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Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2011, 08:44 AM »
While I do appreciate monitors have become wider, since IDEs these days are very screen real-estate hungry, I do believe it's a shame it means limiting the vertical resolution. I can live with 1080 pixels, but more definitely wouldn't hurt!

Production costs is probably the main factor, but the form factor is probably also important in and by itself - 16:9 is the standard for HD content, and the manufacturers are probably afraid of going with something else, especially as we see TVs and computer monitors converge.
1902
Developer's Corner / Re: "competitive upgrade" - is it ethical?
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2011, 06:20 AM »
Is it ethical? I definitely don't think so - but its a cut-throat world out there.

Personally I'd be pretty pissed if somebody pulled an action like that on me, but we have to deal with the free market... and as far as I know, there's no laws stopping people from the nasty price-dumping.

What would you gain from returning the favor? You'd (perhaps) get people buying licenses for your software at a crap price, in hope that they'll stick with your product, and (hopefully) pay for an upgrade later on. But the people you've just "gained" have just shown themselves to be "brand traitors" :)
1903
Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2011, 05:55 PM »
So, instead of saying I'm 6' tall, I'd say I'm 1829 mm tall.  So I'm going to do that now...it's such an asshole thing to do.  Because now it's up to the other person to figure out what that exactly means.  Nobody knows what 1829 mm looks like,
-superboyac (January 10, 2011, 05:51 PM)
...except for the assholes living in the rest of the world, who have no concept whatsoever of the ass-backwards weird non-standardized thing means, but have a good grokking of SI units :)
1904
Living Room / Re: What happened to the free WSJ articles through Google News?
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2011, 05:40 PM »
They probably decided that people getting to leech their stories by going through a google referral cost them more than the perceived value of google indexing their site.

Experts-Exchange.com (heh, they really didn't think that domain name through thoroughly) lets you view answers if going through google, but not through direct links... similar idea, get their content indexed.
1905
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2011, 05:37 PM »
* f0dder likes the word "gratis" - and things that are.
1906
Developer's Corner / Re: Just How Many Programs Have You Written and Never Released?
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2011, 09:04 AM »
Yup.

Most of the stuff I've programmed has never been released, as it's small tools designed for pretty specific tasks - and lots of code snippets done mostly to play around with APIs/algorithms/whatever for the sake of doing just that.
1907
Living Room / Re: Why I love product reviews....written by NON-TECHS
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2011, 09:03 AM »
That is what pisses me off. So many reviewers do their reviews off of data sheets it seems. Tom's Hardware seems to be the exception.
-Renegade (January 10, 2011, 08:46 AM)
TomsHardware is OK, but the best site I've come across is definitely AnandTech - in-depth articles by People Who Aren't Morons(TM).
1908
Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?
« Last post by f0dder on January 09, 2011, 03:03 PM »
good point. 720 is HD, and also crap. i'm just thankful we've now got something like a standard with 1080p. which should have been the standard right at the beginning - not "ready".
-nudone (January 09, 2011, 08:06 AM)
720p is Just Fine(TM), unless you've got a ridiculously large TV - but "HD Ready" is definitely a bad label.
1909
Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?
« Last post by f0dder on January 08, 2011, 05:42 AM »
I've never seen computer screens or TVs advertised by anything else than their diagonal widths - and that's ever since computer monitors were 14". And I find that to be a pretty fine indication of physical size, really, moreso today where ratio has been pretty much stabilized on 16:9/16:10 (there's not a lot of 4:3 monitors around anymore). Aside from physical constraints when putting a Pretty Damn Big TV in a Puny Little Room, WxHxD isn't that important to me.

And well, you always have to look at detailed specs anyway, otherwise you aren't getting brightness, contrast or pixel resolution. The diagonal width is simply a coarse-grained search filter, the one that you apply first when searching for a new TV or monitor - nothing more, nothing less :)
1910
Living Room / Re: My 'LOL' alternative
« Last post by f0dder on January 08, 2011, 05:09 AM »
LOL if for LOLcats and that's about it.
-nudone (January 08, 2011, 03:50 AM)
Lol, srsly?
1911
General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?
« Last post by f0dder on January 07, 2011, 11:01 AM »
VB.Net is very different from classic VB, but it's still not good - while it's a fullblown OOP language, the syntax is still... ugh.
1912
Living Room / Re: Good Code diagram by XKCD
« Last post by f0dder on January 07, 2011, 09:00 AM »
I think I'm going to use that as the first slide for my finals' exam next friday.
1913
General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred server OS for home use? And Why?
« Last post by f0dder on January 07, 2011, 07:34 AM »
If you become infected, you should expect all files on all disks on your system to be infected... but (silent) file corruption not caused by virii is another situation.
-f0dder (January 07, 2011, 06:00 AM)
Realistically how likely of a threat is that (I've been wondering about this for a while)? It seems like the bulk of the EvilDoerWare these days only goes after the shell and your wallet/identity (not necessarily in that order). There really hasn't been a good file eating virus (that I recall) in the wild since Snow White almost a decade ago. The SBD file corruption seem a more (real?) likely threat these days to me (But I'm on the fence).
-Stoic Joker (January 07, 2011, 06:58 AM)
Dunno if you're likely to run into a .exe infector these days, like you I've got the feeling (though not scientifically backed!) that they're a thing of the past.

There's been several examples of ransomware the last few years, though, and those go after all your files, not just executables...
1914
General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred server OS for home use? And Why?
« Last post by f0dder on January 07, 2011, 06:00 AM »
--The one thing I am worried about and will probably spend the most time thinking about: how to prevent BAD backups and only have good backups.  Let me explain.  Let's say I have a hard drive, and I back it up with double-redundancy using two more hard drives and syncing (SFFS).  Now, let's say the original drive got infected with a virus that got into a bunch of my files.  Soon after, that virus will be backed up to three places.  And now I don't have an original GOOD version anywhere!  How do you prevent that?  It doesn't help if you back up with multiple redundancy if they all have the same BAD files.
-superboyac (January 06, 2011, 09:14 PM)
If you become infected, you should expect all files on all disks on your system to be infected... but (silent) file corruption not caused by virii is another situation.

You could do a staggered setup, but that's going to require a fair amount of disk space, and will probably be a maintenance nightmare.

I don't know a Windows equivalent, but rsnapshot is very nifty. It does incremental backups, but not in the traditional sense... take a look :)
1915
Living Room / Re: Good Code diagram by XKCD
« Last post by f0dder on January 07, 2011, 05:38 AM »
Pretty nice :)
1916
General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?
« Last post by f0dder on January 06, 2011, 12:20 PM »
Give me assemblery, or give me death! ;)
-widgewunner (January 06, 2011, 12:09 PM)
There, ftfy.
1917
General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?
« Last post by f0dder on January 06, 2011, 07:29 AM »
VB.NET is trivial to learn. I think it's great to start with.
-Renegade (January 06, 2011, 06:57 AM)
Why start with a lobotomy and then later on try to reverse it's effects? :)

To be fair, VB has a lot worse name than it deserves credit for - you can do decent stuff with it (it's just that 99% of the stuff you see produced with VB is crap, probably because it's so easy to start with that a monkey with no training can - and will - hack out horrors in it). But it's syntax is horrible, and it's really not that much harder to start with a proper language.
1918
General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?
« Last post by f0dder on January 06, 2011, 04:37 AM »
Hey Man, I can feel your passion that I not miss out on what VB.NET may have for me and I appreciate your caring.
-CodeTRUCKER (January 06, 2011, 12:52 AM)
Don't.

Pick any other .NET language, but please not VB.Net :)
1919
Living Room / Re: Password Brute Forcing and Geometric Series
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 09:58 AM »
Moore's law is probably going to fail a lot before 30 years from now, and we definitely don't see an x-fold software speedup from an x-fold increase in transistor count... So the mathy stuff is going to be pretty far off. Still, it's an interesting thought experiment, and while we're likely to hit a cap on the CPU gHz there's other factors as well - massive parallelism, massive distribution, GPGPU, algorithm improvements...
1920
General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred server OS for home use? And Why?
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 09:35 AM »
Hm... GBit limited Network speeds. How often are you moving what size file(s)? It's not like browsing the filesystem is going to lag with the traffic of a home LAN (which everybody has these days - Even if they don't know it).
-Stoic Joker (January 05, 2011, 07:45 AM)
Todays' drives are going to give you ~100MB/s transfer speeds - a typical gbit LAN speed is closer to 30-40MB/s, and with a lot worse latency as well. Quite a difference if you're shuffling large media files around :)
1921
General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 05:37 AM »
Kind of insane, I'll agree. But then I have to consider what a lot of people who use this type of software are like. Last time I sat in on a workshop, I think there were maybe three out of 150 who weren't using pirated software. Most seemed to think it funny someone actually paid for their copy of Final Draft.

Sad.
-40hz (January 04, 2011, 03:36 PM)
Does anyone here think that those who pirate software would be likely to purchase a copy and then request a refund? I don’t think so. I think that only someone seriously considering the program would shell out that much up front. But then again I am probably way off there. Who knows anymore!

Jim
-J-Mac (January 04, 2011, 11:57 PM)
I definitely wouldn't - but then I definitely wouldn't shell out just to be able to try a program, requesting a refund is too much hassle. So, like Stephen, I'd look around for a pirated copy instead. And that's how I ended up purchasing RegEx Buddy, which has no trial but a 100% refund guarantee :)
1922
Find And Run Robot / Re: Wish: Run as Administrator
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 05:31 AM »
Start menu? What's that?
-jpijper (January 05, 2011, 12:48 AM)
:Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred server OS for home use? And Why?
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 05:21 AM »
(RAID5) Two drives blowing in perfect harmony is excruciatingly unlikely
-Stoic Joker (January 04, 2011, 10:48 PM)
Yet it does happen - and when it does, it's usually when rebuilding the array, which seems to be more stressful on the disks than the simple procedure of re-duping a mirror to a blank drive. Shit's probably most likely to hit the fan if you've use drives from the same batch when building your raid5, which is a cardinal sin and all that... but with the stories I've heard, I wouldn't put my faith in Raid-5.

Limiting yourself to mirroring for RAID does mean you don't get partitions larger than a single drive, but I don't see that as a super big problem - decent filesystems can abstract that need away (NTFS junctions, unix symlinks, ZFS storage pools, ...).

IMHO the only real advantage hardware raid controllers give you is battery-backed cache. And replacements for those cards tend to be pretty expensive, don't they?
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred server OS for home use? And Why?
« Last post by f0dder on January 05, 2011, 05:09 AM »
SHIT I just spent a freaking hour typing a response and the damn thing just vaporized. Board ate it or something, hell I don't know.

Now I gotta do the whole damn thing over - Where the hell is Ctrl+S when you need it! :(
-Stoic Joker (January 04, 2011, 09:44 PM)

I know how aggravating that is. When doing long responses, I use Editplus, then just paste and post.
-Renegade (January 05, 2011, 12:27 AM)
It's all text, mates :)
1925
Living Room / Re: Not backing up will cost you!
« Last post by f0dder on January 04, 2011, 05:32 PM »
I don't think JBOD should really be used in the context f0dder intends (although it *is* common usage to do this, which has created the confusion). SPAN or BIG are perhaps more appropriate but also more specific. The general term is concatenation. http://en.wikipedia....e_architectures#JBOD
-JavaJones (January 04, 2011, 05:24 PM)
Confusing, perhaps... but since it tends to be on the feature list on just about any half-assed "hardware raid" card as well as 100% software based solutions, and has been for quite a lot of years, you definitely shouldn't say "JBOD" when you really do mean Just a Bunch Of Disks :P :P :P

Btw, doing (windows/linux/whatever) application-based syncing between a bunch of drives in a single server sees of relatively limited use, unless you're also doing versioning. For just syncing, mirroring would be better (a purely software-based solution is fine, really, but you do want OS-level support, or at least something driver-based).
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