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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by rgdot on March 29, 2011, 10:26 AM »

Chrome might kill everything off soon but it has odd, some would say ridiculous, bugs. I suspect it might have something to do with underlying code that is geared towards an OS.
I have posted here once or twice her about it acting weird with wifi connections, found a few reports from others too.
Another one I discovered more recently is this, it is really even less acceptable for a browser, and it seems it's more common. Checkboxes disappear http://www.google.ca...;hl=en&start=160

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by rgdot on March 28, 2011, 04:17 PM »

It's the thin line, just about 0.1 pixel wide, at the far right of the image, they just forgot to put the versionnumbers along the line

-Ath (March 28, 2011, 03:49 PM)

  Must be

Is it my eyes or Opera has never changed in popularity? I know all the innovations and new ideas that have come with Opera and their mobile success but still takes a lot dedication to keep going.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by rgdot on March 28, 2011, 03:24 PM »

Where is Seamonkey? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't wait for Flash to die!

« Last post by rgdot on March 27, 2011, 04:49 PM »

+1, can't wait either.

May be in 5 years browsers won't even support Flash

Spoiler

Not going to happen but one can hope

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by rgdot on March 27, 2011, 03:05 PM »

It's only the system's power settings, after 10 minutes turn off hard drive (XP computer)
I have clicked X to dismiss it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by rgdot on March 27, 2011, 01:56 PM »

Restart solved it until my computer was left idle. Wish I could give more info but nothing is happening that I can see.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by rgdot on March 26, 2011, 07:29 PM »

It is green and has stayed green

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by rgdot on March 26, 2011, 05:15 PM »

Only recently really started using Anuran, wondering how and if I could troubleshoot it missing popups. I have it pretty much at default values, every 30 minutes popups.
For example, yesterday I was away from computer and came back and the popup was there, I dismissed it without typing anything. It is still in the tray of course but haven't seen pop ups since (whether or not computer is idle)
I may be missing something. Any thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Is your Hosting Company Secure ... Really?

« Last post by rgdot on March 24, 2011, 01:36 AM »

WARNING WARNING - LINUX SUPPORT INSULT DETECTED. DEPLOYING COUNTER MEASURES!

-Josh (March 23, 2011, 05:31 PM)

As of now any where I post there will be a bot reply:

RTFM

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Living Room / Re: Is your Hosting Company Secure ... Really?

« Last post by rgdot on March 23, 2011, 05:23 PM »

I call it security through RTFM.

-cthorpe (March 23, 2011, 07:39 AM)

Classic stuff 
As long as you are not forced to go to one of those linux support forums instead of RTFM 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Regex Sorter

« Last post by rgdot on March 16, 2011, 09:44 PM »

I would be interested in this, nice idea. Thanks Shardnax, skwire and timns.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting calming essay about nuclear power plan situation in Japan

« Last post by rgdot on March 14, 2011, 06:32 PM »

My impression is slightly different, nuclear gets a bad rap for a simple reason...when it happens it can be catastrophic and long lastingly so. Of course reactors have many safe guards, magnitudes more than Chernobyl for example but that's secondary because things can and do happen, it's pretty much a law of nature.

In this thread, the other recent one (England Is Grinding To A Halt) and elsewhere on the net I get the impression that people think that those who advocate green or cleaner technologies are saying that green is guaranteed and perfect in every sense. Nobody that I know says that. This is what is true...has the potential to be a lot better and as days pass is more desirable because existing, traditional technologies are often more dangerous.

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Living Room / Re: England Is Grinding To A Halt.

« Last post by rgdot on March 11, 2011, 01:02 PM »

Because the way things usually work, we won't begin to seriously and collectively start identifying viable energy alternatives until we completely run out of fossil fuels.

-40hz (March 11, 2011, 12:25 PM)

I like to call it capitalism by convenience or capitalism via lobbying. If you invest in it seriously it can be done quicker and better. Even now there is more money poured into oil extraction methods (see Canada's oil sands as one example) than developing more efficient solar panels/cells for example.

Oil is not even close to running out, at all. It might be in places more expensive to extract but frankly more expensive oil (extraction) is not "my" problem. I have faith in alternatives but there must be a will to develop them.

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Living Room / Re: England Is Grinding To A Halt.

« Last post by rgdot on March 11, 2011, 12:56 PM »

So use electricity that you've probably generated with coal to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using an energy-negative process, and use *that* to fuel your vehicle, being less efficient than gasoline? Yeah, I used to be way into hydrogen powered vehicles too, then I wondered "Where does all that hydrogen come from?". Yes, hydrogen is very abundant, but *not* in its free, usable state...

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (March 11, 2011, 12:23 PM)

There is no magic bullet, the point of any conservation is to rely less and less on things that kill off the planet. Tomorrow less coal, after tomorrow less oil, and on and on.
Alternatives (solar, wind, wave, etc.) exist and anybody dismissing them is succumbing to propaganda in my opinion.

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Living Room / Re: England Is Grinding To A Halt.

« Last post by rgdot on March 11, 2011, 10:05 AM »

Always an easy target, but the rich are so small in number that they're not really relevant. If you took every taxpayer in the UK who earns more than £1 million (just 14,000 people), and took every penny they earned (i.e. taxed them at 100 per cent), it would net another £20 billion a year or so (source) -- enough to pay less than half of the annual interest on the country's debt. And that's before you work out how many jobs you would have killed off by taking all the money from the rich.

-johnk (March 11, 2011, 06:18 AM)

If rich are easy targets then the not rich (middle class, poor, etc.) are super duper mega easy targets.
The rich don't create job, the consumers create jobs. If I have a decent job I will buy the stuff the corporations make. Yes I made that money working for the job the corporation gave me but if I don't make enough and/or I put in the bank I influence the economy not the other way round.

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Living Room / Re: England Is Grinding To A Halt.

« Last post by rgdot on March 10, 2011, 09:14 PM »

I can add two things to this subject

1) Technology to use things as simple as tap water for fuel have existed for years but often dismissed for various reason like limited mileage and other - in my estimation - 'fixable' reasons.

2) As far as the developed world goes North America is surely the worst for public transportation. Examples:
- High speed trains in America are only now in the pre-planning stage.
- Here in Canada I live in a Toronto (Canada's biggest city in case you are not familiar) suburb which is around 10 km to the official city limits and only in the last decade have I been able to go inside the city limits straight, without changing buses! (yes it's true, and not in the woods either, just a typical suburb)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by rgdot on March 08, 2011, 01:27 PM »

"It would be nice to have but it's not that important to me"

The reason for me is the obvious one, I won't need it often. Having said that

When engaged, and a new image is copied to the clipboard, it would be saved in CHS database/images directory, as a standalone file, and an entry added to the clip database referring to this file.

can be nice, even turns CHS into a de facto image database

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by rgdot on March 07, 2011, 10:26 AM »

One word (is that one emoticon, smiley, etc.?)


 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by rgdot on March 07, 2011, 10:10 AM »

Now back to the Scarlett Johanssons and Leelee Sobieskis..  Is someone suggesting we hire them to do the website redesign? Or replace Cody as our new spokespeople?  I'll discuss the idea with the moderators and we'll discuss a severance package for Cody should he be made redundant.  Please have them call me to schedule an interview.  I will try to find some time to meet with them and discuss possible positions.

-mouser (March 07, 2011, 09:40 AM)

With them you wouldn't need a redesign, just their presence...
Speaking of which I would suggest her instead 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by rgdot on March 06, 2011, 08:55 PM »

No problem, will remove

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell v1.45 Discussion and notes for Ugraders

« Last post by rgdot on March 06, 2011, 08:52 PM »

The Crtl+Alt+Q default for the popup works well and is useful. Really liking the stuff like ordering and the new menu. Probably not going to use stacks much but it is useful in my opinion.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by rgdot on March 06, 2011, 08:49 PM »

Thanks for commenting on my site lotusrootstarch. I can't comment on the very specifics because I am not exactly the most regular here.
No matter those specifics, if they exist at all, I think DC offers a lot to its members and the internet at large.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell v1.45 Discussion and notes for Ugraders

« Last post by rgdot on March 06, 2011, 01:15 PM »

Will try it and post back, thanks for this mouser

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Living Room / Re: How the Egyptian Government found an off switch to the Internet

« Last post by rgdot on February 19, 2011, 12:32 AM »

That figure gives me CCNA nightmares...or is it dreams? 

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Developer's Corner / Re: How did WordPress win?

« Last post by rgdot on February 19, 2011, 12:12 AM »

As alluded to in the comments there some of you may remember blogger (pre-google) vs wordpress. I believe movable type had the same 'handicap' of having to reload/reapply (or whatever it was called, my memory is dead these days) for template changes to take effect.

Simple things make a difference as far as the ordinary Joe goes.