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General Software Discussion / Seeking a FireFox plugin called "IDFCWOCBA"?

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 05:51 PM »

Does anyone know if there exists a firefox plugin called "I Don't Freaking Care When One Company Buys Another"?

It's job would be to filter out and hide the hundreds of breathless excited announcements on the web about how one company has bought another for however many billions of dollars, and how absolutely nothing will change because of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Video Player

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 04:24 PM »

nice find 

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Mircryption / Re: Mircryption - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.19.01 - April 09, 2007

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 04:18 PM »

sorry i messed up the installers and left out a file, resulting in a "missing file" message on execution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 03:20 PM »

regarding complaints about dir opus, im not sure the core price is the issue here (and i think pricing in AUS confuses people people into thinking it's more expensive than it is). dir opus is one of the most powerful, configurable tools there is, and the v9 preview looks extremely powerful. it's a terrific program.  [it's setting can be overwhelming and it really is a program for pro users i think].

however i do think there may be some reasons why people sometimes get a kind of iffy feeling from dir opus developers regarding cost.  it's not that it's expensive but rather the feeling that one has to pay for these little extras that should be part of the program, and things like this: "(all purchases before dec 2006 have to pay to upgrade)."

even when the price is very reasonable, it can give you a kind of uneasy feeling to be charged for each extra feature (like usb portability, sftp ability), as if you are going in to buy a car and in the end you paid double because of all the extras you had to pay for.  maybe this isn't really a *logical* complaint, because you could just as well say you are saving most users some money since they don't need such features.. but psychologically it kind of gives you an uneasy feeling sometimes.

another related thing, i understand the dir opus v9 update will require purchase from anyone who bought before dec 2006 (5 months amnesty i guess).  i just think it's nice to give customers a long period of amnesty for upgrades, so if you buy it and a major new version comes out within a year, you get the upgrade for free.  i'm not saying companies have an obligation to so this at all, i'm just saying it makes a difference to me in terms of viewing the company as "friendly" to customers or not.  in this sense i think it's also a smart business decision.  it's not that i wouldn't buy dir opus anyway, but it would effect how i "feel" about the company, and speaking personally that's something that is important to me.  it's the difference between saying "what a nice company i want to tell everyone about them and can't wait to get the new version!" vs. "it's a great program, but do i really need the new version?"

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Living Room / Re: Site for DIY pc building

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 01:53 PM »

2setps -- please attach a screenshot or image to your posts so i can blog them more easily !

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 01:40 PM »

Nudel, welcome to the site! I've got a soft spot in my heart for anyone who can write a long post like that 

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UrlSnooper / Re: Error Message while starting program..

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 01:31 PM »

See if you can wait a week and i'll try to have the win9x issue fixed automatically.

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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 14, 2007, 01:27 PM »

thanks warbird, then i might just be able to fix add unicode support to the edit box
can you email me ([email protected]) so we can be in direct contact when i have a version to test?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: On Screen Status Display

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 06:15 AM »

great idea, i wonder if there are already utilities for this..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2007, 03:34 AM »

new version (2.13.01) has been updated; i'll probably update it again in near future to implement more feature requests, but i wanted to get this version up because it now has an extremely useful new function which can show your favorites and in fact the entire clipboard tree in the quick pop-up paste menu (ctrl+alt+q by default).

note: you might want to go to your options and change the max # of quick paste clips to something like 15 or 20, so that the Favorites and AllClips menu items get shortcuts.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Error Message while starting program..

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 07:58 PM »

are you using win9x or winMe?
if so see this: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7503.0

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: How to change my EMail-Adress

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 07:57 PM »

hi tommi, click on the "my profile" tab at top of this page.
then on the left of that page click "Account Related Settings"
there you should find your email address and be able to change it.

also:
i am available day or night to help with such stuff, just email me at [email protected] should you run into difficulties.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Introductory C# web-based tutorials

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 07:17 PM »

just went through tutorial #8 -- very nice indeed.
you have a very nice way of teaching that makes it fun to keep reading; anyone wanting to learn c# would benefit from these 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Introductory C# web-based tutorials

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 07:08 PM »

so that after receiving your quiz grade, you get the benefit of an explanation of the correct answer for any items you missed:

yes, that would be good.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Spell-checking needs wrapped lines?

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 06:50 PM »

i'm just about to release an update for chs, so im keen to know more about this.

is it not properly wordwrapping in chs, is that the problem?  i wonder if its to do with CR/LF issues.

can you elaborate?

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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 13, 2007, 04:27 PM »

in the first case, dont put the + in the alias name, only when you invoke it.
ps you might want to use something different than notepad in case you ever want to find notepad

in the second case, i'll look into it!

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ProcessTamer / Re: Disable tray icon entirely (aka stealth mode)

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 03:25 PM »

i think the best solution here is to use one of the existing utilities that will let you hide any/all icons that you want in the system tray -- this will let you still access the pt icon menu when you need to by using the special tool.

You can find a few listed here: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2315

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Developer's Corner / Re: Interesting String Manipulation Problem

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2007, 02:15 AM »

Interesting problem.

ok assuming you are not trying to do anything clever like reject possibilities that dont map to english text, and assuming you dont have to worry about stack overflows on too many recursive calls (which you will have to worry about if you really want to implement this on long strings), it should be pretty straightforward.

some pseudocode:

you could start with a function like
DecodeRemainder(string textsofar, string remainingmorsecode)
{
if (remainingmorsecode=="")
  {
  print textsofar;
  return;
  }


for (int i=1;i<=7;++i)
  {
  letter = DecodeMorseCodeUsingNChars(remainingmorsecode,i);
  if (letter!=NULL)
    {
    DecodeRemainder(textsofar + letter, remainingmorsecode.substr(i,len(remainingmorsecode-i) );
    }
  }
}


now keep in mind i dont quite recommend this approach - it's just a theoretical recursive solution off the top of my head which i think will work.

a better solution that wouldnt kill the stack with recursive calls could simply do something like this:
for each position in the morse code string, keep track of 7 pairs of [Lettter, morsecoderemainder position].
then you could much more easily iterate through every possible output by basically walking through the index of branch decisions from
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 (vector length is the length of the morsecodestring) to
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,7 to
...
7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7

something like that, if you follow my meaning, stopping when you run out of characters.

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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 12, 2007, 09:49 PM »

hi gregabear,
i wonder if this wouldn't make for a good plugin idea.  if so, post here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8071.0

question: would the idea be to search deep within the shares like regular directories? or just basically list and let you filter and select from the share "root directories" (excuse me if i'm using the wrong terms or talking nonsense, i don't work with these things much).

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ProcessTamer / Re: run as a service?

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 08:37 PM »

there is no option for this, though you could use a 3rd party service-running tool to run it as a service.  im not sure what the benefit would be though.

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Living Room / Re: Insane Super Mario Bros. Mod

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 08:02 PM »

don't feel sad for him.. envy his perseverence, dedication, and love of the fight.
not to mention a steady set of hands.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 04:35 PM »

i like this idea a lot, not just for delicious but it would be nice to add to the bookmark searcher the ability to get your online bookmarks from various sites like delicious and include them in searching.

the source code for the farrfox plugin that i wrote to search firefox, opera, and IE bookmarks is included in the farr plugin sdk (it's written in borland c++ builder, sorry msvc'ers), so it could be extended to do this by anyone who wants to try..

or of course a new plugin could be written from scratch..

great idea. i'd certainly send one of the very rare DC Plugin Creator Mugs for this one.

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Living Room / WordSpy: Devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 04:09 PM »

Cool site!

Welcome to Word Spy! This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources.

http://www.wordspy.com/index.asp

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Living Room / Re: Insane Super Mario Bros. Mod

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 03:51 PM »

I had to post this as well, for those of you who don't appreciate the depth and meaningfulness of some of these games to many people.

http://www.thebbps.c...obble-gamer-tattoos/

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Living Room / Re: Insane Super Mario Bros. Mod

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2007, 03:41 PM »

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. i love it.

ive laughed a lot watching this, but i also can't help but feel that it has a deeper meaning.

wonderful find.

ps. if you never played Super Mario Brothers you won't enjoy this nonsense.