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Comment on SimCity DS Landmark unlock codes by Fallon

Fallon — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:37:58 +0000

Excellent list!! I had the same problem – found a list missing number 12, haha. Thanks SO much!

Comment on Sourdough Yeast Starter by Mario

Mario — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:12:11 +0000

Actually the process of just using flour and water as a yeast starter is one that is used to capture wild yeast. You can most certainly make a yeast starter from yeast you buy. There is nothing wrong with that. I do it all the time in beer making and have done it for sourdough as well. So, apart from the mention of baking soda (never heard of that), docwhat’s process isn’t wrong at all.

If you want your yeast to have a distinctive regional flavor, then definitely go the wild yeast capturing route … this is in fact the reason why San Francisco sourdough tastes different from say New York or Chicago … the yeast used are regional.

A further note, while there is definitely yeast in flour (there’s actually yeast in everything, just about), when you make a yeast starter with just flour and water you are mostly getting your yeast from the air. And also, there isn’t a ‘proper’ sourdough yeast per-se. Sourdough gets its tangy flavor from the fermentation process the starter is allowed to go through. Each strain of yeast (and there are more that 1500) imparts its own signature as well. You can get strains of yeast to make your sourdough taste like, for instance, San Francisco sourdough … but it isn’t a ‘sourdough’ yeast so much as the strain of yeast used by most San Francisco sourdough makers.

Comment on Cosmic Wimpout for the Palm by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:05:57 +0000

Thanks here too!! Used to play your version on my Palm III and VI. Found you while looking for CW to play on my linux box….

back to searching………thanks again

Comment on It’s All Text! 1.4 (FF3.6 compatible) by Aziz Light

Aziz Light — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:06:30 +0000

I love It’s All Text. I loved it since it’s first release. However, I always had issue with it on OS X. I finally found a way! Well at least if you use Textmate. You first need to install the Terminal app (mate):

- Click on Help -> Terminal Usage…
- Choose where you want to install mate
- Click on “Create Link”

If you already installed the mate command but don’t know where it is, open Terminal.app and type “which mate”. Finally, in It’s All Text’s preferences, copy the path to the mate command. In my case, it was /usr/bin/mate

Now it should be working fine.

Comment on English in IIS thread by indialoka

indialoka — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:50:19 +0000

Rolling on the floor — very funny

Has MS looost its mind. Heh-heh!

Comment on Stupid Git Trick by knarf

knarf — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:29:21 +0000

Alternative solutions:
- start emacs server and set GIT_EDITOR to emacsclient
- directly commit from emacs with vc-mode

Personally, I use both. I have EDITOR set to emacsclient (various software
use EDITOR) and I commit from emacs.

Comment on OS X: Make an ISO by Rich Hessler Solar

Rich Hessler Solar — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:09:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Couldn’t remember how I did this to back up my files.

Comment on New Look! by docwhat

docwhat — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:41:26 +0000

It’s all available via the web: http://git.gerf.org/docwhat-web.git.

Just remember, the parts by me are licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

The plugins and stuff have their own licenses.

Ciao!

Comment on New Look! by Poojan Wagh

Poojan Wagh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:46:44 +0000

Hi,

I really like your theme (w/ the green top & bottom border). Seems like it is based off the Thematic framework. I was wondering if I could get access to your mods. I’d like to roll it out to my blog. Let me know. Thanks!

Comment on Google Gears, FF 3.5, and OS-X by GMS

GMS — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:04:15 +0000

Thank you! I thought it was weird that no download button was provided…

Comment on MacBook Pro – Dual Graphics by Matt Newboult

Matt Newboult — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:44:01 +0000

I edited an entire Final Cut Express movie and forgot I was still using the slower (sorry more efficient) GPU. And I knew how to change it!

Comment on It’s All Text! 1.4 (FF3.6 compatible) by Austin

Austin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:50:54 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if when installing addons that are outside of the users version users had an option to “install anyways” at their own risk? But perhaps all we’d have is a bunch of people with screwed up browsers saying “Mozilla sucks, Internet Explorer rocks!” …

Comment on Smoking craters are good by docwhat

docwhat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:38:52 +0000

Yes. Good point; it should blow up in such a way that the developer can troubleshoot it. One of the reasons I hate threading.

Glad you like IAT.

Comment on Smoking craters are good by docwhat

docwhat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:38:10 +0000

Not necessarily “The” developer, but “a” developer.

The “is the code maintainable” issue is separate, but just as important.

Comment on Smoking craters are good by Richard Remington

Richard Remington — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:22:36 +0000

I have another thought. As part of the ‘boom!’ process, I assume you feel that it should be simple to find the bug? Are there ways to ensure that happens? By the way, I love your It’s All Text software and use it daily.