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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game

« Last post by Shades on October 05, 2010, 04:25 PM »

As far as i know, there is even someone who build the 1701-D (Star Trek fanatics know what I am talking about) in it...on true scale! 

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Living Room / Re: Why do we go out of our way to be unhelpful in forums?

« Last post by Shades on October 02, 2010, 04:26 PM »

Ah....the goddess that is Salma Hayek in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.

If I could only wet my tongue like Quentin Tarantino did...that waitress would get a major tip from me!

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Living Room / Re: Looking for Refrigerator Magnets that work

« Last post by Shades on September 25, 2010, 10:32 PM »

If all else fails, rip open a broken/unusable hard drive and use the magnets within. Those are everlasting strong.

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Living Room / Re: Would someone mind recommending a good laser printer?

« Last post by Shades on September 24, 2010, 09:06 PM »

Then the question becomes:
In what quantities are you expecting to print?

If that is low, take a Samsung or HP laser printer that supports the dual page printing.

But if it is high then I can recommend from personal experience Panasonic (5.000+ euro).

My experience with them was excellent although a little short-lived. In the company I worked for we leased a set of 4 from these printers. 3 of them had to be replaced after 3 months, because their innards were completely done (according to their counter), while the outside was still brand new. These babies were litterally printing continuously day and night in that period. And they did practically without any hiccup.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by Shades on September 19, 2010, 06:34 PM »

Same here on my XP SPIII. Immediately after executing the Access Violation error keeps occurring after an interval from a second, just as in the post from Perry.

My PC has no (group/domain) policies set. Actually it is a rather fresh XP installation (3 days old) and I am running it in the default administrator account.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by Shades on September 19, 2010, 07:02 AM »

2. Have you considered including the same functionality thats been around for years on mobiles and is called predictive text or T9. I'm surprised that the great MS haven't ever included this is in Word and to be honest I have never seen it in any word processing or text editor program. Why is that? It can't be hard can it?

-elvisbrown (September 19, 2010, 02:59 AM)

[rant]
Maybe it is not hard to include T9 but I thank [insert your favorite deity here] that it is not included. I for one am really not waiting to read SMS language in a document. I already hate to see it in SMS messages themselves.

Besides that, T9 always predicts the wrong word for me and it costs me too much time to fix that so by default I disable this functionality in any cell phone I use.
[/rant]

On-topic:
@timns
Please, if you want to include T9 in your application, feel free to do so. But please, make an option to easily disable it as well.

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DC Gamer Club / Pixelprospector blog is awesome!

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 09:58 PM »

Hi all,

On my semi-regular 'hunts' for nice games for kids (age 3 to 9) to play, I encountered this site/blog (pixelprospector).

The URL above links to a post with a link to a youtube video of ten minutes that shows you 190(!) recent freeware indie games and their download links.

From some of these games the quality is simply amazing and worthy to be mentioned here in the DC forum.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge - Backup Verification Utility

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 01:33 PM »

MCC

(Master Copy Control)

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to pick up colors

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 01:22 PM »

Well, what usually works for me is simply to make her laugh.

-superboyac (September 17, 2010, 03:22 PM)

*snicker*
Tell her you like her shoes...

-Edvard (September 18, 2010, 01:27 AM)

...but that you (absolutely) love the feet inside them. (after all, you could be sending a mixed signal by saying that you love woman's shoes)

And if the above sounds too much like a suckup...a small kiss on the arc of her foot can turn the situation into a "interesting" night   
Either with the lady in question...or your cellmates (but then again, you already liked woman's shoes, didn't you?)

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Living Room / Re: Old Burma Shave signs

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 12:33 PM »

Funny.

This whole concept of advertising was unknown to me, but 'Burma Shave' as a term was not, because over here in Holland we had a good music band operating under that name.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: Drag & nDrop Zone queue for copying files/folders

« Last post by Shades on September 18, 2010, 12:06 PM »

May I suggest the following application: Magellan explorer (link to the feature page, see section Background operations).

It is not cheap with a price of 39.95 USD, but it fits your bill perfectly. Actually, it is capable to put multiple file operations in multiple locations in a queue! A 30-day trial is available.

No affiliation, just a happy paying customer. This piece of software was the first one I bought through the internet, just because of this feature (and you want it you can pry it from my cold dead hands!)

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Living Room / Re: The Story of Stuff - Cosmetics, Bottled Water...

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:50 PM »

If you care so much about the environment and/or want a critical look about our society and the way we as a race do things...you should check this site (lowtechmagazine.com)

There are really some pearls of knowledge/realizations to be found over there, because of all the research this guy puts into his articles.

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Living Room / Re: HDCP Cracked - Is HD Content doomed due to lack of DRM now?

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:39 PM »

But it will not be of much consequence. Most DVD´s that come out still have very old type of protection on them. My guess is that this is done to have a legal `stick` with which they can drive you to court and beat you up there with it, so to speak.

Following that line of reasoning I don´t think this cracking of HDCP will have a major impact.

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Living Room / Re: Tipping - Why does this appear to be a "requirement"?

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:34 PM »

Now tipping is comparable to bribing public officials and law enforcement? Oh man, even Mr. Pink didn't go there.

This thread gets better with each post! I almost expect Godwin's Law to come into play soon!   

Jim

-J-Mac (September 16, 2010, 08:56 PM)

I wasn't kidding. In some parts of the world, it's like that. Quite literally. Those are the attitudes. Obviously not in the US or many other places, but there are places where bribing the police is fully expected just like tips. It is a part of their expected income.

-Renegade (September 17, 2010, 09:14 AM)

Over here in Paraguay it is not deemed wise by and for gringos to leave in a car in the days before a (inter)national happening, like for instance mothers day. The chance that you get picked and have to pay the fine that they make up on the spot is very high.

Here in the capital it is not so bad, but going to neighbouring cities... 

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by Shades on September 17, 2010, 07:15 PM »

BTW, for those of you in the USA, you'll be pleased to hear that the sun came up tomorrow.

-AussieRodney (September 17, 2010, 02:45 AM)

Hahahaha

On a similar note
Don´t worry about the end of the world today...it´s already tomorrow in Australia!

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Living Room / Re: Axis of Awesome

« Last post by Shades on September 14, 2010, 06:02 PM »

Too bad their other work (on YouTube) is not nearly as brilliant as this piece of them.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Poll To Help Decide Mouser's App

« Last post by Shades on September 14, 2010, 05:53 PM »

Webcam Recording/Diary Utility +1

Just because I want to feel a little like the famous Start trek characters with their 'Captain's log, supplemental...' 

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Living Room / Re: Scantron alternatives: I need cheaper/creative solutions.

« Last post by Shades on September 11, 2010, 05:14 PM »

Maybe this piece of freeware (but not open source) will help you out: HotPotatoes.

As it creates web-based tests, the processing of them should be relatively easy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronizing a few folders between two machines?

« Last post by Shades on September 10, 2010, 05:52 PM »

Synchredible looks like a nice freeware tool to synchronize two folders, also in (semi-)automatical way.

The page may turn up in German, but there is a button to select the English language as well.

EDIT:
Oops, forgot to mention that this software was positively mentioned on AddictiveTips

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 10:49 PM »

This is the connection you get here in Paraguay for about 100 USD/month.

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Living Room / Re: The Weather...

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 10:41 PM »

Melbourne. It's raining.

Overhead it's overcast.

North? Clear skies.

South? Clear skies.

East. Clear skies.

West. Overcast.

Just very odd. And it's always like that. 4 seasons in a day.

Anyone get bizarre weather?

-Renegade (September 06, 2010, 12:04 AM)

Come to think of it...was that not a (rather famous) song? 

-Shades (September 06, 2010, 07:45 PM)

No idea actually. Just a coincidence. It's a phrase though here. Dunno...

-Renegade (September 06, 2010, 09:37 PM)

Found the song:
'Four seasons in one day' by Crowded House

And the lyrics:

Spoiler

Four seasons in one day
Lying in the depths of your imagination
Worlds above and worlds below
The sun shines on the black clouds hanging over the domain

Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day

Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, again

You can take me where you will
Up the creek and through the mill
Like all the things you can't explain
Four seasons in one day

Blood dries up
Like rain, like rain
Fills my cup
Like four seasons in one day

It doesn't pay to make predictions sleeping on an unmade bed
Finding out wherever there is comfort there is pain
Only one step away
Like four seasons in one day

Blood dries up
Like rain, like rain
Fills my cup
Like four seasons in one day

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 10:09 PM »

 

As I said, it was a long time ago for me. If I only had the time, I would enjoy participating in tabletop games like D&D again.

Oh oh, nostalgia is kicking in...

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 08:04 PM »

Ravenloft is only to be played when you have a good Dungeon Master who is up for it.

And I can tell you now that there are not that many.

This setting was tried by our group when it was still active, but our DM did not have the 'chops'. Reading the novels that are associated with this setting is a joy. As a character you have to be really able to survive any night outside the safety of your home in Ravenloft (played it when 2nd Edition rules were still king).

The game improved a lot when I aided our DM by playing the main evil character. My fellow players really hated me for all the mean streaks I introduced to the evil character. I think when you have enough players (5 or more) to let one of the imaginative players to be the main evil character.

After all, with Dungeons and Dragons games there is only one real rule...the DM is always right.

Besides, the 2nd Edition books start by saying that all the rules and stats from the books are optional and definitely not set in stone. Later rule books are unfamiliar to me.

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Living Room / Re: The Weather...

« Last post by Shades on September 06, 2010, 07:45 PM »

Melbourne. It's raining.

Overhead it's overcast.

North? Clear skies.

South? Clear skies.

East. Clear skies.

West. Overcast.

Just very odd. And it's always like that. 4 seasons in a day.

Anyone get bizarre weather?

-Renegade (September 06, 2010, 12:04 AM)

Come to think of it...was that not a (rather famous) song? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What program can check what other programs load up ?

« Last post by Shades on September 01, 2010, 06:42 PM »

Process Explorer from SysInternals (free, closed source).
Process Hacker (free, open source).

Both of them are more than capable of fulfilling your request. For finding out which .dll file my personal preference would go to Process Hacker... although it's interface is very similar to Process Explorer, the UI from Process Explorer wins.