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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... Disk Doctor equivalent & image analyzer/verifier ...
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 01:58 PM »
shades: but does MHDD do logical consistency checks, or is it "only" a hardware diag tool?
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General Software Discussion / Re: How long can PC stay in Standby Mode in XP
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 01:40 PM »
Unfortunately, standby mode has never been 100% stable for me, regardless of hardware or operating systems - and this is a lot of different motherboards and CPUs (both AMD and Intel), and a wide range of operating systems (Win9x through 98SE, Win2000, XP, Vista, Win7). It works most of the time on Win7, but once a blue moon I'll get a BSOD in the nvidia drivers (my workstation), and my laptop simply won't start (entering a state where the power button turns off immediately, rather than the keep-pressed-x-seconds... I believe this is a chipset or BIOS rather than OS issue).

It's a real shame, because standby mode uses about the same power as power-off state... and boots a lot faster than hibernate.
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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Ideas for Special Events?
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 10:07 AM »
or even ironically celebrate someone who just got on everybody's nerves... ;)
-timns (February 11, 2011, 09:45 AM)
Now who could that be? :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Firefox 5 to be released only 5 months after firefox 4 goes gold
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 09:55 AM »
Less time between releases sounds like a good plan - hopefully it means focusing on fewer features for each release, which should also lead to less bugs.
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Living Room / Re: My New DVD is ALL Regions =D YAY~!
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 05:24 AM »
DVD?
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Living Room / Re: USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?
« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2011, 05:23 AM »
You might be right, but that would only be because of marketing weasels, and not have anything to do with the technology.

OTOH, if USB3 parts are expensive enough compared to USB2 parts, we might see flashdrive vendors sticking with USB2. There really isn't any good reason to use USB3 parts for them.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-english characters changed to underscore when renaming a screenshot
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 07:01 PM »
There's probably some locale-specific (whether BCB/C++ runtime or WinApi) version of isprint() (or whatever) you can call :)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-english characters changed to underscore when renaming a screenshot
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 06:54 PM »
UTF-8 is just one form of unicode representation - generally tends to require more work than the UTF-16 Windows uses internally (this used to be UCS-2 for older NT versions). Long story, though :)

In general a lot of languages, at least simple ones like our Danish, can be handled without going unicode, because of codepages; for non-unicode apps, Windows internally maps back and forth between UTF-16 and a 8bit codepage-specific encoding.

My guess is this particular bug is because mouser, or one of the components he relies on, uses one of the C++ library functions to ask "is this an ASCII character?" or "is this a printable character?" - which tend to say "nope, it isn't" for characters outside the 7bit ASCII range. In an english-only world, it makes sense to replace those "unprintable" characters with underscores :)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-english characters changed to underscore when renaming a screenshot
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 02:49 PM »
Finding a unicode compiler is not so much a problem.. but where do i trade my old out of date brain in for a unicode brain?
-mouser (February 10, 2011, 02:45 PM)
:) - not as big a problem as getting all the components you're using updated to unicode-supporting versions, imho.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Non-english characters changed to underscore when renaming a screenshot
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 02:35 PM »
mouser, time to move to a compiler+framework that supports unicode? *nudge nudge* :)

Jesper: if Århus can change to Aarhus, you can write "traadloest netvaerk" :P
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Living Room / Re: All Hail...!
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 02:28 PM »
Heh, just tried another one - probably not too far off the mark:
His Majesty, f0dder the Kobold: Intoxicated Hugeness of the Chubby Thigh!
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Living Room / Re: CPU Question: More Mhz per core or more cores?
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 02:23 PM »
16 gigs of RAM? O_o

That sounds like massive overkill, unless she's doing really wacko things. My current camera is 12.1mpix, producing images in 4000x3000 pixels resolution - that's less than 50 megs of raw data per image, considering RGB+Alpha with 8bit channels... of course editing has undo/redo overhead etc, and you'll often want multiple concurrent images open - but 16 gigabytes? I sure do hope whoever is setting up the machine makes sure it'll be running a 64bit version of fåddåsjåp :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... Disk Doctor equivalent & image analyzer/verifier ...
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 12:01 PM »
You do not want to run a defragmenting tool on a volume you suspect has errors - that's about as helpful as trying to cure a mosquite bite by putting a shotgun to your face, after pouring gasoline all over yourself and setting it on fire.

S.M.A.R.T tools can only comment on the data returned from the harddrive about it's self-test data, which is all mechanical and has nothing to do with filesystem health.

Fairly screwed up partition? If explorer.exe hangs when you try to browse the drive is one sign. But there can be other types of corruption that doesn't really show any symptoms. I'm always pretty surprised when I see corrupted NTFS partitions, since it's pretty resilient to damage... but if you pull the power plug (or force a shutdown, or get a BSOD, or...) in the middle of doing disk I/O, nasty things can happen.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my computer hiccuping every few seconds?
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 11:58 AM »
40hz: probably just to get a robust(!) and relatively fast datastore for free - dunno if they use any relational stuff or complicated queries (I would think not). Better alternatives, pray do tell! SQLite is the first thing I'd consider if I needed a compact file-based database.
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Living Room / Re: All Hail...!
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 11:56 AM »
It's a cute enough thingy, timns - make him add some control that can do selectable text as the next step, should be easy enough :)

Stoic Joker: now that's a damn nifty title! I love the word 'ineffable' - it's right up there with 'exhume' in my list of nifty++ english words.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... Disk Doctor equivalent & image analyzer/verifier ...
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 03:57 AM »
chkdsk is for repairing a partition - and I don't see an alternative that would do a better job at that task.

If you have a seriously screwed up partition, you don't want to repair it - you want to salvage it's contents to a separate location.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my computer hiccuping every few seconds?
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 03:25 AM »
Look for places.last_vacuum
-Bamse (February 10, 2011, 03:21 AM)
That is present - but is it related to the session state? :)
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Living Room / Re: USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 02:00 AM »
USB 3.0 as it gets common will write way faster.
-MilesAhead (February 09, 2011, 03:59 PM)
No, it won't - it comes down to the speed of the flash memory on the pendrive. Again: I haven't seen a single usb2 pendrive that even comes near saturating the usb2 bandwidth.
-f0dder (February 09, 2011, 04:26 PM)
I doubt you will.  Why try to max out obsolete technology? It's like waiting for the 100 MB fast floppy drive to arrive.
-MilesAhead (February 09, 2011, 05:49 PM)
I don't see what USB3 adds to the table (which is relevant to flashdrives) except a higher theoretical throughput. And since existing drives aren't even close to saturating that, what exactly is the benefit from USB3 going to be, except marketing hype? I think it's a fair assumption that USB3 devices are going to be more expensive than USB2, in part because of R&D costs have to be recouped.

4wd: yeah, I've been wondering that as well - USB is a kinda sucky protocol for high-speed transfers, but I do get much worse speeds than the theoretical ~60MB/s, usually ~35MB/s for HDD enclosures.
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Living Room / Re: All Hail...!
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 01:46 AM »
Meh for only generating graphics and not having copyable text :)99

Baron f0dder the Unready: Excrutiating Kephalonomancer of the Nether Regions!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my computer hiccuping every few seconds?
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 01:41 AM »
4wd: there's no storage.vacuum settings in my 3.6.
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Living Room / Re: Too much free time apparently :)
« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2011, 01:38 AM »
...time to hack up a script doing nefarious things in the personal testing forum.
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Living Room / Re: Divided Attention Disorder? Log off and read a book
« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2011, 04:31 PM »
Oh, how I long for FF4 with Panorama. Yeah, 100 tabs open - but only 5 of them visible.
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Living Room / Re: USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?
« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2011, 04:26 PM »
USB 3.0 as it gets common will write way faster.
-MilesAhead (February 09, 2011, 03:59 PM)
No, it won't - it comes down to the speed of the flash memory on the pendrive. Again: I haven't seen a single usb2 pendrive that even comes near saturating the usb2 bandwidth.
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Living Room / Re: Too much free time apparently :)
« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2011, 04:24 PM »
2000 posts? Ask mouser for an achievement mug :)
-f0dder (February 09, 2011, 02:52 PM)

If you get an achievement mug for 2,000 posts then I am way overdue for mine!
-Deozaan (February 09, 2011, 02:54 PM)

Don't be in too big a rush. I understand once you hit 5000 they kick you out. :P
-40hz (February 09, 2011, 04:09 PM)
They do? :)

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Living Room / Re: Too much free time apparently :)
« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2011, 02:52 PM »
2000 posts? Ask mouser for an achievement mug :)
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