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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar right now?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 22, 2015, 03:45 PM »

so you mean taskbar notification area?

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Living Room / Re: The end of the hard disk

« Last post by wraith808 on July 22, 2015, 09:05 AM »

Hard disks can become too big to fail...

-Shades (July 22, 2015, 07:00 AM)

Do they get a bailout at that point?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 22, 2015, 09:01 AM »

There's a new one from axosoft in beta - GitKraken.  From the blurb they give on that page, I don't see what's so different, so I'm not trying it out.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2015, 04:54 PM »

I've personally never used it.  The only views I use are the main view, and the recently unread view.  I'm sure others differ

-wraith808 (July 21, 2015, 12:46 PM)

That's strange... that's around the date for my last added bookmark also

-wraith808 (July 21, 2015, 12:51 PM)

-Deozaan (July 21, 2015, 01:11 PM)

I've never used the view.  I've used bookmarks, though.    

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2015, 12:51 PM »

Can I hear some opinions on how important the Bookmarking mod is to people? Thats the one responsible for this page:
https://www.donation...php?action=bookmarks

-mouser (July 21, 2015, 12:42 PM)

I used to use that feature a lot. But I haven't added a new bookmark since mid-2012, almost exactly 3 years ago.

-Deozaan (July 21, 2015, 12:48 PM)

That's strange... that's around the date for my last added bookmark also

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Simple auto-saving text editor for mercurial commits

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2015, 12:50 PM »

Where do you want this editor to hook into?  I'm not understanding the use case totally.

You have a mercurial client (and/or are using the commandline), and you want the text to be inserted in there after you close it?  Sort of like something that pops up at will linked to the current window and will save the text there?

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2015, 12:46 PM »

I've personally never used it.  The only views I use are the main view, and the recently unread view.  I'm sure others differ

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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2015, 07:49 AM »

I was wondering, when a new appointee in our office developing a .Net project, was searching StackOverflow and copy - pasting codes in the project. Since he was not under me, I just wondered how he is going to get all codes for the project of our clients. 

As expected all codes were working except the product. The client ran away.

Now I see this is how all new programmers are learning to code, copy - paste.

Why there was no help for us when we were working hard to read a text file correctly, which had some lower ASCII characters in it.

-anandcoral (July 21, 2015, 02:41 AM)

OCP (Object Copy and Paste) has always been a problem, but it's becoming endemic.  You should *know* how any code works before you put it in your project.  And you should test it before you do so also.  Nothing wrong with not reinventing the wheel or getting outside help, but to take it at face value will bite you one day.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 20, 2015, 02:34 PM »

Makes sense. I don't know what hosting you use, but Digital Ocean has $5/mo "droplets" that can host a Docker Discourse instance quite easily, for whatever it's worth...

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 02:02 PM)

I'm on my own server, already paying a lot for the 'privilege', so I'm really not looking to pay more.  Especially for something that couldn't be seamlessly integrated into the current sites that I'm using.  That's not to say that it couldn't as it stands.  But that gets into the whole learning to admin something else for something that's for fun in the first place, and is a production server.

But thanks for the info!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 20, 2015, 01:56 PM »

Interesting to hear from a bbPress user. I must admit I pretty much wrote it off due to its Wordpress plugin nature, I figured it'd be a bit clunky, not as full-featured, etc. Does it have some of the Discourse features you like (e.g. new topic from reply)? Or are you more choosing it for ease of management?

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 12:54 PM)

Ease of management and integration with wordpress.  I do like using discourse better.  But I just don't have the time, nor do I want to pay more for dedicated hosting from a discourse hosting service.

A few images from it in use and the admin side below:


1. It looks very similar to how you manage posts.
2. It repurposes a few things from posts to use for the bb
3. It does have the admin things close
4. It can be a pain to set up private boards (have to use a plugin)
5. You can embed forums in pages and posts.

Like I said, it's not perfect... but for a forum to go around a blog or cms, it's perfect for me.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 20, 2015, 12:24 PM »

My experience with Discourse has been good and bad.  The good- I like the features.  Some might say that the changes and such were not necessary, but I like the ability to start a new topic from a response, especially.  I do find that without using a host, it can be problematic to install and keep up- I just want a board that works.  To that end, and because I know a lot about wordpress, I've been using bbPress.  It can be a bit clunky on the admin side, and you can see behind the curtains at times to the wordpress background, but the integration and ease of maintenance and admin is worth it to me.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2015, 04:03 PM »

Tuxman, I'm curious to hear your thoughts about Discourse. I "discovered" it some months ago (or perhaps re-discovered) and I have kind of a love/hate relationship with it. I'm not actively running it on any sites mind you, so my experiences are limited. I absolutely *love* some aspects of it (the default design is not one of them), and I really like what their goals are, what they're trying to do. But as I said I do have issues with the design, and there are some other concerns too. So I'd be interested in hearing your perspective, especially since you said you're tinkering with some SMF forks (don't know why I didn't think to look for some before now!). Perhaps this should be split off into its own thread?

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (July 19, 2015, 01:48 PM)

Perhaps.  And then I'll chime in from my experiences

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on July 17, 2015, 05:18 PM »

ok but can you tell me please what the community wants/does and what not?
because I haven't understood yet

-kalos (July 17, 2015, 03:53 PM)

The specifics will vary by community- each has a faq/help page that should be read before posting so you can know what kinds of questions the community answers and does not.  A very general overview for all StackExchange communities can be found at http://stackexchange.com/tour

There are some things that will be universal to all StackExchange sites, i.e. the mechanisms of voting.  There are some that are site specific, i.e. what an upvote/downvote really means.

For example, one of the communities I frequent is RPG.SE.  It's help page is at http://rpg.stackexchange.com/tour.  There's also a page with more help and a FAQ at http://rpg.stackexchange.com/help.

So you'd have to go to the specific site where you were asking the question, and look for the two pages.  Also remember, that unless there is a diamond beside the person's name, they are just a member, like yourself.  And members everywhere can be good or bad.  The only difference is tenure and reputation- reputation gives abilities as the community comes to trust the individual member.

In general, however, StackExchange is not a forum, and it does not host discussions.  It also doesn't do well with open-ended questions.  It is specifically created to answer very specific, very directed questions.  If you're starting a question with "Can I get suggestions for..." in general, that's not an appropriate question.  Pros and cons and opinionated questions also tend to be closed. 

Ask a specific question about a specific thing that can't be easily googled, and you're more likely to get a good response.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on July 17, 2015, 03:46 PM »

Everyone will have different experiences, I suppose.  I've found answers to questions that haven't been posed elsewhere because I've taken the time to ask and get to know what the community does well and doesn't.

Different strokes.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on July 17, 2015, 02:20 PM »

You might have better luck on Google+ communities or Facebook groups these days. Search those two places if you can, not traditional message boards.

And yes stackexchange is a joke, they spend more energy on asking you to write your question properly than trying to help you find answers. By a huge margin.

-rgdot (July 17, 2015, 12:45 PM)

StackExchange is a venue for a very specific type of Q&A format, and for that format, it is a very good resource.  You just have to know if your needs fit that type of format.  And it is very dependent on the specific community.  I've had very good experience there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mitro: FOSS alternative to LastPass

« Last post by wraith808 on July 17, 2015, 10:28 AM »

Some of the copy in that article smacked of condescension, IMO.

Mitro, the open source password manager for individuals and teams, is shutting down on Aug 31, 2015. If you are a Mitro user, you might feel sorry to see it go. But you do not have a choice to keep it alive. Mitro is gone and it is time for you to move on.

I never invested in Mitro, but just from reading that tweaked me the wrong way.  I can imagine how much more if I was actually affected.     Add to that the fact that you can still run your own instance, and it seems more self-interest rather than community interest.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on July 15, 2015, 10:27 AM »

I'd rather live longer and prosper.

-MilesAhead (July 13, 2015, 12:02 PM)

Now that's prefectly getting 2 birds stoned.

-Renegade (July 14, 2015, 08:34 PM)

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Living Room / Re: How do you resist buying ever more powerful PCs?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2015, 03:24 PM »

I don't resist.  

I have made it so that it's easy when I get the urge to switch, however.  I have two decently good cases that I just switch between as I upgrade.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2015, 09:30 AM »

J.K. Rowling shuts down Serena Williams critic

-Arizona Hot (July 11, 2015, 05:16 PM)

(see attachment in previous post)
ROFL

-Stoic Joker (July 12, 2015, 07:17 AM)

And you can't fix stupid... he kept trying to justify himself in the twitter feed.

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Living Room / Re: Does this exist? [NON-Software ideas]

« Last post by wraith808 on July 07, 2015, 05:16 PM »

Had another one that had a coiled lead from the USB plug to the LED and clipped on the top of your screen, that was OK until the clip broke 

-4wd (July 07, 2015, 08:06 AM)

I was considering what sounds like that one:
http://www.amazon.de...l_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?

then thought I'd see if anyone had ideas for a non-USB one... [that didn't involve a white desktop ]

-tomos (July 07, 2015, 08:54 AM)

Don't know how much light you need, but I use something similar to this:

http://www.amazon.co...obbin/dp/B008GXRL1O/

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 07, 2015, 11:24 AM »

I've been using SourceTree to easily handle making/merging/closing branches for the Gitflow workflow (in Mercurial) and TortoiseHg for all the actual committing, shelving, pushing, pulling, etc.

-Deozaan (July 07, 2015, 01:21 AM)

Another vote for sourcetree.  Especially since I use bitbucket for my remotes.  I've taken to having an origin on my NAS and another on bitbucket.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by wraith808 on July 05, 2015, 10:50 AM »

Pardon the interruption, but...

It indeed has helped me before with the code red virus.  I'd given read only access to my backup directory, and was doing a lower tech version of removing privileges in order to access my network drives.  I was glad that I did.

-wraith808 (July 04, 2015, 09:13 PM)

Wasn't Code Red a worm that attacked unsecured IIS servers that were running by default in Win2k? I don't recall share hopping being part of its MO.

-Stoic Joker (July 05, 2015, 08:52 AM)

Yeah... my fault.  It was something else during that time that basically propagated itself by re-writing parts of files.  I forget the name at this point- but it was some nifty name.  As I only accessed the shares in question by administrative share, and used another account (admittedly admin on my box) the infection was contained.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2015, 09:13 PM »

However we are talking about ransomware and I fear ransomware can't be stopped by limited privileges. Encrypting data is not a system operation, so I think ransomware are allowed to do it even if privileges are low.
I think limited privileges are useful against other kinds of malware only.

-Giampy (July 03, 2015, 05:57 PM)

It can be stopped by limited privileges from accessing backups on the network and other machines.  Which was the most tragic part of the incident in the OP.

-wraith808 (July 04, 2015, 09:12 AM)

Not necessarily.

Mapped network drives can be created and accessed by users without administrative access unless a group policy exists saying otherwise.

And Windows also allows users to access removable devices regardless of administrative access. Including any remote network filesystem that it has read-write access to.

Messing with user privilege would not have any impact at all on the speed of ransomware encrypting files unless that user privelage change also had associated restrictions on CPU and IPOS resource consumption.

-SeraphimLabs (July 04, 2015, 05:45 PM)

It indeed has helped me before with the code red virus.  I'd given read only access to my backup directory, and was doing a lower tech version of removing privileges in order to access my network drives.  I was glad that I did.

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Living Room / Re: Laptop tray - for your lap [Recommendations?]

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2015, 09:11 PM »

App needs to start a blog with all here crazy life hacks.

-mouser (July 04, 2015, 07:47 PM)

This!  +1

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2015, 04:31 PM »

Snarky Puppy, I'd assume... name of the band?