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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitor the size of files

« on: July 15, 2010, 04:53 AM »

Well, crap, that's what the limit column was going to be for when I got around to adding the functionality for it. 

-skwire (July 14, 2010, 10:14 AM)

It seems funny how much effort one can produce for a one liner in cygwin:
ls -s -1 --block-size=<maxAllowedSize> <filenames> | gawk -- '$1>1'

-svv1999

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why Ruby is so great and why I'll pass and wait for the next big thing..

« on: May 26, 2007, 04:50 AM »

Code: Ruby [Select]

1. def shutter_clicked
2. if @camera.off? || @camera.memory_card_full?
3.   // the camera either got turned off by mistake or is full
4.   // TODO: write error handling and detect which problem
5.   // for now let's just return without an error.
6.  return
7. end
8.  // ok, camera is ready so let's capture the image
9.   // TODO: make sure to reset camera state later
10.   capture_image
11. end

-mouser (May 23, 2007, 07:53 PM)

From this code fragment I conclude:

• The coder created his code on the fly
• The coder created his code from some sample, therefore the intents he expresses in comments might be wrong
• The coder might not know the generic prereqisites of "problem"
• The coder might not know the difference between detecting a problem and exploring its causes
• The choosen language has no constructs to signal incompleteness of the code
• The coder is a friend of trivial redundant comments
• The choosen language has no constructs for ad hoc protocols
• The choosen language might not have constructs for protocols at all

If there is some interest to discuss these points I will give further reasoning.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Avafind mini review

« on: March 10, 2007, 03:35 PM »

There exist some problems with this program:

- refreshing the search cache cannot be delayed to idle times
- on startup the program sometimes crashes without identifiable reason
- mount points are not detected. This yields, that the content
  of mounted partitions appears one more time for each mount point

-manfred

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Living Room / Re: Skype users: beware

« on: May 19, 2006, 05:50 PM »

What is illegal in one country can be totally acceptable in another

-housetier (May 19, 2006, 04:06 PM)

Perfectly true. In the former German democratic republic software was like carbon dioxide: once emitted everybody was allowed to use, copy and distribute it.

The problems with the Skype EULA are

1. you are not allowed to proof a hack in your copy of skype and are at the same time responsible for the consequences of that hack.

2. you can do what you want between the date of the termination of the license and the date of the deletion of all copy's under your control.

3. the period between both dates is unspecified.

4. Once terminated you can revive the license by simply getting a new copy and account.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: HDDlife Pro (and other disk-health reporters)

« on: April 05, 2006, 03:43 AM »

i want to echo longrun's very wise advice

-mouser (April 05, 2006, 03:12 AM)

I am echoing none of you. The only total failure I ever had, announced itself by sporadic losses of compressed drives under Win95.
Since then I am content with Maxtor/Quantum HD's and their offline drive fitness test utility. This utility allowed me to replace two HD's in time, i.e. during the guarantee period. A third HD is considered faulty by this utility since about six years, but is still used for tests of Linux distributions without any problems.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: HDDlife Pro (and other disk-health reporters)

« on: April 04, 2006, 10:20 PM »

Does one of thoose tools support / monitor RAID (RAID 1 on a promise controller) Discs?

-crono (April 04, 2006, 07:55 PM)

Think! The controllers work consists of pretending one drive, although there are at least two. How can any program running on top of the OS break through this camouflage, if the controller does not provide any s.m.a.r.t status?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: HDDlife Pro (and other disk-health reporters)

« on: April 04, 2006, 05:26 PM »

I like to be able to keep an eye on processor temp, as my beloved Pavilion ZD7010 simply switches itself off if the temp gets above 70 degrees C (something that hasn’t happened since I cleaned its heatsink a few months back), so I need both displayed at once.

-m_s (March 21, 2006, 11:33 AM)

Because speedfan has an integrated event management there is no need for any display.

You can get a pop-up for every temperature, fan speed or voltage condition you like.

Edit:
If one really wants more than one item displayed, say n, one can still have n installations of speedfan where each installation is configured to show the desired value.