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Developer's Corner / Re: Kirk Wants a New Programming Language
« Last post by Eóin on September 14, 2010, 04:30 PM »
I always get a bit cynical when someones moans about there not being a 'perfect language' out there. One thing that strikes me is the apparent contradiction of wanting true generics and duck typing while not allowing operator overloading :huh:
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Living Room / Re: My portable HTPC project
« Last post by Eóin on September 12, 2010, 05:47 PM »
If you want portable hardware that can play full HD you should go for something with an Nvidia Ion chipset. To be honest though I can't see it being possible to put together something so small, yet powerful, yourself.

If you were to settle for half HD you could maybe build something custom around a BeagleBoard, would still be very difficult I'd imagine.

Personally, I'd go go something like the media center PC I have plugged into my HD TV, it's a ViewSonic VOT 132. Very powerful, runs Win7 and full HD movies (with CoreCodec) perfectly. Also it's actually very small, can easily be carried in one hand. Plus I'm sure there are better equivalents out there by now.
453
Living Room / Re: PayPal horror stories: Getting uglier each day
« Last post by Eóin on September 10, 2010, 12:22 PM »
This truly is a sad story, but PayPal is not a bank and using it for such large sums of money seems crazy to me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What HTML5 can do -- cool site
« Last post by Eóin on September 08, 2010, 12:02 PM »
It's technology proof of concept, and a reasonably good one. I suspect your name is very apt.
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Living Room / Re: Does Flash or java make websites suck?
« Last post by Eóin on September 07, 2010, 01:19 AM »
I would say over-zealous web-designers make website suck, and flash seems to be the tool of their choice.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1
« Last post by Eóin on September 04, 2010, 06:22 PM »
I hadn't realised FreeBasic compiled to native code, should have checked that up.

On an aside, a more elegant solution to LoadLibrary is Delay-Loaded DLLs. So once you've confirmed you're on Vista+ you can use the Dwm* functions freely. On XP the app will still run, so long as you don't call the unsupported functions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1
« Last post by Eóin on September 04, 2010, 04:37 PM »
Ah I see, kinda impressive for FreeBasic assuming that 9kb includes the interpreter.

If should you want small size and standalone-ness look into using a smaller custom CRT, for example Tiny C Runtime Library.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1
« Last post by Eóin on September 04, 2010, 03:16 PM »
Is it the low size that surprises you? One thing that's happening there is you're dynamically linking against the VC runtime, so technically anyone using you're application needs to have, in this case, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) installed. Of course I tend to believe that's a good thing and that everyone should dynamically link against the VC runtime, it would cut down on physical memory usage when running lots of apps all using the same runtime.

Or are you surprised at the large size? After all, with just a few API calls, there's no reason such an app need be over 4kb which is generally the minimum unless you do some fancy manual linking.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ComboFix=GREAT rootkit cleaner. (Kaspersky failed me big time).
« Last post by Eóin on September 03, 2010, 11:12 AM »
App, Windows 7 has PC Safeguard, but to be honest it's not nearly as good as SteadyState. Superboyac has mentioned elsewhere he runs XP, so yeah SteadyState is an excellent suggestion. So is Sandboxie of course :)

[edit] Bamse, I was refeering to the cloud version too, I just didn't double check the name either :-[
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General Software Discussion / Re: ComboFix=GREAT rootkit cleaner. (Kaspersky failed me big time).
« Last post by Eóin on September 03, 2010, 10:52 AM »
Nice to see a mention of ClamWin. I'd been using it for a while, seemed nice alright. But I felt it was slowing down my PC after boot up so I uninstalled it a few months ago. Just ran Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and got a clean result, kinda promising considering I've been running without any AV for approx. 6 months.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid question time, "Any way to *prevent* crapware loading on new box?"
« Last post by Eóin on September 02, 2010, 09:18 PM »
I'd recommend doing as 4wd suggests. I'd try and use the Dell install disk first though, it probably has a clean Win7 on it, the OEM added stuff get install separate I think. Remember you can do as many installs as you want, you only need activate when you're happy you've got the install you're looking for.

All in all, if you're not afraid of a bit of playing around you'll end up with a perfectly clean install. However the road there may be bumpy if you're not very comfortable with doing OS installs.
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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]
« Last post by Eóin on September 01, 2010, 01:53 PM »
What on earth is this? Probably not the correct name at all...
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General Software Discussion / Re: 27 Good Reasons to Love Linux
« Last post by Eóin on August 31, 2010, 03:56 PM »
Of course if you do want some hand holding on Linux use Ubuntu, it's forums are a treasure trove of helpful people and technical advice. Personally, I've tried a number of distros, but always come back to Ubuntu.

As for hardware, well try getting the five year old Linksys to work on a brand new Mac before complaining that the people working in their free time, and in spite of obstacles from manufacturers, haven't quite solved all the worlds problems yet.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 27 Good Reasons to Love Linux
« Last post by Eóin on August 31, 2010, 02:08 PM »
Yes, doing something for one's self is the best way to learn, but when it's been done thousands of times over, why spend the time googling when someone very well might already have that answer?
-Josh (August 31, 2010, 01:40 PM)

But when that someone has had to answer that same question thousands of times over, just because everyone wants their hands held, of course they get frustrated.
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Living Room / Re: List the crappiest websites you know here. (warning: potentially NSFW)
« Last post by Eóin on August 30, 2010, 08:58 PM »
How could I not mention the most notoriously crap site of them all- SUPER ©.
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Living Room / Re: New Desktop - Super Easy OS Upgrade
« Last post by Eóin on August 28, 2010, 05:27 PM »
[edit] Oops... Hadn't read thread properly, Gwen7 said exactly what I was going to say.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Readability - Get rid of the clutter so you can read!
« Last post by Eóin on August 25, 2010, 01:59 AM »
Wow, just tried this on ScienceBlogs. The results are astounding :o

Thanks for the link cause I'd missed it first time around.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Java and braces ... how do you keep track of them?
« Last post by Eóin on August 18, 2010, 04:38 AM »
I personally use indentation, all code inside a brace is indented an extra level. Also I tend to never put braces at the end of a line, by starting them on a new line they themselves line up.

Finally, I break up the majority of my functions, only a rare few exceed 1 sceenful of code.

For example I would write this Traversing a Directory example as the following;

Code: Java [Select]
  1. public class TraverseDirectory
  2. {
  3.     private static void processDir(File dir)
  4.     {
  5.         System.out.print( (dir.isDirectory() ? "[D] : " : "[F] : "));
  6.         System.out.println(dir);
  7.     }
  8.  
  9.     private static void traverse(File dir)
  10.     {
  11.         processDir(dir);
  12.  
  13.         if (dir.isDirectory())
  14.         {
  15.             String[] children = dir.list();
  16.             for (int i=0; i<children.length; i++)
  17.             {
  18.                 traverse(new File(dir, children[i]));
  19.             }
  20.         }
  21.     }
  22.  
  23.  
  24.     /**
  25.      * Sole entry point to the class and application.
  26.      * @param args Array of String arguments.
  27.      */
  28.     public static void main(String[] args)
  29.     {
  30.         traverse(new File("new_dir"));
  31.     }
  32. }

This is, admittedly, slightly different to their code style.
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Living Room / Re: Oracle Attacks Google Over Android
« Last post by Eóin on August 17, 2010, 12:07 PM »
What really gets me is the whole lameness behind the suit.

The Java license is clear: even though Java is open source, Oracle grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to use Java.

It seems that Oracle is arguing that Google's Android has violated its Java patents by running on a mobile device, where it's not allowed, instead of sticking to the desktop, where it's permitted.

Oracle needs everybody to stay their place, and can't afford to have different versions of Java running where they aren't allowed. To do so would allow two things: it would challenge the neat division of what versions of Java run where, and it would mean people could then begin disputing how much they pay Oracle in licensing fees.
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/oracle_google_java_prosecution/

It's not so much about using Java as it is using Java Desktop on a mobile. These days smartphones are getting so powerful that such distinctions are fast becoming redundant.
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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately
« Last post by Eóin on August 13, 2010, 11:52 AM »
All it takes for an application to switch license away from the GPL is to have all authors of present code, i.e. all the copyright holders agree to relicense their parts. Effectively then that version of the program become dual-licensed under GPL and something else.

From that point forth any new code can be licensed exclusively under the second license (or a compatible one). Of course the original code to the GPL version can still be requested.

[edit] opps, didn't mean to drag this on further, sorry mouser :)
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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately
« Last post by Eóin on August 13, 2010, 04:58 AM »
There is, however, a caveat: Eric Wong's source archive (and binaries) does contain proprietary (non-GPL) units (DLLs) for which source code is not (and can not) be provided.

Ironically then Eric's code was in GPL violation as well. That technically means even his binaries can't be distributed. Ah the joys of the GPL :) Mark, removing the remaining GPL parts is a great idea, good luck.
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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately
« Last post by Eóin on August 11, 2010, 12:43 PM »
Has anyone tried to contact Eric and ask if he'd by happy to relicense the original code, possibly just to a select set of developers such as sgtevmckay and Markham, to allow the closed source derivative? Lots of code is dual licensed under a GPL and commercial license.

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately
« Last post by Eóin on August 11, 2010, 11:10 AM »
Wow
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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone have a nice, clean XP theme that I can download?
« Last post by Eóin on August 10, 2010, 02:14 PM »
[shameless_plug] For Windows 7 themes I recommend Slate or Linear  ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone have a nice, clean XP theme that I can download?
« Last post by Eóin on August 10, 2010, 12:26 PM »
Personally I install the new Vista cleartype fonts on my XP machines and then set Candara or Calibri as the main application font. The trend these days seems to be towards using a larger default fontsize. Vista and even Ubuntu are very guilty of that. I find using a small fontsize makes things look much more elegant.

I don't really use XP these days, so my Win7 setup won't help you much. But I recommend checking out lassekongo83's deviantART gallery of XP styles.
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