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Best twist on the zombie movie genre... EVAR!!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryenlQKTbE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryenlQKTbE</a>

HA! Iain! I was waiting for a second on my vote.  Thank you 
Also a big fan of xplorer², when I'm on Windows that is...

DEOZAAN: THE ONIONS!! OUT!!

Now for something a bit more light-hearted  

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xiub7Vg3c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xiub7Vg3c</a>

If you're using Chrome or Opera, try Youtube Options, and check out the "disable auto-play" options.
 

Damn, just... damn. 

Thanks for reporting that Tinman, I posted about the Parallella project earlier this year, and was wondering when the darn things would get out the door.

To clarify, this thing isn't the supercomputer-on-a-board it's touted to be, but a platform for learning parallel programming, which is where the future needs to go as CPUs keep getting smaller and smaller with more and more cores. See the other thread for more details.

Thanks, TM57!  

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyYqONTZs0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyYqONTZs0</a>

 

I just posted about the security sign because it's a very effective "visual deterrent"; any thief would think twice unless they somehow knew beforehand it wasn't genuine.  The article also mentions that thieves won't touch a house that dogs obviously live at.  I leave a couple dog toys in the front yard to "remind" them.

 
Wow, finally some PLAIN LANGUAGE about video codecs, containers and mux/demux.  This has eluded me for a loooong time.
Thanks Vurbal! 

1- Non-public Facebook profile: Check
2- Dog owner: Check
3- Fake security system sign in front yard: Check

I got a DMCA takedown notice because some xplorer2 icons I had posted on Mediafire had the filename "xplorer2.zip".
Nikos was very understanding, but said as much; it was a dolphin caught in the tuna net, and there wasn't much he could do after the fact. 
Result: I still had to take the files down, but then I uploaded under a different filename and all is well.

OR... you could just show up as yourself and get the freekin' party started:

http://www.h-online.com/s...r-conference-1917800.html

General Keith Alexander, the Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Commander of the United States Cyber Command, is to be a keynote speaker at this year's Black Hat conference.

* Edvard gets some popcorn and a lawn chair

[ice cream]

A hazardous serum that turns people into zombies, the product of a failed military experiment to create super soldiers, is accidentally released and infects a group of friends when they eat ice cream that has come in contact with the serum.

Sponsored by Edy's Slow Churned Ice Cream...LOL! (I am serious!)

Sounds like a nod to the 1985 movie "The Stuff"

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo</a>

Say it's so, c|net, please say it is...

In the future, we might be able to save our history to a glass storage medium that could potentially outlive humankind. The new type of memory also touts mind-blowing specifications, such as 360TB per disc data capacity and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures up to 1,832 Fahrenheit.

They're calling it the "real-world version of Superman's 'Memory Crystals'".

http://news.cnet.com/8301...=e404&ftag=TRE15bf2df
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The geek porn (PDF whitepaper) here:
http://www.orc.soton.ac.u...ostructuring_in_Glass.pdf

... and more from the website here:
http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/5dopticalstore.html

Or search for "Superman Memory Crystals"; it's all over the web this week.  

HAHAHAHAHA!! 

Beat ya to it, buddy! 

http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=35306.0

^^ very cute 

This however, is simply mesmerizing:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747hJQNJpeg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747hJQNJpeg</a>

Alternatively, a small badge (perhaps an infinity symbol or Hex63 of the I Ching ("After Completion") to indicate the person has passed on, plus disabling further personal messages on the account and deleting any other contact information would be the easiest and best thing to do? That way anybody who was curious about the person after reading their posts would learn he or she is no longer with us.

Actually, my first thought was that some sort of indication should be made on their profile; thanks for thinking alike, 40Hz   ...and great ideas too.  
I know there are online spaces where you can store your logins and passwords and a few pre-written emails to be released on notification of your passing, so I'm thinking something along the lines of a "final post" stored in profile-space that's only unlocked when the "time comes" might be a good idea, but may not be practical with the forum software.

A memorial section in the forum would not be out of line.

Only thing I've ever seen done is along the lines of what OP has already accomplished. I'm not really sure a dedicated Obit section is really needed. It's too much the constant reminder, and a bit dark (as in tends to dampen mood).

Ah, differences of opinion... I did ask for thoughts after all.  
After thinking about it a bit, I'm kinda shying away from the idea of a dedicated memorial section as I agree it might creep some people out, but then again in certain cultures, funerals can be quite the party, as it's a celebration of the departed moving on to a better place, and a reminder to the living to do what little livin' they may have left.

So, my vote goes with a wisely-worded mention here in Living Room, with some indication in their profile of their passing and a link to the relevant post.  May be especially nice if immediate family/friends could be passed the link as well.

P.S. I just had a thought: Some folks just might be thinking, "Well, maybe this is really too much to get worked up about.  This IS just a software forum, for  cryin' out loud, people come and go all the time."  Well... yes... sorta, but for those that have been around here for long enough, it becomes obvious that under the surface, it's a little more than "just a software forum".  Many of us here have come to know each other almost like extended family, or intimate pen-pals at the very least, and the passing of one of our own can carry the same weight of pain and sadness that the death of a close friend or relative can.  So to honor the memory of their contributions to the life of this site and the relationships we all forged together is entirely appropriate and worth a little effort, if only to aid the process of grieving and closure.  Personally, I'd like that.

Or is he talking about a second monitor?  I've seen this happen before where a dock on one screen (across top or bottom)  reserves dock space across the other monitor as well, so running an application in fullscreen mode on another monitor doesn't get the full display.

Tonight I just learned of the passing of longtime DC member Thunder7.  I had been thinking of his huge posts of interesting links that just kind of stopped one day, and wondered what had begotten of him.  I found his Deviantart page (http://thunder7.deviantart.com/) and discovered a post from one of his friends anouncing that he had passed away a year and a half ago:

~Priori-Incantartem Mar 30, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Just wanted to let everyone on here Know that Paul "Thunder 7" has passed away. I believe he passed on Dec. 25 2011. I hadn't been on here in so long I didn't realize no one knew.

 There was also a link to his obituary here: http://lacrossetribune.co...e1-ba2f-0019bb2963f4.html but it seemed to say so little about the man who was (as we all are in our own way) a unique and interesting individual.

After speaking with Mouser on IRC about it, the question came up about how to best honor our fallen comrade, the best way to approach the subject on the forum, and whether it might be a good idea to make a special place to announce such things in the future.  
Your thoughts and opinions on this matter are hereby humbly requested.

Rest In Peace, Thunder7.



(1964-2011)

I've been searching around the OpenDNS blog and website for clues, and I get their newsletters in the email, but haven't found anything directly related to PRISM or sundry.  One thing they do offer that's security-conscious is DNS encryption via their open-source DNSCrypt tool, which (IMO) gives them a shuffle over to the good guys side.  Maybe we'll see a position post from them in the near future, I don't know.  Until then I'll be keeping an eye out for any outside reports.

Also, if anyone here is using StartPage for searching, you may have noticed their announcement of an encrypted email service they are calling StartMail.  I've signed up as a beta tester and now you can too:

Check it out here -> https://www.startmail.com

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fleEOrMK-Ps" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fleEOrMK-Ps</a>

(p.s. It's not going to be free, but as f0dder and others have said; if it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product)

Download this:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Put it in somewhere in your %PATH%, unless the installer does it for you (haven't tested).

Then do this:

[copy or print]
sed -i '/^$/d' filewithblanklines.txt

With a little registry magic, you can even add it as a context menu item.  Look here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/...ight-click-menu-in-vista/

My registry knowledge is a bit rusty, or else I'd tell you exactly how with a .reg file so it only opens up when you right-click TXT files.
Any takers?

From the fun-with-fruit department:

RASPBERRY PI TURNED INTO A PORTABLE GAMING CONSOLE BY THE BEN HECK SHOW
 
We usually only find out about cool Raspberry Pi projects after they’ve already been built. This time, we get to watch hacker extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn of The Ben Heck Show take us through the trials and tribulations of building a portable gaming console powered by the mini-computer.

http://www.digitaltrends....console-part-1-is-online/

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from umm... the internet?

Quite the hullabaloo over this PRISM stuff, eh?

In case you're interested (and those who are probably already know much of this), a new website has started up which lists alternatives to your favorite browsers, social media, etc.  Most I knew about already, many I didn't.  A bit biased towards the GNU/Linux/BSD crowd, but then again, ain't it always?

Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop reporting your online activities to the American government with these free alternatives to proprietary software.

http://prism-break.org/

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from somewhere interesting...

Been using Xfce since the 2.something days.  Something about it, I keep coming back to.
Never got into tiling window managers.  I can see the attractiveness, but it just never clicked with me.  I tried i3, as you suggested in IRC, but it's the same with that as other TWM's.  Too long with floating windows, I guess, though I appreciate i3's ability to toggle floating windows.

My go-to terminal is the standard Xfce4-terminal just because it's there whenever I install Xfce, though I have used LXTerm with OpenBox, which is very nice.  On boxes that have to be minimal, I go with Urxvt.  I've heard a lot of good things about Terminator, though I haven't tried it.