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Living Room / Re: nice article on procrastination

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2005, 09:56 AM »

i love the zen of #9 on that page you linked dajo:

[9] This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

i love the zen of this.. but it does seem a bit like a recipe for trouble in some cases.. let's remember the KISS addage (keep it simple stupid) - if you have two choices and one is more complicated than the other, better have a damn good reason for not going with the simple solution.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Feature request: time stamp for each URL

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2005, 08:41 AM »

can you explain what you mean by "timing report generation"?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / sweet game reviews

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2005, 04:52 AM »

i'm not a gamer - i might play a little bit of 1 computer game every couple years (though i used to play adventure games quite a bit).

i still love reading game reviews though, and i'm fascinated especially by the new kinds of games coming out.

recently i've been reading the reviews on www.eurogamer.net, which i find really pleasently written and full of obvious care and love of gaming.  some examples:
http://www.eurogamer...php?article_id=62232
http://www.eurogamer...php?article_id=62259

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Living Room / Re: Looks like linksysinfo.org got hacked.

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 11:38 PM »

ugh..  good reminder to have a backup system in place.

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Living Room / Generate graph paper and more online

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 10:43 PM »

cool site let's you configure various kinds of graph paper and then generate a pdf of it and download (free):

http://incompetech.c...eta/plainGraphPaper/

[linked from Joe White's Blog, http://excastle.com/blog/]

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Site/Forum Features / Re: new feature when making a post

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 10:34 PM »

if anyone wants me to add some text entries for useful text or links that they find themselves using repeatedly, or which they think others might find useful, post a reply here to suggest it.

ps. i added this feature because i was always posting links from other sites and being too lazy to include a full link back to that site; this should help solve that problem.

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Site/Forum Features / new feature when making a post: "add text.." box

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 10:33 PM »

I've added a new drop down box available when you make a post with some common text+links that people might want to add to their posts, to make it easier to do so.. useful for linking back to common sites (ie it's easy to add the following links now by just selecting from the dropdown box):

[link from shellcity.net]
[link from slashdot.org]
[link from fileforum/betanews]
[link from freeware world team]
[link from lifehacker]
[link from boingboing]
[link from coding horror]
[link from osnews.com]
[link from cynical-c.com]

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Living Room / Free Audio Books

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 09:56 PM »

http://www.audiobook....com/screen_main.asp

(you can also pay for higher quality audio option)


[linked from our friends at shell city]

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UrlSnooper / Re: WinPcap makes my DSL not work?

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 08:27 PM »

yeah, it seems it would solve your problem.   if that test program works then a version of url snooper which used that driver would work.

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UrlSnooper / Re: WinPcap makes my DSL not work?

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 08:12 PM »

ok, i may try to integrate this new driver into urlsnooper in an upcoming versoin in january.  i will try.

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UrlSnooper / Re: WinPcap makes my DSL not work?

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 08:04 PM »

sorry i wasn't clearer.
dont install urlsnooper - this has nothing to do with that - it's just a test program.

just click open and surf around the internet and see if this program shows any activity.

the only purpose of running this is to see whether this tool can monitor your internet traffic.

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Living Room / nice article on procrastination

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 08:01 PM »

The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?...

http://paulgraham.co...procrastination.html

[linked from slashdot]

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UrlSnooper / Re: WinPcap makes my DSL not work?

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 07:54 PM »

lol,

can you download and try to run this app after you have fixed your computer again:
http://www.microolap.../pssdk/ltmonitor.zip

it uses an alternative network drive that does not install anything.  let me know if it works.
i've been considering for a while whether to add support for this alternative network sniffing driver, so i'm interested in hearing whether it works.  if so, perhaps i will try to add support for it.

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Google Boomerang / Re: Great for schools ...

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 07:44 PM »

this isn't quite on topic but it's still cool:
http://www.polyglot3000.com/

Polyglot 3000 is an automatic language identifier that quickly recognizes the language of any text, phrase or even single words. It is available for Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP.

free.

[linked from fileforum]

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Google Boomerang / Re: Great for schools ...

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 07:20 PM »

hahahaha 

i like the last bit: "too much company produces with the useful disturbance of the fish."

indeed it does, that's always been my personal experience.

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UrlSnooper / Re: WinPcap makes my DSL not work?

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 07:17 PM »

hi lol -

i guess its possible that winpcap could be doing this.  certianly url snooper by itself wouldn't but it's possible that something in the winpcap install is causing it.

if you feel up to it what would be nice is if you could install the very latest winpcap alpha release here:
http://www.winpcap.o.../install/default.htm

direct download is: http://www.winpcap.o...nPcap_3_2_alpha1.exe

after you install, reboot once or twice and see if your network connection is still working.
if not, then we know its a winpcap problem and maybe the bug or announcement archives or faq for winpcap can help (see http://www.winpcap.org/contact.htm).

if your connection still works after installing the latest winpcap, then you should install url snooper after than but SKIP the winpcap part of the url snooper install when it gets to it (since you would already have a more recent version of winpcap installed at that point).

btw winpcap has a good uninstaller so you should be able to just uninstall it if it does happen to mess up your internet connection, rather than having to do a system restore.

-mouser

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Living Room / Re: Merry X-mas to...

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2005, 12:24 AM »

I honestly never dared to hope that this site would become so full of such nice and interesting people so quickly.  To me it's been the most wonderful surprise.  It's made programming so much more enjoyable for me, and it's made me feel like I have a second home here.

I'm wishing all of you friends a happy holiday and a great new year.  I'm so very grateful to all of you for making this place what it is.

What can we do except look back at the past year and try to see if we can't make this next upcoming year even better, with new reviews, new software, more giveaways, more discounts, and more great conversations 

But for now everyone get some rest.

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Dr.Windows / Re: Dr.Windows Dialogs - Add Yours!

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:58 PM »

i notice that some of the message icon images used in dr.windows are not displaying their transparency properly; i'll fix it in next version.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Monitor Switcher

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:51 PM »

that's an interesting idea - actually you might take it a bit further and say it would be nice to have a program that opened (or moved right after they open) windows to a blank location on the deskop when possible so as to avoid overlap of windows when they open.. does such an app exist yet?

i know there are some shareware apps that readjust and resize windows on command to fit on the desktop, inspired by a mac feature. can't remember what it's called.

might be nice to have an automatic one though.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: GIF animator

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:48 PM »

i'm sure a free program to make this exists but i don't know of any off hand - i'm looking forward to a reply from someone who does.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Messenger-no i don't have any to give away-yet.

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:46 PM »

omg i just realized something.. is Microsoft just an organization set up by aliens from space to prepare us for an eventual overthrow and colonization by an alien species of blue+green gelatinous creatures?!?!

think about it people, look at microsoft messenger, it's clearly the communication device we are being trained to use to receive our daily orders.  the whole monopoly thing is to get us used to accepting all of our needs from our new overlords.

think about it people..

MicroSOFT = the gelatinous nature of the creatures.
Bill GATES = a clue that they will be arriving from some interdimensional time+space gate

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: sync single files HD <-> USB stick

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:41 PM »

good idea wrt changing drive letters - i think searching for the file/dir at a certain location on each drive makes a lot of sense.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Game for a Macromedia Flash Coder - Gravity Spigot

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 06:38 PM »

nice find! that's a cool game! - yep, very close to what i was thinking.

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Google Boomerang / Re: Post Results Here

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 02:57 PM »

nato does not have the lucky person - rofl 

yeah i've noticed the unicode thing myself.. i wonder if it is a bug in my code?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Messenger-no i don't have any to give away-yet.

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 11:37 AM »

all i want to know is, what planet are those green and blue gelatinous creatures from, and can you use this program to talk to non-aliens?