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Living Room / Re: Reocities: the GeoCities one-man rescue project
« Last post by f0dder on October 29, 2009, 06:18 PM »Oh, GeoCities... last update time on my page there is ~12 years ago. The memories 
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After last year's NANY and his release of Trout, which I love so much I couldn't live without it after installing Ubuntu (it became the first app I ran in WINE) I say we let him participate.I thought the idea was just to not have Skwire do any requests *before* NANY time, so there's still ideas left for the rest of the crowd - not to not let him participate in NANY?-app103 (October 29, 2009, 08:46 AM)
And one commenter was right: Where the heck is CCleaner!On my "overrated to the max" list-zridling (October 29, 2009, 07:58 AM)
I'm also very much into the whole Euro look when it comes to these things.Apart from the people who hang around in fancy expensive cafés drinking lâtté with loose wrists, most of us euros think those bags look ridiculously stupid and artsy-fartsy snobby-superboyac (October 27, 2009, 05:47 PM)
Doh, how the hell did I miss this thread? I have numerous unreleased apps that I've written for myself and family that I could polish up and release for NANY. In other words, don't listen to mouser and keep the Coding Snack ideas coming. =]But what will the rest of us write, if you gobble up everything?-skwire (October 27, 2009, 10:45 PM)
Thank you both for the kind words and credits....and now here I sit trying to figure out a way to inform my grade school teachers that being a smart alec can indeed be profitable. As you can probably imagine at the time I was unable to to get them to come around to my point of view.That laugh was worth $1-Innuendo (October 27, 2009, 12:36 PM)
I'm no tech-savvy person, and I download torrents and my router seems happy enough. It's a Linksys router with the Tomato firmware, by the way.Running Tomato and not being tech-savvy? I sense a bit of contradiction in that sentence-TucknDar (October 27, 2009, 12:20 PM)
Whoops, that was a slip - didn't actually intend to write that, even if I'm not always superhappypositive about the opensoThe opensores community-f0dder (October 26, 2009, 11:43 AM)
What was that you were saying earlier about calling names and throwing accusation around for no good reason?
-40hz (October 26, 2009, 03:29 PM)
There is no "open source community".Call it what you want. I could be a bit more precise and say "the network of people running mirrors for the various linux distros", but whatever.-Tuxman (October 26, 2009, 03:31 PM)
However, the choice of a P2P client for a certain network is mostly a matter of personal favors. Mine is different. Is that, at least, OK for everyone?Sure is; calling other clients bad names and throwing accusation around for no good reason isn't.-Tuxman (October 26, 2009, 08:47 AM)
I know about exe compression overhead, but it makes perfect sense for µTorrent - it's single-instance, and the .exe is downloaded directly (ie, no zip compression around it) so exe compression is just fine.while the executable is still tiny (a lot smaller than halite, iirc - and thus not exe bloat either).UPX-packed, I presume? So it will be unpacked on runtime -> large overhead.-f0dder (October 26, 2009, 03:08 AM)-Tuxman (October 26, 2009, 08:13 AM)
Proof, please? There's nothing of that in the post you linked to earlier, just speculation. If µTorrent really did "favor it's brethren", I probably wouldn't be going 2MB/s with rTorrent in a swarm consisting mostly of (leeching) µTorrent clientsDidn't read through all of that, so dunno if any conclusion was reached.Yep, it was: µTorrent systematically leeches non-µTorrent clients.-f0dder (October 26, 2009, 03:08 AM)-Tuxman (October 26, 2009, 08:13 AM)
µTorrent is rather bloated, compared to other clients.That's the worst nonsense I've heard in a while.-Tuxman (October 25, 2009, 05:49 PM)
It's µ, not u. And did you compare it to Halite? Much more stuff in it. "Bloated".Didn't read through all of that, so dunno if any conclusion was reached. But perhaps it's not "favoring other µt clients" but rather people who have set their clients to only accept protocol-encrypted clients?
Additionally, µTorrent is known for unfair behavior...-Tuxman (October 25, 2009, 06:12 PM)
Sure they are, but unicode characters aren't always the smartest thing to put in file/folder names.Plus, the installer places the program in the uTorrent Folder so I guess I am right too ;-)These guys are not even able to spell their own software's name. You see?-Josh (October 25, 2009, 06:20 PM)-Tuxman (October 25, 2009, 06:22 PM)
RE: µtorrent cheating: I remember reading a bunch of complaints that it manipulates something to make it get stuff faster than other clients. I don't remember the details, that's why I through it out for comment. Maybe it doesn't do that anymore. I'm not sure if µtorrent was the one.That was BitComet (and other clients), doing nasty stuff like spamming the tracker announce... µTorrent never did anything like this, afaik.-tinjaw (October 25, 2009, 07:41 PM)
The point of a firewall is protecting machine(s) from network-based attacks, and PFWs (and Windows' builtin firewall) do that just fine - as long as the TCP/IP stack isn't seriously flawed, it doesn't matter much if you drop packets at the gateway or the individual machines, really. The focus is not exposing ports you don't want exposed, and possibly some SPI as well. Also, keep in mind that a gateway firewall only protects against WAN-originating attacks, not LAN-originating... even with a powerful gateway firewall with SPI and whatnot, I'd still be running Windows firewall (or iptables/ipfw/whateveryourOSofchoicehas) on the client machines.PFWs do filter incoming data too, so they are firewalls.That's not the point of a firewall.-f0dder (October 25, 2009, 08:10 AM)
And a PFW can't filter incoming data, as it runs on the system you actually want to protect. Any packet from outside can reach your computer before the PFW actually notices it, right?-Tuxman (October 25, 2009, 09:17 AM)
Not all who are into illegal stuff trust keygen.exe. I almost don't use such things any more, but when I did arming computer with "firewall" was considered common sense among those who did not just click, click.If you don't trust keygen.exe, you're a moron for running it on your machine - a VM beats outgoing filtering any time any day.-Bamse (October 25, 2009, 09:25 AM)
Not everybody is stinking rich or idealist.Same goes for illegal software, if done right - and if even possible to avoid risk that way.Why should anyone try illegal software at all?-Bamse (October 25, 2009, 09:41 AM)-Tuxman (October 25, 2009, 09:49 AM)
Lashiec I hope you are not making fun of me by offering WF as asolution, because I said that my budget is tight this year. I see no shame involved with being under funded nowadays.There's no shame in being under-funded, and there's not much reason to use anything but Windows' built-in firewall.-kartal (October 23, 2009, 08:51 PM)
Yeah, I think appband is the name for it, but that's what I meant. Pinning stuff to the taskbar doesn't quite do it for me, I want it on a separate bar (and can you pin folders on the win7 taskbar? haven't tried, tbhOnly thing I've missed in Win7 compared to XP is floating appbandsI'm not clear what an appband is. Is that what is created when you drag a folder to the edge of the screen and it creates a taskbar-like menu? I used to use one on the left side of the screen but now I just put my whole start menu on the left and pin all the programs I use to it. Works great!
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