CodeOptimist
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Welcome, Ephestion! From the screenshots, it appears that you are (were) developing RuneSword II in Visual Basic?
I hope you have a good time browsing our forums
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Nice, I'll keep up with your progress.
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... does the LOTR Trilogy count as one, or three?
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Howdy, Staffy. I played the AOE3 demo a bit - certainly different from the previous ES games, but I like it.
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Hello, Mars-ling
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Howdy back, Dan! It's great to see more people becoming interested in the project. Have a good time browsing our forums!
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I love FRAPS for taking screenshots of games. Some games trap the Print Screen key and run some screenshot-taking routine, but it's hit-or-miss... instead of trying to remember which games work with Print Screen, and which have their own screenshot keys (Ctrl-F12 for AOM, go figure
), I just mapped the FRAPS screenshot key to F12. Now, whenever I want to snap a screenshot (when something goofy happens in Rome: Total War, for example), I just hit F12.Even better, all the screenshots (from any game) end up in the same folder, with the name of the app in the filename.
(Even better-er (LOL), the trial version doesn't have any limitations on screenshots.)
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thank God that the one I ordered had a problem with it and was delayed, I think it's a sign...
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I voted '1-2 years', because that's probably the average age of all the components. I originally bought this computer in 2001, but the only thing from the original machine that's in there now is the case and CD burner. I replaced the motherboard and power supply about a year and a half ago, and upgraded the graphics card about eight months ago. (I've also gone through a couple of hard drives, unfortunately
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The best way to get around a limitation like that would be with a boot floppy that can figure out how to boot from a CD. I know that Knoppix used to(?) have a helpful floppy image available somewhere on the disc that you could use to boot Knoppix on computers that don't support bootable CDs. I looked around, but I couldn't find it
You might be able to put something like this on a floppy.
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Just lowered it to 1152x864... a lot better on the eyes.
I wish this monitor could go higher (I'd attempt to use 1600x1200 if I could), but it only cost me $35, so I can't complain too much.Eventually, I will consider getting a mega-big flat screen (such as the Dell 2001FP/2005FPW or even the 2405FPW).
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Using non standard Resolutions like that generally isn't a good thing, it makes everything blurry and, ugh
LOL, I meant to say "1280x1024", not "1280x768".
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You can't be serious, 1024x768 on a 21"!?
I know, it stinks
It's a pretty old CRT. I'm still going to try and push it a little further.EDIT: I just got it to 1280x1024@75Hz by unchecking 'Hide the modes that this monitor cannot display'. It seems a bit blurry (again, old CRT
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Did it not occur to you that something was up when it didn't stretch the whole page?
About five seconds after thinking it was "real"
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Nice code - when I first saw the generated image, I thought it was actually a
box!
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I've been contemplating getting the Deer Park (Firefox 1.5) beta, but then I'd have to work without all my beloved extensions
From http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/re...s/1.5beta1.html: (more development info here)
Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1:* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
* Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
* Improvements to popup blocking.
* Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
* Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
* Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
* Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
* Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox. (this is interesting, eh? ~Nathanael)
* Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
* New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
* Many security enhancements.
* List of notable bug fixes since Deer Park Alpha 2
Anyone trying it out yet?
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Exactly a month ago I posted this, now, a month later, Firefox is taking the lead by over 1000 hits. Nice work guys
Woot! Go Firefox!
Out of curiousity, how are you generating that spiffy dynamic stats image in the first post?
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Well that problem got solved, but is there any way of shuttig down a remote computer inside my network?
How'd you solve it? I always am curious to see what fixed the problem
As for shutting computers down remotely - I think the DOS shutdown command might be able to do that, but I'm not sure if it works outside of a 'domain' enviroment or from a normal XP machine. (Methinks it was mostly stuck there so IT admins could use it, not home users
)I'm sure there are some utilities along the lines of WinVNC or whatnot that allow you to do that, but I haven't looked.
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I'm at 1024x768@75Hz on a Compaq QVision 210 21" CRT. I wish I could go higher (1280x1024), but it ends up hurting my eyes.
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Sorry, Tim, it's http://slashdot.org
I would have said google.com, but since that's taken... http://digg.com seems to be gaining popularity in the tech crowd.Phillip beat me to mentioning "the list"
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Glad you got it working Tim
Ditto, have fun playing
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So I still plan my websites and stuff for people with slow connections.
IMHO, this is a good policy -- not only for the people who actually do have slow connections, but for the people with fast(er) connections but without the time to wait for a hugely over-bloated websit to load. Personally, I like sleek, low-bandwidth sites, even with a broadband cable connection.
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Wow, nice site, Frank! I really like the way you've handled the graphics - on the Firefox page, for example: something about fade-to-white images really screams 'professional-looking' to me.
It may be neat to add a 'testimonials' section to the site, where people can share their experiences with free software and 'the switch' in general.
Great work!
EDIT: Need a domain name? Yahoo's selling 'em for $1.99 a year! -> http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/
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Yeah, apparently it only saves raw bitmaps in the trial version. (Didn't notice that until now
) A slight inconvenience, I suppose, but running a batch conversion to PNG format isn't too hard, either.