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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 05:35 PM »
You should donate to the site :D
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 05:07 PM »
The point about the site domain name.. has been problematic from day 1, but i have a habbit of messing up naming issues and this is no exception and its hard to fix at this point.  BUT a much more dramatic "fix" would be to have the site actually "bifurcate" somewhat into two different sister sites -- one for reviews and general software discussion, and one more of a repository and home for donationware authors -- set up using a proper cms that would allow everyone equal standing.
-mouser (March 01, 2011, 04:59 PM)

Wouldn't that suggest as if there are actually 2 kind of people here, some that read and/or write reviews, and some that use+donate &/| create donationware? Guess even that suggestion also is quite counterproductive :(
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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to switch to Opera: Need help, tips
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 05:00 PM »
and am going to move all my main passwords over when I get home to see how it works
-wreckedcarzz (March 01, 2011, 04:55 PM)

Is that as risky as it sounds :huh:
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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 04:36 PM »
Woo hoo!!! We passed the $1,000 mark!
-mouser (March 01, 2011, 04:33 PM)

And it took only a little over 9 hours! :o
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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Ideas for Special Events?
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 03:53 PM »
Will there be a special forum to put all special releases and stuff (like NANY's), or is it just to be put in the usual places? (My coding snack has grown a bit out of the usual coding snack size :-[)
In the latter case I was thinking of adding something to the title like "March2011 Fundraiser:", and in my case adding " release: <apptitle> <version>"
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General Software Discussion / Re: OS recommendations for Pent.III 128MB laptop
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 03:47 PM »
If you buy the extra memory, XP will probably run quite nicely on it (but not very quick though). But be sure to get hold of all hardware-drivers. This Microsoft page could assist in checking the hardware.

If you are going to use it for writing, is the built-in keyboard good enough for that, or are you adding an extra keyboard?
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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 03:34 PM »
I'm not very good at these displays of advanced emotion and that sort of thing, and I shall probably blush.
-oblivion (March 01, 2011, 03:25 PM)
Just because of that it will be even more appreciated :up:

I'll do it in Dutch, just to attract some fellow Dutchmen: Hiep hiep hoera!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Opinions on System Utilties Suites
« Last post by Ath on March 01, 2011, 09:39 AM »
+1 for f0dder's advice
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Living Room / Re: Help with Win7 Multi-Monitor problem
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 05:43 PM »
I've been reading around a bit, and it sounds like a driver-issue, even though you have the latest (beta's?) installed.

What if you went back to WHQL tested drivers?, just for the heck of it: See if that works, they might have slipped some fancy feature in, that you have not been waiting for...
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Living Room / Re: Should ebook users have any rights?
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 05:18 PM »
Let's see what happens if the book-salesman came back after, say, 1 month, and took back the books I bought earlier from my library, while I was sleeping. He wouldn't be selling books for some time then, he'd be in jail! (at least if I caught him, or in the hospital, I'm not sure yet :-\)
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Living Room / Re: Should I add ads to my website?
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 05:09 PM »
I'd let it depend on the amount of intrusion of the adds compared to the usual site-shape & tone. If it where to be all high-contrast colored adds, compared to the rest of the site, I'd nay it, but if the tone of color is quite 'do-able', I'd try it for a year, and then see if you can live without the money adds ;)
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 04:57 PM »
You have to get a smaller car, the mug doesn't look very big this way, it just merely looks great... :D
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Living Room / Re: Help with Win7 Multi-Monitor problem
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 04:53 PM »
  - both monitors display the BIOS startup screen and the Win7 boot up animation. This suggests to me that hardware isn't an issue
-mwb1100 (February 28, 2011, 04:42 PM)
Well, that probably is the issue. I've been using dual-monitor setups for years now, and never have both BIOS and Windows startup-stuff display on both monitors :o only on the main monitor!

Does your videocard have some kind of BIOS-setup that can be activated during boot? (I recall one of my older video-cards displaying a message about Ctrl-Ins or so, not sure though) Usually there you can set options like these, and I guess there is some mirroring-mode enabled which is (finally?) recognized and obeyed by the Win7 driver, that the XP driver just ignored or overruled (or had a setting for...).
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Suggestion for Modify of your last post
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 03:36 PM »
Yep, this does make sense, but chances are big you won't be the last poster in the thread, so you'll have to make a new post after all...
And then, making a new post with a (short) change-log or What's New, is also informative for more or less novice users of your utility. They can see what changed since the last iteration, and be quickly updated, not needing to indulge the entire previous changelog, remembering what was there before, and trying to filter out what you just added... Kinda like skwire tends to do with his many releases and updates.

A combination of both could also be quite user-friendly: Update the original release-posting with all the extra features and options you have (you have it summed up in a readme, right?) *and* make a new post with just the stuff added this time.
This is the way I have planned to keep my March2011 fundraiser release up to date 8)
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Official Announcements / Re: UnReplied Topic Fridays on the DonationCoder.com Forums (URT-Fri)
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 01:13 PM »
Oh yeah, we (including me) should really do that, such a good idea. :Thmbsup:
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fundraiser ONE-A-DAY Planning Calendar, Please Volunteer
« Last post by Ath on February 28, 2011, 01:27 AM »
I'll take care of a Coding Snack release on March 3rd.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Serial Key Storage for Windows
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 01:36 PM »
If both of Horst Schaeffer's MemPad and DateReminder utilities could be combined, to give reminders, 1 or 2 months before a license is about to expire, or offer a plug-in for MS Outlook, so timely warnings would display on my screen or Agenda, then that would finally be very useful!

We have some yearly expiring software licenses, that I can only detect of being expired by users complaining that they can't contact the service >:( And that service is then immediately needed to update the local license because the IDE at hand won't run without it >:( And then the update-process of the license at the manufacturer's website, even though I reported the errors several times now, won't give a new license key, so I have to wait (and my users) for the supportdesk to supply me a new key.
Yes we are trying to get rid of them, but this is about their only product we aren't able to get rid of, because of the specific featureset. :o
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 12:28 PM »
Maybe this blogpost helps? It basically means you don't have to do anything, worstje  :up:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 12:07 PM »
AFAIK, these proxies present a page when using http(s) from a browser. And most other apps should know how to pass an authenticating proxy, so it seems... :tellme:
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 10:20 AM »
umm, you mean "just delete it" ??
-kalos (February 27, 2011, 10:09 AM)
Nope,
Nothing to install, nothing to clear if you need to get rid of it, just run it.
-Ath (February 27, 2011, 04:10 AM)
Re-phrase: Nothing to install, and nothing to clear if you need to get rid of it, you can just run it whenever you need it.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 04:18 AM »
I could swear someone already informed me JottiQ should work through proxies.
-worstje (February 27, 2011, 12:37 AM)
That was me, when testing JottiQ on several platforms 8)

But the devil is in the details, as usual, I have a proxy that doesn't require authentication, and sujay85 is asking for proxy with authentication... but AFAICS that's not supported by configurable using the standard Windows Internet settings :nono2:
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?
« Last post by Ath on February 27, 2011, 04:10 AM »
Both Novell ZEN Application Virtualization and VMWare's ThinApp Wikipedia offer application 'portabilization', by packaging an entire application and it's required environment into a single exe. At a tradeshow (2009) I got an USB key holding a ZEN packaged OpenOffice installation (it sure was not the Portable OpenOffice!) to try, and it works just fine. Nothing to install, nothing to clear if you need to get rid of it, just run it.

That's a whole lot lighter then running a portable VBox instance.
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Living Room / Re: DC Front Page
« Last post by Ath on February 26, 2011, 02:00 PM »
^+1 :up:
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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?
« Last post by Ath on February 25, 2011, 01:27 PM »
And this is a person who allegedly donates under one name, but then signs in under a second forum name whenever he feels the urge to hector and insult under the guise of constructive criticism. Boy is that ever terrific forum etiquette. Speaks volumes about the person's character as well.
-40hz (February 25, 2011, 12:38 PM)
A troll will always stay a troll, whatever name he hides behind. Let's just not feed them :-\
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Living Room / Re: [Humor]: An update is available for your computer!
« Last post by Ath on February 25, 2011, 07:24 AM »
You can see who is good at expectation management ;)
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