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Living Room / Re: Please share your favorite search engines.

« Last post by Mark0 on August 18, 2008, 09:32 AM »

For searching about file extensions & file types, I shameless recommend File Extension Seeker! 

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Living Room / Re: Do you remember your first programming job?

« Last post by Mark0 on August 18, 2008, 09:28 AM »

First software thing I worked on for some $ was a BASIC program controlling an electronic scale, running on an interesting little portable computer: an Epson HX20.

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Living Room / Down for everyone or just me?

« Last post by Mark0 on July 06, 2008, 03:25 AM »

A quick way to check! For example:

http://downforeveryo...ww.donationcoder.com

 

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: Woot.com Bag of Crap post

« Last post by Mark0 on July 05, 2008, 08:33 AM »

Definitely a craptastic thread! 

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Living Room / Re: McAfee SiteAdvisor

« Last post by Mark0 on July 04, 2008, 12:57 PM »

McAffe SiteAdvisor is crap, IMHO. I had a similar problems much time ago with my Mark0.net site, and obviously there weren't anything actually bad in it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone know an Antivirus Bootable CD or Floppy with NTFS support

« Last post by Mark0 on July 04, 2008, 12:51 PM »

I have used Trinity Rescue Kit various times and found it pretty effective.

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Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« Last post by Mark0 on June 22, 2008, 03:00 PM »

Basically the two on my signature.

Online TrID file identifier
It's a file identifier tool, one of the pages of the website where I put the various tools / apps / little projects I have coded.
You just upload a file, and it show his best guesses about what the file is (not just looking at his extension, off course).

File Extension Seeker
This is an alternative to the more known file extensions listing websites.
It let you make complex and very fast searches, and the DB is continuously updated from the above mentioned websites.
So for example you search for LID extension and you get the results from FILExt, FileInfo, File-Extensions and my TrID tool at the same time.

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite gadgets and gizmos?

« Last post by Mark0 on June 18, 2008, 10:20 AM »

A Wi-Fi finder & adapter. Here's a ZyXEL, but there are many almost identical (I have a Dynamode I took on eBay months ago)!

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrID file identifier

« Last post by Mark0 on June 18, 2008, 09:54 AM »

Wow, thanks for pointing me out that news, mouser! 
The % display was in fact present from the firsts vers: it's not always that meaningful, but usually if can be of some help.

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Living Room / Re: Battle of the 6 Online Malware (AntiVirus) File Scanners

« Last post by Mark0 on May 29, 2008, 05:55 PM »

Another great online tool, IMHO, is the Norman Sandbox analyzer:

http://www.norman.co...rosites/nsic/Submit/

The file submitted is run trough a Sandbox, so the effects can be analyzed and are then reported by mail.

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: LLOOGG invites available

« Last post by Mark0 on May 22, 2008, 10:55 AM »

If someone is in need, I still have a bunch of invites. Just let me know.

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Living Room / The last time your AntiVirus saved you!

« Last post by Mark0 on May 22, 2008, 10:47 AM »

Seriously.
Can you tell when it was the last time your resident (as in actually intercepting file open / executing, etc.) AntiVirus fired up a big red warning and / or stopped some kind of virus / trojan / malware to actually take over your system?

Bye!

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General Software Discussion / Re: which is the lightest instant messenger?

« Last post by Mark0 on May 19, 2008, 11:12 AM »

Erm... Not that I'm aware of. I was just extending the original question to see if anyone knew of a really light IM client that supported GTalk. I've edited my post in an attempt to make that clearer.

-Deozaan (May 18, 2008, 04:05 PM)

Since Gtalk is based on Jabber, you can choose any client that support the Jabber protocol.

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General Software Discussion / Re: which is the lightest instant messenger?

« Last post by Mark0 on May 18, 2008, 11:15 AM »

I most always use the Jabber client integrated in Gmail  (so, Gtalk), since I have that page loaded all the time anyway. If I had a conversation that goes over a brief exchange, I just pop-out the chat Windos. If I have also to send somefiles, either I send via Gmail or fire-up Gtalk.

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: Hello World

« Last post by Mark0 on May 16, 2008, 07:03 AM »

Some days ago the mega list by Wolfram Rösler was mentioned on Digg: The Hello World Collection
That reminded me of my Redcode version.



I have made a video of it: YouTube - Hello World! in Redcode



Bye!

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Living Room / Re: Low-cost Laptop cheat sheet

« Last post by Mark0 on April 24, 2008, 05:37 PM »

I haven't noticed that too.
What I really dislike is when some product come here with a price that make you think about how others do the currency conversion - the Apple-Dollar is a brilliant example!

Some times, things go well: take the Eee PC for example.
The 4G-701 is listed at 399$. A straight Euro conversion come out at about 250€. Add the 20% VAT (at least here in Italy), and in fact it's available at 300€.

Take Apple instead: the basic iMac cost 1.199$ at the USA Apple Store, and 1.199€ at the Italian store.
And it was this way even when 1 Euro was far less than 1.3 USD. Now it's at an astonishing 1.569 and for Apple is the same thing. Boh! 

Bye!

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General Software Discussion / Trinity Rescue Kit

« Last post by Mark0 on April 23, 2008, 08:43 AM »

Here's something that I had the occasion to use recently, and found quite handy & useful.
It's basically a live Linux distro, that can be burnt onto a CD or run from an USB thumb drive.

It have various data recovery tools, and multiple antivirus scanners. It also support a wide variety of hardware out of the box. It's also very easy to use, with some useful features ready with a 1 key press.



For example, simply booting from it and choosing 10 or 11 will make all partitions files available trough Samba, and so network accessible from any PC, in a matter of seconds.
Option 6 instead will download all the latest updates for the free antivirus ClamAV and run a totally automated cleaning process on all partitions (this is very handy especially when guiding persons that aren't too PC savy "Just download this file, burn, boot from the CD and hit 6").

Off course is possible to boot to a normal prompt and do even more sophisticated things, or simply mount a NTFS partition and run a couple of other differents AV (ClamAV, AVG, F-Prot, BitDefender and Vexira: all the engines apart ClamAV are downloaded on the fly, installed in RAM and updated before starting).

For example, to do a scan with AVG:

Boot with option 2 (TRK running from RAM)
At the prompt, mount all partitions with corresponding File Systems:

[Select]

mountallfs -g

A partition list is shown. Just check to see what's the one you are interested in, to be sure:

[Select]

ls /sda1

Run the AV:

[Select]

virusscan -a avg -d /sda1

Contrary to similar Win based tools (usually derived from BartPE), this don't need any additional software (for example an XP installation CD).

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love

« Last post by Mark0 on April 17, 2008, 04:28 AM »

A hero - an hero is one of the evil internet memes.

-f0dder (April 16, 2008, 06:06 PM)

Thanks to you and tomos!
I know my English is rudimentary, so I appreciate corrections / explanations!

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Living Room / Re: Home Network Recommendations?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 17, 2008, 04:26 AM »

I have a CS406 (the previous version of the 4 drive bays NAS, now CS407), and it work well.
Little to no experience using the USB ports here: the only thing I tried was putting an USB thumbdrive there, and it was shared with the rest of the network. The NAS can also configured to automatically backup an USB drive to a designed folder. It sports a BitTorrent client, web server, etc.
You can find lot more info in the forum or the wiki at their site.

If I had to buy something now, I would probably go with the 2 drives version, '207, in RAID 1.
Less pricey, top performance (almost no overhead, respect to RAID 5), and if something goes wrong with the hardware, you can pull a HD, put in a USB box and access it with anything that can deal with the EXT 2 File System.

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Living Room / Re: Home Network Recommendations?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 16, 2008, 05:49 PM »

Looks like NAS is the way to go.

-J-Mac (April 16, 2008, 12:55 PM)

Take a look at Synology lineup.
Very nice stuff and top notch support.

http://www.synology....u/products/index.php

Bye!

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Living Room / Re: If you get angry about frivolous lawsuits by big company bullies you'll love..

« Last post by Mark0 on April 16, 2008, 05:41 PM »

That guy is an hero! 

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Living Room / Vista source code leaked!

« Last post by Mark0 on April 05, 2008, 06:57 PM »

Here it is:



 

Bye!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What kind of free license for a library?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 04, 2008, 07:13 PM »

Iirc your notice requirement is incompatible with the GPL

-f0dder (April 04, 2008, 05:12 PM)

Yes, that's for sue! I quoted it just to explain what I was searching for.

Will keep searching around.
BTW, speeching of searches, this thread is already indexed on Google. I know they are pretty fast with popular sites but... this fast?! Impressive!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What kind of free license for a library?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 04, 2008, 05:08 PM »

Sure!
A friend for example mentioned one of the Creative Commons variations/derivatives:
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic.
It surely come very near what I was thinking. But I'm a bit perplexed because I haven't typically seen software using CC licenses.

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General Software Discussion / What kind of free license for a library?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 04, 2008, 04:43 PM »

I have just released TrIDLib. It's a library that wrap the feature of my TrID tool, to add filetype recognition to an app in a quick & easy way.

N.B. The webpage is a work in progress, as the docs. But there are some code samples that should already provide the basic info to get some work done.

But back on the topic. I intend this release to be a free edition, and I was hoping that there's already a known license (I mean, like GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc.) that I could publish this under, without having to write some convoluted semi-legalesuqe text!

My requirements would be:

• the DLL will have to be distribuited along a brief txt file (ex. TrIDLib.txt)
• a notice of the use of TrIDLib & me as its author will have to appear on the about box, docs & website (where applicable) of the app/tool/plugin that will use it
• Just personal, educational, research but not commercial, not business, not for profit use

The rational is that I would like to see it used and spread around (someone for example coded a Total Commander plugin using TrID), and then if someone would see an use in a "money-making" project he would get a "full" version.

Any suitable license come to mind?

Thanks,
Bye!