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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on January 22, 2014, 01:30 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Do you see the arrow between the "E" and "x" ? I had never noticed it before.

-kyrathaba (January 22, 2014, 07:10 AM)

I've read it was intentional, but if so, I think it's a bit understated...

is it clearer here:



?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014: Mug-shots here

« Last post by tomos on January 21, 2014, 03:20 PM »

^ Lovely mug there Ath

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General Software Discussion / Re: The nightmare of the programmer languages

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2014, 03:50 PM »

I've no experience with code, but do have a bit of experience with trying to export/convert files from one format to another. You often end up with so much work that you wonder if it would have been better to recreate the file from scratch.

Surely with code, you will need to be able to code anyway, in order to correct all the minor things that dont convert well (?)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on January 20, 2014, 02:04 AM »

^a couple of good laughs there - in spite of the groaner theme (Gloria Gainer's ghost lol)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Websense (Directly and via VirusTotal) - DonationCoder is Malicious

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2014, 08:42 PM »

Has anyone found a way to report a false positive to these Websense jokers?  It never ceases to amaze me how these security services have no problem classifying things as malware for no reason and then make it almost impossible to contact them to have it corrected.

-mouser (January 19, 2014, 07:30 PM)

towards the top of the page -- under "Classification" there's a link "suggest different classification".

That's bizzare -- it's an incredibly specific report -- I wonder did they get two different reports mixed up or someting

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 19, 2014, 03:59 AM »

^ Yeah, it was odd -- I hadnt broke 25000 in that release myself.
Just got in the flow for some reason only started losing ships in level 11.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's thrashing my hard disk?

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 04:56 PM »

What have you checked so far?
(I'm presuming you've had a look in Task Manager or equivalent?)

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 04:46 PM »

... meanwhile in the EU, the backlash seems to have subsided to a token lip service.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 18, 2014, 03:10 PM »

Well, I finally broke the 50k mark - and properly



in the first game today. Think I'll retire there for the day ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2014 Submission: FTP File Uploader

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 03:51 PM »

Reviewed on iLoveFreeSoftware
http://www.ilovefree...-mentioned-file.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 04:35 AM »

Well got my highest score in a while -- but the new scoring wasnt implemented yet in the online version.

Will have to download the version for windows (is a donation preferable via dc or through the itch.io site - or is it all the one?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 04:13 AM »

^ ah, so there's hope for me then ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« Last post by tomos on January 17, 2014, 01:58 AM »

thanks skwire

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 03:34 PM »

Minor quirk:
I disabled wallpaper switching.
Right-clicked tray icon & clicked 'Next Wallpaper' -- I thought this would just change the wallpaper once, but it actually enables wallpaper switching again.
Yet when I open the Spews window, I see this: "Enable wallpaper switching" --



(not actually bothering me but thought best to report anyway.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 09:03 AM »

3. The Metro hater's guide to Windows 8.1

-Curt (January 16, 2014, 08:11 AM)

had to laugh at that

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 07:14 AM »

Technical stuff can be a pita (I helped a friend translate something similar once -- never again -- well... maaybe if there were a 2.8K cheque involved :p).
If you reckon you'll get it done in 90 mins you're on the pigs back. Or something like that :-)

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by tomos on January 16, 2014, 05:00 AM »

FWIW, I did think about it again wraith, but I'm no novel writer. I mean it's actually overkill for what I want to do/write (I wouldnt make use of those great compiling features). My pim is more suitable for me (so I've no excuses for *not* writing!)

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - RAT (Renegade Audio Transcoder)

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 10:10 AM »

Wow, I completely missed this last year -
it's something I could well use too - thanks for bumping Ren

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 09:42 AM »

IainB posts #4000



although I almost posted this the previous day:



... I think I spend too much time here

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair zip files?

« Last post by tomos on January 15, 2014, 05:08 AM »

I've never used it but have read a good review - Diskinternals (free)
http://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/

That good review was here:
http://www.techradar...86146#articleContent
-- doesnt seem to mention which version of windows they used it on.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 03:30 PM »

I get to the MEGA site just fine, and it loads and then displays a download button, which I click and then:

It gives me an error message:

Doesn't include any valid URL!

-HankFriedman (January 14, 2014, 02:04 PM)

It does show progress. I only get an error message at the end and no file is actually downloaded (it says 0 bytes)

-HankFriedman (January 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)

Odd, fine here too...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Login in Facebook

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 02:49 PM »

Would a different browser for each profile not work?
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and what Deozaan said

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 02:09 PM »

^wow. That kind of deserves a thread of it's own.
Is that true, all that? I mean, I dont suspect him of lying - but is it a realistic analysis?

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 09:42 AM »

Just watched In Bruges for the second time - it's a really great film.

Just noticed 40hz wrote about it here - there may be a couple of mini-spoilers there (I prefer knowing as little as possible when I see a movie) but if I enjoy a movie as much second time round, it's gotta be good ;-)

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by tomos on January 14, 2014, 04:44 AM »

Sorry but I am new to this and thought that active just meant registering.  Thanks for the reply and I understand.  At least it's help me find this site.

-p_culhane (January 13, 2014, 06:41 PM)

welcome to the site p_culhane


I considered asking about this myself but not actively writing and dont see it happening in the near future...