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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by f0dder on November 09, 2009, 07:55 PM »
Sorry but 32 bits can only address 4Gb - you can fudge it by adding offsets (mirrors) but it is a fudge. PAE is a fudge. You aren't physically addressing more than 4Gb at any one time it is like having a book - you can view any double page but you can't see 4 page at once - unless you use mirrors!
-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2009, 07:18 PM)
And, technically, x86 doesn't have mirrors - only a single 32bit address space, where multiple parts can be mapped to a larger physical pool... but no mirrors.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux
« Last post by f0dder on November 09, 2009, 07:52 PM »
But if both software are available on both OS and both software are stable on them, do you really think something that's on Fluxbox or XFCE or even Gnome is in general going to be slower than one on XP or 7?
-Paul Keith (November 09, 2009, 06:49 PM)
Yup :)

Video drivers that still aren't fully accelerated, X11 system that in general seems inferior compared to Windows, and executables that take forever to load on linux (on the same hardware, Visual Studio ready to use under Windows in shorter time than whatever Wordpad clone gentoo came with? That's embarassing).
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General Software Discussion / Re: VirtualProtect
« Last post by f0dder on November 09, 2009, 02:22 PM »
The thing that makes me uneasy about trying it is hooking into the rebooting process. I don't know how well that's going to work if you get hit with a real nasty.  First thing they target is the boot system.
-MilesAhead (November 09, 2009, 02:18 PM)
How many pieces of malware have targeted the boot system since the 16bit DOS days? Adding itself to (some form of) autorun doesn't count, bootsector or NTLDR patching does :)
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.40 needs some abuse!
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 02:12 PM »
I understand your reluctance to touch clipboard control. I use Clipmate, and the developer doesn't want to implement wildcard matching. Well...
-Writer (November 08, 2009, 12:49 PM)
Seems a bit arrogant to introduce a clipboard format extension for other people to use, but not wanting to implement a 5-minute wildcard matching - you say it already has the capability to do (non-wildcard) blocking?

It's not that I think the clipboard blocking thing is a bad idea as such, at least not if "all the relevant people" support it. It's just that it's a somewhat-considerable amount of extra work for something that's handled entirely automatically right now :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 10:59 AM »
I can't remember any registry corruption issues since moving from Win9x and FAT32 to NT and NTFS... well, except for a few instances of me writing device drivers with nasty bugs, but those have always been tested on a dedicated system :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: On free speech in forums
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 10:50 AM »
Banned for being secular or swearing a bit? Screw that :)

For a slight bit of seriousness: "free speech" is relative; there's no such thing as absolute freedom, as every action has consequences. But where is the line to be drawn? I think most people would agree that methods for child molestation isn't something we'd like to see discussed anywhere. But is removing spam posts a bad form of moderation? Is it bad to require people to reveal their affiliations if they're posting about a company or software product?
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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 10:39 AM »
All those different layers you were talking about (audio and such) need to be consolidated & the best taken from each to form one cohesive standard layer for each area. I love to tweak my computer as much as the next guy (some would say even more), but even I draw the line at spending an afternoon experimenting & figuring out in which order to install my audio & video layers.
-Innuendo (November 08, 2009, 09:54 AM)
But users WANT choice! And *holds breath* are you claiming the überegosdevelopers should cooperate? *gasp*!
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.40 needs some abuse!
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 07:09 AM »
One problem with fSekrit I have found is that it uses a new name everytime it opens. I understand this is is required. However, there are times when it is necessary to inform clipboard viewers that you do NOT want it to capture the clipboard update.
-Writer (November 08, 2009, 12:28 AM)
I do have to add that random part to the filename - petition your clipboard software developers to add wildcard matching to it's ignore list? :)

While you're making changes to the code, would you be able to implement this flag too:
http://www.clipboard...ore-clipboard-format
-Writer (November 08, 2009, 12:28 AM)
Interesting idea - thing is, I don't do any handling of the clipboard myself, but let the RichEdit control handle it. I could take over and do all this handling manually, but I'm not sure it's worth it...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: Version Control for non-software project for dummies
« Last post by f0dder on November 08, 2009, 06:39 AM »
Stay away from SharePoint - relatively easy getting data into, but when(!) you want to move away from it again because it turned out to be a big tangled mess of FUBAR, well... good luck. (Perhaps we were just super unlucky at school, but that p.o.s system definitely didn't leave with me with impressions of SharePoint).

Have to find something to keep the storage requirements for the repository as low as possible, because currently only the last 3 versions of a project are kept in storage, packaged in zipfiles, and older revisions are just discarded :-\
-Ath (November 08, 2009, 04:13 AM)
SVN is pretty compact because it stores delta-sets rather than complete changes every time (this works for textfiles, not sure if it's implemented for binary files though - which is why I suggested that project database files could be converted to/from text if possible) :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: Version Control for non-software project for dummies
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2009, 02:41 PM »
As you were saying, don't re-invent the wheel.
-Shades (November 07, 2009, 01:51 PM)
Amen to that!

I'm thinking around the lines of making a "friendly and targeted" front-end utilizing SVN as it's back-end system - either by issuing svn.exe commands, or by using the SVN API, and possibly with some "extra" code (ie, to get textual dumps of databases instead of storing them as binary files).
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General Software Discussion / Re: At last: MP3 Lossless!!!
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2009, 12:30 PM »
Am I the only one who thinks MP3 should've died a slow death by now?
-scancode (November 07, 2009, 11:56 AM)
It's still an OK format when you can accept quality loss...
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.40 needs some abuse!
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2009, 07:23 AM »
When FSEKRIT creates a temporary file prior to confirming the save has worked - is the temporary file securely overwritten with random data or "o"s in order to remove a security risk?
-irh (November 07, 2009, 05:21 AM)
No, and there's not much reason to - data is never stored unencrypted. Also, the executable stored in %TEMP% contains only fSekrit itself, none of your own data.

Also, one feature that would be a huge bonus would be for FSEKRIT to reconnise hyperlinks i.e. a 1 click jump to an URL if the url was included in the text
-irh (November 07, 2009, 05:21 AM)
Would be a nice feature, but I don't know how much work it'd take... I'll see if it can be done with the standard RichEdit control without too much fuzz :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2009, 07:17 AM »
The point was: A 32bit OS can address more than the physical limitation of 2^32 if the OS chooses to, (barring hardware limitations).  Thus it's an arbitrary limit imposed by the designer of the OS, eg. MS.
-4wd (November 06, 2009, 07:51 PM)

Not really accurate - a 32-bit CPU and OS can only address 4Gb at any one time. You can use an offset to point to that 4Gb if you want to but, for example, when you are looking at the 4Gb starting at 64Gb you can't see the 4Gb at 16Gb.

The 32-bit OS isn't really addressing more than 4Gb it is just using some trickery to make it appear that way and the software has to collude in the trickery to make it all work.
-Carol Haynes (November 06, 2009, 08:04 PM)
Application software doesn't need to be PAE aware to get advantage of PAE mode, though - with PAE, each app could (theoretically, with a lot of RAM :)) have it's address space backed by physical memory.

EMS memory in DOS worked from kinda the same principle as PAE (though using a very different implementation): mapping a "window" of address space to physical memory. XMS did it differently: copying memory between 16bit-adressable buffers and 32bit addressable memory.
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Living Room / Re: Large hadron collider shut down by bird dropping bread
« Last post by f0dder on November 06, 2009, 07:41 PM »
They need to make that thing highly radioactive, to KILL ALL LIVING. That'd solve that problem.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by f0dder on November 06, 2009, 07:39 PM »
Carol hits pretty close, but is still not 100% spot on the sugar.

32bit OSes can address 4GB of memory just perfectly, and with PAE that 32bit address space can be mapped to a "oh, I can't remember the bit amount, but it's more than you'll see in a single supercomupter node in your lifetime". Before SP1 of XP, you could get the full 4GB physical memory, too. After SP1, an arbitrary limit was introduced: Windows would no longer let you access more than the first 4GB physical address space, even if this limit is insanely arbitrary. The official reason is that "drivers were too flakey, and too many 3rd party vendors ignored the HighPart of PHYSICALADDRESS structures"... which sounds a bit hollow to me, and most likely an excuse to get people to not run servers on non-server Windows versions.

But sure, morons like Creative have never been good at writing proper drivers, and there's been plenty of samples of people not supporting multi-CPU systems etc. So there definitely ARE 32bit drivers that won't work on systems with >32bit physical addresses. But PAE itself isn't a problem, it's enabled by default to take advantage of per-page no-execute :)

Anyway, if it hadn't been for my Vista Immersion experiment, I would have been a clean XP->Win7 user, and would have... mostly... loved it :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Fix Vista so I can drop a file from Windows Explorer to cmd yet again
« Last post by f0dder on November 06, 2009, 11:38 AM »
Ha! I can't believe it! Microsoft restored the original functionality in Windows 7!
-daddydave (November 05, 2009, 08:35 PM)
A lot of things happened internally from Vista to Win7, so it's probably more a question of cmd.exe no longer running in the security context of CSRSS rather than "MS fixed it" :)
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Living Room / Re: Comcast internet throttling is up and running
« Last post by f0dder on November 06, 2009, 10:52 AM »
AT&T is offering him a fixed-IP (/29 subnet) 768K DSL package for just $70/month - and that includes a 'business class' router (w/no installation charge) in exchange for a 1-year contract. And it comes with no bandwidth caps or restrictions on what it gets used for as long as it's legal.
-40hz (November 05, 2009, 02:02 PM)
For $70/mo, I get 20/2 ADSL2+, fixed IP, and no throttling or caps in any way.

Comcast sucks - I hope it'll take a loooooong time before we see such nastzi practices in .dk :)
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Living Room / Re: The Soda Pop Stop - Giant store that only sells soda.. what a sweet video
« Last post by f0dder on November 04, 2009, 07:40 AM »
I'd love to check out that store - the first reason I've ever had to go visit the .us :)
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Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client
« Last post by f0dder on November 03, 2009, 06:38 AM »
FlashFXP > *
-sri (November 03, 2009, 06:36 AM)
It has a nice interface and can do FXP, but the version I checked couldn't be FileZilla for speed when it came to TLS-enabled servers. *shrug* - I stick with FZ these days, the interface is amazingly ugly but it does the job.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Surprised by Win7
« Last post by f0dder on November 02, 2009, 03:36 PM »
The entire business with drive letters is a kludge. It will never be a real OS until they do away with it.  There needs to be standardized storage identification that allows a user assignable alias for a friendly name.  If all the stuff is moved to another storage location the friendly name should just be associated with the non-volatile ID.  Anything less is just hobbyist crap.
-MilesAhead (November 02, 2009, 03:09 PM)
Easily done already, and has been so for years, using NTFS junctions. Not exposed through explorer though, because drive letters work just fine for regular users :)
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Living Room / Re: Seriously, wtf is going on with Apple's Mac vs. Pc ads?
« Last post by f0dder on November 02, 2009, 10:56 AM »
It's interesting there is a blue screen [...]
-Carol Haynes (November 01, 2009, 03:16 PM)
it's the cliché isnt it - well, the mac propaganda cliché I mean.
-tomos (November 02, 2009, 08:23 AM)
Cute that they're still using the Win9x BSOD screen... it's probably out of ignorance, but it's imho it's pretty fitting... NT very rarely crashes except for flawed hardware or buggy 3rd-party drivers :)
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Living Room / Re: Seriously, wtf is going on with Apple's Mac vs. Pc ads?
« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2009, 03:20 PM »
It's interesting there is a blue screen - my memory of working with the early Macs in the 80s was of a blank screen with a picture of a bomb in the middle. At least BSODs give you some info as to what has gone wrong - Mac never did (apart from a cryptic undocumented long number).
-Carol Haynes (November 01, 2009, 03:16 PM)
And pre-OSX, macs were godawful unstable. One crashing app? *b00m*, crashed OS. Even Win9x felt more resilient - I can't remember getting a BSOD from browsing the web, apart from maliciously crafted websites... with the macs at the local library, it was quite a different story.

Did pre-OSX even have preemptive multitasking? I seem to recall that a busy app could more or less lock up the entire system, but it's been quite some years...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you touch-type or hunt-and-peck?
« Last post by f0dder on October 30, 2009, 08:47 AM »
There was a time when people didn't think being able to read was necessary. Now they think it isn't necessary to touch type??? This is what the mouse has brought us to!  A sad day for all and,  sadder yet, you don't even know it.
-sazzen (October 30, 2009, 08:06 AM)
Whether touch-typing a valuable skill or not really depends on your needs - whereas being illiterate is a very big disadvantage in today's society.
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.40 needs some abuse!
« Last post by f0dder on October 29, 2009, 07:35 PM »
Guess I'll have to test the font picker a bit more, it's pretty simple code so wouldn't have expected it to go wrong - I'll test on XP and Vista tomorrow.
-f0dder (October 29, 2009, 06:34 PM)
I don't have access to a Vista machine at the moment, but I can confirm the no fonts error in XP x86 (VPC). However running on my main Win7 pro x64 machine it loads the fonts just fine (come to think of it...isn't that what you're running also?).
-Stoic Joker (October 29, 2009, 07:33 PM)
Yep, it is - I'm probably just filling a structure slightly wrong, missing a flag or something. Adding the selection dialog was a 10-minute job, didn't think it would be necessary testing something that simple rigorously on several systems :)
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.40 needs some abuse!
« Last post by f0dder on October 29, 2009, 06:34 PM »
insertnamehere: ah, the read-only option is something that I had forgotten about, but which has always been "a slight bit" quirky :-[. Good that you mention it, it's a thing I really should iron out before going to non-beta, because it's clearly unintuitive right now (I just played around with read-only a bit, and found it pretty confusing - did manage to produce a read-only document though, but don't ask me how :P).

Guess I'll have to test the font picker a bit more, it's pretty simple code so wouldn't have expected it to go wrong - I'll test on XP and Vista tomorrow.

mwb1100: it makes sense to be suspicious about running out of %temp%, but damn some of those HIPS thingies annoy me :) - adding a registry setting should be a pretty quick fix, as long as you don't ask for a GUI option for it ;)
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