Author: Portfolioso

No One Cares, But This Deserves a Post

March 5, 2005

Computer/ Tech Related

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I’m so amazed that I figured out how to fix that nasty little MouseTrax bug where the right click menu would lock up and interfere with other programs menus. Yikes – it was annoying me for a while. It took me a while but I still got it. And being new to the whole programming thing, it’s amazing I figured it out. I still won’t finish this until next year. Now I will give it to people. I was holding off a while

And I promise my future posts won’t be about this dumb program anymore. You’re probably sick of hearing it.

Started MouseTrax

March 1, 2005

Computer/ Tech Related

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I started my useless program called MouseTrax today. It’s purpose is to count how many times a person clicks the left mouse button, right mouse button, total mouse clicks, scroll wheel scrolls, mouse distance traveled, and total keyboard keys pressed.

Today I did two things. First things first – the layout. I made all the buttons and stuff that the actual program will have. It looks all nice and pretty. Next, I worked on some code to minimize it to the system tray no one wants to see a bug dumb program while it’s counting – it has to be out of the way. That reminds me – I need to make an option to make it start in the tray. That’s later on though with the counting code and the rest of the options box.

Estimated date until I finish this: Mid 2006. I plan to use this project when I take Visual Basic next year. Yes, before you yell at me, I do know C++ is better and more powerful, but it’s much harder to learn.

If anyone wants the completely non functional EXE to see the design, look at the about box etc, just ask me and I’ll give it to you.

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Verizon People Are Dumb

February 13, 2005

Useless Update

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So the phone bill comes in and they made a completely retarded mistake.

Here’s the bill. I hilighted the part that’s messed up. Since it’s small I have an image below it showing what the hilighted part said.

The regular monthly charge for my packages is $49.95. With my discount, it goes up to $54.95! First of all, it’s supposed to be a $5 discount, so why did they write 4.50? Traditionally, when you get a discount, you are supposed to lower the price, not raise it! Everyone check your Verizon bills because they are clueless and probably get away with this all the time. A three year old can add and subtract better than the people workng in billing. Honestly…

Just When Everything is Winding Down…

February 13, 2005

School Related

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…you get slammed with work. Here I am thinking I’ll have a nice easy last week until break, but no. This past week was awful. And there I was thinking “only 5 more days until a nice week off.” Wrong!!! When you get slapped with three research papers and three assignments for another class, it’s not fun. And these three research papers are only worth one test grade! That’s crazy – it should be worth more.

What can you do? Oh well… There goes my break.

Uploader Fixed

February 6, 2005

Website Related

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It’s up again – now with a nice little php script that password protects it. So yeah… Nothing else to say. You put the username and password in and use the uploader. If you have access to it, consider yourself special. Don’t forget to log out by clicking the button on the upper right corner of the uploader, especially if you are on public computers. (*cough school cough*)

Now it’s time for me to watch the Superbowl. W00t.

Edit: The script is a little funky in Internet Explorer (If you press the back button you will get a “page can not be displayed” message. To correct, just go to the main uploaderr page and log in again. Firefox keeps you logged in). How may times do I tell you children to use Firefox?? IE stinks. Oh yeah – make sure cookies are enabled. If the cookies are blocked, you’re not getting in…