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General Software Discussion / Re: Multi-threaded software

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2008, 10:00 AM »

I think f0dder will be a good person to comment on this -- but since a modern operating system like windows runs so many different processes at the same time -- you are going to benefit significantly from a multi-core cpu even with single-threaded applications because other processes can run on the other cores.

so that except for certain very processor intensive operations (video encoding, compressing/decompressing, heavy duty statistics), having a single application which is able to capitalize all the cores of your cpu simultaneously seems unnecessary to me.

but i'm not an expert, let's hear what the people who know about such things have to say.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request for thumb drive use

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2008, 07:43 AM »

seems simple enough.. i'll see if i can't do that.

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Living Room / Re: The InfoWorld Programming IQ Test

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 07:06 PM »

i got wrong:
soda, javascript, JIT compiler (i suspected the right answer but didnt go for it), and kernighan.

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Living Room / Re: The InfoWorld Programming IQ Test

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 07:03 PM »

I got an 80 as well (though i didnt get the ruby one wrong, deliberately or otherwise).
It should be noted this is more of a historical quiz with a few stupid questions thrown in for good measure.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Fileupload with Browser and Progressbar

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 07:39 AM »

Very nice find -- could be useful. 

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ProcessTamer / Re: Enhancement Request - Specify full path to process/binary

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 06:45 AM »

Hi MM,

I will definitely be adding this feature -- it's probably long overdue.
Right now I've been focusing on one of my other applications (Find and Run Robot), but in the coming weeks I will be updating my others and Process Tamer will get it's time in the sun.

-mouser

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Intermediate 3D Modeller, Beginning photoshop artist available for work

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 06:44 AM »

Really very nice work. 

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Living Room / Flash Game of the Week - Mr Coo: El Laberinto Esférico

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2008, 01:07 AM »

StaceyG over at JayIsGames.com points us to a beautifully stylish flash "adventure" game today, called Mr Coo: El Laberinto Esférico.

You might want to click the "English" button at the start if you want to play in English since the native language is Spanish, though in truth the words aren't that important, and you might enjoy not understanding the words.

It's a very simple point and click adventure with no inventory and very few places where you actually choose an action to perform, and there are a few action sequences.

But mostly it's just an incredibly well animated and stylish cartoon mystery.

http://www.mistercoo.com/laberinto.html

from http://jayisgames.co...berinto_esferico.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 05:45 PM »

by the way it works GREAT here.  really nice work.

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TapTap / Re: PhraseExpress Collision

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 04:25 PM »

i will look into it.. it seems like it's almost certainly got to be a bug in taptap if its always the first taptap item being triggered.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy is now available for Linux (!)

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 02:49 PM »

A lot of people in the lifehacker comments are saying that for linux they prefer Gnome Do.

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General Software Discussion / Launchy is now available for Linux (!)

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 02:17 PM »

This is a pretty big deal.  Launchy is a very popular open source Launcher tool (much like my own FARR: Find And Run Robot).

Lifehacker reports today that Launchy is now available for linux.

Obviously I'm biased for FARR but it's not going to be ported to linux anytime in the forseable future, so for those of you who have been wanting a top-of-the-line launcher for linux you now have one you should be happy with.

http://sourceforge.n....php?group_id=132975

from Lifehacker

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

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 01:24 PM »

It looks like i need to turn off the non-contiguous (fuzzy) matching when an alias is typed, to cut down on garbage results.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] number of results in status bar is wrong

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 01:23 PM »

i could at least change status bar to be more specific.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 01:11 PM »

jpijper would you like web/ftp space on dcmembers.com? then you could upload your always most recent version there instead of with an attachment?

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Living Room / Re: Dual operating systems 32- and 64-bit. Need advice on possible XP memory issues

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 12:52 PM »

when it comes to power supplies some are really annoyingly loud -- i wouldnt even think of buying a power supply that wasn't proven and written about how quiet it is.

video cards can be same way -- id search for a model which people have commented about how quiet it is.

newegg has great user reviews and comments and is a wonderful way to find out real opinions about hardware like this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 12:10 PM »

Nice !! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: too many updates !!!

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 11:45 AM »

i think a good thing to do might be to add tags of major/minor/beta for each update, and let dcupdater be configured to ignore certain tagged updates for each program.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Better link to version history, please

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 11:00 AM »

good points..

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SnapSuite program family/Free online computer help

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 07:48 AM »

loki you should post on a separate thread, maybe here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=172.0

with a title something like "3d modeler available for work" or something like that.

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Living Room / Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation Gadgets for Pain Relief?

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 04:50 AM »

I know there are a few people who frequent DonationCoder who have back and other pain problems.. Saw this today that i thought might be interesting.  Anyone have any experience with similar devices?

TENS stands for Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation, and that’s basically what the device does. It uses a set of electrodes attached to the skin that deliver up to 60 milliamps of current into the nerves where the pain occurs. This jolt serves to disrupt the pain signals coming from those nerves, and instead of hurting, the area ends up feeling tingly or even numb.

The output current can be adjusted, so you really only want to dial in enough juice for the pain to disappear, and it seems to include individual settings for the knees, shoulders, lower back & hips, upper back, and your hands & wrists. Normally I’d raise an eyebrow or 2 at an electronic device that promises relief from pain, but according to Joel Durham Jr. who writes for ExtremeTech, the TENS was quite effective at relieving his own back pain. And while this doesn’t seem like the kind of device you should use without the approval of your doctor, they do appear to be available for sale online to the general public, but expect to pay upwards of $800 if you’re interested.

http://www.extremete...,2845,2321737,00.asp

from http://www.ohgizmo.com/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: too many updates !!!

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 03:03 AM »

I can see how some people might be annoyed by the frequency of the updates!

But as was pointed out, the best solution to that is to turn off automatic update checking and just check manually (or change update check frequency to several days or weeks).

We have too much fun developing software and getting feedback from users to switch to a slower development cycle

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

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2008, 02:58 AM »

s.newave, that is already done, almost exactly as you say (except that you only specify one - at the very begining of the string).

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Living Room / Re: Computer problem, maybe you can help

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2008, 07:03 PM »

very good idea re ram, and try with just one stick -- i've found memory is very temperamental.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature - Folder Search

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2008, 06:37 PM »

Just wanted to point out that you can now specify which file extensions should be found in each configured search directory.  You can also use keyword modifiers to enable and disable these folders on a per-search basis.