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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: February 28, 2016, 01:07 AM »
If you suffer from Coulrophobia, pass this one up.
If not, enjoy the heck out of a freakishly tall clown with serious baritone skills:  :'(


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It runs for me as of the last iteration, but only up to a point.  After signing in it tells me that my video driver (open-source Radeon driver; the official Catalyst and Crimson drivers give me no love at all...) doesn't support a high enough version of OpenGL.  :-\
One of these days I'll snap up an affordable nVidia card and see how that goes.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« on: February 22, 2016, 11:47 PM »
I know this isn't a post count, but I saw this today and thought it should go here:

Screenshot_2016-02-22_21-46-17.png

Now we know why that software was discontinued... :'(


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Living Room / Re: Make a custom 20 key keypad for $10
« on: February 22, 2016, 08:40 PM »
Fortunately, he's since open sourced his code for LuaMacros on github so at least it's available for inspection if somebody wants to do a GUI for it.

HidMacros is also open source, but it seems that the tools used to build it may be difficult to wrangle:

HidMacros was written in TurboDelphi which was free variant of Borland Delphi. This free version is not available any more so once I reinstall my computer, there's no way how I can continue with HidMacros. I won't spend any money to buy IDE to develop open source free product

I don't know anything about the Delphi world, so I have no idea how difficult it might be to port to something else (Lazarus, perhaps?).

The dev is a little short-sighted if he had never heard of Lazarus, and never considered Delphi Personal Edition which can still be found all over the web.  Speaking of Lazarus, I'll give it a shot.  Stay tuned.

EDIT: Well, that was quick.  Apparently, the author already has Lazarus code in the Git repo.  Looks like it was simply a quick-and-dirty way to get a 64-bit build of the X-Plane plugin out before he switched to Lua.  Digging through the code now, looks like there's a lot of dependency on Windows-specific stuff (Winhook.dll), as well as the X-Plane SDK, which it looks like he made the thing for in the first place.

https://github.com/me2d13/hidmacros
As Xplane 10 is mainfly 64b application and TurboDelphi is not free with 64b compiler the Xplane plugin was also compiled in Lazarus using free pascal compiler. It has separate folder with sources however it's copy of whole application with only few changes for compilation. The code structure and organization is not perfect now so some cleanup and documentation is one of first tasks to be done. However it works and those are real sources used for last build. The application has several dependencies (DirectX API, SimConnect SDK, X-plane SDK) - those are not included but should be public available. However if anyone has difficulties to compile this application, please contact author at [email protected].

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: February 22, 2016, 08:29 PM »
Software Piracy Hurts Linux Adoption, Research Finds
...
New findings published by Norwegian economics researcher Arne Rogde Gramstad show that software piracy significantly decreases the adoption of desktop Linux distributions.

https://torrentfreak...search-finds-160221/

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from CodeProject News

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http://cube-drone.co...mics/c/notorious-a-c
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The alternate title for this comic was "Shebangs", but I realized that a Ricky Martin UNIX pun was probably a mistake. Some cooling tips - People cool and server cool are different things. Commercial home AC units are probably not right for your servers. - Make sure that there's a tight seal in the server room to keep your controlled air in - and most importantly of all, make sure never to play "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago in your server room. Peter Cetera is a powerful uncoolant.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: February 21, 2016, 01:18 AM »
And now for something that goes to elev... er... 13 and a half. :P

Adele's "Hello" given the Metal treatment by a very talented one-man band.


His schtick is doing metal covers of horrible pop songs (not saying that Adele is horrible...).  Now I can listen to what my co-workers like and not have to suppress my gag reflex :P  Check out the playlist:
https://www.youtube....61U11HpoWt5JP18NHeve

Also, he actually had some help on that one from insane guitarist Pete Cottrell.
I dig artists that can rip on odd time signatures and not sound pretentious.

Well... that last part is outright silly.

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Copy had the best Linux client besides DropBox, and a pretty generous initial space offering.  Shoulda seen this coming.  DropBox is pretty darn good, I just wish they offered more free space. 

As far as alternatives go, Box gave the most free space, but it doesn't have a Linux client, and though I can mount my Box account via webdav, it's just not the same as a nice app that can easily generate share links.  SpiderOak is nice for the encryption it offers, but good grief is it ever slow... Owncloud and Seafile are nice and certainly have their place (I have both on a spare box I also use for serving Minecraft and Teeworlds), but I don't keep my server on 24/7, so a personal cloud is not really a viable alternative.

Sigh.  One more down...

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Aha, the picture is clearer now.  Still, not good news for Outpost users.  :(

I have used the Yandex browser and found it to be not much different from the Chromium it's based on, but maybe things like this will make a difference.  Also, YES, they have a stake in Kaspersky.  From the Wikipedia page:
The browser checks webpage security with the Yandex security system and checks downloaded files with Kaspersky anti-virus.
So Kaspersky is integrated?  :huh:
Either way, I've used the Yandex search engine before, and have been pleased with the results.  Maybe I'll give the browser a second try...

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OMIGOSH!!! ROBOT ODYSSEY!!  :-* :-* :-*
https://archive.org/...s_Robot_Odyssey_1985
Robot Odyssey is an adventure game, published by The Learning Company in 1984. Released for the Apple II, TRS-80 Color Computer, and DOS, it has been referred to as the hardest computer game of all time.[1]

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I fundamentally don't understand why people do this: buy up a tech company with a large customer base only to shut down the business without incorporating any of the technology/code into new or existing products or retaining staff.  I mean... why?   :huh:

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« on: January 18, 2016, 03:24 PM »
OK, so what I get from this is that he's a goon either way, and really shouldn't be spouting off without being prepared to answer the questions arising from his claims, but he raises some himself that I'm not finding good answers for:
1- Is it true that raising the blocksize limit is bad, and more specifically, in the way that Maxwell says it is? [EDIT] Partially answered, see below.
1a - By the way, why the holy-ever-lovin is Maxwell even deving for BTC if he "proved bitcoin impossible"?
2- Are dissenting opinions really being wholesale censored by those who side with Bitcoin Core over those who disagree? Ignoring that which you don't feel like answering is one thing, attempting to answer regardless if the questioner takes it is better, actively killing the conversation with censorship is just... really bad.
3- Any clue as to who systematically DDOS'd XT nodes? If it were banks or governments, I'd think they would go after Core as well. Excuse me for reading things plainly, but it seems like a clear-cut case of killing the competition.  Please prove me wrong.

Also, this should improve the temperature of the conversation around scaling and relevant to question #1. 
https://medium.com/@...790f755df#.inxhnxuig
To Maxwell's (and other devs) credit, there IS a commitment to incremental capacity increases that has been in place since Dec 7, 2015:
https://bitcoin.org/...e/capacity-increases
FWIW, I have read through a few of the commit logs on Bitcoin Core's Github, and for all the criticism that Mike Hearn heaps on Greg Maxwell, he doesn't seem to be JUST an engineer/coder; he actively thinks about how people and developers are going to actually use/abuse the systems as they get implemented. Such as:
https://github.com/b...in/bitcoin/pull/2738

Also, the discussion here is better than the actual post:
https://www.reddit.c..._this_point_in_time/
IMO, commenters are right in saying that the prime directive of Bitcoin is not as a drop-in replacement for the economic exchange as we know it today (though it may become a large part of it in the foreseeable future), but a system outside/alongside of it, with the primary aims being anonymity and security in financial transactions between people. I agree with Mike Hearn on one point:
When misinformed investors lose money, government attention frequently follows.
if only to say that in that context, people who use Bitcoin as an investment probably shouldn't be.  Yes, I understand the ups and downs of Bitcoin value can be played just like the stock market or other investment venture, and many people have.  Some have done well and others have lost their shirts.  So far, it seems most of the players involved understand the risks of doing such business with a new system outside of authoritative oversight, but I sincerely believe that doing such should be actively discouraged, as it only takes one idiot with less sense than the amount of money they lost for Bitcoin to come under very unwanted scrutiny.  So far it's been fortunate; most of those buying in seem to be in it for the technical and socio-economic merits (even 'investors'), not for any notion of convenience or stability. But I wonder if a "tipping point" may come before it is fully mature; where enough clueless users join up expecting it to be some magically 'better' transaction system with no notion of how the thing actually works, then complain when the value dips.

Of course, IMHO, YMMV, 2c, etc...

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General Software Discussion / Re: license key
« on: January 16, 2016, 11:20 AM »
Follow the instructions in this post:
https://malwaretips....wser-redirect-virus/
The title says it's targeted at browser redirects, but it's effective against the root cause, not just the symptoms.
All the tools are free, and you will remove 99% of whatever may be infecting your computer.  I used this guide to completely clean a neighbor's laptop (never again!!) which took about two days, but your experience may be different.

Other tools I would recommend:

The article didn't mention Malwarebytes, or Spybot Search & Destroy, so I will:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/
https://www.safer-networking.org/
The free versions of these tools work as intended, the extra pay-for features aren't needed for a one-time cleaning.

Wise Registry Cleaner
Debate is still going on about the effectiveness of registry cleaners, and this one is at least effective, easy to use, and portable.
http://portableapps....try-cleaner-portable
Wise Registry Cleaner Portable is a registry cleaner and optimizer packaged as a portable app, so you can work on PCs on the go. It's freeware for personal and education use. Like many system utilities, this requires admin privileges to run.

Should I Remove It?
http://www.shouldire...oveit.com/index.aspx
Should I Remove It? is a very simple but extremely powerful Windows application that helps users, both technical and non technical, decide what programs they should remove from their PC.
...
Should I Remove It? simply scans your computer for all its' installed programs and then ranks what should be removed by leveraging the wisdom of the crowd (and of course our technical experts) to determine what should not be installed.

Remember to uninstall any of these tools after using them to do the job, because some of them are designed to run in the background to "protect" your system, but usually they just slow things down.  The only thing of that nature that should be left running should be a good antivirus of your choice. 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Post your Linux/FOSS humor here.
« on: January 11, 2016, 08:54 PM »
I want this in a patch!

PipegrepeersUnion.png

Join today!
http://pipegrep.sh/#

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Who would want to  be a solipsist? You would be a supremely religious atheist, a totalitarian anarchist, a serial-killing war-mongering suicidal pacifist, a criminal kingpin who is also the police, an institutionalized maniac who is also a psychiatrist. Who would want to be such a conflicted manic-depressive? Being a serial killer with immortal victims would add to your insanity if that is possible.
Hm-m-m-m ... those descriptives seem applicable to a few of the politicians I have known  :P.  Particularly when it comes to their understandings of the internet :o :-\.

I looked up Solipsism earlier, and this is the first thing that came to mind:
foreveralone.jpg

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux
« on: January 09, 2016, 07:55 PM »
Started reading it, before I finish I want to say that I hope the article doesn't say 'GIMP is as good as photoshop' or 'Libre Office is as good as Office', I know almost 100% of Linux users will always object or flame such a statement but those two are not as good (just generally, not about missing thing here or there), sorry they are just not.
I have been ~90% on Linux the last two years and believe me they are not. If the article includes those two statements I will be forced to dismiss it  :P

I can say two things about that:
While I agree Gimp is overall less powerful in some categories, I also find it doesn't fight against me like Photoshop does.  I can do amazing things (to me, at least) in Gimp, while I can barely use Photoshop as a glorified MSPaint.  I suppose if I found a good book or reference on Photoshop, things might turn around.  On another note I also have a BIG problem with people who say you can't use Gimp to do professional work.  >:(
Regarding Libre/OpenOffice, I must say I fully agree.  I use MS Office at work; I loathe Word, love Publisher, on the fence about PowerPoint, awed by all the things I don't know but probably can do in Excel, and at least in our facility, if you're not using Outlook for email, the rest of the office will think you're some reptile alien from another dimension.  I almost never use LibreOffice, unless it's to import a PDF into Writer (which it's surprisingly good at most days), but otherwise, LibreOffice's programs are just downright generic compared to MS Office.  And there's no application to compare to Publisher. Period.  Well, maybe Scribus, but until it has automatic N-up layout functions, I will still prefer Publisher.

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Living Room / Re: "Open" is really gaining traction
« on: January 09, 2016, 07:03 PM »
^Um...I do remember...

Aw man, the grumpy really must have gotten to my brain :( Again, my apologies.
Yes, I was aware of all those things, and yes, "Tillman" rolls off the tongue better (like "Thermos" instead of "insulated beverage container"?), but I wonder why his design went viral and not all the ones that came before it?  A strange beast, this internet...

EDIT: Nevermind, I just read his website again and caught that he'd posted it on Usenet circa 1995.  So I guess the props really do go to him for popularizing it, and I was just late to the party thinking it was somebody else's birthday >_<

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Living Room / Re: "Open" is really gaining traction
« on: January 09, 2016, 12:30 AM »
^Bad day huh? ;)

Meh, working overtime lately.  I like the paychecks, but losing time for home and family just doesn't sit right after about 3-4 days of it.
re: Tillman.

Wire one up and give it a listen if you haven't already. Tweak it a little just for kicks while you're at it. Compare the sound and roughly 300 hrs of battery life to some of the more "improved" circuits out there.

That's just the point; I have.  I've designed my own effects, remember?  I always knew it from the circuit 'cookbooks' and data sheets as a part-for-part analogue of a standard common-cathode tube pre-amp (with different part values, of course), I just never knew it as a "Tillman" until I stumbled across the webpage.  By that time, it was old hat to me and it just seemed strange that some guy putting his name on it somehow made it so magical that all the stompbox and audio forums started calling it that.  Hence the grumpy, my apologies.

Speaking of Open Hardware, I remember some guy who was designing an open-source video card, and even had a few prototypes made, I wonder what ever became of that?
*edvard searches internets...
Aha! -> https://en.wikipedia...pen_Graphics_Project

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Living Room / Re: "Open" is really gaining traction
« on: January 08, 2016, 12:53 AM »
*Grumpy mode engaged* 
I never understood how the Tillman was all that different from any of the other "cookbook" FET circuits out there.  In fact, the Tillman was designed for the J201 and won't work as well with many of the more common, but lower gain/higher current FETs like the MPF102, 2N3819, 2N5458, etc.  ...AND if you've worked with FETs at all, you'll know that each one is slightly but appreciably different, and stock resistor values must be tweaked for maximum performance (though the ones given may get you in the ballpark).  Add to that the concepts of diode biasing, CC loading, "cascode" chaining, ad nauseum, you could be tweaking for days... or maybe it's just that way for a hopeless circuit tweaker like yours truly. *Grumpy mode abated*

Also, the LM386 just doesn't do it for me as a guitar amp power section.  1 watt in a convenient DIP-8 package is novel, but give me 5-20 watts minimum.  Here's a trick: look in your old computer parts junk box and find an old ISA soundcard with a TEA2025 (2x2.5W) or a SoundBlaster16 with a TDA1517 (2x6W).  De-solder the chip off the board, wire the Tillman/Muff output to both inputs, and put a speaker on each output (paying attention to the official Data Sheets, of course) for a low-power 'twin' with MUCH better sound specs and power handling and no additional cost.  The TEA2025 can even be bridged.  Yeah, yeah, I know, the LM386 costs pennies, but hey, mo' powah, mo' fun!...  :Thmbsup:

As far as the 'Open Hardware' concept, it's so far worked for the Arduino, and a whole list of others.  Read up on Open Hardware at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia...Open-source_hardware

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Pledge/Release: Lucid Dream Inducer
« on: January 03, 2016, 07:53 PM »
Well, brainwave visualizations have been recorded:


And there's always those brainwave generation devices and apps:
https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Binaural_beats

So, if you can stand to fall asleep wearing earbuds, switch on a brain pattern and voilà!
http://binauralbrain...ming-binaural-beats/

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: January 03, 2016, 07:39 PM »
Bubble-Level-Google-Search.png

Bubble/Spirit Level easter egg on your phone - no app required

Now I can tell if my selfies are straight!

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Pledge/Release: Lucid Dream Inducer
« on: January 02, 2016, 08:08 PM »
I remember a lucid-dreaming "guru" who recommended repeating the phrase "Am I awake, or am I dreaming?" to yourself throughout the day, and even sold tshirts with the phrase on it, so you would be reminded.  Then, the habit would continue into your sleeping life and you might find yourself saying "Am I awake, or am I dreaming?" while dreaming and *ding*... you're lucid dreaming. 

Perhaps that could be the 'trigger phrase'...

As for doing it on a mobile device, simply recording a chime and phrase and setting as the alarm tone on your clock should do the trick.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: January 01, 2016, 10:07 PM »
I'm not into country music, psychedelics, or philosphy, but it's about damn time we got some acid existentialist country.


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Non-Windows Software / Re: Post your Linux/FOSS humor here.
« on: January 01, 2016, 03:54 PM »
From https://www.gnu.org/...users-lightbulb.html

How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

  • 1 to post a thread in a mailing list telling the bulb has burnt.
  • 1 to suggest to try to turn the lamp on through command lines.
  • 1 to complain that the user broke the thread.
  • 1 to ask what new bulb will he install.
  • 1 to advice that we shouldn't use the word burn for meaning a broken lightbulb, because it would mean that the bulb was set on fire and that it would be right to say that the bulb broke due to an excess of electrical current.
  • 25 to suggest to install all the kinds of existing and imaginable lightbulbs.
  • 5 who say that the burnt bulb is an upstream issue that doesn't belong to the distro. There's an open bug on the bulb's developer mail list.
  • 1 noob to suggest to install a Microsoft lightbulb.
  • 250 to flood the noob's mail address.
  • 300 to say that a Microsoft lightbulb would turn blue and that you'd had to reboot continuously to get back to normal.
  • 1 former GNU/Linux user who still frequents the forum, to suggest to install an Apple iBulb, which has a fresh and innovating design and it costs $250.
  • 20 to say that iBulbs aren't free, and that they have less functions than a 20 times cheaper standard lightbulb.
  • 15 to suggest to install a national lightbulb.
  • 30 to say that national lightbulbs are crippled remasters of foreign lightbulbs and that they don't bring anything new.
  • 23 to argue if it must be a white or a transparent bulb.
  • 1 to remind everyone that the right name is GNU/Lightbulb.
  • 1 to say that lightbulbs are a Winbugs users thing and that real GNU/Linux users aren't afraid of the dark.
  • 1 to announce finally which will be the model of the installed bulb.
  • 217 to discard the chosen model and suggest another.
  • 6 to complain that the chosen lightbulb has propietary elements, and that another should be used.
  • 20 to say that a 100% free bulb, isn't compatible with the lamp switch.
  • The same previous 6, to suggest to change the switch for a compatible one.
  • 1 to yell out: “STOP ARGUING AND CHANGE THAT LIGHTBULB FOR GOD'S SAKE!”
  • 350 to ask the previous user what God is he talking about, and that if he has scientific proofs of His existence.
  • 1 to explain how electricity works and why a light bulb is inefficient.
  • 1 to say that we can't trust in corporation-made bulbs and that we should trust in community-made bulbs.
  • 1 to post a link to an ODF file explaining how to build a lightbulb from scratch.
  • 14 to complain about the format of the previous file and asking to send it in txt or LaTeX.
  • 5 to say that they didn't like the taken decission and that they'll fork the house's electric installation and install a better lamp.
  • 1 to post a series of commands to put to change the lightbulb.
  • 1 to comment that he executed the commands and had an error message.
  • 1 to advice that the commands must be executed as root.

And finally:

  • The father of the first user, who while everyone was discussing, went to the shop and bought the cheapest lightbulb.

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