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Living Room / Re: PORTAL 2 AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER

« Last post by Ath on May 15, 2011, 09:28 AM »

DirectX is usually faster than OpenGL because most hardware manufacturers only develop decently optimized drivers for DirectX and not (or at least much less optimized) for OpenGL, as most games support/expect/require DirectX. And .NET graphics' subsystem is optimized for DirectX as well (WPF only shines/performs well on video chips with Direct9c+ hardware support with the correct drivers installed).

Open standards are indeed better because they are open, not technically better in all cases.

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Living Room / Re: Intel Xeon E3-1275 compatibility.

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 08:52 AM »

Long answer: Going straight to the sources here (Asus) and here (Intel) give you all the specs.
Starting with the most important one, the socket LGA1155, they seem to at least physically match.
Next check is looking for what CPU's the manufacturer made the board for. There's no mention of this Xeon there, so I'm quite sure it's not going to work as you would like
Then try to find the matching Core ix processor, which looks like a Core i7 2600(K) would match closest.
Then look at the price of both Xeon $339,-; Core i7 2600 $294,-; Core i7 2600K $317,-
I'd ask: Why would you?

Short answer: No. Unless... (you can get your hands on both and just try without obligations)

This Tom's Hardware article explains why you'd want a real server-chipset for that CPU.

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 05:31 AM »

We can go to higher dpi's if anyone needs that: http://www.diginfo.t.../13/11-0097-r-en.php (4.8" @ Full-HD + 3D)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chromium 13.0.758.0 build 84548 feels snappy

« Last post by Ath on May 14, 2011, 04:45 AM »

Just upgraded my Chrome from 12.something dev to 13.0.761.0 dev-m and I can confirm it is blazingly fast, WOW!

Just have to check if the some of the quirks, like password storage and listbox behavior, finally are unbroken (they've been broken IMHO since at least 9.x), so I can re-instate it as my default browser for all the Jira stuff I do in my daily work.

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 13, 2011, 03:08 PM »

Oh, and then there's the matter of cost

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 13, 2011, 03:07 PM »

Probably the combination of the resolution more usual for a 30" monitor, combined with the 10.1" form factor of this display

I suspect that Apple asked Samsung to make a 9.7" version with this resolution, but they couldn't produce them (yet), or didn't want to, to get an angle on the iPad with their own tablet. (But that didn't stop them before, AFAICS)

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Living Room / Re: tablet screens to go blind for

« Last post by Ath on May 13, 2011, 02:07 PM »

The iPhone 4 display is 330 dpi, higher then the first generation of laser printers @ 300 dpi...

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General Software Discussion / Re: VoicePics - A Toy App that encourages toddlers to Babble

« Last post by Ath on May 13, 2011, 01:24 AM »

BabyBabble

-Deozaan (May 12, 2011, 07:09 PM)

+2c

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by Ath on May 13, 2011, 01:23 AM »

You could contact your ISP and explain your problem? Can be a network issue on their side.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: missing separaters in forum topic displays

« Last post by Ath on May 11, 2011, 01:21 AM »

Have not seen this issue, neither with FF3 nor FF4. Haven't tried with other browsers, I try to avoid them.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by Ath on May 09, 2011, 02:50 AM »

Is there some way to stop this (only does it with heuristics turned on)?

-bobholm (May 09, 2011, 02:31 AM)

Upload to VirusTotal and/or Jotti, and report the results to Kaspersky, so they can fix this false positive.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on May 09, 2011, 01:28 AM »

^+1

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Ath on May 08, 2011, 05:46 AM »

One piece of software I would love to find is  a meter and syllable counter for help me with keeping my poetry in check.

-Dochappy (May 08, 2011, 12:40 AM)

I haven't seen that feature with the suggested apps so far, but I could have overlooked, so it could probably be a nice improvement suggestion to both WriteMonkey and ImmersEd.

FWIW, I'd leave Q10 alone, WriteMonkey has the same and better features, and is actively developed.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pointers to nullable types (C#)

« Last post by Ath on May 08, 2011, 05:30 AM »

@wraith808: That all makes perfectly good sense.

so again, why is it special?

-wraith808 (May 07, 2011, 08:47 PM)

A few more thoughts:

• They (MS) explicitly don't want you to do this
• You could exchange the int? by Int32 and get a pointer to that

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 03:47 PM »

@cthorpe : That site is, though a bit full, very clear in it's intentions, a relief to read it, thanks for the pointer! Oh, and a useful writers tool indeed

Read another software tip in a magazine today: ImmersEd from www.tajuta.com, that seems to extend the uncluttered writing environment with a few nifty gadgets, that can be helpful when writing, gotta start testing though.

Like 40hz said, there are tons of tools...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows equivalent to GNOME's typing break?

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 03:29 PM »

Well, besides Workrave, that's rather configurable IMHO, so can be as lightweight as you want, there's the commercial Workpace, and it also has a few nifty features like counting the number of keyboard- and mouse-clicks, and is as configurable as Workrave. (I've used both in the past, but stopped using tools like that; just listen better to what the old body says, and take more breaks/stops).

But Instant Boss, by our 'own' App103, sounds just as what you need, indeed, +1

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Developer's Corner / Re: Keeping the UI Responsive - What Would You Do?

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 03:21 PM »

Another vote for a separate thread from here

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pointers to nullable types (C#)

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 09:27 AM »

And finally, a Stack Overflow article on the subject, showing a nice extension method that might come in useful

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pointers to nullable types (C#)

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 09:12 AM »

There's this blog article from around when nullable types where introduced (.NET 2.0), that has some more interesting info

And also this blog post that puts a claim around my original assumption... (I did not check these claims/examples though)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pointers to nullable types (C#)

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 08:59 AM »

I've done no research on the subject, though I've done some stuff, including nullable types, in C#. But not in this direction. Nevertheless...

I kind of assume you read this msdn subject explaining nullable types?
It states:

T can be any value type including struct; it cannot be a reference type

This makes me suspect the actual implementation is something handled at compile-time, so pointers for getting at it won't exist during runtime?

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Living Room / Re: If a tree falls (in c#)

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 07:57 AM »

I found the key:

a random, late night thought

-Fred Nerd (May 07, 2011, 07:43 AM)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Database for a Desktop?

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 07:56 AM »

Looking at SQLite, have you investigated the SQLite endorsed ADO.Net provider?

I especially like the headline message on the site:

This is a fork of the popular ADO.NET 2.0 adaptor for SQLite known as System.Data.SQLite. The originator of System.Data.SQLite, Robert Simpson, is aware of this fork, has expressed his approval, and has commit privileges on the new Fossil repository. The SQLite development team intends to maintain System.Data.SQLite moving forward.

(Emphasis added)

The phxsoftware.com's version seems to have stopped progressing

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: PC game launcher/organizer/frontend

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 07:23 AM »

Games explorer notices eight of them

-kamahl (May 07, 2011, 06:53 AM)

Problem here is that games have to register with Games Explorer, during install usually, to be noticed by GE, so it's not directly GE's 'fault', IMHO

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« Last post by Ath on May 07, 2011, 07:18 AM »

I'm not a writer (yet) but had a short look at both writing tools mentioned, q10 and WriteMonkey.
Seems like q10 is kinda dead, in the development part.
WriteMonkey seems to be alive and kicking, and has somewhat better/more/cleaner features, so I'll have a longer look at it during this summer. Hope to report here later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: InstallShield Install Issue

« Last post by Ath on May 06, 2011, 08:28 AM »

Silly question: You have Customizer 10000 Plus or Customizer 10000 already installed, before applying this update?