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I just realized that Lotus symphony (not covered in the giant word processor roundup) has been released free.
http://symphony.lotu...y/product_ss_pe.jspa

How good is it? Anyone using it?

It has tabs...

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I used firstdefense to go back to a (I thought) clean install of XP and I found a weird problem: most shortcuts are broken. At least, the ones I 'made' manually.

I found this by using FARR (and some other launchers). They use shortcuts a lot. Well, most of the time, they launch nothing. Sometimes you get an error message, but in the case of FARR you get nothing.

I think FARR fails to lauch things that are simple exes too (i.e., no shortcuts).

This is the first time I do anything with Firstdefense; I'm pretty sure this is not how it's intended to work.
Any ideas?

Thanks

128
Living Room / SFFS Version 4.20: copying files in parallel
« on: June 14, 2008, 10:11 AM »
just got a mail: SFFS Version 4.20 will allow copying files in parallel. Now that's an interesting feature...

129
Living Room / does win XP 64-bit suck?
« on: June 12, 2008, 04:18 AM »
I'm moving to a machine with 8gb of RAM.
I'll need a 64-bit OS to address all that memory.

I think I'll stick to linux, but, just in case...
does win XP 64-bit suck?

It'll probably save some time (hundreds of hours :) ) to use win XP, at least at the beginning, and run linux on top of it with andlinux. Big problem: andlinux uses only one core.

130
Everyday, I get to a web 2.0 site (or any site using lots of technologies that are really pushing the browser) that doesn't work on opera.
Sometimes the flaw makes the site unusable; then it's easy to detect. Sometimes it's just a bit of functionality that is lacking; you may only notice if you navigate the same site with some other browser.

At the end of the day, I have to report the site in the forums, wait for a fix (heh), and open another browser. And update my mental list of sites that I need to use a different browser.

Google apps are part of catergory 2 (mostly works, but there's always something broken... which may be a show stopper or completely ignored).

Is everything google working so-so in opera, or just bad luck? Looks like people don't test against opera all the fancy AJAX stuff, and most web 2.0 sites that really push it work ok on opera only by accident... google apps included.

If this is the case, then firefly should be the solution... if it ever gets to the mainstream.

Is Opera cursed to be ignored, no matter how technically brilliant it may be?

131
I'm considering using flash-card programs to learn a new (human) language, German in my case as I'm moving to Berlin.

I was very impressed by this article in Wired magazine:
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

It talks about supermemo, a program that uses what we know about forgetting to help retention.

Do you use flash-card programs?
What's the best?

Any other hacks to learn a language?

Thanks

132
Is there any way to change font size in tree views (example:chm TOCs)?
Again, things are hard to read in my 1920 x 1200 laptop screen.

Alternatively, is there a chm reader that you can configure a bit (fonts mainly)?
I know the FF extension, but it's too slow and it has other problems.

Thanks
PS: I posted this on the ahk forums but got no answer.

133
This is exactly what iRotate has done: mapped shift + ctrl + arrows (something everyone uses to move around text, select blocks in excel etc) as their main screen rotation shortcut.

It's fun to try to select a word and see your screen rotating... several times.

The tool is incrediby useful, but it should have user-defined shortcuts, and in any case, never redefine window's system-wide shortcuts for a good reason.

134
The new Opera beta 2 has dragonfly built-in.
I couldn't find it where they say it should be, but that might be my hacked toolbar...

Has anyone tried it?

135
See the changes here:

http://forums.musici...x.php?showtopic=3494

Lots of new features. It seems they improved the algorigthm for mixing too. I wonder if the slow tagging problem is solved...

136
I don't use IE7, but the chm abd RSS reader I use need this engine and I like the smooth scroll setting. However it's reset when rebooting (to non-smooth). Any idea Why?

Thanks

137
I'm using an editor and a terminal most of the time.
It'd be great it they could be 'yoked' so they could be minimized together, get focus, etc.
Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm also using the tweak UI powertoy to have x-like focus follows mouse behaviour. It's great.

Thanks.

138
I really like tiny apps.
I liked XMplay, but this AIMP2 is even better.
It uses BASS too.

Homepage:
http://www.aimp.ru/i...mp;skin_name=english

Screenshot:
http://www.aimp.ru/f...ages/aimp2screen.jpg


The good
   Tiniest footprint ever, even with library open. I have a large library. Mediamonkey used ~100Mb + 100Mb virtual. Aimp uses 10-30mb
   Tabs
   Global shortcuts work (minimize to tray)
   

Things that I miss
   Last.fm
   Auto-scan directories for changes
   Editing tags from the library is really bad
   No docs, site in russian

Other reviews
http://fileforum.bet...ew/1189013260/1/view
http://www.neowin.ne...re/08/03/15/aimp-211

139
I don't use IE, but the help system does, and I want smooth scrolling.
IE forgets my choice; I can change it again in IE > tools > advanced, but if I reboot it's gone.
How do I make it permanent?

Thanks

140
General Software Discussion / books/blogs on database design?
« on: February 28, 2008, 02:34 PM »
You know, you design your database, and once your app has been out for a while, you realize how poor some design choices were... and how painful re-engenieering the db will be.

I'm trying to minimize all this. It looks like database design is a black art (as is designing an OO representation of a domain).

Do you have any good pointers for getting proficient at this in a short time? All books I could find are about all the other technical aspects of DBMS...

Thanks

141
Just two quick links...

http://www.wired.com...free?currentPage=all
 
http://www.kk.org/th.../better_than_fre.php
"When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
 
The point of all these new online communities (facebook, DC :) ) is that they offer something that cannot be copied: the feeling of connection etc

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http://attrition.org...nt/z/keysigning.html

There are a few basic truths to the use of PGP/GPG keysigning that one must consider.

   1. Individuals choose what name and email address are attached to keys. Some people use it in a professional capacity and as such have their legal name and work address attached. Other people may use it in a personal capacity, including individuals that wish to hide information for personal reasons such as a fundamental desire for privacy, to hide questionable material or legal reasons.
   2. Many people don't want their legal identity attached to their key. How then does "Raven" or "Jericho" prove who they are? Handles do not lend themselves well to the protocol and typically add extra hurdles in establishing trust. Despite that, over half the people we know use handles instead of legal names for their keys.
   3. In the most simple terms, signing someone else's PGP/GPG key establishes a tie between you and that person. The strength of this tie is not generally known from the signature and any assumptions about the ties are just that... assumptions.
   4. One strength and value of public key cryptography is the ability to make your key available to anyone and everyone, often via e-mail footers, web pages or public key servers.
   5. You have little to no control over who signs your key.


If you were scared giving your info to facebook, and thought PGP would give you a tin hat, think again!

143
I have this little text file with URLs that I need to test.
I'm thinking on passing Opera/FF/Whatever a text file with urls, and getting each one opened in a tab. Is this Possible? How?

Thanks

144
I cannot find any decent reviews.
Is this something like a free dreamweaver?
Does it output crappy html?

Any use for a WYSIWYG html editor?

http://www.microsoft...ess/vwd/Default.aspx

145
Dumbar number:

Dunbar's number, which is very approximately 150, represents a theorized cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships, the kind of relationships that go with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person.[1] Group sizes larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced policies and regulations to maintain a stable cohesion.

http://en.wikipedia....Dunbar's_number

This would make sense...

146
Digg, reddit competitor. It seems to be doing some smart stuff behind the scences, not just relying on votes. Buoyancy (equivalent of diggs or votes in reddit) can go down as well as up.

http://www.newspond.com/about/


At the heart of Newspond lies a tireless electronic brain. This highly-advanced machine intelligence continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum. As a news story surfaces across one or more of these sites, Newspond notes every detail about it - from how fast a story spreads throughout the internet, to the amount of discussion surrounding the story, to even things like the rate at which people click on or bookmark the article and the size of each of the sites reporting it. Every detail is carefully noted, sized, and gauged, reading at a faster rate of speed than any human being could ever dream of. That way, you don't need to visit multiple news sites to find out what's going on.



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Here's the source:
http://www.techcrunc...tip-jar-for-content/

If you leave a tip as a new user, you start to build up an account debit. You can eventually pay that off via PayPal (TipJoy keeps 2%), although no one comes after you if you choose to skip out on the bill. You can also start to ask for tips on your own site, and anything people leave for you offsets what you’ve given to others.

148
Have you seen:
http://boardreader.com/

Looks like a search engine for forums. Also, it gives you an overview of what people are posting for any topic across forums.
You can see it sorted by popularity.

A nifty way of keeping on top of news without having to subscribe to trillion feeds...

149
General Software Discussion / PHP IDE recommendations
« on: February 11, 2008, 02:01 PM »
I have to read someone else's code in PHP.
They didn't use any rules for line lengnth(standards : 80 col)... and lines are really long. This is a large project so an IDE may help navigating the code.

The problem is that none of the IDEs I have tested (PHPed, Komodo, EasyEclipse) can do proper word wrapping keeping indentation. The last one is the one I like the most right now.

It's a pain to have to scroll horizontally to see a long SQL call.

The only editor that does this kind of wrapping is sublime editor.

Any pointers? What's your recommendation for an IDE overall?
Thanks!

150
Here's an alternative to locate.

ScanFS

it's a free indexer; What does it have over locate? media file previews, live preview of file contents based on keywords or regular expressions, exports search results to excel, etc

Features
   ▪ Search in single directories or directory groups
   ▪ Search and replace in multiple files
   ▪ Supports simple or regular expressions for filenames and file contents
   ▪ Live preview of file contents, without the need to rescan the file system
   ▪ Live preview of images
   ▪ Windows Explorer integration (by clicking the search button, or pressing F3)
   ▪ Search using multiple file patterns
   ▪ Save/Load search criteria
   ▪ Full unicode support (filenames, file contents, search results, search and replace)
   ▪ Refine search mode (search within catalogs or existing results)
   ▪ Copy/Move/Delete/Rename files and/or directories
   ▪ Drag-drop support, e.g. drop files in explorer windows
   ▪ Can be used as a visual replacement for the command-line grep comman




scanfs_04.jpg




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