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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 12:27 PM »

If we are thinking about a "CMS", then how do we define that? Might we mean something like Microsoft’s open-source CMS platform, "Orchard"?

That CMS platform has the goal of:
“delivering a .NET-based CMS application that will allow users to rapidly create content-driven Websites, and an extensibility framework that will allow developers and customizers to provide additional functionality through module extensions and themes.”

-IainB (June 02, 2011, 10:49 AM)

Orchard looks like it's an independent CMS.

In the ASP.NET direction, I'd say Umbraco and DNN are the ones to look at most seriously.

However, DNN is so mature and so productive, and MVC be damned... Who cares? Unless you have a budget in the 10's or 100's of millions of dollars, or are planning for that kind of deployment or larger, I can't see Umbraco and MVC being much of a benefit.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Looking for Component to Fill Boxes

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 12:10 PM »

Not sure if it helps, but SpaceSniffer is the same type of application, and has the same type of control. It looks to be a pure Win32 API Delphi application.
-Stoic Joker (June 02, 2011, 11:53 AM)

Not what I'm looking for. I want to find a component that will let me fill a rectangle with rectangles that I define. But the idea is the same as WinDirStat. They just use shaded rectangles. I want to so something different in there.

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Developer's Corner / Looking for Component to Fill Boxes

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 08:39 AM »

Does anyone know of a component or source code that can do something like WinDirStat?

Screenshot - 6_2_2011 , 11_33_16 PM.png

I just want to be able to fill a rectangle with rectangles. I'll only need to be able to place about 100 or so. Maybe a couple hundred. Not the thousands like WinDirStat.

The filler rectangles will be of a fixed size, and usually in the order of 4x1 to 8x1.

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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 08:01 AM »

I will defer my write in vote for a mobile device style sheet until that "which cms to use" thread has concluded then.
-daddydave (June 02, 2011, 07:53 AM)

A decent CMS should have good skinning/theme capabilities, so mentioning it now is a good thing.

Forums are hard to do on mobile though. The first thing I'd do is go look at what they're doing over at vBulletin. Those guys have the best forum software out there, and I'm sure they have some good stuff going on in the mobile sector as well.

Technically, that process is called "R&D" -- Rob & Duplicate~!

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Living Room / Re: Website lets you practice using SLR Camera controls

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 07:52 AM »

Nice. Thanks for that. I tried it out, and it's pretty good to experiment and learn with. (Which as a new photographer, I need. Still learning...)

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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 07:44 AM »

I went back to have a look at FARR after reading some threads, and realized that the reason I haven't used it is because the information to get me hooked on it isn't quick & easy, and in my natural laziness, I've just moved on. So I'd like to add a +1 for organization.

Which sort of OT gets me thinking that I'd be best off changing my approach to screenshots -- It occurred to me that they need to be task based, and not interface based or feature based. Nobody cares about features -- they care about getting things done / benefits.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft unveils new UI prototype - Windows 8?

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 07:18 AM »

I wouldn't worry about it. My guess is that Microsoft is already working with some select hardware vendors to come up with solutions that will address all the UI/input device concerns.

I'd like to see this all come storming out of the gates as a raging success. It would be nice to have something different out there to look forward to.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O DiskImage 5: Special Spring Sale - 75% Discount!

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 12:07 AM »

Figgers... Just after I buy Acronis True Image...

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Developer's Corner / Re: SWF 2 EXE "open source" release help, please

« Last post by Renegade on June 02, 2011, 12:00 AM »

Don't know how much use it may be, but FWIW, I came across this article which brings up some potential pitfalls (in the opinion of the author of the article ) for writing one's own license:

http://www.plagiaris...te-your-own-license/
-ewemoa (June 01, 2011, 10:15 PM)

I couldn't finish reading that. The examples were so bad... My guess is that it was written by a kid in grade 7 or 8.

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 10:38 PM »

eh,
hope it's going well there Renegade
-tomos (June 01, 2011, 12:52 PM)

Thread has been eerily quiet for a while now, hasn't it. Hope he skipped the spill vodka in computer, and jump out window steps.
-Stoic Joker (June 01, 2011, 03:22 PM)

Things all went well. I'm now configuring Outlook. If it weren't early afternoon, I'd definitely be needing some heavy pours of vodka to get this done... I really just can't stand configuring endless email accounts and farting around with PST files.

I'm not sure I like putting my Archive.pst on an external drive, but it's several GB, and with a 128 GB SSD, I'm not really keen to have it there.

A few more things to stick on here though... Man... I hate installing software like this... I really wish Windows would allow an XCOPY OS deployment. Sigh...

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Living Room / Re: Apple admits existence of MacDefender malware - Update planned

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 10:12 PM »

If I didn't despise malware writers as much as I do I'd be tempted to think it couldn't have happened to a nicer company than Apple.
-40hz (June 01, 2011, 06:22 PM)

Bwahahahaha~!

Nice!

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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 10:44 AM »

But let's not have the "which cms to use" discussion on this thread, we can save that for another.
-mouser (June 01, 2011, 10:11 AM)

Like I said... Make that all an article after the fact.

mouser, YOU are the one that needs to deal with it. (And some others too.) But make the decision that makes YOUR life easier.

And if you don't choose DNN, well, that's your fault~!

(Just kidding!)

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 09:39 AM »

Soooo...

Better safe than sorry.

Here's my methodology:

Drink 3 beer
Crack open case,
Continue drinking
Swap out drives
Continue drinking

By beer #6 I'm finally at the boot screen to install Win 7.

But that's all I have done so far.

The next steps are:

Break open a bottle of frozen vodka
Continue the torture...

I hope that is useful for someone, or entertaining. Either or is fine by me.

Oh... and intermittently post at DC.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Buy & Sell Source Code

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 09:08 AM »

Thanks guys for the warm welcome

Glad to find such a professional and welcoming community. Hope to contribute as well from time to time!
-erangalp (June 01, 2011, 08:51 AM)

The way people are polite and courteous around here makes DC pretty sticky. I first came here after finding a review for ALZip. Jeez... Looking at the link that's #896 and this one is 26912 - it's been a while!

I'll hope to see the odd post from you here and there.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Buy & Sell Source Code

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 09:03 AM »

I like the stock photography metaphor/analogy. It makes sense.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Buy & Sell Source Code

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 08:00 AM »

Hello Eran,

Great to see you chime in here! It's always nice to see authors/owners/founders throw in their $0.02.

I especially liked, "They suck at marketing."

I couldn't count how many times I've heard people struggle there.

BTW - I first heard about you through an ad on Facebook (IIRC).

I wish you and your team a TONNE of success!

Cheers,

Ryan

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 07:24 AM »

Oh -- I got the Seagate tools running again, but it will now only detect my external drives, and not my internal system drive, which is the one with the problem. Weird.

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 07:23 AM »

I figure a day or 2 of down time and buying a couple new drives is a lot cheaper than being a day short of a backup with 90% of the work done for a client since the last backup, and having to go hat in hand, begging for time and forgiveness...

Anyways, last check about to go -- UBCD4Win v.360 finished downloading...

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 07:07 AM »

Just wanted to point out that while the error does look ominous...It's not necessarily damning. Get a copy of the manufacturer's diagnostic boot CD, and see what it says first.

I have seen disk errors flood logs simply because of a driver hiccup. The first time it happened I too had a similar reaction. However. The box in question (My SuperMicro server), has continued to run just fine on the very same drives for several years (about 4) after the initial incident.

Best I can tell the Virtual Servers occasionally get into a pissing contest with the host machine, which causes the logs to get flooded with disk events until the next reboot. Damn strange, but I still do an offline diag on the drives now and then just to be sure all is O-Tay.
-Stoic Joker (June 01, 2011, 06:44 AM)

I tried SeaTools, but the S.M.A.R.T. tests wouldn't run.

I've also rebooted once. Same error occurs.

I'll see if I can get some other diagnostic tools to work. The Seagate tools don't seem to want to run now for some reason...

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Living Room / Re: Which is more important: the gadget, or the software and apps that runs it?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 06:28 AM »

...
-- Don't be afraid to start at the very bottom....[/i]
_____________________
How f*cking depressing. In other words, get used to substandard everything.
-zridling (June 01, 2011, 01:41 AM)

Well, there's always crime. It's not really much different than many other professions out there. You screw people to get money. I don't see the difference...

And retirement is only a phone call away~! The sucky part there is the corn-holing... but I suppose all careers have minuses.

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Little Voice Commander / Re: Adding spoken word option

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 06:25 AM »

I wish I had one of those voices.

A fellow I know in Seoul is a voice actor with one of those voices. Deep, smooth.

It would make a great audio effect to take your voice and turn it into that.

Women are different. There seems to be a wider range of voices that fit the "radio" model.

I suppose that I can at least say that I don't have a face for radio~!

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Living Room / Re: Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 05:52 AM »

Well, that does make sense. I'll still need to go out and buy a new internal drive, but they're cheap. So I'll earmark the savings to get a little something for my wife.

Sigh... I so utterly loathe doing system setups... It's an utter waste of time. Sigh...

I suppose I should quick get over to a liquor store before it closes... I'm gonna need it...

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Living Room / Re: General Poll: What should there be more of on DonationCoder?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 01:01 AM »

+1 for a CMS.

A good one will let you naturally organize things and maintain updates and enter new content very easily.

I would love to see a post about the decision making process and what factors led you to decide on one over another. Call it a "software review".

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Living Room / Decided on RAID 1 - SSDs or HDDs?

« Last post by Renegade on June 01, 2011, 12:32 AM »

Well, I am seeing this:

Screenshot - 2011-06-01 , 11_31_46 AM.png

Needless to say, after cleaning the soft, warm deposits I left in my pants...

I am deciding between:

1) Install 2 x Seagate 2 TB drives in RAID 1 and restore an image (Acronis True Image)
2) Ditch the old installation and start fresh -- 2 x 128 GB Kingston SSDs

My decision for the Kingston drives is mostly because that's what is available immediately.

For #1, it's fast & easy, but I'm stuck with crappy speed, and I'm a bit sick of some performance sluggishness.
Fast solution. Pay for it for a long time.

For #2, I'll need to reinstall EVERYTHING, but it will scream.
Slow solution. Enjoy it for a long time.

I'm leaning towards #2, which is 3x the price of #1... Anyone care to push me over the edge, or yank me back from the brink?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps

« Last post by Renegade on May 31, 2011, 10:38 PM »

The Wikipedia list is pretty good:

http://en.wikipedia....List_of_game_engines

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