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Living Room / Re: recommendations for a free web host

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2016, 07:56 AM »

What would the website hold?

Does it need to be a full-blown site or a blog that you can tweak to say what you want?

You can do quite a bit with something like WordPress:

https://wordpress.com/

And that costs nothing.

If you want to go paid, some will let you get started with a minimal site that costs nothing and then let you upgrade as you grow into it.

-michaelkenward (July 18, 2016, 04:53 AM)

+1 for wordpress.  And you can move to self-hosted later if you need to.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [Kickstarter] System Shock Remastered

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2016, 07:54 AM »

I've stopped backing software projects on kickstarter.  Not worth the risk, especially given the history.  This one is a bit better, since they put out a demo.  But that doesnt mean anything either- especially with feature creep from the level of backing.

http://www.gamespot....omplai/1100-6441856/

https://imgur.com/IIwd8sZ

It's already funded, so if ever available, will be available to all.  Caveat Emptor.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone attending GenCon (board game convention) Aug 4-7 in Indiana?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 16, 2016, 09:39 PM »

I consider it more an RPG convention (especially started by TSR) than a board gaming convention.  It has board games, and miniature games and even pc gaming.  But the roots are in RPGs.

But no, unfortunately I've never gone.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on July 15, 2016, 04:56 PM »

More Elio Stuff:

https://www.eliomoto...sive-plant-coverage/
https://www.eliomoto...y-elio-momentum-v62/

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2016, 12:29 PM »

Watch a Sci-Fi Short Film written by a Computer

http://geekandsundry...itten-by-a-computer/

Maybe there’s hope for humans, after all. Inspired (or challenged) by AlphaGo’s recent crushing victory over flesh-and-blood board game champs, a group of filmmakers and a technologist created “Benjamin” to see if machine supremacy extends to the arts, too. In the group’s own words, Benjamin is “a system-on-chip (SOC) computer with a graphics processing unit (GPU), running a ‘long short term memory’ (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN).” That is, an A.I. similar to your smartphone’s auto-correct.

(More at link)

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2016, 07:24 AM »

I recently heard Kim Dotcom is no longer behind Mega: somehow someone else got 51+% of ownership so he's abandoning/abandoned it and working on a new project. But I have no sources to back it up. Anyone else know anything about this?

Edit: I realize now that it's possible the video linked above may have explained everything I just said, and that relaunching MegaUpload may be the "new" project I heard about. I haven't watched the video yet, as it's late here and I'm heading to bed.

-Deozaan (July 13, 2016, 02:58 AM)

https://www.rt.com/n...relaunch-kim-dotcom/

https://mega.nz/#blog_40

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Stardock's Object Desktop On Sale - 60% Off

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2016, 11:46 AM »

I'm interested in the start menu replacement and the app that lets you run modern ui apps as regular apps, so any info on that would help me decide whether this is worth it.

-wraith808 (July 10, 2016, 08:32 PM)

Before you shell out for Stardock's start menu replacement you should research a comparison between it and Classic Start Menu. I use neither, but comparison reviews usually show Classic Start Menu coming out on top in regards to features and it's freeware.

-Innuendo (July 12, 2016, 10:37 AM)

I've already taken a look at that one.  And don't currently have it running.

* wraith808 shrugs

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2016, 11:45 AM »

The code that took the US to the moon is on github... and it's more interesting than you might think!

http://qz.com/726338...-1960s-time-capsule/

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2016, 09:57 PM »

So I'd guess that you want to be careful who you play with.  I mean, I've played big box games with people that I've regretted it, because you end up getting things all set up, and they get bored with it.  That would be catastrophic with a game like this.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2016, 11:48 AM »

Just a quick update -- finally got to finish Pandemic Legacy (see above).  Took about 20 games, all played with one of my oldest and dearest friends.
My opinion of it remains -- this is the best board game experience I have ever had.  Every game felt like it was full of weighty, important, agonizing decisions.
I cannot say good enough things about this game.  Can't wait for season two.

-mouser (July 11, 2016, 08:32 AM)

So, I see that you have to keep track of stuff- permanently.  Is that the case?  Or did you find a way around that?

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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 10, 2016, 08:36 PM »

It has been a real pig to deal with and isn't stable.

-Dormouse (July 10, 2016, 03:07 PM)

Are we talking about just the monitors?  Or the device in general?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Stardock's Object Desktop On Sale - 60% Off

« Last post by wraith808 on July 10, 2016, 08:32 PM »

Fences and Multiplicity are the only two Stardock offerings I have running.  I found that the others were nice to look at, but not worth keeping continuously running.  I bought them years ago, and am still using the versions that I bought.  Tiles was Ok, but it wasn't ready for primetime when I tried it.  I'm interested in the start menu replacement and the app that lets you run modern ui apps as regular apps, so any info on that would help me decide whether this is worth it.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by wraith808 on July 06, 2016, 06:33 PM »

Miles congratulating Curt on his 7k makes 7k.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2016, 04:41 PM »

We Are America ft. John Cena | Love Has No Labels

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2016, 12:12 PM »

https://www.reddit.c...ooks_for_prison_ive/


Boy Spends Allowance on Books For Prison: ‘I’ve Never Seen A Kid With A Heart Like His’

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by wraith808 on July 01, 2016, 09:00 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on July 01, 2016, 01:35 PM »

This Guy Transforms Himself Into Disney Princesses And His Makeup Skills Are Too Good




Several more at link.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2016, 05:39 PM »

I'm not interested enough to decode it.

-wraith808 (June 28, 2016, 12:53 PM)

Really? It took only a quick Google to find this binary to text converter. You must like to do things the hard way.

Binary to Ascii Text Converter

-Arizona Hot (June 29, 2016, 01:16 PM)

You didn't quote the emoticons, that show it as a joke.

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General Software Discussion / Re: converting whole website to kindle-compatible ebook

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2016, 07:38 PM »

Thank you both of you for your replies.

iSilo does not create ebooks for Kindle, which is my goal, and the other software that I tried either didn't succeed at the conversion (Calibre) or only converts one page at a time, not a website.

-HankFriedman (June 28, 2016, 04:25 PM)

There were several on the search for the title of your post, which is why I asked, and knowing why they fall down might point to another solution.

https://dotepub.com/
http://lifehacker.co...s-websites-to-ebooks

- this creates epub, but you can use calibre to convert to .mobi

http://ebookconverte...ed-issue-how-to.html
http://readlists.com/

- its a bit more manual, in that it doesn't crawl the site for you.  But the end results seem ok.

http://ebooks.stacke...l-site-into-an-ebook

- I've used send to kindle before, and it works well.  But I haven't tried this manner.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2016, 12:53 PM »

I'm not interested enough to decode it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: converting whole website to kindle-compatible ebook

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2016, 08:25 AM »

Of course I searched and searched for those terms but to no avail, which is why I have asked all of you for help.

-HankFriedman (June 27, 2016, 11:24 PM)

Apologies.  After what I saw from the google search, I figured I'd ask.  Did you try those entries?  What didn't they do?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2016, 02:52 PM »

In the more interesting than practical category:

https://imgur.com/a/icKnR

Fully Programmable Binary Keyboard.  Supports Dvorak too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: converting whole website to kindle-compatible ebook

« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2016, 12:45 PM »

I don't know specifically... but have you tried googling your title?  There are several links that look like they might be good starts for investigation unless someone else has a solution offhand.  Just a suggestion.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ERAM (Open Source RAM Disk) Development

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 09:55 PM »

Yeah, that was bad. So, I take it that no one wants to try improving it?

-Zero3K (June 26, 2016, 08:35 PM)

Improving... what?

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General Software Discussion / Re: ERAM (Open Source RAM Disk) Development

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 05:20 PM »

https://www.donation....msg372109#msg372109

https://www.donation....msg214378#msg214378

https://www.donation....msg215157#msg215157

It was ugly, and it turned DCers into something I hadn't seen on DC. So that's the reason we're being a bit pedantic about it.  I personally don't want to see that happen here again.