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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: SMF no more?

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2007, 09:38 AM »

let's consider this a duplicate post with this one (https://www.donation...34.msg89763#msg89763) and discuss the matter in that thread.

i'm locking this thread (when you make multiple posts about same thing it makes it hard for people to keep track of where they should be reading and writing).

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: I WANT THEM!

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2007, 09:35 AM »

the insert preset text is remarkably easy change, i can paste info on how to do that a little later if you want.
the personal posting/draft area is much trickier and still has some imperfections that means i probably shouldn't release it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2007, 09:27 AM »

Just wanted to post to state my intention to participate.. I have a program I meant to do for GOE so this is my second chance 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Featured Posts Banner - SMF

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2007, 09:22 AM »

It's a good idea actually..
It might be possible to take the custom (unreleased) blogging addon i made for smf (see http://blog.donationcoder.com) and modify that to do what you are saying without too much trouble.  Basically it does 90% of what you are saying but displays the most recent special items as a blog instead of as a banner.

What would happen if there was no picture associated with a new item?

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Living Room / Re: Hilarious video about the Web 2.0

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2007, 02:43 AM »

hillarious or depressing i cant tell anymore. 

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Living Room / 9 Better, Cheaper Ways To Search Amazon

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 11:57 PM »

Looks like some useful stuff here if you are a regular amazon.com shopper like me.

The Amazon home page has somewhere around 16 different sales pitches, and more unnecessary graphics than a MySpace page. Here are 9 money-saving ways to shop the site without waiting for another customized ad to render.

http://consumerist.c...ch-amazon-330771.php

from lifehacker.com

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [BUG?] - Configuration is not being saved in Vista

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 11:10 PM »

sure sounds like a bug, but can you clarify?
do you mean you found a workaround that works? or found a workaround (configfir.ini) that *should* work but does not?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Invalid docking layout stream header

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 08:08 PM »

thanks for the report Ian -- that's good to know for the future.  Perhaps I can add something to check for such a failure in the future and automatically delete the Last.preset.dock file if it gets messed up somehow (maybe computer reset while it was in the process of saving).

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Invalid docking layout stream header

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 04:10 PM »

sounds like something got corrupted in the PresetViews/ subdirectory.
try choosing a different View from the main Presets menu.  If that fails to solve it, you could try reinstalling on top of your current install (just exit from tray first), or email me ([email protected]) and i can try to help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: can i control a program to use CPU by the proceess tamer ?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 12:21 PM »

welcome to the site huyaowen,
you can't do this with Process Tamer currently.
What you will be able to do *soon* though is tell process tamer that a specific program should be set to low priority as soon as it starts using 10% of cpu.  But this is not available yet.

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Living Room / Re: Inspirational Star Trek Posters

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2007, 08:06 AM »

LOLTREK hahahaahahahahhhaa 

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Living Room / Re: What makes DonationCoder so special?

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 11:17 PM »

That is a really wonderful thing app. 

Everyone here contributes to DC in their own way -- that's what makes it so nice and interesting here.  Wouldn't have it any other way.

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Living Room / Re: Bedtime Story

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 08:56 PM »

hahahahaaha.. nice one ralf 

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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 December 06, 2007, 05:40 PM »

When I graduated from 8th grade my grandfather bought me a C-64 with monitor but no storage device.  I spent the next year learning to program and would write programs, play with them and then shut it down each night to start over again the next day.

That's a perfect example of what it means to have the soul of a coder. 

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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 05:26 PM »

 

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 05:08 PM »

I just added an item about the NANY 2008 challenge.

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Official Announcements / Calling all Coders: The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008 Begins!

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 05:03 PM »

The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008

Calling all coders! Help us celebrate the new year in style by participating in the NANY challenge and writing a new small program.

Following up on last year's NANY challenge, and hot on the heels of our GOE challenge, and comes our annual "New Apps for the New Year" (NANY) 2008 challenge!

Your mission:

• Release a new freeware/donationware program of any kind, by Jan 1, 2008
• It must not have been released prior to Dec 6, 2007 -- that gives you about 3 weeks

What you get:

• A rare DC mug commemorative of the event (or any other object if you already have a mug)
• Fame and fortune (disclaimer: you will get neither of these)

We will put together a list of all entries just like we did with previous NANY and GOE.

ps. all coders are welcome, whether you hang out normally on DC or not, and whether you are a beginner or a professional coder.

NOTE: THIS ANNOUNCEMENT THREAD IS LOCKED -- PLEASE DISCUSS HERE: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=11206.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 04:55 PM »

The N.A.N.Y. Programming Challenge for 2008

Web page: http://nany2008.donationcoder.com

Calling all coders! Help us celebrate the new year in style by participating in the NANY challenge and writing a new small program.

Following up on last year's NANY challenge, and hot on the heels of our GOE challenge, and comes our annual "New Apps for the New Year" (NANY) 2008 challenge!

Your mission:

• Release a new freeware/donationware program of any kind, by Jan 1, 2008
• It must not have been released prior to Dec 6, 2007 -- that gives you about 3 weeks

What you get:

• A rare DC mug commemorative of the event (or any other object if you already have a mug)
• Fame and fortune (disclaimer: you will get neither of these)

We will put together a list of all entries just like we did with previous NANY and GOE.

ps. all coders are welcome, whether you hang out normally on DC or not, and whether you are a beginner or a professional coder.

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Official Announcements / Re: You can now subscribe to the RSS feed of our blog

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 02:44 PM »

you think that's an incompatibility?
that web 4.0 style, way ahead of it's time.  it will be all the rage in 2010 when every site logo has 2 lines intersecting it randomly.

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Find And Run Robot / Lifehacker interview with Quicksilver Developer on its Future

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 01:23 PM »

This is relevant for our discussions of Find and Run Robot and similar programs.  Definitely worth a read.

Lifehacker: Now that Quicksilver has made the move to open source, what kind of progress can users expect to from the application? Will we be seeing more regular releases?
Nicholas Jitkoff, Quicksilver's Developer: You're not going to like the answers to these questions.
Lifehacker: I can live with that.
Jitkoff: As for as progress goes, yes there will be progress, but in a much more experimental vein. I released two branches, the one that the B50s come from (ed: the Quicksilver that's currently running on your computer), and a newer one that is really unstable.
Lifehacker: So what kind of experimental business is going on with the unstable branch?
Jitkoff: So far? Quicklook has been integrated (which I love).
Lifehacker: See, I like the answer to that question.
Jitkoff: Yes, but I may never distribute that version.
Lifehacker: I don't like that answer.

http://lifehacker.co...ure-of-qs-330548.php

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Official Announcements / Re: You can now subscribe to the RSS feed of our blog

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 08:19 AM »

Note it's just the blog page that this RSS feed is for.. you can still subscribe to various aspects of the forum from the feeds listed here:  https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=496.0

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Official Announcements / You can now subscribe to the RSS feed of our blog

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 08:01 AM »

The blog page on donationcoder ( http://blog.donationcoder.com ) lists a few of the best daily discoveries from the forum.

Due to popular demand, we've just made an RSS feed of it available:

• https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;limit=10;sa=blogs;type=rss2

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: New webpage created to highlight the GOE Programming Challenge 2007 Entries

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2007, 07:48 AM »

http://www.ghacks.ne...ion-coder-challenge/

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Living Room / MOVED: on sale: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2007, 03:30 PM »

This topic has been moved to Found Deals and Discounts.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11184.0

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2007, 12:50 PM »

Just added a new feed for our blog.