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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by Crush on September 13, 2009, 08:25 AM »

I removed the funny pictures of my dog Cliff, because he became a very heavy brain damage last night and so I had to put him down today .
I´ll never forget you after all the 13 years we had.

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« Last post by Crush on August 28, 2009, 06:12 AM »

I use ProjectX for Mpeg2-editing. This prog has some really nice features like batch processing via collections, it´s free and open-source. Here you can find an enhanced version with langue files for english. The best feature is it´s ultra-fast 1:1 PID-cutting (only turn it on in the settings and raise the cachesizes).

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Mircryption / Re: AES-256 less secure than AES-128

« Last post by Crush on August 01, 2009, 08:31 AM »

   Use the Crush Cryptonizer and you can decide how many rounds and key-lengths shall be used for encryption. If you wish to make 5.000.000 rounds on a key with the length of 1 MB or several GB ... no problem!

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by Crush on July 09, 2009, 03:54 PM »

I had a lot of problems with bigger texts intense using tabulators. OpenOffice destroyed the original word-files (3.1 also). Softmaker Office was absolutely compatible and I had no problems with it till now. It has some things I don´t like in using it, but its more important to get along with M$ Office.

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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by Crush on June 30, 2009, 06:09 AM »

My first nick to sign sourcecodes was Catweazle as I started coding on a Sinclair ZX81 and later on C64 & Amiga. In 1991 I founded with a friend a demogroup on Amiga called Crush. The productivity of most members wasn´t good enough and the group died. So I decided to use the name alone dropping Catweazle.

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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite drink?

« Last post by Crush on June 16, 2009, 07:10 AM »

with alcohol: I like Martini!  
without alcohol: All kind of milkshakes.

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by Crush on May 13, 2009, 04:51 AM »

Germany

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DC Gamer Club / Re: 3D Realms closes down - Duke Nukem Forever no more

« Last post by Crush on May 10, 2009, 07:15 AM »

I think the gamer needs a dream to see what can be done better or looks better in future gaming. There are only very few top-notch projects with stunning effects and DNF has been one of them (especially after the release of Prey). With DNF a big king has fallen, so we have to take our look somewhere else. I personally can´t await Project Offset (I think you should see all the trailers and tech-demos to believe - the best things are not visible in screenshots) This game will surely show up with a new quality in realism.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: 3D Realms closes down - Duke Nukem Forever no more

« Last post by Crush on May 08, 2009, 05:33 PM »

  Did you really believe this game would ever find an end?

I hope my 3D-Engine will not be shut down so fast     I´d say: Crush Nukem Forever will appear ... when it´s done! (I hope for a good placement in vapourware)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Sorting Algorithm Animations

« Last post by Crush on May 02, 2009, 12:45 PM »

I´ve seen several sites like this, but I personally would say the fastest of them all is in most cases the indexed radix-sort.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: 30 PC Games to Play Before You Die

« Last post by Crush on May 01, 2009, 06:02 AM »

I have 90% of these games at home and played about 20% of them.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: RealWorld Paint.COM 2009.1

« Last post by Crush on April 20, 2009, 09:54 AM »

Thx, I never heard of this one. I´ll try it with my new Gfx-tablet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm Steaming About Steam

« Last post by Crush on April 10, 2009, 05:17 AM »

I bought a game (the ship) that had a steam account at Ebay. I couldn´t use the registered game so the licence must be transferred somehow. The communication with the steam support was rather bad - I didn´t feel like getting real help there. The way to transfer the key to my account was so complicate that I asked the seller how this problem could be solved. He gave me without any comments his complete account together with some other game keys. This reaction shows that he also wasn´t very happy with steam. The system creates more problems to honest customers than any copy-protection in the past in the hope that only new games will be bought and private dealing with used games will be reduced to zero. This is not a fine way to treat gamers. After this experience I decided not to buy games "powered" by steam anymore.

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Living Room / Re: How To Destroy the World with Nanotechnology

« Last post by Crush on March 16, 2009, 08:44 AM »

Funny movie! 
Did you know: An SF-Author wrote about nanorobots - this was the beginning of the nanotech-science! This shows how fantasy can become reality.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Heuristic Antivirus

« Last post by Crush on March 15, 2009, 09:29 AM »

I´ve seen only antivirus progs with a switch for additional heuristics, but you could try to disable the bloomfilter in the ClamAV-sourcecode to switch off the >64Bytes-signature-search.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your experiences with disc catalogers and most wanted/used features

« Last post by Crush on March 13, 2009, 01:14 PM »

Question: Has anyone tried it and can post some speeds for different searches? Could someone report test-results, please?

Only use the version attached at the post before and no others. Please start a single search at first to cache the datas and then do the following three searches:
(1)no filename .2)exe 3)a single existing filename in the filesystem)
and post it with the amount of files, directories and partitions/volumes so that I can see how it performs on other systems (also tell me what CPU is running and is it a laptop/desktop running on WinXP/Vista or others).
It would also be great to know the cpu-usage during scanning and search. The most time during filescanning I can see against 4-10% cpu-usage - only the saving of the database at the end of the process takes more time.

I know the development is very slow because of my startup, but I´m still experimenting with new technical features and this week I had a great idea for an incredible big breakthrough and found a new way to check for file/structure changes since the last full update without running a scanner process in the background or using the USN change journal as everything does in only a few seconds. This means this new technique could also be a big speedup in local database-updates working perhaps with other filesystems than NTFS, Network-drives and FTP (I still have to do some further tests but atm it looks very promising).
Example on my Laptop with 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2: Updating 509654 file entries in 113258 directories on 11 NTFS partitions on a 250 GB HD with windows Vista takes only about 6-7 seconds! Of course a combination with the other methods is still useful. Searching through these big bunch of files takes 0.011 (narrow searches) to 0.04 (all files) seconds.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..

« Last post by Crush on March 10, 2009, 02:06 PM »

@Mouser: I got my NANY rewards today! Thank you very much for all - also for the nice wallet (I really needed a new one)! Btw. my mug hasn´t arrived yet. Has something gone wrong?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them

« Last post by Crush on March 10, 2009, 08:51 AM »

What kind of renaming rules could be defined?
Cut off
remove " :/\;_-|"?
delete numbers
shorten word parts with first 1-2 chars + "." or only use the characters
A really cool thing would be replacing shorter acronyms of name parts.

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Living Room / Re: How do you know if an lcd is dieing?

« Last post by Crush on March 04, 2009, 05:53 AM »

The LCD of my old laptop loses each week a few lines that show up with random colors. It only serves as a DVD-player and HD-Recorder after that. A new LCD would cost about 400$ - for this money I could buy a new one for the same task.
My old tube monitor also turned black sometimes. I tested the electronics (be careful if you also do so!) and found a cold capillary joint that only had to be renewed. The pin had no perfect contact and was able to move around.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by Crush on March 04, 2009, 05:48 AM »

Data CDs/DVDs also?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me back up a virus infected CD (!)

« Last post by Crush on March 03, 2009, 08:16 AM »

Attention! CIH is the most brutal virus existing that can delete your system-bios and your harddisc directly!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by Crush on March 03, 2009, 05:48 AM »

It´s weird to see a whereisit user not being a big fan of it using it only for HD-tracking. The most important sense is to use it for filesearches on external data media, not only for locals.

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Living Room / Re: Idea to get more NANY participators...

« Last post by Crush on March 02, 2009, 08:12 AM »

The reason for my idea was only that I found this site/adverts-rater randomly and especially wanted to make a suggestion to get other and new coders moving to donationcoder...
I wasn´t thinking about raising my personal income this way - if I release something here I don´t mind to get some profit of it, because I do it to see other´s reactions, get more or less constructive help and mostly just for fun.
My idea was not to pay others for their work! On the other hand nice prices could be a motivation for others to enter NANY.

Perhaps a single adds-site could be installed somewhere in the home that everybody can visit if he wants to help as an alternative and fast way instead of time consuming direct donations that needs at least a paypal-account or using your credit-cards?

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Living Room / Idea to get more NANY participators...

« Last post by Crush on March 02, 2009, 06:36 AM »

How about some ads to offer more and better prices for NANYs Donationcoder?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on February 28, 2009, 10:12 AM »

I posted the sourcecode now, please write back if you have any suggestions or ideas!