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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 30, 2016, 01:23 PM »

So, all day I sit at a computer- diagramming, designing, programming, meetings... and during lunch I either go out with co-workers or, most often, heat up something in the microwave and sit at my desk surfing the internet, or more likely, more of the programming thing.

I just got a traveler guitar on massdrop- figured I could play during lunch.  I've had a Vox for a while, but the strat was just too much to carry around with it for me, so it's sat mostly unused.  Paired those with my monitors, got a table on the quad at work, and just sat and played.  It was the most refreshed I've felt after lunch in a long while.

Just had to share that experience.  Playing the traveler is definitely something you have to get used to.  But the freedom you get, and the renewal you feel being able to play anywhere... definitely worth the adjustment.

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 30, 2016, 10:38 AM »

Personally, I wouldn't want to be without a pedal tuner. At the very least I'd want something I can plug into. Fortunately, a friend (with more money than sense) gave me a Pitchblack+ he decided he didn't like, but I don't recommend that for you, or most people in fact. I'm damn happy to have it, but I certainly wouldn't pay $150 for it.

You want something that's accurate to +/-1 cent, which the more recent models of clip-ons from Snark and TC also are, if I'm not mistaken. The Monoprice knockoff of the regular Pitchblack is supposed to be quite nice, and only costs $20. Some people claim it's the actual Pitchblack, which it might be, but I've never seen any proof of that. In any case it's supposed to be an excellent pedal.

The Pitchblack+ is accurate to 0.1 cents, which mostly just makes it suitable for setting intonation. In my case, it also has a couple additional benefits. Unlike most people, my perception is a lot more accurate than +/-1 cent, and I have perfect pitch. Even in a mix, extremely small intonation issues can bug me.

-Vurbal (March 30, 2016, 09:04 AM)

Thanks for that!  I only have relative pitch, and it bugs me when the steps are off, and is very obvious to me, and I look at other people and wonder why they are sitting blissfully.  I can imagine it would be that much worse with perfect pitch.

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Living Room / Re: Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away

« Last post by wraith808 on March 29, 2016, 05:33 PM »

Not sure why people are so hung up about wireless this or that.

-Shades (March 29, 2016, 11:57 AM)

Helps massively when travelling and in a conveyance.  No one tool for every job and all.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by wraith808 on March 29, 2016, 02:38 PM »

I'd be surprised if anybody is going to let you drop a device into their internal LAN.

-CWuestefeld (March 29, 2016, 02:16 PM)

Back when I had the tolerance for stress to work on these, the client just wanted to be up, now.  I think it just depends on the type of client we're discussing.  If they're clients that outsource their IT, they won't know nor care- and I know this from personal experience.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016

« Last post by wraith808 on March 29, 2016, 10:12 AM »

I actually like that it doesn't create sub-menus, and if you do add it, can you make sure to put the option of not using it?

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Living Room / Re: Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away

« Last post by wraith808 on March 28, 2016, 09:48 PM »

^ Hmm, so doesn't that hold up to what the article is saying?  That the mouse signals are not encrypted?  And now they can fool the mouse dongle into thinking it's the keyboard?

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Living Room / Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away

« Last post by wraith808 on March 28, 2016, 03:46 PM »

http://www.reuters.c...-mouse-idUSKCN0WP21I
Wireless mice (but not bluetooth) are hackable up to 180 meters away from the home device.

What can hacking a mouse do?  (The first question that came to mind)

From the article:

Wireless mice from companies like HP, Lenovo, Amazon and Dell use unencrypted signals to communicate with computers.

"They haven't encrypted the mouse traffic, that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer. This would be the same as if the attacker was sitting at your computer typing on the computer," said Newlin, a security researcher at Bastille. 

Alarming?  Alarmist?

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2016, 10:45 PM »

Didn't know if anyone was looking for some good, reasonably priced, effects pedals.

An assortment of valeton pedals are on massdrop.  3 days left on the drop.

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2016, 08:58 AM »

So I have a question that I've not really found a reliable answer to.

First, I was using a Korg GA-40 for a tuner.

I moved on from that to a TMR50BK, mostly for the dual use of recording and a metronome.

As of late, I've switched to a Snark SN-5 after seeing it in use in one of my local shops.

I just saw a GoGo Pedal Tuner on massdrop.  The lowest drop price is 39.99, and I'm thinking about joining.

Is there any real discernible functional difference between different tuners that any of you have noticed?  The Snark is convenient, and doesn't actually plug in, but I don't hear any difference between that and a plug-in tuner.  I can hear the difference on lower end tuners for sure.  But once you get past a certain price point, it doesn't seem that the difference is anything but form.

Thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Antivirus bypassed with 10 lines of code

« Last post by wraith808 on March 24, 2016, 12:53 PM »

Bypassing Antivirus With Ten Lines of Code or (Yet Again) Why Antivirus is Largely Useless

I don't know enough in this particular field to say whether this is bogus or not.  Anyone with more knowledge want to comment?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on March 24, 2016, 10:04 AM »

I... don't have words.

https://imgur.com/gallery/lwGmSbK

https://i.imgur.com/lwGmSbK.gifv <- direct link, but the comments are hilarious!

SFW, but not safe for sanity.  Couldn't find an easy way to embed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« Last post by wraith808 on March 21, 2016, 08:24 PM »

I think there could be a very big market for almost-as-good-as-Photoshop software.

-tomos (March 19, 2016, 04:37 PM)

I thought that's what Elements was...  though my impression is that most photographers'  new first port of call is Lightroom, only turning to Photoshop or equivalent when they really need the extra features.

-rjbull (March 21, 2016, 06:42 PM)

Photoshop and Lightroom have totally different focuses.  I think a lot of people get that wrong.  This isn't to say that what you do in Lightroom you couldn't do in Photoshop- for the most part.  Lightroom does have some features that Photoshop will probably never have.  But where lightroom shines is working on them in bulk and seeing the results live and applying wholesale changes to a lot of images.  Photoshop is meant for making significant changes to a photo by using a vast array of tools.  Lightroom is meant for very quickly organizing your entire library of photos and making the most common edits to them quickly.

A very good breakdown on that: https://photographyl...otoshop-vs-lightroom

So I think that is a fallacy that one is a substitute for the other.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« Last post by wraith808 on March 21, 2016, 02:07 PM »

But who really needs all that, especially now: I suspect people that might have bought before think would twice about a subscription. Or they subscribe and realise they're not using it enough to justify the cost and cancel.

-tomos (March 19, 2016, 04:37 PM)

Actually, I think it's the opposite. Before, Photoshop or the Creative Suite was something like $600. Now it's "only" $10 a month. That seems much more affordable to me, and I think many people agree with that and are actually paying for Photoshop now instead of just downloading a pirated version of it.

But that's just a hunch. I have no evidence to back that thought up with.

-Deozaan (March 21, 2016, 12:06 AM)

Seems like the mindset I'd expect.  Before, we were using a lot older version of photoshop that we'd picked up at a student discount.  Now, $10 a month for the latest version means that we're on the newest version of photoshop at a pittance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are any of the "coders for hire" sites legit? Is anyone honest any more?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 21, 2016, 01:55 PM »

I have tried to do this myself but simply do not have the time to learn the necessary skill set.  When I searched for Website Coding piecework I found the market is flooded with such sites but for every one touting a sure-fix site, there were 5 more saying STAY AWAY!  in Bold print and full of scary stories about being ripped off. 

It is a sad state the world has come to.  'Caveat Emptor' was always the byword for anything sold on the web but it seems it is now the "RULE" rather than the exception.
 
What I need it so minor I was hoping to find someone I could pay by the minute to jump in and tweak the necessary spots  by remote and run and instant test as it is done.  The coding is really not that hard if you know what you are doing.   I found several that offered exactly that... But the first one wanted a credit card number before they would even say "Hello".  And many of the others seem to be owned by the same "syndicate".

Can anyone recommend a site that does piece-meal jobs for immediate pay?

I don't mind showing my "good faith" for ability and willingness to pay but it seems a price could be discussed without a credit card number being passed.  How do honest people do business these days.

-questorfla (March 20, 2016, 12:54 AM)

What do you want done?  Can you post your definition of work here, perhaps?  If you don't pull in anyone willing to do it, we can at least see if there are problems in your RFQ.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2016, 12:55 PM »

Looks interesting, going to have to keep an eye on that.

I think it is hard to compete with Photoshop because it is such a kitchen sink.

-Jibz (March 19, 2016, 08:58 AM)

There is that, but I think it's simpler in scope, and harder to beat: They are the known name in the field.  Just like "you can't go wrong with Microsoft" was the mantra for a while, "you're not a real artist if you're not using Photoshop" is a real thing.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2016, 03:27 PM »

And this one is in English! (She opens her eyes when she's not singing, then closes them as soon as she starts singing again.)

-Deozaan (March 17, 2016, 12:33 AM)

Many singers do this.  If used consistently, however, you lose your ability to connect with the audience in a lot of cases.  The eyes being the windows to the soul, it's good to use them to draw your audience in.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: MFCRecorder - Continued

« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2016, 10:36 AM »

Hmm, I haven't been getting updates about replies in the thread. I will re-upload the exe unconfused. I'm guessing that's the issue the malware detectors are having.

-Asudem (March 15, 2016, 08:43 PM)

If you could also upload the checksum and the virus reports on your new file, that would be helpful at alleviating suspicion.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: MFCRecorder - Continued

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2016, 08:23 PM »

The download is giving me a trojan alert from my local AVG virus installer as well.  I would exercise caution until we figure out what the story is.

-mouser (March 15, 2016, 07:38 PM)

Perhaps we should just remove it from his post until he comes back?  I figured he'd say something by now... but you don't want to get DC blacklisted for hosting malware.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: MFCRecorder - Continued

« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2016, 03:54 PM »

MALWARE WARNING!

https://www.virustot...analysis/1457900818/

For the noobs out there. Use "MFCRecorder2", it's malware free.

https://www.virustot...analysis/1457901445/

-rqqt (March 13, 2016, 03:36 PM)

I've tried a couple of other scanners, and it's come up clean.  As there are such things as false positives, especially with virustotal, we'll let Asudem reply.

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General Software Discussion / Re: bookmark management tool

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2016, 11:01 PM »

What have you tried so far?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slysoft shutdown (by government action?)

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2016, 11:16 AM »

LOL, just remeber that the government/state does these things to protect you

-hpearce (March 06, 2016, 07:14 PM)

Renegade, is that you?

-Deozaan (March 07, 2016, 01:01 PM)

Speaking of that, where is Renegade?  Haven't seen him around lately...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2016, 04:17 PM »

More like a losing battle IMO. With development costs being what they are today, I can't see too many programming shops that would be willing to spend that sort of money rolling their wares out to run native on Linux, even if they could. The industry leader always creates a gravity well it's difficult to escape from.

-40hz (March 07, 2016, 01:40 PM)

I'm not sure about that. A lot of the game engines these days are supporting multiple platforms natively. Whether that's through HTML/WebGL/Javascript tricks or game engines like Unity using the cross platform mono scripting language, etc., we're seeing many, many more new games supporting Windows, OSX, and Linux these days. Admittedly, this isn't often the case with games from AAA studios. But the recently released OpenGL replacement Vulkan, which game engines and graphics cards will soon (read: over the next few years) support, has many people in the games industry excited. I think we're (gradually) moving toward a more unified, cross-platform future.

Of course, that won't change any of the currently released games which only support Windows. But as time goes on, I suppose we'll always have things like DOSBox, the Internet Archive, or even VMs, to allow us to play older games on newer systems. Perhaps even in the browser.

-Deozaan (March 07, 2016, 04:01 PM)

I think that all that you're saying would be true, if the people giving the money were the same people doing the development.  But they aren't.  And it takes a lot of convincing to get those people who really do believe "You can't go wrong with Microsoft" that these cross-platform initiatives are worth it.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2016, 02:31 PM »

@Innuendo

Steam for Linux has been available for quite awhile now. But just because Steam is available doesn't mean everything has been ported over to run on Linux by the authors of the software.

-40hz (March 05, 2016, 02:59 PM)

Steam being on Linux means next to nothing without the games being there as it's only a distribution platform, and Gabe Newell knows this, and as such, is championing that effort.  I could be wrong, but I think that's what Innuendo was referring to- especially since he brought up Fallout 4 which is noticeably not on Linux.

https://www.reddit.c...t_4_any_hope_for_us/

The fight doesn't stop with the distribution platform being there.  Gabe Newell still fights behind the scenes to bring parity.  But it's a hard fight.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with a Win 10 security/permission issue affecting apps

« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2016, 04:10 PM »

I was just talking with someone about something like this.  When he was running with a particular bit set, certain things would not run (Calc, Edge, others), but with it not set, he couldn't do things as an admin.  It was in the policy editor... but I can't find it right now.  I know that's pretty vague, but maybe someone else knows exactly what I'm talking about?

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General Software Discussion / Re: server-side configuration Open to View PDFs in browser not download them

« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2016, 11:22 AM »

Folks, are we certain this isn't a server-side MIME type issue?

Typically, PDFs have a server-side content-type of application/pdf which browsers can recognise and choose to display said PDF within the browser.  However, if PDFs are set as a content-type of application/octet-stream, most browsers would then simply download the file.  At any rate, it's something worth checking out and you should be able to see if this is the problem by looking at the headers returned in the links you're using for the PDFs.

-skwire (March 04, 2016, 09:43 AM)

But if it changed suddenly, then the mime type shouldn't have changed- but it's worth checking.  Good catch, skwire!