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1976

General Software Discussion / Re: Which archive software are we using in 2010 (and why)?

« on: September 13, 2010, 08:59 PM »

Damn, I missed the PA Free. Although I had tested the latest "Full" version a few weeks ago and wasn't too impressed ...

1977

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: September 13, 2010, 12:21 PM »

Stability versus overall speed here.

1978

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: September 13, 2010, 10:09 AM »

Yep, UE is sluggish ...

CE has some weird GUI issues, though, like losing the alignment settings sometimes.
Following its development anyway.

 

1979

Living Room / Re: Does Flash or java make websites suck?

« on: September 12, 2010, 09:08 AM »

Websites which don't have to tell me anything without me having Flash or Java enabled are not worth a click.
I neither have Java nor Flash plug-ins installed, I just don't need them on teh interwebz.

1980

General Software Discussion / Re: What HTML5 can do -- cool site

« on: September 07, 2010, 05:19 PM »

IMO they totally missed the point of Hypertext Markup language when they invented HTML5...

1981

Living Room / Re: What are your favorite RSS Feeds?

« on: September 02, 2010, 04:27 PM »

I have a quite long list of feeds... RSSOwl screenie:



Most of them are in German, though. My favorites right now are The Oatmeal (nerd jokes  ), the FAIL Blog (just for the lolz) and Fefes Blog (because I like political conspiration theories). Some things like Daily Garfield and xkcd.com are saved as my start pages, so I don't have them as RSS... saves some space.

If anyone is actually interested, here's the OPML file:
http://pastebin.com/jjGjxsZG

1982

General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« on: August 19, 2010, 08:53 PM »

Well, yep. I, for example, am a lifetime customer of some without having paid for a very, very long period. 

1983

General Software Discussion / Re: Which archive software are we using in 2010 (and why)?

« on: August 19, 2010, 06:21 PM »

I switched from PowerArchiver to WinRAR when it became payware until I found 7-Zip some years ago.
Sticking with .7z (LZMA2 is fine) for most purposes, rather exotic file types are handled by IZArc (yes, I still do work with .ace archives every now and then).

Although I'm quite sure that PAQ8 is still the strongest compression algorithm, it lacks speed. Would probably prefer it to .7z else.

1984

Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR 2.88.01 beta - testing requested

« on: August 17, 2010, 05:37 PM »

What would be an "unusual way"? I use it as a dock replacement. 

1985

Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR 2.88.01 beta - testing requested

« on: August 17, 2010, 03:11 PM »

Indeed, some speed improvement is notable. 

1986

Living Room / Re: Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

« on: August 17, 2010, 03:06 PM »

"Muesli", anyway, is a Swiss word, not really German. 

1987

Living Room / Re: Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

« on: August 17, 2010, 12:43 AM »

It is "ein Heiligenschein"

1988

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 13, 2010, 10:03 AM »

Markham: Thanks for clarification.

1989

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:42 PM »

In theory it's easy:
If you want to make money, don't use stuff licensed under the GPL.

A counter-example:
Adobe Photoshop is non-free software, however anyone - anywhere - will distribute free copies of it to the general public. So is it pointless to say "it is commercial software"?

1990

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:11 PM »

Well, I must have misread something then, but the latest thing I've read was "well, it's about 10% anyway, so what?". Sorry if I misunderstood.

1991

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 08:23 PM »

And it's not being released anymore... so why the continued harping on that?

-wraith808 (August 12, 2010, 08:19 PM)

Team Circle Dock will take the program forward, as a fully non-GPL semi-commercial product, and likely to be under Microsoft's BizNet umbrella.

-Markham (August 12, 2010, 06:16 AM)

Follow the thread first.

1992

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 06:32 PM »

According to the GPL v1, v2 and v3, even if one single line in an application is licensed under the GPL, the whole application has to be GPL-licensed. Any other use is illegal.

1993

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: August 11, 2010, 07:14 PM »

people surprisingly believe that 64bit software is better than 32

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

Well, let them believe so. Following them doesn't make you smarter.

- better support for 64bit context menu extensions,

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

"Better" meaning what?

- better support for special system folders - IIRC there are some issues with WOW64.

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

I srsly doubt that accessing these folders is related to your CPU arch.

1994

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: August 11, 2010, 05:36 PM »

What would be the need of a 64-bit TC when it doesn't support explorer plug-ins anyway?

1995

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Machinarium Pirate Amnesty (for one week only)

« on: August 07, 2010, 02:50 PM »

I loved that game when I saw it first. Never got a clue where to find it, though. Time to spend some Euros now ... 

1996

General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: August 05, 2010, 10:01 PM »

None of mine! The 0.7.x versions had some problems, but all of them are solved in 0.8 AFAICS. At least for me... 

1997

General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: August 05, 2010, 08:31 PM »

Whew, now I tried to live without gdipp for some hours and noticed that I don't like it anymore. (Running 0.8.2 here.)

1998

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 07:06 PM »

No, it would be too close to "science". 

1999

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 06:20 PM »

Although it seems that there are more Appleists than Satanists around.

2000

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 05:45 PM »

A couple of academics have now weighed in with a formal paper describing Apple worship as a religion.

-xtabber (August 03, 2010, 08:51 AM)

Well, Satanism is some kind of a religion, too.