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Find And Run Robot / Re: [idea] Let FARR score plugin results

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2009, 01:50 PM »

FARR is actually quite happy to score results returned from a plugin, either entirely, or by adding its own score to a score assigned by plugin -- just a matter of how the result is returned by the plugin to farr.

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Living Room / Re: Please help me build my new computer, DC!

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2009, 04:47 AM »

I freaked out a little when putting the cpu fan on

been there.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Press

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 05:07 PM »

I feel like i should make a post mentioning why i think it's relevant and fun to have a thread about any "press" or mentions of the NANY 2009 programs, because if i was a new person to the site i might feel like it was a bit annoying or self-promoting to see a post like this.

Unlike a big company with advertising and marketing money -- the only way people find out about DC and the stuff that goes on here is when other sites notice or when friends tell friends about us.

As a programmer participant in the NANY event, part of the fun is the enjoyment that one receives from other people trying and liking your software.

I always feel nervous when we do something like this that it will be like a tree falling in the woods and no one noticing.. and while programming is it's own reward -- i think it's so nice when everyone involved can also get the enjoyment that comes when new people and new personalities discover the programs and enjoy them.  (it's also very nice and fun for the site in general to have new people discovering the site, especially when there introduction to the site is something as purely a celebration of software as an event like this is).

So anyway, that's why i think it's so cool when i see a program that was part of the NANY event written up, i think to myself how cool it is that someone took notice of the work that this coder put into their program, and how much more rewarding it may be to the coder to see their good work acknowledged.

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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 04:41 PM »

Agreed carol -- these things need to be punished swiftly and harshly if we are to discourage them.

In fact you could go further and say that amazon should put a giant sticker on every belkin product page for a year saying the reviews and company cannot be trusted.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: JustCloseSomeTasks

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 04:09 PM »

Featured on DownloadSquad today:
http://www.downloads...-justclosesometasks/

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 03:18 PM »

I wasted an entire day pursuing some improvements that i ended up dropping.. back to the drawing board.  Keep the suggestions flowing, i'm hoping they will inspire me.  Remind me if i've forgotten anything important.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [FCalc] Variable increment bug

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 02:33 PM »

you are right! wow that's weird. i'll fix.
however i might point you to jscalc by czb which is a newer calculator plugin for farr with some additional very cool features.

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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 02:30 PM »

"Exclusive: Belkin’s Development Rep is Hiring People to Write Fake Positive Amazon Reviews"
http://www.thedailyb...n-reviews/?ref=email

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 08:13 AM »

  nice to see someone who has been waiting for the day as if it were a birthday

It's probably just my data calculation is off by one day and it should kick in by tomorrow i'm guessing.  But i'll send you the license by email.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Rewards and Prizes

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 07:27 AM »

Perry has indeed deserved the main price for his great work!

yes, but he didn't get any prize.. unless by that you mean the prize of being allowed to spend another month of his life working on NANY 2010 next year? In which case you are quite right. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Rewards and Prizes

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 07:26 AM »

the sata racks are something like this: http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16817990001

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Rewards and Prizes

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 07:02 AM »

Congratulations to all the people who participated in NANY this year.

As you all know the event is not a competition and as Perry says -- these extra prizes we scrounged up were just an attempt to send out a few random bonuses after the fact, not based on quality of submission but just to do a little spring cleaning and have some extra fun.

In fact, the only super prize (the DS209) was *originally* given to Perry (to give away on DC) as a thanks to the review he wrote a long time ago, and Perry decided we could give it away as part of our fundraiser but decided it might be funner to give it away now.

We all owe a huge thanks to Perry for doing so much behind the scenes for this year's NANY event -- it's only because of his hard work that it all went so smoothly.  As i told him, the hard part is going to come when he tries to find a hiding placing from us when next year's NANY event arrives and we go looking for him.. 

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2009, 04:38 AM »

josh, you are in the military so you understand the concept of rank.
now take a look at the bars on her shoulder and then look at your own.
if you're not careful she will bust you back down to private.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Qt now also licensed under the LGPL

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 07:19 PM »

I believe, and i'm no expert on these things, that the significant difference in moving Qt from GPL to LGPL is that you can now use the Qt library in a closed source (or whatever) application, as long as you make open source any changes you make to the Qt library itself.

In the past, under a GPL license, if you used Qt in your application, your application essentially also became entirely GPL open source.

That may not be exactly right but i think that's the basic gist of it.  Maybe others can correct anything i got wrong.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Qt now also licensed under the LGPL

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 05:49 PM »

I try to avoid news for 'planned' or 'anticipated' things anyway

amen to that!

i'm sick of companies trying to double up on the press releases and publicity by announcing something once well ahead of any planned action, and then again once they "actually" do it. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Visual "bug"/annoyance

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 03:14 PM »

let me ask, do those items still launch?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: System Tray plugin

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 02:19 PM »

Yes! i hear the beep!

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Living Room / Re: Secure deletion: a single overwrite will do it

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 01:53 PM »

Nice find.. seems like we have another case of a theoretically vulnerability that for all intents and purposes is not worth worrying about..

It's probably all not just that multiple-overwrites don't gain you anything meaningful, but that a cost-benefit analysis would probably show that the risk of causing a hardware failure from it is non-trivial.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Qt now also licensed under the LGPL

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 01:26 PM »

This is pretty significant news regarding QT.  It's a high-quality, actively developed set of libraries, that had until now pretty restrictive licensing terms.  This definitely makes it more feasible to use QT in projects which are wary of having all of their code open sourced.

Let's not forget that WxWidgets is also an extremely well developed cross-platform library that has long been available.  So now there are two really good choices for (C++ especially, and other) programmers wanting to develop cross platform tools.

Cool news.  I think it would be useful now to see some up to date detailed comparisons of wxWidgets vs Qt.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: wrong results?

« Last post by mouser on January 18, 2009, 06:49 AM »

try disabling this and see if it solves it:

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DesktopCoral / Re: I must be doing something wrong

« Last post by mouser on January 17, 2009, 02:55 PM »

The basic way you use desktop coral is to move the panel to one of the sides of your monitor and dock it there, and then resize it as you wish.  That is all.  You can set it transparent after you get it where you want.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on January 17, 2009, 07:44 AM »

czb, yes that will be solved by #3

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Dim rest of desktop/windows, except for focused window

« Last post by mouser on January 17, 2009, 07:43 AM »

ghoster mentioned on lifehacker today: http://lifehacker.co...inimize-distractions

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Maintaining Windows explorer Detail view

« Last post by mouser on January 17, 2009, 05:19 AM »

many of us use a 3rd party explorer replacement that solves this issue.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on January 17, 2009, 05:15 AM »

I'd like to try to summarize the main things that im going to work on and keep this list updated:

1. Redesigned UI:

• Hierarchical tree of items so that plugins are grouped under main program for better organization
• Multiple tabs for things like: Installed Programs, Available for install from site X, Specific Program Y (if you launch dcupdater from a program for example it will show on this tab)
• A "slide" type multi-row view instead of grid view, since there is too much info for a grid to show any more
• More info about each program instead of just name.

2. Support for beta vs stable releases

• User should be able to choose if they want to be notified of only stable updates or every alpha and beta (per program?)

3. Better support for installing new programs

• DcUpdater can already install new programs that it knows about for you but perhaps this can be improved.
• Ability to be told about web pages where it can "discover" new programs available for installation.  This should make it possible for people to publish lists of installable tools that DcUpdater can check for updates on and install for you.

What else? Any innovative ideas people can think of?