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Find And Run Robot / Re: slenderFARR - a new skin for FARR

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 04:06 PM »

FARR has been updated and should handle the new skin files now as of version 2.55.01.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how does setuservar work ? [feature request ?]

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 04:05 PM »

should be fixed in new version 2.55.01, uploaded.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Ignore Thread and Improved Bookmark Mod Implemented

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 03:13 PM »

Added new mark section (ToReply) -- so now you can mark threads in a new list to keep track of threads you want to reply to later.
Now you can mark threads as:
Bookmarked, Rated, Ignored, ToReply

if people have additional ideas for a new section of marks let me know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "%cliptext%" fails sometimes

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 11:48 AM »

can you explain what you mean when you say it isnt working reliably?  in other words is it:

• substituting a blank string where it should put cliptext
• leaving it in string as %cliptext%
• replacing it with the WRONG text
• not capturing clipboard contents as you expect?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] how to get the search box value ?

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 11:47 AM »

implemented; will be in new version i will upload today:

• %SEARCHBOX% - contents of current search box as shown.
• %SEARCHSTRING% - current search string; may differ from search box based on alias dosearch manipulations.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [tiny bug report] historys

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 11:43 AM »

i think this has been fixed -- anyone still having this problem?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2009, 11:26 AM »

i have win xp x64 and czb pack has always run fine on my pc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Small BUG - Filename > 256 chars or whatever the limit may be

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2009, 10:23 PM »

good timing -- i think someone posted this before but i misunderstood the error; since im about to release a minor update this weekend i'll try to fix this tonight.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 0.9.3]

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2009, 08:07 PM »

just tried it again here and it's working fine.. spoirier could you be a bit clearer about what you are trying to do and where you are getting stuck?  maybe tell us what operating system you use.

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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2009, 11:52 AM »

I can't claim to be a grammar expert, or a devotee of Strunk+White.. And I found the critique article very entertaining.. BUT it really does seem like it's overplaying the criticisms of this classic book for effect.

Leafing through my copy, I'm reminded of the pleasure of reading it.  It can't compare to Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, which is truly one of the rare language treasures of the world, but it's a good book.  The problem is only if you take it as an absolute inviolable set of rules. There are a ton of rules and guidelines and suggestions and examples in the Strunk+White book, and most are very nicely presented, clear, and satisfying.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer Update Coming -- Express your feature requests here!

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2009, 11:38 AM »

thats a nice idea simon -- i could add that.

Frank, sorry for delayed reply, multi-core options are planned.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor logo and watermarking

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2009, 11:36 AM »

Hi joby!
how fun! 

some thoughts:

• you are probably right about it being a little bit busy -- if only because a watermark should probably be mostly invisible and not distract from the main image.
• my name can be removed from any watermark, so that's one thing that can be removed
• your logo did give me an idea that perhaps we should come up with a logo that is mostly recognizable as a DonationCoder generic logo that could be used for different programs.. like a picture of Cody the bird masot, but which could be customized for a particular program or person..

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Official Announcements / Re: April 2009 Discounts Posted

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 11:06 PM »

Almost forgot that we have a few copies of Macro Express (pro) to give away!

• https://www.donation...ials/freedrawing.php

The drawing will take place on April 21st, so hurry up and enter now.  Just to give you something to choose from we'll give away some DC mugs as well.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 08:06 PM »

i really doubt its a dot.net problem.. why dont you wait a day or two and let me investigate a bit before going to all this crazyness of uninstalling and reinstalling dotnet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What happened to Kubicle and his "tinywatcher" app?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 05:20 PM »

It's back up by the way 


Old urls still work, but the new one is: http://kubicle.dcmembers.com/watcher/
(thanks Gothic)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Screen Capture Tool

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 05:15 PM »

Thanks for the heads up dspelley; thanks to anyone who uses Screenshot Captor and takes the time to vote 

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ProcessTamer / Re: a REALLY annoying part about process tamer.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 05:01 PM »

that shouldn't be happening -- i will fix.

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 04:16 PM »

I had an hp41cv in high school and used to write programs on it like hangman:


The HP41 has to go down in history as one of the coolest calculators ever, because of something called "Synthetic Programming":

• http://www.hpmuseum.org/prog/synth41.htm

from this usenet thread:
    I seem to recall that Bill Wickes, the inventor of RPL, was person who
    discovered HP-41 synthetic programming. Others will hopefully supply
    more details here.
There were a number of synthetic programming pioneers besides Bill
Wickes, including (but not limited to) Tom Cadwallader, Keith Jarett and
John McGechie. But Wickes certainly was one of the first (or possibly
*the* first) to get the idea of using the HP-41C's bugs to create whole
new program instructions.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 12:02 PM »

i recently changed something in new farr version that was fixing an old oversight and it may have broken these 2 plugins.  basically farr was passing the search keyword in the search string to the plugin, and it shouldn't.  the fix made klipkeeper start working again, but its possible that these two plugins depend on that bug and need to be rebuilt..

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Living Room / Re: I'm bored, what to do?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 10:46 AM »

actually a dc member recently wrote a php fun thing, and needs help making a web page for it.. if you are interested, join the chat channel and i'll fill you in. 

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Living Room / Re: I'm bored, what to do?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 10:31 AM »

Or design your own board game!

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Living Room / Re: I'm bored, what to do?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 10:30 AM »

We do not allow boredom on this site.

How about checking out the Self-teaching Programming School section of the forum, and begin learning how to program:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=77.0

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Living Room / Re: Gothic's New Blog on Server Administration and a cool console-y wordpress theme

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 09:19 AM »

i agree with veign mostly (and almost always).

as much as i have a love-hate relationship with css and html, i wouldn't want to go back to a text-only internet.

i also simultaneously think gothic's wordpress theme is super cool *and* hard on the eyes.

ideally it might be nice to offer a switch so user could view it in a more human-friendly format 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2009, 12:55 AM »

looks beautiful.

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Finished Programs / Re: RESTART PROGRAM AFTER CRASH

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2009, 11:31 PM »

Welcome shayne! Thanks for the links