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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs
« on: March 25, 2009, 12:21 AM »
The net gave me all kind of sporting related explanations, those were not the ones I was looking for.

So, let's explain myself a bit. In my youth I always saw TV-series addressed to my age-group. Over the course of years several times an actor appeared who had an enormous chin, shaped like the lower part of a motor helmet. His name I cannot remember but he was always cast in a bad guy's role that ended up in a fail, whatever he did.

People always told me that anybody with that kind of facial feature had a "glass" jaw'. Hence my association with that word and the facial feature from 'Tempie'.

But I do like the series though.  ;)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs
« on: March 24, 2009, 09:03 PM »
The camera guy from the TV-series Bones doesn't like 'Tempie' all that much. She is a rather nice looking woman, but in a lot of shots throughout the first seasons they made her jawbone look like a "glass jaw".

I couldn't help note that...was also a major turn-off for me. The female boss of the whole forensic team of Bones, now that is a very nice example of a good looking woman :-* 

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Living Room / Re: Sound problems: help please?
« on: March 24, 2009, 08:53 PM »
Your problem sounds somewhat familiar. Here I use an onboard soundcard, together with an USB 5.1 headphone which has it own hardware on XP SP2. After plugging that one in I have to restart whatever app that uses sound.

Makes sense, hardware needs to be initialized and recognized by the OS before the apps are able to use the intended hardware.

With that in mind, do you check which sound hardware is initialized by the OS at the time you start a game? Since you have two sound cards and every other time the right hardware is used, it looks to me that your OS is switching between hardware.

Connect a set of speakers to one card, another set of speakers to the second card and start a game several times. If each time only one set is playing you'll know in which way you have to find the right solution.
There was a thread on DC here about switching between multiple sound cards with some AHK scripts. Get lucky in that thread I would say  ;)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Deisgn of applications at home
« on: March 24, 2009, 09:17 AM »
Nope, scared to admit it...but I'm still a pen & paper guy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Online Photo Album with Download Cart
« on: March 23, 2009, 10:52 PM »
You should also find a shopping cart that is supported by banks/credit card companies for payments. I know that VirtueMart is supported by banks (more common in Europe than credit cards). It is also supported in most CMS systems (although the site only mentions Joomla! and is ideal for small payments and up (micro payments I'm not sure of).

Both VirtueMart and Joomla! are open source. A while ago I did some research on requirements for a webshop and then I found out that (in Holland/Netherlands) banks actually have support for this software. They even sell you code and technical support so the webshop can be open in the shortest amount of time possible.

VirtueMart is extensible with plugins for several banking systems.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Deisgn of applications at home
« on: March 23, 2009, 08:05 PM »
Deisgn of applications at home....

The title says it all  ;) :P

And yes, you should design a piece of software (general functionality)  on paper or in a document first. In the end you will be faster done and it usually ends up in more understandable (and re-usable!) code. It makes the creation of documentation also easier. Also, it doesn't hurt to take some good work habits to your home.  :)


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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)
« on: March 22, 2009, 03:56 PM »
Windows XP (classic mode)?

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Living Room / Re: Dual XP Home start up screen
« on: March 22, 2009, 11:19 AM »
Normally it shouldn't be a problem to start the desired Windows installation and remove the second line from its 'boot.ini' file. The second line of available OS's (the line that does NOT end with '/fastdetect'), I mean. When you see, you'll know.

After a reboot you can just format the partition that holds the undesired Windows installation (when that partition contains no data that you want to keep, of course). Else, you should be able to delete everything but the data you want to retain.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup software à la dropbox (backups differences in file - revisions)
« on: March 21, 2009, 05:51 PM »
Depends, in default mode (database) storing only the changes would make the most sense...but that would be true for any version control system that uses a database as storage medium.

However, you can set SVN nowadays also in file mode (so it behaves more like CVS) and than the complete file is stored every time. File based version control systems are easier to move/salvage than the ones that use a database.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Odd results with Google Translate
« on: March 19, 2009, 10:37 PM »
Was that not the point of computer translations?...to have odd, off the bat translations that become amusing/funny/hilarious?

Although Google is better at it than Babelfish, translations made by the latter were (more) fun to use in some of the conversations I had over here.  ;)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup software à la dropbox (backups differences in file - revisions)
« on: March 19, 2009, 07:22 PM »
Depending on which OS you want to use....for Linux you have a very nice one that can do what you ask....and it ain't RSYNC), the tool is open source and called: BackupPC

At the time I had to choose between this one and Bacula, I went for Bacula because it had the options I required at the time. That one can also do what you want, but is a true pain in the a.. to setup using the standard method, so I will not even try to imagine the misery getting your request done. This was three years ago and both are very actively developed.


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Living Room / Re: Create Animated Gif Typewriter Effect for your Text Online
« on: March 15, 2009, 12:02 PM »
screedbot.gif

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General Software Discussion / Re: Layers: screenshot with layers - must see for Mouser's Screenshot Captor
« on: March 15, 2009, 01:54 AM »
Next time someone asks to put support for PhotoShop plugins as well   :P

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Living Room / Re: How to *really* test if your HD has bad sectors or not...
« on: March 14, 2009, 11:59 AM »
That is the problem, the site (and software) is written by Russians and only the software is in English. My 'Russian' will be just as bad as yours, but I found out about this software from a blog.

I added two attachments, which are log files of my download software. In there should be the direct link to the files. Hopefully those files are still available. When that is not the case I can mail whichever one you prefer, as I don't think that a site like DC is allowed to host them. The first attachment is for the .ISO the second for an .EXE to be stored on a bootable DOS floppy.

MHDD is able to do a lot of things, check your hard-disk is just one of them. It is also possible to adjust the size, create bad sectors (?), hide/enable data, .BAT scripting and a lot of things more. But be warned, make an error and you are in serious trouble. By default the software is setup to check harddisks, only when you have manually changed something the software will do as you have ordered.

Personally, I have used the software only to check several harddisks here and no complaints about that functionality.  When I have a harddisk with a serious problem, I like to play with the other features of this software though  ;)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9 Questions
« on: March 14, 2009, 11:12 AM »
Changing the tab is no biggie.
1. Open the preferences
2. Goto 'Listers'
3. Select there 'Folder Tabs'
4. There you find an option 'Display Folder Tabs at the top'
5. Enable that check box and you're done
6. Profit !!!

 :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: cannot play ripped music files
« on: March 13, 2009, 07:33 PM »
Audiograbber is a good candidate for cd ripping, even though it's no longer in active development.
-lanux128 (March 13, 2009, 08:52 AM)
Band candidate - outdated ripping engine, poor MP3 encoder.
-f0dder (March 13, 2009, 12:09 PM)

Which band is putting it forward as a candidate?  :P
-Darwin (March 13, 2009, 01:32 PM)

Don't want to be called a 'snitch' or something, but....I think it was the rubber band  :P

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Living Room / Re: How to *really* test if your HD has bad sectors or not...
« on: March 12, 2009, 09:13 PM »
Here you can download some serious harddisk checking software. Seriously, I recommend MHDD. It comes on CD or floppy, boot from it, choose the drive you want to check and let it run. The possibilities of this program are very interesting, but possibly very destructive as well.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Portable Software
« on: March 11, 2009, 11:06 PM »
Your mirror tool looks to be very nice and simple...just the way I like it :Thmbsup:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Drive Backup 9 Special Edition For Free!
« on: March 11, 2009, 10:45 PM »
Yep, a merge would be nice...less confusing for me :-[

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Drive Backup 9 Special Edition For Free!
« on: March 11, 2009, 07:48 PM »
Hey, going through this thread I notice that a lot of posts are missing, including one of my own about a seriously bad side effect after installing this software. Which would be the loss of two from my six partitions.

Did Cody eat some of the posts as a midnight snack or something?

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID
« on: March 11, 2009, 04:42 PM »
Today I did remember the link that was mentioned in my previous post about using SSD as cache for RAID systems:

http://tweakers.net/...als-cachinglaag.html

It is in Dutch, but your friend Google will be able to translate for you.

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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID
« on: March 10, 2009, 10:34 PM »
Don't know where I read it, the name of the site slipped from my mind and searching the history didn't turn up anything.

What I do remember from the article was that a RAID setup where a standard SSD drive was used to "police" the file traffic to normal hard disks in the same RAID was seriously faster than a similar RAID setup consisting of Raptor Hard disks. 30% extra throughput was easy to do and in this setup the SSD would take long time before wearing down.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Moving from yahoo mail to gmail
« on: March 10, 2009, 06:34 PM »
There are quite a lot of them, depending on your knowledge they can be free (open source) or shareware.
From the top of my head:
XMail (windows - open source) seems to have improved itself a lot lately.
VPop3 (windows - shareware) is a very good one (from personal experience in the days that I was an sysadmin).

Of course, I forget a lot of other good candidates, but this comment is all I have time for right now. Sorry

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Partition Manager 9 Special Edition - FREE!
« on: March 09, 2009, 08:36 PM »
A word to the wise...and a big warning for everybody else!!!!!!!

After I installed the software, everything looked fine and dandy. Before I wanted to use the software I thought to do a defrag on the partition. Now imagine my surprise that the partition was not there at all. Even worse, two partitions were lost.

The Windows XP drive management software saw free space in the area were those two partitions were allocated. Now some cruel irony enters my mind: "Installing software to safeguard your data...results in losing your data". So, the netto result from installing the software is that only four of my six partitions were available to me anymore.

Before panic starts kicking in, the uninstall functionality was used and after a restart from my computer both my partitions were available to me again.
My setup is not extreme (I think), on that harddisk is only one primary partition (windows only) and 5 logical partitions (program files, work data, temp, private data and virtual machine). Private data and my virtual machine partition were not available.

I don't know what mojo Paragon uses but I have used other tools (freeware) that didn't have this problem, so the blame is theirs. Of course, for the casual user this 4 partition limit will not pose any problem, but I am glad (ecstatic to be more precise)  to get rid of it.

Thank, but no thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxto-very interesting...
« on: March 08, 2009, 06:05 PM »
The software does something similar to GridMove, a known favorite here in the DC software stack.  :) 

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