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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2009, 05:10 PM »
40Hz: how on earth is that going to work if you having installed a bootsector on the USB device? Formatting doesn't do that by default...

Would be interesting trying to vLite Win7 - might be possible since it's based on Vista. It already has a lower install footprint than a standard Vista install, though.
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Living Room / Re: Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2009, 11:06 AM »
qpetrant: Always offer to defrag your (geek/ess)'s hard drive. But not on the first date. ;)
-40hz (January 14, 2009, 07:43 AM)
Wouldn't that offend a geekess? Kinda like if you asked a math major if she needs help with her algebra assignments? :)
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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2009, 05:44 AM »
But because I find the DOnationware principe and the communicty interesting, I did sign up for this forum with the intention of complimenting the article and give feedback in this particular topic. Unfortunately, gettin on the forum took me multiple registraion attempts, because I did not receive a validation email (only after 30+ min). But here I am, haning in there just to give my feedback!
-Marcel25 (January 14, 2009, 04:29 AM)
Does your email server perhaps use Greylisting?
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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Notepad++ plugins
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2009, 01:16 AM »
14th January, 2009: small update. Switcher can now open "filename under cursor".
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Living Room / Re: Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2009, 12:37 AM »
Related to this topic: the one and greater TB drives are a natural progression, but are they not headed for extinction in the consumer market?
-gpetrant (January 14, 2009, 12:13 AM)
I don't think so - ADSL (which is the most common connection method in .dk afaik) is still limited to 2mbit/s upstream, and the fastest common downstream is 20mbit/s (50mbit/s is in testing, but even 20mbit/s isn't widely available). Also, you need to live close to a switching central to get that kind of speed, and it's still relatively expensive. I'd guess the average connection speed is something like 2048/256 kbit/s...

Harddrives are something like 90/75 mbyte/s - that's more than an order of magnitude faster than the fastest widely available consumer internet connections. And it's going to stay that way for quite a while, fiber is being rolled out very slowly (and lately there's been some problems for the energy companies that have been responsible for a lot of the fiber rolling-out business).

Remote backups would be cute (but ugh, the thought of backing up a terabyte of data with 2mbit/s...), but incremental backups are not everything. It wouldn't be that weird having a terabyte storage for movies for your HTPC :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Songsmith
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 07:42 PM »
OK, so the ad is extremely corny and cheesy - that could've been fine, though. But because it doesn't at all show how the stuff works, and the singing is overlaid rather than showing how it sounds/works inside the ad - well, the ad sucks.

The idea is cute though, and if it does something meaningful from your singing, it could be somewhat useful. But I doubt it's going to be used for anything but toying around and making horrible youtube parodies of stuff :P
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Living Room / Re: Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 07:27 PM »
I was close to buying a couple of 500gig Seagate drives when one of the 400gig WDs in my fileserver died - good thing I did a bit of googling first, seems like a lot of people have problems with Seagate... not just self-bricking, but bad sectors as well.

So in the end I went for 2x640gig WD6401AALS (caviar black) drives. Iirc only "consume grade" (8hr/day), but still 5 years warranty... "server grade" (24/7) didn't stop that 400gig drive from dying, so whatever - I'm not sure there's much difference between "consumer" and "server" grade drives these days anyway, except pricetag. And warranty doesn't mean that much to me, except perhaps as an idea how much faith the manufacturers have in their product. Often you're going to get a refurbished drive if you use the warranty, and there's a pretty long turnaround time.
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Living Room / Re: What may you be missing?
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 07:23 PM »
Most street musicians tend to annoy me, because they - sorry to say it - suck. And mimes should be banned by law. Whenever there's a musician that doesn't suck, I don't have any cash on my, doh. (Which I rarely have, btw - debit cards ftw.)

Interesting that people just stress by without even taking a look at the guy, though. Just how much in a hurry can one be?
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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: Fixing windows using gridmove
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 07:09 PM »
jgpaiva: time to get coding, perhaps? :P
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Living Room / Re: Please help me build my new computer, DC!
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 07:04 PM »
I'd think it has a lot to do with more exposure to advertising.
-Deozaan (January 13, 2009, 01:15 PM)
My sentiment exactly.

superboyac: take a sh!tload of pictures while assembling the PC. I love doing that myself :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2009, 06:58 PM »
Yes - I"m running Windows 7 in Virtual PC. Seeing these last few posts prompted me to return to Virtual PC and take a look. I'd probably stop short of calling it sluggish, per se, but it's noticably slower than my "real" XP and Vista installs, both of which have a LOT more RAM to work with.
-Darwin (January 12, 2009, 09:08 PM)
Switch to a better VM application, then :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 08:04 PM »
It installed quite quickly. I assigned a gig of RAM to it and it's rather sluggish compared to Vista on 4 gig and XP on 2, but what does on expect?!
-Darwin (January 12, 2009, 07:44 PM)
Is that using VirtualPC? It's quite snappy being assigned 1gig running under vmware...
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 06:47 PM »
Are you sure it has anything to do with recovery? It sure doesn't look that way to me... (see attachment in previous post)
-f0dder (January 12, 2009, 12:38 AM)
WinRE is installed in \Recovery\RANDOMNUMBERS
-Zero3K (January 12, 2009, 06:44 PM)
...which isn't present on the BCD volume Win7 created on my install, but is present in %SYSTEMDRIVE% (ie., C:, where the rest of the Win7 files go).
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Living Room / Re: Whole Earth online!
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 04:31 PM »
no sign of Edvard to enlighten us :tellme: ah well  :D
-tomos (January 12, 2009, 04:19 PM)
He's probably taken a hit of the meat tenderizer, *grin*
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Living Room / Re: Whole Earth online!
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 03:49 PM »
and the invaluable tips (meat tenderizer can calm a bad trip...) Memories.
-Edvard (January 12, 2009, 02:56 PM)
Meat tenderizer? :huh:
-f0dder (January 12, 2009, 03:33 PM)
eh, f0dder I think this will have to be dealt via PM   LOL ;D (sorry not a notion..)
-tomos (January 12, 2009, 03:42 PM)
Well, I was thinking of mallet-style meat tenderizers, which would be somewhat drastic imho - knocking people out? :)
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Living Room / Re: Whole Earth online!
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 03:33 PM »
and the invaluable tips (meat tenderizer can calm a bad trip...) Memories.
-Edvard (January 12, 2009, 02:56 PM)
Meat tenderizer? :huh:
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2009, 12:38 AM »
Are you sure it has anything to do with recovery? It sure doesn't look that way to me...
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2009, 04:19 PM »
I guess that partition is some kind of "recovery partition" like what HP, Dell, etc. put on their computers. 200mb seems a bit small for recovery, but at least it's small enough that I can just ignore it.

I saw some page that had instructions to prevent that partition from being created. I didn't read it very carefully, but it looked like the main idea was to partition/format the HDD before installing Windows 7.
-Hirudin (January 11, 2009, 04:08 PM)
I don't think it has anything to do with recovery - it's simply Boot Configuration Data - perhaps some bootloader code too. Didn't look super closely at it.

Sounds reasonable that you might be able to prevent it by pre-partitioning (the BCD would end up on your system partition then). It's a bit annoying that the installer is so inflexible wrt. partition creation.
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2009, 03:43 PM »
Interesting, my Vista (1st drive) didn't show up either. A part me just put it down to a purposeful decision by MS to prevent 7 messing up another installation without you expressly allowing access to it. But I have no backing for that, just a hunch.
-Eóin (January 11, 2009, 11:24 AM)
Perhaps it hides the partition that contains the BCD? On my vmware install, Win7 insisted on creating a separate 200meg partition for that stuff, and didn't assign it a drive letter. Curious to see what this partition contained, I assigned a drive letter to it myself... which Win7 then wouldn't let me unmap, doh!
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2009, 11:17 AM »
Carol, sorry to hear you've had that amount of problems - good thing this is a beta, after all :)

IMHO everything looks OK without Aero, but of course not having the acceleration sucks. I was able to run the performance index just fine under my vmware 5.5.9 btw, perhaps because it doesn't try supporting recent Direct3D?
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2009, 10:48 AM »
Sounds weird, Carol.

I'd try disconnecting all harddrives and putting a completely blank one in the machine, to avoid any potential multiboot issues.
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Living Room / Re: Do you guys have any experience with routers? because i have some questions
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2009, 10:46 AM »
I'm not blocking my SSID (because it makes things easier when friends with laptops come by - and they kinda often do). It's a non-standard SSID btw, so I'm not going to be hurt by precomputed attacks against "LINKSYS", "NetGear" etc SSIDs. The same goes for MAC filtering... both are pretty useless anyway. I run WPA2-PSK encryption... I don't expect that I'll be targeted by somebody who's committed enough to launch a distributed GPU cracking attempt :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox not safe at all
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2009, 10:44 AM »
All products are vulnerale. the USER is the main exploit entry.

No matter how safe your browsers are, if you constantly visit porn sites, chances are you will infect an virus.
-electronixtar (January 10, 2009, 02:07 AM)
Depends on what kind of pr0n sites you visit 8)
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 7 beta available for free Jan 9 (!)
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2009, 10:33 AM »
Anyone had any joy getting either 32 bit or 64 bit versions to install?

I have tried both and for both versions I get to the point were windows is starting up for the first time and then it goes into an endless reboot cycle.

Each install was performed on a clean empty primary partition.
-Carol Haynes (January 10, 2009, 09:46 AM)
32bit installed just fine for me under vmware, as mentioned above. Just don't install accelerated video driver for vmware, the rest of the vmware tools (NIC and mouse driver) work fine, though. And after the hard-reset, I got a "want to fix stuff auto?" kinda thing, which did a system restore. Glad I hadn't turned that off as I usually do :)

Oh, and it did insist on creating a 200MB "boot partition" kind of thing - at least I couldn't figure out how to stop it from doing so. That partition includes the BCD and whatnot.

As for the MP3 bug, that's only if you use windows media player - and who does? :)
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Living Room / Re: New Ipod/ cleaning mp3s
« Last post by f0dder on January 10, 2009, 10:28 AM »
Why can't I reformat and run Puppy Linux on it??????
-Fred Nerd (January 10, 2009, 06:15 AM)
What good would that do you? I'd want a specifically tailored OS (and kernel) for such limited devices as MP3 players...

PS: http://www.rockbox.org/ is an interesting project, but because of the closedness of the various media players, their progress is slow :(
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