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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm sick of everything requiring a restart!
« Last post by f0dder on March 10, 2008, 08:19 AM »
Lots of times, the installers throw the "now you must restart" as a blanket statement, even though it's not necessary. Other times, it's because the developers are stupid and don't know how to start a newly installed service, and depend on a system reboot + automatic service startup.

Often, common sense works. You installed something simple-ish that didn't install any drivers? Don't reboot. OK, it installed a service? If the app doesn't work, try services.msc and see if you can start it's services manually.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Version control on dual-boot system? (XP/Linux)
« Last post by f0dder on March 10, 2008, 08:15 AM »
Btw., I'd definitely recommend putting the repository on a server - saves you grief if you harddrive crashes on the development machine (yeah yeah, backups etc., but a server means additional protection). It's also nice being able to access code from wherever, even if I don't use that feature that often (once I get a laptop, though...)

BeanStalk looks pretty cute and not toooo expensive, but I guess you do pay for peace of mind and simplicity - considering you could get a dreamhost (or whatever) account and set up stuff yourself...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Evaluate Server 2008 Enterprise for 240 days
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2008, 05:01 PM »
I still wonder if it's so much metter in reality... people did the same with Win2003 vs. XP, where it did matter somewhat in the 32bit editions, since the kernels are different. 64-bit XP is same kernel as win2k3 64bit though. And still... with nlite and vlite, ho humm.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Evaluate Server 2008 Enterprise for 240 days
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2008, 12:39 PM »
Can't see why it shouldn't work on a 3rd harddrive, although things DO tend to get fancy if you mix IDE and SATA drives, and there might be issues wrt. master bootsector (but if your BIOS has "F8 for boot menu" option, then that shouldn't be too much of a problem either).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Version control on dual-boot system? (XP/Linux)
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2008, 11:00 AM »
Hm, ntfs-3g does state it's stable for both read and write - I guess a lot of users are still a bit skeptic because of all the nasty problems it's had in the past, though :). The performance charts are also interesting - ntfs-3g scores pretty damn bad there, I'd like to know how the native driver by Microsoft performs... and by golly XFS scores low for "metadata" operations - I wonder if they tested ext3 without journalling, since it scores so high?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Version control on dual-boot system? (XP/Linux)
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2008, 07:58 AM »
Mandork: if you use a local FSFS (as opposed to Berkely-DB based) repository on the FAT32 partition, you should be able to access it both from windows and linux. Iirc FSFS repositories have been the default for a while, so you should be ready to go. I dunno what the easy-to-use-gui options are for subversion on linux, but the command-line tools work just fine :)

wilfrednilsen: unless you tunnel subversion through SSH or SSL, it's not particularly secure by default... if you use svnserve, passwords are sent plain-text. And older versions have had security holes, which is probably how the hackers got through to donationcoder.com , by the way.

Oh, and what's with the "windogs" thing? wouldn't you think it got pretty old pretty fast if people consistently wrote "linsux" or "lunix"? :)

PS: http://subversion.ti...roject_packages.html has native win32 binaries not requiring crappy cygwin DLLs.
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Official Announcements / Re: Thread about the DonationCoder.com server Shutdown on March 2nd, 2008
« Last post by f0dder on March 08, 2008, 01:48 PM »
I agree with Joker, while it's never a fun thing to admit you've been hacked & it might be a bit unnerving to the end-users, it's the proper thing to do.

Btw it doesn't seem like it was one of those fully automated drive-by hacks in this case, too much fumbling around showing in the log files.
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Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Day Roguelike Game Coding Challenge
« Last post by f0dder on March 08, 2008, 07:04 AM »
Haha, that's a great idea! :)

I remember playing Larn on a terminal at my dad's work maaaaany years ago.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Microsoft's "Rich Signature"
« Last post by f0dder on March 08, 2008, 07:02 AM »
Disreputable websites?
-f0dder (March 07, 2008, 06:00 PM)
Sorry, was a bit unclear there. I found the link to that page on the disreputable website. Just for clarification, ntcore.com is NOT a disreputable website.
-Ehtyar (March 07, 2008, 06:08 PM)
woodmann's then?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Microsoft's "Rich Signature"
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 06:00 PM »
Disreputable websites?
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Official Announcements / Re: Thread about the DonationCoder.com server Shutdown on March 2nd, 2008
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 05:59 PM »
only ntos.exe is evil. the ntosekrnl.exe is a normal file that you have nothing to worry about.
-mouser (March 07, 2008, 04:09 PM)
Yeah, and please do not delete that file :)

ntos.exe was obviously chosen to try and camouflage it next to ntoskrnl.exe - the trojan code even grabs filetime from ntoskrnl.exe and sets the downloaded ntos.exe filetimes based on that!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Evaluate Server 2008 Enterprise for 240 days
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 05:56 PM »
3D bargraphs suck, they're so easy to misread :)

But interesting nonetheless, between 10-16% performance difference? I wonder what exactly those benchmarks stress, though, and why 2008 might be faster... I see the DRM mention as a blanket statement.
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Official Announcements / Re: Thread about the DonationCoder.com server Shutdown on March 2nd, 2008
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 08:52 AM »
It's worth to note that malware package is designed to do really nasty things, like stealing your banking information - so it's very important that you check whether you've been infected or not. The quick way is checking whether you have a file called ntos.exe in %SystemRoot\system32, like mouser mentioned above.

The scumbags that do this are obviously interested in getting as many people infected as possible, and while I don't know how many visitors we have per day, my guess is it's a fair amount of people.

This wasn't the typical defacing hack just to say i ownz j00, it was done by people with monetary crime in mind!
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Living Room / Re: Comic Strip Generator (and March Caption Contest Announcement!)
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 07:05 AM »
Cody talking, mouser thinking... and apologies to TucknDar for the blatant ripoff :P

Cody: I removed the password for the subversion user, it was too much hassle.
mouser: I bet you taste like chicken...
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Living Room / Re: Homepage for about $100?
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 06:53 AM »
brotherS: do you already have a place to host, or do those $100 include both webdesign and hosting?

I have no idea what design or templates would cost, but you can get simple hosting for far less than $100/month :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Web toolkit Broken Download
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 06:51 AM »
I just grabbed it twice, once through firefox and once through wget. Neither of those use download-manager tactics of automatic resuming and multiple connections to the server, but both worked just fine, and gave me ~330KB/s of throughput, not bad for a single connection. Using flashget (with multiple connections) I got around 1.2MB/s, which completed in 15 seconds - if the download had been bigger, I might have gotten closer to my maximum of 2MB/s.

The problem might very well not be a google's end, it could be traffic-shaping ISPs (or other ISP issues), it could be browser issues, etc.

Which browser do you use?
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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2008, 06:39 AM »
so were you hosting DC yourself, or were you using a paid webhost provider? I never figured that out, but anyways, I'm glad to see the site is back up. :Thmbsup:
-nite_monkey (March 07, 2008, 12:47 AM)
Dedicated server at a hosting company - mouser would have had to have a pretty massive home internet connection if he were to host it himself :P

Its too bad that you were too busy fixing problems to put a stat-counter on the replacement page to see how many of us checked in hourly to see if things were back up.
-oldfart (March 07, 2008, 05:25 AM)
Parsing server logs should give that information, and in more detail (since you get IPs there too :))
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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008)
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2008, 08:09 PM »
Nice to have our second home back again - this time fortress-style.

Hope you'll consider the virtualization stuff (OpenVZ sounds particularly interesting/appealing to me), or perhaps (if you now have multiple servers, and will keep at least one), move non-forum/main-donationcoder stuff to a secondary server?

PS: perhaps there should still be a notice on the front page about the hack, in the (unlikely? :)) case somebody has been bitten but hasn't checked DC in the down period...
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Living Room / Re: Comic Strip Generator (and March Caption Contest Announcement!)
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2008, 08:03 PM »
I think we all now know what the conversation was:

Cody: It's ok to put the DCserver root password in my AOL email signature, right?
Mouser: Oh bother..
-mouser (March 06, 2008, 07:59 PM)
:tellme: :o ;D :-[ :tellme: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :-*
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Living Room / Re: Comic Strip Generator (and March Caption Contest Announcement!)
« Last post by f0dder on March 02, 2008, 09:14 AM »
Cody: I just spent the winter in the land of farr, farr away, and the kids there look starved.
Mouser: hm, perhaps we could send them some unicows.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club
« Last post by f0dder on March 02, 2008, 08:43 AM »
I think that it's a generally good idea to know when people are better than you at something, then bow out and be smart enough to go with their work instead.
-Renegade (March 01, 2008, 11:59 PM)
Depends on whether you're trying to be productive, or you're in it for the fun & learning. But I do agree :)
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Living Room / Re: Good Names for Your Child :)
« Last post by f0dder on March 02, 2008, 08:42 AM »
Haha, I just got out of bed (15:40, ugh!) and powered up my computerbeast, and this strip had me laughing out loud :-* I really ought to go through my xkcd backlog, and add the site to website watcher.

PS: the image is 666px wide :)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Scanahand RC1 Released
« Last post by f0dder on March 01, 2008, 02:15 PM »
Doh, I'm slow. Thanks :)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Scanahand RC1 Released
« Last post by f0dder on March 01, 2008, 01:36 PM »
Upload the TTF! :P
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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.
« Last post by f0dder on March 01, 2008, 06:27 AM »
 :o
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