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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: March 09, 2011, 03:37 PM »

The paranoia which surround OpenCandy astonishes me. I find the DLL related freak-outs particularly funny, seems as if people think a DLL sitting on your harddrive is more dangerous than a txt file? Which by the way, in terms of security/vulnerability issues, it's not!

Maybe someone, someday will be able to explain to me why OpenCandy is worse than Google/Bing/etc toolbar.

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Living Room / Re: Do it yourself dropbox

« on: March 09, 2011, 08:36 AM »

I know I personally never put anything private into my Dropbox folder.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an app to stop installers from launching web browsers and opening pages

« on: March 05, 2011, 04:47 PM »

A program which temporarily took over default handling of webpages for the duration of the install would probably do the trick, and wouldn't be too hard to code.

You'll even find code samples on this MSDN - page 

I don't have the time just now, unfortunately.

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« on: March 05, 2011, 03:38 PM »

There's an interesting story about how the folks over at 4chan gamed Recaptcha to fix a Time poll - moot wins, Time Inc. loses.

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« on: March 05, 2011, 03:14 PM »

A bit late on seeing Curts post, but it strikes me as being designed by someone who has forgotten why captchas were developed in the first place, to stop spammers. By scr.im offering a selection of possible answers, all a bot need do is guess. It'll be right 1 in 9 times, so all scr.im have done is asked spammers to try a bit more often, hardly much of an inconvenience.

timns- Those Recaptcha and Google captchas work on the pronciple that they are using you to translate OCR'd text for them. They present two words but only know one of the words themselves. So if one word is seriously scrambled, or contains number, symbols, foreign punctuation, etc then you can be pretty sure that's the one they don't know. You can actually just enter a space for it, or you could purposely enter an incorrect word to mess with them Either way, once you get the other word right you're accepted.

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Living Room / Re: Is this the worlds most elegant keyboard?

« on: March 03, 2011, 02:20 PM »

stick an Apple logo on it and it WILL be the most elegant keyboard in the world.

-nudone (March 03, 2011, 12:47 PM)

Ha ha, fantastic!

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Living Room / Is this the worlds most elegant keyboard?

« on: March 03, 2011, 12:19 PM »

I'm pretty sure it's not

Large Black Print, Yellow Keyboard

I particularly love the use of Comic Sans.

Via Pharyngula

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Living Room / Re: In Western societies, how can a man have a hyphenated name? (and why!)

« on: March 02, 2011, 03:20 PM »

I say we all just adopt UUIDs, then there would never be a name clash.

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Living Room / Re: In Western societies, how can a man have a hyphenated name? (and why!)

« on: March 02, 2011, 12:59 PM »

Passing on surnames is crazy because unless you're the first generation it gets completely out of hand. If my great-grandparents did it for example I'd now have a stupid eight surnames.

After about 27ish generation peoples name would need a gigabyte of memory each 

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Living Room / Re: Unsubscribe to 404

« on: March 01, 2011, 08:29 PM »

i didn't know that the 'unsubscribe' link actually works. more often than not, it's like sending a confirmation to the spammer that there is a live person at the other end. i usually hit the spam button 1st and ask questions later.

-lanux128 (March 01, 2011, 07:51 PM)

Yeah I heard of that as an increasingly prevalent scam.

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General Software Discussion / Re: OS recommendations for Pent.III 128MB laptop

« on: March 01, 2011, 03:52 PM »

Win2k would run extremely well on such an OS. Also I imagine with some nlitening beforehand, and judiciously application of Black Vipers guides, I bet you could get an excellent and nippy XP install up and going.

Unfortunately, with so little RAM, I'd say Linux is a big no go. Perhaps some of the ultra lite distros would work, but they tend to be crap

[edit] to summarise - try the XP road first 

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Debunking GTD: Distrust and productive use are not incompatible.

« on: March 01, 2011, 08:52 AM »

It illustrates Shannon’s law of reliable communication. Shannon’s law says that accurate transmission of information is possible in a communication system with a high level of noise. Even in the noisiest system, errors can be reliably corrected and accurate information transmitted, provided that the transmission is sufficiently redundant. That is, in a nutshell, how Wikipedia works.

Shannons Law is about data transmission capacity, binary data being dumped into a noisy channel at one end and yet being able to ensure it can be accurately recovered at the other.

It is not relevant to Wikipedia.

I don't mean this as against you Paul, I know you're only quoting a source, but I really hate it when people subvert very specific science or maths theorem for something utterly unrelated.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is Software for Hardware Always Sucky?

« on: February 27, 2011, 04:37 PM »

I hadn't thought so, but could easily be wrong.

Also related is a requirement MS impose that if you want your drivers certified, you must provide an x64 version

All products and drivers (kernel-mode or user-mode) submitted for Microsoft signature or logo certification for a given Windows operating system must support the x64 version of that operating system, with certain exceptions described below. All x64 device drivers must adhere to the Microsoft x64 software-calling convention, as defined in the Windows Driver Kit.

This requirement applies for Windows Vista and later operating systems. It applies to all logo-qualified and unclassified drivers. X86 driver submissions are optional in all cases. When submitting an x86 driver or device, vendors must also make an x64 driver submission. Update submissions for x86 drivers need not include x64 drivers unless the updates also apply to the x64 drivers. This requirement does not apply to IA64 devices and drivers; there is no requirement for IA64 devices and drivers to support the x64 architecture.

-http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463054

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is Software for Hardware Always Sucky?

« on: February 27, 2011, 04:08 PM »

I'm not sure the 64bit aspect comes into it lanux, upgraded drivers have to be written for a switch from say Vista 32bit to Win 7 32bit too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 SP1 released

« on: February 27, 2011, 11:57 AM »

Running it myself, had been planning a reinstall anyway so did one with SP1 slipstreamed. All seems to be fine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: February 26, 2011, 04:17 PM »

Lots of people willingly run Google Chrome, that does more tracking than OC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: February 26, 2011, 03:49 PM »

But a developer distributing software has even less of an excuse when it comes to naivety. Plus OC are paying the devs, so they aren't feeding off the freeware/opensource communities, OC are providing those communities with money (with which to feed themselves ).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: February 26, 2011, 02:20 PM »

Sure. Let's put that right up there with all those young women who got assaulted because they were obviously "asking for it,' right?

Always expedient to blame the victims. Absolves everybody else quite neatly don't you think?

-40hz (February 26, 2011, 02:12 PM)

Come on, I'm not doing that. I know that all bundled software preys on peoples naiviety, but when you don't have sufficient self awareness to uncheck a box I really do believe you should not be installing software from online.

Also a thought, I would consider OpenCandy to be a lot less evil than the developers who bundle it with their software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: February 26, 2011, 02:06 PM »

When you download an install an application, you expect to only get the application you intend to install.

-app103 (February 26, 2011, 01:29 PM)

Only if you very very naive, and therefore shouldn't be allowed online.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: February 26, 2011, 10:53 AM »

They're still no worse that a Google or Bing Toolbar

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Living Room / Re: Power Ranger Punches Kid for Accusing Him of Stealing Gloves

« on: February 23, 2011, 07:16 PM »

Form the thread in the second link -

Hey guys,
Its JDF first thank you to my team and everyone who ‘KNOWS ME” first of all it DID NOT GO DOWN as it reads. That is NOT true. Let me shed some light on the situation. First everyone had my guys losing across the board including cage door but both my fighters WON Kolton and Ramero did GREAT. We were in celebration mode. Everyone knows emotions are on a high. Then this guy came out and asked for the gloves back. I didn’t have them!! Neither did my fighter, he kept on and on and on . I said I don’t have them bro. Then started to celebrate again with ramero. Then again Louder and louder . JASON , JASON , JASON its always a F***** Problem with you and gloves. that’s NOT true I know mick if I wanted them I would pay for them, Micks good to me. Well as I was celebrating AGAIN he mouthed off and offended me by saying Jesus Didn’t Tap and Jesus don’t steal. I heard this I was mad but he was gone. So again went back to tell ramero how he dominated that fight. Then he shows up AGAIN. Now here is where you all have to think!!!! First now im upset for being accused of stealing time and time again. Lets think about this guys. Ok say you go to Mc Donald’s ( using this as a example ) and you are so upset and you go to a employee and say with a stern Direct voice” Hey you forgot my Fries” hes wearing a Uniform ( like this guy had on ) you expect to get the “ Customers always right theory. But instead the dude JUMPS the counter gets in your face too and starts saying get the F*** out of my face …look how big you are you gonna hit me Mother F**** HUH HUH get the F**** out of my face..you don’t want NO PART in me ..He starts popping his chest out and you tell the guy don’t Touch me ….Dont touch me man or ill reacted!! He pushed me and I reacted with ONE punch .. This dude plays the victim. I didn’t NOT hit him more then one time and I reacted to his push PERIOD!!! He was representing Legacy.. All he had to do was get Mick that’s all .. But instead says insulting things about Me , Jesus didn’t tap and turned “ Gangster “ well the point I learned growing up from my Father is NO ONE , I mean NO ONE has a right to lay one finger on YOU!! All these people that say you would turn the other cheek even AFTER someone lays there hands on you ,you LIE!!! Im a customer to Legacy I sold Tickets and have fighters on most of the cards. So maybe HIRE someone who can Handle that job.. And to mick for saying I Punched a Kid come on man hes 22 .. look what my 17 Year old did to a growing man on your show .. age has nothing to do with it!!!!
Thank you,
This will be my LAST post …..

PS I have at Least 6 People of Witness this!! And all said maybe the guy will learn a lesson!

-http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f61/former-power-ranger-assaults-employee-backstage-mma-show-really-1554481/index5.html

Not exactly sure why I'm posting this though

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Developer's Corner / Re: To persist with Windows 2000 support?

« on: February 23, 2011, 07:10 PM »

Oh yeah forgot about those d/ls. Here's the link to see what's available MSDN subscriber Downloads, not that you can actually get a d/l link without a subscriber acc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Instantly Increasing Password Strength

« on: February 23, 2011, 07:02 PM »

Hmmm the .org domain was available, so I just bought it. Damn impulse buying  

Guess I better setup some sort of a tribute site now.

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Developer's Corner / Re: To persist with Windows 2000 support?

« on: February 23, 2011, 06:55 PM »

My memory of the early 64 bit compilers was that you got betas with the server 2003 sdk, though they seemed to work for the simple stuff I messed with back then. There were How-Tos online around the time on getting Visual Studio 2003 to use them so you could compile 64bit applications through the IDE.

I don't really know what the situation was with VS.net 2002 and earlier, I wasn't really into C++ then.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Instantly Increasing Password Strength

« on: February 23, 2011, 06:19 PM »

FYI: a reliable and safe source for true random strings is www.random.org

-40hz (February 23, 2011, 05:10 PM)

I really wanted to make a joke here about random.org's satirical sister site - noentropy.net, but unfortunately it's offline.

It used to just return a string of 1's.