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Living Room / Re: Favorite TV Episode???
« Last post by Mark0 on April 02, 2008, 11:37 AM »
IT Crowd - Season 2, Episode 2 - "Return of the golden child"

If you haven't, you have to see it: YouTube - Part 1 2 3

Brilliant!  ;D
352
General Software Discussion / Re: check server to see if its up
« Last post by Mark0 on March 27, 2008, 07:26 PM »
One of the reply-notify email from this thread had an https address, in facts.
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General Software Discussion / Re: check server to see if its up
« Last post by Mark0 on March 27, 2008, 07:57 AM »
Gothi[c], just wanted to say that your tool really look like a fantastic one!  :Thmbsup:

Bye!
354
Living Room / Re: Streaming movie into living room
« Last post by Mark0 on March 23, 2008, 10:06 AM »
Get an old Microsoft XBOX (the first generation, can be found very cheap on eBay, or from some friends that upgraded to newer consoles) with the DVD remote controller, install the free XBMC on it, and connect it to your network with a wireless access point.
You'll get one of the most flexible & feature packed media center around.

Bye!
355
Living Room / Re: What Are Your Favorite Science Blogs?
« Last post by Mark0 on March 12, 2008, 07:44 PM »
Bad Astronomy Blog - is a nice one too!
356
Living Room / Re: History of DonationCoder.com
« Last post by Mark0 on March 12, 2008, 07:29 PM »
I missed the page to, or seen it too much time ago.

Oh, about the "hello" section at the bottom of the page.
Mouser, for the Italian, maybe instead of "Buon giorno" you could put a "Ciao": it's more friendly and informal!  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: check server to see if its up
« Last post by Mark0 on March 10, 2008, 04:13 PM »
There are some free (or non free, depending on the granularity of the checking and various other limitations) services that can do that. For example, I'm using from some years SiteUptime, and I find it very useful.

Bye!
358
Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« Last post by Mark0 on March 07, 2008, 07:33 AM »
Nice to see the site back on line!  :Thmbsup:
Thanks!
Bye!
359
Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for February 21st - Codename "Vertigo"
« Last post by Mark0 on February 27, 2008, 10:04 AM »
Wow! It's an honor to find find myself / my site mentioned on DC's newsletter!

Many thanks,
Bye!

P.S.
Thanks also to mouser for pointing me at it, since I'm always late at reading the last issue!  :wallbash:
360
Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?
« Last post by Mark0 on February 22, 2008, 06:31 AM »
Seems that the eee PC can withstand a fair amount of tortures!

Check this french video: DailyMotion - Tests résistance (Chocs, chaleur, froid)

1 hour run at 40c, and then also outdoor at about 0c.
Drop from chair height, from 1 meter, and from a table.
On moquette and hard floor. Closed and also with the screen open!

Hard Drive? Thanks, but no thanks! :)

Bye!
361
Living Room / Re: KITT returns!
« Last post by Mark0 on February 15, 2008, 11:48 AM »
Let's remember a bit the old one, presented by a new mechanic! 

Jalopnik

 :D
362
Living Room / Re: Free Polo Shirt From Microsoft for answering Vista quiz
« Last post by Mark0 on February 15, 2008, 11:45 AM »
Seems a bit of a "damage control" measure, to try to reassess the Vista image, that IMHO in the last months have faded a bit even within the general public.

Bye!
363
Living Room / Re: Best forums for....
« Last post by Mark0 on February 08, 2008, 05:32 AM »
Best forum for info & discussions about search engines, websites marketing, advertising programs, etc.:

Digital Point - Webmaster Forum - Internet Marketing & Search Engine Forums

Typically there are about 2000 users online. Lots of noise, but also nice info.

364
General Software Discussion / Re: File Types Manager
« Last post by Mark0 on February 08, 2008, 05:28 AM »
Very handy tool, indeed! Thanks!
365
General Software Discussion / Re: The definition of "bloat" - RE: Software
« Last post by Mark0 on February 07, 2008, 12:43 PM »
PowerBASIC - #BLOAT metastatement

DOH!  ;D
366
Living Room / Re: The Best Games You've Never Played
« Last post by Mark0 on February 07, 2008, 05:50 AM »
Not on the list but: System Shock! An experience!

Quoting from Wikipedia:
GameSpy compared the game's commercial performance to that of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, declaring that "the best computer game of 1994 ... came and went whilst everyone was busy killing each other in Doom II."

Bye!
367
General Software Discussion / Re: Apple software recommendations?
« Last post by Mark0 on February 02, 2008, 05:28 PM »
If I remember correctly, iPhoto can automatically resize a photo to a reasonable format when sending it it by mail - or is the Mail application that does it when you paste / attach a photo.

Bye!
368
General Software Discussion / Re: subline text: some innovative text editor!
« Last post by Mark0 on February 01, 2008, 08:05 PM »
The bird-eye view is really something I always wanted from an Editor.
I will try it ASAP, thanks!
369
General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by Mark0 on February 01, 2008, 08:02 PM »
About 20-25 sec. to be finished / ready to run.
On the eee PC with the default Xandros!  :)
370
General Software Discussion / Re: How much email do you keep…and why?
« Last post by Mark0 on February 01, 2008, 04:35 PM »
I always used to keep all the email I had. Save for some sporadic pseudo catastrophic events (the ones that teach you to backup things), I has followed that ideal.
Now that I'm used to Gmail, it doesn't even be something I have to think about.
I just try to get my Inbox/unread folder clean, and archive mail as I deal with it. Sometimes it's more easy to say that than do that, off course! :)

Bye!
371
Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?
« Last post by Mark0 on February 01, 2008, 03:32 AM »
I dont know what the graphics chip can do
-iphigenie (February 01, 2008, 02:25 AM)
It's a standard Intel GMA 900. Not the state of art, but quite a decent solution for such a small machine. It doesn't have hardware T&L or vertex shader but, hey, it it's good Quake 3, it's good enough! Really, lots of games run surpraising well.

My take is that they made the screen just a bit too small, who needs such large speakers?
The speakers actually are quite small too. It's only their cover that extend to enclose the display. The 7" was choose probably just as a cost compromise.

Like tsaint, I too was surpraised by how well the WiFi works. It keep the connection with my A/P from spots in my house or backyard that I had considered "dead zones", based on the experience with other devices.
The entire machine feel very snappy & responsive: at times you don't really expect such a speed for a machine so tiny, so it's a nice surprise.
It's also a very versatile & hackable (in the good way) device.

Bye!
372
Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?
« Last post by Mark0 on January 31, 2008, 08:03 PM »
OK, got one today! :) It was one of the last four they had in the store. Seems it's selling pretty fast.

Bye!
373
General Software Discussion / Re: windows security - what's really necessary?
« Last post by Mark0 on January 29, 2008, 07:20 AM »
Me too.
I remember the times of the firsts release of Kerio Firewall (while it was actually an interesting piece of software), with hours passed at experimenting with various rules to block this, make that working, and so on! :)

Now I relay on the NAT Router/firewall combo, a free AV (that haven't really detected a threat in... well... never!), and Firefox (or any browser that don't use the IE engine). If I have to go on the move with a laptop, the integrated software firewall to just close some doors will be OK. Add the occasional scan with some antispyware tool (but not something resident, thanks).

Other than that, I find that a lot of security tools end up causing more problems / issues than they supposedly solve.

Looking back, seeing at how the personal software firewall market evolved from about inexistent some years ago, to everyone-and-his-dog-build-a-personal-firewall of today, I can't help but thining that probably Steve Gibson had some part in spreading the "hysteria".
A big IMHO, obviously.

Bye!
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: File Extension Seeker
« Last post by Mark0 on January 22, 2008, 09:30 AM »
By the way, here's a thing I just happened to notice.
An interesting side effect of putting online the firsts bytes / header / magic from my TrID definitions on File Extension Seeker listing, is that Google will index that too.

So, if you Google for some kind of bytes, chances are that you'll find a results from the Seeker's pages.
For example, this one come from an hexdump of someone searching for info about some .TST file:

Google "1A 46 53 43 54"

 ;D

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Living Room / Re: ASUS eee PC - Any owner?
« Last post by Mark0 on January 21, 2008, 12:51 PM »
Thanks for the info.
The more I read about it, the more it intrigue me! :)

One thing that bother me a bit is that Bluetooth isn't included by default; that would have been handy.
Off course there are lot of mod that details how to add it (along many other things; it's a very "hackable" object!), but that will certainly void the worranty...

Bye!
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