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Official Announcements / explanation about the Feb.21 server downtime (plus digg.com effect)

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 01:46 AM »

jroad's thread comparing bitmapped fonts got mentioned on frontpage of digg.com on feb.21 and it threw the server into a tizzy..

ps.i thought we bought an expensive dedicated server account to be able to handle such cased 


the server itself was mostly online throughout but it looks like a small problem that caused the /tmp directory to switch out of world readable mode caused a cascase of problems whenever the mysql database engine needed to make a temp file, which triggered a whole days worth of troubles until it was found.  whether this is all going to happen the next time we hit some real traffic is anyone's guess, but if anyone knows another good dedicated server company with good knowledgable tech support, please let me know.


thanks everyone for being so patient..  now back to your regularly scheduled programming..

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 07:55 PM »

montecarlo looks quite nice for its size, actually one of the best for it's size.. but its a bit small - does it scall up well?

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 06:28 PM »

consolas sounds nice - love to see a screenshot of it with full text above in same format as the others..  jroad?

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 03:23 PM »

link to jibz's Dina font page for those that don't remember: https://www.donation...Jibz/Dina/index.html

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Living Room / Re: Ricky Gervais new audio show mp3 (from the british version of The Office)

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 12:06 PM »

episode 12 is up.

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Mircryption / Re: /etopic bug in v1.15.01

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 10:39 AM »

thank you guybrush!
i don't know how that got past us.  nice find.  will be fixed in next update.
thank you again.

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What's the Best? / Re: AddressBook Utility

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2006, 12:23 AM »

pimex looks quite nice

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.04.01 - February 21, 2006

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 11:50 PM »

updated to version 1.04.01 -
miniflash.exe is now included with a little demo of how to use it.

Q: What is Miniflash?
A: Miniflash is a tiny flash movie (swf) player whose only purpose is to play a movie in a borderless or thinborder window, which can be invoked on the commandline and passed flash variable parameters, which is normally not possible in the flash player.  it can be useful for capturing screenshots of flash movies with certain parameters, in a non-interactive fashion in conjunction with MiniCap. (99.9999999999999999999% of people have no need for miniflash).

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Living Room / Re: Help me please....and thank you!

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 11:00 PM »

movie demo here: https://www.donation...sia_UrlSnooper1.html

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Finished Programs / Re: A script to display a random line from txt file

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 06:10 PM »

jgpaiva, and all other people who write coding snacks and such:

set yourself up a little paypal button so that people can show their appreciation to you if you do little projects like this:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1283.0

it's wonderful when people donate to the site, but this forum is also about people donating to each other to help each other out, so you guys and gals should have a way to accept donations!

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Living Room / Cool flash games - teagames.com

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 03:44 PM »

http://www.teagames.com

their 'blueprint' game was mentioned on digg today.  quite good puzzle game.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Source code colors: Contrast / Readability / Ergonomics

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 11:51 AM »

slate looks nice, but i still find black on white the easiest to read.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Source code colors: Contrast / Readability / Ergonomics

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 11:50 AM »

nice!  it really is useful to have some sample color schemes to look at in order to make a decision about which one looks best.

that blue one sure gives me flashbacks to the days of turboc and turbopascal.

maybe we need a script that gradually changes your color scheme based on time of day, from light to dark - that would be cool

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Finished Programs / Re: A script to display a random line from txt file

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 04:02 AM »

easy to do - i'll let someone else do it because its a fun project, but if no one responds in 24 hours ill post a solution.
this is actually a fun programming challenge that i would give to a new programmer, so it's a good post for people just learning how to program

im assuming you want an .exe program for windows that does this right? if not, if you want it done in a particular language then you should post an update.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 12:38 AM »

we are talking about when you attach images and files to a forum post using the forum feature, not hosting them externally on a site like imageshack.

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Living Room / Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.

« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2006, 12:37 AM »

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION AVATAR

lol 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: recent blog column - archives

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 11:04 PM »

all the old archives are still there, but looks like i need to update the url info for them.. give me a day or two and i'll have it fixed.
i keep meaning to transfer all those columns into the forum..

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General Software Discussion / Are There No Decent Mailing List Programs? - short article

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 08:47 PM »

Summary
As far as I can tell, there isn't a decent mailing list program to be found anywhere on the planet. I don't want a lot a really, just a basic tool to keep a list of addresses and post a message once in a while. You'd think I could find one...

http://www.artima.co...st.jsp?thread=148909

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Developer's Corner / How to Think Like A Computer Scientist - Python Tutorial

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 08:35 PM »

Learning with Python

http://www.ibiblio.o.../thinkCSpy/index.htm

(from http://digg.com)

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Living Room / Re: animal identity crisis..

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 08:08 PM »

omg i want the link to that store - my cat has been begging me for a hat since i got her.
(at least i think that' what she has been asking for, kind of hard to interpret those meows)

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What's the Best? / Re: Tray Management Utility

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 08:06 PM »

perfect way to start this section - absolutely perfect.

i think having a thread like this, with a list of pointers to relevant posts on the forum that we can keep updated is incredibly valuable. 

(i can see this becoming one of the best features of the forum).

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Living Room / any fans here of the Internal Affairs I-III chinese movies?

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 08:02 PM »

this series of 3 chinese cop movies are really excellent.

you really have to be alert and paying attention or youll never follow them.
but even so i'm a bit confused about the ending to #3.  i dont want to give away any spoilers so if someone understands the end well could pm me it would be appreciated.

and for those who haven't seen these movies, i recommend.

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Living Room / Re: Help me please....and thank you!

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 07:59 PM »

what part do you need help with?
if you need help recording the audio files, then go find yourself streambox vcr.
if you need help using url snooper, then tell us what more help you need.

ps. this should probably be posted on url snooper section of the forum here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=17.0

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Living Room / Re: xp dual boot raid 0 insanity cool down

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 03:34 PM »

i have always found dual booting more trouble than its worth.

i agree with db to use a virtual machine if you have a single primary OS, and then want some others where speed is not an issue.
if you really need multiple operating ssystems that you switch between often that must run fast -
buy another pc and connect them via lan.

as good as the vmware and virtualpc tools are these days, its hard for me to see cases where dual booting is worth the hassle regarding boot managers, etc.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The fear of change

« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2006, 03:16 PM »

in general, i think its more important to use the proper tool for the job; some jobs are best tackled with a quick and dirty scripting language, some require a big heavy duty object oriented infrastructure maximized for speed.