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Living Room / Re: Death Threats in an Odd Turnabout

« Last post by f0dder on February 07, 2011, 01:53 AM »

They're out to ruin people's lives, and got their own lives ruined... fair enough, even if I don't approve of death threats.

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Developer's Corner / Re: [PHP] 'Dynamic variable name' ?

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2011, 04:30 PM »

Instead of your idea of "$map$i", you'd use multi-dimension arrays, or an array of arrays... like

Code: PHP [Select]

1. $ubermap[i] = str_split($line);

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Developer's Corner / Re: [PHP] 'Dynamin variable name' ?

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2011, 04:07 PM »

Why not use arrays instead?

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fSekrit / Re: Development: progress and thougts

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2011, 07:19 AM »

#1: I actually do plan on supporting fSekrit "documents" without the executable prepended - but it's not not going to be 100% anonymous, since (contrary to how e.g. TrueCrypt works) the fSekrit documents have a file header. But if you don't set up a file association, you won't get the icon and double-click behavior. It's on my ToDo list.

#2: different people are asking for different things wrt. how read-only should work. You can always manually copy the .exe file from explorer, or copy/paste text into a new document, or use the export functionality

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fSekrit / Re: Development: progress and thougts

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2011, 12:20 PM »

Alternate encryption algorithms isn't something I've planned on implementing in fSekrit, at least not before every other ToDo item has been fixed.

Why? Because I find it extremely unlikely we're going to see Rijndael broken... at least to the level where it's breakable by anybody but the largest criminal gangs or governments (tomato/tomato, I guess). And if those people are after you, they've already gut rubber hose cryptography, which breaks just about anything available today.

Alternative crypt algos will add several kilobytes to the executable, while fSekrit's primary goal after security was to keep things simple & slim. And I can't help ponder that if one of the major block ciphers was severely broken, wouldn't that mean advances in maths/quantum computing/whatever that would also deliver serious blows against the other contenders, considering they're (AFAIK) similarly structured?

This is a fine point in favor of opensourcing, btw - to let other people work on adding new algorithms . I'd probably accept such changes into the main distribution, if the patches allowed for easily building versions with/without the extra algorithms, so the main/baseline executable can be kept slim.

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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit still in development?

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2011, 12:10 PM »

Ah, so it opens a blank fSekrit document and pastes the stuff - guess that could be useful for some people.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need Advice on MySQL Server Tuning

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2011, 09:42 AM »

Here's the thing... I run one of the problem child queries that I selected for testing purposes while watching Task Manager to see what impact it has on the server's resource usage. While the query is running the server is just chuffing along showing absolutely no sign of a strain.

-Stoic Joker (February 03, 2011, 06:48 AM)

Does "Task Manager" imply MySQL is running on a Windows server?

If that's the case, how old is the MySQL version?

Iirc, there was recently something about a new version of MySQL that fixed some Windows performance issues - I was shocked to read the announcement, since it revealed that the Win version had essentially used a "BigLock" and only in 2010 been fixed to use more fine-grained locking. In other words, for years and years and years, whoever were responsible for the Windows port should really have been shot, or at least have had a great big flogging.

Don't have a link to the article (wouldn't be surprised if it was on osdev, or perhaps slashdot), but here's a graph showing the consequences of the 5.5 release.

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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit still in development?

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2011, 05:19 AM »

Is it Ok for you if I make an extension for browser so if you select text-right click-on menu click on send to fsekrit, text is coppied into your software automatically (basically, it just opens fsekrit directly from browser and copy text in it) and leave the changelog.txt out of the package (readme.txt and fsekrit.txt will still be there)?

-panzer (February 03, 2011, 02:41 AM)

I would prefer if you keep the changelog as well, but you're welcome to rename both readme and changelog to have a "fsekrit-*" prefix or similar

How do you plan on making the extension work, btw? Considering that the user has to enter his passphrase before fSekrit will accept pasted text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New (Feb 1 2011) "Starter" Editions of Delphi and C++ Builder

« Last post by f0dder on February 02, 2011, 05:43 AM »

• This weekend the company announced new "Starter" editions of C++ Builder and Delphi, priced at about $200.

-mouser (February 01, 2011, 09:48 AM)

...or you could get the (IMHO superior) Express editions of Visual C++ and C# instead, for free. Hard decision, hard decision.

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Living Room / Re: Online Dating is Super Safe

« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2011, 09:44 AM »

Also, does anyone else have the sudden urge to "Rub the lotion on your skin"?

-Josh (January 29, 2011, 11:53 PM)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Choosing an Installer

« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2011, 09:38 AM »

The features Eóin lists are nice and all, but .msi installers always seem so godawful slow compared to solutions - and how do you easily get files out of a .msi package without running the installer?

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Living Room / Re: Darwinism + geneticism + two-wheeled vehicles = ... awesomeness.

« Last post by f0dder on January 28, 2011, 09:58 AM »

It looks fun, but what's the parameter used to determine when a new car is generated?

Every contraption I've seen so far seems to "survive" for a mere couple of seconds - IMHO the stopping parameter should be "hasn't moved for n seconds", whereas it seems to currently be pretty much random.

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General Software Discussion / Re: C gibberish <-> English

« Last post by f0dder on January 28, 2011, 09:45 AM »

Where's the English -> C Gibberish button?

-Edvard (January 28, 2011, 03:05 AM)

There's none - it parses the text to figure out what you mean (basically, engrish must start with "define" iirc - it's probably been 5-10 years since I toyed with cdecl last )

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Official Announcements / Re: Server Slow/Load Issue - Jan 22, 2011 - search temporarily offline

« Last post by f0dder on January 27, 2011, 08:30 PM »

Oh, the Cody detail is especially wonderful

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Subscribe to receive text messages from Baby Cody

« Last post by f0dder on January 27, 2011, 01:53 PM »

Pretty cute idea

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Official Announcements / Re: Server Slow/Load Issue - Jan 22, 2011 - search temporarily offline

« Last post by f0dder on January 27, 2011, 12:05 PM »

Ah, PHP precompilation - I thought database result caching would result in larger performance wins? (Harder to implement, though )

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Living Room / Re: Is pranking Josh unfair?

« Last post by f0dder on January 27, 2011, 11:45 AM »

Hahahahahah, awesome - and yeah, he's had it coming

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Official Announcements / Re: Server Slow/Load Issue - Jan 22, 2011 - search temporarily offline

« Last post by f0dder on January 27, 2011, 11:41 AM »

Just a heads up, server may be down briefly in the next 24 hours as we install a cache library and activate some additional code to adapt to server load; should make forum more robust and peppier

-mouser (January 25, 2011, 07:45 PM)

memcached?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove 6741afb79c635b436c393169e8c1a754 folder from my Ext HDD !

« Last post by f0dder on January 25, 2011, 01:36 PM »

Open an elevated cmd.exe prompt (THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DOS!), then run cacls "with the correct arguments" to take ownership of the folder.

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

« Last post by f0dder on January 25, 2011, 01:29 PM »

just make sure to have it neutered.

-mouser (January 25, 2011, 12:42 PM)

Yeah, before it runs amok with the furry-lube in the purple/indigo tube :|

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Developer's Corner / Re: GarageGames: $99 Game Engines (with Source!)

« Last post by f0dder on January 25, 2011, 01:28 PM »

EDIT: And though I inferred it, just to be clear, it uses C# (or javascript) as the scripting language.

-Deozaan (January 25, 2011, 11:08 AM)

Hrm, C# for scripting?

Would that be some sucky-parsed version, or full-blown C# (and thus any .NET language) through dynamic loading of assemblies?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking for available domain name = giving it away?

« Last post by f0dder on January 23, 2011, 10:59 AM »

Actually makes sense, Joker.

A bicycle helmet can save your life.

If you crash badly enough on a motorcycle that a helmet might save your life, you'll probably end up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life - better off dead, then.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking for available domain name = giving it away?

« Last post by f0dder on January 23, 2011, 09:26 AM »

Since I'm 100% sure I want the domain before I look, I'll just load the desired domain in my browser. All I want is the .com TLD so it doesn't matter to me if other TLDs are available.

-40hz (January 23, 2011, 08:51 AM)

I'd definitely never use one of those "check a zillion TLDs" services, nor a "get a domain name FOR FREE" services - those are surefire ways of getting the domain squatted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking for available domain name = giving it away?

« Last post by f0dder on January 23, 2011, 08:18 AM »

The Danish registrar DK HostMaster doesn't do this, and allows you to search their domains directly.

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Living Room / Re: I need advice: which laptop to buy?

« Last post by f0dder on January 22, 2011, 04:24 PM »

Most laptops will allow you to set the fan to stay on through the BIOS, if that's what you REALLY want.  I don't see why you would want the fan running when it doesn't need to be.  The power manager on Lenovo computers will allow you to set the fan to maximize performance, which is a better way to go, IMOH.

-xtabber (January 22, 2011, 02:23 PM)

I'd rather have the fans running constantly, but at a lower rate, than having the JET EXHAUST NOISE every-so-often