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Find And Run Robot / Re: New feature idea

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 04:47 PM »

you've described exactly the plans for folder searching.  if you enter a \ at the end it will find folders matching the strings.

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Living Room / Re: Samorost - beautiful puzzles

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 02:35 PM »

http://www.samorost2.com/games.html

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Older Newsletters / Posts from Week ending 12/16/05

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 02:24 PM »

Samost2, beautiful flash game - posted by m_s:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1806

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Living Room / Re: Samorost

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 02:19 PM »

that is one of the most lovingly animated thing i have seen in a long time.. absolutely beatuiful and just oozing personality.
reallly wonderful find m_s.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mobysaurus - nice free thesaurus

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 12:21 PM »

seems to me if you want to run it online, you dont need an app just a bookmark.

however, here is the kind of thing an offline app can do: incremental search - as you type it narrows down the words that match - good if you are bad at spelling for example.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mobysaurus - nice free thesaurus

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 11:44 AM »

i feel the opposite way, i prefer apps not have to go online.

another comment: i've tried mobysaurus, it works great and has a nice incremental search.

a big thumbs up from me 

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General Software Discussion / Mobysaurus - nice free thesaurus

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 10:46 AM »

We love free dictionaries and word tools on this forum; here's a nice looking thesaurus, mobysaurus:
http://computers.net...e.org/moby/index.htm

and a nice blog about program here:
http://thesaurus.wordpress.com/

MOBYSAURUS is a free English thesaurus software that integrates Grady Ward's huge Moby Thesaurus II. It's royalty-free, powerful and most suitable for everyday reference. With this, you will feel it so much easier to choose the right word or words for every occasion or purpose.

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Living Room / ThisIsBroken - interesting website

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 08:08 AM »

http://www.thisisbroken.com

A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it
a blog with lots of archives and pictures about things that don't quite work.

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Dr.Windows / Dr.Windows - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.06.01 - January 29, 2014

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 07:25 AM »

Download from: DrWindows Web Page

v1.06.01 - 1/29/14

• [Bugfix] Fixed index out of range error caused by array length bug (thanks jimbo1qaz)
• Moved to dual installer system (normal and portable zip)
• Signed executable
• Added manifest
• Fixed some dialog typos (thanks jimbo1qaz)

v1.05.01 - 2/27/09

• DrWindows now creates a DrWindows subdirectory in your MyDocuments directory, where you can put your custom dialog messages and image/sound files, without needing to have write access to the Program Files directory where DrWindows is normally installed.  The program will load dialogs and media from both locations.
• Added Help button to options dialog.

v1.04.01 - 12/16/05

• Removed need for a license key (clear any if blank) for this program - now never nags or expires.
• Hiding option menu is now itself an option, disabled by default to make it easier for new users to figure out how to use.
• Added yet more dialogs from Stefan [thx!]

OLDER RELEASES
v1.03.01 - December 13, 2005

• [new dialogs] now over 50 dialogs
• This is the first public release.

NOTE:  Please be careful when playing tricks on people with this program to make sure they don't think its a virus and reformat their hard drive in an attempt to clean it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: auto website loginer

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 06:02 AM »

there are some very good password extensions already (many of us like the commercial one roboform) but i know there are free ones; anyone got a favorite?

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 05:57 PM »

many (most?) ati and nvidia cards now come "dual-headed" to drive 2 monitors simultaneously.

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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 05:55 PM »

i have emailed andrew a letter explaining the software and pointing them to this thread as well; i will report back any reply i get

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 03:21 PM »

i'd personally be a little worried about the complexity of four hard drives in a raid.. but that could just be me, i'm always a little suspicious about raid.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a few beta testers

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 03:05 PM »

sounds good to me, mail sent.

btw the best free tool i know of to check dead bookmarks is am-deadlink: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm
might be useful to check it out for inspiration.

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 02:40 PM »

by the way i'm a big fan of drive racks..  something more to consider.

(for example see http://www.directron.com/mobilerack.html
and hot swapable sata rack for example: http://www.directron.com/mrk200stbk.html)

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / New tapes available and more coming: World of 2XL and Voyage to Outer Space

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 02:34 PM »

Im happy to say that I received two new digitized tapes from user TheSmJ, and I have added them to the simulator:
"World of 2XL" and "Voyage to Outer Space"

these are long 30+ minute tapes made for the new tiger brand 2XL, and i still need to tweak the cart image and button overlay, but these are the first user-submitted tapes I've received and I'm very excited about it

looking forward to the day when we will have every cart !

link to simulator: https://www.donation...ouser/2XL/index.html

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 02:01 PM »

scsi seems to be dying to me, am i wrong?
it seems incredibly over priced and fading fast in terms of desirability compared to the new satas.

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Living Room / Re: wonderful waste of time - really crazy japanese flash game

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 01:47 PM »

love it 

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Signed up as visitor before making donation?

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 01:45 PM »

another benefit of the new system is that the name+email you donate with need not be related in any way to the name+email you use on the forum, you can use the activation # to upgrade any (one) forum account into a charter member account.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Signed up as visitor before making donation?

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 01:42 PM »

Note:

BrotherS wrote this:

Once the money is being transferred it might take a few hours or a day, then mouser will upgrade you. Enjoy the site until then as much as you can.

you can tell brotherS has been here for a while - this was the old way   the new way is much more automated and instantaneous.

as soon as you donate with paypal you should get an email like the one described above, and you can activate yourself by following those instrctions.

note: always check your spam filters+folders and make sure they aren't blocking email from us - it happens a lot for reasons known only to spam blocker coders

and don't hesitate to let us know if you have trouble getting it to work, we are always available to help, either on forum or email

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Signed up as visitor before making donation?

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 01:34 PM »

welcome fishee (and thank you again for your donation!)
i really need to put up a little screenshot tutorial as i know its a bit confusing.

here is a little pictorial tutorial (you should have received an email like the one shown in the first snapshot; if not, check any spam blocker and email me for more help).

i will try to put up a fuller tutorial in the near future.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACTIVATING YOUR CHARTER MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
0)You should have recieved an email (shown below) after you donate with
  your forum charter membership activation # (see screenshot #1).
1)If you haven't done so already, register at the donationcoder.com forum,
   at https://www.donation....php?action=register
   (this is not done for you automatically, you still need to register).
2)After registering, the forum will send you a confirmation email, and
   after you reply to that you can return to the forum and log in.
3)Once logged in, go to your forum profile by clicking the Profile button.
   At the bottom left of your profile page you will see a box where you can
   submit your Charter Member Validation Number to upgrade your account,
   which will remove all adverts on the site and unlock other features.
4)Your forum login is how the site will recognize that you are a charter
   member, and so activating your forum membership is important.

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Living Room / Re: Your owned computer history/upgrade path

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 12:37 PM »

forgot to add my other little gadget that is fun for programmers:

Rex 6000
(credit card sized pocket compuer; discontinued but can be found on ebay)
can be programmed in c.

http://gregsearle.tripod.com/rex.html
http://www.rexextras.net/
http://rexforum.vrillusions.com

in fact i wrote a little addin for it last year (see http://rexforum.vril.../viewtopic.php?t=293)

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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 12:31 PM »

had another idea of another change that might satisfy some people and keep in spirit of the site.

some people object to having to sign up at the forum (though i know if they looked around the forum they'd see it was a good idea), but anyway you can see why people might not like to have to sign up just to get a license key.

we could let people download like freeware renewable licenses without having to sign up at the forum (maybe only would last 1-4 months instead of 6?);  they just have to know that the 1 year permanent license only kicks in after a year from when they signed up at the forum (that's how it keeps track of when it's been a year); so that not signing up means never getting to that point.  just another idea worth thinking about.

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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 12:00 PM »

btw. speaking for myself and my programs listed on this site, we are talking about several thousands of hours of programming time by me over several years.

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Living Room / Re: Your owned computer history/upgrade path

« Last post by mouser on December 12, 2005, 11:54 AM »

my father bought me a programmable hp41cv calculator in the early 1980s:
http://www.hp41.org/Intro.cfm

it was a remarkable thing in that some early hackers had figured out how to use a buffer overflow in the calculator to hack it to do things it wasn't originally meant to do (like play different sonds), and they put out these underground self-printed books with instructions on how to do it.