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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 12:07 PM »

katykaty makes it to the club. Congrats!

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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 12:02 PM »

The closest thing to a meta-search site is Omgili, but lacks all the other functions, and it's not well-known. In fact, if it wasn't for being included as an alias with FARR, I wouldn't be aware of its existence.

There's also Big Boards, which compiles some statistics about forums, but it's a bit limited as many forums are not listed there (mostly because of the site focus). So I think it could be an interesting idea, not so sure as how to make it possible.

EDIT1: A search in Google for some information about an unrelated thing unearthed two search engines: WASAlive, which appears to search in forums and blog comments to find out what's hot at the moment (Macbook Air, Tom Cruise and, Brad Renfro?), and BoardReader, this one appears to be quite more interesting, with stats for the things you search, seems more advanced than the other

EDIT2: Rewrote a sentence in the first paragraph a bit, and removed a redundant phrase in EDIT1

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Living Room / Re: The Series of Tubes is getting creaky, or

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:50 AM »

All of this is because Al Gore is more concerned about the environment than about the Internet, his invention. It's only natural such a delicate thing is being ripped apart lacking any care from its father

tranglos, it's time for your bank to update its hardware

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General Software Discussion / Re: Humanized Enso going free...

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:44 AM »

ROFL. Me affiliated with the Mozilla team, that would be good!

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Skrommel's Software / Re: More false virus warnings in compiled ahk utilities #*(%&*(#*(&#(%

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:43 AM »

The guys at AVG are getting too many false positives during too much time, perhaps it's time for them to give a good look to their detection algorithms.

BTW, mouser, you could have added to your reply that, in case of doubt, it's always good to upload a copy of the file to VirusTotal or Jotti's Malware Scan. Although if AVG gets false positives, some of the less capable (and paranoid) scanners used in those sites will flag as infected as well, marked (probably) as generic malware, but marked anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: academicproductivity.com (my blog on productivity) lifehacked

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:38 AM »

Somehow, I knew it involved alcohol, but I dismissed it at first for being too evident . Parents with little kids are expert in using this method with their children (the carrot method, not getting their children drunk, silly! Although children grow up so fast these days that...). Anyway, congrats on the mention!

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Living Room / Re: Browser Zoom Functionality...

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:30 AM »

I use it sometimes, for big images (like the ones some members post around here ). But instead of Ctrl + Click, I use the zoom keys of my keyboard. For pages I prefer Ctrl + F11

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General Software Discussion / Re: Humanized Enso going free...

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:25 AM »

Barring my initial reservations about the self-attributed "GUI guru" status of Aza Raskin, I might give a try to this one now that it's free. Bye, bye, FARR

I'm seeing that Enso Words is free as well, this could be more interesting.

Might this be connected with the news about the guys at Mozilla hiring developers from Humanized? </shameless plug>

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General Software Discussion / Re: New interesting features for Firefox 3

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:13 AM »

Well, the Mozilla guys hired some developers from Humanized, so maybe this is a sign that the advanced interface navigation is actually coming. That, or Mozilla Labs is going to produce massive amounts of hype

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:05 AM »

OK, Darwin, I'll concede you the "Software Junkie" award

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor Needed

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 11:02 AM »

Man, that guy has no sense of decency at all, he must even take pride about that

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

« Last post by Lashiec on January 16, 2008, 10:56 AM »

I guess Darwin is talking about Path Finder, people rave over it, or ForkLift, this one is young but looks good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FeedDemon going free

« Last post by Lashiec on January 15, 2008, 02:02 PM »

o_O, 200 MB of RAM?! Does it run under the JRE or what? And the program is not that big...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor Needed

« Last post by Lashiec on January 15, 2008, 10:30 AM »

OMG, what an interface >_<

The only thing I know like what you ask is either Wordpad or xtort's QJot (a Wordpad clone). Alternatively, MDGX has listed in his website a good deal of text editors, a few of them support rich text editing, which is what you're asking for. Not any impressive solution for what I saw a couple of years ago.

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Living Room / Re: Laptop hard drive... 5400 or 7200 ?

« Last post by Lashiec on January 15, 2008, 09:28 AM »

Darwin, did you get permission from your wife to buy that second monitor?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bow to the browser

« Last post by Lashiec on January 15, 2008, 09:21 AM »

Opera and Firfox are not quite useful for saving webpages.MHT format is workable only under windows it requires outlook to be installed on your system.But here so many guys are advocating opera,even if it creahes and not good for saving webpages.Again portable firefox and opera is not solution for cafes which don't allow ou to install anything.

-arunpawar (January 15, 2008, 05:53 AM)

I don't get it. You can save pages, but you can't decompress a ZIP file?

Does it do that at all? I thought you had to shell out $100 for every point release :]

-f0dder (January 15, 2008, 06:40 AM)

That is the great announcement Steve Jobs is going to make today at MacWorld

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General Software Discussion / Re: Inadvertent Googling in Spanish

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 11:56 AM »

The plan for world dominance is going as expected. With the inadvertent help of those dumbasses fine guys at Google, the Spanish Empire will rise again!!

cranioscopical, maybe you're using a proxy and you forgot to set things back to normal? (I hope you're not being proxyed by the action of a trojan, our methods are not that rude )

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 11:43 AM »

Uh-oh, let things as they are, I'm a fan of constantly revising my posts for orthographic errors, or to rewrite some parts for better understanding. Guess I'm a perfectionist

Wordzilla, I'd like a SMF mod that makes the bed, prepares the breakfast and tidies up the room for me, handy after I jump off from bed to go to college

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deleting Files From the ..\Local Settings\Temp\ Folder

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:55 AM »

No, it does get both, actually in Windows XP for what I saw, the "Windows\Temp" folder is not even used (at least on my computer)

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Videogame Development / Re: 2D/3D game developement

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:52 AM »

I think I know the answer to the third question: You need to know how to handle either SDL or OpenGL (Allegro could be used as well), at least for graphics. I don't know about the others

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General Software Discussion / Re: FeedDemon going free

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:47 AM »

Uh-oh, the number of choices have been reduced drastically

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:45 AM »

As I stated before, the problem is not tagging posts. I don't have a problem in tagging posts like the one about the PornTube or the few about sexual toys we had here with a "non appropriate" tag (I agree with app that until something graphical is shown, it's not considered NSFW).

The problem lies in what I can consider "non appropriate" and what CodeTRUCKER thinks it's "non appropriate". The use of words like the ones he used in the stats means that it's a problem it can't simply be solved using a simple tagging system like the one Veign brought to our attention, but using a filtering system, something quite more complicated, and that either requires us to scan and tag our messages before posting, or to design a system based on words which would be censor those ones deemed as not appropriate (OK, CodeTRUCKER, you wrote about the system you envisioned all those days, and now you have edited out everything...).

If we used a tag system like originally proposed, besides requiring us to tag practically half of our posts as inappropriate, something not desirable, it would mean that CodeTRUCKER would had to ignore practically the whole forum, a situation that, IMO, it's the closest thing to leaving the forum (while are you going to participate in a conversation in which you're missing half of what people is saying?). The other system is more appropriate, that's for sure, but implementing it requires quite some effort, it's nothing that it could be done in one day, and it could not do a double task like the tagging system. I think tinjaw's proposal fit this bill, but I don't know if someone would be up to the task of integrating within the forum.

Bah, after the recent events, I don't even know if it would be of some use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FeedDemon going free

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:25 AM »

muntealb, how many of those RSS readers have the feature of checking for new changes in a webpage without a RSS feed (Website-Watcher style)?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bow to the browser

« Last post by Lashiec on January 14, 2008, 04:20 AM »

This Opera crashing intrigues me, I've seen other people complaining about it, and I'd like to know why is this happening. In the almost two years I've been using Opera, it never crashed on me. Nor Firefox did (except on my old computer), only IE7 :D

Opera is as good as saving webpages as IE. The problem is that it defaults to save only the HTML page, without pictures. In the dropdown box for "Type", there are options to save in pure HTML, HTML with pictures *and* MHT. The ideal would be to save everything in PDF anyway, it's more portable.

Secunia the commercial truth? O-K, if you don't care about the vulnerabilities present in software, we could go back to IE6. Besides, if you want security, what are you doing using the preinstalled browsers in a internet cafe? Use a customized version of Portable Firefox so you can keep your personal information to yourself (well, if the computer has a keylogger installed...). Unless you don't have a pendrive, or the internet cafe does not allow "installing" (decompressing a file in a new folder in the desktop, really, no registry entries involved) new programs.

The 90% of the users want a browser, nothing more nothing less. Any improvement a particular browser may have it's ignored, they simply want something that works. For now this is what Internet Explorer provides, and those who did some more research, went for Firefox. In a Mac it's Safari, and in Linux is Firefox. Opera is for the elite ;D. At the end of the day, what matters to a person is to have a mean to an end, all the security considerations, extensions, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts and all that only matter to advanced users.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bow to the browser

« Last post by Lashiec on January 13, 2008, 01:17 PM »

Why is this in Developer's Corner? I think it may fit better in General Software Discussion.

Ya know, AOL was the primary economical force behind the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, many of the developers at Netscape went to Mozilla to develop the new OSS browsers, and Netscape based all future developments of Netscape in Mozilla and Firefox codebase, so it's natural they recommend you to use Firefox now. Besides, to recommend a browser which received its last update in 2001 (NeoPlanet) it's not exactly a good option

To call Opera insecure is like calling right now Firefox the most secure browser. It may gain you a few friends among the Firefox fanboys, but Secunia says another thing, so I'd like to know why the individuals involved in your survey say that. And all those security and privacy extensions are included with Opera, you only have to know how to use them. As always, software is only as secure as the person using it makes it to be.

And Flock it's all that Firefox wants to avoid: consuming high amounts of memory and becoming bloatware.

Anyway, don't worry. Presto and KHTML/WebKit will keep Gecko at bay. And maybe Trident in a far future