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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2010, 03:28 AM »

congrats

IMPORTANT:

We are still experiencing some packet loss leading to pages hanging.. if you experience this please let us know, and we hope to have it fixed.  seems like a network problem of some sort.

Also, there are things we may need to tweak over the next 24-48 hours, so buckle up!

-mouser (December 17, 2010, 04:01 PM)

most pages are taking up to half a minute to load here at the mo - but they are loading

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2010, 01:53 AM »

I cannot help feeling that these companies are using our charitable motivations to build a cheap marketing list for later on.

-timns (December 15, 2010, 04:40 PM)

Yes, I'm sure that is the case.
I mean there's not much point in downloading this unless you actually have use for it -
but if you do, it's a good app

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2010, 01:48 AM »

I have to say that it wasn't until a minute or so in until my brain started decoding the words they were speaking.. before that i couldn't understand a thing.  thankfully the decoding kicked in before the chorus.

-mouser (December 15, 2010, 04:44 PM)

I went to college in the town they're from (Limerick city). A very distinctive accent

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2010, 01:43 PM »

Note I suspect the humor of this won't be everyones cup of tea.

-Eóin (December 15, 2010, 11:54 AM)

well I laughed out loud a couple of times 

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Living Room / Re: I wish I'd had this when I was learning physics

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2010, 01:37 PM »

I think they've been discovered. 

All the download links on their website were returning a 'server error' message yesterday whenever I tried them. 

-40hz (December 15, 2010, 08:48 AM)

same here (yesterday) but it's working for me now 

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Living Room / Re: Crime pays - and our governments love it.

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2010, 04:38 PM »

Well here's a more up-to-date one 30th Nov. 2010 
Senator Sanders: This Economy's Winners and Losers

in 2007

• 1% of US population earn 23% of all income
• 50% of US population earn 15% of all income (see link below)

with some backup checking of sources here:
Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income (politifact.com)

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Living Room / Re: DeviantArt (Silverpop) and Gawker Media (Lifehacker/Gizmodo/etc.) compromised

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2010, 04:20 AM »

is no-one worried about this

I cant login to Lifehacker in spite of being able to request (& having gotten) a new password.
Also I foolishly used the same/similar password & username in multiple accounts so I'm working my way through them

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: we want to enter a small nany web service app, coded in php... any suggestions?

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2010, 03:37 AM »

I have an idea that I have sent adi -
I need to send some more info but hopefully it can work out

Can give some more info here at a later stage...

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Living Room / Re: DeviantArt (Silverpop) and Gawker Media (Lifehacker/Gizmodo/etc.) compromised

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2010, 03:35 AM »

from email

Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel,
io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. As a result, the user name
and password associated with your comment account were released on the
internet. If you're a commenter on any of our sites, you probably have
several questions.

We understand how important trust is on the internet, and we're deeply
sorry for and embarrassed about this breach of security. Right now we
are working around the clock to improve security moving forward. We're
also committed to communicating openly and frequently with you to make
sure you understand what has happened, how it may or may not affect you,
and what we're doing to fix things.

This is what you should do immediately: Try to change your password in
the Gawker Media Commenting System. If you used your Gawker Media
password on any other web site, you should change the password on those
sites as well, particularly if you used the same username or email with
that site. To be safe, however, you should change the password on those
accounts whether or not you were using the same username.

they then give a lifehac.kr address (which made me dubious of it's authenticity - maybe this is the start of the dodgy emails??)

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Living Room / DeviantArt (Silverpop) and Gawker Media (Lifehacker/Gizmodo/etc.) compromised

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2010, 03:32 AM »

Got two email related to this this morning - I thought they were dubious but it seems to be true:

DeviantART Members Emails Leaked By Marketing Partner Silverpop Systems (Cyberinsecure.com)

Gawker Media Suffers Massive Data Breach Courtesy of Gnosis (DailyTech.com)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 02:18 PM »

I took advantage of that offer (for a friend whos learning to use a pc!) - even got a comprehensive user manual, a rare thing these days!

-tomos (December 13, 2010, 01:15 PM)

As in a printed version? That would be something!

-f0dder (December 13, 2010, 01:48 PM)

damn, I'm not having a speak clearly day yeah, a printed version

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 02:16 PM »

Light Alloy is making big progress!  A new beta for v4.5 has been released.  The new features are:
Portable version!  Yes!
Also, it is now being packaged with internal codecs, which a lot of people prefer.  He is also offering the lighter, no-codec version also.  So he has covered all bases.  Great developer.  Fantastic video player.  My favorite general purpose player.
http://www.light-all...y.ru/download_v45up/

Woohoo!

-superboyac (December 08, 2010, 09:19 PM)

thanks for the recommendation
easy and plays nice 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 01:15 PM »

That's pretty good, cant handle MS's most recent formats but still a very good app

The upgrade to 2010 version costs around $50 at the moment ($80 full price)

-tomos (December 13, 2010, 09:17 AM)

You probably meant that Softmaker Office 2010 does handle recent M$ files, as it claims to?

-rjbull (December 13, 2010, 10:14 AM)

yes, thanks rj, my post was unclear - I edited it (hopefully) for clarity


I took advantage of that offer (for a friend whos learning to use a pc!) - even got a comprehensive user manual, a rare thing these days!
The pre'installed' usbstick wouldnt work on windows 7 or XP (complained about being read only but is write-protected so cannot change... I can always format it and it's a 4gig kingston drive)

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Living Room / Re: The minimalist lifestyle. Anyone here successfully implemented it?

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 10:04 AM »

skills can be learned (or so I'm told!)

-tomos (December 13, 2010, 09:39 AM)

this might help: How To Make Money on Ebooks

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Living Room / Re: The minimalist lifestyle. Anyone here successfully implemented it?

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 09:39 AM »

My dream is to be a novelist.  Sit at home in my underwear (well, okay, add a bathrobe when family members are home with me) and write books for a living.  Trouble is, to make enough as an author to live comfortably, you've got to be quite popular which, in turn, probably requires skills above the level of those I possess.

-kyrathaba (December 13, 2010, 09:30 AM)

skills can be learned (or so I'm told!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Learn how to donate without paying!!

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 09:17 AM »

That's pretty good, [the offered version -2008] cannot handle MS's most recent formats but still a very good app

The upgrade to 2010 version [ which can handle MS's most recent formats] costs around $50 at the moment ($80 full price)


[edits in square brackets]

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Living Room / Re: Crime pays - and our governments love it.

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2010, 09:09 AM »

Bizarre stuff.
How about calling them all to task (oh sh!t, I forgot - that's what the government is supposed to do...)

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by tomos on December 12, 2010, 01:10 PM »

very good 

(keep it up )

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Living Room / Re: The minimalist lifestyle. Anyone here successfully implemented it?

« Last post by tomos on December 12, 2010, 11:31 AM »

Some of the most soul crushing experiences you can imagine come from owning a business and being "your own" boss. (Whatever that means.)

I speak from direct personal experience on that score.

-40hz (December 12, 2010, 11:04 AM)

what you and me need (and many others) is the article called
The Minimalist Guide to Leaving My Soul-Crushing Business/Self-Employed work

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General Software Discussion / Re: pdf fonts

« Last post by tomos on December 12, 2010, 11:23 AM »

I presume you didnt get the error message before editing?
When you resaved the PDF were you given options? in particular to embed fonts?  (or see if you can change the default save settings somewhere in options or wherever)

You could use one of the (almost) universal fonts - they dont need to be embedded - the PDF will take them by defaultfrom the PC where the file is opened.
I dont know will this work with mac, and I'm not sure what the font list is (there's 13 of them I think. The usual suspects: Arial, Times, etc.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - new option for DragLock?

« Last post by tomos on December 12, 2010, 11:14 AM »

Hi mastersesci
I requested the idea and I still use it regularly

Your idea would certainly resolve any initial confusion of direction -I find it's unsure initially of where you want to go. Once it has locked on the direction you're heading I find it rock solid. The mouse arrow(or whatever) will flicker - but the line of movement doesnt in my experience. (I can test it by drawing a freehand line while using it - I dont fully understand your image btw - was the down [y] line drawn while also using draglock?)

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Living Room / Re: DDOS Ethics

« Last post by tomos on December 10, 2010, 02:49 PM »

and this is the opposite of what (I assume) the Anonymous folks want.

-CWuestefeld (December 10, 2010, 10:05 AM)

My impression of anon is that it's (mostly) a drooling mob that likes to feel self-important - kiddos in their mum & dad's basement, using dumb brute-force pre-made click-one-button DDoSing tools while touching themselves and muttering "zomgImSoLeetHaxx0r!11!1!".

-f0dder (December 10, 2010, 10:12 AM)

Laugh of the week (at least )

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on December 10, 2010, 02:31 PM »

I could have done without the wires

-rjbull (December 10, 2010, 02:19 PM)

I think they're fine - they even look green which gives them a nice oxidised copper look.
They can disrupt an image, but there's a bit of an obsession with getting rid of them when it's often not necessary imo - I like reality
Here's a view from my window, with loads of wires...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: CardMaker

« Last post by tomos on December 10, 2010, 02:19 PM »

Heh, no, greeting cards. I realized I never said that, sorry.

-vlastimil (December 10, 2010, 02:12 PM)

still looking forward to trying it out lol

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: CardMaker

« Last post by tomos on December 10, 2010, 02:10 PM »

Business cards, right?
Sounds good, look forward to trying it out!