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Living Room / Merriam Webster "Open Dictionary" - welcoming new words

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2005, 12:33 AM »

"Merriam-Webster just released Open Dictionary to better take and share the pulse of language through the Web. Of course, Webster's has long celebrated and conveyed language's evolution - unlike linguistic prescriptivists who fail to grasp that's just what language does; and - where I've compared entries - they've certainly done so in a more consistent, professional fashion than online amateurs have in recent years: might Open Dictionary - in conjunction with Webster's standard Online Dictionary - yield the best of authoritative (top-down) and organic (bottom-up), online lexicography?"

http://www3.merriam-....com/opendictionary/

nice idea.

[from slashdot]

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Older Newsletters / Posts from Week ending 12/2/05

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:58 PM »

Some noteworthy threads from this week:


NOVEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1683.0


December VMWare Contest - win a copy of VMWare with the best VMWare Player Idea
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1697.0


Firewalls, What you need to know...
https://www.donation...86.msg11240#msg11240


Want to wet my beak with Linux,need suggestions on distro.
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1221

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Official Announcements / Re: NOVEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:53 PM »

post explaining how the winners were chosen -> https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0

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Official Announcements / Re: December VMWare Contest - win a copy of VMWare with the best VMWare Player Idea

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:51 PM »

ps.
trial download of vmware here: http://www.vmware.co.../wkst_eval_login.jsp

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Living Room / Thanks to all who donated in November - and remember when the site was slow?

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:30 PM »

I just wanted to say again THANK YOU to everyone who donated in November during our fundraiser.

For many of you it was not your first donation, and I can't tell you how much your continued support of the site means.   

I also just wanted to point out that your donations have real effects.

For one thing they have allowed us to be able to afford this new dedicated server we've been on for the last month.  It wasn't clear initially if we were going to be able to afford to stay on it, but your donations have made it possible for us to do so.

And I'm sure you'll agree if you visited us before November and you think back, that the new server has made all the difference in the world in terms of making the site fast and responsive.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: auto key hitter

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:19 PM »

this sounds like a fantatic idea for adding to DoOver, Skrommels quick macro tool!
how about just an option on DoOver tray menu to engage a timer (whose length could be configured).

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Official Announcements / Re: Name and Catchphrase for New DC Logo Mascot - PART 2

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:03 PM »

Bird pecking the keyboard
Bird/s on an ethernet wire

nice!!

*You could wrap a message around one of the legs like a messenger bird with binary code showing on the outside of it
*You could have binary code printed around the edge of the face of the coin instead of the dollar sign

nice!!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Exact Audio Copy

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 10:59 PM »

andre, it's great to see you here posting - on behalf of everyone who uses eac here, thank you for such a great program.

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Official Announcements / CONTEST: Win a copy of VMWare with the best VMWare Player Idea

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 04:40 PM »

This is a little contest centering around VMWare Player.

You can learn about VMWare Player here: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation..

VMWare Player Forum: http://www.vmware.co...rum.jspa?forumID=123

VMWare Player Faq: http://www.vmware.co...cts/player/faqs.html


Basically the idea is you can use the full VMWare Workstation program to create VMWare Player files, that can be publically shared, that anyone can then run.

A clever example of using VMWare Player can be found in this sample download on the vmware site, it's basically a complete linux distribution configured to run firefox, built as a virtual machine in VMWare Player.  It provides a complete sandboxed browsing experience and so is extremely safe.

Sample VMWare Browser Aplliance: http://www.vmware.co...n/vm/browserapp.html


So..

This contest will reward the most creative, new, and useful use of VMWare Player.

We will run this contest at least through january, but we may keep it open for longer if we don't get a good enough submission by january.

The intention will be that the winner will make the winning VMWare Player application which can be publically shared as freely with others.

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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

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

hehehe.. well
im feeling a little guilty.. as usual my frustration sometimes boils over and i get carried away..
usually jibz can talk me down but when he is not around..

i wouldn't say im retracting that statement - just that the basic featureset of outpost is great, and the interface is great.
it does seem to be to be a bit unstable/buggy.  but many people are clearly happy with it, so it might still be worth a try if you are evaluating firewalls.

i will stop cheerleading for it though, until they get it stable.

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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 12:30 PM »

outpost 3 might be worth a try if you are willing to take a chance; it certainly works for many and it's a nice program if its stable on your pc.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DoubleKiller Pro - FAST and great to find duplicate files!

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:54 AM »

you didn't include a screenshot of my favorite part, the about box!

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Mozilla Firefox user

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:47 AM »

we've discussed in this forum how careful you have to be to insure that stuff these programs "find" are really the bad things they say they are.

these programs tend to flag stuff that is good and mistake it for something different which is similar -
just be careful what you let it delete until you are SURE it is in fact the bad thing that the program says it is -
sometimes a similar name can confuse it and you end up deleting something important and harmless.

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General Software Discussion / Re: top 10 freeware apps from "snakeoillabs"

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:30 AM »

xnview has been annoying me recently when it comes to recentering its dialog and handling multimonitor, something with irfanview always handled perfectly... i'm considering switching back from xnview to irfanview.  maybe ill check out fastone.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Prize Optimizer Used in the November Drawing

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 11:10 AM »

you've won in the past and you'll win in the future - just think of it as building the anticipation to make the next win even more sweet

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Mozilla Firefox user

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 10:34 AM »

i would *not* run multiple *resident scanning* programs at the same time.

it's fine to have multiple programs installed that only scan on demand, but i would disable all but one resident (i.e. running always in the background) spyware/adware scanner, and onlt one resident antivirus, and only one resident firewall scanner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 08:23 AM »

this thread is getting good.

i think crono's link to Tabbrowser Preferences may be the key extension that i like.
[EDIT: actually it was this one i liked, though it seems to be unrecommended(?): http://piro.sakura.n...nsions/index.html.en]

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Prize Optimizer Used in the November Drawing

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 07:56 AM »

Addendum:

People who won got an email telling them their predicted "happiness."
Happiness is calculated as follows:  Your rating for the prize you won / Your rating for your highest rated prize

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Living Room / Re: Atheist group offers free porn in exchange for Bibles

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 07:25 AM »

rofl

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Mozilla Firefox user

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 06:57 AM »

coincidentally, betsy just won a copy of admuncher in the nov drawing, so that might solver her problems also.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Bug: commas in editbox "Strip trailing stuff"

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 06:53 AM »

great point! that hadn't even occured to me
i will add ability to escape out commas (probably ill just let you type ,, to mean strip commas.

ill try to have a new version out this week with an additional feature regarding text formatting that i think people will really like.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CHIP Online: a different program for free every day!

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 05:41 AM »

cool!

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Official Announcements / Re: Name and Catchphrase for New DC Logo Mascot - PART 2

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 05:37 AM »

It kinda looks like the bird has just pinched the money and made a run for it!

    

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 04:36 AM »

there is only one extension i would consider essential, and that is a TABBED browsing extension; not sure what the best one is currently.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls, What you need to know...

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2005, 04:34 AM »

i also wanted to post an extra thanks to philKC who found an amazing registry key: "SOFTWARE\\Clients\\StartMenuInternet\\" which apparently lists all installed browsers on your computer (works for me!), and will be useful to me for next version of browser tray switch.

ps. i dont know what this registry key does - one way to thwart this attack is to rename that key if its not used for anything important.. the basic attack though could easily use other ways to locate common browser installations.