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General Software Discussion / Windows 7, weird picture

« on: July 04, 2010, 04:15 AM »

I've got 64bit Windows 7.
Now, I go this picture and a part of it is edited.

The problem is, that you have those preview-icons for your pictures and this certain edited picture shows how it was originally, but when I open the picture, it shows the edited version.
How can this be possible?

Also, since I've got this problem, is it possible to get that preview-picture as big as the edited one?

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Living Room / Databases in modern companies

« on: March 19, 2010, 01:33 AM »

This really interests me, because Im on-the-job learning and these guys here use databases daily, hourly and minutely.
Every single PC has a tiny client running, to retrieve data from a sector they want, with any PC they want and from any PC they want.
Every log and everything they do is saved automatically to a database, they use databases to list files and a handly program called ORACLE.

Why I am so interested then ?
Because they told us on school, that you`re really gonna need databases daily when you get your job.
I didn`t believe this, but they are actually more than needed !

So.
What do you think of this, is it handy and fast - or maybe complicated and stupid ?
What would be your choise to share and save data ?

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Living Room / Re: Facebook urged over 'panic button'

« on: March 19, 2010, 01:20 AM »

Facebook turned it down:

Ashleigh was NOT being bullied...she was NOT being sexually harassed...she was NOT aware of the fact she was being groomed... she DID trust that someone was who they said they were...and she went to meet someone who she believed to be the same age as herself...a young man with whom she had been having an online friendship...and we can assume that she believed that the relationship was going somewhere...and THAT is where the report abuse button becomes redundant.

http://blogs.myspace...amp;blogId=531216980

-Stephen66515 (March 18, 2010, 08:08 PM)

No, that`s when you ask your dad to come meet the guy with you.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook urged over 'panic button'

« on: March 17, 2010, 12:56 PM »

Also, kids even younger than me (like 10-15 year old) are so into porn these days, that no one really starts puking to their keyboard if a random korean-dude send in some goatse - That`s what close button is for.

-RedPillow (March 16, 2010, 03:46 PM)

-Lashiec (March 17, 2010, 09:52 AM)

And I meant it.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook urged over 'panic button'

« on: March 17, 2010, 06:23 AM »

Kids claim to be 'smart' these days, so tell them to tighten their security settings!

-CleverCat (March 17, 2010, 01:28 AM)

It's the parents that need to tighten the security settings for the kids. The parents should know better. Kids are, well, kids.

-Renegade (March 17, 2010, 01:44 AM)

Most of the parents don`t know what their kids do, and even if they see em doing something - they can always tell that it was a virus or something else equally stupid cause their parents know only how to play minesweeper or stuff - so free computer-education for parents!

They should astleast know how to check cookies

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Living Room / Re: Facebook urged over 'panic button'

« on: March 16, 2010, 11:32 PM »

Just add a "Are you a pedophile" -check, when you register - just like "Are you a bot" -test =D

But srsly, I just don`t get it - there is really not that much pedophiles .. actually there is so tiny amount of them that this whole thing makes me laught - it`s a freaking Cartoon-joke.
And of course these "Chat with random people and use your webcam with them and watch how pedohiles use fake webcam to show your age japanese-boy which looks like that cute guy from the final fantasy" are redicilous.
I admit, that there is people stupid enought to fall for those, it is said - that some pedophiles in facebook even have other pedos as friends so they don`t look so alone and weird.
How about increasing sex-ed, internet-safety-conversations and parent to kid conversations about internet ?
It have worked on finland, I think we have very low ratings at getting raped trought internet - unlike other countries.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook urged over 'panic button'

« on: March 16, 2010, 03:46 PM »

Im 16 and I think I`ll know if a freaking pedophile tries to rape me virtually or in real life.
Also, kids even younger than me (like 10-15 year old) are so into porn these days, that no one really starts puking to their keyboard if a random korean-dude send in some goatse - That`s what close button is for.

So .. No 18 please :]

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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated

« on: March 16, 2010, 07:22 AM »

Ubisoft`s site got hacked by crack-team Skidrow today.

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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated

« on: March 16, 2010, 04:08 AM »

I really hate people who continuoysly talk about how wrong piracy is, how sad it is for the artist, how much you suck if you download illegally - its annoying!

-RedPillow (March 14, 2010, 04:18 PM)

Well, some find the opposite annoying. We're just an annoying bunch of peeps, aren't we?   

Jim

-J-Mac (March 14, 2010, 09:30 PM)

But you can`t really do anything about a guy, who has been using pirate-bay and stuff for 3- and god knows how many years - they just don`t care

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« on: March 16, 2010, 04:06 AM »

I found this trought ScanCode and Datarealms.

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« on: March 15, 2010, 12:59 PM »

When I was on-the-job learning, every single time one old man came and asked me "Where are the pervert parts of the chickens?"
And every time I was like what the f is he talking about and said that I don`t know.
On the last day, he explained that he wanted chicken-eggs, couldn`t he just say so?
This was an actual happening of mine :]

On the other hand - It`s great to see other peoples faces now, when I walk into a shop and ask for pervert parts of a chicken! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to remember an old game

« on: March 15, 2010, 10:26 AM »

JetPac (but that was on ZX Spectrum  )

-MerleOne (March 15, 2010, 09:52 AM)

Not that one either, cool looking game thou

I didn`t use emulators btw.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to remember an old game

« on: March 15, 2010, 09:44 AM »

Mission Impossible?

-Daleus (March 15, 2010, 09:09 AM)

Nope, the name was quite independent.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to remember an old game

« on: March 15, 2010, 05:35 AM »

H.E.R.O ? http://www.youtube.c...ure=player_embedded# If your memory is a bit screwed it could be the one. Great game.

-Bamse (March 15, 2010, 05:29 AM)

Not that one either  

I think the game had a bit better graphics than in the game you suggested.
It was also a bit more free to move than this one and you went mostly up, not down.

This reminds me thou, that I think there were no bombs in the game...
Oh, I also remembered that this wasn`t really "Arcade" game - I think there were checkpoints...not sure but I think there were to player-lives .. I can be wrong thou.
I think that whewn you play it, you wanted to check places up rather than get scores, assuming there were scores..

More comes... I think there were hostages or something, cause of the aliens or the medusa-thingys??


>>Remember, that the game shows a picture @ startup with some names of makers and there is a octopus / medusa -woman in the picture and some other creeps + the player, im 70% sure of that.<<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to remember an old game

« on: March 15, 2010, 05:04 AM »

Metroid, perhaps?  Came out long before 1995, though.  Which system did you play it on?  

-skwire (March 15, 2010, 04:55 AM)

Not metroid, I played it on Windows 98 - It might have been DOS-version but not sure thou.
I played it when death rally, supaplex & raptor - Call of the shadows were out too.
I think there were only nintendo and super nintendo out that time also, but the game was not for them.


The game`s levels were build pretty much like super mario, there were these "tiles".
The player was a human, possibly some kind of astronaut or commando or something, not Keen thou.

Don`t get me wrong when I said sidescroller, I meant it to declare that the game was 2D like mario and not 2D like pacman.
The level I played, I sucked at it mostly cause I was too young but you had to go mostly up in that level,  I think there were spikes and stuff but I think the level was inside an office or facility or something like that but the office/facility wasn`t normal, cause of the spikes and stuff.

So frustrating.. what can I remember..

It was funny because there were lots of locked doors or closed doors or paths or walls and I never knew how to open them, I just went up, pushed buttons and used cokemachines and killed people and suddenly some of them were open with items inside them or a buttons.

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General Software Discussion / Trying to remember an old game

« on: March 15, 2010, 04:38 AM »

Good morning forum!

Im trying to remember this old, 2D, pretty much sidescrolling game.
I played it when I was very young ~ year 1995+ maybe.

When you started the game, first thing you saw was some kind of medusa or octopus but it looked scary and it was one of the games enemies - there was lots of other enemies in that picture too, if im right.
The player had some kind of jetpacks and maybe blue clothes.
@ first level / demo level or @ some level, there were computers and stuff if you went up, almost like a facility..
I think it was somewhat puzzle game to get out or something.
i think..there was a pistol, but jetpack there was for 80% sure.

Lots of buttons.. you had to go up in one level and there was computers.. buttons?
Cokemachines?

I think the game used level codes, not sure thou..

Please help me remember this!

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Living Room / Re: Will you miss newspapers when they're gone?

« on: March 14, 2010, 04:23 PM »

Nah, they`re ... dry.

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Living Room / Re: Jetpacks are real!

« on: March 14, 2010, 04:21 PM »

Think how much rocket fuel would cost when every kid wants one ;O

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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated

« on: March 14, 2010, 04:18 PM »

I really hate people who continuoysly talk about how wrong piracy is, how sad it is for the artist, how much you suck if you download illegally - its annoying!

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: March 14, 2010, 04:16 PM »

My 100th post was really a post along with other posts - I hope they have entertained or teached someone, as well as annoyed people who deserved it.
On my way to multiply this with 10!

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Living Room / Re: Speaking Of: Torrent Sites

« on: March 12, 2010, 02:46 AM »

Confusing, lol =D

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Living Room / Re: Speaking Of: Torrent Sites

« on: March 11, 2010, 10:14 AM »

eMule uses servers (quite deprecated now) or the decentralized KAD network, no servers, trackers or seed files are required. 100% P2P. While the server thing was based on old eDonkey2000 protocol, KAD is something like Overnet was. But heavily modernized. (And it relies on spreading, not on fast uploading.)
Which technical part should I explain?

-Tuxman (March 10, 2010, 10:33 PM)

100% P2P?

I get it as "You must pay to use this thing"

And on the second thought -- it`s peer to peer ^_^

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Living Room / Re: Speaking Of: Torrent Sites

« on: March 10, 2010, 10:24 PM »

Given that we only speak about legal contents, I'd still prefer eMule. BitTorrent is made for fast distribution, not for wide spreading, so a file usually dies within a few days; not a good thing if I as, let's say, a singer want to become more popular or something.
(It is also easier to handle; you don't have to create a new "seed file" or something first.)

-Tuxman (March 10, 2010, 10:21 PM)

I know Emule, as well as limewire - but what are they based on and how do they technically work?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend anti-spyware, please?

« on: March 10, 2010, 02:04 PM »

Just a simple program called SpyBot.

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Living Room / Re: Speaking Of: Torrent Sites

« on: March 10, 2010, 02:03 PM »

So basically, if a group is lack of bandwidth and one of them needs a certain file - the group could share the 20gig file to you together (as we think that the downloader has very fast connection and the 20 others in the groups has medium-speed connection) then the torrents could be answer?