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Reply to EMAIL VIRUS alert in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well aware of the circumstances, Buzz. I'm not really -condemning- him for what he did, just pointing out that he really needs to be more observant and/or practice better policies for email handling. For example, any email that I get from an unknown person, or someone known to use html email (evil stuff, that) is checked pure ascii (outlook express users: do this by right clicking the mail, select properties, go to the details tab, and click "Message Source"... you get all of the headers, and th

Reply to EMAIL VIRUS alert in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Uh... you do realise that message has "HELLO I AM A VIRUS ARE YOU A SUCKER?" written all over it, right? Shame you got infected, but you're not a newb, Russ, so you should have seen that one coming. PS: Norton is butt. Try AVP (it seems popular amongst some techies that use virus software).

Reply to We need to give people more accolades in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Indeed, you are not attempting to force anything, and I am not accusing you of such. What I am saying, in regards to that which you quoted, is that there isn't an "official" thing to do that would have appropriate benefits, so your route is to appeal to your fellows as such, and make clear to them that it is their actions that bring about the change. Frankly, we need another Jsenn, and although we cannot create one on our own, by having all that share the desire post as much as they can (while k

Reply to Windows XP head to toe? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What paxx said, but in reverse. Keep it objective, nothing like the zdnet style "Activation will steal your soul and make you buy a new copy every time you move the mouse!" type stuff. And add the techy bits too... just explain them. Goodies like UP&P :>

Reply to We need to give people more accolades in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Upset and uptight? Who? Certainly not me. Yeah, we're brainstorming, but you can't expect all of it to be in favour of the idea (indeed, it seems a number of people are opposed to it). I dislike such systems, see no benefit in them, and therefore am stressing that. On user count: First, you need to put "success" in context. What is your goal? If you're out to make a "major skin site like DA" (and I assume that that's at least one of your goals, given the recent discussion on this), then

Reply to Harry Potter in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hmm? Nono, crae, I mean "good vs evil" fantasy in the sense of that type of fantasy being "great good vs the sinister villiany" style stories. Things like the Black Company (fans of Myth (Myth, not Myst), by Bungie, will love this book, btw) most certainly do not fit this idea.

Reply to We need to give people more accolades in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Brad, a lot of your logic is a bit faulty. You know how a point system that "discourages" mass downloaders helps bandwidth? By making them tell you to piss off, and then badmouthing this site to their friends. Making people mad isn't a good way to help your bill. Also, for every one of them, there's probably ten that don't even have an account so never see this stuff, and therefore make your problem stay firmly in place. On this point system business, who the hell is it for? "T

Reply to We need to give people more accolades in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

No, absolutely not. First of all, it doesn't fit the climate of this forum. Think about how many posts here are little more than "hehehe!", how many posts/threads just say "message me on IM client!", or things that are by and large pointless (in regards to "the community" as a whole). Secondly, it breeds point mongers. Do you visit the Ars OpenForum? There was a guy there, going by the name of "Lord Baldrick", that, while avoiding "me too" posts, flooded the place will noise...

Reply to Harry Potter in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"Stirring the pot"? No, I just didn't like what I read. People are welcome to like him, and as you see, many do, but many -don't- as well (usually for the reason I have, or being sick of "good vs evil" fantasy).

Reply to Harry Potter in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oh, I enjoy fantasy, I just enjoy authors that know when to say "It's time to start the plot now, initial setup needs to end." It is possible to be detailed without boring the reader silly (see McCaffrey), after all. Who knows, maybe the rest of his books are great. That one, however, was a pile.

Reply to Harry Potter in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Better than LoTR? Does he actually move the plot along instead of writing like a cheap hack? I once looked into the first book of LoTR, thought it was crap (and rightfully so, considering 150 pages in, that little twerp was still packing... this was also the point I gave up (I glanced ahead to around page 200, he was still in the same town) and took that waste of tree back to the library).

Reply to To icon(package) makers (Non XP) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Look at some of the larger sets (no, not here). Two very large ones are my "BeOS" and "HardLine" sets (which, IIRC, weigh in at 136 and 155, respectively). You can find them at my site, CleffieNET ( http://www.cleffie.net/ ).

Reply to Harry Potter in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Like some of the others, I tend to avoid overhyped authors (someone once asked me how many Tom Clancey books I owned, I must have laughed a good 5 minutes). Oh well. I'm too busy enjoying Glen Cook's "The Black Company" series to waste time on sugar fantasy, anyway.

Reply to Does anybody here can help me? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've used that, it sucks. It's an animated gif maker repurposed. I don't really trust it. That said, it's still not useful for any Windows OS before XP. (btw, about the "new format", all they did was up the mask on the 24 bit colour icons to 8 bits)

Reply to Does anybody here can help me? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Maxim: Interesting about the inverse pixel thing... I haven't spent the time at MSDN to learn the heavy tech on the format. And I do know you can increase the mask. You can make them dance about and go "hey! hey! hey!" too. Neither is a reasonable expenditure of effort. adni: Hence my use of the word "prior"... Windows XP supports 32 bit icons. All Windows versions before it do not.

Reply to Does anybody here can help me? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

32 bit icons are not supported prior to Windows XP. All masks in previous versions of Windows are 1 bit (on and off) (technically they're 2 bit, but the "inverse" style pixel doesn't relate to what you want). There's no way to exceed this limitation (no, DesktopX doesn't count, as it doesn't affect .ICO files and their limitations). /me goes off to play with 32 bit icons on his Mac, which have been around since MacOS 8.5

Reply to Alex, need help... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Never know, zathrus. Those ASP coders are an odd lot.

Reply to Issue 5 of Teknidermy, Online Skinners Ezine, out now. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For the love of Cool Whip non-dairy cream topping, stop abusing commas. You're not William Shatner (and you should be thankful for that).

Reply to Linux Customization in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You know, it's called "WinCustomize" for a reason.

Reply to Alex, need help... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Err, the layout isn't a template?

Reply to Alex, need help... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Alex: you need to add "emergency backgrounds" to all of your table cells. "background=" takes precedent over "bgcolor=", so you need to go back and add colours to the cells for cases like this where the images fail to load.

Reply to Issue 5 of Teknidermy, Online Skinners Ezine, out now. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Aww, this thread is so cute. /me pinches everyone's cheeks

Reply to please help me. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Skins are not self executable, you need the program they are for for them to be used. WindowBlinds can be found at http://www.windowblinds.net/

Reply to 3D icons for TriDComm in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hmm? I see no problem with my statement. It's the truth. Let's see what I'm working on: - Doing a complete redesign and relaunch of CleffieNET (my site), which involves rewriting a lot of the content such as the FAQ and designing the site engine (which will be dynamic and have a few neat features). - Planning out several articles, references, and tutorials. - Gearing up to begin the first of my "megatutorials", on Kaleidoscope (basically these tutorials will be book-sized refere

Reply to 3D icons for TriDComm in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Eh? Sorry , never said that I specifically would take the job. I have a couple of big projects I'm working on right now so I'm not really taking on anything that doesn't pay at least a few hundred dollars. Likely someone else will pick it up though, if you state a dollar amount on the pay.