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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 09:22 PM »

you might do like this:
buy a cheap laser printer for printing papers.
buy a cheap ink jet for occassional photos.

i would rather do that then try to buy a highend inkjet.

the lower end ink jets are extremely good, and most of the price is the ink, so if you dont use it much it should be very cheap.

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

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

well maybe i spoke too generally but -
i print out TONS of academic papers, and the idea of using an inkjet for that is just not pleasent.

laser printer text looks better, its faster, cheaper, more reliable, less smudging, etc.

so for pure text, which is what i use 99% of the time, i use a laser printer.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone know how to "escape" bb codes?

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 05:39 PM »

thanks carol, works like  charm!

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 05:36 PM »

i might have to agree with your dad here.

i love my color inkjet, but no matter how fast or good they get, i would NOT want to use one to print out papers.

so if you're going to be writing a lot or printing out academic papers, etc. - i'd recommend a laser printer.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: IDEA - Webpage archiving

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 04:31 PM »

Just a little blurb,

Local Website Archiver (made by same person that made Website Watcher) has a free version, and a pro version which you can currently get 50% off of through our discounts (and it integrates well into Website Watcher).

Maybe someone wants to mail NetSnippets and see if they want to match the 50% discount?

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Living Room / Anyone know how to "escape" bb codes?

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 04:23 PM »

the discocunt link for thebat! that i posted in members only section has a [ and ] in the url, and it's driving the forum's bbcode parser nuts.  anyone know how i could make a url link using bbcode with the [ and ] in it?

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Living Room / Re: supporters yearbook

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 03:39 PM »

i've just been playing with the new google referral buttons and i put that where the supporters yearbook link used to be in newsbox.

if you have ads turned off, you should see the "Show Supporters yearbook" link like normal.
i've just changed it now so that even if you have ads on you'll still see the supporters yearbook link there 50% of the time.  but perhaps it would be better to have it somewhere on the forum pages where it was always visible..

i also added blurbs about the supporters yearbook on left hand side of quotes, startpage, and fundraiser pages.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:51 AM »

i do want to integrate the wiki and bug tracking logins - but i'm afraid to start on that until i have done a round of updating the programs, so it is on hold for now.  after a month of site scripting the programs are calling for updates.

its an interesting idea to put forum buttons on all pages.. it does make a lot of sense for some of those buttons at least..
let me think about that.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:19 AM »

maybe it will only let 1 anonymous user in at a time.. let us know if it happens again.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:07 AM »

strange, i just logged in anonymously and posted a bug fine..

can you be more specific about what you did/tried to do.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:04 AM »

hahaha.

damn it.
working on it.

this mantis is very powerful but there are about 999999 options.

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Living Room / Re: I'm not for censorship,but you'd figure google would have a filter.

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:03 AM »

hahahaahahahaha 

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 05:49 AM »

I've updated the forum button bar to have a button for "TRACK BUGS" now
and the bug tracker will now also let you login anonymously so its even easier to submit bugs.

Please submit bugs and FEATURE REQUESTS to this when possible; if you are one of the "power users" here and you see someone post a bug report or feature requests that's not on the tracker, please post it to the tracker.

Its 100x more motivating to fix bugs and features entered in the tracker, so i definitely encourage you to submit bugs and requests there, where I will give them high priority.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: helpful tool to show some shoutcast stream titles / Winamp etc.

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 02:55 AM »

this sure sounds like its going to be passing the boundries of the size of app that should be written in autohotkey..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: A quick, no-gui, one script holding macro recorder/player.

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 02:45 AM »

let me be clear -
i really don't have a problem - it works perfect and fast for me - as long as i change the default settings to 1 and 1 (other settings may work fine too).

i was just pointing out that the default settings cause that 5 second delay.  as soon as i change them it works perfect.

let me add that i think this might be one of the more useful little utils requested.

nice work both jazper and skrommel.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 12:42 AM »

just a note: f+r is excellent at this kind of thing and the next release will come with builtin command for imdb and many others.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: A quick, no-gui, one script holding macro recorder/player.

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 11:42 PM »

hitting ctrl+f5 multiple times is much better now, can run it several times in a row.
reload settings works great.

i have my settings at:
keydelay=1
windelay=1

maybe thats too fast for some computers but one thing, at the default settings of
;keydelay=10       ;ms to wait after sending a keypress
;windelay=100      ;ms to wait after activating a window

it takes a full 5 seconds after i push ctrl+f5 before playback actually starts - can that possibly be the way it is meant to operate by default?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Suggestion for Skrommel

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 10:17 PM »

true, sorting would make life a little harder.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 09:11 PM »

that's quite nice - is that border design built in or did you draw and extrude it?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Suggestion for Skrommel

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 08:52 PM »

an html table would work though i dont mind it at all the way it is now.

i use frontpage, but because of the php used for the ads and stuff its messed things up and so yeah you kind of have to upload to view it; installing apache with php locally could aid that.  ill see if i cant find a solution.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 08:35 PM »

wow cool!!!

last one is a bit hard to read though - first i thought it was in japanese 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: A quick, no-gui, one script holding macro recorder/player.

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 08:34 PM »

really really nice.

couple of tweaks to consider -

the "playback finished" text that is shown after activating - am i write that the display of this is why we can't activate the ctrl+f5 multiple times in a row without waiting till text dissapears? if so, i suggest just getting rid of that message.

i found the default wait times were long.. i changed them and then had to exit and restart to take effect (maybe add a comment in settings file to remind user they need to exit and restart to have changes take effect?

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Living Room / Re: Interested in teaming up for good web hosting / website accounts?

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 08:07 PM »

Just an update - the new server is blazing fast, and we've already set up some member accounts, and all is going great. 

Discuss more in the section of the forum set of for this: https://www.donation...index.php?board=60.0

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Suggestion for Skrommel

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 06:42 PM »

love the solution you implemented - very fun 

https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2005, 05:30 PM »

first, that is beautiful.
second, yeah i thought of imagemagick -
however my problem in this case is that i've got potentially several lines of text, maybe 1 maybe 10, of varying length, and the key is i need it scaled to fit a specific size.
i suppose one way would be to make a HUGE image, using a pointsize like 72, and then scale the image itself to fit desired size, though my original intention was to figure out font size that would fit.