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Site/Forum Features / New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 07:30 PM »

This very cool google map mod was installed on the DonationCoder forum today with a few custom tweaks.

It's a really fun way to see where everyone comes from:

https://www.donation...php?action=googlemap

[url=https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=googlemap]

But it only works if people participate and mark their location in the forum profile, so please do!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- key reasons for its debut

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 03:06 PM »

OSNews has a long article about Chrome and the marketplace out today.. I have to say whether you agree with OSNews or not, they've lately been generating a nice amount of original thoughtful writing.. Very nice to have a different take on stuff beyond the normal bullshit technology press-report regurgitating journalists out there.

http://www.osnews.co...e_Than_a_Browser_War

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 02:07 PM »

Welcome everyone.
ps. add yourself to the map!

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 02:05 PM »

Everyone add yourself to the map!

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Basic / Re: What flavors of basic?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 12:46 PM »

its all up to you.. there isnt much grading, especially in the basic section since im not a basic coder..
the exe is not important -- paste code and select+highlight it using the code formatter drop down box or attach your source code, whatever's more convenient.  attach screenshots if you want feedback on them

the main point of the self-teaching school is to motivate you to work on stuff, so it's mostly on the honor system.
after you complete one assignment you unlock the next, and so on.

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 12:41 PM »

cough cough cough member map mod installed cough cough.

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 10:46 AM »

Clearly we need a mod for the forum which lets people do this easily.

two options:

• http://custom.simple...s/index.php?mod=1010
• http://custom.simple...ods/index.php?mod=56

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 10:15 AM »

We should really split up this thread into dif topics since there is some useful information in some of these posts that will never get discovered because of the topic title.

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 10:14 AM »

Nice post Paul.. i'm sure others will find your first impressions useful 

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Living Room / Re: 32-bit Windows and the dreaded (and misunderstood) 4GB RAM limit

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 10:12 AM »

there is a remapping option in my bios but both settings yielded failure.  i spent a lot of time messing with it until i gave up.  in one setting the bios saw the memory on post but windows didn't, in the other, even the bios couldn't see it.  i also tried putting the memory in different slots, etc. no luck.  could have been because of my 2 graphics cards, who knows.

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Basic / Re: What flavors of basic?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 09:59 AM »

any version of basic is fine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Maps: How to create custom maps with many pins?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 09:46 AM »

i'd like to know how to do this too.

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 09:46 AM »

this is fun.  where is that dc map thread?

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Basic / Re: What flavors of basic?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 09:45 AM »

sure.

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Living Room / Re: 32-bit Windows and the dreaded (and misunderstood) 4GB RAM limit

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 09:16 AM »

I want to emphasize something that f0dder mentioned briefly, since i have had some personal experience getting burned by it.

Some motherboard bioses, in combination with other hardware installed on your pc (most notably graphics cards), will find themselves unable to access even 4gb except when using a 64bit OS.

My Asus motherboard when combined with the graphics cards i had, could only access 2gb of ram from Windows XP Pro, even though i had 4gb installed.  This was due to memory mapping issues that i struggled with for a long time and then gave up on.  Some motherboards can handle it via remapping tricks, some cant it seems.

I had to upgrade to Win XP Pro x64 in order to access the full 4gb, which i have mixed feelings about (wouldnt recommend it unless you really need it).  If my motherboard had been able to access 3+ gb i would have stuck with Win XP Pro 32bit.

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Living Room / Freshome.com - Home Design Gadgeteer Site: 35 Unique & Creative Sofas

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2008, 07:54 AM »

This looks like a cool site, and a cool piece on unique sofa designs..

35 of the Most Unique & Creative Sofa Designs
One of the most important things to do while furnishing your living room is to get good sofa sets. In today article we will present 35 of the most interesting & creative sofa designs that you can find on the internet.

http://freshome.com/...eative-sofa-designs/

from http://www.neatorama.com/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spore: The Evolution of the Crocidius

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 07:28 PM »

Gangly stick is my favorite 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Lonely posts on the forum?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 06:55 PM »

 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Lonely posts on the forum?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 06:21 PM »

I just wish SC wouldn't crash when I save an image with an highlight

what are you talking about??!?!
Do you have win64 ? are you using latest version of SC?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab Active Window - Grabs current screen instead

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 06:19 PM »

as katykaty suggests -- the first thing to try is to see if SOME windows are working properly with an active window capture and some arent.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: MP3 player with copy/move feature

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 12:26 PM »

Thanks for the link Larry, i may just try 1by1, it sounds like the kind of mp3 player i want:

1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need for playlists or databases.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

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

Oh i am also very lazy.

for someone who writes so much in their blog you have a strange definition of the word lazy! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Setting the richedit display to fixed-width

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 10:30 AM »

yes it is:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Forum 2.0 Suggestion

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 10:28 AM »

Darwin those are the two features most likely to be seen on the dc forum in the near future.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DCC Links Page serves up Best of Web

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2008, 10:14 AM »

It definitely needs to be updated, as app103 pointed out very recently here.