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Developer's Corner / Re: MouseBreaker Game Development Contest Submissions

« on: December 09, 2006, 11:45 PM »

Thanks!

I think you could take that basic engine and keep working on it and really develop some fun games with it.

-mouser (December 09, 2006, 11:31 PM)

I agree. I didn't have time to add all the features I wanted, so I'll definitely keep working on it and adding to it. Maybe Deozone 2.0 will be released sometime.

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« on: December 09, 2006, 10:52 PM »

My app's acronym is CODY !

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Developer's Corner / MouseBreaker Game Development Contest Submissions

« on: December 09, 2006, 10:00 PM »

MouseBreaker.com recently had a Flash game development competition which ended November 30th and I submitted a game which Mouser aptly named Deozone.

I can't find the results of the competition even though they said they'd announce it on December 7th, but they do have 15 games featured that were entered into the contest that are potential winners.

click to play these games

And look down there! Mine is one of them!

click to play my game

Woohoo!

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Living Room / Re: What present should we get Cody for xmas?

« on: December 09, 2006, 09:01 PM »

Price is no object since he is imaginary.

What do you suggest we get for him?

-mouser (December 08, 2006, 02:08 AM)

How about a Linux distro with the ability to hack NORAD and launch ICBMs wherever Cody pleases?

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Living Room / Re: Real code vs. Code in the movies

« on: December 09, 2006, 08:22 PM »

and using Linux kernel 2.4.30 to do it too!

although I could not find "icbm-launch" on SourceForge

P.S. Nuking all of Redmond as opposed to passing GPS coords for the MS campus only would perhaps be a little overkill, but I used to live there and the streets through town are pretty much a drive-thru shopping mall, so no great loss...

-Edvard (December 08, 2006, 03:48 PM)

I'm not well informed on the destructive power of intercontinental ballistic missiles, but I think an ICBM would destroy more than Redmond if one was detonated there.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: TakeABreak should be named "j00GotPwned!"

« on: December 09, 2006, 08:15 PM »

Well actually what I'd like is a program that at a pretermined time everynight it will give me a 15-minute warning and then lock my computer for a couple of hours.

I'm sorry to say I don't know if I have the willpower or self-control to get myself away from the intertubes.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred - 50% off

« on: December 08, 2006, 12:40 AM »

Fast, easy, accurate, and over three times faster than typing.

-patteo (December 07, 2006, 09:26 PM)

I just heard a couple days ago that people talk at a rate of about 100-120 word per minute on average. If that's true and I type at a rate of about 90 wpm (according to TyperShark), then there's no way it's 3+ times as fast as typing.

But I have also heard many great things about Dragon--mostly that it's the best voice-to-text program out there.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: TakeABreak should be named "j00GotPwned!"

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:46 PM »

Damn, TakeABreak is powerful, i had no knowledge about that!
I have no courage to use it, though
Weird, in my computer, it did create the .ini file...

-jgpaiva (December 07, 2006, 06:43 PM)

It finally did create the .ini file after the second or third run, but with it suppressing my task manager and no convenient way to close it, I found it unusable.

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Living Room / Re: Ask A Ninja?

« on: December 07, 2006, 02:34 PM »

i'm not convinced that this guy is a real ninja.

for one thing, in 'ninja question 26' he talks about a 'badger' but his description doesn't match any badger i've seen or heard about.

i'd be careful about taking advice off this guy. it's probably not a good idea to trust a ninja anyway.

-nudone (December 07, 2006, 11:16 AM)

Maybe it was a Ninja Badger! Any normal person who comes across one doesn't live to tell about it.

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Skrommel's Software / TakeABreak should be named "j00GotPwned!"

« on: December 07, 2006, 02:31 PM »

Skrommel,

I decided I need some major enforcement to getting myself off the computer, since I seem to have no self-control in the evening and stay up much too late. So today I downloaded your TakeABreak utility to see if it would suit my needs.

When I ran it, it told me to edit the ini file. Most of your utilities let me right click the tray icon and adjust the settings, so I tried that. Nothing happened when I right clicked it. Nothing happened when I left clicked it. So I went into the directory the .exe file was stored in and there was no ini file to edit.

"Great!" I thought, "now it's going to force me to go on a break when I don't want it to." Since I couldn't right-click it to close it, I decided to open the task manager and end the process. Every time I brought up the task manager via ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-shift-esc it would immediately close.

TakeABreak was suppressing my task manager! There was no way I could close it! So I looked among your other utilities to see if you had one to kill a process. Kill wouldn't work because it closes the window under my mouser. So I tried CloseMany and repeatedly told it to close/kill TakeABreak, but it didn't work.

Finally I remembered that Mouser's Process Tamer lets you set a rule to kill processes, and it worked!

Thank goodness I finally got it closed, and thank goodness I hadn't already put it in my startup folder to start when Windows runs!

I did try running TakeABreak again to see if it had just locked up or something but every time it had the same result and I had to use Process Tamer to close it.0

So it looks like both TakeABreak and CloseMany need some modification to work properly.

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Living Room / Re: Would you like a rare & valuable Cody mug?

« on: December 07, 2006, 01:56 AM »

Mine's a png too. Maybe that's the difference.

No wait. The WhatPulse turns the image and the text into a png much like Allen's imagIIne.

So I'm not sure why it gives a hard time.

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Living Room / Re: growing your own...

« on: December 06, 2006, 07:53 PM »

That's amazing! I want to do that when I get a house. It would be so neat to leave it planted in the ground so the roots will hold it firmly in place and it won't tip over. It would be cool to have a few of them all in the same area so a group of people could all sit together and do something.

 

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Living Room / Re: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading

« on: December 06, 2006, 05:37 PM »

any other websites on the internet you aren't reading?
give us a list.

-mouser (December 06, 2006, 03:01 AM)

There are lots of websites in the internet I'm not reading. Most of them I don't even know about and therefore cannot make a full list.

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Official Announcements / Re: What changes would you like to see on DonationCoder.com in 2007?

« on: December 06, 2006, 05:22 PM »

Might be nice to see the return of the podcasts too.

-app103 (December 04, 2006, 06:16 PM)

Yeah what happened to the podcasts? I don't care if they're short because not many members are participating, and I loved being able to submit my own content--I just had a period of time when I moved and didn't have internet access for a few months so I could no longer submit anything.

Programming School is neat, too, but schools typically teach you how to do something and then give you an assignment. I'd like to see some tutorials or links to tutorials that will teach the concepts. For someone who has never programmed before, getting used to the "grammar" and syntax of code can be a bit tough just going from the help files, which are usually meant for reference.

EDIT: I'd also like an option on the forum to ignore a post so that it never shows up under my Unread Messages. Some topics just don't interest me and I'd like to not have to click on them or mark them as read every time someone posts just to clear my Unread Posts screen.

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Living Room / Re: Start on your first $1 million at age 16

« on: December 06, 2006, 05:13 PM »

this kind of stuff is logical and well talked about, covered, written about, etc. just takes dedication and commitment.. the main reasons why people fail at any thing. so what's the big deal?

-mitzevo (December 06, 2006, 10:46 AM)

Exactly -- I've heard all throughout my life that if I start saving early it will be no problem to  become very rich in 15-25 years. Although back when I first was hearing this information I didn't know anything about Roth IRA and all that stuff. I actually still don't know much of anything about them, but at least I know they exist now.

I'm particularly fond of David Ramsey's book The Total Money Makeover, which has great advice on how to get out of debt, keep a budget,  and start saving money in a way that will get you plenty of money over a couple decades.

David Ramsey was a person who had assets of about $4 million but lost it all and went bankrupt due to poor spending and deep debt and has since, in about 15 years, become a multi-millionaire, so I tend to believe his advice. Be warned that the first chapter or two sounds just like an infomercial so you'll probably start feeling like it can't be believed, but once you get to the meat of the book it really seems like sound advice.

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Living Room / Re: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading

« on: December 06, 2006, 01:21 AM »

I'm not reading any of them and none of them seemed particularly interesting to me, so I guess I still won't be reading them.

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Living Room / Re: Start on your first $1 million at age 16

« on: December 06, 2006, 12:51 AM »

So from my understanding Scott Burns is saying that from an $8,000 investment in a Roth IRA you can have a million dollars in ~50 years?

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Living Room / Re: Would you like a rare & valuable Cody mug?

« on: December 06, 2006, 12:41 AM »

It took me two days to get it to work properly with the custom background. I'd upload it but it wouldn't show up in my uploaded backgrounds. I'm not sure what I did but I finally got it working.

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Living Room / Re: Start on your first $1 million at age 16

« on: December 06, 2006, 12:15 AM »

Oh carp I'm a few years late and I'm making more money than I'd ever make at McDonald's. What do I do now? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« on: December 05, 2006, 06:54 PM »

I'm guessing Deozaan knows that.. but is not able to do that.. probably cuz his work restricts such compromising activity? 

btw, Deozaan what are you talking about? 1 - you got the download and you want to view the ahk help file but can't. 2 - you haven't got the download cuz of some .chm thing. 3 - yeah what are u talking bout? 

-mitzevo (December 05, 2006, 02:52 PM)

Yes I did know that but I just decided I wanted to give it a try while I was at work and didn't want to wait until I got home to start learning how to do it. My work restricts the autohotkey.com website because it's a forum, but I managed to download a version of it from Download.com (for some reason I'm not able to save files to the hard drive but I can Open/Run them straight from the website (download into temp dir, then run, then the file deletes itself)) but the help file that came with it (a .chm file) shows the index/contents on the left but the main content is just IE "can't access page" errors.

I'm home now so I guess I'll just visit the site and download everything I need.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Can you spell e-mail?

« on: December 05, 2006, 06:37 PM »

I was being a drongo Deozaan - I apologize

-tsaint (December 05, 2006, 06:35 PM)

Thank you, but there is no need to apologize. I figure that if I can't laugh at myself then I'm in denial. Or something. 

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Can you spell e-mail?

« on: December 05, 2006, 06:03 PM »

Wouldn't you leave the hyphen out, rather than off in this case?
Sorry ... I'm in a silly, "holidays coming" mood this morning
tony

I guess I'm an ultra geek. I always spell it "e-mail." But I don't get angry at people or insist they use the hyphen when they leave it off.

-Deozaan (December 05, 2006, 10:34 AM)

-tsaint (December 05, 2006, 04:25 PM)

Ha! Yeah. So much for proper grammar!  I never claimed I was perfect at it. Just that I do my best. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« on: December 05, 2006, 02:06 PM »

I've decided that I would like to start using AutoHotKey for tasks at work but the internet restrictions block the AHK website (because it's a forum--Good thing they don't know about DC yet!). I managed to find a version of AHK (104407) at Download.com, but the included .chm help file gives me the IE "Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable." for every article, so I can't learn how to use its syntax here.

Bummer!

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Can you spell e-mail?

« on: December 05, 2006, 10:34 AM »

Only an ultra geek cares if e-mail is wrong or not.. 

-mitzevo (December 05, 2006, 10:03 AM)

I guess I'm an ultra geek. I always spell it "e-mail." But I don't get angry at people or insist they use the hyphen when they leave it off.

And actually it doesn't really have much to do with me being a geek. I just like language and words and so I try my best to use them properly. This includes correct spelling and proper grammar. It's a personal standard I have for myself that I don't expect other people to care enough to make it their personal standard.

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General Software Discussion / UltraMon Problems

« on: December 05, 2006, 10:24 AM »

I installed UltraMon some time ago at work and suddenly I'm getting a message saying that the network resource I'm trying to use is not available. So I just tried to download the latest version, but the latest version tries to uninstall the older version and for some reason it seems unable to do that without the installation file for the older version.

I can't download the older version because that's only an option for paying customers. These computers are also restricted from saving files from the internet. I can run/open the file but I can't save to disc, which is kind of silly and insecure as this would prevent someone from running a virus checker.

Does anyone have UltraMon26en_x32.msi or any other solutions to my problem? I really need to have the taskbar on both my monitors to work efficiently.