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General Software Discussion / Writing perfect software
« Last post by Mark0 on October 24, 2006, 06:14 AM »
It's all about the process, as per the on-board shuttle group, the team that writes the software that control the STS.
Very interesting article here:
FastCompany.com - They Write the Right Stuff

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477
General Software Discussion / Vista and unknown filetypes
« Last post by Mark0 on October 21, 2006, 07:55 AM »
A question for whoever have a Vista RC running... :)

What does it do when the user try to open an file with an extension that have no app associated? Windows XP used to let the user choose if he wanted to use a web service to gather more info, and redirected here: Microsoft Application Search
Does Vista the same?

Thanks,
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Living Room / Re: Forums: pay for posts
« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2006, 05:00 AM »
Sorry mouser, I think my poor English is to blame! :) I posted exactly because I was concerned by this kind of shady / pay for things. Also, I noted that this user registered on my forum just after reading a post of mine on the "your forum" section of SMF community. It posted a comment there, and then registered on the forum. I think this could be a systematic thing.

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Living Room / Re: Forums: pay for posts
« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2006, 04:10 AM »
 ;D ;D
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Living Room / Re: Forums: pay for posts
« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2006, 03:44 AM »
Yeah, it's a bit sad to see how "economics" get into forums / community.
Under cover agents / posters from company was an "old" topic (I think I saw that a lot on forums about video cards... Nvidia & ATI really have done some guerrilla marketing there).
This one seems a bit different, forum hoster that pay posters to drive attention / traffic, but it's also a bit... don't know, disturbing? It force one to always think about the reasons behind posts.

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Living Room / Forums: pay for posts
« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2006, 02:57 AM »
Just saw a new user registering on my forum today.
Checked the profile's website, and it point here:

Forum Posters

The purpose of forumposters.org is to match forum owners with quality forum posters who want to be paid for posting on forums. Paid forum posting is useful for creating and maintaining a quality forum that attracts users who you want to stay and contribute to your forum as well. Without hiring at least a few forum posters, it can be difficult host a forum that is of any repute and value to advertisers. Forumposters.org does not charge forum posters or forum owners for the service that it provides. Forumposters.org is a free website for matching forum posters with forum owners.

Never heard about something like this before, but... it seemed inevitable.  :huh:

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482
General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by Mark0 on October 15, 2006, 06:17 PM »
One I like very much is Aardvark Firefox extension. It's very nice to check the structure of any interesting page.

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483
General Software Discussion / Cool Ajax Timeline widget
« Last post by Mark0 on October 14, 2006, 04:31 PM »
Very nice scrollable timeline. A simple XML file for the events and a few lines to implement the widget is all that's needed:

Link: Lifehacker - Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline

Maybe nice even for showing the changelog of a software...

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484
General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else checking out FireFox 2.0 rc2?
« Last post by Mark0 on October 14, 2006, 08:06 AM »
Hmm, so no one has commented yet on my stylish use of recursion in the screenshot .
-Eóin (October 14, 2006, 04:41 AM)
Awesome!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker
« Last post by Mark0 on October 04, 2006, 06:51 AM »
How about this DVD Rewinder?



 ;D

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486
Living Room / Re: digg rigging?
« Last post by Mark0 on October 03, 2006, 04:02 PM »
Haha, that's priceless. It had to happen eventually. I just love how blatant it is. :D
-JavaJones (October 03, 2006, 03:30 PM)
Yess! :)
As a "non money involved" alternative, it could have let one free submit/digg slot for every "digg this" click made. A social submitter for a social site! :)

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487
General Software Discussion / Re: Bad news for Firefox: Hackers claim zero-day flaw in it
« Last post by Mark0 on October 03, 2006, 11:26 AM »
It has now been reported that the session in question was likely an unsubstantiated joke / BS show.

Link: ArsTechnica - Firefox JavaScript security "a complete mess"? More like a hoax (updated)


Anyway, Mozilla team is investigating:
Link: Mozilla Developer News - Update: Possible Vulnerability Reported at Toorcon

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by Mark0 on September 27, 2006, 08:39 AM »
:D :D Tried, but I don't really like it at all.
Me think file manager's are very very subjective things!

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by Mark0 on September 26, 2006, 07:20 PM »
The first app I install on a PC on witch I have to work is Total Commander.

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490
Living Room / Re: Amazing VR setup for R/C airplane
« Last post by Mark0 on September 25, 2006, 04:37 PM »
No, he is flying it that way. There are other videos that show that clearly.

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491
Living Room / Amazing VR setup for R/C airplane
« Last post by Mark0 on September 25, 2006, 10:00 AM »
Simply beautiful:



Link: Google Video - Golf club Royal Bromont

A wireless camera is mounted on a tiltable stand on an R/C plane.
The video is fed to a VR headset, that also control the camera motion.

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492
General Software Discussion / Re: Data recovery software suggestions?
« Last post by Mark0 on September 25, 2006, 09:53 AM »
For recovery of images / bitmaps there's also my little free command line driven BitmapRip.
Just make an image of the HD, compactflash, SD or whatever device, and it will scan it for known signatures. Not the most sophisticated, but it's free! :) For Win and Linux.

For general file recovery, I used OnTrack's EasyRecovery various times with good results. Back2Life is another interesting one.


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493
Living Room / Re: The lost Mac ads found
« Last post by Mark0 on July 17, 2006, 08:13 AM »
BWHAHAHAHAHAHHH!!  ;D :D
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Living Room / Re: Ancient Technology (Computers)
« Last post by Mark0 on July 11, 2006, 10:41 AM »
:D

I have done my first paid (well, sort of...) programming work on the HX20:
http://oldcomputers.net/hx-20.html

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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?
« Last post by Mark0 on July 08, 2006, 06:04 PM »
My 636N just arrived. Seems a nice toy!
The built-in GPS may sparks an idea or two! :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera and Gmail users might like this
« Last post by Mark0 on June 27, 2006, 02:59 AM »
One thing I see in Opera (both 8 and 9) with Gmail is that it's constantly reloading the little bitmaps that makes the rounded frames of the messages. It's very annoying because it become very slow.
I tried to play a bit with the various cache settings and the like, but it keep doing it.
Happens to me only?

Thanks,
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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?
« Last post by Mark0 on June 26, 2006, 04:55 AM »
Now I'm more inclined toward an ASUS Mypal 636N. Seems to have a much longer battery life, and included support for car mounting and car powersupply.
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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?
« Last post by Mark0 on June 25, 2006, 04:20 PM »
Anyone have seen / used the Fujitsu Siemens Loox N500 series?

Link

It's a Win Mobile 2005 PDA, with an integrated GPS (with internal antenna).
I was thinking about a PDA (to experiment with) and a navigator for some times, and this seems a nice combo!



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Living Room / Re: Gene Wilder with Steve Ballmer as Frankenstein (videomix)
« Last post by Mark0 on June 20, 2006, 03:31 PM »
BWHHAHAHAAHHAH!!!  ;D

BTW, Steve Ballmer is really a gold mine of funny performances! :)

http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/9806/ballmertongue1og.jpg


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Living Room / Re: I've bought a Mac
« Last post by Mark0 on June 18, 2006, 11:43 AM »
I too got a iMac, a couple of months ago.
I was thinking about experimenting a bit with OS X & Objective C + Cocoa from sometimes and the roll out of the new Intel models, plus the ability to boot about any x86 OS was the last things I needed to make the buy.
Currently I find myself using it as a Windows box most of the time, highly appreciating the fact that is nearly silent and cool running.

Haven't yet found enough time to play with the OS X dev tools, but it definitely make a good impression.

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