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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on August 03, 2013, 10:02 PM »

As far as gadgets go, you can do a lot worse than a "weather station".

-mouser (July 14, 2013, 04:40 PM)

Spoiler

Displays nicely all the key information without lots of extra useless info. 

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Living Room / Re: Damn Hackers!

« Last post by 4wd on August 03, 2013, 08:24 AM »

And then there's the always useful WPS vulnerability: WPS Router Flaw Information

@CleverCat: Make sure you disable WPS in your router once you have set up any wireless devices that require it.

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

« Last post by 4wd on August 02, 2013, 08:48 PM »

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by 4wd on August 02, 2013, 05:41 AM »

Just finished The Last Sherlock Holmes Story:



Good twist on some of the events of the time and other Holmes stories.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus 10 : Some question about it.

« Last post by 4wd on August 02, 2013, 12:29 AM »

Why don't you put it in Details/Power mode and see what the column is called?

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on August 01, 2013, 11:28 PM »

So, it serves to make me all the more aware of what a fine job of proofing you two guys did, Perry and 4wd. Kudos to the two of you!

-kyrathaba (August 01, 2013, 07:35 PM)

Aw shucks  

Stop it or else (NSFK)

EDIT: What happens when you get too much praise.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus 10 : Some question about it.

« Last post by 4wd on August 01, 2013, 10:14 PM »

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Living Room / Re: SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps Specification Set and Ready for Development

« Last post by 4wd on August 01, 2013, 09:19 PM »

Just last month, I probably spent hours trying to figure out what pci addon card i need to get to make use of the usb 3.0 ports on my tower and also add some spare ports for an external drive or hub.  The only ones available are the largely unreliable ones made in china.  And they have issues, I don't use any of my large 3.5" drives externally on them because they experience corruption issues because of the driver or something.

-superboyac (August 01, 2013, 03:02 PM)

Reading that I can't decide whether you want a PCIe card to add more USB3 ports or a PCI bracket to connect to ports headers already available on the motherboard.

FWIW, I've had an ASUS U3S6 PCIe card in my computer for the last two years running without a problem, cost AU$20.

Edit: Ah, do you want a PCIe card with internal headers to connect to ports on the case?

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on August 01, 2013, 01:31 AM »

OI! Projected release date for book two is 30th October.....OMG!

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on July 31, 2013, 07:29 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on July 31, 2013, 07:18 PM »

How's it look now, 4wd? The contact slide-out form is at the very top-right, where it won't block written content.

-kyrathaba (July 31, 2013, 02:23 PM)

Much better, still seems to be a bit wide than it needs to be for my browser window but the amount of content obscured is a lot less than previous.

If it could be moved closer to the right border it probably wouldn't obscure the main page content at all.

I probably should have mentioned it earlier but my normal browser window width is 1024 if you want to test at that resolution.

I'm in negotiations with a professional voice-over actor/producer about having him make an audio-book version of Kyrathaba Rising for a split of royalties.

-kyrathaba (July 31, 2013, 07:10 PM)

Better look at the last lot of comments on GDocs then  

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Living Room / Re: Manning Verdict in: guilty on all counts but one

« Last post by 4wd on July 31, 2013, 01:52 AM »

He really should have been tried here in Australia. Lots of kangaroos to help set the atmosphere better.

-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 10:48 PM)

Does that mean you haven't eaten them all?

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 09:18 PM »

Not really, floating menus that you can't get rid of are one reason to avoid a site AFAIAC.

ie. It obscures content, which is what I visit a site for - if I have to keep scrolling around just to read what's under something that really doesn't need to be there, then I won't go to that site.

Is there really anything wrong with a button at the top and bottom?

I know it's only my view, (and to be honest I don't visit blog sites anyway), but in the end you are trying to promote your book/writing which kind of makes it commercial - and very rarely have I seen any commercial site that willingly obscures what they're trying to sell.



And it's actually bigger now.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 08:34 PM »

A slight critique on one item of your site:



Please don't automatically assume everyone has a 4k pixel wide display and/or that they always run their browser at full resolution.

It's even worse on a mobile where it obscures a higher percentage of the screen.

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Living Room / Re: Why have [Youtube]link string[/youtube] fields gone invisible on DCF?

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 07:31 PM »

Maybe the URLs were being fetched from your history cache? I had to clear my cache to get rid of them and start afresh.

-IainB (July 30, 2013, 10:22 AM)

I don't have Pale Moon, (or Firefox), set to use a persistant cache, (disc cache disabled), it's purely RAM based which is cleared every time it exits - which I had to do to install HTTPS Finder, (exit that is).  But I also cleared what little cache there was, just in case.

I thought I had it set up so that I don't automatically load any embedded media. That doesn't necessarily mean that is what is happening though!    
What would I need to do to prove that, either way?

If it's set to not autoplay then you should get the same kind of thing I get in the screenshot above, (apparently Pale Moon only).

AFAIK, the only thing I'm doing to achieve that are what you mentioned here and the one I mentioned here - not running any addons to block any media automatically playing.

ADDENDUM: OK, it appears as if it's a "feature" of Pale Moon - I just downloaded the portable version and ran it with no addons and no changes to default settings except for the two about:config entries mentioned.  If I then go to DC in HTTPS, the media is displayed as per my screenshot.  In Firefox, you get what you said - nothing.

So, my bad, sorry 

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

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 07:46 AM »

Well, with the qualification that they don't come back from the dead... undead politicians? Good grief. They're destructive enough as it is!

-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 06:05 AM)

I don't know, the chance to kill the bastards over and over again?

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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Living Room / Re: Why have [Youtube]link string[/youtube] fields gone invisible on DCF?

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 07:32 AM »

Well, I reinstalled HTTPS-Everywhere along with HTTPS Finder, (no rules for DC created), and I can still see the videos in the forum, still get the red exclamation mark against pages with partially encrypted contents.

A question: Do you automatically load embedded video, (I don't automatically load any embedded media) ?

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

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 04:59 AM »

Support mandatory euthanasia for seniors to help keep health care costs down.

-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 03:58 AM)

I think something along the lines of The Purge might work better, as long as they take politicians off the protected list.

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Living Room / Re: Why have [Youtube]link string[/youtube] fields gone invisible on DCF?

« Last post by 4wd on July 30, 2013, 03:23 AM »

Your screenshot is odd though. I could not have done that. I wonder what is different in my setup?
In your screenshot, what does the red icon with an exclamation point signify?

-IainB (July 30, 2013, 02:20 AM)

I believe it means that some content on the page is unencrypted.  So while the content served from DC is encrypted, any external links to YouTube aren't.

You may find it better to mark HTTPS Everywhere to not action youtube.com rather than DC.

I used to use HTTPS Everywhere, (and the Greasemonkey alternative: HTTPS Please), but it caused more problems than it solved - easier to type https when I want it.

Just tested it now. It's consistent and repeatable:
Invisible YouTube frames: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21962.0
Visible YouTube frames: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21962.0

Both those work fine for me, top one indicates some of the page is unencrypted.

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Living Room / Re: Why have [Youtube]link string[/youtube] fields gone invisible on DCF?

« Last post by 4wd on July 29, 2013, 08:36 PM »

Define "invisible", I use HTTPS for DC and have no problem:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by 4wd on July 28, 2013, 10:58 PM »

I've got Win8Pro x86 running on my Acer netbook, Atom N270, 1.5GB RAM, 60GB 4200RPM HDD.

Booting from cold: abysmally slow - a lot slower than XP
Booting from hibernate: fast, about 15-20 seconds not counting BIOS startup

Hybrid sleep is disabled, it just flattens the battery.  Boots to Desktop, none of that 'tile' rubbish.

And for some reason the WiFi glitches after a while, needing it to be turned off then back on - something that never happened under XP.

For what I use it for on the netbook, it's fine - but XP would do just as well, take up a lot less space, and run better because I wouldn't need a pagefile, (which I needed to turn on for Win8 to stop it complaining about lack of RAM).

I'll probably reinstall 'nlitened' XP on the netbook since its requirements are a lot less, and maybe give Win8 a go on my Desktop after 8.1 comes out.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on July 28, 2013, 10:52 PM »

I never watch trailers or anything about a movie before I see it,

-Renegade (July 28, 2013, 10:32 PM)

For The Colony, neither had I, but from watching other movies that had the same 'adversaries', (hinted at in the first few minutes), the narration of what happened to the planet, the SOS, the initial confrontation between Paxton and Zegers, etc, etc - it all adds up to give you a pretty good idea of what's going to happen further on.  As Shades said.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on July 28, 2013, 10:10 PM »

Gallowwalkers

Don't expect anything meaningful though. It's straight up action/horror/western.

-Renegade (July 28, 2013, 01:08 PM)

Having watched it the night before you posted this: not much action, not much horror, and (apart from the environ) not much western.

And I'll go along with Shades w.r.t. The Colony, much of the storyline was apparent after the first 10-15 minutes.  I still found it a decently done movie but I won't be watching it again unless I'm really bored.

Another classic last night:

Quatermass And The Pit (movie version)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus 10 : Some question about it.

« Last post by 4wd on July 28, 2013, 02:56 AM »

that hasn't worked for me since upgrading to Dopus 10 - I presumed they had disabled it for some reason - does it still work there?

-tomos (July 28, 2013, 02:14 AM)

Probably because you turned it off



Works here, DOpus 10.5.2.0 on Win7 x64 and Win8 x86.

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Living Room / Re: town in Canada getting 1 Gbps internet cheaper than Google Fiber

« Last post by 4wd on July 28, 2013, 12:50 AM »

There was a news story on ABC here a few days ago: Tennessee town with fastest internet speeds in the US

BEN KNIGHT: Part of that is because the big data companies have learned from the Chattanooga experience. They've successfully lobbied 18 US states to pass laws that block other cities from building their own fibre networks.

If that isn't anti-competitive, what is?