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Living Room / Re: The internet in 1990 -- holy smokes!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 03:00 PM »

if the gazooba-net isn't being piped directly into my brain in 20 years from now i'll be very disappointed.

-nudone (May 03, 2011, 12:42 PM)

And I'll be...relieved.

-40hz (May 03, 2011, 02:53 PM)

You worried you'll click on the wrong thing and end up with a dirty mind?

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 02:55 PM »

Function CantHandleTruth(browser) {
 if(browser == Safari) {
   Kill! Kill! Kill!;
}else{
  JustLoadThePage();
}
}

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Living Room / Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 12:59 PM »

Just ran across this and thought it might interest some folks.

Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans (Gawker.com)

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 12:02 PM »

Because now you get to chase down an intermittent outage issue caused by a renegade protocol.

-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 10:32 PM)

Hey! I resemble that~!

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 10:42 PM)

I knew I was going to get nailed for that, but I just couldn't thing of a applicable synonym at that time of night.

Heh, heh - that comment about networking resonates - my mum's friend, who is 71, went to buy a printer but was turned off because it was wireless and she doesn't have wireless... Doh! I've been trying to get her to replace her ancient HP inkjet for YEARS because troubleshooting its issues with OSX have been driving me crazy... Sigh 

-Darwin (May 02, 2011, 10:56 PM)

She didn't belive that you can still just use USB (which is required for setting up the WiFi) with the "WiFi" printer? Load the printer with sandpaper and then print a phonebook ... The issue should then solve itself...

I just came across this post: http://www.thebestpa...et/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

doing a totally unrelated search but thought it *might* resonate here. NB language NSFW or children.

-Darwin (May 03, 2011, 11:12 AM)

hehe

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Living Room / Re: Nifty Gmail feature

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 11:35 AM »

Thunderbird has similar heuristics.

Can be done with a client-side javascript check btw, so doesn't necessarily mean "google reads your emails" (though of course they do datamine heavily).

-f0dder (May 03, 2011, 07:37 AM)

It'd be nice if they picked up the pace a little, I've been waiting on a 3MB attachment I sent myself for an hour now.

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Living Room / Re: The internet in 1990 -- holy smokes!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 11:30 AM »

Wait-a-minute, 1990 was 20 years ago?!? Damnit!

Now I feel old...

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 11:22 AM »

You seem like a good guy, and I like Ya, but...

So once the guilt has been established by whomever, anyone can carry out the sentence?

-housetier (May 03, 2011, 10:55 AM)

There's no whomever involved here. Were talking about a first person style-  I Did It - video confession. There was no remorse or appology. He showed great pride in his handywork. That's about as guilty as you can get.

What would you expect then to have for a trial defense? Say he was just kidding about the video?

I'm with mrainey, I'd have shot him and gone to lunch.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Code Samples from Microsoft

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 07:28 AM »

O_o ...So this is a prepackaged downloadable local searchable library of code samples? Or am I missing something? Either was it looks handy as hell.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Announcing with UDP in C# - Punching above my weight

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 03, 2011, 06:54 AM »

the more unreliable and inconsistent IPTV systems seem to lock up the .Receive commands.

-mediaguycouk (May 03, 2011, 05:16 AM)

Hm... Sorry if I get a little Captain Obvious here, but are you sure the request packet is being replicated exactly? The header may need a bit of tweaking to get the device to respond reliably.

If you put receive in its own thread with a small buffer called in a loop you can then get partial output to display which might help to establish where it's hanging and why.

(Sorry man I got nothing in C#, but...) Here's a Quick-N-Dirty example that I cut out of a project:

Code: C++ [Select]

1. // The thread passes a handle to the edit control to the receive function so tell us what's u.
2.   while(WaitForSingleObject(hStopEvent, 0) != WAIT_OBJECT_0) { // ...When it's Time for it.
3.           if(bPortChange) {
4.                   SetEvent(hStopEvent);
5.           }else{
6.                   Listen4Ping(g_hEdit, s);
7.           }
8.   }
9.  
10.  //===========================================================================================
11. //-------------------------------------------------------------+++--> Tell User What You Hear!
12. void Listen4Ping(HWND hEdit, SOCKET soc) { //------------------------------------------+++-->
13.         TCHAR recvbuf[MAX_BUFF] = {0};
14.         TCHAR szTemp[GEN_BUFF] = {0};
15.         SOCKADDR_IN saPong; // IP Address Structure for Local Listener.
16.         int iSenderAddrSize = sizeof(saPong);
17.         int iResult;
18.  
19.         timeval tv; // Time Value Object
20.         fd_set fd; // File Descriptor Set
21.  
22.   fd.fd_count = 1; //----//-+++--> Number of sockets in the set.
23.   fd.fd_array[0] = soc; // Array of sockets that are in the set.
24.  
25.   tv.tv_sec = 1;  // Set Timer Value to Wait Only 1 second...
26.   tv.tv_usec = 0; // With No Additional microseconds to wait.
27.  
28.   iResult = select(1, &fd, NULL, NULL, &tv);
29.  
30.   if(iResult > 0) {
31.           SOCKET Accpt;
32.           int iBytesRecv;
33.           Accpt = accept(soc,(SOCKADDR *)&saPong, &iSenderAddrSize);
34.           StringCbPrintf(szTemp, GEN_BUFF, "\r\nConnected Client's IP: %s", inet_ntoa(saPong.sin_addr));
35.           SendMessage(hEdit, EM_REPLACESEL, FALSE, (LPARAM)szTemp);
36.           iBytesRecv = recv(Accpt, recvbuf, MAX_BUFF, 0);
37.           SendMessage(hEdit, EM_REPLACESEL, FALSE, (LPARAM)recvbuf);
38.           StringCbPrintf(szTemp, GEN_BUFF, "\r\nBytes Received: %ld\r\n\r\n", iBytesRecv);
39.           SendMessage(hEdit, EM_REPLACESEL, FALSE, (LPARAM)szTemp);
40.           if(Accpt) closesocket(Accpt);
41.   }else{
42.           SendMessage(hEdit, EM_REPLACESEL, FALSE, (LPARAM)".");
43.   }
44. } // Here I get output of something every second regardless of a connection. That was if something does go wrong is obvious even if it isn't bad enough to lock the entire app.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 10:32 PM »

You forget a vital ingredient, old people or people who just don't want to have to deal with crap don't have networks

If your old people do, you haven't trained them right.

-Kamel (May 02, 2011, 08:04 PM)

Really? I frequently run into this rather unique misconception. People in small offices that are hesitant to buy a network printer, because they "Don't have" a "network". Do the 4 machines in your office share an internet connection? Yes? Then you have a network.

Do the old folks with one computer and a DSL connection have a "Network"? Damn straight they do! It's just a really small one. But they still gotta make that first hop across the LAN side cable now don't they?

So if Bonjour decides to Bork name resolution because it's just so Mac-tastic and it wants to (read insists on) drive ... Well they're screwed. Because now you get to chase down an intermittent outage issue caused by a renegade protocol.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 10:10 PM »

Tehehe I love that song!

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 06:47 PM »

I'd like to think we can passionately disagree about something, without feeling the need to turn on each other, in order to demonstrate how deeply held our convictions are.

-40hz (May 02, 2011, 06:38 PM)

Right-on Man! 

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Living Room / Re: amount of RAM in a netbook

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 06:43 PM »

so i think windows 7 starter is a good match for a netbook for a novice.

-mouser (May 02, 2011, 06:04 PM)

I think it's a good match for a netbook period. They're not for heavy multitasking, they're for the quick on-the-fly in and out kind of thing. Like a web enabled cell phone with a bigger screen.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 04:01 PM »

Not to mention that the guy pretty much tried and convicted himself in the (global) court of public opinion when he dialed up the world at large with the video wherein he praised the "heroes" who commandeered the planes (at his behest).

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 03:32 PM »

Just because something can spiral, does not automatically dictate that it will/must spiral into the eternal abyss (or the dark side if you like... ). Because it is also "true", that only a fool has no fear.

-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 03:12 PM)

I think that 'fear' in that case (and at least in the case of what I'm talking about) is irrational uncontrolled fear.  Fear as in a 'healthy respect for' is reasonable, and definitely helps in survival and decision making.  The other kind- not so much.

-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 03:23 PM)

Can't argue that one.

But speaking for the bulk of us infidels, I think the reaction most common in the US (and this thread) was/is of the 2nd (healthy respect) variate of fear...Which I really don't perceive as "hate". But then again my son was at the pentagon that day.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 03:23 PM »

As having a conscious is a good thing I'm told.

-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 11:54 AM)

I think therefore I am? (Trying to lighten the mood...?)

-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 03:06 PM)

I was actually shooting for more of a Jiminy Cricket sort of thing - But yes, I thought it might help (damn spell check hosed me  )

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 03:19 PM »

I've never dealt with Oracle, but anything resembling an automated (generic) transfer tends to make me nervous.

-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 01:37 PM)

I used to use DTS all the time, and it worked well in MS SQL Server. You had to get your settings right, but it worked ok. Test of course, but still good.

I used a program one time to migrate and MS SQL Server database to MySQL -- worked without a hitch.

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 01:45 PM)

This I will keep in mind.

------------------------------------------------

Scampering back onto the original topic.

Apple Sucks!

 

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 03:12 PM »

Through the words of a muppet comes the truth...

"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Does it really matter in what stage you find yourself?  That's a spiraling mode of thinking.

-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 02:43 PM)

A Star Wars quote? Seriously?

Just because something can spiral, does not automatically dictate that it will/must spiral into the eternal abyss (or the dark side if you like... ). Because it is also "true", that only a fool has no fear.

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Living Room / Re: Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 03:00 PM »

I sooo love my PS3. I guess I would even have bought it had it been from Apple

-phitsc (May 02, 2011, 02:36 AM)

That seems kind of stupid... If it were from Apple, you wouldn't be able to play games on it~!

(Sorry - couldn't resist that one~!)

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 12:25 PM)

I guess it would be call the iStation anyway

-phitsc (May 02, 2011, 02:43 PM)

Or the iPlay ... That's a fun and up sounding name.

In multi-player mode it's the iPlay with friends.

In single player mode it's the iPlay with myself.

 

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 01:48 PM »

heheh, "they hate our freedoms"; i've not heard that one before.

-nudone (May 02, 2011, 12:59 PM)

It seems to me that in a lot of cases, it just boils down to "they hate..."

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 01:07 PM)

Even sadder though, is that a lot of it boils down to "'we' hate..."

-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 01:29 PM)

But do "we" really?

If a child sees a spider, screams for help, and an adult comes in and "helps" by killing the spider. The child then responds by saying hooray, thanks for saving me from the spider.

Now did the child actually hate the spider? Or were they just afraid of it?

The two terms get used interchangably quite often. Most adults will tell you they hate spiders...When they really mean they're afraid of them.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 01:37 PM »

I understand you are married to MS-SQL

-Shades (May 02, 2011, 01:07 PM)

I am? Sounds like one of those bad night in Vegas movies ... When did I get married? I'm not adverse to MSSQL, but for something like this I'd generally go with MySQL (which may have been unclear earlier). Either way the object is to get (run) away (screaming) from Access (which the project is currently married to) unless using a dinky record set that would fit comfortably on a (Excel) spread sheet.

I've never dealt with Oracle, but anything resembling an automated (generic) transfer tends to make me nervous.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 11:54 AM »

Many others have already put to far more eloquently than I tend to be. So...

Should I ragequit?

-housetier (May 02, 2011, 08:37 AM)

Actions taken in anger are seldom well thought out, Hence... I will simply vote no. As having a conscious is a good thing I'm told.

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 11:42 AM »

(BTW- I abhor the term collateral damage.  It's a euphemism used to cover up the fact that this damage takes its toll in lives.  If you're going to do the act, at least look it in the eye when you do so.)

-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 10:47 AM)

Agreed! Enough with the Politically "Correct" attempts at watering down anything that might be perceived as difficult. Stand up and face what it really is in truth ... Or don't do it at all. We as a species would do well to get back to straighter talk and thicker hides. Then much of the foolishness would end.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pirated Software and Viruses? Ahem... No. I don't want to help you...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 07:50 AM »

She only slept around when her husband was out of town.

-40hz (May 02, 2011, 07:39 AM)

If you can't be with the one you love honey love the one you're with.

(If nobody remembers that song...I'm going to look like an idIoT)

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 07:25 AM »

If you are old, don't care to learn just want to use something and it work, apple is for you.

-Kamel (May 01, 2011, 12:37 PM)

God, Grant me the serinity...

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 12:53 PM)

You must only meet one of the criteria, not all. Not saying apple is only for old people, but am saying old people should only use apple

EDIT: ESPECIALLY if you're an old person calling me for help fixing your internet

-Kamel (May 01, 2011, 08:18 PM)

I was actually just trying to dissuade Renegade from saying what I was thinking, as we both tend to see red when the Apple, It just works thing comes up. Because it doesn't. Apple networking is dependent in its own abomination Bonjour, which I have seen break way too many networks with its shenanigan to be coincidence. It's a garbage protocol.

I'd rather try walking an old person through Linux troubleshooting, than do a hands-on network printer setup for a Mac. Because I know from the start that the first one will result in both of us laughing frequently, and the second one will (after much anguish) end badly.