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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 11:08 PM »
ctrager: what you do is just fine :), I don't have a problem with advertisements as long as people don't do "nasty stuff" (like posting TinyUrls at forums with hidden referrals - I'm not referring to you here, btw). I just thought "1.aspx?u=id" was a bit curious name, if you had names it "stats.aspx?app=id" I wouldn't have asked :)

Gave the demo a quick spin, looks like an OK product really - the layout/style might be a bit rough, but the most necessary features seem to be in place. I have to run bugtracking in a linux ecosystem though, so it's not for me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 10:25 PM »
ctrager: welcome aboard :). Small gripe about your site: your links to the three commercial trackers you have advertisements for go through "1.aspx" - is this to hide some referral scheme? Also, you'll definitely want to post some more easily-accessible screenshots.
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 09:11 PM »
Humm, the US intelligence Echelon / Carnivore system, the huge amount of spying surveillance cameras (and automated tracking / face recognition software) in the UK, and the general population growing fat & complacent, watching stupid gameshows... I do see a lot of parallels to 1984.

What about the current democratic candidates that want to dictate how I pay for my health insurance and the government monitoring the BMI of school children?
Both of those sound like good ideas to me... the .us health system is basically fail, compared to how it works in non-privatized countries. And fatness is becoming a serious health problem. Imho snacks and soft drinks have no place in schools, the sugar intake makes you dull & tired & bad at learning.
5504
General Software Discussion / Re: What’s this "Linux" thing and why should i try it?
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 08:58 PM »
Wireless on linux (well, on "anything-but-windows", more or less :)) is a big pain. For some reason, wireless NICs are one of the device types that's very hard to get specifications for, and many w-NICs require some firmware code that it's also basically impossible to get a (re)distribution license for.

Your best bet is probably http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ + windows drivers, but I've never messed with this myself.
5505
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA- USB Access control on device by drive map/assignment
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 11:28 AM »
Changing explorer settings is outright stupid (people tend to hate applications doing that), and it buys you next to no security. You can't block access to a regular USB stick with a user-mode application, doing it with a driver is possible (but that requires the driver to be installed...). The only effective thing you can do is either A) custom hardware (including drivers) or B) truecrypt.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request: Copy Code To Clipboard
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 11:26 AM »
What, you actually mind stripping the linenumbers and fixing tabs manually? ;P
5507
General Software Discussion / Re: False Positive on Software (Generic.Dx) by McAfee Today: McAfee Response and Fix
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 09:33 AM »
Christ, antivirus apps deleting what it thinks are viruses? How lame is that... at least the default action should be "block access" or "quarantine", not frigging delete. Seems like the guys are smoking too many bad floppies, and spend too little time on creating signatures when they find a new piece of malware >_<
5508
Living Room / Re: Find the forum post you're looking for with TWING
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 09:27 AM »
Heh, there's a few search results for me, even though neither DC, asmcommunity or flatasm boards are indexed :)
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 09:15 AM »
Renegade: would that be Project Gutenberg? Can't find any reference to captcha on their site with a "I'm mega lazy" search, though...
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 12:16 AM »
Hate 'em.
5511
General Software Discussion / Re: Linux and Windows andLinux
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 12:15 AM »
The wubi thing requires reboot to run, though - the purpose of andlinux/colinux is to run linux applications natively under windows, by doing ELF loading and system call translation...
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2008, 02:03 PM »
The other thing I have noticed is that lots of their titles say they are Vista compat and yet haven't seen a version change since Vista was released.
-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2008, 01:56 PM)
Properly coded applications don't need changes to be Vista compatible :) - except for a few special cases like file managers that need better junction support.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: What New Major Feature is Most Important for you in Find and Run Robot?
« Last post by f0dder on March 16, 2008, 12:34 PM »
Indexing and unicode.
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Living Room / Re: Top 50 Dystopian movies
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2008, 04:47 AM »
I remember seeing the uncensored version of Akira when it came out (at an indie theatre). It was good, but the massive amounts of blood was overkill and really just a tad too much.
-Renegade (March 15, 2008, 04:38 AM)
A tad too much? Naaaaah, Akira is pretty perfect as it is :) (too bad that some people only focus on the violence and fail to see the plot)
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Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2008, 04:40 AM »
Weird, interesting and captivating :)
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Living Room / Re: My Taskbar Notification Area Competition (corrected by f0dder)
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2008, 02:43 AM »
kartal: you're on a quadcore with 8 gigs of ram? What a coincidence, so am I :)

Here's what my entire taskbar looks like:
taskbar.png

and just the notify icon area:
notify.png

Process Explorer (not always running), Screenshot Captor (not always running), Website Watcher, sound applet, safe remove, The Bat!, Realtek Sound manager (I should remove this, it sucks :P), FARR, ClipX, MagicDisc, PuTTY's pageant.
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Living Room / Re: My Taskbar Competition
« Last post by f0dder on March 15, 2008, 02:27 AM »
That isn't the taskbar, it's the "taskbar notification area" - the taskbar is the whole bar, including taskbar buttons etc.

That said, you do have quite some icons going there :)
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Living Room / Re: Top 50 Dystopian movies
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2008, 08:05 PM »
Some nice films there, and at least a few ones that I either hadn't heard about before, or just haven't gotten around to see.

I wonder why Children of Men rank as #6, though... it's an OK flick, but it's not that good. Why does everybody and their dogs love it so much?
5519
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA- USB Access control on device by drive map/assignment
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2008, 07:55 PM »
Not really doable, unless you do encryption or similar :)

If you have problems with a *regular* USB device, it's probably because you unplugged without "safely remove hardware", and have ended up with a somewhat damaged filesystem.
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Living Room / Re: History of DonationCoder.com
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2008, 07:52 PM »
I can't remember when I joined (well, 12 days before my birthday, 2005)..
-f0dder (March 13, 2008, 07:31 PM)

you're being a bit contradictory today [late last night] f0dder :D
-tomos (March 14, 2008, 04:39 PM)
Hehe yeah, couldn't remember off the top of my head, then checked my profile, but still couldn't remember the time period, so... :P
5521
Java / Re: Java to exe converters
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2008, 09:17 AM »
There's nothing that really stops anybody from creating a JAVA compiler that does native output, even if the language was designed to create binary portable output. GNU is doing this with their gcj project, for instance. And you could also still compile to .jar format, but bundle with a JVM into a .exe - iirc this was possible with Microsoft's Visual J++, but that was discontinued because of pressure from SUN.

But the best general solution is probably to follow Tinjaw's advice :)
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Living Room / Re: Poratble applications
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2008, 09:13 AM »
The site says "older versions", but doesn't actually mention 9x... NT4 and Win2k and, heck, even XP can be considered "older versions" now :P

I don't see a reason why something has to run on 9x to be considered 'portable'. Sure, there's a few boxes you won't be able to run on, but 9x boxes aren't very widespread anymore.
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Living Room / Re: Crashed HDD :)
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2008, 08:54 PM »
.... so I slapped everything back together, fired up Spinrite in Level 2. Three hours later, the computer booted and all data was recovered!

For anyone reading this comment first, go look at the pictures. Really, quite amazing...

-Darwin (March 13, 2008, 08:01 PM)
Hhahahaha ,as if :-* :-* :-*

That's a seriously smashed drive... do the later comments say anything about what happened? The fireballs have done nasty stuff, but usually it's the controller chip overheating and melting/exploding (yes, literally fireball).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else having random reboots with Firefox 2.0.0.11
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2008, 07:33 PM »
Just to be a damn annoying pedantic sunnuva, you can't disable paging (the x86 feature) - you can disable the pagefile, though :) (except if you're running an older windows than XP).
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Living Room / Re: History of DonationCoder.com
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2008, 07:31 PM »
I can't remember when I joined (well, 12 days before my birthday, 2005), but it was all Jibz' fault :P
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