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Living Room / Re: What is a "Gentleman's drink"

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 05:28 PM »

Why has no one mentioned yet my masterpiece, Process Tamer The Drink:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12216.0

Now what we really need is for someone to make some drinks named for Cody, Skrommel, and other DC all-stars..

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Official Announcements / Short Server Downtime on DonationCoder.com main server scheduled for 11/30/09

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 03:52 PM »

Softlayer has let us know the DonationCoder.com server will be down briefly on Nov 30th, 2009.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome OS preview looks pretty cool

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 03:39 PM »

Google is asking developers to contribute to the Chrome extensions gallery -- an act that will put third party applications on both the Chrome browser and eventually the operating system.  Developers can contribute to the project by uploading their creations to the Developer Dashboard.

-zridling (November 24, 2009, 12:16 PM)

this might be a good time to remind people that making an addon for a program will qualify as a NANY entry.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: MoveOut & DimScreen flagged by PrevX as being a danger to my computer's health

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 02:06 PM »

Prevx is wrong, very wrong.  This is a false positive that is frequently triggered on developers using the Autohotkey programming langauge, and it's driving programmers crazy.

You can read more about it here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=15210.0

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 47-09

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 03:56 AM »

I also want to say how much I appreciate ETNW.. I never imagined when it started that Ehtyar would be able to keep it up for so long and so consistently -- no small feat.  It's definitely one of the things i really look forward to reading each week.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Show Unread Posts

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 03:20 AM »

that's another good solution - hadn't thought of that.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Show Unread Posts

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 02:31 AM »

i just want to say that any day that i see a czb post is a day that makes me happy

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Show Unread Posts

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2009, 02:00 AM »

i have a solution, start at the end page, then the previous pages do not get messed up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome OS preview looks pretty cool

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 02:24 PM »

but it’s not inherently designed for the Internet.

i worry that when google hear's that, it translates to "it doesnt have an easy way to plaster ads on it"

one of the mysteries of our current age is that people go ballistic when you put ads inside applications, and yet have no problem with the fact that every site on the web is filled with them.
so that happens when all apps are web apps?  is it like dividing by zero?

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Living Room / Re: Choosing a new PC package for a relative.. Post your recommendations

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 12:13 PM »

yeah that's the question, whether they couldand would actually use it.. no i haven't yet but i may.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 12:09 PM »

welcome to the site mathiasree,

you explained the problem very well.  unforunately as skwiere yes, one of FARR's weaknesses is that it does not handle the extended diacritical values well.. though i wonder if there isnt some option in Everything or tinyev that could make it work properly, since obviously you are able to type it into the farr search edit box..

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: automated mp3 rip from video clip

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 11:54 AM »

thanks tomos, deleted the other.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: automated mp3 rip from video clip

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 10:59 AM »

this isnt really a coding snack.. there has to be some existing free tool that can do this simply.

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Living Room / Re: Choosing a new PC package for a relative.. Post your recommendations

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2009, 08:59 AM »

I'm also thinking that a great thing to do for a relative when you set them up with a new pc, is install a virtual machine software for them (virtualbox, etc.) and install a copy of their OS in it (and maybe even linux if they want to experiment), and then instruct them on how to install new software programs on the virtual machine, and tell them that they should NEVER install anything onto their main pc that they aren't 100% sure they will want to keep using permanently.  Everything else they should install on the virtual machine.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 47-09

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 02:36 PM »

Nice edition! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Mail" instead of "Thunderbird"

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 11:46 AM »

Go into options -> Folder Browsing -> Check the "Don't differentially score files in explicit directory browsing mode"

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General Software Discussion / Re: McAfee Online Backup - New Web Service

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 10:51 AM »

What Innuendo said.  The idea is to have 2 copies, then it doesn't matter of the online company has a fire or your house has a fire, as long as both dont have fires at the same time.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Mail" instead of "Thunderbird"

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 09:51 AM »

yes, the term Alias "Group" is very confusing, since it is used for many different things.. eventually i need to make this dialog clearer and easier.

as far a learning resource, there are dozens of screencasts here:

https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Mail" instead of "Thunderbird"

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 09:10 AM »

the regex and $$1 lets you filter the contents of the directory in case you didn't guess already

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 08:54 AM »

they missed Dina

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Mail" instead of "Thunderbird"

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 08:53 AM »

it's a bit confusing to get used to, hopefully in the end it will start to get natural.

you can show the contents of a directory by simply typing that directory in the search edit box, like: E:\Portable\Note\

so to make an alias show this more easily, you can create a regex alias that matches like ^nn(.*)$
and in results put: dosearch E:\Portable\Note\ $$1

try that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.76.01 - November 15, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 07:32 AM »

http://analysis.avir...om/samples/index.php

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.76.01 - November 15, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 07:27 AM »

please report the false positive here, and i will do the same:
http://forums.avg.co...;act=show&id=395

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.76.01 - November 15, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 07:25 AM »

these antivirus companies driving me crazy.

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Living Room / Re: Help required - how to get the URL of a video (flash file)

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2009, 06:14 AM »

Maybe useful forum for recording flash and other advanced video formats:
http://stream-record...am-recording-f4.html