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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 09:04 PM »

New beta is posted -- i'm leaving it as beta for now as i'm not 100% confident my changes won't cause an issue or two.

Most of the changes are there to help plugin writers, but a few bugs have been corrected here and there.

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Living Room / Re: Question about my video card temperature

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 08:12 PM »

some motherboards are configured to slow down the processor if they get too hot.

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Living Room / Flash Game of the Week: Mechanical Commando

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 07:26 PM »

Very nice top-down shooter, similar to Robotron, etc., but with some nice exploration stuff.  Not particularly difficult (at least not the first mission), but nice control.

http://www.kongregat.../mechanical-commando

from http://flash.plasticthinking.org/

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Developer's Corner / Re: SpiderMonkey

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 03:23 PM »

Great set of links.. and very interesting project.. i'm definitely going to be looking into this. 

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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 02:51 PM »

Few things in my house are as essential to me as these Hefty OneZip bags, which i think would make a great stocking stuffer type gift for anyone:


http://heftybrands.p...OneZip/OZFamily.aspx

I use them to organize all my loose cables, electronics, installation parts, manuals, etc.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Improvement for Temporality Screens to Add Volume Control

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 01:36 PM »

I could have sworn i posted a reply to this but it must have timed out.

What i said (or meant to say) was:
I haven't worked on Temporality Screens in several years -- it's fun to hear someone using it.

However, the code is C++ not ahk.  But I am happy to post the source code if you (or anyone else) still wants to work on it.
It is compiled with Visual C++.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 01:11 PM »

You could go for lower power graphics cards and install 2 so that you can run both of your monitors on DVI interfaces.

there are plenty of dual dvi single cards from ati+nvidia.
my experience is that both nvidia and ati make very good dual monitor cards now.  i have used both and can't recommend one over the other.

just pay attention to the card and make sure it has a dual-dvi output.
and when you are ready to upgrade to 4 monitors just get 2 of those cards.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: My favorite mention of Screenshot Captor -- and i don't even understand it

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 11:56 AM »

Welcome to the site Lucas!   

I really enjoyed the video -- was very fun.  Made me smile.

Here's a toast to you for the new year. 

-mouser

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Living Room / Re: Last second home-made gift ideas: HELP!!!

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 11:54 AM »

Family members often get a kick out of those sites where you upload a photo of family members and they make an animated thing out of them.

Like: http://dancingsantacard.com

Maybe other people can add more links to others.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: My favorite mention of Screenshot Captor -- and i don't even understand it

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 11:51 AM »

ha!
Thanks for the translations!!

ps.
maybe a new hobby of mine will be to take youtube videos in a foreign language and pretend they are talking about me and my software

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Screenshot Captor / Re: My favorite mention of Screenshot Captor -- and i don't even understand it

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 03:12 AM »

Can someone contact them and tell them i would like to send them a DC mug and beg them to feature more soap opera software reenactment segments on our other programs?  I nominate LemonTV as our official broadcasters!

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Screenshot Captor / My favorite mention of Screenshot Captor -- and i don't even understand it

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 03:10 AM »

What is going on here? I don't know, but I like it. 

Relevant parts at about 1 minute in.. I think.

http://lemontv.tv/19...-Ursula-Vargues.aspx

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Two 'essential' features

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 01:20 AM »

New version has an option to not steal focus -- thanks to ewemoa for not letting me forget to do this.

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Living Room / Re: PC Magazine to go all digital, no more print editions

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2008, 12:39 AM »

We could make a long list of things that soon will not exist anymore because of their production costs (music CDs being one, movie discs being another). But PC Mag was one big ad mag with two horrid Dvorak columns thrown in, and since most of those advertisers' companies don't exist anymore, there's little profit in the whole enterprise.

of course you are right, and it's gotten thinner and thinner over the last years.

but still some of us grew up using computers when these big meaty computer magazines were first born, and they were so damn fun to get and read (Byte, Creative Computing, then later PC Magazine).

it's true that PC Magazine was never in the league of byte or creative computing, but at one point it was one of those magazines that personal computer lovers used to just pour over with barely containable excitement.

and it's sad that those days are really gone.

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UrlSnooper / Re: URL Snooper locks up with "menu index out of range"

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 11:56 PM »

if i remember correctly this can happen when its run once with one set of adapters and then run again when adapter list or count changes.

try exiting url snooper, deleting the settings.ini or urlsnooper.ini file and then restart.

you do need to run url snooper in administrator mode by the way.

let me know if this works.

(ps. of course this shouldnt cause such an error, but i think this is what causes it)

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General Software Discussion / Re: It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 11:22 PM »

yeah i must say eset nod32 has never false alarmed on an ahk in the years i've been using it.  thumbs up to eset nod32 

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Living Room / Re: PC Magazine to go all digital, no more print editions

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 11:21 PM »

i think it's a sad turn of events.. but inevitable i guess

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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 December 22, 2008, 05:09 PM »

photo is fine

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: The Challenge Graphic

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 12:41 PM »

the zip hoodie no doubt wants an image of different aspect ratio; maybe for that it would be best to use one side of the previous mug design (cody sleeping at desk or cody coding), or else a cropped version of the naval seen focusing on the center image of cody.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: The Challenge Graphic

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 05:14 AM »

maybe Cody already got the 2009 treasure, and he's headed off for 2010 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: The Challenge Graphic

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 05:06 AM »

Is it just me, or is Cody cheerfully looking in the wrong direction while the island is right under his nose? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: The Challenge Graphic

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 04:52 AM »

Latest ship image from nudone:

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: The Challenge Graphic

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2008, 12:59 AM »

if people prefer we could still use the previous nany image and update it to say 2009:



both images are very cool.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - New Years

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2008, 06:51 PM »

Free DC mugs will be provided to all DC regulars who meet up at housetier's c-base!

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Living Room / Re: Last second home-made gift ideas: HELP!!!

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2008, 06:51 PM »

he doesn't want money, he wants ideas for making homemade gifts. so let's give him the gift of knowledge!