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Developer's Corner / Re: New SkyIDE UI Design/Add-ons. Please express your opinion
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 10:03 PM »
i like the window panel approach (either 2 or 3 i dont have a preference).
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 09:14 PM »
Fineprint people have been nice enough to offer dc members a good discount.. details to follow  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Worst Portrayals of Technology in Film
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:46 PM »
i agree with josh that putting war games on that list is a crime and travesty.

relatively speaking, war games may be one of the most accurate protrayals of computer technology ever seen in a mainstream movie.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Commentary on ScreenshotCaptor - 2.28.01
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:44 PM »
your configuration looks ok to me.. i will test the mail sending feature some more and see if i can find more reports of similar troubles.. hopefully it's something simple i'm doing wrong since it's a brand new feature.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / New Disclosure Line Required When you Write a Mini-Review
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:40 PM »
We have not had any cases of the author of a mini-review writing a review for payment, but with all the current publicity around these pay-per-post services which are paying people to write about products, i thought we should be proactive.

I have added a field to the mini review template which explicitly requires mini-review authors to disclose any relationship they might have with a product/company they are reviewing.  This will be present in our full reviews as well:

Screenshot - 12_17_2006 , 8_31_24 PM.png

Remember, any time you write about any program/service whose relationship to you is not obvious by the nature of the post, you must disclose your relationship. Furthermore, we do not allow people to make paid posts on this forum, even with disclosure.

I think these rules are important in ensuring that the opinions you read on this forum and website reflect the real views of real people.

Unlike many sites, we welcome authors to post about their own software here, in the appropriate places and with a clear indication that they are talking about their own stuff.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: --> PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST <--
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:33 PM »
Also be sure to use the "Mini-Review" template from the preset text drop down box on the new post form - it will create a skeleton of a mini review for you so you just have to fill in the details.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Commentary on ScreenshotCaptor - 2.28.01
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:01 PM »
lol
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Living Room / Re: Sudoku Solver by Andrew Stuart — Wow!
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 07:04 PM »
It's worth pointing out that one of the submissions to our BCB Programming contest was a Soduku creator/player/solver:

https://www.donation...results.php?item=306

soduku.png
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UrlSnooper / Re: I upgraded, new URLSnooper dissapears
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 02:11 PM »
thanks for the heads up mateek - i wonder if anyone else is experiencing this problem..
can you tell me what older version you are using that works?

ps.
the new version still has the features of the old version, you just have to go to File -> Advanced mode and you will see your old familiar interface.

if you want to try the new version again, you might try deleting the old UrlSnooper.ini file before you run the new version in case there was something there confusing it..
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Find And Run Robot / FARR Task Control - What features do you want?
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 09:37 AM »
we've talked about adding task control to farr,
i'm thinking of letting you type something like *tasks\blah..
to show all running tasks matching blah..

now my question is, what operations would you like to perform on such tasks (presumably through a context menu)?

do people still want this?
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fantastic app - idea for faster searching
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 09:31 AM »
nontroppo i am engaged in a prolonged tear of work on farr this last week;
folder searching and adaptive history are mostly done (testing folder searching now and tweaking it).

so if you dont let me forget i will try to tackle these too.

but do keep in mind that i'm not building an index yet so its natural that there is going to be some disk access.

i think it is also imp to remember, as far as i understand it, that the disk io you see in a process monitor doesnt really tell you if these reads are occuring physically on the disk vs. being cached by windows or even hard disk cache.  so it can be quite misleading to look at that number as actual physical disk activity (someone correct me if i'm wrong).  Indeed one of my motivations for resisting building my own index is that the operating system has its own caches/indices (thats why the second time you search after a long delay is much faster than first time).

however i suspect there is probably some unnesc. acccess when loading history, etc., that we can still improve.
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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com has just reached 50 000 members!
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 08:29 AM »
Remember that people need to sign up to get a prolonged license to use some of our programs, so that's where most of those people come from.. i wish more of them would join us here on the forum and be active..
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until thunder7 replies it will remain a mystery..

the nearest i can guess is he might have been confused by the email version of the newsletter which says:
If you do not wish to receive mail from us ever again - just reply and say so, or follow the instructions at the bottom of this email.
is it possible he read that as saying something like "this might be your last email?"  :tellme:


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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 06:36 AM »
Here's the design of the mug you will get if you participate (designed by nudone of course):
nanymug.jpg

All participants can view the current beta versions of NANY apps and post their own here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=211.0

(note that section is only accesible for now to NANY participants - send me a personal message if you are a coder participating!)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Progress Report..
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 02:34 AM »
Because you guys have heard me promising updates for so long and gotten used to dissapointment i thought i should keep you updated here.

Folder-name searching is now implemented, but will need another day or two of tweaking before i release it.. I think we are going to have to play with it and see what works and what doesnt.  If nothing else it's a good experiment as we think about a more fundamental approach to this stuff.
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General Review Discussion / Re: Best Archive Manager Review: Suggestions
« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2006, 01:32 AM »
very nice comments alex - until the review is updated at least we have the posts in this thread to supplement it  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Regex Renamer
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 11:25 PM »
i have to comment on this.

CVS is evil.  I have used it a dozen times and EVERY time i find myself like Renegade, completely frustrated and without the slightest memory of how to configure it to connect to the server i want.

Occasionally i come accross a site that has its source on cvs which includes the step by step instructions for configuring the cvs connection settings - without that i'm lost.
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Official Announcements / Re: Amazing Conversation on your site
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 10:30 PM »
Several people have emailed me warning me that PolZegerully has been registering and posting this same message at every forum on the web.  Guess it's just spam.. Regardless, perhaps others wanted to know how to send a personal message.

And now we wait for the mystery of PolZegerully to be revealed!! Please let us know when he hatches his plot to take over the internets!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Regex Renamer
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 10:16 PM »
Welcome to the site xiperware  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Program is looking great - it's wonderfull to hear that it's in active development  :up: :up: :up: :up:
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I can't believe i've never heard of these tiiks before, sounds cool if you are a c++ builder developer.  It's donationware.

Bcc32Pch C++Builder IDE Plugin Version 2.7
   
A plugin for C++Builder 5/6 and BDS 2006. It replaces the IDE compiler by the commandline tools and improves the compilation speed.
bcc32pch 2.7 is not released yet, but the Release Candidate 2 can be downloaded.

bcc32pch only speeds up the compiler. If you want to speed up the load-time of the IDE and the general speed of the IDE, you could install DelphiSpeedUp that also works for BCB and BDS.

Requirements:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
An installed and already executed Borland C++ Builder 5/6 or Borland Developer Studio 2006 or Turbo C++ Pro 2006




DelphiSpeedUp Delphi/BCB/BDS IDE plugin Version 2.2

A plugin for Delphi/C++Builder 5/6/7/2005, BDS 2006 and Turbo Delphi/C++/C# Professional. It speeds up the time to load the IDE and it also improves the whole speed of the IDE. This is achieved by replacing some often used RTL functions by FastCode function that are optimized for the used CPU. It also adds some caches for function that work on filenames like ExpandFileName().




from http://www.delphifeeds.com/ via http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/
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Official Announcements / Re: Amazing Conversation on your site
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 08:05 PM »
In every post anyone makes there are some icons under their name.  The one that looks like a "speech balloon" lets you send them a personal message through the forum.

Screenshot - 12_16_2006 , 8_05_07 PM.png
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you could have made it multiple choice just by setting the max allowed votes per person to > 1...
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Developer's Corner / Re: WORLD'S MOST ADDICTIVE ADDICTINGGAME™ CONTEST
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 04:10 AM »
personal commentary: we would never run a contest where any entries became our property to sell and make a profit off of and i wouldn't enter such a contest.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 12:32 AM »
Fineprint has been contacted; i will post here when i get a reply.
ps. if you want to see more mini-reviews like this one, be sure to toss some donation credit love to patteo (just click on the gold coin next to his name).  Remember you can give as little as 1 cent (.01 credits) - it's the thought that counts!
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Developer's Corner / Re: WORLD'S MOST ADDICTIVE ADDICTINGGAME™ CONTEST
« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2006, 12:13 AM »
The $10,000 first prize sounds very nice, but do be very sure to read and consider the rules very carefully, especially rule #8:

8) Right to Use Your Work and Information About You: By submitting an Entry, you: ...
(b) automatically grant to Atom Entertainment, Inc. a non-exclusive, world-wide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute and display the Entry, which shall last only through the end date of the promotion and continue for 90 days thereafter, after which all such license rights shall terminate, and any right that remain shall revert to Entrant;

(c) agree that upon selection as a winner of any prize, you agree that your Entry shall legally be considered a "work made for hire," with all rights therein, including, without limitation, the exclusive copyright, transferred to and being the property of Atom Entertainment, Inc.; (d) agree that upon selection as a winner of any prize, in the event your Entry is considered not to be a "work made for hire," you irrevocably assign to Atom Entertainment, Inc., all right, title, and interest in and to your Entry (including, without limitation, the copyright) in any and all media whether now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity, anywhere in the world, with the right to make any and all uses thereof, including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising or trade; and (e) agree that upon selection as a winner of any prize, you grant to Atom Entertainment, Inc. the right to sell and otherwise distribute your Game submission on any of its websites without any compensation.
...


http://www.addicting...m/contest/rules.html


In other words, as i read it: even if you win a $500 honorable mention prize, you have effectively sold them the sole rights to your game, which they can then sell, distribute, etc., soley for their profit.
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