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Living Room / I am in love with this wallpaper concept
« on: June 03, 2006, 01:49 AM »
I came across this page awhile back and just found it again in my junkbox while looking for something else.

I still love the idea.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637

This is one-of-a-kind stuff...desktop wallpaper unlike anybody else's...totally unique and dependant on the particular desktop it sits on.

I am going to do this sooner or later.  :D
(or at least try)

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: disable all taskbar button flashing
« on: May 29, 2006, 04:30 PM »
I like to keep my taskbar hidden...and it is quite large.

When I want to access it, I just move the cursor to the right side of my screen and it pops out.

The problem is flashing taskbar buttons also make it pop out. And it won't go back till I click that button of the program that causes it and make it the active window. I find this one of the most annoying 'features' with XP. I didn't have this problem with 9x.

Messenger clients are the most serious offenders. Someone sends you a message and you get both an audio cue and a flashing taskbar button. I have to stop whatever I am doing, because the taskbar is sticking out halfway across my screen covering everything, and click the button...then 2 seconds later I get another message and this repeats. People that type a series of short 2 word messages make me want to rip my hair out.

I located a plugin for Messenger Plus that took care of the problem in MSN... but GTalk, Yahoo, and AIM are still a problem, as well as any other messenger client I may try in the future.

There is no tweaking program that I have found that can totally disable the flashing. At best you can either make it flash a specified number of times or keep flashing till you click it. The minimum flashing count is 1, setting it to 0 just makes it flash till you click it. Setting it at 1 still makes me have to click the button to get the taskbar to go away.

I was wondering if someone could code something that would intercept the messages that trigger the button flashing for all buttons of all programs and tosses them out, in order to effectively disable the flashing so my taskbar will stop flying out when I don't want to see it.

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Living Room / What to do in case of a terrorist attack
« on: May 28, 2006, 11:03 AM »
The US government has a new website, http://www.ready.gov/. It's another attempt at scare mongering in the style of the old "duck and cover" advice after WWII.

The fun thing is that these pictures are so ambiguous they could mean anything! Here are a few interpretations.


  http://www.msxnet.org/humour/terror_alert


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Developer's Corner / Angry Fruit Salad
« on: May 28, 2006, 03:37 AM »
Here's a good one I came across on one of my 'click adventures'

http://foldoc.org/?angry+fruit+salad

 :P

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Something you should know about C++ Builder
« on: May 25, 2006, 09:59 AM »
Not knowing much about anything, I translated & compiled a project I had written in Delphi 6, with C++ Builder 6.

This ran just fine on my PC and the file size was nice and small...I was impressed.

Then I gave the file to someone else and that was when the problems began....it started complaining of missing .dll's on their pc.

If you want to distribute your files and avoid the problem I had this is what you have to do:

  • Under project/options/linker you need to uncheck "Use Dynamic RTL"
  • and under project/options/packages you need to uncheck "Build with Runtime Libraries."

Unless you do this, others will have trouble running your apps.

Be prepared to see the file size grow enormously.

This applies to C++ Builder, not Delphi. The default settings in Delphi work just fine and you don't have to change them.

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