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General Review Discussion / Re: In praise of opinionated reviews
« Last post by f0dder on November 24, 2008, 12:24 PM »
As for fanboyish reviews, I don't think I've been sufficiently awed by any new program in a long time. Other than Total Commander, which is pure perfection of course!
Why on earth use TC when there's xplorer2? :P :P :P
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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?
« Last post by f0dder on November 23, 2008, 08:49 PM »
@Mouser: Could the post editing be time limited? I makes sense to allow editing for 1-2 hours after posting, but why should we be allowed to edit posts that are 1 week old, or more? Some sites don't allow editing, you post it, it is there...

I appreciate the possibility to edit posts, but it could be limited in time.. after all subsequent posts are responses to that post, not an edited (possibly totally different) one.

Just my 2 cents
Might actually be a good idea - it would thwart the spam-edits, as well as prevent people from going rampant and removing their old posts in pissed-off-fury :)
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 :huh:
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by f0dder on November 23, 2008, 12:28 PM »
On my system, the BIOS part of booting takes up roughly half of the boot time - nothing I can do about that. Never found Windows' boot time to be much of a problem. And unless you have a really sucky DHCP server, you're not going to shave even a second off your boot time... why do people obsess over boot time, anyway? Matters for laptops,  but for workstations? :)
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One more thing (not a bug since it's by design) that should be considered: as some have pointed out, the most impressive feature of MF is the real-time RAID-1 mode. But when in that mode, MF duplicates every single writes to the destination -- including, e.g., writing to temp files -- and could hamper performance if the destination is on a slow/busy connection.
As long as you're just backing up data files (which is all you should be backing up, anyway), this isn't that much of a problem, imho :)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 03:18 PM »
NT has been fully unicode since the start - only 9x windows versions have limited unicode support. NTFS is also native unicode, and even FAT supports it (though it's an evil hack... using multiple filename descriptor entries, chaining them, etc). Windows APIs dealing with strings have two versions, btw, *A and *W - ANSI and WIDE/Unicode. ANSI versions internally convert to unicode, call the *W variant, and convert back to ANSI.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 01:38 PM »
Kartal: do yourself a favor and install 32bit python. You don't get much advantage from using 64bit python unless you have very specific needs, and you get in trouble with anything that uses native code bindings.
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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 01:18 PM »
momonan: I suspected the same - it's probably the same old tactic of coming back some weeks later to edit the post and make it point to the product they want to spam.

That doesn't mean we can't have a meaningful thread about the topic, though, and spambam the user if it turns out our suspicions are true :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Forms calls a class, class interacting with a form
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 12:58 PM »
CW: you don't get a leak from #1 unless you have a really unusual GUI design :)

Amen to #2, though. MVC 4tw.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 12:51 PM »
tranglos: tbh, I don't have a lot of chinese or russian files on my computer :) - but iirc some non-English users had trouble with FARR, so perhaps there are issues when only searching the local codepage, with those "richer" languages.

Crush: 1990 was 18 years ago - utf parsing is only a problem if you do really speed-intensive stuff. And FARR is often disk-bound anyway. Might as well stick with utf-16 (which is what windows NT API internally uses) and forget about UCS-4/UTF-32, and conserve a bit of memory.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 47
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 12:45 PM »
Two things though: the links in your list of articles, when displayed on the donationcoder frontpage, does not work (not in Firefox, not in Maxthon). Clicking a link only centres it but does not show the text and does not redirect to the relevant forum thread.
Probably a thing for mouser to look at - internal links might not work that well outside of thread view.

In the forum thread, I think it would be better to remove the "click to reveal/hide" buttons and just display all the contents as is. The user can quickly scroll. Additionally, a clickable index could be placed at the top.
those buttons were added by popular demand :) - perhaps we should take a poll vote on it? Or coax mouser into doing some addon so we can have personal preferences? ;)
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urlwolf: is it implemented with a filter driver, though? If not, a single byte-change in a gigabyte-sized file will cause the entire file to be synced...
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 09:12 AM »
echo: yes, UNICODE means - basically - "foreign characters". SOME already work in FARR, but it's limited to the codepage you're running. Ie., with a Danish codepage I can enter "æøåÆØÅäëöüï" and stuff like that without problems, but FARR fails miserably for Chinese, Russian, etc.
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Darwin, why not simply install 64bit Vista instead of mucking around with the server stuff?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lessons from 2 years without Windows
« Last post by f0dder on November 22, 2008, 09:09 AM »
VirtualBox has a kernel module that gives it ring-1 level access to your CPU. Its commands are executed natively, rather than emulated. Only the attached hardware devices run through emulation. This results in a massive speed up, especially on older hardware.
VMWare does the same, plus it has special drivers of graphics and network cards to speed up things massively. Again, what makes VirtualBox superior? :)

Regarding the ALT+0151 thing, do you know how to do this from Xfce and while using the SCIM input method? I do not use xim because I need to be able to input non-English text. All the guides on the Ubuntu Web site assume xim in a Gnome environment.
Nope, sorry - but I'm absolutely sure it's doable :)

Even in 2001 all the comp science people were geeked about KDevelop. I've never been a C programmer or a KDE user, so I never bothered to look at it. However, I'm sure it's even more amazing today. There are a lot of careers where Linux may offer better software solutions than Windows or Mac.
KDevelop, Anjuta, Code::Blocks etc are all inferior to Visual Studio. Pretty sad state of affairs. The best non-VS IDE I've seen is Eclipse, which is OK for JAVA development (haven't tried it for C++), but has it's own quirks...

PS: you have a misquote in your last post, citing me and not zridling as the source :)
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Am i the only one who didn't particularly enjoy half life?
Don't worry, every neighbourhood had weird kids that didnn't enjoy halflife. Most of them turned out OK.
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Good old Half-Life - I still have the original box in my basement somewhere :)
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Isn't Vista and Server2008 the same kernel anyway? Usually the only difference between workstation and server (for the same generation of Windows) is a few changes in the registry, and the "extra stuff" that's included. For XP and Server2003 there were some differences though, including a more recent compiler being used to build the kernel. XP64 was based on Serv2003 codebase, not XP32 codebase.

IMHO you're better off taking a Vista Business version and running it through vLite - that way, you won't have software bitching about requiring the Pro Version to run on server edition OSes.
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Living Room / Re: When a home server goes to the dark side: A hands on experience
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 09:35 PM »
What's the name of the malware? It's been a long time since I've seen anything that actually infects EXE files, these days it's mostly "just" a trojan+rookit. Pretty nasty getting your system hammered that bad.

Morale of the story? NEVER USE DMZ, be sure to have Windows Firewall enabled, and be careful what you synchronize... you really only should be syncing data files, not executables. Oh, and try to run as non-admin (on Vista: with UAC enabled) :)

I wonder how the malware got in, anyway. Your "server" was both DMZ and didn't have Windows Firewall? Does anybody ever use it for browsing, mails, etc?
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Developer's Corner / Re: DC loads fast. What is the secret.
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 07:21 PM »
I hi-jacked the thread. I'm an idiot. Sorry :-[
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 02:10 PM »
Hmm... I just checked my boot.ini file and it hasn't changed since I installed Windows (August 6), so I don't know that it is changing that field, which in any event is not present.
I momentarily forgot that Vista doesn't use boot.ini anymore, but instead the BCD area... thus "bcedit" is used for changing boot settings.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 12:28 PM »
Hmmm, really shouldn't increase your boot-time, that sounds pretty weird :-s - is it measurable (with a stop-clock), and is it repeatable? Vista might just have decided to do a boot-time defrag or whatever :)

Which boot.ini field does it set, btw? /NUMPROC, right?
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Living Room / Re: Show/World: A new way to look at the world
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 12:00 PM »
If you have that data in the format they want, submit it and they may add it to the Your Maps section.
Well, I'd say the already have all the data they need to make those "proper" maps... they probably just din't think much, or perhaps they see everything in absolutes :)
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Living Room / Re: Show/World: A new way to look at the world
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 11:49 AM »
Interesting - but it would be interesting if certain stats could be compared relatively to country size. For instance, a small country like Denmark can't compete much in raw numbers, but if the figures were "litres of pure alcohol consumed by person per year", "windmill power production relative to energy consumption", "number of abortions/year compared to population" etc., we'd probably score a lot better :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?
« Last post by f0dder on November 20, 2008, 11:39 AM »
Don't apologize, Curt - you're not the one who put this thing on a newsletter :)

And I'm still not ruling out that things could have been changed with Vista, I just find it extremely unlikely, and even more unlikely that it would be turned off by default.

Anyway, as long as you don't set the number below your actual amount of cores, the "tip" should do no harm.
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