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Living Room / Re: Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century (so far)

« on: September 15, 2006, 01:00 PM »

I wonder were all the sims expansion packs taken into account. Seems like that would give it an advantage, though I'm undecided if that would be unfair or not.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [DISCUSSION] How to extract embedded zip/rar files recursively in one step?

« on: September 15, 2006, 04:22 AM »

How often do you actually encounter stuff like this? I've no doubt its very annoying but it must be very rare, and isn't it illogical as solid archiving would achieve better compression than this sort of nested archiving.

That said though I don't know of any program to help you, sorry.

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Living Room / Arachibutyrophobia

« on: September 13, 2006, 01:22 PM »

A friend pointed me to this, his theory, which I'm inclined to agree with, is that the company must have generated webpages for different phobias and this one snuck in; Arachibutyrophobia at Change Thats Right Now.



[EDIT]If anyone here, god forbid, actually suffers form this I'm not belittling it, just that the above page sounds utterly ridiculous in the way it talks about it [/EDIT]

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Living Room / Re: BowMaster, Cool Flash Game

« on: September 12, 2006, 07:37 AM »

Arragh... so... much... wasted... time...

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Living Room / Re: Prediction: Google will Become Stumbleupon

« on: September 12, 2006, 05:02 AM »

I think we are seeing the first ripples of the plan google has for tracking your entire search history.

-mouser (September 12, 2006, 02:26 AM)

I don't know how effective it really is but I recently signed up for Lost in the Crowd to try and regain some anonymity online. Thought it was relevant to mention here .

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Living Room / Re: mail2web: any comments?

« on: September 11, 2006, 06:07 AM »

My one concern was always the fact that giving my login information to someone else -- a general paranoia.

-allen (September 11, 2006, 05:23 AM)

I've always felt the same way but there are times where such a service is invaluable. Equally useful I also find myself in need of net2ftp when behind my college's proxy which won't allow ftp traffic .

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Living Room / Re: Answerbag - a site of questions and answers

« on: September 09, 2006, 04:23 PM »

Way too easy to waste your time there .

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Font Creator

« on: September 08, 2006, 06:04 PM »

I saw a free Microsoft program, My Font Tool, listed on Road to Know Where!. It might be something like what you're looking for.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Redbox only captures only works on second monitor

« on: September 07, 2006, 09:24 AM »

Just a random thought but how is your screeen layout setup, i.e. is the secondary screen in the default position right of the primary screen. If not maybe this is an issue?

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Living Room / A List Of Fallacious Arguments

« on: September 07, 2006, 08:12 AM »

I came across this while using Google to check my spelling of agruments (what a handy feature) it's quite interesting.

A List Of Fallacious Arguments

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fSekrit / Re: Brute Force hacking possible?

« on: September 07, 2006, 06:45 AM »

Hi AbteriX, you bring up a good point but if someone has a copy of your file there are probably alot of ways they could cheat such a system, say by making a new copy of the file after every failed attempt, or adjusting their system clock to fool the program.

The only defense real against brute force attacks are hardened passwords.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wonderful Mini Robot Wrestling Video

« on: September 05, 2006, 01:25 PM »

And another from the same page, battle-ball; http://video.google....=8321619191597149213

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General Software Discussion / Re: houseforge recommendation September 2006

« on: September 05, 2006, 10:43 AM »

Hey, I use Keepass and never knew there was a Linux port, excellent news indeed.

Plus I think this is a really good idea , can't wait to see what the coming months will bring us.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: September 04, 2006, 12:02 PM »

Right this is draft four of my attempt to respond-Yeah there are so many to chose from that you are overwhelmed before you even start. Recently I have used FreeBSD, Ubuntu, SUSE, Gentoo and tried to use Fedora Core but it wouldn't boot after install. In all cases I wanted the Gnome environment and apart from minor niggles e.g. couldn't get dual screens working in FreeBSD or that Gentoo and SUSE used an older ver. of Gnome, I was happy with them. Well maybe not with SUSE, thought it looked ugly.

But, functionally, all worked and were completely usable as a desktop and development platform. If I'd have to recommend one I'd say make a choice for either Gnome or KDE and then pick that flavor of Ubuntu as it really is the most user friendly in my opinion.

Why am I currently on Zenwalk? Well I installed it to try out Xfce and was so impressed I stuck with it. I'll probably end up moving to Xubuntu which also runs Xfce but I'm happy where I am at the moment and can't think of any reason to switch.

Renegade: re. the reliability of Ubuntu as a server. At the end of the day its no doubt using the same-ish versions of the key bits of software so it is probably as reliable as any other *nix.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: September 04, 2006, 08:56 AM »

Well I think Linux generally is very reliable but I understand you're concern over something so new. A good point for Ubuntu is that they'll be continuing to support and upgrade this version for 5 years meaning you wouldn't have to reinstall in a years time to catch up with software updates.

But really I have no experience with Linux when it comes to servers, only FreeBSD and a small bit of OpenBSD. Both I loved and would be using one of them if I were setting up a server again, however if I wanted a GUI on my server I think I'd opt for Ubuntu, hence the reason why I recommend it. Also I've used it as a desktop and really linked it, and it proved stable for the short period I stuck with it before moving onto my current beloved; Zenwalk .

In truth almost any Linux distro can be setup as a server so you should be choosing one you're comfortable with, I'd recommend choosing one with live web updates, which an awful lot have but is still something to double check.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: September 03, 2006, 11:24 AM »

Don't mean to be repeating myself but Ubuntu Server seems like it's exactly what you want (though haven't tried it myself for anything other than a desktop).

In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

-ubuntu.com

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Living Room / Re: Is our universe about to be mangled?

« on: September 03, 2006, 10:22 AM »

Bah humbug . I read New Scientist and other such magazines on a near constant basis and I've found myself desensitized to all these wild theories. I find it tiring to read article after article of some sole scientist's mad notions. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not say scientists shouldn't have mad notions, just that respected magazine such as New Scientist should do a better job of shielding us from these ideas until they've been properly worked out or at least backed up by more than one or two other experts.

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Living Room / Re: Trippy Trick

« on: September 03, 2006, 06:52 AM »

Wow that's cool.

[edit]Fixed bad grammar, it's amazing how easy it is to screw up three little words.[/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Thought experiments

« on: September 03, 2006, 06:50 AM »

Interesting though I don't like the many worlds interpretation myself.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: September 02, 2006, 07:16 AM »

If you'll only be running a console on the server and not a GUI I would recommend FreeBSD, it's what I used when I set up a server for home and there are tutorials which explain absolutley everything.

That said I'm sure they also exist for linux, ubuntu for example has such a large fanbase that you'll no doubt find tonnes of help too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win/IIS to LAMP Converts

« on: August 31, 2006, 06:05 PM »

I'd recommend a BLPP stack or perhaps a BLPR stack

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations

« on: August 31, 2006, 04:00 AM »

Don't use virtual desktops myself so can't exactly recommend one, but Microsofts own Virtual Desktop Manager is another option.

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Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude

« on: August 26, 2006, 07:32 AM »

Some of those are quite good. On the subject of Math jokes, here is a collection I compiled a while back.

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Living Room / Re: Here is an extremely well done flash platform game in japanese

« on: August 25, 2006, 05:21 PM »

Hey its a remake of Metal Slug . I got that working in a neo-geo emulator a few years ago.

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Living Room / Re: Watch Ahree Lee age three years before your eyes

« on: August 23, 2006, 05:10 AM »

Excellent link, its fascinating to watch.