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Living Room / Re: hydroflyer: amazing driving flying watersurfing remote controlled toy

« on: July 12, 2006, 11:29 PM »

No worries JavaJones -  According to the web site,http://www.michaelconnally.com/, you buy the real deal at Target!

And here is a shorter, less exciting video: http://www.stormlauncher.com/

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General Software Discussion / New FREE Service to speed web pages, block ads & phishing

« on: July 12, 2006, 12:08 AM »

This is way cool.  A nice idea and it works pretty well.

http://news.com.com/DNS+service+promises+safer%2C+faster+browsing/2100-7355_3-6092980.html?tag=nefd.top

OpenDNS says its free address-lookup service makes Web sites load faster, and that it blocks malicious, data-thieving phishing schemes and other threats. Furthermore, the service corrects obvious typos in URLs, sending people to the site they intended to visit, it says.

To pay for it, though, the company serves up ads and a search page, instead of an error page, if the user enters a Web address that doesn't exist or can't be corrected. The approach is similar one used in an unpopular VeriSign service called Site Finder, which was pulled soon after its launch in 2003.

-CNet News

http://www.opendns.com

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Developer's Corner / Re: DNS Service

« on: July 11, 2006, 12:58 PM »

Just to clarify, DNS Made Easy is used as the Name Server for Hosted Domains.   They do not allow you to use their DNS Server for resolving your outgoing surfing.  They become the Authoritative Source for Name Resolution on your domains.

I'm currently hosting about 15 domains with them.

I actually used to use a free DNS service (can't recall which one) and things were pretty good.  Their interface was a little clunky and you had to create your own DNS records, just like creating a DNS Record for hosting your own.  Too much PITA for me.  They only had 2 DNS Servers in the mix and actually had a system failure for a few days that took my sites down. (The sites were up, just no DNS for them)  But heck, the price was right

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Developer's Corner / Re: how broken is your firefox today?

« on: July 11, 2006, 07:40 AM »

Mine looks like Carols. 

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Developer's Corner / DNS Service

« on: July 10, 2006, 11:36 PM »

One important note up front:  I will make a whopping $5.00 if you subscribe to this service.
Second note: I'd tell you the same thing if I didn't.

DNS Made Easy is a DNS plus other stuff service provider.  I have been using them for many years and have had ZERO problems.  I mention this because I have friends and acquaintances who have wasted many hours of their lives sweating over DNS and Mail Server issues, when they really didn't have to.

Yes you can host your own DNS or use the one from your ISP.  If that makes you happy, go for it.  I started using DNS Made Easy when I hosted web sites out of my house.  DNS is notorious for it's ugly configuration and it's terrible security.  I didn't want to learn to write DNS configs or keep up with the daily security patches, so I tried DNS Made Easy.  They have a nice web interface, with lots of pretty pictures and little help wizards. 

The also provide Backup Email Services, Full Email Services and a few other neat things.  They are all reasonably priced and, as I said before, I have had ZERO problems.

They claim 100% uptime on DNS and I believe them.

Here is the link that pays me: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/u/6573

Feel free to ask me any questions or just visit their site.  I hope you save yourself some hassle.

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Living Room / Re: Windows VISTA Basic GUI scrapped after negative user feedback

« on: July 10, 2006, 10:27 PM »

Hey App -  Most people think that too... they're just afraid to say so. 

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Living Room / Interesting Article about Dual Income Family Financial Issues

« on: July 09, 2006, 01:50 PM »

Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke

There were over 1.6 million bankruptcy filings last year, up 7.4 percent from the previous year. And according to a new book, more people will end up in bankruptcy this year than will suffer a heart attack, than will be diagnosed with cancer or graduate from college, and it’s not who you would think. Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard law professor and bankruptcy expert and discusses these findings in her new book “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.” She discusses the book on “Today.” Read an excerpt here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079221/

It's interesting to me to see how many people think a "good job" is "safe."  The problem seems to be relying on the 2 incomes for normal stuff.  A good read of "Who moved my cheese" and/or "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" could help a lot of people avoid these situtations.   

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Site/Forum Features / Re: My Bookmarks feature added to site - thanks to Leipe_Po

« on: July 08, 2006, 11:07 AM »

Sweet!       

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Vortex Chat - Client Version

« on: July 08, 2006, 11:03 AM »

I just tried the latest verson:

1) Renox wasn't around to talk to    but I've tried that part before so it's all good. 
2) The media player is very simple to use and works quite well.  It's a nice little feature.
3) The user login needs a little clean up the first time you use it.  You have to select <new user> from the drop down box to create a new account.  Then drop down again to select the new account.  Just a minor issue, but should be fixed for maximum ease of use.

Looking good Renox,  keep at it

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Developer's Corner / Re: A good idea for web designers and site admins

« on: July 08, 2006, 10:32 AM »

That's excellent advice.   

Did you just save your bacon?  That sounded a little like "Man I'm glad I did this, otherwise I'd be totally screwed right now."   

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DonationCoder Projects / Re: DC Homebrew Mini-CMS Discussion

« on: July 07, 2006, 10:00 PM »

@Mouser - Can you (or one of your minions) mock up a user interface for this? 

The actual make-the-site-from-the-templates-and-content part of this seems pretty straight forward.  The tricky bits will be what you expect users to see and do.  I think it would be beneficial to mock up a few parts of the UI for a couple of reasons:
1) It would help us define some of the details
2) It might help us group some components and distribute them among developers.

 

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Living Room / Re: Planet-killer meteor video: holy snikes!

« on: July 06, 2006, 09:15 AM »

I must be getting used to Hollywood effects; the video looked pretty silly to me.

The asteroid looked to be about the size of the USA.  I really don't think I care to know the exact details of that type of collision; I'll just assume I'll be dead shortly after impact.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with creating effective flash videos

« on: July 04, 2006, 10:10 AM »

are you looking for Windows streaming server or Linux?  Linux servers are availble...not sure about Winders...
Google?

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Living Room / Re: blind folks see differently

« on: July 04, 2006, 09:41 AM »

That is funny.... totally would've missed it without the translation...THANKS!   

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Living Room / Re: warning sign generator

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:09 PM »

The construction sigh generator link off the above link is a lot of fun.... 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rescue orphans

« on: July 03, 2006, 06:27 PM »

I thought about this a little as a bat file and/or a pascal app. 
Do you really need this or are you just bored 

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Living Room / Re: Gamma Bros, the best retro galaxian/robotron flash shootup game ive played

« on: July 03, 2006, 06:24 PM »

Sorry f0dder... not taking the bait on this one.

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Living Room / Re: Article: The Six Sins of the Wikipedia

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:45 AM »

He makes some good points.  I never really paid that much attention to how Wikipedia works, but the absolute anarchy of it, is pretty stupid IMHO. 

Let it die, I say.

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Living Room / Re: Motivational sticky-notes

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:31 AM »

I noticed the little love note from Della  .... so sweet 

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Living Room / Re: Spain outlaws ALL p2p file sharing.

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:30 AM »

Hmm... did they outlaw usenet (news) as well?

Seems to me, the law will always be behind the technology.  Tunneling, new protocols, etc.  We've got more tricks than they do.

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Living Room / Re: Gamma Bros, the best retro galaxian/robotron flash shootup game ive played

« on: July 02, 2006, 11:46 PM »

That's were I was.... I lasted about 3 minutes of that and died.

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Living Room / Re: Gamma Bros, the best retro galaxian/robotron flash shootup game ive played

« on: July 02, 2006, 11:06 PM »

This game gets freakin' hard... even on easy mode.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« on: July 02, 2006, 05:52 PM »

Sorry, I did not notice it mentioned earlier - I read thru most of he posts - but here were many alright!

-hornet (July 02, 2006, 05:42 PM)

No reason to be sorry...we're glad your here.

Thanks for the info. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple desktops

« on: July 02, 2006, 05:15 PM »

I have two screens with 2 desktops.  I don't use the other desktop.  I usally forget about it....

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Living Room / Re: Spain outlaws ALL p2p file sharing.

« on: July 02, 2006, 05:02 PM »

Actually, if you read the article, it says the fine for getting caught is = the license for the software being swapped.  So Free software should = $0.00 fine.