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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2018, 05:55 AM »

Aryq, I had a great idea:

What if coming up out of the "coin" in the center was a small diameter rod, perhaps only 4mm diameter, coming up about 2 inches?

This would accomplish a couple of things:
It would elevate cody, for an interesting look.
It would make the rest of the coin top completely visible, so we could use all of the space including the center, for design.
With a hold at the bottom of cody (sorry old chap!) we could easily mount him on it.


With the center visible we might even move the cody with coin design that is on the bottom to the top center, OR use it for some additional (non-curved) text, which could come in handy for some awards..

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2018, 05:07 AM »

Aryq:

The new height is better!
The text seems a little better too -- not sure if you did anything with that or it may be that depending on the radius (i printed it at 80% size) it just happens to kern better or worse.

The new center design is better.  If it's easy to do it might be nice to try one where that center is actually quite a bit higher up, to elevate cody a half inch or so.. Might be worth a try..

Also on further thought, I think maybe having the bottom flat with nothing on it might be better for when we use this as a base for the cody figurine and award, because it would allow me to write something personal on the underside with an oil paint pen.  I think that would be preferable to a design, and make the printing easier.

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 11:15 PM »

Aryq,

For testing purposes it might be good to get rid of that bottom cody pattern -- my printer has a hard time printing it reliably and tends to get tangled there.

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 10:03 PM »

Since that text won't change maybe I'll make it in Inkscape and bring it over as a dxf

It's far more important that I be able to change the text easily (in openscad) than it is for the text to be laid out perfectly, so given the choice let's live with the text kerning weirdness.

I will print this one out as soon as my 66% sized current one finishes.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Post-capture "undo" ?

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 09:43 PM »

Yeah it's a confusing issue that has come up before.  I think it is because the focus may be in the thumbnail panel.
I actually should look to see if I can't fix this by having it autofocus the main window whenever the main form is restored..

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 08:58 PM »

aryq, the coin came out great!


It's HUGE.  and I think probably twice as thick as it needs to be -- at least if its going to be printed at this size.  I might scale it down from 3 inches to 2 and try printing it again.  The bottom actually came out nice this time.

The only thing that is not great is the font kerning and alignment -- as you suspected.    It's a bit wonky, though if there was no fix, we could live with it.

Thank you so much.  Can't wait to see what it looks like painted up.

Since cody takes up most of the center of the coin -- we might just put a smaller round pedestal there.

The side numbers printed fantastically..  Makes me think we should either come up with some custom text for that OR at least make the binary code MEAN something..

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 08:36 PM »

Printed out ayryq's latest coin -- though it's more of a thick beveridge coaster sized disc, with and without cody on it.

Looks pretty great.  Painted up I think it would look amazing.

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Living Room / On Medical Research Bureaucracy and the Institutional Review Board

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 07:47 PM »

I read this story about a doctor trying to get permission to do a harmless research study by giving people a simple questionnaire, and the loopholes he eventually gave up trying to jump through.

I have had some limited experience with big government bureaucracies, and his conclusion here really mirrors my thoughts:

I sometimes worry that people misunderstand the case against bureaucracy. People imagine it’s Big Business complaining about the regulations preventing them from steamrolling over everyone else. That hasn’t been my experience. Big Business – heck, Big Anything – loves bureaucracy. They can hire a team of clerks and secretaries and middle managers to fill out all the necessary forms, and the rest of the company can be on their merry way. It’s everyone else who suffers. The amateurs, the entrepreneurs, the hobbyists, the people doing something as a labor of love. Wal-Mart is going to keep selling groceries no matter how much paperwork and inspections it takes; the poor immigrant family with the backyard vegetable garden might not.

Bureaucracy in science does the same thing: limit the field to big institutional actors with vested interests. No amount of hassle is going to prevent the Pfizer-Merck-Novartis Corporation from doing whatever study will raise their bottom line. But enough hassle will prevent a random psychiatrist at a small community hospital from pursuing his pet theory about bipolar diagnosis. The more hurdles we put up, the more the scientific conversation skews in favor of Pfizer-Merck-Novartis.

http://slatestarcode...29/my-irb-nightmare/

from http://andrewgelman.com/

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Developer's Corner / Update Drupal ASAP - Over a Million Sites Can Be Easily Hacked by Any Visitor

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 06:17 PM »

If you are a server admin and have a Drupal installation, you need to update it immediately.

A dangerous Drupal flaw could leave your site completely compromised if you don't patch the flaw immediately.

Developers of popular open-source CMS Drupal are warning admins to immediately patch a flaw that an attacker can exploit just by visiting a vulnerable site.

The bug affects all sites running on Drupal 8, Drupal 7, and Drupal 6. Drupal's project usage page indicates that about a million sites are running the affected versions.

https://it.slashdot....acked-by-any-visitor

• https://it.slashdot....acked-by-any-visitor
• http://www.zdnet.com...cked-by-any-visitor/
• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002
• https://groups.drupa...ecurity/faq-2018-002

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 03:04 PM »

I like the $ though as you say it is US specific; but we could change it based on the award.  AND most importantly, the current plan is to have cody sitting on it so the center may not be very visible/readable anyway.

I think it really looks nice!!!!  I'm anxious to print out a copy myself.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature request: alter drop shadow opacity

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 01:00 PM »

If you go into Options, under Special Effect Options you will see some options for sharos and feathering/blurring, etc.  See if that helps.

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 11:35 AM »

When you are ready send me an stl and i'll print out a copy and put baby cody sitting on top of it and we'll see what the completed model will look like..

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 11:34 AM »

Looking good, aryq!

Here are my suggestions:

1. I think the DonationCoder.com text might look good if it was same orientation at the other.  I do like how you have one inset and one embossed.
2. The underneath image is cool!
3. The center image might be better as a raised "$"
4. The text around the edge.. maybe better as just one row of 0s and 1s rather than two?

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2018, 09:14 AM »

More iterations from Nudone:

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 11:42 PM »

I've just thought about getting into the having an image for immediate restoration, and thought I should do the same thing.

You should.  Drive images are important should you ever have to reinstall your machine from a complete hard drive crash.  But you don't really need those images to be online anywhere, an external usb hard drive is good place for those.

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 10:20 PM »

I really think drive images are a completely independent separate thing than what one should mainly be using the online spideroak/crashplan backups for.
In my opinion the full drive images can be done once a month (week or whatever) and just stored on removable/external drives.  Don't need online thing for those.

What the online backup services like spideroak, crashplan, etc.  are uniquely good at is making immediate versioned backups constantly of your working documents.  So that if you pc crashes after an hour of work, you have a backup, or 10 different back ups so you can rewind and go back to an older version.

I have the smallest spideroak plan -- because i just backup my document directories to it not my whole computer.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS - Insert Prefix before copied text

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 06:45 PM »

You can do this using a Modify Format/Case preset.  You just configure what text to add as a prefix, then optionally set a hotkey to make it really easy to apply, then save it.

Then just select your text in any program, and trigger the Formatting Preset (either via hotkey or via the quick paste menu under T-Formatting Presets); it will copy the text selected by you, then modify it, then repaste it back in.

I'll try to make a video tutorial next week if this isn't enough info -- I'm just really busy next couple of days on the DC fundraiser preparations.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 06:42 PM »

This is a very good idea -- I must admit I've never tried copying multiple formats to clipboard though I know it's possible.
I will try -- just please remind me in a week if I forget.. Next few days will all be a blur getting ready for fundraiser in April.

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 05:14 PM »

SpiderOak for me.

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Official Announcements / Re: New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 04:14 PM »

Why did you go with HiVelocity rather than LiquidWeb?  Was it just the specs for the price?

yes.

Note that HiVelocity does not do shared hosting, only dedicated servers (and higher).

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Official Announcements / New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 03:10 PM »

Here it is, as promised.  You can read my new article on the major DC server remodeling here: https://www.donation...frastructure-remodel

I'm not sure it's of much interest to anyone but I thought I would write everything down before I forgot it.

It has a little bit of everything: Some DC history, discussion of the options we struggled with, why certain decisions were made, some lessons learned, etc.

https://www.donation...frastructure-remodel

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 01:58 PM »

Excellent.

Nudone has been hard at work, look at this little baby cody model!

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2018, 06:50 AM »

Have you tried that fancy coin one? It seems to use normal fonts AND that ability to use a png bitmap as a raised image is really nice.

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Living Room / Re: Who uses a 3d printer?

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2018, 11:57 PM »

I ended up buying one.. discussion continues on this thread: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=32886

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug(?): regex alias with a single result generates obstructing scrollbar

« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2018, 10:46 PM »

Thanks for the detailed instructions, Nod5 -- let me just finish up this work on the upcoming DC fundraiser in April and I will take a shot at this in a couple of days.