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Living Room / Re: International fame for DonationCoder?
« Last post by nudone on April 01, 2008, 01:51 AM »
i can confirm there is more truth to it than you may believe. ask mouser and he may be prepared to reveal a few details.
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Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel in PC Magazine 91 Utils
« Last post by nudone on April 01, 2008, 01:49 AM »
excellent  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Made the JUMP! --- X-STATIC About it!
« Last post by nudone on March 28, 2008, 01:56 PM »
good to hear it, Renegade. onwards and upwards from here on...
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thanks for the mention in the newsletter. and thanks for the compliments, tomos, timns and 40hz.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 19, 2008, 09:36 AM »
good point, CleverCat.
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com wallpapers (set 02)
« Last post by nudone on March 19, 2008, 06:00 AM »
here is a 16:10 version at 1920 x 1200 pixels.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com wallpapers (set 02)
« Last post by nudone on March 19, 2008, 02:43 AM »
i'll look into it...
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 18, 2008, 04:49 PM »
that's a common analogy, Jindoria, but i think the clueless pc user is more like the clueless driver - i think (or hope) that they are rare.

in other words, the clueless pc user (in my original example) is like someone that has been driving their car for several years and yet they still ask where the ignition switch is when they get into a new car. then they ask how to operate the steering wheel or the gear stick.

i have to admit i wouldn't have the faintest idea how the engine works in my car, but i do know how to drive it (and i'd know how to drive another car that didn't look like it). so i agree with the analogy on the hardware side of things.
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veyr interesting article.
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by nudone on March 17, 2008, 06:50 AM »
i look on them as being a little mini game to play or puzzle to solve, so they are fun.

perhaps i've just not had to deal with them as much as everyone else that is complaining.
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thanks again, guys. (and thanks on behalf of Mr. Maximus too.)
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thanks, guys. it's taken a long time to get just right with all the wordpress plugins and usual browser problems.

but more importantly, i hope that everyone will freqently check back on the site to see the new content. there are a few pictures i'll upload this week.

oh, should have said earlier, thanks go to mouser for his coding help. i'd have been forced to make a lot of changes if it wasn't for him.
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The Codex Transportica

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http://www.codextransportica.com

A mysterious book has recently come into my possession (Mr. R. Maximus is the other custodian of the book). It is our belief that the book contains something profound - we simply need time to translate the illegible scribble that accompanies the bizarre illustrations.

You are invited to join us and be part of the throng that will learn the mysteries of the Codex Transportica.

Please make use of the RSS and email subscription services to follow the adventure. Comments are welcomed over at the website, as are questions and suggestions. New posts will be uploaded at least once a week but I will aim to make them more frequent.

As further introduction, Mr. R. Maximus has deciphered the first extract from the beginning of the book.
First diary entry - undated.

The Seizures, as I have come to call them, struck quite suddenly. The first time, I was dining alone in a favourite house, and awoke face down on the linen. The wait staff seemed frightened of me; I had knocked over a water glass and broken a vase of flowers. Before me was the first drawing, sketched carefully in my own hand inside of a notebook I had purchased that morning.

The next time it happened, I was at work. The incident cost me my position, for after I was revived it was shown to me that I’d carefully inked a drawing on the back of an irreplaceable 16th century manuscript. (Trading in the bonds I possessed to pay for my vandalism did not appease my employer. Though I do now own the defaced manuscript.)

Shortly thereafter I barricaded myself at home. The Seizures come upon me a few times a week, then leave me alone for a month or more. Just when I begin to wonder if they have departed me for good, I am stricken once more. Often there are words and descriptions for the bizarre devices I have drawn, left behind as the waking memory of some nightmare. I must hurry to transcribe them before they fade entirely; and transcribe them I must, for I feel they hold a clue to my worsening condition.

It is as if a spider were niggling between my frontal lobes. An odd, foreign presence that sometimes taps at the mental skylight, and finding it unlocked, sneaks in for a visit. My greatest fear is not that the Seizures continue, driving me into complete madness, but that they stop before I learn their secrets.
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Living Room / Re: Idea: "DC Member Book X - Volume 1" - Request For Volunteers
« Last post by nudone on March 13, 2008, 03:37 AM »
nice idea.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 12, 2008, 04:39 AM »
that is also a classic.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 12, 2008, 03:08 AM »
i've heard the "do i have to be online?" question from someone also. they used to browse in offline mode looking at cached pages so that probably added to the confusion.

here's one i've just remembered (i think i've mentioned it before a long time back on the forum)...

i have a relative that i don't have any contact with except at funerals and weddings. she probably shouldn't be allowed near a computer. why? well, she believed that a computer 'worm' was a living creature that somehow travelled down the cables into her pc (someone might have told her this as a joke).

it gets worse. a friend (as another joke) instructed her that the worm can be removed by squirting detergent into the 'slot at the front of the computer' (floppy drive). this seemed like a reasonable solution to her so she had to be warned not to actually go ahead and do it.

is she of sub normal intelligence? supposedly not but who am i to know.
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Living Room / Re: How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques
« Last post by nudone on March 11, 2008, 03:33 AM »
damn. i'm now going to have to spend the rest of the day, er, i mean week, reading veign's blog. lots interesting posts there.  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 09, 2008, 07:45 AM »
agreed, it's always of kinda dumb not following a standard - but then having a bit of variety makes things more fun.

or maybe the standard is quite simple. by default, icons require a double click and buttons/links require a single click.

whatever, the golden rule i try to introduce to computer novices is: click it, if nothing happens, double click it, if nothing happens right click it.

(revealing that there is a 'right click' capability has sometimes induced a sudden expression of despair in the computer novice i've been with.)

hmm, i'm beginning to remember why a lot of people still positively hate computers - our favourite toys just don't make any kind of sense to the initiated.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 09, 2008, 05:20 AM »
maybe it's because the menu is hidden away - therefore it must be something strange - only for the very brave to peer upon. only technical experts may venture into the arcane depths of the mysterious menu(s). perhaps another reason why no one reads the help files.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 09, 2008, 04:38 AM »
 ;D

i've not seen anyone do that before. i've seen the 'double click on absolutely everything' habit (when only a single click is required) with several people - one of which really, really should have known better as they'd been using the computer every day for several years.
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Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?
« Last post by nudone on March 07, 2008, 01:17 PM »
anyone planning in getting the 9" screen version when it comes out. i was undecided about getting one of the current 7" screen version but i think the 9" one is a no brainer.

(those touch screen mods look pretty tempting also.)
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 07, 2008, 11:33 AM »
 ;D

i'm sure we've all heard the saying "if ain't broke don't try to fix it" or something like that.

i think something similar is appropriate for people afraid to try anything on their computer, i.e. "if it ain't working, don't try to click it" - or something like that.

hmm, that's actually the opposite of what they should be doing though, maybe "if it ain't working, just click it" or "if it ain't working, please, just have a try, go on, just click it - it won't explode, believe, i'm not lying to you".

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 07, 2008, 06:21 AM »
it looks like the monitor power button is a common cause for confusion. i suppose the mistake is that a pc is like a television.

i remember when i bought a very cheap second hand computer from someone years ago. they informed me they only had the "floppy drive" to sell as they'd already sold the "computer".

translation:

the "computer" was the monitor.

the "floppy drive" was the desktop computer (old style flat case thing unlike a tower).

so i bought the pc at the "floppy drive" price.
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by nudone on March 07, 2008, 05:50 AM »
 ;D
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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« Last post by nudone on March 07, 2008, 01:39 AM »
the internet now feels complete again.

thank you to everyone involved in getting things up and running. it sounded like a nightmare.
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