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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Ethervane Radio

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 09:05 PM »

one thing i would like is that the search box seems to only search for a string -- it would really be nice to be able to search for multiple words anywhere, for i could type: england,jazz to find entries that have the word england somewhere AND the word jazz somewhere.  obviously one could get more fancy but basic AND / OR would be nice.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

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

stephen has a point there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 04:43 PM »

Drupal 7 is now public
http://drupal.org/

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 04:32 PM »

Right now it works like this:

when a word can be formed using the current letters, that word gets highlighted, and you can click it to get credits for it and this starts wheels spinning.

How i think it should work:

when a word can be formed using current letters, you automatically get credit for it (and words should be worth more i think!), and nothing happens.  then you can choose to keep making new words by adjusting wheels, etc.  and also add that for every 3 words you get within a spin you get an additional spin.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 04:19 PM »

Anything that cafepress makes is feasible..

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 04:05 PM »

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 03:49 PM »

plus its too hard. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 03:42 PM »

the one thing it still badly needs is some HELP and INSTRUCTIONS.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY MUGs

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 03:30 PM »

Ok so let's try to get the mugs out this weekend.. i think what we will do is offer your choice of 2 mugs, like we did last year.
Everyone who released one or more NANY's gets a mug.

First will be the canonical NANY Cody mug with the 2011 date.  And the second will be the Explosion Cody NANY mug.

The easiest way to send them I think is what i did last time, which was to send email gift certificates from cafepress with a link to the mugs so you can fill in your own shipping info and deal with them if there is any trouble.

If you already have a couple of NANY mugs and don't want any more we can figure out some alternative -- a shirt or something.

Does that sound ok?

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowsterTraySwitch v2.06.01 beta (oct 22, 2010)

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 03:22 PM »

Hi James,

Sorry for the delayed reply.  I've seen this happen before, it's when BTS has a hard time figuring out which browser is currently set.
One thing you could try is letting the browsers re-assert themselves as default, and then re-save their profiles from the BTS tray.
Can you tell me if that has any efffect?

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.06 (1/4/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 02:48 PM »

Note:

With this new version, coders who like to give each version a unique filename now have a way to do this.
In the past, the filename to download/unzip/run had to be specified in the .dcupdate file included in the current version, which meant you had to know the filename of the new file to run ahead of time when an update was discovered.  Now you can overide the filename in the version.xml file and change it with each new release, IF you would prefer that.

I still recommend against this, and for using the same filename on new versions, because it will make it easier for people to link to your program on other sites, etc., but it's now an option.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Transparency, The Command Line and Multiple Desktops

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 02:43 PM »

hi A,

well that should be easy to fix -- let me do both, a commandline option to force transparency, but also let me make sure it stops forgetting the transparency.
look for an update early next week.

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: Send us your 2xl tapes to be digitized and added to the simulator

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 10:26 AM »

I'm excited about the possibility of having more tapes add to the simulator 

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: booklets already scanned

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2011, 10:24 AM »

let's stick to doing only the special non-strandard button covers that come with some cartridges.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: askapic.com - Photo Q&A Site

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 11:39 PM »

askapic is looking really nice 

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.06 (1/4/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 09:41 PM »

New version uploaded
v1.06.01 - Jan 4, 2011 - added overide and redirect options in versioninfo file (see readme)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 06:04 PM »

fair enough, jotti COULD ask your program to delay if he writes that code -- but if he can't get himself to write that in time, it still might be something you could do now to solve the problem.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 05:53 PM »

Well im not sure i buy the logic.

You are right that 500 people using JottiQ can result in 500 uploads to the service at a time, which if Jotti is not prepared for, could result in a heavy load on the server.

Now a pre-check for server status and a delay of N seconds before uploading when server is busy will definitely help.

BUT, even without checking the server status, the point is that it will make a HUGE additional difference in load if you delay between multiple file uploads, since most people using JottiQ will be queuing more than one file.

So it's all fine and well to say that adding a delay won't 100% solve every problem -- it is the case that delays will have a HUGE effect on lowering the load on the server.

I suggest a delay of something like max(uploads/2,10)*(0.5+serverload)  (where serverload is from 0 to 1 based on server's reported serverload)

Adding the delay is something you have control over and could add really easily, and it would eliminate most of the problem and abuse.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 05:42 PM »

I surmise that the developer of Jotti will recognize the increased usefulness his program can provide in conjunction with JottiQ, and will likely be willing to work something out with you that will throttle the load.

I expect and hope so too.

One thing JottiQ could do is insert a delay between uploading files, and a check of the jotti server status that increases that delay when the server is busy.

This really seems like a simple and full solution to the problem, even if its not ideal in the sense of making people wait longer than they should have to wait if the jotti service was a bit more sophisticated.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Full screen capture

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 12:56 PM »

ah that's interesting..

BUT you might want to make sure that you havent disabled some fast directx graphics mode just so you can capture screenshots -- typically the thing that stops you from capturing full screen screenshots of directx applications is that directx is in a more efficient faster low-level graphics rendering mode.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: "VeggieSquares" - Children's Game

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 11:59 AM »

i just used the ctrl+alt+del processes window.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: "VeggieSquares" - Children's Game

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 11:34 AM »

Sometimes it's not an easy decision about whether to release something in a state where it's not finished.  Sometimes we release too early and the result is frustration for users.  Sometimes we release too late and lose out on early feedback.  One thing you might want to consider is if this might be a case where you aren't quite ready for a public release.. Just something to think about.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: "VeggieSquares" - Children's Game

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 11:30 AM »

Yeah it pretty much locks up my computer with the high cpu use, whether minimized to taskbar or not.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: "VeggieSquares" - Children's Game

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 10:45 AM »

Running veggie squares, i could drag around the things but:

• The program was running 27% cpu usage the whole time, making the rest of my computer pretty unresponsive
• The radio boxes for grid size didn't do anything
• I couldn't get anything else to happen

Is there something i'm missing or is this just the current state of the program?

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Living Room / Re: What would it look like if all DC visitors were gathered in one place?

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2011, 10:15 AM »

Something is clearly wrong with that photo, though i couldn't quite put my finger on it until i went back to the site app used to generate it and saw she didn't check the "show cody" box: