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General Software Discussion / Re: A [probable] RTFM conundrum ...

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2010, 07:00 PM »

Just something like "Help Request: Php files on Apache server not loading right"

it doesn't have to be perfect -- but hitting the 3 main points:

• Looking for assistance
• Php
• Apache

would go along way to making the thread something that someone with similar problem would find and think to read.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A [probable] RTFM conundrum ...

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2010, 06:32 PM »

ps -- just a pet peeve -- when starting a new topic, can we all make sure we try to specify topic titles that will help people searching identify the topic contents.

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Living Room / Re: Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2010, 04:59 PM »

Of all the things i worry about in terms of government overstepping it's bounds, worrying about them shutting down the internet or part of it is not even on my radar.  Any reasonably sized entity/company/group can take down almost any small website at will with a distributed denial of service attack, etc.. and persecuted/underground groups will always be able to pop up somewhere else.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ten dollars off mIRC

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2010, 04:38 PM »

great opportunity to join the #donationcoder channel on efnet.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: DCDisplay

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2010, 10:16 AM »

screenshots please!

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Apparent Bug

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 09:18 PM »

Confirmed.. i must have broken something.. i will try to fix.

can you see if it works if you save it as a PNG..
maybe it's only jpg that it doesnt work for.

I think maybe i see the problem.. i think it's trying to save the entire background image in the comments field of the image files.. which is too big for it, at least in case of jpg.  Instead it should just save the NAME of the background image file, that should make it work.  Will try to update this week.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Apparent Bug

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 09:16 PM »

It should be able to re-load your text at least, let me look into it.. maybe i broke something recently..

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General Software Discussion / Re: jv16 - Pay to keep license on file?

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 08:55 PM »

i think its beyond ridiculous when companies offer this "insurance" policy of keeping your license on file.  give me a break -- all companies keep your license key on file and can resend it if you lose it.   this is just a way to squeeze a few more bucks out of you for nothing.

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 08:52 PM »

ok i do see it on amazon for about $150 each, so we just need to raise $300 total for each of you two to get one.

on behalf of DC i will pledge the first half of that ($150) using donationcredits sent to sgtevmckay, so we just need to get another $150 raised by DC and CircleDock users.

everyone reading this who uses circledock send sgtevmckay a few donationcredits and let's get that second $150 raised by mid/end july!

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 08:33 PM »

i think maybe we should try to arrange a mini-fundraiser to raise $400 so sgtevmckay and Markham (and of course Eric Wong if he shows his head) can have their own Mimo touch screens, assuming that is something you two would like to have?  They are $199 each.

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Developer's Corner / Re: JayIsGames.Com Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 07:25 PM »

No flash game coders want to try to code my idea for a game as an entry?
What about javascript coders? There isn't too much fancy graphics to my idea, it could be done in javascript..

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 07:09 PM »

That video brought a huge smile to my face. thank you for taking the time to record and post it.  

And that is a VERY cool way to use Circle Dock !

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UrlSnooper / Re: Web Installers (getting download details)

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2010, 07:10 AM »

you can't get that information from url snooper, BUT it's almost certainly going to be in one of the system Temp folders.. if you keep an eye on them you can usually spot the new directory being created.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we add tags to forum?

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2010, 10:08 PM »

poster and those with special permission to edit all tags.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Code::Blocks 10.05 has been out...

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2010, 10:16 AM »

that's great news.. it has been a very long time since this excellent ide was officially updated.

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Seedling's Software / Re: Mixtape Maker: Updates and Latest Beta Versions Here

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2010, 03:53 AM »

Mixtape Maker Review:
http://www.ilovefree...m-mixtape-maker.html

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we add tags to forum?

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2010, 10:50 PM »

superboyac, we should remember that when we appreciate the search function on the donationcoder forum, it's not me that deserves thanks, it's our beloved member Wordzilla, who spent a lot of time rewriting the default smf search functions to give them dinosaur power, creating what he called the "zillarank" system:

• https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9434.0

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Site/Forum Features / Should we add tags to forum?

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2010, 04:59 PM »

There is a nice tagging system for the simple machines forum (smf) system we use to power the donationcoder forum, which just got an update.
I wonder if it's time for us to install it here.

http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=579

As you can see from the screenshots, it allows people to assign tags to topics; topics can then be browsed by tag, or by clicking on a tag cloud.




The benefit is that is provides another view into forum contents.
The downside is that it requires some maintenance and effort to tag stuff, and it might create a little more "noise" and complication when posting.

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Python / Congratulations to mnemonic for completing all stage 1 assignments

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2010, 10:38 AM »

Congratulations to mnemonic (David Albone) for completing all 10 assignments in the Python stage 1 programming school.

The latter assignments were extremely involved and i'm blown away that he was able to achieve them, and do such a good job of it.  I wouldn't have a moment of hesitation recommending him for difficult and large python professional programming jobs.

Wow.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quora - Facebook meets Yahoo Answers meets Wikipedia meets Twitter

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2010, 08:25 AM »

i add screenshots so i can blog the items.

thank you for the review, much appreciated.

future requests:

• skip the colored text and various font manipulations -- makes it harder to read.. the yellow in particular is almost invisible.
• use bbcode "lists" like this one -- makes multiple items easier to read and is really easy to do, just select a bunch of text and hit the "insert list" button.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR won't start - help!

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2010, 08:22 AM »

see if you can figure out what plugin is causing the trouble.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2010, 08:22 AM »

minor refinement:

i now have a "TO FILE" group.  whenever i write a new card, even if it belongs in one of my existing paperclipped groups, i put it with the "TO FILE" group temporarily.

then periodically i sort the "TO FILE" and place cards in their proper places.

this has a few advantages:
1. Ensures i go through these new cards at least once more before filing-and-forgetting.
2. Makes it faster for me to add new cards without being distracted by having to find the place they should be permanently stored.
3. Makes it easier for me to quickly look at newly added items.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR won't start - help!

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2010, 08:11 AM »

leaving aside the issue of starting when windows starts, if you just run FARR manually, will it run?
if it still wont work you could try this:
Exit Farr
go to the directory where FARR stores its settings (in the program files\findandrunrobot) if on win xp or older, or in documents\donationcoder\finadandrunrobot if on vista or later, and rename the FindAndRunRobot.ini file as  FindAndRunRobot_RENAMED.ini and try starting then.

if its a plugin issue you could try renaming the Plugins folder and restarting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A [probable] RTFM conundrum ...

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2010, 06:13 PM »

ok couple of quick simple questions first:

You say the PHP files merely display the page as PHP code text.

Are you for sure open the files through the apache web server? This is kind of an obvious question except i have dragged and drop local filed into my web browser before and been confused for a minute why the php wasn't being interpreted.  In other words, the php files, are you accessing them like http://localhost/myfile.php or http://127.0.0.1/myfile.php and not file://c:\myfile.php

Second question would be that it sure sounds like your apache httpd.conf file is not saying to interpret php files with the php interpreter.  One thing to watch out for is having multiple copies of httpd.conf in different locations and editing a useless one and wondering why the changes don't take.  you might want to first confirm that's not happening.

Then of course make sure you restart apache after you make a change.

Lastly, some recent changes made files that used to be marked as php with <? tags now can require <?php tags.  see if that's your problem.

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Circle Dock / Re: 7 inch touchscreen

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2010, 11:53 AM »

this is a very cool idea.. i can't wait to hear how it goes.  let us know!