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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Week: Flash Portal

« on: October 13, 2007, 03:28 PM »

I'm using FF here and it's OK.
And it's an interesting game to try

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General Software Discussion / Re: TweakGuides.com - Firefox Tweak Guide

« on: October 11, 2007, 04:29 PM »

The tabs behaviour is a thing that I definitely liked more in Firefox 1 than in Firefox 2. These options are mentioned on the page that tinjaw has posted, but here's how to change to somethink like Firefox 1 behaviour:
Go to page about:config, and change:
browser.tabs.closeButtons to 3 (single closing button on the right of the tab bar)
browser.tabs.tabClipWidth to 1
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 1 (with this setting, tabs can become so narrow that just the icon appears on them; makes switching between a lot of tabs easier - you don't have to scroll the tab bar)
The page looks interesting, I'm sure I'll find some more useful optimisations.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Jeff Atwood revisits the issue of best programming fonts..

« on: October 06, 2007, 10:23 AM »

I've recently changed from Courier New to Monaco font, and I think it is very good and clear (maybe apart from < and > characters but you can get used to them also). It is TTF but looks nice also in small sizes, and antialiasing doesn't make it look bad.
I think I would use Dina, as I like it very much, but it has no Polish national characters that's a pity. I need them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Userbar Generator: Cool Freeware

« on: September 26, 2007, 08:37 AM »

I know it's a lame question, but somehow I cannot figure out how to add an image (e.g. userbar) to the signature. Does the image have to be hosted somewhere, or it can be uploaded?
[attachimg=#1][/attachimg]

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Living Room / Re: (Webfind) Programmer Personality Test

« on: September 25, 2007, 03:56 AM »

DLSC - but I knew it even without taking the test

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Developer's Corner / Re: What would you consider your biggest waste of time project?

« on: September 18, 2007, 01:17 PM »

On the other hand, some of those "hey it would be fun to have a program that does X" turned out useful, like HTTPJupiter, TPCube and TPXonix that I posted as a C++Builder Contest entries, and the work paid off. And now HTTPJupiter is probably most useful of my programs for me.
And I don't like killing ideas, they return in my nightmares

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Developer's Corner / Re: What would you consider your biggest waste of time project?

« on: September 18, 2007, 01:01 PM »

Most of my programs are totally useless I write them just because an idea comes to my mind, and no one ever knows about them. For instance:
- A program to change images into text, somewhat similar to mouser's Unicode Image Maker
- A program that makes you mouse pointer behave as if it was attached on a spring
- A dirty helper for on-line game The Crims
- A program to encode and decode messages using an Enigma-like algorithm
- A program to browse all windows you have open (including those invisible, and windows' children like panels, buttons, ...)
- A Brainfuck! compiler
And many other, many of them unfinished, and all of them abandoned. But I try not to refer to them as a waste of time, but rather as my programming playground
The problem is that I'm 22 now and I still make more and more of them...

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 18, 2007, 10:22 AM »

Still not exactly. It is said that for the four given values of x, it is true that f(x) = x. In other words

Spoiler

f(height above ground) = height above ground

and so on. And think about some synonyms in the fifth equation.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 18, 2007, 09:36 AM »

First of all, read the question once again, very carefully, look especially on the f(x) = x part, because I think you misunderstood something a bit. But I also see you sort of found the clue. Think about synonyms to the words you gave.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 16, 2007, 01:58 PM »

Have you given up? Oh come on!

Spoiler

It's not a "real" language, it's from a well known book that has been also made into a movie.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 14, 2007, 04:39 PM »

I cannot give away too much! Ask some friends about this image (you can give them the link to the image, you don't have to be logged in to see it), I'm pretty sure someone will know what it is.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 14, 2007, 12:47 PM »

You attached the image in the wrong way, now everyone can see it maybe edit it or attach it in some other way or something. But the image is good (apart from the fact that I can't see there the y = -sqrt(4 - x^2) curve). Now look at the first part of the formula which says that -4<=x<=4 and -2<=y<=2, so take only this rectangular part of the image you have created, and I'm sure you will see clearly what it is!

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 14, 2007, 11:22 AM »

Almost right... but look: x E {a;b} is equivalent to x=a v x=b. So the equations you gave are correct, but you should find a union of the results of all four equations! Change both ';' to 'v' in your formula.
In other words - solve each of the four equations you gave separately, and draw all four solutions one on another, thus creating the union of all four of them.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 14, 2007, 08:01 AM »

Ok, I'll help you with the symbols, but still some math (and geometry, as in title) is needed to solve it.
The whole thing looks like: {(x;y): <condition> } and it means: a set of such pairs (x;y) that the <condition> is met. Now the condition: thing a bit like x E <-4;4> means that -4<=x<=4. The next sign (like v upside down) is AND operator, while v (not upside down) is OR operator. And the last part: a thing like a E {b;c} is equivalent to a=b v a=c. And what you have to do is to draw the set in cartesian coordinates, and look at the result.

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General Software Discussion / Re: browse text files

« on: September 12, 2007, 03:31 PM »

OK, I found some time. Now you can select multiple files and delete them. I updated the original post. I have a suspection that there is a bug in the previous version so better download the latest one.
TPReal.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 12, 2007, 12:55 PM »

Yes, as in ... I think I know why you don't succeed:

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Not horse, but a horse. Not Soleil but ... If you don't know French, look over the internet for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: browse text files

« on: September 12, 2007, 09:07 AM »

Do you mean: select multiple files on a list so that they can be deleted together? Because now I don't see any other purpose for selecting multiple files.
Surely it can be done, but now I have some other work to do, so don't expect it today
TPR.

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General Software Discussion / Re: browse text files

« on: September 12, 2007, 08:43 AM »

OK, I added some text file to the archive and updated the original post but I really had no idea what to write there.

I don't know what is the copyright status of the libraries and if they can be downloaded from some other place. I guess that as I own legally BDS 2006, I can distribute the libraries along with the programs that need them, so I put them on the server and gave you the link. I hope that's OK

If you find anything suspicious in the text file, please tell me so that I can correct it.

TPReal.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 12, 2007, 03:53 AM »

One of the stars you see on the sky is definitely the brightest. And the question is in French. And remember it's a name of the star. And remember about this tiny thing at the beginning of your answer.

By the way, does anyone else play this? Ivan, if you know anyone who could like Étonné, please tell them!

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 11, 2007, 04:13 PM »

There's a little problem with your formula. You divide the number of moves, and thus seconds, by the number of days in a year. You have to divide by the number of seconds in a year instead, so you're almost there.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 11, 2007, 12:58 PM »

Basically, don't look for a trick in this question. This is a strictly mathematical question. Just divide the amount of seconds to move the whole tower by the average amount of seconds in a year (be sure not to use a calculator which loses precision).
If you type help as the answer, you will see a help about the average number of seconds in a year (average, because some years are leap years and some are not, so not all years have the same number of seconds), so just divide the two numbers and round mathematically to the nearest integer. That's it.

And you're right, the legend is for sure untrue, because it assumes that at the very beginning at the world they already had the tower on the first needle, while we know that at that time there was no gold, no diamonds, no priests, no temples and no Earth but it's simply unimportant here.

TPReal

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General Software Discussion / Re: browse text files

« on: September 11, 2007, 04:05 AM »

Nice to hear that you like it
In fact I wrote this program once for myself, but it didn't have the option to delete files, only to view them, so now I added deleting and that's it. The whole work (then and now) took less than an hour, I think
I wasn't inspired by the program you have mentioned, rjbull, because I didn't know there is such a program I just made what seemed most obvious to me.
What was important to me at the time when I wrote the program for myself, is that it can open all ASCII files (in fact, it checks if there is a byte with value 0x00 anywhere in the file, and if not, it assumes that the file is human-readable).
TPReal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: browse text files

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:04 AM »

Try this simple program, I think it might be what you are loking for. You load a directory, then there's a list of all text files which you can browse and delete (not edit).

[attachthumb=#1][/attachthumb]

I'm sorry for the pity fact that you must also download some libraries, but when I try to compile a program with needed libraries in it, something doesn't work. Put them in the program directory or in windows\system32. (Not all the libs are needed, but I'm not sure which of them are.) http://etonne.110mb.com/files/libs.zip

TPReal.

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Living Room / Re: Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 03, 2007, 12:49 PM »

After solving about 7 riddles you get to it... try yourself

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Living Room / Étonné - logic, math, crypto and programming problems

« on: September 03, 2007, 09:51 AM »

If you like logic, mathematic and programming problems and riddles, have a look at this page: http://etonne.110mb.com/. Needs some "out of the box" thinking.

You solve the riddles consecutively: you have to give the correct answer to a riddle to get to the next one. Once every few riddles you are given two or three interesting links (one of the links leads to donationcoder ). Some of the questions are rather easy, but some of them really need some knowledge or work.

TPReal.