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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Virtual Collectible Trading Card Game Framework
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2011, 09:15 AM »
I've been talking to Krishean, a javascript pro who hangs out on DC about the prospect of participating.. I'm anxious to hear what he says.

It may be that the best thing we can do is describe a general system and data file formats and then let different people write different "clients" for it.

In my opinion however the best thing you could at the moment is send me a pm and sign up at http://redmine.dcisv.com and i will add your account to the redmine project page for this project, and you can look around at what we've already written up and maybe test some of the existing tools to see how they compare to what we might do differently.
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Living Room / "We're Alive" - Online Radio Show Drama
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2011, 08:46 AM »
From Drake's Games, one of my favorite board game review sites, comes this recommendation about a very cool and scary online indie radio show about a zombie apocalypse.  You can listen to all episode online.

I downloaded the first couple episodes and gave it a spin on the way to work. And then I was hooked.  It turns out, We're Alive is just freaking brilliant. The story takes about two minutes before it grabs you by your nostrils and forces you to listen to every word. The characters are believable, the story is intense, and the acting is... well, OK, the acting often blows.


Direct link to show: http://www.zombiepod...reAliveEpisodes.html
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Site/Forum Features / Re: DC Forum Mods Thread
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2011, 03:28 AM »
It's currently set to 90 days, but it's easy to change.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: DC Forum Mods Thread
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2011, 01:57 AM »
I've added code so that the Quick Reply Box now shows a warning when you are viewing an old topic, so that people will be a little more conscientious about reviving very old threads.
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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Google Chrome - non-default profile as default browser how-to?
« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2011, 11:43 PM »
Thank you so much for posting your solution Alec; I apologize i have been coding on another project so i've been slow responding to posts lately.

I'm glad you got it working  :up:
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2011, 09:25 AM »
Is it right you need commandline access to start a project?
you would only need commandline access to use the feature that builds a new project directory for you, but this is 100% optional and not very important. you can easily make your own new application directory structure manually.

as far as version controlling database schema.. yii wont create database tables for you automatically, so in as much as their is a database schema it is all in your class code.  though take my comments on this with a grain of salt because this is an area i don't know much about.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2011, 04:27 AM »
CodeIgniter and Yii are similar PHP frameworks, and they are both excellent starting points for custom projects.
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Living Room / Re: Flash TD Game of the Week: Bloons Tower Defense 4
« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2011, 02:51 AM »
Bloons TD4 just got an update.. it's pretty good:
http://ninjakiwi.com...Tower-Defense-4.html
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 11:34 PM »
Have i looked at drupal?  

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8030.0

I've used drupal on several projects now, and found it consistently unintuitive, confusing, and unpleasant.

It is powerful and extremely flexible, and has a nice modular design, and has a library of books about it (which i love), but it is big and alien.

If you are a coder who needs to develop a custom project that is first and foremost a CMS, Drupal may still be the right choice.  It does a good job of supporting modular non-invasive extensions.

But I was very unhappy with trying to use Drupal as the base of a project which was not really a CMS.  It *looks* like it might be a good foundation for generic projects that have user accounts, etc -- but i found it deeply frustrating.

And especially after having gone back to basics with a lightweight framework like yii, I can say it is immeasurably more enjoyable to build code on top of a more lean and minimalist foundation, rather than trying to find your way through the convolutions of something like Drupal.

It's really an age-old problem for programmers, whether it's better to rewrite your own version of some code or use an existing codebase.  Drupal has a ton of code that can be appealing in terms of letting you start off with most of the code you need already in place.  But as someone who has often leaned in that direction, I'm remembering now nice it is to write it yourself and really understand the code well, and not have so much stuff in there that has nothing to do with your needs.
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 06:10 PM »
Someone who has some experience with "Burn In" tools should tell us a good free program for doing this.

Here's an example of a payware one:
http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm

What BurnInTest does is thoroughly exercise the hardware in a PC in a short period of time, in the same way as normal applications use a PC over a long period of time. This takes advantage of the fact that computer hardware tends to fail either very early in its life or after many thousands of hours of use. Typically BurnInTest should be used before a PC is put into service, as the failure of a computer that isn’t being used for a critical application and doesn’t have any critical data is much less damaging, (especially if it is still under warranty).

BurnInTest will bring intermittent or hidden problems to the surface so that after a successfully run the computer can be used with a much higher level of confidence. BurnInTest can also be used by overclockers to verify system stability at high clock speeds.

BurnInTest tests the CPU, hard drives, RAM, CD-ROMs, CD burners, DVDs, sound cards, 2D graphics, 3D graphic, network connection, etc.
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 05:36 PM »
There are times when one needs to really do a hardcore investigation into the cause of a failure, and then there are times to say "the problem is fixed, that's good enough."  at this point i think your best bet is to get back to enjoying your new computer and just be religious about keeping backups of any data on that new computer, in case the problem turns out to be a bad hard drive.

Personally I would also try hard to put that drive and pc to the test in the next week or so -- defrag it, run benchmarks on it.  If it's going to fail, better to find out sooner rather than later.  And just relax and enjoy it!
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Living Room / Re: Lots of New Members
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 08:40 AM »
i don't get it.  :huh:
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 06:39 AM »
I've been using Yii more lately and I have to say that there are some areas where it is absolutely a joy to use.  It's Active Record and Form classes make it very clean and easy to present forms, do error checking/reporting, and save/modify model data.  This is the bread and butter work of these frameworks and Yii just excels at this this kind of stuff.  It also seems to be very flexibly in terms of how you organize your code and how you handle flow of program execution.

To be sure it's not perfect, but I continue to be impressed with how smooth it is to code for, in a way that i've not been with any of the other frameworks i've looked at. 
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Living Room / Re: Lots of New Members
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2011, 06:32 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Living Room / Re: Lots of New Members
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2011, 05:19 PM »
What's the advantage of registering if you're a bot?

i suspect that every popular site on the web has bot scripts that try to create as many accounts as possible, every day, to sell to spam bot networks.. the accounts probably stay dormant until needed.  its not surprising that spam bot networks are creating automated accounts to deploy in the future.. it's just surprising how many accounts they are trying to make every day.
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2011, 03:30 PM »
spending time worrying about wasting money is often much worse an affliction that wasting a little money.  if you had built it yourself you'd just as likely have a whole host of different problems.

just put it out of your mind, it sounds like you did well in the end -- just enjoy your new super pc  :up:
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2011, 08:17 AM »
Their test simply showed that the hardware was fine and working correctly - which it was, until you try putting windows 7 64 bit onto it.

Absolutely.. As you said in your initial posts, the drive was found but only gave trouble when you tried to do a full OS install.  Very possible their testing did not check for real hard drive use.  So they turned it on, everything was detected, they turned it off.

So many of us have had problems with loose cables or unplugging and replugging components that it's just a natural thing to suspect.

A quick look around the web about 6gb sata cables is not definitive but it seems quite plausible that the problem was indeed that the non-6gb cable they attached as either not good enough or was defective.

Given how clear the change in behavior was when you swapped the cables, i STRONGLY suspect you have indeed fixed the problem.  :up:
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Living Room / Re: Lots of New Members
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2011, 03:08 AM »
We get about 80 new members a day.

(we used to get over twice that a day until i hardened the registration page and stopped the automated bots from registering -- that's a scary thought isn't it?)
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2011, 06:37 PM »
The machine was built by Overclockers (in the uk), a store that have dealt with high end machines for years - so you'd assume they know what they are doing when it comes to putting a new build together for a customer. Somehow they overlooked using the correct 6gb sata cable.

It's inconceivable that the machine didnt work and test at last minimally ok before they sent it out.  While it's possible that the cable was bad, it seems just as likely to me that the cable was perhaps loose or flakey, and so seemed to work when they sent it.

The very first thing to do when hardware in a pc seems not to work, is unplug it, and then reseat it.  This goes for all cables, memory chips, cards, etc.  So it may just be a matter of unplugging the cable and reseating it that fixed it, rather than changing the cable.  Who knows.
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2011, 05:29 PM »
I would still treat the machine as on probation for the next month, and run lots of "burn in" tools on it -- software tools designed to stress test your pc components (memory, hd, etc.).

It's possible that it was just the cable, but it's also possible the problem is deeper and just waiting recur.  The most important thing though is that if there is a problem that is going to recur, you find out now while the shop would still fix it.

So do yourself a favor and stress the hell out of the machine in the next few days and don't risk any real data on it until it's proven stable.
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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2011, 05:14 AM »
App103 told me about this -- Netflix just added the complete* set of Star Trek tv series, and looks like they are all watchable online to netflix members.  This is a HUGE collection.


* Deep space 9 is not streamable online  :down:

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.08 (3/23/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2011, 04:49 AM »
New minor update2:
  • v1.09.01 - July 2, 2011 - now bypasses cache explicitly when checking for version update -- could cause old files on some pcs; thanks worstje
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Adventures of Baby Cody / Baby Cody needs a place to visit!
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2011, 04:08 AM »
It's time for Baby Cody to take another trip!!
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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
« Last post by mouser on July 01, 2011, 09:30 PM »
Now expecting a long drawn out saga to unfold repeatedly having to take it back to the shop to get it fully functional.
don't jump to conclusions, probably a very simple fix.

also something to consider -- if all this damage occured due to a lightning skrike, imagine what would happen if you actually had a lightning strike.
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Living Room / Re: Cat and Owl are Friends
« Last post by mouser on July 01, 2011, 05:21 PM »
And here's a domestic pair trying to get into the act:

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