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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: A powerful free video & audio converter

« Last post by Tuxman on December 14, 2009, 02:37 AM »

Ah, OK. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Advice on Forum Software

« Last post by Tuxman on December 13, 2009, 10:25 AM »

In fact, most forum software can be turned into a social network. bbPress for Wordpress is another one...

From this thread I'd prefer elgg.

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Living Room / Re: Notepad Fun

« Last post by Tuxman on December 13, 2009, 10:24 AM »

Does that depend on the chosen font? For me there's nothing special.

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Living Room / Re: How's *that* for a false positive? And is it? (Avira AV)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 10, 2009, 05:39 AM »

Avira has always been bad about false positives. It's always been good about detecting the bad stuff, but I have never in good conscience been able to recommend it due to the false positives.

-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 05:32 PM)

Confirmed.

Maybe this one is of any interest here. "Many false alarms" is a no-go for a virus scanner IMO.

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 06:14 PM »

Most people I know with an eminent amount of RAM don't use it for doing more productive stuff, they just fill it with useless gimmicks "because it's there".

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 04:25 PM »

Ah, yes, 8 GB RAM. 6 of those will never be used anyway, but who cares ... 

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 04:22 PM »

End users don't need 64 bit yet. Never seen a home user having to work with files of that size.
(So most things he does is whinging in boards "why does my application not start in 64 bit mode?" ...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 03:13 PM »

The norms being that the term "scripting" suggests quick or brief coding.

-CodeTRUCKER (December 09, 2009, 03:06 PM)

This is the first time I actually hear this definition. Quick coding is Q&D.  
You can as well develop a C++ application quickly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 02:57 PM »

So what about application scripting then? Is it "application programming" for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 02:41 PM »

vimscript: let myvar="hello world"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Tuxman on December 09, 2009, 10:33 AM »

scripting and programming are the same thing

Depends. A script (the result of scripting) is not necessarily a program (the result of programming).

(Besides, there's still application scripting, like Vim or Irssi scripts. Try to program these.)

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by Tuxman on December 08, 2009, 03:40 PM »

It is irefutable that urbanization has, does and will degrade human relationships by ever-expanding usurpation of the capacity of individuals (neighbors) to provide what others need through public "services;" thereby destroying the womb of community adhesion.

-CodeTRUCKER (December 08, 2009, 03:29 PM)

My actual intent was the global mourning culture. If someone dies, it's on the TV and in every paper and "the world" is so sad and everything without even knowing the dead person. This is not actually the way a thing like sympathy should work IMO, and it is a disgusting evolution forced by begging-for-more-audience media, so over all the years I got a sane reluctance against mentioning death in public forums. I even think it is not O.K. to hold public obsequies for people like Michael Jackson, but this is another point...

But you are right: I am (relatively) new to this board, so I don't know much about people's relationships here. So if we are all real friends, it is alright for me and I'll do my best to become a part of them. But all that... stuff made me somewhat immune here.

I'm sorry.

edited:
Haven't read the linked thread yet, but I will, thank you...

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by Tuxman on December 08, 2009, 01:11 PM »

I wouldn't call an anonymous board "my friends". Maybe some of us are. But death is usually not a topic for public discussions, is it?
Personal grief is not made for gathering replies.
You see, that's just my POV. No offense intended.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?

« Last post by Tuxman on December 08, 2009, 01:05 PM »

Hm, mplayer.

For those who need "a bit" of GUI flavor: MPC-HC with ffdshow filters.
VLC's codecs are not made for playing local files.

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Living Room / Re: Death in Family

« Last post by Tuxman on December 08, 2009, 01:03 PM »

Hm, I find it quite impious to state something about death in your own family in a public board.
jm2c

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by Tuxman on December 08, 2009, 01:02 PM »

So for me it's back to vim and its sessions feature, which is all I need for now.

-housetier (December 07, 2009, 03:06 AM)

Vim is all a coder needs. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: A powerful free video & audio converter

« Last post by Tuxman on December 05, 2009, 09:19 AM »

What makes this better than MediaCoder?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text editor with filtering of lines

« Last post by Tuxman on December 01, 2009, 05:03 AM »

You know I'm beginning to think that all feature rich applications should have a built-in command line that matches and shows features.

-vixay (November 30, 2009, 08:39 PM)

Mostly they do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text editor with filtering of lines

« Last post by Tuxman on November 28, 2009, 04:02 PM »

I doubt that THE is easier to use than Vim.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text editor with filtering of lines

« Last post by Tuxman on November 27, 2009, 12:32 PM »

I have gVimPortable installed, and i fired it up, loaded a file, and then i'm lost. Do you have any specific directions?

-vixay (November 26, 2009, 02:49 AM)

1) There is a "vimtutor". Use it wisely.
2) There is a help function, call it via :help <term>...

AFAICS Vim does not feature a built-in filter but it works with grep etc. (while I hope I'm just wrong as Vim features anything).
You could however use expression-based foldering which does not actually hide unwanted lines but folds them.
However, that would require basic understanding of Vim's regular expression syntax.

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Tuxman on November 20, 2009, 04:52 PM »

Thanks Mouser  trying FARR for a couple of days now as a Windows-Run replacement. So far it does the job quite well. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wanted: Comparison of code beautifiers

« Last post by Tuxman on November 20, 2009, 02:52 PM »

For that I'd recommend the UniversalIndentGUI which is actually free:

http://universalindent.sourceforge.net

It includes a bunch of code beautifiers but doesn't actually compare them...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by Tuxman on November 19, 2009, 01:06 PM »

Sounds quite interesting... I wonder why they do this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by Tuxman on November 19, 2009, 12:55 PM »

I saw this and already bookmarked it, but that doesn't give me my classic taskbar back, does it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?

« Last post by Tuxman on November 18, 2009, 03:29 PM »

OK, I will see if it does anything I might find useful ...