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Living Room / Re: Has your phone replaced your camera?
« Last post by f0dder on September 03, 2008, 05:35 AM »
Every camera I've had on a phone has been substandard at best. I've seen pictures from other people's phones, and while they might work marginally, the pictures certainly aren't usable for anything. e.g. You couldn't print them.
-Renegade (September 02, 2008, 07:41 PM)
Not everybody needs to print pictures - getting a snapshot of a BSOD on various public terminals/advertisement stands, grabbing party shots for facebook use (you wouldn't bring a SLR to any of the parties I attend, unless you're bat-shit insane :P), et cetera. For on-screen use, my k750i does a decent job; here's a pic that's been downsized from 1632x1224:
deadcritter.jpg

Might not be super-super quality, but it gets the point across: it all comes down to what you need the pictures for. Really.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam, and the gift of game...
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 05:02 PM »
I was pretty skeptical about STEAM when it first appeared, and I had this whole "ah christ, now I need a silly launcher app just to play games" - but I quickly grew to like it. You don't need to have it auto-start with windows, you have a convenient game-list of all your STEAM games, it's easy to purchase online (although with big game releases, the servers tended to be a bit overburdened. That should be fixed with multi-server download which was introduced a while ago, though), auto-updates, et cetera.

But one of the biggest benefits, to me anyway, is still that the games tend not to have über-intrusive copy protection, instead relying on STEAMs much gentler mechanism.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spore out the 4th of september
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 04:41 PM »
What's up with the backwards release dates? Is Satan taking ice skating lessons? USA almost always gets games long before Europe and Australia. Usually months in advance!
-Deozaan (September 02, 2008, 04:38 PM)
Perhaps they finally realized how lame that is? It also helps a bit against piracy to have close release dates, so you don't get customers who say "Wtf, the Amerikans have it, and I have to wait a month? Fsck that, I'll just grab a torrent" :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Battery Icon Stuck ???
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 02:35 PM »
I guess the problem is that it's really hard to test this kind of stuff as it takes a lot of testing time. It's really a shame, I'd love to know it this is just a myth or not.
-jgpaiva (September 02, 2008, 02:23 PM)
Me too :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Battery Icon Stuck ???
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 02:07 PM »
Definitely remove the battery when you're running off AC, unless you live in an area with unstable power grid. Does wonders for battery lifetime :)
-f0dder (September 02, 2008, 12:01 PM)
Have you tested that?
I really really really would like to see a test side by side of 2 laptops running with/without battery, to check if the battery life is improved.
-jgpaiva (September 02, 2008, 02:02 PM)
Well, to be honest I've only had experience with two laptops with this kind of thing - both mainly ran on AC power, with battery inserted. After a few years, both batteries were dead. One to the point where to laptop can't even be powered on with the battery inserted.

So I guess it's more a "removing the battery while on AC means you don't kill it" rather than "increases battery life" :). Also, it's possible that laptops have gotten smarter and don't route AC power through the battery if it's fully charged, which would probably solve the problem.
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Living Room / Re: Has your phone replaced your camera?
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 12:48 PM »
Really depends on your needs, Renegade - and you obviously can't compare a digital SLR to a phone camera. I find that the 2MP camera in my good old Sony-Ericsson k750i actually takes some pretty decent pictures. Almost as good as my (ancient!) 2MP HP PhotoSmart 620 camera. Neither of them result in state of the art top-quality images, but the quality is decent enough for lots of uses. And it's certainly handy always having a "quick-use camera" (ie, cell phone) on you.

But sure, they are limited, both in quality and functionality, and you generally don't get optical zoom.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam, and the gift of game...
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 12:08 PM »
STEAM rocks - and it generally means you don't get nasty & crappy driver-abusing software protections on the games.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Battery Icon Stuck ???
« Last post by f0dder on September 02, 2008, 12:01 PM »
Definitely remove the battery when you're running off AC, unless you live in an area with unstable power grid. Does wonders for battery lifetime :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: OperaTor - Anonymous surfing using Opera
« Last post by f0dder on September 01, 2008, 12:42 AM »
A few days back when I tried the latest version, it was painfully slow.
-sri (August 31, 2008, 09:37 PM)
That's probably because TOR depends on spare bandwidth of the people participating in the network... so it's never going to be really fast. Heck, I'd probably be suspicious if I got more than 10-20kb/s using TOR.
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Living Room / Re: What do you do during your free time?
« Last post by f0dder on September 01, 2008, 12:41 AM »
I just procrastinate. "As idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean". And my skills at that activity have been honed to quite masterful levels, if I must say so myself.

Well, I also hang out with friends, listen to music, get drunk, and sometimes manage to convince myself to do a little coding. Sometimes, I even combine all of the above :)
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Living Room / Re: Wreckedcarzz vs. scannie
« Last post by f0dder on September 01, 2008, 12:29 AM »
You can do it!

Dance, boy, dance!  :onfire: :eusa_dance: :onfire: :eusa_dance: :onfire: :eusa_dance:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Software to Password Protect a Partition on a Hard Drive?
« Last post by f0dder on August 31, 2008, 07:06 PM »
Is there any way to set permissions for folders on the D: drive partition?
-jdd (August 31, 2008, 07:01 PM)
As long as the partition is formatted using NTFS, yes - you might have to disable "simple file sharing" in order to see the proper permissions dialog box, though.

Oh, and which windows version do you use? Iirc some of the Home editions don't have GUI for setting permissions.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Red Alert 1 for free
« Last post by f0dder on August 31, 2008, 01:52 PM »
Cool!
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Living Room / Re: What do you usually forget to backup?
« Last post by f0dder on August 31, 2008, 01:03 PM »
I usually use DriveImageXML after backing up stuff, just to be on the safe side. Dunno how many images I have lying around now :P. This post reminds me I should take the time to dig out those various custom MSN emoticons from the backup images.
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Living Room / Re: The NVScene 2008 Demo Competition Entrants - Beautiful Graphics In Tiny Exes
« Last post by f0dder on August 30, 2008, 12:50 PM »
Since we're talking about demoscene, I have to throw the obligatory pouet URL :)

NVScene... would that, by any chances, be an event sponsored by nvidia? :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Software to Password Protect a Partition on a Hard Drive?
« Last post by f0dder on August 30, 2008, 10:31 AM »
Hm, you say that there's times where other people need to access your laptop... well, if you don't want to do encryption, follow jgpaiva's advice and create a limited user account for those other people - and make sure you set permissions on your personal files so only your primary account can access them.

You need to remember logging out from your own account and on to the limited account whenever you leave your laptop, though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Software to Password Protect a Partition on a Hard Drive?
« Last post by f0dder on August 30, 2008, 08:31 AM »
The user/permission stuff jgpaiva suggests will work for people logged on to the machine. But boot it from a rescue CD, linux live CD, or whatever - and all the files will be accessible. There's no way to "password protect" your files without using encryption that really works.
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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Re: Finally！Beyond Compare3 released
« Last post by f0dder on August 29, 2008, 09:16 AM »
We already had a thread about this :), but it shows a relatively long way down the list when using forum search for "beyond compare"...
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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Week - Shadez: The Black Operations
« Last post by f0dder on August 29, 2008, 07:07 AM »
Cute game, love the graphics - it gets somewhat trivial, though.

Make sure you have an air missile and artillery ready every time you start a level. Start building 9 apaches, 9 troops and 9 tanks when there's 5-10 seconds to next round. Have an anti-air missile selected to nuke the first few kamikaze planes (a few will probably slip through), shortly hereafter enemy artillery will usually arrive - so you launch your artillery against them. That buys you a lot of breathing room against ground units, so you only have to focus on anti-air missiles against the kamikazes, until you have enough apaches to shoot them down. The reason to produce foot soldiers is that they'll move forward quickly, and attract the kamikazes - cannon fodder :)

That strategy worked very well for me, but it got trivial so I stopped right after level 25.
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Living Room / Re: Wreckedcarzz vs. scannie
« Last post by f0dder on August 29, 2008, 06:39 AM »
Oh my...

We need to video somebody dancing and mix it all together. It's going to be the next youtube hit... we need glowstick for it, though.
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Living Room / Re: Video chat: Why don't people like it?
« Last post by f0dder on August 29, 2008, 06:37 AM »
I often sit around in my boxers at various times of day, so video chat would be too much of an inconvenience for me. On the phone (or forums, irc, IM, etc.) people can't see what you're wearing, and most tend not to ask :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to sync programming projects?
« Last post by f0dder on August 29, 2008, 12:39 AM »
Forget about apache etc., and use the "svnserve" daemon - much easier to configure, and lighter on resources. That also means you will use "svn://" repository URLs and not "http://" URLs.

svnserve.exe is part of the standard distribution at http://subversion.tigris.org , so you shouldn't really need other packages (though those might have zero-configuration etc).
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Living Room / Re: Insert Char into String - I "Hit the Wall" ...again.
« Last post by f0dder on August 28, 2008, 06:03 PM »
I'm afraid you need to go slightly SQL server specific to do bound arguments, but that can obviously be abstracted away so you don't tie yourself down to just one SQL Server. The idea is that instead of inserting quoted strings (and being vulnerable to SQL injection), you refer to your strings symbolically in the SQL statements, and bind your actualy strings (or other data types) using the API your SQL library. Much safer.

I'm heading off for bed, so I'm afraid I don't have any links handy :)
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Living Room / Re: Phalanx2 Rooting Linux
« Last post by f0dder on August 28, 2008, 06:02 PM »
Wonderful >_<
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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?
« Last post by f0dder on August 28, 2008, 10:59 AM »
TextMate, maybe?
-Lashiec (August 28, 2008, 09:09 AM)
It's certainly hyped enough. But does it do the trick?
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