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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2015, 02:54 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: HELP! AMD Catalyst update broke my PC - How best to reinstall Windows 7?

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2015, 09:31 AM »

Maybe this is really telling me that the AMD driver problem was maybe a video card hardware problem.
I don't really know where to begin with replacing a video card and whether it's worth it,

older video cards are frequently discarded or available super cheap; having a spare one is never a bad idea.

it's absolutely sensible to get your hands on a spare cheap video card and try it -- it sounds like that may be your problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What software do you use to create an Audio CD?

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2015, 06:38 PM »

When it comes to makng AUDIO cds, I've been really happy with CDBurnerXP, which is free:
https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home

Note 1: For non-audio cd burning i use ImgBurn.
Note 2: CDBurnerXP may use OpenCandy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Recovery Partition and Merging to C drive

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2015, 11:55 AM »

So I have dropped the plan for these partitions. Better safe than sorry.

-anandcoral (September 11, 2015, 11:24 AM)

I think you made a wise decision.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2015, 10:47 AM »

Email alerts regarding PMs used to give sender and subject.
Now I get only subject which doesn't help with automatic mail sorting at my end.
Can you help with that one, please?

-cranioscopical (September 09, 2015, 06:02 PM)

Should be fixed now.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 05:26 PM »

Ok i've got it fixed locally; new version of SC will be available for download with fix this weekend.

[ps. thanks to member deozaan for helping to identify the cause of this bug]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 05:03 PM »

The entire window is black.

-Ficus strangulensis (September 08, 2015, 01:13 PM)

Just to confirm -- this has now been replicated on another Windows 10 machine, when capturing the active window in conjuction with the Aero capture option disabled.  Working on it now.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 04:38 PM »

Though is it possible to get one's old content from a backup?

all still there.  go to your profile and view your posts, you should see a link to view your private posts which are all your old posts that are no longer visible or are on blocked boards.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 03:17 PM »

smf does have the option to let users switch themes -- but because our dc theme has been thoroughly modified and customized at nearly all levels, its not practical to let user switch between other stock themes.
I could however, look into how easy and clean it would be to offer the opportunity to change dc coloring/css themes.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 02:15 PM »

We've been playing this non-stop, it's become one of my favorite board games.
How did your daughter like it?  Remember that some of the factions are definitely harder to play than others -- so help her to avoid the crazy ones.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HELP! AMD Catalyst update broke my PC - How best to reinstall Windows 7?

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 11:13 AM »

My philosophy has always been: When in doubt, backup your personal data and docs, and then reinstall the OS from scratch.
Ideally this is done on a new hard drive in case it was a hardware fault on the hard drive (and because it lets you leave the old OS/drive alone).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 10:17 AM »

As useful as that private test area was, it involved quite a bit of ugly hacking around with a bunch of scattered areas of the forum codebase, and in my effort to keep things clean i am hesitating porting it over.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2015, 12:35 AM »

Surely we need some color! 

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 12:28 PM »

Excellent, thanks for sharing that, rg! 

How about a screenshot?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 12:04 PM »

My earlier impression stands, few days have passed and I can not get used to background colours of the posts and quotes. The background gets more difficult on my eyes

-rgdot (September 09, 2015, 11:56 AM)

Im open to changing the colors, though i think i like them.  But I think what would really be useful in a more general sense is if someone could post (or point us to) a nice tutorial on ways to customize the css for any site you visit using different browsers, by overriding css definitions on a per-site basis.  Then perhaps people could share some dc-specific css site overrides for different looks?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 12:03 PM »

Can we have an option to show all messages in a thread in one long page without any page break ? It will help me a lot.

-anandcoral (September 09, 2015, 11:48 AM)

I have added an undocumented/secret feature for this, add ";perpage=#" at the end of your request when viewing a topic, for example ";perpage=500".

However note that such requests might put an unacceptable load on the forum if too many people start using it at the same time, so we may have to remove the feature or reduce the max (currently set to 1000) if this proves to be the case.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 11:40 AM »

Another request (or chiming in on one)- the ability to put custom links or something and position that area.

-wraith808 (September 09, 2015, 11:34 AM)

im open to adding a profile field that would let you specify some custom bbc code area, but id rather not make its position configurable -- so im thinking the custom block would be here:

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 09:37 AM »

Looking great now

-Ath (September 09, 2015, 01:38 AM)

Yeah i think the forum is starting to look quite nice now!

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 08:22 AM »

Horse brings hay to share with its friend:

from http://www.neatorama.com/

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 06:50 AM »

Yeah it's on the about page and can be shown in the top area occasionally when being shown a random item of old news.
It's one of the "fun" but useless pages.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 06:41 AM »

This spoiler box (found here), which contains a code box, is tiny and can't be resized to see the contents:
[ Invalid Attachment ]

-Deozaan (September 08, 2015, 09:49 PM)

Try now (remember to hit F5 to reload new css).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2015, 05:40 AM »

I thought I had visited the supporters yearbook after the upgrade, but now I can't find it any more.

-phitsc (September 09, 2015, 04:13 AM)

Here: https://www.donation...on=mlist;sa=yearbook

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 09:55 PM »

spoiler boxes are supposed to autosize based on their css.. it works most of the time -- i'll have to see why it's not in this case.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: do you have some software to do this?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 07:25 PM »

You can merge clips in Clipboard Help and Spell too, just select the clips in CHS and choose Edit -> Merge.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 07:13 PM »

Find anything yet?
A screensaver?