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Developer's Corner / Re: Apples, Walled Gardens, and Screw Deals - Oh My!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:55 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Clicking Cool Ads... NOT! (NSFW)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:46 PM »

I usually do some variation of [email protected] when I'm providing a fake e-mail address. 

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:43 PM »

I sit almost all day every day and I'm not obese. I'm actually underweight.

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Living Room / Google Chrome Hacked, Sandbox Escaped

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:39 AM »

One reason new users have been flocking to Google Chrome is the promise of improved security. Its internal Flash plug-in has been repeatedly been patched prior to the old-style NPAPI version for other browsers, it's plugged in to Google's malicious link-checking service in the cloud, and its sandbox has proved impenetrable for more than two years.

Now, VUPEN's research team has successfully exploited Google Chrome and escaped its sandbox. In the proof-of-concept video you'll see the Windows 7 cursors spin with activity while Chrome sits quietly in the background, blissfully unaware of what's about to occur. Yes, it's only Calculator that opens at the end, but that's not the point -- a malicious payload could have been triggered just as easily.

-http://www.browserscene.com/2011/05/google-chrome-hacked-sandbox-finally.html

Maybe this explains why my PC is suddenly calculating 5318008 upside down?

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Living Room / Re: Farewell Skype ...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:15 AM »

This could be a lot worse than any of us previously imagined...

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Living Room / Re: Droid Texting - Fail!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 02:01 AM »

I never had that problem on my HTC G1.

But I've always been in the habit of storing contact's phone numbers as 11 digit (1-234-567-8901). Even so, there have been a few times that numbers were stored in my phone in 10 or 7 digit format and they always worked fine.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 12:35 AM »

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DC Gamer Club / Space Pirates and Zombies

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2011, 12:11 AM »

Space Pirates and Zombies (AKA SPaZ) is a space exploration/conquer game similar to EV Nova, or Starscape. If you like those game, then you need to check out SPaZ. I just played through the demo, which took me just under 2 hours and I think it's really fun! I could have finished the demo faster than that but I was having too much fun doing non-essential stuff.

If the game looks interesting to you you can see more info on the Space Pirates and Zombies website and you can also pre-order it for 25% off now on Impulse.

Space Pirates and Zombies is a mix of the deep old school space adventure genre with modern physics, action and graphics technology.

• 33 ships to research, build, outfit and pilot
• 70 unique components to discover to customize ship performance
• Totally physics based combat system
• Explore a persistent randomly generated galaxy containing hundreds of star systems
• Freedom to explore the galaxy and take on challenges at your own pace
• Aid, flee, or exploit the warring factions in each star system
• Change the balance of power in any system by interacting with its unique event system that responds to player activity
• Carefully spend your hard earned research points on hundreds of upgrades across 15 categories

-http://impulsedriven.com/spacepiratesandzom

Here's a screenshot and some videos if you're a "show-me" type person:

And here's a review, which is basically some guy playing through the first half of an early version of the demo.

The narrator of the game has a new preview up of the beta version (which you can play if you pre-order on Impulse):

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Living Room / My own posts showing up in Unread Posts - Am I the only one experiencing this?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 08:14 PM »

The way I use the forums might be a bit odd. I pretty much only use the Unread Posts link (my bookmark is straight to that link!) so I can see what's changed since I last checked. I don't go looking into specific sections. In fact, I hardly pay attention to what section anything is in except for when I'm creating my own posts.

But ever since the DC server upgrade a couple months ago my own posts that I've just made will often show up in the Unread Posts. How can it be unread when I wrote it? But it gets worse. Even if I click on them to view them, or if I check the box and select "Mark selected posts as read" they will often still show up for in the unread posts. Eventually after trying multiple times it will "stick" and no longer show up on my unread posts list. I haven't been able to work out exactly what the pattern is, but it seems to be based more on time than the number of times I try to mark it as read. That is, if it's been a couple minutes since I made the post, then marking it as read will usually stick. But if I just made a post within the past 60 seconds then marking it as read is usually a fruitless endeavor.

It doesn't happen every time, but it happens often enough that it's become very annoying. Am I the only person experiencing this? I've been bugging mouser on IRC to fix it for a while but he doesn't know what's wrong.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Music Beta Now Live

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 07:56 PM »

It would be nice if the hardware world could keep up with the software world...

I can't see keeping media in the cloud as being remotely desirable from here. Limited bandwidth... I miss fiber...

-Renegade (May 10, 2011, 06:49 PM)

Maybe that's why it's US only. I don't know the statistics, but I bet the broadband-available market is pretty large in the USA.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 Power Users Guide.pdf

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 04:38 PM »

Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Farewell Skype ...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 04:20 PM »

At first I was relieved because I'd heard rumors that Facebook was going to buy it.

But since Microsoft is an investor in Facebook, that might mean that Facebook will get it anyway.

I'm not sure how I feel about it yet either.

With Microsoft, I don't think it's a guaranteed failure, but I can't really be certain either way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Music Beta Now Live

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 04:15 PM »

Yeah, it sounds a lot like LaLa.

I requested an invitation. We'll see how it goes.

Let's see if it will be another youtube, or another dead google fad, just like googletalk

-eleman (May 10, 2011, 10:55 AM)

GoogleTalk is the only IM client I use. I like it that much. Though I do admit it's a shame the client doesn't have all the features as Gmail Chat. But I like its minimalism. I like that it doesn't take over my computer with toolbars and emoticons and all that extra crap. But video chat and group chat would be nice.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: looking for some suggestions

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 04:04 PM »

I'm pretty sure Samarost is offline. That is, once you buy it, you can download it and play offline. Much like Machinarium.

Monkey Island games should be pretty good. IIRC there's no way to die in them. You just need to figure out what to do next.

Plants vs Zombies might be a good one as well.

VVVVVV is a possibility. It might be a little hard though. Luckily there's a demo you can try out.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spiral Knights - a free-to-play MMOG that's fistfuls of fun...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2011, 12:53 PM »

OK then. I'll try it out.

EDIT: I'm on there as Deozaan

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Developer's Corner / Re: Database for a Desktop?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2011, 12:36 PM »

hamradio pointed this one out to me yesterday in IRC. That said, I don't know anything about it or even if it will work for what you want.

http://grubba.net/

Grubba is the free and online alternative to MS Access and Filemaker Pro.
Choose a template or create your own forms and database to fit your individual needs.
Suitable for beginner and advanced users.

Grubba is so called Donationware. If you use Grubba and like it, you can make a (small) donation to support us.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spiral Knights - a free-to-play MMOG that's fistfuls of fun...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2011, 12:27 PM »

A free-to-play MMO that costs money to buy Energy to do anything?

Looks like it could be really fun, but this seemingly severe limitation will likely keep me from playing it.

Thanks for the review/suggestion.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] TimeClue - a simple time reminder that fades the desktop

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2011, 12:44 AM »

TimeClue is designed to help you develop a habit of resting your eyes every 15 minutes (recommended for heavy computer users).

-musetips (May 08, 2011, 04:36 AM)

Rest them how? Whenever my dad said he was resting his eyes that meant he was taking a nap.

A nap every 15 minutes seems like a good way to live a stress-free life of unemployment.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic Archiving?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 11:47 PM »

If you're using Windows, you can set it up to compress older files automatically.

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Living Room / Re: Can Download Sites Be Held Responsible for the Software They List?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 11:41 PM »

As long as the software they host isn't illegal, then they shouldn't be held responsible for what's done with it. If the software can be used to do illegal things, but is itself completely legal, then they still shouldn't be held responsible.

Punish the people who break the law. Not the tools (or people who provide the tools) which can be used both "properly" (legally) or improperly (illegally).

That's my opinion.

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Living Room / Re: amount of RAM in a netbook

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 11:32 PM »

Deozaan, I don't understand what you mean with your rather dismissive «... if all you want is basic web surfing or "web apps"». Pray tell what you can do with a Windows OS that requires both an advancerad processor and a great deal of RAM, that I can't do with, say, Ubuntu 11.04, which makes much fewer demands on hardware ?...

-mhenriday (May 07, 2011, 06:26 AM)

Hi Henri,

Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn't intend to sound dismissive. And I wasn't suggesting that Windows is superior to any particular Linux distro.

That said, I was referring to some extremely lightweight Linux distros or "Cloud" OSes (like Chrome OS) that purposefully have limited functionality compared to Windows or Ubuntu in order to boot quickly and get you to your web browser as fast as possible. I think it would be foolish to try to make the case that these lightweight OSes are just as capable as Windows or Ubuntu. Do you really want me to start listing examples of what you can't do in, e.g., Chromium OS that you can in Windows? Here are a couple easy ones:

• Install a program.
• Play Minecraft (or just about any other non-browser/non-flash game).

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Living Room / Re: Intellivision®: Programmer Home Movies 1983/1984

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 11:14 PM »

That's funny. We had an Intellivision when I was young. My brothers and I spent a lot of time playing games on it. I loved it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question for those of you who use windows-based HTPC PCs with your tv

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 10:26 PM »

Today's free Amazon Android Appstore download (USA only?) is Wave Launcher.

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2011, 09:05 PM »

In retrospect, I do think that LastPass did the right thing. I just didn't like the method they used for verifying I was who I said I was, since I was stuck in a loop.

Luckily I had my phone with me (even though I no longer have phone service on it) and luckily it had the password to the wifi where I was, so I was able to access my e-mail on my phone and regain access to services while I was out of town.

Anyway, here's an article about how the Lastpass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things.

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Living Room / Re: amount of RAM in a netbook

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 11:17 PM »

Yeah, if all you want is basic web surfing or "web apps" then go for a lightweight cloud/Linux OS.