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Living Room / Re: 48 Proof Beer: On Sale Soon!

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 05:49 PM »

48 proof! I find Belgian beer hard to drink and it's in the 7.5 to 10% alcohol range. I suspect that 24% alcohol is going to be unpalatable, at least for me 

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 05:45 PM »

Seriously, though... just to clarify, I meant that mouser has been after me to reduce the number of links per section and to increase the number of sections (if necessary) to make this possible. This isn't related to the presence or absence of clickable links in the e-mail version. Actually, my dim memory tells me that usually there are NO such links in the e-mail version and that the presence of some in this one is a departure. No?

Anyway, my two bits on the fewer links/more sections thingie is that I like it - it tightens the whole newsletter without sacrificing content.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 05:41 PM »

Thanks for the feedback, everyone - keep it coming!

I'd like to take credit for the "more sections this time with fewer links in each", but really, mouser's been repeating this like a mantra to me since August 

-Darwin (December 08, 2007, 08:31 AM)

I don't think he meant to get rid of links completely, though

(No, it's not nagging, just a friendly nudge, please don't take it too hard )

-f0dder (December 08, 2007, 05:20 PM)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA -- rainfall recorder

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 11:53 AM »

What are you envisioning? A desktop app that will hook into a local meterological centre, retrieve this data, and then allow you to query it?

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Living Room / Re: What the font?

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 10:39 AM »

Yes, I've had this in my favourites folder for a couple of years. Have never used it though! The *almost* double entendre of the site name has always brought a smile to my face, though   

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Living Room / Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 10:36 AM »

Yes, that is a nice tip - I'll have to give this a whirl. Thanks 

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Living Room / Re: FindSounds

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 10:34 AM »

The possibilities that this suggests (WRT what words to search for) rather depress me... Clearly indicative of a juvenile, puerile, scatalogically inclined little mind (mine!) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maybe Vista doesn't suck?

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 08:55 AM »

Ironically, I can see that axfleming is right. But I am one of the XP camp howling in protest over all of the broken applications that won't run under Vista...

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

« Last post by Darwin on December 08, 2007, 08:31 AM »

Thanks for the feedback, everyone - keep it coming!

I'd like to take credit for the "more sections this time with fewer links in each", but really, mouser's been repeating this like a mantra to me since August 

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Living Room / Re: Skill Learned from Online Gaming Saves Child from Moose Attack

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 04:18 PM »

Brings a whole new meaning to the saying "the best thing since sliced bread", doesn't it?

The gray fox attacked his legs, and Kemp, who was carrying a loaf of sliced bread, was able to defend himself and chase the fox away.

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Living Room / Re: Skill Learned from Online Gaming Saves Child from Moose Attack

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 02:57 PM »

Darwin, I want to have your child.

-Ralf Maximus (December 07, 2007, 02:55 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Skill Learned from Online Gaming Saves Child from Moose Attack

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 02:54 PM »

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9.1 released

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 08:51 AM »

Great! The small part of the change log that I pasted in above really doesn't do justice to the details that have been tweaked. I'm playing with it as well, and it's as smooth as silk on my system as well 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9.1 released

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 08:26 AM »

Note that on my XP Pro Sp-2 system DOpus 9.1 rendered my system VERY unstable on initial reboot and I had to kill both processes (dopus.exe and dopusrt.exe) via taskmanager and restart it to use it. Haven't done another reboot yet to see if this was just an anomaly but will do so now and report back.

UPDATE: All's well now... I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else experiences this, though.

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General Software Discussion / Directory Opus 9.1 released

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 08:20 AM »

Directory Opus 9.1 has been released, now in two separate flavours - 32 bit and 64 bit. Full details here. Main changes are:

An update for Directory Opus is now available for download from the GP Software website.

Directory Opus 9.1 6th December 2007

New Features


Full 64-bit (x64) support

Directory Opus now comes in two separate versions– the classic, 32-bit x86 version for 32-bit versions of Windows, and the new x64 version for 64-bit versions of Windows.
Apart from being a native 64-bit application, there should be little or no difference between the two versions - all of the significant issues encountered when running the 32-bit version on an x64 OS should now be resolved.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Lifehacker interview with Quicksilver Developer on its Future

« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2007, 07:05 AM »

Justice - thanks for the shoutout about the video, I missed it the first time 

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Living Room / Re: What makes DonationCoder so special?

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 10:31 PM »

Wow, fantastic post, App. That exemplifies all I love about DC, too. IT'S THE PEOPLE. And those people are always looking for a better way to build the mousetrap.

-zridling (December 06, 2007, 09:57 PM)

Heh, heh, so that's the inspriation behind mouser's username!

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Living Room / Re: The State the Art of 3D Printers

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 09:42 PM »

definitely food for thought....

(sorry, couldn't help myself...)

Target

-Target (December 06, 2007, 09:29 PM)

Good one

 

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Living Room / Re: What makes DonationCoder so special?

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 09:41 PM »

Nice blog, app. I like the way you emphasized the team atmosphere - the community. Very nice - well done!

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Living Room / Re: The State the Art of 3D Printers

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 08:36 PM »

Yes, the consumables (no pun intended!) are 1/8th the price 

Nice find, target!

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Living Room / Re: Bedtime Story

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 08:31 PM »

 

Very cute!

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Living Room / Re: Look at what got passed quickly and without much fanfare.

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 08:30 PM »

Er... I guess this is more a backhanded initiative to kill open-access wi-fi - the costs of monitoring this kind of thing will presumably be OUTRAGEOUS (ok, maybe this is not its intent, but I'm sure this will be the outcome. On second thought, maybe this IS the intent - chalk one up for the telecom lobby?).

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Living Room / Re: The State the Art of 3D Printers

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 05:38 PM »

OK so it won't print in colour but the price is right, right?

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Living Room / Re: The State the Art of 3D Printers

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 05:35 PM »

OK found it. Here's the Spark interview with Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath and here is the home page of the printer itself. The instructions to build your own are here.



 

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Living Room / Re: The State the Art of 3D Printers

« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2007, 05:24 PM »

There's a fellow at a university in the UK who's put the plans for a homemade version of a 3D printer on the net - apparently, once you build it you can use it to print off the components to build another, and so on, and so on... I heard about it on the CBC - I think the programme was Spark - so I'll go over to their website and try to come up with a name and a link.

Cool find, Ralf. $39,000? Chump change!