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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4 RC in 64 bit for Linux
« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2011, 12:36 PM »
Strange to have the tabs on top of the nav bar, but that's easily fixed in the "view" menu.
I personally like that - and it makes sense, really. The location of a tab sorta belongs to the location, and not the other way around :)
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Sounds like you might want to look at an ebook manager instead, dpayment - while it's not perfect and it forces it's workflow upon you, I've found Calibre to be pretty good.
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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - My Deepening Hatred for Fanboys
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2011, 12:26 PM »
Ah, the lack of political correctness - gotta love that, even if it's way over the top and unprofessional :)

As for the quoted part of the (whoever he is) guy's email, well, that's just your everyday stereotypical mac user. Fortunately not everybody is like that... but the mentality is, sadly, pretty widespread. I WANT AN iPHONE!11! :)
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Living Room / Re: Amazing LEGO Great Ball Contraption Breaks World Record
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2011, 06:35 PM »
Just when I think "Wow that thing is HUGE" the camera goes up the tower, and up, and up, and up; and then there are even more of those machines.  :o amazing!
Same happened to me - pretty awesome. Wasn't until then I had even looked at the video length :D
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2011, 01:45 PM »
Hah, pretty sweet video, Josh :)
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Living Room / Re: First person mario
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2011, 01:19 PM »
Good thing SMB wasn't done in 1st person :)
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Living Room / Re: Leave me in the clouds
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2011, 12:53 PM »
(one with a flatrate, one with a pre-paid SIM)
Zomg! You must be a terrorist!

:p
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fSekrit / Re: LATEST VERSION: fSekrit 1.40 shrinkwrapped!
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2011, 09:26 AM »
It's not very well documented :-[

It's in the changelog.txt from 1.40:
- added: "portable" mode, which (for now) means it will not use %TEMP% to store
  it's temporary editor executable, but instead store it in the same folder as
  the opened document. Registry is still used for font selection, though!
  To enabel this feature, create a file called "fSekrit.portable" in the same
  folder as the document you want to function in portable mode.
-changelog.txt
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fSekrit / Re: LATEST VERSION: fSekrit 1.40 shrinkwrapped!
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2011, 01:16 PM »
MerleOne, you can use the "fsekrit.portable" approach to have the editor executable created in the same folder as the "document" itself - but it will still involve creating a temporary exe. Unfortunately there isn't really any way around this, a temporary exe is necessary in order to update the main exe. I've been pondering whether I should add a "installed" mode where a global installed fSekrit.exe is used as editor, but there's a few problems with that approach as well.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: JetDrive Defragmentation Suite
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2011, 07:24 PM »
There's, basically, two major parts involved in defragmentation:

1) getting a low amount of fragments per file; the "core" of defragmenting.
2) managing file locations on disk: consolidating free space, "optimized" locations.

Different defraggers will disagree on what "optimized" means - which is why, even for a all-files-in-one-fragment and all-free-space-consolidated filesystem, two defragmenters might want to completely rearrange your files.

How much rearranging matters depends on your system, disk access patterns, and religious beliefs; as long as you keep large files in a few fragments and your MFT defragmented and with room to grow, things will be OK :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bizarre Firefox Behaviour
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2011, 12:26 PM »
Maybe FF renamed the file according to MIME-type?
Yes, but is that proper behavior? I think that's what Renegade is asking :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lyx is the answer
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2011, 08:56 AM »
I'm going to nitpick every line spacing, every white space, the indentations.  I don't want it almost the way I want it.  I want it exactly the way I want it.  I don't want to go around in circles trying to "trick" the program to do it.  I want a program that will easily do these things.  Not with codes or syntax, but with buttons and dialogs and previews, etc.
From that chunk of text, it sounds like you want DtP software, and not something with TeX as the underlying formatting engine.

It's not that you can't tweak layout with TeX, but it's something you do once, globally, and then let go - you don't mess with individual line spacing, page breaks, et cetera. A GUI frontend for TeX isn't meant to be (ab)used as a pseudo-DtP application, it's meant to provide some shortcuts, possibly a bit of not-accurate preview, and streamlining the "create ouput" process so you don't have to fiddle around with a shell and a bunch of commands.

I need to see a preview!  It's 2011.
Content over form, mate ;) - while TeX is about making things looking good, it's also about separating all the layout stuff from content-production. You shouldn't be worried about those pesky details (and wasting time tweaking) while producing content. Go into content-production mode, write write write write write, and worry about layouting later.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A LOUDER Internet
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2011, 08:26 AM »
It would help if all audio was "normalized", but it wouldn't be an end-all solution. What if you're listening to something with a wide dynamic range, and are currently enjoying one of the quieter passages - and you go to this website that starts spitting out highly range-compressed jungle? Or just plain old loud&noisy thrash metal?

Audio on websites should be opt-in, plain and simple. Also helps you not waste bandwidth :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: A LOUDER Internet
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2011, 08:04 AM »
If I'm visiting a band site, I kind of expect it to go with the territory. That I don't mind so much. It's a music site after all.
It's still drop-dead annoying if I'm just looking for some information about release or tour dates - music should be opt-in.

The reason I'm hating so much on auto-music is probably that I have my stereo amplifier hooked up to my PC, and that I'm blasting music away quite a lot of the time... very unpleasant when something unwanted mixes in with whatever I'm listening to.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A LOUDER Internet
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2011, 06:31 PM »
I see someone has a strong opinion on the subject~! :D
Strong opinion? I moderated myself quite a bit while typing that ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: A LOUDER Internet
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2011, 06:22 PM »
Autoplay is always bad.

I can't think of a single time it's been what I want, whether I was surfing casually or I intentionally hit a band, game or movie site. For playing a Java or Flash game, yes, but not for pretty much anything else.

And people who do audio in advertisements should have their guts removed with rusty spoons.
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If they are anything like the current models, they will have to force those tabs of LSD on me first and then sell me one while I am under the influence.  ;D
Now, this made me ponder a bit...

Do you reckon Apple users have all been drugged with Scopolaminew? That'd kinda explain a few things.
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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ?
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2011, 03:02 AM »
Nice that you're continuing with this - appreciated :)

I still don't have a definitive favorite wrt. GUIs. TortoiseGit, gitk and git-gui all feel a bit rough around the edges. I'm not sure exactly what it is, probably the overall combination of several smaller flaws ("mid 90's linux GUI look", progress not always updated before the command is done (related to calling git.exe and parsing textual output?), et cetera).

PS: "The sluggishness is probably" -> ends mid-sentence.
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Now, for my apologies... I know that some were expecting tabs of LSD. Sorry to disappoint. :P
Awww maaaaan, I thought this was going to be the second coming of Bear :(
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Living Room / Re: Pseudo HDR now on iPAD and iPhone
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2011, 02:38 AM »
Curt, what is the point of pseudo HDR?

I thought HDR wasn't just about "more vivid colors" (which a plugin can probably fake somewhat), but also (in the case of real HDR) about combining the focal points of the multiple shots used to compose a single HDR image? At least that's the impression my crazy photographer enthusiast friend gave me :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: The best RSS reader?
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2011, 02:34 AM »
+1 with what Jibz said.
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fSekrit / Re: FSekrit 1.40 Error Saving File
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2011, 04:35 PM »
Hm, this sounds strange!

Which OS are you running?

What, if any, anti-virus/malware/whatever programs/suites are you running?

Where do your TMP and TEMP environment variables point? It sounds strange for the tempfile to go to your desktop, unless you have your document there and the "fsekrit.portable" file.

Is there anything peculiar about your Windows setup? Stuff like having the fSekrit document in a dropbox/spideroak/whatever monitored folder counts as "peculiar".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2011, 01:53 PM »
For all the other WinRAR customers, who have purchased a regular license (even if the purchase has been made in 2005 or 2003 for example), we still offer free upgrades and updates. There are no indications that this policy will change in the near future.
-WinRAR
Clear enough!
...let's just hope they stick with that for a long time :)
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $20 for PureComponents
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2011, 02:57 AM »
* f0dder flips Renegade a good-effort coin
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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2011, 02:42 AM »
wr975: interesting points - I almost never create multi-part volumes. So, 7-zip has dumb multi-part that splits at the output level, rather than embedding information in the archive headers? Ugh.
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