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LinuxMCE's problem is ZAERC.
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Getting personal now are we?  I wouldn't go there if I were you.

How about if you were me?

Another idea: have the new user fill in redundant info, like this: type in the data in the "Name", "Location", "email address" and the number XYZ as one string, with each component separated by a semicolon in a dedicated field.

This just came to mind: Use a MD5 sum of the user's info, and ask the user to provide certain components from it. Characters in certain positions, a range o characters from the string, possibly don't give the positions in progressive order, so characters don't necessarily follow one another in the string (e.g. characters 3, 5, 2).

Have someone throw you a real email account while they are at it.

I should tell you right now that I can't get a "real" email account each time you feel like it to "update" the definition of "real email account". If I get an email with BT and the spammers move there, what then? It's suddenly not "real" enough for you so here I am shopping for the next "real for now" email address?

You may as well delete this forum if you enact this policy, 'cause you'll lose most of the real posters.

So here goes: A week or two back I was looking for alternatives to CAPTCHA. Keep the CAPTCHA (makes the site look "legit" for the Indian CAPTCHA crackers), and add something that isn't yet standard. Options:

* An extra field that says "What is 2 + 2?" and the user just has to enter 4 in the field.
* An extra field that doesn't use a hardcoded human readable question or equation, but displays it with alternative letters and digits, eg. "What is 2 plus 2?", "What is two + two?", "What is 4 times five?", "What color is a red car?", "Enter the 4rd word of this sentence".

Still thinking on options. Banning the Internet because there are spammers on it isn't an option.

Dude. Stop for a second. I don't have a "mainstream" ISP. I use whatever others throw at me. What you are saying is that I should step away from this Internet thing because I don't have an alternative e-mail address than @gmail.com

I also checked my calendar to see if it's April Fools already, and it isn't.

If anything, we should change the signup procedure to make it harder for bots. I have some ideas if you want to hear them.

I assume I'll have to go to my LinuxMCE development box, which is in fact Thom's development and girl amazement box , 'cause I get "Gen_Devices/QtWebBrowserBase.h: No such file or directory". That is if the Device Template is in the latest database. If it's just on your system, then I can't do much to help you, unless you give me direct access to your system to see what's going on.

should have something interesting as soon as i get scrolling implemented in a semi-interesting fashion. well that and cleanly laying out data grids Spent a few days trying to digest gui programming so far i have this...which a badly rendered grid. prototype 1st, refine later.

http://flic.kr/p/8VRx65

-golgoj4

Looks alright so far. I like how I can move the image in the background with the scrollbar

left 2 things out.

1. On the qt-web browser, has resolved and integrated most stuff(i think?) but im getting tripped up by one include. Says its a reference to an undefined function but i can find the function in the include thats in that file. confusing.

I was looking around your code for a qt-web browser, and couldn't find it, to see what you were doing wrong. It's not there, but after thinking a bit it struck me what your problem might be. By your description your error is at link time, not at compile time.

I don't know what the proper way to do it in QtCreator is. In QDevelop I can tick a few boxes to add the needed libs for the link. Anyway, lacking those tickboxes, I think you achieve the same effect doing this:

In file demo_orbiter.pro, at line 7 change this:

Code:

QT       += core gui

to this:

Code:

QT       += core gui webkit

and run qmake to update your Makefile. This should get rid of your link error for qt-web, if I understand correctly and you use the QtWebkit stuff.

2. anyone that wants to take a look and hack on what im doing as far as the experimental datagrid stuff http://gitorious.org/demo-file-grid-idea

good day!

Yes.

Every time I make headway my life folds in around me. Will have a working model before forever or never. Need a job.

* uplink wonders why that sounds familiar

This just crossed my mind:

Except being a "native" Orbiter, what extra work does the native Orbiter do on the N800 compared to the Touch Orbiter? It speaks DCE. And MySQL. And pulls images from the server and sends clicks back And that's it. Please let me know if I'm ignorant, otherwise on this basis alone I'd rather run the "native" bit on the Core (Proxy_Orbiter) and just do the image and click bits on the tablet (Touch Orbiter).

I'm with the Touch Orbiter on this one. I rebuilt the native Orbiter for the N810 last time I added a screen and it's been broken since. For some reason, although I didn't do anything wrong, the launcher fails to start the Orbiter, even though the Orbiter itself works when started from the console.

I have been developing on my n810, I have made some slight changes too the mini2440 code to get it to work nicely on the n810 (so far so good).
Now I just need to build the deb package.  I will tidy up a few things then submit it to track so someone can add it to the svn (if they like).

If you need help with the debs, please let me know. I can help.

Thom, I'm quite in a mood of slashing my wrists right now, for no good reason, and I get this mood each time I want to do something for this system, not sure why. I did this Touch Orbiter thing on a whim, for quick and dirty way of getting more devices with Orbiters on them in a snap, and get other people to write similar code for other platforms, for an instant explosion of supported devices.

thx for trying to help. Is the option you mention the "ImageQuality" in the generic proxy orbiter screen of webadmin?

Yes, that's the one

2) when using the portnumber I defined in the proces to get my Eken running on weborbiter 2.0 it just sits there with the little waiting thingy in the middle of the screen. ("unable to load png")

Sounds like you missed the issue that the WinCE Touch Orbiter can't decode JPEG data, which is the default for the Web Orbiter. You'll have to set the Quality DeviceData to 100 to force PNG data to be generated, which the WinCE TabletOrbiter can decode. Don't forget to reload the router after you change the Quality value.

As with any code, I'd like to have it in public SVN eventually. The sooner the better. If you don't have an SVN account, upload your source to filebin and post a link here, and one of us with accounts will add it to SVN.