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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone

« Last post by Tuxman on March 29, 2018, 02:13 AM »

2018 and I'm seriously concerned that there is no flagship smartphone with both a headphone jack and no bizarre hole in the display.

Except Samsung.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Proto, another approach to file managing

« Last post by Tuxman on March 19, 2018, 08:36 AM »

Proto seems to be a dead project now. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser

« Last post by Tuxman on March 19, 2018, 08:28 AM »

FYI (2): There will not be a new Gowser version. The next version of what was Gowser will be a rewrite with a radically different approach and a lot of additional features.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: blogcpp: Static blogging in C++17

« Last post by Tuxman on March 19, 2018, 07:20 AM »

There is a "honeypot" feature which is said to help to get rid of spammers. I haven't tried it yet.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: blogcpp: Static blogging in C++17

« Last post by Tuxman on March 18, 2018, 09:27 PM »

Someone wrote a comment system which I haven't known before:
https://github.com/adtac/commento

BlogC++ supports it now.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / libvldmail: Your friendly e-mail address validation library.

« Last post by Tuxman on February 24, 2018, 09:27 PM »

You know what sucks?
E-mail address standards suck.

"very.(),:;<>[]\".VERY.\"very@\\ \"very\".unusual"@strange.example.com

Did you know that this is a valid e-mail address? Well, it is. Try to validate that!

Oh, wait, there is a solution for that: My very own e-mail validation library.
https://github.com/d...malwieder/libvldmail

Will move away from GitHub some day. For now, it's there. Enjoy.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SUMo - Software Update Monitor - free PRO license

« Last post by Tuxman on February 04, 2018, 02:19 PM »

It worked with the portable ZIP here which is my preferred download.

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Found Deals and Discounts / SUMo - Software Update Monitor - free PRO license

« Last post by Tuxman on February 04, 2018, 09:31 AM »

Looks like BitsDuJour has three SUMo offers by now:

http://www.bitsdujou...in=todays-deals-home
- Discounts for a 1-Year License
- Discounts for a Lifetime License

https://chefkochblog...eaway-by-bitsdujour/
- Free License. (At least according to the user name.)

 

Enjoy, probably.

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Official Announcements / Re: New DonationCoder, New Ideas

« Last post by Tuxman on January 21, 2018, 11:08 AM »

Is there a difference between "entertainment" and "humor"?

I have my own blog where I irregularly write about Windows and BSD software (and Linux security problems because I find it funny to poke them). I agree with wraith808 though: I could not promise to find something interesting at least once a week. Monthly would be doable though.
(Then again, my sarcasm is not for everyone's taste.)

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: blogcpp: Static blogging in C++17

« Last post by Tuxman on January 20, 2018, 09:49 PM »

I wanted to add article series. Turned out the developer (me) failed to write his code in an extensible way.

Well, BlogC++ has seven new files now. 
And a new feature: Article series.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: UnClouder for Firefox

« Last post by Tuxman on January 16, 2018, 01:55 AM »

The UnClouder website moved its server as well. If anything breaks, please let me know.

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by Tuxman on January 16, 2018, 01:54 AM »

Good luck!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by Tuxman on January 13, 2018, 07:36 PM »

Bah, 5 years - what are 5 years? 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / remv: Rename files (and directories) with regular expressions

« Last post by Tuxman on January 13, 2018, 05:43 PM »

The fan of old-school tools strikes again. 
(NANY 2019, anyone?)

Do you know what's missing in both POSIX and Windows? Right: A sane way to rename files/directories with a regular expression.
The usual approach on POSIX systems is:

[Select]

ls * | sed -E 's/(.*)text(.*)to(.*)remove(.*)/mv & "$1$2$3$4"/' | sh

That is horrendously ugly and does not port well to Windows. Here is my slightly less horrendously ugly attempt to fix that:
https://code.rosaelefanten.org/remv

Enjoy.

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Official Announcements / Re: NANY 2018 - NEW APPS FOR THE NEW YEAR - WRAP UP!

« Last post by Tuxman on January 13, 2018, 09:36 AM »

Ghacks got the year right this time. Nice. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 - 6 Command line Database utilities

« Last post by Tuxman on January 12, 2018, 04:29 AM »

I honestly wish more people would come back to Delphi (or Free Pascal, whatever floats your boat) so I can have more reasons to use Delphi for new projects because of a sane ecosystem. As it stands, every additional Delphi Unit that does not come from Embarcadero (or whatever their current name is) is pretty much left to rot.

(But Delphi sure does have a nice "standard" library.)

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Official Announcements / Re: NANY 2018 - NEW APPS FOR THE NEW YEAR - WRAP UP!

« Last post by Tuxman on January 11, 2018, 06:39 PM »

  "a fan of text-mode terminals and old-school tools" - adequate! Can I get a badge for that?

Thank you for the roundup!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BaseImage

« Last post by Tuxman on January 09, 2018, 03:10 AM »

The main advantage is probably one less request, resulting in resource optimization. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by Tuxman on January 09, 2018, 03:07 AM »

At least they published it at all! 360 days to go for NANY 2018.

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

« Last post by Tuxman on January 08, 2018, 12:14 AM »

I was informed by someone who actually wants to use ymarks  that I forgot to pack the winsqlite.dll file and some people seem to require it. I'll make a new archive in the evening (CET).

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by Tuxman on January 05, 2018, 01:39 PM »

True.

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by Tuxman on January 05, 2018, 12:59 PM »

And Mexico will pay for it!

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by Tuxman on December 30, 2017, 09:50 AM »

I watched Julia's Eyes. Nice plot, badly played.

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Living Room / Re: mozilla asking for donation in new tab page

« Last post by Tuxman on December 28, 2017, 10:30 AM »

I saw that one time - after a fresh installation.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser

« Last post by Tuxman on December 23, 2017, 02:49 PM »

FYI: I had planned to write an Android version of Gowser for NANY '19. However, there already is an awesome Gopher client for Android which is exactly what I would have written:
https://play.google....afewroosloose.gopher