User talk:Pidgeot

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Edit attribution

Hi Pidgeot. Your edits as 80.164.91.9 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 09:46, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Image:Stop hand.png revertion

May I ask why you reverted the stop hand picture? I think it is certainly nicer without the black background. --Aramգուտանգ 19:13, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I was not aware I did that, had you not mentioned that. I was trying to close my browser window (using ALT+F4), because my mouse started behacing erractically (jumping around on the screen, clicking randomly) - something that has unfortunately happened to several of my mice. My arm must have stroked against the mouse by accident, causing it to move, and it happened to click there while I was attempting to close the window.

I agree that it should be without a background, though - I shall re-revert it ASAP, now that I've replaced the defective mouse. --Pidgeot 19:43, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. By the way, as a side note, the difference between the images was not a question of background, they actually look exactly the same in a browser that supports PNG transparency properly (e.g. Mozilla Firefox). Since MSIE does not support partial transparency, it just fills the transparent area of PNG images with the background colour. With some tweaking of the file format, it's possible to get MSIE to diplay all partially transparent areas as fully transparent, which is what I did (the image actually has a soft partially transparent shadow). The reason why I'm telling you this, is to encourage you to report to me any PNG images you encounter here that have such incorrect transparency so I can fix them too, if you have the time and motivation that is. Thanks. --Aramգուտանգ 20:04, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Firefox is better than IE

Hey. You axed for it.

Tabs are better than separate windows because you can see the tab items all in one spot rather than mixed up with your other windows in your taskbar (this also helps switching; ctrl-TAB only deals with your tabs and doesn't have you flipping through your spreadsheets, email app, etc.).
You can treat your "browsing" as a single application and still have many windows subtended within it.
There's also the problem of windows scattered across the screen and resizing because of screen-edge conflict. So they end up scattered in X, Y, H, W, and stacking order, etc. Just untidy.
Oh, and new tabs can be opened behind the current tab, by default, so you can speed-click a bunch of links to get the pages preloading while you continue to choose things to go see. Verrrry efficient.

I only keep IE around for two things:

when browsing from a page with a big list of links with similar names, it puts a dotted box around the link you followed, so when you go back, you can pick it out quickly; very handy when spelunking repeatedly and the color changes don't help
its integration with FTP is a little cleaner (could be I've just got something set up wrong in my usage of FF with FTP, though).

Other than that, FF is the shiznit, mang.

To respond to your additions in order:

I hardly use Alt-Tab anyway when browsing, so that particular thing makes no difference to me (except in one case, see below). And I'll be opening all needed IE windows at once anyway, so nothing gets mixed in between.
XP can group the taskbar buttons. Same thing. (That I don't actually USE that feature is beside the point. :P)
If configured correctly, windows will open in a fixed size. If the size is big enough, the X and Y points are identical, because the window can only fit the "grid" at a single point. I've made sure the windows take up nearly all of the screen. I think there's only 8 pixels away from being a maximized size (which is X=-4,Y=-4,W=808,H=608 on 800x600). And while I think that grid is 8 pixels, Windows won't position part of the window outside of the screen.
Right hand on the mouse, left hand on the keyboard. Right hand opens new window. Left hand instantly presses Alt-Tab to go back, while right hand moves mouse to proper position for opening the next window. Repeat as needed. ;)

Let me know if you have more arguments that needs to be knocked down. (Muahahaha.) --Pidgeot 01:26, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Buh Your last one actually knocks down your first one, and anyway doesn't play, because I guarantee you the first time you go "click, click, click-click-click-click-click" and open 7 tabs in 1.5 seconds you'll think alt-tabbing back and hunting for the link is strictly for the nyewbs. Then you watch the one window and wait as the spinner on each tab tells you the page is loading, then when the first one hits, you go read it and let the others continue loading...trust me...it's nine kinds of better than separate windows. As for No. 2: As it turns out, I have taskbar grouping turned on for XP, I just never noticed...huh... No. 3: you must have one tiny screen to want your browser always full-sized... Summary: I like playing multiball ping-pong. Blair P. Houghton 06:34, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The ALT-TABbing takes the same or less time than it takes me to move the cursor to the position of the next link (which, of course, I'll memorize just before opening a new window). It ALREADY goes "click, click, click-click-click-click-click" for me.

When I need to have that many windows open at once, they tend to load in the order I open them (that's just how the page in question seems to work). I can almost always correctly predict the first window to load, with an accuracy of at least 99%.

2: But that's what you wanted, isn't it? Treating X browser windows as 1 appication? :P

3: 800x600, 17" monitor. The resolution is too low to be able to make lines appear as having a reasonable length, and 1024x768 is too high a resolution for me to use on this computer, as it's too small for me. --Pidgeot 07:23, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

AIM/MSN?

Do you have either of these two, and if so could you tell me what your screen name/e-mail is? I'd like to talk to you person-to-person. --ThomasWinwood 22:43, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou for FFMpeg

Thankyou very much for sending that to me. AFAICT, it will work with 90% of Quicktime movies. Thanks again, Alphax ^τεχ 07:57, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Download problems

Thanks for checking. It's still isn't working. Have you got anything more than the last time you gave an update? My download keeps timing out. Mgm|^(talk) 08:18, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, no such luck. I just tried again, but I'm getting even WORSE speeds now, only 2-300 bytes/s. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 10:44, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

WP:FICT

Hi there! Since there was some ambiguity on 'transcendence' in WP:FICT, and since clarity is a good thing, I would like your suggestion on rewording that paragraph. Yours, R adiant _* 09:29, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

An explanation of what is meant would suffice. As I've understood it, this would be something like:

Fictional characters which are cultural icons appearing in a fictional universe not directly linked to themselves (several cameos, etc.), or who cannot be neatly tied to a particular work of fiction or fictional universe deserve articles of their own, regardless of other circumstances.

Alternatively, the Superman example could be expanded slightly to explain how he is transcending. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 15:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MSYS fstab trouble

Just in case you'd given up hope for some reason, I thought I'd let you know that I've found a solution to your problem - I've posted it on WP:RD. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 00:26, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! AFAIK, you're the first person to start a thread on my talk page. Alphax ^τεχ 00:29, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Good ideas deserve to be put to use. ^_~ --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 00:34, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - I got the idea from WP:VFD. Unfortunately the idea is liable to meta:Instruction creep, but it's well worth it if followed. Also makes things easier to archive. Thanks again, Alphax ^τεχ 01:05, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just thought of something in regards to your symlink problem - are you absolutely certain that the files were copied? I haven't tried linking in MSYS, but in Cygwin, the file will appear to have been copied - but in reality, it hasn't; the created file works just like a symlink should and there's no difference in available space (according to df). --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 22:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I opened it up in Windows Explorer and the files/folders had been copied. Anyway, now that I can get fstab to work, it's not too bad. If only I could get Vim 6.3 to work natively in MSYS (currently it runs in a DOS window, called from a shell script in /bin/). Actually, quite a few Windows command line programs don't work properly in MSYS. Oh well. Thanks anyway, Alphax ^τεχ 05:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

HRWiki Sig

Hey Pidgeot, I figured I may as well try and reach you here instead of in the HRWiki, but this is Thunderbird. I was just looking at your sig, and noticed you have little brackets for links to your talk page, and contributions. I was wondering though, what is the third, unclickable bracket for? I think it's an 'e' with a strike through it or something. Either way, let me know on my talk page in the HRWiki. Thanks. I'm heading back to the warmth of that one now. It's cold out here, in the big 'pedia... Thunderbird. From The Homestar Wiki. Really! 05:06, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MASm

Thanks for the tip. Yes I stopped monitoring RD for quite a while now. I haven't found a suitable one as yet though, despite google searching the new term. I'll keep searching though... =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:04, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

WP:PAC

Thank you for doing that cleanup in my list of stubs. Does this mean you'll be able to help WP:PAC out again? Almafeta 29 June 2005 19:19 (UTC)

I'm afraid not, at least not when it comes to writing the articles. I just happened to notice you'd created the list (like I've mentioned on Wikipedia:Poképrosal, I'm still monitoring what's going on) and had a little time to spare - so I went through it and noticed those stubs were in the list.

Although I usually have at least some time available every day, I don't feel that I currently have enough to de-stub a POKéStub within a reasonable amount of time. Truth be told, I really need to prioritize my time in favor of the program I'm rewriting, as I've been going at it much, much longer than planned without really getting anywhere.

For now, I plan to monitor the work you guys are able to make and try to improve those a little. Once I think I have time enough to de-stub something, I'll be sure to let you know.

And of course, if you have anything specific you need me to help with (such as getting the Japanese names right or making images IE-ready), I'll still be able to do that - just leave me a message here or e-mail me by clicking the (e) in my signature. Unless you're trying to reach me in the week that I'll be on vacation (2 weeks from now), I'll get back within 24 hours, most likely a lot sooner. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 29 June 2005 21:15 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pokémon Adoption Center (threaded)

Hi there! On June 1, you voluenteered to improve a POKéMON stub and were assigned Wooper. I notice you haven't made any edits to this article since then, so I wanted to know if you were still interested in going through with this.

If not, please let us know and we will put Wooper back up for adoption. If you still want to participate, we will keep the article assigned to you, or, if you request it, we can assign you to another article. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 1 July 2005 10:44 (UTC)

Sorry I think I'll have to abandon Wooper, I guess I just don't have enough background knowledge. Kappa 5 July 2005 11:09 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pokémon Adoption Center (threaded)

Hi there! On June 1, you voluenteered to improve a POKéMON stub and were assigned Haunter. I notice you haven't made any edits to this article in a while, so I wanted to know if you were still interested in going through with this.

If not, please let us know and we will put Haunter back up for adoption. If you still want to participate, we will keep the article assigned to you, or, if you request it, we can assign you to another article. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 1 July 2005 10:44 (UTC)

I haven't made any recent edits because I'm not sure what else to do with it... though I know I haven't turned it into a non-stub yet. I'll look at it in the near future. (BTW, I've subst'd this threaded discussion thingie. I'd prefer to not have templates on my talk page except the ones I set up.) AиDя01DTALKEMAIL July 1, 2005 20:48 (UTC)
- Sure, there's no rush - we have plenty of other articles to improve, so take all the time you need. (And since you subst'd the thread before replying, I copied your reply to the thread for the sake of context.) --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 2 July 2005 00:12 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm sorry to be a bother, because you do have a busy talk page. But I wanted to drop a message. I love Texas hold'em poker as well, and was once interested in Pokemon (much more admittedly than others). You started wiki'ing on my birthday too. May 10 :). --coblin 9 July 2005 09:31 (UTC)

Birdiesoft software

Just wanted to say how nifty your stuff at Birdiesoft is... Sudoku wordpad is really handy, especially with the ability to lock cells, since it lets me make Sudoku as well as solve them.

Additionally, the Pokémon simulator seems cool. I had thought of doing something similar, actually, although my Pokésim would have been a rougelike or something using one of those graphical RPG makers... Almafeta 00:25, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! It's amazing to see that my programs are as popular as they are, especially since pretty much everything I've used for them has been self-taught.

A guy from the Czech Republic recently e-mailed me a modified version of the Sudoku program, and I'll be implementing his changes within a few days. Once these are in, it should be a little easier for you to make puzzles. (If you make any good ones, I'd love to see them ^_~) --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 01:28, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PDF --> image

I've posted at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#PDF_to_image. To make a long story short the latest releases you pointed me to are only supported by NT variants of Windows while I use Windows 98. :( - Mgm|^(talk) 07:34, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Poke Poke

I request a new article! --WikiFanatic^{Talk Contribs 21:19, 19 Sep 2005 (CDT)}

Done, see WP:PAC. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 18:57, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Poké-request

Pidgeot, I was wondering if you could do me a favor... I'm wanting to start a pokédex on the Interlingua wikipedia, and I was wondering if you could create a tool (similar to your stat block maker) that would create a table with the appropriate 'database-y' facts, but in Interlingua. I don't want to have to translate hundreds of tables... -_-; It's a blatantly selfish request, but there's nothing lost in asking... nn; Almafeta 20:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly, if you can tell me what you'd like to see there. Currently, the database doesn't contain a whoel lot beyond base stats, but I can add pretty much anything you need. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 20:51, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well... pretty much most of what was in the old table, and the category links. May I get in touch with you via e-mail to work on the specifics? Almafeta 14:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly! Just click the little (e) in my signature. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 16:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CodeGear (threaded)

I'm a bit curious - why did you delete the CodeGear article? I mean, sure, it was an extremely short stub, but the topic is a valid one, since it's the new company for the Developer Tools Group at Borland, and thus the new home of their Delphi programming language, such as Delphi. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 17:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you were aware I deleted it, the reason for deletion can be inferred from the following comment:

11:16, November 15, 2006 Freakofnurture (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "CodeGear" (content was: 'The new name of the Borland spin-off that's going to handle the development tools. Previously code-named DevCo.' (and the only contributor was 'Mgenereu'))

The article was deleted because it gave insufficient context for expansion, see WP:CSD#A1. —freak(talk) 19:41, Nov. 15, 2006 (UTC)

That same criteria mentions this:

Limited content is not in itself a reason to delete if there is enough context for the article to qualify as a valid stub.

WP:STUB states:

A stub is an article that is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of the subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information.

The text (very, very briefly) explained what CodeGear is, where they come from, and what they will be doing. I wouldn't consider that a lack of context, and it IS a stub, since it does provide at least some useful information (though not much, due to the short length).

That being said, the discussion is pretty moot by now, since a new article has been created. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 16:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zeruda/Zelda

It seems like that MoS sections says to do both. As in The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説, Zeruda no Densetsu). There are 2 reasons for it to be this way: The "Zelda" part is included as the main title; also, the romaji should stay consistent. By that I mean, it should be stricly Zelda (ゼルダ, Zeruda). I think throwing English into the romaji would confuse people, and it's known at Zeruda in Japan, right? I will argue about the the Zelda Fitzgerald thing too. The name was based off an English woman, but considering that "Zelda" can't be said in Japanese, they changed it. I consider the Japanese version to be "official", far above any translations. Basically, if the North American version was never created, we would all call it "Zeruda". Scepia 21:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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