Recent Posts

576

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

« Last post by housetier on December 28, 2008, 03:59 PM »

And for those who wish to drop by for the meeting or at a later time, a friend has used google maps showing how to find the space station.

577

General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar Math, which language to use?

« Last post by housetier on December 25, 2008, 07:02 AM »

@ housetier, you might want to know that there is a problem with the coding of your pages  versus the translating service you are using. You are using ISO 8859-1, but the service is using UTF-8, which means that I can never see both parts properly.

-Curt (December 24, 2008, 07:16 PM)

I didn't know we had a translation service... but I'll forward it to our webmasters. thanks.

578

General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar Math, which language to use?

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 06:39 PM »

Thanks for pointing out izeit, curt. It might be just the thing I have been looking for to use for my club; atm we use google calendar and old software from the 90s which are aggregated into yet another static calendar. Very complicated very messy.

579

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

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 06:14 PM »

Hello zere, my fellow Germans!

I thought we could have an official get-together of the German Donationcoder faction as well. I know I am late to the game, but let's try this anyway.

I would love to get to know the members of this great community. And at the same time I want to show off the club I do voluntary work for.

For several reasons I decided to have this take place in Berlin, our poor but sexy Capital. That means, some of the German user won't be able to make it. But they can have their regional get-together as well!

So how about we all meet on January 3rd, in the club c-base in Berlin-Mitte; about 3pm-ish?

Moin!

Ich hab gedacht, die deutsche Abteilung der Gemeinschaft um Donationcoder.com sollte sich auch mal treffen. Ich weiß, dass ich spät dran bin, aber vielleicht klappt es ja trotzdem.

Es wäre nett, die anderen Mitglieder kennenzulernen, schließlich sind wir eine tolle Gemeinschaft. Und es wäre nett, meinen Verein vorstellen, für den ich soviel arbeite.

Ich habe mich aus mehreren Gründen für Berlin (arm, aber sexy) entschieden; auch wenn das bedeutet, dass einige Mitglieder aus Deutschland nicht teilnehmen können. Die können dann ja ihre eigenen Regionaltreffen abhalten!

Also was haltet ihr davon, wenn wir uns am 3. Januar in der c-base in Berlin-Mitte so um 15:00 herum treffen?

580

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

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 02:33 PM »

majorspacecase I am very interested in your findings!

581

Living Room / Ecofont - a free font that saves ink

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 06:46 AM »

Dutch webdesign group SPRANQ have created Ecofont, a font that supposedly saves up to 20% of ink when used for printing. Even if it were less savings, I really like the idea!

The font is free (based on GPL'd Bitstream Vera), download it from their page.


I didn't feel like cropping their logo, so no linky picture this time

582

General Software Discussion / 2008 - wins, failures, and... of Open Source

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 06:25 AM »

I didn't want to just copy the original title, hence this lame version

This article does not uncover surprising fact, but is a nice short summary. Naturally it leaves out things that are superimportant to others, but oh well.

With 2008 coming to an end, heise online UK picks what was full of win, who was waiting for the failboat, and who just made us go meh. So in no particular order, here are the Wins, the Fails and the Mehs of Open Source from 2008.

-http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/The-Win-Fail-and-Meh-of-Open-Source-in-2008--/features/112305

Mentioned are for example: SCO, Debian (twice), and GPL.

Some of the events I have been following since the very beginning (SCO), some I read past when they appeared in my feed reader, and others didn't and still don't interest me.

And with regard to the problems of the Debian community I think we at Donationcoder are doing a terrific job at keeping modest, friendly, helpful and still productive. It is not easy for a huge community as ours to be as stable as we are. Sometimes I think it's a miracle; at least we very unique. We should be proud of what we have accomplished thus far! 

583

General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar Math, which language to use?

« Last post by housetier on December 24, 2008, 04:54 AM »

Wow quite a challenge! I wonder if something will turn up, and how much it will cost 

584

Living Room / Re: Recommendations for small, 4-port USB hub?

« Last post by housetier on December 23, 2008, 10:59 AM »

Thomas from Berlin

-TomD101 (December 23, 2008, 12:44 AM)

would you come to our DC gettogether: https://www.donation....msg143342#msg143342

585

Python / Re: Link to a series of python challenges

« Last post by housetier on December 22, 2008, 02:25 PM »

I don't get it at all. I am probably too tired to figure out what to do...

586

Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 21st, 2008 - Codename "Tree Ornaments"

« Last post by housetier on December 21, 2008, 06:57 PM »

I sure do love these newsletters. Each and every time there they show something I had otherwise missed 

587

Developer's Corner / Re: The All Day Coding Dojo

« Last post by housetier on December 21, 2008, 06:54 PM »

I wonder if the concept could be expanded: let people finish projects or meet their goals instead of having them "do work".

588

Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD Champaign, IL - New Years

« Last post by housetier on December 21, 2008, 06:36 PM »

I wonder: are there any other DC users from Berlin, Germany? I know hadez will be in Berlin on December 31st (and before that and after that too), so we could make a small "DC German Faction" gettogether. I know just the place to meet: c-base.

OK You Germans and Berliners: speak up and lets have a blast!  



Edit: spelling and dates, and I even went over it twice before I originally submitted it

589

Living Room / Re: Recommendations for small, 4-port USB hub?

« Last post by housetier on December 21, 2008, 06:13 PM »

I am very satisfied with my Networx USB Hub. Networx seems to be an Apple-related brand, but USB is still USB and this device has worked flawlessly in numerous setups: old laptops, new laptops, macbooks, eMacs, imacs, UBS 2.0 and 1.1, external hard disk, card readers, mobile phones, cameras, printers...

It's relatively tiny considering it has four USB ports, one "incoming" mini-USB socket and the power socket as well. You can use it without its external power supply if the devices are not so demanding.

590

General Software Discussion / Re: Is it finally time to abandon IE?

« Last post by housetier on December 17, 2008, 08:25 AM »

Josh, I don't want to be an idiot. So what can I do when IE apparently is not secure?

591

Living Room / Re: Anonymous I-net surfing ?

« Last post by housetier on December 14, 2008, 04:36 PM »

yes indeed, TOR can give one a false sense of security.

592

Living Room / Re: Anonymous I-net surfing ?

« Last post by housetier on December 14, 2008, 09:28 AM »

The question is: is there a reason to NOT surf anonymously? It is not "do I have something to hide" but "do I want EVERYONE to see it"?

However, anonymity is but one part of security. Using TOR you can cover your tracks a little better. But you also want to make sure to use https when submitting sensitive information; and always ask: "do they really really need this information"?

It were nice if we had secure communications (no sniffing agents in the middle) and plausible deniability (no officer, it wasn't me).

What we do have is a little more secure ways of communication (by encryption) but no plausible deniability.

However all this does not help, when the site we use is operated by less nice people. And we do not have a usable way of checking their credibility, their "reputation": certificates can be and are forged, DNS is poisoned.

All I can say is: be careful whom you are dealing with.

In German "Trau, schau wem"

593

General Software Discussion / Re: UNISON - Outlook alternative.

« Last post by housetier on December 09, 2008, 08:33 AM »

and here I thought unison is a file synchronization tool...

594

Developer's Corner / Re: Excellent Javascript Reference

« Last post by housetier on December 06, 2008, 07:31 AM »

The re-introduction was quite informative! Thanks for the hint.

595

Developer's Corner / Re: Excellent Javascript Reference

« Last post by housetier on December 05, 2008, 09:10 PM »

If you want to use javascript to pep up websites, do consider using jquery. It will make your life a lot easier :-)

I guess solid knowledge of javascript can also come handy when developing XUL applications or extensions.

596

Developer's Corner / Excellent Javascript Reference

« Last post by housetier on December 05, 2008, 07:28 PM »

The other I came across an awesome reference about the Javascript programming language.

Those articles help to get a deeper understanding of javascript and provide many examples.

And if you like you can download the articles as PDF!

597

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ReEx Builder and Path Editor

« Last post by housetier on December 05, 2008, 04:41 PM »

Too bad RegEx Builder doesn't run with mono. I get this error message:

[Select]

housetier@io:~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/RegEx Builder$ mono RegExBuilder.exe
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
  at System.Windows.Forms.Layout.TableLayout.CalculateControlPositions (System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel panel, Int32 columns, Int32 rows) [0x00000]
  at System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel.GetPreferredSizeCore (Size proposedSize) [0x00000]
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.GetPreferredSize (Size proposedSize) [0x00000]
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_PreferredSize () [0x00000]
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_MinimumSize (Size value) [0x00000]
  at RegExBuilder.RegexForm.InitializeComponent () [0x00000]
  at RegExBuilder.RegexForm..ctor () [0x00000]
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) RegExBuilder.RegexForm:.ctor ()
  at RegExBuilder.Program.Main () [0x00000]

Mono is the .NET implementation for linux.

598

Screenshot Captor / Re: How to capture drop-down menus?

« Last post by housetier on December 05, 2008, 09:46 AM »

maybe it has an option for delayed capture? so you could start the capturing procedure, open your dropdown menus and only then the screen is captured.

599

DesktopCoral / Re: Corral has 2 r's

« Last post by housetier on December 03, 2008, 10:18 AM »

this is mouser's natural lolspeak I guess.

600

Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 1 - Codename "Winter Wondercode"

« Last post by housetier on December 02, 2008, 12:19 AM »

Thanks again for these newsletters. 

They are very very important for me as a user and I would not want to miss them!