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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 04:50 PM »
Here's the book I'm planning to start on next week:
http://www.amazon.co...ience/dp/1405122889/
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I'm a very big fan of Randy Gallistel ("Organization of Action" and "Organization of Learning" are very much under-appreciated in neuroscience community i think).

Anyone who wants to read along with me is welcome to order it and discuss; haven't seen the book in person yet so i can't vouch for it's quality ahead of time.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Is a website login script something people on DC need?
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 04:45 PM »
Personally i think code like this is desperately needed.  I calls these "User Management Systems" as opposed to "Content Management Systems (CMS)".

For a coder developing a web application, there is an abundance of heavy bloated CMS frameworks, and an almost complete absence of UMS frameworks.  And I have found myself choosing a CMS as a starting point just to get the user/group management, when what I would have really preferred is an actively developed and powerful UMS -- without all the crazy content management stuff.

One thing I can't tell from looking through the site is what kind of support for Access Control Lists it has -- this is an important aspect in my view -- a way to assign and manage generic permissions for users and groups.


Meta comment: This is a good example where the thread would be easier for people to find and notice if it wasn't a poll but was titled more directly, like for example "Quadodo and other User Management / Login Frameworks", etc.  Please everyone when you post remember that people may be searching for and browsing threads in future weeks, months, years, and you want to make it easy for them to anticipate the contents of a thread when reading it's title.
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Living Room / Re: Itching to put together your own pc from parts, but need help choosing parts?
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 03:02 PM »
Maximum PC has a series on this as well:

http://www.maximumpc...gs/price+parts+guide

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 02:27 PM »
It has become part of: CZB pack.
17080
Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS runs, but doesn't work
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 01:58 AM »
exit, restore database files, restart.

and if you don't mind -- send me the old .ini file (you can open it in text editor to verify it holds no sensitive info) -- i'd like to see if i can figure out what about it is causing trouble.

EDIT: got the file, thanks.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS runs, but doesn't work
« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2010, 01:37 AM »
One more thing, can you try exiting CHS, then renaming ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini to something else and restarting.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS runs, but doesn't work
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 04:52 PM »
could you try this for me:
  • Exit CHS
  • Find the ClipboardHelpAndSpell\Database\ directory -- i think it will be in your MyDocuments\DonationCoder directory
  • Make a new subdirectory there, call it Bak1\ or something
  • Move all the files from the Database\ subdirectory into Bak1\
  • Now the next time CHS starts up it should try to create new database files (i wanted you to back them up instead of deleting them in case this is the problem we can try to recover them).
  • Now restart CHS -- see if the problem is the same.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS runs, but doesn't work
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 04:31 PM »
does the menu even show when you right click?
17084
Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart (Boot Snooze)
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 04:27 PM »
maybe it has to do with the permissions of the program being different when run manually vs. run at startup?
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS runs, but doesn't work
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 04:26 PM »
can you bring up the options from the right click tray menu?
if you exit CHS and restart it, can you then?

is it possible that you changed monitor resolutions and that the dialog is off screen?
17086
Living Room / Essay - Blogging: a great pastime for the elderly
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 12:35 PM »
I find the rise of twitter and the decline of blogging sad..  It seems like the amount of aggregate writing on the web is staying constant, we're just now getting a lot more one-line off-the-cuff throwaway comments, and less thoughtful considered commentary.

I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You'd walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it's just humiliating. Blogging has become like mahjong or needlepoint or clipping coupons out of Walgreens circulars: something old folks do while waiting to croak.

Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet.

17087
Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 07:15 AM »
anyone else care to report on whether SC does rounded capture on vista?
tanis, can you attach a sample pic?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 06:28 AM »
I distinctly remember checking this recently and it worked.. do you have a non-standard theme or "shell" in your vista setup?
17089
Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2010, 02:20 AM »
Ugh, it took me three and a half months to finally get around to finishing reading the book i started in October (Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning).. I definitely would not recommend it for cover-to-cover reading, but as a reference textbook book it would be an excellent source.

Next up has to be something more focused on big picture stuff, and less on algorithm details.
17090
Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart (Boot Snooze)
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 11:17 PM »
you should definitely make it possible to invoke via commandline to tell it to reboot and hibernate or standby without requiring push of button.
17091
General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 09:03 PM »
no one willing to update Submit To Tab?!
17092
ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.11.01 - Apr 23, 2009
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 06:44 PM »
A new version is long overdue, and i am committed to having a major new version this year.
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UrlSnooper / Re: Can't sniff any packets?
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 04:24 PM »
Is the packet count in the status bar increasing as it sniffs traffic and as you browse the web, etc.?
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Finished Programs / Re: C.S.B.A.G.
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 04:14 PM »
Pretty funny.  For those unclear what it does.. it's meant to be used as a prank.. when you run the application it shows a dialog with some buttons, when you move your mouse over one of the buttons to click it, the button moves away from under the cursor. You can customize the dialog and button text.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart (Boot Snooze)
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 03:46 PM »
And now on LifeHacker:
http://lifehacker.co...-faster-startup-time
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: DevCheatSheets Alias
« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2010, 03:14 AM »
very nice  :up: :up:
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2010, 11:34 PM »
#2 is my responsibility -- i like the idea of supporting dcupdater in a subdirectory, so i'll add a check for that in dcuhelper.
but i dont really understand the thing about listing twice or why that would happen.. can you post more about it here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9607.0
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: DimScreen - Add 5%, 15%, 25% increments.
« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2010, 08:02 PM »
welcome to the site and thank you for your support.
As skrommel, the author of DimScreen has been taking a bit of a break, i took the liberty of making a version with 5% increments.
Source and exe attached.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2010, 06:07 PM »
Congrats should be given also to Mamoun, who posted this idea -- since it was a very clever idea.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2010, 06:06 PM »
Boot Snooze featured on DownloadSquad today!

http://www.downloads...ation-and-rebooting/

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At the end the reviewer says: "It would be nice if Boot Snooze would let you adjust the amount of time shown on the countdown clock. 10 minutes might be overkill. "

I agree completely -- let us customize the delay with a commandline option maybe?
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