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Living Room / Re: Spain outlaws ALL p2p file sharing.

« Last post by Rover on July 02, 2006, 05:02 PM »

Actually, if you read the article, it says the fine for getting caught is = the license for the software being swapped.  So Free software should = $0.00 fine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Rover on July 02, 2006, 09:29 AM »

Hi Hornet,

I mentioned Info Select in this discussion a while ago.  (The thread is so crazy long I'm sure you didn't read it all)  I have not seen the program in 10 years or so. Are you using the Text based version or did they modernize it some?

Also, how fast can you add a note and/or search for one?  When I saw it used, it was fucntion key based and stupid fast for those who used it often. 

Welcome to the site. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: VclSkin

« Last post by Rover on July 01, 2006, 10:29 PM »

Free Delphi: http://www.borland.pl/downloads/delphi_7_personal/Delphi7_Personal.zip

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Living Room / Re: warning sign generator

« Last post by Rover on July 01, 2006, 03:02 PM »

Great fun.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?

« Last post by Rover on June 30, 2006, 10:42 PM »

I will probably end up with Office 2k7 on my system at some point.  It'll be free so what the heck.

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Living Room / Re: Gamma Bros, the best retro galazian/robotron flash shootup game ive played

« Last post by Rover on June 30, 2006, 10:12 PM »

Wow that's a weird game.  Kinda cool.  Pretty challenging.  Not sure of the final objective other than survive.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: systray keyboard lights

« Last post by Rover on June 29, 2006, 10:23 PM »

I believe this is exactly what you were looking for in the original post.

http://home25.inet.tele.dk/bramsing/

I installed it and it seems to work fine.  It's a system tray indicator or Caps, Num and Scroll Lock keys.

Enjoy!

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Living Room / Re: Fetching Cody

« Last post by Rover on June 29, 2006, 05:28 PM »

  Nicely done. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Cody's Quest or whatever - upcoming flash click game

« Last post by Rover on June 29, 2006, 05:25 PM »

How about this:  Cody has to save Allen from his evil twin cousin.  Coins should be there somewhere... Maybe Allen could throw out Keywords to help Cody.  If, Else, .New, etc.   

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Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!

« Last post by Rover on June 28, 2006, 08:04 PM »

Della - I had no idea you were so mean!!   

You won't let me rescue my 30'th snail --- Poor snail, I tried, but I couldn't save him

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Search Solver

« Last post by Rover on June 28, 2006, 06:45 PM »

D'oh!  Sorry.  I read your first post but somehow failed to read the very nice description of the app.  Brain damage I guess.

So this is pretty easy from a cross platform point of view.  Just about any language (except C or C++) has decent enough string processing to do what you want.  For the Ultimate in cross platform look at something like REXX or Perl.  If you want to compile it you could use Free Pascal.  If you want to learn a trendy Web oriented language you could use Python or Ruby.

The biggest problem you'll face with something like Java, is wading your way through the various versions of Java and the many possible JVM's.  Jave is not my favorite 

Pascal was supposed to be the next logical step for BASIC programmers.  Of course that was in the 80's

Have fun.  No matter what you choose, it should be fun.

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Living Room / Re: Make your own funny motivational posters online

« Last post by Rover on June 28, 2006, 06:31 PM »

    LOL

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Search Solver

« Last post by Rover on June 28, 2006, 06:16 PM »

What type of app is it?  That might help determine the best language/approach...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!

« Last post by Rover on June 27, 2006, 10:52 PM »

Hey Della,

Congrats on your first game.  I started to look at it but didn't get a chance to play.

Which leads to my comment on the game maker:  It's a little rude.  It switch my display to 640x480 or something; messed up my windows and kill my ATI TV picture.

Please don't take that as a hit on you or your game... I blame the game making kit. 

Good luck on your next adventure.

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Living Room / Re: Digg, the wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, netscape, and competitors

« Last post by Rover on June 26, 2006, 10:50 PM »

alex3f - How does a social web site differ from the crowd mentality?  I think you nailed the "reasoning" behind the crowd actions (or thinking) but I fail to see how a site like digg really differs.

They still get "caught up" in the moment and stop thinking.... a lot like most 14-18 year olds

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?

« Last post by Rover on June 26, 2006, 05:07 PM »

Sorry for not reading all the way through... has anyone offered this reason?

Software is copied because it's easy.  Free serial number and hack sites abound. 

Why do they crack it?  It's a challenge... they want to be cool...

Does it make sense to the rest of us? 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by Rover on June 25, 2006, 10:44 PM »

@mouser: agreed
All of the cool RAD stuff you do in C++Builder and Delphi is still described using regular text based OOP.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by Rover on June 25, 2006, 10:00 PM »

Text is a dead-end

Programming is stuck in an evolutionary dead-end: the use of character strings to encode programs. Every other computer-mediated form of expression has evolved beyond text into sophisticated WYSIWYG interfaces to complex data structures. For example, no one still uses textual markup for word processing (except, notably, Computer Scientists with TeX). We need WYSIWYG programming.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by Rover on June 25, 2006, 09:04 PM »

I think these guys might be smoking crack.

Their unsupported assertion is that the perfect way to write programs is through a visual interface.  A psudo point-and-click or drag-and-drop answer.

Programming deals with a lot of abstract stuff.  I'm not sure that the best way logic flows can be described is visually. 

 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

« Last post by Rover on June 25, 2006, 02:01 PM »

I have looked at Why's ruby book a couple of different times.  This is the first time I've actually looked at his blog.  This guy is whack-o beyond compare. 

Either the things he writes make some weird sense to him (most frightening) or he makes stuff up just to see how many people will actually read it.  In either case, his brain is crosswired somewhere.

I don't think he's dangerous or scary, he's more like Willie Wonka nuts.

He'll probably invent cold fusion and save the world....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera and Gmail users might like this

« Last post by Rover on June 25, 2006, 11:48 AM »

sweet!  I haven't actually had this problem yet, but as I've just started using Opera, I'm sure I would've soon.  Gmail is one of my startup tabs

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Living Room / Re: I don't think I read this properly

« Last post by Rover on June 24, 2006, 11:06 PM »

Things like this do really happen.  We have a cell phone for our son and the first couple of months he had it he call calls from the bank, the old users mom, andsome old lady who kept calling.l

I thought there was  a 1 year cool off period for regular phone #'s,  I guess it doesn't exists for cell phones....

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Living Room / Re: CPU 100%

« Last post by Rover on June 24, 2006, 11:53 AM »

RAM may not be the issue.  You can see how much is in use by running taskmanager and looking at the performance tab.  By the yellow > in the pic below is your current RAM usage.  If that is more than you physically have availble, the system will use disk to swap.  THAT can increase the CPU load, but shouldn't run it at 100%.

I recently started having problems with FF 1.5.0.4 running my CPU @ 50%, so the combination may be getting you.  The easy fix is to try using Opera or IE to see if that drops your normal CPU load.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Rover on June 24, 2006, 11:08 AM »

... or I will have to change my avatar thingie to a snail....

-Dell[a] (June 24, 2006, 10:49 AM)

LOL    No worries Dell[a], it just means that nudone talks too much 

(It's just a joke Nud!!)

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Living Room / Re: There is something 'sinister' going on here

« Last post by Rover on June 24, 2006, 09:31 AM »

hey app103 -  I got it... I chuckled.