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Living Room / Re: New scamsites!
« Last post by f0dder on January 31, 2009, 04:57 AM »
I wonder how many people actually fall for those scam sites?

(Probably a lot. I don't have much faith in human intelligence.)
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Living Room / Re: Bad smells ... UPS recommendations ?
« Last post by f0dder on January 31, 2009, 04:52 AM »
Before I can order one I have to pull my 57' HDTV away from the wall and look at the power rating, then add the other components power consumption.
Are you running your HDTV through UPS? Why?
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Coding Snacks / Re: Protection for files and folders against move o delete
« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2009, 06:32 PM »
Wikipedia: Access Control List. The stuff NTFS user/group permissions are made of :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: The D programming language - an interview with the author
« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2009, 06:21 PM »
I don't really see why C++0x should "speed up the downfall". There currently aren't any other languages out there that are able to replace C++ fully, because of the sheer flexibility of the language.

0x adds important stuff like lambdas (queer syntax perhaps, but it's finally there) and for_each. And gives the "auto" keyword some meaning in a "ohgod I've missed this when doing template programming" way. And getting a shared_ptr in the standard library is nice, even though it's already available with boost.

Yes, C++ has problems. The standard library kinda sucks, it's very hard writing a decent parser for it (which also means getting proper intellisense in an IDE is a major pain), and (because the standard library kinda sucks) you can blow your leg off if you aren't careful. And for a lot of applications on today's hardware you can get away with using a language like C# or Java just fine.

There still isn't anything beating C++, though.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: PuTTY (preliminary discussion)
« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2009, 09:16 AM »
It's really unfortunate that the PuTTY authors aren't very keen on accepting other people's feature-adding patches, which is why we have all those different versions - *sigh*. I'm currently using puttytray, mainly because of it's URL-linkifier.

What's the point of the FARR plugin? Portable sessions?
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Living Room / Re: Cleaning Inside the Case
« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2009, 09:06 AM »
Be very careful when using compressed air inside a computer case - and never on a running machine. Compressed air tends to be pretty cold, and can cause water condensation, possibly resulting in fried PSUs.

If you do use compressed air, the trick is of course to combine it with a regular vacuum cleaner (which is just fine for in-case use in my experience), so you don't just blow the dust around :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: The D programming language - an interview with the author
« Last post by f0dder on January 30, 2009, 09:00 AM »
Imho, with C++0x a-coming and TR1 already available, the incentive for D is smaller. Sure, it'd be nice to have a few of D's features like modules (rather than the C/C++ include-file/library mess), but meh - C++ is industry standard and has some pretty great compilers.
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Living Room / Re: Bad smells ... UPS recommendations ?
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 09:43 PM »
Hm, so to be "perfect" you'd need both an UPS and a "voltage massager" kinda thing? I thought the non-silly-extreme-lower-end was more than just a battery :o :o :o
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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:47 PM »
You used to be able to do that previously, but I haven't tried since the win2k days - so dunno if they dropped the capability.
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General Software Discussion / Re: XP SP3 fresh install work with SP2 key?
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:45 PM »
I tried using a generic version of Vista with an OEM branded serial, and it didn't work out - tried calling the automated "punch in an insane amount of digits and get an insane amount of digits back" service, which didn't work. Then it wanted to direct me to some barely-english-speaking Swedish MS guy in Ireland, and I decided to fsck it and just get new XP licenses instead.

MS really needs to make life easier on the legit users.
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General Software Discussion / Re: XP SP3 fresh install work with SP2 key?
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:28 PM »
If you get the correct version (you won't be able to use a generic version with OEM-branded license keys (dell, etc), there's home vs. pro, and normal versus VLK license) you should be just fine.

Since you're mentioning stickers on machines, you could very well be bitten by the OEM trap... and often it's not easy getting ugpraded and non-crapware-loaded ISOs out of the OEMs.
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Living Room / Re: Gadgets that make you look like a jerk
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 09:46 AM »
I was pretty puzzled when I saw a segway here in Aarhus - kinda expected it to be a US-only phenomenon.
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Living Room / Re: How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 08:16 AM »
2Carol Haynes
Nice video but it's not even close to be from "hidden camera".
-fenixproductions (January 26, 2009, 12:09 PM)

Exactly. The video is cute enough as it is. Why invent an obviously false story to go along with it?
My sentiment exactly.

Video was pretty cute anyway, and clearly shows how dangerous and psychotic those creatures are!
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Crush: no timestamp? That sounds pretty messed up and basically impossible :-s
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Living Room / Re: Going Into Frugality Mode -- What are your Tricks and Tips
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:56 AM »
Drop sodas, cut down on alcohol (who can live entirely without it, though? ;)), start cooking your own food (this means no microwave dinners as well), eat meat less often...
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General Software Discussion / Re: How would you market Windows 7?
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:48 AM »
Hire George Clooney and have him say : "Windows 7, what else !"
and Mila Jovovitch would say "Because you deserve IT..."
I thought it was Milla who deserved IT? :-[

"Windows 7 - because you aren't going to be the smartass showing off at the café"
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Living Room / Re: MS takes evil to new level; ruins birthday cake
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:47 AM »
What's proprietary about "<!--"? That's a standard HTML comment.
Indeed. I'm the first to bash Microsoft when they put proprietary shit in the wrong place, but I can't see a problem here...except with the recipient's email client (please don't be using Thunderbird <repeat>).
And what would you use instead of ThunderBird?

I kinda like the cake the way it is ^__^
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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:42 AM »
Finnie makes some good points. He made the jump to Mac several years ago pre-Vista. I think [Windows] users will welcome 7, but what will it offer the enterprise customer? If businesses don't jump on it -- and face it, they don't have the money to upgrade hardware or licenses these days -- then Microsoft will need a Plan B business model. As Finnie notes, users are not willing to pay for single-platform data lockdown in the age of the cloud. The OS takes a backseat to the app.
It's probably going to matter a lot more to the enterprise than desktop user, actually - there's been a lot of tweaking and serious code restructuring going on in the kernel to reduce scalability bottlenecks... check the Russinovich video on the topic.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:34 AM »
I use it; I'm not obsessed with it- it is one tool in my toolbox.  But when I don't feel like waiting for Visual Studio to load, and want something lighter that I can just edit/compile/check-in/out projects in that supports multiple platforms in one project, I pull it out.  It also supports brief which most editors these days overlook, so that's a big plus for me.
When I test-drove SlickEdit, the difference in time between starting SE and VS was pretty irrelevant - to the point that SE felt pretty pointless to me :)
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Living Room / Re: Codex Transportica -- My Favorite Entry
« Last post by f0dder on January 29, 2009, 07:32 AM »
better ideas come along as i'm doing them so large bits get rubbed out and something more stupid will be put in its place
(emphasis mine) - that part made my day :)
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Windows comes with a "remote clipboard service" by default, which is DCOM programmable - I've never used it, though, so have no idea how it works, or if it's only used with stuff like terminal services. Might be worth googling up, though :)
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When something similar happens, I usually select the process from the taskbar, hit "Alt+Space, M", hit one of the arrow keys, and then use the mouse to move the window in place - that almost always worked. I've had firefox not wanting to come up once or twice, but killing the process and restarting solved that problem.
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Nice to have you back - hope you heal up fast and without complications :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Raid 1 freeware anywhere?
« Last post by f0dder on January 26, 2009, 03:58 AM »
There might be some 3rd-party software raid stuff (http://www.techsoftp...com/backup/index.php isn't exactly raid mirroring (although they call it that), but it's close enough).

Speed isn't going to be an issue with the cheap hardware controllers, as long as you don't plan on running raid-5. You can hit the 133MB/s (shared!) bandwidth of the PCI bus though, if you have lots/fast drives, but for mirroring it should be fine. Intel RAID Matrix (onboard) will do the "read striping" you mention, but I dunno if this is generally being done - definitely something to read up before purchasing!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Raid 1 freeware anywhere?
« Last post by f0dder on January 26, 2009, 02:44 AM »
Shades: raid mirror is just fine for the system disk, since if one drive fails, you'll just be running with a degraded array (but it still runs). Striping, on the other hand, is dangerous :)

Snobbery about hardware vs. software raid is plain silly - you need expensive controller cards with battery-backed buffer memory for hardware raid stuff. And you only need that if you do some pretty high-end stuff. The cheaper "hardware" controllers still do pretty much everything via OS drivers.

That said, I'd much rather go for one of the el-cheapo "hardware" controllers than hacking XP system files into enabling raid mirror mode.
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