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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!
« Last post by f0dder on April 23, 2011, 08:39 AM »
Get hammered well :)
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Living Room / Re: Apple - least green company
« Last post by f0dder on April 22, 2011, 04:24 PM »
There's a reason nobody took more than a single bite of that crApple.
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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?
« Last post by f0dder on April 21, 2011, 12:12 PM »
I told him if I stuck two fingers up my ass I could probably whistle, but I wasn't about to try that either...
Don't diss prostate massaging 'til you've tried it! :P
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Living Room / Re: Apple - not quite grasping the concept of privacy.
« Last post by f0dder on April 21, 2011, 05:06 AM »
If I could, I would gladly live without a phone. Jobs would be in prison in my dictatorship until he could explain himself over this stunt. And his company would go broke paying all the customers he listened to. If he refused in any way, I could think of more creative ways to make sure billionaires learn to behave.
Withdraw his entire worth in pennies, and make him eat every single one of them. Twice.
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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?
« Last post by f0dder on April 21, 2011, 04:48 AM »
I tried an exercise ball for a while, but it kept rollling (forwards or backwards - I cant remember).
It's kinda supposed to - you get exercise from trying to make it not roll :)
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Enough reason that I wouldn't even consider using their software, tbh

This is a real pity, as your contribution is actually the best example why you in particular could benefit the most in PhraseExpress: http://screencast.com/t/ABMKiWRbOyVe

You could efficiently simplify posting your repetitive opinion over and over again. A great time saver.
-BartelsMedia (April 20, 2011, 08:50 AM)
At least you have a sense of humor ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: YoYo Games / Softwrap Crappy License
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 09:15 AM »
Get cracks made by one of the reputable(!) zero day groups, and get them from a safe place - there's publicly available stuff that's pretty much guaranteed to be clean. Relying on google searches or thepiratebay is a good recipe for malware infections, though.

There's a lot of PITAs with games, especially from the big brand companies. Driver-based protections that cause system instability, messed up schemes that will randomly shut down games (without proper error messages) if you have something as innocent as Process Explorer running, protection schemes where critical game paths are done in (slow!) VM code, draconian single-machine activation schemes, systems that require you to be online to play (even for single-player games w/o multiplayer content!), et cetera.

Plenty of reasons to always run a cracked version of your legitimately purchased games - if you must have that game. I prefer to vote with my wallet, I don't believe EA or the other fsckers deserve my cash.
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Living Room / Re: Is Amazon the new Apple?
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 09:10 AM »
but it's simply not enough to claim that you helped an old lady across the street when your backyard is full of rotting corpses.
Blasted! Gotta think of something else, then :(
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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 09:08 AM »
Her suggestion as an alternative mode of sitting was to use an exercise ball.
Good suggestion! Takes a while getting used to them, though, and I'm sure a lot of people would dismiss them during that period; you're going to be using your muscles a lot more than you are while just sitting in a chair, and for an initial period this may very well result in a bit of muscle ache. Good for you, though, and once you've flexed those muscles for a while, the pain goes away - if not, then you're really doing something wrong :)

(post.dk had exercise balls as well).
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I appreciate a company being open to the public, but BartelsMedia (Still sounds way to close to CartelsMedia for me to trust very much  :huh:) take "Responding to public opinion" too far.  Having alerts setup to tell you every little thing said about your software seems very very paranoid to me.
-Stephen66515 (April 20, 2011, 08:36 AM)
It makes a lot of sense, especially for smaller software outfits, to monitor the net 'aggressively' for stuff about their product(s)... problems arise when responding aggressively.
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Living Room / Re: Is Amazon the new Apple?
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 08:30 AM »
And that's the key. We get the companies, and the world, we deserve. Consumers decide where their money goes. I don't like Apple, I don't buy Apple stuff. Every vote counts. Be optimistic.
Be optimistic when the world is full of sheeple? :(

Footnote: Very small example of how things are changing (nothing to do with big business): I visited the web site of a local restaurant this week, just to get their phone number. I noticed that the modest web site contained a statement of business practices, including transparency. Example: every bottle of wine on the menu is priced at "cost price plus £8". I was impressed.
Impressive!
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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 08:17 AM »
Standard desk at home, but when I worked at post.dk they had adjustable tables, so you could switch between sitting and standing... and that's what's best, really, doing a lot of different positions.
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Here is the fish for "ggamer": ><((((º>
-BartelsMedia (April 20, 2011, 06:38 AM)
1) attaching images to your post instead of using external image hosting service is smarter.
2) it would be more beneficial to post the join date of ggamer, post date + count doesn't really say anything when the guy admits being a long-time lurker. Join date is 19.Apr.2011, though, so it would've been anonymous lurking.

Am I the only person having a problem with the way BartlesMedia responded in this thread? :nono2:
No, but they're always acting like that. Enough reason that I wouldn't even consider using their software, tbh :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:47 AM »
OK, just popped into mind because you mentioned Yii does model/view/controller.
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Why TripleDES, though?

To be honest Fodder, I had just learned how to implement that particular encryption, in a Programming School assignment, and was I suppose eager to put it to use.  I think that in a future update of the software I may provide the option to select from among several encryption algorithms.
OK, I was just wondering since DES is both slower and less secure than contemporary algorithms, and shouldn't really be used for anything than supporting legacy systems :)

(yes, it's slower even though it's less secure - it was designed with hardware implementation in mind, and uses operations that are slow on our general-purpose x86 processors).

Decrypting a KPT file with an incorrect password still produces a "password-accepted" message box and a resulting file (though it's unusable).
If it gave  a messagebox that the password is not accepted, that could be a means to hack your way into the vault...
Not really, no - unless very poorly designed, you'd still be no better off than brute-forcing the entire keyspace :). Yeah, it does mean you'd have to store a hash of the decrypted file contents, but in practice this isn't really a security concern.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Yii PHP Framework
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:30 AM »
Did you ever take a look at CakePHP?
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Living Room / Re: Is Amazon the new Apple?
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:21 AM »
But they're delivering infinite growth and managing stakeholder benefits with increased value propositions for stock holders and buzz market 3.0 showing social network integration success that raises brand recognition and promotes sustained market penetration and higher market share in value-added markets in socially driven...

I'm not surprised at all.
Ugh, I almost vomited when I read that.
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Living Room / Re: Apple is Still Apple - Sue After Stealing...
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:14 AM »
I really hope that Apple does win this one, those fscking douchebags. But we all know how demented the whole system is, and that showing prior work isn't necessarily good enough. Bastards.
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Only companies should take on someone like Sony. No point an individual risking any sort of financial security for the rest of their lives just to fight an unfair fight anyway.
+1.

Even if Geohotz had a reasonable case, there's no way in hell he could afford anything to match the army of lovers lawyers that Sony has. Best case scenario would be dragging the thing on for eternities... or rather, until Geohotz had run out of money.
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Living Room / Re: PORTAL 2 AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:07 AM »
I certainly wouldn't call £3.50 micro transactions - that's a fair amount of cash.
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General Software Discussion / Re: YoYo Games / Softwrap Crappy License
« Last post by f0dder on April 20, 2011, 05:06 AM »
Renegade: the only thing activation systems hurts is legitimate users. Just about every protection system out there so far has been pummeled to death by reverse engineers, often resulting in a much more enjoyable end-user experience. Apart from STEAM games, which generally have pretty unobtrusive protections, I download cracks for every game I've legitimately purchased, to remove slowdowns and annoyances.
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General Software Discussion / Re: YoYo Games / Softwrap Crappy License
« Last post by f0dder on April 19, 2011, 02:45 PM »
Current Features:

   
  • No more Softwrap!

I love how it is the FIRST listed feature :3
Lulz :D
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Official Announcements / Re: Server - Apache problem running out of memory
« Last post by f0dder on April 19, 2011, 04:20 AM »
Try another httpd? Like, one that uses async I/O instead of relying on multiple processes?
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Why TripleDES, though?
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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)
« Last post by f0dder on April 18, 2011, 01:02 PM »
My current solution will be to stick with dropbox until this is fixed -- I don't have this problem with dropbox, as I said. They must use a different delta backup algorithm.
That, or DropBox uses special handling for certain files, including access databases?
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