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Living Room / Re: irma-geadon

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2017, 05:58 PM »

Good to hear you survived it! 

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2017, 05:15 PM »

Cheetah Attacked by Meerkats

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2017, 09:31 AM »

Most of the NANY mugs have used the standard design.
In 2013 we did have this alternate done by a friend of Stephens:

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Living Room / Re: Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2017, 02:26 AM »

There is a lesson about life in that video, but i'll be damned if i can say what it is. which is, of course, the best kind of life lesson.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: New books wanted!

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2017, 02:20 AM »

If we are making wish lists I'd love mathematics and physics quotes -- or any science quotes in general.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 07:00 PM »

But note that the new design doesn't have to look exactly like Cody as long as it captures his spirit.
I don't think anyone is ever going to capture him quite the way Nudone did.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 06:59 PM »

And here's an original Adobe Illustrator file for a past NANY mug:
https://www.donation...club/NanyMug2009.zip

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 06:57 PM »

Here's a model sheet nudone made a while ago:

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 06:35 PM »

Thanks for posting this Deo! 

Deo and I talked about this idea for a while and he generously agreed to run with the idea.  Please help us spread the word.

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Living Room / Re: Original DonationCoder's members computer quotes

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 05:23 PM »

Two quotes about assembly language:


"Nobody should be allowed to program in assembly language" Jim Isaak, Computer Design, Jan. 1, 1987

"When in doubt, try brute force." anonymous, attributed to Attila, et al.

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Living Room / Re: Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 04:23 PM »

Here it is on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/231344456

Hey what do you know we can handle vimeo tags on the forum 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: farr can't run in new version of win10?

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2017, 01:54 PM »

FARR works fine in windows 10 -- there must be something else going wrong.
If you migrated your configuration from an old machine to a new machine it's possible this is the cause of the problem.
Try deleting your configuration file (or entire FARR installation directory) and then reinstalling or using the portable version.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: New books wanted!

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2017, 12:23 AM »

You're building up a nice big quote file for computers 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Pledge: Some kind of unity game

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2017, 09:54 PM »

great!!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Image Isn't Adding a Border :o(

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2017, 06:03 PM »

Are you using the pop-up post capture dialog?

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Living Room / Re: Printer printing fuzzy

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2017, 01:49 PM »

The most practical cure for a fuzzy ink jet printer these days is:

• Unplug the inkjet printer
• Place fingers under each side of the printer
• Lift printer about 3 inches off the table
• Rotate 180 degrees and carry the printer to the nearest trash can
• Release printer into trashcan
• Go online and order replacement printer

Inkjet printers are so cheap -- with the cost being mainly due to ink, that when an inkjet printer starts acting up, unless it is some serious pro-quality printer, your best bet is to buy a new printer and not waste ink on your old one.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative for wallet.

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2017, 01:26 PM »

I've gone in the opposite direction.  After a lifetime of carrying a wallet and no cell phone, I have finally given in to reality and now carry a cell phone instead of a wallet.  I bought a cell phone case that can carry my id and a couple of credit cards, and use a money clip in another pocket for cash.

I miss having my wallet, but practicality demanded the change.

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Living Room / Re: Jerry Pournelle - R.I.P.

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2017, 07:44 PM »

I remember his column in the old Byte magazine.

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Living Room / Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2017, 05:42 AM »

This brought a real smile to my face.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: New books wanted!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2017, 07:10 PM »

Great stuff.. It would be nice to have more than 22..

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Living Room / Re: Irma's Coming...

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2017, 07:04 PM »

My mother has a condo in the Florida Keys. The area has been evacuated.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2017, 05:53 PM »

Is it possible to add an option to open the screenshot folder in the windows explorer?

You can use View->Launch External Screenshot Browser, but I will add a new option to just open folder in next version.

Is it possible to add an option to make a screenshot after x seconds after every click? - If making a screenshot on VNC, I need sometime to allow VNC to refresh the screen

I will look into it.

Is it possible to have the systray icon to change when it is taking a screenshot (so that I am sure a screenshot was taken)?

I will add such an option; you can also have it play a sound currently to help you confirm.

The option "Launch Internal screenshot browser" makes something funny in W7,64b - all window size of open apps go very slim and desktop icons get scrambled....

I have had a similar report -- I will fix it.  My stupid tool is trying to DOCK to the side of the screen.

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Living Room / Re: 60 years. Am I now ALLOWED to be grumpy?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2017, 05:33 PM »

Happy birthday, Curt!!!!



I have to agree it is terrifying how fast time seems to fly as you get older.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Please Help "DBSIAM Engine Error #8961"

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2017, 04:53 PM »

These sound like the kinds of errors that occur when a security program (antivirus?) is trying to block CHS from writing to it's database files.
The solution is to add CHS directory to exception list or change the CHS option of where it stores its database.

See this thread for complete info:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25938.0

And let me know if that fixes it!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Release: Joomla Extensions

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2017, 08:47 PM »

As I have been working for the last several months on migrating the DC website to the Joomla content management system, I have ended up coding a bunch of custom extensions.  Some are dc-specific and won't be of much use to others, but several would be of use to general joomla sites.  I plan on releasing a few as part of my NANY offerings this year.

Joomla Extensions now available, open sourced on github:

Bulk meta info viewer/changer - Used to quickly see and modify your article meta info (most similar to the osmeta extension but less invasive). I think this one is probably the most useful and of general interest to joomla users.

• https://github.com/d...mouser/joomla_dcmeta

Log viewer - Simple extension to allow admin to view/tail system log files

• https://github.com/d...ser/joomla_dclogview

Alternate control panel -- Simple alternate place to put admin modules instead of main control panel

• https://github.com/d...ouser/joomla_dcpanel

Article links plugin -- Makes it easy to see and edit the menus that link to an article being edited

• https://github.com/d...oomla_dcarticlelinks

Menu list plugin -- Easy way to make pages that show a nice list (with image thumbnails) of child pages

• https://github.com/d...er/joomla_dcmenulist

Comment plugin -- Super simple plugin that just lets you "comment-out" sections of an article to make them invisible

• https://github.com/d...ser/joomla_dccomment

Custom function content plugin -- Safe way to invoke custom php functions from article content

• I did not open source this yet -- it's a lot of code and would require some additional documentation.