Please explain a few bits of television script convention to me. [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 8 answers

How does one find work as a script reader in Hollywood? What are other bottom-rung industry jobs for writers? [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - 7 answers

Television show, movie, cartoon, what was it that featured a character saying, "pour vous," in this particular way? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 9 answers

Is there a script that will show summaries of every post from my blog, using a feed from a Blogger blog? [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - 1 answers

BASHFilter! I've got a simple bash script that I've written to clean out a frequently used NAS. I run it every 30 days, it sets proper permissions, removes extraneous files and directories, but it frequently hangs on paths longer than 255 characters. [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 13 answers

Can you help me? I'd like to use this mootools script on a contact via email form on a site I'm designing for a friend, and I need to know if something about it can be changed. [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm translating a script into English, and the dreaded "Hollywood format" in particular. Doing this in Word is a freakin' impossible task with all the goofy formatting and margins, so is there any particular freeware screenwriting software or preprogrammed Word styles I should be aware of? Would sure as cooter save me some hours of my life...
posted on May 27, 2008 - 11 answers

How much does a script reader make? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Looking for a CMS or Forum that supports anonymous posting. [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I install/use the DOS batch scripting SLEEP command with Vista Ultimate? It does not exist by default. Back while scripting on XP, I used to install the free package "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools" which came with this command. [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 5 answers

Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 20 answers

About how much can a writer expect to make for an adult screenplay? $400? Less? More? Anyone?
posted on May 5, 2008 - 9 answers

How can I keep the Users folder tidy in Leopard? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 5 answers

W.A.S.T.E. of a question, but I need a script that will perform a diff and play an alert sound when a reload reveals that the HTML page has changed relative to the previous reload. [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2008 - 8 answers

My site's cron tasks eat up a lot of bandwidth. Can I change the paths from http to local? Or can I move the tasks to my home server? [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - 18 answers

I'm looking for an image gallery script with easy adsense integration and option to embed and share photos. [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 1 answers

What's the best web site builder software for a non-beginner? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - 11 answers

I'd like to create a batch file to clear out my cookies and Temporary Internet Files folder. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 8 answers

Anyone know of a backup script or utility that won't hurt the OLD copy? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 9 answers

Should-be-simple Linux timestamped file parsing question. [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - 7 answers

Is the screenplay for Diablo Cody's "Juno" online anywhere (other than the official Fox Searchlight site)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 3 answers

Stumped with RPy, need help badly! [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 4 answers

Khmer/Cambodian and Lao/Laotian food translations? [more inside]
posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 4 answers

How does one, in scriptwriting, correctly describe sequences in which a movie is shown (at length)? In other words - a movie inside of a movie.
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a plugin/extension/script for Firefox that automatically resizes text columns to make them a comfortable width to read? [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 3 answers

What popular movies were conceived of and/or written by the screenwriter when he or she were still in high school? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 17 answers

What's the best way to create a website table that a) can be dynamically (via Javascript) and statically sorted by readers and that b) can be created and added to easily c) for a Blogspot blog. E.g. a list of products I like, with ratings and category (sort by any of these things)? Thanks.
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - 5 answers

How can I set up a system that forwards email to a script given that port 25 is Cox-blocked on my home connection? Use a web host? Bypass Cox somehow? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm working on a quick Automator workflow and need some help replacing the local hostname in a series of URLs. [more inside]
posted on Nov 26, 2007 - 3 answers

Does anyone know what blog script/cms sites like thelastboss.com & wwtdd.com & filmdrunk.com use?
posted on Nov 10, 2007 - 5 answers

15-line AppleScript is giving this n00b nightmares. I think something's wrong with my "if ... then" syntax. [more inside]
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking for sources of weather data (current conditions, forecasts) that are in text formats so that I can turn them into a Twitter weather bot. What I have in mind is either existing ASCII products (METAR, AVN MOS) or derivatives of image products that (e.g. a compact text encoding of a radar map through some kind of image analysis). Ideas welcomed. [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I get bash to automagically execute a line or two of code at login? [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 25 answers

Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter, or Celtx, or something else altogether? [more inside]
posted on Oct 17, 2007 - 17 answers

Where can I take my kids to see Script Ohio for free? [more inside]
posted on Oct 15, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a script (javascript?) that will place an "email this post" button after posts on my blog. Something similar to the way you can email news stories from Yahoo!, etc. For the love of God, help me. If possible, I'd like to get one with a captcha or some such security device, but not absolutely necessary. Link to my site is available through my name, above, if that helps. I should also point out that I am not a coder, I barely know the difference between Javascript and printing.
posted on Oct 11, 2007 - 8 answers

I run a small forum where I would like to offer a "ticker" - as seen here, here, here and here - locally on my website. Where can I find this script to do this?
posted on Oct 4, 2007 - 6 answers

I would basically like to rip off, wholesale, some command-line script which will provide me a countdown -- only in days. No years, months, minutes, or seconds. Unfortunately, adapting an existing script is beyond my ken. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 5 answers

I need to know why my HTML form isn't sending me e-mail when the user submits it. It also doesn't go to the header page after submission. However, the submitted info DOES show up in the URL. ( e.g., http://www.example.com/contactus.html?Name=John&Title=CEO....) [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - 18 answers

How does one go about hiring someone to create a specific Greasemonkey script or Firefox extension for them? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - 6 answers

I wrote a shell script for an acquaintance that renames Macs (OS 10.4) based on their existing names. It works well, but I'm convinced my code could be more efficient. Where can I make improvements? [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 11 answers

Can you help me find and install a script that will hide posts from certain users on a phpBB 2 forum? [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Who here is willing to help a PHP noob with what should be a simple task? [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2007 - 6 answers

Php Youtube clone but for audio only? [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2007 - 6 answers

How would I batch export Eudora Pro e-mails with customized filenames? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 13 answers

How do I stop/view a domain login script? Work uses a domain login script with kixtart (kix32.exe), that maps shares, auto software installs, etc. Back with NT4 running novell, there was a nice checkbox to step through login scripts, but I have not seen anything like that in shareware/freeware.
posted on Apr 6, 2007 - 4 answers

How can I make WinXP give my Logoff script more time to complete? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2007 - 5 answers

A friend of mine recently wrote a play, and now someone who read it has written and is producing a show very similar to it. What can be done to prevent this? [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2007 - 16 answers

Paging Linux geeks -- please teach me the inner mysteries of cron and scripting. Simple questions follow. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I automatically grab the text (not code) off of a bunch of .htm files? [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 16 answers