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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: February 07, 2018, 01:30 AM »

In the category 'nice numbers' a countdown from 5:

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« on: February 06, 2018, 01:22 AM »

+1

and:

the options I considered and why each decision was made?

-mouser (February 05, 2018, 11:14 PM)

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Living Room / Re: The new CMS is now LIVE! - Please report any bugs/issues here.

« on: January 18, 2018, 04:51 AM »

And it is high time we updated this.

-anandcoral (January 18, 2018, 04:05 AM)

Well, that link is somewhat randomly generated, I got this one just now:

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Living Room / Re: Looking for Data Recovery Service

« on: January 18, 2018, 01:23 AM »

I have used the local branch (NL) of Kroll Ontrack, they recovered my somewhat broken harddrive very nicely and at reasonable cost, some 8 years ago, and I recommend them to anyone needing hdd recovery.

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Living Room / Re: The new CMS is now LIVE! - Please report any bugs/issues here.

« on: January 16, 2018, 02:11 PM »

I updated the other post, 'cause I found that the ssl issue is caused by some of the smileys: http :// www .donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/3Smileys/greenclp.gif (spaces inserted by me)

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« on: January 16, 2018, 02:00 PM »

Do we have a new favicon? In my memory it was more blueish, but now it's more green/yellowish. I think I (still) like it


The ssl 'lock' on my Firefox is 'complaining' that some parts of the site aren't secure, like images (browser UI talks Dutch to me, so I'm sort of translating on the fly), some configuration issue? I seem to remember that after the last server move there was something similar, and mouser fixed it pretty quick, AFAIR.
Edit: It has to do with some of the smileys: http :// www .donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/3Smileys/greenclp.gif (and others)

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Living Room / Re: The new CMS is now LIVE! - Please report any bugs/issues here.

« on: January 16, 2018, 01:47 PM »

No bugs found so far, but even on the old, slow laptop I'm on now, the site is blazingly fast. Wow!

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« on: January 16, 2018, 01:41 PM »

It seems that hard work, and probably a bit of luck, gave us back our favorite site. Yay

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: delay IN sendkeys?

« on: January 15, 2018, 01:00 PM »

Well, actually it's not strange, but as to be expected:
old situation:
- type username
- wait awhile
- send tab-key and a password and enter-key all at once
== no time for processing

new situation:
- type username and leave field to trigger processing
- allow other processing to run by giving a time-slice back to the system by using sleep
- send password and enter-key so second field can be processed and login handled
== timing is no issue as all processing is allowed when required by the system

voila

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: delay IN sendkeys?

« on: January 15, 2018, 05:55 AM »

If you swap the {SLEEP 1000} and {TAB} around, then the Tab could start the 'on change' event that takes a little time, wait the 1000msec and then fill in the password.
Maybe that's a better timing model?

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Living Room / Re: Laptop monitor screen to box pc via cables?

« on: January 11, 2018, 05:35 AM »

You will need some electronics to convert the vga/hdmi/dvi/dp connection to the screen signals, and get some power from somewhere into the screen. Conclusion: Not easy. (never seen such devices either)

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: WHAT (Windows Hotkey Activator Tool)

« on: January 11, 2018, 02:02 AM »

Win+P is a Windows predefined hotkey, at least from Windows 8 and later (you seem to be on Windows 7 though), you might want to avoid confusion or try another hotkey to see if that might work better

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BedPlanner

« on: January 09, 2018, 01:25 PM »

We have 9 altars here at our house, and I have to schedule any random number of priests to say Mass at them every day.  Sometimes we have only a few priests, sometimes we have 20 (at certain times of the year).

-BGM (January 09, 2018, 10:24 AM)

I'd like to think this over a bit, but I'm not very familiar with these type of planning/scheduling challenges, so I have a couple of questions about that:

• At what times are these Masses planned?
• All at the same time?
• overlapping?
• sequential?
• Are the priests to say (max) 1 Mass per day?
• or more when not enough priests are available?

BedPlanner takes into account some special attributes of people and beds/rooms, are there any special attributes available/needed in this context?

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BedPlanner

« on: January 09, 2018, 01:10 PM »

Well, if you where to plan a group of visitors into a chapel, to get the most efficient use of the seats, then, maybe, BedPlanner would be sort of usable for that. But planning priests to say Mass at any of available altars seems more appropriately planned by another type of scheduler/planner.
Searching for such type of planner/scheduler will most likely get you result, as this sounds like a rather common type of resource-distribution problem, like schools need for planning teachers in classes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BedPlanner

« on: January 09, 2018, 01:39 AM »

Why did you write this?

-BGM (January 08, 2018, 09:54 PM)

Well, several reasons (not limited to this list):

• Requested by a colleague (see my description above)
• The challenge to get the idea off the ground
• Replace a quite laborious manual process
• I like programming/problem solving

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Living Room / Re: Whatsapp Desktop: can it do videocalls?

« on: January 07, 2018, 05:01 AM »

there currently is no video/calling capability in the Whatsapp desktop client.

-skwire (January 06, 2018, 06:02 PM)

And ditto for the web client.

Best alternative: Install Android in an emulator and run WhatsApp from there, as suggested in this 'Quora' post

As an alternative to WA, you could try Signal, it too has a web client, but I'm not sure if it supports their Video calls yet.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Constant Info

« on: January 07, 2018, 04:38 AM »

 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread

« on: January 07, 2018, 04:37 AM »

It seems the best choice as it's the most popular/used. Adding another if this one doesn't suffice shouldn't be that much of an issue? As they aren't backward compatible in any way, why worry?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread

« on: January 06, 2018, 02:17 PM »

Ah, pfew, thanks. It was off-line since yesterday, and I expected you to be 'moving house' on the server, so I just kept quiet.
I'll move my pages over asap.

ps: did you install that table-plugin as discussed earlier?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread

« on: January 06, 2018, 10:10 AM »

And the old pages are gone where? (I never keep stuff in a cms locally backed up as I have no other location to restore it anyway ) Will/can they be temporarily made available on the dcmembers.org domain?

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Constant Info

« on: January 05, 2018, 06:25 AM »

... I made bold just to be more in your face, especially ...

-mat2016 (January 01, 2018, 09:03 AM)

That will bring the 'attention value' in the same league as double confirmations (1st: 'do you want to delete this?' 2nd: 'are you really sure?'): they won't be noticed anymore, and only dismissed asap without reading/comprehending the message.

A useful feature would be a list of previous notifications (timestamped), easily accessible from the UI

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« on: January 04, 2018, 01:28 PM »

My 2ct: I prefer the design with the all lowercase donationcoder.com name, and the dash-shaped bullets, like tomos showed above in reply #39 (On a round mug the round bullets I'd expect to look weird) If they have to be round, then the smaller size bullets seems the best alternative to me.

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Living Room / Re: Why doesn't DC make its own browser?

« on: January 03, 2018, 04:42 AM »

And there are how many of these type of distro's already? 100+? Just pick the one you like most

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Proofy

« on: January 03, 2018, 04:37 AM »

Seems like Proofy needs a little "proo(f)reading" itself

How comes the 'ranging in time...' counts until 12/26/2017, where you've already proofed 112,000+ words in 2018?, completed projects only? That's not what the total number of words suggests...

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Constant Info

« on: January 01, 2018, 04:19 AM »

The use of ALL CAPS titles and bold in message-boxes is somewhat disturbing/non-standard behavior, but it does have good potential.