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Living Room / Re: Dino Run - cool online retro style multiplayer game

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2015, 05:54 PM »

NECRO THREAD ARISE!!!

Dino Run DX has just been released on Steam.

It looks to be a nice iteration on the original, with more features coming as they raise more money:

If I understand their website correctly, you can "donate" to their funding campaign and get a Steam key for the game for cheaper than the game costs on Steam.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 33 "You are the Monster" Thread!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2015, 02:34 PM »

Wow. Crazy game! It kind of reminds of of Defend Your Castle.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2015, 02:19 PM »

Still wondering about this. Am I to assume then that it is just me? As it's happening in multiple locations on different machines ... All of which are running IE11 on Win10.

-Stoic Joker (September 28, 2015, 07:03 AM)

Well that's interesting. I just loaded up IE to test it. All I did was just quote a random post from this thread and stick it in a spoiler box, clicked preview, and tested the spoiler. It worked fine.

Then I decided to quote your message in the spoiler box instead of the random one and now it won't work.

Spoiler

Is it just me, or do the new Spoiler tags not work in Win10's IE11? Using Edge yes, but in IE11 I get the link-finger icon, and no reaction to click what-so-ever.

-Stoic Joker (September 10, 2015, 06:52 AM)

Still wondering about this. Am I to assume then that it is just me? As it's happening in multiple locations on different machines ... All of which are running IE11 on Win10.

-Stoic Joker (September 28, 2015, 07:03 AM)

EDIT: Spoiler seems to maybe work on actual posts, but not in previews.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite 3 is 70% off on steam this weekend

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2015, 01:40 PM »

Sniper Elite is celebrating its 10 year anniversary.

Sniper Elite 3 is 80% off ($10) or you can get the entire trilogy for $15.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/70243/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: WildStar - colorful MMO in open beta

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2015, 12:58 AM »

I like the look of this game. Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by Deozaan on September 28, 2015, 06:51 PM »

FWIW, for ipconfig /all, when I look at the value for "Physical Address" and compare it with "Link-local IPv6 Address", I don't see much similarity.

-ewemoa (September 28, 2015, 01:16 AM)

You're right! I was misreading it. I was looking at the value for "DHCPv6 Client DUID" (which contains my entire MAC) rather than "Link-local IPv6 Address."

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by Deozaan on September 28, 2015, 12:12 AM »

Thanks for the links.

IIUC, it may be relatively straight-forward to check from a terminal app in Android whether privacy extensions are in use:

[Select]

ip a

The result may show information for various network interfaces -- for WiFi, a typical interface name is wlan0.  Examine the displayed MAC address and IPv6 address -- roughly, if the last 3 bytes are the same in both, I think it's a good bet that (at least for that interface) the extensions are not in use.

-ewemoa (September 27, 2015, 06:08 PM)

Seems disabled by default for my on the latest stock Android (Lollipop 5.1.1)!

If anyone running Windows is curious to know if the privacy extensions are enabled on their PC, one can open a command prompt and type the following:

netsh interface ipv6 show privacy

-Innuendo (September 27, 2015, 10:17 AM)

I ran that command and got these results:

[Select]

>netsh interface ipv6 show privacy
Querying active state...

Temporary Address Parameters
---------------------------------------------
Use Temporary Addresses             : enabled
Duplicate Address Detection Attempts: 3
Maximum Valid Lifetime              : 7d
Maximum Preferred Lifetime          : 1d
Regenerate Time                     : 5s
Maximum Random Time                 : 10m
Random Time                         : 5m27s

The "enabled" part makes me think I have the privacy option enabled, but when I check out ipconfig /all, I see my MAC in my IPv6 address...

Or maybe I'm just reading the results incorrectly.

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Living Room / Re: How to make a sandwich from scratch

« Last post by Deozaan on September 28, 2015, 12:03 AM »

I can appreciate the dude was going for humor.  But the premise dead ends at what is convenient.

-MilesAhead (September 27, 2015, 05:37 AM)

I didn't really see it as an attempt at humor. I saw it more as a way for us to get a more "real" sense of and appreciation for how good we have it, and where things really come from. I've heard that many kids these days (and some adults, too!) don't realize that food comes from crops/farms or animals. They think it is literally created the way they find it packaged in the grocery store.

Just a few years ago someone wrote a hatemail to a hunting TV show saying something to the effect of "Shame on you for killing animals! If you want meat, go buy it at the store so an animal doesn't have to die!"

That said, I also agree with you that in order to follow his logic of "I'm making everything from scratch myself" I found myself saying "You didn't make that boat. You didn't make that knife. You didn't make that oven. You didn't make those seeds. You didn't make that [whatever]" etc.

Jimmy John's is actually pretty good.  I'd take them over Subway any day, and I used to really like Subway.  Depending on your opinion of Subway, that may not be saying a whole lot. YMMV.

-Edvard (September 27, 2015, 10:33 PM)

I had Jimmy Johns once. It was OK. I still prefer Subway.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ark: Survival Evolved is free for the weekend on Steam (through Aug 31, 2015)

« Last post by Deozaan on September 27, 2015, 07:10 PM »

ARK is currently on sale for $20 on the Humble Store:

https://www.humblebu...alevolved_storefront

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Living Room / Re: How to make a sandwich from scratch

« Last post by Deozaan on September 27, 2015, 01:10 AM »

The video seemed like a nice teaser for the individual videos for each step. So I watched the episode on salt (so I could find out what happened at the airport!). Sadly, it was also really short and scant on the details of how to actually make salt, and it didn't go into any detail about what happened at the airport. Disappointing.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hack font v.2

« Last post by Deozaan on September 25, 2015, 03:26 PM »

I don't understand what you mean when you say they're not monospaced.

As far as I can tell, both Hack and Vera Sans Mono are monospaced. Vera Sans Mono even has "Mono" in its name.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Klingon Support

« Last post by Deozaan on September 25, 2015, 03:19 PM »

I was looking at something (can't remember what) just a couple of days ago and saw there was a feature request to add Klingon support. At first I was a bit amused, wondering why anyone would add Klingon language support. But then after looking further into it, and seeing the developer(s) respond positively about the request, I convinced myself that Klingon must be some tool or programming language of some kind that I hadn't heard of. I convinced myself that it was inspired by--and named after--but not actually the aliens/language from Star Trek.

It seems I was wrong.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Unity 5 now free for everyone!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 24, 2015, 04:58 PM »

Thanks! I almost missed it. 

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Living Room / Re: Chromium bug... turned into a game?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 23, 2015, 12:46 PM »

Interesting and clever.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on September 22, 2015, 11:56 PM »

Rejoice! Sandboxie 5.04 for Win 10 is available. Anyone here been waiting for it( beside me)? Has anyone beside created a poll? It's interesting that Sandboxie 5.04 under Win 10 uses IE 11 not Edge.

-Arizona Hot (September 22, 2015, 03:45 PM)

Uh... If you created that poll... it doesn't work that way. No one person here can answer for everyone else how many of us use Sandboxie. The poll needs to be something more like:

"Do you use Sandboxie?"

"Yes"
"No"

Or do you expect us to guess? (And how will anyone know what the correct answer is?)

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Deozaan on September 22, 2015, 11:54 PM »

21's Bitcoin Computer is a Raspberry Pi-powered mining tool

Raspberry Pi - the DIY computer celebrity.

-Arizona Hot (September 22, 2015, 02:11 PM)

Hrm, sounds like a moneygrab. Even with a "custom mining chip", it's hardly going to be able to generate any worthwhile amount of BC, considering people are running massive amounts of monstrous custom ASICs.

-f0dder (September 22, 2015, 04:44 PM)

Yup.

Raspberry Pi: $35
128 GB Class 10 SD Card: $70
USB WiFi Adapter: $10
Micro USB Power Supply: $8
------------------------------
Total: $123

This Device: $399
??????????

I mean, OK they have a special chip and a fan bolted on there.  But really?

-http://fyre.it/h5wQ7P.4

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Living Room / Re: Ran a 10k race today.. any other runners here?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2015, 05:46 PM »

Yeah, that makes sense. I thought you were talking about using the headlamp for being seen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newer password keepers/form-fillers - anyone using Dashlane or 1Password?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2015, 04:23 PM »

You're misrepresenting what they are saying.

-Deozaan (September 21, 2015, 04:14 PM)

From the LastPass "pros":

Share and send login information to other Lastpass users securely

--> No, I'm not. They give KeePass a worse ranking because it doesn't come with a built-in storage on other people's computers.

-Tuxman (September 21, 2015, 04:16 PM)

You're moving the goalposts. LastPass pros has nothing to do with KeePass cons. You specifically mentioned the bold KeePass contra:

Giving KeePass a bold "Contra" because you are not forced to store your passwords on other people's computers... LOL!

-Tuxman (September 21, 2015, 03:46 PM)

I quoted the only bold contra for KeePass, which is this:

Difficult to keep synced between devices

Again, that has nothing to do with the cloud, nor does it have anything to do with sharing passwords with other people. Nor does it have anything to do with LastPass.

Nice try though.

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Living Room / Re: Ran a 10k race today.. any other runners here?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2015, 04:16 PM »

Those are great for running in well-lighted areas, but if you find yourself away from streetlights[...]

-ayryq (September 21, 2015, 06:34 AM)

Huh? They are powered LED lights. Why would you need to be near streetlights for them to work well?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newer password keepers/form-fillers - anyone using Dashlane or 1Password?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2015, 04:14 PM »

The cloud basically are other people's computers.

-Tuxman (September 21, 2015, 04:02 PM)

You're misrepresenting what they are saying.

Difficult to keep synced between devices

That says nothing about the cloud.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unity (Game Engine) Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2015, 12:41 AM »

Aw, carp! I was just going to install this on my netbook to test things out, but they only have 64-bit builds and my netbook is 32-bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unity (Game Engine) Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2015, 09:47 PM »

We're you trying out the build from this past Wednesday?

http://forum.unity3d...350256/#post-2298239

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on September 18, 2015, 10:05 PM »

Workout Wednesday: Baby Steps

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newer password keepers/form-fillers - anyone using Dashlane or 1Password?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 18, 2015, 05:42 PM »

Is there any free and secure LastPass alternative that works as well with Firefox as KeePass does?

-Tuxman (September 17, 2015, 07:33 PM)

Just curious: What's wrong with LastPass in Firefox? It's free and seems to work pretty well, IMO. Or are you talking about on mobile devices?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 10 a trojan?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 18, 2015, 04:43 PM »

The problem with this is that many ISPs implement data caps. I don't want my PC uploading GBs of data to strangers and using up my data cap. Then being forced by my ISP to pay fines, "upgrade" to a higher package, or lose internet service altogether "due to abuse" of their services.

-Deozaan (September 17, 2015, 04:27 PM)

I don't do "caps" (but throttling is ok). When we moved to Canada, the ISPs are mostly horrible, but I found a less horrible one and got an unlimited plan. The overage fees here are utterly insane and completely unaffordable.

-Renegade (September 17, 2015, 10:10 PM)

It's not always possible to get a plan without a data cap. And even when it's an option, it's not always an affordable option.

Honestly, I could do with a much lower "top speed" if it came with a much larger (or unlimited) data cap.