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Find And Run Robot / Re: Startup Speed
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 04:35 PM »
can you guys double check that you are using v 1.11.01 or later.
i have another thing im going to try as well, i should have another update later this week.
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Living Room / Re: Gateway - Control a Robot in Today's Very Cool Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 03:20 PM »
how do you get past the level with two planks? the one on the right i dont know how to lower.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 09:52 AM »
Outbound protection is nice, though it's mainly useful for paranoid people. What you really want to concentrate about is not getting bad stuff on your computer, once it's there it's too late anyway. So, outbound protection will only help you getting frustrated because of popups and non-working windows (SMB/CIFS) filesharing.

Actually i would disagree with this and say that
outbound protection is extremely enlightening if you are curious about what applications do, where they are connecting, and what could be going wrong.  in addition to preventing bad programs from doing bad things (which as f0dder alludes to is probably too late to help you much once installed), it can be extremely useful in identifying programs that are merely annoying in connecting home, etc.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Getting Organised: management of workspace/projects/paper
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 09:46 AM »
very very nice.

i liked this:
IMMEDIATE ADVANTAGES
The first advantage of this system is that it grows organically. Task files are not set up until they are needed. The second advantage is that the system recognises that people work best when they have paper to shuffle around, make notes on, place side by side, clip to or unclip from. The third advantage is that paper never goes missing because the chaos of paper on the desk is all from one task.
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General Software Discussion / Re: More personal mp3 web servers.. Jinzora, Songbird, and more
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 09:40 AM »
yes sorry i misclassified songbird, thanks for spotting it.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 02:54 AM »
dont take requests for new art - just make the first pack of existing art.
for flash i think ideally it will be in illustrator format which people should be able to import as transparent vector stuff, ideal for animating i think.  if not possible then transparent png probably would be second best.  (maybe both formats if you got it).

actually, i think it's best to release a "test pack" first, without doing much effort, of just one pose of cody and a background, so people can test how easy it is to bring into flash and work with.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Performance Update V1.11
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 02:52 AM »
its extremely safe to install a beta right on top of old version (just exit from tray first).
you can always roll back and the betas wont do any damage.

in general, after a day of them being released if no one has reported any disasters just go ahead and install.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 01:32 AM »
shouldn't cody play a prominent role in this game?
i suggest flash, for the sake of playability.
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Living Room / Re: College - what to do?
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 01:28 AM »
drop it.

you did what people rarely do - you actually went to the professors and asked them their advice - this was smart and brave, and got you some good information.  drop the class - and you'll take it again, if not next semester, then the semester after if it's only offered in alternating semesters.

the only possible reason i can think of not to is if you have some kind of assistance that is dependent on taking a certain # of credits per semester.  otherwise it really is a no brainer.
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Living Room / Gateway - Control a Robot in Today's Very Cool Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2006, 12:41 AM »
This is a seriously well done, unusual, fun flash puzzler, where you instruct a cool looking walking robot on what to do.

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Living Room / Kids Art Bot - A wonderful project if you have kids
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 11:27 PM »
Next time you and your budding young tinkerers need something to do on a rainy day, you should have no trouble scraping up the parts to put together this crude, drawing robot project that we saw at the Seattle Robotics Society Robothon.


from http://www.boingboing.net/
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Retain keywords after losing focus
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 11:07 PM »
fixed and will be in v1.12.01 when i upload.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Viewing posts from a particular date.
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 10:47 PM »
click "show recent topics" and youll see a sorted list by last-reply date.

NOTE:
i actually modded that feature of the smf forum software to display a lot more than normal and also allow you to sort by creation date, which might be what you want.
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Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 06:30 PM »
all this minutia talk is a good example of why, unless you love wallowing in this stuff and spending days and days of time obsessing, you should go to a site like dell and just use one of their configuration things to configure a reasonable pc and be done with it, imho.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Performance Update V1.11
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 05:34 PM »
ok my next work will be to really examine these extra disk reads and see if i cant remove some, still without going to full cache yet.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 03:38 PM »
after nudone posts his art pack, i will offer a DonationCoder.com mug to the first 3 people who make flash things (game or cartoon,etc), (using the Cody Art Pack) that make nudone laugh out loud.
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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 03:13 PM »
I think i better step in and clear this up before someone falls for this scam.
Please people, do not buy this thing.

While it does work, it consumes a lot of battery power and it's expensive.

You can rewind your dvds at home for free using a simple trick:  get yourself a ziplock bag or a plastic airtight container (must be air tight).  Fill it with cold water (between 50 and 60 degrees farenheight).  Place dvd (only one per container) inside and let sit for 1 hour in the refridgerator.  Due to the principle of thermodynamics, the cold temperature will cause the dvd data to contract and rewind itself, using no electricity at all (except of course the minor amount used by the refridgerator).  While it's true this process takes a bit longer, it's a lot cheaper than buying a dvd rewinder!
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Living Room / Re: How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 02:47 PM »
A very interesting new article that focuses on what i have been saying for a long time is the key problem, that digg (like google) incentivizes bad behavior:
http://www.shmula.co...sson-in-freakonomics

the key to fixing these things has to be removing the incentive for gaming the system, because quotes like this from digg founders (and the similar stuff is said by google) is just wrong:

We have sophisticated anti-gaming processes. We are spending a lot in R & D to prevent gaming. Motivations don’t matter.

just like google's adsense has now become a playground for click fraud, and has created an entire shadow web of fake websites designed to get search engine traffic, until you fix the incentives, you are turning our internet into an engine for manipulation and gaming by those who make money by figuring out how to trick algorithms into bringing them traffic.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 02:11 PM »
a new thread dedicated to game programming resources would be quite useful.
and let's not forget this thread: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5471.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 01:46 PM »
This is the perfect time to ask nudone to release his Cody Art Pack, with good quality images of our mascot Cody for use in a game.  I'd love to be able to post some Cody flash games on the site and give them the attention they deserve.

Nudone, what do you say?

Also, any game designers out there be sure to check out the Accessibility Game Contest we are running through December 22nd: https://www.donation....com/Contests/agame/
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Living Room / Re: Where's the collective Game Idea Board???
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 01:30 PM »
We *need* to get more game developers making games around here!
I think starting some threads about this in the "Developer's Corner" of are forum might be a good place to have such discussions, so how about starting us off with a post there Mizraim?
https://www.donation...index.php?board=75.0
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bad news for Firefox: Hackers claim zero-day flaw in it
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 01:22 PM »
The two hackers who declared last week at ToorCon event in San Diego that FireFox browser is affected by a critical and nearly impossible-to-fix flaw are now stating that the code is not capable of doing much damage.

http://www.playfuls....law_Just_a_Joke.html
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Living Room / Blog Article - Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 01:16 PM »
There's a reason that Read/WriteWeb is our site-of-the-month for October.  Here comes another nice roundup of social networking sites:

MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again.

Put simply, social networking is hot and there is plenty of money and action in the SNS space to prove it.
...
There are hundreds of emergent social networks, but I've shortlisted a few that are worth keeping an eye on (apart from the obvious ones, like MySpace and Facebook):
..

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Living Room / Starship Eleven - A Modern Lunar Lander - Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 12:44 PM »
When i was just learning to program, one of the first games i would write on a computer (ibm pc, trs-80, radio shack color computer) was a lunar lander clone - such a fun program to write.

Well here's a suped-up flash version that's very well done with lots of bonus stuff, Starship Eleven:

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General Software Discussion / More personal mp3 web servers.. Jinzora, Songbird, and more
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2006, 12:34 PM »
We've mentioned these tools before,
vibe streamer: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3981.0
subsonic: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5193.0

I think it's about time someone did a review of these tools!

Here's a new one, Jinzora:

Jinzora enables you to stream your digital music and videos to any internet connected computer using a web browser.

Streaming your media with Jinzora gives you quick and easy access to your online music collection from any internet connected computer. Have a large CD or mp3 collection? Use Jinzora to organize and then access your collection from anywhere. Want to play your digital music on your home stereo? Connect your pc to your home stereo and use the Jukebox features of Jinzora to play your music. Play in a band? Use Jinzora to share your music with the world.



Also might be worth a look, more of a jukebox tool but also with some web features and getting TONS of attention lately, Songbird:
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