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Living Room / Re: blogpost: 25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later
« Last post by housetier on March 30, 2011, 07:25 AM »
There is another post favoring duckduckgo over google search over at cybernetnews.
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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards
« Last post by housetier on March 30, 2011, 04:36 AM »
I like the back!

It depicts the outcome of unchecked capitalism, where people do not cooperate but work against each other for the eventual benefit of one: war and destruction.

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Official Announcements / Re: Brief unplanned server downtime tues mar 29, 2011 at 1pm
« Last post by housetier on March 29, 2011, 04:48 PM »
doodle.com?  :huh:




 ;)
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Official Announcements / Re: Brief unplanned server downtime tues mar 29, 2011 at 1pm
« Last post by housetier on March 29, 2011, 01:29 PM »
AND we passed the 12K mark!!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice on a [learning] JavaScript IDE?
« Last post by housetier on March 29, 2011, 01:29 PM »
There is Cloud 9 IDE which supposedly is a primary Javascript IDE.

Some of my hacker friends quite like it, I have only looked at it from afar, not actually used it. But it doesn't look too bad at all.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4, Tab Mix Plus, middle-mouse click not recognized
« Last post by housetier on March 27, 2011, 01:37 PM »
there is a setting
[Select]
browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick
, maybe it helps when you set it to false.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your music player of choice?
« Last post by housetier on March 23, 2011, 10:39 AM »
I have only encountered banshee to do this. None of the other media players I have tried changed files or directories 'behind my back'. I don't remember if you can turn this off.

OTOH if the collection is in really bad shape, a tool like this might actually help sorting the mess.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your music player of choice?
« Last post by housetier on March 23, 2011, 04:22 AM »
It probably was version 1.6 or 1.7.

Banshee was very delicate with external programs touching media files it had its hands on: deleting, moving, fixing tags, all made it crash but never when I wanted to demonstrate.

Banshee's tag editor had some nice features for mass editing. And you can write scripts that change its album organizing feature, at least one version I had let you do it.

I'd say give it a spin, even though is a bloody fat .net application.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your music player of choice?
« Last post by housetier on March 22, 2011, 09:18 PM »
Has anyone tried Banshee?
-JavaJones (March 22, 2011, 12:01 PM)

I have, and it has many features I like, many features that are nice. But it also used to crash suddenly, frequently enough to turn me to rhythmbox or mpd (I can't really decide).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4 RC in 64 bit for Linux
« Last post by housetier on March 22, 2011, 11:10 AM »
Most of my extensions work, only a few releated to SSL checks did not - but they hadn't been updated in years anyway.

Most importantly, vimperator works flawlessly, as do adblock plus and noscript :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Creators Create Their Own Problems (Vimeo)
« Last post by housetier on March 22, 2011, 04:01 AM »
I think the GPL applies to a WORK, whatever that is.

And if the GPL doesn't apply, in most countries copyright law will apply which usually grants even less rights than GPL would.
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Living Room / Re: FULL MOON tonight (March 19) is the LARGEST in 18 Years
« Last post by housetier on March 21, 2011, 05:34 AM »
too bad I don't have any equipment to take acceptable photos of the moon, not even a tripod.

Nice to look at other people's photos though :) Even though some of them are HUGE! ;)
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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by housetier on March 21, 2011, 05:28 AM »
oh cool! it seems they will run a series of articles about our software  8)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Creators Create Their Own Problems (Vimeo)
« Last post by housetier on March 21, 2011, 05:22 AM »
wraith808, you are right of course :)

Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4 RC in 64 bit for Linux
« Last post by housetier on March 20, 2011, 01:11 PM »
The same approach should work for the final release. Which should be done RSN!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Creators Create Their Own Problems (Vimeo)
« Last post by housetier on March 20, 2011, 11:23 AM »
I wonder why agile means "no more documentation"?
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Living Room / Re: FULL MOON tonight (March 19) is the LARGEST in 18 Years
« Last post by housetier on March 20, 2011, 09:37 AM »
oh nice pictures!  :up:
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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by housetier on March 20, 2011, 07:52 AM »
Welcome to our huge little family I'd say :)
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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - My Deepening Hatred for Fanboys
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 11:29 AM »
I wonder where he makes the step from "OS suited for professionals" to "MacOS/Apple"?
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General Software Discussion / Firefox 4 RC in 64 bit for Linux
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 09:10 AM »
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I wanted Firefox 4 in 64 bit, just like the rest of my system (except that bloody skype), so I dug and poked and found what I was looking for.

Basically I took the actual download URL and hoped the mirror server would let me browse its directory listings, where I then found the archive.
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Living Room / Re: Low Dosage Phenomena
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 07:59 AM »
I didn't watch the youtube clip. I find O'reilly to be too offensive, it is unbearable for me to listen.
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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 07:09 AM »
I received the kit a couple of years ago. I wonder where all the stickers went that I did not put on my laptop... I'll have to put the badge on a few of my hoodies though, that'll lighten them up (they are basic hacker apparel: black).
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Living Room / Re: FULL MOON tonight (March 19) is the LARGEST in 18 Years
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 07:04 AM »
Here is the science behind the supermoon, again from scienceblogs.com. For people like me, knowing WHY does not make it any less beautiful, quite the opposite!

And while we are on the moon, there are more interesting facts, a little easier to read.
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Living Room / Re: Ever wondered what happens to all the old hardware when you move office
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 06:59 AM »
I was hoping that stuff would be recycled; there is gold in there after all. And lots of poisonous stuff too!

Some of the pictures look a little off though, they seem to lack the basic ingredient of abandonment: dust.

Still I am sucker for pictures of abandoned facilities or post-apocalyptic things; nice find!
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Living Room / blogpost: 25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later
« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 06:55 AM »

Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” (...) I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.
(...)
In my story below, I’ll provide what I originally wrote and how the situation looks today. Each section will begin “Hate” if things haven’t changed, “Love” or “Like” if there’s been a fix, and there are some “Mixed” and “N/A” along the way.
-http://searchengineland.com/25-things-i-hate-about-google-revisited-5-years-later-67969

This article reaffirms my general, vague dislike for google search. I have not really compared google to my favorite search engine duckduckgo. But DDG feels much better than google search.

It's quite an exhaustive revisit, but there is a scorecard at the end, so you don't have to read the whole thing :)
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