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Living Room / Re: Recommendations for good external hard drive solutions?

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 07:26 PM »

i have used swapable drive racks in an external usb hard drive enclosure for a few years - and i'm very happy with it.

let's me have multiple backup hard drives and easily move them offsite for backup security even in the event of fire or theft.

the other nice thing is i use drive racks in my pc as well so its easy to swap drives between the main pc and the enclosure.

i generally buy such stuff at http://www.directron...com/hard-drives.html
(normally i would buy from newegg.com but directron has better variety for this stuff)

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: WCP'06 - FIFA World Cup 2006 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tournament Predictor

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 10:43 AM »

if you feel like it, you can help spread the word by "digging" the page here:
http://digg.com/tech...ov_Chain_Monte_Carlo

(if you haven't already signed up for a free digg account.. why not? get going!)

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Living Room / Re: Creating Passionate Users: Don't give in to feature demands!

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 10:29 AM »

ok you convinced me - no more implementing user feature requests in my programs.

anyone who has a problem with my new policy should just spam Mark0 and blame him. 

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Living Room / Re: Ever called shotgun and got into a fight?

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 08:05 AM »

i quite love these codification pages.

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Living Room / Re: Awesome advertising

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 07:30 AM »

brilliant.

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WorldCup Predictor / We need some experts and we need help spreading the word!

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 07:13 AM »

This is a call for experts to fill in some probability estimates for the World Cup Predictor
(https://www.donationcoder.com/wcp)

Until we get some expert ratings it's of no real use!

If you  know someone who fancies themselves a football/soccer expert, please have them check it out and give it a go.  There will be prizes



AND PLEASE:
if you know of anyone who would find this interesting (soccer/football fans, world cup fanatics, statistics fiends, pro gamblers, etc.) please pass it along! otherwise no one will ever hear about it until it's too late 

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Official Announcements / Re: NEW! WCP06 - FIFA World Cup 2006 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tournament Predictor

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 07:11 AM »

see also:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=192.0

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Official Announcements / NEW! WCP06 - FIFA World Cup 2006 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tournament Predictor

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 04:01 AM »

WCP'06 - FIFA World Cup 2006 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tournament Predictor

NOW LIVE!
https://www.donationcoder.com/wcp/





brought to you by Crono and Mouser.

 

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WorldCup Predictor / Re: WCP'06 - FIFA World Cup 2006 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tournament Predictor

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 04:00 AM »

the program has now gone live:

https://www.donationcoder.com/wcp/

Visit the page and have some fun learning about Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation.

NOTE: We still need experts to fill out reasonable probabilities for team match ups!!!
Prizes are on offer 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Blog mirroring/syndication and aggregation help.

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2006, 03:01 AM »

what you are wanting sounds a bit tricky to pull off to me..

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General Review Discussion / MOVED: Re: Opinions on remote PC control software

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 11:56 PM »

This topic has been moved to Mini-Reviews by Members.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3925.0

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Living Room / Re: Is firewire better than USB?

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:53 PM »

By the way, be careful if you use firewire for external hdds. I've ended up with sevaral cases of filesystem corruption. Appearantly has to do with some DMA buffer size limitation not being reported correctly or whatever, and there's some filter driver to fix it.

f0dder that sounds like exactly what happened to me.

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:50 PM »

wow that is another amazing one.  nice find nudone.  love it. 

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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Re: Araxis Merge is still my favorite

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:49 PM »

araxis merge is a fantastic tool, there can be no doubt.
it works a bit differently than beyond compare, which is sometimes good and sometimes not as good.

it has some unique fantastic features like 3-way comparison, and has an excellent in-place editor which blows beyond compare away in terms of being able to do serious edits while comparing.

note that in our big review we did talk about how good araxis is (https://www.donation...pareTools/index.html).

the main problem with araxis is.. the price.

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Living Room / Re: Do we care about HD-DVD/Blu-Ray?

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:44 PM »

i agree with the above posts: i'd love more space for backups, but until they can get them really cheap, it's not a viable alternative to using an external hard drive.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Excel File Compare Tool

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:41 PM »

i know there definitely are some dedicated excel and word comparison programs, but i have no experience with them.. i would definitely like to hear if you find a reasonable one though, for future reference.

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Living Room / Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 10:24 AM »

Animator vs Animation
Amazing flash animation
this is really brilliant and beautiful.. one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

http://abum.com/file...animations/17632.swf

from http://www.ghacks.net/
(thunder7 told me about this site - looks good - thanks thunder7)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : Create your own Tool Tips

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 08:11 AM »

you know this is a brilliant idea - and maybe it could be expanded a bit.

basically you are saying - a way for 3rd party people to write some little interactive help to go with a program, maybe customized for a specific task.  very nice idea.  similar to the cheat sheeter idea that got 75% implemented here on dc but went into hibernation..

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 05:43 AM »

correction -
it seems there is now an internal fracture within the irc channel regarding new-doan vs. new-dun..

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 05:41 AM »

ps.
nudone after some long discussion on the irc channel we all agreed we love your accent, but we are refusing to stop pronouncing your forum name as "new-doan".

-signed,
 irc channel members

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 05:40 AM »

as for blank space at end and too much music at begining, and some random music in the middle of gothic's interview, and the volume changes throughout, those are all carefully planned and inserted - don't believe anyone who tells you i am just a bad postcast audio editor..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: not freeware !!!

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 05:10 AM »

edyshor -
first of all, thank you for a very thoughtfull post.

you are not the first person to say this but you have said it in the most reasonable and thoughtful way of anyway and that is very much appreciated.

as carol says, we have been debating both privately and publically the best way to describe what we are doing.  part of the problem is that there is no perfect term for what we are doing.. is it shareware? no.  so what is it then?  Registerware might be closest term, but i'm not sure many people understand that concept.

i do personally consider our software donationware (and i consider it freeware).  because i think our software meets the key principles of those terms.  However, I do acknowledge that there is a line and if it becomes too inconvenient for people to use the programs without doing "something" then you begin to abuse the terms.

if you get the chance check out the long article we wrote about some of these ideas:
http://articles.dona...r.com/One/index.html

that might explain a little more about what we are trying to do; there is also a long usenet thread which has much more elaborate discussion of this issue:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3651.0

what i can tell you is that we take comments like yours very seriously, and we are cogitating on the best way we can improve the communication of what we are doing without giving up our core principles.  Maybe we can find a way to make everyone happier with the way we describe our software, either by changing the terms of describing it or changing our policies.  Whatever we do, our software will remain free to use.

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Developer's Corner / Where to submit your podcast to let people know about it

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 01:02 AM »

I was thinking maybe with all the work we are putting into our podcasts, perhaps it would be a good idea if more people listened to it than the 5 or 6 people who participated in making it (actually - i wonder if our listening audience is even that big  ).

so i went looking for where we might spread the word about it.  came across this pretty big list.  truth be known, looking at this just made me thing, feh, it's too much trouble to try to get out the word about it - let the spiders and search engines discover it on their own.  but thought i would post about this page anyway.  maybe someone has a different view..

"Where to Submit Your Podcasts: Best Podcast Search Engines and Directories"
http://www.masternew...it_your_podcasts.htm

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Developer's Corner / Nice two-tone tiny rss-style rectangle button link creator

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2006, 12:57 AM »

ok let's face it.. there is no terms for this, but you'll know what i'm talking about when you see a picture of it:

http://www.feedforal...rss-graphic-tool.htm

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2006, 09:59 PM »

hahahahahahaa
brilliant work della. it's a great song. 
welcome to the site.

ps. great work on the guitar and vocals, gothic!