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General Software Discussion / Re: New interesting features for Firefox 3

« Last post by Lashiec on September 14, 2007, 09:40 AM »

Hmmm, that sounds like Netscape 6. Maybe in trying not to follow its path, they accidentally stumbled in the same stone, who knows. Well, Firefox 3 sports Gecko 1.9, with big changes under the hood, so maybe it's multithreaded now. I hope the betas get better, or it'll go IE route pretty soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stay Away From Microsoft VISTA

« Last post by Lashiec on September 14, 2007, 09:35 AM »

Did I miss something? I can get the relationship between that quote and WinME. And nobody said it in the thread...

Anyway, it's just like Groucho Marx's epitaph in his grave (nothing like that is said there) or Bill Gates famous "640K...", which he didn't said, or so he claims

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft patches applied - EVEN WHEN AUTOUPDATE IS OFF

« Last post by Lashiec on September 14, 2007, 09:22 AM »

As I don't care, I'll go for the drink for I'm a bit thirsty

The same time I saw Carol's post and the photo, I knew that Microsoft was updating the routines used to deliver updates for Windows. And it turned to be true. Perhaps the worrying trend is Windows Secrets bad habit (in the Free edition at least) of being clutching at straws as lately instead of warning about true updates gone wrong, like patching systems running Athlon CPUs with microcode geared towards Core 2 Duo processors, or the .NET 1.1 updating service getting trapped updating the native images and starts being loaded with Windows to finish its job, updating one image at every boot. I think my fears of the newsletter losing quality with the addition of Fred Langa and Scott Dunn are coming to reality, and makes you wonder what the heck was Scott doing to discover these... too much free time I suppose

If Microsoft serves are compromised, it would not help (probably) to have automatic updates deactivated. They can take over normal updates as well and disguise malware as the next critical fix for IE7. You'll only see the name and the description, and a correct link. If the antivirus don't warn you, the computer will get infected for sure. And now I'll ran for cover

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Living Room / Re: Firm sues over comments

« Last post by Lashiec on September 12, 2007, 09:13 PM »

If people got sued everytime they said something bad about a product...

-cybernetnews (September 12, 2007, 02:24 PM)

Don't give ideas to Microsoft, their lawyers are getting bored

So, mouser, do you think that "Company Complaints" subforum should remain open?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stay Away From Microsoft VISTA

« Last post by Lashiec on September 12, 2007, 09:01 PM »

WHAT? No, no, the 21st century started on 2001, not 2000

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General Software Discussion / Re: New interesting features for Firefox 3

« Last post by Lashiec on September 12, 2007, 08:59 PM »

Moar features! They've just post a mockup of the long awaited "Places" functionality in the Mozilla wiki. Here you have the boring details, for those who don't want to see the mockup , and here the actual mockup, for those wishing to skip the useless jabbering of the wiki (hey, if you're not a Firefox developer, you shouldn't be seeing this ). Looks pretty cool, although it strikes a strong resemblance of certain Microsoft application...

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General Software Discussion / Re: IrfanPaint - a painting plug-in for IrfanView

« Last post by Lashiec on September 12, 2007, 09:46 AM »

This is an absolutely essential plugin for all people who have been ordered by the courts to never install any of the 99,999 standalone paint programs.  

-mouser (September 11, 2007, 10:03 PM)

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Living Room / Free racing game - Drive a BMW M3 for once in your life

« Last post by Lashiec on September 11, 2007, 08:14 PM »

Today seems to be the day of free games in DonationCoder. I just discovered a racing game from BMW and Simbin (Swedish company specialized in racing games like GTR2 for the PC), which BMW is giving away for free to promote his new car model. You can only choose one car (guess which one ), and race in two tracks in Nurburgring. It also allows multiplayer so you can beat your fellow DCers and put them to shame . It's available either from the BMW site or this gaming site. Happy racing!

via ZonaForo de MeriStation

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Living Room / Re: The Mario Level That Plays Itself

« Last post by Lashiec on September 11, 2007, 07:55 PM »

Some more videos, and a little explanation from guys in the romhacking scene (Yep, that "Lashiec" over there is me)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Size of Download in Firefox??

« Last post by Lashiec on September 11, 2007, 05:59 PM »

Indeed there's one. I knew there was one for Opera, and the Opera Wiki mentioned it was also available for Firefox and Internet Explorer as well. Well, it turned out that it didn't work with Firefox, but the page gave a link for the page hosting it. Again, the link was dead, but after some googling I found something that could be what are you looking for.

The extension in question is File Size (Statusbar), which shows the file size of the file you want to download in the status bar after you hover the mouse over the link to the file. A picture is better than 1,000 words.

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Living Room / Re: A new technology for optical discs

« Last post by Lashiec on September 11, 2007, 12:04 PM »

5TB ought to be enough for anybody

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking opinions about combination antivirus/firewall products

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 09:33 PM »

I'll try to put the thread back on topic, as Scot Finnie released his latest newsletter, and seems like some people in the forums of his site didn't think like him regarding Comodo. He ended agreeing with them in one thing: Comodo slows down Windows.

Funny comments from Comodo managers. Comodo 2 was advertised in lots of sites as having a HIPS integrated, and now they say it's coming in version 3! It seems security software developers like to play with the meaning of concepts such as "firewall" and "HIPS", oh boy... For now, the thing is exactly the same, something that our own Wordzilla can assess .

I want that Eset Smart Security to be final now... and eagerly waiting for avast! Firewall as well.

EDIT: Writing posts at 4 AM is a synonym of mistakes

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General Software Discussion / Re: CCleaner 2.0 Beta Released - Clean the Crap off your Computer

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 09:11 PM »

Final version is out. Waiting for the alternative builds... and then it's time to pest Piriform with suggestions

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Official Announcements / Re: Site of the Month for August 2007: NirSoft.net

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 08:59 PM »

And another new tool, HeapMemView, which Nir Sofer claims to be useful for detecting memory leaks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New interesting features for Firefox 3

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 08:55 PM »

nontroppo, I know that but I really think that XUL is causing all these problems with memory management. Besides, if they used extensions requiring traditional languages, it wouldn't be much of a loss. Addons offer is one of my main gripes with Firefox, there are far too much of them, and some are overlapping with others. Perhaps if they did a more stringent control of quality regarding duplicated functionality and extension excellence (some of them are simply terrible), including memory leak testing (they coded an utility for that, no?), things will go for the better IMO. I like extensibility, but sometimes software go too far in that regard (just thinking in Winamp...). Bah, just very a personal pet peeve. I sincerely hope they fix those memory figures through the beta cycle. And I would like to meet some programmer at the Mozilla Foundation and ask him/her about my suspicions :D

JohnFredC, they implemented that in one of the latest nightlies. It's not like Opera for now, but they're tweaking the feature to be more like it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Public release in august ?

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 11:46 AM »

Yes, and then we can bug mouser about FARR and Screenshot Captor 3

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 11:28 AM »

Frappr is still a bit shaky when it comes to associate registered accounts with pins in the map. Try again and you'll succeed (I did). So far I'm alone when it comes to Spain, it's all mine ('til urlwolf comes around and...). And I could invade Portugal if Joao wasn't there . BTW, the northeast corner of USA seems a little crowded

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stay Away From Microsoft VISTA

« Last post by Lashiec on September 10, 2007, 11:19 AM »

Regarding HD video, the new chips built into the Radeon 24xx and 26xx (Universal Video Decoder) and the GeForce 84xx and 86xx (PureVideo2) contribute in a BIG way to reduce CPU usage when playing high definition video. Particularly the Radeon achieves really low figures without sacrificing quality. And no, their high-end brothers lack this kind of acceleration.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stay Away From Microsoft VISTA

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 06:49 PM »

Guys, I updated my post back in the first page to reflect a possible solution and why it would not happen, unless some creative mind there noticed the flaw in the whole redirection thing (maybe Russinovich?) and they decide to implement the given solution in Vista SP1 (hey, they're going to add support for exFAT). The link, to avoid you the hassle of searching around.

I also updated it to prevent someone entering the discussion and reading my misleading first paragraph. Shameless plug over

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General Software Discussion / And you thought you designed a bad interface...

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 02:28 PM »

Daniel Rutter, hyperactive blogger and writer, and perhaps the only one guy who can compete up there with all the major hardware review sites, had the other day up there in his site, Dan's Data, a somewhat interesting but particularly hilarious article about bad interfaces. It's not that he gave up particular tips about how to design a good one (if he did, I would have posted this in "Developer's Corner"), but he pointed out really bad ideas done through software development history (and some others with home devices), giving a bucketful of links to show even more terrible examples of how people slaps and sells usability nightmares. I really advise you to check some links, because they're mind-numbing. Have fun!

via The Tech Report

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 02:13 PM »

You'll soon discover it. My browser is nothing compared with some of the things you'll see

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 02:07 PM »

To tell you the truth, one of the reasons ReNamer is a bit more appealling than the other options is the interface is well designed. Browsing through the other options shows either a overload of tabs or checkboxes, or too much cascading menus (PFrank). Perhaps the other one which has a decent interface design is Flash Renamer, another favourite around here.

(Hmmm, tabs overload reminds me of something...)

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Developer's Corner / Re: License to Pick :)

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 01:19 PM »

Yes, that sounds like you need a custom license. A bit of a shameless plug, but this article I referenced here might help you.

(Now that I think about it, I should have posted that here, instead of "Living Room"...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: FileZilla 3 gets released

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 01:03 PM »

I don't know, since I never used those two for FTP. In fact, I've never used StarDownloader, and sometimes I wish I didn't use GetRight . Download managers authors seem to love placing banners in their software

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General Software Discussion / FileZilla 3 gets released

« Last post by Lashiec on September 09, 2007, 12:57 PM »

So after a really long beta testing phase, that started with the programming team desires to use the wxWidgets toolkit to attain cross platform compatibility and to rewrite the software for the FileZilla 2 codebase was a mess, the new FileZilla is out. So what's new? Well, apart from the new interface and the possibility of running it under other OSs (only Linux for the time, the OS X version is build pending), a bunch of other things. The important ones are summarized in the wiki, and also there is a link to the Development Blog, if you feel like reading through 40+ pages of posts .

The guys at Linux.com wrote a review some days ago, based on the first Release Candidate. Note that some features are missing compared with FileZilla 2, but they plan to bring them back in the next versions.
via File Hippo