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20026
The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning
« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2009, 12:08 AM »
Let me take a shot at this.

The "Getting Organized Experiment" was basically an umbrella term to describe a month-long group exercise in trying to improve our individual productivity.

That is.. A bunch of us who were interested in becoming more efficient and more productive got together with the idea that there would be some benefit from focusing on efficiency at the same time, to get some benefit from group support, encouragement, camaraderie.

I don't think there are any other real "rules" to the experiment.  The specifics can change depending on who is leading it and what the participants want.

In 2006 we had a very structured scheduled tour of a bunch of formal productivity "systems".  Some of us got some real benefits from that, others nearly had mental breakdowns.

2007 was much less of a scheduled production, and more of a focus on productivity software, and creating new utilities, and talking about what worked for us since the last year.

2008.. nothing happened.

So what form would a new GOE take?

That's up to those who want to participate, and as importantly, up to any 1 or 2 people who want to sort of spearhead and organize it..
20027
Living Room / Re: The Dice Tower - Top 100 Board Games Ranked with Video Reviews
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 08:06 PM »
similar thing happens again about 6 minutes into this one: http://www.thediceto...index.php?page=11-15

you know what i think he's done? i think he must be using those kind of candy gum pieces that look like pebbles for all of his games..
20028
Living Room / Re: The Dice Tower - Top 100 Board Games Ranked with Video Reviews
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 07:50 PM »
Here's a hillarious easter egg i just discovered.

You know how silly it seems that all these toys always say: warning small parts not suitable for young kids?
Ok watch the review on this page: http://www.thediceto...r/index.php?page=4-6
and then go to about 4 minutes 50 seconds in.. watch what his daughter does.. hahahahahaa
20029
Living Room / The Dice Tower - Top 100 Board Games Ranked with Video Reviews
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 07:46 PM »
Listen, please.  Stop reading this post if you value your time in any way, because i've gotten sucked into these video reviews as well as the boardgamegeek website which i have written about in the past.

Today i once again got sucked into the black hole of time dilation while learning about and reading reviews on board games.  I don't even really enjoy playing games much but these damn reviews and learning about all the wonderful creativity and variety in these games is addictive..

But any, the main point of this post is to tell you about this one wonderful video review site called The Dice Tower, and the top 100 ranked list of board games with accompanying video reviews.  The guy who runs the site, Tom Vasel, has a cute daughter who normally sits with him as he does the reviews, and he does a great job of telling you why he likes the games.  And his taste in games is a good match for me -- he doesn't go for the super complex games, and he is always looking for fun stuff, regardless of the genre.  Great work Tom.

20030
The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 - Preliminary Planning
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 03:35 PM »
Ok I've set up the GOE 2009 section.

Let's get a volunteer or two who is willing to run this year's "experiment" and help guide us in a journey of productivity improvements.

Previous Years:
20031
General Software Discussion / Re: Bookmarks, I am frustrated
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 03:30 PM »
march is not over yet -- it's still running :)
20032
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: TBS Cover Editor 1.6 - Create virtual boxes and covers for your software
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 03:19 PM »
Very impressive..  Maybe we can arrange a discount/giveaway for dc members at some point?
20033
FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: still size
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 01:56 PM »
right now to my memory, the still image is shown same size as the normal images and can't be changed.
of course you could always print the cover pages manually.
20034
FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: still size
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 01:43 PM »
can you elaborate a little more what you want to do?
20035
General Software Discussion / Re: Using noscript to force https ssl links in firefox
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 11:47 AM »
f0dder -- everything is (relatively) easy to do with self-signed certificates.
my comment was about the expense of purchasing NON-self-signed wildcard certificates.
20036
General Software Discussion / Re: Using noscript to force https ssl links in firefox
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 11:29 AM »
gothic has it right -- and this is one of those things that FF gets very wrong..
to use a self-signed certificate in firefox, which should be a totally reasonable thing to do -- a user has to go through some pretty confusing steps that scare them every step of the way.  this is a fail.

it wouldn't be so bad if the non-self-signed ssl certificate syndicate wasn't a giant money extortion racket.  it's criminal how much proper wildcard ssl certificates cost.

there needs to be a way to register self-signed certificates so that they treated as trusted.. it wouldn't be so hard.. you'd just need to have someplace(s) trusted where the known owner of a site could provide a signature of the official certificate used on their site.  there are so many easy ways to do this.. but i fear it's one of those things that is like free money to these companies.. they have a vested interest in basically blackmailing sites to buy these expensive certificates.
20037
Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 11:03 AM »
How much did the site make last month on a generic non-fund-raiser month compared to this month?
good question -- i'll report when i summarize fundraising results in the next couple of days.
20038
ProcessTamer / Re: Installed them earlier but have to uninstall them
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 01:26 AM »
you can also click on the Processes tab and you should find MSTS executable there and then click the drop down on the far right of that row and select ignore.
20039
ProcessTamer / Re: Installed them earlier but have to uninstall them
« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2009, 01:08 AM »
You can set exceptions in Process Tamer to tell it to ignore any program -- that should solve your poblem.
20040
General Software Discussion / Using noscript to force https ssl links in firefox
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 11:15 PM »
I was talking to a friend the other day about accessing donationcoder or other sites using SSL (https urls), and how many have a problem where they support ssl but some of the links on the site itself will redirect you to normal http links inadvertently, leading you back to non-secure connection.

It turns out that there are a couple of firefox extensions that can be used to force firefox to always use an https style ssl link on certain websites.  That is, it will dynamic adjust all http links to be https (or vice versa) on sites you specify.

The easiest solution is to use the very powerful, actively developed, donation supported "noscript" extension.  People who are paranoid about security tend to already have noscript installed so chances are if you care about forcing https you might already have noscript installed, and just not know about this feature.

For more instructions on how to configure noscript to force https, see for example this page.

noscript-force-ssl.png
20041
ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.10.01 - Mar 28, 2009
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 10:33 PM »
ok crashing bug identified and fixed (but not yet uploaded); will be in next update in next 24 hours.
now uploaded.
20042
The Form Letter Machine / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 10:29 PM »
paul, i've been mulling over major changes to tflm for a bit.. maybe we can talk when i do.
until then though, i'd be happy to hear any minor suggestions you might have.
20043
Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 08:47 PM »
Rainlendar (note spelling) is here by the way: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

kartal, what other programs make ics files?
20044
ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.10.01 - Mar 28, 2009
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 08:44 PM »
The trick to getting a program to run at startup with Vista is to create a scheduled task for it.

yes, thanks uryan, i should probably add a help item / tutorial for how to do it since it seems to big a pain for me to do it programmatically.
20045
Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 06:15 PM »
Looks like he made his cake out of coins to me. Clever bird!
20046
Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 06:14 PM »
With so much wonderful energy, it seems even Cody is getting into the spirit!!!

Nick just sent me this polaroid photo he snapped of him:

photo.jpg


Awww... he's so cute!
20047
Living Room / Re: Conficker - The Facts
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 06:01 PM »
Also wanted to add my thanks for the thoughtful post Ehtyar.  :up:
From one of your links i came across this article which looks like fun technical reading: http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/
20048
Developer's Corner / Re: Free ActiveX Controls for Programmers
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 04:38 PM »
Let me say thank you for sharing these.
20049
ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.10.01 - Mar 28, 2009
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 04:34 PM »
ok so the problem is confirmed -- i'll try to work on it.
20050
Living Room / Re: A reminder for those who have recently donated
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2009, 04:34 PM »
Welcome Terflip  :Thmbsup:

I know it must seem overwhelming at this point, but don't miss this thread where people can also tell us a little bit about themselves:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=124.0

And also for supporting members of the site (like you!) this silly member kit thingy:
https://www.donation...MemberKit/index.html
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