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Living Room / Blog Series: Wiring the house for a Home Network - Part 5 - Gigabit Throughput

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2007, 08:33 AM »

Scott Hanselman writes a pretty nice and lighthearted blog on programming tools and related things.  He's recently been describing his new home networking setup, and it's a good read because he goes into some real detail about choices he made and issues he's solved..

I posted earlier about copying files across my new Gigabit home network. I was getting about 10 MB/s (that's MegaBytes) between two laptops and I got responses like these in the comments that shook my confidence. Here's my thoughts after each interesting comment that appeared in the previous post:  "You should be pushing at least 100 megabytes per second with gigabit ethernet."

http://www.hanselman...oughputAndVista.aspx

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com Yearly Fundraiser for 2007 - Advice Requested Please

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2007, 05:56 AM »

i think i'm all but decided that we should have a fundraiser, but do it in January.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 02:00 PM »

Comodo 3 is looking really, REALLY good.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 01:58 PM »

Added: Failed install - Installer is not valid Win32 Application

this error happens when for whatever reason the browser didnt download the complete dcupdater installer program.
this seems to be happening quite a bit, especially with internet explorer.  i don't know why. i don't know anyone that does.   

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR window slowly increases height

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 01:42 PM »

i'll look into it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 01:02 PM »

alan, is it also happening for you when you do a region capture?
i need to nail down what causes this!

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Living Room / Re: Another cody spotting? CAPTION THIS PICTURE CONTEST

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 12:55 PM »

Caption:
"In America, Bird collects coins.
In Soviet Russia, coin collects bird."

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Living Room / Re: Another cody spotting? CAPTION THIS PICTURE CONTEST

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 12:48 PM »

CAPTION:
"Attention All: If you have any coins in your possession which you do not wish Cody to steal, please draw a picture of a bird on each one with a big red slash across it."

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: General use issues.

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 09:37 AM »

If you just want a one-way edit of the text that's actually pretty easy, i can easily make and option so you can edit stuff in that memo view or another, as long as you dont mind that if you change a checkbox afterwards, etc, then it will revert.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: General use issues.

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 09:36 AM »

you are really using tflm for some interesting stuff.. the more i read though the more i think that what you need is another program, similar to TFLM but more designed for your use.. like using nice plaintext files for variables so you can easily create and edit them using a standard text editor, etc..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Programs not running

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 09:33 AM »

in one case, farr tells windows to run the shortcut -- which windows should figure out how to decode and execute.
in the other case, farr reads the shortcut info inside it and executes the program itself.

i'm guessing that some firewalls are blocking one of these modes on people's machines where the problem is occurring, but it could be something else too i suppose..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Programs not running

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 08:54 AM »

I have to figure out why this affects some people.
So which setting works for you picturetaker?

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Living Room / Re: The Doppelgänger Effect

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 08:44 AM »

This sheds more light on this picture: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=11099

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Living Room / Another cody spotting? CAPTION THIS PICTURE CONTEST

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 08:44 AM »

I think i have another Cody (DonationCoder.com mascot) spotting:

from http://www.neatorama.com


UPDATE: Can you think of a caption for this picture? post it!  best one gets a prize 

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: General use issues.

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 07:38 AM »

Hi Kim,

I'm very glad to hear that the last version was an improvement.

Making the main editable directly.. it's not impossible but it is quite tricky because whenever you check a box it recreates the message and so all changes you make would have to be remembered and associated with a particular node in the tree.

Right now you probably know that you can edit the currently viewed contents on-the-fly so to speak by selecting a node and changing the text in the upper window.  this actually changes the tree *temporarily* which is how its able to remember your changes even if you check and uncheck other items.

What i could do i think is making it so that when you click anywhere in the main text, it JUMPS to that node in the tree on the left and the upper window -- at least then you could find what node was generating any text instantly.

As for the variables --
i think one of the problems is that i really don't use them much at all myself, so naturally they got relegated to second-class status.  i can think of some improvements like HIGHLIGHTING them in the main text window and letting you click on them there to fill in the values.

And as you say maybe they could be shown in a better way in the list with user ordering.. but i guess my problem there is just that i don't have a good feel for how more people want to use these variables and i don't have an understanding of the philosophy of their use so it's hard for me to get a grip around what the ideal user interface would be.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Licence key

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 07:06 AM »

License Key Help: https://www.donationcoder.com/Help/2/

Almost always the problem when a license key is not accepted into one of our programs, it means that it was pasted slightly wrong.

If you still have trouble after reading the help pages, email me at [email protected] and i'll try to walk you through any trouble spots.

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Official Announcements / Re: November Software Drawing Winners

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2007, 07:02 AM »

Congrats and once again a big thanks to carl thorpe for handling the discounts and giveaways 
ps. I can tell you he has been very busy organizing stuff for december

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shut Up About Vista, Already

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 09:52 PM »

I have to admit to having a kind of opposite view of the cybernet defense of vista.

My view is, i don't like vista -- but i hate to see people piling on too much and i don't think it's fair to keep beating a dead horse or jump on the bandwagon..  So i find some real comfort in the cybernet news people standing up for it.  Call me strange but i think it's sweet.

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Living Room / Re: Name the screensaver.

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 09:43 PM »

Oh it's beautiful -- nice discovery and nice work tracking it down 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Programs not running

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 09:28 PM »

try to go into options -> general and check the toggle mark for "Always launch shortcuts directly"

whatever it is change it -- see if that helps.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Proof of Concept: using text files to expose information to FARR

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 01:14 PM »

it would be very useful to have a generic plugin designed to search in simple file lists.
ie a file containing a list of other files
or a an xml file where farr is told which items should be searched for, etc.

i do have plans to write such a plugin if no one else does.

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / SMAU - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 12:47 PM »

Nice work blaster and tpreal! glad to see more people getting into the spirit!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Request: where to put "Tiny Tips"?

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 10:34 AM »

i think general software or living room would both be fine.

just add something at the end like:

Do you have any other tips for renaming pictures?

then the thread is opened up for others to chime in.

and make sure you name the topic something related to your tip so people can find it again, like
"Useful tip for renaming photos based on EXIM information" or something like that..

I think it's nice when people share their tips, large or small alike.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: req: add "DonationCoder.com" to forum page titles

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 09:19 AM »

how about if i put it on the end?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: req: add "DonationCoder.com" to forum page titles

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2007, 08:29 AM »

thanks for the tip suleika -- done