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General Software Discussion / MOGware's FileHamster (Complaint)

« Last post by Deozaan on January 31, 2009, 04:46 PM »

It's been about a month since I did any coding on any projects I had set up with FileHamster to take care of revision history. Today I just started working on one and every time I save any file within the project FileHamster pops up a one second advertisement notification window.

Bad form, MOGware! Time to uninstall FileHamster. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Amazing games from coder Kenta Cho

« Last post by Deozaan on January 31, 2009, 01:34 PM »

I never really cared much about Shmups (shoot 'em ups) so I kind of ignored this thread when it originally surfaced. But I just tried out Kenta Cho's PARSEC47. I was hoping it was a remake of a shmup I loved as a youngling on our TI-99 called Parsec.

Parsec on the TI-99

But anyway, back to Kenta Cho's PARSEC47. I only played it for about 15 minutes but it was pretty fun. Here's a screen shot of it:

Kenta Cho's PARSEC47

I'm going to check out more of Kenta Cho's games now. Thanks for bringing this guy to my attention, Edvard!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto Focus Grabber

« Last post by Deozaan on January 30, 2009, 04:04 PM »

Thanks lanux and kartal. I'll give him this info and see what he thinks.

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Living Room / Re: Cube Craft - Very Cool

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2009, 11:58 PM »

That looks pretty good Ehtyar!

By the way, I just realized it's called "Cubeecraft."

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Auto Focus Grabber

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2009, 11:55 PM »

My brother was just telling me one of those "You know what would be so cool?" ideas, and I thought that what he told me was perfect for a coding snack, so here goes.

He would like a utility that automatically gives focus to any window that the mouse is on top of. So in other words, whenever the mouse moves across the screen from one application to another, any application that is directly under the mouse should get focus.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for January 28th, 2009 - Codename "New Years Revolutions"

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2009, 02:27 PM »

Thanks for the newsletters!

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

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2009, 01:11 PM »

This looks interesting. But the problem is that I only print things for school and they typically require Times New Roman.

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Living Room / Re: Cursor * 10 Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by Deozaan on January 29, 2009, 12:25 PM »

Wow, that was cool!

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General Software Discussion / Re: RedHat Linux: Fedora 9

« Last post by Deozaan on January 28, 2009, 07:08 PM »

Despite the negative attitude many people have towards the USPS, they can still hit most continental US addresses in 2-3 business days. In my home state (CT) 90% of the stuff I mail in the morning to CT addresses arrives the following business day.

-40hz (January 23, 2009, 08:10 AM)

This is off-topic, but the USPS may not be so reliable in the near future.

Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut.

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Living Room / Re: Cube Craft - Very Cool

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 10:55 PM »

Nice Goomba. I suppose a ? block would be perfect for Cubecraft.

I've had this papercraft dragon for several years. It makes a cool optical illusion when you build it. It's designed to make it look like the dragon's head turns to look at you wherever you move.



Download the PDF for a nice full resolution image for printing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PlayOnLinux might be what the Linux world needs to succeed

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 10:51 PM »

Oookkk... 

-Paul Keith (January 27, 2009, 09:37 PM)

It's from Portal^w.

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Living Room / Re: Cube Craft - Very Cool

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 12:33 PM »

Cubecraft sounds a lot similar to papercraft, except papercraft isn't limited to boxy cube-y shapes.

Here's an example:

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General Software Discussion / Re: PlayOnLinux might be what the Linux world needs to succeed

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 12:36 AM »

Not quite the same but this distro claims to have most Linux games pre-installed.

It doesn't have stuff like WesternQuake but it's a bit more convenient for those who don't really care for games like WoW: http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games

-Paul Keith (January 26, 2009, 09:29 AM)

Wow. I hope those games work on Ubuntu.

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Living Room / Re: Going Into Frugality Mode -- What are your Tricks and Tips

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 12:18 AM »

We also use VoIP for all our Phone calls, which reduced our phone bill from hundreds to less than a hundred.

-Perry Mowbray (January 26, 2009, 05:47 PM)

My wife and I were getting a really good deal on my mother's Family Plan cell phone service. But then my mother decided she wanted to switch carriers and spend $100 a month on a service that was only for one person instead of for 4 people, and she told us to find our own cell plan.

So we looked at our options of having cell phones or a land line, and ultimately decided to get neither of them. We bought a subscription to Skype and also "purchased" a phone number from them. Total cost = $60 for an entire year of phone service. $60 is about 2 months of land-line service here and just over a month of service on the most basic cell phone plan.

Not only is it nice to save all that money on phone service, but it's also very nice to never hear the phone ring. Life is so much simpler without a phone interrupting everything. 

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Living Room / Re: The Official DC Sing-a-Song thread!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 12:09 AM »

PEBCAK

-Deozaan (January 26, 2009, 07:41 PM)

And this, kiddies, is an example of an ID10T error.

-Josh (January 27, 2009, 12:06 AM)

I blame Ehtyar who said "Problem exists in chair not in computer" just seconds in IRC before I wrote this. He mixed me up, honest!

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Living Room / Re: Free Ubuntu pocket guide available for download

« Last post by Deozaan on January 27, 2009, 12:05 AM »

I wonder if it meets Ubuntu's requirements of "free."

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll likely be downloading it tomorrow once I get Ubuntu installed on my netbook.

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Living Room / Re: Several Interesting Videos from Tech Crunch These Past Few Days

« Last post by Deozaan on January 26, 2009, 07:52 PM »

Edit: Crap, I really need to know how to embed flash on forums. Any advise on what I did wrong?

-Paul Keith (January 26, 2009, 07:18 PM)

You tried to embed flash on the forums. DC forums don't do that. Just do a screenshot and/or a link.

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Living Room / Re: Culture of Computer Scientists

« Last post by Deozaan on January 26, 2009, 07:47 PM »

It is my opinion that you ought to start with some questions to get the conversation flowing.

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Living Room / Re: scannie vs. himself. ouch.

« Last post by Deozaan on January 26, 2009, 07:41 PM »

PEBCAK

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General Software Discussion / Re: copy paste between 2 computers on separate networks?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 26, 2009, 01:42 PM »

Two separate IM accounts. Just IM it to yourself.

Alternately, you could also e-mail it to yourself. But if you're doing that, you may as well use pastebin, which Ampa mentioned.

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Living Room / Re: How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you

« Last post by Deozaan on January 26, 2009, 12:18 PM »

2Carol Haynes
Nice video but it's not even close to be from "hidden camera".

-fenixproductions (January 26, 2009, 12:09 PM)

Exactly. The video is cute enough as it is. Why invent an obviously false story to go along with it?

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Living Room / Re: AAAI Conference Proceedings Now All Online (1980-2008, Artificial Intelligence)

« Last post by Deozaan on January 25, 2009, 11:36 PM »

* Deozaan attempts to read mouser's paper.

* Deozaan's head explodes.

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Living Room / Re: How to make an external HD SHUT UP?!?!

« Last post by Deozaan on January 25, 2009, 10:25 PM »

Unhelpful answer: Unplug it.

Semihelpful answer: Make sure it's firmly situated and not vibrating itself to death.

Totally helpful answer: [Error! Not found!]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Can DimSaver become DimScreen?

« Last post by Deozaan on January 25, 2009, 09:18 PM »

Anti-virus programs have a habit of marking Auto Hot Key (AHK) scripts as viruses. We've also been trying to think of how to get them to stop it for a long time.

See this thread for more info: It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: SokuGin - Some More Searches

« Last post by Deozaan on January 25, 2009, 07:45 PM »

.dcupdate file doesn't work.

Also, the zip file does not contain any path information. So to install people will need to manually create a SokuGin directory at the appropriate path described in the installation information.