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Living Room / Re: amount of RAM in a netbook

« Last post by f0dder on May 03, 2011, 07:07 AM »

i was looking at netbooks recently and one reason that windows 7 starter seems very appealing for a netbook is that one of the things it does not have is the aero glass effects, which is good because for a netbook it's not worth taking the speed hit that comes with that.  so i think windows 7 starter is a good match for a netbook for a novice.

-mouser (May 02, 2011, 06:04 PM)

Aero could very well be a performance benefit - but it does require the GPU to not suck majorly, and have discrete video memory. Dunno if you can find a netbook that fulfills those requirements, but if you do Aero should run faster and result in less system memory being gobbled up.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 11:44 AM »

However, this episode confirms my decision to take some time off and cool my head.

-housetier (May 02, 2011, 11:00 AM)

Taking a breather can be a fine thing to do - but please do come back

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 08:48 AM »

Easy now, housey.

People are different - some are cheering, some aren't. This forum is pretty diverse, just as real life is. And, agree with their emotions or not, do keep in mind the scar 9/11 has carved in many Amerikans; while I don't necessarily feel the same way as they do, I understand their emotions.

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 07:34 AM »

Might've been smart having the body buried on Muslim ground - just saying.

-f0dder (May 02, 2011, 06:41 AM)

I am sure that the burial at sea was to prevent his final resting place becoming a holy pilgrimage site. We don't want to help him become more of a martyr.

-edbro (May 02, 2011, 07:30 AM)

Good point - but perhaps letting them have his corpse could help put a dampener on the supporting Muslims? Oh well, they're probably going to be royally pissed anyway.

I, for one, do not think that killing people is a good thing.

-housetier

I hope you are kidding, right? This guy is responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands. We kill one to prevent thousands more being killed. I'm confident that if we could have simply captured him and brought him back then we would have. The reports I read is that he went down "resisting".

-edbro (May 02, 2011, 07:30 AM)

They started!"

...besides, bin Laden isn't exactly the only casualty on their side - wonder who has lost most civilians?
(there is IMHO a big difference between collateral damage and deliberately targeting civilians, though)

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 06:41 AM »

Might've been smart having the body buried on Muslim ground - just saying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pirated Software and Viruses? Ahem... No. I don't want to help you...

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 03:59 AM »

It's one thing to use a crack for software that you have already licensed, but...

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 12:14 AM)

And another to use wholly pirated software, which isn't necessarily the end of the world...

but asking a programmer for help with pirated software? priceless

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by f0dder on May 02, 2011, 03:58 AM »

US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 150km north of Islamabad.

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 11:22 PM)

Geez, haven't had enough coffee today - read that as "US president Barack Osama bin Laden" >_<

Abbottabad - "abort a bad [guy]", anyone?

Will be interesting to see what happens now. I have no illusions that Al Qaeda will fall to pieces because guy is gone, I'm thinking more in the lines of which terrorist actions we'll see and where.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Playing With UI Design... (Looking for comments)

« Last post by f0dder on May 01, 2011, 10:53 AM »

Ugh - not really a fan of those über-custom GUIs, it just seems so pointless except for a few very specialized applications.

That said, it's not the worst I've seen. The progress bar stands out like a pedobear in a kindergarten, though, something heavily needs to be done about it... ASAP!

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Living Room / Re: The great toilet paper debate

« Last post by f0dder on April 29, 2011, 10:43 AM »

Over.

I get annoyed if it's facing the wrong way, and I definitely correct the error - also if I'm visiting other people

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Developer's Corner / Re: New Twist on Basic

« Last post by f0dder on April 29, 2011, 10:36 AM »

AHK for script kiddies while AI3 good and powerful? Aren't those languages pretty much the same? O_o

I don't see a point in paying for something like MiniBasic. There's simply too many excellent and free (gratis and libre) programming tools out there, so a paid product would have to offer something really extraordinary... and that just doesn't seem to be the case with MB.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by f0dder on April 29, 2011, 10:19 AM »

Why are you sending SIGKILL to the server anyway?

-worstje (April 28, 2011, 04:31 PM)

Might be related to linux OOM^w handling?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by f0dder on April 29, 2011, 10:17 AM »

A new favourite of mine: MClickFocusTab. No more "right-click > Open in background tab", just middle-click the link, and it will open in background tab/window.

-Curt (April 27, 2011, 11:06 AM)

Isn't that default behavior? Or at least behavior that can be set with standard settings? At least middle-click opens new tab in background here, and I don't have any tab-related addons afaik

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General Software Discussion / Linux + minecrack, mapgeneration automation & accounts?

« Last post by f0dder on April 26, 2011, 04:52 PM »

Zowie, what a thread title!

So, I've set up a private minecraft server on my linux box, serving a handful of friends. Currently, it's running under my 'f0dder' user account... it works, but probably isn't the most secure and smart way to do things.

I've finally found a decent mapper that doesn't have craploads of dependencies... it's still somewhat slow, probably because of the ancient singlecore CPU in the server, but it works. And I'd like to automate the map generation to run overnight. Cronjob, eh? I could just do that from root's crontab, but that also feels wrong.

So, what's a decent setup for all this? I assume the first thing would be setting up a dedicated "minecraft" user that doesn't allow remote logins, and is as restricted as possible. Next up, what to do about file permissions? The generated map data should be available through http, and the http daemon uses the www-data user+group for that...

NTFS ACL permissions are so simple and flexible to work with, but this is linux

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General Software Discussion / Re: [SORTED] Intelligent comparision of folder contents

« Last post by f0dder on April 26, 2011, 12:48 AM »

It's not a buzzword... CRC^w it's technology, radical maaaan!

Basically it's a checksum that's designed to be fast & efficient to implement, while still being fairly good at detecting bit errors. It's not nearly as good at that as modern cryptographic hashes, but it was designed ages ago, and has been used for all sorts of communication stuff where a cryptographic hash would have required too much processing power back then... not to mention the algorithms hadn't been designed yet

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Living Room / Re: Loss of ownership / control over a .org domain - advice requested

« Last post by f0dder on April 25, 2011, 05:43 AM »

The Charity is going to contact VWNames and hopefully talk to someone who will be compassionate!

-Ampa (April 25, 2011, 05:24 AM)

Domain squatter, compassionate? >_<

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Living Room / Re: Loss of ownership / control over a .org domain - advice requested

« Last post by f0dder on April 25, 2011, 05:00 AM »

The "www" part of domain names refers to what the internet is - the Wild, Wild West. People suck.

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Living Room / Re: Higgs Boson, God Particle, rumored to have been found.

« Last post by f0dder on April 25, 2011, 04:50 AM »

@Renegade:

Well, I'm not bowing down to or worshiping anything called "boson".

But do you bow down to anything else - Mammon, perhaps?           

-IainB (April 25, 2011, 01:16 AM)

God money, I'll do anything for you - God money, just tell me what you want me to.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Remove duplicate entries from within a single large (text) dictionary

« Last post by f0dder on April 24, 2011, 01:47 PM »

In case anyone was wondering, it would take well in excess of a week to sort a 33GB dictionary. I started sorting my 33GB file on April 15th and finally cancelled it today (after 9 days) not even half done.

-bhuiraj (April 24, 2011, 11:53 AM)

There must be some more efficient software out there.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by f0dder on April 24, 2011, 01:43 PM »

PETA? It's fscking AWESOME, man!

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Living Room / Re: Techno-Addicts

« Last post by f0dder on April 24, 2011, 07:14 AM »

I thought this was thread was gonna have something to do with breakbeats :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does "Not yet upgraded for Firefox 4" also happen to you?

« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 11:24 AM »

Curt, W_T_F? That addon should be blacklisted from the Mozilla download page!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does "Not yet upgraded for Firefox 4" also happen to you?

« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 10:53 AM »

Curt: there's something about FireShot that makes the hair on my back rise - not sure exactly what it is, but it just doesn't feel right. Definitely test Screengrab

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!

« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 08:50 AM »

Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does "Not yet upgraded for Firefox 4" also happen to you?

« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 08:44 AM »

I use Screengrab - does what it says, and doesn't try to do a whole lot more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching for Warez/Crackz and Pleasantly Suprised

« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 08:43 AM »

On a side note, you know you have good software when someone actually does the effort of creating a crack for it, right?

-jgpaiva (April 23, 2011, 07:33 AM)

Not necessarily - 0day crackers have ratios to fulfill