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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 09:28 AM »
I'd rather run TrueCrypt than something commercial, to be honest.

Yeah, encryption is processor-based, but it's not free. I can clearly tell that on my fileserver... that's a relatively low-power core2 celeron, but still.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 08:46 AM »
f0dder: why wouldn't you use it for the main workstation?
-jgpaiva (February 06, 2008, 08:40 AM)

Simply because I'm not sure whether I have a reason to do so, and I would have to evaluate performance and stability first. Which includes waiting some months before going "live" on my system, to see if any horror stories pop up. Not that I expect any, but my data is preciousssss to me.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Pre-copy file verification utility
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 08:31 AM »
The best solution is definitely to use a better file copier that Windows explorer. Trying to read all files just to take note of unreadable ones, then re-reading the files to copy, is a bad++ idea. First of all it increases the time to copy, which is bad enough, but if you're dealing with a dying harddrive... you want to put as little stress as possible on the drive, and get the job done ASAP.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 08:29 AM »
Holy moley, TC5 adds some very nice stuff. System-partition support is really really nice, and pipelined operation sounds interesting.

Would definitely use this on a laptop, dunno about my workstation though.
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Living Room / Re: Power and Ports - The Ever Diminishing Resources in My Office!
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 06:34 AM »
CWuestefeld: good question whether you can "hear height", but I do think it's possible, at least with a decent pair of headphones. At least sounds did help me very quickly locate my enemies when I have spare time to play computer games. But obviously sound textures help greatly with this ("he's in the vents!").

As mikiem says, I can't see why 3D positional audio shouldn't be possible with a pair of headphones, since all we have are two ears (or "OEM mics" :-*) anyway. 360° spatial sound is definitely possible.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Save the Cookies!
« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2008, 06:34 AM »
Honestly, assuming you practice safe surfing, any IE based frontend browser is pretty good.
-Cloq (February 05, 2008, 07:04 PM)
Not really, as even with "safe surfing" you can get hit by surf-by banner ad exploits. Reputable (heh) ad servers have been hacked in the past to feed end-users exploits.

I use a hostfile (www.bluetack.co.uk), AdMuncher (www.admuncher.com) and ESS (www.eset.com) + maxthon.
-Cloq (February 05, 2008, 07:04 PM)
Well then, you're adding a lot more security than just the browser. I don't get why pepole are messing with the hosts file though, and ad blocker is more effective and makes the hosts file superfluous anyway.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a compression (algorithm) "Best Practices" sheet
« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2008, 06:13 PM »
Do you mean best practices as in which apps to use, or more along the lines of coding/scripting stuff?

I guess another piece of "best practice" is that, when doing solid compression, you typically want files with similar content grouped next to eachother, to (ab)use what's already in the compression dictionary. RAR does this by sorting files based on extension - I dunno if it does it globally or per-folder, though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Save the Cookies!
« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2008, 09:58 AM »
BUT OMFG TIHNK OF TEH PONIEZ! TEH COOKIES CAN TRAX0R YOUR BROWZING HABITS OMGF! CLIK TIHS LINK AND DOWNLOAD COOKIE IMMUNIZAER, NO SPYWEAR GUARANTEE!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Save the Cookies!
« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2008, 09:27 AM »
Christ, stop worrying about cookies already! :)

Also, there isn't much point in hunting for 64-bit versions of most software, as you only get performance improvements in very specific cases. So if you really want to be silly and nitpick about cookies, you can grab a 32bit firefox and whatever cookie management extension you want.

If you're paranoid about cookies but use an IE-based browser, I give up.
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows security - what's really necessary?
« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2008, 09:18 AM »
Okay, you're on cable, then. You have some TDC cable box somewhere, which is at least a cable modem, possibly with some routing as well. Check the IP address assigned to your network card; if it's 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x the cable modem does NATed routing. If ipconfig shows the same as www.showmyip.com , you definitely never ever should be running without a firewall (but XP's built-in should be fine).
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General Software Discussion / Re: What Are Your Views On BUGS?
« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2008, 06:57 AM »
A few minor bugs can be tolerable, as long as no data loss is involved. As previously mentioned, explorer2 crashes every once in a while (though not daily) for me as well, but almost only on exit - and considering how excellent the program is, that's bugs I can live with.

If some product had major bugs and there was no replacement, I'd probably end up reverse engineering it to fix the bug 8)
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General Software Discussion / Re: windows security - what's really necessary?
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 07:54 PM »
Curt: you really shouldn't disable XP's firewall if you aren't using any other firewall product.

Also, you say you're not behind a router / don't know what it is. Which kind of internet connection do you have? Analog modem, ADSL, cable, WiMaxx? Which provider (CyberCity, TDC?) - you're very likely behind a router even if you don't know it, at least if you're on ADSL :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 09:10 AM »
harmonv: links, please! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Richard stallman is the new Chuck Norris. I've never laughed harder...
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:55 AM »
Richard Stallman is the only man alive who can pronounce GNU the way it is meant to be pronounced.
Gn-eeeeeeew?
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Living Room / Re: advice needed: weird lockup/freeze (process/dll/disk/cache?? issue in explorer)
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:53 AM »
Page faults doesn't necessarily mean swapping/paging, they can happen for other reasons as well (like accessing memory-mapped files).

Do you have any custom shell extensions installed? That'd be my first hunch, considering your symptoms. Can be pretty hard to track down problems with those critters, too.
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Living Room / Re: Me & my crazy optical mouse
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:49 AM »
(I'd run SpinRite overnight too to correct any disk errors in case there's some kind of corruption. Not sure that it would matter much, but can't hurt.)
-Renegade (January 30, 2008, 01:59 AM)
Friends don't let friends use (or even mention) SpinRite.
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Living Room / Re: Brush the dust from your computer
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:44 AM »
Compressed air is a lot more fun, though :-[
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Living Room / Re: How do you repair screw holes in computer case after too much use?
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:41 AM »
The best fix? Buy a new case :)
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Living Room / Re: USB device misbehaving
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:40 AM »
+1 for the "sounds like the disk in the USB enclosure is dying". Trouble spinning up, unnatural sounds etc. are never a good sign when there's a harddrive involved.

It could be the USB bridging electronics that are acting up, you could try taking out the disk and installing it directly... but whatever it is, it sounds like the device's days are counted.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Fibonacci in LOLCode
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:38 AM »
Sick. Sick sick sick :-*
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General Software Discussion / Re: FTP Client that can process multiple threads in background
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:37 AM »
On a FTP client, deleting a directory takes a few minutes at least. Any reason why?
-icekin (February 02, 2008, 07:49 AM)
Because the FTP client has to recurse into every folder, delete all files, etc. Every action requires sending the textual command to the ftp server, waiting for response, etc.

Doing "rm -fr" on a terminal, all the actions happen locally on the server.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Psychonauts
« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2008, 06:34 AM »
A few suggestions for your mini-review:

"portals" -> "Portal's" ... and add some comments to the screenshots :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: DC User's Resource - Phase I (Interest survey - Please post comments)
« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2008, 10:24 AM »
Yeah, a wiki (only editable by DC members with some amount of posts, to avoid drive-by graffiti!) is probably the way to go. We've taken that approach at the ASM community. But it requires a massive amount of work... also in establishing what's worth preserving and what isn't.
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Living Room / Re: How many germs are living on your keyboard?
« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2008, 10:12 AM »
These things are so silly. 2,696,400 germs on your keyboard right now! That's equivalent to the number of germs on 539 toilet seats.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Audio format (batch) convert/transcode
« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2008, 09:50 AM »
Another reason to switch to FLAC or Wavpack, is for integrity checking of the file, which is built in and it will report errors within, or you can use an external utility to scan a drive (which could always go bad) for corrupted sound files.  I believe both formats have such a utility available for mass checking.
-vegas (February 01, 2008, 08:33 AM)
Good point :Thmbsup:
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