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Living Room / Re: Happy 12-12-12~!
« Last post by Tuxman on December 12, 2012, 01:15 AM »
"OMG A NUMBER ON AN ARBITRARY, HUMAN-MADE SCALE OF NUMBERS HAPPENS TO RANDOMLY REPEAT! LET'S MAKE A THREAD ABOUT THAT!"
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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing
« Last post by Tuxman on December 07, 2012, 08:14 AM »
I see. So, basically, switching from LibreOffice would not make much sense. Damn.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2012 BETA testing
« Last post by Tuxman on December 07, 2012, 07:40 AM »
What is the difference between this and FreeOffice BTW?
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Living Room / Re: Where Is Windows 8.1?
« Last post by Tuxman on December 07, 2012, 01:58 AM »
Hm, I use Firefox, The Bat!, MetroTwit, mIRC, Sublime Text, FeedDemon, ... in full-screen. I can't read something and write something different at the same time.
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Living Room / Re: Anyine here use ClassicShell in Windows 7?
« Last post by Tuxman on December 02, 2012, 09:02 AM »
Yes, I do use it. Nope, no problems.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on December 01, 2012, 01:50 PM »
Unless of course the author doesn't bother to submit it.
-MilesAhead (December 01, 2012, 01:48 PM)
Indeed. So... disabling compat. check in your about:config could be easier.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on December 01, 2012, 01:41 PM »
It means: Extensions which are (technically) compatible with new Firefox versions and are submitted to addons.mozilla.org will automatically be "updated", so they are still compatible after a browser update even if they haven't been developed for years. There is (quite) no need to manually bump version numbers anymore.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on December 01, 2012, 01:28 PM »
Directly on the servers.  :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on December 01, 2012, 01:26 PM »
Can it still be used to bypass FF addon version check?
-MilesAhead (December 01, 2012, 01:25 PM)
This is pretty much pointless nowadays that Mozilla automatically bumps compatibility for add-ons.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop
« Last post by Tuxman on November 29, 2012, 06:05 PM »
It's very Windows-like.
-40hz (November 29, 2012, 06:00 PM)
If you are doing it wrong, it is. And most people do it wrong.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on November 29, 2012, 04:22 PM »
There's some "Add to browser" shortcut at the page footer. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Tuxman on November 29, 2012, 03:24 PM »
You could just add DDG to your search engines from within the DDG site. No extra add-on needed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: saving web content
« Last post by Tuxman on November 20, 2012, 05:20 AM »
Make sure that you don't violate copyrights.
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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8
« Last post by Tuxman on November 13, 2012, 03:17 AM »
Aren't there third-party file managers?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Funny Comments in Your Code?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 10, 2012, 10:49 AM »
Well, two years later I am still proud of it, because I have not thought about a better one. Why should I?  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 10, 2012, 06:49 AM »
The most popular daily paper in Germany is the "BILD", some rainbow press which is full of lies, except the sports part.
Don't mix up popularity and quality.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 10, 2012, 06:40 AM »
I would not say Apache is a good example of quality. The reason why it became so popular is that it has unique features like .htaccess support and MOD_REWRITE.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Funny Comments in Your Code?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 10, 2012, 06:08 AM »
[Select]
// Hell, am I proud of this solution!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 10, 2012, 06:02 AM »
Projects which change this dynamic (either having QA provided by a company as a donation, roping in users en-masse for QA, or changing the dynamics and status balance with "marathons" or better recognition for QA) end up beating commercial software.
-iphigenie (November 10, 2012, 01:35 AM)
Are there any?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 09:52 AM »
In my case, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Or vice-versa. There's a saying that 90% of everything is crap.
-40hz (November 09, 2012, 09:38 AM)
Yes, it probably is. A pity that I noticed it so late.

Hope that was a joke. Because I can't stand what they've been doing with Firefox lately. If I didn't have three extensions I'd prefer not to live without I'd be using something else by now.
-40hz (November 09, 2012, 09:38 AM)
There is no better browser in terms of functionality. :(
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 09:17 AM »
Most "professional FLOSS software" lacks a good QA. At least the software I tried so far.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 09:12 AM »
What comparable commercial editor do you use? I use EditPlus.
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 09:03 AM)
Sublime Text 2.

The topic of commercial vs. personal use is a very valid topic. When it comes to commercial use, the amount of effort that goes into doing a task is often of no concern whatsoever.
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 09:03 AM)
OTOH, why would I want to use a non-professional software "personally" when I can use a professional software instead?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 08:57 AM »
Very few people *NEED* anything more than what Open Office offers.
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 08:52 AM)
Not "more" but "better quality". Including stability, responsiveness and editing files without scrambling their layout.

Notepad++ is stellar. I don't know of anyone that needs a text editor in the same class that is commercial.
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 08:52 AM)
You can do quite everything with Notepad too. But would you?
Sometimes N++ just does not feel comfortable enough. (And it has annoying crash bugs in virtually every single version.)

Often the question is why use a Porche when a Volkswagen will do the same job?
-Renegade (November 09, 2012, 08:52 AM)
Which leads us to the question: Do you want to work at all or do you want to work more efficiently?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 08:34 AM »
I could provide a link to a similar rant about LibreOffice in favor of SoftMaker Office, but it is in German...

Generally I find myself replacing FLOSS by proprietary software rather often as FLOSS disappoints me in terms of quality. The only exception is Firefox. Yet.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by Tuxman on November 09, 2012, 08:22 AM »
Ah, that old chestnut rears it's pretty head. Where have we heard that before?  ;D
-40hz (November 09, 2012, 08:20 AM)
At least I backed it up.
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