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Living Room / Need Some Design Help...

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:30 AM »

My side projects are starting to get a bit too expensive, so I'm looking for a volunteer to help me out with some design for a fun little project...

Inspired by a recent thread here, Nighted gave me an idea for a fun little toy. I've redone it a little bit and spun it off at an otherwise silly and dead side project that I've totally neglected, but it's very fitting...

http://www.fucksatan.com/FreeSoftware/AntiChristHunter/tabid/55/Default.aspx

My design skills are close to zero, and I really need some kind of help there. The site is running DotNetNuke so it would need to be a DNN skin. I could do the coding if anyone could help out with the design. Given the nature of the site, it's offensive to some people, but I'd be more than willing to put a "Design by YOU" link in it. Not great payment, but it's just a for fun type thing.

Anyways, if anyone has decent graphic design skills and can help out, I'd appreciate it. The only real requirement is that the design be 'good enough' and certainly better than what's there now.

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Living Room / Bored to death and amusing myself with stupid program :)

« on: September 26, 2007, 08:55 PM »

This is just a silly/bizarre/Satanic story about how I can waste some time. :)

BACKGROUND

I use EditPlus as my primary editor, but the last time I reinstalled the OS for this computer, I figured I didn't want to enter my license. Instead, I'd let the trial expire and then take a screen shot when it had finally gotten to day 666 of the 30 day trial period, and then enter my license.

SOOOOO...

Ok - so I get in to the office after the long holiday (5 days)...

Check my email... DAMN! Outlook didn't download a single message over the holiday! Now I've got thousands of emails to download and it's going to take Outlook/Exchange HOURS to download them! (I'm extremely pissed at this point.)

So, I switch to the English computer (with EditPlus). AAARRRGGGHHH! Adobe Acrobat Reader screwed up and stopped Windows from shutting down last Friday. Oh well... Reset the machine... Boot up again...

Finally booted. Time to fire up things. I quickly click the EditPlus and the ALSong shortcuts in the QuickLaunch bar...

Hmmm... I'm on day 632 of my 30 day trial for EditPlus. I wonder when I need to take that screen shot... The day is getting closer now.

Well, since I'm screwed until Outlook starts responding, I've got time to figure things out the proper way! BUILD A MINI UTILITY TO CALCULATE DATES!

After all, it's much more fun to fire up Visual Studio. :D

In any event... the utility takes like 2 lines of code... But that's not the point... The point is I use the little utility to find out when day 666 is and...

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General Software Discussion / Cracked while installing Linux :)

« on: September 23, 2007, 10:12 AM »

OK - I finally bought a new box to install Linux on. Went for Suse Enterprise Desktop...

In any event, I'm burning the CDs for the new box on my Windows machine and the software I'm using isn't working... Keeps dying. Strange... Worked for the past 4 CDs...

Well, I reboot - same thing - install new version - same thing - fire up Windows Explorer... It chokes.

Pull out blank CD - it's got a 3cm crack from the middle.

Put in new CD. Everyone's happy...

Still installing Suse though... And very much looking forward to giving it a spin.

I decided to go with Suse (cost $50 for the license - whatever) because Novell sponsors the Mono project, and that's what I'm most interested in.

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General Software Discussion / MS Forced Update

« on: September 18, 2007, 10:23 AM »

Microsoft Update recently forced an update even if you explicitly did not want them.

The update was for "Microsoft Update" software to ensure forward compatibility.

Now, I'm sure this will tick off a few people, but I don't really care about it. Sure, they could totally abuse their power and disable things or do bad things, but they didn't, and I don't believe they will. I'm not worried.

Any thoughts on the topic? Is it a bad precedent for MS?

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General Software Discussion / Interview with Nick Longo - What do you want to hear about?

« on: September 17, 2007, 09:35 AM »

Hello All,

I've scheduled an interview with Nick Longo for the .NET Preacher Show. You might know him as the former CEO of CoffeeCup software. He recently sold CC to Hans Top - the fellow behind a little piece of software that you might just have heard of, WinZip. :)

Anyways, Nick is fairly well known and is pretty open, so I'm taking questions and topics from people on what you'd like to hear about. (He used to be quite active in the ASP newsgroups helping people out.)

Please keep in mind that it's a mISV centered show and so questions and topics need to reflect that. I've started to aggregate some of what people are interested in in the .NET Preacher forums here.

You can post here where I'll be checking back or post in the DNP forums at the link above.

So, here's your chance to pick the brain of one of the more successful guys in the software industry! :)

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Living Room / Need Some Design Help...

Living Room / Bored to death and amusing myself with stupid program :)

General Software Discussion / Cracked while installing Linux :)

General Software Discussion / MS Forced Update

General Software Discussion / Interview with Nick Longo - What do you want to hear about?