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Living Room / Re: You might want to skip the whole Blu-Ray generation
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:55 AM »
Yeah, as I wrote the whole infrastructure isn't there yet - there's only very few HD channels.

Anyway, while you might not be able to spot much of a difference between 720p and 1080p on smaller TVs, it does make a difference if you also want to use the TV as a computer monitor :)

It'll probably be 3-5 years before I'm going to buy a biggo flat-panel TV - hopefully, the infrastructure is in place then, and we'll know better what's going to happen with the whole media format thingamajig.
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General Software Discussion / Re: the actual browser divide: plugins
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:52 AM »
Noscript, adblockplus, scrapbook, "it's all text"... wouldn't want to browse without them. And I much prefer integrated ad-blocking to external solutions like admunch or privoxy.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: YouTube Malware, The Easy Way
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:25 AM »
He doesn't look at URLs before clicking, either :P
-f0dder (September 14, 2008, 08:12 AM)
Wha..?
-Ehtyar (September 14, 2008, 08:18 AM)
I'm in your computer, watching your pr0n. Be careful what you click next time!11!1! one one :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: the actual browser divide: plugins
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:23 AM »
I definitely wouldn't use a browser without plugin support. An out-of-the-box browser might come close to serving my needs, but I prefer a relatively LEAN_AND_MEAN base browser, with room for adding the extensions I need.

Btw, it might take a while before Chrome gets plugin support... a quote from this arcticle:
What is not immediately evident, however, is any kind of extension mechanism. There is no directory in the source tree called "plug-ins," for example. Building an ad blocker for Chrome might be harder than it sounds.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: Insecure Cookies Leak Sensitive Information
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:17 AM »
Sounds pretty nasty :/

IMHO a SessionId (or whatever other information stored in cookies) by itself shouldn't be enough to be validated on a site... an active session ought to also track the IP the connection is originating from. Doesn't solve the problem, but it should mitigate the problem.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: YouTube Malware, The Easy Way
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:12 AM »
He doesn't look at URLs before clicking, either :P
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Living Room / Re: Vuln. Alert: "UK's Chernobyl" Spam
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:11 AM »
I feel sorry for people who still haven't learned that you should never click files in random mail attachments.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: YouTube Bans Terrorist Videos
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:10 AM »
Hmm.

While I definitely don't want to see terrorist propaganda available on the net, this could be a slippery 1984 slope. Government opposition could end up falling under this classification. And are they going to ban stuff like DIY JackAss videos? - those definitely have an inherent risk of physical harm, or even death.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: P2P Snoops Need PI License In Michigan
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:08 AM »
That's nice :Thmbsup:

MediaSentry have definitely been up to no good... including, but not limited to: hacking, DDOS attacks, attacking legitimate sites, et cetera.
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Living Room / Re: You might want to skip the whole Blu-Ray generation
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 08:05 AM »
The only way to keep long-term data is to perpetually renew it. And to test that what you have stored is in good condition without corruption.
-Dormouse (September 14, 2008, 06:21 AM)
Hear ye, hear ye!

Back up to a mirrored harddisk-based device - if you can afford it, more than one mirror disk. Do incremental backups and not simply synchronization (what good is a backup if it stores a file that became corrupted on your workstation, and you can't get back a good copy of the file?).

Ideally, you also need to backup this storage to an off-site location... this could be through a (super)fast internet pipe, or on an external harddisk that you routinely sync and then leave at a friends house/whatever.

If you can't afford to do that, I'd agree that the only guaranted long-term answer is paper.
-Dormouse (September 14, 2008, 06:21 AM)
We had a thread about "paper-based backup" a while ago. I dunno if today's paper and printers would last as long as some of the old papyrus, though.

As for the whole DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay/whatevernextgen, I'm waiting it out. I have a DVD collection that I'm not going to replace anytime soon, and the whole HD "infrastructure" isn't really there yet anyway. Once I get the cash for a 1080p capable TV, I'll reconsider things... and the new format might actually have arrived then ;)
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Living Room / Re: News Article: Twitter Profile Serves Orkut Malware
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 07:55 AM »
It's nothing new, myspace etc. have also been serving malware for a while. And it's a pretty obvious attack vector: highly popular websites with loads of unique daily visitors. Not to mention if you can build something that seems like a web of trust... which of course isn't that important, since your average myspace user has the IQ of a brick wall.
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Living Room / Re: Blog Post: Gait Analysis; Tracking You By Your Stride
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 07:54 AM »
I wonder if it's precise enough to be used in court cases... and whether it will be used even if it's not precise enough >_<
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Living Room / Re: Google Gets Exclusive Rights To Your Pants
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 07:53 AM »
If this means higher-res google earth / google maps, cool.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: LHC Website Defaced
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 07:51 AM »
It's somewhat scary that they were able to break into one of the LHC-related systems. Sure, this might only have been a web frontend/whatever, and the rest of the internal network might have been much better protected, firewalled, partitioned into subnets etc... but the hackers got into one machine, and the story hints that mission-control computers would have been reachable from that machine.

When do people learn that you should never have mission-control stuff reachable from internet-facing boxes? It's pretty damn scary that some of the SCADA grids are reachable from the net.
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Living Room / Re: News Article: YouTube Malware, The Easy Way
« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2008, 07:46 AM »
"Fake youtube page"?

Does this mean a site that kinda looks like youtube, which users will then be tricked to via DNS poisoning, malformed URLs, javascript/flash redirection tricks etc.?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome - What Will It Take
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2008, 06:23 PM »
I didn't know the task scheduler had an "when idle" option, I thought it only had periodic triggers? Shows how much I've used it :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome - What Will It Take
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2008, 08:06 AM »
Google Updater does use the Windows Scheduler :P IMO, in-program updates (like Firefox) is the only way to go.
-Ehtyar (September 13, 2008, 07:59 AM)
I thought people said it was always running?

Oh, and to be pedantic: I obviously meant the task scheduler, not the thread scheduler ;)
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Living Room / Re: Would you surf porn in a public space?
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2008, 07:33 AM »
Nope, I wouldn't. Firstly because I don't really surf for pr0n, second out of respect for the people around me.

I would probably read FHM or Maxim in public though... if I didn't think they were lame, boring, childish and sucky excuses for people who don't have the guts to purchase a real pr0n magazine.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome - What Will It Take
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2008, 07:31 AM »
I don't mind automatic updates, imho a feature like that is the bee's knees, and absolutely necessary.

But silent updates, without a description of what has been fixed/added/changed? Not good. I could personally live with updates being auto-applied, which would probably be a good idea for the millions of not-so-techy users (and would suck for corporations trying to maintain a homogenous install base), but without information this seems pretty darn underhanded.

Also, while I doubt googleupdate is doing anything nefarious, I'm tired of all these applications installing their own updaters, scheduling services, etc. Use the damn built-in windows scheduler, or have update checks in your programs instead of as an always-running service! :mad:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Time to reinstall Windows? Or get a new desktop?
« Last post by f0dder on September 13, 2008, 07:14 AM »
You don't even need 3GHz when you go core2, that's the beauty of their high IPC/CPI :) (I do have my 2.4GHz Q6600 overclocked to 3.0GHz, though).

As for silent power supply, that's pretty moot if you install a GPU with any kind of horsepower. Most of them are as noisy as supersonic jets :/
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Try out the Spore Prototypes
« Last post by f0dder on September 12, 2008, 06:12 PM »
Releasing their prototypes? Pretty darn cool thing of them to do!
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: how come my posts were removed by wordzilla
« Last post by f0dder on September 12, 2008, 08:57 AM »
I was not sure about DonationCoder, that I knew only as a site that regularly spams me.
-Michel Merlin (September 12, 2008, 06:15 AM)
If you get the DC newsletter, it's because you signed up for it. It's not spam, and you can easily opt-out of it - the newsletters have information on how to do that in their footer. Or you can go to the "My Profile" link, Notifications and Email section, and uncheck Receive our newsletter, forum announcements and important notifications by email.. So definitely not spam.

The 2nd is this thread where DC is taking people a priori as spammers - IOW taking others for wrongdoers, sometimes a stamp of real wrongdoers. Preventing others from speaking instead of politely replying is another stamp of wrongdoers - which may cause this post to be removed as well.
-Michel Merlin (September 12, 2008, 06:15 AM)
Unfortunately, forums these days are targetted with spam. And a lot of it. It's usually pretty easy to tell, also the recent "two-users-two-posts" kind of spam... when a new user without prior posts makes a new post that sounds suspicious, often all it takes is googling for parts of the message to confirm the suspicion of a spam post.

It's unfortunate if a legitimate post was removed, but nobody's perfect and we're only humans.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: DonationCoder Song
« Last post by f0dder on September 11, 2008, 07:58 PM »
We definitely need to get Wreckedcarzz singing :D
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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!
« Last post by f0dder on September 10, 2008, 06:11 PM »
Hm, sounds weird - perhaps a buggy browser? With FireFox3 at least it worked pretty well. I didn't zoom further in than city level, though... that's enough info :)
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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!
« Last post by f0dder on September 10, 2008, 06:01 PM »
Grorgy: you do realize you can zoom in the map while placing the pin? :)
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