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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2009, 07:08 PM »

Everyone please dont use 3rd party image hosting services which can dissapear, attach images to posts instead please.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2009, 03:47 PM »

One of the things i agree with Paul about is that one should be wary of any big elaborate "System" constructed by one person with a book to sell or an infomercial promoting it.

Like diet fads and excercise devices, there is a huge incentive in such cases to try to make everything sound like its a brand new revolutionary system that must be taught to you by a single cult personality in order for you to gain the benefits.

On the other hand, I'm an old fashioned fan of books, and a belief that a single author with a book can communicate deeper more thought out ideas in a book than is possible in a blog post summarizing an idea you were discussing over dinner.  Both have their place.

As for productivity methods.. I guess i would put myself in the camp of people that believe that:

• Its worth trying to be more productive
• There are some fundamental universal ideas in productivity that if you understand you can work better and more efficiently, and that these are worth learning.
• There is no one best method.  Different people work in different ways and that much of the game is finding the small tricks and techniques that help you work better in the style that you do your best work in already.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Win7

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 06:33 PM »

There are a tonne of cross platform apps out there that they could have run. Sure then people would go and poke holes in those particular setups but it would still be a huge leap closer to "real-world tests".

fair enough -- they could have tested real work applications, that would be helpful.  that's not really a knock on the benchmarks they ran, but rather a need for additional benchmarks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VMWare releases open source client under GPL

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 06:25 PM »

I don't get it -- how does this relate to Vmware Workstation, their non-open source desktop program?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Win7

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 06:23 PM »

Every benchmark ever created is attacked for being "not representative", so i don't think its fair to knock such things -- the site presented a mostly interesting set of comparisons.

The only benchmark i honestly view as absolutely irrelevant is installation time.. Unless you plan on reinstalling your OS once a week, i don't see why it really matters how long it takes you to install the OS.

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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 04:04 PM »

As many have heard, Magnolia suffered major data loss recently and all of the work i've been doing bookmarking and tagging reviews of donationcoder stuff seem to have been lost. 

I generally avoid online services and use local applications for almost everything I do.. This is one of those few times when i didn't.  Bad mistake.

I'm not saying don't use online services for your data.. I'm saying don't trust them to preserve and safeguard your data.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 07:48 AM »

this is wrong thread for this, but:
SC uses right click in image for panning image.
However there is a quick resize toolbar button:

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Living Room / Re: Stop-motion videos

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 07:17 AM »

Yeah, "Her Morning Elegance" was really really beautiful and sad too.  Thanks for sharing it.
"Western Spaghetti" was pretty damn cool too 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 05:55 AM »

i hope people will post more of their nany photos.. don't let the crazy photoshopping scare you away!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 05:50 AM »

All of the mug gift certificates have been mailed out -- check your emails from around jan 29/30 and let me know if you can't find.  Rather than send the mugs/shirts directly everyone got a gift certificate from cafepress and instructions on where to go to order your dc mugs.  Everything is paid for you just have to put in your address.

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Developer's Corner / Web Page Layout Debate: Tables vs. CSS

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 05:06 AM »

The AppScout website is a nice daily blog that doesn't get mentioned enough on DC.  Today there was a nice entry about some recent competing thoughts on using css vs using tables for laying out web pages.  I've had enough experiences cursing out css to consider myself in the camp that is not convinced that css is the holy grail..

This is all a lead-in to the pissing match in-progress between two groups of web developers. It pits tables against CSS (cascading style sheets). The prevailing wisdom has been tables are bad for you--bad for the environment. Using table is like smoking cigarettes... in a nursery school. CSS is touted as a much more elegant and controllable method (even though it isn't) of design. In 2009 only a schlemiel would use tables...
And then he proceeds to compile a laundry list of the largest most unbreakable sites around--and they're all using tables! Ron Garret adds a little fuel to the fire with point-by-point examples worthy of a closing argument on Law & Order (though on an otherwise awful looking page) showing CSS break where tables thrive.

http://www.appscout...._tables_ver.php#more

The blog entry is pretty brief and points to the following essays arguing for using tables or css:

• http://iamelgringo.b...s-trolls-begone.html
• http://www.newmediac...d-be-used-for-layout

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: JunaWeb.com - Shared, Reseller, and Shoutcast hosting - $1.49/month + 15% off

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2009, 04:56 AM »

Just wanted to point out that Blackleo asked ahead of time if it was ok to post about his services and I told him that as long as it was in this section it was ok.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Game Review: Defense Grid: The Awakening

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 10:50 PM »

Great review.. definitely makes me want to play it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How much trouble is a 64-bit OS right now?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 06:04 PM »

If you have some old hardware (scanners, etc.) you need to make sure there are good drivers for them if they are important to you.  many old scanners and other specialty hardware have not been updated with x64 drivers.

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Living Room / Re: Stop-motion videos

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 05:46 PM »

Other stop motion posts on dc from the past:
https://www.donation...2;search=stop-motion

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Coding Snacks / Re: Open files and rename or save as with new file name

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 03:24 PM »

I think this idea of a smart PDF file renamer is extremely useful, i've toyed around with writing it myself for a number of years but just never bit the bullet and i'd just as soon leave it for someone who is already familiar with working with pdf files.  I do think it's a great idea though.  Let us know if you find anything good.

rjbull's idea is not half-bad.. to combine a commandline text extractor with a renamer tool..

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 01:45 PM »

Let's start discussing some ideas.. if we are going to do a DC fundraiser in march it would probably be best not to overlap the GTO thing with that, so either go for something more manageable in feb, or plan for something bigger in april maybe?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Longtime DC Member JoTo is in hospital again -- address for sending postcards

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 11:48 AM »

Thank you for the update Joto.. It sounds really scary and we are all very very glad to hear that you are recovering.  The Joto tree postcard is funny

I think it's time for you to stop eating whatever crazy food you are eating that is causing this problem!

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ProcessTamer / Re: 为什么不更新了

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2009, 11:37 AM »

Process Tamer is definitely in line for some updates.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2009, 05:34 PM »

Part of the deal in receiving a NANY 2009 reward mug/shirt/etc is you have to post a picture of it, preferably in its native habitat (ie you holding it in front of your computer, etc.).

So let's see some photos!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Programming Paradigms

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2009, 02:46 PM »

Any suggestions of what I should do to learn more while watching it?

practice, practice, practice.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Finding Recently Read Messages or Messages Posted Today

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2009, 12:56 PM »

at top left of forum page:

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Site/Forum Features / ZillaRank (search functions for this forum) updated with bugfix

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2009, 11:24 AM »

Just a quick note that the elusive Wordzilla (aka Anderson) and I updated the forum search code he wrote (known as ZillaRank) to fix a minor bug that caused searching with multiple quoted phrases to fail.  Let me know if you spot any problems with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: More from Life Rocks

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2009, 09:25 AM »

Looks like some cool stuff 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 64-bit Windows 7 - quick install; fast startup/shutdown; smart snappy GUI

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2009, 07:26 PM »

Any issues with Screenshot Captor ( SC ) running on 64-bit Vista ( or 64-bit Windows 7 )?

don't think so but please report if you find any!