MadIce

MadIce

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Reply to Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

In the time I have been around there were some great people I have met. You will recognize a lot of them. Not all of them are skinners. Most of them are active here and on the newsgroup to help people out. It is no coincidence that these people also helped me to test/develop the plugins. Thanks. Andrew Buzzo Cartier Hung Craig CyCoPaTh d Dan Boldon David D'Antonio DavidK dbqp Douglas Quebbeman Ge0ph Jafo Jason Haag jef Martin Conro

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Reply to What is your score? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Feline surprised us with the number 3 position. He _is_ very close to the #1 Super Nerds. At least I can say that that I am a bigger nerd than indigoe and beat him with a dramtic 0.20 % indigoe is all the way down at #40. Scores at the moment: 1) likw1d 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 1) Frogboy 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 3) Feline 72.20 % (WinCustomize) 4) DHendrix 68.20 % (EFnet #Stard

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Reply to Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me is fairly new here, but one of the guys that made an impression on me is Morphh (Jeffrey Gentes). He was always pushing the limits of WB. Toxic is an example and even these days it is a good skin. If it wasn't for him there were no WBAmp (he came up with the idea) and DXPlayer plugins. I really miss that guy.

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Reply to Alto in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You are right about hypertext, craeonics. Vannevar Bush writes an amazing article in 1945 and describes in remarkable detail a system similar to the Web, almost exactly 50 years before it happened. http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/ The name "hypertext" seems to be invented by Ted Nelson in the early sixtees. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html However it was SRI (again) that implemented hypertext in software and showed it on a computer in 1

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Reply to Alto in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Xerox PARC did a lot of inventions and pioneered the GUI. However most modern hardware (including the mouse and the electronic pen) and software concepts (like windows, menus, icons and hypertext) were invented by another ancient company: SRI. They showed a computer with all these innovations (together with an audio and video interface for remote conferencing) in 1968! http://www.eetimes.com/special/special_issues/millennium/companies/sri.html

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Reply to Typing speed in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Percentage Accuracy : 100% Percentage Inaccuracy : 0.3712871287128713% Characters per minute : 808 cpm Characters per second : 13 cps Words per minute : 143 wpm Words per second : 2 wps Total Speed status : You weren't serious Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on Copy/Paste The inaccuracy was probably caused by a MS bug or (as Furan mentioned) a script error <img sr

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Reply to Typing speed in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Percentage Accuracy : 36.36363636363637% Percentage Inaccuracy : 63.63636363636363% Characters per minute : 176 cpm Characters per second : 2 cps Words per minute : 37 wpm Words per second : 0 wps Total Speed status : Okay Overall Accuracy : Very Bad Now "Very Bad" isn't good for a programmer, is it?

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Alto in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Apple has the name of having the first graphical user interface that comes with a mouse and in the artical "The PC at the cross-roads" nice pictures of the Lisa show that innovative machine. Although the artical does not offer a complete history (it wasn't the intention of that article), it amazes me that people often forget who invented the graphical user interface and mouse. It would be nice if the articles showed a picture of the Xerox Alto from the seventees. Not a real PC, because it was mo

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Reply to Radeon 8500 is coming in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

It is also interesting to note that the Kyro II chipset that comes with Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (about $150) is rather competative). http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q2/010425/index.html

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Congrats Dan and Shawn in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sometime ago Dangeruss and Frogboy reached 100,000 downloads with Liquid2 for WB. Without much fanfare Dan Boldon with Blue Toast and Shawn Murdock with NewBe 2001 did the same. Congrats to you both. Russ will be busy this summer riding his bike, but I think we can expect to hear from him soon after that. MoonBlinds was his latest creation. I hope Frogboy will be doing a WB3 skin. Dan recently updated his skin. He is also working on a DX theme and will have a new WB skin ready

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Reply to What is your score? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Again a fight for the number #5 position (previously occupied by migellito) and Frank Leon won! Who thought that Craeonics was a bigger Nerd than Neil? Craeonics appears at #34. Neil said a couple of days ago that his low score had to do with his age. "Give me 3 years and see what's my score then" he commented. Scores at the moment: 1) likw1d 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 1) Frogboy 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 3) DHendrix 68.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 4) Skwire 60.40 % (WinCus

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Reply to Wincustomize chat room in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There is a reasonable occupied #Stardock channel on EFnet. Most of Stardock crew visit it daily. Regular visitors are PJPowell, TheGreenReaper, CyCoPaTh, Swish, Nuke, gvahl, cpuroast, daiSho, reticence, drakon000, dreamer, likw1d and red1. From time to time you can see Alexandrie, _DAK_, Buzz_Hog, Cartier, Crumbut, cwizard, decoderx, Eddepet, ess-vid, iMike, gorman, GuyHersch, l0c, Migelitto, MartinC, Mercury, nivenh, rootrider, shoggot and others to stop by. I even saw bananafactor on friday <i

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Reply to What is your score? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Another change it the top 5. Skwire announced that he was a bigger nerd than migellito and is at the #4 position. Showman joined TurdFerg at #28. Scores at the moment: 1) likw1d 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 1) Frogboy 74.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 3) DHendrix 68.20 % (EFnet #Stardock) 4) Skwire 60.40 % (WinCustomize) 5) migellito 58.40 % (EFnet #Stardock) 6) MobiusCo 58.20 % (WinCustomize) 7) TheGreenReaper 55.00 % (EFnet #Stardock) 8) Nakor 53.60 % (EFn

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Reply to What is your score? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

KarmaGirl, the fight ain't over, althought your position is unchallenged yet. Uhm, I believe the part of the Tequilla, but what about the part of naming your Tektronix printer Sophie? Isn't that an odd name for a printer? We have 6 new entries. Bananafactor slips in at #35, fearoffours claimed #24, Frogboy's wife surprises us at #16 (beats Elfmaiden holding #22), Dangeruss rushes to #14, edsatori enters at #8 and MobiusCo conquered the #5 position. Mind you the struggle to come in the t

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Reply to What is your score? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"Spell-checked by Jafo" should be a registered trademark and be part of a defacto standard quality certificate used by all human spell checkers. Hope I didn't make any errors in that.

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