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Assembly / Re: What version of assembly? Any

« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2009, 05:35 PM »

Friends don't let... oh wait, I'm not bringing that here.

FASM has an advantage over MASM in that it's free & has source code available - and adopts support for new instruction sets a lot faster than MASM does. And it offers pretty much what MASM does anyway, with the notable exception of return values from macros.

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2009, 03:55 AM »

LOL, app!

The first image I got was this one:



That really worked for me. Do I have to mention I'm a huge fan of Zelda 3: a Link to the past?

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 11, 2009, 03:11 AM »

zridling: the "Dollar Store" one gave me a good laugh, especially because you coupled those two images - job well done, mate!

I really like the Patient Bear one as well. I must have a thing for bears

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Living Room / Re: Is World of Warcraft the only depression-proof industry?

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 05:24 PM »

I would love to play that game, but my hubby doesn't want to pay for it

-Dell[a] (February 10, 2009, 05:20 PM)

It's very bad for your health, and it will eradicate you of any remnant of social life. Bad, baaaad I tell ya!

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Living Room / Crazy brits crossing railroads

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 04:50 PM »

Geeez, people!

One thing is crossing railroad tracks when the bars are down, but this is outright insane. The video has Danish speak (if anybody knows the original source, please link) but I'm sure you'll live - the interesting stuff is the video, anyway.

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Living Room / Re: [NSFW - Parody] Sony Releases New Piece Of Technology

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 04:27 PM »

I don't mind swearing, but when it's overdone and for no apparent reason (like in this video), it bores me. Enough that I actually found the whole video relatively boring.

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Living Room / Re: Higher Quality Youtube Tip

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 03:21 PM »

Oooh, I didn't know the "&fmt=18" worked for videos without the high-quality link - thanks for that snippet of info!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synology DS207+ NAS

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 08:07 AM »

• Looking into upgrading storage - and in theory it's easy: take one raid1 drive out, rebuild, slot bigger one in, rebuild, (start again for other drive) - done!

-justice (February 10, 2009, 07:48 AM)

Hm, does this actually work? Depends on the filesystem I guess.

• When you switch off the power because of raid1 and its functions it recovers automatically and there is no problem - maybe shouldn't do that too often?

-justice (February 10, 2009, 07:48 AM)

Pretty bad idea - always shut down the box properly. First, rebuilding/syncing your mirror takes a while and is stressful, secondly you could get a fubar'ed filesystem (journalling helps a lot, but it isn't 100% foolproof. Which filesystem does it run?).

• Can't get bittorrent downloading to work without my internet connection slowing down to a crawl - had better results using uTorrent but I know that program better so I'll put it down to me not being an expert on this topic. Might be router issue or my misconfiguration - I tried 40 connections per torrent and running 5 torrents max - ports properly forwarded. Updated firmware for Netgear dg834g

-justice (February 10, 2009, 07:48 AM)

Has more to do with speed caps than amount of connections (unless your DSL/whatever modem is really crappy). If you're on DSL and have your upstream maxed out, your downstream will suck.

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Living Room / Re: Firefox getting forgetful

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 07:37 AM »

Check tools->options, "privacy" tab. You should have the "remember my history" checked, otherwise it'll be forgetful

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 07:31 AM »

I use unrar.dll in one of my projects, and instead of stuffing unrar.lib, unrar.h, unrar.dll and just using that, I've set up my own VS2008 project for unrar (instead of using their makefile), and I pull svn://my.server/unrar/tags/3.5.8 into project/lib/unrar via svn:externals. The .vcproj for unrardll is then included in my project's .sln file, and everything is hunky-dory.

Well, except that while I can build unrar.exe just fine, something messes up when building the DLL, causing extraction to fail. Need to dig into this, but chrissake the unrar code is messy, poorly structured, and poorly written. It's almost at the level of spaghetti of 7-zip

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Living Room / Re: Going Into Frugality Mode -- What are your Tricks and Tips

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 07:24 AM »

I have a pretty standard Gilette razor and switch blades every 1-2 months, and I use foam or gel. If I don't use that, or try using the cheap plastic razors, things get pretty darn messy and bloody . Helps a lot shaving in the shower, and getting the skin hot and moist before shaving (that sounded a lot kinkier than it is >_<). I calculated the costs of shaving and iirc it was something around $5/month, which isn't worth obsessing that much about (sure, everything adds up, but I particularly value a good close clean shave without blood ).

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 10, 2009, 07:18 AM »

Ah, this is turning out wonderfully, images I haven't seen before and everything

Bear in taxi is cute, the software development thing is pretty accurate , and monkeyhitman is one of the better 4chan pixx.

KEEP 'EM COMING!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scan computer for foreign language files

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 09:21 PM »

1) it'd be very hard to detect this (reliably, anyway)
2) there's a big chance of breaking stuff
3) disk space savings would be extremely small

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General Software Discussion / Re: nifty trick to address more memory under win 32-bit

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 07:06 PM »

thanks for the pointer, f0dder. i never got in touch with the original patcher so i don't know how he did it, therefore your explanation helps a lot. i'm also curious to know if there is a way to show that the application is indeed taking advantage of the 3gb ram.

-lanux128 (February 09, 2009, 06:58 PM)

Look at it's memory statistics with Process Explorer or the like

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DC Gamer Club / Re: I am looking for this old PC FPS game

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 06:34 PM »

I never heard of that one.

-Deozaan (February 09, 2009, 06:29 PM)

I don't think it was very popular, and the graphics weren't all top notch even by the standards back then. But iirc it was kinda fun playing - can't for the life of me remember whether I whooped the two (at that pointer VERY young) brothers' behinds, or if they obliterated me, though

I wonder if the game is based on the BUILD engine (from duke3d), kinda had that feel iirc.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 05:00 PM »

Finally got around to using svn:externals for a project, to include my VS project for unrar - thanks again for tipping me about it, Justice, it's a darn useful feature

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 04:49 PM »

Haha Edvard, nice one - combined with the hores story, this leads me to think there might have been a "children homework" competition somewhere with more great stuff?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: I am looking for this old PC FPS game

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 04:08 PM »

I remember playing this game deathmatch with p3lb0x and the_other_brother, and since p3lb mentioned it on MSN I've been trying hard to remember what it was called, looking through old game collections et ceterea - to no avail.

I finally got clever and ended up constructing this google query - and lo and behold, there was the hit!

ERADICATOR, for great justice

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Living Room / Re: What are you getting for your Special Other for Valentines Day?

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 04:05 PM »

"It's all in the head, you know?" - George Harrison in Yellow Submarine

-40hz (February 09, 2009, 02:35 PM)

Yeah... The Beatles did a lot of acid

-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 02:55 PM)

On Valentine's Day too no doubt.

-40hz (February 09, 2009, 03:57 PM)

Strawberry fields forever, baby!

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 03:35 PM »

I'm pretty sure the hores-essay is a hoax (it's a bit overdone), but that doesn't make it any less funnier

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Living Room / Re: What are you getting for your Special Other for Valentines Day?

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 02:55 PM »

"It's all in the head, you know?" - George Harrison in Yellow Submarine

-40hz (February 09, 2009, 02:35 PM)

Yeah... The Beatles did a lot of acid

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Living Room / Re: Is World of Warcraft the only depression-proof industry?

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 12:40 PM »

A WOW subscription is cheaper than any of the other mentioned items, so duh

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Living Room / Re: Please tallk me off the ledge... Intervention needed!

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 12:38 PM »

If you’re ruinnig SATA in your notebook

-Darwin (February 09, 2009, 10:30 AM)

Now that would be naughty ...

-Carol Haynes (February 09, 2009, 12:36 PM)

I originally read that as "ruining Satan"

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

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 10:53 AM »

This one is so silly I could almost have though it up myself... and it made me smile:



I figured we could use a silly-picture thread here, so post whatever you got

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Living Room / Re: What are you getting for your Special Other for Valentines Day?

« Last post by f0dder on February 09, 2009, 10:42 AM »

My girlfriend and I do Valentine's all year long. Why restrict the feeling to one day a year?

-40hz (February 09, 2009, 10:39 AM)

Then you aren't doing the crappy commercial Valentines jig. Bringing back flowers to your dear one after a random day at work means a boatload more than buying a zillion roses and a ton of chocolate on that stupid valentines day.