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Developer's Corner / The OMGWTF Programming Contest - Design Purposefully Buggy Code and Win

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 11:42 PM »

Unlike other programming contests, the goal of the OMGWTF contest is not to flex your algorithmic muscles and solve some abstract computational problem like you might in an ACM contest. Nor is it like the International Obfuscated C Coding Contest; in fact, writing code like that would be a surefire way to lose this contest. Instead, the goal of the OMGWTF contest is to solve an incredibly simple problem using the most obscenely convoluted way imaginable. And for this first contest, the simple problem is to build and implement the logic for a four-function calculator.

http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Sumotori (Sumo Wrestling Game)

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 11:21 PM »

Welcome to the site Archee - your program really seems to have struck a nerve here -- great work with a great sense of humour

Can't wait to see what you come up with next, i hope you'll keep us informated.  Some donationcredits coming your way from me now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature idea] icons for alias results ?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 02:31 PM »

would you want a separate icon for each result in the alias, or just one used for all results in an alias.

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ProcessTamer / Re: How do we disable the "beep"?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 01:58 PM »

its probably a beep associated with the windows baloon message in the "system tray".
if you disable balloon tray messages in the program options you should kill the beep too.

a question for others: assuming im right, is there a way to tell windows not to make a sound when showing balloon messages?

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Official Announcements / Re: Power Supply on my PC just exploded: i'll be mostly offline this week crying

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 01:34 PM »

I'm back! yay 

Thank you for all the well-wishing and crossed fingers. 

I went and picked up a replacement power supply, and once replaced, the computer is running fine.  I note also that the high pitched whining that was the whole reason a tried spraying with compressed air is gone, so maybe it was the case that something was in the power supply fan, and i dislogged it only to send it into the depths of the powersupply electrical components..  I think maybe cody was trying to hide his coins in my power supply, which would explain it completely.  So my advice to you is keep good backups and if you see cody near your computer, make sure he's not trying to hide his coins inside it.

I should add a little plug for Computer Deli, a nice shop for pc enthusiasts near me (champaign-urbana IL) which had plenty of power supplies and motherboards and cables and stuff; perfect for building a pc or fixing one:

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Developer's Corner / Re: What do you do to learning a new programming language?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 10:26 AM »

in my early days (1980s), if i had access to a new computer, the first thing i would do is sit down and code a clone of asteroids or lunar lander .

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Living Room / Re: Sumotori Dreams - a hilarious 3D sumo game in 87kB

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 08:26 AM »

oh i forgot about the mini-review -- doh! i'll blog that.

make sure you see the mini-review with pictures here, and a post from the author himself:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=8231

ps. i'm locking this thread so we can continue discussing it on the mini-review thread.

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Living Room / Re: Sumotori Dreams - a hilarious 3D sumo game in 87kB

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 08:02 AM »

can someone attach a screenshot?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: i need an icon for my apacer sd card!

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 07:20 AM »

even though i managed to circumvent this problem by adding an autorun.inf and an appropriate icon onto the respective memory stick with the resulting image as on Fig.2.

is there a place where people can learn about this trick?

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Living Room / Re: What's your pet's favorite toy?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 06:53 AM »

one word for you: laser pointers.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 06:51 AM »

Wow! This thread is becoming one of my favorites.  Glad to meet all of you, Gregabear, Grorgy, emerald222, catloversun, Dichotomy, suleika, roadrunner2525, and everyone else.   

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Official Announcements / Re: Power Supply on my PC just exploded: i'll be mostly offline this week crying

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2007, 06:45 AM »

there was a flash from the power supply and then the smell of smoke and the fuse for the room blew, so it's not like it physically damaged any components, and the machine was turning on from an off state when it happened so i'm really really crossing my fingers that its just the power supply that's damaged, or power supply and motherboard, which i can also live with replacing.  if the hard drives are BOTH damaged, that would be very bad since most of the everyday backups i do are from one internal harddrive to another.

i think this cements in my mind the fact that anyone working seriously with computers needs to keep enough spare parts around to replace any potentially broken component.  i wish i had followed my own advice since i'm now waiting on newegg to ship me a new power supply and motherboard.

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Official Announcements / Power Supply on my PC just exploded: i'll be mostly offline this week crying

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 10:49 PM »

In an effort to get rid of a whining fan i blew compressed air all over and when i put the power back on there was a huge spark, smoke, and fuse blew.

Needless to say i am extremely depressed and am holding off on full blown panic and puking until i see if the power supply explosion also managed to damage the hard drives.

Hopefully i will know more in the next day or two and report.

Please pray for me and my computer (what's left of it).

I still have internet access but i use desktop mail program so i won't have access to that for a couple of days.

-mouser (jesse) 

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Living Room / Re: Channel 102's Gemberling

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 12:03 PM »

http://www.youtube.c...ng&search=Search

just watching it for the 2nd time -- love it -- great stuff 

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 08:34 AM »

i think what we should have is a kind of list where you can check which tasks you have completed, with checkboxes or something.  i know the online task management tools have features like this (and a lot more of course).  are there any task management online services which make it really easy for a "group leader" to set up a task and have lots of users be able to check off when they've accomplished them?

or maybe we have a php coder who is willing to whip one up as a forum mod; just make a basic script and i can write the part that gets the users forum name for your db table data.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Customise Save Dialog

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 06:34 AM »

Welcome to the site fred 
May I suggest: https://www.donation...Extenders/index.html

(ps. filebox extender has now become freeware: http://www.hyperioni....com/files/index.asp)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Zinkmo - IE favorite and Firefox bookmark synchronization and sharing

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 05:41 AM »

oh that sounds cool, SS, nice find 

some screenshots:

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Living Room / Re: Workrave - Repetitive Strain Injury prevention software

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 05:09 AM »

very nice 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Plugin SDK 1.0 Released - Make a FARR plugin DLL - if you dare

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 04:48 AM »

The FARR plugin writing contest will begin soon.
Prizes will include Borland C++ Builder Turbo edition, VmWare, and a custom cody mug:

Mug (designed by nudone):

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Living Room / MOVED: AccelMan - windows explorer replacement for free by GAOTD

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 04:05 AM »

This topic has been moved to Found Deals and Discounts.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8213.0

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

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2007, 01:59 AM »

i found this one but it's fixed already in 2.00.78; i guess i forgot to post about it.
redownload and see if its gone.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for April 21st, 2007 - Codename "Death and Taxes"

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2007, 11:51 PM »

not at all, but you have to go back and do the old cody club tasks!

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Developer's Corner / Re: 28.8k, 33.6k, and 56k Modem Emulator

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2007, 11:39 PM »

The result is Laggy the Snail

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: GPS Software?

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2007, 11:37 PM »

Great post Mooseman, as someone interested in this stuff, your post was very helpful.
The auto-recalculation when you make a wrong turn is one of those features i really care about.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Online Marketing for Beginners

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2007, 11:34 PM »

Yep, dev corner is really not just for programming but for all entrepeneur / web design type posts also.