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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 January 12, 2007, 02:28 PM »

i dont discard old backups but this was sooo long ago and its a mystery to me where we lost these.  do we have any clue the date when the lost posts were in existence, and any text in them i might be able to search for?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Friday, January 12: ClipMate @ Bits du Jour

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 01:29 PM »

For those wanting to check out my Clipboard Help+Spell, it's page is here:
https://www.donation...pandspell/index.html

ClipMate is a great program there can be little doubt.  It is the king of clipboard tools.  CHS was created because i liked ClipMate but wasn't happy with the searching and the complexity (and price).  But there can be no doubt that it is a serious powerful program and you'll have a hard time finding a more featurefull program.  You definitely owe it to yourself to try it if you like clipboard enhancers.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.23 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 12, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 01:19 PM »

oh and another thing, keep in mind jdmatch that the multiword stuff is separate from the new path specification feature.

so you can already currently do:

c:\pro\ado\photoshop

to find c:\program files\adobe\photoshop

--

also note you dont actually have to specify the full path starting with c:\
if the path was on your search path somewhere you could just typoe: \ado\photoshop

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.23 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 12, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 01:17 PM »

jdmarch can you give me an example of a search that doesn't work as expected and what you want it to do?
actually it is quite easy for me to make a change that would allow it to match words in a path and just disabled it since it seemed to be returning too many hits.. but perhaps i could put it back with an option.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Odd bug after using Numpad key to launch shortcut

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 12:55 PM »

thanks jbali, i know what you are talking about - i'll work on it now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.23 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 12, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 06:25 AM »

im going to come back to some of these display issues in a bit.
meanwhile v2.00.23 is released as of jan 12, with lots of tweaking (see first post in thread for change history).
download is at same url as previous alpha version.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: Concerning posts subscription mod

« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2007, 01:39 AM »

I have just begun my study of grivitation on your forum
 and although my eyes have been opened to many concepts
 the thinking is still someone unlike the way my mind works
 and i have not yet figured out the mystery of toogriks
 or where on the grivitation forum i am to post.

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Living Room / Re: Blogging platform for enterprise?

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 09:00 PM »

moveabletype can be extremeley scalable since it generates static pages:
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/

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Living Room / Re: Wallet Test = Honesty Test -> How Will People Behave?

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 08:17 PM »

With only 100 wallets and such an informal study i'd be reallly careful about interpretting those stats as saying anything meaningfull, ESPECIALLY about race.  There are so many other factors youd want to look at like accounting for income, relation of gender and race between the person finding the wallet and the id of the person in the wallet, etc.  There are probably a million ways to get very different results.  For example, i wonder how much the results would have changed if the photo id of the person in the wallet was a pretty woman.. Do all the numbers suddenly flip?  What if the photo id was of a young kid or an elderly black woman?  But it is quite fascinating.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for January 7th, 2006 - Codename "Who's Your NANY?"

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 04:37 PM »

Google Ads Update:

For those who are interested, i'm not seeing much improvement over the google ad revenue compared to last year, even though traffic on the site has increased a lot since then.  Part of it may simply be google taking time to properly index the pages for adsense.

Regardless, I think we will most likely go back to removing them from the website for another year - though let's keep them running for at least a week or 10 days to get a reasonable estimate.  It looks like the ads also may be discouraging people from donating, since they think we are making enough money on these ads that we don't need donations.

Instead of hawking other people's stuff and paying middlemen advertisers i think maybe we should instead expand the idea of the "Cody Quotes" thing we were using before, to include random screenshot thumbnails of programs on the site, and maybe even site members website thumbnails etc.  It seems to me we might all be happier by spreading the word about members projects rather than some strangers pay per click stuff.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Freeware EULA Addendum

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 03:51 PM »

nice.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 02:29 PM »

sweet 

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

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 02:28 PM »

the badges are already created by hamradio, i'm just waiting until a few assignments before we add them to users profiles and in the little icon lists as you say.  it's a good question what it should link to.. i'm not sure now.. suggestions welcome!

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Living Room / Re: Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance - Brilliant!

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 08:42 AM »

Check out this cool web toy i found on his site, so cool:

http://roxik.com/toy1.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Master of Defense - Another Great Tower Defense Game

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 08:14 AM »

Free:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6943.0

Check out Curator Defense (free) at top of this list, i LOVED it:
https://www.donation....com/2006/index4.php

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Developer's Corner / Re: SkyIDE - Latest Release Information

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 06:51 AM »

cygwin uses gcc, the options should be same as your existing mingw32 options.

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Living Room / Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance - Brilliant!

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 05:09 AM »

Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance

This is so cool and fun. You draw a little character and then watch it dance around surrounded by it's clones, in a semi 3d world.
If you have a young kid, you need to bring them to this site for some laughs.

http://roxik.com/pictaps/index.html

from http://drawn.ca/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Network Clien/Server based Password Management System?

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 04:50 AM »

I think the point here is to have a password program where passwords are automatically synchronized between clients..  It's possible keepass can be set up this way, i'm not sure.

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Developer's Corner / Re: FatBlog: "Joel, Please Get Off of Software"

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 04:15 AM »

ps.
can someone find me a blog that rips into Robert Scoble like this? If there is such a thing as karma, there are bound to be 20 or 30 of them.

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Developer's Corner / FatBlog: "Joel, Please Get Off of Software"

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 04:12 AM »

I link to Joel Spolsky essays quite frequently (I find them often insightfull even if Joel can be much too self-promoting for my tastes).
Well member f0dder on our forum posted a link on a recent forum thread, to a blog that rips into Joel with some serious skill and humour.  For your consideration is this terrific autopsy with commentary on an essay Joel wrote on hiring people:

Am I the only person who’s sick of watching people like Joel On Software spew obvious nonsense? Starting a business is about not throwing away your budget. Most of us don’t have a several year old blog full of other nonsense to convince VCs to recapitalize us just because we lit our first budget on fire to watch the pretty dollars burn.
..
>“The Aeron chair has, sadly, been tarnished with a reputation of being extravagant, especially for startups.“
Because it is, you douche. It’s an EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLAR CHAIR. YOU DO NOT NEED AN EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLAR CHAIR.

http://blog.sc.tri-bit.com/archives/171

What can I say other than I have a new blog to read on a regular basis. Great stuff.
ps. In this long and very entertaining piece there are also some nice book recommendations.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Network Clien/Server based Password Management System?

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 03:47 AM »

A few of us here are RoboForm fans (I am).  I've not used it in client server situation though.  They have a page on business use: http://www.roboform.com/enterprise.html

But it sounds like to use it in this fashion youd have to have the data file on a mounted network drive.  Not sure if that's suitable for you.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2007, 03:45 AM »

Yeah but perry you havent filled out your biography field (see no red note icon under your avatar).
All those missing one can fill it out at the bottom of this page here:
https://www.donation...file;sa=forumProfile

That also goes for dhuser, Lashiec, KenR

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automation Program

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2007, 10:31 PM »

The other benefit of using autohotkey is that there are some serious ahk coders here (especially skrommel) who will help you if you get stuck with something.

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: Entry for switch game category: 'Branston and the Lost Machine'

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2007, 09:56 PM »

i've updated the download on the server to version 2:
https://www.donation...entries/Branston.zip

Actually i put the swf up so you can play it online now full screen:
https://www.donation...ranston/Branston.swf

Check it out, it's quite wonderful.  The new stealth level is hard!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Joel Spolsky's Recent Essays Opposing Simplicity

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2007, 09:16 PM »

Joel On Software: Please Get Off of Software

 

this pun just hit me - love it