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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Donation Support Idea

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2014, 12:00 PM »

My suggestion: Keep it simple, tell them to donate directly to you.

It's hard enough getting donations - and its fun to get donations.

So just keep it simple and ask folks to donate to you, and you can decide after the fact how much you want to donate to RSPCA, DC, etc.

By participating in NANY you are helping DC enough 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2014, 11:31 AM »

Wrong thread.  This is animal friends thread not silly humor thread. I will move it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Teaser: Rotate (Android Game)

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2014, 09:30 PM »

Haven't tried it yet but I just want to say how wonderful it is to see someone new participating in the NANY event 

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General Software Discussion / Must have firmware upgrade for Samsung 840 EVO SSDs

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2014, 03:51 PM »

These are some of the most popular SSDs sold in the last couple of years.

http://www.computerw...r-ssd-slowdowns.html



"Samsung has issued a firmware fix for a bug on its popular 840 EVO triple-level cell SSD. The bug apparently slows read performance tremendously for any data more than a month old that has not been moved around on the NAND. Samsung said in a statement that the read problems occurred on its 2.5-in 840 EVO SSDs and 840 EVO mSATA drives because of an error in the flash management software algorithm. Some users on technical blog sites, such as Overclock.net, say the problem extends beyond the EVO line. They also questioned whether the firmware upgrade was a true fix or if it just covers up the bug by moving data around the SSD."

from http://beta.slashdot.org/story/208795

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.26.0 - Oct 8, 2014

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2014, 03:21 PM »

Thanks Iain, i need to update the update file

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2014, 09:32 PM »

After reading this page where the author describes the move to free:
http://www.admuncher.com/free

Correct me if i'm wrong, but it's hard for me to read that as anything but a really good guy doing a good thing, and very much in the spirit of this site and deserving of our support, encouragement, cheers, and understanding.
This is a rough world and we can all become a little too cynical and pessimistic -- I know I can.

But let's support the small folks trying to do the right thing!
The cow may be a little scared to be free but he may find himself very happily running around in the orchard soon, so let's try to send him some good vibes and tell Cody to go hang out with him.

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General Software Discussion / Re: need duplicate word scanner

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2014, 04:05 PM »

i like the idea of a program that can analyze a corpus and then identify when you have two many of the same "rare" words in a sentence, or too many "ultrarare" words in a document/paragraph.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Auto-Hide without Docking

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2014, 01:38 PM »

ah ok i see. yes i can add that no problem.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2014, 11:37 AM »

Not to pick a fight, but I thought Lucy was just terrible.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Auto-Hide without Docking

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2014, 09:36 AM »

if its not going to pop up when mouse touches edge, how would you want to tell it to show when you wanted it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: need duplicate word scanner

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2014, 08:53 PM »

it is a cool idea.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: New Feature? highlighted/selected text in clip - copy to clipboard as plain text

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2014, 09:08 AM »

Does the same behavior happen if its not the most recent clip?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Linking to .msc console

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2014, 09:00 AM »

Let me look into the code early next week -- it may be that LBC is not launching .msc files properly.
One possible workaround for now would be to make a windows shortcut to the .msc file, and add that shortcut to LBC toolbar, so LBC tries to launch the shortcut instead of the .msc directly.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: MasterSeeker 1.2 - Incredibly Fast File Search Engine!

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2014, 03:43 AM »

Nice.  That was impressive to see such a fast fix. 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: New Feature? highlighted/selected text in clip - copy to clipboard as plain text

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2014, 03:42 AM »

Hmm.. i think this should already be the case.. if you select text in the clip memo, and it is copied to clipboard, it will be plain text -- because CHS only knows how to do plaintext.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2014, 03:34 AM »

They have a new much more expensive model that is supposed to be much quieter (with a more powerful motor), so if you use it frequently you might consider that.
This model didn't seem as loud as i feared though -- quieter than a loud blender.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2014, 10:15 PM »

Ok here's a gadget: YONANAS



The price fluxtuates on amazon.com; i bought it for $29 which seems a good price for it.

What it is: It takes frozen bananas (and other frozen fruit), and mashes it up into a consistency that is like ice cream.

There are video reviews of it all over youtube, lots of people (who are on a diet) swear by it. it's certainly a healthy alternative.

Personally I did not particularly love the taste of the frozen banana results (which is bizarre since i have been eating whole frozen bananas for years; maybe just a bad batch of bananas; a friend here really liked the banana results) but frozen peaches were great.


As to whether you really need a dedicated tool to do this.. You couldn't really use a blender as it would either fail to pulverize or make soup out of it from the heat. Another major advantage to a tool like this is that it is built to be very easy to clean. There are now alternative product competitors to this product that sell for similar price; they probably all function similarly.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2014, 05:48 PM »

 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: You Can Relax Now v1.0

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2014, 12:06 PM »

Suggestion:
Let it randomly choose between other events people feared that have passed like the y2k bug, etc.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Application memory limiter

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2014, 10:02 AM »

NANY 2015 is coming up, this might be time for me to add features to Process Piglet tool that would do this kind of thing.
It would assist me if you could try it and tell me how you'd like me to add the new features.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: You Can Relax Now v1.0

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2014, 09:49 AM »

hahahhhahaahahah. funny

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Living Room / Re: SSL broken, again, in POODLE attack

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2014, 08:57 PM »

Thanks for the heads up 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Service: Proof of Existence

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2014, 08:48 PM »

I think it would be extremely difficult for a judge to rule against a hash entered into the blockchain being admitted as evidence.
To throw out blockchain evidence, a judge would in effect be saying, "Yes, it is possible that someone forged a 1 in 2^256 probability with the forgery exactly matching what we are talking about here today."

unfortunately that's not how the law works.  a judge won't look at that evidence and say "i conclude its insecure", he will simply say "there is no established standard for such evidence and thus i will not consider it." actually if you got to a court you might be able to bring in expert witnesses -- but it will never get that far.  the real question is whether a PATENT examiner would use it.  i spent a brief amount of time reading patent law when someone tried to bully me out of software that i had developed and distributed before their software was a twinkle in their eye, and while they did no succeed, i learned that the patent examiner frequently will not look at evidence other than material PUBLISHED in a journal/magazine/newspaper.  the patent law is an ass.

bottom line is -- you cannot use logic to figure out what evidence would be sufficient proof.  and the BEST way to establish you were working on something at some date is to have it published somewhere reputable.  however, using a service like this would still be valuable and could be used to dissuade disreputable people from ever getting to the point where they would try to take you to court -- and in our legal system thats the way you win.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Service: Proof of Existence

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2014, 07:29 PM »

Okay, so it's not about just proving that it exists, but that it DID exist at some point in the past. But still... How is that useful? Maybe for copyright/patent claims?

exactly.  the idea is important -- patent claims and similar things rely on the idea of proving you were working on something at a certain date.
it should be noted that things like patent law can be arbitrarily irrational when it comes to what kinds of evidence is admitted as "proof" of prior work -- it may be that they would decide such a service is untrustworthy while i written notebook with dates on the pages is -- so you can't assume such a service would help you -- but it's better than nothing for people who need to establish the existence of certain work product before a given date.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge - Some Kind of Unique Productivity Tool

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2014, 07:24 PM »

Great find, dr. andus -- i need to go through that list carefully..