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General Software Discussion / Re: Sync Laptop & Desktop

« on: February 02, 2016, 05:30 AM »

Perhaps Bvckup 2, if what you need is simple sync over LAN.

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Developer's Corner / Re: More Git

« on: February 01, 2016, 02:48 AM »

For my own work, I aim to have one repo per project. Here are some reasons:

• Unless the projects are very strongly connected, separate repos means you have a clear development history for each.
• Git usually means branching -- and branching all projects to work on a change in one of them is silly (even if it's cheap)
• If one of the projects becomes useful to other people, it will be easier if they can clone that alone
• If you use submodules to include a library, you know the exact version (commit) you are using. If you just include the source in multiple project repos you have no idea which changes you may have made in each of them (like Deozaan, I sometimes end up there )
• If you do not use submodules, it can be nice to have the development of the library in a repo of it's own for the three first reasons above

But it will depend on the project. Something like chapters of a book I would not put in separate repos, but a small library that I am likely to reuse in other projects I would (even if it's just a couple of files).

(Btw, I am not necessarily suggesting the use of submodules -- for some things they work well, but also have drawbacks.)

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General Software Discussion / SpiderOak Semaphor - team collaboration with privacy focus

« on: January 29, 2016, 01:11 AM »

Got an email from SpiderOak about Semaphor. From the press release:

In celebration of Data Privacy Day, SpiderOak today announced Semaphor, a new workplace collaboration tool for teams and businesses that care about privacy. General availability for Semaphor is later in the first quarter, and SpiderOak is accepting a limited number of pre-release invitation requests at https://spideroak.com/semaphor.

Semaphor helps teams improve their productivity by keeping members focused, informed, and connected. Teams can join group conversations, private message team members, share files, and install trusted third-party integrations knowing their privacy is protected at every step. Following the same privacy-centric design as all SpiderOak solutions, Semaphor uses a Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures nothing leaves a computer or mobile device until after it is encrypted and is never decrypted until it is unlocked with keys only located on individuals’ devices.

It sounds a bit like Slack, but with a privacy focus. Open source and written in Go, and they plan to sell hosting. Will be interesting to see how that works out.

Other new products mentioned in the email were Encryptr, a password vault that stores your info encrypted in their cloud, and Kloak, a socal network (?!) with privacy focus.

Are SpiderOak stretching a bit far?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: January 27, 2016, 05:22 PM »

Sounds like a good solution .

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: January 27, 2016, 04:55 PM »

It's primarily the little paperclip icon here:

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« on: January 27, 2016, 12:12 PM »

Regarding the reply arrow, I was wondering if it would be possible to overlay it on the other post icons? I am missing it on the "thread has an attachment" icon for example.

I made a version of the green arrow on it's own with transparent background in case that helps.

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« on: January 25, 2016, 12:58 AM »

Interesting, is that on Windows, and if so are you using the FON version of Gohufont as well?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« on: January 25, 2016, 12:54 AM »

My first thought was aperture as well. If you have the camera below the floor, all die will have the same distance to the camera, and you can use the aperture to make only a very narrow area in focus. I don't know how easy lenses capable of this at short distances are to come by, perhaps a macro lens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Agnitum (makers of Outpost Firewall and AV) has been acquired by Yandex

« on: January 23, 2016, 11:04 AM »

Very disappointing .. and not sure what I am going to do with 3 Kaspersky licenses.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Survey of data recovery & forensic tools

« on: January 06, 2016, 09:57 AM »

No mention of GetDataBack?

I am sorry, but I am not going to register just to read an article.

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General Software Discussion / Re: YNAB moving to a subscription model

« on: January 02, 2016, 02:47 AM »

At the bottom of the front page there is a link that says "older versions", which leads to http://classic.youneedabudget.com/

I hope any future YNAB4 versions will be available there for download.

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General Software Discussion / YNAB moving to a subscription model

« on: January 01, 2016, 07:05 AM »

You Need a Budget has been recommended before on DonationCoder. I noticed they changed their business model from $40 to buy the current version, to a subscription model where you pay $5 a month (or $50 a year).

I think one piece of sound advice if you are trying to get your financial situation under control, is to try to limit the number of monthly recurring subscription fees.

Also, I am not a fan of the move to having all your information in the cloud. I rather prefer to have my financial information on my own computer.

There is a long thread on their forum with people voicing their opinions about the change.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: InfoQube (IQ) Information Management System Q & A

« on: December 24, 2015, 02:08 AM »

That is great news! Let me know if you want me to compile a new version of the HTML Help file at some point .

Too bad I can't sign up for the contest since it is on facebook.

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General Software Discussion / Re: heads-up for big changes affecting signed installers

« on: December 24, 2015, 01:42 AM »

Well, he does say existing files signed before that date will be tolerated, so (at least for now) it is a question of whether you need a new key for future apps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: heads-up for big changes affecting signed installers

« on: December 23, 2015, 02:08 PM »

From a cursory glance; for end users it means nothing, for developers it means they may have to buy a new certificate in order for their future signatures to look properly validated.

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Non-Windows Software / SoftMaker Office 2016 for Linux

« on: December 16, 2015, 01:47 AM »

SoftMaker released the 2016 version of their office suite for Linux the other day .

http://www.softmaker...ftmaker-office-linux

But no good news without a little complaining - I am using Linux more and more for testing and development, and I had a SoftMaker Office license valid for three PCs, so this sounded great. But it seems when you buy a Windows license, that is valid for three Windows installs, and a Linux license is valid for three Linux installs. So apparently I have to buy two licenses (totalling six installs) to install on two machines?

Also, Load and Help 2015 has launched.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mixing Code Licences - AKA let's bake a program

« on: December 15, 2015, 01:12 PM »

I should add this all also depends on what you mean by "put these together in one program" -- if each separately licensed component is .. well .. a separate component, and the main program links dynamically to them, then perhaps it is more likely to be possible.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mixing Code Licences - AKA let's bake a program

« on: December 15, 2015, 10:39 AM »

Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

I am quite far from being a license expert, but I have agonized over the various implications of various licenses in the past, so I would like to suggest GNUs comments on licenses, and WikiPedias license compatibility chart.

From these, the MSPL does not appear to be compatible with (L)GPL, and Apache is only compatible with (L)GPL v3+ (you may want to check if the LGPL library is actually "LGPL 2.1", or "LGPL 2.1 or later"). The problem, I think, is than any amalgamation would have to be under the (L)GPLv3+ to accommodate both the LGPL and Apache licensed code, but the MSPL does not allow sublicensing.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 75 MyFonts 90% off: $49 until Dec 11

« on: December 09, 2015, 02:00 AM »

Just to elaborate, Matthew Butterick explains quite well why professional fonts make a difference compared to system fonts in Practical Typography.

I've used the free version of Charter before and it's great on print. It does not appear to include hinting though, and can look awful on screen.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 75 MyFonts 90% off: $49 until Dec 11

« on: December 08, 2015, 04:33 PM »

Thanks for posting this .

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 08:50 AM »

Fontlab 50% discount on Fontlab Studio (which sadly still puts it about $250 outside my price range ).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« on: November 30, 2015, 08:37 AM »

TechSmith 30% off

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch-edit images (remove frames)

« on: November 29, 2015, 05:06 PM »

Using mogrify from ImageMagick (overwrites original), removing borders that are within 3% of the corner colors:

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mogrify -trim -fuzz 3% demo.png

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« on: November 28, 2015, 02:40 AM »

Oh nice, didn't know the lifetime license was still obtainable .

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« on: November 27, 2015, 03:13 AM »

500px 30% off subscriptions.