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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 07:05 AM »

As a sidenote, the Anonymous have responded. Try accessing www.justice.gov or www.universalmusic.com now.

-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)

Sounds like a good start. I'm all in favor of a scorched earth response from the masses.

-Stoic Joker (January 19, 2012, 06:31 PM)

Assuming, of course, that it really was anonymous and not a staged bit of sponsored legerdemain designed to hammer home to all the regular citizens (who may be asking thorny questions about SOPA/PIPA by now) just how much danger we're really in.

At this stage of the game, I don't put anything past 'the industry' - or their paid government lapdogs. (Just like how the terrorist threat level always seemed to suddenly go up to 'amber' any time public opposition to The Patriot Act started heating up.)

And considering the timing of all of this? Yeah right! As wraith808 already observed.

Dunno. My sneaky, devious, dirty trick detecting BS-Tricorder has all it's tattletales glowing red right now...

-40hz (January 19, 2012, 06:55 PM)

Understood (and quite plausible). I've just always had a rather seething hatred for the silver tonged shadow shit. I detest politics...and politicians. I prefer to keep the fighting in the streets where it (belongs) is honest and fair.

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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 06:31 PM »

I'm afraid it's going to get much worse before it gets any better. Not just on the copyright front.

-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)

I feel it's best that I don't go into what I really think...as I fear I may end up making Renegade look tame. So I will simply suffice with saying, the prospects are indeed horrifying.

As a sidenote, the Anonymous have responded. Try accessing www.justice.gov or www.universalmusic.com now.

-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)

Sounds like a good start. I'm all in favor of a scorched earth response from the masses.

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 05:03 PM »

And the Feds have spoken their word...

At least *I* don't think it was coincidence.

-wraith808 (January 19, 2012, 04:10 PM)

Jesus F'ing Christ! ...Me either.

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 03:00 PM »

But the sheeple for the most part vote along party lines as they are told, instead of voting for the best person for the office.

-wraith808 (January 19, 2012, 12:18 PM)

True(ish) But it's the convoluted manner in which the issues are addressed/presented. Picking a candidate that has the "right" view on issue A (which they're probably lying about...($$)), may leave one hanging on issue B. In which case you get left with a balancing act trying to pick the lessor of evils (which is my guess for how the party line gets settled on/for). The whole system has become total shit...because majority vote doesn't really swing anything anymore.

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 12:03 PM »

^ It's not necessarily the elite that cause that spiral.  In many cases, it's the little people that are co-enablers of the elite's ability to cause such damage, i.e. the US Political System.

-wraith808 (January 19, 2012, 11:07 AM)

the "elite" are put in positions of trust to represent the people. They (the elite) consciously decide, of their own free will ...(to destroy everyone else's)... To start representing (only) the "people" that give them the most money. The system is then redesigned to (be convoluted) prevent anyone from seeing what they're really up to. For the most part, the "little people" really don't have time (because they're not supposed to...) to babysit these evil pricks.

It's like leaving a 90 year old man in charge of a bunch of 2 year olds ... In a china shop ... and then standing there asking what went wrong after shit hits the fan.

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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 11:31 AM »

Oh man...I sometimes get stuck reading an hour's worth of those demotivational things.  So funny.

-superboyac (January 17, 2012, 05:06 PM)

Nah, not "stuck" - you can learn more about life in an hour of reading those than an entire week of MainStream Media.

-TaoPhoenix (January 17, 2012, 06:13 PM)

+1!  Damn straight!

-40hz (January 19, 2012, 10:13 AM)

...Put me down for a Damn Straight on that one also!   I spent an hour learning there that morning.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 11:29 AM »

Just a quick note/caution... The copy & paste somewhere along the line ended up encoding a dash incorrectly as a different kind of dash, which broke the script.

-Renegade (January 17, 2012, 10:03 PM)

Really? It worked fine for me as it was. I pasted the whole shebang into the header, ran a test with the (day before's date) 17th, and let it go. Site went down and then back up just as the code requested.

I suppose it is possible that the unicode editor I usually use (EmEdit) transparently fixed it for me. *Shrug*

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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 11:24 AM »

However, I still think we need to starve Big Media out of existence to eliminate their threat once and for all. But maybe that's because I'm a stepchild of the counterculture so I have limited patience with overly genteel protest seeing how badly it's worked in many other contexts.

Besides, writing or calling your representatives isn't very effective in societies where there is no real representation of the general public. Not to say you shouldn't. (Every bit helps.) But I still don't think it will be anywhere near enough.

So I still say "boycott."

-40hz (January 19, 2012, 09:58 AM)

We need to get back to having a government that is afraid of its people, instead of this ass backward shit we got now. Boycotting is a good start but we really need to be sure they can be killed quickly enough to prevent them from striping our bones dry with more BS draconian legislation.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 19, 2012, 07:06 AM »

Crap! I knew I was forgetting something.

[Note to self] Order NANY mug & renew tags (before I get pulled over again).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 10:01 PM »

Oh yeah, I think I made it mad.    The capture is (9.53MB) 6190 x 8470, and just repeats the bottom section for the full height of the page...five pages wide.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 09:55 PM »

Probably because I phrased it badly... 

When I click on the gear, and select "Capture Now", it does the scroll (and presumably the capture), and then pops open the define capture settings dialog. The dialog only has an "Ok, begin scrolling capture" button. I'd assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it should just jump to the save options dialog, after having been told (via button menu) to "Capture now".

Holy crap did it just do a weird capture while I was playing with it just now. It appears to be a full scroll of the page ... But it's five pages wide..!?!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 09:35 PM »

Ctrl-Click is apparently caught by IE to select text. Solution (by mouser) is to use the gear button, but that's kinda out of reach with a maximized window

the new beta should show the button even on maximized window now doesn't it?

-mouser (January 17, 2012, 06:09 PM)

The gear button showed up fine for me, and ran the scroll. But the dialog didn't advance, so it just (appeared to) redid the capture and only gave me the top of the page. Ctrl click worked fine at all points, but I only got a full capture once after bouncing back and forth through the dialogs a few times.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 09:14 PM »

The point is, to show the effect it will have...It's a last resort.

-Stephen66515 (January 17, 2012, 08:23 PM)

Bingo! StoicJoker.com going bye bye too. I assume we're to use the redirector script Renegade posted (I can't find it now), yes??

Duh! (page 2) Found it

Date based redirector (nice... ) added to my index page.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 04:47 PM »

I did get one successfull (auto) scroll of this thread in IE9 (after about 6 tries) with the default settings. It seems to be having trouble hanging on to the browser window.

I tried the manual capture, but it stitched it together a bit funny. The last frame wanted to repete rather badly (ok/done option maybe?)

Win7 Pro x64

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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 06:46 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 17, 2012, 06:35 AM »

Worked for me in IE9

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Living Room / Re: Best USB/Bootable recovery and "utility" tools

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 16, 2012, 06:47 PM »

Oh yes...and let's not forget Darik's Boot & Nuke (DBAN) disk.

-40hz (January 16, 2012, 04:50 PM)

I love that one.

I've also found the Kaspersky Rescue Disk quite handy a few times.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nasty NTFS issue ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 13, 2012, 06:35 PM »

Considering the possibility that you could have a sector that is iffy, but not bad enough to send up a flag. Have you tried running chkdsk with the /R  switch?

Sometimes when multiple unrelated applications fail it's because the one thing they do share is a bad spot on the drive.

Just a Thought,

Stoic Joker

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 11, 2012, 11:41 AM »

Not too up on WSS either since that's mainly an OEM technology for appliances and turnkey servers.

-40hz (January 11, 2012, 08:37 AM)

Bummer, I was hoping you were ahead of me on that one. I pulled the ISO's off the MSDN awhile back, but haven't had time to try to virtualize one to play with. I'd like to try playing with Windows Thin PC too (also on the MSDN).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 11, 2012, 06:36 AM »

The WHS backups did use deduplication to prevent multiple copies of (for example) the OS files from taking up excessive space. But I don't think that's quite what they're referring to. I haven't had a chance to play with WSS so I'm not sure what it does.

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Living Room / Re: Bipedal Cycling Robot Can Balance, Steer and Correct Itself

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 09, 2012, 07:27 PM »

Holy crap! That's seriously cool.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Got Space?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 09, 2012, 03:57 PM »

Nice work Stoic Joker.   

Out of curiosity: The program you were using before? Disk Space Pro from Peter Pearson by chance?

-Bending_Unit (January 09, 2012, 01:47 PM)

Nailed it!

As to feature suggestion: Completely unimportant stuff but i am kinda used to the very simplistic view from the above one.
An option to disable grid lines and colors? An option to disable and enable columns? (i don´t really need space used for example)
But again thats stuff because i am used to it that way. Maybe for a long cold winternight ... or just never. 

-Bending_Unit (January 09, 2012, 01:47 PM)

That's actually already available if you drag the column width down to 0 and save the column size settings. For the colors set low to 0 and high to 101 and they're gone. But I got no quick answer for the grid lines. Sorry

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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 09, 2012, 12:56 PM »

@SJ, you're talking about google app mail hosting? or postini mail hosting? I'm asking that because in case of google apps for domain, mailbox is same like gmail. There is no change of features in case of Gapps. Everything works perfectly just like an average gmail account. I don't know how come these problems exist for g apps hosting.

-mahesh2k (January 09, 2012, 12:07 PM)

Hm... Not sure which one is which. Google is hosting the mail domain (ClientsDomainName.com) for the client in question (so all MX records point to Gworld). My fight is with the administrative (lack of) control panel. Client is using Outlook to send/receive mail, so nobody uses or cares about the webmail UI.

Is that what you were after...or did I miss the question? (today's not going well)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Lost My Faith - Need New Religion - Need LAMP Help...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 09, 2012, 11:25 AM »

I'm using WordPress on two of the company sites. I managed to hack together a theme for one of the sites myself, but the main site we had done professionally. Both are quite stable ... But their graphics are better.

I'm planning to do another WP site for a freelance project ... So I'll go with the pro WordPress group.

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(I was planning to be quiet, because I didn't really want to get into this. But...)

Google's mail hosting I wouldn't touch with a 4,000 foot pole. I've got one client that was/is trying to use it. An frankly, from an administrative stand point it's total shit. Basic idiot simple operations like delete/create a mailbox are over complicated to a level that best I can tell takes years to fix.

I had one user with what appeared to be a corrupt mailbox. I could send mail to any account but theirs. Theirs came back as nonexistant. Okay... Simple, delete and recreate the mailbox (I've done it on Exchange several times, it takes 2 seconds). There's nothing to backup because the box is (only a week old) empty. Ha! Wrong. You can't do that ... Oh sure you can delete the box ... But you can't recreate it for 5 days (per G-help). Except 5 days later I still couldn't recreate it. 10 days? No. 30 days? No. 5 months later it still ain't happening. More help digging reveals that after a box has been created and deleted, you can never create another box with that name ever again. You have to create some manner of alias group, chain it to another box, and add it to that at midnight of the 3rd Tuesday of the Martian solar year while waving a chicken above your head in the moonlight naked. Or some other convoluted horse shit that I got tired of reading because it was way to many stepe for a simple operation that shouldn't have needed to be done on a week old mailbox that was part of a mail domain that only had 6 users. Two of which still don't work over a year later.

Google can bite me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Refactoring

« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 09, 2012, 06:51 AM »

Most Cool, Thank You ... It's an area I need to work on.