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Living Room / Re: The Ever-Evolving Question of Privacy
« Last post by Eóin on June 06, 2010, 09:35 AM »
The more I read that last quoted comment the more stupid, and disconnected from reality, I think the poster must have been.

Their suggestion seems to be that if something is easy to do, and easy to prevent, then it's ok to do it. Extending that logic one could argue it's fine to go around shooting people. After all a gun is easy to use and everyone else could wear body armor.
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Living Room / Re: 10 Suicides at Apple factory this year.
« Last post by Eóin on June 06, 2010, 09:26 AM »
Agreed tomos, it'll take pressure from customers before the companies will start to change.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Few Question about C++ Express Edition n Winimage !
« Last post by Eóin on June 05, 2010, 02:30 PM »
It's very possible that the bootstrapper will download a reasonably self contained package would could then be used to install VC++ on other machines. But finding were it gets downloaded to and hoping the bootstrapper won't delete the files when it's done it's job could be the tricky bit. I actually have the ISO image here and inside it things like MSDN or Platform SDK do indeed seem to be fairly standalone.

I suspect the zipping and registry backup method would in this case be a lost cause, developers tools, especially one as complex as VC++ will install lots for separate programs and configuration settings all over a system :(
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Xenon2000 :: Xenon redux
« Last post by Eóin on June 05, 2010, 01:22 PM »
I played the DOS version back in the day, time for a nostalgia trip.
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Living Room / Re: The Ever-Evolving Question of Privacy
« Last post by Eóin on June 05, 2010, 10:07 AM »
Using scanners to listen in on someones pre-GSM mobile phone calls is illegal, why do some people have such difficulty understanding this to be totally illegal too?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Can i upgrade to MS-DOS v6 or v6.22
« Last post by Eóin on June 05, 2010, 09:58 AM »
Also the command prompt in modern Windows systems isn't DOS, it's a Windows program, a command interpreter, which emulates some aspects of DOS for backwards compatibility and convience reasons.

Remember DOS is a 16bit OS, the closest you can get to running it as a program inside Windows NT is something like DOSbox.
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Living Room / Re: 10 Suicides at Apple factory this year.
« Last post by Eóin on June 04, 2010, 01:32 PM »
We as consumers should have much, or all, of the guilt on our consciences too. We want cheap electronics and are all to happy to turn a blind eye to those exploited to bring the goods.
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Living Room / Re: Wii blamed on Child's Death: Guns looks like Controller
« Last post by Eóin on June 03, 2010, 06:23 PM »
Ever heard of reckless endangerment? It is a crime.
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Living Room / Re: Wii blamed on Child's Death: Guns looks like Controller
« Last post by Eóin on June 03, 2010, 08:33 AM »
Next I suppose the steering wheel shaped controller will be blamed when some 4-year old crashes their parents car.

In any sane world that father would be jailed  >:(
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Living Room / Re: So when do the iads law suits start?
« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2010, 10:24 AM »
Are you just referring the the 'i' prefix. Tonnes of companies use that on their products, Intel have been using it long before Apple started to.
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Living Room / Re: Ifs of Operating Systems
« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2010, 10:16 AM »
zridling, I think the first two Linux points are valid IF ;) you interpret them as aimed at the really clueless computer users. I'm talking here the types who fell for the Facebook Login fiasco.

As for Windows, I actually think he's reasonably right except for the drivers bit. Though I've never blocked pop-ups or ads myself and do tend to go everywhere on these big bad interwebs all without hassle.
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Living Room / Re: Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns
« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2010, 10:07 AM »
The oft quoted "Apple has a smaller market share and so is less of a target" of course is true. But only for certains types of attack, like the above mentioned "super-sexo-matic.exe" :D

But the Chinese hacks were a different breed altogether, they weren't directed at Windows OS, they were directed at Goggle the company. The only way to protect yourself from such a thing is the use the most secure OS, switching to any other is little more than security through obscurity.

And frankly, if Google was really making the switch for security reasons they wouldn't be offering ordinary employees the choice between Mac or Linux, rather their security experts would research the one true 'best' and tell everyone else in the company to use it.
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Living Room / Re: "The More You Use Google, the More Google Knows about you"
« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2010, 08:31 PM »
Fair point. Google may be the biggest out there, but there no reason yet to say they're the baddest.
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Living Room / Re: "The More You Use Google, the More Google Knows about you"
« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2010, 08:00 PM »
Is there any evidence that the companies purchasing said data are using it for ill-intentioned purposes?
-Josh (May 31, 2010, 04:33 PM)

Being cautions is all about trying to protect yourself before something like this happens. Waiting until after evidence has emerged would be utter lunacy.
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Living Room / Re: Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns
« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2010, 07:52 PM »
All I will say is Google "macs easier to hack". Anecdotal evidence perhaps but I'd trust it a hell of a lot more than Apples marketing or Jobs' fanboys/apologists.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?
« Last post by Eóin on May 28, 2010, 06:11 PM »
Curt, is it working for you yet? I had to manually start the services on my Win7 x64 before the new rendering engine kicked in.

For anyone else curious I'm attaching a screenshot from Iron, other programs all look similar.
gdipp.png

Sure does feel like I'm on Linux all of a sudden :D. Needless to say I'll be uninstalling it ASAP. I can appreciate it may just be that I'm too accustomed to the Windows style of font rendering, but all the dodgy spacing/kerning that can be seen in the screenshot just looks very inelegant to me.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve: "Mac is 5 times more stable than windows running games"
« Last post by Eóin on May 27, 2010, 05:49 PM »
+1 JavaJones

It's a nonsense comparison, like saying HiFi's are better for games than SatNav's. Compare like with like and then maybe you'll have something ever so slightly educated and informed to say.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?
« Last post by Eóin on May 27, 2010, 07:17 AM »
ClearType used to just mildly annoy me. But now that I've gone over to non-CRT monitors, the overall poor quality of the text often drives me right up the wall.
-40hz (May 27, 2010, 07:06 AM)

Personally I can't stand Linux font rendering. But I guess I'm just used to the Windows approach. I couldn't live without ClearType though. Even on CRTs I turn it on.

gdipp looks very interesting, I may try it out. Though from the screenshots it looks a lot like they just made the font strokes thicker. Whereas I do like thinner weights by defaults.
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Living Room / Re: Cell phone number porting
« Last post by Eóin on May 27, 2010, 06:13 AM »
Well I'm not sure how the US system differs but if you're buying the Phone SIM free, and US SIM cards aren't locked to a particular phone then all you'd need to is manually transfer the cards.

Basically the EU way was (is) that phones were locked to a network, but a networks card could be used in any unlocked phone.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve: "Mac is 5 times more stable than windows running games"
« Last post by Eóin on May 27, 2010, 03:11 AM »
It's probably buggy Windows versions of iTunes that are fscking up those 'unstable' PCs.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Double quoted command line arguments
« Last post by Eóin on May 25, 2010, 01:11 PM »
Generally speaking with technical details like that localizations issues aren't considered. Why? Well I guess the discussion had here is relevant.

After all, quote's were just an arbitrary choice, undoubtedly related to the fact that a lot of programming languages use them to denote string. For example, still in English, “Unicode Quotes” aren't accepted either.
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Living Room / Re: Sexual harassment taken too far...
« Last post by Eóin on May 20, 2010, 09:02 AM »
Truly it's gone way out of hand. Though if he did really leak information improperly then he's very much responsible for this whole mess. To me this quote from the UCC President's blog is quite telling.

Nobody in University College Cork, from the President down, has at any point suggested he can not work on, be interested in, read, write, publish and disseminate studies on the sexual habits of fruit bats, or indeed anything else. The complaint was about the manner in which Dr Evans presented the article to the complainant. The investigators found that what he did amounted to ‘a joke with sexual innuendo’ and that ‘it was reasonable for [the complainant] to be offended’. In fact, Dr Evans’ statement in the letter he circulated widely and which was published in the Huffington Post that ‘external investigators concluded that I was not guilty of harassment’ is grossly misleading, suggesting that he was cleared of any wrongdoing. He wasn’t.
-http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/bringing-the-veil-down-on-the-fruit-bats/

Also this blog (linked to from the above UCC one) is also worth reading, Stephen Kinsella, Fruitbatgate.
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Living Room / Re: Sexual harassment taken too far...
« Last post by Eóin on May 20, 2010, 03:32 AM »
Not to dismiss the fact harassment occurs in the workplace, but Dr. Kennedy (as victim) can't also act as her own supporting witness. Assertions don't equal facts. And feelings don't constitute proofs. And that remains true no matter what anybody's 'gut feeling' may be telling them.
-40hz (May 19, 2010, 05:49 PM)

True but I really don't mean to suggest that the facts as presented are enough to hang him. I'm just saying that neither am I about to get worked up over this whole 'freedom of academic debate' angle which seems to have the internet up in arms. Without more background it's simply very possibly this whole encounter was more sleazy than professional.
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Living Room / Re: Google Search
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 04:25 PM »
I was guessing that's what happens for zero results. Certainly gibberish searches, with zero results from Google itself, turn up the same thing.
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Living Room / Re: Another wierd lawsuit...
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 12:42 PM »
According to the article

Rogers says it consolidated the bills at the couple's request.

but you may be right in suggesting that is the key which the case may rest on.
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