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Living Room / Re: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

« on: May 30, 2006, 02:31 PM »

hahaha, what's worse is that some people would read through this and think it's real.

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Living Room / Re: You thought google maps was cool?

« on: May 30, 2006, 01:04 PM »

Too bad you can't select and copy/paste the ascii text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?

« on: May 30, 2006, 10:53 AM »

As I understand it the Gimp is aimed at image editing for monitor display and web pages, and not optimized or really designed for photography. It is a long time since I used the Gimp maybe things have changed but it used to be limited to screen resolutions (ie. 92 dpi).

That must have been really long ago, because as far as I can remember you could always manually enter a dpi. A little more recent, they also put in a bunch of templates for new documents with predefined dpi values.

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CMYK is available through a plugin.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cmykgimp/

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« on: May 30, 2006, 03:25 AM »

My significant other's asleep. but mine would be the TAB key.
The tab key does all cool kindsof things.
It indents text, it switches between windows (alt-tab), it auto-completes text (in console),...

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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?

« on: May 27, 2006, 04:09 PM »

I never really understood why one would buy a PDA over, say a laptop. The only good use I can think of is to run GPS software,...

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Living Room / Re: Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? - hahahahaha

« on: May 23, 2006, 06:56 PM »

got a 28. I don't know anything about web 2.0 though, i just picked the star wars characters i know

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Living Room / Re: new alt.comp.freeware usenet thread with criticism of DonationCoder

« on: May 20, 2006, 12:40 AM »

I too used "Screenshot Captor" recived a nag screen. When I questioned
the author he was rather rude .

Mouser? Rude? I don't think he even knows how to be rude. If there was an award for nicest programmer on the planet I'd give it to him. (Though I haven't seen him yet in his angry-at-the-computer mode )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Article: Inside the Spyware Scandal -- Part 2

« on: May 17, 2006, 12:16 PM »

f0dder

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General Software Discussion / Re: OS GUIs & Just About Everything You Wanted To Know About Them

« on: May 17, 2006, 12:15 PM »

Great find!
Is it just me or does qnx look awesome?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Article: Inside the Spyware Scandal -- Part 2

« on: May 17, 2006, 11:59 AM »

Meh, sony has no excuse. Shipping a rootkit with retail software is unacceptable, no matter what their so called motives were.

"We wanted to prevent people from copying music, so now we can control all computers that ever played a sony cd...."

overkill much?

It's a plot to take over the world!

DRM is pointless anyway. as long as music can be played and listened to, it can be copied.

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Living Room / Re: Skype users: beware

« on: May 17, 2006, 07:57 AM »

Thanks for the info, f0dder!

lol, cpilot. so you think that everyone should just cover their eyes and plug their ears and be good citicens and obey the nice totalitarian policestate law until some terrorist finds the bug exploits it

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Developer's Corner / Re: Indie Game Devs: Forget It - article

« on: May 16, 2006, 03:52 PM »

The game industry is in a rather depressing state.
Companies like EA are buying up all the smaller (successful) ones, and games are much like the movie industry, where everything done for maximum marketing value and popularity with the masses.

EA: All your games are belong to us.

These larger companies can not afford to make unpopular games so there may be a small market there for indy developers who aren't aiming for the general public.

Most indy game developers stick to puzzle games or kids games.

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« on: May 13, 2006, 01:16 AM »

I use cinerella which is free and very good.
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

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Screenshots : http://heroinewarrio.../cinelerra_shots.php

It's linux only though.

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Developer's Corner / Re: SourceForge getting some hate

« on: May 11, 2006, 03:02 PM »

Yeah, cvs has been broken for waaay to long now. They seem to forget that many many things depend on their cvs. Many OpenSource projects develop through cvs, and for many users it cuts off their 'cutting edge' version downloads. Some linux distributions ( like gentoo ) automatically connect to sourceforge's cvs to install certain software ( some emerge's are cvs only ). All this is broken now. It's a bit disastrous. I hope they fix it soon. But when it's fixed it will be better than before, hopefully.

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Living Room / Re: A Little Picture Conversion Fun

« on: May 11, 2006, 03:38 AM »

So THAT's how they make that ascii pr0n!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« on: May 08, 2006, 02:58 AM »

Simply awesome, now i can sell my mouse.

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Living Room / Re: Do you Suffer from Computer Anger Management - How do you handle it?

« on: May 04, 2006, 02:54 PM »

zridling is right

Computers require patience and lots of it. I'm a very patient person, and I never get frustrated with my computer, even when it completely breaks down and doesn't turn on. I just lift my butt, open the case, and fix it, and then continue my work.

In some bad cases the 'fix it' part takes a few hours, sometimes it takes a few days, sometimes it requires replacing parts, but in the end everything always turns out ok.

We have to remember, that computers are, essentially, nothing but scrap metal, so why get all worked up over that?

No matter what my physical meatbody is doing at the moment, or my brain is working on, I'm always present, and it's that presence which is continual throughout everything I do. Feel comfortable and happy with that presence, and nothing from the outside world can bother you.

This Presence is the undefinable thing that exists beyond the physical, mental and emotional body. It is the 4th body which overshadows them all. Depending on where your daily focus is within these 4 bodies, you will react differently. Some people are mostly emotionally focused, others are mostly mentally focused (scientists?), others are mostly physically focused (body builders?). Most people's normal focus will be a mix of all of these. But the 4th one, P R E S E N C E, is always overlooked!
If you were to put them in a scale from low to high (eventhough such linearity is not accurate) you'd get

- physical
- emotional
- mental
- PRESENCE

the mental can control the emotional and physical, the emotional can cause physical reactions, it also works the other way around, and they all interact, but the last one is omnipresent, and affects them all. You're there!

Imagine being happy that you're there, all the time, regardless of the state of the physical, emotional, and mental!

Now that's detatchment, baby


- end of rant -

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Project Management software?

« on: May 01, 2006, 11:59 PM »

http://proj.chbs.dk/

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Living Room / Re: Countdown to 010203040506

« on: May 01, 2006, 11:50 PM »

Bah, in many countries this would be 01.02:03 05.04.06
Time is sooooo relative

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Internet Explorer Security Risk - April 25, 2006

« on: April 26, 2006, 09:30 PM »

It's not that other browsers don't have security holes, it's that IE is the most targeted browser for most malware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Internet Explorer Security Risk - April 25, 2006

« on: April 26, 2006, 12:37 AM »

heh, these just keep on comming, don't they?

patch that fixes it : don't use IE

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Developer's Corner / Re: Croquet - open source 2d+3d apps

« on: April 25, 2006, 03:56 PM »

Have you tried coding in it yet? it's kinda cool
The energiser bunny tutorial/example is very cool

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Developer's Corner / Re: Panda3d - nice looking new 3d game engine

« on: April 25, 2006, 03:50 PM »

Interesting,

I wish though it would have more c++ source sample code instead of all that python stuff.

Very weird license, by the way!

10. The Software is subject to United States export controls. The Software may not be downloaded or otherwise exported or reexported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods;

That seems very,.... evil.

I read over the license 3 times and i still do not know if it is :
    - Legal to distribute compiled comercially without paying?
    - Do you have to mention you used it?

In the main page it just sais it's a "free" license,.... that's not very verbose, does that mean one is allowed to do all of the above (as long as you're not in a country the US doesn't like), or what?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Open Source Free Php -> Windows Exe App, WinBinder: The native Windows bind

« on: April 25, 2006, 12:08 AM »

Generally, that's true. But what happends usually is that something starts out as a quick small script, but later it grows, more features get added, etc. The end result is not really fit for a scripting language. There are more and more and more apps that are being released like that, and it seems like applications seem to run slower and slower, with a few exceptions. That's kinda wrong
But offcourse there are good uses for it.

For example, a good backend program coded in for example c++, with a scriptable frontend.
The reality is, very few, next to none script-based applications that I see are coded like that.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Open Source Free Php -> Windows Exe App, WinBinder: The native Windows binding

« on: April 24, 2006, 11:38 PM »

Hmm,... I still think making GUI apps with a scripting language is evil :p