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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by Tuxman on January 26, 2010, 09:59 PM »

Without a doubt C++ because

• it's absolutely everywhere.
• there are libraries availible for everything.
• compiles to native code.
• when you start using modern C++ libraries like Boost you feel like you've truly moved away API and c-runtime coding and are actually working in a high level abstraction layer.
• when you get into some of the really advanced template stuff like DSELs (eg phoenix2) you begin to see the amazing power of the language.

-Eóin (January 26, 2010, 12:38 PM)

ACK.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by Tuxman on January 26, 2010, 09:58 PM »

If they lower the prices, they (probably) have a good reason for that. v10, hm. Maybe released with some serious price increasement. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Twitter client?

« Last post by Tuxman on January 24, 2010, 12:46 PM »

My major dislike in all that Adobe AIR stuff is that it looks all the same. For me, form follows function.
Thus, I use Echofon for Firefox (some reading) and TwitVim (most of my reading and writing). No registry entries (not even for uninstallation) are created, no useless GUI blingbling is contained, they don't eat too much RAM and they don't require any runtimes.

 

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free Total Commander licences

« Last post by Tuxman on January 24, 2010, 12:42 PM »

As most shareware products have (better) free alternatives: Yes, it is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AVAST! 5 released

« Last post by Tuxman on January 22, 2010, 05:13 PM »

You see? - Of course every AV program has some signature failures at times, but after all avast was disappointing. Of course it might be just my personal experience.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: AVAST! 5 released

« Last post by Tuxman on January 22, 2010, 04:39 PM »

I switched from avast! to NOD32 about a year ago, disappointed by its detection rate, its awful GUI and its false positives. I really doubt they fixed it all in v5.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thunderbird 3 Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on January 19, 2010, 09:55 AM »

Where is my Contacts Sidebar?

-Ehtyar (January 18, 2010, 11:40 PM)

Not yet updated for Tb3 final, it seems.

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 15, 2010, 07:04 PM »

Sounds like a few hundred € are needed anyway. Thank you for the details. Currently the HDD is, basically, used with one CAT5 cable and carried up- and downstairs if needed.

 

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 15, 2010, 07:44 AM »

Sharing data in my WLAN. 
(Well, actually it was.)

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 08:42 AM »

I don't expect super-high performance, but one Mbit/s would be fine... now technical issues are not mine. 

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 06:25 AM »

Phew. Now what causes this heavy decreasement?

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 06:10 AM »

Maybe later this year. Right now it would be enough money to spend to make the HDD work fast.  

edit: Hmm, I thought WLAN is not that slow these days? (802.11g+)

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 05:55 AM »

With my current USB port (on the router), I reach about 300 KB/s. 
(Via WLAN.)

OK, I presume that my router supports 100 Mbit LAN  ... sounds fair then. Thank you. 

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 05:32 AM »

Now these NAS adapters need to be attached to my router anyway... so we're back on USB 1.1 then, right?

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Tuxman on January 14, 2010, 04:55 AM »

Something loosely related:

I bought an external WD hard drive recently, my WLAN router only supports USB 1.1 however, so using it is a pain. What would be the cheapest way to bring the HD with USB 2.0 into my network? Is there some "USB hard disk to WLAN adapter", or should I upgrade my router? (About 100 Euros for a suitable model seems to be quite much to me.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: SubDiv

« Last post by Tuxman on January 08, 2010, 10:36 PM »

A new suggestion: Regex based sorting. If a file matches a certain expression, put it into $folder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thunderbird 3 Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on January 08, 2010, 10:29 PM »

+1 for Enigmail.

Other life-saving ones:

. CompactHeader, brings back the small header pane
. External Editor, because writing long texts in Tb sucks

Also proven useful in the past:

. Mail Tweak, tweaks Thunderbird's behavior
. Manually Sort Folders, recommended for multiple accounts

Still waiting for a fix:

. Muttator, who needs a mouse?
. (Basically works but has some flaws left to fix.)

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 06:21 PM »

you're normally running with a user account that has write access to the files you're interested in overwriting - duh?

-f0dder (January 07, 2010, 06:17 PM)

Now that is the server administrator's fault, right? If root uploads something he doesn't actually know into a folder where he could, theoretically, destroy a lot of things and runs the file, he is, basically, a jerk. In this case it is not of any interest, if the file is a zipped PHP or has to be unpacked via shell or anything...

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 06:15 PM »

For the intended use of this program (as I understand it: upgrading websites, especially pre-fab systems), it should.

-f0dder (January 07, 2010, 06:14 PM)

Isn't that related to the files' CHMOD?

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 06:11 PM »

Depends. Does unzipping always overwrite files? It actually shouldn't. (So who cares about index.php?)

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 05:56 PM »

No, why?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 1x NOD32 key FREE

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 03:41 PM »

The German c't magazine has one right now, too, so if you are around Germany, feel free to buy one for 3.70 €...  
edit: Fixed price, sorry.

 

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 03:40 PM »

The visitors need a link to the file anyway. Where should that be?

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 12:57 PM »

Unpacking a ZIP file on the server does not automatically cause any danger. How?

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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2010, 05:33 AM »

Injecting files is not actually dangerous yet.