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Living Room / Re: waiting list at library...for an e-book?
« Last post by f0dder on August 16, 2012, 02:26 PM »Gotta love DRM.
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I've used Ccleaner for years (including its "registry cleaner" -- and yes, I make a backup first), and it's never hosed any of my systems.Why do you use it, though? Except for a few specialized situations, doing "registry cleanups" is almost entirely superfluous on NT based Windows versions. The space savings are negligible, and because of the data structures and algorithms involved in the registry, you're unlikely to see any speed gains.-kyrathaba (August 15, 2012, 08:13 PM)
Yesterday I saw that even WinZip has a registry cleaner.Yeah, and it's one of those foul scareware kind of things. Congratulations on Corel for totally ruining the WinZip brand - not that anybody should use that awful program when WinRAR and 7-zip are around.-Tuxman (August 16, 2012, 02:16 AM)
--ability to add/remove files and folders from an existing torrent that is being shared live already.Not possible without major protocol changes - and I'm not sure it could be done in a nice way, tbh. There's both performance and security concerns here. One of the nice things about torrents is that the torrents are identified by a cryptographic hash of all the included files (well, technically, blocks) which makes it hard to fake data for a given torrent. And IMHO, the protocol doesn't really need to deal with this anyway, it could be used to deliver changesets instead (but yes, you'd need to grab a new .torrent for the changesets).-superboyac (August 13, 2012, 10:02 AM)
--ability to add/block users on a per torrent basisYou can ban IPs with the existing system, isn't that good enough? The torrent protocol doesn't have a concept of 'users', and that's a good thing IMHO.-superboyac (August 13, 2012, 10:02 AM)
802.11n wi-fi (not just g)Why? Flash memory can probalby not do much more than g speed anyway.-daddydave (June 27, 2012, 07:42 PM)
AMOLED or Super AMOLED or anything where I can read it outside in daylight. The phone will be an e-book reader among other thingsGood luck finding that - and really, the screen on any phone is too small for that. Heck, I'd say an iPad2 is the smallest resolution as well as physical size where ebook reading is comfortable. On a phone? Ugh.-daddydave (June 27, 2012, 07:42 PM)
"How to fix Linux's sucking": Install BSD. Done.Hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.-Tuxman (August 14, 2012, 03:46 AM)
For example if the operation only ran for same named files under 100 Megabytes in size then would there really be any problematic slowdown on computer with a newish CPU?CPU speed isn't really your main concern - something like Adler32 is pretty damn fast and "probably good enough". MD5 is also pretty fast, and since you're just comparing local files and not trying to be cryptographically safe, it will probably be sufficient.-Nod5 (August 13, 2012, 03:50 PM)
How can you tell which addons are causing memory leaks?To be honest, I don't know if there's a way to tell yourself - "about:memory" has a decent amount of information on memory allocations, but even in FF14 it doesn't directly list extensions. So it's more a matter of looking out for well-known memory hogs, and trying to minimize the addons to the ones you really use.-dantheman (August 12, 2012, 06:57 PM)
I've read here and there that Adblock Plus is a major culprit.And FireBug has been known to be really bad as well. If you have some addons you only use periodically, you can create a separate FireFox profile for those, and keep them out of your main profile.-dantheman (August 12, 2012, 06:57 PM)
Did notice that CPU was at max when watching a live video stream but that's another story...Streaming tends to imply flash, and flash is übersuck :-)-dantheman (August 12, 2012, 06:57 PM)
It's because they have to be STRanGe about everythingMouser, I believe STRG is German for the Ctrl button.-f0dder (August 11, 2012, 04:46 PM)
No idea what it means, but that's correct. Strg = Ctrl-tomos (August 12, 2012, 04:10 PM)
Firemin might be of help to you.Almost as stupid as those "memory optimizers" - at least it uses SetProcessWorkingSetSize instead of huge memory allocations, and it only targets firefox... but it's still stupid. It's symptomatic treatment rather than fixing the errors - and it will very likely result in increased pagefile swapping.
http://www.datum-for...com/2012/05/firemin/-dantheman (August 12, 2012, 03:55 PM)
A smarter file manager would do a file hash comparison and skip copying that file if the hashes match, all in the background.That would be pretty disastrous speed-wise - definitely not something you want for a general file-copying routine-Nod5 (August 12, 2012, 04:44 AM)
"Funny" thing is that extracting to the network drive directly is slower than extracting dump files locally and then transfer these with TeraCopy.Have you tried mounting via NFS instead of SMB/CIFS? The SMB protocol, especially before the vista/win2k8 updated version, is notoriously slow - haven't played with NFS myself, but it might be worth a try?-Shades (August 10, 2012, 07:55 AM)
Interesting... I would like to know HOW those utilities are doing it. Are they using a Windows API? Or have they written their own drivers?Obviously using APIs, you'd have to be insane involving drivers in this.-Renegade (August 10, 2012, 06:33 AM)
Indeed - stuff that's graphically heavy isn't a joy in a VM... but most linux stuff isn't, it's worse running Windows in a VMWhy dualboot when you can run linux in a VM, though?Not the same experience IMO.-f0dder (August 09, 2012, 12:17 PM)-40hz (August 09, 2012, 01:20 PM)
And, if you're a beginner, VMs add an additional layer of complexity and abstraction that can sometimes cause its own hassles and weirdness. FWIW, I've seldom seen somebody who ended up liking Linux much if their only experience with it was through a VM.As I see it, if you're enough of a "beginner" that a VM causes trouble, linux isn't going to be joyful for you anyway... if you're at some intermediate-or-higher level, it's definitely nice running it "in a window" so you can resort to your usual tools while figuring out this new alien thing (and you have a fully functional system where you can browse Teh Intarwebs if you have display or network connectivity issues under linux).-40hz (August 09, 2012, 01:20 PM)
The project is written in Delphi and I would open all sources except the keyboard hook which will remain available only as a dll.What's the reason for that?-timns (April 04, 2012, 03:36 PM)
And if so, what sort of license model would work for this? I don't want some clod lifting the source code, re-badging and selling it on.Most open-source licenses don't really stop people from doing this - and even if they technically did, good luck enforcing it when you have a relatively small and unknown product. I think there's a lot of DC'ers that can remember a particular GPL ripoff happening here...-timns (April 04, 2012, 03:36 PM)
It might not affect the security of the dropbox software directly (but as has been shown previously, that was already bad enough).It's more social hacking than anything else, I think.-wraith808 (August 02, 2012, 07:49 PM)
I think the word just came to me, though it still isn't quite fitting. Perhaps a more appropriate title would be: "Dropbox Security Exploited"-Deozaan (August 03, 2012, 03:26 AM)
I guess it doesn't really matter... other than the fact that I don't think this has anything to do with dropbox security. If I give my password to someone and they use it to access my account, is it the system's fault? Pretty much, this is the same thing- the passwords were already compromised, and the people in question didn't change it on their accounts.-wraith808 (August 03, 2012, 06:47 AM)
@f0dder- I don't want to derail this discussion either. But I think you might not be up on what's going on with Canonical and Ubuntu's marketing lately. Take a look over at the main page starting here or here. Take a look around to see how long it takes you to spot them even using the word Linux.That (and the rest which I've snipped) I can agree fully with - I'd expect the front page to say something along the lines of "Ubuntu is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and the GNU system utilities", and generally give credits where credits are due - it's the zealot "ZOMG THEY MUST SAY GNU/LINUX EVERYTIME A DISTRIBUTION NAME IS MENTIONED" attitude that gives me the tics-40hz (August 02, 2012, 05:13 PM)
Also, how can a kernel be the least important part of a kernel?Of the OS not the kernel. The kernel is such a tiny part of what constitutes and OS these days.-Tuxman (August 02, 2012, 05:15 PM)
Ah, fair enough.But if you visit sites of that... quality... where they use advertisements that are allowed to use those tactics? You really, really, really shouldn't be browsing without NoScript + AdBlockPlus. Heck, people who frequent that kind of warez/pr0n/stream-tv-shows sites should be doing so from a browser not just with NS+ABP, but preferably a sandboxed one, and it definitely wouldn't hurt running it from a VM.I want to clarify that website is not of that kind. It's more serious. It shows the list of Tv programs just like http://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv-guide for example.-f0dder (August 02, 2012, 02:56 PM)-Giampy (August 02, 2012, 04:36 PM)
