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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2017, 12:20 PM »

How about like the GoG Connect thread, we post all GoG giveaways to this thread so they update?  Just a thought.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2017, 12:15 PM »

Anyone have any additional features they'd like to see on the dcmembers sites?
Any wordpress folks have favorite plugins that they think would be useful to make available on member sites?

-mouser (October 24, 2017, 11:43 PM)

Plugins for Highlighting would be helpful.  The one that I used is Crayon Syntax Highlighter: https://wordpress.or...-syntax-highlighter/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Super Simple "Alarm Clock"

« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2017, 07:12 AM »

Easiest and most efficient way to do this?

Got an Android or iOS device?

"OK Google/Hey Siri, set alarm for 2PM." Done.

-Deozaan (October 23, 2017, 02:25 AM)

Also, if you have a Google Home or Alexa (or Bixby).  You can do the same thing.  It's been the biggest revelation for me.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock Broken In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

« Last post by wraith808 on October 20, 2017, 10:37 AM »

I do highly recommend against manually placing any DLL file into system folders!

-WhiteTigX (October 20, 2017, 10:30 AM)

Agreed!

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Living Room / Re: Metal to metal, big boys style!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2017, 08:20 AM »

I'm just saying it's on the same scale.  Probably to fit within the constraints of TV, they were not in the bots, and more importantly, not at risk.  They built these bots, and had sponsors, and destroyed the other bots.  In a lot of cases, if anyone was in the bot, they would have been hurt or killed.

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Living Room / Re: Metal to metal, big boys style!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2017, 08:58 PM »

Not First...

http://www.syfy.com/robotcombatleague

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL Syntax Question

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2017, 02:33 PM »

Hope you're getting paid hourly...

-wraith808 (October 18, 2017, 11:22 AM)

rofl ... Nope - Bid flat rate for job -  This is what's technically referred to as a huge fucking mistake.

-Stoic Joker (October 18, 2017, 01:13 PM)

Vodka.  Lots of Vodka.  Might not make you feel better about it, but it will make you not care. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL Syntax Question

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2017, 11:22 AM »

Hope you're getting paid hourly...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Google Play Store Android updates not new

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2017, 03:12 PM »

I haven't noticed it across 2 tablets and my phone

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 1 Year of SpiderOak One (1TB of storage) for $15

« Last post by wraith808 on October 16, 2017, 02:20 PM »

Fences, which has a 3 license pack in one of the lower tiers if you were to get the SpiderOak deal, is an amazing bit of software for Windows users that keep icons on their desktop.  I've been using it so long that I find myself incredibly frustrated any time I have to use a computer that does not have it installed.

-cthorpe (October 16, 2017, 01:54 PM)

Agreed, though the regular price is $9.99 for Fences, so not so good a deal unless you want to get other software in the deal.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2017, 04:23 PM »

Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan.  Just as good as the first series, IMO.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2017, 01:32 PM »

^ LOL!  Coincidence?  Or more Fake News.  Hmmm....

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2017, 12:05 PM »

Torchlight 2 on GoG Connect right now.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2017, 09:41 AM »

^ This is silly humor?  Hmmm....  Perhaps interesting "stuff", but silly humor?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on October 10, 2017, 12:54 PM »

There is a thread for political humor in the basement.  Perhaps, to err on the side of caution, it should be placed there?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Opening a file/URL by passing as parameter to application doesn't work for me.

« Last post by wraith808 on October 10, 2017, 11:30 AM »

When you say that you're putting it in... where are you putting it?  In the search box?

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Living Room / Re: Keybase and the Keybase Filesystem (KBFS)

« Last post by wraith808 on October 08, 2017, 08:43 PM »

It is not available to me, and I've tried to restart the service to see if it would update on my desktop.  (This is desktop that I'm referring to.)

So I tried to check on my mobile after your post, and it's there.  Maybe they just haven't pushed it out to desktop yet.

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Living Room / Re: Keybase and the Keybase Filesystem (KBFS)

« Last post by wraith808 on October 08, 2017, 12:59 PM »

Looks interesting- but it's not in my installation, which makes me sad.

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Living Room / Disabling autoplaying videos in Chrome goes viral

« Last post by wraith808 on October 05, 2017, 12:38 PM »

Chris Meadows posted a Twitter tip telling how to disable autoplay video in Chrome: "If you use Google Chrome, go to

chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

   --and set it to 'Document user activation is required.' Boom: no more auto-playing videos. You’re welcome." 6,000 retweets later, Meadows talks about how the viral response shows wide frustration with the web experience. (TeleRead):

https://teleread.org...n-chrome-goes-viral/


The question still remains, however...

It puzzles me that so many sites seem to think that annoying people is the best way to endear themselves to their audience, but even I hadn’t realized just how annoying people find it.

Why do sites insist on annoying their visitors?

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2017, 02:49 PM »

  The removable battery was one of the key features for me.

-irkregent (October 04, 2017, 11:19 AM)

Do you keep a replacement battery in store? Or is there another argument for having a removable battery?

-Ath (October 04, 2017, 02:23 PM)

Having one in store, and/or having the ability to do so, I'd think.  If your battery unexpectedly has problems, you don't really have a choice other than to replace the entire phone on most current devices.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Making screenshot of Screenshot Captor menu

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2017, 12:02 PM »

If you (or anyone) ever regrets donating, just contact us and we will refund your donation!

-mouser (October 04, 2017, 10:17 AM)

Doesn't his title of participant mean that he hasn't actually donated?

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2017, 02:29 PM »

^ probably this one:

Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

Do we have a photo thread this topic could be merged into?

-mouser (October 02, 2017, 10:11 AM)

-tomos (October 02, 2017, 02:02 PM)

Merged.  Hopefully I did that right

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Living Room / Re: Malpais de la Rasca (Where is contro ?)

« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2017, 10:46 AM »

I know 4wd posted some photos, but I'm not sure where that was.

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Living Room / Re: Unable to Terminate Domain Registration

« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2017, 10:44 AM »

Likely when you do this, they redirect the domain to traffic monetisation platforms to get a few fractions of a cent per pageload serving ads.

There's a lot of questionable activity by registrars who change the nameservers of 'expired' (but not yet 'in redemption') domains to similar traffic monetisation systems the moment (or very shortly after) they expire - or perhaps because you 'disabled' the domain in their panel somehow -  this is probably what has happened to this one?

-PhilB (October 02, 2017, 10:09 AM)

I thought that might be the case, so when I cancelled a domain before, I checked to see if it was seen as able to be registered with another registrar.  It was, at the normal rates.  That's no guarantee, but it is pretty telling.

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Living Room / Re: Unable to Terminate Domain Registration

« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2017, 09:43 AM »

As the number of people chiming in that they didn't know it was possible are rising, I figured I'd post GoDaddy's method of doing the same (as I can't show Hover's, of course)

Canceling Domain Registrations with GoDaddy:

https://www.godaddy....cancel-my-domain-412



The other strange and troubling thing about this is that it was redirected to the other questionable domain with me still as the contact.