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ProcessTamer / Re: 为什么不更新了

« Last post by housetier on February 03, 2009, 07:26 AM »

Wow this is sooo cool: we are getting feedback from China. That means we are reaching people around the globe! Brilliant!

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Living Room / Re: Ecofont - a free font that saves ink

« Last post by housetier on February 02, 2009, 04:11 PM »

And now you can be even more ecological by using coffee instead of ink

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Best Text Editor / Re: Vim: important usage tips

« Last post by housetier on February 01, 2009, 04:36 PM »

ooh an old thread! let's revive it with

housetier's vimrc

version 6.0
set nocp
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set hid
set hls
set mouse=a
set ts=4
set et
set sw=4
set tw=80
set sta
set noscs
set ic
set is
set ww+=<>[]
set nu
set swb="useopen,split"
set nojs
set fo+=tcroq
set sc
set smd
set vi+='1000,\"500,:100,/100,h
set stl=%F%m%r%h%w\ type=%Y\ ascii/hex=\%03.3b/\%02.2B\ pos=%04l,%04v\ len=%L
set ls=2
set dy=lastline
set sr
set bg=dark
set enc=utf8
filetype plugin indent on
let g:sql_type_default = 'mysql'
syntax on
colo literal_tango
set nocul
set si

" ~/.vim/syntax/php.vim
let php_sql_query = 1
let php_baselib = 1

set visualbell

" insert a UUID at curser in insert mode
inoremap <F6> <C-R>=system("uuidgen")[0:-2]<CR>
" insert timestamp at cursor in insert mode
inoremap <F5> <C-R>=strftime("%s")<CR>

let mapleader = ","

au BufNewFile,BufRead *conkyrc set ft=conkyrc

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by housetier on February 01, 2009, 04:32 PM »

I think this is a real problem -- for Firefox there are many solutions. I wonder if any of those can be ported to your favorite text editor. 

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 05-09

« Last post by housetier on January 31, 2009, 09:13 PM »

The article about fast flux/double flux was very good. Thanks for digging that one out; I learned something new!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser discussion.. again.. need help with ideas

« Last post by housetier on January 30, 2009, 01:57 PM »

We could auction off "bragging rights" ;-)

c-base last year had a fundraising auction, where we had several items up for "sale". One was a permanently reserved seat in one of our plane seats. The winner comes to Berlin once a year only so did not really gain something for his money, but he can at least claim to have secured a seat when c-base takes off.

Now I completely understand that DC is different from c-base, and you will understand this was just an idea

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Developer's Corner / Re: Cross-platform Coders Editor

« Last post by housetier on January 30, 2009, 07:44 AM »

I recommend gvim.

And while you are at it: I also recommend vimperator for firefox.

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Living Room / Re: Need advice how to offer/sell domain names best

« Last post by housetier on January 30, 2009, 07:36 AM »

I had to sell a dozen of my .de domains to pay for debts. But I had it easy that time: I already knew someone interested in the domains and had my admin-c handle all the technical stuff. I just signed the contract, waited for the money and then gave my admin-c the "OK, do your domain-thing".

In Germany it is important to have a written and signed contract, stating exactly what was sold to whom and for which price. And I would also include excplicitely things that are NOT sold in this contract: only the .de-domain but not the .net- or .com domain.

It is important to be clear, and the contract does not need this fancy lawyer speak to be valid. It needs to be understood by both parties. Use simple sentences to make things clear. Legalese is for lawyers, German is for Germans.

That said: I think the contractual part is much more difficult than the technical part of transferring the domain. Also the contract is the most important part, in case something goes wrong and some weird dude (GvG are you listening?) registers the domain during transfer.

I wonder if denic.de has instructions on the technical part...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Quick Shutdown

« Last post by housetier on January 29, 2009, 06:21 PM »

hehehe nice story!

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Living Room / Re: Tagging Conventions/Folksonomy

« Last post by housetier on January 29, 2009, 05:53 PM »

You are making sense to me I am also looking for a guide to building taxonomies. Maybe even a tutorial with lots of examples!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Difference between Anonymity and Privacy

« Last post by housetier on January 29, 2009, 08:14 AM »

One advise then: Do not trust Paul Keith.

Reasoning: his comments were given for free, there MUST be a catch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox not safe at all

« Last post by housetier on January 29, 2009, 08:09 AM »

It is related insofar as it is made of words from the English language that form sentences. Other than that I do not see a connection between firefox, that "report", donationcoder.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: [HELP] FireFox Left-click on tab cycles to previous tab (readme)

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 03:58 PM »

You would need an equivalent of windows' taskbar in firefox. Dunno if there is one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [HELP] FireFox Left-click on tab cycles to previous tab (readme)

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 03:13 PM »

I think I know remember how opera does it.

By "minimize" you mean "disappear from all those tabs and have something else show up somewhere else"?

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Living Room / Re: MS takes evil to new level; ruins birthday cake

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 01:53 PM »

lol 

I hope she received a refund or something like that.

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Circle Dock / Re: The Best Free Software of 2009 by PCMag.com (App Launchers)

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 01:49 PM »

Thank you so much for taking your time to write about your experiences and uses! I am sure it will be appreciated by the author. At the very least *I* appreciate it as a member of the donationcoder community.

Do you miss certain features in Circle Dock, or do you have issues that need resolving?

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Living Room / Re: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 01:23 PM »

Exciting story!

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Living Room / Re: Official DC meet-up in Berlin, Germany: January 3rd @ c-base

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 12:59 PM »

The c-base will be there for a little while longer I hope. It's just - with our financial problems - not 100% sure.

It is a good place though, worthy of having regular or even frequent DC meetings

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for January 28th, 2009 - Codename "New Years Revolutions"

« Last post by housetier on January 28, 2009, 12:54 PM »

oh wow 

without this newsletter the best of 2008 would have gone past me! And I have another 10 tabs open on various threads on DC. I cannot stress enough the importance of these newsletters.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [HELP] FireFox Left-click on tab cycles to previous tab (readme)

« Last post by housetier on January 26, 2009, 05:15 AM »

It is intuitive when you want to treat tabs as windows.

There are many extensions for Firefox which influence "tab stuff", maybe one of them can achieve what you want.

What do you expect to happen when you minimize a tab-turned-window?

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General Software Discussion / Re: [HELP] FireFox Left-click on tab cycles to previous tab (readme)

« Last post by housetier on January 25, 2009, 03:14 PM »

in FF tabs are tabs, while in windows windows are windows, and opera treats tabs as windows but manages them itself. I am not sure if there must be a way for FF to treat tabs as windows though.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Coding web pages for different browsers.

« Last post by housetier on January 21, 2009, 07:42 AM »

For my private projects I decided to make it work in FF and in FF only. The reasoning is: I am the one who uses it the most, so it has to look good in my browser.

At work we make the site standards compliant first, so it will look acceptable in FF and Opera and Webkit (Safari). Only then we create an extra style sheet for IE which has all the needed hacks. Often we have several IE-specific style sheets. So, we don't have separate versions of the page, but only of the style sheet.

And we don't do Javascript without jQuery. jQuery is a godsend, and every time I use it I am grateful to the developers because I actually have FUN creating websites.

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Living Room / Re: Snake Wrangling for Kids: Learning to Program with Python

« Last post by housetier on January 19, 2009, 08:36 AM »

Excellent timing: I was *just* looking for a python book for kids 

I wonder if I should translate it , but it has 160 pages

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by housetier on January 16, 2009, 09:02 AM »

maybe gvim is something for you. It keeps backups, it has a bookmark feature (line such-and-such in that file), lets you edit many files, has tabs, and you can filter a file or a selection or even a range of lines through any external program.

Vim and therefore gvim are free of charge. It comes with extended inline documentation about its features.

However, vim works in different modes: input mode and normal mode for example. This concept takes a little time getting used to; I think it works marvelous.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement

« Last post by housetier on January 16, 2009, 08:42 AM »

yeah whatever f0dder  (obviously I do not give a filesystem check)