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mouser and I have been working on figuring this thing out, and it appears as though it happens to me only when I'm using DC on secure HTTPS. When I use just HTTP then I don't have this problem.

Can anyone else verify/duplicate this?
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Living Room / Re: Undervolting -- my hands are thanking me
« Last post by Deozaan on August 22, 2011, 01:19 PM »
I really need to look into this. The touchpad on my netbook gets so hot these days it feels like my fingertip is burning off.

Thanks! :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: Free CryEngine 3 SDK Released!
« Last post by Deozaan on August 22, 2011, 11:06 AM »
I will say, their inbuilt video recorder is pretty nice and the fact you can jump into "Game-Mode" within the editor and actually run around your creation using whatever objects you have put in.  That, coupled with the "Live Physics/AI" option you get while using the editor (Which I suggest NEVER turning on until you place everything nicely on the ground, because if you don't, things {destroyable things} will fall to the floor quicker than you can catch them, and have a tendency to explode and break).

Unity has a feature like this. At any time (as long as your code has no compile-time errors) you can jump into "Game Mode" and run around and test things out. The neat thing about this is that any changes you make while in Game Mode are undone when you return to edit mode. This allows your objects to fall to the ground and break or for you to tweak values to test them out and then when you're done just return to "Edit Mode" and the things that fell to the ground and broke will be back in their original condition and position. :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Codecademy: Interactive website to learn programming.
« Last post by Deozaan on August 22, 2011, 10:13 AM »
Codecademy looks to be an interesting website for learning how to code. It has an interactive "shell" built right into the site to allow you to code as you are given instruction.


Learn to code

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

Program Websites and More

Learning with Codecademy will put you on the path to building great websites, games, and apps.

Learn with Friends

Keep tabs on your friends' progress and make sure you're learning more - faster!

Track and Share Your Progress

Start learning - and don't stop. See how fast you're learning and stay motivated.

5005
I could tell it was Stephen because I recognized his writing style. Maybe I need to stop using IRC so much. :o
5006
Living Room / Re: Firefox fixes the version number problem
« Last post by Deozaan on August 22, 2011, 09:22 AM »
I like how Chrome does updates...seamlessly in the background, nary a complaint. All extensions work normally, no user interaction required past opening the browser.

I love Chrome and I use it for just about everything, but I do have one complaint with the automatic updates:

When Chrome auto-updates itself or possibly some extensions, it will also automatically restart itself. This usually isn't very intrusive as the only indication of this happening is that all of your tabs will appear to refresh themselves. But having a tab refresh itself can cause problems if you're preloading/buffering a large video or typing a long message in a forum or e-mail.

In these scenarios, an unexpected refresh can cause you to lose your message that took you hours to type up or make you have to restart the buffering of the video, which might have also taken hours to pre-load on slower connections.

That is a very bad implementation of what is IMO an otherwise great feature.
5007
Regain control over your files by changing ownership would be a way to go, but when you place the disk back in the Win7 PC you will expect problems (differences between the NT filesystems from win7 and XP).

How do I change the ownership? This HDD isn't going back into a Win7 PC since it is an IDE drive and I don't have any IDE ports on my new mobo.

I've got a question related to this topic:

I took a (non-OS) hard drive from a Windows 7 machine and put it into a Windows XP machine. Now I'm trying to copy the files off that Win XP machine's drive onto a different Windows 7 machine's HDD. But I don't have permission to access the files because they were in a "Library" on the old Windows 7 machine.

How do I remove the limited permission settings and allow myself access to my own data again?

Thanks!

That's not a permissions issue. The Win 7 librarys use a file system link type that XP can't follow/understand. If you just go to the folder on the drive that the link points to, you should be able to access it from there.

I wasn't using the Library link to get to the files. I was at the actual location on the HDD. I have attempted to copy over the network and even locally to an external USB HDD but it tells me I don't have permission or access is denied or something similar.

I can see the files just fine, and I think I can even use them without a problem (though to be honest I'm not sure I've tried yet) but for some reason I can't copy them to another HDD.
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Regain control over your files by changing ownership would be a way to go, but when you place the disk back in the Win7 PC you will expect problems (differences between the NT filesystems from win7 and XP).

How do I change the ownership? This HDD isn't going back into a Win7 PC since it is an IDE drive and I don't have any IDE ports on my new mobo.

That's not a permissions issue. The Win 7 librarys use a file system link type that XP can't follow/understand. If you just go to the folder on the drive that the link points to, you should be able to access it from there.

I wasn't using the Library link to get to the files. I was at the actual location on the HDD. I have attempted to copy over the network and even locally to an external USB HDD but it tells me I don't have permission or access is denied or something similar.

I can see the files just fine, and I think I can even use them without a problem (though to be honest I'm not sure I've tried yet) but for some reason I can't copy them to another HDD.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps
« Last post by Deozaan on August 22, 2011, 09:04 AM »
Yeah, there's definitely a lot to learn but Unity makes things fairly easy. A couple years ago I was attempting to make a game in Torque Game Engine (which is a now-deprecated 3D engine which has been "replaced" with the new Torque 3D) and I could not figure out how to do much of anything at all, even following a book or reading tutorials.

But with Unity I've been able to follow a few tutorials or read the documentation and work my way through making things happen. It's great and a lot easier than it could be. :Thmbsup:

An example is quaternionsw. I don't even understand what quaternions are or how they work. All I know is that they are 4-dimensional things that allow you to avoid something called gimbal lockw that occurs when rotating in 3-dimensions (and I can't wrap my brain around them). I'm not sure I understand exactly what gimbal lock is either :-[ but I know it causes objects to not rotate the way you would think you are telling them to. Unity comes with built-in functions that automatically convert the "easy to understand" 3D rotations into quaternions and back again.

I've been really impressed with Unity and how (relatively) easy it has been to do things with it. And if you're willing to spend some money, there are some really great looking third party tools/plugins for it that make certain other things easy enough for people who don't know much programming to make games.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug? Arrow Endpoint Text very slow
« Last post by Deozaan on August 21, 2011, 10:19 PM »
I just want to chime in and say that I've experienced this as well. But that was on my old slow computer so I thought it was a symptom of my PC being really bad.

I just got SC reinstalled on this new PC and haven't used the arrow text yet so I'm not sure if it will happen to me again.
5011
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DAZ Studio 4 free thru August 2011 (Win/Mac)
« Last post by Deozaan on August 21, 2011, 10:08 PM »
Thanks for posting this. I just noticed it. :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps
« Last post by Deozaan on August 21, 2011, 10:00 PM »
Hey kyrathaba, have you seen anything that looks good for C#? (I'm sure you've looked into it more than me.)

Unity 3D can be used with C#. :Thmbsup:
5013
Thanks to you, Stephen for taking the time to learn how to do this. And of course thanks to mouser for his continuous hard work behind the scenes. :Thmbsup:
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I've got a question related to this topic:

I took a (non-OS) hard drive from a Windows 7 machine and put it into a Windows XP machine. Now I'm trying to copy the files off that Win XP machine's drive onto a different Windows 7 machine's HDD. But I don't have permission to access the files because they were in a "Library" on the old Windows 7 machine.

How do I remove the limited permission settings and allow myself access to my own data again?

Thanks!
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Deozaan on August 21, 2011, 09:41 AM »
Once again here's a song I just love so much :-* :-* but the video itself doesn't really matter to me. It's called La Mar and performed by The Beautiful Girls.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 07:02 PM »
Sorry can't seem to find the info - does Minecraft still have a monthly charge or is it now a straight purchase?

Minecraft never had a monthly charge. I bought it for 10 euros in November or December of 2009 and haven't had to pay for it again since.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 06:34 PM »
From a quick read it looks like MineOS+ uses the proper server, not a custom one. That ram usage is amazing so!

I have at times run the Minecraft server on another PC on my home network using YAJSW so it would run as an NT Service. It did work pretty well, but the RAM usage would sit at around 800mb, even when noone was logged in???

Yeah, the RAM usage seems like it's probably inaccurate to me. I also started up a GUI-less Terraria server just for fun and it is sitting at about 800 MB of usage with nobody logged in. :-\
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Living Room / Re: Amazing algorithms to enhance or transform images
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 12:29 PM »
I love this site, PetaPixel, for its info and effects:
http://www.petapixel.com/



Check out this 1-minute film of an Eagle Owl attacking a camera at 1000fps!
http://www.petapixel...g-camera-at-1000fps/

Wow. Be sure to watch that in full-screen at 1080p if you can! That's amazing!
5019
Developer's Corner / Re: HyperNext, anyone?
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 12:25 PM »
Nope.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 11:39 AM »
Has anyone ever considered setting up a DC minecraft server? I'd say it could be cool, I know I'd log in. That said I do realize minecraft servers need alot of resources, especially RAM.

I've got a minecraft server set up using MineOS+ in RAMDisk configuration in a headless VirtualBox VM, and if Windows Task Manager is accurate, it only uses up about 30 MB of RAM when there are 2-3 people logged in at once. Then again, we've all been hanging out in the same general area, so there aren't a lot of different chunks that need to be loaded for each player.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by Deozaan on August 13, 2011, 01:18 AM »
Ok, I guess I am sold. So, who wants to buy Minecraft together with me?

i guess notch deserves a wedding present, count me in.. :Thmbsup:

Aww, you two make a great couple. :-* :P
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Living Room / Re: Amazing algorithms to enhance or transform images
« Last post by Deozaan on August 12, 2011, 04:01 PM »
Wow, really neat! :Thmbsup:
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by Deozaan on August 12, 2011, 03:21 PM »
Notch is getting married this weekend, so he's giving out a wedding gift:

Buy 1 get 1 free for Minecraft:

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Terraria
« Last post by Deozaan on August 12, 2011, 03:03 PM »
I'd be up for grabbing a bundle if anyone else is fresh

I'll join in on the bundle. Oops the sale is over. I thought it was the weekend deal. That's especially embarrassing since I'm the one who posted about the sale and even posted the date it ended. :-[
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Living Room / Re: Fresh install of Windows XP SP3 can't use Windows Update?
« Last post by Deozaan on August 11, 2011, 09:14 PM »
Just finished reinstalling Windows and now Windows Update works.

Thanks.

I'm closing the topic now.
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