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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?

« on: October 05, 2006, 05:40 PM »

mouser, that's where the "paranoid" comes in (yeah, I personally find that interesting myself, but regular users don't really need it).

-f0dder (October 05, 2006, 05:09 PM)

Yeah... we're not all elite users like you!   

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Living Room / Re: Chat in any IRC channel from work (well, or from home or anywhere)

« on: October 05, 2006, 10:53 AM »

Goodie, I got in at work. Now to try at school... 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 08:56 AM »

WOW! I just noticed your avatar....thats awesome!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 08:25 AM »

Er.... in front of the monitor? 

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Living Room / Re: Gateway - Control a Robot in Today's Very Cool Flash Game of the Day

« on: October 05, 2006, 08:24 AM »

Hehe, thats a good one. I like the 'peeper' 

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 05, 2006, 07:57 AM »

  Good one!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 07:53 AM »

And... Cody is the Bird on the Keyboard, right?

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Living Room / Re: Blog Article - Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet

« on: October 05, 2006, 07:50 AM »

Hey thanks for that info. I wasn't picking on myspace, although it IS a place I will never go to. I had just heard that that place was especially bad when it came to malware and viruses.

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Living Room / Re: College - what to do?

« on: October 05, 2006, 01:40 AM »

Drop. As you weighed the options, it would appear that is the best to do.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 01:37 AM »

What [programming language] do you suggest?

-Mizraim (October 05, 2006, 01:07 AM)

Whatever floats your boat. I like Flash's ActionScript, but that might be a little difficult for a beginner. Of course, I can't really think of anything (considered a 'real' programming language) easier to start with. Flash has graphics, animation, manipulation, basically everything you need for 2D development. Problem is Flash costs $$$ if you don't have it already. There are alternatives, as was mentioned earlier in the post about Game Engines and Apps. I think there are even free Flash authoring tools where you can write all your code and it will export as a .swf file. But then you lose out on the graphics part of it. I'm not sure. I've never not used Flash to make Flash stuff.

-Deozaan (October 05, 2006, 01:15 AM)

Well lucky for me I do have Flash. 

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Living Room / Re: Chat in any IRC channel from work

« on: October 05, 2006, 01:14 AM »

Cool I'll give this a try tomorrow, I was feeling left out on the site today.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 01:07 AM »

I guess I had better hit the Programming School here at DC.

-Mizraim (October 05, 2006, 12:58 AM)

What programming language are you going for?

-Deozaan (October 05, 2006, 01:00 AM)

What do you suggest?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 12:58 AM »

I guess I had better hit the Programming School here at DC.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 05, 2006, 12:44 AM »

Hey that sounds simple and fun! Great start Deozaan. Now we just need to start programming.

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Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?

« on: October 04, 2006, 09:46 PM »

all this minutia talk is a good example of why, unless you love wallowing in this stuff and spending days and days of time obsessing, you should go to a site like dell and just use one of their configuration things to configure a reasonable pc and be done with it, imho.

-mouser (October 04, 2006, 06:30 PM)

I agree with mouser, www.dell.com has some excellent PC customising features, and you can clearly see all at once the overall cost.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 04, 2006, 09:08 PM »

Ahh I had forgotten about that. Yes I really want one of those. I also like the shirt that says "There are 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?

« on: October 04, 2006, 07:58 PM »

I have never had any issues with the standard XP Firewall. You could try it out. 

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 04, 2006, 07:35 PM »

w00t! IT COMES IN RED!!! 

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Living Room / Re: A Request For Your Help - help us spread the word!

« on: October 04, 2006, 05:48 PM »

how about making donationcoder one of these userbars.
I might feel inclined to advertise (uk sp!) in other forums that suffer my shining witt!

-jpfx (November 09, 2005, 06:17 PM)

I think this is a good idea. I would definately use one in my sig.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 04, 2006, 05:44 PM »

But with that in mind, maybe you can ruin the warnings that always seem to popup after the english in french... I mean why french? I'll bet if you can get enough practice you can actually rewind it to the point just after the FBI warnings and being at the actual feature... I am going to try this!!!

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:15 PM »

Do the Ziplocks come in red?  And can I use the gloves mentioned my nudone, are they waterproof?

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Living Room / Re: How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:12 PM »

Oh. I see. So the idea is to get the ones you want top rated by the small replies:
I agree.
Bump.
Yes.

And so on...

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game: Curveball

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:10 PM »

Guess I'll have to try at home. My work has it blocked...

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Living Room / Re: How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:07 PM »

After reading the whole post, I still don't know what digg is... did I miss it or am I just naive?

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Living Room / Re: Blog Article - Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:00 PM »

A agree, it's a place I would never visit. I was just curious if there was any proof that I could show to persuede some people to stay away from it. I have been troubleshooting their computer problems for 2+ years, and it all leads back to my lack of knowledge of myspace, which is used in their home.