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Living Room / Re: Metaphysik II - another cool game web game

« on: August 03, 2006, 10:31 PM »

Hi Everyone.  My name is Rover and I'm a flash junkie 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.

« on: August 02, 2006, 11:16 PM »

mouser - yes that too.  which only continues my point that Jeff was on crack the day he wrote this blog.

I'm sure there are many variables along the way.

1.1 - You can use this for free, send me a post card or something if you want to.
1.2 - Donationware model 1: I hope you like it en ought to send me some $$. It's ok if you don't.
1.7 - Donationware model 2: I'm letting you use it with the expectation that you'll donate.  If you only use it a few times a year don't worry.  If you live your life around it send my kids to college.
1.9 - Is Shareware stupid, you can try it before you buy, but you will buy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.

« on: August 02, 2006, 10:20 PM »

Jeff says:

The highest compliment you can pay any piece of open source software is to simply use it, because it's worth using. The more you use it, the more that open source project becomes a part of the fabric of your life, your organization, and ultimately the world. Isn't that the greatest contribution of all?

-above

In short, not always.

There are some people who want exactly what he described it's true.  That doesn't mean that every programmer thinks this way.  Personally, I want cash.

The question of Free Software, Open Source or Moneyware (in any form) is one of a philosophical position.
1) I want to create something to share with humanity....we can be one bonded by our shared use of something I created... (angelic singing)
2) I worked hard on this, give me money if you want to use it.

This is painfully obvious to me... how could he be so stupid?

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General Software Discussion / Re: IDEA: Visual FileSystem

« on: August 02, 2006, 09:59 PM »

Coming up with a 3D file viewer would be fairly trivial in some respects.

The big problem to me is coming up with a 3D metaphor.  What object/icon would you use to represent a file?  Would a Word Doc be different from a PDF or a DLL?

The next challenge is how do you contain those 3D objects?  We still need to establish some hierarchy or tree to organise the stuff.

Did you have something in mind?

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast #4 Submission Time!

« on: August 02, 2006, 08:06 PM »

Hey Guys,  I'd love to do 3 segements for the podcast.

I'm going to do it right now. 

Oh, how do I send them to you... eh never mind. 

You are busted.  Where are the helpful instructions for sending our submissions?   

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Living Room / Re: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 - nothing but problems

« on: August 01, 2006, 10:55 PM »

mouser, while I normally wouldn't comment on something so obviously off-topic, I must agree, that woodstock looks wrong.  Probably bootleg. 

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Living Room / Re: Here's a brilliant example of thinking outside the box in flash games

« on: August 01, 2006, 04:49 PM »

Wow that hurts your head 

Here's the score.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQL-based replacement for Filemaker Pro?

« on: August 01, 2006, 07:51 AM »

Hey JJ -

Sounds like the Grail to me.  I'll be very interested in responses you get.  I would love to find something like you describe.

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General Software Discussion / HARDWARE: Perpindicular Recording Article @ Computerworld

« on: July 31, 2006, 10:59 PM »

Their Quick Study articles are usually very good.  This one is really good.

[link from ComputerWorld]

July 31, 2006  (Computerworld) -- Perpendicular recording can increase magnetic media's capacity as much as 10 times. That means that microdrives that used to hold about 3,000 songs could provide room for about 30,000 songs. In more technical terms, that means it will be possible to store about 230 gigabits per square inch, or up to 20GB, on a 1-in. microdrive.

-The Article

See their Quick Study Article Index here: http://www.computerw...com/html/quickstudy/

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Official Announcements / Re: Unexpected server downtime for 1 hour on Sat July 29 - UPDATED AGAIN 7/31/06

« on: July 31, 2006, 09:36 PM »

Glad to see we are back up. Has your hosting provider provided a reason as to why this took so long?

-Josh (July 31, 2006, 09:33 PM)

Because they are lame-o luzers.

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Living Room / Re: What godaddy recommends when...

« on: July 30, 2006, 11:08 PM »

Verified True!  I checked godaddy myself.

1) The folks at Godaddy do have a sense of humor, so this might be a plant.
2) There was an error stating this "ho" was too short for a domain name.

Note:  All of the 3 character domains (in every .com combination) have been registered for quite some time.

In any case, my personal favorite is:  OfficialHo.com
 

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Official Announcements / Re: Unexpected server downtime for 1 hour on Sat July 29

« on: July 29, 2006, 11:38 PM »

Bummer about the downtime, but IRC was still up.  We had a good time waiting for the Great Server Reboot.
For those online during the outage, be sure to get your patented "I Survived the Great Server Outage of July" t-shirts available soon from hamradio.   

If you missed it, you missed seeing a frightened mouser!   

Take this opportunity to remember, it can happen at any moment, so BACKUP YOUR STUFF!   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ability to select multiple windows and send keyboard input to all of t

« on: July 29, 2006, 07:07 PM »

Oh now that IS cool!

I can send special characters, etc. now...

great modification.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ability to select multiple windows and send keyboard input to all of t

« on: July 29, 2006, 11:06 AM »

jgpavia you are beautiful

I just tested your "little script" and it works pretty well.  I used EditPad Lite and evolvED to create new blank documents.  I started you ahk script, selected the two editor windows and started typing. 

There is a slight delay between sending and having control back, which makes sense.

There are two minor things I offer for improvement:
1) Add a "Continue" button on your splash screen.  It took me a while to figure out that I needed to close it to continue.
2) It might be cool to have a checkbox on the text sumission box to allow sending CRLF or not.
I might not want to send that at each line end.... My thought is that it would be check to send CRLF and would be the default.  If I unchecked it, it would just send the text w/o CRLF and I would append the line.

Nice job jg   

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Official Announcements / Re: The countdown.

« on: July 27, 2006, 09:53 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« on: July 27, 2006, 09:51 PM »

Seem like 10P - 3A are pretty good for programming.

10A - 3P if I have to work w/ real people.

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Living Room / Re: Click Anywhere...Visualization Page

« on: July 27, 2006, 09:48 PM »

I was totally cold on 7/8.  I was trying to NOT hit the hot spots... just to be different 

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Official Announcements / Re: JULY SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« on: July 27, 2006, 06:22 PM »

Congrats to the winners.... you've won! 

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Living Room / Re: Furry Friends

« on: July 27, 2006, 06:19 PM »

mine are both better that all of them. 

-Rover (July 25, 2006, 09:37 AM)

I believe it when I SEE it. Post some pictures please! 

-housetier (July 25, 2006, 09:46 AM)

You're gonna be sorry you asked

The black cat is Alley, he is about 18 months old.
The grey cat is Kitty, she is about 3.5 years old.

He is stupid, timmid and very cute.
She is smart, agressive and thinks she is a queen.  She has been known to bite kids and draw blood.

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Living Room / Re: Avoider! Extremely Clever and Whimsical Flash Game

« on: July 26, 2006, 11:00 PM »

It was very hard to get past 1000.... I am officially done playing this silly little game. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: The SCRUM development method

« on: July 26, 2006, 11:34 AM »

Sorry, but we have used this method for some projects. And it worked very well. It's good for small teams of about or less than 5 people and for smaller projects lasting only some weeks. It can be used also for bigger teams if you seperate groups (coders, networkers, etc.). It can be a real world solution for real people.

-colonelz (July 26, 2006, 11:14 AM)

Just about anything will work for teams of 5 or less for a few weeks. 

I have a general disdain for academics who solve the worlds problems from within their classrooms.  I lived through the 80's and 90's where all the MBA's practiced the Managment Style of the Week as proclaimed by the "Experts" at Harvard, etc.   It was crap then it's crap now.

There is no single answer to the problem.  It depends on the talents and attitudes of your staff.  It depends on the product and the ability to transfer the vision.  Scrum looks like another attempt to micro manage developers and not allow them to think about the big picture.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Article about new windows drive imaging technology from ms

« on: July 25, 2006, 10:30 PM »

Wow, this imaging system sounds really revolutionary! 

Until you realize that Novell has been doing this for years (at least 4) with Zen for Desktops Imaging. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: The SCRUM development method

« on: July 25, 2006, 10:28 PM »

A good!  More academics solving the worlds problems...

15 min. daily scrum meeting!  Get real.  This will not happen in any corp. anywhere. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the "C" programming language - old but goo

« on: July 25, 2006, 10:25 PM »

#1 Way to get screwed by C:  Attempt to learn it!

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Living Room / Re: Avoider! Extremely Clever and Whimsical Flash Game

« on: July 25, 2006, 10:24 PM »

638 The Bast$#d shot off a mortor that exloded the WHOLE screen..