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UrlSnooper / Re: How to get actual file location of a big list of URLs?

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 02:33 PM »

that's an interesting question actually..
the best way would be to use some tool to open each url on a web page in turn, in a batch process, with url snooper running all the while.  might be something worth implementing if it doesn't already exist.  let me know what you or others can find regarding an existing program..

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Older Newsletters / Re: The First DonationCoder Audio Podcast Radio Show - Broadcast Schedule

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 02:22 PM »

A little over 4 hours until the podcast is available!!!

Anyone have a favorite podcast client?

Here's what worked for me on windows:

• iTunes (easy to use, see advanced menu) - http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
• Juice (easy to use) - http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/
• RSSRadio (easy to use) - http://www.dorada.co.uk/
• Winamp 5.2 (only 5.2 or later! confusing to use) - http://www.winamp.com/

Note that you don't actually *need* a podcast compatible client to listen to the show, you can download the mp3 manually and play it in a mp3 player, BUT the experience is funner with a podcast client and it will subscribe to the show and show you more info, and organize the shows for you and let you know when a new episode is available.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Sorting menu

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 02:08 PM »

I'm not sure I fully understand what you are trying to do and what is not working.

The only thing you can't yet do is drag and drop multiple items at the same time, which I will add later.

But other than that lbc should have some of the best drag+drop in a tree of any program - i spent a lot of time on that.
Here's a demo flash movie showing how to do it - note how you have to move your cursor to the right of an item sometimes to get the above+below markers:

https://www.donation...mander_DragDemo.html

After you have a look at that maybe you can tell me if it was just not clear how to do something, or if it's still not doing what you need.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Uninstallers (a very short look at what I've tried!)

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 08:12 AM »

just a reminder, not speaking about this thread in particular, but just reminding people to use their DonationCredits when appropriate to throw a couple credits to someone when they make a post you find useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 我是中国用户 我们很欣赏你们的 ProcessTamerTray

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 08:10 AM »

ah i understand now!!

cool.

selling model, donation model, it's all the same, as long as he is happy and not cursing us out

thank you #378258879, we appreciate the support 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Sorting menu

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 03:34 AM »

welcome to the site hosinsky! glad to have you here.

you can use drag+drop of course to re-order things...  but maybe a nice sort option would be nice.

launchbar commander is going to get some improvement very soon.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Is OpenGL ok?

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 02:55 AM »

that would be fine of course!

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General Software Discussion / Re: 我是中国用户 我们很欣赏你们的 ProcessTamerTray

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2006, 01:21 AM »

lol..
someone fill me in.

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Older Newsletters / Audio Podcast Radio Show - Show #1 - April 30, 2006

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 10:34 PM »

The First DonationCoder Audio Podcast Radio Show
broadcasting this Sunday (April 30, 2006), at 8pm New York Time

Which of your favorite forum members will make a guest appearance?
How funny is it to hear someone rant against software?
What does Cody's theme sound like?
Tune in to find out!

https://www.donationcoder.com/podcast

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Seedling's Software / Re: Updates and Latest Beta Versions Here

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 04:22 PM »

great work, i like the new interface!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Please Read This Before Posting Here

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 02:47 PM »

We have set up this special section of our forum where members are very welcome to post about their own projects and tell us all how wonderful they are.

HOWEVER, To keep this section from becoming a dumping ground for advertisements, we have some guidelines:

• Do not just copy and paste some advertising blurb or description of your services from your website! If you do, this will be removed as spam.
• If you are a marketing person from your company, do not post here; We have nothing against marketing people but this section is ONLY for the actual developers to post on.
• Your post needs to explain your relation to the company or product, and needs to be your own description of why you think the product might be of interest to the members of the forum; if that seems like too much work, then don't post.
• Do not post about minor version updates to commercial software.
• Do not post about discounts to your commercial product too frequently -- no more than once per year

Also note:

• Companies may not attack or insult each other on our forum.  If you violate this rule your posts will be deleted and you will be banned.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python vs. Ruby -- what's your take?

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 02:21 PM »

btw, let me point out that the self-teaching programming school assignments have sections for Ruby, Python, PHP, and more:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=77.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python vs. Ruby -- what's your take?

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 02:21 PM »

Ruby on Rails is getting a lot of attention  (http://www.rubyonrails.org/) -
it's a pretty full and powerful framework for implementing web-based online services (shopping carts, etc.), and quite impressive.

From what i can see Ruby use seems to be moving towards web development, while Python use is moving towards client development (wxpython is getting some real attenion as a GUI toolkit [though there is also wxruby]).

I've done some python coding.  It's ok, though I didn't find it anything special and I am not happy with the significant whitespace stuff.

Ruby likewise seems ok to me, but doesn't blow me away.  It does seem to get a bit more respect from the language mavens, but i'm not much of a scripting-language guy so I always find myself turned off by non-static typing (http://en.wikipedia....g/wiki/Static_typing).

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Which Builder Version ?

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 10:43 AM »

nope - you can use any version of builder!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will 64-bit make a difference?

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2006, 02:24 AM »

zaine we implanted his brain in your skull last year.  you don't remember?
I'll prove it, let me ask you a question only data could answer in 1 ms and see how long it takes you.
what is 345634987398745395983765983465987*2384623986428974629874628923?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Tame applications based on CPU

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 09:27 PM »

well, it's an interesting issue and i can't really say for sure -
only way to find out for real would be to do a test.. maybe worth a try just for fun.

wouldn't be too hard to test:
set up a program that basically just reads from the hard disk constantly, and monitor disck i/o with some process explorer, and see if changing priority of the app from normal to low has any affect on disk i/o and responsiveness.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Tame applications based on CPU

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 06:33 PM »

well you might be right IFF there are other applications also competing for the cpu, then perhaps a side effect might be a slight reduction in disk usage, but i have my doubts that you'd notice it in most cases.

after all we are assuming here that the app itself isn't using enough cpu to trigger a normal taming, so reducing it's priority is not likely to reduce its actual cpu usage significantly, which means it's disk access is not likely to be affected much.

now you could implement other things to proactively SLOW DOWN the app, which would have an effect.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Tame applications based on CPU

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 06:09 PM »

Hi nick,

if you de-check the option, then it will only tame apps based on any explicit rules you set that say which apps should be forced to which priorities.

your disk usage idea is a good one, the problem is that while you could detect this scenario, lowering the apps priority wouldn't help you much

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Official Announcements / Re: Were you a radio interviewer or disk jockey or producer in a past life? read in!

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 12:38 PM »

bliss,

two things:
1) are you volunteering to help edit the shows?  do you have a particular program you might use to edit the show together?
i've been laying out this first show in sony Acid.  working pretty well.

2) and/or interviewing? do you have something that will let you record phone calls or like jgpaiva says, do you have a fast internet connection that can record a computer call?  It might be nice to do an interview of the author of mobysaurus dictionary (https://www.donation...are/Other/mobysaurus) he is in australia..

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 11:23 AM »

believe it or not we almost have enough audio for the first podcast.

but i still need one or two more fun things.

won't someone try a "man-on-the-street" interview??  i'm dying for one!!!!

i will promise a special prize to anyone who submits such a recording
(read above for description: basically you go on the street and ask people questions about thei computer experiences, or to define freeware/shareware/opensource/donationware), trying to get some funny reactions.

and all you last minute stragglers please record something and send it to [email protected] or ftp it anonymously to ftp.donationcoder.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: email client. Opera's M2 vs. the Bat

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2006, 11:20 AM »

i can only say that i tried M2 during the initial thebat review and i didn't think it could hold a candle to thebat!
allen is a huge fan of Opera and he still prefers thebat! of the Opera email client

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General Software Discussion / Re: Big List of Programming Games

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2006, 04:50 PM »

i have an idea.. i'm trying to work out some game rules and stuff..
when i make some progress maybe we can meet in irc channel and brainstorm it.

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Living Room / Re: I already belong to the forum - being asked to join?

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2006, 04:41 PM »

we know you belong to the forum, but the program still needs you to enter a license key.
you can grab free one here:
https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php

ps. i like your avatar even though on my monitor i can't tell exactly what it is (pic of elephant standing on one leg?)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show Question - submit your online answer

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2006, 03:37 PM »

sorry, you can email to:
[email protected]

or
use anonymous ftp to upload to ftp.donationcoder.com

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

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2006, 03:29 PM »

congratulations to Rover and Deozaan.

personally I'd like to commemorate the first use of recursion on the forum by celebrating Rover's 200th post post.