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Living Room / Re: Dana Hanna (Software Jedi) plans to write 30 programs in 30 days
« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 01:36 AM »
it's a great excercise i think, so i'm all for it.
i do agree though that there are few programs that can get finished to a degree where they'll actually be useful in 24 hours.

its another 80-20 rule: you can whip up a program in 24 hours, but that's just the 20% part.  to make it actually useful you still need the other 80% of work to work out the kinks.
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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Copy to clipboard option?
« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 01:33 AM »
this is posted in wrong section but yes i will add this to minicap.
you might want to check out the new quick popup capture in screenshot captor, it has it already.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: The internet is a series of...
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 06:58 PM »
yeah i was gonna say this sounds like the idea discussed in app's thread above about aggregating member blogs..
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Seedling's Software / Re: Updates and Latest Beta Versions Here
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 06:57 PM »
can you tell us what linked song option that you just added does and how to use it?
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Living Room / Re: Zap reader
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 09:07 AM »
is this a good time to remind people to send some credits with a nice note to people when you see them doing something on the forum that you want to show support for?
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 08:15 AM »
I'd also really like to hear Mark's thoughts on "games" one might play to break through resistance, whether it might be giving yourself "points" for doing things, or figuring out other approaches.  Ideas for possible software tools that could be used for such purposes.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 08:12 AM »
I really liked Forster's ideas about getting around the resistance of the reactive primitive part of our brains, and the interpretation of this part of the brain as reacting to a task as a "threat" or as an obstacle to be avoided.

I like the idea of "tricking" this part of your mind in various ways to get the momentum going, since I find that his description fits some of the problems I have in working on bigger projects - once you get started it's ok, but sometimes just getting started can be incredibly hard.

I'd like to hear more about his thoughts on these techniques, and any other tricks he has tried or is thinking about, which ones work, which ones don't.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 08:06 AM »
Sounds like a very interesting subject to ask him about.
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Living Room / Re: CreatingMinds
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 07:23 AM »
outstanding find!  :up:
(credits coming your way)

The Creative Toolbox excercises are really nice.  Great thing to do with your kids as well perhaps.

Really nice short concise excercises to help you think creatively and productively.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 07:22 AM »
great subject for discussion nudone; i think one of the things those of us who have read the latest forster book is his willingness to say, this worked, this old idea didn't, and let's think about how to fix it.  so i think it would be useful to talk to him in depth about this - about ideas that have turned out to be not so useful, and how he goes about experimenting, etc.  i think he may be one of the best people to talk to about our experiment and get his advice on how to look for ideas that work, etc.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 06:39 AM »
in this case it's called quickpaste because at the top of the menu are recent clips for pasting; it's on the bottom that you see these formatting options (which format whatever is in the clipboard and then quickly paste it).
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Best E-mail Client / Re: I wish I could punch the idiots that made TheBat!
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 06:38 AM »
this might be a good general lesson:
Whenever a program/website/hard disk/registry offers to "automatically fix" a problem, a HUGE FLASHING WARNING light should go off in your brain.  These autorepair features are very often causing more harm than they fix.  Better to 100% fully investigate and backup your stuff before you proceed.

(this is of course in on way meant to excuse thebat; losing emails is unacceptable for an email client, there is just no way around it).
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 06:07 AM »
just a clarification in case its not clear, the quickpaste feature allen describes is from Clipboard Help+Spell.  You can create as many custom formatting profiles as you want and they appear in the quickpaste menu and in the formatting panel in the main window.
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Living Room / Re: Monitor Display problem
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 05:17 AM »
that is pretty unusual..  the non-technical answer is that your monitor is probably dying.. try to find a spare to confirm its the monitor and then replace it - might not be any other valid alternative.
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Living Room / Re: VPS (Virtual Private Server) needed - Windows platform
« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2006, 05:14 AM »
assuming you are asking about wanting to pay for a vps account from a web hosting provider (and not asking about the software like cpanel that drives these), i can only recommend to check out: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

(more recommended sites can be found on our links page -> https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html)
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Living Room / Re: Dana Hanna (Software Jedi) plans to write 30 programs in 30 days
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 09:48 PM »
even making the simplest programs seems like it would get a bit tedious half way through, but i give him credit for going for this.. let's see what he makes.  finally a challenger to Skrommels throne!
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Best E-mail Client / Re: I wish I could punch the idiots that made TheBat!
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 07:27 PM »
Surely any software that writes to a disk should check to see if the disk has space and not destroy your data if there is no space left. That isn't exactly 'catering for any eventuality' but in many cases an inevitability!

I agree with carol here, an email program is like a security program - it MUST plan for just situations as inevitabilities and insure no loss of email.

However i believe i have had this disk full situation happen to me and thebat not only handled it properly but knew not to consider mail it tried to retrieve and store as retrieved from the server (i think i'm remembering this correctly).

So i wonder if hirudin is sure about the cause of the corruption?  I've never lost a single email to thebat in 8 years or so and i consider this one of my #1 reasons for continuing to use it.

Have you checked the folders on your disk where the email account data is stored and done a file contents search for the emails that have gone missing - maybe they got misfiled somehow (or else check recycle bin etc.).

I feel for your loss Hirudin - if that happened to me i would be well beyond furious - i would be in a full blown shouting and throwing things rage for days.
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Living Room / Re: website: CUTE OVERLOAD will make your head explode
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 04:24 PM »
wonderful find, i really love it. the rules of cuteness are brilliant.

ps.
PLEASE people attach small screenshots.  It makes it funner to read and easier to blog.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Thesis on Balance (Flow) In Game Design
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 01:50 PM »
vrgrrl knows all kinds of cool terms for this stuff.  One of my favorite she taught me: Rubberbanding.
look it up!
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: [Screencast] How to join #donationcoder IRC channel
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 01:49 PM »
wonderful! i'm going to blog this to tour page (http://tour.donationcoder.com), it makes a perfect partner to the tutorial on connecting via the web chat function  :Thmbsup:

ps. having a bit of trouble loading it here, seems to get stuck while downloading?  might just be my connection.
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What's the Best? / Re: Newsreader programs
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 01:44 PM »
i really liked NewsRover for reading posts.  A new v12 just came out.  I know it does binaries but i don't know how well.  For text it's pretty fantastic; nice search feature, sorting features, multiple servers, etc. 

http://www.newsrover.com/

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more screenshots of more typical newsreader functions can be found here: http://www.newsrover.com/screen.htm
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ David Allen (Getting Things Done Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 12:53 PM »
The interview has now been conducted.  We've got 1hr 17min worth of raw audio to edit down to a reasonable size.  This month's podcast will consist solely of this interview.
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UrlSnooper / Re: url snooper access violation and abnormal shutdown messages
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 07:06 AM »
does it sniff at all? is it just on shutdown?
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ David Allen (Getting Things Done Author)
« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2006, 05:42 AM »
great suggestions!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Jeff Atwood Blog: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?
« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2006, 11:45 PM »
well i definitely disagree that writing a compiler isn't a big deal; it's getting easier very year but it is no small matter no matter how you do it.  I should note however that his "language" is not compiled to machine code or even byte code, but instead builds vbscript or another high level stuff, so it's not clear at all what kind of processing it really does and it may turn out to be a glorified preprocessor.
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