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General Software Discussion / Re: A linux adventure: A Blog for linux newbees by a Linux Newbee...

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2009, 05:13 AM »

i do worry often about the idea of "Balkanization".. i think the more subforums there are in general, the more fragmented the discussions get, and the more the danger is that we lose the feeling of being one happy family.

of course the opposite is true to -- that if you try to have all discussions in one section, it the signal-to-noise ratio gets so bad that no one wants to even bother, since most of the posts they are encountering aren't relevant to them.

we could just try a linux section for a few months and see how it goes.. worst case scenario just merge those topics into the General Software section, no harm no foul.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TB! Connection to host broken... "DELE 414", "RETR 423" over and over??

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2009, 05:05 AM »

well it's nice to hear you discovered theproblem.  sounds like solution is to uninstall avast?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: Bing Search

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 11:53 PM »

works great! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 07:14 PM »

ill look at the code and see what i can find.

what you could do though is something that would let us know if skajfes was right about the execution method:

try the different options in the General tab for execution method:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 01:54 PM »

Enzomaticus said:

First time I hit enter nothing happens, although FARR does disappear. If I d/click it with the mouse it works.

coderunner -- can you try telling far to open folders by double clicking them.. see if that works reliably?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 01:38 PM »

coderunner: hrmm, I have no plugins installed I believe.  I haven't added any since my
initial install and my plugins list is empty in the configuration dialog.  Are there default
ones that I can disable?

nope, that's fine, and makes it possible to rule out the possibility that it's a plugin.

ok here's a really important question:
does the same folder sometimes open and sometimes not? or do some folders always fail to open?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 01:08 PM »

is it possible that:
Dir Opus has a commandline option flag that you need to pass?

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Living Room / Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 08:36 AM »

From Wired.com article, with videos, on master lock picker Marc Weber Tobias:

The problem, if you're a safe company or a lock maker, is that Tobias makes it all public through hacker confabs, posts on his Security.org site, and tech blogs like Engadget. He views this glasnost as a public service. Others see a hacker how-to that makes The Anarchist Cookbook read like Betty Crocker. And where Tobias sees a splendid expression of First Amendment rights, locksmiths and security companies see a criminal finishing school. Tobias isn't just exposing problems, they say. He is the problem.
But forget bike locks and hotel room safes: These days, Tobias is attacking the lock famous for protecting places like military installations and the homes of American presidents and British royals.

Between stabs at his salad, Tobias hands me his latest idea of fun: nearly 300 pages of self-published hacker-porn detailing his attack on the allegedly uncrackable Medeco high-security lock. "Trust me, this will cause a goddamned riot!" he says, dabbing at tears of joy with a paper napkin. "Oh yeah, this is way, way bigger than the liquid explosives thing!" And he's right, it is bigger--and with way, way bigger consequences.

http://www.wired.com...ster?currentPage=all

from http://www.boingboing.net/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: can not capture the cursor

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 08:06 AM »

i shouldnt have said mode, i meant what kind of capture are you trying to do where cursor doesnt appear?
does it appear if you capture screen? does it appear if you capture region?
which type of capture is it failing for you?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: can not capture the cursor

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 05:05 AM »

what capture mode are you using?

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 03:20 AM »

more of these pictures, they are great!

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Living Room / Re: A small tweak to DC forum for Firefox & K-meleon users (enhances visited links)

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 03:11 AM »

nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TB! Connection to host broken... "DELE 414", "RETR 423" over and over??

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 02:58 AM »

well you have 12000+ "new" emails on your server.. something is up.. i wonder if that alone would kill the mail program.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 02:41 AM »

welcome coderunner 

can i clarify what your saying happens:

• you type in some location (like c:\windows\)
• then you do what? hit enter to open it?
• and nothing happens?
• and then you repeat this process several times and eventually it does open?

if so, can i ask:
what happens when you hit enter (or double click) to open the folder -- does farr dissapear or just stay there?
do you have a custom file explorer set in your farr options?
do you have any plugins installed -- if so, if you remove them does the error cease?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TB! Connection to host broken... "DELE 414", "RETR 423" over and over??

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2009, 02:36 AM »

i know you were trying antispam sniper, have you tried disabling that and see if it works. if it does work after that,
then do what i suggested before, and configure all your accounts to NOT delete from the server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A linux adventure: A Blog for linux newbees by a Linux Newbee...

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 06:39 PM »

great stuff brotman, i'm going to bookmark it to follow and see how you do.  thanks for sharing with us 

as for linux section.. we keep almost making one..  can't find the thread where we discussed it.. anyone know the thread i'm talking about?

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Living Room / Re: 2009/May/31 - DC/IOSx02 - DC Meetup Berlin, Germany

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 06:25 PM »

anyone attending? give us a live update.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Server blocking of sessionid

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 06:24 PM »

a few people are reporting problems with this -- we're going to try to disable the changes or make them more benign while we study the issue further.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Server blocking of sessionid

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 06:01 PM »

six new topics turned up in the Google reader feed yesterday that I can't access, and don't appear on the forum Topic list.

unrelated -- those were actually posts from Paul Keith that were posted all at once, but he and i talked and thought it would be better to post one at a time so people didn't feel overloaded.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Server blocking of sessionid

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 12:31 PM »

Some people who have been used to surfing the dc forum without cookies enabled are reporting getting the new error page and having some trouble enabling cookies or otherwise getting pages to load.  We'll see if we can make this a bit smoother.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Runtime Error!

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 12:10 PM »

if i use Locate32 plugin and I left click on any result I get an odd error (does not crash FARR); if I hit down arrow or enter key then the big runtime error appears and FARR crashes.

you are encountering an fscript error that was recently reports and is being fixed.. it's a problem that is happening because of a conflict between the fscript system and other plugins.  ecaradec is working on it as we speak. stay tuned!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Server blocking of sessionid

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 11:48 AM »

Sounds like a good move - I assume this is to make jacking somebody else sessions harder?

yes.

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Site/Forum Features / DC Server blocking sessionid - requiring cookies enabled to browse forum

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2009, 03:24 AM »

gothic and i are sitting here experimenting with blocking access to the forum with old SESSIONID info in urls.
please let me know if anyone gets errors explicitly about this while they are surfing the site.

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Official Announcements / Re: June 2009 Discounts and Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2009, 07:12 PM »

the 5 copies the fenix told me to give away will go to recent coding snacks authors.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you organize your email?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2009, 07:03 PM »

I was just watching gothic use claws mail (formerly sylpheed claws mentioned above by housetier) and it's pretty impressive and looks almost identical to thebat, which is my email program of choice on windows.  Gothic says it's probably more a program for power users, but if you are a fan of thebat on Windows and are looking for an alternative to thunderbird on linux, it's definitely worth a look.