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Living Room / Re: Selectively Print Only What You Want From Webpages

« Last post by housetier on October 07, 2008, 02:56 PM »

I might need that one day... Usually I don't print anything (have been living without a printer for 6 years now), but maybe, just maybe, I'll be in a situation where I must print something. Then I can at least go to a place where they have internet and printer, and ask for a favor since I won't waste their dead trees.

Services like this are important imho; those that fill in the "little" needs, because the "smaller" the need the more people are likely to have it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by housetier on October 05, 2008, 01:26 PM »

it's P.E.N.I.S.-envy: Powerful Electric Network-equipped for Internet System

There are some nerds that like to show off their gear. Others show off their houses, wifeys, cars, suits... It is silly for some and entertaining for others.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41

« Last post by housetier on October 03, 2008, 08:47 PM »

very nice! thank you again Ehtyar

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Living Room / Re: The Weeklies: 40

« Last post by housetier on October 02, 2008, 05:49 AM »

Yes with context it makes more sense indeed. thanks for clearing that up!

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Living Room / Re: The Weeklies: 40

« Last post by housetier on October 02, 2008, 04:44 AM »

4wd: what are you talking about? It makes no sense to me. No sense at all.

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Living Room / Re: Complaint: Why are 99.999% of all companys' customer service departments broken?

« Last post by housetier on September 30, 2008, 05:08 PM »

The crapspace mystery comes from the fact that Tom is not a good programmer, he is also not my friend.

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Living Room / Re: The Weeklies: 40

« Last post by housetier on September 30, 2008, 04:57 PM »

I've not once had the opportunity to encrypt an email to a recipient other than myself.

-Ehtyar (September 30, 2008, 04:43 PM)

You have now.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Introduction to Computer Science...

« Last post by housetier on September 30, 2008, 07:25 AM »

sorry to steal your thunder

-Target (September 29, 2008, 06:41 PM)

Oh wow, I have never heard that idiom before but I love it. There is beauty in the English language after all

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Living Room / Re: The Weeklies: 40

« Last post by housetier on September 30, 2008, 07:16 AM »

Ehtyar I like this format much better! Thank you going through the trouble of compiling the news :-)

Could you also put a summary in the title? like "Weeklies 40: malware challange, mysterios cybercrimes, state-wide encryption.." something along those lines. I know it won't be easy to find such short summaries...

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Living Room / Re: UserNameCheck: A very cool way to see what sites your username is available on

« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2008, 05:57 AM »

This is extremely important for me, thanks for finding it!

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by housetier on September 24, 2008, 05:56 AM »

I might be up for the GOE this year. I have successfully reduced my workload (I quit one of my jobs), and am now in the process of organizing of what is left of my life...

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Living Room / Re: Relax, The Internet Backbone Still Has Room For Your lolcats

« Last post by housetier on September 15, 2008, 05:07 PM »

You are OLD! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: the actual browser divide: plugins

« Last post by housetier on September 14, 2008, 05:01 PM »

A web browser which is extensible and customizable with plugins simply make a point of "the web is the OS": in a typical OS you install software you need or want and twist settings until it has become a tool you can work/play with.

Whereas the OS is a means to access the resources of your computer, the web browser is a means to access the resources of the internets.

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Living Room / Re: You might want to skip the whole Blu-Ray generation

« Last post by housetier on September 14, 2008, 05:50 AM »

My big dilemma: On what storage medium should I store my [long-term] data, since it's perpetually being replaced?

-zridling (September 14, 2008, 01:22 AM)

Well paper has been around for a couple centuries, it might get a few more :-)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Forum Guidelines - subjects to avoid?

« Last post by housetier on September 13, 2008, 07:01 AM »

* housetier bans -ism

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Living Room / Re: The NVScene 2008 Demo Competition Entrants - Beautiful Graphics In Tiny Exes

« Last post by housetier on September 12, 2008, 05:29 AM »

those guys in the demoscene are magicians methinks. what they can accomplish is just supergreat. they are truly beyond average

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General Software Discussion / Re: Forum 2.0 Suggestion

« Last post by housetier on September 10, 2008, 08:46 AM »

I on the other hand like dark themed applications.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by housetier on September 07, 2008, 05:01 AM »

HWIFNO -> Very Cool. 

-mouser (September 06, 2008, 11:10 AM)

so here is mine again, this time with information from "hwinfo":

hwinfo --short

housetier@leda:~$ hwinfo --short
cpu:                                                           
                       Pentium III (Coppermine), 747 MHz
keyboard:
  /dev/input/event1    AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
mouse:
  /dev/input/mice      Apple Macintosh mouse button emulation
  /dev/input/mice      ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
monitor:
                       Generic Monitor
graphics card:
                       Toshiba America Info 9910
sound:
                       Toshiba America Info YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]
storage:
                       Floppy disk controller
                       Toshiba America Info 82801BAM IDE U100
network:
  eth0                 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 VE
modem:
  /dev/ttySL0          Toshiba America Info 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem
network interface:
  eth0                 Ethernet network interface
  lo                   Loopback network interface
disk:
  /dev/sdb             Samsung Mighty Drive
  /dev/sda             FUJITSU MHW2040A
partition:
  /dev/sdb1            Partition
  /dev/sda1            Partition
  /dev/sda2            Partition
  /dev/sda5            Partition
usb controller:
                       Toshiba America Info 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
                       Toshiba America Info 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
bios:
                       BIOS
bridge:
                       Toshiba America Info ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support
                       Toshiba America Info ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support
                       Lucent PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
                       Intel 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC)
                       Intel 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
                       Intel 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge
                       Toshiba America Info 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub
hub:
                       Genesys Logic USB2.0 Hub
                       Linux 2.6.24-19-generic uhci_hcd UHCI Host Controller
                       Linux 2.6.24-19-generic uhci_hcd UHCI Host Controller
memory:
                       Main Memory
unknown:
                       FPU
                       DMA controller
                       PIC
                       Timer
                       RTC
                       Keyboard controller
  /dev/lp0             Parallel controller
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       SMC Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       PnP Unclassified device
                       Serial controller
  /dev/input/input10   C-Media USB Headphone Set
  /dev/input/input2    Unclassified device

Attached is the complete long output from "hwinfo".

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Lonely posts on the forum?

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 06:27 PM »

now thats a neat feature. This forum already has a lot of love, but it cannot hurt to have more 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send some info of your PC!

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 06:27 PM »

I am the proud owner of:

Toshiba Tecra 8200
Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) 750 MHz
256 MB RAM
Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP
USB1.1

This is a very very very old laptop. However, it still works and allows me to browser the internets, chat, write email and watch most anime. Lately this h.264 codec has become increasingly popular and my system is not powerful enough to handle those, so I am looking for a replacement. I already found one and will give it to myself as a birthday present

Oh yeah, of course I run linux on this old machine.

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Living Room / Re: The Great International Newsletter Project !

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 06:19 PM »

In my club we already have a printed newsletter. It contains stories from the club's blog and sometimes featured articles. It's published irregularly, about every 6 weeks.

People love it, even though most of the readers already know part of the stories: they are the ones who posted the blog entry or engaged in a dedicated discussion on the mailing list. It is very good for letting "outsiders" know about our club, because it is something tangible they can take home and read later.

Recently we offered subscriptions too. For a yearly fee you will will get all issues by snail mail as soon as the ink is dry. If memory serves me right, five people signed up for the subscription.

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Living Room / Re: Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 07:36 AM »

... having a credit card allows one to build a good (or bad...) credit report and score...

-Armando (September 04, 2008, 11:21 AM)

It also allows for the opposite: build a very bad credit record. so bad in fact one can't even sign up with an ISP or phone company, much less rent an apartment.

I have been burnt by credit cards and can only say: ask yourself if you really have the money (i.e. is it really yours) are going to spend with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 04:06 AM »

I filter my mails by ListId into subfolders: "if ListId contains whatever move mail to INBOX.whatever". This keeps the mails from the many mailing lists under control, and my INBOX does not fill up as quickly. Certain senders' emails are silently deleted, I won't even get a notice of their deletion.

After this, SpamAssassin goes through the new mails, deleting those which seem junk. I do not care about false positives because in case of mailing lists there often is a reply quoting the important parts of the email.

Because I have five accounts set up in my email program, and the folder structure is quite extended I make use of the "Unread Folders" view the program offers: only folders with unread messages are shown.

I ignore the sender's priority setting. It is I who decides when to read an email, if I read it at all. I do not read all the emails, and reply to even fewer, although I would have something to say to most.

My mail program is, of course, Thunderbird. 

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Living Room / Re: Relax, The Internet Backbone Still Has Room For Your lolcats

« Last post by housetier on September 05, 2008, 03:57 AM »

If bandwidth was scarce ISPs could make more profit. They keep telling the story of the clogged tubes so they can sell the "guranteed bandwidth plans" which of course cost more than the average home use connection.

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Living Room / Re: Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies

« Last post by housetier on September 04, 2008, 09:12 AM »

I don't have a debit card either. I always pay cash