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Living Room / Re: Extracting audio from visual information
« Last post by Edvard on August 05, 2014, 01:37 AM »
Wow.  Van Eck would be proud...  :o
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Edvard on August 05, 2014, 12:59 AM »
From the Tooting-My-Own-Horn Dept.:

2500.png

 ;D
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Developer's Corner / Shark, meet jump. Coders, meet DogeSharp
« Last post by Edvard on August 05, 2014, 12:56 AM »
much language, so programming, very .NET   dogeicon.png

D# (DogeSharp)

D# is a programming language for Doge fans.

Huge disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, and definitely shouldn't write languages.



from Codeproject News
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ok it's true.  Although they're getting so big now, I'm running out of ways to fill them up.

I've been thinking about this for a while as well.  I really can't imagine buying a disk that I know I will never use all of.  "Just in case" isn't the greatest argument in the world, and I'll probably troll around eBay and back-stock resellers for lower-capacity hard drives for a while to come.  Might there be a market for lower-cost/smaller-capacity drives (like 1-2 TB after 10 TB drives are the norm) from people who just don't use that much?  

OR...

As I posted about here, your unused space would be perfect for helping maintain a decentralized internet.  Now that I would buy a new drive for...  :Thmbsup:
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It wouldn't, unless he did X session forwarding over SSH.  Geany is graphical, so you'd either do that or VNC.  You want text editing in a SSH session?  That's what vim/emacs/pico/nano/ed are for.  Maybe that was the point; he's a freshman, so he wouldn't know.  :-[
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From what I remember before I quit the telephone CS agent job, Sprint is now owned by a Japanese company (SoftBank) and in the valuation stage of purchasing, they said we were "giving away too much money".  So when a customer would complain about service being crap in their area (especially during tower upgrades... ugh) we could no longer offer them a discount to their bill to calm down.

So glad I don't work there any more...
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If you do nothing to help the given situation but cry about it... yes.  :-[
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Relative Effectiveness of Common Computer Repair Techniques:

fixingcomputers.jpg
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Good luck using a Windows style editor when your X won't start and you'll have to fix config files on the terminal when you never dug into vi/Vim or similar editors.

Very true, which is why I use Nano for quick config file editing.  I only use a graphic editor when I'm intending to work graphically.  The best way to put it is, I use a text-mode editor when I mean business, and a GUI editor when I'm crafting art (scripting, programming without an IDE, hand-coding SVGs, cleaning up mp3 playlists, etc).  Two different mentalities, two different tools.

vi-emacs-notepad.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by Edvard on July 30, 2014, 07:45 PM »
As pointed out here, my grammar in that sentence was atrocious.  May I clarify:

Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic" is quite catchy, but the situations described therein are not really ironic.
Which may be an irony in itself.
But it also makes the song 'wrong' in the same manner as a song about goldfish being titled "My Pet Trout" would be 'wrong'.
Trying to explain this to somebody who doesn't understand (or doesn't want to) is an exercise in frustration.
Quite possibly because (1) they like the song, and (2) they think they have learned something new.
Which is ironic, because they think they have learned about irony from a song entitled "Ironic" but they haven't, really.
 :-\
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+1 for Vim then.
No.
If I wanted suggestions for a text-mode editor, I already have it in Nano.  Vim and Emacs both drive me nuts.  Vim more.  I'm talking about a nice graphical text editor with bookmarking, regex search, column edit mode, and some other things I miss from the above-mentioned windows editors.  I'm told that Kate does all I need, but !@#$%&* if I'm going to download over half of KDE just to run the flippin' editor.

Anyways, the Diamond binary ran here, looks ok, but Crimson Editor it ain't (yet).  I'll keep an eye on it.
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Interested because I can't find one damn editor on Linux that will do what Notepad++ or TextPad will do.  They each do bits and pieces of what I need, and the rest can be accomplished with sed and whatnot, but dammit, I just want one text editor that is more than a notepad, and less than an IDE.  I'd heard that Sublime Text can do everything I need, but the price of admission is a bit steep for me.  Diamond won't compile for me, so trying the binary...
538
Living Room / Re: Godmode
« Last post by Edvard on July 29, 2014, 01:08 AM »
There are many places on the 'Tube that nobody should go...  :o
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Living Room / Re: Godmode
« Last post by Edvard on July 28, 2014, 07:14 PM »
Certainly interesting, but I thought "God mode" had been around since Win 98?  Wonder where I learned that?  :huh: 

Obviously not from Wikipedia:
The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, labeled All Tasks and also called Windows God Mode by bloggers and All Tasks folder by at least one Microsoft developer,[1] is a short-cut to access various control settings in Windows Vista and later operating systems.
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Living Room / Re: Kidney stones and Beer!
« Last post by Edvard on July 27, 2014, 06:47 PM »
hard to wrap my head around passing a couple of pingpong balls
You wouldn't.  Stones of that size are VERY uncommon and would require surgery.  The ureter from your kidney to your bladder is quite small, as in really, really tiny.  Which is why my own 2.1mm stone made me feel like I was passing a horse.  Once it gets into your bladder, small stones pass easily the rest of the way.
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General Software Discussion / MaidSafe - The new decentralized Internet
« Last post by Edvard on July 27, 2014, 02:42 AM »
I admit, this idea struck me as odd at best and 'pie-in-the-sky' at worst, but the basic gist is to create a network intended to replace the internet that is completely decentralized, paid for by users' spare hard drive space, and is completely encrypted.  This goes beyond darknets and meshnets, and... well... read the FAQs, check out the article, watch the video, decide for yourself.

The Server Needs To Die To Save The Internet

“What we’re building is software that connects together all the computers on the network to form — think of it as one giant computer, or effectively one giant cyber brain. So it really connects together all the nodes on the network and allows them to effectively become a very large datacenter, without of course the datacenter,” explains Lambert. “It’s a network infrastructure that will replace datacenters — and hopefully large technology companies.”

That’s right. This startup wants to reconfigure the current Internet hierarchy too — pulling the power and centre of gravity away from the owners of the biggest datacenters and platforms, and putting it back in the hands of individual users.



from CodeProject News
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Living Room / Re: Kidney stones and Beer!
« Last post by Edvard on July 26, 2014, 06:58 PM »
Hehe, whatever floats your boat...  :-[

As far as the spinach goes, it's only really applicable if you like and eat spinach a lot, or are susceptible to kidney stones (once you get one, your probability goes WAAAY up for another one).  I actually enjoy spinach, and it really is good for you otherwise.  The reason my doctor told me to avoid it is because spinach is naturally high in Oxalates, and most (90% or so) kidney stones are Calcium Oxalate.  He told me other foods have higher than average Oxalates, but spinach leads the curve by a large margin.  See here:
http://www.webmd.com...ylate-topic-overview
Notice how spinach is mentioned twice?  And he told me nothing about beer...

So, as long as your doctor thinks you're hydrated fine, then she's not likely to have you drop the spinach, but whatever you do, drink as much water as anything else, and you'll probably be fine; spinach, beer, and all...  ;D
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His permission perhaps, but not the distributor's or studio's permission he is under contract with for that picture?

Article says it was done with public money for TV release, so I don't think the film's relationship to the producers is the same as your average Hollywood or even independent film in that respect.

So...anybody want to throw themselves on the sword he himself doesn't plan to sacrifice himself on?

For the record, he did upload the Youtube copy himself, after the first torrent upload was crappy quality.

The big sticky that I got from the article was that it wasn't the movie itself that was the problem, but the licensing of the music used in the soundtrack.  That is why it isn't in syndication, because the broadcaster would be responsible for paying the copyright holders of the music (already happening with it being up on Youtube), and they don't want to do that, so the movie can't be shown without re-licensing the soundtrack, no matter who holds the rights to distribute it.  The director just wants people to be able to see the movie.  The legality of his request may be questionable, but I suspect rather trivial (IANAL), so he's probably in the clear, but I can't say he's not taking his own risk.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?
« Last post by Edvard on July 26, 2014, 04:42 PM »
Rootkits, they're quite hard to manage with any security software and windows is the only OS that has tons of them.
...

Umm...
http://packetstormse...enetration/rootkits/

That right there is the reason for the existence of Linux/Unix tools like Rootkithunter and Chkrootkit.  Just because you're not using Windows, doesn't mean you're immune.  Personally, despite not running antivirus on Linux for the 10 years I've been using it, I haven't acquired any cooties yet (and I do check from time to time), but then again, I also avoid those things that your average web-wise user already knows about.
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Living Room / Re: Kidney stones and Beer!
« Last post by Edvard on July 26, 2014, 04:13 PM »
The two best things you can do for kidney stones is stay hydrated and avoid eating too much spinach and salt.  I had a 2.1mm kidney stone and it felt like I had been stabbed with an elephant tusk.  It may be that some by-product from fermentation in wine and beer have an effect on kidney stone formation, but I'd like to see more research, especially as there are a few different types of stones you can get.

I don't imbibe, so I just keep myself well-hydrated.  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Capacitor plague
« Last post by Edvard on July 26, 2014, 04:08 PM »
I have successfully revived two flat-screen monitors by re-capping.  All it takes a little finesse with screwdriver and soldering iron.  Cheap too, because I used recycled caps from old stereos.  The "Elmers" will tell you don't do that, but I've done it enough times to spot a bad cap in the first place, and my success rate speaks for itself. :Thmbsup:
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If you had printed the money, and nobody wanted to exchange it anymore, then yes, that would be a closer analogy.
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The Comcast customer service disconnection call that went viral:

https://soundcloud.c...10/comcastic-service

Comcast responds: "He did what we trained him to do"

http://www.pcworld.c...ained-him-to-do.html

 :o
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Living Room / Re: Printer's Ink
« Last post by Edvard on July 25, 2014, 01:14 AM »
I've been thinking about printing out the internet.
...

 :huh:

Dude, wait... What?

wat.jpg

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Reminds me of the April 1st spoof one of the British TV channels did a few years back. It was a nature documentary about the penguins assembling in preparation for their annual migration - just as they started to fly to a warmer climate for the winter.

I remember that quite fondly.  I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but I did get a little wet-eyed when those little guys began to flap, lift, then soar.  I managed to breathe out "... look at 'em go!..." before I totally choked up.  The very idea of such gravity-bound creatures having 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' was, at that moment, overwhelming.

Well, that and well-chosen background music...  :-[

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