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Official Announcements / Re: New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on April 12, 2018, 09:44 AM »

Unlike my home setting experience disk space is more expensive than bandwidth and other things in the hosting world. Of course hard drives used on servers are not the same as those for personal use but over my time I have shopped for hosting countless times and one can get the best processors, bandwidth but suddenly over 100GB disk space (or 500GB for example for dedicated servers) the price climbs rapidly. I suspect hosting all software, images, videos here on DC servers is itself requiring more cash. Several examples I have come across are in hosting forum sites. The 'not expensive' processor and RAM options can easily handle the number of connections and users who are simultaneously viewing the site and demanding resources...but as the forum accumulates GBs of posts and content the costs rise faster than one might think.

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Official Announcements / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Discounts and Giveaways Discussion Thread

« Last post by rgdot on April 11, 2018, 07:11 PM »

If you truly like the software you won, it would be nice if you posted a little mini-review about it, as a way of saying thank you to the company that donated it for us to give away.

-mouser (April 11, 2018, 05:29 PM)

Good idea, will after a few days of using it.

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Official Announcements / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Discounts and Giveaways Discussion Thread

« Last post by rgdot on April 11, 2018, 08:31 AM »

Thanks mouser, wraith808, Cranioscopical and the software companies 

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder 2018 Fundraiser

« Last post by rgdot on April 02, 2018, 10:32 PM »

  good job everyone

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for April 2nd, 2018 - A Fundraiser to Celebrate 13 years

« Last post by rgdot on April 02, 2018, 08:52 AM »

 Thanks mouser and everybody

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Official Announcements / Re: New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on March 28, 2018, 03:38 PM »

Starting, be back in a few days 

Seriously though, thanks, will read with interest 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by rgdot on March 27, 2018, 07:39 PM »

Tapping on the wifi name in question and tapping on 'forget network' should do that

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Living Room / Re: [Breaking News] Prof. Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.

« Last post by rgdot on March 13, 2018, 11:34 PM »

RIP 

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Where is Baby Cody

« Last post by rgdot on March 10, 2018, 04:16 PM »

US postal service is way faster than Canada Post 

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by rgdot on February 23, 2018, 03:36 PM »

Mouser Tails



Amazon best sellers list Spring 2018

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Living Room / Re: Why doesn't DC make its own browser?

« Last post by rgdot on February 19, 2018, 10:08 AM »

The biggest issue with open source small team (or not even small) projects is the need to keep up with issues. There is no way any one should use just any even if it 'works well'. Not to get off track but even in major linux repositories very old browser versions last months, even something like old insecure Putty version for example.
Browsers are very much a case of surrendering to the big guys, unfortunate but reality.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Essay: Designing Windows 95’S User Interface

« Last post by rgdot on February 09, 2018, 09:22 PM »

In before someone posts that Mac did it first 

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by rgdot on February 06, 2018, 08:00 AM »

Another yes

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by rgdot on February 04, 2018, 10:25 AM »

Windows Switch (to Linux) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: An Adobe Flash 0day is being actively exploited in the wild

« Last post by rgdot on February 03, 2018, 11:02 AM »

One can embed Flash in Excel? Use case of that shows how out of touch MS are, why even that feature. What's the point of something like Powerpoint then (I know I am exaggerating but not that much really  )

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Living Room / Re: how tall is Cody?

« Last post by rgdot on February 01, 2018, 07:31 PM »

I have a theory it is really Mouser in a costume all along 

-Carol Haynes (February 01, 2018, 07:02 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on February 01, 2018, 02:43 PM »

Not Venice, Holland or France but yes Europe :p

Aveiro,_Portugal^w

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on February 01, 2018, 11:48 AM »

From last October. Anyone want to guess where this is?

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by rgdot on January 31, 2018, 08:38 PM »

So nice 

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Living Room / Re: Renaming query: how to keep e.g. 1a, 1b when renumbering

« Last post by rgdot on January 30, 2018, 11:06 AM »

Dont have it currently to test but something like Bulk Rename Utility could be set to ignore/not touch after X positions, so after 4 in your case. Not sure if logic would work but it might.

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Official Announcements / Re: New DonationCoder, New Ideas

« Last post by rgdot on January 20, 2018, 01:01 PM »

Windows software and midweek, let's say Tuesdays

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Official Announcements / Re: New DonationCoder, New Ideas

« Last post by rgdot on January 20, 2018, 12:50 PM »

Since my own site has moved off freeware reviews (or something close to that any way) I can try to commit to this...and to be as regular as required.

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fSekrit / Re: Post your links to places to read and add reviews of fsekrit here

« Last post by rgdot on January 19, 2018, 07:57 AM »

Make Use Of
7 Niche Windows Desktop Utilities You Must Try

https://www.makeuseo...s-desktop-utilities/

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Living Room / Re: The new CMS is now LIVE! - Please report any bugs/issues here.

« Last post by rgdot on January 17, 2018, 10:01 AM »

I'd put it on my todo list, but at this point my todo list has been concatenated and is scrollable for miles.
I think the more likely even that will happen before then is the possibility of migrating all of our content to a new forum system at the end of the year.  Right now I'm still spending 18 hour days working on getting all of the final little the server migration details working right.

-mouser (January 17, 2018, 09:54 AM)

And spend even more time fixing redirection and SEO issues. Becareful what you wish for

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Living Room / Re: The new CMS is now LIVE! - Please report any bugs/issues here.

« Last post by rgdot on January 17, 2018, 09:57 AM »

See the homepage, he looks pretty happy and so does his creature 

-mouser (January 17, 2018, 08:56 AM)