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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2010, 12:22 PM »

i hope it dies the slow agonising death it deserves, with all the owners pulling their hair out with frustration when Apple closes the apps store down for it in a years time.

-nudone (January 29, 2010, 11:49 AM)

Ouch... that's a bit harsh, isn't it?  I'd hope it gets upgrades soon.. especially for multi-tasking.  It's not a bad device in my book... just not positioned and/or priced correctly, with some addressable shortcomings.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scumbags Hall of Shame

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 09:09 PM »

^ But that's not "the company in question" if I'm following his statements correctly...

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 09:04 PM »

Of those 17% with none, how many are modern operating systems, I wonder.  I would hazard a guess that none are, or a very small subset.  So we're looking at Windows 95 systems... I would doubt that anyone but personal users would still be using Windows 95-era OSes

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software support - am I losing my mind?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 04:30 PM »

Ummm... time for a new password manager?  

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 01:18 PM »

plus i'm holding out for a proper full-sized ebook reader with e-ink style display that is easy on the eyes.

-mouser (January 28, 2010, 10:25 AM)

What do you think about the nook?

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 01:17 PM »

iPad = Newton for the 21st century

-wraith808 (January 28, 2010, 08:01 AM)

Was the Newton a success?? I heard about it, never saw one, or even any reviews really (ok: I've obviously never looked either...)

-Perry Mowbray (January 28, 2010, 08:23 AM)

Nope.  And that's the point! 

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 08:01 AM »

I can't see the 'netbook killer' concept in this.  If positioned as a e-book reader (with a lower price), then I could see it in that market.  Otherwise, it has all of the disadvantages of a MID and none of the advantages.  No multi-tasking in a device this size?  Yeah.. right.

iPad = Newton for the 21st century

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Living Room / Re: Simple app/method to store contacts & create invoices for same?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 07:59 AM »

I use Billing Boss.  In the words of the gecko, "easy peasy, lemon squeezy".

-wraith808 (January 27, 2010, 02:46 PM)

that looks good -
do you know are you also easily able to printout invoices &/or save them locally in some usable format ?

-tomos (January 28, 2010, 02:26 AM)

Was there supposed to be an *if* in there somewhere?  If so, then yes... just e-mail it to the client and copy yourself- it includes a PDF copy.  You can also e-mail it to yourself only I suppose in order to get a copy- I'm not sure if you can get a PDF copy directly from the site.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 07:56 AM »

The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.

-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)

So you consider 80% to be quite small?  I've never tried to run a .NET 2.0 app on any machine and not had it installed.  Even for 3.0 56% is decent penetration less than a year after release... I remember when VB6 had been out for about the same time and had less penetration.

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Developer's Corner / Re: GUIDs...

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2010, 07:49 AM »

They don't go for very much on eBay... some smart aleck said something about an inexhaustible supply.  They said that about oil back in the day, though, so I'm sure with global warming, there will be a call for extra GUIDs someday...

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General Software Discussion / Re: post-screenshot editor, torn edge in between, and highlight lines

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 08:29 PM »

While cool that you have that, the reason that I as a developer like plug-in systems rather than the ability to add tools is the fact that I don't have to develop a whole framework around the function that I want to add.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 08:27 PM »

The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.

-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)

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Ummm... what?

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Living Room / Re: Bad Code Offset

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 04:28 PM »

</soapbox>

-parkint (January 25, 2010, 09:54 AM)

<tongue in cheek>
Don't you need a SLOC for that since you didn't open your tag?
</tongue in cheek>

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Task add via SMS?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 03:53 PM »

I think that's an indication that there is no way.  The most indepth rundown of GMail Tasks I've seen is on http://lifehacker.co...-keeps-it-too-simple

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Living Room / Re: Simple app/method to store contacts & create invoices for same?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 02:46 PM »

I use Billing Boss.  In the words of the gecko, "easy peasy, lemon squeezy".

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General Software Discussion / Re: post-screenshot editor, torn edge in between, and highlight lines

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 02:44 PM »

Understood, but I guess I was just thinking of your plugin model where all the post-processing could be moved to the plugin, and this added.  I know, I didn't say that, but I am amazed you can't read everyone's mind 

-steeladept (January 27, 2010, 10:57 AM)

Ooh... screenshot captor would be sooo much better then!  I love software I can extend!

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 02:41 PM »

Plus it can generate truly portable apps, something C# and VB.Net cannot do

-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 02:27 PM)

For all intents and purposes, .NET apps are portable as long as you are at a certain iteration of .NET on the machine- which depending on what you're using, it will be.  I'd rather deal with the OS having the framework installed rather than the "DLL Hell" I had to endure with VB6 (shudders).  And the idiosyncracies of the language... the only thing I dislike more is Crystal Reports (double shudders).

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Mark Selected Read not working

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 02:03 PM »

I did some more testing, and it appears to be an extension conflicting with the functionality.  The Firefox extension Verify Redirect borks this functionality when installed, even though on other SMF sites, this is not the case.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Psychonauts available on Steam for $2 until 1/28

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 12:11 PM »

I've heard it's a good game- just got it myself for $2...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/3830/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scumbags Hall of Shame

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2010, 11:52 AM »

I'm using a really old version of Xilisoft DVD copying software, and have received no upgrade e-mails, and the software is lean and mean, and just works.  I guess they've changed...

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Living Room / Re: Book: Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2010, 07:09 PM »

Use aerosol cans as a flame thrower with matches to light up army men (I still remember the trouble I got into for doing that one!)

-wraith808 (January 26, 2010, 03:14 PM)

 


It took a second to realise you weren't from Northern Ireland 

-JennyB (January 26, 2010, 04:57 PM)

I guess I left out the word "plastic".

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Living Room / Re: Book: Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2010, 03:14 PM »

I did several interesting things with fire:

• Light pinestraw on fire and throw aerosol cans in the fire
• Mix egg and gasoline in a container, light it, and throw it on army men (I love the smell of napalm in the morning!)
• Use aerosol cans as a flame thrower with matches to light up army men (I still remember the trouble I got into for doing that one!)

Ok... I guess I was a little obsessed with fire when I was younger...

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2010, 02:20 PM »

Ouch.  That was worse than the original joke.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Mark Selected Read not working

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2010, 10:36 AM »

I make extensive use of the Mark Selected Read function.  I check everything off, and the topics that I want to read, but don't get a chance to, I unselect them as I page down, then when I get to the bottom click Mark Selected Read.  However, it's not working as it used to anymore.  Now it's marking all topics read.  I've seen it a couple of times, and thought it was me, but I just verified this morning that I clicked the right button and had some topics un-selected.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Portable Tool to make a Portable Application.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2010, 10:32 AM »

<Self-Plug>
Also check out Portable Application Wrapper in the case that the executable is not in the root directory.  It basically launches any other program when it's launched- very useful when the menuing system you use for portable applications adds apps that are in the root of the apps directory.
</Self-Plug>