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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift to Linux

« on: June 01, 2013, 09:05 AM »

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-40hz (June 01, 2013, 04:19 AM)

Sorry.  Sometimes my fingers get ahead of good sense  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift to Linux

« on: June 01, 2013, 12:47 AM »

I am not annoyed. I pity the fools.

-Tuxman (May 31, 2013, 06:45 AM)

That's insulting.  That I/we do not use your OS of choice does not make us fools.  We are using whatever OS that allows us to get our respective jobs done!.  That you do not care for our respective OSes does not give you the right to denigrate us, nor to denigrate an OS that we may have no choice but to use.  To quote an old sci-fi phrase, Curb thy tongue, impious fish.

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Living Room / Re: Market Waiting For Windows Blue

« on: May 30, 2013, 04:21 PM »

So Windows Blue is to replace Windows Blew ... This should be fun to watch.

-Stoic Joker (May 30, 2013, 11:45 AM)

Actually, I'm quite looking forward to participating ... haven't had a really good laugh in years  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift to Linux

« on: May 30, 2013, 04:17 PM »

I'm amazed how many people (especially the real "power-users") haven't gotten on board with Linux yet.

-40hz (May 30, 2013, 02:47 PM)

Prolly 'cause the power users have to do things that can't be done in Linux distros - I have to revert to Win in order to use Visio, for instance - at least, not yet.  Wine does a fair country job of running a number of Win progs, but some of 'em just don't function well or completely under Wine.  If your job involves Win-centric corporate activity, sometimes Win is the only option.  And a lot of IT sections won't allow dual boot or virtual Win 'cause they don't have a clue how to deal with Linux, thus their first trouble-shooting determination - read accusation - is that it's the OS.

When I was working at MCI, I had Red Hat on a laptop that I carried into work - and used - on a daily basis.  As soon as IT discovered that (about three (3) months later) I was accused of corrupting their network.  Actually, it was a toss-up 'tween me and another guy who was doing the same thing with OS/2.  Turned out the cause was a failed/incomplete server upgrade, but they didn't look that far, just pointed a finger and stopped checking.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares antivirus memory usage

« on: May 30, 2013, 10:24 AM »

-f0dder (May 30, 2013, 07:04 AM)

...Alternate line of thought: they protect you against drive-by attacks on legitimate but compromised sites. The mass-infection-drive-by attacks usually don't use the very latest 0-day exploits, but a truckload of slightly older exploits. Bleeding-edge exploits are normally used in very targeted attacks.
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Maybe.  The one (1) time that I got hit by such, I was using NOD32, supposedly best of breed at the time.  The malware sailed through NOD32 as pretty as you please, without so much as a hiccup.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« on: May 29, 2013, 09:44 PM »

Hmmm... I'd actually disagree.  If you want a dead simple installation... wordpress is as dead simple as it gets.  Now there's more behind the scenes as you add stuff on... but to get the basic themes up and running, even self hosted, you can do it with very minimal technical experience.  It just depends on who you get for hosting at that point.

-wraith808 (May 29, 2013, 05:44 PM)

Concur.

I set up WordPress for a then client, over her dial-up connection, in ~fifteen (15) minutes, on her Web host.  Spent another fifteen (15) minutes or so installing - and explaining! - Windows Live Writer (which wasn't Live then).  She was publishing within forty-five (45) minutes of coming off the blocks.  There were complications after that, mostly furniture moving, but she was up and running in less than an hour, including tutorial time.  (She was scandalously political and opinionated:  some of her postings got her kicked off WordPress.com  .)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« on: May 29, 2013, 09:28 PM »

Just for curiosity I installed Maxthon but I almost never use it. Can someone explain at least one reason to use it?

-Giampy (May 29, 2013, 03:20 PM)

Government websites, that break in other browsers? (it's IE in a prom dress, so it's very likely to work in cases like this)

-app103 (May 29, 2013, 04:07 PM)

There are also a number of shopping sites that, without saying so, require the IE engine to complete a purchase, at least they do if you're running some flavour of Windows.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares antivirus memory usage

« on: May 29, 2013, 09:23 PM »

I believe it's interesting to report the experience of a certain guy who is very busy about security. After years of experience, now he no longer uses an antivirus, but his purpose is reducing the "attack surface".

-Giampy (May 29, 2013, 03:40 PM)

Sounds a lot like Steve Gibson.

The point of an AV software is to block what was already known, and to update its database to include what's recently been discovered.

-ajfudge (May 29, 2013, 02:26 PM)

And that's something that damned few of 'em do at all, much less do well.  All they do is provide a false sense of security, letting folk think they can go anywhere and do anything on the Web with complete impunity.

use a security sandbox

-ajfudge (May 29, 2013, 02:26 PM)

There are folk here that use virtualization, e.g. VirtualBox, for browsing.  Others use one or another of the extant sandbox programs.  And that does supply a degree of protection, although CPU/RAM usage may suffer.  But even that can be circumvented:  I want a particular program, video, song, so I move it out of the sandbox.  Then I open it and become contaminated.  I am quite possibly now a disease vector for anything else I touch, network-wise.

All any anti-malware software [of which I am aware] does is the same thing as that fenced domicile - provide a false sense of security.

In the long run, it's not a matter of being smart so much as it is a matter of knowing the capabilities - and shortcomings - of the tool you are using.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift to Linux

« on: May 28, 2013, 09:16 PM »

You don't even need to run an anti-virus program.

-tosim (May 28, 2013, 07:49 AM)

Hm-m-m.  That was Apple's claim for years.  Then they got big enough, in terms of users, market percentage, to be interesting.

No OS is malware-proof if it is interconnected or allows 3rd-party access. 
(FWIW, been multi-booting since early [pre-commercial] Red Hat.)

Sorry to harp, but I keep seeing folk mention things that cannot be corrupted.  Ain't none.  What Man can devise, Man can destroy:  the only variable is time-frame.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« on: May 28, 2013, 07:21 PM »

Self-hosting sounds like more work to me 

-dr_andus (May 28, 2013, 04:02 PM)

Only downside to self-hosting is security issues:  you have to manage that.  But, then, that's true of any Website, no?

Otherwise, you have complete control.  And if you go with WordPress - strongly recommended previously - you can pick and choose themes and layouts, many of which are free, a few of which are paid.  Or, if so inclined, you could roll your own theme.  As mentioned, Windows Live Writer is a beautiful product for adding content, and there's a Linux equivalent (the name of which I cannot recall) if you're using that OS.  There's also an equivalent for OSX, but never had occasion to use it, not familiar with it.

The only real advantage to, say, WordPress.com, is automated security updates, but that can sometimes break your site. 

All things considered, you'd prolly be much happier self-hosting.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« on: May 28, 2013, 12:06 PM »

I nominate Zaine to be the official full-time DonationCoder.com movie reviewer.

-mouser (May 28, 2013, 08:08 AM)

Seconded!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shell Extension City Freeware Website Comeback

« on: May 27, 2013, 02:13 PM »

Good to hear.  I still have them in my RSS reader...couldn't bear to delete the feed.  =]

-skwire (May 27, 2013, 12:12 PM)

Yep. Ditto.

-IainB (May 27, 2013, 12:39 PM)

La misma.

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« on: May 26, 2013, 09:21 PM »

You natural moderation folks puzzle me so...

-Edvard (May 26, 2013, 08:41 PM)

Natural moderation is as follows:

• Drinking problem?
• Drink, get drunk, fall down.
• No Problem.

So?  Where's the puzzle ?

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« on: May 26, 2013, 07:08 PM »

  for motivation  !

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« on: May 26, 2013, 01:11 AM »

I mean, how many of us genuinely don't know that a bag of chips and a handful of cookies while watching a Star Trek marathon is NOT good for your body?

-Edvard (May 25, 2013, 09:10 PM)

Dunno 'bout that, but what abut a[ny] brew?

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: May 26, 2013, 01:08 AM »

  ?

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft keyboard sticking keys

« on: May 26, 2013, 01:06 AM »

  Yeah, all my screwdrivers are right-handed as well.   

-Tinman57 (May 25, 2013, 07:41 PM)

Funny, most of mine are ambisextrous ... they'll screw up (non-directional) regardless which hand I use.

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Best Text Editor / Re: Notepad++ has Help file; hex editor plugins

« on: May 26, 2013, 01:03 AM »

Perhaps what we should do is just add some big bold text at the top stating that the review is X years old and out of date.

-mouser (May 25, 2013, 06:28 PM)

That would seem to be viable, and perhaps to quell outbursts as originated this particular thread.  Just a strong statement of the review date would, I should thimk, be sufficuent, at least until such time as an alternative might be reached.

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Best Text Editor / Re: Notepad++ has Help file; hex editor plugins

« on: May 25, 2013, 12:23 AM »

If you're not going to be fair & up to date on the reviews, just take them down & only advertise Ultraedit .

-cathie28 (May 24, 2013, 05:09 PM)

???

Other than a simple statement of preference, I didn't see any downside to that review.  It reinforced the original post.  Mayhap I missed something, but ...?

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« on: May 23, 2013, 09:22 PM »

Does playing the cello count as exercise (or raising a glass?)

-Carol Haynes (May 23, 2013, 08:34 PM)

Cello might count - there's more exercise there than most folk know - but raising a glass only counts if there's a five (5) pound weight attached, and if you alternate hands  .

In (but that might be cheating - do it most every day  mostly wheel & Total Gym).  However, diet could be improved - and I'd have to give up ice cream  .

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Living Room / Re: SAP to bring in autistic workers as software testers and programmers

« on: May 23, 2013, 09:10 PM »

Why is that different from what they did so far?

-Ath (May 21, 2013, 09:17 AM)

Concur.  Worked with SAP products in the past.  Don't see any significant difference to the employees they had a decade and a half ago.

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Living Room / Re: MySQL hacked

« on: May 22, 2013, 12:58 AM »

To be honest I think the simplest solution is to move those sites to individual hosting solutions off my VPS and let them deal with the headaches rather than have them let hacking issues affect the whole server.

-Carol Haynes (May 21, 2013, 08:04 PM)

'Twould seem that to be the most efficacious solution in the future ... albeit not a resolution, per se, for the current situation.  Although, I am confused ... do those clients expect you to protect them from every little foible?  Or is that a thing you're contracted to do?  If the latter, you might want to reexamine your current business plan.    (Been there, to a lesser extent, and got savaged due to lack of real and proper planning upon my part.)

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Living Room / Re: Strange Pyramid

« on: May 20, 2013, 08:26 PM »

I dunno.  It's difficult, at best, to set up such guidelines.  It requires either a didactic attitude or a degree of prescience that few of us are lucky enough to possess.  It's easy to say, for instance, no politics or no religion, but what seems political to others may not seem political to me.  Religion is even worse, since that can vary within particular religious groups, much less from culture to culture.  At best, be polite might be specified, but other folk have a different idea of what polite might be than my interpretation.  Maybe don't be confrontational?  But that would pretty much ban significant areas of discussion.  Other than very broad/general suggestions - which I thimk exist, at least in the general Living Room, Basement and like designations, hard and fast rules tend to limit conversation and chase folk away.

Just my opinion, of course.  I've been castigated (to my mind, at least at the time) a time or three, but I'm still here because this forum is one (1) of the very few that allows expression of differences without personal bias or discrimination.

 

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Living Room / Re: Did you know DonationCoder has a Wikipedia article?

« on: May 19, 2013, 11:02 PM »

Veddy inter-r-r-restink  .

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Living Room / Re: Kudos/Respect for Mouser

« on: May 19, 2013, 03:26 PM »

I don't think I have much to do with this being a nice place to hang out

-mouser (May 18, 2013, 11:22 AM)

Think most of us would disagree.  You started it, you made it comfortable, you made it a place to collect a rather diverse membership.  Yeah, it may have some rough edges - what site/forum doesn't? - but you're working on that.  Perhaps not as expeditiously as you would prefer, and perhaps you get brain-locked from time to time (don't we all?),  but it's still your baby, your brain-child, and you are working on educating it.  Just accept the accolades and keep on keepin' on.