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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Interview with Game Developer Gregg Seelhoff

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2007, 12:26 AM »

Hello All,

I've just put up an interview (podcast) with game developer Gregg Seelhoff here.

It's on game development, so if you're interested in writing games, you may want to check it out. Then again, if you're interested in just hearing from a game developer, you may want to check it out too.

If you're interested in .NET, marketing software, or just programming in general, make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed. Shows are 1~2x monthly as I have time to get them done. There are more interviews coming up as well.

Cheers!

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Living Room / Re: UK Government wants your crypto keys... by law.

« Last post by Renegade on October 02, 2007, 01:51 AM »

Welcome back Ken.

Back on topic...

From a link in the OP:

http://www.stand.org...k/index-update3.php3

The Electronic Commerce Bill would make it a crime to fail to give up the decryption key to a message if a policeman thinks you've got it. If you haven't got it, it is up to you to prove you haven't. If you can't prove it, you would be liable for 2 years in jail.

OUCH! Innocent until proven guilty? Yikes!

Before I was going to post something like "oh whatever - I forget the password - don't have the key - screw yourself - suck my balls - blah blah..." (Got to get that Eric Cartman thing in there...) However, seems like that would be up to a 2 year term. OUCH~!

Going to another link in there:

http://www.stand.org.uk/dearjack/

It's a letter telling about how at the end there's a block of encrypted text, and that the recipient could go to jail for it. Very good letter and excellent read!

This kind of stuff is just plain scary. Mere possession can land you in jail...

To add to the list of adjectives, may I put forth "insane"?

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Living Room / Re: Need Some Design Help...

« Last post by Renegade on October 02, 2007, 01:30 AM »

I aim to please and amuse!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help - Looking for Some Fun Software Ideas

« Last post by Renegade on October 01, 2007, 11:39 AM »

i've sent you a message...

-nudone (October 01, 2007, 11:10 AM)

Got it and replied... Can't remember if I mentioned that this isn't any kind of rush or not - it's all for fun.

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General Software Discussion / Help - Looking for Some Fun Software Ideas

« Last post by Renegade on October 01, 2007, 10:46 AM »

Nighted gave me an idea for a fun little utility in this thread that I've spun off at this site here. >> WARNING - it's offensive to some people. It's safe for work, but not for church...

It's one of those dead projects of mine that I probably started after 3 or 4 too many beer... In any event, I'd like to whip up some more fun little toys there and I'm looking for ideas. (Yes - I'm being lazy here...)

Anyways, if anyone can come up with some pseudo-religious software ideas for fun stuff that would be amusing, please let me know. I don't want major projects - just quick & fun type stuff. The more insane, the better. Once you see the site, you'll understand the 'spirit' of it all - it's supposed to be humorous, light-hearted and just plain silly with a gently serious twist underneath.

Thanks in advance for any help here. (If anyone has design skills (I suck there) and would like to help, please see this thread.)

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Living Room / Need Some Design Help...

« Last post by Renegade 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...abid/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 / Re: Wiki Democracy

« Last post by Renegade on October 01, 2007, 08:29 AM »

...
And, put simply, where's the "debate" space in a wiki?
...

-iphigenie (October 01, 2007, 07:14 AM)

Wikis have conversation spaces - kind of like forums. It can work... I'll be optomistic for this one.

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Living Room / Re: Wiki Democracy

« Last post by Renegade on October 01, 2007, 08:28 AM »

Mother-of-God! What's wrong with them? Don't they know that power is supposed to be kept in the iron grasp of the few elite so that they might slowly whiddle down rights and institute laws that serve themselves all the while pushing the masses deeper into the slavery of debt?

This is a sickening abandoning of hundreds of years of financial serfdom. Especially in light of the last 100 years where so much has been accomplished to ensure the subservience of the masses to their debt-slave masters!

Appauling! This dangerous experiment should never be allowed to spread. The infection of freedom from interest slavery to central banks would destroy the elite's grip around the throats of the hereto mindless serfs!

Abandon all hope, ye who dare to tread where demons fear to go...



I LOVE IT! A REAL VOICE!

And from the sounds of it, apathy isn't a problem for them!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker

« Last post by Renegade on September 28, 2007, 05:47 PM »

Excellent! Congrats!

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

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 11:29 PM »

check this out: "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six."

Now, let's see if you can figure out what 666 is. (it will blow your mind!!!!)
...

-Nighted (September 27, 2007, 08:38 PM)

Ok - Here's a little tool to help out:

HAIL SATAN!

Just type in the name and you'll get whether or not the person is in league with Satan!

Oh - here's one... The computer god is is league with Satan - saviourf = 666

Does Bush have a son named David? George D Bush = 666

A former prime minister of Canada is in league with Satan: P. E. Trudeau = 666

ooooo! This IS fun!



EDIT: You need .NET 2.0 for the tool.

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

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 07:02 PM »

Well, the anti-christ actually...

Any other Iron Maiden fans here?

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Day: Temple Guardian

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 10:27 AM »

AAARRRGGGHH!!!

Stop posting these games!!! They're addictive!!!

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Living Room / Re: Forum Signature Spam: Let's discuss how to handle..

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 02:18 AM »

Well, I'm a bit late to this discussion... Anyways...

I'm all for limiting spam in the easiest way possible. A simple 5 minimum posts (or whatever, say 25) to have a sig with an added limitation that no links are possible until <insert good criterion> would work well. e.g. You quickly get to add a sig like this:

SELECT * FROM COMPANY.CUSTOMERS WHERE CLUE > 0

Rows returned: 0



No harm there, and no links. The spammers want the links... That's where the real attack needs to be. So something like 5 posts for a sig, and 25 for adding images or links would work well.

Like mouser said, they'd be caught before they got to 25 anyways - and that's what they're really after.

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

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 01:55 AM »

Har! Halloween! Funny!

So you've had that thing installed for nearly 2 years without the license?

-Deozaan (September 27, 2007, 12:37 AM)

Kind of... I have the license... Just haven't installed it yet!

Waiting for day 666 for that... Halloween! (I just about died when I saw that.)

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

« Last post by Renegade on September 27, 2007, 12:34 AM »

Yep - just enter the number of days into the spin up-down numeric control and press Enter. You can also use your mouse scroll wheel.

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

« Last post by Renegade on September 26, 2007, 10:38 PM »

sorry about your troubles Renegade but that is a cool tool! previously i was using a program called 1-4a Datestat but your program look much simpler, thanks..

-lanux128 (September 26, 2007, 09:31 PM)

Heck - that silly utility was 2 lines of code:

[Select]

calResult.SelectionStart = calCalendar.SelectionStart.AddDays((double)nudDays.Value);
calResult.SelectionEnd = calCalendar.SelectionEnd.AddDays((double)nudDays.Value);

The funny part was that day 666 is on Halloween!

That other tool looks much more comprehensive. I like his disclaimer:

Disclaimer:
I am not responsible for whatever happens to your hardware or software or your brain if you download or use this program.

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

« Last post by Renegade 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.

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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Living Room / Re: All your info in one place

« Last post by Renegade on September 26, 2007, 11:24 AM »

Hmmmm... For the OP... All my information in 1 place? Starts with my own server(s)...

Next... Screwed. There's nothing that can do it. Period. Nothing.

I have disparate documents, email, code, music, videos, blah blah blah. Nothing out there can keep my information in a single source other than having a central server (which I don't use).

Depends on what your requirements are and what you mean. The idea was abandoned by MS when they dropped the new NTFS system based on MS SQL Server.

I'm a big RDBMS fan, but it just hasn't come about for 'common' use. The task is immense. Organizing data is a massive task. The current things out there are only solutions for small sets of data.

Even email isn't done right. How screwed up is that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good parental control software

« Last post by Renegade on September 26, 2007, 08:35 AM »

A friend of mine makes all kinds of security software like this. Of course none of it is in English though...

He's got one piece of software, TimeKeeper (http://www.timekeeper.co.kr/), that let's you control more than just what sites kids visit, but how much time they can spend on a computer, how much in different programs... It's just SOOOOO slick. And the best part is you can control the PC from anywhere - you just login and set the policies you want for your kids.

Not that it helps though... It hasn't been released in English.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cracked while installing Linux :)

« Last post by Renegade on September 26, 2007, 08:28 AM »

...  Once Mono achieves it's purpose, it will be a valid alternative...

-steeladept (September 25, 2007, 12:12 PM)

That's why I bought the new box & opted for Suse. It looks like Mono is maturing very well and when things become practical, then I'm on board.

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Living Room / Re: Last stand Tower defense/FPS hybrid

« Last post by Renegade on September 26, 2007, 08:23 AM »

Looks interesting, but the tutorial goes too fast and it looks like the game takes way too much of an investment for me to get into. Especially if level 2 is that hard... I hate games where you do nothing but die. Dying isn't fun.

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Living Room / Re: The impotence of proof reading

« Last post by Renegade on September 25, 2007, 01:47 AM »

That was beautiful!

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Living Room / Re: (Webfind) Programmer Personality Test

« Last post by Renegade on September 25, 2007, 01:40 AM »

That was fun, and seems to be pretty accurate.

   DHSB

You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cracked while installing Linux :)

« Last post by Renegade on September 24, 2007, 10:33 PM »

There are production apps released for Mono. There are quite a few actually. I'm not sure how everyone is developing, but I suspect that people are doing most in Visual Studio. MonoDevelop is a port of SharpDevelop, but it's not production ready. Too many crashes.

I tried to get Eclipse running with some plugins to develop in C#, but never quite finished. Seems a bit rocky there as well. We'll see though. At the moment I've got some audio editing to do, but I'll be getting back to things ASAP.

Basically, the Mono framework is ready at varying levels for different things, but the development tools for it still seem behind - unless you're using VS of course - but that doesn't run on Linux.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cracked while installing Linux :)

« Last post by Renegade on September 24, 2007, 12:00 PM »

A good friend runs a major international company's web servers for Europe and swears by BSD as the only thing you can possibly consider for DNS. He's had Linux brought to its knees where BSD doesn't break a sweat. That said, for other things he's told me about, Solaris is the way to go. It's really good to hear from people in the field that have servers with real heavy load.

Suse I picked because of Mono. So far, things are very rocky. MonoDevelop is not very stable and things just aren't very smooth so far. We'll see though.