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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread

« Last post by 4wd on December 24, 2012, 05:55 PM »

Purple please - the colour of royalty naturally  

Oh, and Merry Xmas - the turkey's in the Weber  

You might as well as add yourself to the mix wraith, add a gift and put yourself on the end of the queue so you'll randomly end up with what's left.

Go ahead - we trust you 

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Living Room / Re: DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2012, 07:47 PM »

Something you probably never considered but seems to be able to do what you want:

LG A258 Phone

FM Radio and Buffer Recording

Built in FM radio allows you to enjoy your favorite FM channels at anytime. Radio recording with buffer recording function, allow you to take 3, 10 or 30 seconds before the content, to help you relive exciting content.

There was also a short discussion on the Arduino forum here, (from Aug. 2010) - maybe you can contact the OP and see if he made any headway, (this looks like it could be him).

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Living Room / Re: Video games Under Scrutiny AGAIN

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2012, 07:29 PM »

That's an exercise in futility.

-Renegade (December 23, 2012, 05:11 PM)

Quite right, they'll always create a better idiot.

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Living Room / Re: DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2012, 12:28 AM »

Roberts Record R DAB/FM RDS/SD Digital Portable Radio Recorder

Technical Details

•    Digital/FM Radio
•    Pause Plus' - Allows you to rewind 'live' radio
•    Record to SD card from DAB and FM (SD not included)
•    MP3/WMA/AAC playback from SD card
•    Record Timers

Mixed reviews, a quick search on Amazon.com couldn't find it - possibly not available in the USA, (I wonder why).

Doesn't do exactly what you wanted but at least it does record from FM.

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Living Room / Re: New Desktop parts list (RFC)

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2012, 10:39 PM »

Is memory really that damn cheap?  If so I'd recommend spending more on memory.  I'm sure there is a way to spend more -- either go up to 16gb or get "faster" ram.

-mouser (December 22, 2012, 10:12 PM)

I'd recommend more RAM over faster RAM - you're not likely to notice a slightly lower latency unless all you do is run benchmarks.

eg. G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox CPU usage

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2012, 07:01 PM »

If you type about:about in Firefox you'll get a list of About, (DUH!), pages you can look at for possible diagnostic info.

eg.
about:cache   (current cache in use)
about:memory (memory being used by FF processes and each page open)
about:support (diagnostic info, what's enabled, etc)

Dunno how exactly ABP works with firefox, but in theory it only has to look at HTML content - AdMuncher has to intercept all HTTP traffic and parse it - and I'd expect it to work with regexes as well. So if you fed it the same the exact same blocklists as ABP, it ought to be slightly slower.

-f0dder (December 22, 2012, 06:42 PM)

Wouldn't there be more of hit with ABP since it has to use FF/PM/etc to get the pages, then parse them and is written in Java, (I think - probably wrong), whereas AdMuncher could be written in a more efficient language and applies the RegEx as it streams data through its proxy?

(I don't know, just wondering.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox CPU usage

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2012, 12:42 AM »

Palemoon 15.3.2 hits about 13% loading 6 tabs at once - I got it to hit 15% by opening 19 tabs at once, (Phenom 6 core).

Do you have hardware accelerated rendering enabled?

Options->Advanced->General->Use hardware acceleration when available


Just as a matter of interest, opening 65 tabs in Firefox 11.0 x86 on an Athlon 235e caused CPU to peak at ~50% until the tabs were loaded.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Point to that Screenshot !!!!!!

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2012, 12:17 AM »

You're using an old version, latest is here.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Point to that Screenshot !!!!!!

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2012, 06:46 PM »

It's almost done .

What's the meaning of
VK_HANGUL
VK_JUNJA
VK_KANJI
VK_LBUTTON   (i tried the lef mouse button but don't obey me)
VK_XBUTTON1
VK_XBUTTON2
0x07
0x0A
0x0B                        ????

-Contro (December 21, 2012, 01:12 PM)

?

The voidtools forum is not accesible for me . I don't see how to register. I have emailed the webmaster.

You'll be lucky.

Text rearranger following rules
Text manipulation software
Text modify rules

-Contro (December 21, 2012, 01:55 PM)

Double ?

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

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2012, 03:31 AM »

I do wish it wasn't pink though.

-4wd (December 21, 2012, 12:33 AM)

Don't you mean raspberry coloured? What colour should raspberry pi be? 

-Carol Haynes (December 21, 2012, 01:56 AM)

Raspberries are darker than that - well the ones I've eaten anyway.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Point to that Screenshot !!!!!!

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2012, 12:52 AM »

Everything would be better - let it run in the background, bring it up with a hotkey and then just start typing the name - searching would be near instantaneous.

Just create a Search Filter to restrict it to the O:\Screenshots\ directory - note the trailing \.

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Living Room / Re: New Cars Must Have Middle-Man

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2012, 12:42 AM »

I thought it was all about regulatory reasons and anti trust so factories couldn't undercut indy dealers then go all Standard Oil afterward.

-TaoPhoenix (December 20, 2012, 11:53 PM)

But if a factory has no independent dealers for its product, how can it undercut them?

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

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2012, 12:33 AM »

New Raspberry Pi RevB arrived today, comes in a nice plastic case that has integral board and SD card holder:



This is from RS Components - I do wish it wasn't pink though.

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Living Room / Re: 21st December 2012...Why it won't happen...(Nibiru/Planet X)

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2012, 07:37 AM »

It is already 21-12-2012 in Sydney, Australia...btw 

-Shades (December 20, 2012, 07:23 AM)

Unless the Mayans took into account the fairly recent useless phenomena of daylight saving there's still another ~25 minutes to go.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: firefox addon that allows you to open links in new windows

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2012, 12:21 AM »

It won't open them in the background but if you go to about:config and search for browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick and change it to False, (double-click on it), then any time you middle-click a link it should open a new window.

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Living Room / Re: My random doodles for you to see and give feedback if you want.

« Last post by 4wd on December 19, 2012, 11:39 PM »

I noticed you've watermarked your pictures/drawings on the forum.

May I bring this to your attention:

FaceBook TOS:

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

Like they were trying to do with InstaGrab, they can apparently sell any public picture/video you've posted on FaceBork.

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Living Room / Re: 21st December 2012...Why it won't happen...(Nibiru/Planet X)

« Last post by 4wd on December 19, 2012, 06:55 PM »

If serious...wut?  You know the moon MOVES right?, so for that ENTIRE time, it would have to be moving, very fast, from side to side, to avoid visible detection...not to mention detection from space bound telescopes that are way out of the way of the moon o.0

-Stephen66515 (December 19, 2012, 06:45 PM)

Hey!  It's a crazy f*cked up Universe...work with me on this.

At least I didn't mention anything about its stealth capabilities.

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Living Room / Re: 21st December 2012...Why it won't happen...(Nibiru/Planet X)

« Last post by 4wd on December 19, 2012, 06:43 PM »

Wrong. It's a pole shift. The world will have 1000 tsunamis all at the same time. All life will be extinguished, except for the zombies. Oh, forgot - a zombie apocalypse will start in the morning. The pole shift is at noon. Alien invasion in the late afternoon, and the rapture in the evening.

-Renegade (December 19, 2012, 06:27 PM)

You're completely wrong, this morning I found the Necronomicon, (my wife had hidden it under the bed - I'll be having words with her after all this apocalypse thing is over).

So be prepared for Giant Evil Gods!

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Living Room / Re: 21st December 2012...Why it won't happen...

« Last post by 4wd on December 19, 2012, 06:40 PM »

It's been hiding behind the Moon all the way in, when it's close enough to the Moon its gravitational force will pull it aside, (or it could run it down), and then it will hit the Earth 1.49 hours later.

You're going to bring up the fact that an object that size will be visible behind the Moon aren't you?

The Tardis Effect explains this anomaly: Big objects far away look smaller than small objects really close.

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Living Room / Re: Possible to send sms over seas via email gateway?

« Last post by 4wd on December 19, 2012, 01:13 AM »

Shouldn't be a problem, however it would pay to check whether:
a) it's completely free,
b) it's counted as part of the recipients "included" free SMS quota, (if on a plan), or
c) the recipient is charged for the SMS.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Get a free office suite from SoftMaker AND they donate money for each download

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2012, 11:40 PM »

On a second screen it tries to ask for your address and phone number and more.

-TaoPhoenix (December 18, 2012, 09:09 PM)

So it can pre-fill templates with either your personal or business info - stops asking after the second run, (here anyway).

So how is the company making profit from this, is it ad based?

-Tinman57 (December 18, 2012, 08:41 PM)

Depends what you mean by ad-based - the sidebar Tao is complaining about shows tips/tricks and sometimes describes how it would be done/easier in the commercial version but it doesn't download anything from the net to do it - it's all in files installed at the same time as the program.
If you let it, it will update the files when new versions become available but other than that there's no ads.

If you don't like the commercial plugging go to C:\Program Files (x86)\SoftMaker FreeOffice\inst\banners and delete the three directories.  Do the same at %APPDATA%\SoftMaker\banners.

Or edit the PNG files to remove the references to the commercial offering to retain the tips.

Or substitute your own PNG files if you want more tips/porn/whatever.

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Living Room / Re: Renegade: A Hero In Our Midst

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2012, 04:11 AM »

Anyways, I wanted to get it down along with some of the thoughts that were speeding through my head at the time, and wrote it up here:

http://cynic.me/2012...rom-a-burning-wreck/

I left out the grizzly parts as they're better forgotten.

-Renegade (December 18, 2012, 02:11 AM)

Just remember, if you didn't get a copy of at least one of the dozen or so smartphone videos that were undoubtedly happening, it didn't happen.

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Living Room / Re: Renegade: A Hero In Our Midst

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2012, 10:59 PM »

What the hell? Renegade, tell us the story!

-mouser (December 17, 2012, 10:53 PM)

He did here, please pay more attention to your forum 

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Living Room / Re: Renegade: A Hero In Our Midst

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2012, 10:41 PM »

Whatever you do don't let Uncle Sam figure out you were the superhero behind the mask. He'll make you into his chewtoy, and your hard won freedom will vanish against your new-found fame as the media nitpicks every detail about your life.

-SeraphimLabs (December 17, 2012, 10:21 PM)

Lucky he's not in the USA then - we have Aunty Jack^w here.

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2012, 09:37 PM »

BY JOSHUA FOER

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Oh my,  I've gotta get my Xmas shopping done!

-mwb1100 (December 17, 2012, 06:53 PM)

Just order everything after Xmas in the sales and then use: