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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 07, 2009, 12:58 PM »

Innuendo: I used to use MagicDisc when I switched away from d-t, but the version I used was (majorly ) incompatible with Win7 so I switched to VCD. I only really need a single drive, really (and VCD supports more than that), I don't need (nor want!) the sneaky-hidey business of D-T, and so far I haven't needed any of the fancy image types (tbh I'd only consider something like mdf+mds/bwi+bwt if I was making backups of my own copy-protected games... and tbh, I'd rather just make a normal copy and use a crack).

So VCD works pretty well for my needs

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 07, 2009, 08:02 AM »

Innuendo: if you don't need the "sneaky-stuff" that Daemon-Tools do, try out Virtual CloneDrive - free and works with win7.

Too bad that it seems the nLite/vLite projects are abandoned now, and won't be updated for win7. vLite kinda works, but it doesn't officially support win7, and you can easily break stuff with it

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit

« Last post by f0dder on June 06, 2009, 06:00 AM »

However, these people won't open your door when you have locked yourself out. "We open locks, but not doors" they say.

-housetier (June 06, 2009, 05:53 AM)

How arrogant >_<

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Feature request: a real Start button?

« Last post by f0dder on June 05, 2009, 06:49 PM »

a full start button emulation would indeed be useful.. not sure how hard it would be..

-mouser (June 05, 2009, 06:15 PM)

Emulation would be kinda futile, since you'd have to emulate various OSes - or stick with a single OS, and possibly confuse users of later windows versions.

Making the real start menu pop up - that'd be something. But I have no idea whether it's possible to do that in a clean way

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 05, 2009, 04:38 PM »

MilesAhead: BOD? I'm just guessing anyway, but it seems like a reasonable reason.

Innuendo: actually, the preinstalled versions are usually done with sysprep - which is kinda an image, with the possibility of preinstalled software (usually tons of crapware yes >_<), but the sysprep stage means driver database is wiped clean (and thus rebuilt), and some other stuff. I definitely do clean windows installs myself, but it isn't always possible - oftentimes you don't get any re-install media (but get a recovery partition on the system), and the last time I saw a re-install media that was a clean windows disc was back with Win98...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 05, 2009, 12:16 AM »

I don't have it installed currently, but I bet I ran it at native resolution as I didn't change any options at all when I did run it. I just installed it and off I went.

-Innuendo (June 04, 2009, 08:31 PM)

If you didn't change anything, you ran it at 800x600

W7 should run the same, regardless of version, on the same system. Ultimate would actually be expected to run slower due to the added services running at startup if any performance difference were to be noted.

-Josh (June 04, 2009, 04:04 PM)

I don't think MS is putting the Ultimate edition out there for people to try because it runs slower and bulkier.  Sorry but I'm not that trusting of human nature. If nothing else, the install is probably smarter.  When I bought a PC with XP Home on it, the swap file was set at a minimum of 16 MB and no maximum.  When I did a clean install of XP Pro on a PC with 1 GB ram, the minimum swap was set to 1.5 GB and the maximum to 3 GB.  I'll leave it to your intuition which system spent more time resizing the swap file.

-MilesAhead (June 04, 2009, 10:16 PM)

Microsoft put the Ultimate version out for testing because they want the entire system tested, not just a subset. And your XP swapfile size was probably set by the OEM that assembled your machine...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 04, 2009, 06:25 PM »

does your WoG handle fullscreen non-native resolutions? If so, then I'll write the problem off as a nvidia driver bug (although it's weird that other games in non-native resolution has no trouble going fullscreen).

-f0dder

I'm the wrong person to ask about native vs. non-native. I'm one of those mythical curmudgeons you always hear about who refuses to use an LCD monitor. I'm happy over here with my 70 pound 22" NEC Multisync FP2141SB CRT monitor. When those new-fangled LCD monitors can match the visual quality of this Diamondtron tube of mine only then will I make the switch.

-Innuendo (June 04, 2009, 04:42 PM)

OK, the question for you, then, is probably: do you run WoG at the same resolution as your windows desktop is set to? (I, obviously, run at native resolution ).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 04, 2009, 11:03 AM »

I guess I should find a Win7 version matrix (if it's available?) - for Vista, Ultimate didn't really have anything interesting for me, and the Business Premium (which our school offers for free) has everything I need. Expect it's going to be pretty much the same with Win7. I don't need media center, bitlocker, tablet support etc... just give me the basic functionality, Aero, GUI enhancements and don't put any silly limits on me (supported amount of ram, network connections, ...).

Innuendo: does your WoG handle fullscreen non-native resolutions? If so, then I'll write the problem off as a nvidia driver bug (although it's weird that other games in non-native resolution has no trouble going fullscreen).

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Developer's Corner / Re: ServerFault.com

« Last post by f0dder on June 04, 2009, 01:14 AM »

If more sites supported OpenID and gravatar, it would be a really nifty thing - I'm tired of maintaining passwords for a zillion sites (and damned if I use the same multiple sites, considering how many places use unsafe password storing practices!)

-f0dder (June 03, 2009, 06:53 PM)

And here you are recommending the use of a single site to authenticate you on multiple sites.... I'm not sure being a bit concerned describes how I feel about it.

-Ehtyar (June 03, 2009, 08:11 PM)

It's a bit of a double-edged sword. I'd be comfortable using it for non-critical stuff like forums and blogs, though. For anything more critical, I'd like some pretty specific details on how the OpenID vendor is keeping my information safe... and I'd want to read up closely on how the whole thing works.

Still, I'm not saying this is all a bad idea, but forcing each of them on every single user is a little excessive IMHO.

-Ehtyar (June 03, 2009, 08:11 PM)

How else would you achieve 'market penetration'?

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by f0dder on June 04, 2009, 01:06 AM »

When I download files & Windows asks me where I want to save the files, then other times it doesn't ask me at all. Were it not for FF download manager, I don't know what I'd do, because sometimes they end up in Downloads, & other times they don't. I save downloads to specific places on my drive so I can find them when I need them. Grrr...

-SKesselman (June 03, 2009, 06:15 PM)

Your problems sounds a lot more like FireFox than Vista issues to me?

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Linux adventure: A Blog for linux newbees by a Linux Newbee...

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 07:00 PM »

The reason I asked for a child board is because I felt uneasy putting an off-topic thread in a predominantly Windoze arena.

-brotman (June 01, 2009, 12:54 PM)

Avoid terms like Windoze and Micro$oft and you'll be just fine

I'm against a zillion child boards, because it makes navigating the forum by board that much harder. The asmcommunity was a subforum explosion once, and the fragmentation certainly didn't work well there.

I don't see any problem in discussing other OSes than Windows in the general boards - why would it be a problem, as long as it's done in the generally nice and peaceful DonationCoder way?

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Developer's Corner / Re: ServerFault.com

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 06:53 PM »

If more sites supported OpenID and gravatar, it would be a really nifty thing - I'm tired of maintaining passwords for a zillion sites (and damned if I use the same multiple sites, considering how many places use unsafe password storing practices!), and having to upload an avatar multiple places sucks as well. IMHO forcing these two isn't such a bad idea, and I wish more places would do so to get the technology spread.

But yeah, having to get an OpenID + gravatar account for just one site kinda sucks. And while OpenID single-signon is a really nice thing, I am also a bit concerned about the security implications. Definitely wouldn't use it for stuff like paypal or amazon to begin with.

And yup, reinventing bbcode is silly - especially because they (knowing Jeff's technical expertise) probably use regular expressions for parsing it

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 06:34 PM »

OK, tried the latest version of WoG (and darn that took a while to hunt down! 2dboy certainly doesn't make it easy to find the update patch, had to detour through their forums). Still freaks out in constant modeswitching, but if I manually hack the config file to my native resolution, it works in fullscreen (and the new version fixes some UI element positioning bugs that made it impossible to "flush the goo" (and thus advance) when you finished a level). When exiting WoG, some user elements in windows apps are corrupted until windows are refreshed... I wager this is a graphics driver bug. Modeswitching bug could be driver, win7, or WoG doing modeswitching in a quirky way.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Windows7 report for my Apps (Screenshot Cap., FARR, CHS, Proces Tamer,URL S,etc

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 06:14 PM »

Ah, found a small bug in FARR: in options, under Search Folders (and other places), dragging doesn't erase the selected-item background rectangle, and things end up looking messy pretty fast.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Windows7 report for my Apps (Screenshot Cap., FARR, CHS, Proces Tamer,URL S,etc

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 05:56 PM »

It's also a problem for .url files, which I've set to point to my own .ico files. I think there was something else as well, but I've tried dragging a few .exe files and they seem to work. Shortcut files seem to work as well (both linking to the shortcut as well as copying it's properties).

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 11:13 AM »

wraith808: cases like that suck. The pirates get a much smoother ride than normal paying customers.

Took me 2 hours getting Battlefield 2142 working... and unfortunately, that's one of the cases where you can't apply a crack for that nice customer satisfaction, since most servers require the crappy PunkBuster über-validating service in order to let you play. Why bother with copy protection on a game that requires a valid cd-key in order to play online, anyway? It's so D-U-M-B! >_<

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Windows7 report for my Apps (Screenshot Cap., FARR, CHS, Proces Tamer,URL S,etc

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 06:30 AM »

mouser: I'm not sure how to implement "run as admin", there's probably a cross-OS way to do it, but I was thinking something that pops up UAC on Vista and later.

As for "just shellexecute it", it would be for stuff that FARR doesn't pick up because I don't search those folders, but being somewhere on the path/whatever... like, I'm used to Win+R, diskmgmt.msc ... would be nice using FARR for everything.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Windows7 report for my Apps (Screenshot Cap., FARR, CHS, Proces Tamer,URL S,etc

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 05:25 AM »

I was pretty impressed by how smooth Windows7 installed and ran.. Since i skipped Vista I might go for win 7 after it hits the shelves.

-mouser (June 03, 2009, 05:08 AM)

Sounds like a plan - I'm running a RC build as my primary OS now, and it works great for most stuff.

The icon issue in LBC keeps me from using it - which is a shame. Especially since Taskbar toolbars aren't detachable on Win7 for all I can tell (they were on XP) - I feel pretty handicapped without any launch bar.

Also, while not a problem with FARR, it would be nice if you added:

• Run as administrator shortcut
• "ShellExecute whatever is in the text field"

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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 02:04 AM »

Back in the days of 10BASE-2 (aka BNC) networking, I played a lot of cooperative doom with a buddy of mine. When playing the Memento Mori levels for doom2 on Ultra Violence, there was a lot of dying involved, and a lot of fetching all the colored keycards again. Especially since some of the levels had a lot of those ArchViles that resurrected the other monsters. So I often played the role of cannon fodder, distracting the monsters while my friend fetched the keycards.

I typed this to him in-game, and accidentally hit '0' instead of 'o', and a nickname was born. Decided to keep the 0 as a sarcastic reference to 13375p34k.

People usually think it's a reference to the video game, but it's not - even though I did play that game in the Amiga days

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Developer's Corner / Re: ServerFault.com

« Last post by f0dder on June 03, 2009, 01:50 AM »

For those of you who don't read CodingHorror (start NOW!)

-Ehtyar (June 03, 2009, 01:42 AM)

Yeah, it's a great laugh seeing "Jeff discovers <X>, implementing it wrong"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Attention: All TheBAT! users!

« Last post by f0dder on June 02, 2009, 05:55 PM »

EDIT: A solution to your problem is to just add an exclusion to The Bat!'s mail directory to your AV's real-time scanner. Any viruses will be picked up when you unarchive the file and try to run it anyway.

-Innuendo (June 02, 2009, 04:36 PM)

This won't work if the antivirus program is monitoring the POP3/IMAP traffic though, rather than just monitoring files on disk?

-f0dder (June 02, 2009, 05:45 PM)

f0dder, if what you say is true, how does on account for the fix I am presently enjoying?  No criticism.  I am just puzzled?

-CodeTRUCKER (June 02, 2009, 05:51 PM)

My guess would be that the AV program doesn't filter the protocol, but only the files - otherwise it sounds pretty strange

Btw, I wouldn't suggest common sense as the only measure for other people. There's just so many things that can go wrong on the internet, and it only takes one hacked advertisement server for you to fall prey to a drive-by attack on a legitimate site.

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by f0dder on June 02, 2009, 05:53 PM »

J-Mac: sounds like you need to start blocking applications (and for some of the worst offenders, all application requests from those persons), edit your privacy settings, etc

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General Software Discussion / Re: TB! Connection to host broken... "DELE 414", "RETR 423" over and over??

« Last post by f0dder on June 02, 2009, 05:49 PM »

CodeTRUCKER: the MailStore Steven is referring to is a local mail archiving application, not a remote mailbox

Personally I've considered setting up IMAP on my always-on linux server, and either using that for backups of my remote mail accounts, or handling my email hosting locally and backing up the imap accounts on the linuxbox to something else (MailStore seems like a nice thing, but I don't like that it's a proprietary format).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Attention: All TheBAT! users!

« Last post by f0dder on June 02, 2009, 05:45 PM »

EDIT: A solution to your problem is to just add an exclusion to The Bat!'s mail directory to your AV's real-time scanner. Any viruses will be picked up when you unarchive the file and try to run it anyway.

-Innuendo (June 02, 2009, 04:36 PM)

This won't work if the antivirus program is monitoring the POP3/IMAP traffic though, rather than just monitoring files on disk?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Attention: All TheBAT! users!

« Last post by f0dder on June 02, 2009, 05:44 PM »

I haven't used any AV for quite some time. My combination of FireFox+NoScript+AdBlockPlus mixed with common sense has helped a lot . My NAT'ing router keeps me safe from automated internet attacks, and running a 64bit XP reduced the attack surface a bit further. And now I'm on Win7 which means I have UAC...

No, this isn't a guarantee against viruses, but I've been clean for quite a while.