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I am indeed very willing to contribute a few quid to tools/apps I like and find useful, but they have to make it easy for me (a paypal button, at the very least), and not nag me for money.
Although there was one nag that I did appreciate, a few weeks back. I forget which app it was, now, but I think it might have been DexPot, that popped up a dialog pointing out that the app had been installed on the machine for a year (so there was no "phoning home" involved), and that they'd be happy if I wanted to give them a bob or two, but it was perfectly OK if I didn't, as long as I enjoyed using it.
I know it was an app or tool that I use a lot (e.g. DexPot is invaluable on laptops), and I liked the way they asked, so I clicked the paypal button.
If I hadn't liked the way they'd asked, I'd probably be using something else, by now -- good customer service often outweighs good product.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: a paypal button, at the very least), and not nag me for money
Yes I agree. The Paypal option is essential for us as we're not prepared to go any other way.
Mark_Wallace wrote: hat popped up a dialog
I don't mind the occasional beg. Fair enough.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think that could be a good candidate for our Free Tools forum. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Is it not already there? It really ought to be.
I'll try to find some time, at the week-end, to go through the free stuff I find most useful, and check to see if it's listed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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my fast search didn't find it.
Mark_Wallace wrote: to go through the free stuff I find most useful, and check to see if it's listed.
cool  Thank you
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Every once in a while. Usually 1-5€. There have been cases where I have donated multiple times. Usually small projects and tools that I regularly reuse.
Those gems that I come back to ever so often. I'd like to think that it helps the devs of the software to feel appreciated.
Not really open source but every so often I drop a small donation towards Dwarf Fortress as I come back every 6 months or so to play it again and again.
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Yes, mine.
I've donated to Synergy, probably a couple others I can't remember.
Marc
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I dunno if it's JIRA or what...
But I was willing to use Edge at work for work stuff (i.e JIRA), and when I try to copy a JIRA Url... Well the key word here is "try", it never works, browser freezes, the url drop down open and attempt to refrseh, I can't copy...
There is no copy option either, just paste....
Piece of f***ing sh*t is driving me insane!!!
Back to sanity, and Chrome!
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I had to use Edge today to download a Minecraft mod from Curseforge as FF just freezes up on that one download. I don't know why.
IE failed to load the page (no big surprise there), so Edge was the only other option I have installed (I don't have Chrome installed ATM, did a refresh recently and haven't reinstalled it).
Edge worked perfectly.
Edge/IE are also needed to download from Codeplex, as Google's Malicious site database (used by FF) has it listed as a malicious site.
It's just one single page, but Google's system apparently only supports full domain blocks, which IMHO is a pretty major design flaw.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I have a DigitalOcean droplet running Debian. When you log in you launch a window in your browser which brings up a terminal console so you can do your work.
Very oddly, from home there were huge lags doing any commands in Chrome.
I always use Chrome for everything.
I'd type the command and then wait about 7 seconds before the cursor would even blink.
I decided to try Edge.
All the commands ran as if I were locally running the terminal window.
Switching back to Chrome and trying it again to test it showed that it was still extremely slow.
That's the only app I've ever seen where Chrome failed and Edge fixed it.
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Super Lloyd wrote: There is no copy option either, just paste....
Sandboxed testing, if it works they will deploy this everywhere.
Sin tack ear lol
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Super Lloyd wrote: There is no copy option either, just paste....
And all of you say that the Q&A guys can't do anything on their own...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now !!!
quite late to the party (of MS product bashers!)
Thanks,
Milind
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Not just JIRA.
Even if it works, it takes forever to show the context menu, and sometimes you click copy and it does nothing. You end up copying the same fking thing 2-3 times until you give up and switch back to chrome or w/e you use.
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Glad someone understand me!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Back to sanity, and Chrome!
Pick one, then. You can't have both.
Me, I miss Opera, back in the days when it was fast, innovative, and a damned useful tool.
Nowadays, they're all flash and poor substance, and the third-party plug-ins that people make to replace the most useful functions (Sessions! Life was so easy with sessions!) rarely work after even minor updates.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How to use the RC4 crypto algorithm in a chat using udp protocol
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What really tickle my curiosity is, what prompt you to use this title "Santos", what does that even means?
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Santos (Spanish): Saints (En)
Calling for divine intervention?
Sin tack ear lol
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Read the red bit at the top of the page, then post this here: Ask a question[^]
But give better information! The quality and speed of a response depoends to a large extent on the quality of you question - and we cannot see your screen, access your hard disk, or read your mind. All we get to work with is exactly what you type...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is it a question or are you posting an article? 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I have been trying to revive my little raphics engine and UI project ever since Mickeysoft thought that it would be a great idea to kill off XNA. They wanted to herd us over to Win8 Metro (cr)apps, but I did not feel like rewriting all that code, nor ever putting anything into their (Cr)AppStore.
My only chance to revive the whole thing is to replace XNA by MonoGame, which started out as a reincarnation of XNA. Replacing the references was the easy part. The .Net code compiles and works. There are a few warnings for using methods which have become obsolete, but still are included for compatibility.
The real issue was with compiling and including the graphics resources, including the shaders. Think of them as declarations of data structures and functions which run on the graphics processor. The shaders were written for HLSL 2.0, the MonoGame compiler expected at least ver. 4.0.
For starters I converted only my test program for the graphics engine. It worked, but the particle effects were not rendered at all. The shader for the particles was a little more complex. It does not only do the transformations and texture mapping. It also calculates the animation of the particles on the GPU. The shader compiled without errors or warnings, the test program runs fine and displays everything with exception of the particles.
To make things short: The input structure of the shader had to be declared differently in version 4.0. The input values did not get mapped to the right variables and remained 0. The shader rendered lots of totally transparent pixels at coordinates (0, 0).
Time for some bragging.
This is my test program. The whole scene is scripted with XAML, including the camera which moves through a series of waypoints. I also made the models and the textures, so be easy on me. I'm not an artist.
This is a screenshot of a transport on a landing platform.[^]
The particle effects were started by pressing F1. Up to now that means that nothing happened at all. This is what it looks like now![^]
Looks like the graphics engine is back from the dead. Now I can't wait to get the UI working again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wow... Just wow...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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