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Living Room / Re: Dealing with the people who think they might want to be your new client. Almost.

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 05:08 PM »

thanks for that correction  

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Living Room / Re: Dealing with the people who think they might want to be your new client. Almost.

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 04:40 PM »

I've not gotten stiffed on programming projects i was hired to do, but there have been a few times where my own hubris and bad judgement has led me to spend dozens and dozens of hours on a prototype or early work for a project that never materialized.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Official Update Thread

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 04:25 PM »

I suppose we should say that while tonight is the deadline to get your NANY submission(s) posted and public, because it will take us a week or two to prepare the final page (and screencast videos, and make a press released, etc.),  participants are welcome to keep improving their programs in the interim.

The requirement is that you must have a working public version submitted tonight, but no one is stopping you from continuing to improve it going forward.

(keep in mind that the screencasts, screenshots, and writeups will be based on the submissions on Jan 1, 2011).

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 04:19 PM »

I think it's a wonderful idea 

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

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 02:42 PM »

nany deadline is midnight CST:
http://www.timeandda...imezones/na/cst.html

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2010, 11:58 AM »

thanks for pointing that out! will fix.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 last minute Pledge: Ethervane Radio

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2010, 10:04 PM »

awesome! go for it! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2010, 03:54 PM »

This allows you to bundle the SnapDB.exe file and a .snp database file together for easy viewing.

great!

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Living Room / Card readers really do transfer at different speads

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2010, 02:08 PM »

I just wanted to post a quick note -- I had an older USB 2 memory (camera) card reader that was acting a tiny bit flakey occasionally, and replaced it just recently with an equally cheap ($14) new card reader (this one), also USB2, and the speed improvement is substantial.

I don't think there is anything special about the new card reader i just purchased, but i thought i would let people know of my experience that some card readers seem to be a lot faster than others.. in case you are plagued with a slow one and assume they are all slow.

Edit: I see other reviews on that amazon page for the product saying how fast it is, so maybe this should also be considered a recommendation for this particular $14 card reader.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2010, 02:04 PM »

chart builder -- nice !!

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2010, 09:44 AM »

if you do want to allow use of pc system beep instead of a wav sound file, a universal solution that would require no change in the UI would be too allow person to specify: "BEEP" as the sound file name, and when you see that beep the speaker instead of trying to play a sound file.  If you want to get fancy, allow different numbers of beeps, like: "BEEP3", which could be useful for alarms, etc.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on December 29, 2010, 09:04 PM »

my wish: get erikts some external speakers 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on December 29, 2010, 02:34 PM »

thanks for the bug reports dnknitro, all seem reasonable and accurate.

the only one that i think is not a bug is:

One more issue - is there a possibility to ultimately disable FARR's search through the all disks in the system? I would like to make FARR search _only_ within folders, defined in the Program Options->Lists->Search Folders?

farr will only search those folders.. something else must be happening if it is searching elsewhere.. maybe because of an item in your history.

after new year i will release some substantial farr updates, so hang on until then!

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Living Room / Re: So, when you're working, do you...

« Last post by mouser on December 29, 2010, 02:03 PM »

music i know well works for me.. i find lou reed to be excellent programming music.

in fact there was a thread on dc way back in February 2006 about what music is best to program to.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 04:48 PM »

ps thank you for the hourly charm feature -- i was just about to request it and figured i should make sure it wasn't already implemented.  

for those that are interested, i found a nice non-distracting chime from freesound.org which i am using: http://www.freesound...Single.php?id=106983

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 04:35 PM »

if you want to add super simple optional update checking, im happy to help show you how to use dcuhelper.

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Unfinished Requests / UNSOLVED: Program Idea: Commandline Table Printer

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 11:37 AM »

The idea is a simple commandline (and/or interactive gui) tool that can take a data file (csv perhaps) representing a possibly very large table of data, and print it out with nice pagination and options.

If someone already knows about a LIGHTWEIGHT program that will do this, i'd be interested to know.

There are no doubt some very serious desktop publishing / layout tools (tex, etc.) that can do it, but i think they are way overkill.

The idea came up in this thread, but i can think of lots of places where it would be nice to have such a feature.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 11:34 AM »

I agree printing would be a really nice feature, but it might be hard to implement.

I can think of two options:

• 1) there may be a standalone free commandline printing tool specialized for tables -- hey if there isn't, then that is a GREAT idea for someone to code.
• 2) perhaps more realistically, a reasonable solution would be to export an html file, and open it, and let user print from there (you could even triger the printing automatically probably using javascript); nice side benefit would be html export feature could be useful in and of itself for people who want to post their db on the web.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 11:26 AM »

minor suggestion:
maybe justify columns on data should really justify on max(data,column) or offer a third chioce for justify on both.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Run a security check on your Gmail account - if not already done

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 10:39 AM »

smart 

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Living Room / Re: Naming and Shaming Bad Forums with Bad Ethics

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 10:25 AM »

well, to be fair, a real RTFM reply to a request for help can be quite informative if it really does tell the user that the answer to their question can be found in the manual.

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Living Room / Re: complete 180 on mouse preference - what's the best cheap mouse?

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 08:50 AM »

Imagine yourself trying to draw a detailed portrait, on a window, with a bar of soap, while standing on an icy sidewalk.

hahahahah! i was going to say it's probably not very accurate but i think 40hz's answer has a bit more flavor to it.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Might a Web version be possible?

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 08:43 AM »

Most of what Unicode Image Maker does would be easy to do on as a web application (turn some text into an image); the parts that could require some work would depend on what kind of interactive user interface you needed.

You can email me ([email protected]) or you explain in more detail here if you like what you have in mind.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sound: How to turn off beep

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 08:18 AM »

there's a beep when you click on a thumbnail image in the side panel? i'm not sure why that would happen, and it does sound annoying.

the only sound that SC should make is when you capture a new image, and you can disable that from the "Post-Capture" options tab.

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Developer's Corner / Free manual for free software: How to Create Cool Music for Videogames

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 05:31 PM »

From the TIGSource website for independent game developers:

Merry Chrimbus, everyone! To coincide with the opening of his new website, here’s a gift for you from Gryzor87, the musician behind Locomalito’s Hydorah and L’Abbaye des Morts: a full-color, 95-page manual on how to use Pixel’s free PXTone program to make your own game music. But the word “manual” doesn’t quite do the project justice – Gryzor87 not only walks you through the app’s features, he also provides a lot of excellent advice and examples on how to make music that sounds good and fits the theme of your game. The download comes with pxtone and plenty of sample songs, voices, and other examples, too.

In short, it’s a one-stop source for anyone looking to get into making their own game music, and a work of art in its own right.

http://www.tigsource...or87s-pxtone-manual/