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Post New Requests Here / Re: All AutoHotkey (AHK) coders read: No more upx packing of compiled ahk utils

« Last post by f0dder on August 30, 2010, 01:12 PM »

There are adjustments to zip compression - it supports a few different algorithms, and the most common one (deflate) can have compression characteristics adjusted; not much point in going for less than maximum compression on today's hardware, though . The .7z and .rar formats have fairly more decent algorithms, but they also have a huge advantage over .zip: solid compression, which matters a lot when your archive includes a lot of small files (typical for source code distribution).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 04:50 PM »

That’s why in Panorama we are careful to never mess with your organization and layout — it is always the same even after you restart the browser.

That's the magic word we were waiting for: persistence.

-daddydave (August 26, 2010, 03:41 PM)

Nice

I wonder if Panorama will have some smart load/unload of tabs - if not, BarTab could turn out very very handy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Readability - Get rid of the clutter so you can read!

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 01:33 PM »

You mean like this      https://addons.mozil...firefox/addon/46442/

-ljbirns (August 26, 2010, 01:21 PM)

Now, I just wish reverting to original page was quicker instead of doing a full reload - me, satisifed? NEVER! (thanks a lot for the link, hadn't though they'd do both bookmarklet and ff addon... activating readability is definitely a LOT faster now!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Readability - Get rid of the clutter so you can read!

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 01:09 PM »

Looks kinda nice; I wish they'd implement it as a firefox extensions instead of a bookmarklet, though, since it takes "forever" to activate here (forever defined as several seconds - which is really too slow when it should happen instantly).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 01:07 PM »

Seems like Tab Candy is being renamed to  Panorama, and including in Firefox 4.0 Beta 4. I'm almost considering giving the beta a test-run

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General Software Discussion / Re: virtual key codes - is it safe to use "unassigned" keys

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 10:40 AM »

What do you mean by "using" the keys? - making your AHK script *send* those values?

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Living Room / Re: HOSTS File for malware prevention

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 10:33 AM »

Using the hosts file for anything but specialized purposes (like blocking a few call-home servers, or *very* limited LAN computer naming) is pretty bad, imho. It takes a bit of time to process large hosts files, and it's futile trying to keep a hosts file up to date wrt. malware and ads.

What you need is an ad-blocker for your browser combined with anti-malware software.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Bug with the "below normal" , "above normal" , "real time" priorities

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 10:29 AM »

shmate:  i'm not sure if this applies but i use notepad++ to open large text files.   100 meg +
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

-Russ V (August 25, 2010, 04:59 PM)

Wow - np++ doesn't exactly behave well with large files, the underlying edit control (Scintilla) wasn't really written for it.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Reloaded on Steam on Aug 26, 2010 - multiplayer dc

« Last post by f0dder on August 26, 2010, 10:28 AM »

There, steam updated and worms downloading at 1.4MB/s

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Reloaded on Steam on Aug 26, 2010 - multiplayer dc

« Last post by f0dder on August 25, 2010, 02:06 PM »

If you own the game, you can install it and play it now!

-Deozaan (August 25, 2010, 02:01 PM)

...Except steam bombs out with "cannot contact the steam network, please try again later". Yay.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 + NAS drive := major suckage

« Last post by f0dder on August 24, 2010, 02:10 PM »

Of course, a *real* Gigabit NAS would be much, much, much more expensive, so it's kinda OK... but I don't like marketing lies.

-wr975 (August 24, 2010, 04:22 AM)

It really shouldn't be - even not-so-über harddrives these days are way faster, and a Gigabit NIC costs next to nothing.

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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit - VirusTotal

« Last post by f0dder on August 23, 2010, 01:14 PM »

Thanks for the mention

And yes, there definitely shouldn't be any malware in fSekrit - false positives are pretty darn annoying.

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fSekrit / Re: Development: progress and thougts

« Last post by f0dder on August 23, 2010, 01:12 PM »

Now you are the original author of FSekrit - A fine program indeed - But are you really willing to go through all the legal crap if somebody learned enough from your code to get ahead?

-Stoic Joker (August 22, 2010, 08:52 AM)

An interesting question, really. And the answer is probably no - I don't have the time nor money to do that.

fSekrit is a pretty small app, and I doubt it'd be easy for people to rip it off and sell it - yes, a lot of people are sheeple, but still. It'd hurt to see other people profit from my work, but on the other hand I think there's a lot of value in having the source code open; people tend to trust encryption application a bit more when they can verify there are no back doors

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 + NAS drive := major suckage

« Last post by f0dder on August 23, 2010, 01:02 PM »

I've had trouble with Disable8dot3, but that was exclusively with 16bit applications (which was exclusively crappy old installers - using 16bit stubs even though the apps they were installing were 32bit). Since I now run 64bit and thus can't run 16bit apps anymore, no point in keeping 8dot3

Anyway, sounds like a weird problem - I do suspect that it's the NAS drive that has some quirks rather than Win7, but weird it certainly is. Tried running a chkdsk on the partition?

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fSekrit / Re: Development: progress and thougts

« Last post by f0dder on August 22, 2010, 04:40 AM »

fSekrit was written in C++, with all GUI stuff done through direct Win32 API calls - no MFC or whatnot.

As for the exe updating, this is great fun . First, you need to identify whether there's saved data or not. For this, I write an 8-byte tag to the end of the exe (*after*) data is appended. This consists of a 4-byte magic marker value, and a 4-byte "size of data blob".

That's the easy part - actually writing the data isn't so easy, since Windows keeps a lock on executable files while they're running. Thus, I have to do a funky little dance where I copy the opened fSekrit note to %temp%, run that with command-line arguments, and have this copy in %temp% update the original file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you use to warn you of disk limits being reached?

« Last post by f0dder on August 17, 2010, 09:34 AM »

I don't want to use the built in XP system tool because I just don't like using anything that comes built in.

-superboyac (August 16, 2010, 03:08 PM)

>_<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which archive software are we using in 2010 (and why)?

« Last post by f0dder on August 15, 2010, 04:15 PM »

Shades: sending only a diff of the dumps isn't an option?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why computer programs should not be patentable -- in easy-to-understand terms

« Last post by f0dder on August 13, 2010, 10:24 AM »

I believe in patents - including software patents - just not in their current state.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Reloaded on Steam on Aug 26, 2010 - multiplayer dc

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 02:24 PM »

Wow, Deo - that's a blatant ripoff if I ever saw one

But it looks pretty amazing, an the video is well done. Gonna check it out

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Reloaded on Steam on Aug 26, 2010 - multiplayer dc

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 01:06 PM »

I'll definitely be getting this, even though I'm short on cash. It's so rare we see decent 2D games nowadays, and I've always loved Worms... except the 3D versions, that never really worked out for me. Definitely worth supporting this game!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which archive software are we using in 2010 (and why)?

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 11:52 AM »

Btw, what about keeping yesterday's database dump, and only sending a (compressed) diff of today's + yesterday's? Needs a fair amount of disk space, sure, but might be worth it? Diffing's going to take CPU time, but should be well worth it in reduced compression time, if the diffing means a substantially reduced dataset to compress...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why computer programs should not be patentable -- in easy-to-understand terms

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 10:45 AM »

So... you wouldn't mind me posting nudie pics of you on Teh Intarwebs^TM? After all, a JPEG is "just one gigantic number".

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Living Room / Re: Invalid Cast: Cool Member Blog

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 10:43 AM »

That's was a pretty nice read, I think I'll add it to my RSS watcher

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Living Room / Re: Copy and paste workflow tip

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 10:25 AM »

Interesting idea - I almost always use the keyboard when copy/pasting, though
(This isn't as bad as it sounds - decent editors support Ctrl+arrowkeys for moving quickly between words, and I usually only need Shift+Home or Shift+End anyway).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture hidden window from command line while keeping window hidden

« Last post by f0dder on August 12, 2010, 10:22 AM »

Is it possible at all to capture a window that's obscured, whether partially or entirely?

(Under Vista+ with Aero enabled it probably is, but I'm thinking across all versions).