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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 26, 2007, 10:58 AM »

Oh, I forgot making a shot of the 999th post

BUT here's the 1,000th one



w00t, I surpassed Deozaan!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy 2.0... and something else

« Last post by Lashiec on December 26, 2007, 10:54 AM »

Launchy 1.x already had a plugin system, with most (if not all) functions that external plugins provide to FARR, apart from the internal ones, including favorite searching. It's only that this time, the author integrated the searching within the program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendations Destroying Storage Media??

« Last post by Lashiec on December 26, 2007, 10:46 AM »

You can create a bootable CD or DVD, or even a flash drive if you wish. DBAN is more appropriate for the kind of task that tinjaw asked about (I experienced this recently), than for what you inquire, but I think Eraser can be configured to wipe a disk from Windows, if it handles empty space wiping, it should handle the other task as well, it's a matter of installing it

Anyway, DBAN doesn't support drives on RAID controllers:

Q: Why doesn't DBAN detect the SCSI disks attached to my RAID controller?

A: RAID controllers are unsupported. Only regular SCSI host adapters are supported.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendations Destroying Storage Media??

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 06:42 PM »

Thermite? . Do you want to emulate Nicholas Cage saving San Francisco from Alcatraz?

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Living Room / Re: Tell me why I have to be a PowerSlave?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 06:33 PM »

No, regarding the Cool'n'Quiet driver, it used to cause sound scratchiness a while ago, now it's not causing any problem. It seems to work at random... I researched the Internet back and forth in search for the cause and the solution, but I only found the (possible) cause. Thank goodness it was fixed by itself (it'll come back to haunt me tomorrow, just to piss me off ), but it remains one of those unresolved computing bugs, just like the one with the Lite-On drives (going offtopic...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 06:27 PM »

Don't forget the tinfoil hat

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Living Room / Re: Tell me why I have to be a PowerSlave?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 04:56 PM »

f0dder, any instance of sound scratchiness while doing things in the computer and you have some music playing in the background? (in a audio player, of course )

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 24th - Codename "Here Comes Your NANY"

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 04:52 PM »

As I mentioned in the last newsletter, I prefer the lenghty approach

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suggestion: List by Alphabet Letters

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 04:46 PM »

I think you misunderstood me.

What I said is that when you type, for example, 'Notepad' in the typing box to launch a desired program, and you get, say, 35 results, using your suggestion could mean something like this: just as you stop typing, you see the program you want to launch is binded to the 'P' key, so you press it, but instead of launching the desired program, FARR adds the letter to the present string in the typing box, resulting that FARR is now searching for 'Notepadp'. This is because the focus is in the typing box, not on the results list.

Solutions? The one I said before it's an option, another one would be using what you said, pressing 'Alt+<Alphabet Key>' to launch the app without typing the <Alphabet Key> in the typing box, and finally, pressing <Tab> (this is how it works now) to focus the results list and then press 'P' to launch the desired app.

I hope it's clear now

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General Software Discussion / Re: ... [ARRRRRRRGH!]

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 02:56 PM »

First result on Google. And they said Microsoft didn't have a set of UI guidelines like Apple...

I think it's a great idea, even if you're a seasoned user or programmer, once you get a new program, and you start testing it, it's reassuring to know what actions mean another step (thus giving you the option to go back) and which ones are not.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suggestion: List by Alphabet Letters

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 02:47 PM »

There's a problem with that approach in that it would conflict with the typing box, if you want to select the result labeled as 'P', you'd simply add 'P' to the search string. A workaround would be to switch the focus to the result list as soon as the search through the directories is finished, and select the item from there.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Agnitum is offering 3 for 1

« Last post by Lashiec on December 25, 2007, 02:38 PM »

Don't forget about D-Link and 3Com, and some other one I'm missing right now...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Choppy video playback in full screen

« Last post by Lashiec on December 24, 2007, 01:04 PM »

Thanks! Same to you and the rest!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Choppy video playback in full screen

« Last post by Lashiec on December 24, 2007, 12:34 PM »

Not exactly, I used ffdshow exclusively in the past, but now I use a codec pack, the CCCP one, which uses ffdshow tryouts as the main decoder, but I understand it has some changes in comparison with the official build.

And if everything fails, VLC

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which MP3 tagger do you use?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 24, 2007, 12:28 PM »

Notice that the freeware one is "Mp3tag" and the shareware "mp3tag". This is what happens when you choose a popular name

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Agnitum is offering 3 for 1

« Last post by Lashiec on December 23, 2007, 06:55 AM »

Don't know about "geeky", but lots of disaffected youth slouching by the front door...

-Darwin (December 22, 2007, 04:58 PM)

Oh, no problem with those then. It's better to be a rebel teenager (it's the time to be so) than to steal the Wi-Fi connection from the neighbouring family (WEP is easily defeatable with the appropriate tools) and brag about it (huh, what an achievement...).

Isn't there a firmware update for your router that could bring WPA along with it?

With a well configured hardware firewall, I'd say that there's no need for a software one, unless you want total control over what's accessing the Internet on realtime, or you want to catch sneaky things after infecting your computer. Running the Windows' Firewall won't hurt, though.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Agnitum is offering 3 for 1

« Last post by Lashiec on December 22, 2007, 04:37 PM »

Darwin, are there many geeky teenagers with too much free time in their hands living in your area?

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Living Room / Re: Blu ray vs HD DVD

« Last post by Lashiec on December 22, 2007, 09:27 AM »

Exactly, buying a format at this point is playing with fire. Unless you buy a PlayStation 3, if Blu Ray fails, at least you get a good gaming machine

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Developer's Corner / Re: .Net Questions

« Last post by Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 10:11 AM »

Ah, that explains it. Thanks for the clarification

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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 10:08 AM »

Only KeePass and OTR, I don't have anything here that I would bother to encrypt (nor anyone would bother to take any interest). Well, except the Miranda database containing all my conversations, but mostly because that's of no interest to anyone (no blueprints of atomic bombs or plans to assault the United Nations building xD). I might use encryption for storing backup files in a remote server, but not on the local machine.

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Developer's Corner / Re: .Net Questions

« Last post by Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 09:58 AM »

Ehm, actually Borland made available for free stripped-down versions of their IDEs for various languages, mostly due to the pressure of the Express Editions (or was the other way around?). Don't worry, commercial versions of both IDEs are continued to be sold, despite Borland being the less successful for various reasons (people don't like the VCL, etc.), and there's also room for open source alternatives (KDE Develop, Eclipse, whatever), after all, OSS costs money to business (support and all that).

I'm going to fix that article. .NET Framework 2.0 works in an OS as ancient as Windows 98.

And .NET Framework is not included at all in Windows XP SP2. 1.0 is a recommended install in Windows Update, as (supposedly) 2.0 is (I installed 3.5 before hitting the site, so I don't know).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your top 3 favorite portable software programs

« Last post by Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 09:37 AM »

Visual Basic 6? Portable Photoshop? Portable Nero 7?

Although a quick search in Google questions the legality of all three

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any web service for file storing?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 09:31 AM »

Yes, I did everything, but divShare is still no good. Looks like I better trust the tinjaw , and set up the webspace provided by the ISP. The site that will be getting the files is very strict in their rules towards naming and redirections, so the only thing that will work is personal webspace.

Apart from that, divShare performs wonderfully, so I'll bookmark it for when I need to send some files to friends. Much better than things like Rapidshare, and performs very much like PhotoBucket, which I love.

Well, problem solved. Thanks to everyone who posted their suggestions!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your top 3 favorite portable software

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 06:51 PM »

Only Portable Firefox for now

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any web service for file storing?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 06:48 PM »

Ah, thanks, nosh! I'll give a try to that other one, as FileIO has turned out it has some peculiarities in its service that renders it unusable for what I need it to do. It's a terrific site, though, despite not being fully supported with Opera.