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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.21.01 - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 12:27 PM »

yes i agree with most of what you are saying.. a tree view is probably the way to go.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.08.01 - Oct 08, 2006

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 08:38 AM »

Thanks lrlewis, i think it should be fixed now, unless there are some cache issues.

(i recently released updates of most of my software to add update checking options and to make the installer able to shutdown the programs during update and in the process all of the new installers had their names changes and i had to modify all the web pges, etc.)

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Living Room / Re: See Who's Editing & Manipulating Wikipedia

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 08:05 AM »

Locking this since it's duped with this post: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9589.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: can't grab region on secondary monitor

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2007, 06:11 AM »

I'm afraid this is a known bug not yet resolved -- these two modes only work on the monitor your mouse is on when you trigger them.. you have 3 options until it's fixed:

• go to second monitor and then trigger the hotkey to capture region
• go to options and choose to use the alternate redbox capture mode for regions
• capture full screen or workspace and crop

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Living Room / Link Story: 100 things you can make yourself

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 10:17 PM »

I don't know about some of these things but I used to make my own beer quite regularly.. great stuff.  Only the cat used to love to steal the fermentation lock thing that bubbles on top of the fermenting beer quite a lot.  And one of the items here is making your soap, which reminds me of michelle's favorite laugh line, which is when i tell here how i bought one of those science kits to "make soap your own soap" and realized half way in that the ingredients were basically already soap.. i.e. i was making soap out of soap..

Convenience is certainly…well…convenient. Take a trip to just about any type of store and notice how everything is packaged and prepared. It seems the more we advance, the more stuff is done for us. I don’t mind letting someone else do all the work for me, the problem is of course, that convenience is expensive and we’re getting really lazy. I started thinking about all the things we can make ourselves if we put forth a little effort and found lots of cool instructions online.

http://www.simplythr...u-can-make-yourself/

from http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/

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Living Room / Video Humour: Internet Commenter Business Meeting (foul language warning)

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 09:42 PM »

Funny stuff.. (contains foul language)

How a business meeting would be if people only spoke in 'Internet comments'.

http://www.collegehu....swf?clip_id=1771556

from http://xo.typepad.com/blog/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 07:30 PM »

Oh, and I think Website Watcher can also be set up to watch specific words, but it costs money.

Well i already own website watcher and love it, and use it for my daily reading, but i don't really think it's best suited for this.

The intermediate RSS services you listed seem like they might be just what i want, i'll go have a look.

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General Software Discussion / Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 06:29 PM »

I'm looking for a very specific kind of RSS reader and i'm hoping i can get some recommendations.
I do not want an RSS reader to do daily reading of lots of feeds and sites.

I'm more interested in being able to quickly add tons of feeds (I'd be really happy if there was an easy way to add hundreds of feeds that other people have collected), and then have them monitored for keywords of my choosing, and then only show me items that match one of those feeds.

For example, i'd love to be able to monitor every programming-related rss feed i can find for references to specific tools i care about, etc. (or monitor for rss feeds mentioning donationcoder, etc.)

I don't really care if its a website service or local windows application.  Any suggestions?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do this in a screenshot?

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 05:48 PM »

You can do this pretty easily in Screenshot Captor (i've done it before), but it's definitely not a one-click proces..  i'm open to the idea adding some helper stuff to make it easier, though i'm not sure if this isn't yet another case where you are better off doing it in a real graphics editing program like The Gimp, Paint.net, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 05:44 PM »

ps. on another note, one theoretical issue i have struggled with and haven't come up with a good solution for, and which i think is a really important issue to solve in the open source funding world, is how to divide up donations fairly to multiple de-centralized developers on a project.  This is a really tough academic problem and i'd love to see someone tackle it seriously.

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General Software Discussion / Re: microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 05:44 PM »

I think this is fascinating stuff and I really like the thought you've given this stuff.  It's actually probably a good subject for a dissertation in game theory and it will be fun to see how projects develop.

I know it's important to keep things as simple as possible, but i wonder if it might be interesting to consider a kind of sliding scale where you related percent complete to percent of pledge money available non-linearly, to really encourage completeion.. For example:

• At 50% completion the developer is entitled to 10% of the pledges
• At 70% complete they are entitled to 20% of pledges
• At 80% complete, they are entitled to 30% of pledges
• At 90% complete, they are entitled to 50% of pledges
• at 95% complete, they are entitled to 75% of pledges
• at 98% complete, they are entitled to 90% of pledges
• at 100% complete, they are entitled to 100% of pledges

I think you'll see my point -- it expresses the fact that a 50% complete program is not half as valuable as a 100% complete program, and strongly incentivizes finishing the program.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrUninstall plugin - v1.02

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:40 PM »

great, the update file will be included with the next farr version so anyone can install/update the plugin from the updater. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:34 PM »

There is nowhere to download these plugins?

good point -- i'll make a big download pack where you can grab them all in one big zip.
also the new FARR2 web page will be public shortly and will have links to all known plugins.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Silly Idea? A program that counts out loud

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:33 PM »

gimme! 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrUninstall plugin - v1.02

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:32 PM »

page still seems to be for 1.01 and download link is still the old file http://farruninstall...ninstall%20v1.01.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 03:45 PM »

Right click on farr tray and say "check for updates", then go to the "Available for Installation" tab.  Click "Check for Updates" on that tab to get latest version info for all plugins, then to install a plugin simply right-click on it and choose to install.

The idea is that now rather than bundling plugins with the installer (making a bloated installer and installing stuff people dont want), now you can easily choose which to install using the updater.  One of the major motivations for writing the custom updater system was support for plugins.

Note you can also get more info on any plugin by right-clicking on it and choosing to visit the webpage for it. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrUninstall plugin - v1.01

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 03:39 PM »

(added) Automatic update checking.

great!

but why not let it actually install the update when a new version is available?
to do so make the following change to your .dcupdate file:

[Select]

  <UpdateMethod>unzip</UpdateMethod>
  <SignalForUpdate>FindAndRunRobot.exe</SignalForUpdate>
  <CloseForUpdate></CloseForUpdate>
  <UpdateFile>http://farruninstall.googlecode.com/files/FarrUninstall.zip</UpdateFile>

and change your download file to have a fixed name of FarrUninstall.zip (putting version# in the download file will make the download location non-stable so needs to be removed).

I hope you will make this change TnS, since it would then allow me to add FarrUninstall to the tab where plugins that FARR knows how to install easily for new users is listed when people run the update check.

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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 03:09 PM »

I do something that i find useful and could be combined with whatever other approach you take.
I like to keep separate the subdirectories that are automatically created for me by programs and those subdirectories i create myself.

So for example i never actually put my file in the MyDocumentss folder.  I leave MyDocuments alone and i create a MyDocs folder for my stuff.

That means I have a MyDocuments folders, which is full of directories created by programs when they install, etc., and then I have a MyDocs folder which is all my real stuff.  I find this makes it easier for me to isolate my "real" files from files created by programs which I don't really care about.  Note that this means that the "default" folder used by programs to store stuff is not going to be the MyDocs folder so this solution is only good for people who dont mind changeing where programs you really use store there stuff, etc.  i.e. don't do this unless you know what you are doing.

I do a similar thing with:

• C:\Program Files <--- here is the folder used by all normal installer programs
• C:\ProgramFiles <--- i created this for any programs that DONT have installers, which i create manually; this helps me easily identify programs which i manually "installed" and keep them distinct from programs with their own installers, and has been a great help
• C:\Programs <--- some old programs have installers and dont like long paths with spaces, i created this directory for those.

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 06:45 AM »

I sold a bunch of stuff and and bought one monkey! It was damn fast.
Then i sold everything else and got myself another monkey.

put that on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt and confuse all your friends 

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 05:10 AM »

it doesnt have to be in a subdirectory, i think he was only saying that if his script code specifies its in the subdirectory, then it has to be.  you can put it wherever you want as long as you call it properly.

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:54 AM »

very nice! thanks for sharing that justice 

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:53 AM »

In case there is any misunderstanding.. I care about ken very much and i've talked with him so much on the irc channel for a long time and I have developed an appreciation for his dark sense of humour.  My diagram was simply a tribute to that dark sense of humour.  I'm not cavalier about the situation, only trying to live by the adage that sometimes humour is the best medecine. cya on irc ken 

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Finished Programs / Re: PutAside: declutter and cycle through windows

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 04:34 AM »

Updated PutAside to add support for mouser's DcUpdater tool.

coooooool   

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 20, 2007, 03:28 AM »

justice, rather than try to do tech support here let's talk in irc channel or via email and then we can post the solution here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Organizing Reviews

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 08:19 PM »

I have given a great deal of thought to creating a nextgen review system, with a hierarchy of editors and using wiki-like technology.  I'd love to work on it but we are talking about a very big project and i haven't yet found a way to either fund it and i dont have the time to work on such a large project without funding.