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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 27, 2010, 06:23 AM »

So now you're stuck with me!!

-esoito (April 26, 2010, 11:56 PM)

Hi, welcome, you'll find plenty more of interest around here!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2010, 09:06 PM »

+1 with Mouser on that point. The name doesn't have to perfectly fit the site so long as it's recognized.

-40hz

+1 again.

The name is also nicely ambiguous, viz. donation to coder for software/donation of software by coder.

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 26, 2010, 08:12 PM »

But Darwin is primus

-rjbull (April 26, 2010, 04:24 PM)

Seldom camp but often on fire!

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General Software Discussion / Re: PromptHere v. 1.1

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 25, 2010, 05:45 PM »

Hmmmm, I have a feeling cranioscopical will scold me for not thanking
joby_toss for Prompting me to make this update!!!


Sorry!! I couldn't resist!!

-MilesAhead (April 25, 2010, 04:26 PM)

Another command performance!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Friendly 404

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 24, 2010, 03:56 PM »

a nice looking 404 staring our mascot Cody

-mouser

agreed -- it should be really clear you are on a 404.

-mouser (April 24, 2010, 03:36 PM)

Yeah, you don't want people staring at Cody for too long 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 23, 2010, 01:42 PM »

@IainB: At last, the solution. I'm all four that!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2010, 08:44 PM »

I feel that, since we all seem to like one another, we should try always to encourage input from newer members. That way we'll have even more of us to like. It's difficult to like someone who has no voice here.
The more topics, and the more contributing points of view, the better.

This very sentiment is often expressed here and in the newsletters. I do think that, by and large, we are fairly welcoming but are there more ways to encourage new voices?
I don't know if particular people are specifically tasked with welcoming new members but not many of us seem to say 'hello' when a newcomer passes by.

Some of our major contributors are remarkably good at launching topics that attract wide interest and participation.
I wonder if more of us can initiate thought-provoking threads?
Speaking as one of the intellectually bankrupt, I always enjoy the chance to feast on crumbs from the clever members' tables.

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Living Room / Re: two-monitors ergonomics

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2010, 12:50 PM »

Congratulations, that's a nice layout!
The average air-traffic controller would probably feel quite at home 

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General Software Discussion / Re: HyperSnap now installs toolbar, without asking?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2010, 11:14 AM »

An old Yorkshireman...
"If I wanted a flaminng mayonnaise sandwich, I'd ask for a mayonnaise sandwich"

-Darwin (April 22, 2010, 08:23 AM)

Is it not true that, in some parts of Yorkshire, mentioning mayonnaise remains a hanging offense?

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Official Announcements / Re: April 2010 Giveaways and Discounts - Winners Posted

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2010, 08:10 AM »

Thanks to our organizers for arranging this month's give-away!

Thanks also to Outer Technologies, 20 licenses for Linkman is an impressive donation!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Twigatelle

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 22, 2010, 07:57 AM »

sometimes purple are special balls.. but sometimes they are normal..

-mouser (April 21, 2010, 10:46 PM)

Have you considered switching to Fruit of the Loom?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 19, 2010, 02:54 PM »

GoCode or DoCode or DoCoGoCode

-nosh (April 19, 2010, 12:10 AM)

 
CodyCode

or, for the winter insomniacs
Codin' by doze

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Living Room / Re: Pure Boredom Post: The 3 Word Story Game

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 18, 2010, 07:47 PM »

substitute
for
dessert

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Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 18, 2010, 09:38 AM »

So I'm very big on encouraging good documentation.
Cody Quill anyone?

-40hz

I think you've nailed it, 40hz. Where there's a quill, there's a way.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 16, 2010, 09:05 PM »

Can I interest you in an array of second-class applications? Any takers?

-Cranioscopical

True: it wasn't meant to infer lesser class -- just different. Suggestions?

-Perry

Maybe "extended entry"? .. to me that doesn't convey any distinction in quality, merely that the entry contains something more. Of course I am not a native English speaker

-Jibz

I am a native English speaker and "extended entry" seems to me to be a good fit.

I'd like to take this chance to say that the stewardship provided by Perry looks already to be as outstanding this year as it was last.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 15, 2010, 08:26 PM »

Perhaps there's a slight difficulty with the terminology.

Suppose there were, say, 107 NANY entries.
Further suppose that 5 were "First-Class".
Then suppose that the remaining 102 were generally regarded to be of equal merit, one to another.
Now you have 102 second-class entrants.

Can I interest you in an array of second-class applications? Any takers?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DuckDuckGo - new search engine

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2010, 08:31 PM »

Oh and is the duck a friend of cody? 

-gexecuter (April 14, 2010, 08:25 PM)

Enough with these fowl wise-quacks!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2010, 08:15 PM »

Sounds great to me. Are you going to encourage collaborations?

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Living Room / Re: two-monitors ergonomics

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2010, 02:45 PM »

I have a pair of side-by-side 27" 1920x1200's here with a physical size of 49" from edge to edge.
I don't find any problems resulting from looking from screen to screen.

What I do find with multiple monitors is that they obviate the need to keep switching between different pairs of eyeglasses.
Before using multiple monitors I worked from a combination of hard copy and a single screen, thus requiring different reading lenses for each. Now, with multiple monitors, the information that would have been hard copy is displayed on screen -- only one set of reading lenses required. I find this to be a major benefit. (Bi- or tri-focals are just too limiting with screens of this size.)

I tend to 'work' always on one of the screens and to use the other for reference (data sources, help documents, perhaps email etc.).

I haven't tried a setup with more screens. Were I to do so, I suspect that 4-wide would be more useful to me than 2-over-2.

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Living Room / Re: "The More You Use Google, the More Google Knows about you"

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 14, 2010, 01:49 PM »

I recently started using a new search engine, [url=http://duckduckgo.com]DuckDuckGo

-CWuestefeld (April 14, 2010, 12:35 PM)

Thanks for the suggestion, we should take a quack at it.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.4.0]

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2010, 07:38 AM »

It's working fine here, having picked up my existing .ini file 

I installed by stopping FARR and then replacing the TimeZone folder under FARR\plugins.
When I restarted FARR, TimeZone initialized fine but 'tz' showed me my local time for all slots.
One manual TZ ReDownload fixed that (I have 'download each launch' turned off).

Thanks again for the fixes!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.4.0]

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 09, 2010, 08:14 AM »

Updated TimeZone to 1.4.0!

-Perry Mowbray (April 09, 2010, 04:32 AM)

Thanks for the extra effort, Perry!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sharkoon USB 3.0 QuickPort Dock

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2010, 03:10 PM »

got the 2nd one set up.  Everything is pretty much as expected.  Doesn't seem to bog at all copying from one dock to the other through the ports on the same card.  The speed is more dependent on what HDs you happen to have in the docks.

-MilesAhead (April 08, 2010, 10:37 AM)

Nice when something works out as well as you hoped, or even a little better 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2010, 06:29 PM »

i have no hood now, and there is no outside vent for it..

-mouser

Aha! Another opportunity to live dangerously!
You'll need a cold chisel, club hammer and a few other odds and ends.
Don't worry too much about breaking through into the neighboring apartment…

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Partition Wizard Business Edition - free registration limited time offer

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2010, 06:20 PM »

I use to love Partition Magic until Symantec assimilated Power Quest

-Stoic Joker (April 07, 2010, 06:08 AM)

I was at a user-group meeting for OS/2 when the PM product manager turned up to demo version 1 before its general release. "Magic" really did describe the reaction of the group.