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Developer's Corner / Re: Mambo CMS Drama
« Last post by Cpilot on May 12, 2006, 01:28 AM »
Unfortunately this is "par for the course" for open-source initiatives. The sad truth is that the web is littered with unfinished and unrealized open source projects that at first glance were good ideas.
Lots of people talk about the evil of M$ and commercial software and make hallow threats about switching to linux and such.
But in the end commerce is what will drive the web and innovation.
Can't pay the rent,get a date and/or feed the kids on good intentions. :wallbash:
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I got a 8 Mb DSL unlimited band for 15 Euro per month ( between $17 to $20 )
About 4 years ago when I first got dsl it cost me 35.00 U.S. a month, then cable got into the act and other plans by other companies were offered. The competitive pressure caused the prices to drop. Cable internet here is still high in comparison even though it's faster. But I believe that it will feel the pressure shortly and have to offer cable access cheaper.
I would pay a little more if the phone company would unbundle dsl and telephone service. It seems like a waste to pay for a land line and cell service.

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As much fun as it would be to write one, maybe you can try this one out and see if it works for you.
ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter 1.0 (Freeware)

(btw I got unlimited dsl for 21.99 U.S. a month  :Thmbsup:)
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Living Room / A Little Picture Conversion Fun
« Last post by Cpilot on May 11, 2006, 12:50 AM »
This is kinda a fun website. It converts pictures to ascii.

TextImage.com

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.
« Last post by Cpilot on May 10, 2006, 10:31 PM »
on a fun scale of 1 to 10 i rate that game a -1.
It ain't bad  8)



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One word,

Beer 

Works for me.
 ;D
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Developer's Corner / Re: thinBasic need you for some tests
« Last post by Cpilot on May 03, 2006, 10:29 PM »
I've checked this out using winXP sp2. Runs nice on my machine.
I have been playing around with ThinBasic some and it is an interesting and powerful scripting language, lots of interesting things going on with OpenGL.

Think I'll spend some time on it.  :Thmbsup:
208
Living Room / Re: Will this be the final nail in Microsoft's Coffin?
« Last post by Cpilot on May 02, 2006, 09:36 PM »
Interesting read.

I understand people's concern over privacy on the net and what not. Really I do.
But I also believe that it might be too little too late.
I mean for years no one ever minded giving up their social security number here in the U.S. whenever it was asked for.
It got to the point that it became easy to violate others privacy with a S.S. number, birth date and name.
Auto Star is a big thing here, a cell phone, computer monitoring, gps addition to their automobiles. People able to monitor any ones location with it and monitor what the vehicle does and such. Even collecting data during impact. (I'm sure insurance companies are salivating over that). How about the collection of data by credit reporting agencies?

My point being is that for decades the majority of people have been willing to allow access to their private information and I honestly believe that the government and private organizations feel they are entitled to it.
And I have heard too many people proclaim the old "If you ain't got nothing to hide then why worry about it" refrain. Which means that they really don't get it, it has nothing to do with hiding anything....it has to do with how much privacy are we entitled to.


Society has already abrogated the idea of privacy.

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Living Room / Re: New Study Says Drink All the Coffee You Want. Really.
« Last post by Cpilot on April 27, 2006, 02:07 AM »
While I enjoy a good steak and a drink every now and then, I wouldn't put "coffee and cigarettes" and "real life" together in one sentence
Well I wasn't aware of a real life either until I was older than 13. When you get some real experience then get back to us. :-\
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Living Room / Re: New Study Says Drink All the Coffee You Want. Really.
« Last post by Cpilot on April 27, 2006, 01:56 AM »
You seem to be partially behaving akin to what you described you don't like. You've got your ideals and you think everyone else should have them.
Well that ranks right up there with the most specious argument I have ever heard. The gist of my argument is I don't give a damn about their ideals. That their sole purpose in life...since they have no meaningful kind of life....is to force themselves on everyone else. If they had a really fulfilling and interesting life they would be too busy to notice the sins of others.
People who are overly concerned about their "special place" in society and how it should behave to their standards, are basically worms who in reality are bland, useless, beige, hollow insignifigant characters who will leave no lasting impression on anyone.
This is a societal phase and the next evolution of "political correctness". Ya know the general oppression of the masses and pressure to conform to an ideological norm. The attempt to eliminate personal freedom and supress individualism.

It must make these people really proud. :-\
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Living Room / Re: New Study Says Drink All the Coffee You Want. Really.
« Last post by Cpilot on April 26, 2006, 11:51 PM »
Hear, hear!
-allen
In the state I live in the Governor (who used to be a fat ass) has gotten the religion of good health and weight loss. Good for him. :D
However like any other convert to a new fundamentalist belief he has fallen under the spell of the true losers in life. Those people that have nothing better to do with their time than to make sure every other person in the world conforms to their ideals of behaviour.
Like all petty little losers everywhere who's lives are so lacking in anything that could possibly interest anyone else, they have concentrated their efforts to constraining and dictating how others live their lives.
Petty childish little people who have decided they don't like smoking so no one will smoke, they don't like drinking so they restrict that, eating of red meat.....well they don't do it so no one else should either. The list can go on of course.

Like allen I smoke, if you don't like it stay the hell away from me. I don't want your kind around me anyway. I know I'm way more interesting than you are.

You don't want to eat steak, fine, but leave my porterhouse alone.

I like a few beers in my own home, I make a good living and go to work everyday. And I give my employer a good 8 hours of work instead of whining about who offends me in the work place.

Instead of gossiping about other people and worrying about what they are doing, I would just as soon sit and enjoy a good cup of coffee on my break and mind my own business.


It's a shame others can't do the same.  :wallbash:

And when I die I will lie in my coffin with a smug smile on my face...knowing that I lived my life fully and as I pleased...while all the little petty losers existing in their sterile, uninteresting, exhaustively boring little lives tsk, tsk me for not following the herd and squeezing out a few more years in the presence of their absolute blandness.
I don't suppose that it has ever occurred to all the busybodies out there that those who want coffee,cigarettes, steak and beer really just want to have a real life....and if it shortens the time we have to deal with them it's worth it.
People need to quit sticking their nose in other peoples business and live their own lives. In other words Get a life people and stay the hell out of mine.

(wow I really enjoyed getting this off my chest  :-*)
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Living Room / Re: New Study Says Drink All the Coffee You Want. Really.
« Last post by Cpilot on April 26, 2006, 08:27 PM »
I drink all the coffee I want because.....I'm an adult and I want to.  :D
If we spent all our time worrying about the "risks" we spend less time "living".

I want to live my life not exist in it. :Thmbsup:
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Because of a recent topic on the forum and because of a similar one earlier ( AutoIt3 versus AutoHotKey ). *

I thought it would be appropriate to open a discussion on the definitions of “Open Source Software”, “Free Software” and the different thinking about each movement and what it means.

Some background:
Why "Free Software'' is better than "Open Source’’
Open-source Vs closed-source

I believe that it is worth discussing the, well intentioned, decision to go open source and what the unintended consequences could be.
For instance if someone decides to open source a project with the intention of allowing others to come along and modify and change that code for the benefit of the project.  Should they then have the expectation that their code be confined to that project only or does it become "free range" code? Available for any use anyone wants to make of it ,for example a competing project or even one completely unrelated to the original?

Do people really think through their decision to allow their project to become open source and then have a presumption to absolute ownership of their code if it is used in a manner they don't agree with?
How much credit to the original author is enough?
Is open source a good idea? Or should there be more consideration before deciding open source.
Is closed source underutilized?
This discussion could be helpful for people who may want to consider starting an open source project by possibly pointing out any pitfalls and problems with this kind of licensing.

Thoughts? Ideas?  :huh:

*Keep in mind that the mentioning of Autoit and AHK is not intended to point them out specifically but to only use as an example of the possible problems with open source. This discussion is not an attack on any specific project but hopefully a serious discussion of the inherent problems with different licensing schemes.  :Thmbsup:*
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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - Icon viewer
« Last post by Cpilot on April 26, 2006, 04:41 AM »
Yeah that crashes on my machine too.
Here, try the original script with out all the class and volatile geegaw type stuff.

'======================================================
' Shell32 Icon Index FBSL
' Cpilot 11/04/05
' http://outcastprogramming.com/
'======================================================
'$apptype console
#dlldeclare user32("GetSystemMetrics","DestroyIcon")
#dlldeclare comctl32("ImageList_Create","ImageList_ReplaceIcon")
#dlldeclare shell32("ExtractIcon")
dim $LV_ITEM,%hList,%t,%hIcon,%hImage,$index,%j
begin const

   ILC_COLOR32 = 32
   ILC_MASK = &H1

       
   LVSIL_SMALL = 1
   LVSIL_STATE = 2

   LVS_LIST = 0x0003
   LVIF_TEXT = 0x1
   LVIF_IMAGE = &H2
   LVS_REPORT = 0x0001
   LVS_TYPEMASK = 0x3
   LVS_EX_GRIDLINES = &H1
      LVS_EX_LABELTIP = 0x00004000
   LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK = &HF000
   SM_CXICON = 11
   SM_CYICON = 12
'=======VB struct ================
'Public Type LV_ITEM
    mask  = 0
    iItem = 4
    iSubItem = 8
    state = 12
    stateMask = 16
    pszText = 20
    cchTextMax = 24
    iImage = 28
'    lParam 32
'    iIndent 36
'End Type
     
end const

fbsl_settext(me,"Shell32 Icon Index")
alloc(LV_ITEM,36)

SetMem(LV_ITEM,LVIF_TEXT + LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK + LVIF_IMAGE,mask) ' set state masks
SetMem(LV_ITEM,256,cchTextMax)

Resize(me,0,0,510,330)
center(me)
show( me )

hList = fbsl_control("SysListView32",me,"",0,0,0,500,294,_
WS_VISIBLE + WS_CHILD + LVS_LIST + LVS_TYPEMASK + LVS_REPORT,WS_EX_STATICEDGE)

SendMessage(hList,LVM_SETBKCOLOR,0,rgb(255,255,192))
SendMessage(hList,LVM_SETTEXTBKCOLOR,0,rgb(255,255,192))
SendMessage(hList,LVM_SETEXTENDEDLISTVIEWSTYLE,0,LVS_EX_LABELTIP)
'==========create an image list======================
hImage = ImageList_Create(GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXICON),_
GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYICON),ILC_COLOR32 + ILC_MASK,1,1)
'====================================================

'====Extract the icon then destroy the handle to
' replace with next icon========================

for t = 0 to 237
'shell32.dll   
'c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe
'c:\program files\outlook express\msoeres.dll 
   hIcon = ExtractIcon(0,"shell32.dll",t)
   ImageList_ReplaceIcon(hImage,-1,hIcon)
   DestroyIcon(hIcon)
   if hIcon <> 0 then
   j = t
   end if
next

'=====set the image list to the listview=========
SendMessage(hList,LVM_SETIMAGELIST,LVSIL_SMALL,hImage)
'================================================

'=====populate the listview======================

for t = 0 to j

   index = "Icon # : " & t
   SetMem(LV_ITEM,t,iItem) ' item index
   SetMem(LV_ITEM,@index,pszText) ' pointer to text string
   SetMem(LV_ITEM,t,iImage) ' image index
   SendMessage(hList,LVM_INSERTITEM,0,LV_ITEM)

next

begin events

   select case cbmsg
 
      case wm_close

         exitprogram(0)

   end select

end events

Works fine on my WinXP Sp2.
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Ok, there is no point in continuing this discussion
Actually I think this thread has had too short a life span to come to any consensus, my feeling is that if there was no Autoit there wouldn't be an AHK. To donate to a project that owes it's very existence to the other only is IMO short changing the innovator and giving credit to the usurper.

I vote split the pot.

I believe the topic needs to live a little longer for a true consensus.  :Thmbsup:
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Winver Banner
« Last post by Cpilot on April 23, 2006, 09:47 PM »
If you are referring to the "Boot screen" then Manually changing the Windows XP boot logo .
I haven't tried this. I really have no preference about the boot, or logon screens.

Keep in mind that not following the directions exactly, can have catastophic effects. Use this kinda stuff at your own risk.

But hey, if your game, let us know how it works out for ya! :Thmbsup:
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OpenGL depends on your video card and almost not on your CPU speed, so...
Fine ...it's still faster than you think, without the "asm" code. :wallbash:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free copy of AceHTML 6 Pro
« Last post by Cpilot on April 19, 2006, 06:54 AM »
Pay attention to the install, it'll add a toolbar to your browser if you don't catch it right quick.
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Would be nicer if it could be done without machine code - or even if FBSL just supported assembly instead of turbo pascal-style machine code blocks
FBSL is pretty damn fast, it'll render openGL seamlessly.
I think Mike was just showing off a little.  :-\
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General Software Discussion / Re: IE 7.0 Beta 2: Any takers?
« Last post by Cpilot on April 17, 2006, 08:38 PM »
Down with beta-testing IE7
Well it seems to me that this tweak is the problem not IE7. As I said above I downloaded and installed the beta and have been running it since March. With absolutely no problem.
Tabs work great, it loads quickly, I got the google search bar installed and it runs with no problems.
It has been stable and working great on my WinXP SP2.
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but we just want to make sure we dont lose the generous nature of the place.
We seem to be losing sight of my suggestion. Graphics snacks would be on par with coding snacks. It's just another way to be more "inclusive".
sheesh :wallbash:
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i'm not saying this is a good or a bad idea, Cpilot, but aren't there other forums that cater for this already?
Possibly, but then again there are other websites that contract custom written software also. If you go by that argument coding snacks become moot.
The difference is in the uniqueness of someone throwing out a request and several people using their different talents to provide a solution. Then people have several to choose from.
Plus it would be another way for non-coders and/or non-writers to participate in receiving donation credits for their talents.
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One thing I would like to see added to the forum is a form of "Graphics" snacks.
There are those of us who are "artistically" impaired and would like to be able to request maybe unique Icons, skins, bitmaps, jpegs etc. to use in their applications. 
Maybe provide a way to allow private graphic designs for those who want to copyright particular designs and such.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: DonationCredits Discussion
« Last post by Cpilot on March 29, 2006, 02:15 PM »
We discussed some of my ideas on mIrc.
I still think some sort of metrics need to be shown to give everyone a sense that credits are being used. Maybe a total available and a total disbursed would be an interesting display.
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Living Room / Re: Here's a blood boiler
« Last post by Cpilot on March 25, 2006, 11:09 PM »
Grmbl.

I hate kiddies. As if it wasn't easy enough to get the info you need, now they sell kits? *sigh*

Just think of all the bandwidth, typing, discussions on various forums and time wasted because of a bunch of immature, childish narcissistic little sh*t's like these.
The fact is you wouldn't need locks if their weren't any thieves.


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