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Official Announcements / Re: Does Santa skip you during the holidays? Cody won't forsake you

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2010, 10:15 AM »

Or are the packages thusly sized that you'd have to send out two no matter what? (I can imagine the member kits being sized to suit a box.)

The member kit is printed, packed, and sent by me in a thin 6x9 envelope -- it's not that exciting

The mugs are sent directly from cafepress, and never touch my hands.  In the old days i used to order all of the mugs sent directly to my house and wrap and pack them up and ship them out myself.  But not only did this turn out to be a ton of work, the US post office started raising international shipping rates so much that it became cheaper to have cafepress send them out directly.

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Official Announcements / Re: Does Santa skip you during the holidays? Cody won't forsake you

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2010, 09:43 AM »

As long as there is a healthy interval between requests, or if you are requesting a kit for a friend, it's fine to request new one, no need for additional donation*.

^{*we are going to have another fundraiser soon.. and we always welcome additional/repeat donations during fundraisers!}

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2010, 09:04 AM »

If we can't get this solved today i will upload a special version for you that will report when and where the settings file is being saved.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2010, 09:04 AM »

so even on the desktop its not saving your settings?

can you see if you can find the FindAndRunRobot folder in your user documents area, and see if its saving it in there?

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Official Announcements / Re: Does Santa skip you during the holidays? Cody won't forsake you

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2010, 08:48 AM »

This is pretty cool, not going to lie. How do you afford to mail out these kits?

-Ashraf (December 08, 2010, 12:17 AM)

It's just a fun thing to do and it isn't very expensive.

To date i have sent out about 350 member kits to countries all over the world.. though not ever country, which is disappointing.
Usually i just put some approximate postage on them, occasionally they come back to me saying i need to add postage which i do.
The last international set i sent out required almost $2 in postage but usually i put about $1 on those, and so i might cut back on what i put in the international versions.  The cost for the printing and bookmarks and stuff is small since everything is low quality.

This might shed some additional light: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9322.0

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Official Announcements / Re: Does Santa skip you during the holidays? Cody won't forsake you

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 09:39 PM »

those are pictures of the cat yawning, i've got dozens of them and the cat is very happy to perform them on it's own without any encouragement from me. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can´t capture photo of an video with Screenshot captor

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 05:20 PM »

Hi Roberto,

See this thread for the answer: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3360.0

Basically capturing screens from video players is best done using a video player that knows how to take screenshots itself internally.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why would a digitally signed executable be treated unsigned until viewing cert?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:51 PM »

Well it was a brilliant suggestion but it didn't help.. Even after downloading the file from the internet using internet explorer, the behavior is the same.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request for help: graphic designer/writer to make an old-timey 2-page wackyness

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:33 PM »

oh hell yes.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why would a digitally signed executable be treated unsigned until viewing cert?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:31 PM »

thats a brilliant suggestion.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request for help: graphic designer/writer to make an old-timey 2-page wackyness

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:28 PM »

im not sure the actual style matters but this is what i envisioned as the ideal kind of look:
http://www.google.co...amp;oq=&gs_rfai=

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request for help: graphic designer/writer to make an old-timey 2-page wackyness

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:14 PM »

I'd really like to revive this.. any takers?

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Official Announcements / Does Santa skip you during the holidays? Cody won't forsake you

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 04:01 PM »

If you crave a symbolic and highly valuable^* gift under your tree this december, don't forget that all supporting/honorary members of DonationCoder can request a free "Member Kit" that will be mailed out to any corner of the universe free of charge.

You can request it: here.

An updated image of the likely contents:



^* By highly valuable of course i mean monetarily worthless and likely to cause friends and family to look upon you scornfully; also, the membership card may bring you good luck if you bring it with you to bars and pubs, preferably in the bottom of your shoe.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 01:07 PM »

i think the PORTABLE=TRUE already forces the configuration directory to be in same directory as the app, so the CONFIGDIR line *should* be unnesc.

if you are trying to use FARR from a dropbox directory and having troubles.. why not first try it in a directory in your documents path, and see if that works first.  if so, then the problem has something to do with the dropbox setup and farr.

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General Software Discussion / Re: slock - anyone using it still?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 12:08 PM »

one brute force solution would be create a vmware virtual machine image that runs the key generator if it wont just run on any pc.. then you could run it virtually if you had to.

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Developer's Corner / Why would a digitally signed executable be treated unsigned until viewing cert?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 12:05 PM »

I posted this over at Stack Overflow as well, but maybe someone here has an idea:

I'm getting a very odd result when running an executable that has been digitally signed.

The executable was signed using signtool.exe using a proper level 2 code signing certificate (not self-generated).

Testing on a Windows 7 machine, if i launch the signed executable, I get the windows warning dialog saying Publisher Unknown (i.e. not signed).

However, if i then cancel and right-click on the executable and go to Properties -> Digital Signatures, the Signature list shows the signed certificate, which i can then click on and choose "Details" to view the details of the signature, which is shown as "The digital signature is OK".

At that point, if i launch the executable, now all of a sudden windows properly recognizes that the exectuable is signed and reports the correct "Verified Publisher".

It seems like maybe Windows wasn't checking the certificate online until i went to view the actual certificate details from the properties dialog of the executable (note that it wasn't just a delay after launching the executable, it doesnt matter how long i wait or how many times i launch it, it treats it as unsigned until i go into Properties / Digital signatures of the file).

This a generic Windows 7 install I use for testing -- it hasn't been modified or tweaked in any way.

This behavior seems to defeat the main purpose of code signing on Windows-- how can it be that the executable is treated as unsigned unless the user knows to go into the right-click properties and digs around for a certificate.

Is there something I'm missing? Some way to mark the executable as one that Windows should actively go check the certificate of when executed?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANI 2011 Pledge : A centralised and updatable version of FScript

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 09:08 AM »

I'm going to have a little boy and I might be a little tired once he'll be there

Congratulations!!!!!  a little mini ecaradeckito

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Programmer Libs / Re: DLL Helper and INNO Setup Example: Closing/Messaging Apps for Install/Uninstall

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2010, 09:05 AM »

i'm just impressed you managed to get something to work from my example.. i know it wasn't very clear.

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Living Room / Re: The SSL certificate industry is a messy business

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 11:20 PM »

I've been really impressed with StartSSL so far.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 07:49 PM »

try making the first line of your ConfigDir.ini file:
PORTABLE=TRUE

it should then save all settings in the application directory -- assuming it has permission to do so (if it doesn't then your settings wont be saved).

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Official Announcements / Re: Preparing for a new master DonationCoder server

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 07:47 PM »

i think the other thing to consider is that stability and reliability are the main reason we went with softlayer in the first place.. so i'd be hesitant to move anywhere other than a dedicated hosting company with a really good reputation.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 04:24 PM »

thanks for the recommendation of the Daily Life book, i think i'm going to pick that up -- looks cool.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Special Edition Newsletter for December 3rd, 2010 - "NANY EVE"

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 03:50 PM »

I'd like to beg and plead that anyone who is a member of another site where a programmer or two might hang out, or is in contact with someone who is a member of such a site, or knows of such a site, PLEASE let them know about the NANY event and the end-of-year deadline.

The more participants the better!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 01:54 PM »

hit cancel or continue a few times until it goes away, then go to options and launch history and see if you find a reference to that drive.

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Official Announcements / Re: Preparing for a new master DonationCoder server

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2010, 01:19 PM »

You know it occurs to me that someone at one of these providers should have enough foresight to think that hosting a DC server would be a good way to get a lot of very cheap very good publicity to a highly-targetted audience, and show a bit of support for a very active development community.

it's really true.. if i was better at these things i probably would have secured such a "sponsoring" for DC long ago.. it's one of the rare cases where we would probably be happy to take the sponsored hosting and be proud to let people know about the hosting company that provided it, ASSUMING the hosting was really top quality, and they were willing to make a long time commitment to us.