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The Lounge / Re: Strange Pets
I read that allium varieties aren't so good for rats, so I haven't tried if they like e.g. garlic.
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The Lounge / Strange Pets
I know there's psychic cats and such, but we've got two rats here. I gave them the stale butt of a loaf of bread to see what they thought and it turns out they love it almost as much as e.g. banana or avocado. Nibbles (the dominant one) gets all possessive and doesn't want Chompers to even touch the stale bread. What kind of odd things do your pets like or do?
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Poe-ian Tales
Here's a "children's story" I wrote last week. It's a bit rough around the edges, probably a bit odd, and too graphical. So it goes.


Torn Apart
==========
It was a perfectly nice day when Esprit stumbled and broke his front right leg. When the little boy did not find the horse at his trough a few hours later he thought nothing of it; sometimes Esprit would run off and play and forget about dinner. To make up for lost time, the boy promised himself he'd visit the horse the next morning as early as he could.

The next day he noticed with mild consternation that the horse did not appear to be in his stable. The boy went out to search the property, trying to remember what were Esprit's favorite spots. He remembered the open hill, where Esprit would often lie in the sun.

Time stood still when the little boy discovered what had happened. Whether running back to his house, alerting his parents, and calling the veterinarian helicopter emergency service took minutes or hours was not a question he'd be able to answer, but the sky was already turning red as a thunderous cavalcade of chopped air signaled the arrival of the helicopter. Esprit was harnessed in with great care so the broken leg wouldn't shift, was given a sedative, and was swiftly lifted up. The little boy waved at the horse, certain the veterinarian would be able to mend and properly set Esprit's leg.

Unbeknown to the helicopter pilot, distracted by the glint of the setting sun in her eye, the rescue pulley system malfunctioned and started lowering the horse just as the helicopter was starting to pick up speed. The little boy stared in wide-eyed horror as Esprit started bouncing left and right from tree to tree. Gapes and gashes appeared and started to bleed, and despite the sedative the poor horse woke up when its broken leg got stuck between the top branches of a particularly sturdy evergreen tree and was torn off like a cocktail pricker. The horse started to howl the most agonizing scream the little boy would ever hear, but that was not the end of Esprit's misery. A particularly sharp branch a few trees over impaled the horse, which consequently produced a guttural, almost stuttering, and above all angry sound. The pilot finally noticed that something was awry when the helicopter refused to go forward anymore, but it was already too late. The surprisingly elastic tree finally gave up under the barrage of the helicopter's brute force and snapped like a twig, propelling the helicopter on its now downward trajectory into the trees. Like in the Hollywood movies the little boy loved so much, the rotored machine made a squealing noise before exploding in a fiery ball of death.

The little boy was finally able to break out of his trance, and he collapsed into a sobbing mass. For months after he was bedridden, and each night he claimed Esprit came limping to his window while floating through the air, on three legs and a bloody stump, with mad, bloodshot eyes. The boy's parents were worried sick, and their little boy's German-accented psychiatrist was having the time of his life writing article after article about the little boy's disturbed unconscious. When they found the broken window and the little boy's dead body with the missing right arm, the autopsy report bluntly stated he had inflicted all these injuries on himself—that he had torn off his own arm. The hoofmarks all over his body were left out of the official report. The estate was up for sale the next day already, and no one's lived there in sixty years. The locals are still weary of the place where the little boy died, but a real-estate developer drove by the other day and is planning to turn it into a hotel. The organization he represented put up a sign already: "The Hillcrest Hotel. Opening in May 2016, just in time for the holidays!"
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Quote from: j7n on
Very nice. I think the quote had wrong font size before, but it's fixed now.

By the way, I didn't change anything about that. However, I did create a potential workaround for the user-defined font-size dilemma:

Code: [Select]
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(iframe);

var iframeWindow = iframe.contentWindow || iframe.documentWindow; // the latter is for old IE
var iframeDoc = iframeWindow.document;

var fontSize = getComputedStyle(iframeDoc.documentElement).getPropertyValue('font-size');

if (fontSize === '16px') {
  // assume the user didn't change the default
  // set font-size to 13px
}
else {
  // respect what the user said
  // Also this is stupid. It shouldn't have to be this hard to provide some proper user choice. >_< This is your fault, everyone who ever used 67%, and this is also your fault, browser makers who implemented rem (as opposed to em) over a decade too late.
}
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Well, well, the people you come across while searching for keywords like PNG and prefilter.

Quote from: SmileyFaze on
similar to what you've done with your 2nd level+ quotes.

It's just the default theme. :)

Quote from: SmileyFaze on
Personally though, too much contrasting becomes confusing to follow -- especially when your viewing a quote of a quote of a quote of a quote....

Quoting more than two to three levels deep is questionable for that and other reasons. It'll also use up more space for me (not much, but still) and result in slower page loading times for everyone (again not much, but still). But that's why we want quick quote. ;)
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Quote from: j7n on
The posts look okay in both cases. I'd rather wish they didn't have a chance to "pour out" on the right side, but it's a minor issue.

How about the 1px dashed border?

Quote from: j7n on
Updated with 7.77 kB using no prefilter (as opposed to 'sub' or 'paeth'). Screenshots work best without prefilter, but I don't usually bother with small pictures. Few programs offer the choice.

pngcrush should work out that kind of thing automatically with the -brute option, surely?
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
I reused the color from around the Quick Reply in the little tab. It seems to work fairly well.  I'd probably want to implement a completely custom color scheme at some point, but that'd take significantly more time than a quick quote change.

Quote from: SmileyFaze on
I like the general looks of it, just as long as the statements of the one who's making the actual post is not 'boxed', only the quoted quotes should be 'boxed'.

The point is to distinguish quotes better from posts, so I think we're on the same page. What do you think of the way it looks on My Opera?
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
How did you get your second PNG image at 11kB while maintaining the right colors? I pushed my Gimp-generated image (at maximum compression already) through pngcrush -brute and it managed to get the after screenshot down from 21.1kB to 19kB. The pngquant lossy PNG I posted here came in at 8.4kB, but that's why the background color looks off.

Quote from: j7n on
Why isn't there a border on the right side?

I like the look, although the effect mostly depends on the border-radius. In the Opera 8 screenshot it looks somewhat silly.
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Forum Administration / Re: Looks and Appearances
Thanks, that was the intention. I thought the quotes were insufficiently distinguished by default. The two primary options I see are a proper left margin (classical print) and a thicker border on the left (wastes ink but this isn't print). I also thought the name was a bit too removed from the quote itself.

I was thinking maybe the "tab" should get a slightly more distinct bg color, but besides that I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
Oh, yeah. It might be interesting to search for his 'nym (and previous banned ones, although I forget what they were) in combination with terms like "Chrome" or "Chromium," because I'm pretty sure you'd see him deriding many things about it.

Actually, we can still do that:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=9730232
Quote from: Chirpie
Quote from: hoang_royal_ir
Fully support HTML5. At the moment, I just see that only Google Chrome is having the HTML5 full support. :(

Chrome does not have full HTML5 support. Opera's HTML5 support is excellent as well. It doesn't make sense for you to make this request.


http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=9476872
Quote from: Chirpie
Quote from: inrisk
If you can read, I do state 'This is what I see on all my browsers'.

You posted a screenshot of Chrome. In an Opera forum.

Not only is this incredibly rude, but Opera's error messages are generally much more informative than Chrome's.


http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=11790702
Quote from: Chirpie
Quote from: mcaleck
How come Opera is doing so badly in the V8 Benchmark Suite test?

It isn't. The V8 benchmark was designed to make Chrome look good and ignores the things Chrome it slow at. It's useless.


It will be somewhat harder to find those replies stating the exact opposite about Chropera. Anyone up for it? :P
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Browsers & Technology / Re: My Opera Backup
I might take you up on that, but not until March. I'll probably share the vast majority of what I've collected using Wuala sooner than that.

Btw, I forgot to mention this earlier, but the 3.3 million actual posts represent the first 10 million comment IDs. After comment ID 3.2 million or so, only one in ten are actual comments.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: My Opera Backup
The compressed .tar.lz files each contain up to 100,000 individual files (as you would have seen had you checked the link :P). This will make for a total of probably about 200 files.

This may not be the final compression format. Like I said, this is just an initial seed sufficient for development of further processing scripts.
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Browsers & Technology / My Opera Backup
As most of you know, I'm currently running a Python script with the intent of backing up all of the My Opera forums, or at least about as close to it as possible.

I already shared a few hundred thousand posts using My Opera itself, but obviously that would be self-defeating. I considered torrents. They have many advantages, not least of which is that the more popular they are the faster they (ought to) go. But it would be more likely to be a constant drain on my Internet volume, which is currently limited to a minuscule 100GB. (I can make do with it, and I don't want to pay more.) I don't think the ISPs here understand that even buying a game on Steam these days might use up 100GB within a half hour.

Anyway, the best solution seems to be sharing it all on Wuala. Downloading all the files should be easy through the Opera Links panel, or some equivalent extension on another browser. Sharing it from this very server is also an option, but in the unlikely case that there's a lot of interest I figure it's better to have it elsewhere.

Download backup files from Wuala

I won't share too much until I've done a data integrity check and some pruning. These initial files are mostly to (hopefully) get someone interested in processing the available data in some way. To that end, I penned down a few suggestions.


Some technical information: 3,331,270 items, totalling 4.7 GB.
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Browsers & Technology / Zim Desktop Wiki
Already during Opera's lifetime I started looking for alternatives to Opera Notes. I didn't use it anymore besides providing an easy means to insert text into websites. I looked at popular alternative applications like Tomboy Notes, but they just didn't satisfy me. But for the past few months I've been using Zim, and it's been quite satisfactory.

I might add some more on how I use it, but this tiny link dump will actually tell you more than I could.

http://ajy.co/linux/zim-desktop-wiki-more-than-taking-notes-part-1/
http://ajy.co/linux/zim-desktop-wiki-more-than-taking-notes-part-2/
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-use-zim-a-multi-tasking-desktop-wiki/
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The Lounge / Re: What are your favorite Symbols?
Quote from: j7n on
Most of these can be added to a keyboard layout with a layout editor. Actually all of them probably can. I have set up another two layers on my keyboard to activate with a dead key ( ' ) (Shift - ' ), and logically arranged useful symbols on these layers. This enables me to quickly call up ß while typing by pressing DeadKey-B, the cross † by pressing DeadKey-T, £ by pressing DeadKey-$, copyright – DeadKey-&, registered – DeadKey-Shift-&, etc.

I find the compose key really useful. You could set it up for those things too, but I use it more for regular typing of characters like µ (compose key, m, u). I presently use Caps Lock for the purpose, which is otherwise a fairly useless key.