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OO!!  One of the very few editors with ftp access built in.  Very tempting just for that.

I see that as a kind of anti-feature, aimed at disorganized PHP developers

LOL! That was cold! Likely true. But still cold.

Well, sorry.

But once you've seen enough people that directly edit their scripts webpages on production servers, don't have any VCS, and only occasionally do backups in zipfiles (with no coherent naming schemes...), you kinda start to disapprove of built-in ftp support

No need to apologize over that observation.

Not that I can really blame the pHp crowd. Just like you can't be a good employee if you're working for a bad company - you can't become an elegant programmer if you're working with something like pHp. At least from my experience with it. pHp is easily the least elegant of any computer language I've ever seen. And I've worked with COBOL, Basic, and APL so I know ugly when I see it. But in this case, it's more than just the syntax. It's the whole design of the thing (or possibly lack thereof) that makes me want to scream every time I see a listing of pHp code. It's brought the concept of 'quick & dirty' and 'fix it later' programming to a whole new level AFAIC.

interesting!  I've never said so, but as a non programmer, I've always hated even dealing with php, or even looking at it.  I even hate having to cut/paste it around.  looks awful to me.

  ^^ Great!

Since you know the guy, any info about why they have two very different websites for the same product? 

I'm not exactly sure, but Burak told me that they had a hard time and failed to get winrar.com as some fellow was squatting on it.

by the way, i love the image of you hanging out with the winrar dude.
this world, and the people in it, so wacky and weird.  if i can figure out how to capture this image in a cartoon, i will do it.   

Since you know the guy, any info about why they have two very different websites for the same product? 

I'm not exactly sure, but Burak told me that they had a hard time and failed to get winrar.com as some fellow was squatting on it.

Oh ok.  DOn't know why, but that little question has been nagging me for years!  so ocd.

I'm not very surprised.

I've met Burak - the fellow who runs WinRar - and he struck me as a smart business fellow.

The compression market is one of the most crowded and most competitive out there. You have to be borderline insane to want to get into it. Last I checked, the typical broad keywords you need to turn up in a search are more competitive than broad porn keywords. Literally. It is THAT competitive.

So you're saying the portable version made it too easy to pirate?
Since you know the guy, any info about why they have two very different websites for the same product? 

Anyone have any information about why the portable version of winrar got discontinued?

[Blumentals Solutions products]

If I were going to do that right now I probably be more likely to spring for one of Blumentals Solutions products like their PHPEditor  or WeBuilder

OO!!  One of the very few editors with ftp access built in.  Very tempting just for that.

 

Edi - Text Editor (PC) on Bits du Jour, Friday 25 January 2013 at $15 instead of $30

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/edi-text-editor
http://www.edi-texteditor.com/en/index.html

From the page, that's for lifetime updates also.

Just fyi, it's not lifetime anything really.  no major deal there as far as I'm concerned.

You're right Danny. All updates are for free but major upgrades can be charged. The same as with Windows versions. For Win7 you pay only once the whole price. The next major release - Win8 - you buy for the upgrade price only.

So when they come up with a new version in a few months, you will have to pay for it.  Again, all these software guys love to throw in the word "lifetime", and they love to play games with minor/major words and update/upGRADE, etc.  Point is, as 40hz says, hardly any companies are going to do real lifetime anything anymore.  It really doesn't make much business sense.  But if they do...hooray for us!

What annoys me is they talk as if even lifetime updates are a big deal, when it's not.  Who cares?  Don't even mention it.  They talk as if most software actually stops working after a certain period of time when the license runs out.  Ridiculous.  Can you imagine?  You're using a text editor, and all of a sudden the installed version you have just stops working until you pay again?!  Nobody would ever buy that again!  Yes, thank you for being so generous as to allow me to use an old version forever, how kind and unique of you.  The only software I know of that works like that is very expensive, custom enterprise software.

Edi has some cool features.  May be worth getting...

[Get on with it!!!]

^

Appreciated.

My only objection to post-rock is how so many of these groups make that mistake every amateur musician makes when they start doing their own recordings: excessively extended intros.

I know some of it's to set the mood or establish a little ambiance. But do we really need a half minute or more of drone pads or sequenced beats before a song begins? Like the "Gumby" characters from Monty Python said:
 (see attachment in previous post)           Get on with it!!!

One day, my buddy asked Houston Person (legend jazz/r&b sax player) to play with our combo.  He listened to the album and said the exact same thing.  he said "give it a measure and get on with the song".  So I thought that was funny.

Now there is one long ass intro I wish I wrote: the beginning of "Long Way There" by the Little River Band.  They milked that one real good.

thanks.  Yes, i love it.  The detail is awesome...also what I was going for in my cartoons.  So another reference for me.

omg...that first picture ^^^ is awesome!  What is that and where do you get it?!

  I'd still do her......

Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC...

  Nah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat.....

Hey!  what about me?!

The release was a mess... I think I just got lucky, ordered early and got in with the first wave of preorders. Did you get a choice of color?

oh yeah.  i was NOT going to get anything other than black no matter what.  funny too...the whole att store thing is 100% bullshit.  they had, no joke, about 15 people working in the store, with maybe 10 customers in there.  yet they made everyone log in to the ipads, and then each customer had to wait minimum 15 minutes before getting served.  so while waiting, i was wondering how come the wait was so long? well, of the 15 employees there, only 2 were able to help you buy something, the rest of them do nothing...i mean, except write your name on the ipad.

this stuff makes me honestly, in a serious way, question certain things about our economy.  whenever i bring it up, people dismiss it as overthinking.  but this is supposedly a bad economy, and things like this are taking place.  it is wild to really think about.  this is actually working for large successful companies, and smaller folk with really great ideas and great business sense and etc etc just can't do anything.  why??  oh, it's just the way it is, it has always been this way.  i don't know...doesn't make sense to me.

but yea...i got the black phone. 

Mine, shockingly, came in the mail with the phone!

what?!  why wouldn't they mail mine to me??  i went to 4 stores, and called them.  told me i had to go pick it up in the store. sheesh.

I will never buy another phone that doesn't have wireless charging.

yea, seriously.  question: did you also feel like you were getting a vip backroom treatment when getting your first one?  i did.  it was supposed to be free, but they didn't have it right when the phone was available.   so you had to go back a few weeks later to the store and say you wanted one.  then they ordered one, and it arrives a week or so later.  then they call you to pick it up.  then you go in and have to talk to the store manager, who brings it out from the back.     very involved process.  they must have REALLY limited supplies of them or something.  you have to really want one to get it in your hands.

^^that...was awesome.
I'd make an Archer joke, but it would be inappropriate, as most of their jokes are.  

Man, you guys sure know a lot about this stuff.  Now I feel inadequate  .

Don't be. Nobody is an 'expert' on system security these days unless it's their full-time job. There's just too much going on and far too much to know to do it part-time any more. I'm sure I'd be much happier, and sleep better most nights, if I didn't know what relatively little I do know about this topic.

+1 - I too occasionally yearn for blissful ignorance.

I was just having this philosophical discussion with my friends this weekend.  Up until recently, I was always opposed to "ignorance is bliss".  But with the rampant paranoia around these parts currently, I'm starting to change my tune.  Plus, I find it to be paralyzing on some level, and that is so not me.

Man, you guys sure know a lot about this stuff.  Now I feel inadequate  .

are you saying it's not a good idea to enable upnp on residential routers?

Dear god man, please add a smiley, sarcasm tag, or something to that.. (you're scaring the hell outta me)

 

I'll take that as a no.

I went ballistic over ePrint the first time I saw it. I'm constantly warning clients about this sort of thing and the risk it presents.

I grilled the HP rep (at one of their tech shows) for an hour about that when it first came out. It works via passive polling, so the printer just checks its own Email address via the HP cloud server (which is where your print jobs are actually sent (eek!)). so over all it (ePrint) isn't really that bad.

Yeah, it was "explained" that way to me too, and I wasn't all that concerned at that point. Just annoyed. What I really took issue with was what it represented since I figured it was just the tip of the iceberg if it went over well on the consumer level. The concerns with Ricoh over their big networked scanners were a lot more serious since about half my clients use those. I still have to argue with clients about why they really needed to put up with the "hassle" of using passwords on those. Especially when the big boss's assistant keeps bitching about having to enter a 4-dgit PIN ("It's soooo hard to remember those things!") to scan or make a copy - which is much the same thing on these devices. Even worse is fighting with them about why they really do want to require a PIN in order to directly e-mail something from one of these puppies.

 

It most likely requires/leverages UPnP which is another insanely dangerous idea that I immediately disable on sight.

+1. Don't even get me going on that bit of software engineering brilliance.

are you saying it's not a good idea to enable upnp on residential routers?

doh!  did not know about easy transfer!  i always do it manually...copy all the programdata, user directories, program files, etc. on a hard drive, then install windows on a new machine, then copy the files back over.  am i doing it the hardest way possible?  probably...

you just raised the bar for godfathers!

More like the bar for godmothers.   (Her guitar - not mine. I'd never spring for gold hardware! )

ok good.  hopefully the kid is not just strumming chords on that thang. 

God plays a 6-string! I think his current favourite is a Gibson Les Paul at the moment. But who knows? Could be a scalloped Fender.  

My personal "deity" alternates between her 50th Anniversary Strat, her G&L Classic Bluesboy and her newest crush - an Epi Ultra-339. She owns a vintage Les Paul Custom too. But that's out on "indefinite loan" to our pro-musician godson.

whoa!  you just raised the bar for godfathers!  shoot...i hope my nieces don't get into music now!  j/k...what am i saying?!!