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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: current DC IRC Chat Server?

« Last post by Tuxman on September 30, 2018, 07:42 AM »

Try chat.freenode.net.

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Living Room / Re: Have you ever walked through a computer?

« Last post by Tuxman on September 17, 2018, 04:57 PM »

Follow-up:
Fixing a printer of a computer through which you can walk...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: The GodFather - Audio File Manager with Scripting

« Last post by Tuxman on September 17, 2018, 07:28 AM »

To my absolute surprise, The GodFather is still being developed by the same guy (but under a new URL). I consider giving it a run against Mp3tag some time this week - Mp3tag bores me. It seems that The GodFather does not support Opus files yet though, which is sad because Opus has replaced Vorbis for me.

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Living Room / Re: Have you ever walked through a computer?

« Last post by Tuxman on September 16, 2018, 04:35 PM »

I was lazy.

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Living Room / Have you ever walked through a computer?

« Last post by Tuxman on September 16, 2018, 04:18 PM »

Mildly interesting:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46082.0

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on September 10, 2018, 01:57 PM »

Yup:

If you run the server locally and you haven't changed the port and PIN, the server runs on http://localhost:8888 and the PIN is 12345. The README mentioned above tells you how to change them if you feel like you should.

From: https://ymarks.org/about

The linked README is here:

https://bitbucket.or...-server/src/default/

It says:

(Optional) Place a file named PIN.txt in the same folder as the compiled binary is in order to change your PIN from "12345" to something else. It will have to be a number though.

I should probably write a more obvious documentation, but I'm lazy. Mind to help me out? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on September 10, 2018, 01:07 PM »

It is not an option. It is more like a mandatory password protection so only you can access your server unless anyone wants to try up to INT_MAX numbers. 

I recommend to change the default PIN to a different number. Create a file named PIN.txt and write a number into it. Done.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: RSSParser.lisp: A Web-to-RSS parser in a language that doesn't suck

« Last post by Tuxman on September 09, 2018, 01:23 PM »

The first update in a while fixed a problem where the last parameter to add was not optional despite it should. No more default body though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Et Tu, CCleaner!

« Last post by Tuxman on September 09, 2018, 06:39 AM »

BleachBit has become pretty mature by this point.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on September 05, 2018, 08:29 AM »

Firefox will drop support for bookmark descriptions "soon". I'll probably update the add-on around that time.
edit: If that will break ymarks, that is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6

« Last post by Tuxman on August 28, 2018, 02:14 PM »

Why would you want to only be able to store the same number of applications on a much larger drive?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6

« Last post by Tuxman on August 28, 2018, 11:56 AM »

If I'm not alone, why does the world prefer to write horrible software?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6

« Last post by Tuxman on August 27, 2018, 04:41 PM »

a) it had a 20 Mb footprint; I know people act as if disk space is infinite, but it seemed an awful lot for a launcher, the more so as the first PC I ever used (in 1988) only had a 20 Mb hard disk.  For everything.

-rjbull (August 27, 2018, 04:22 PM)

Ha! I find it amazing that I'm not the only one around who can't understand why the solution to performance problems is to just throw more hardware at it...

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

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2018, 08:16 PM »

Mozilla will remove "legacy" extensions from AMO starting in October 2018. I am in the process of searching a new home for OpenDownload²...

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2018, 04:13 PM »

I'm not perfectly sure if it is a fix yet - I actually just worked around the problem (by ignoring one more error state). 
Let's wait for more feedback to intrude from AMO. 

Thank you for testing!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2018, 03:25 PM »

I found and confirmed the problem. Pushing 1.1.0b4 to AMO. Still considered experimental.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2018, 09:41 AM »

I don't see anything, but I might not be looking in the right place.

-skwire (August 21, 2018, 09:37 AM)

It's in the server window or nowhere.

So if there is nothing, the server does not even get the request properly. 

I looked through all the tabs of the dev console but didn't see anything pertaining to ymarks.  Again, though, I might be looking in the wrong place.

-skwire (August 21, 2018, 09:37 AM)

Usually, the second tab with everything "enabled" and no filter set should be enough ...

Yes, as above, I'm running Firefox v61.0.2.

-skwire (August 21, 2018, 09:37 AM)

Argh. Sorry, I started typing without reading properly. 
I will look into it in 28 hours!

Thank you.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2018, 04:29 AM »

I played a game on my Unicomp yesterday. No. Just no.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I go about putting my software's source code into the public domain?

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2018, 04:26 AM »

If these 18% and you  lost Atom over night, they'd move on to VS Code or Sublime Text, probably. They are all interchangeable, except that Sublime Text is not that disgustingly resource-clogging.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2018, 01:42 AM »

I suspect that Firefox 61+ has made changes... do you happen to have that version? Because nobody with Firefox 60 has complained yet.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2018, 01:29 AM »

Hmm, that's not good. I received a similar report yesterday. Something must have changed. It had worked in the past.

I'll be out of town until tomorrow, but what I need for a reasonable fix is, at least, a useful error message. Does the server print anything while you're using Firefox? Does Firefox's error console (F12...) tell you anything after clicking Download? Is there a pop-up from the extension?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I go about putting my software's source code into the public domain?

« Last post by Tuxman on August 20, 2018, 02:51 PM »

The loss of Atom would be no loss for developers.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by Tuxman on August 20, 2018, 10:28 AM »

Oh, don't start. I own a ROG Zephyrus M. The colors are the only reason why I dislike its hardware. Everything else is perfectly fine.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by Tuxman on August 20, 2018, 07:02 AM »

Made by the vintage ex-IBM employees with vintage ex-IBM patents on vintage ex-IBM machines, indeed.

In gaming communities mechanical keyboards are quite "normal", according to what I see on the shelves of tech stores. 

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by Tuxman on August 20, 2018, 04:58 AM »

I know deskthority, but those guys are too esoteric. 

However, regarding "vintage": The keyboard pictured above was built on August 7th, 2018. There is a "license plate" on its back, stating that.