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Living Room / Re: Crazy man takes picture every day for 8 years

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 06:45 PM »

PS nice to see homer growing up Lashiec (totally off topic: is Lashiec a spanish name or a forum name? - hah just googled it:
"On the castle we are aquainted with the psycopath known as Lashiec..."  hmnmm)

-tomos (December 20, 2007, 02:50 PM)

Uh-oh, my cover has been blown up! *flees*

We should ask app103 to shave her head and do something similar to watch her hair grow back! Could be an entertaining fundraiser idea mouser!

-Josh (December 20, 2007, 03:58 PM)

ROFL

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else having random reboots with Firefox 2.0.0.11

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 06:42 PM »

Be sure to read the "Known Issues" section if you do, though, some potential important sites, like Yahoo! Mail or Windows Live Mail are broken. They're also broken in Opera 9.5 Beta... I think I see a trend... I glimpse workarounds in the browsers' rendering code for those sites

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General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 01:02 PM »

Good points, but as I said, the only time I use IE is when running Windows Update or checking my Hotmail account (rarely).  Is security a big deal under those circumstances?  99.9% of my web access is through FireFox, which I *do* keep patched religiously.

-Ralf Maximus (December 20, 2007, 11:52 AM)

In the case of Hotmail, as long as you take the usual safety measures in front of unwanted mail (and you probably do), I'd say it's not a big deal, or not a deal at all

Assuming the software respects my "default browser" setting, I usually get FireFox.  Even from Microsoft Apps.

Then Opera or my apps do not respect the setting all the time . At least, when I launch a link from a HTML Help file, I get IE7.

And I don't consider Windows Help particularly threatening malware wise.  Should I?

Not exactly, but security holes had been plugged in HTML Help in the past (there was a time Microsoft was constantly releasing patches for it, but then again it was in pre-SP2 times). I do not know if malware writers exploited those holes, but Windows Help had holes.

And talking about help files, checking the µTorrent help file a while ago, I came across what I feel is a HUGE improvement over IE6: page wide search. It may be a bit silly, but not having to select "Search down" or "Search up" is a godsend, particularly when I'm used to do that in almost every app (except in my Notepad replacement, which uses the basic text search built into Windows)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any image viewers that can read .SPP? (Serif PhotoPlus)

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 11:02 AM »

OK, so it was .SPP

Then it's not supported, I just updated to 1.92 final an hour ago, and as I said it's not there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 10:51 AM »

Give me one compelling reason to upgrade beyond IE6.  One.

(Note that FF is my primary browser; the only time I see IE is during Windows update or Hotmail sessions.)

-Ralf Maximus (December 20, 2007, 10:20 AM)

Security, apart from a gazillion things more. IE7 comes with Windows, so even if you don't use it, I don't see why it should not be updated, just like any other Microsoft app. Besides, Internet Explorer still gets launched by certain software or from certain parts of Windows (HTML Help), and you'll want to have the updated rendering engine around for software that uses it to show information from the Internet.

IE7 is not Firefox, but I think it's a great improvement over IE6, and I wouldn't go back, even if I don't use it. Besides, Microsoft trying to keep up with the times is good for that 80% of people or so that use IE daily.

I think I'll stick with FireFox though, IE7 is so much slower than IE6 that it no longer has that advantage over FF.

-f0dder (December 20, 2007, 09:46 AM)

Did IE had any advantage over Firefox ever? (Well, maybe before 0.7 or 0.8 versions)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any image viewers that can read .PPS? (Serif PhotoPlus)

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 10:39 AM »

XnView lists .PPS and .SSP in the supported formats list, so try if it can read the images (it doesn't list them as extensions associated with PhotoPlus though). .SPP is not listed, but I don't know which one is the correct since you mentioned three

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 10:25 AM »

ffdshow tryouts, ffdshow 'fork', but become the main branch as Milan Cutka has long stopped all development on the normal ffdshow.

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Living Room / Re: A Cheat Sheet of Cheat Sheets

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 09:13 AM »

Very cool! I discovered this one a couple of months ago, not sure where, but I bookmarked it. I should have posted about it back then...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo until Christmas

« Last post by Lashiec on December 20, 2007, 09:09 AM »

Photo Commander... Ashampoo enlisted the developer of Brennig's to transform this freebie into what is now. Brennig's was a rewrite of the older SlowView, which was the third freeware viewer competing with IrfanView and XnView back in the day. Some more information here

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Living Room / Re: Crazy man takes picture every day for 8 years

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 07:22 PM »

Incidentally, they talked about the same thing in the CyberNet forums. I guess this is one of the original videos in which this one is inspired (then there's the other one of the Asian girl, which was posted before), but I preferred the real life parody and The Simpsons parody

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General Software Discussion / Re: houseforge recommendation December 2007: Protection

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 07:12 PM »

A little question about OTR. Though it works really good in MSN (turns out Adium packs OTR by default in the package), I am curious about the privacy scope in the IRC. Can it be used when talking in the public chat of the channel or does it only works when I am having a private IRC conversation, with, say, Ralf Maximus? (shameless plug for Ralf to join us at #donationcoder sometime. That, and being the last poster )

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 06:59 PM »

Ellipsis are used in Windows to indicate the user when a button leads to another dialog, instead of actually performing an action, so it's pretty useful to remind you when you can initiate an action that can't be undone, that is, it gives you one more try. Of course, some programmers ignore this, but it does not happen too often.

EDIT: Some rephrasing

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 06:43 PM »

Thanks, but it seems that most services mentioned there involve some kind of key sent to the recipient, which is not what I want, it needs to be as transparent as possible, just like linked up to your own webspace. I'll content myself with FileIO for now, if it does not work, I'll let you know.

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 04:44 PM »

Yes, that's exactly what I want, many thanks Grorgy!

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 04:12 PM »

Ralf's option looks interesting, but I'm concerned about the security problems it could imply, not to mention setting up everything could be a bit tricky and too much work for a transfer that should last a few seconds. Not to mention I'd need to let the computer on as the transfer is done by a robot activated at any time in the other side.

Yes, the ISP provides web space, I'm still trying to find how to set it up

tinjaw, they are various files which, as much, amount up to 1 MB, and it could be far less. Availability? A week should be the best option. Essentially, what I want is something like Photobucket or ImageShack, but for files

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General Software Discussion / Any web service for file storing?

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 12:41 PM »

Well, the problem is that I need a web service to store some files, nothing too heavy, the files don't amount more than 1 MB combined, but I need it to allow direct linking of the files (hotlinking), so that when you copy the address of the file and paste in a browser window, a download should start.

They recommended me FileDen, but it sucks, they're always running out of space (to this day, I couldn't upload a single file to my account) and the login process is performed in a fishy and weird way (basically, you log in, you go through a myriad of ads, and you found out you're not logged in until you click somewhere )

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 12:25 PM »

Yeah, probably, but I made a single thread to prevent spamming the forum

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 19, 2007, 10:53 AM »

With fear I'm writing this, as I'm spreading the word about FARR's primary competition in its developer forum, so it's natural I care about my life and all that... Oh, well, just a little joke

So a new major version of Launchy is out, with quite some changes, primarily focused on the future multiplatform compatibility on the app, but bringing some other welcome additions to the table as well. So, first things first, Launchy is now written using Trolltech's Qt toolkit, which as you may know, is the driving force behind KDE desktop, and that means Launchy will be usable in Linux and Mac OS X in the future, which is a good thing for creating some competition in the other OS.

But what matters to users is features, and there are quite some to be found here. Launchy is prettier than before, sports a redesigned options interface, and allows more customization regarding the list and what you can do with the items showed there. It should be noted that the update breaks compatibility with old plugins, but silly names are preserved. I might give it a spin when I have some time

Homepage

You don't like Launchy because you're a diehard FARR (or another launcher) user? Fine, I have another app to fill your expectations, Autoruns. The hard working guys at Sysinternals are delivering a major new version of this fine tool, with the following improvements:

This major update to Autoruns shows an entry's raw launch string in its image details area, lists Explorer and IE COM classes names and icons, is aware of several more autostart locations, including additional shell extensions, Windows Vista scheduled tasks and Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets, and has better support for alternate online search engines.

Rogue programs and memory hogs will have a hard time hiding beneath Windows with version 9.0. Also, the Sysinternals' site has received a major facelift, looking better than before, and is more usable IMO.

via Wikipedia (yeah, really) and File Hippo

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

« Last post by Lashiec on December 18, 2007, 09:48 PM »

Not much experience with laptop hardrives, but since performance is not a key factor in a laptop, I'd go for a 5400 rpm disk, less heat and power consumption. If both use perpendicular recording, I'd say it's a no brainier.

EPRML means, basically, more density without more errors in data reading. So it's a good thing. Don't know if it's something you should consider when you're buying it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free icons for developers

« Last post by Lashiec on December 18, 2007, 01:44 PM »

But wasn't the LGPL made to avoid such kind of things?

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Living Room / Re: Turning a so-so movie to a hilarious comedy

« Last post by Lashiec on December 18, 2007, 01:39 PM »

Hehe, classic. Do not want

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Developer's Corner / Re: RFI: Win32 API or WMI means of manipulating multiple video displays/monitors.

« Last post by Lashiec on December 18, 2007, 01:36 PM »

Or try HydraVision. The Omega Drivers as far as I know are specially tailored to give an edge on gaming (or so they claim). And you can use ATI Tray Tools, for total control of ATI Catalyst from the system tray.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WinTasks Pro ... Windows Explorer is a trojan - yeah right!

« Last post by Lashiec on December 18, 2007, 01:23 PM »

The problem in this instance is that Uniblue is doing things wrong, as always, and the information about the process is badly redacted. The notes should be in a separate section, down the article (or the window in this case) saying: "When lsass.exe is located here, and the file size is that or this, then the process is such malware..."

The best tool in this regard is Google or your favourite search engine, instead of a third-party process manager, which, really, had always pale in comparison with Process Explorer, PrcView or What's Running. I remember that, even before Uniblue started to resort themselves to questionable marketing schemes and tried to expand their software scope with dubious products, they were trying to provide information about the software running in your system.

BTW, how things are done the right way

Hey, cranioscopical, send me the link, I want to get rich too! (Those scammers do not bother to try hard these days )

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !

« Last post by Lashiec on December 17, 2007, 06:47 PM »

In 2006 Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the license and publishing rights to Re-Volt and has confirmed a next-generation version is on the way

w00t! And I didn't know they made a sequel for the PS2. It seems that after all those years, the game is living a TrackMania-like second youth, with that vibrant community mentioned in the article.

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Living Room / Re: Firewire/iLink speeds set to increase to 3.2Gb/s

« Last post by Lashiec on December 17, 2007, 06:43 PM »

Actually, IEEE 1394 new standard is late, as the USB 3.0 was announced in Intel's last IDF. And it's set to achieve even faster speeds than the new FireWire.

Which poses the question as if the HDDs can keep up with this or, more precisely, if everything will be wasted bandwidth, considering that the eSATA can achieve theoretical speeds closer to those of SATA II HDDs. I'm sure the new specifications will be used for some bandwidth-demanding applications (like HD video). (already mentioned by Carol, gosh! )