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DC Gamer Club / Re: Warhammer Quest for iOS

« on: April 28, 2014, 11:41 AM »

All IAP have now been reduced to 1$. Don't know if its for a limited time or not.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: export and import settings possible?

« on: April 26, 2014, 02:32 PM »

See here:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32573.0

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ODROID-U3 Community Edition at a special price - $59 plus shipping

« on: April 25, 2014, 02:12 PM »

Thanks lanux128!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ODROID-U3 Community Edition at a special price - $59 plus shipping

« on: April 25, 2014, 01:15 AM »

lanux128, can you comment on the quality of the analog audio out of the ODROID-U3? I'm running Raspbmc on a Raspberry Pi as an audio player and the Raspberry's headphone output definitely has room for improvement.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use and install FarSubScript

« on: April 25, 2014, 01:04 AM »

The plugin folders you see inside C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins are only "placeholders" for the respective plugins. They contain a description file which another DC Program (DcUpdater) can pick up to install the respective plugin for you.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: FProcs - v1.01.01 - June 11, 2011

« on: April 24, 2014, 09:23 AM »

Is this supposed to work for 64-bit applications as well? (seems like it doesn't)

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Living Room / Re: The fun of installing custom router firmware (tomato, dd-wrt) - an introduction

« on: April 23, 2014, 12:58 AM »

Gargoyle just issued an update that fixes the heartbleed bug.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Warhammer Quest for iOS currently free

« on: April 18, 2014, 04:43 PM »

It was until today. Now it's back to 5$.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« on: April 18, 2014, 01:57 AM »

To b honest, I found the minimap in Sublime not very useful and have actually disabled it. Visual Studio now has a similar feature in its vertical scrollbar where it also shows where you've actually made modifications which is quite helpful when you're making modifications in multiple parts of a document.

For me, Sublimes two killer features are its excellent multiple selections feature (which would be absolutely cool to have in VS; there is a plugin but it doesn't quite work so well) and its goto-anything feature (which VS now also kind of has; it's called NavigateTo - Ctrl+,).

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: April 16, 2014, 10:03 AM »

I'm in

First pointer is an article right on top of the vim web site about installing gvim on Windows.

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DC Gamer Club / Warhammer Quest for iOS

« on: April 12, 2014, 03:35 AM »

Warhammer Quest for iOS is currently free. It's an enjoyable round-based Hack'n'Slay game in the fantasy/dungeons genre, with a simple (and, unfortunately, not very well documented) rule set.

It's usually 5$ with the possibility to buy additional characters and levels as IAP.

https://itunes.apple...er-quest/id573516833

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Living Room / Re: The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

« on: April 09, 2014, 01:36 AM »

Hi phitsc,

Funny video. (c:

I believe you have the ability to remove it yourself. If not, you could at least update your post to link to the thread it was already posted in. (c:

-Deozaan (April 08, 2014, 04:27 PM)

Ok, I've added the link in a transparent font now. Thanks for the heads up. Still thinking about how to make it look like a kitten though.

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Living Room / The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

« on: April 08, 2014, 05:20 AM »

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

ah. just saw that this one was already posted.

Admin: Please remove this post.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: April 07, 2014, 02:40 AM »

You're welcome!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice blog post on the parasitic software hosting sites bundling junkware

« on: April 04, 2014, 01:38 AM »

...

Before reading this very informative thread today, I hadn't known that in the U.S. (= by U.S. law), if I understand well, it's perfectly legal to do what both cnet and Softonic do, vàv the respective developers? (That it's legal vàv the dumb customer, is another story, and better understable since on that side, the buggering is on purpose, given the respective small print accepted.)

...

-peter.s (April 03, 2014, 07:19 PM)

That's actually a good point peter. I hadn't though about that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice blog post on the parasitic software hosting sites bundling junkware

« on: April 01, 2014, 09:48 AM »

i'm wondering if, rather than a legal solution, i couldn't add code to the installer to make it hard to bundle in this way -- make the installer detect if one of these adware wrappers have launched it, and instead of installing, throw up a big warning and refuse to install.

-mouser (April 01, 2014, 09:24 AM)

For the respective user that would be too late though as once your installer runs, all the crap has already been installed.

Edit: Well, I guess you assume that if you do this your SW wouldn't be wrapped like this in the first place.

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DC Gamer Club / 86% of Gamers Prefer Free Games With Advertisements

« on: April 01, 2014, 02:24 AM »

http://toucharcade.c...free-games-with-ads/

I guess the day when 100% of games are free with ads will be the day I stop playing games. I always cringe when I start reading about a cool new game and see that it'll be 'free to play'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice blog post on the parasitic software hosting sites bundling junkware

« on: April 01, 2014, 02:06 AM »

That just reminded me of the last time I had to clean up a friends PC after she downloaded some piece of SW from such a site. What I expected to take half an hour turned out to be like 4 hours. I was close to telling her to just re-install Windows.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard

« on: April 01, 2014, 01:52 AM »

I've been using a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 since it's been available (i.e. many years). And while I like it I'd very much like to try a Truly Ergonomic Keyboard. One could argue that 250$ is not much for what is basically your primary tool but nevertheless, I can't get it over with to just order one.

Besides the mechanical keys it's the reduced width I'd prefer to bring the mouse closer to the keyboard (I never use the keypad).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard

« on: April 01, 2014, 01:43 AM »

Interesting that they got rid of the Pause/Break key it is used in combination with Ctrl to cancel a running build in Visual Studio. So I must assume that none of Microsoft's own developers is using such a keyboard (or is ever cancelling a running build without using the mouse ).

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Developer's Corner / Hacking should be about making things

« on: March 22, 2014, 03:29 PM »

Drew Crawford just posted a rant about how hard (impossible?) it is to land patches in many an open source project. It's an enlightening read which will actually make you think twice if you should finally start getting into OSS by starting to create patches for your next favorite piece of open source software.

Another of Drew's posts well worth reading is: Why mobile web apps are slow

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Developer's Corner / Re: Very Cool A* (Astar) Project

« on: March 21, 2014, 07:13 AM »

He he - though I like your candidate choices, they don't seem to share the nice property of the existing names, each of which can be reversed to get the other...

-ewemoa (March 21, 2014, 06:21 AM)

yep, that's what I meant with 'interesting'. I kept the same letters though...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Very Cool A* (Astar) Project

« on: March 21, 2014, 05:52 AM »

Interesting tidbit at the bottom of the codeproject page:

Passion for most programming languages and my kids Aidan&Nadia.

Nice names...

-ewemoa (March 21, 2014, 04:34 AM)

I guess you mean that as: interesting choice of names. What are they going to name a possible third and fourth child? (Dania and Aandi maybe)

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Living Room / Re: OneNote now on Mac as well, +FREE everywhere, + Cloud service powered.

« on: March 18, 2014, 03:12 PM »

Exactly what I thought 40hz when I read the news.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: March 13, 2014, 07:27 AM »

Just learned about textmechanic.com