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Living Room / Re: DC member's project mentioned on Lifehacker
« Last post by f0dder on July 28, 2008, 10:27 AM »
Congrats! :)

I almost exclusively use rtorrent now, and utorrent for lighter needs when I need to grab something quickly, from windows - but it's nice that there's alternatives :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?
« Last post by f0dder on July 28, 2008, 10:25 AM »
Any security system that can be terminated without authorization is no security system at all. I really don't see how anyone can seriously advance the argument that it's not the responsibility of a security product to protect itself.
As soon as you have malware running on your system, you're game over. If a HIPS/firewall/antivirus solution can't keep stuff from coming in, forget about it. And yes, I believe that outbound filtering by software firewalls is basically useless.

HIPS may be yet another case of "putting lipstick on the pig," but until somebody in Redmond decides to audit and (potentially) rewrite something like 50+ million lines of source code, I'd like to have all options available.
Bullocks - NT is safe. You just need to run as a limited account instead of having admin privileges. Yes, this can be a pain because of how the non-kernel components of NT are done, but just drop your rights for internet-facing stuff, then.

At least NT has proper fine-grained permissions, unlike the owner/group/world crap from the *U*X mentality :)
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Living Room / Re: Zip File Bombs
« Last post by f0dder on July 28, 2008, 10:17 AM »
Oh, I thought this was going to be about the MAC OSX zip vulnerability that lets you auto-wipe a harddrive, and was going to make a snide remakr that "OSX HAS NO VIRUSES OMFG!", but... oh... I ended up making that remark anyway :)

Hm, 4.3 gigs (DVD ISO size, btw) of zeroes? Yeah, you can fill a harddrive, and there will be some decompression time. But at least if you use NTFS, you won't be spending time writing that data to disk :)
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PSU quality is a lot more important than quantity - as I stated above, you don't need a huge amount of wattage. But you want the voltages to be relatively stable... but hey, you say Antec, and their PSUs are pretty decent. Only other thing to say about PSUs is that the "modular" versions are nice, so you don't have insane cable clutter :)

Forget about passively-cooled video card, unless you can live with a low-end card. GPUs are really nasty these days, an actively cooled GF8800/GT has operating temperatures in the 70+ Celsius range. I've been contemplating whether I can fry bacon on mine.

Your DDR3 prices seem relatively low - then again, prices have dropped for the "slower" RAM. I could get 2x2gig corsair DDR3-1333 for ~$280. Then again, I could get 2x2gig corsair DDR2-800 for $140. I dunno how much performance you get by going DDR3, considering how efficient the core2 CPU cache is.
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Living Room / Re: Flash game : Fantastic contraption
« Last post by f0dder on July 25, 2008, 09:58 PM »
This is a bad game, a very very bad game.
Have to go...
No, it's just too diffcult to click-click-cilck-solve. If you don't want to brain it, don't play it.
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Developer's Corner / Re: ASP Error 0126 -vs- Firefox
« Last post by f0dder on July 25, 2008, 08:22 PM »
Hmmm, missing log entries - cached copies? caching proxy inbetween?
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Installing >= 4GB of RAM has "voodoo consequences" - it'll depend on a mix of chipset, installed peripherals (especially video cards tend to grab a lot of address space), operating system, and the phase of the moon. Should work just fine, but you can find yourself with anything from 2GB to 3.25GB of memory available for the 32bit O/S. Oh yeah, also depends on the "memory remap" feature of your BIOS (if it has it at all).

Driver compatibility problems shouldn't be THAT much of an issue, most stuff is sorted out - except for stuff like old scanners, old printers, and old webcams. YMMV.

Forget about rack harddrive, install a single small-but-fast drive (36gig raptor should be enough, 74gig raptor certainly would) for your "OS drive". Partition for the systems you'll need (32bit XP, 64bit XP, and possibly even 64bit Vista for testing), and use multiboot. Works like a charm if you install in the right order (which, iirc, would be XP32, XP64, Vista64). Use the rest of your drives in a safe RAID mode - remember that RAID5 makes you cry even harder when two drives fail at the same time.

850W PSU sounds overkill, your system will probably be below the 350W mark in total consumption. I've got a [email protected], 8gig ram, 2x74gig raptors, GF8800GT/512meg (POWERDRAINER!) and a single sata optical, and I draw like 230W fully loaded (iirc, will have to check notes to be sure). Doesn't hurt much with a bigger PSU, but iirc they're most efficient above some low-mark and beneath some high-mark; going below or above in power consumption means wasting energy. I probably waste energy with my 750W (or was it 700W? PSU.

Can't comment on the motherboard right now, it's a bit late and it's friday :) - but P5E3 sounds a bit old-ish for a new system, even if it's (judging from the "3") using DDR3 memory? (which is insanely expensive atm).
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Developer's Corner / Re: ASP Error 0126 -vs- Firefox
« Last post by f0dder on July 25, 2008, 05:43 PM »
Nice that you've been able to reproduce - it's such a bizz when you can't, or it's only possible intermittently. So, I guess the trick is to make a request with IE, another with working-FF, and a third with faulting-FF, and then check the server logs. At least that's what I'd do, but I'm no web developer, mind you :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: ASP Error 0126 -vs- Firefox
« Last post by f0dder on July 25, 2008, 04:14 AM »
Again, have you checked server logs to see if FF does request differently from IE?
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General Software Discussion / Re: freedownloadaday strikes again
« Last post by f0dder on July 24, 2008, 06:16 PM »
Ah, I thought they had done something wrong - with such a short first post, I didn't really know what to look for. The DC community has some sharp anti-badware watchdogs, so I was sorta expecting foul play :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: freedownloadaday strikes again
« Last post by f0dder on July 24, 2008, 05:40 PM »
So ummm... what'd FDD do?

* f0dder feels particularly dull this fine night.
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Developer's Corner / Re: ASP Error 0126 -vs- Firefox
« Last post by f0dder on July 24, 2008, 05:38 PM »
Obviously firefox itself isn't going to bring up an ASP error, since that's done serverside. And I would be surprised if FF sends a regular HTTP request differently than IE (do check your server logs, though).

Is there any (clientside) scripting involved? Perhaps there's a subtle difference leading to a different page being requested? Or perhaps a cookie is being blocked?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Report ACL lists for a folder structure
« Last post by f0dder on July 24, 2008, 05:33 PM »
Ah, sounds like a quite tedious task you've got on your hands - I feel your pain! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Report ACL lists for a folder structure
« Last post by f0dder on July 24, 2008, 09:29 AM »
I want this program so I can redo an existing ACL structure and the interface windows provides is useless.
The XCOPY trick doesn't work? :(
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Only one thing to say: the donationcoder community == :-*
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Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address
« Last post by f0dder on July 23, 2008, 06:12 PM »
Just a quick addition - you don't have to host a domain name in order to have an unchanging emaill address.

For years now we've had my wife's e-mail through http://www.pobox.com. It's a service that simply receives e-mail and forwards it on to any address you specify. Change ISPs? Simply change the address your e-mail is forwarded to.

The annual fee is really low, and you can even have multiple aliases for aggregation, etc. For a less technical user who doesn't want to deal with the whole domain regsitration/setup/maintenance process, I'd definitely recommend this service.
Does that mean you have [email protected] email addresses? If so, what if pobox should ever go down?

I've got my own domain as well, and it's the only thing I'll ever trust. I've got a gigabyte of web space, unlimited email addresses et cetera, for less than $30/year.
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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code
« Last post by f0dder on July 23, 2008, 05:57 PM »
Ah, so the problem is you don't want to do the filesystem permission stuff and do an initial checkout in the final location, because the permission stuff is bothersome?

Somebody should write a little tool/script that traverses two filesystem trees, and clones permissions (but nothing else) to the destination tree. Perhaps that's already doable with "XCOPY /T /E /K /O /X", though.
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Living Room / Re: Inside the LEGO factory
« Last post by f0dder on July 23, 2008, 05:51 PM »
this is off-topic but is there a way to embed videos in the thread itself? i've seen this in some forums. that way we don't have to open a new tab/window. :)
Dunno about that idea. Would be nice convenience for us, but the other site would have "leech" traffic, without the possibility of serving ads... and some sites do referrer checking to block things like this, anyway.
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Curt: looks like it's part of the WISE installation system - and my guess is that it writes to the "Run" key, in order to be able to clean up temporary files after a windows reboot. Perhaps not the smartest way of handling things, but the company to blame would be the WISE guys (huhu), not the 360desktop people.

That's my guess, anyway.
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Living Room / Re: Wordle: Create Beautiful Word Clouds
« Last post by f0dder on July 22, 2008, 07:09 AM »
Here's the result of running the fSekrit readme.txt through wordle. A bit funny seeing the result... could be a useful app if there was a local version which could handle huge inputs - oh, and filter source code.

wordle_fun.png
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Also, the wiki documentation is slightly out-of-date, and it isn't a 100% step-by-step newbie guide.

But with some linux experience and time for googling, it worked out without too much trouble.

I found that the easyest and most flexible way to deploy it, supporting multiple installs and/or other RoR applications, is using passenger(modrails) with Apache, especially if it has to co-exist with php webapps and lots of other stuff.
Looks like something to have a look at, thanks. It wasn't too much bother getting redmine running under lighttpd, but it did feel a bit hacky (had to fix hack up one of the ruby files to get svn repo working properly), etc.

But at the "other server", which is where the stuff really needs to run, things aren't so sweet right now. I think I pretty much hate Fedora Core :)
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Living Room / Inside the LEGO factory
« Last post by f0dder on July 21, 2008, 05:49 PM »
Thanks to slashdot, I tripped over this gizmodo exclusive - video shootings from inside the LEGO factories. Impressive that they were allowed to film in there, I always thought LEGO were very secretive about their fab process. The clips are pretty short and the voice recording from the tour guide isn't super good, but it's impressive nonetheless.

inside_lego.jpg

Bonus info: LEGO is a contraction of "LEg GOdt" - transobliterated, "play well".
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Hm, with previous versions it definitely wrote out all physical RAM, dunno if they've changed that for Vista. It's a pretty nontrivial thing to only write out used RAM, especially when hibernation is retrofitted to an existing OS (I think it was added in Win2000/NT5, thus retrofitted to NT4).

Anyway, back on topic: that development story sounds pretty horrible. Especially how long it took for commits to be pushed up the tree... I certainly hope the teams swapped code in other ways than that, having to wait 1-3 months before another involved team can comment on your changes? UGH!
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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code
« Last post by f0dder on July 21, 2008, 04:59 PM »
The robocopy method is unfortunately necessary because subversion only allows checkouts to empty folders. When we moved to svn, we already had some existing sites with file system permissions set in several places. We're moving webservers soon and until then don't want to mess up any filesystem permissions so are forced to copy changes over for some sites. Soon it will just be a clean checkout from the repository.
Once you've done an initial "svn checkout", can't you just use "svn update" - or am I missing something?
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Hm, my disks can do at least 60MB/s sustained (probably more) if there isn't file fragmentation to take into account... but even that, (8*1024)/(60*60) = ~2.28 minutes... :P
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