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Living Room / DonationCoder Postcard Club Activate!

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 04:58 PM »

A version of this idea has been suggested a couple of times, but let's try to put it into practice now.

We have (another) one of our dearest members (especially if you visit the irc chat channel), JoTo, who is in the hospital recovering from a serious health scare.

So now is the time for all DC visitors, readers, lurkers, members, etc. to send JoTo a postcard:

Katharinenhospital
Jörg Töllner
Haus 7, Station C5, Zimmer 667
Kriegsbergstr. 60
70174 Stuttgart
GERMANY

ps. please write in large letters as he has diminished vision.  you don't have to write much more than "Hello" and it doesn't matter if you don't know him.  the point is just to bring him a little happiness with a postcard.

ps2. should we reply here after we have sent?

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Impossible to file new configuration tree

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 04:52 PM »

Something must be going wrong because i can still create a new tree here without any problem.
What operating system are you using?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser - a plea from your users!

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 04:50 PM »

i think it's too late to rename these. 

however, i agree that all future program names should be first vetted here or better yet, put to a vote.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Blown away

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 02:36 PM »

welcome to the site vitalyb, and thanks for the nice words.

and if you think this name is bad --- hahahaah wait till you see the names of my other programs -- some are far worse and have become the butt of many jokes. 

Just call it FARR (for Find and Run Robot) and life is easier 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 02:35 PM »

i still say thats a bug -- you shouldnt have to put any regular expression in there, it should work right away.
and i should make the noresults entry a default in the myaliases file so users can more easily configure it.

thanks for not giving up 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a way to clean all windows drivers to allow for a change of motherboard

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 10:23 AM »

I've had similar feeling and approach as Ralf.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

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

nitrix to the rescue.
ok so perlguy for what you want just put $$1 in results, and use what nitrix said for alias name and regex.

ps. i'm going to split off the noresults discussion into its own thread.

ps2. for those who don't know about the noresults thing, it's how you can tell farr what to do when you type something and there are no results and you hit enter.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: DonationCoder.com Getting Organized Experiment 2007 - starts in November

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 08:10 AM »

TucknDar basically has it.

If you look at 2006, you can see back then we were much more "structured" about the GOE, and had weekly assignments:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=196.0

But this time it's really about people taking charge of themselves, and spending the next two months devoting themselves to becoming more organized in their life and doing less procrastinating, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Cool idea (does it exist?) - Find websites that sell your email address

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2007, 12:55 AM »

all these ideas about ways to prevent being inundated by spam by using different email addresses are good ideas, no doubt about it. and surely we will see more developments in this area in the future.

however i should just point out that i'm really talking about something completely different -- a way to figure out which sites are trustworthy in general by seeing which sites share the email addresses of members.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2007, 09:21 PM »

i wonder if noresults alias trick broke in the latest release -- i can't get it to work myself.

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Living Room / Fun Flash Storefront Site

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2007, 05:16 PM »

Try buying something on this flash website.. It's not english but that shouldn't stop you from trying..

http://producten.hema.nl/

from http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Consumating’s Ill-Fated Point System: Nice Blog Essay

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 12:35 PM »

It's a great lesson in terms of how important it is to look carefully at the incentives that any system provides.

As app says -- the last thing we want to encourage on DC is a kind of competition for "rewards" in whatever form.  That's the last thing we want.

I think we are much more interested in participation and teamwork.

That's why even in the case of the programming challenges I've tried hard to do things where everyone gets something.  And I think we should encourage that as much as possible.  Makes it a funner and better place for everyone.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] option to open FARR centered in the active monitor

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 11:59 AM »

this is a good idea.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Two Monitors??

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 11:05 AM »

You are definitely not the only person to request this recently.  I will really try to get this done in the next few days.

Before i do however, you might want to check out these similar programs which might already do it and be just want you want:

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9938.0

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 10:20 AM »

My current system is that i have 5 of these black boxes that hold the cards (shown and linked to above).  The boxes are perfect because when they open they have a front area and back area which is really a nice way to have 2 sections in each box.

I use the front section to hold the newest cards or the ones im working on at the moment.

One box is just for new blank cards, so i know right where to go when i need a blank card for a new task.  I love these color coded cards but i haven't really developed a system where the colors mean something, though i am trying to shift to that.

I use paper clips to group cards together that are similar.

I originally had sections in one box for tasks for Today/Tomorrow/This Week/This Month/Long Term.  I think this is a nice idea but in practice i don't use it that much.

Instead i seem to mostly just organize things by project.  So i have a section for each of my computer programs, a section for ideas, a box for DC ideas/tasks, and a box for the new job i am working on, etc.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Here is my problem

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 10:15 AM »

My experience is that deadlines are very very important when you actually want to finish a project, so i do think you need to figure out a way to add deadlines to your projects in a way you can live with.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] File Type display in results - suppress lnk

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 10:00 AM »

Welcome to the site Trevor -- it's not a bad suggestion at all.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Usefullness

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2007, 09:55 AM »

I think i really need to try to add multimonitor support for this and for my Launchbar Commander program.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2007, 11:56 AM »

Well I keep thinking about a possible computer version of the card system.
Certainly it would be nice to be able to search and print.

However, having a tactile physical card to hold and organize has a more tangible impact.

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Living Room / Re: To wide-screen or not to wide-screen

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2007, 07:40 PM »

My rule of thumb is avoid all combo-accessories (usb hubs, speakers, etc.) they tend to break or be sub-par or become obsolete and then it's annoying to have them attached to the main device.

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: GOE 2007 Programming Contest for November 2007

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2007, 06:07 PM »

Here's a link to an idea that would make for a good submission:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=9951

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General Software Discussion / Re: Starting a website; need suggestions.

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

I agree you should look into using a cms.  Much much easier to maintain.
Joomla and Drupal both won awards recently and that would be a good way to go, assuming you are sure you don't want to go with a blog-centric site.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Days since" program

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2007, 05:46 PM »

This would be a perfect program for someone to implement and submit to our GOE contest which is running through November: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10648.0

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: need license key

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2007, 05:44 PM »

ALXavier -> https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does reliable PC security have to cost money?

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2007, 05:43 PM »

Getting back to the original question:

I think your point was key -- an antivirus tool can't be good unless it is CONSTANTLY updated.  That basically rules out all amateur hobby solutions.

So basically if you want a good antivirus you are going to have to go with a product coming from a company that is making consistent income that they can afford to constantly be keeping it up to date at a fast pace.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't find such an antivirus tool that is free for home use, as some good commercial products make their money from commercial sales (for example AntiVir).

On the other hand, this might be one of those categories of programs where the proper question to ask yourself is something like:  Is it worth a few bucks a year for me to have the best program if it is a commercial product?

For me the answer is yes.  The cost of the best commercial antivirus and firewall tools are cheap enough and the importance is high enough, that i wouldn't take cost into consideration for this kind of product.