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Living Room / Re: What the heck has happened to Google search?

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:44 PM »

yep, posts on the forum are now in google an hour or two after they are made, which is very cool.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:40 PM »

loss of packets is quite possible -- but normally in this case doesn't the browser detect that it is having communication problems and stall, etc.  I mean thats what i see happen when we know there is a packet loss issue.  The result is slow downloads not corrupted ones.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 04:24 PM »

The thing i find strangest is that the browser is not figuring out that the download is incomplete.. that's what's really throwing me for a loop -- i mean normally the browser knows when a connection has failed, etc.  What's particularly bizarre in this case is that the browser and server are somehow convinced that the download has fully finished successfully.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter and Indie2GoGo Projects Spotlight - April 11, 2011

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 02:44 PM »

Great work wraith808 -- i can see this is going to be a great series and look forward to each week's new edition!

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Developer's Corner / Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 08:05 AM »

We've always had an occasional occurrence of this problem, but it seems to be getting worse lately..  Someone will try to download a program from our website (main or member server), and when they try to run it, they get an error saying its "not a valid win32 application" or "The setup files are corrupted".

Worse yet, if they try to re-download the browser gives them the cached half-finished download again so the problem recurs and they are left very confused and thinking the software is defective.

A search on the web shows that this does happen enough to everyone that the problem is well known

But my question is: Does anyone have any server experience who can help us understand how to fix this problem on the server end -- to stop this from happening so often?  What is causing downloads to fail half way through, and leave the browser thinking the download is complete? And how can we fix this on our server end?

Does anyone have any server running experience have any idea? Help!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by mouser on April 11, 2011, 12:16 AM »

i don't mean to push my feelings on anyone.. but do we maybe think the points on this thread have been hashed out several times over, and maybe it's time to move on? just a thought.

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2011, 08:22 AM »

ps.
I'll mail a deck of CodyCards to the person who does the best job of coming up with some alternate rules that make use of the images on the cards.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Tooltip Hide Option

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2011, 06:55 AM »

Assuming you mean the balloon messages, yes of course there is, just uncheck these:

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2011, 06:04 AM »

Looks like he had a great time

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Screenshot Captor / Re: not a valid win32 program

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2011, 08:00 PM »

It's not your fault.  The solution can be found here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=24794.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 08:20 PM »

Glad it finally got solved! 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 05:50 PM »

that I lived on the moon video has been posted before in this thread, but it's worth another post -- very very moving.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 05:39 PM »

BINGO.

You have edited your configdir.in file and told FARR you want it to run in portable mode and to save its settings to its current directory.
BUT you have placed it in a directory that windows7 will not allow it to save to.

That is the cause of your problems.

If you want it to run in portable mode and/or save its settings to its own directory, you MUST install it in a directory that it has write access to.

Mystery solved.  I suppose a clearer error message though would make this easier to diagnose in the future.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 02:44 PM »

And how did it get installed into C:\Program Files\ on windows 7? It should have installed into C:\Program Files (x86)..
It's almost as if it doesn't know its running on Windows 7..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 02:31 PM »

yes we sure are..
the main question is.. why is it trying to work with a settings file in C:\Program Files\ if you are on Win7.  That is the heart of the problem.

Do you have a configdir.ini file in your C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\ directory? can you paste here the first few lines in that file?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 01:13 PM »

Ok try this, it's the exe only: https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.zip

Unpack it over your existing FindAndRunRobot.exe and run it.

It should create a debugout.txt file in your documents \donationcoder\findandunrobot directory or something like that.
I guess what you want to do is run FARR, change a setting, and then exit.
And then check out that debugout.txt file and search for "IN SaveSettings"

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DesktopCoral / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DesktopCoral - 1.10.01 - Jan 16, 2011

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2011, 12:36 PM »

seems like it should be something easy to fix.. if a little hard to test.

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Living Room / Re: Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 05:39 PM »

i posted about my initial experiences using a Kindle DX: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=23436.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New pixelate effect for Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 05:31 PM »

Why doesn't user go to options and disable grid if they don't like it?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 02:12 PM »

are you using the latest version of farr?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: opening current applications

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 01:06 PM »

it's not possible yet but it's high on my todo list and should be implemented very soon (as an option).

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 10:39 AM »

CodyCards now has a page on BoardGameGeek: http://www.boardgame...game/96194/codycards

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 09:23 AM »

The version history is here:
https://www.donation.../version_history.htm

If you are using a version from 2007.. there was a LOT added since then and a lot improved.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 07:40 AM »

if one of these stickies programs has a commandline callable interface to add notes, someone could easily make a farr alias to add sticky notes to it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [CH&S] after a long break - beginner's queries

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 07:40 AM »

good idea -- i'll note that you can just blindly press down arrow then enter to get the first item on list.  Or just press the 1 key.