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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one on here. :-) A few more catches this week... I was using the "Word Recall" option to make sure that I can get all the...
Tom
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Feb 2, 2006
5:31 pm
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... But that's okay when you've got such good feedback! ... That's strange, I don't think I've ever seen that... but I will try to reproduce it by doing what...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 2, 2006
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... Okay, I knew you were going to ask that and didn't get that in my original post. My bad. I'm running Windows (boo, hiss) XP SP2, with the 0.9.6 Zyzzyva...
Tom
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Feb 2, 2006
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... I've found and fixed the problem. Thank you for the great error report! I was able to track it down much more quickly because of that. I'm planning to...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 4, 2006
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This is a nitpick, but the word list that comes with Zyzzyva probably shouldn't be referred to as "owl2.txt", since "owl2" is generally understood to be the...
J. Dalton
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Feb 4, 2006
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You could easily make one, thanks to the definitions MT provides, by removing all longer words that do not reference shorter words in their definitions. But...
Austin Nichols
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Feb 4, 2006
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I maintain OCTWL2+OLWL=OWL2 on logical grounds even if a source as reliable as John Chew disagrees: ...
Austin Nichols
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Feb 4, 2006
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I've released a new version of Zyzzyva, 0.10.0. Zyzzyva is a program for studying words and practicing anagramming. You can get the latest version here: ...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
8:52 am
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Hello, I would like to throw my two cents in the discussion of possible interesting features for zyzzyva in order to know your opinion. Here goes my list: ...
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Feb 6, 2006
10:32 am
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Hello, again, Just a clarification. In my last message, when I wrote “(...) It only can come from the following racks: ZURPETO URUPETO ZUPUETO ZURUETO ...
Enric Hernandez
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Feb 6, 2006
11:59 am
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All right! No bugs today. First off, haven't used it too in-depth, yet, but the new release looks great, Mike. Thanks for all the hard work! I'm looking...
Tom
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Feb 6, 2006
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... Thank you for the great suggestions! I think they're all good, and I'll plan on implementing them all in Zyzzyva at some point. ... Yep, the ability to...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
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... Oh yeah! I completely forgot about the searches in the View menu when I implemented the "Group by wildcard match" feature. They should definitely behave...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
5:26 pm
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I'm not concerned so much with the name, but rather what it represents. If everyone agrees that owl2 stands for octwl2+olwl, I'm okay with it. Thanks for your...
J. Dalton
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Feb 6, 2006
5:29 pm
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... Thank you for bringing this issue up... I guess it's not clear whether "OWL2" refers to the contents of the Official Tournament and Club Word List, 2nd...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
5:40 pm
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... thanks to ... That depends on your machine! To make Zyzzyva Word Judge (ZWJ) useful for tournaments (why should only one program be "certified" by NSA?) it...
Go5shawk
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Feb 6, 2006
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... thanks to ... That depends on your machine! To make Zyzzyva Word Judge (ZWJ) useful for tournaments (why should only one program be "certified" by NSA?) it...
Go5shawk
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Feb 6, 2006
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... That's a good point. Actually, the problem with Zyzzyva on Win 3.1/95 is that the Qt4 library (which Zyzzyva uses) simply will not run on those platforms....
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
8:23 pm
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Actually, there is a way to get zyzzyva running on a Win3.1/95 machine -- run Linux on that machine. Given the number of viruses that attack Windows 95 and...
Mitch Bayersdorfer
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Feb 6, 2006
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In the 0.10.0 release of Zyzzyva, there is a new search condition specifically for finding new words in OWL2. Here's how to use it! First, make sure you have...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 6, 2006
8:43 pm
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Hi! I've been using Zyzzyva 0.9.6 with great success the past few weeks. Today I deleted it and installed 0.10.0 and it fails to run. The icon will show up...
Paul Cole
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Feb 6, 2006
11:09 pm
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On the Zyzzyvz website there is the text file for the OWL2 but it includes all the definitions. Is there a file available that does not have any definition,...
joemarc77
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Feb 6, 2006
11:47 pm
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Would it be possible to incorporate predefined lists of seven and eight letters words by probability? Or is there a way to create these list somehow already...
joemarc77
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Feb 6, 2006
11:59 pm
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Nevermind...I just saw some of the previous posts about possibly getting it into the next big release. That'd be great! ... these...
joemarc77
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Feb 7, 2006
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... Yikes, that's not good! I'll take a look tonight and see if I can figure out what is happening. Thanks for reporting the problem! -- Michael W Thelen It...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 7, 2006
12:34 am
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... I believe I've found and fixed the problem. It was a dumb mistake I made when creating the disk image file. Try downloading the 0.10.0 disk image from...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 7, 2006
12:45 am
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There's a near-text file (just words, with length rubrics, and some html formatting) at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nicholsa/scr/owl2.html which is based on...
Austin Nichols
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Feb 7, 2006
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Michael-- Excellent program. On the probability/playability front: It seems to me that you might want to offer folks the option to specify a tile distribution,...
Austin Nichols
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Feb 7, 2006
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After sitting down and actually using the Zyzzyva quiz mode for a while, it seems to me that the green and cyan colors for Correct and Missed words seem to be...
Michael W Thelen
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Feb 7, 2006
11:39 pm
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Nah...that sounds great, Mike. Better yet, how hard would it be to make it customizable? Tom...
Tom
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