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DC Gamer Club / Re: Cortex Command 1.0 is released!
« Last post by Jibz on September 28, 2012, 05:55 PM »
Btw, not sure if it was in multiple HIB, but I found mine in HIB 3 :Thmbsup:.
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General Software Discussion / Re: sublime text: some innovative text editor!
« Last post by Jibz on September 21, 2012, 12:17 PM »
@ renegade
Thanks for the offer, if I get a rejection (or silence) in the next couple of weeks I guess you're off the hook — unless you'd like to enlighten the DoCo world failure notwithstanding (you can write it sitting down)  :)
;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: sublime text: some innovative text editor!
« Last post by Jibz on September 21, 2012, 12:03 PM »
@wraith808, jibz, renegade…

Has anyone asked for a discount? If not, I'll ask and see what is the reaction.

It looks like cthorpe might have asked for one a little over a year ago, but no mention of the outcome:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26313.0
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General Software Discussion / Re: sublime text: some innovative text editor!
« Last post by Jibz on September 21, 2012, 09:59 AM »
It's still a random nag screen when saving, and no other limitations that I am aware of. I must admit I have postponed buying a license because, well, it's expensive, and I was hoping for a larger DC discount :-[
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Indie Bundle 6
« Last post by Jibz on September 20, 2012, 01:24 AM »
Excellent games .. shame I had them all already :-[.
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Living Room / Re: xkcd - password truth
« Last post by Jibz on September 20, 2012, 12:35 AM »
I love this comic .. it has made half the internet remember that one four word combination. I think what it fails to tell you is that if you have more than five of these random four word passwords, they are almost as impossible to remember as random ones. Unless you have some system to relate the words to the actual site, but then, of course, they are no longer random words, and the number of effective bits starts shrinking.

Btw, for all the patent haters (via NH):

https://xato.net/pas...ry-that-is-patented/
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Postbox 3 - $9.95
« Last post by Jibz on September 14, 2012, 01:45 PM »
The continued development argument is one thing I agree. I just noticed it is pretty much only available in English though :-\.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Postbox 3 - $9.95
« Last post by Jibz on September 14, 2012, 07:00 AM »
the features look enticing to a Thunderbird user.

Actually I was just looking at their switch from Thunderbird page wondering if there was any of it that would make a difference to me.

I guess since it builds on Thunderbird, you do not get more security, compatibility, or speed -- so what features do you feel are a big step up?
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Living Room / Re: Shit Apple Fanatics Say
« Last post by Jibz on September 13, 2012, 12:36 PM »


I think that explains a lot ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...
« Last post by Jibz on September 13, 2012, 12:23 PM »
The only time I've seen MSE incur a noticeable speed hit is with some compressed or otherwise protected executables - when that happens, I get delays in the more-than-a-second range, even on my (pretty darn fast) i7-3770 - don't have a noticeable speed hit on normal executables, even those in the multi-megabyte range.

My personal guess is that it is because XYplorer is single-threaded, so if anything at all interrupts reading icons or other information from the files as they are displayed, the entire interface locks up. The problem is XY is written in VB6 which does not really support multi-threading. Other file managers like TC and DO do not have this issue.

On some sytems this is not a big problem, on the three machines I have here, I can go get a cup of coffee if I browse to the wrong folder.

Oh and the archive support .. don't get me started :-[.
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Developer's Corner / Opinions about the Apache License?
« Last post by Jibz on September 11, 2012, 01:02 PM »
We have had some interesting discussions about other licenses (in particular the GPL) in the past, so I figured I would try and see if you have any opinions about the Apache License (2.0).

First a little background:

I have used the zlib license in the past for a couple of smaller source code releases, but I was trying to see if one of the more commonly used licenses would work for me. This led to a couple of hours of hit-and-google browsing, trying to figure out the exact differences between MIT, BSD, Apache, and GPL.

I am not planning to use the GPL -- I want people to be able to use my work in commercial software without risking suddenly being forced into an open source license. I like the MIT and BSD licenses because they are so short and (relatively) easy to understand, but I feel perhaps they lack somewhat in precision and their age is showing. This lead me to the Apache license, which to a large extent appears to be similar to the BSD license, but more descriptive.

For instance, I like how it says directly that if you contribute something it will by default be covered by the license, and that you are allowed to link to something covered by the license without risking that affecting your software.

Two things worry me a bit though; the fact that it is longer and harder to read, which makes it less obvious what your obligations are, and that the FSF says it is incompatible with GPLv2.

So, this brings me to my questions:

What are your feelings on using the Apache license compared to the MIT/BSD licenses?

Do you think the incompatibility with GPLv2 is a problem? (or perhaps rather a feature?)


A couple of links for reference:

http://oreilly.com/o...soft/book/index.html
http://www.tldrlegal...ense-2.0-(apache-2.0)
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Living Room / Re: Nokia's new Lumia 920 phone doesn't impress. But why? (no reason)
« Last post by Jibz on September 06, 2012, 03:46 AM »
I guess people are still having too much fun checking out how Nokia apparently is faking both the video and still images used to advertise how good the camera in those phones is:

http://www.theverge....w-ads-are-fraudulent

http://sefsar.com/no...the-still-photos-too

:-[
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General Software Discussion / Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core
« Last post by Jibz on August 28, 2012, 03:00 PM »
http://www.forbes.co...amazons-rotten-core/

Leather admitted to creating accounts on Amazon under assumed names in order to leave positive reviews of his own work.  ...  Leather is not the only one engaging in such practices. On 25 August, the New York Times revealed that the use of fake reviews is widespread. In exploring the case of reviewer-for-hire Todd Jason Rutherford, the NY Times exposed self-publishing poster boy John Locke who bought 300 reviews from Rutherford’s business, GettingBookReviews, spending about $6,000 to do so

Stuff like this makes it really hard to trust public user reviews :-\.
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Roughly the same here .. at first I thought "winzip for free, maybe a slightly simplified version or something, worth a click", but the slight enthusiasm quickly cooled when I saw it was (even an older version of) some addon to zip files for e-mail.
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Anyway, this vm-infecting thing is hardly a big deal. It's not a break-out of the vm. I find it kinda silly that this feature is included in a generic piece of malware, given that the gains for zombie-gathering purposes is pretty small.

Actually my initial thought was that it was kind of clever. I agree that the target audience is rather small, but I would guess the code required to write something into a VM disk image in a file is not terribly complicated, and an action that is likely to not trigger too many alerts. And I don't know how many people use anti-virus and anti-malware inside their virtual machines, but if not, this could perhaps circumvent some of the security measures on your actual machine?

I mean of course it wouldn't have access to the outside machine, but it could communicate with the outside and possibly spread from the VM.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Jibz on August 26, 2012, 12:18 PM »
Too late. I just patented the point.
Please contact me to arrange licensing before creating any geometric constructs.
 :P

Since geometry is pointless, that will never hold up in court :P.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Jibz on August 26, 2012, 05:33 AM »
Probably made up, but still an interesting angle I agree ;D
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Jibz on August 26, 2012, 03:56 AM »
Meanwhile, at Starbucks:

https://plus.google....32/posts/246srfbqg6G

I'm writing this post after the FOURTH group of Starbucks patrons have made the connection that Samsung is now the same as Apple. They don't know the details, they don't really care, what they know is Apple is saying that Samsung is the same as Apple ... and with one simple Google Search, you get prices that are basically half for what seems to be the same products -- for nearly everything.

Two of these groups (including the husband/wife) asked me about my Samsung laptop, the second group noticed my Galaxy phone (also by Samsung)... Best billion dollar ad-campaign Samsung ever had.
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Interesting .. my only immediate reservation is where do they make their money if the software is free?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to RecentX
« Last post by Jibz on August 25, 2012, 11:13 AM »
There are sites like alternativeto which sometimes can help:

http://alternativeto...et/software/recentx/

Not sure if any of the ones listed do what you need of course.
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I was actually just looking at that, it seems like it would be awesome and cheap for storing data in the size range of normal consumer backups.

But it is almost impossible to work out how much it would cost to retrieve all your data at once in case of emergency -- some of the comments on HN suggest it could be very expensive.

I guess we can hope it will bring down the prices of other online services.

You are charged a retrieval fee when your retrievals exceed your daily allowance. If, during a given month, you do exceed your daily allowance, we calculate your fee based upon the peak hourly usage from the days in which you exceeded your allowance. As we saw above, if you store 12 terabytes of data in Amazon Glacier, you can retrieve up to 20.5 gigabytes for free each day. If you exceed 20.5 gigabytes during a given day (or days) over the course of the month, we determine the hour during those days in which you retrieved the most amount of data for the month. In this example, let’s say your peak hourly retrieval rate is 1 gigabyte per hour, and the amount you retrieved that day is 24 gigabytes.

Peak hourly retrieval for the month = 1 gigabyte per hour

Next we subtract your free allowance from the peak hourly retrieval for the month. To determine the amount of data you get for free, we look at the amount of data retrieved during your peak day and calculate the percentage of data that was retrieved during your peak hour. We then multiply that percentage by your free daily allowance. In this example, you retrieved 24 gigabytes during the day and 1 gigabyte at the peak hour, which is 1/24 or ~4% of your data during your peak hour. We multiply 4% by your daily free allowance, which is 20.5 gigabytes each day. This equals 0.82 gigabytes. We then subtract your free allowance from your peak usage to determine your billable peak.

Billable peak hourly retrieval = Peak hourly retrieval - Free retrieval hourly allowance

Billable peak hourly retrieval = 1 gigabyte - 0.82 gigabytes = 0.18 gigabytes

The amount you pay is your billable peak, multiplied by the number of hours in the month, multiplied by the retrieval fee.

:huh:
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Living Room / Re: Go dark for IE - October 26, 2012
« Last post by Jibz on August 18, 2012, 04:52 PM »
Why stop at 9 ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me understand Virtual Machine [VMWare]
« Last post by Jibz on August 17, 2012, 12:46 PM »
Thanks for the comments  :up: .. the lack of snapshot feature would definitely make it less useful for me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me understand Virtual Machine [VMWare]
« Last post by Jibz on August 17, 2012, 11:54 AM »
Interesting .. anyone have some insights into how VMware player compares to VirtualBox?
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Looks like it still has the 100 MB file size limit of the free 5 GB account. May not be a problem for most people, but worth noting :Thmbsup:.
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