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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2017, 03:59 PM »
So there are a few things I could use help with:

  • I could use a few people to go through the entire new site and look for typos, spelling errors, and other ways text could get improved on any given page, and to report these suggestions to me.
  • I could use a few people to look for more general suggestions of ways the site appearance could be tweaked -- not looking for major change ideas at this point, just images or layouts that could be improved a bit.
  • I could use one dedicated and detail oriented person to help build the big redirect list mapping old urls to new urls.  This won't be a fun job but it's a critical one that will make all of the old urls automatically redirect to new ones.  This job basically involves taking a list of the few hundred old urls and finding where on the new site the best matching new page is, and then building a list of these pairs.
  • I could use a few people going through old (current website) and looking for pages that might have been missed and not reproduced on the new site.  This job has overlap with the one above.

Volunteers?
(The new cms is hidden behind a password protect, so I will give you password to access the site.)
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2017, 09:05 AM »
I believe the new cms site is now essentially finished other than minor tweaking..  :tellme:
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Find And Run Robot / Re: quickdoclauncher.exe
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2017, 10:54 PM »
just to see what happened, and it sat there rapidly replicating instances of itself and wouldn't stop.
That shouldn't happen, but then again i never tested calling it without any commandline options.. I guess it became self-aware and wanted to reproduce itself.. Good thing you killed it before it took over planet earth.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: quickdoclauncher.exe
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2017, 01:44 PM »
I believe FARR will still use it on occasion, but there is now an option to tell FARR when to use it:
Screenshot - 10_6_2017 , 1_44_22 PM.png
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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2017, 02:01 PM »
I posted about the one I have here: https://www.donation....msg413317#msg413317
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2017, 02:01 PM »
Did I already post about this?

I have a rechargeable battery pack I keep in my car that can power/charge mobile phone and also jump start the car.

There are a ton of them on amazon, here's the one I have:

Screenshot - 10_5_2017 , 2_01_43 PM.png
https://www.amazon.c...p/product/B01D42TYFC
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Living Room / Re: Disabling autoplaying videos in Chrome goes viral
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2017, 12:57 PM »
I wonder if its because we have moved from a regular/repeat-customer environment, where sites cared about cultivating a loyal user base, to a search-engine/stream-of-new-users environment, where there is no such thing as a regular/loyal reader, and so you don't have to care about how much you annoy any given visitor.
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Developer's Corner / Long thought-provoking essay on programming
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2017, 12:20 PM »
Long thought-provoking essay on programming

Victor wanted something more immediate. “If you have a process in time,” he said, referring to Mario’s path through the level, “and you want to see changes immediately, you have to map time to space.” He hit a button that showed not just where Mario was right now, but where he would be at every moment in the future: a curve of shadow Marios stretching off into the far distance. What’s more, this projected path was reactive: When Victor changed the game’s parameters, now controlled by a quick drag of the mouse, the path’s shape changed. It was like having a god’s-eye view of the game. The whole problem had been reduced to playing with different parameters, as if adjusting levels on a stereo receiver, until you got Mario to thread the needle. With the right interface, it was almost as if you weren’t working with code at all; you were manipulating the game’s behavior directly.

When the audience first saw this in action, they literally gasped.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2017, 10:27 PM »
Having a few spare, charged batteries available when I travel is a real plus.  I can go longer without having the phone tethered to a wall socket.
Actually for that it would seem to be far easier, cheaper, and more flexible to simply buy one of the many large-capacity usb battery pack chargers.
These can charge any device that charges over usb (all mobile phones made in the last decade it seems), many times over.

I have one of these devices, and it can charge/power a phone, tablet, etc. as well as jump start a car, be used as a flashlight, etc.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Making screenshot of Screenshot Captor menu
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2017, 12:06 PM »
It's easy for people who donate to forget to visit the link to upgrade their forum account, so it's possible that they donated and forgot to update their forum account.

Regardless -- arnal, tell us what you are having trouble with and perhaps we can assist.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Making screenshot of Screenshot Captor menu
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2017, 10:17 AM »
If you (or anyone) ever regrets donating, just contact us and we will refund your donation!
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Living Room / Re: More good web comics you've discovered
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2017, 12:42 PM »
Great web comic just mentioned on waxy.org:

https://www.incredibledoom.com/issue01

Screenshot - 10_3_2017 , 12_42_48 PM_thumb001.png

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.
« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2017, 02:31 PM »
Well done.
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Living Room / Re: Use for Screen Captor
« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2017, 11:25 AM »
Welcome, cpajoker  :Thmbsup:  Thanks for sharing.
I opened up the feed and I see an eagle right now tending to his nest! Cool!
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Living Room / Re: Malpais de la Rasca (Where is contro ?)
« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2017, 10:11 AM »
Do we have a photo thread this topic could be merged into?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Timestamp Clamper - for hammering file/folder timestamps into a reasonable range
« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2017, 07:05 AM »
Sweet!  :Thmbsup:
ps. this qualifies as a NANY release (https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=44276.0)
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Living Room / Re: Malpais de la Rasca (Where is contro ?)
« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2017, 02:27 PM »
Beautiful!
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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective
« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2017, 07:15 AM »
It's been a while since I posted to this thread -- I'll try to do better.

Today's mini-review of a board game is for a card game called "Fabled Fruit":
https://boardgamegee.../203427/fabled-fruit
Screenshot - 10_1_2017 , 7_10_04 AM.png

I've played this game with my serious board gamer friends, my 12 year old niece, and my mom, and they all loved it.

It plays from 2-5 and all player counts are good.  The basic rules are quite simple, you lay out 6 piles of cards and on each turn a player choose which card to visit, either performing the unique special action specified on the card, or paying the "cost" on the card in with different kinds of fruit mini-cards and claiming it.  First player to claim a certain number of cards wins.

What makes the game quite unique and special, is that the game comes with 70+ different cards, and as you play the game over the course of multiple sessions/days/weeks/month, old cards are removed from play and new ones are revealed.  So the game is introducing new elements each time you play it, but the rules only change a tiny bit each time.  It's wonderfully entertaining to adjust your gameplay to the new changes that come each time you play it.

Highly highly recommended for all variety of gaming personalities.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: exclude coping specific xls
« Last post by mouser on September 29, 2017, 05:04 PM »
That's a pretty flexible exclusion system!
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: exclude coping specific xls
« Last post by mouser on September 29, 2017, 04:28 PM »
It wouldn't be hard for me to add title to exclusion functionality; i'll put it on my todo list and try to have it in next version.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: exclude coping specific xls
« Last post by mouser on September 29, 2017, 02:54 PM »
I have concluded after a few days of trying, that it is impossible to exclude a specific spreadsheet.
Yes... Although it's conceivable I could add a function to ignore certain window TITLES in a future version -- is the sheet name shown on the window titlebar when you switch to that sheet?
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017
« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2017, 07:42 PM »
No worries, we're sticking with smf, just like you're sticking with the cello!  :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now
« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2017, 09:25 AM »
Hi hwtan!!! Long time no see.  How have you been?
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Release: Image Grid
« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2017, 04:35 PM »
Just used ImageGrid again today -- great program  :Thmbsup:
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017
« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2017, 03:13 PM »
Keep the suggestions coming!
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