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Living Room / Re: Make your own funny motivational posters online

« Last post by Edvard on June 28, 2006, 11:48 AM »

Obligatory AYBABTU:

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Living Room / Re: Unix-Haters Handbook

« Last post by Edvard on June 21, 2006, 12:07 PM »

Remember this was 10 years ago when Win95 was still the newest kid on the block and 64 megs of RAM was a Grail of sorts...
I have Slackware on a 150 MHz 64MB RAM machine at home (workshop test box) running XFCE Window manager. 24-bit true color and alphamapped png icons, the whole banana; smooth as butter on a bald monkey. (KDE would really push it though...)

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Living Room / Unix-Haters Handbook

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 07:40 PM »

Because we have a few on this board; because I personally love *nix; and even though this handbook is ten years old (read the chapter on X-windows, yipes! How did we EVER get from this to KDE?) it is still the funniest read I've had in a long time.
And the funniest part is where it's linked from...
http://research.micr...iel/unix-haters.html

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Living Room / Re: superboyac was not alone in his view of the mac vs. windows commercial

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 07:32 PM »

in response to the last question...

isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?

heck yeah.

i'll take out my smug superiority on a loaded Slackware box tonight...

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 05:41 PM »

  Indeed.

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 01:08 PM »

Damn Birds!!
http://www.mofunzone...es/damn_birds.shtml#

You are a statue in a park. You stood there for years and watched the birds pooping on you until one day your patience comes to its end and you decide to take revenge on the Damn Birds. And luckily you're a statue with a gun.

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 11:58 AM »

maybe i should have put NSFW in red flashing neon letters, as well as provide a definition...
Not Safe For Work
Also not my normal fare. I had heard that there were some funny parodies of this ad and typed "priceless" in google and just about fell off my chair. Never went there again until this thread. Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Atomic Computer — gimme, gimme, gimme!

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 11:52 AM »

Free Hype.

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Living Room / Re: Gene Wilder with Steve Ballmer as Frankenstein (videomix)

« Last post by Edvard on June 20, 2006, 11:50 AM »

one word...

ROFL 

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 08:04 PM »

I hate to put this up cause the content gets racey, but its SO relevant to the topic...
The mastercard ad that spawned a million stupid satires... (as well as NSFW pics)
Priceless!
http://images.google...m/images?q=priceless

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 07:38 PM »

How about "owned"
http://images.google.com/images?q=owned

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Living Room / Re: Up and coming photosharing site

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 07:24 PM »

He's got server load issues at the moment. That'll be cleared up soon (like in the next few minutes). Stay tuned!

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Living Room / Re: Finally! Sudoku where it belongs!

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 05:55 PM »

great. another excuse for folks to hog the privy when your doing the pee-pee dance outside.

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Living Room / Up and coming photosharing site

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 04:28 PM »

Yourep
http://www.yourep.com
Look out flickr! This site is run by one of the guys I've been yakking with on Gabbly. Yourep is in active development and a full API is currently in the works. He's a hard-working coder as well as a nice guy in need of some testers/users/feedback. No transfer limits and there's more coming down the pipe as more users get on. I've invited Flo (yourep.com dev) to check in and let us know more details.
Check it out...

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Living Room / Re: New Smiley Requests

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 03:44 PM »

i humbly resubmit the coffee smiley...
https://www.donation...82.msg16924#msg16924

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print large pictures on multiple pages

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 03:36 PM »

I will modify the requirements in the posting  to clarify that the printout should be on typical letter size or legal size paper.  I did not have monster size posters in mind.

Oh.
*blush*

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print large pictures on multiple pages

« Last post by Edvard on June 19, 2006, 10:27 AM »

rasterbator
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
From the webpage:

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by Edvard on June 15, 2006, 01:04 PM »

Yes this could be the mp3/cd encoding. There are a lot of complicating things going on in the upper end of digital music which is where DVD audio wins. That is 24 bit and 96 kHz sample rate which is high enough to translate the upper range of audible material accurately. (human hearing in the extreme tops out at around 20 kHz) standard cd audio is 16 bit 44.1 kHz, so in the upper range, you get artifacts especially with mp3's you start hearing artifacts.
That's also why all the serious audio guys I know don't use Sound Blasters. They are tuned for mp3 playback. Waaaay lowpassed. My guess is the Mosquito ringtone is a pure signal (square wave at 17 kHz) so all the more annoying and no audio processing in the way...

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by Edvard on June 14, 2006, 12:24 PM »

I sympathize heavily Carol. I get 300+ spam emails over the weekends and about 50 or so during the day. It doesn't seem like the future of spam is going to change anytime soon and for every spam fighting technique there is a matching anti-spam-fighting technique. For personal webmail use, I have gone with Bluebottle and Cashette. They both work with an "allowed" list and Challenge/Response filtering. Bluebottle can even act as a filter with their forwarding service, and Cashette has a pay scale for receiving advertising email (get paid for spam!). So far, for work, K9 has done a very good job at dumping the garbage and gleaning the gold, even though some of the commercial solutions appear to be better. I'm either too poor or miserly to try them out. One feature I use a lot is the "WhiteList" where I can put in emails that will be classed good all the time. Too bad it isn't automatic, it's a text file where you can define good addresses, subjects, regex's and stuff. Also for some reason it bogs my CPU at random intervals. Ah, the price you pay for a little peace of mind.

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Living Room / Re: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

« Last post by Edvard on June 13, 2006, 03:38 PM »

my point proven almost immediately...

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by Edvard on June 06, 2006, 11:05 AM »

nudone: there is a genre.
Probably started by two people. One is a man known as Xiao Xiao. A collection of his animations can be found here:
http://www.newground...ection/xiaoxiao.html
The other would be the original Stick Death webpage. Warning: Very graphic (for stick figures, that is...):
http://www.stickdeath.com/
and a whole collection of stick figure games and videos here:
http://www.newground...llection/sticks.html

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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha

« Last post by Edvard on June 01, 2006, 12:40 PM »

Aargh!! You have discovered the secret to my power and now hold the key to unravel my plans to take over the world (sometime after lunch next Tuesday...)!! Curses!!

Seriously, I read so much about Me in that article I must now forward it to my boss because I could never explain my Modus Operandi so elegantly. Thank you. I can now sharpen pencils in peace and confidence of my ability to crack that looming deadline over there...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?

« Last post by Edvard on May 31, 2006, 10:00 AM »

I don't think anybody's debating whether the programmer should make money from their efforts or not. What is being debated is that a smart programmer should look for the best sales strategy in order to, indeed, be paid and paid well especially if their effort is useful and ongoing. The authors of large commercial packages have done quite a bit to enhance the lives and work of many who use their products, of course they should be paid.
But...
we are talking about 'Software'.
Most of which is not a static thing that can come off the shelf at a store and used by a certain number of individuals at a time (licenses notwithstanding). Only one person at a time can feasibly use, say, a vacuum cleaner last time I checked. No, we have these wonderful things called computers which are not only the medium for consumption of the product, but the means by which it magically gets reproduced, often en masse to the detriment of the software authors pocketbook. If I could purchase one vacuum cleaner which I could then reproduce at will either to use in different rooms in my house or give away to a neighbor or charity, the manufacturer has lost those as sales. Because we can't reproduce a vacuum at our convenience and destroy the copies as we see fit, nor can we demand a lower price for an "upgrade", but we can with Software, we have such sticky things as EULAs and Dongles and Product Activation to ensure that Software, in it's consumption, behaves at least a little bit like a vacuum cleaner or toaster or other essential appliance than a trifle that can be thrown in the Star Trek replicator to be popped out as we please.
The point is Software, as a product, needs some sort of sales strategy that will ensure the author gets paid without inspiring the less scrupled among us to make copies distribute them simply because they can.

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Living Room / Re: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

« Last post by Edvard on May 30, 2006, 04:28 PM »

They have, and they do and it happens every day. This is almost a disturbing trend. Someone writes up something that is funny, satirical, etc. and 98% of the audience thinks it's real. The other two percent are split.
1% "gets it" and has a good laugh, next link please...
1% "gets it" and leaves a comment in the same vein of satire as the original, further adding to the fray.

An undeterminded percentage takes it hook line and sinker and says "OMG I didn't know that... I'd better alert my friends neighbors and relations and unplug the computer while I'm at it!!"
Another undetermined percentage sees it for the drivel it is but thinks the author is honestly a complete imbecile and leaves comments like "I can't believe what a dumb@$$ you are... " and attempts to correct the intelligence deficiencies perceived.
The last undetermined percentage sees it for the drivel it is but then moves on with a deprecated opinion of the social group the author of the satirical piece appears to represent.

Lets see here... lemme find a few:
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/
http://humorix.org/ (actually that one's pretty transparent, you must admit...)
http://landoverbaptist.org (careful, this one's a doozie...)

Got any to share?
On the bright side, sites like these have served to sharpen my BS detector quite handily.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Angry Fruit Salad

« Last post by Edvard on May 30, 2006, 02:25 PM »

Eew... like Dead Simple Downloader. Agh! My eyes! my eyes!