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Living Room / Which Software Personality Would Sing These Lyrics?

« on: January 11, 2008, 07:04 PM »

Ok - just for fun, which major software personality could you imagine singing these lyrics? 

Now I have you deep inside my everlasting grasp
The seven bloody gates of Hell
Is where you'll live your last

Warriors from Hell's domain
Will bring you to your death
The flames of Hades burning strong
Your soul shall never rest

The gates of Hell lie waiting as you see
Theres no price to pay just follow me
I can take your lost soul from the grave
Jesus knows your soul can not be saved

(From Slayer's "Hell Awaits")

I've put up probably the top best know personalities along with some extreme dichotomies.

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General Software Discussion / NETSCAPE ---- R.I.P. !!!

« on: January 01, 2008, 06:22 PM »

Netscape is dead.

Netscape Navigator, the world’s first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

NS has been in terrible decline for so long, this really should be called "euthanasia". It's truly a mercy killing at this point.

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Living Room / Are you sad?

« on: December 20, 2007, 08:37 PM »

I just noticed that https://www.donation...oder.com/Favicon.ico isn't there!

Wouldn't a Cody favicon make you much happier?

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Living Room / Applications Stealing Focus...

« on: December 13, 2007, 06:58 PM »

Stealing focus is something that really ticks me off. I can't count the number of times that I've been happily typing along when some application steals focus and I end up doing something very bad. Ok... It's not really THAT often, but when it happens, it can be disastrous.

At a minimum, there should be no default action for a window that steals focus. e.g. The space bar does nothing -- no "OK" and no "YES" or "Cancel" or anything like that.

Thoughts?

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Found Deals and Discounts / GroupMail 5 free license for registered users

« on: December 13, 2007, 03:34 AM »

Infacta is giving out a free license to all their customers. Nice of them. Anyways, I had the email - ignored it - then saw it posted at JoS. Here's the email:

Complimentary offer to all GroupMail customers

Dear Ryan Smyth,

As the end of 2007 fast approaches, the GroupMail product has now been on the go for roughly 12 years.

One thing you may not be aware of, is that the vast majority of new GroupMail users come to us on the back of personal recommendations from friends and colleagues who are already existing GroupMail customers. This is something we are very proud of and it shows at least some of the time, we are doing something right.

As a token of our appreciation for all these recommendations, we are offering all existing customers a complimentary license of GroupMail 5 Personal Edition, to do with as you choose. So give it to a charity, school, club, friend or colleague that might find it useful, or use it yourself in your own organization for an additional user - your call.

To avail of this offer, simply enter the details of the beneficiary at the following link, and we will setup up their license as soon as we can. If you are giving the license to a friend or colleague, please inform them beforehand.

Link: group-mail

Note: This link will expire on Dec 31st and is limited to one use.

Thank you once again for all your support, and on behalf of the GroupMail team, have a great holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

Warm regards
Robert Martin,
Infacta Ltd

Anyways, if you have GroupMail, don't ignore the email!

edit by jgpaiva: fixed link (hopefully)

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Living Room / IE8!

« on: December 10, 2007, 07:43 PM »

You'll love the title of this article about IE8!

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Living Room / NFW! Check Out THIS Music Distribution Policy!!!

« on: November 23, 2007, 08:46 AM »

These 12 tracks from our album are FREE for all to download, and we just ask one simple thing. Please make copies for all your friends and ask them to do the same, and so on and so forth. You are our publicity, our promotion, our distribution and our friends.
Please help us spread the word of The Bastard Fairies by sharing our music for Free!

HOLY #^(&!

Ok - I'm on board! Any band that cool has totally got my vote!

Maybe I should repeat that one part...

...we just ask one simple thing. Please make copies for all your friends...

I'll certainly be plugging them a few times and passing it on!

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Living Room / Looking for Beta Testers for Satanic Music Detector :)

« on: November 23, 2007, 03:02 AM »

Hello All,

I'm looking for people to help beta test the new Fuck Satan Satanic Music Detector.



Your reward shall be a "Get out of Hell FREE!" card! (Redeemable upon eternal damnation!)

Here's the download link:

 http://www.fucksatan...nicMusicDetector.zip

There are no web pages for it yet. I'll work on those when I have time, but I'd like to get a few more good examples of Satanic music first (see below).

It's for finding backwards messages in music. But you probably figured that one out by now...

It requires .NET 2.0. I don't want to say much more though as I don't want to put any ideas in anyone's head. (There's no help yet. I want to know if it's easy enough in the UI.)

The basic things I'm looking to find out are:

* Is it easy enough or intuitive enough?
* Are there any bugs (I'm sure there are a couple left in there somewhere.)
* Was it fun?
* How could it be more fun?
* Anything else that should be in the program?

Don't say "save the audio" - That's coming later. Right now it's just a player and not for saving audio clips. Got to have something on the TODO list, right?

These are some of the backwards messages that I've found so far:

Slayer - Jihad:
Oh Satan! I will rock! 
(or Oh Say God. I will rock!)
(forward - I will watch you die again for him)

Slayer - Cult:
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! 
(forwards - 6! 6! 6!)
-- I liked that one! Evil forwards & nice backwards! 

Avril Lavigne - Sk8tr Boi:
Oh-oh-oh... And they say...
Are you a saint? Are you insane? (garble)
No release. No re-sane. And they say...
Are... Are you a saint? Are you insane? (garble)
No release. No re-sane.
(forwards - I'm with the Sk8tr boi.. - near the end of the song.)

Cher - All or Nothing:
And if I care for you...
(forwards that's "Who do you think you're foolin'")

Thanks in advance for anyone who's willing to risk their soul to help root out the spawn of Satan! 

And again, kudos out to nudone for the graphic work for FS!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Word of Mouth Marketing with Nick Longo

« on: November 20, 2007, 03:43 PM »

Hello All,

The next part of the interview with Nick is now available here:

 http://www.dotnetpreacher.com/

I ask Nick to get into how to start a Word of Mouth campaign and what he has to say about it is counter-intuitive, but very simple.

Enjoy!

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Living Room / About Rudeness in Forums

« on: November 19, 2007, 03:54 PM »

Not sure where everyone else hangs out, but I frequent a few other professional tech forums as well.

It seems like there is a lot of rudeness elsewhere, but never here. If you've ever been to JoS, you'll know what I mean.

The "How to ask questions thread" got me thinking about this again. The thing is that even when people ask questions the right way (or close enough), all too often there are people just waiting to pounce on them. That just doesn't really happen here, which is something I really enjoy. It's very refreshing to read where people help each other rather than attack.

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Living Room / Please Write Software Poems...

« on: November 16, 2007, 07:32 PM »

Inspiration here
Please write us some software poems
Short software haiku

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Living Room / Feedback on New Fun Software Please

« on: November 14, 2007, 08:07 AM »

Hello All,

I've redone a little utility I posted here a while back and incorporated some good feedback from nudone.

Now, it's just for fun, but never-the-less, I'd like to see if anyone has any ideas on how it could be a bit more fun.

Anyways, let me know what you think of the new and improved Anti-Christ Hunter v6.6.6. (The version number will be stuck at v6.6.6 eternally for every release.)



The web design there is entirely thanks to nudone! Many hearty thanks for that!

Anyways, before I formally release it, I'd just like to see if anyone has any feedback.

It's pretty intuitive, so there's no help available. Obviously the Arabic option only works with Arabic, etc. etc. etc.

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General Software Discussion / OS Religious Wars...

« on: November 09, 2007, 11:05 PM »

So I've got my dev box working (needed a new motherboard) and back to working on FuckSatan.com and some of the toys for it when I come across this...

“Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea,
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short…

Let him who hath understanding reckon
the distro of the beast,
for it is a Linux distro,
its distro is Ubuntu Satanic Edition.”

Ubuntu Satanic Edition!

HAhahahaha~! Ubuntu SE!

What is Ubuntu Satanic Edition?

Ubuntu SE is not currently a distro, it’s more a series of themes to transform the look of Ubuntu. You must first download and install one of the standard Ubuntu variants and then upgrade to Ubuntu SE. Don’t worry; you can easily change your system back if you intend to recant.

I may need to dump my Suse distro in favor of Ubuntu!

And while Microsoft has Windows CE, Linux has Ubuntu CE... Ubuntu Christian Edition that is...

And the counterpart to Windows ME would be Ubuntu ME... Muslim Edition!

Now... Can anyone here deny that all those Linux fantics truly are religious about their OS?

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General Software Discussion / xplorer2 won the Epsilon award

« on: November 05, 2007, 06:10 AM »

Just heard in a newsgroup that xplorer2 won the Epsilon award - it's not up at the site yet though: http://www.euroconfe...org/Epsilon_Vote.htm

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Living Room / Entering License keys late...

« on: October 31, 2007, 11:41 PM »

So, I still haven't entered my license key, but I've just blogged about it - 665! The Neighbor of the Beast!

There's got to be at least 1 Iron Maiden fan here somewhere...

Anyways - just some of the stupid stuff I do to keep myself amused and sane.

Peace, Love, and Eternal Devil Worshipping... Errr... I mean Eternal Groovieness!

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Living Room / Fantastic Job Opportunity

« on: October 31, 2007, 07:42 AM »

http://newyork.craig...h/cpg/464781890.html

Ummm... Is this par for the course at CL?

It's at least very entertaining.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Happy Halloween! New Halloween Desktop Wallpapers from ALTools

« on: October 30, 2007, 12:37 AM »

Hello All,

Some new Halloween desktop wallpapers for you this Halloween.





There are 3 wallpapers with a little story even.

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General Software Discussion / You MUST See the Price for this Software

« on: October 29, 2007, 07:24 AM »

OK - ready... CLICK!

So... How's the price?

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Living Room / 8 Hour MP3

« on: October 28, 2007, 09:45 PM »

So I've got a fellow with a feature request that stems from his having some very long MP3s - one is 8 hours long! (The direct download is here.)

It's pretty good at that too.

I've got some 1 & 2 hour MP3s (e.g. ASOT), but 8 hours is just off the hook.

Kind of makes me wonder a bit about the future of media and what kind of stuff we'll be seeing in the future. e.g. I get a lot of information from podcasts on my commute. Our behaviour patterns are seriously changing a LOT thanks in no small part to advances in technology and all the new gadgets that come with it.

Now I want my hovercar, holodeck, replicator (ST, not SG ), Cherry 2000 (  ) and a Death Star to top it off would be nice.

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Living Room / "Warning: You are using Internet Explorer" HAHAHAHA~!

« on: October 23, 2007, 02:28 AM »

I couldn't help but rant on this one:





It will never cease to amaze me...

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Developer's Corner / WMA DRM Licensing

« on: October 22, 2007, 03:27 AM »

Has anyone here licensed WMA DRM for playback from MS?

Not for encoding or anything like that. Just playback, and maybe tag editing.

I'm looking for some clarification there regarding the 9/9.5 and 11 licenses.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

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General Software Discussion / What are Your Top Tech/Software Podcasts?

« on: October 12, 2007, 10:34 PM »

Taking from mouser's recent post...

What tech/software podcasts do you listen to?

I'm running out of podcasts for my commute and need more. In no particular order... Right now I listen to:

.NET Rocks!
 - Great podcast! This is one of the best out there. Sometimes the quality of audio for the guest can be low, which sucks, but this is one show I keep listening to because it delivers.

Software Engineering Radio
 - Again, a great podcast. They go on about enterprise systems mostly, and do get into some great technical stuff.

TWiT
 - Less intense... A fun listen. Lots of good news in it.

Security Now
 - It's ok. A lot of it is nothing more than an ad for SpinRite, which is annoying. A lot of things are pretty Mickey Mouse simple, but sometimes there is some really good stuff. (Admittedly, I have a bad attitude towards computer 'security' because so much of it just seems trivial and I hate being treated like a moron.)

The MicroISV Show
 - Infrequent, but always very good.

Venture Voice
 - Extremely infrequent (every few months), but perhaps one of the best podcasts on the Internet. Amazing guests with a lot of great stuff to say.

Polymorphic Podcast
 - Again, sporadic, but a good listen. Very techy.

The Project Studio Network
 - Audio show. Fantastic! This show has THE best production quality of any podcast I've ever heard. It beats everything else out there. The show is for recording and music production. Not really tech, but they do a lot of software reviews for audio software.

Windows Weekly
 - A decent show. A bit too much talk about games, but whatever. It's worth listening to.

Diggnation
 - I just added this out of desperation for more podcasts. It's a fun listen, but for real information, it's a bit lacking. TWiT is better. They swear a lot and joke a lot. Not the first podcast I turn to, but when I'm out of other things, at least it's tech, kind of...

Extreme Tech
 - Mostly hardware talk, but interesting. High quality too - not a bunch of nitwits with their opinions. These guys have a lot of experience in their field.

Hanselminutes
 - Good show. Sometimes there's a bit too much about the XBox and games for me, but there are a LOT of really good shows too with real meaty information.

The Dot Net Preacher Show
 - This one I only listen to when I'm out of other podcasts, and only because I like the sound of my own voice. Just kidding. I just listen to it to see if there's something I could do better in it. (It's my own podcast.)

There are some others as well that I'm subscribed to, but they are either few and infrequent, or I'm sick of them due to poor quality content without enough substance. (I think I'm getting sick of Diggnation already - we'll see though.)

So... If you know more good software and tech podcast, PLEASE SHARE THEM!  

I'm DESPERATE for more podcasts to listen to as I'm up to about 3 hours of driving time per day. Per week I'm up to about 17~20 hours or so. That's a lot of time to fill and I need more.

I just hate driving or commute time without some kind of mental stimulation. The silence is deafening! 

I'll listen to just about anything tech or software related. My only real requirement (for long term listening) is that the show have quality content, and not some 'fluff'. Too many shows pad their time with fluff.

I'll even listen to a gaming podcast if it's technically oriented - but not something that's consumer oriented.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


EDIT: Reformatted for readability.

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Living Room / Psychic Whois Service :)

« on: October 03, 2007, 10:57 PM »

Check this out:



It's got that search suggestion tool for whois domain name lookups. I figured it was kind of nifty anyways.

Notice the red & green text.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Interview with Game Developer Gregg Seelhoff

« on: October 03, 2007, 12:26 AM »

Hello All,

I've just put up an interview (podcast) with game developer Gregg Seelhoff here.

It's on game development, so if you're interested in writing games, you may want to check it out. Then again, if you're interested in just hearing from a game developer, you may want to check it out too.

If you're interested in .NET, marketing software, or just programming in general, make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed. Shows are 1~2x monthly as I have time to get them done. There are more interviews coming up as well.

Cheers!

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General Software Discussion / Help - Looking for Some Fun Software Ideas

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:46 AM »

Nighted gave me an idea for a fun little utility in this thread that I've spun off at this site here. >> WARNING - it's offensive to some people. It's safe for work, but not for church...

It's one of those dead projects of mine that I probably started after 3 or 4 too many beer... In any event, I'd like to whip up some more fun little toys there and I'm looking for ideas. (Yes - I'm being lazy here...)

Anyways, if anyone can come up with some pseudo-religious software ideas for fun stuff that would be amusing, please let me know. I don't want major projects - just quick & fun type stuff. The more insane, the better. Once you see the site, you'll understand the 'spirit' of it all - it's supposed to be humorous, light-hearted and just plain silly with a gently serious twist underneath.

Thanks in advance for any help here. (If anyone has design skills (I suck there) and would like to help, please see this thread.)