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Living Room / Re: This coming year, I am SOO looking forward to __________ .

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 04:42 PM »

I know plenty of people here in .dk that set their income tax too high, so they'll get tax return at the end of the year... simply because they're so lousy at abstaining from spending money if they have any

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Living Room / Re: This coming year, I am SOO looking forward to __________ .

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 02:23 PM »

jammo: hope meds will work for you, be sure to give it some time (SUCKS that a lot of psyhofarmaca takes up to several months before the positive effects kick in, while you might have the side effects from day 1 >_<).

Personally, I'm looking forward to getting rid of my debt, hopefully Q1 of 2008... then? Perhaps saving up some money, getting me a nice new box, and enjoying summer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Export TheBat -> unix MBOX format

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 12:19 PM »

lanux: that guy is doing it in a roundabout way, though - why go through the hard steps of reverse engineering and writing an importer, when you can write an exporter instead? Even an app that sends window messages to TheBat to query the folder structure and then use the built-in mbox exporting would work, and although it would obviously be a hack... well, less work than reversing the file format.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 12:15 PM »

So, I'm off the hook?

Might still take a look at adding 64bit to WinCalendarTime, though.

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Living Room / Re: Technology Myths

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 12:14 PM »

Yeah, I added it right after originally posting, quick enough that the post didn't have a "last edited at..." thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Firefox Lover's Guide to Opera

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 12:13 PM »

adMuncher much better, ho humm. AdBlockPlus works as it's supposed to, comes with predefined & updated rules, and doesn't hook into all apps.

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Living Room / Re: Technology Myths

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 09:40 AM »

I think Sun's lawsuit was pretty hypocritical, since Java has had JNI for ages. What exactly did Microsoft do wrong, apart from having a JVM that was perhaps three times faster than Sun's own?

As for j#, ho humm. It might have Java syntax, but if it uses the dotNET class libraries and doesn't offer Java class library wrappings above it, then it's not really compatible; with dotNET and similar, the class libraries are a much bigger part of the language than the language itself

Dunno if borland/inprise/codegear/whatever java IDE is nice, last I checked it was written in java and was sluggish as hell.

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Living Room / Re: Technology Myths

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 09:04 AM »

I though Visual J++ was discontinued and the last version of it was back from Visual Studio 6?

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General Software Discussion / Re: App launchers and 'run as' another user

« Last post by f0dder on December 31, 2007, 08:02 AM »

Hm, if all it takes is a click, then it doesn't matter if the password is encrypted, as the application will be doing automatic decryption... it's usually a trivial matter to find the encryption algo+key, or dump from memory... just so you don't think this is more secure than it is.

But being able to launch stuff with other user credentials IS a nice idea

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 10:03 PM »

Oh, at least DualView is still available, that's what I use - never been fond of spanning, since apps will then maximize across monitors, bad.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 09:26 PM »

Only showed up once.

Please don't use tinyurl links

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 09:10 PM »

Great timing mouser. I just ordered XP64 (yeah I could have got Vista64 but that doesn't support spanning monitors). I used to use tclockex all the time. Currently I run Windows with the taskbar on the left (where it uses less space) and it shows the date if you give it enough space - but like you I miss the simple flexibility of tclockex.

-Tyinsar (December 30, 2007, 07:42 PM)

Huh, Vista doesn't support spanning monitors?

Anyway, I've emailed the tClockEx author and am awaiting a reply. If I don't get any, I can probably hack something together that'll work for both Win32 and Win64 (although it might need two sets of EXE+DLL files). If I end up doing something, I don't plan on doing something as comprehensive as tClockEx, but I'll probably release it as opensource.

I hope the tClockEx author replies back with something good, though, as I'd hate to duplicate efforts.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 07:28 PM »

I guess I could reverse-engineer Okke's DLL and make it support the utf-8/unicode locate hack, I've already located the "spawn child process and grab output", which is referenced three times, but Delphi code is so naaaasty to deal with

EDIT: downloaded the FARR SDK, and realized the locate32 plugin source code is there, woo-hoo . The plugin will need some updating (should be simple though), but it seems that FARR itself needs a bunch of updates to handle unicode. Working with mouser on the issue right now.

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General Software Discussion / Export TheBat -> unix MBOX format

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 05:57 PM »

Hep,

I've been considering giving ThunderBird a go, and see whether it can handle my current mail base efficiently. To do that, I obviously need to export all my emails from The Bat!. TheBat does have built-in support for MBOX export, but I would need to click each folder of each account, Ctrl+A selecting all mails for each folder, and then exporting. Suffice to say, this is tedious.

With a bit of googling I found BackupTheBat, which unfortunately has no website dedicated to it, only mentions at a few blog postings... appearantly made by the Hungerian distributors of TheBat?. Anyway, it seems like it's supposed to do the trick, but on my machine it ends up consuming 100% CPU and doing nothing.

Do any of you guys know a better (working ) solution, or should I try my hand at writing a TheBat plugin?

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Living Room / Re: Teen gets PS3 for x-mas, but guess what's inside the box

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 05:30 PM »

Also, someone else did this earlier this year with an Xbox 360. Except it wasn't a phone book, it was some kind of medical book.

-Deozaan (December 30, 2007, 05:22 PM)

Doesn't matter much what kind of book it is, as long as the weight is about right. Bastards :/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug in regex processing? or bug in my regex?

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 05:21 PM »

Aren't you supposed to have parens around the whole OR-expression? Christ, my regex-fu is dusty, and I'm too lazy to go into the living-room to pick up my copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. But IIRC it should look something like...

^(?:ups ((.*)|(1Z.*)))

-regex

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General Software Discussion / Re: Getting started with Access?

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 05:17 PM »

Ho humm, do you have any prior database knowledge/experience? Access itself is pretty darn easy to use, with all the clicky GUI goodness... but you obviously need some relational database knowledge in order to put the click-and-play goodness to good use.

Don't know of any resources, so this was just a "don't worry too much" heads-up

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: list of programs to "harshly/silently" kill at shutdown

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 04:59 PM »

(if you wanted you could let it wait a few seconds for it to shutdown nicely and only then send harsh terminate signal).

-mouser (December 30, 2007, 04:53 PM)

Windows already does this and you can tweak the delay, but obviously you don't want to set it too low, or you could end up with bad stuff happening. And I guess the apps you're annoyed with will always require a full timeout.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 04:54 PM »

Okay, with a bunch of help from jmj, I managed to build locate... took a bit of effort, it's a semi-large and semi-complex project, also regarding library dependencies and such

Hacking up locate.exe to user either WriteConsoleW or WriteFile was easy, and I now have a version that does proper unicode output on console, and UTF-8 output when redirected, seems to work fine. The following screenshot shows what standard locate.exe outputs, and then what my quick hack outputs. Note that you need to set your console to use a non-raster font for this to work!



Note that there's no reason for me to release this new executable before Okke implements UTF-8 support, since you'll get pretty garbled output with the current plugin version



In case anyone is wondering what the text is, it's just snippets from a russian article I found about fSekrit, seemed fitting to use when I was testing unicode support in fSekrit, and it's the best unicode test snippet I have at all, since I know none of those characters are available in my own codepage

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: list of programs to "harshly/silently" kill at shutdown

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 04:43 PM »

Humm, should be easy to code - trap the shutdown signal, then TerminateProcess on the processes in the list. Too bad if any of them have open (for write) files, though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Firefox Lover's Guide to Opera

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 03:37 PM »

Zaine: it isn't possible to remove IE from Windows now - sure, you can remove iexplore.exe and the ability to use it as a full browser, but you can't remove the components it's made of, since those are re-used in so many apps now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Firefox Lover's Guide to Opera

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 01:36 PM »

Come to Opera, f0dder. The thing is stable as a rock, fast as hell, and no memory bloat. You know you want it

-Lashiec (December 30, 2007, 01:34 PM)

Hasn't been stable as a rock for me, while FireFox has only crashed very seldomly, and it's always been JAVA (not javascript) related.

Until there's AdBlockPlus, save page as image and a couple other features, I won't even consider it

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Firefox Lover's Guide to Opera

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 01:21 PM »

I've been using Opera a bit on and off over the years, but it's always been slightly unstable for me, and (especially back when I used it a lot, things are MUCH MUCH better now!) some sites didn't render all too well (I suspect that a big factor was the overweight of poorly designed IE-only pages back then).

These days, I can't really be arsed to switch from FireFox. Sure, Opera is faster and lighter, which does matter a lot to me, but it still seems to crash every now and then, and there's no plugin support.

Took me quite a while to adopt FireFox, since I used Avast (better than Maxthon imho). But I finally got hitten by a drive-by exploit in a banner ad or something, and from then on I never looked back, although I reserve the right to bitch about FireFox bloat and (loading) slowness.

Never been a friend of "smooth scrolling", even in IE. Too slow, and scrolling in the opposite direction doesn't "cancel" scrolling, so you have to wait until the smooth scroll is done until you can scroll back - annoying. And it's absolutely crapalicious on terminal servers

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 06:59 AM »

ANSI output should probably be left as-is; I dunno if WriteConsole has any advantage over WriteFile except for being able to output unicode properly to the console. Sure, probably less conversion layers to go through than WriteFile, but I doubt it's anything measurable.

Need to do some final pre-newyear shopping now, will look at code when I get home.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by f0dder on December 30, 2007, 06:09 AM »

jmj: I want to play around with it a bit, as soon as I get the thing fully building . Is the filename output done exclusively from the two callback functions?

losiek: things are a bit different than that . WriteConsole can write unicode characters because internally there's two versions of it: *A and *W, one for ansi and one for wide/unicode. WriteFile doesn't have ansi/unicode versions, and simply writes to the target device. There's no way for the console device to know what format it receives from WriteFile, so it opts to only support MultiByte...

There shouldn't be any problem using raw WriteFile when you detect output has been redirected. Or well, THE problem is that you're not outputting a BOM marker, which will confuse e.g. notepad, and that some apps might not be prepared to handle unicode text. The best is probably to convert to UTF-8 when output is redirected...