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

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2011, 12:13 PM »

Poisoned to his rotten core - too Apple'd up to care anymore!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Coding Standards

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2011, 11:24 AM »

wraith: Be a rebel - APPEND the underscore!

Renegade: if used properly, yes - most people tend to think hungarian means prefixing the data type ("i" for integer, "s" for string etc, "p" for a pointer etc), which is pretty pointless. If used for the purpose of the variable, the logical data type, it holds some merit... like "cb" for "count (in bytes)".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lizamoon Attack Targets SQL Injection Vulnerability

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2011, 11:06 AM »

You're touching on a pretty important point, barney - that there's boatloads of bad information out there, and not nearly as much good. The situation is especially grave in the shallow end of the market, like that "teach yourself X in Y timeunits" - ugh. And various code snippets at various programming resource sites aren't necessarily good either; some suck because they're written by not-so-experienced programmers, other can be dangerous because they're hacked together to show how a specific piece of technology is used, and error handling would obscure the guts of the snippet.

So, what to do? Dunno if there's any books dedicated to the topic, or if there's any decent php/asp/whatever books that cover the safety aspects properly. But whether there are or not, you'll still have to do what you can yourself to keep current on the topics - follow blogs, spend time on StackOverflow, look at some of the horrible crap exposed on DailyWtf et cetera

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lizamoon Attack Targets SQL Injection Vulnerability

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2011, 06:35 AM »

Nobody should ever be writing SQL statements dynamically in a production system, and especially in a front-facing production system.

-Renegade (April 03, 2011, 02:00 AM)

Well, you definitely shouldn't be doing it the string-concatenation way, that's for sure - but technologies like LINQ uses dynamic SQL under the hood

I'm pretty miffed that a lot of people still are doing string-concatenated SQL by hand. Like, wtf? It's insecure, it's slow, and if you're using a SQL provider that doesn't support bound arguments... go hang yourself.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2011, 06:32 AM »

Fscking awesome, p3lb0x

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2011, 08:13 AM »

Can anyone pick out anything in there that is shady?

-Renegade (April 02, 2011, 08:01 AM)

World of Warcrack. Definitely shady, ruiner of souls.

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Living Room / Re: SAY NO TO NUCLEAR POWER [NSFW]

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 07:50 PM »

Nice tits.

Other than that: silly.

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Official Announcements / Re: I regret to inform that Cody has wasted all of our fundraiser money

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 07:48 PM »

Sounds like it's time for some grilled chicken wings!

-Deozaan (April 01, 2011, 04:57 PM)

Fine so long as you don't eat them in front of Cody.

-40hz (April 01, 2011, 06:04 PM)

Oh, but wouldn't that be the perfect punishment? Ripping off his wings, then grilling and eating them in front of him?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 01:41 PM »

40hz: FWIW, I've never head anybody use "your" definition either. For me, and people I know, "installing" generally means "putting something on the system (more or less) permanently". Running an executable definitely doesn't count as "installing" in my book.

In previous versions, OpenCandy did get it's DLL installed on the system... but (according to the OC guys) it was just lying dormant there until (possibly) used during the uninstall process.

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 08:43 AM »

Oooooh!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 08:39 AM »

The "but OC is being installed without my consent" is silly, as already mentioned - consider the amount of 3rd party libraries used by any realistically sized application, and you'd have a crapload of "do you want to allow this library to be installed, as well?" prompts... unless you want to hold OC to higher standards.

Yes, it does run as part of the installation process, but it isn't installed - and that's a big effing difference compared to the adware of the past, that would install background processes, browser helper objects, whatever.

As long as OC doesn't send my list of installed applications but simply grabs the available offers and don't offer what it can locally check is already installed, I don't see the big fuzz about this - even if I don't like the business model and the tendency of authors to "slip it in".

But all that *IS* assuming that OC are being honest about what they're doing, and aren't going 180 degrees at some point - and we all know how likely that is.

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2011, 08:19 AM »

...and even with horror stories like that, there's still people who are against government regulation of what companies can and cannot do

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by f0dder on March 31, 2011, 05:32 PM »

To be fair to OC, even if I'm not super fond of it, if all it does is sending your OS locale and version, then it's no worse than a webbrowser - only you're a tinfoil hat wearing kinda guy with special addons, that information is present in the HTTP request headers for every web request made.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by f0dder on March 31, 2011, 04:07 AM »

On topic, I just went to download an update for Fruity Studio, and...

-Renegade (March 30, 2011, 09:33 PM)

Ok, so now OC is also being bundled in with apps you already paid for?

-40hz (March 31, 2011, 02:31 AM)

That made me raise my brows as well.

As did the name "Fruity Studio" - didn't it use to be FruityLoops? Another of those "Oh, but the lifetime license isn't for <newname>, it was for <oldname>" tactics?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't wait for Flash to die!

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2011, 02:23 PM »

zridling: I was talking about efficiency, not security... but on the subject of security, while a lot of holes have been in java, flash, and the acrobat reader plugin, it's not like browsers themselves have been immune.

On performance, we'll have to wait and see. There's a lot of work going on wrt. optimizing JavaScript JITers, with a fair amount of competition between Chrome, FireFox and IE. But seeing how sluggish Panorama is in FF4 on lower-end machines, I'm not convinced "HTML5" is going to e better performing than flash any time soon...

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2011, 11:08 AM »

Screenshot looks nice - does it have decent progress bars? Does speed rock? Does it handle >2GB files? Does it support the MD5 SFV extensions?

I personally still use the freeware FlashSFV 2.0f (iirc done by the guys that did FlashFXP) - but at one point it kinda disappeared off the radar, and I haven't checked out the most recent 2.6. Might be interesting to pit it against your tool

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't wait for Flash to die!

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2011, 11:04 AM »

I'm no big fan of flash, but that's mostly because I don't think flash adds anything that should be done on the web, except for some special cases (which mostly boils down to games). It's somewhat of a CPU hog, but that's - as far as I can tell - mostly because of a badly coded MessageLoop... the flash itself tends to run OK, doesn't use that much memory, and the runtime isn't über-big.

HTML5 is great and all, but is it going to be any more efficient than flash if used to produce the same kind of driveling crap, instead of content that's appropriate for the web?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game

« Last post by f0dder on March 27, 2011, 02:26 PM »

Haha, Josh - f'ing awesome!

In other news, I've just set up a small private MC server for me and a couple of friends... seeya!

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General Software Discussion / Re: free, very fast FONT VIEWER

« Last post by f0dder on March 25, 2011, 11:17 AM »

Frome their website:

The problem is well known: Only the written form is remembered, but the name is forgotten.
Here FontViewOK can help .It creates a quick visual overview of all installed fonts.
The deployment is so simple, a help file is not required.

-Stoic Joker (March 25, 2011, 11:07 AM)

Sounds almost useless, then - if you have a crapload of fonts, you definitely don't want to have them installed at one time... and if you have offline fonts you need to browse through, you definitely don't want to install them in order to browse them

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by f0dder on March 25, 2011, 09:37 AM »

Ugh, mouser!

After watching ~10 seconds of that video, I needed a healthy dose of Suicide Commando. Unfortunately I couldn't find any interesting videos to link to, but F*** You B**** would've been pretty appropriate - or perhaps Bind, Torture, Kill

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General Software Discussion / Re: Output to a DAC using Foobar+ASIO

« Last post by f0dder on March 24, 2011, 12:11 PM »

Goodie, nosh - that makes a helluvalotta sense

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Living Room / Re: R.I.P Knut

« Last post by f0dder on March 24, 2011, 12:10 PM »

I wonder if I am the only one who was horrified until I clicked the link and found it was a polar bear and not a misspelling of Knuth.

-Jibz (March 23, 2011, 01:37 PM)

Beat me to it - I was all "wtf?!" like

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4 RC in 64 bit for Linux

« Last post by f0dder on March 24, 2011, 11:52 AM »

I can see your point, but habit is a ruthless master... 

-Edvard (March 22, 2011, 09:59 PM)

Indeed - I'm usually not too happy about change myself, but this is a change I like

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General Software Discussion / Re: Output to a DAC using Foobar+ASIO

« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2011, 04:34 PM »

From that site:

The downside to this? If there are errors on the CD, you will hear them as there is not any correction being made to overcome the error.

Like, HUH?! - this seems to imply that it's the sound drivers, rather than the cd firmware, doing the error correction? That sounds pretty wrong to me.

OTOH, the post might be right about the default sound mixer (do realize the post date, though, algorithm might have been improved since 2004... somebody should look into this), but even if that's true, wouldn't that only happen when multiple sound streams are played back? Or is it enough to have adjusted the volume control?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Output to a DAC using Foobar+ASIO

« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2011, 04:11 PM »

I didn't think ASIO vs. regular drivers had anything to do with sound quality, only latency?