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Living Room / Re: Just Had a Baby Girl~!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 03:58 PM »

...Which begs the question: Can Renegade rant quietly enough to avoid waking the baby?


...Bets..? 

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Living Room / Re: Fedora/Microsoft - Embrace, Extend, Assimiliate

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 03:23 PM »

^^That^^ would seem to eliminate the need for a lot of tooth gnashing.

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Living Room / Re: Just Had a Baby Girl~!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 03:09 PM »

Congrats man!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Got Space?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 03:08 PM »

Hm... That is odd behavior. GS doesn't have any type of autorun functionality...so it shouldn't still be running after a reboot.

On the settings, the default is save changes in memory only. So you'll need to select either the registry or GotSpace.ini option in the Store This Configuration In section of settings before you hit ok. This was to make it configurable while remaining Zero Presence portable.

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Living Room / Re: Fedora/Microsoft - Embrace, Extend, Assimiliate

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 10:35 AM »

Soldering? lol.

-mahesh2k (June 01, 2012, 10:02 AM)

Sure, why go through all the trouble of a complex and possibly unstable hack if the chip can be circumvented with a few well placed jumpers. Granted it does require a bit if skill ... But then again so does Linux.

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Living Room / Re: Fedora/Microsoft - Embrace, Extend, Assimiliate

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 10:30 AM »

First part of last paragraph:

The last option wasn't hugely attractive, but is probably the least worst. Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access edit: The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further edit: once paid you can sign as many binaries as you want), but it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been.

On the other (SSL cert. stuff), that's my understanding also.

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Living Room / Re: Fedora/Microsoft - Embrace, Extend, Assimiliate

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 09:56 AM »

I'm guessing this will end up being one of those "inspired" (pissed off) too many of the wrong people stories that ends up with the TPM chips/boot keys being cracked. Granted it might require a soldering iron ... But it'll happen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: which programming/scripting language has the largest number of functions?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 09:09 AM »

the documents (files) should always accompany the executable and should be immediately available

-kalos (May 31, 2012, 02:50 PM)

I think your best choices are either a self-repacking archive or just having the files in the same directory.

-4wd (May 31, 2012, 09:16 PM)

+1 - f0dder did a great job with the self editing password storage utility fskrit, but... It requires some rather tricky shenanigans with the temp folder to pull off. I really don't think that it would be safe - which he also expressed - for a complex data storage application.

The OTF unpack/repack sounds good, but it also mandates a pristine exit to avoid data loss (eek!).

Same directory storage would also allow for much more flexible development options as you wouldn't be tied to something that offered low level system code access.

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General Software Discussion / Re: telephone by pc

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 08:31 AM »

Phone Dialer works just fine, and has been part of Windows since 95.

-Stoic Joker (June 01, 2012, 07:08 AM)

You're right, something I've never used and completely forgot about.

Still need to pass a highlighted number to it but at least you don't have to screw around with the comms side of things.

-4wd (June 01, 2012, 08:14 AM)

True, the Win7 version does have a phone book and speed dials, but no command line options. I did scare up this with a quick google search: http://www.iansharpe.com/phone-dial.php ...It might just be a hit.

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General Software Discussion / Windows 8 Release Preview Available

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 07:39 AM »

The Window 8 Release Preview has been released and is currently available on the MSDN

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General Software Discussion / Re: telephone by pc

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 07:08 AM »

Phone Dialer works just fine, and has been part of Windows since 95.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 01, 2012, 06:43 AM »

Being cynical I suspect your original Norton removal wasn't complete (it rarely is IME of Norton even though they assure you it is) and interfered with MSE (wouldn't be at all surprised if that was deliberate). That's why I always use not only the normal uninstall routine but then use the Norton Removal tool to make sure it has all gone. (Interesting to note that Norton provide such a tool for uninstall issues - even for their latest versions).

-Carol Haynes (June 01, 2012, 06:15 AM)

+1 In a choice between NIS and a root kit ... I'd sooner trust the root kit. As at least they're highly optimized and have clear agendas.

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Living Room / Re: The Pirate Bay - Domain Updates & Prison

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 27, 2012, 08:12 AM »

Um... Wow! [Face Palm] ...Good one! 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Visual Studio 11 Express to only build Metro apps

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 25, 2012, 02:15 PM »

The Windows SDK will no longer build .NET apps.

from http://msdn.microsof...rdware/hh852363.aspx

The Windows SDK no longer ships with a complete command-line build environment. The Windows SDK now requires a compiler and build environment to be installed separately. If you require a complete development environment, including compilers and a build environment, Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta is available for download.

-wraith808 (May 25, 2012, 12:55 PM)

Hm... Okay, that does suck ... But can you combine the SDK with the Express edition of VS? ...If that is an option then it might not be that bad overall.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Visual Studio 11 Express to only build Metro apps

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 25, 2012, 02:10 PM »

@Stoic Joker

Don't you think that they totally dropped the ball with dropping support for dynamic help in VS 2010? I liked that. It really made learning new features very easy. That was a total screw up as far as I can see.

-Renegade (May 25, 2012, 11:34 AM)

Um... I never even noticed it was missing. I'd always just been in the habbit of hitting F1 to lookup whatever the cursor was on, and that still seems to work. Also with VS2010 they have the OTF popups that tell you what the function you're working on needs/has available for overloads ... So the whole thing is really kinda paint-by-numbers easy. I've never really worked with the .NET stuff much before, and I just started a complete ground up rewrite to combine several of our disparate internal systems into a single interface. So it's baptism-by-fire for me doing it with 2010.NET ... And its been going suprizingly well. I've even started writing my own utility class for sanitizing user input.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Visual Studio 11 Express to only build Metro apps

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 25, 2012, 11:20 AM »

Meh... VS 2010 is lots good enough. And actually, VS 2005 was good enough.

And besides, who would actually want to pay for an IDE to write Metro apps?

-Renegade (May 25, 2012, 04:08 AM)

Amen to that (on both points)!

Actually the thing I can't seem to figure out is what's the big deal about VS11 Express leading with Metro only? Granted I've only been using the std/pro editions of VS (for years), but I've gotten away with it by using the latest SDK with whatever VS ver I was using ... Hell I still like to use VS05 for quite a bit.

Do the VS Express editions attempt to prevent you from switching over to an updated SDK??

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Living Room / Re: 'Star Trek' actor James Doohan's ashes sent to space

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 24, 2012, 12:49 PM »

Captain! The ashes ... They Can't Take the Strain..!

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Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 24, 2012, 06:41 AM »

Dell has had an N series of machines for their business line that comes with OpenDOS for quite a while. Just look for the Precision T1600n.  I've had ~50 of the T1500/T1600s in the field for a year or so, and they're really nice machines.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 23, 2012, 11:53 AM »

Oh hell I don't know, I'm running on only a half hours sleep in the last 48 hours ... Did I get the question wrong??

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 23, 2012, 11:42 AM »

Not sure what language you're working in but T-Clock is written in pure C and the source is available on the download page of my website.

The code extensively modifies the default systemtray context menu (at runtime only) to add submenu options to it ... And it was originally coded to work in Win95.

It might help give you a direction to try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2012, 12:51 PM »

(One of the first things I did with 7 was to lose Aero.)

-cranioscopical (May 22, 2012, 12:20 PM)

I Just drop the border thickness from (the default) 4 to 2, and find it rather handy for keeping better track of exactly which windows are behind the active one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 22, 2012, 11:43 AM »

I have no problem with Aero, never did. But the guy's article has some holes in the facts department.

Even given what it did, it was apparently piggy.
...(Apple fawning removed to help his credibility)...
 But I still don’t understand why Aero consumed resources as voraciously as it did. Microsoft had to build in a feature which shut the special effects off if they were bringing a PC to its knees — which, on the reasonably powerful desktop which I bought in 2007, they often did.

Frankly it didn't, it was just really easy to pick on. The desktop had been converted from bmp to 3D - requiring a beefier video card - and the hardware crowd was dragging their feet getting a stable driver together. Sure Aero was a bit of 3D fluff at the tip of the iceburg...but the 3D desktop was the actual problem. That and cheapout hardware packages (like XP machines that came with only 256MB of RAM...) I'd been a long time nVidia user...until Vista. I had to switch to ATi and I've never looked back (or had any problems).

such as the System Tray cheerfully allowing third-party programs to install unwanted crudware — stuff that bogged down your PC, got in your face  and was sometimes devilishly hard to uninstall. But Microsoft ignored such long-standing flaws in favor of playing up Aero’s empty calies.

And the version in 2009′s Windows 7 looked better, performed better and was accompanied by other improvements with more substance, such as the ability to banish pesky System Tray icons.

These two put together are just to stupid for words... Hiding an icon from the user doesn't improve performance. It just makes it harder to figure out what is wasting system resources. Turning the programs off will actually resolve the issue. After listening to end lusers mindlessly babble that nothing is running... for so many time I think that allowing the icons to be hidding is the dumbest thing MS ever did (...Second only to hiding file extensions by default).

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Living Room / Re: Encrypted DNS queries via OpenDNS dnscrypt for Windows / linux / BSD / iOS / OSX

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 18, 2012, 07:58 PM »

Will the DNS Crypt ("client") software play nice with the MS DNS server service, and only encrypt the forwarded (external domain) requests?

-Stoic Joker (May 18, 2012, 05:04 PM)

Suck-it-and-see?

-IainB (May 18, 2012, 06:24 PM)

Time is a factor - Between work and some recent family issues I have none - I was hoping someone else had taken a crack at it. I can't risk knocking my lab offline right now. *Sigh*

(on a brighter note...) The OpenDNS account UI is quite nice. I've been using it successfully for a few years to manage web filtering for client networks. Between UAC, MSE, & OpenDNS the bugg problem is pretty much licked.

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 18, 2012, 05:08 PM »

I'm going to vote Tablet as I'm hoping (albeit pessimistically) that the new batch of Win8 devices with finally kill the iPad's inane dominance of the tablet market.

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Living Room / Re: Encrypted DNS queries via OpenDNS dnscrypt for Windows / linux / BSD / iOS / OSX

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 18, 2012, 05:04 PM »

(Lacking the time to check) I'm wondering how well (/if) this would work inside a (DNS dependent) domain environment.

-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2012, 06:29 AM)

Currently, I gather that:

• DNS Crypt would need to be installed and running on each client device.
• The routers would need to be configured to use OpenDNS.
• The encryption takes place between the client and the Open DNS node.
• In a chain of Client-->Router-->ISP node-->OpenDNS node, components inbetween the first and last links would thus just see encrypted traffic.

-IainB (May 18, 2012, 04:10 PM)

Right, therein lying the problem. In a domain, DNS must be handled only by the internal domains DNS server (usually the DC in small shops). Which makes the question: Will the DNS Crypt ("client") software play nice with the MS DNS server service, and only encrypt the forwarded (external domain) requests?