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2051
My apps will now show you where they are saving their settings files in the about box of the program.
This will normally be in a C:/Users/USERNAME/MyDocuments/DonationCoder/APPNAME/
But it can be different based on configdir.ini setting, portable use, etc.

This will help in some troubleshooting.
2052
General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting Software
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2018, 07:04 PM »
Neat! Thanks for sharing  :Thmbsup:
2053
Try again now -- there was a new overly aggressive security check being triggered before, that should be fixed now.
2054
They have rpg and video games too.
2055
hmm.. Anything unusual about how you connect?
What error do you get?
2056
Last call for gencon meetup!
2057
Let me know if not.
2058
Living Room / Story of a failed attempt to invent a smartphone in the 1990s
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2018, 07:29 AM »
General Magic spun out of Apple to make, essentially, what was the first smartphone, and John Sculley famously said, “It’s the most famous company or the most important company in Silicon Valley that nobody’s ever heard of.” It was this incredible team of people that went on to build that thing that we use every day, that everyone has in their pockets...



from http://www.osnews.com/
2059
Living Room / A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2018, 07:24 AM »
Fun article..

In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters



from http://www.osnews.com/
2060
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2018, 02:09 PM »
Correct.
Yeah I'm not trying to say it made complete sense.. It's still crazyness.  Just an interesting piece of the puzzle.
2061
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2018, 11:37 AM »
Yep.
2062
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2018, 10:08 AM »
Interestingly enough, we had someone pop into the 24hr donationcoder chat channel yesterday who made a brief announcement that they had been "stress testing" the server and that there was no maliciousness directly explicitly at us, and were about to stop in 30 minutes, and then they left the channel.  Wasn't clear if they were going to stop for good or just in preparation for round 2.  But the attacks did stop after that, so it seems to have been legit.  Very strange experience, and I wish I had had a chance to ask them about their motivation and the tools involved -- it was quite impressive to see so much traffic coming in so fast from every corner of the globe (though I could do without seeing that again!).
2063
Truthfully there are virtually no dressers that will not tip over and crush you if you open all of their drawers full of stuff.
You can imagine people with young kids have to worry about such things.
There are special gadgets you can get to hold your furniture to the wall in such cases, and I have a big long office cabinet I bought that has a special mechanism that prevents you from opening both the upper and lower drawers at the same time, just to reduce risk of it tipping over.

Having said that, now that I see that the feet look nice, I will probably move the feet as closer to the front and outside the next chance I get, as I think they look nice, and would make the cabinet somewhat more stable.
2064
Find And Run Robot / Re: Forum baned ?
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2018, 10:02 AM »
Should be back to normal now.
2065
Find And Run Robot / Re: Forum baned ?
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2018, 12:25 AM »
We have been under attack for the last couple of days, and had to set up a bunch of blocks on certain countries.. It's died down now and if all goes well we can remove these blocks in the next day or too.
2066
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2018, 01:40 PM »
The server admins found a bottleneck in our server config that was making us particularly vulnerable to being overloaded easily.. So let's see if the server is a bit more resiliant now.. No guarantees but let's see..
2067
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2018, 05:49 AM »
The attack continues.. So strange.. Why anyone would target us I cannot fathom..
2068
Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2018, 11:05 AM »
It's just temporary. We have enabled cloudflare proxy security for the last couple of days because our server is experiencing overwhelming traffic due to some weird russia/china attempt to overload our server.
2069
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2018, 09:57 AM »
Are you going through a proxy via brazil, china, russia, or indonesia? Those countries had to be blocked (temporarily) as they are the source of the attack.
2070
Speaking of leg position.. Today with my empty cabinet, in order to air it out more, I opened all the drawers fully and the doors...

You can guess what almost happened -- I just caught it in  time as it was about to tip over onto me (!)  :tellme:

I'm not sure having the legs fully forward would have prevented the problem, but it certainly would have helped.  So I may move the legs forward.  Or just remember to load the cabinet up more and not pull out all the drawers at once.

2071
Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2018, 08:10 AM »
A heads up that you should make sure you copy to the clipboard your posts before you submit them during this time, in case cloudflare does it's thing and loses your post after you submit it.
2072
Another heads up is to make sure you copy to the clipboard your posts before you submit them, in case cloudflare does it's thing and loses your post after you submit it.
2073
The other thing to say is that this is only a temporary measure.. we should be back to normally shortly.
2074
Loaded up with some stuff:
cabdone5.jpg
2075
I see what you mean about the stain bringing out the character of the wood more.

Truthfully I'm always a little trepidatious when it comes to staining wood.. Part of me always looks at it afterwards and feels it looks too "blotchy".
But after I build up a nice thick satin finish of urethane, I feel like it looks a lot better, at least in person.  In photos it still looks a little blotchy to me.

And I'm still unconvinced as to whether I chose correctly going with this lighter reddish/orangeish stain, instead of my normal dark brown stain, but that ship has sailed.
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