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1951
Developer's Corner / Re: Any EASY Windows Forms Skin Kits for C#?
« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2010, 05:52 AM »
Renegade, please don't fall for the "skins" lure. It pisses us power users off. Either you go for native look-and-feel, or you go way overboard and do a Really Fancy(TM) in WPF.

But skins? It's so damn tacky.
1952
Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2010, 05:50 AM »
6. You Like Speed
Shouldn't you be in rehab, then, rather than getting all buzzed up and energetic about installing linux?
1953
DC Gamer Club / Re: The Ball - Portal-like game with a err.. ball
« Last post by f0dder on December 29, 2010, 01:39 PM »
Pity, it looked good.
The trailers kinda did - actual game didn't.
1954
fSekrit / Re: fSekrit still in development?
« Last post by f0dder on December 29, 2010, 08:08 AM »
Maybe this link may give you some ideas :
http://liquidninja.c.../deploying-with-git/
Thanks, but not of much use to me :)

I'm fairly comfortable with basic Git usage, my problem lies with the pretty special history grafting stuff.
1955
fSekrit / Re: fSekrit still in development?
« Last post by f0dder on December 27, 2010, 12:55 PM »
I unfortunately haven't had time to work on fSekrit for (quite) a while - I'm hopefully going to have a bit more spare time in 2011 (knock on wood).

Opensourcing it is planned, check this post. The codebase (still) needs to be cleaned up before I release the source, though - and I have to figure out how to get "grafting" working with git so I can split the project in a public repository and a private repository where I can see all the old source code history from the closed-source subversion days.

And that doesn't seem to be super easy, the best I've been able to find so far is this - but that's not a full solution.
1956
Living Room / Re: Naming and Shaming Bad Forums with Bad Ethics
« Last post by f0dder on December 27, 2010, 12:43 PM »
Always open the book and show them the page. Always.
Yeah. "Google it" is such a lame reply - but showing a google query that gave you good results can be a valuable lesson :)
1957
Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010
« Last post by f0dder on December 27, 2010, 12:34 PM »
What had to be changed, mousey? (issue seems to be fixed for me as well).
1958
Developer's Corner / Re: Check Gmail using C#
« Last post by f0dder on December 26, 2010, 03:03 PM »
Turns out there isn't a problem, except me being inattentive.
Bugs happen ^_^

If you can programmatically create a subdirectory, you can write a file there, as you'd expect.
Well, it's definitely what you'd expect - I was guessing that perhaps the IMAP library was running with more paranoid security settings or something. I should really find the time to read properly about .NET security.
1959
Developer's Corner / Re: Check Gmail using C#
« Last post by f0dder on December 26, 2010, 02:52 PM »
Hmm.

1) how are you creating the above folder?
2) what kind of app is it, and how is it deployed?

I haven't had to deal with this myself yet, but I guess you might have to look at the SecurityPermissionAttribute stuff. Hopefully there's some help around here :)
1960
Living Room / Re: Why I Don't Want an iPad for Christmas
« Last post by f0dder on December 26, 2010, 02:40 PM »
But it didn't ask me for any payment details. So now my mom's credit card (or whatever) will be charged for the gift I gave her. ARGH!
Yeah, iirc it's tied to your iTunes account and auto-draws from the associated credit card. Makes it so eeeeeeasy, especially for the teenagers that don't have a grasp of money yet >_<

Where's the smurfing back/cancel button to go out of the video preview and back to the app? ARGH!
Oh, that's easy - you just have to slide two fingers across the screen diagonally while standing like this:

steve_jobs_holding_iphone_4.jpg



I have to spin and spin and spin just to try to get it to move one place, but it doesn't go anywhere. Finally when it does move, it goes several spaces and I have to repeat the process all over again, but in the opposite direction, to try to get back to the option I want.
Yeah, it's the same for me. It's as user friendly as Mario skating across ice blocks.

I tried clicking off of the window to close it, but that didn't work. I looked for an X or close button (which other iPad apps use on popup windows like that one), but there was none. I clicked all over trying to get that little window to close so I could use the darn machine but there was no clear or visible way to get it to go away. I don't remember for sure now, but I think I ended up clicking on the album name to get it to go away. ARGH! It doesn't make sense. It's not consistent,
HEATHEN! Apples interfaces are intuitive and consistent! How daaaaare you utter such nonsense?! ;)
1961
Living Room / Re: IRC Nickname "mouser" for rent, anyone interested?
« Last post by f0dder on December 26, 2010, 01:42 AM »
Started funny, but Josh - master of trolls, trolling and trololol - you take things a bit too far every now and then :)
1962
Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010
« Last post by f0dder on December 25, 2010, 03:17 PM »
Testing post... post took ~5 seconds, which is a lot - browsing is instantaneous.
Now testing "save" from edit... save also took ~5 seconds.

Search is also pretty much instantaneous.

Connecting through HTTP://, not with SSL/TLS.
1963
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NANY Excuse Manager (v0.96 as of 12/30/10)
« Last post by f0dder on December 25, 2010, 09:41 AM »
Wow, that's actually a lot better than I expected - kudos!
1964
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NANY Excuse Manager (v0.96 as of 12/30/10)
« Last post by f0dder on December 25, 2010, 09:38 AM »
That's pretty awesome, app :D - going to be hard shrinking it down to a 16x16 appicon though.
1965
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NANY Excuse Manager (v0.96 as of 12/30/10)
« Last post by f0dder on December 25, 2010, 09:26 AM »
 ;D
1966
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: StartSSL.com Certificate Provider: Mini-Review
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2010, 05:18 AM »
Okay mouser this is too noob question but other than transaction sites what types of sites should go for SSL ?
Anything that handles user login, really :)
1967
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: StartSSL.com Certificate Provider: Mini-Review
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2010, 06:41 PM »
But web browsers (firefox, internet explorer, chrome, opera, safari, etc.) have decided to combine this idea of verifying the identity of the company running a website with the mechanism for establishing a secure connection protocol from your browser to the website (https).  Secure connections can be very important in preventing neighbors and snoops from discovering your login passwords, etc. as you browse the web.
Hm, "web browsers have decided"? SSL, which offers both confidentiality and authenticity, was in place - web browsers simply chose to use the standard rather than inventing some new and fancy scheme.

I agree that SSL certificates is a b*tch, though, and that the CAs are a rotten charge-trough-the-nose mafia - it's a disgusting business. I'm surprised that (if?) startSSL is part of the OS/browser pre-accepted authorities, since their services sound almost too good to be true.

As for the warnings browsers do on self-signed certificates, well, I'm afraid that they do have to be somewhat severe. Outside of special services, or corporate intrawebs (where you can usually manage rolling out custom corporate CA certs to the invididual machines anyway), self-signed certs would usually be a sign of something bad going on. Regular users can't be expected to understand WHAT this is all about, and even less to verify certificate fingerprints, so not complaining loudly about self-signed certs == free lunch for man-in-middle attacksers.

The real problem is how expensive certificates are, and how you're charged for them (paying extra for "real verification" and "stronger encryption", not to mention the horrible domain fees; all the CAs I've been looking at previously easily classify as con-men), not to mention that security isn't all that hot anyway (good old social engineering skills against the CAs). But the mechanism itself isn't to blame, and I honestly can't think of a decent security infrastructure that doesn't depend on CAs.
1968
Living Room / Re: Obscene # of Tabs in FF
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2010, 02:15 PM »
I often end up with a lot of open tabs, especially when researching stuff for programming. 50+ is not unreasonable for me, so I'm looking forward to FF4 Panorama... and I'm hoping it's going to be stable :)
1969
Living Room / Re: Patently Moronic
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2010, 02:07 PM »
Is that like microsoft patenting single clicks or gpu accelerated encoding?

Patents are just completely messed up. It seems like you can patent anything these days. The system is completely broken! (mouser knows! :) )
Patenting something is one thing - actually (ab)using the patent is another.

While I'd definitely not be surprised if Microsoft were to abuse patents, the reality of today's insanely broken system is that you gotta grab those patents before somebody else does and sue you even if you made software utilizing the technology using the patented technology even before the patents were granted...
1970
Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2010, 01:57 PM »
Awww, that was awesomely cute :)
1971
T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2010, 01:50 PM »
@Stoic Joker: You can make 2010 produce executables that work with Win2000, but it requires a bit of mucking around.

I personally prefer VS2010 to 2008, as long as the machine has a non-sucky GPU.
1972
Finished Programs / Re: The Mouser Utility - Requested by App103
« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2010, 09:55 AM »
You two need to figure out who is to blame for this monstrosity so that i know who to sue first!
YOU are, dear sir - for mousering us all the time :P
1973
Living Room / OpenBSD: Only two remote holes [...] - the rest come from inside?
« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2010, 06:37 PM »
Potentially bad news ahead:
Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
Theo de Raadt <deraadt <at> cvs.openbsd.org>
2010-12-14 22:24:39 GMT

I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD
IPSEC stack.  It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company
they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into
our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack.  Around 2000-2001.

Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of
the code are now found in many other projects/products.  Over 10
years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it
is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are.
via OSnews.
1974
Living Room / Re: Can we compare file transfer protocols?
« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2010, 06:33 PM »
SFTP is just FTP with an SSL layer, so it still sucks just as much as FTP
SFTP is not FTP over SSL (that's FTPS).  Confusingly, SFTP is unrelated to FTP (except that it's a file transfer protocol). One advantage it has over FTP is that it uses a single data connection for transfers. there's no need for it to setup and tear down a connection for each file transferred.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up :) - SFTP is going to be a bunch better than FTP/FTPS, then.
1975
Living Room / Re: Can we compare file transfer protocols?
« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2010, 05:39 PM »
What I can see at home: it allows to create LAN network with access granted to many users across globe. I can observe it working for simple file sharing (default Guest networks accounts) but it should be possible to set it up like normal LAN with full users control.
-fenixproductions (December 14, 2010, 05:31 PM)
Hamachi works, but again - the Windows SMB/CIFS protocol really isn't suited for usage across a WAN. superboyac mentions that "And I don't want to use a service like Dropbox or skydrive because the file transfer sizes I'm talking about are many gigabytes.", I'd definitely not want to do that via SMB/CIFS across a WAN :)
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