to make such things available to help other programmers improve their software.

I will update the review with your corrections, and hopefully the author of the review will respond in more detail to some of your comments.

I agree comletely that different people have different preferences about what what features are most important and what interfaces they prefer, and people need to try different programs to see what suits them best, and I think people should visit your page and check out what you are doing.  QuickZip has some unique features and indeed has been a groundbreaker, and is definitely worth a try.  And I hope you will not be a stranger on this forum and keep us updated when you have a new program or a new major release - I look forward to hearing more about your work.

Again, it's an honor to meet you and I'm glad you posted.  Hope we can speak more again in the future.

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Living Room / nice article on "Open Source Versus Commercial Software"

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:31 PM »

vegas pointed me to this in the irc channel:

"Open Source Versus Commercial Software"
http://www.informit....=420290&seqNum=1

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ProcessTamer / Re: ok finally about to do a round of work on Process Tamer - make your requests now

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:22 PM »

i think you have a good idea there cartoon - and i think i might add such a feature to process tamer.
very good idea.
so like a simple menu command that lets you pick an app to get full priority until it finishes.

for waht you want however, an easy solution is just to set a rule in process tamer to always run your dvd app at high priority.
that should accomplish what you want.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: GFX glitch/bug?

« on: October 19, 2005, 10:39 PM »

snagit definitely one of the most powerful, no doubt about it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: GFX glitch/bug?

« on: October 19, 2005, 09:18 PM »

hehehe
i love questions like this 

take a look here for your answer:
https://www.donation...hotcaptor/index.html

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: booklets already scanned

« on: October 19, 2005, 07:14 PM »

hi ingram - thanks for nice words!
before you bother to scan anything
you should check out this other 2xl site that has recently scanned a bunch:

http://www.2xlrobot.com/

no point rescanning what they've already scanned.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Filtering "does not contain"

« on: October 19, 2005, 07:12 PM »

i think thats a good idea, i will add it to todo list ; shouldnt be hard.

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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« on: October 19, 2005, 04:06 PM »

the site content manager tools, like Drupal, are getting really really good,
and tend to include everything, contents, blogs, wikis,etc.

there was another post on the forum discussing this in the past.

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Living Room / Re: Interested in teaming up for good web hosting / website accounts?

« on: October 19, 2005, 03:49 PM »

this would be a win-win thing for all of us if there were enough of us willing to jump in together.
and the more i think of it the more i think it might be worth at least experimenting a little without needing commitments from anyone.

i think we may try to upgrade to a better plan (though not the full dedicated server we would want eventually) for a month or so just to see what kind of speed we could get, and provide free web hosting accounts for any dc member that wants, just to play with and see if its something you might be willing to chip in on and support eventually.

so if its something you think you might be interested in, post a reply with your thoughts - it's not a commitment on your part to join in - we just want to get some idea of how many people might be interested in this.

if we do do it, it will only be if we can commit to doing it properly.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone interested in Hosting?

« on: October 19, 2005, 02:26 PM »

or maybe twice the people at half the contribution,

or have a kind of pay-as-you-can afford donation based hosting?

we could be the first such group effort?

each users pays what they can, within reason? assuming no one uses up too much bandwidth (probably the limits would be very generous if there was enough of us, better than your normal $8 a month hosting).

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Living Room / Interested in teaming up for good web hosting / website accounts?

« on: October 19, 2005, 02:06 PM »

We have no interest in becoming web hosting resellers for a variety of reasons (no desire to keep track of payments, no desire to have an adversarial relationship trying to keep track of who is using up all the bandwidth/cpu), but i am curious to know if there are people here who would be interested in pooling our resources to pay for a dedicated server which could host web sites and home pages of our members.

if there were enough of us it would be possible to pool our money and get a fantastically fast and stable and big server with every feature on the planet.

most individuals buy a cheap hosting plan, say $4 to $10 per month, and companies make a huge profit off these small and limited accounts.

but if for example 10-30 of us got together and pooled their money, combined with the money donationcoder would put in for our contribution (maybe $80 per month), we could pay for an amazing server that would be 10x better for each individual than the cheap accounts, at the same price.  so for example if we got 30 people willing to pay $8 per month, then this might be something worth pursuing..

but if we did try to do this we'd have to find a way to do it that didn't require the hassle of trying to collect money and stuff.  not sure exactly how to do that.. probably not a feasible idea..  we'd also have to find someone to volunteer to do tech support and help install stuff, for the reward of having a free account on the server..

anyway, just an idea.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Discovering software (sites)

« on: October 19, 2005, 12:50 PM »

sc cannot export to avi and it's a long way from 60k 
i'll have to check out the avi export function to see what that's all about, seems a little unusul.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: suggestion: improve zoom with mousewheel

« on: October 19, 2005, 12:13 PM »

lol, ok i see now.
yes a giant cat would create lots of cat hair all over the house.
and giant scratches in the furniture, i think that would be the worst part.

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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:46 AM »

i'm a huge fan of PayPal and it is in fact the far preferred way of donation to this site (reasons listed on donation page).

i took another look at the donation page and i wonder if what may have thrown you off is that the big images for going to the donate method pages show an image with what looks like only visa/mastercard picture, and that may have been what gave you the erroneous opinion?  

maybe we need to change those images so that they include a little paypal logo among them?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Discovering software (sites)

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:45 AM »

does cropper do anything special that screenshot captor does not?

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Official Announcements / Re: Working to improve speed of the forum/site

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:42 AM »

wrt to stefan's point: we have expressed willingness to host members low bandwidth sites, mostly just as a favor to members.

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Living Room / Re: Making a donation ...

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:38 AM »

movabletype is the commercial one that supports lots of independent blogs
(we use this but probably would NOT use it again if starting from scratch).


wordpress is the nice open source one that seems like it might be the way to go:
http://wordpress.org/

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Official Announcements / Re: Working to improve speed of the forum/site

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:35 AM »

just an update:
i'm struggling to understand how to install and configure and test these php/sql tweaks and i make break the site for an hour or so if i do something truly horrible - so if the site becomes unreachable, don't panic.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: suggestion: improve zoom with mousewheel

« on: October 19, 2005, 11:23 AM »

Didn't find cat owners cat hears all over the table ?
I don't want imaging what we could find from this gigant cats 

what does this mean?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: suggestion: improve zoom with mousewheel

« on: October 19, 2005, 10:04 AM »

i think i need a translation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE can, but Firefox can't access internet?

« on: October 19, 2005, 10:01 AM »

sometimes switching off a firewall doesnt quite switch it off. try exiting it completly.
maybe try another browser like opera to get a second opinion.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE can, but Firefox can't access internet?

« on: October 19, 2005, 09:48 AM »

i've never heard of a situation where ie works and firefox doesnt other than proxy or firewall.

if you really have no proxy set in your ie, then it sounds like probably kerio is blocking it.

whenever i hear someone using windows 98 i wince  but i assume you don't have a choice or you are a glutten for punishment, or you're testing something (maybe your sanity?)

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Living Room / Re: MIRROR MIRROR REDUNDANT REDUNDANT

« on: October 19, 2005, 09:46 AM »

when i was learning programming there was no internet
this new crop of languages like php and perl have excellent online resources.
the php manual pages are some of the best for any language and you can often get excellent help from them: http://www.php.net/

there are also TONS of 3rd party little php script sites, many with free scripts, and they are a great way to start.

i can't really recommend a book, which is unlike me since i tend to like having a good solid reference book.
maybe someone else can suggest one for us?

in general i find php coding quite enjoyable, from a c++ programmer's perspective; much more intuitive syntax than perl for me.

though all web based coding can be very frustrating because its harder to useful get error information sometimes.
but i'll take php coding over working with website css any day.

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP - system process - high CPU use - any ideas?

« on: October 19, 2005, 09:41 AM »

there's a good nod32 forum at wilder's:

http://www.wildersse...orumdisplay.php?f=15

i think its a very good idea to uninstall it and see if problem dissapears, if so then you can decide what to do next.
i like nod32 and worked around this behavior by disabling the heuristics modes which i find unnesc. and adding exclusiong to the file scanning of the files it hated.

im trying to remember how i figured out which files it was stuck on, maybe either the program called filemon or else maybe through nod32 window itself (you can open it and have it show currently scanning file).

as i remember there were 2 distinct cases that freaked out nod32 on my machine:
1) was a set of html files of all things, so when i started this app that used them, nod32 would slow system to a crawl.
2) a shell extension dll, which triggered when i right clicked on a file.

both were solved by exclusing the file/folder in nod32 exclusion optoins.