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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.


joomla.png
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Living Room / One man's engineering quest to add a headphone port to an iphone
« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2017, 02:40 PM »
Really nice detailed 30+ minute youtube video of one man's quest to wire in a headphone port into his iPad:


Fascinating look at one-off manufacturing of custom boards and wiring.  Shenzhen China seems amazing.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkey for Effects
« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2017, 01:45 PM »
I want a possibibility to set one hotkey for "grab region without shadow" and another hotkey for "grab region with shadow".
This item is at the top of my todo list -- supporting user defined hotkeys to do different things.  I hope to have it implemented before the end of the year.
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Deozaan, yes it should be much easier to find the page and get your key on the new site.

Ewemoa, yes one of the big benefits of the new cms is that it will be easy to rearrange things.  Though hopefully we will be able to come up with a fairly stable organization during beta testing.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ERROR after upgrading Windows
« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2017, 02:10 AM »
Yep.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - A Match-Three Game for Android
« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2017, 02:10 AM »
Congrats!  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement
« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2017, 08:14 PM »
I'd like to have an alternate mug and tshirt design for 2018 as well -- so if anyone is feeling artistic, we could use your efforts!
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PopUp Wisdom / Re: New books wanted!
« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2017, 01:50 PM »
computer quotes!
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Ideas Thread
« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2017, 02:00 PM »
Anyone have any other ideas for NANY?
I'm still thinking about ideas for what to do.. I have one cool game idea with some custom raspberry pi / arduino hardware that I'm hoping to have ready..
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2017, 12:59 PM »
 :D
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Living Room / Re: Back from Donationcoder past....
« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2017, 12:12 PM »
Steeladept it is great to hear from you -- and congratulations!
 You joined the forum in 2006 -- over 10 years ago.  Time flies so quickly -- a more quickly every year it seems.

Thank you for posting and giving us an update -- it makes me happy to hear that you are doing well and that you are happy.

Now don't be so shy in the future -- feel free to lean on us a little if you run into an issue you need help with or if you just want to share some good or bad news, etc.

 :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Red Box Capture Mode
« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2017, 12:09 PM »
Try the manual scrolling capture mode, see if that works.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Red Box Capture Mode
« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2017, 07:20 PM »
What exactly happens when you try to trigger the object capture mode?
Can you check your "Selection Capture Options" tab and make sure the Red Box Capture Mode is not set to "Never"?
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement
« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2017, 02:20 PM »
Also, for what it's worth, the decision has been made to raise (from members) and give out some money at the end of NANY to (regular?) DC Members in appreciation for software they have created during the last year.  Maybe 1 or 2 thousand USD.
You can read the discussion that led to that decision here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=43695.0

Spread out among a bunch of coders it won't amount to very much, but better than nothing.
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement
« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2017, 02:02 PM »
Please feel free to post ideas for coders for NANY 2018 in: this thread.
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Neat. That could be useful for us c++ coders. Thanks for sharing that  :up:
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 07:53 PM »
Wild otter comes to play with dog every day:
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Wordpress does seem to be a target/recipient of attacks disproportionately, but i think having a single install, with minimal 3rd party extensions, which was kept always up to date, would be more secure than having a large number of different frameworks that were sporadically updated if ever..
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 03:53 PM »
Oh it works.
If you have some skill, lots of people enjoy manually sharpening their knives.  I just don't have the aptitude for it.
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 10:36 AM »
Got myself a 15-degree knife sharpener:
Screenshot - 9_3_2017 , 10_40_12 AM.png

https://www.amazon.c...rpener/dp/B0018RSEMU
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 02:20 AM »
That looks like a great book.  One of my favorite books of all time is "Into Thin Air", so it sounds like I might like Dead Mountain.

Into Thin Air:
thinair.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Automated ftp uploads
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 01:35 AM »
Let us know what you find -- there has to be a good free one.
I actually have a reasonable fire watcher tool that I wrote and never released.. Maybe with a bit of work it could be improved with some ftp and other abilities..
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Special Effect Options - Border - Not Taking Effect
« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2017, 01:29 AM »
When you say you are not getting a border -- do you mean not getting one automatically after every screenshot? Or not getting one after you tell it to apply a border?
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