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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 10:51 AM »

 
That was fast, justice!
I also tried to do cody spore-version, but it didn't run on my computer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Released

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 10:03 AM »

Guys, a heads-up. I've read about an infected RC3 floating around on the Internets, parading as the real thing. Just be careful about leaked versions.

-nosh (June 17, 2008, 09:58 AM)

Good thing i downloaded directly from mozilla

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Released

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 09:32 AM »

The one i posted says "firefox 3.0" on the about box.. Don't know if it's RC or not   It looks exactly like the RC, though

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Released

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 09:21 AM »

I got the link from SpreadFirefox.com, to download directly from mozilla:
http://download.mozi...s=win&lang=en-US

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:51 AM »

Maybe you can look at how PAR files work which means you could use small helper files to reconstruct the backup even when the whole backup wouldn't be available?

-justice (June 17, 2008, 06:50 AM)

Yep, that was my first idea too It'll take some more investigating to know if it'll actually compensate the space it takes, though

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:47 AM »

@mouser: yeah, block-level might not seem useful for the regular user, but there's one more advantage: similarities between files also are recognized, thus, the compression is made throughout the whole backup and not only per-backup. I probably didn't express myself correctly.
What i mean is that when you do a backup, it is compressed. But it is compressed only based on information from the current backup, thus, it takes more space then it would if it used information about previous backups (which is possible with block-level backup).
I'm not absolutelly sure about this, but i think that conceptually it is possible to take as little space as possible, by using BLB.

The point you made about the whole backups depending on each other is interesting, though... I think i'll have to think about a solution for that

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:39 AM »

jgpaiva drops an anvil on justice! Bah, that's bad news for me

mouser: the good advantage of using a block level incremental backup system is that to store multiple versions of a file, you only have to store the diffs and the metadata to be able to rebuild the file.

jgpaiva hopes JD doesn't get well known

[edit] oh, JD needs the S3 subscription.. I feel better now [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Simply Google

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:36 AM »

I think this is pretty much the same discussion as Find and Run Robot vs LaunchBar Commander, the "memorization vs visual recognition". For some people, it works best having all the options right in front of their eyes (even though those look REALLY ugly), while for others it's better to remember the keywords.
I still think that as an introduction to all of google's features, this one works a bit better than a tutorial with all those keywords.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:25 AM »

You guys are incredible.. 3 replies while i was posting mine above

So, the general opinion would be that the best programs (that do have incremental) mount the files as a virtual disk, and don't have block level incremental?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 06:21 AM »

I probably should have been more specific.
Well, the thing is: i'm now entering the last year of my masters. That means I'm going to be the whole year working on my masters thesis.
The theme will be "Backup Chunk - a backup system based on chunks". This corresponds to the "Block Level Incremental" that you mentioned, justice. What i meant with my first post was to know if any of the most known programs use the Block Level Incremental, as the people around here know more about these systems then i do

I've already looked at SyncBackSE, and it doesn't have the "block level incremental", but i don't know about the second part (is there a "backup browser" or not?).

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General Software Discussion / How do incremental backup programs work?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 17, 2008, 05:47 AM »

Ok, so as i know most people here know more about backup than i do, I'm interested in asking you 2 things:
If you change one bit in a 8GB file, how much space does the incremental backup take? does it add just a few kb, or the whole 8GB? More specifically, does the incremental backup work by whole files or byte by byte?
How about if you change the name of an 8GB file? Does it consider that as a new file, or is it smart enough to tell it's the same file with a new name?

Sorry, just another question: I know some backup programs (that do incremental backup) allow you to see the files you've backed up. How does that work? Do they come up on Windows Explorer (as a virtual drive or something) or do they use a sort of "Backup Explorer", a proprietary application that works similarly to WE but can only be used for backups?

Thanks a lot!

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Living Room / Re: How can I get hard drive space... without deleting (my) stuff?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 16, 2008, 06:14 PM »

I recommend using SpaceMonger!
If you're on vista, you potentially have a huge "hibernation.sys" or something like that file that you don't need (provided you don't need hibernation).
AND, id you ever had a blue screen, you may have a huge memory dump somewhere too (i wonder who had the great idea of dumping memory to disk after a crash? at least, make an option for it and don't enable it by default!!).

[edit] added link [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: COIN COUNTING SOFTWARE

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 16, 2008, 06:06 PM »

You're absolutely right.
You're looking for Coin Jar Calculator

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Hard Drive Serial Numbers

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 15, 2008, 11:48 AM »

Yeah, that's what I thought at the beginning, but Google didn't found nothing.

-Lashiec (June 11, 2008, 09:47 AM)

Yep, i also did an extensive search when i saw the post, and couldn't find anything related.
It's strange, nevertheless

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Living Room / Re: Why do children love CAPS LOCK?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 15, 2008, 08:43 AM »

Not sure it's only children...

-PhilB66 (June 15, 2008, 05:02 AM)

I had the exact same thought when i saw that post

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do we need a Linux and/or Mac child board?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 15, 2008, 07:50 AM »

I think fred nerd made very good points, i also support the idea of keeping things as they are now.

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Living Room / Re: SFFS Version 4.20: copying files in parallel

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 14, 2008, 10:30 AM »

This isn't the sffs you're talking about, it? (this one's on version 1.0, so i suppose it isn't).
So.. Exactly did you mean? I got a few thousand entries for SFFS and SFFS 4.20

[edit] Oh! Super Flexible File Synchronizer [/edit]

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Another Bits du Jour version

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 14, 2008, 08:20 AM »

f0dder: it's a way for them to get market on audiences that they might not get without this partnership.
I guess that if DC asked them for that partnership, they probably wouldn't accept because they already get people from DC to go directly to their site. (on the other hand.. that's only for forum readers, and this partnership would get them site/blog viewers too).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Another Bits du Jour version

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 14, 2008, 08:10 AM »

Oh, interesting, i've learned something new today
Thanks for the explanation Phil!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Another Bits du Jour version

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 14, 2008, 07:49 AM »

Incredible, it's really a verbatim copy!
Now that's something i'd never seen. Maybe the people at bitsdujour should be warned?
I'm not sure if it's bad for them, though

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Living Room / Re: Opera 9.5

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 14, 2008, 04:42 AM »

I think there's something interesting in that test: the memory use of ff RC3. I had already read they had improved the thing, but i had no idea it got that much better.
(not that memory use makes that much differece nowadays, though )

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General Software Discussion / Re: VirtualBox - An Open Source Virtual Machine

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 13, 2008, 04:29 PM »

On earlier versions, i prefered VirtualBox, because VirtualPC had the "home" key hardcoded, thus, i've been using VirtualBox ever since.
There's a big BUT, though.. I still counldn't make the "shared folders" feature work (windows 64 host OS and linux guest OS here, not sure if that makes any difference). But USB works well, and i've been using that instead.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to unblock FARR in Vista

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 12, 2008, 03:56 PM »

How would one sign an app? Wouldn't that require a payed-for certificate?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to unblock FARR in Vista

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 12, 2008, 01:58 PM »

Interesting, that task scheduler thing really looks like a good solution, thanks wraith808.
I still think it's stupid for people to have to jump through so many hoops to get that simple task done

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to unblock FARR in Vista

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 12, 2008, 01:20 PM »

I think i misunderstood the first post. I understood it referred only to startup (where you can't use "run as administrator" afaik), and on a second read this might be something else.