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Living Room / Re: Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it)

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 06:46 PM »

Having to UML everything is silly... having to document your projects makes sense for anything that isn't tiny, though.

I believe his pattern-line refers to the people that want to solve everything with patterns, try to apply them everywhere, etc...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rumor: Windows Apps Running Native on Your Mac

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 10:00 AM »

I only had a quick glimpse at the pbs.org article, but it seemed pretty bull... a statement like "Speed. Quite simply, a monolithic kernel like the one used in Linux or most of the other Open Source Unix clones is inherently two to three times faster for integer calculations than the Mach microkernel presently used in OS X 10.4." is so utterly crappy, as kernel design has nothing to do with raw computing speed, but only things like how kernel calls are handled.

As for "rumours furthering that people have seen this mythical beast already running in Cupertino", perhaps somebody confused parallels with the real deal

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 09:18 AM »

Hm, the list of that PDF is pretty ho-humm-whatever, and certainly doesn't explain the "OMFG 10% SPEED GAIN!11!" claim, but there's probably other little changes and tweaks not mentioned in the pdf.

We'll see

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rumor: Windows Apps Running Native on Your Mac

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 07:48 AM »

So are these Leopard loaders a sign that Apple is working on a way to run Windows apps within OS X? Possibly, though if they ran natively, without proper sandboxing, OS X could end up vulnerable to Windows viruses and malware, something Apple obviously wants to avoid.

Introduced in Leopard however is exactly such a sandboxing technology used for certain processes. That said the news is not even a rumor really.

-justice (December 04, 2007, 07:10 AM)

"could end up vulnerable to Windows viruses and malware" - nah. That line shows the author doesn't really have a clue about how malware works

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you testing XP SP3 RC ??

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 06:39 AM »

Thanks for that link, blarson, will read when I'm back from shopping

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rumor: Windows Apps Running Native on Your Mac

« Last post by f0dder on December 04, 2007, 06:38 AM »

Look, all they have found is signs of PE loading, which really is no big deal. For this to be useful for running windows applications on OS X, you'd need an API translation layer as well, which is a huge project.

Not saying it's not interesting, just that it's not as big a deal as some people seem to think.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Need prgm to measure the real runtime usage of a program

« Last post by f0dder on December 03, 2007, 09:36 AM »

hmmm, that sounds weird - perhaps it doesn't like spaces in filename? Try chdir'ing to the sophos folder and run timeit with a relative path.

Never had problems with timeit myself.. also, if it still fails for sophos, try it on something else and see if that works.

hth.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Donation Coder Seals

« Last post by f0dder on December 03, 2007, 08:50 AM »

Hehe, App

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ProcessTamer / Re: Need prgm to measure the real runtime usage of a program

« Last post by f0dder on December 03, 2007, 08:48 AM »

Microsoft has a tool called "time" or "timeit" iirc. in the Windows Resource Kit, which will do exactly what you want - it reports the "wall time" (ie, running time), as well as CPU time used, both user & kernel mode, and some I/O statistics as well. Great stuff!

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Living Room / Re: Blog Series: Wiring the house for a Home Network - Part 5 - Gigabit Throughput

« Last post by f0dder on December 03, 2007, 08:45 AM »

SMB/CIFS has the advantage that you can run stuff directly off it, etc (okay okay, sftpdrive or something can do the same), but... grmbl. It irks me that I can't seem to get better than 30MB/s throughput to samba (or other XP boxes, for that matter), while the network can handle at least 90MB/s...

scp (with PuTTY pscp) speed measure in kilobytes rather than megabytes right now, gotta see if I can fix that :/

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Living Room / Re: Blog Series: Wiring the house for a Home Network - Part 5 - Gigabit Throughput

« Last post by f0dder on December 01, 2007, 09:09 AM »

Well, what can I say? The SMB/CIFS protocol sucks

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Living Room / Re: Gamespot Editor Fired for Writing an Honest Review

« Last post by f0dder on December 01, 2007, 07:10 AM »

fscktards.

What is this, soviet russia?!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maybe Vista doesn't suck?

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 07:49 PM »

You can't do (the kind of) DRM (the media wants) in an open kernel, realistically, anyway. It needs all the obfuscation to be effective.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:13 PM »

If you mess with settings, you can end up with like 100% CPU usage in locate indexing... Do not turn on "Show found files only once".

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Living Room / Re: Looking for email SERVER

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:06 PM »

What's the server running, CW?

I guess it's windows, but otherwise you could check fetchmail.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:32 AM »

Thanks, John...

Offers to only send the portion of the file that has changed vs. entire file again

Do you have any idea if it does this with the help of a filter driver, or (like SFFS/whatever) by scanning the file for changes?

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Living Room / Re: Looking for email SERVER

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:24 AM »

So...

do you just need a piece of software, or a host to host it on as well? Googling for FTGate tells it's a windows app, so I guess that's a requirement... otherwise, I'd probably have gone for a mix of dovecot, postfix, and throw some greylisting (and perhaps spamassassin) ontop.

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Living Room / Re: Test Your Internet Connection for Packet Spoofing

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:19 AM »

Why?  Because P2P sucks up as much as 95% of overnight bandwidth.  And here, I thought it was the pr0n.

-Ralf Maximus (November 30, 2007, 12:35 AM)

Guess where people get those pr0n DVD-R ISO images from?

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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.35 for your testing pleasure.

« Last post by f0dder on November 30, 2007, 06:11 AM »

Doh, I had added a check for empty note, but something must have borked that check. Thanks for reporting!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« Last post by f0dder on November 29, 2007, 09:19 AM »

Oh, I'm not the only one using fSekrit for passwords

Shameless plug: 1.35 beta seems stable, final should be released soon.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by f0dder on November 29, 2007, 09:04 AM »

Poor support for .FON files on linux is one more thing that keeps me on Windows I guess, I'd hate to have to use another font than Dina

-f0dder (November 29, 2007, 05:10 AM)

Not to be dense, but what is the big appeal of raster fonts?  They don't scale, they look like crap at anything but their designed resolution... so, why?

-Ralf Maximus (November 29, 2007, 08:57 AM)

Because it loks perfect at the designed resolution, which is what I used it at.

Haven't found a truetype font that's as appealing as Dina.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by f0dder on November 29, 2007, 05:42 AM »

Well then, I stand (or cringe?) corrected

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Living Room / Re: You Are All Terrorists!

« Last post by f0dder on November 29, 2007, 05:12 AM »

I'm certainly a terrorist. I'm committing mindcrime.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by f0dder on November 29, 2007, 05:10 AM »

I think Dina is "inspired by" and not "based off" Proggy

Poor support for .FON files on linux is one more thing that keeps me on Windows I guess, I'd hate to have to use another font than Dina

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program

« Last post by f0dder on November 28, 2007, 06:10 PM »

If it was just a speed typing app, you could've named it... faptap. It rhymes, and you can do hilarious slogans. Like... "onehanded typing like a pro". And stuff.