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General Software Discussion / Freeware Forum

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 03:10 PM »

I recently got an email from someone who heard about DC from the "Freeware Forum".
Looks like a nice place!

http://www.thefreewareforum.com/

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading Video and Power Supply on an Dell XPS 400

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 01:35 PM »

wow.. i stand corrected.  at least it sounds like josh could buy one of those adapters and be ok.

ps. on the basis of this i would not buy a dell desktop.

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading Video and Power Supply on an Dell XPS 400

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 11:31 AM »

i would have said same thing as Darwin, but oldfart's comments are worth considering..
just open up your pc and take some pics of any connection from the power supply to the motherboard and any strange devices and post them and we can tell you for sure.

personally it seems highly unlikely to me that they would be using proprietary power connections.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: add "clear search" button to FARR

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 11:03 AM »

just hit escape and it will select your entire search string so you can start typing something new over it -- no need to use mouse.

ps. ctrl+backspace will delete last word.

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Living Room / Re: Computer will not start!

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 07:13 PM »

i suggest you plug the speaker back in and look harder for the bios beep code explanation -- that's really your best first clue.

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Living Room / Re: Idea: "DC Member Book X - Volume 1" - Request For Volunteers

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 06:12 PM »

Yes !!! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: are email clients sofware a dead industry ?

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 02:17 PM »

I'm one of those people still living in the past i guess.. I like having control of my files, and I have no intention of switching from a local pc client to web based email.

The one area where web-based email really shines, in my opinion, is when you are traveling.

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Living Room / We need to do something about Skrommel.. but what?

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 02:06 PM »

Anyone who has frequented the DonationCoder.com forum for a while knows that DC member Skrommel is just about single-handedly responsible for the success of the Coding Snacks section of the site.

His contributions here are immeasurable, and yet Skrommel is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, and normal methods of saying thanks simply are not appropriate.

So the question is.. how do we as a community say thank you to Skrommel in an appropriate way?

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2008 Software Giveaway Drawing Winners (mIRC)

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 10:05 AM »

ps.
mIRC is the IRC client that I use myself.  I've actually done a fair amount of coding using mIRC's scripting language, and you'll find some addons i've written for mirc below:

• Mircryption encrypted chat addon for mIRC
• mIRC script pack

To test out mirc, why not join the #donationcoder chat channel where we hang out!

Just follow these two steps:

• 1. Connect to the EFNET network.
• 2. Join the channel #donationcoder (type /join #donationcoder).

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Official Announcements / March 2008 Software Giveaway Drawing Winners (mIRC)

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 09:54 AM »

Winners of the March 2008 Giveaway Drawing

March 2008 Giveaway Drawing

Supporting Members, you've got only until the last day of the month to take advantage of this month's Discount, so act fast if you want to take advantage of it..

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

• mIRC (50% discount)

Winners of 'mIRC' (10):

• afm
• brotman
• jcarial
• Notok
• skybright
• tails0600
• tezza
• tomos
• umbrau44
• Xenonym

All winners are now being notified by email to their forum email address.  If you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail [email protected] and let us know you never got any mail.  It can take a few days for companies to send you your serial number; if a few days pass and you haven't received it - send a reminder to the company email as noted in your winning notification email, or to us by replying to the email you received or to us directly.

Curious about how we award prizes?  See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility. Winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum slightly increases your chances.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: make freehand annotations

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2008, 02:52 AM »

This is definitely a good idea.. currently i recommend that anyone who needs to do stuff like this should make sure to configure a fast external graphics editor for use with screenshot captor.

When you configure it in the SC options you will see a nice button on the toolbar of SC that you can just click to quickly edit a picture, then just save and it will automatically show up refreshed in SC after you save it.

It's designed to make it really convenient to do advanced editing in conjunction with SC.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: spring cleaning

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 12:22 PM »

March 28, 2008
Lite-on "Ez-dub" external dvd-rw (USB2 interface) [info]

I bought this hoping i could use it as a boot driver for an old laptop, but the laptop bios won't let it boot from an external usb cd/dvd.

any supporting dc member (in US because of shipping costs) who wants it message me, i'll pick one person at random and send it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine error # 8963

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 12:17 PM »

email me and i can try to help you in more detail ([email protected]) -- it sounds like you are having a couple of different problems.

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Living Room / Re: Made the JUMP! --- X-STATIC About it!

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

welcome to the world of waking up when you want.. and having your nights filled with fears of going homeless..

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Living Room / Re: Made the JUMP! --- X-STATIC About it!

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 11:33 AM »

Congratulations! 

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Living Room / Re: Restating Godwin's Law

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 10:24 AM »

We may have to sooner or later acknowledge that most of life's problems can be solved with FARR, AHK, or...SQLNotes.

       

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: DBISAM Engine error # 8963

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 10:17 AM »

It sounds like somehow the clip database file in CHS got corrupted.
I thought i included a clipboard database repair function but i can't see it in the options.

Assuming you can start up CHS, run it, backup your clip database from the options, and then try restoring an older backup of clips through the options.

If you can't start up CHS, then go to the CHS program files directory (C:\program fiels\Clipboard Help+Spell) and delete the files in the Database\ subdirectory (actually do yourself a favor and just MOVE them dont delete yet). then restart CHS and it will have a blank clip database.  Then you can restore one of the older clip backups from the options dialog.

Meanwhile i will put high on my todo list to add the database repair option.

-mouser

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General Software Discussion / Re: New kind of spreadsheet: Resolver One

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 09:33 AM »

Very nice idea.. They have some screencasts too that help shed light on what it does 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Licencse question.

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 08:57 AM »

we made some changes yesterday to reduce spam and it looks like we broke the [email protected] address.
we'll have it fixed today but you can mail me ([email protected]) until then.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Licencse question.

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 08:29 AM »

See here for description of what we expect from commercial business users:
https://www.donation...r.com/Help/entry/23/

To summarize from that page:

Our software is free/donationware for personal use.  If you are running your own small home business, we consider that the same thing (as fellow voyagers in the world of small home businesses we know how hard it can be).

But if you are running a real business with more than one or two non-family employees, we do expect you to purchase a Site/Business License for the program you will be using.

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2008 Discounts and Shareware Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2008, 06:24 AM »

The drawing for giveaway copies of mIRC ends today -- supporting members who want to win it please enter the drawing this afternoon.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: spring cleaning

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2008, 05:21 PM »

the sata and tv gadget are now taken.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: spring cleaning

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2008, 01:03 PM »

march 27, 2008

I have a 3.5" external sata-usb enclosure i don't need anymore.
you mount a standard 3.5" sata drive in it and connect it to your pc using usb(2).

any supporting dc member who wants it message me, i'll pick one person at random and send it.

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game: Spin the Balack Circle.

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2008, 08:22 AM »

Beautifully done, and the physics are spot on.

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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2008, 07:11 AM »

Even though it's not a dictionary per se, we should take this opportunity to post about the very cool FreeThesaurus.net by DC member Wordzilla (Anderson Hu): https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8416.0