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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 05:58 AM »
Okay, fixed the .exe appending, will be in next beta build ("before christmas" :P).

The zero-size export will be fixed once I change the menu item enable/disable code a bit, will also be in next beta build.

I need some other users' feedback on whether text file import should be changed to append rather than replace. Unfortunately, it's built-in behavior to replace, so it's a non-trivial (though possible) change to have it append instead.

Also managed to clean up the source files a bit, less warnings during compile now. No worries, it wasn't anything serious. I promise. Really :) Just a bunch of size_t -> smaller type conversion warnings, it's almost pedantic to fix things like that.
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Developer's Corner / Re: .Net Questions
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 05:54 AM »
Btw, the VB6 runtimes aren't shipped with all windows versions. Can't remember which version started shipping by default, it might be as old as Win98, but I do remember having to download VB6 runtimes to use some app... many years ago :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fantastic: XsX Alphablended Cursors
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 05:22 AM »
The Aero cursors are actually one of the few things I like about Vista - but I still prefer my new-found love, the Entis cursors :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt - FAT32/NTFS
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 04:01 AM »
It sounds... strange. But no idea, really. Can you post some screenshots of compmgmt.msc/disk management, and the right-click properties etc?
6180
Living Room / Re: Are you sad?
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 03:08 AM »
I voted "I'm heartbroken", but the question I answered is the one mouser-san raised. He should use his almighty administrative powers to change the poll topic. Hai!
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General Software Discussion / Re: How many of you use encryption?
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 03:06 AM »
Who uses encryption?

I___Do :)

I wouldn't use the native NTFS encryption nor bitlocker. If somebody has offline access to your harddrive and can bruteforce your login password, you're game over with NTFS encryption - and for bitlocker, I don't know the thing well enough to say anything about it, but I'd much rather use TrueCrypt since you know what you get.

I use Loop-AES for my old fileserver (the one at my mum's place), but have moved to kernel-crypto (cryptsetup + LUKS) for the fileserver here at my place. There's a speed hit, the Celeron-420 (core2 model, not Pentium-D model, 1.60GHz) doesn't seem to be able to do the full 65MB/s that the drives can pull, but I'm not sure how to efficiently time the speed - hdparm -tT doesn't provide realiable stats for /dev/mapper/* .

And why the hell doesn't linux seem to do read-striping for RAID-MIRROR volumes?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 02:57 AM »
Ralf Maximus: (executable from disk) load/init speed, not render speed...
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.
« Last post by f0dder on December 21, 2007, 02:56 AM »
I'll look into the .txt suffix thing, sounds like fun :)

Don't want to export empty files? Are we a bit picky? It doesn't crash, does it? ;) - I guess I should disable save/saveas/export on empty notes. Will have a look.

As for drag-drop-add, should be possible (although I think the way import is done currently does wipe content implicitly, rather than it's me explicitly clearing contents as part of the action - so it might actually require some code :)). Will have a look, but I'll also have to hear what other people thing: should drag+drop add or replace text?

Thanks for the feedback, this is the kind of stuff I need :)
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 07:16 PM »
Update: drag-and-drop support added for beta3 (and file->import now prompts you to save changes...)
6185
Best Text Editor / Re: How could y'all not mention Notepad Minus?
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 05:43 PM »
TheGun sucks
-f0dder (December 20, 2007, 09:50 AM)


-Eóin (December 20, 2007, 09:56 AM)
Well, really.

It's nothing but a simple wrapper around RichEdit, and has sentences like "TheGun has continued to improve and adapt to undocumented changes in later versions of Windows." - which only really means that hutch can't write code that runs flawlessly on all windows versions :)

6kb for a simple (buggy!) RichEdit wrapper that is exe-packed - woo hoo, big deal.
6186
General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 05:35 PM »
I think I'll stick with FireFox though, IE7 is so much slower than IE6 that it no longer has that advantage over FF.
-f0dder (December 20, 2007, 09:46 AM)

Did IE had any advantage over Firefox ever? (Well, maybe before 0.7 or 0.8 versions)
-Lashiec (December 20, 2007, 10:51 AM)
Yes, speed. IE6 is much snappier than FireFox. It quite lost that advantage with IE7, while still being quite some way from the advantages of FF.
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Best Text Editor / Re: How could y'all not mention Notepad Minus?
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 09:50 AM »
TheGun sucks, though (and it's compressed, and crashes on XP64 - dunno if because of DEP or whatever).

What's the obsession with size anyway? I can barely tell the difference in launch speed between Notepad++ and Microsoft notepad (and forum regulars will know that this is a thing I bitch/nitpick about to great lengths), and Notepad++ is a pretty full-featured editor...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 09:46 AM »
About fscking time.

I think I'll stick with FireFox though, IE7 is so much slower than IE6 that it no longer has that advantage over FF.
6189
General Review Discussion / Re: VPN/SSH Tunneling software
« Last post by f0dder on December 20, 2007, 09:12 AM »
...and combined with putty's pageant, you only need to provide passphrase once per boot, so it's not too much of a hassle :)
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2007, 10:15 AM »
Also, drag-and-drop support is coming soon, although I'll only support dropping a single file (I'm not really sure a tabbed multi-file interface would be appropriate for fSekrit :)).
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Living Room / Re: Anyone understand .Net error codes? (all gobbledigook to me)
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2007, 05:51 AM »
There doesn't actually appear to be any problems with the data on the disk but I can't figure out why CHKDSK hangs at that point - unless it is USB drive thing.
-Carol Haynes (December 19, 2007, 04:02 AM)

I've had that with a few drives, and I have no idea why... 4gig hatachi microdrive (CompactFlash form factor, but it's a small HDD and not flash) from my dead MuVo^2 MP3 player, and a really old 5400rpm Quantum drive. They would stall like forever at 0%, and then suddenly jump to 70% or so. Weirdness.

As for for the connection problem, I've found USB2 external enclosures (exclosures? :)) to be somewhat unreliable, losing connection for half a second every now and then if attached for several hours. Not bad enough to spin the drive down or (as far as I can tell) lose data, but definitely loses the connection enough that the autoplay thing kicks in.

But it might just be my exclosure that sucks :)
6192
ProcessTamer / Re: optimizing network usage? NetworkTamer?
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2007, 05:41 AM »
QoS is supported just fine in Windows, the problem is most third-party programs aren't coded for QoS.

I used cFosSpeed for a bit, and it seemed to work. Then, after a windows reinstall, it didn't seem to do much... but this kind of thing also has to do with other traffic on your network, your router, etc...

Note: cFos does more than just traffic shaping by throttling your apps (which other apps like netlimiter also do), it can reorder network packets, and move ACKnowledge packets to the front - this makes quite a difference if you're, say, using a SSH connection to a remote machine while also having your bandwidth nearly maxed out.
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Living Room / Re: Laptop hard drive... 5400 or 7200 ?
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2007, 05:39 AM »
Humm, I thought 5400 vs 7200 rpm in a laptop did make a difference wrt. heat and power consumption - if it doesn't, then indeed it's a no-brainer. There's probably some review out there somewhere which has something to say...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??
« Last post by f0dder on December 19, 2007, 05:26 AM »
or until the words "Release Candidate" is dropped..
-lanux128 (December 18, 2007, 10:57 PM)
Hear ye, hear ye!
6195
Developer's Corner / Re: Free icons for developers
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 05:43 PM »
But wasn't the LGPL made to avoid such kind of things?
-Lashiec (December 18, 2007, 01:44 PM)
Well...

with LGPL code, you need to either use the code in DLL form, or if you use a static library, provide your .obj files so people can re-link. I dunno how it applies in the case of icons. *GPL is a mess.
6196
General Software Discussion / Re: WinTasks Pro ... Windows Explorer is a trojan - yeah right!
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 09:44 AM »
Yes it should be reported - have you ever tried contacting Microsoft?
-Carol Haynes (December 18, 2007, 09:27 AM)

Nope, but generally I think you have to be lucky to get a reply - unless it's something really serious :)
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 08:57 AM »
Pst., in case people didn't notice it, beta2 also includes right-click popup menu and redo support.  Go on and make it break so I can fix any potential bugs and have a stable release ready by christmas :)


* f0dder nudges Eóin.
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General Software Discussion / Re: WinTasks Pro ... Windows Explorer is a trojan - yeah right!
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 08:56 AM »
Carol, if you can be bothered to do so, I think you should report them to Microsoft... I'm tired of companies with fishy strategies.
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Living Room / Re: Firewire/iLink speeds set to increase to 3.2Gb/s
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 08:55 AM »
No idea, haven't tested it :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: WinTasks Pro ... Windows Explorer is a trojan - yeah right!
« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2007, 07:36 AM »
Yeah, but it only checks files on disk, and it checks based on file path, not only file name (that would be a disaster anyway - I can think of many legit products with a component called "explorer.exe").

But dropping files in the windows folder should of course be prohibited... but that comes down to user vs. administrator accounts, and Microsoft blew all chances of fixing that properly.
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