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Living Room / Time for a rant - blacklist

« Last post by Mark0 on November 03, 2005, 05:13 PM »

Horror stories float around all the time about this or that guy that found his IP on the black list of one of the many company that mantains this kind of service. But how stupid can be to ban entire IP blocks "by automated default" with some automathic triggers, when you risk to lock out dozens of people? Often getting an IP out of a black list need days if not weeks!!

I have just tried to fire up the IRC client to have some talk on the #donationcoder channel, and the server on the other side notify me that my IP is blacklisted an so i'm d-lined. What stupid can this be? I'm on a DSL with dynamic IP (like some thousands other people around here), so this kind of thing can block me now, another guy an hour from now, etc. etc.

Bleah!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody use Lua?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 03, 2005, 04:42 PM »

P.S. LuaJIT appears to be source only. Do you know if binaries are available?

-Edvard (November 03, 2005, 12:48 PM)

Here attached you'll find an EXE+DLL Win32 binary of LuaJIT 1.03.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody use Lua?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 03, 2005, 07:00 AM »

And be sure to check the Lua tutorials on Lua-users wiki:
Link: Lua-Users wiki: Tutorial Directory

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Living Room / Re: great read - "Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far"

« Last post by Mark0 on November 02, 2005, 04:43 PM »

BTW, Kudos to Mark Russinovich for "making a point" and drawing some media attention on the issue.

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Living Room / Re: great read - "Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far"

« Last post by Mark0 on November 02, 2005, 06:52 AM »

They will never learn.
They have been made obsolete by technology; they'll try every stupid tricks to remain afloat before the inevitable extintion. Amen!

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606

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free .be domains

« Last post by Mark0 on November 02, 2005, 06:50 AM »

Expensive after year 1 !!

-CarolHaynes (November 02, 2005, 04:12 AM)

Yeah! So one have to be fast to come up with a successful domain name, become millionare e sell it before it expires!

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607

Found Deals and Discounts / Free .be domains

« Last post by Mark0 on November 01, 2005, 07:15 PM »

Seen on Digg.com, pointing here:
http://www.e3interne...-be-domains-for-all/

The registration page is down at the moment, but it should be back soon:

Sorry guys - we are going to have to put this on hold for a little while while we move this site to faster servers. We'll be clearing the back log and should have this up again tomorrow. Thanks Nick - e3

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody use Lua?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 01, 2005, 07:11 PM »

I have used Lua for some projects, basically for adding a scripting interface to an existing application.
May last work was DogLua, a plugin to implement scriptable capabilities for Project Dogwaffle, a paint and animation program (inspired by the work done with gluas for The GIMP).

I find Lua an amazing tool for this kind of things. It build from the ground up to be an light-weight extension language. so it feets very well. You can expose a C (or other compiler language, I have used PowerBASIC for example) function to the embedded Lua environment simply "registering" it, that is passing a pointer to the code and a name to identify the function in Lua. The parameters passing is made very easy trough a virtual task, so you can pass and return any number of parameters.

A note on LuaC; what you get isn't really compiled code, but just a bytecode, that's the exact same that is always executed by Lua. Passing a compiled chunk instead of a source to Lua you just skip the parsing step (very fast, anyway).
Recently Mike Pall has made available LuaJIT, that as the name suggest is Just-In-Time "real" compiler for Lua code. I used it in the last version of DogLua, and the speedup from the standard vanilla version was about 3-6x depending on the situations. An incredible good job!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Courier Email - free for a limited time

« Last post by Mark0 on October 31, 2005, 08:29 PM »

Never used it, so I don't know if it's good or not.
Just seen the deal mentioned in some other place.

http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/courier/

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610

General Software Discussion / Ta-da List - nice online to-do list

« Last post by Mark0 on October 31, 2005, 07:02 PM »

Very handy!
Link: http://www.tadalist.com/
Check the QuickTime video to get a look.
It's completely free.

They offer also a more complete / capable project management tool for a montly fee.
Link: http://www.basecamphq.com/

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611

General Software Discussion / Re: get avi and mpeg video file on Video-CD/DVD

« Last post by Mark0 on October 31, 2005, 08:35 AM »

I have used various time DivXToDVD by VSO to do this kind of transcoding. Speed is good (a bit faster than realtime on an old system with an Athlon XP2200+). You can find it here:
http://www.vso-softw...todvd/divxtodvd2.htm

Note that there's an older version that is the last freeware one, that works very good. You can't remember a link, but you can find it Googlin around a bit.

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612

General Software Discussion / Re: Managing Favourites

« Last post by Mark0 on October 31, 2005, 05:51 AM »

Strange, loads OK for me (tryied just now).

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613

General Software Discussion / Re: Managing Favourites

« Last post by Mark0 on October 23, 2005, 04:19 PM »

So this works for IE and Firefox, right?

-brotherS (October 23, 2005, 03:48 PM)

Yes!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Managing Favourites

« Last post by Mark0 on October 23, 2005, 09:02 AM »

I use LookSmart's Furl too.
The Firefox extension make it very handy to use.

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615

General Software Discussion / Re: TrID file identifier

« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2005, 06:24 AM »

I added to Online TrID the ability to write some feedback about a submitted file. So, if the results of the analysis seems not good (for example because you know exactly what the file should be, or because the results are not really helpful), you can write some note that will be associated to that file (what it should be, where you got, etc.). I periodically check the files and the info submitted, and if possible update & perfect the public DB accordingly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Discovering software (sites)

« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2005, 06:21 AM »

Great links list. Maybe a little OT here, but I think that FILExt may deserve a place in that list; it's surely one of the greates resources around when researching "What's kind of file is this *.XYZ??!".

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Official Announcements / Re: New custom programming font available for download at DonationCoder.com: Din

« Last post by Mark0 on October 19, 2005, 06:17 AM »

Seems very nice. Have to try that.
Thanks!

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618

Living Room / Re: give sticky topics another background color!

« Last post by Mark0 on October 17, 2005, 06:48 AM »

Yeah, very nice. The firsts sticky posts always confused me a bit but now seems really good.
Thanks,
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Living Room / Re: Life by distraction: Interruption science (Life Hacks)

« Last post by Mark0 on October 16, 2005, 07:53 AM »

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: video players / how to capture images from video files

« Last post by Mark0 on October 14, 2005, 01:27 PM »

OK, just checked with version 0.8.2.
Taking a screenshot is super easy, just go to Video - Snapshot.
The saved files goes to the "My Pictures" folder.
To set various parameters (Format, recording ratio, filename prefix), go to Preferences - Video - Output modules - Image file.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: video players / how to capture images from video files

« Last post by Mark0 on October 14, 2005, 11:47 AM »

Sure, count on it!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: video players / how to capture images from video files

« Last post by Mark0 on October 14, 2005, 11:35 AM »

I use often VLC, and I used it to get snapshot from videos.
Don't really recall the detailed steps (I'm not on my PC now), but it's definitely possible.

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Living Room / Re: Thinking about a DonationCoder.com fundraising thing.. opinions wanted

« Last post by Mark0 on October 11, 2005, 11:36 AM »

Ditto for me: no problem at all to see some GoogleAds.

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Living Room / Re: Thinking about a DonationCoder.com fundraising thing.. opinions wanted

« Last post by Mark0 on October 10, 2005, 05:52 AM »

About Fund rising...

I too can say only good things about GoogleAds. It's super easy to manage, and quite effective. I often try different ads positioning, colors, etc., but basically it just works.
In a forum, I think the best would be a small banner after the first reply; it doesn't distract too much, and often the Ads, being contextual selected, provide some interesting (not annoying) links.

As a side note, today I saw this site:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/

You can upload some artwork / logo, and easily create a virtual-shop with branded things. So, in addition to donations, maybe it would be possible to offer some funny t-shirt, mugs, etc. with the DonationCoder.com logo (when it's ready), or personalize them with the icons/logo of some of the programs/tools, etc.
Could be interesting?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Azureus - IMHO the best when it comes to torrents!

« Last post by Mark0 on October 08, 2005, 08:40 AM »

I think I have a new favorite in the BitTorrent clients arean:
uTorrent

It's a standalone EXE of less than 100KB, no installation needed, that eat up less than 5MB of RAM when running at full steam! Quite feature packed too (less than Azureus, but more than many others).

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