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General Software Discussion / Re: Spam filtering

« Last post by Mark0 on October 24, 2008, 08:06 AM »

Gmail for me too.
With it, for all practical effects SPAM is a non existent problem for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 100-fold WPA/WPA2 bruteforce speed increase

« Last post by Mark0 on October 15, 2008, 08:20 AM »

With a long password (as it was always recommended) even a 100 folds increase doesn't make much of a difference.

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Living Room / The eyeballing game

« Last post by Mark0 on October 13, 2008, 11:10 AM »

Check this cool game / test:
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

I tried a couple of times and I made a not so good 5.04 and then 3.70.

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: Mouser's new book

« Last post by Mark0 on October 10, 2008, 07:40 AM »

BWHAHAH!  

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Living Room / Re: What Sports Do You Participate In?

« Last post by Mark0 on September 27, 2008, 07:24 AM »

I'm partial to skiing, having lived some youth years here: Misurina Lake
Also a bit of Ping Pong.

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Living Room / Re: Has the LHC destroyed the world yet?

« Last post by Mark0 on September 12, 2008, 01:22 PM »

The intro scene from Another World is pretty actual: YouTube
What a beautyful game, and it was about the 1990.

I have bough the new PC version in high-res the moment I discovered it!
http://www.anotherwo...erworld_uk/index.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 11, 2008, 05:32 AM »

Page Menu (the gadget just right after the address bar), Save As...

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by Mark0 on September 09, 2008, 05:52 AM »

Italy

Ciao!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 08, 2008, 06:02 PM »

As for some stats... on my sites I get from 2% to 5% page views from Chrome.
That make it the 3rd browser, more traffic than from Opera & Safari.

Mouser, maybe you share some browser stats for DonationCoder?

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Living Room / Servo Park

« Last post by Mark0 on September 08, 2008, 06:34 AM »

Compared to complex and still not much effective current auto-parking, a simple an low tech 5th small wheel on an idraulic piston really make a difference:

YouTube - Servo Park - with credits

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: srt files

« Last post by Mark0 on September 07, 2008, 08:59 PM »

The open source VLC also does that (and don't need any particular codec installed):
VideoLAN - VLC media player

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General Software Discussion / Tip of My Tongue

« Last post by Mark0 on September 05, 2008, 01:08 PM »

A nice web tool by Chirag Mehta:



Tipo Of My Tongue - Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- key reasons for its debut

« Last post by Mark0 on September 04, 2008, 05:47 AM »

A negative take on Chrome from OSNews.  Not saying i agree with all of it, but i think it's worth sharing:

-mouser (September 03, 2008, 02:37 PM)

Indeed, near all the comments agree that's one of the worst article OS news has ever published: highly biased, inaccurate, presenting personal conjecture as facts, etc.
Maybe is a sign of the MS damage control team/army in action? 

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Living Room / Re: Google lovers, Chrome adapters- Google Chrome`s meticulous caring privacy policy

« Last post by Mark0 on September 04, 2008, 04:48 AM »

I think that they know that someone eventually will be able to sniff all the traffic Chrome make, interpret / decrypt it, and blog out for all the Digg / Reddit population to see, if there's something even remotely strange!

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Living Room / Re: Google lovers, Chrome adapters- Google Chrome`s meticulous caring privacy policy

« Last post by Mark0 on September 04, 2008, 04:18 AM »

This is all I found:

Matt Cutts: Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com?

For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com.

So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there’s anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on.

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Living Room / Re: Google lovers, Chrome adapters- Google Chrome`s meticulous caring privacy policy

« Last post by Mark0 on September 04, 2008, 04:05 AM »

Parts of the EULA were simply lifted from other services - were supposedly they made some sense.
It's now corrected:

TapTheHive - This Post Not Made In Chrome; Google's EULA Sucks Is Fixed

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

12. Software updates ...

Bye!

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDLM -- deserves a thread!

« Last post by Mark0 on September 03, 2008, 10:13 AM »

Cool! Thanks for this tool's suggestion!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 03, 2008, 09:24 AM »

One thing I noted is how fast all this Google browser happened.
Until a couple of days ago, I haven't heard any serious rumors or hint about such kind of release.
Then... BOOM! I think it come as a real surprise for many.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 03, 2008, 08:27 AM »

For systems of such complexity, it can be also seen as being realistic!
But yes, I understand your point, of course, even if I disagree.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 03, 2008, 08:08 AM »

Hopefully Chrome will be developed and strengthened quickly, not stay in beta forever like GMail or Google Documents!

-Darwin (September 03, 2008, 08:02 AM)

That's just a philosophy thing: Gmail for example may still be marked as a beta, but it's actively developed and  works pretty well, doesn't it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by Mark0 on September 02, 2008, 09:14 PM »

Java works pretty well with Chrome, but you need the last Java 6 rc10.
http://java.sun.com/...ase/downloads/ea.jsp
Just download, install, and then it will work.

On another note, JavaScript performances are great!

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Living Room / Re: Battle of the 6 Online Malware (AntiVirus) File Scanners

« Last post by Mark0 on August 31, 2008, 08:54 AM »

Now VirusTotal have added my TrID file identifier among their analysis tools! 

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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« Last post by Mark0 on August 30, 2008, 06:46 AM »

Exactly! Here's a screenshot that show it (above, WordPad Preview; below, the print to PDF document).



Using styles like bold & italic on small fonts makes can lead to even more interesting results.
IIRC there was some posts about differents font rendering philosophies between Win & OS X even here's at DonationCoder. Basically, Win trade on screen quality, pixel-perfect rendering for strict typographic correctness. Or something like that!

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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« Last post by Mark0 on August 29, 2008, 08:31 PM »

Years ago the complaint was levelled that Windows was not truly WYSIWYG for publishing - but that complaint really died with the introduction of TrueType Fonts.

-Carol Haynes (August 28, 2008, 12:54 PM)

That's not always true. There are some quirks in the Win way of rendering fonts between low & hi DPI devices (basically due to certain choices done regarding hinting).
Here's a simple test:

[Select]

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Cut & paste the above in WordPad. Using Arial (Western) 10, the right margin will be just about "in line".
Do a preview and it still show up just right.

Now print it (even with a PDF virtual printer), and see the difference!
Clearly this represent an extremisation, but on a complex / real document, that may lead to some pretty interesting effects in some circumstances!

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: What is a mouser? What does it mean to mouser someone?

« Last post by Mark0 on August 18, 2008, 04:55 PM »

None less than Michelangelo is said to have done something like that quite often - ending encounters by walking away mid-conversation. So it may be a trait of the genius!