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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:45 PM »

Naw Awesome effort guy, really it is, that doesn't still do anything for me... I'm sayin, I'm thinkin' ... What do you think of Text Typing Items that collapse into those little purple spiders?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:33 PM »

I played about 5 of those games, then lost interest. In a way I liked the previous theme more, "Alone".

But of course this was about the time limit AND the theme. I have no idea what I would do with the theme of Small World even if I had a Coder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:31 PM »

As for sending, I rarely send an actual file attachment, just an email with a link to the file saved in Gdocs.
I think - but am not sure - that Gdrive could help to make this easier to do. Still experimenting with it though.

-IainB (May 04, 2012, 07:24 PM)

I dunno, I trust a nice honest email with an attachment more than "some ethereal link to the Cloud". I am sensitive to Cloud Lock-in, it feels like that Arnold S. movie on Mars where they started charging for Air. I just need to ditch the emails from 2007-2009 and then I'll be okay. Save, Save Attachments, then file them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:26 PM »

I think I have over 160,000 in my total box. I inherited a colleague's email box as part of the total. Wheeee!  

Edit: (Iain says:) " Fortunately I don't get too many such emails."

Heh 40% of my emails have attachments! : )
"If it doesn't have an attachment one of you two isn't working hard enough" - Me just now   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:24 PM »

Ok. I fixed the error. You can DL from the update my website. It's not very well done, but I really don't have any other place to put my stuff other than on dropbox. I don't have the money to buy space anywhere. The best I have is a free 100 mb site that I was given which is not enough and a registered domain that I may not be able to keep up with when it runs out, so DB will have to do.

-c.gingerich (May 04, 2012, 07:06 PM)

On a different topic, except for 7 clicks difference, why wouldn't you post updates here? Don't DC members get space?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:17 PM »

Ok. I fixed the error. You can DL from the update my website. It's not very well done, but I really don't have any other place to put my stuff other than on dropbox. I don't have the money to buy space anywhere. The best I have is a free 100 mb site that I was given which is not enough and a registered domain that I may not be able to keep up with when it runs out, so DB will have to do.

-c.gingerich (May 04, 2012, 07:06 PM)

Then allow me to remark that one of my minor specialties is in Free Web Hosting. I can basically get you a 1 Gig site for free. I ran a 18 month study of free hosts and using my own special criteria I selected about 2-4 hosts that I am "certifying" for new users. PM me if you want details, but don't let either 100 megs or paying be a problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:13 PM »

Hmm. Thank you for the nice response!

I currently have 85 items on my desktop. They're laid out in thematic semi-conceptual groupings spaced visually across the desktop in mixes of rows and columns, with several strays.

Some 60 of those are folders. So if those folders are already "1-click" I'm still lost what Spinter does for me - I would need to spend a lot of work encoding all those items and I'm not even sure what background would make sense except MAYBE the Tron Legacy ones.

But Lemme say this, a few threads back, I bewailed "what hath become of innovation", I'll give you the chops for innovating. My (semi) deal is this: Lemme think, on something you can implement with less than 15,000 hours of effort, that feel useful to me.

/Quick Ruthlessly Ugly App/Feature: Just Click randomly on your desktop and start typing a memo, your choice of font size and color, but not "encased" in anything, with ability to maybe Hide/Show and move it around so when you move your folders around you move your text memos. Edit: Double Click to Hide - Show.When it "Hides" it becomes one of those little Splotchy things.

NSFW: (Am I the only one that moves my icons to accomodate a nice busty babe as wallpaper!?      )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 07:01 PM »

Apparently the Linux kernel can behave very strangely when it is enabled. Most forums I visited with regards to errors I experienced always told me to disable ACPI. For some chipsets it works, but with most it just introduces erratic behavior that drives you insane.

-Shades (May 04, 2012, 04:25 PM)

I don't even know what that means and why it matters! Care to help?

P.S. Where's our mascot Superboy to help carry the torch?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:54 PM »

You're awesome, but we'll see.

Heh I have 87,000 messages in my *sent* box. Sky knows how many total! : )

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:53 PM »

Okay I see it now. Tip. If I just try to "close" the settings box instead of "cancel" I get Runtime Error 2 at line 355.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:44 PM »

New problem: Failure of Utility-Imagination.
I'm a utilitarian at heart. So I'm stuck trying to decide what this does for me (besides fun eye candy!) this does for me better than the usual windows icons on a desktop. I tend to work on a flat black background, so I don't use wallpaper flippers.

Edit: But then I'm a boring old pest not worthy of your vision. :/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:28 PM »

Oho! Round 1 to the Developer! (Curses! Foiled!)
Feature tip: First Run Dialog box!

Okay, lessee...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:11 PM »

Iain you're smarter than this ol' sharp marble, so I dunno if I'll actually get around to doing that : )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:10 PM »

I can delete them as is, I'd miss the searchability. I wish there was an app for "download all the attachments, print the email text itself to a PDF, throw all that into a folder".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 06:03 PM »

(Insert Melodramatic music here)
1. Install.
2. Get nice blue Orb-y desktop icon.
3. Double Click Icon.
4. Nothing at all happens.

Aka yes, completely fails to launch.

(Insert Deranged Cackling here. I pit my Haunted Machine and my Pest Nature against the best of DC! Results: Annoyed Skwire. Annoyed Mouser. I will not stop until I have annoyed you too! Muahahahaaha!!! Luv, Da Pest!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:53 PM »

I have also, never had it, nor heard of it ever crashing on XP or 7.

-dmd7978 (May 04, 2012, 05:49 PM)

Except sorry, it doesn't run on my copy of XP either!

But then people have been telling me my machine is haunted/zombied. That's where my self appointed handle came from. ("Resident Pest")

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:48 PM »

I don't see the Extract and Run item.

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Living Room / Re: Blog comments - On of off?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:45 PM »

I'm kinda ambivalent on this one. 

On the one (1) hand, blog comments can engender some pretty lively conversations, trolls aside  .  On the other hand, would blog comments detract from the forum topics  ?

Right now, I can search the forum topics, albeit in mine own clumsy fashion, and be reasonably certain I've covered whatever 'twas I sought.  If comments are enabled, now I have to search the blog articles, as well, and try to merge those results with the forum results.  Keeping the timeline accurate could be somewhat difficult - read nightmare - to accomplish  .

I guess I'd say, "No," to blog comments unless some methodology exists to merge them into forum conversations.

(Granted, I'm thinking of a DC blog, not blogs in general, but from what I've seen - in my own blog, as well as others - some degree of fragmentation and focus attenuation tends to occur, with comment references to other blog posts that are not directly quoted.  This dilution seems to happen to a lesser degree in forae.  (Well-l-l, depending upon how much I've had to drink  .))

-barney (May 04, 2012, 05:30 PM)

I'll suggest that the whole topic says "comments" and not "blog comments where the site also has a forum".

Either way, the comments on an article are ... hopefully ... related to that article. Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:41 PM »

15,000 hours at 25/hours a week (assuming hobby after his day job) = upwards of 600 weeks!  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:36 PM »

Are you saying you did a Triple Boot menu? Neato!

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Living Room / Re: Pirate My Film... Dot Com.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 05:22 PM »

Update: The movies look boring and I can't easily figure out how to "download and share" and most aren't even done, and we know that "9 months from now" = "never" in "Internet Time" 

 

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Living Room / Re: Pirate My Film... Dot Com.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 04:50 PM »

I've been tricked?  /me puts pirate hat away

-mitzevo (May 04, 2012, 01:24 PM)

You can always pirate the ones "stipulated not to be Creative Commons Licensed". : )

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Living Room / Re: Short Cody Story

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 04:42 PM »

Wow. Rules 34 and 61 fulfilled.

-Deozaan (May 04, 2012, 01:43 PM)

(Has to look up Rule 61) Haha! Duck on Cat Action then?

Edit: was this done through a generator script? Looking at both versions reads like a madlib program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 04:37 PM »

At one point it quit finding new messages at all. And 90% of the ones it did had only 1.3 megs. And "No, 235 * 1.3 megs is still piddly."

I send scanned contracts all the time, they're always 10 megs, doesn't mean I want to delete that email.

Heh my work email box is 25 gigs at 96% full.  : )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 04:33 PM »

An OpenSUSE-KDE combo runs different programs than a Debian-SUSE combo.

-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 06:20 AM)

Except for the package management system: Why?

-Tuxman (May 04, 2012, 06:25 AM)

Okay, maybe it's my newbieness talking, but I assumed that Suse programs couldn't run on Debian.