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Living Room / Re: Flow-inspired game: Bubble Tanks

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2007, 06:45 PM »

f0dder: same here!
I never got past that. I went in a line after i got that, and eventually just lost the shield and went a few states back. That's when i gave up. (also, the fact that i kept clicking the scroll bar of the browser was driving me nuts!)

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Living Room / Re: Flow-inspired game: Bubble Tanks

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2007, 05:31 PM »

Right, that huge bubble around me was the part i couldn't get past :S
I lost it and never got it back.
I gave up

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.76 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 9, 2007

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2007, 03:59 AM »

good release, mouser.. anyway, i have another suggestion. how about incorporating an internal command or alias to quit Farr by typing something like this: @quit? this is because WinXP always hides the systray icon and i'm less inclined to use the mouse.

-lanux128 (April 10, 2007, 08:43 PM)

I made this script just for that. I have some situations where i need to use ctrl+space for some actions, thus, when i need it, i type exit in farr and then, to bring farr back i use windows+f.

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: Gridmove - feature request

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 09:08 AM »

  Love our screen mockup, tinjaw! 

Yeah, i met bret on the irc channel, and we talked about this, and i got to the conclusion that he's looking for something i thought GridMove could become. (just check the huge GridMove thread, and you'll find a few references to something similar to this).

I love the idea, and would definitelly like to have something like this for myself, as i usually use my own 2 monitors like that.

I have bad news, though. Truth is latelly things have been chaotic at school, and i haven't been having much (or should i say any?) time for making coding snacks. Thus, i prefer not to commit to this project, as i'm almost sure i'd let you guys down.

Thus, in 2-3months, when i'm on vacations, let's see if we can talk about this again

In the meanwhile, if anybody feels like they're up for this task, i'd definitelly have some DCredits in store for that person

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General Software Discussion / Re: Don't be fooled, Vista wants new hardware

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 07:28 AM »

Yeah, the "completelly impartial" part, was definitelly ironical
Well... I see your point about the "sluggishness threeshold", but you also have to notice that if Vista gets "slightly sluggish" in you machine, it'd look "tremendously DEAD" on my 512mb of memory and 4200rpm 80gb disk

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General Software Discussion / Re: Don't be fooled, Vista wants new hardware

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 06:57 AM »

Ok, now that i've got a completelly unpartial mini-review of vista by f0dder, i'm definitelly sure i won't install Vista any soon. Specially given the fact that my laptop is 4 times less powerful than that computer!!

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: Gridmove - feature request

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 06:34 AM »

I can see what you mean, but unfortunatelly, i have no way to do it. I can't reproduce windows or make a preview of them, only move the window itself.
There are a bunch of expose-alikes for windows, though. I've tried Winplosion and it was pretty good! It has changed owners, though, not sure if it's still the same or better.

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: Gridmove - feature request

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 04:27 AM »

Hi Bret!

You mean having something like Mac's Exposé on one screen and the normal work on the other one?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Static IP address changer

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 04:12 AM »

enigma2: you definitelly could use Screenshot Captor!

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Living Room / Re: The Difference Between Cats and Dogs

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 08, 2007, 04:08 AM »

Dell[a]: 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is is possible to flip the display in real time?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 07, 2007, 03:56 AM »

IIRC, the omega drivers for ATI can flip the screen, both horizontally and vertically. I'm not completelly sure, though, as i'm not using those right now.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Access app's window during multi-monitor,mouse,KBd failures

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 06, 2007, 02:46 PM »

Well... As for the problem with having the windows appear outside of the current monitor, that has happened to me a few times already, and i always fix it with gridmove, a program i made that moves windows to specified places on the screen. It works with mouse and keyboard.

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General Software Discussion / Re: help.... need a tool/utility to auto terminate a process

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 04, 2007, 07:04 PM »

YAY! Thank you jgpaiva processkiller is the best single file program I have downloaded, Now the annoying windows update please restart box won't keep popping up on me. (Yes I could disable it, but I am too lazy to do that, and I may want it back later, I dunno)

-nite_monkey (April 04, 2007, 05:35 PM)

You're welcome!!

BTW.... How could i disable that?

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 04, 2007, 04:20 PM »

attack of the clones (ignore the romantic interludes - this is the best star wars. you are wrong if think otherwise).

-nudone (April 04, 2007, 01:01 PM)

Actually, i also conside it to be the best star wars, but for the oposite reason, the part i most like is the fact that they are falling in love

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.71 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 4, 2007

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 04, 2007, 06:37 AM »

Great fix!
It sure does make a difference!

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 04, 2007, 06:33 AM »

Hey! Why didn't anyone mention Star Wars?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: slenderFARR - a new skin for FARR

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 01, 2007, 10:24 AM »

Beautiful!!!
It'll be my default skin from now on

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for March 23rd, 2007 - Codename "Dinner and Drinks"

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 28, 2007, 05:15 PM »

Is everyone doing their cody tasks?

-mouser (March 28, 2007, 09:47 AM)

Yep! Although i'm falling behind on following the forum, i'm up-to-date on cody tasks
I only need to do the review now

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General Software Discussion / Re: A programmers notepad w/ syntax highlighting

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 27, 2007, 08:26 AM »

Vim seems to be a good one, however, it seems to have a steep learning curve.

-Josh (March 26, 2007, 08:26 PM)

It sure does.
If you don't intend to use vim very frequently, i wouldn't recommend you go that way, as the time it'd take you to learn how to use it would be more than you'd actually benefit from using it.
If, on the other hand, you intend to use it as your all-around editor as i do, you will definitelly love it

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 26, 2007, 03:38 PM »

I sometimes chat with my girlfriend on msn even though we live together... but that's mostly if she's in the living-room and there's loud music playing, easier than yelling

-f0dder (March 26, 2007, 07:55 AM)

Yeah.. Same here. Good thing msn exists, it sure does spare us here at home from a lot of yelling The neighbours say thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: A programmers notepad w/ syntax highlighting

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 26, 2007, 03:36 PM »

Vim!

[edit]fixing url... [/edit]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: USA/Europe telephone "mask" in a text file

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 25, 2007, 05:25 PM »

Well.. This isn't really a coding snack. I think what you're looking for is a text replacement tool.
A good online option is www.rereplace.com, a site by a fellow DC member, allen.
I personally love Vim, a text editor. But that's kind of too advanced for this task.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 25, 2007, 10:00 AM »

Oh, i see the problem...
GridMove creates the files on the working directory.
Actually, this might not make much sense...
I'm not sure how to change it, though

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Blue Screens : FARR? just wondering...

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 25, 2007, 05:20 AM »

I already had a computer that gave me blue screens, and i was so interested in finding out what causing it that i didn't care for any of my programs anymore

Well.. If you suspect of your HD, you should run the SMART check on it. IIRC, speedfan can do that check.

You also should run memcheck (any linux distro has that check included in the boot disk, i think), to make sure it isn't related to your memory.

If you have enough time, you could also reinstall windows, to check if it's related to drivers or not.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on March 24, 2007, 09:36 PM »

tamer1: actually, all those files are supposed to be created at the directory where the .exe is...
The only explanation would be that it behaves differently on a usb stick, but i find that a bit odd.

[edit] just tested it with my usb stick, and i don't get the behaviour you mentioned.. [/edit]