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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2016, 08:30 AM »

Dog's heroic action saves 79-year-old owner's life
http://wjla.com/news...og-saves-owners-life

A Pennsylvania dog proved his ultimate loyalty on Thursday after his owner was injured while hiking.

The four legged hero named "Guy" led rescuers to his 79-year-old owner who fell and hit his head while hiking in the woods.

The dog reportedly ran up the bank where the rescuers were, and would stop every 20-30 feet, barking until he led them to where the elder man was lying.

Rescuers say the man had been in the woods for more than 12 hours when they found him.

"It was like watching an episode of 'Lassie,'" says emergency responder, Matthew Mariscano.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2016, 07:15 AM »

Codenames is a GREAT GREAT ingenious game.  Super easy to teach, playable with family, friends, etc.  Women really like it.  (not great for very young kids).
Highly recommended.

ps.
They are coming out with a new spin-off called Codenames: Pictures that uses pictures instead of words, but the consensus seems to be that the original is better seems like some people prefer the original and some prefer pictures.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.33.01 - Nov 28, 2015

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2016, 01:47 AM »

Please try downloading the newly uploaded v1.34 from the download page and see the documentation on two new commandline options:

-stderr
If the parameter is passed, all errors will be sent to stderr stream instead of being displayed using messageboxes on screen.
-cursor
Includes the mouse cursor when capturing an image

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Living Room / Re: Email Naming Convention for Personal Website

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2016, 02:15 PM »

I kind of liked:
[email protected] (favourite)
[email protected]
[email protected]

those all seem fine to me and professional enough.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone attending GenCon (board game convention) Aug 4-7 in Indiana?

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2016, 09:13 PM »

No one else attending? I can bring some free DonationCoder coffee mugs as incentives

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2016, 07:37 PM »

Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14, by Scott Meyers
https://www.amazon.c...mprove/dp/1491903996



As a long time C++ coder, I'm still skeptical of the benefits to releasing new versions of C++, but it's a good book, and one of those books where you learn interesting things about language design.  Note: Not suitable for learning C++ only for those with lots of C++ coding experience.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2016, 05:57 PM »

Just wanted to say welcome to the site, Durgan 

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UrlSnooper / Re: Reviving Roku Radio Snooper

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2016, 01:29 PM »

Great 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Updates to fix screen resolution errors using different res. monitors

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2016, 06:32 PM »

Ok I'm ready to take another run at this stuff.. i'll read everything over and try to come up with some useful to say this weekend.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2016, 06:31 PM »

or just point a camera at screen.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2016, 05:54 PM »

i'd love to see some video of the game.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor #1 at TechRadar's Article on Best Screen Capture Software 2016

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2016, 03:41 PM »

I guess the best way to celebrate is to do a good round of work on the program and try to make the program even better...

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor #1 at TechRadar's Article on Best Screen Capture Software 2016

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2016, 01:26 PM »

Very nice write up at TechRadar today for Screenshot Captor:

http://www.techradar...oftware-2016-1325138

Screenshot Captor seems to have ideas above its station somewhat. Far from just being a screenshot app - and, rest easy, it does do that - it'll grab images from your webcam, and it even includes a full suite of scanning tools to make sure your documents look their best.

But those advanced features don't stop there. Ever wanted to capture the contents of a scrolling window? It'll do that automatically, and even trim the margins for you. Need to capture a screen region of a fixed size? Piece of cake. Splicing areas out of screenshots, annotating, interfacing with advanced image editors, blurring areas you don't want seen? It's all here.

Download Screenshot Captor freeIf there's a downside, Screenshot Captor is a little esoteric in terms of its general interface, but the important bits are all well explained and easy to grasp. It's donationware, so while it's free to use, make sure you chip a little bit into the pot if Screenshot Captor is something you use regularly.

Very nice!

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter: Onion Omega2 just went live

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2016, 05:33 PM »

One day I might find a use for all these small controllers/computers ... possibly as some kind of electroshock thing that administers a jolt everytime it detects me about to buy another one.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Reviving Roku Radio Snooper

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2016, 12:31 PM »

Now this is a blast from the past.

A little bit of history:

Many years ago (maybe 2004/2005/2006?) a little company called Roku contacted me about the possibility of releasing a special version of my UrlSnooper application, customized with features that would make it possible to send found stream urls directly to your Roku Soundbridge, which was one of the first good internet radios.  My memory is being paid about $10,000 to write the new version, which was available free to all Roku users.  That also paid for some new features that were made available to all UrlSnooper users (automatic network adapter detection, etc.)

Here's a screenshot for anyone curious -- you can see it's basically the standard URLSnooper UI with some extra display and functionality for connecting to the Roku hardware:


Well, eventually Roku stopped selling the SoundBridge internet radio, and instead became quite successful with their streaming internet media (tv) players.


I do not know if this is going to help you, but I am not one to ever drop support for a product when there are still users, so I've gone ahead and built a new up-to-date version of Roku Radio Snooper, with the latest code from UrlSnooper.  You can find it here:

• https://www.donation...adioSnooperSetup.exe

Let me know if it helps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: svchost /k netsvcs [Problem on Win.7]

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2016, 06:55 PM »

Thanks for posting that link -- I've had this ongoing update problem with a few computers, going to try these fixes.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Drag and drop folder icon replacer

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2016, 06:14 PM »

It's always really fun to see threads like this. 

And it's my duty to remind everyone reading these threads to consider sending a little donation to the coders to say thanks (skwire and c.gingerich in this case); just click on the yellow dollar signs under their names.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [Kickstarter] System Shock Remastered

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2016, 01:00 PM »

There seem to be basically two kinds of projects on kickstarter:

1. Projects that are just vaporware and will probably never get finished or ship.
2. Projects that are basically finished and are ready to go into production and are just using kickstarter for pre-orders.

The second type seem pretty safe to back, though whether it's worth the money to pre-order depends on the cost and perks.

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Living Room / Re: better battery life out of a laptop

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2016, 12:56 PM »

f0dder's advice all sounds right to me.

very smart changing to white on black color schemes -- i guess it shouldn't be surprising how much power that saves but it still is.  good tip for all of us looking to conserve battery.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: pyrohacker

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2016, 11:31 PM »

Thanks for sharing your mods! 

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2016, 05:49 AM »

Love to see new posts on this thread, keep 'em coming !

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: show my subscriptions

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2016, 02:49 PM »

I think this link should list all of your notifications (topic subscriptions):
https://www.donation...le;area=notification

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Living Room / Anyone attending GenCon (board game convention) Aug 4-7 in Indiana?

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2016, 12:03 PM »

Because it's so close to me, it looks like I will be attending GenCon, the large board game convention, on Aug 4-7 in Indiana.
If any other DonationCoder members are going, send me a message so we can meet up to say hello and play a game or two.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to pass a search result to an alias action as $$2

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2016, 10:38 AM »

Sorry for the delay in replying..

It sounds like you are doing things right with the exec_ssh regex, and that should work passing both arguments.

The tricky part is how you are using the script_lib dosearch using the + thing.. That is getting a little advanced..

I wonder if you could solve it like this:
In the script_lib alias result, do a setuservar command to save the value of $$2 to a temporary variable like "uservar.temp.sshvar2", and then create a new exec_ssh replacement alias that only expects $$1 and then uses "%uservar.temp.sshvar2%" instead of $$2.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.33.01 - Nov 28, 2015

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2016, 08:40 PM »

Wow I can't believe I don't have an option for whether to capture the mouse cursor/pointer.. The ability is in the code so that is an oversight, I will add one immediately.
Your second point about stderr is valid, let me consider.