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Living Room / Re: How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 04:06 AM »

(random link from IRC, dunno where it originates from)

-f0dder (November 27, 2008, 02:42 AM)

Maybe: http://www.catswhoth...upgrass.com/kill.php

-fenixproductions (November 27, 2008, 04:04 AM)

Danke Schön, going to update my initial post - I'm a fan of giving credits where due.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Writing to two folders simultaneously. Possible? Tired of running synch progs

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 03:44 AM »

Heh, pretty lame that block-level updates is an add-on cost... I mean, it saves both you and them bandwidth :-s

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Living Room / How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 02:42 AM »

As people might have guessed by now, I'm not a big fan of cats.

And with good reason, I say!

(random link from IRC, dunno where it originates from)
Thanks to fenixproductions for finding originating site

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 02:24 AM »

Compared to some behemoths, DonationCoder is almost like a grain in the sand. Just for reference, the IGN boards have exactly 189,401,031 messages in this exact moment. And they have a couple of users with more than 100,000 posts, so...

-Lashiec (November 26, 2008, 09:04 AM)

That's insane :-s

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Project Management software?

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 02:18 AM »

Seems like Claus Agerskov's Proj is dead?

The http://proj.chbs.dk/ site basically says the site is being moved to new servers, and rewritten in PHP5 because of security flaws... and last updated 2007-05-25? Ugh . Haven't been able to find mention of Proj elsewhere. His current site seems to be http://www.agercon.dk/index.php , which doesn't mention it either.

Oh well, that's as far as my hunting goes.

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Living Room / Re: Why Windows Rules: the QWERTY phenomenon?

« Last post by f0dder on November 27, 2008, 12:41 AM »

You can't compare DVORAK/QWERTY to Linux/Windows.

DVORAK is demonstrably better than QWERTY, at least as long as you're primarily writing English.

Linux (and open source software) is usually inferior to Windows/Commercial software in one way or another, be it lack of documentation, less features, more bugs, whatever. Yes, it's free, and the features might be good enough for you, and there are niches where free software is better, fair enough... but usually it's (at least slightly) inferior.

We might all be faster at typing if it wasn't for the designed-to-slow-us-down QWERTY standard, but it's not like if the world would be a magically better place if the majority weren't running Windows.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Regular Expression Designer: Free Program to Help you Build Regular Expressions

« Last post by f0dder on November 26, 2008, 04:18 PM »

Solve a problem using regular expressions and suddenly you have two problems

That said, they can be pretty useful, as long as you're not trying to do "real" parsing using regex. I've usually been using The Regulator for regex testing, but it's somewhat quirky - might give this tool a try.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??

« Last post by f0dder on November 26, 2008, 04:11 PM »

mouser: if you could find a listview (or whatever it was) component that supports unicode (as well as ANSI), then you could probably keep FARR in ANSI, but do file traversal in unicode... that hopefully wouldn't break plugins.

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupted file after power disruption

« Last post by f0dder on November 26, 2008, 11:22 AM »

If you're using NTFS as filesystem, this shouldn't happen - unless mIRC is doing something stupid... which it might very well be doing

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??

« Last post by f0dder on November 26, 2008, 11:13 AM »

czb: that'd be probably about the same amount of work as doing a full unicode version. Thing is, getting file search etc. in unicode isn't that bad, but iirc FARR currently uses some 3rd-party controls that don't have unicode support.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Project Management software?

« Last post by f0dder on November 26, 2008, 02:19 AM »

Jamesdany: are you affiliated with Planningforce? Just to make things clear

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General Software Discussion / Re: Acronis total dirt OS selector - kills hard drives!

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 04:46 PM »

since messing about with all this dual booting stuff i've realised that the bios order of the drives and what it considers the boot order doesn't necessarily match what software/boot loaders and operating systems consider to be the drive order - that's where the accidental deletions occur (but probably not if you can give labels to things).

-nudone (November 25, 2008, 03:55 PM)

Yeah, PCs are extremely crap in this regard - if you have mixed SATA and PATA drives (or RAID, to make things even worse), things can get extremely messy. The retarded standard partition table layout doesn't help either. Mess, mess, mess.

Did you by any chance have any of your drives set up as "dynamic disks" in windows, instead of using the old-style partition format?

Can't really think of a good reason why your disk would be nuked, though... sounds weird. Btw, never do "in place" recovery if you can avoid it, the best solution is always to restore files to another partition. The best recovery software I've found so far has been GetDataBack. It's slow, but it's been able to recovery pretty well.

Thanks DOYC you had MirrorFolder running, I hope it means you didn't lose any data after all.

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Living Room / Re: Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?!

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 02:06 PM »

Do people drug their cats for these videos, or are all those animals just that batshit insane?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mockups ...

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 01:28 PM »

Tinjaw: mockup screens has a less attractive GUI though ( ) and is the same price...

TheQwerty: looks like something that might be worth giving a go - I feel pretty weird about using FireFox for non-web stuff, though . Oh, and it looks like the mockups look like native GUI widgets?

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Living Room / Re: A fork in the road - dangers of web services

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 01:24 PM »

I'm never going to rely on having important data (solely) on the web ... Unless the server it's hosted on is phyically mine.

-Stoic Joker (November 25, 2008, 11:39 AM)

I'm not sure I'd do it with a server that's mine either, unless I have easy-ish physical access to it.

Tis an Evil Cloud coming me thinks.

-Stoic Joker (November 25, 2008, 11:39 AM)

Agreed. I don't like the idea of all that web application and cloud computing stuff. Lousier application interfaces, slower, and "all your data are belong to us". Yay, what a step back!

I'm too paranoid to have my data held on someone else's server, anyway...

-Darwin (November 25, 2008, 12:11 PM)

Even with stuff like that data backup services that "encrypt your data", I wouldn't use such a service without encrypting my data client-side first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 06:00 AM »

Perhaps you'd been better off using ABBYY FineReader to OCR the documents into word format? Iirc it supports PDF source, and it has definitely worked wonders for the OCR jobs I've used it for at the museum. Not exactly cheap, though.

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Living Room / Re: A fork in the road - dangers of web services

« Last post by f0dder on November 25, 2008, 05:58 AM »

Data on harddisk = <3.
Data in the cloud = </3

I'm never going to rely on having important data (solely) on the web if I can help it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: making a recovery partition

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 09:47 PM »

Perhaps Clonezilla is up to the job? Never used it myself, though.

I've had OK experience with Acronis TrueImage and it's recovery partition stuff, makes for very fast and convenient image restoration - but obviously requires that the harddrive isn't defunct and there haven't been massive partition tables corruption. (And TI is only good for image based cloning, it's file- based backup sucks).

Hm, sounds like Microsoft SteadyState could take products like DeepFreeze out of business? I wish MS would focus on getting Windows done right, and let 3rd parties handle some of the somewhat more non-standard stuff... but provide the necessary kernel hooks to make it possible without massive reverse engineering and hacky code.

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Living Room / Re: Experiences buying software on eBay?

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 06:52 PM »

I don't see the point of buying software if you're not 100% sure it's legit... I'd never buy that kind of stuff on ebay/whatever.

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Official Announcements / Re: Licence key for Tennis Elbow Manager

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 06:37 PM »

...and the obligatory: this isn't a warez forum, we only help with (legit!) license keys for the DonationCoder software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mockups ...

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 05:18 PM »

Looks pretty nice - I like the fact that it does not use standard UI controls, but actually looks like a normal pen-and-paper mockup drawing. That way, potential clients aren't going to be confusing the mockup with a beta version of your software

Price is probably OK, but too high as long as I'm still only doing hobbyist programming... and I probably don't qualify as a do-gooder. If the desktop version had been $40, I'd probably have purchased.

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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 04:04 PM »

Yeah, I'm also against new members not being able to post links - I've often needed to do that as first-post when joining a new forum, for the same reasons tomos states. It would definitely help bring down spam, but... just how much spam do we get, and how much would it annoy legitimate users?

Limiting the edit capability to, say, X hours with under 10 posts would probably work out pretty well. Wouldn't be much trouble for regular users, and spammers are very unlikely to do more than a few posts at most.

As for edits showing up on "unread threads", I don't think it would be much of a problem, unless every edit would show up as an entry. Imho it'd be enough for a thread to be flagged as updated (only showing up in the list once), but probably with a per-thread "list of changes"?

This has to be done right - we don't want to flood the board with update thingies, and any new "tools" have to be easy to use

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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 02:33 PM »

J-Mac: that would be very effective against spam, but also pretty annoying for legitimate users. After all, we do have the Announce Your Software/Service/Product section...

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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 12:56 PM »

mouser: that's how I intepreted the last part of alivingspirit's post: "An edit is like a new post and should be treated as such. Nothing should be posted on a forum without a moderator seeing it." - emphasis is mine

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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?

« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 12:31 PM »

Having all new posts having to go through moderator = bad idea. Lots of work for the moderators, and would "slow down" the forum. The spam problem is not bad enough that this is necessary at any rate.

"Wikifying", as in having revision control, is an interesting idea - but how difficult would it be to implement?

Disabling post-edit after <some timespan> seems like a reasonable compromise. And it could perhaps be re-enabled for people with more than X posts...