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Living Room / Re: Wide Open License

« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2008, 09:13 AM »

the WOL assumes we live in a more benign world in which enlightened self-interest leads people to voluntarily share significant improvements with the community

can someone direct me to this planet? how much does it cost to go there? do cute girls live there? how is the weather?

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DcUpdater / Re: Integration of dcUpdater with Nullsoft Installer

« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2008, 09:10 AM »

cool 

you surmised exactly what the helper does when it registers a new application.  your steps for doing that and checking for existence of dcupdater are valid.

it probably should always create that directory and put itself there, so that if your program is installed, and THEN the dcupdater is installed, it will still find it.

i should say that the small dcuhelper.exe will create this entry when launched, and will also direct the user to the dcupdater website, so really you can use the dcuhelper.exe to do this work -- both to register the application and launch the updater or tell people about how to get updater.

PS: dcUpdater 1.23.01 has a problem with dates in dd/mm/yyyy localisations - some dates don't show up, perhaps because they are regarded as invalid.

you mean in the display window its handling them wrong? or in what way is it doing something wrong?

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DcUpdater / Re: suggestion: web path changes

« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2008, 09:01 AM »

can you elaborate a little more on the idea, i'm not 100% sure i follow.

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DcUpdater / Re: Allocation of .dcupdate namespace to user.

« Last post by mouser on February 28, 2008, 08:56 AM »

the updater should ignore sections it doesnt understand.. i'm very happy to say that dcupdater will never use the <user></user> section, so that is now free to use safely.  same is true for the remote versioninfo.xml files.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Search input field

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 11:20 PM »

everyone should upgrade, version 1 is from the stone ages.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: CluGrid Discussion

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 11:19 PM »

i think it would be fun if you let users customize the names themselves, could add another fun dimension to it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Search input field

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 06:32 PM »

yep.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Urlsnooper closed by other software

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 01:16 PM »

that is really mean, i guess they are trying to prevent url snooper from finding the streams.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Wovel

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 12:26 PM »

wake me when they invent an i-wovel that runs on batteries and doesn't require a human.

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Developer's Corner / Re: It's time for NANY and GOE mug pictures!

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 12:23 PM »

that looks pretty nice Blaster!
for everyone wondering, blaster chose a sweatshirt because he had already won a mug in the past.  so all of you who have won mugs you can also request any custom object you want for your next reward

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General Review Discussion / Re: Wovel

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 12:18 PM »

Does it run on linux?

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Living Room / Re: look at the size of my mouse mat !!!

« Last post by mouser on February 27, 2008, 12:17 PM »

it's a little small nudone -- next time get one big enough and you can cut it to be an exact size to cover the desk surface -- that would be cool.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Uninstall All Programs (Unall)

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 09:15 PM »

its an interesting idea just for fun but i think the smart thing would be to use a boot disk that you could boot up with and would wipe and erase the hard drive.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request: Show thread age

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 07:38 PM »

that would work too.

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General Software Discussion / This board is now for Company Compliments as well as complaints

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 06:28 PM »

We thought it was only fair to allow praise of companies to be in this section too, so it isn't all a hate fest.

There was some talk about whether to make a new section for it but i thought it would be better to avoid creating so many new boards.

ps. In my opinion, posting compliments about companies should be done not for good programs per se, but for customer support and nice things the company does that are above and beyond normal practices.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: ReadMe: Find out and rant about bad companies

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 06:26 PM »

NOTE: This section has been expanded to include PRAISE about good companies -- we thought it was only fair to have both here.

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Site/Forum Features / Request: Show thread age

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 06:08 PM »

I think it would be nice to show the age of each thread in the column where it tells you when the last post was.
So like here:

it would say: "(5 days old)" or something like that.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr "-exit" command takes a while.

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 04:44 PM »

you wont cause any harm by forcing it to exit -- but it's possible that it won't have saved any recently launched programs in its recently launched files history, which you probably don't care about.

however i don't really know why it would take much longer to kill just because it's running on a usb stick.

can you check if you exit farr on your usb stick by choosing to exit from the tray menu, whether its fast or slow.
in other words, is the long delay because of farr existing no matter how it exits, or is it only a long delay when using the commandline -exit switch.

if its ALWAYS slow exiting then the problem is probably a delay saving its configuration file in general on the usb stick.  in which case you might check the size of the config file and see if its huge.  there was a discussion on the forum a while ago about an antivirus program really slowing down the ini file saving operation of farr.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: idea: give double space the same function as \ (backslash)

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2008, 12:16 PM »

what about / key, is that easier to type?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: programing mouse buttons for FARR

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 11:07 PM »

nice 

i'll add this to my list of permanently useful FARR stuff.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: programing mouse buttons for FARR

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 10:31 PM »

lanux, i think he means a mouse wheel to bring up FARR from tray, rather than run it when its not running.  i.e. just trigger the FARR hotkey.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr "-exit" command takes a while.

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 05:07 PM »

exits instantly here.

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Living Room / Re: Sleep is killing my mouse

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 01:39 PM »

so it was the usb->ps2 adapter that caused the problem? i would have never guessed that one adapter would work and the other wouldn't.  good to know.

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Living Room / Re: USB Keyboard not available during windows boot sequence

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 11:52 AM »

the other way to handle this is just have a spare tiny ps2 keyboard for when you need it with these tools.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 11:06 AM »

i should say that while i think its a neat idea im not sure how much real use it would be -- just a heads up for someone who might be tempted to spend a lot of time coding it.  there are more useful plugin ideas that have been suggested, imho.