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 Topic: Zugg's Low-carb thread |
Rainchild
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 Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:10 pm Subject: Zugg's Low-carb thread |
| Good to hear you're still doing well :) I have a friend who has lost a lot of weight in the last six months from doing the low carb thing, and my sister went starch-free a couple of years ago and los ... |
| Topic: Zugg's Low-carb thread |
Rainchild
Replies: 101
Views: 293845
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:13 am Subject: Zugg's Low-carb thread |
*taptaptap* Is this thing on?
It has been many a year since we last talked, I've been yo-yo-ing between 100 and 115kg depending on what style of weight watching (or lack there of) that I have been ... |
| Topic: Grrrr, Really? |
Rainchild
Replies: 9
Views: 27018
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:17 am Subject: Grrrr, Really? |
| I just migrated one of my domains over to google apps (in particular for gmail)... so far, seems pretty good. I wasn't so worried about the sensitivity of the data, since I would encrypt anything I d ... |
| Topic: Match 0 or more spaces? |
Rainchild
Replies: 2
Views: 5606
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:12 am Subject: Match 0 or more spaces? |
Hey... hopefully just a quick question... got a pattern I want to match which is a digit, but it's padded, so it could look like:
1 (rnd)
12 (14 )
123(151)
So I fi ... |
| Topic: Best Modern Forum Sites |
Rainchild
Replies: 14
Views: 50205
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Forum: Website or Forum problems Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:44 am Subject: Best Modern Forum Sites |
I'm not sure how good my feedback will be on the "apples to kittens" scale... but hopefully there's some stuff in there that might be of interest, or spark a discussion or whatever :)
That per po ... |
| Topic: [3.17] Shortcut to toggle character mode? |
Rainchild
Replies: 2
Views: 11615
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Forum: TeSSH Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:22 pm Subject: [3.17] Shortcut to toggle character mode? |
| I don't like using my mouse, especially when I don't have it plugged in and it's the stupid laptop keyboard touchpad thing... and maybe I haven't been pressing enough random buttons to figure out the ... |
| Topic: [2.34] No way to paste into the terminal using character mode |
Rainchild
Replies: 5
Views: 18408
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Forum: TeSSH Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:56 am Subject: [2.34] No way to paste into the terminal using character mode |
| Recommend that Paste be available even when out of character mode, for that "standard windows" feel. Not that I really use the mouse much, but it's nice to have it there sometimes :) |
| Topic: Google is being EVIL |
Rainchild
Replies: 10
Views: 42740
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:13 am Subject: Google is being EVIL |
Yeah, I noticed that was happening to me just recently and it made me angry... because
a) it's an invasion of privacy
b) it's a pain in the neck if you want to copy the search result and paste it so ... |
| Topic: Google is being EVIL |
Rainchild
Replies: 10
Views: 42740
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:03 pm Subject: Google is being EVIL |
I recently downloaded google earth but managed to avoid the extra bloat (chrome/toolbar) they wanted to force on me. I had to read carefully, and I copped their google updater service regardless.
... |
| Topic: Backups and Version Control |
Rainchild
Replies: 5
Views: 26032
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:50 am Subject: Backups and Version Control |
| In an ideal world, you'd have both... it's best that you have something like Subversion so you can "check in" a fully compiling/working copy, but taking an hourly shadow copy as well is nice to have.
... |
| Topic: Windows 7 |
Rainchild
Replies: 30
Views: 100783
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:25 am Subject: Windows 7 |
Vista's price never fell, so I don't see Windows 7 falling either. They set the RRP and it just stays there. Of course, you can get it cheaper than RRP at some vendors.
If they start going back t ... |
| Topic: Windows 7 |
Rainchild
Replies: 30
Views: 100783
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:55 pm Subject: Windows 7 |
Heh, you think you have it bad? The exchange rate for US to AU is *1.08... so your $110 upgrade -should- cost us $119. But no, it's $199 for home premium, or $429 for ultimate!!!!
It's actually c ... |
| Topic: Windows 7 |
Rainchild
Replies: 30
Views: 100783
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:46 pm Subject: Windows 7 |
I've got nothing but praise for Windows 7... to quote just about everyone else on the internet, Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.
Have you noticed how fast it boots up! I didn't like the p ... |
| Topic: Life of a Programmer |
Rainchild
Replies: 14
Views: 76689
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:54 pm Subject: Life of a Programmer |
| I would say syntax-wise java and C# are fairly similar, but .NET has a huge library of controls and components and the drag/drop form design that we came to love from the Borland suite. I haven't pla ... |
| Topic: Life of a Programmer |
Rainchild
Replies: 14
Views: 76689
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:20 am Subject: Life of a Programmer |
| All languages have their ups and downs, I used to swear by Borland until Visual Studio 2005 was out. Coding in C# .NET is very very nice (except ASP.NET blergh!) but that's to be expected because Mic ... |
| Topic: XYZZY - Ode to Text Games |
Rainchild
Replies: 4
Views: 23762
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:47 am Subject: XYZZY - Ode to Text Games |
| I never managed to finish an Infocom game... but I loved them to death. My first Infocom game was Ballyhoo - aimed at kids I think, but even so I didn't manage to complete it. Planetfall and Trinity ... |
| Topic: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
Rainchild
Replies: 19
Views: 74381
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:47 pm Subject: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
| I went ahead and purchased the gold version (because the free didn't have sync) a week-ish ago, so far it's been treating me pretty well - I can make changes to the album art on my laptop and it will ... |
| Topic: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
Rainchild
Replies: 19
Views: 74381
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:56 pm Subject: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
So Zugg, how's life with MM going? Did you get the gold version in the end?
Have you tried setting up MM to work with a laptop hard drive - eg sync some/all of your music to the laptop, then updat ... |
| Topic: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
Rainchild
Replies: 19
Views: 74381
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:17 am Subject: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
Ralgith: You will lose significant sound quality using that method of extraction (re-compressing an already compressed file).
Fang: Yes - hers is an 80gb classic. Not sure if it's firmware depende ... |
| Topic: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
Rainchild
Replies: 19
Views: 74381
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:54 pm Subject: Goodbye iTunes, Hello MediaMonkey |
iTunes, being an apple product, is the root of all evil ;)
What I was particularly unimpressed about was when I re-ripped my CD's to FLAC format, my missus could no longer load them on her iPod (wh ... |
| Topic: No new version this week (blame Vista) |
Rainchild
Replies: 15
Views: 27772
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Forum: CMUD Beta Forum Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:25 am Subject: No new version this week (blame Vista) |
I found the blog post that helped me back in the day -- http://cherrybyte.blogspot.com/2007/07/fixing-user-profiles-in-vista.html
I'm pretty sure it was just a matter of setting that refcount and s ... |
| Topic: No new version this week (blame Vista) |
Rainchild
Replies: 15
Views: 27772
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Forum: CMUD Beta Forum Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:28 am Subject: No new version this week (blame Vista) |
| I had that happen to me once but can't remember what I did to fix it now. It was very scary at the time, I thought I would be reformatting my entire system. I did manage to get it all back somehow, ... |
| Topic: BETA to Public ETA? |
Rainchild
Replies: 35
Views: 40254
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Forum: CMUD Beta Forum Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:09 am Subject: BETA to Public ETA? |
| I don't get computer speakers... ok they're convenient because they fit on your desk, but personally I can't stand 'em. I either wear $200+ DJ headphones, or my computer speakers follow the "patented ... |
| Topic: How does Intuit stay in business?? |
Rainchild
Replies: 12
Views: 45926
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Forum: Zugg's Blog Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:34 am Subject: How does Intuit stay in business?? |
They probably charge full whack because you didn't buy the intermediate upgrades (2007, 2008).
Over here, they pretty much force you to upgrade every, because they go "oh the updated tax tables are ... |
| Topic: Small feature request for upcoming Betas/Full versions... |
Rainchild
Replies: 8
Views: 11177
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Forum: CMUD Beta Forum Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:21 am Subject: Small feature request for upcoming Betas/Full versions... |
It looks like you're writing a letter!
It looks like you're writing a letter!
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE WRITING A LETTER!!!
...
Actually, a long while ago we harassed Zugg into adding a "trigge ... |
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