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Living Room / Here's a blood boiler
« Last post by Cpilot on March 25, 2006, 09:32 PM »
Mal-ware goes commercial  >:(!!

Here's an article to tick you off. Yahoo news item.

Do-It-Yourself Spyware Kit Sells for $20

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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 22, 2006, 08:51 PM »
Ok before everyone gets carried away with the "slattern" analogy I think a lookup on dictionary.com is in order. First of all it has nothing to do with makeup or beauty. The definition I was going for was the most common ie:

slat·tern n.
An untidy, dirty woman.

You see under the conventional definition one has to go out of their way to be untidy and dirty.
The point being, like it or not, most people respond to things that are attractive. If an application or OS is pleasing to someone's eyes they have a tendency to look at it more, instead of flinch away. It's the primary reason there's windows. A lot of stuff can be just as easily done in console mode...but it ain't as purty.

If you care to narrowly define things to their absolute functionality then that's fine. But the truth is for most consumers, of anything, the eye has to be pleased first before they consider quality.
And if you notice for the most part, with almost all shareware offerings there is an attempt to make the application look attractive.
That's just good marketing.
Computers and the web are no longer the sole domain of geeks and techies, as the internet becomes more consumer driven aesthetics will become more important as more and more companies try to get the attention of more and more consumers.
personal feelings aside it's inevitable, and I would rather just try and keep up to date and enjoy whatever benefits the new technology brings. And learn the pitfalls sooner than later.


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Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 22, 2006, 07:13 AM »
aeron chari =  $1000

for a chair !??!?!!?

 ;D ain't nobodies bottom worth that much.

I switch between a good old fashion wooded chair and (because I'm wireless) my recliner. That heated massage really works the kinks out.  :Thmbsup:



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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 21, 2006, 11:36 PM »
This thread is moot for now.
Vista debut hits a delay
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General Software Discussion / Re: IE 7.0 Beta 2: Any takers?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 21, 2006, 10:58 PM »
I've been using it for about a month, WinXP SP2.
I like it. :Thmbsup:
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I also doubt that that's all possible
I would think it could be a possibility, but way beyond the scope of a "coding snack".
It would basically be an uninstaller, file transfer, reinstaller with version and date checking.
Not exactly a weekend sort of thing. :wallbash:
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Developer's Corner / Thoughts about OOP programming
« Last post by Cpilot on March 20, 2006, 10:33 PM »
I don't really do or understand object oriented programming techniques. I have been reading about it and thinking about giving it a shot.
But I ran across this article and thought I would point folks to it for discussion and opinions on OOP.

OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice

Enjoy  :)

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Living Room / Re: Free Greenlight subscription
« Last post by Cpilot on March 20, 2006, 04:57 PM »
I edited your post, please add URLs always as true URLs so that other users can just click on them to open the page.

Thanks
-brotherS

Ok I gotta ask, how was it before you edited it?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Dim the taskbar (set transparency)
« Last post by Cpilot on March 19, 2006, 11:39 PM »
Great idea!

However, I think the taskbar should only be transparent if no window is maximized.
-kywalka

Where were you when the thread started? :tellme:
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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 18, 2006, 08:55 PM »
I'm happy with WinXP also, and I do intend to wait a short amount of time after rollout on Vista also in order for the kinks to get ironed out. And I'll keep another box for a while with XP installed.
But I intend to move into it, issues or not.
DRM in one form or another is going to be out there in the future anyway, irregardless of Vista.
People mention it whenever a discussion of Vista comes up, with grave concern.
But after doing a search on this forum using the search terms DRM and Digital rights management I found 5 threads mentioning these 2 terms
here, here,here, here and here.
Now I read through em and while I saw a few dire warnings and predictions, I didn't see where anyone posted anything about anyone monitoring when and by whom any legislation concerning DRM is being proposed or voted on.
I would think that if it's that big of a concern then someone would be pointing out proposed legislation and encouraging the forum members (all 20,085, which ain't a trifle number) to become acquainted with who their congressmen and legislators are in order to email comments and objections.

The only real way to deal with it is to pay attention to the legislation being proposed and make your opinion known.
But since all anyone is talking about is dire warnings and predictions, instead of encouraging taking action, we might as well learn how to deal with it.

And personally I like the eye candy.....
It's the difference between a real woman and a slattern, I'd much rather look at an attractive woman than be repelled by a skank. :Thmbsup:
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I live in the deep South U.S.A. been using computers of one sort or another since 1976 (4040 and 8080) and beyond. I'm not afraid of trying anything new, OS's or programming languages, but I do have my favorites.
I consider using this stuff as like a puzzle, so I enjoy the low level api and languages that can access em.

And OOP is something I say when I fall, and classes are for school. 
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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 18, 2006, 12:51 PM »
Draw your own conclusions to this one.
Hackers Get Windows XP on Apple Computers

 ;D
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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - Bouncing balls
« Last post by Cpilot on March 18, 2006, 07:32 AM »
Yeah
I love extreme samples like that one

I understand, but like brotherS there it took a little time for my vision to clear. And I got an LCD display. Those of you with CRT's be warned.  ;D
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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - Bouncing balls
« Last post by Cpilot on March 18, 2006, 07:17 AM »
PS: Now I'm blind.
Yeah the green is pretty extreme ain't it? I got the script last night from the FBSL Forum and ran it while I was in the dark.  :o


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Post New Requests Here / Re: Suggest a new idle app.
« Last post by Cpilot on March 17, 2006, 10:00 PM »
Well I think we would need a little more information. Knowing what the app was would be a good start. I mean if your just trying to keep your system from going into hibernate you can do that from the control panel.
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The archiving project, which the church has acknowledged, includes engraving Hubbard's writings on stainless steel tablets and encasing them in titanium capsules.
Nice to know that all that money from celebrities is being put to good use.  :huh:

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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 16, 2006, 12:03 PM »
@Cpilot- I've heard stories from all ends of the spectrum; Folks who tried and dropped Linux entirely because it didn't [place gripe here] and never gave it a chance. Some folks gave it a good go and dropped it when their curiosity level hit their tolerance ceiling (usually takes 6 mo. to a year, so your number matches) and some who just somehow "get it" and never look back. I don't think those are going to change very soon, but when Vista does come out, I predict we'll see the cream seperate from the milk.
-Edvard
Just goes to show that everyone has their preferences.
I've always thought the "OS" wars was kinda silly. Just like the "programming language discussions" you see out there. (which usually become firefights, the way I feel about it is if whatever your using needs to be defended by nasty comments and flame wars then maybe you need to reconsider your software)
People use what they understand and what can get the job done. The question also isn't say...can I install a particular Linux distro and then find and install all the drivers I need for whatever particular applications I want to use...but rather...do I want to?

One thing that constantly gets overlooked by the "software guru's" out there is this. The vast majority of people out there that buy a computer couldn't give a fig about anything more than surfing the net, getting and sending emails, and getting the latest semi nudie music video.....oh yeah and games.

They don't have the inclination or desire to spend hours and hours learning how to set up,configure,tweak and cajole a system into a particular configuration.
That's why virii and trojans are such a problem, it ain't the OS it's the users lack of desire to learn enough about their system to make it safe...or safer if you prefer.
Plug and play...that's the attraction. M$ has got it. That's why it's OS's dominate.

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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - Multithreaded GUI Application
« Last post by Cpilot on March 15, 2006, 09:11 PM »
Really nice effect actually. Could be used to create a nice screensaver.
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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 15, 2006, 06:23 PM »
Just as an aside, everyone I ever knew who switched to Linux for one reason or another. Never lasted with it for more than a year. It basically became too much of a hassle.
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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - A simple Web browser
« Last post by Cpilot on March 15, 2006, 09:00 AM »
I'm not really sure what your looking for but, ATL is a ActiveX control that allows hosting the control in a window.
A more comprehensive explaination of the dll is here:
What Is the ATL Control-Hosting API?

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Living Room / Re: How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS?
« Last post by Cpilot on March 14, 2006, 09:26 PM »
When WinXP first came out there was a general howling across the web about how all it is is "eye candy" and a resource hog and lots of "I ain't gonna change fer nuthin'" talk.
Big brother M$ can track your computer and get all kinds of information about you (as if spyware and trojans from everywhere wasn't already trying to do the same thing), the .net passport sucks (don't gotta use it) paranoia galore  ;D.
Mostly from folks hangin onto their copies of Win98. (Hey  :huh: if your too cheap or can't afford a new computer just say so, but the majority of these folks never tryed WinXP or if they had they hadn't enough time to really work with it enough to get a real feel for it.) So they posted a lot from what others were saying.

I read where it was extremely unstable and prone to crash constantly in some forum......where the dinosours roam...yeah that's exactly how I meant to spell it sours.
There're still places that if you say anything negative about Win98, like what a pain it is to alter your apps to be that far back compatable, the hue and cry is deafening.
I've been using WinXP for 5 years now and it's the most stable OS I have ever used.
I like it and make no apologies about it. And I'll never go backward as far as my own personal machine.
My laptop is getting up in age and I fully intend waiting until Vista is available before buying my next system.
I'll be d**ned in 10 years to be one of those crotchety old WinXP users whining about backward compatability for (what will be by then ) my 16 year old computer system.
As much as everyone loves to hate microsoft the real action will always be with their OS.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Lock icons in place on desktop
« Last post by Cpilot on March 12, 2006, 07:53 PM »
If your comfortable using regedit and understand the consequences of altering the registry then go here:

Lock Icons On Desktop

If not then I could script something to do it.
Always back up your registry before making changes.  :Thmbsup:
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Site/Forum Features / Re: The new forum is up!!
« Last post by Cpilot on March 11, 2006, 02:47 PM »
Cleaner.
Hehe, change is hard for some people. I've always found giving something new a chance can have nice consequences. I'm looking forward to exploring the new format.
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Developer's Corner / DevGuru
« Last post by Cpilot on March 01, 2006, 11:46 PM »
Here's a nice site with some really good information for those interested in:

ADO ASP CSS2 HTML
JavaScript JetSQL PHP T-SQL
VBScript WML WMLScript WSH
XHTML XML DOM XSLT   
Command listings and simple examples and mini tutorials. I use it alot.  :Thmbsup:
DevGuru


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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Dim the taskbar
« Last post by Cpilot on February 28, 2006, 09:48 AM »
works great here by the way - nice work!
Thanks mouser.   :Thmbsup:
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