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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 24, 2011, 11:19 AM »

Nah... to fictional for even SyFy to take it on.

-wraith808 (August 24, 2011, 10:22 AM)

So after the aliens landed, bringing world peace, immortality, and all the unicorns back ... They created a magic toolbar...

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Living Room / Re: U.S. East coast quake - Everybody OK?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 24, 2011, 07:00 AM »

I'm in Florida; we got nothing. But I had been wondering how the rest of the folks up the coast made out.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 03:45 PM »

Even in a backwater like Paraguay it is becoming seriously hard to buy a new "dumb" phone. Whether you want it or not, the only options available are the not so-"dumb", the smart and (when money is not a problem) really smart phones.

-Shades (August 23, 2011, 03:22 PM)

Remember back in the 80's when people thought it would be so cool to have a cellphone that would fit in their pocket. And here we are 30 years later still hoping for the same thing.

OOooo but its got a 4" screen... Right. ...And I'm supposed to put the rest of my shit where?

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 12:51 PM »

Interesting, why not just get a plain old dumbphone then?

-daddydave (August 23, 2011, 12:44 PM)

(fair question!) Because the office insisted, and is paying for the phone. Left to my own devices (pun intended), I'd just get a plain phone. Assuming I could find one...considering they are trying to make it impossible to not get stuck with a data plan these days.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 11:41 AM »

I mainly use my phone to make phone calls ... because, it's a phone.

-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2011, 02:47 PM)

My $0.02: if it's a phone, then it IS a phone, but if it's a "smartphone" I think it's not exactly a phone.

-ajp (August 22, 2011, 10:35 AM)

Not exactly a phone, is still a phone ... Especially when it just so happens to be called a phone, be it smart or otherwise. I don't care what else it does, I was at a phone store, to get a phone ... and that's what I'll be using it for, as that is what I went after in the first place.

Do I have a "Smart" phone? Yes. However the rest of its features only serve to allow people an ever increasing number of ways to annoy the shit out of me even when they are not physically present. Hence my two favorite features of the device are that it allows me to call people when I need to speak with them, and it has this delightful little button on the top that allows me to shut the son-of-a-bitch off.

...Yes, I am getting old and cantankerous.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 11:17 AM »

In this day-and-age, aren't we meant to create a facebook page and start a petition or campaign to highlight cnet's crass new system.

-nudone (August 23, 2011, 10:32 AM)

Does it come with a screw cnet logo we could all put on our sites linking to the why article/page (for a little SEO boost).

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Living Room / Re: Firefox fixes the version number problem

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 07:09 AM »

Do you think that you know better than the developers that this patch is good or bad for you?

-vlastimil (August 16, 2011, 11:30 AM)

Yes.

How does the developer know my setup and my system?  He doesn't.  You are looking at this only from the side that the developer knows his own program, and that may be true.  But he doesn't know, and definitely doesn't care, about the intricacies of my system.  Only I do.  What he is patching may already be covered by some other form of protection on my system.  Does he know?  No.  What his patch "fixes" may cause other issues with my system.  Does he know?  No.  Does he care?  Maybe at best.  No, I am responsible for systems under my care, I should have the capability to choose how to run them - not have it forced down my throat.  Do you want to make it install by default?  Fine, but still give me the choice.  Just like the developer has the choice to NOT support older versions (or to charge for that support), I should have the choice NOT to install the newer version.  Taking away that choice is NEVER a good idea.

-steeladept (August 23, 2011, 02:21 AM)

+1 Browser patches can break functionality of web applications, and if that web app happens to be mission critical ... No is an important answer to have available. Currently MS is pushing IE9, however when installed, it breaks the native MS Fax printer because of its treatment of preview.js.

Why? Hell-if-I-Know. But I have the IE9 update blocked for all machines located at clients that use the native MS Fax server. Because that's the only way to keep them running right now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Logon Screen Wallpaper for Multiple Monitor users... worth it?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 23, 2011, 06:58 AM »

There certainly sounds like there is a demand for it. But why the need for two versions, does it use a shell hook? If so you can have two projects pointing to a single source pool, to keep it easier to manage. MSVS08 seems to hate it, but 03 & 10 do just fine (never figured that one out).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 04:03 PM »

This really pisses me off since some of my software is listed on that site and now has this extra setup garbage.  FWIW, I have never submitted any of my software to ANY site other than my own.

-skwire (August 22, 2011, 02:53 PM)

Wow! Did not know they were going around grabing things at random. Good to know, thanks.

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Living Room / Re: My own posts showing up in Unread Posts - Am I the only one experiencing this?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 02:46 PM »

I'll guess it goes either way. Just checked https all unread link, and there I was right at the top.

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Living Room / Re: My own posts showing up in Unread Posts - Am I the only one experiencing this?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 02:44 PM »

Does it have to be a new post? Or will a reply do? (posted via https)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem: I can't understand how to get a W7-64 machine into an XP-32 network

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 12:00 PM »

Strange really, if you're on a Win 7 box with Administrative rights it should just ask you if you want to give yourself permissions to access the file (if the drive is connected locally). Over the wire it could be a share permissions issue also.

Do you have a copy of the Trinity Rescue Kit? I frequently use it to skip around permissions by selecting share all with no security when it boots. Then grabbing anything wanted off the autoloaded Samba server. Just pulled 65GB of video's off the sales manager's laptop with it this morning (don't tell him... (hehe)).

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Living Room / Re: Firefox fixes the version number problem

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 11:48 AM »

That is a very bad implementation of what is IMO an otherwise great feature.

-Deozaan (August 22, 2011, 09:22 AM)

Indeed. From you description it brings to mind the rule of least astonishment - which to me it clearly violates.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem: I can't understand how to get a W7-64 machine into an XP-32 network

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 22, 2011, 06:41 AM »

I've got a question related to this topic:

I took a (non-OS) hard drive from a Windows 7 machine and put it into a Windows XP machine. Now I'm trying to copy the files off that Win XP machine's drive onto a different Windows 7 machine's HDD. But I don't have permission to access the files because they were in a "Library" on the old Windows 7 machine.

How do I remove the limited permission settings and allow myself access to my own data again?

Thanks!

-Deozaan (August 21, 2011, 05:55 PM)

That's not a permissions issue. The Win 7 librarys use a file system link type that XP can't follow/understand. If you just go to the folder on the drive that the link points to, you should be able to access it from there.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A bit of help C# and MySql

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 20, 2011, 11:37 AM »

Also, if you're just trying to use MySQL and can't get this to work, you might look into MySQL Connector/NET.  There's a good tutorial on using it here.

-wraith808 (August 20, 2011, 07:35 AM)

I'll second that, I've used the MySQL supplied SKD for a couple of C++ projects. All of which worked out quite well.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A bit of help C# and MySql

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 20, 2011, 12:07 AM »

Is the database you connecting to defined elsewhere?

Why is there no FROM {TABLE} reference in the code?

Granted I know nothing of this dll you're trying to use but this line just don't look right:

Code: C# [Select]

1. cmd.Select("users").Where("Username", UN);

Shouldn't it be something more like:

Code: C# [Select]

1. cmd.Select("Username, Password").From.("Users").Where("Username", UN);

Considering (I'm left guessing...) you're probably getting the DAMN! messagebox ... It's probably returning an empty results set, or a query syntax error that isn't being seen/checked for.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A bit of help C# and MySql

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 19, 2011, 11:55 AM »

What errors are you getting, and what is the structure of the table you're querying?

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Living Room / Re: HP announces it's discontinuing all WebOS device development

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 19, 2011, 11:36 AM »

Hooo-ly Shit! Did not ses that coming at all. Hell, the sales manager just got back from an HP sponsored tech show that was specifically for the WebOS TouchPad!! (We're an HP ASP)

We've got a few thousand (business class) HP printers in the field and they've always been quite reliable.  While as Carol mentioned their drivers can be a PITA if you strip off the software bundle they tend to work quite well.

I've never been a fan of their computers as they are mostly home user multi-media nightmares. But Kill the WebOS TouchPad! That's freaking Nutz!! We just got two to demo and they're not even out of their boxes yet.

Damnit! ...I was thinking about checking out the dev options.

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 05:58 PM »

Here I have the latest model that stacks up perfectly...the iBrick

-Shades (August 18, 2011, 04:31 PM)

Those only come in gold right?

 

-Stoic Joker (August 18, 2011, 04:57 PM)

Don't you feel gilty about that?

-cranioscopical (August 18, 2011, 05:49 PM)

Not an ounce...

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Living Room / Re: "Upgrade" Button is Patented -- Trolls Come Out of Sewers...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 05:08 PM »

deleted absurdly rude, sarcastic post making fun of these people who patent every passing idea, as if their every thought is something brilliant

-db90h (August 18, 2011, 02:45 PM)

Bummer, I rather liked it. As it vilified the core behavior that is killing innovation. Back when innovators really did, the plan was to build a better mousetrap. Now the prevailing M.O. is to build a complete shit mouse trap, and force everyone that wants to create a (truly working) rodent disposal device to hemorrhage cash to you for (basically) nothing.

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Here I have the latest model that stacks up perfectly...the iBrick

-Shades (August 18, 2011, 04:31 PM)

Those only come in gold right?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: File system monitoring utilities?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 04:05 PM »

Long as you're not using a Home Edition (feature is stripped out), it should be much the same as the basics don't change.

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 03:58 PM »

Fans of Kate can get the spin-off model, The Slab.

-cranioscopical (August 18, 2011, 02:43 PM)

Is that the one that comes with the new charcoal stylus for note taking??

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 06:49 AM »

The anti-Apple voices here are getting bolder by the day! iObject!

-nosh (August 18, 2011, 06:20 AM)

What? Just because the competing highly polished $700 (Johnney-come-lately) iStone is to slippery when wet to hold on to, mars easily and tends to crack (in half) ... We can't pick a favorite?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Windows management script

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 18, 2011, 06:37 AM »

Why not just have the key combination bring up a system modal dialog with shutdown, reboot, sleep, and cancel options? Sure it's an extra click, but it'll cleanly bypass the oh shit factor.