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General Software Discussion / Re: Network Clien/Server based Password Management System?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 11, 2007, 05:05 AM »

It's possible keepass can be set up this way, i'm not sure.

-mouser (January 11, 2007, 04:50 AM)

Oh, i misunderstood the post. I thought it was only supposed to acess the encrpyted database at the server through ftp without changing it. But apparently, no even that is possible, you'd have to download it, and then delete it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Network Clien/Server based Password Management System?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 11, 2007, 04:41 AM »

I prefer keepass.
You could make it have the passwords file in your server and then acess it via ftp.

If you only have a few passwords, you might look at fsekrit wich would allow you to create an encryptable plain text file and have it in your server. It's the most portable solution because it doesn't envolve any instaling of programs on the client machine you can just download the passwords file (which would be only a few KB in size), excecute it, insert password and get access to all your passwords. As soon as you closed it, it'd get protected again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a very simple group brainstorming site

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 10, 2007, 05:27 PM »

This may sound stupid, but you could just use pastebin. Nothing simpler, just make one first post, give the link to all of you, and then just post follow-ups on that same post. It doesn't have any permissions (although there's a way to make a private pastebin) and it doesn't have threading, but it's as simple as it gets

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Living Room / Re: My Amazing Secret for How to Get Great Publicity and Get Rich in the Web2 World

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 10, 2007, 05:08 PM »

I have the third step which I'm willing to reveal to anyone with a small donation of $300.

-Deozaan (January 10, 2007, 04:54 PM)

Oh, man! Thank you for the heads up! I was about to fall into that scam. Mouse just betrayed my confidence

Will you accept the deal i proposed to mouser? (but paying you $300 instead of $999)?

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Living Room / Re: My Theory of How to Get Good Publicity in the Web2.0 World

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 10, 2007, 04:50 PM »

Oh man... Fantastic! I'll bookmark this post right away so i'll know what to do when i own a company and want to make tons of money!
Thanks mouser, you're the best! 

(btw.. can i make tons of money with your method first and pay you the $999 after i'm rich?)

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Living Room / Re: newbie, can you help, Love clipboard help spell

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 10, 2007, 02:12 PM »

None of mouser's programs make entries in the registry, which means that the easiest way to solve that problem would be to just copy the instalation directory to the other computer.
If you just want to copy the preferences, just copy the "ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini" file

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Living Room / Re: Scam-O-Rama: Ridiculously Bad Attempts to Scam People Out of Something

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 10, 2007, 10:06 AM »

That must be the biggest collection of scam junk i've ever seen!
Curious is how some of them are so similar to each other.
The few i read were all about nigeria's oil company.

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Living Room / Re: Favorites Fun!

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 09, 2007, 06:26 AM »

  Not that's a fun way to pick a smilie to a post!

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Living Room / Re: Why Blurring Sensitive Information is a Bad Choice for Hiding It

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 08:47 AM »

I see.
Another question: doesn't the method mentioned in the article only work if all bluring methods use the same algorithm? (which they don't, or do they?)

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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 08:20 AM »

I don't do much, but still i always have something to do:

• Gaming (both online and offline)
  
• Reading/Writing at DC
  
• Chat on msnmessenger and on DC's irc channel
  
• Watching Movies and series
  
• Programming (for school and DC)
  
• Studying
• Trying to impove my computer experience (new software, new tweaks, new hardware, etc)

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Living Room / Re: Why Blurring Sensitive Information is a Bad Choice for Hiding It

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 05:16 AM »

I think that there's also another issue: wouldn't the person who made the bluring algorith be able to reverse engineer it and get the original text?

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 05:04 AM »

I guess i never made a decent presentation about myself in this thread, so here it is:

Hi! My real name is João G Paiva.
I live in Portugal and i'm a student.
I study computer engeneering at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
I live with 2 friends of mine, who also study at the same university and, as we live very near to our university, we have lots of free time, which i translate into heavily frequenting DC.
I don't have any hobbys other than trying to constantly improve my computer experience. I do like to occasionally play squash, the only sport that i really enjoy playing.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 04:26 AM »

Man.. This is cool!
Now i need to make a decent post on the "let's get to know each other" thread

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Drag and Drop Mouse Issues Killing Me

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 07, 2007, 05:26 PM »

Do you have any ahk script that monitors the "when mouse down" position? Possibly, that script is interfering with the normal behaviour of the mouse.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help with a group.

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 07, 2007, 05:15 AM »

Here you go!
Just copy this screenshot to a new group:



to be easy to copy, here's the text on the image:
^lucky (.*)
Google I'm Feeling Lucky "$$1" | http://www.google.com/search?q=$$1&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.08 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 4, 2007

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 06, 2007, 07:06 PM »

I'd go for that being the default behaviour and not adding another option. I can't think of any situation where that would be handy. If one wants to keep a listof most frequently ran programs on the blank search, that person should use a default alias.

[edit] jdmarch: do you have the latest build? i think i reported this to mouser not much time ago and he fixed it... [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a more structured Microsoft Word (for collecting documents & notes)

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 06, 2007, 06:52 AM »

My first reaction is to tell you to look at note-taking software.
I don't think there could be any problems with that kind of software not being able to keep or search through the data, they are made for that
Also, there's a (too) good resource here at DC about it: https://www.donation...=2362.0]find it here.
That's 15 pages of posts, though

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General Software Discussion / Re: Hide icons from desktop

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 06, 2007, 06:01 AM »

What screenshot?
Will someone get this stupid attach system a useful help section!!   

-Curt (January 06, 2007, 05:52 AM)

Mouser already did, Curt.. Check out https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1996.0

(i edited your post to show the screenshot)

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Living Room / Re: Jay is Games Flash Competition 2: Need Ideas!

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 05, 2007, 12:22 PM »

Deozaan: This is donationcoder, i don't think that a gui, help file, and all that paraphernalia would be needed, i guess that only some .ini file with places where to put bad guys would be enough for the people here to do some cool stuff

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 05, 2007, 12:15 PM »

Can I request that next time all of you people living outside the united states please fly in to pick up your cup from me in person - the international air mail shipping is a killer!

-mouser (January 05, 2007, 11:22 AM)

Sorry to hear that!
In these cases, we should pay the international shiping

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General Software Discussion / Re: disk/filesystem benchmarking

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 05, 2007, 05:27 AM »

  Great coincidence!
A few days ago, i was in the exact same situation. I found this. It doesn't present extensive information, but works very well and alowed to, at least, compare my 2 disks and my friends' disks. It was also useful to know the read and write speed of my disks

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Developer's Corner / Re: Sorting Algorithms Compared

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 05, 2007, 03:32 AM »

Here's another site i used when i was studying algorithms in school:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca...va/sorting-demo.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Remoting Software Questions

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 04, 2007, 04:43 PM »

jgpaiva: VNC doesn't need to be installed on the PC I'm remoting to? How does it connect? Is there an install-free, USB version of VNC?

-Deozaan (January 04, 2007, 01:16 PM)

The VNC program i used had 2 working methods:
- the client would connect through his browser and would use the remote machine there.
- the client would connect through a small program (which i think doesn't require administration privileges)

Hmm...    Has anyone tried to remote from a computer you're remoting to? Or trying to have the remote computer remote back to the one you're sitting at? 

-Deozaan (January 04, 2007, 01:41 PM)

Yep, i did that. With VNC, it works
But you get some strange results. It's quite funny

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General Software Discussion / Re: Remoting Software Questions

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 04, 2007, 12:02 PM »

I'm not exactly sure if it logs out the local user, but i think not. I think it goes to the dialog you mentioned.
I see what you mean. Also, rdp doesn't need an extra program running
If you only intend to use it on other computer with winxp pro, that might be the best option. But if you use other OSs, go for vnc. It also doesn't need anything installed on the client machine either.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Remoting Software Questions

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 04, 2007, 10:36 AM »

I've used microsoft's rdp. It's simple, and has the advantage of being accessible in any winxp pro.
I could set it up in my local lan, but couldn't set it up on the internet (i didn't bother to find out how to configure my router for that).
But there's a problem with that protocol: IIRC, as soon as the remote user logs on, the session is terminated for the local user.
Also, i think that vnc might be a better option, as it allows you to access your computer through a browser window, and i think it is faster.