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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 26, 2011, 11:57 AM »
Jobs was very good at what he did and revolutionized tech... marketing

FTFY :)
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Living Room / Re: Good book to learn PHP?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 26, 2011, 11:36 AM »
Correct me if i'm wrong here, i think learning only one language with dedication (that too any one of your choice) and then moving onto second language on your own without using these books gives much sane feeling to mind. Web tutorials and stackoverflow keeps you in much comfortable position for second language than these books.

I understand where you're coming from, but... If one hasn't at least been dunked in one of these babble-text books, they're not going to be able to understand what they're reading at places like StackOverflow.

char szOne[] = "1"; // is a string. and that string is 1. But you can't add anything to it because it's not the right type of data to do math stuff with.

Bloody obvious and idiot simple? ...Yes. To us perhaps. But to some poor bastard that doesn't know a char, from an int, from an array ... Well... They need time to soak in the (babble-text) shallow end before they can properly form a question for the purpose of getting an applicable answer.

I've got a copy of Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 24 hours, it came with the copy of Borland's C++ v4.52 that I got from the Staples discount bin for $10. Now while Sam - for the most part - was completely full of shit (on the 24 hour part). The book has come in handy from time to time when I was having a thick moment and needed a really (really...) simple explanation using (very) short words... :)
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Living Room / Re: What the heck has happened to Google search?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 26, 2011, 11:16 AM »
Where do people find these search engines.

Google?

 :D
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Living Room / Re: Good book to learn PHP?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 25, 2011, 05:00 PM »
Most of the "Dummies" and "O'reilly" titles waste a lot of book space on things like - variables, loops, math manipulation and typical time wasting stuff which is common among all the programming languages. Many books don't teach you how to make web apps or use work with database, libs and other stuff. I suggest starting with W3schools and then think of some project and then create a blog or diary that keeps track of  your learning. This is my way of learning stuff. You'll learn php or any other language much quickly this way than from books which hardly teaches you any real world stuff. There are some php tuts and snippets on the web which makes learning easy. Earlier cut and paste or band-aid learning approach wasn't used to work but considering the speed at which gigs are arriving on freelance and other job sites, books for programming languages hardly teach you anything related to real world stuff.

That tactic works fine for your 2nd programming language...But not so well on the first. I picked up PHP on the fly using the baptism-by-fire method of which you speak. But I already had a C/C++ base to work from which made it much easier.

One of the smartest things my old supervisor ever said to me was: Sometimes we forget what we know. Because we're so distanced from the initial confusion that we sometimes get frustrated by people not grasping ("basic") concepts that we now take for granted.
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Living Room / Re: What happens after a Cloud changes Types?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 25, 2011, 06:53 AM »
Of course I'd prefer to think it's just me. Because I'd rather be diagnosed as paranoid than know with utter certainty that I live in a world where such concerns are justified

It's not the puppet show of "criminals" that troubles me, for they are a creed with rules. It's the man behind the curtain - who is concerned with my-own-good... - that I most fear.
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+1 for the last two comments.
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Living Room / Re: What the heck has happened to Google search?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 25, 2011, 06:31 AM »
Update: OK, I see it is a recent development.
http://www.ditii.com...erator-discontinued/

The plus operator was useful for single words and it was intuitive, considering that the minus operator is employed to exclude results that contain a certain word.

Wasn't simplicity one of the virtues that helped Google become a household name? Looks like it's time to seriously start looking at alternatives.

Great, that'll put a dent in my Google-fu. I frequently do did searches for "this phrase"+"this phrase" ... Now I'm not sure what to use. What a PITA.
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Living Room / Re: Do You Freelance?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 05:53 PM »
I once setup a domain controller for a guy in Alaska ... and didn't even have to leave the house.
iGlue?
-cranioscopical (October 24, 2011, 02:49 PM)
Nope, price of gas ... I prefer to travel by wire these days. I do Windows and internet service troubleshooting.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Does This Drive You NUTS?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 11:59 AM »
Well poop.  :(
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 11:58 AM »
Just tried in Greek, drives dissapeared.  Seems to be Western Characters only o_0

Can you give me a bit more detail as to what (exactly) was done, and what happened/failed next?

I may not be able to fix this without recompiling localized versions for multiple languages (which is hardly ideal).

oh, sorry, i should have specified, i didnt try re-mapping using ur tool, i tried using windows default thingy for remapping drive letters.  I tried Sigma and Beta and then got scared cause both drives became unavailable, so didnt wanna try anymore haha

I was answering your question on whether you could re-map to more than 26 characters.

Ah! Okay, so I'm presumably safe-ish proceeding with testing for a specific set of ASCII values.

But I gotta ask, how did you get Sigma & Beta to show-up in the Map Drive drop-down list? Or was this a CLI mapping?


I've got the dynamic sizing (height only) feature working
Surprising just how much tweaks like that improve the experience  :up: :up: :up:
-cranioscopical (October 24, 2011, 11:30 AM)

Thanks, glad you like the idea...I just hate scrolling so figured this might be a fun compromise.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Does This Drive You NUTS?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 11:39 AM »
647 updates??!? What did they change? Everything?? Zoiks! ...I've not the patience for that brand of crap either.

How long does it take to fail (and does it do it gracefully) if you block the update check site?
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This part was interesting:

The blocking of donations by Bank of America Corp, Visa Inc, MasterCard Inc, eBay Inc unit PayPal and Western Union Co had cost Wikileaks 95 percent of its revenue.

...Guess we know who's really in-charge now, huh?
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Living Room / Re: Do You Freelance?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 11:26 AM »
+1^ - The dream is dead...

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Doesn't just being here count for something??

Yes, I do freelance as time permits. That's one of the things I love about remote access. I once setup a domain controller for a guy in Alaska ... and didn't even have to leave the house.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 06:51 AM »
On a brighter note, I've got the dynamic sizing (height only) feature working. So there will be an option to have GS automatically set its own window height - on the fly - based on the number of drives detected/displayed to eliminate the need for scrolling.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 24, 2011, 06:45 AM »
Just tried in Greek, drives dissapeared.  Seems to be Western Characters only o_0

Can you give me a bit more detail as to what (exactly) was done, and what happened/failed next?

I may not be able to fix this without recompiling localized versions for multiple languages (which is hardly ideal).
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 23, 2011, 06:53 PM »
Okay regarding above request:

(Brace for incredibly stupid question) Does Windows identify drives as A - Z, in all languages??

I ask because I was going to try sanitizing the input string and it occurred to me that I'm not entirely sure what I should be checking for on say a Chinese machine. Being that I think they have more that 26 letters ... Which 26 do I pick??

...Or have I gone completely daft and started totally over-thinking this thing.
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Got Space?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 23, 2011, 11:58 AM »
Any chance you could add a "Do not show Drive X" feature? (It may have already been asked, but I dont got the time to read through 4 pages of posts  :D

That is already on the projects to-do list, but time is starting to get away from me. I may need to take a real hard look at the planned features list if I'm going to make the completion deadline. That one should be simple enough ... but there are a few others that have/are turning into time vampires.
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Sort of. But I was more looking for the ping time directly to the router's WAN interface IP, from the LAN side. That way you rule out any other misc issues with the route to another target device, and focus strictly on the time differential for getting a packet through the router itself.

I usually prefer to do a ping flood (steady stream of large unfragmented packets), but the Windows ping utility isn't capable of that type of shenanigan. However you can bump the packet size a bit by using:

C:\Users\Stoic Joker>ping 192.168.0.1 -f -l 1024

Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 1024 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=1024 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=1024 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=1024 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=1024 time=1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms

C:\Users\Stoic Joker>

That should be enough to make the weak link wince a bit.
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Check the ping time both to and through the router. If there is a significant rise in the ping time (which there shouldn't be) then the router becomes an official prime suspect.

I've never worked with that specific model, but when googling the number I did see a lot of unhappy people screaming about a lack of performance.

What is it with the new stuff these days ... I'm running 30Mbps both directions through an antique (~8yr old) Linksys WRT54G that I'll probably never replace (because I'm afraid to) unless it dies.
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O_o Um... Any chance that's actually a Netgear WNR854T?? It does have an SPI firewall according to the manual.
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Living Room / Re: XP computer, widescreen options
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 22, 2011, 01:33 PM »
You wouldn't, but it is - Older cards just wont do the 16:9 stuff. But IIRC he should be ok with the X300
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What's puzzling is that you said you were seeing very high throughput previously with the router in circuit. So the problem is obviously related to the router being in the loop. Sounds like some bandwidth throttling or QoS feature has been woken up on the router. Have you recently upgraded the firmware in the router? If so, there's a chance the update has  switched something ON which used to be OFF by default.

Sounds about right to me ... The SPI firewalls on consumer grade hardware also have a bad habit of screwing the pooch.

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Generally for this type of problem I use a special "Line Stressing" utility (packet flooder - that I'm afraid to release)  to target different points in the device chain to see who collapses first.

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It might not hurt to just reset & reconfigure the router in case a power blip (or other brand of hiccup) has corrupted it's current configuration.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggestions for maximum-lockdown XP system
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 21, 2011, 07:40 PM »
The only problen with going the draconianware route is it locks the machine down too tightly. My wife isn't an adept user, and has no interest in becoming one. However she does like to change her wallpaper from time to time with the latest really cute picture of our granddaughter.

She also spends a great deal of time on FaceBook (a.k.a. Virus World) ... But using only a standard user account has left her machine running perfectly fine and trouble free for the past 6 years.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggestions for maximum-lockdown XP system
« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 21, 2011, 07:27 PM »
Wow, Dorothy looks pissed...  ;D

(on topic...-> I'm with 40hz and have been having great success with that configuration on 100+ machines over the past year or so since implemented.
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