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General Software Discussion / Re: My rant against php...

« on: July 28, 2006, 02:15 PM »

Well Dreamweaver can integrate with a local or remote web server and process pages Dynamicaly as you work on them, in fact it can do ASP,PHP and JHP and im not even sure what JHP is. I think its been able to do that for a couple of years, unfortunatly it aint cheap.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« on: July 28, 2006, 02:01 PM »

ive just got a black and white way of looking at it

If it contains variables its programming

I.e html is just mark up , its not programming
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: My rant against php...

« on: July 28, 2006, 01:55 PM »

heh

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone heard of the audio editing software reaper?

« on: July 28, 2006, 01:47 PM »

Been playing around with it this afternoon, and overall its very good. I was very impressed with the tiny footprint of the app itself and the use of resources, i had up to 24 tracks playing and it barely even bothered my cpu cycles (admitidly no VST or DX effects running).

As im used to using apps such as Adobe`s Encore and Sony`s Acid , the layout was all very familier , which of course can work in reverse i.e if your new to non-linear multitracking its an ideal starting application. There is a bit of learning curve if you dig deep into the app and get involved into routing but thats more due to the interface, which is a bit ugly. Thats one of the cons of the app really, it does look cheap compared to Audition and other "pro" tools.

Another problem is that it doesnt have a built in sample editor, it does allow you to use an external one  (like acid does, but acid also has a basic one built in for quick edits). It also doesnt have any beatmapping functionality so its not an ideal app for phrase and loop based compositions.  But what it does do well is your bread and butter mastering.   

When it does go shareware, $40 is a reasonable cost (and typical of the price of "niche" software like this i.e renoise (an excellent tracker sequencer, especially if your used to Amiga and early PC trackers) and its intresting to find out that that in future versions there trying to implement a Rewire plugin which will make the application a lot more intresting to use.

Will i use it, to be honest no . im happy with my current setup, but heartidly recommend it to anyone intrested in throwing away there 4 tracks away and getting into digital recording or basic midi sequencing.

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« on: July 28, 2006, 10:20 AM »

The problem i had was that for a couple of years i was working in enviroments with no windows (like mole people)   and have phycologicaly associated sunlight with down time. If i can see sunlight i just get to distracted (a bit like a caveman i suppose, ug lookum biggum ball of fire in sky).

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« on: July 21, 2006, 08:30 PM »

Since the best registry cleaners have a backup option, there's no problems if you delete a critical setting in the registry, restore the backup and it's done.

-Lashiec (July 20, 2006, 07:27 AM)

Only as long as it isnt so FUBAR that it boots.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browsers, Bookmarks, & synching

« on: July 19, 2006, 11:11 PM »

I use the google browser sync settings plugin for firefox and its the best plugin ive seen in ages, it does the lot inc bookmarks, history, persistent cookies,saved passwords and the last tabs you had open. You need a google account to use it, but with gmail, who doesnt.

http://www.google.co...firefox/browsersync/

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« on: July 19, 2006, 10:40 PM »

Id hate to think of a third party app fiddling with my reg, especially with some of these apps doing the change without showing what its done. But i loved X-Setup from xteq (http://www.xteq.com) (i say loved, i used it before it went all pro because i pretty much knowall the keys and subkeys from over the years and didn`t really need it anymore). It a fine app , i think the pre-pro version is still avalailabe for free somewhere.

I really liked it because it was a manual process, it was in depth on what you where actually changing and it could do it in a non-destructive way as it could save the history ( that is if you didn`t totally screw up the settings and could still get your machine to boot). Oh, and it allowed you to create some really usefull scripts to share with other users.

Admitidly it wasn`t a automated registry cleaner (of course it had scripts that checked for orphaned keys and such, which basically is just what most automated cleaners do) which is can only be a good thing, as quite frankly if you dont know how to manually control the registry you shouldnt really be messing around with it. At least if your fiddling with your reg with x-setup , the interface was very intuitive and could in some instances really stop tears before bedtime.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Myths

« on: July 16, 2006, 08:17 PM »

Myth - "The Windows Platform has more Security Vulnerabilities than the Linux/Unix Platform"

Reality - "Between January 2005 and December 2005 there were 5198 reported vulnerabilities: 812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities; 2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities; and 2058 Multiple operating system vulnerabilities" - Source

-http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

I hate when people quote stats like this.  (The author, not here on DC.)
2 points: 
1 those are unix AND Linux OS vulnerabiliities.  So I claim that Windows and Mac have more than OS/2.  What the hell does that mean?
2 what that hell does Unix/Linux vulnerabilities mean?  All of the software that runs on *nix included?  Just the kernel?  What?

That's like saying IE has less vulnerabilities that FF.  On what OS?!!!  FF supports several.  IE only 1.  Is that any kind of real comparison?

99% of all stats are made up on the fly....

Sorry for the rant.   

-Rover (July 16, 2006, 12:35 PM)

Here Here , its a very ambiguous statement (System V, BSD, Solaris,HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS.10 .Linux ........)

I think also the key missing in that that myth is "exploit", a vunerability needs to be expoited, i.e Windows may have had less vunerabilities compared to every other Nix varient under the sun, but there a damn site easier to exploit.

But hey im an MS user, i like to be kept on my toes. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stumbleupon - better pass your time on the web

« on: July 14, 2006, 09:17 PM »

How do you think i found donationcoder.com 

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General Review Discussion / Re: Opinions on remote PC control software

« on: July 14, 2006, 09:14 PM »

God bless McAffee. Can someone remind me why they're still in business?

-JavaJones (July 12, 2006, 11:15 PM)

Because they have a contract with AOL and AOL gives away their firewall and antivirus to all their customers?

-app103 (July 12, 2006, 11:27 PM)

I think it started off as an accident, AOL where sitting around the boardroom table, someone asked "who shall we use as our AV software provider" and somebody accidently sneezed.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: July 12, 2006, 07:56 PM »

Hi people.

Im marcus, 33, from the rarely warm mostly damp floating land mass called the United Kingdom . First computer i saw in action was a Commodore Pet (mostly just the green cursor as no teacher had a clue how to use it). Got a lot more into computers when i got my own VIC  20 (which in hindsight as it was the same year the C64 came out was a BAAAD purchasing decision, but you make the most of a bum deal). Progressed to a speccy (every model from the rubbery 48k to the Amstrad-a-like 128k +2, spectrums never laster to long in our house, damn you Daley Thompson) , recieved my first my first email in 1987 via a prestel terminal, moved onto the Amiga (Now, thats what i call a proper computer) and held out as long as i possibly could before buying an IBM compatible (Window 95 was my first MS experiance, im still having councilling).

Of course during this period i went to school, bunked off PE to play Match Day and Sabre Wulf, got caught bunking off, sent back to school, left school, went to 6th Form, Went to college, Travelled a while, Came back, Cut Hair , Worked for a Bank, Left Bank, Became  Engineer for the 2nd ever 0845 ISP in the UK, Learnt that the reboot cycle of an NT4 server took the same amount of time as making microwave popcorn, also learnt that just because a crimper has the words RJ45 written on them doesn`t mean that someone hasnt grinded down the teeth to make it an RJ11 crimper and the 125 patch cables you`ve just madeup just aint gonna work, Lost job due to Dot Com implosion, got new job doing pretty much exactly the same thing but for the telecoms industry, got bored, moved over to media, became broadcast engineer, got all arty farty and became an editor for a home shopping network, became really arty farty and became a compositing editor for a production house,decided that i was becoming to arty farty and maybe i should get back into IT as its more stable.

Currently roaming the country looking to find new and intresting work, like the bloke from the tv series Kung Foo - except theres not much Kung Foo involved. Even went to Wales, now thats dedication.

I enjoy a good club, a quick drink and all the usual social stuff.

Im slightly Sarcastic

I Like Pizza

My fingers now hurt after all the typing

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General Review Discussion / Re: Opinions on remote PC control software

« on: July 12, 2006, 06:33 PM »

I used to work for an ISP and we just had a habbit for all the remote machines to install PC Anywhere and TightVNC (was probably just VNC in them days, but you get the picture PC Anywhere in 1998 had a bad habbit of locking its process, (well NT4 probably was more to blame)) and we had the backup of VNC to get control back. As ive been using it since 1998 ive just got in the habbit of using still, even though the VNC projects have caught up on the features (file transfer, synching etc).

So PC Anywheres my personal favorite, its secure, works great on low bandwidth and allows you to build your own distros.