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General Software Discussion / Re: Best (free) program to recover files?

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 08:16 AM »

Dunno about free apps (you get what you pay for?), but GetDataBack/NTFS is what's given me the best results in the past. Terribly slow, though, scanning as well as recovering.

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Living Room / Re: Technology Myths

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 08:13 AM »

2. All Windows features are copied into apple,and apple never innovates anything.Steve job came into Microsoft  and copied the windows and started the apple macintosh.

Do they innovate? They come up with some crappy design that other people don't, but apart from that? Apple steals/borrows as much as everybody else (OS X: basically a mix of BSD and Nextstep, with eyecandy ideas borrowed from elsewhere).

Does sound like people are uninformed, though, but... does that come as a surprise? ^_^

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Living Room / Re: To wide-screen or not to wide-screen

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 07:46 AM »

I'd stay away from widescreen unless it's specifically for the purpose of watching movies. For anything else, you're better off getting dual regular monitors. And especially for coding.

Wouldn't worry about extras like USB or audio, never used those... but make sure the monitor has a DVI port and not just a standard VGA.

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Living Room / Re: these new cheap core 2 due laptops - any good?

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 07:41 AM »

Jammo: it's bullshit indeed, but you might have a hard time hunting for drivers. Certainly took me a while to find everything necessary for some Lenovos.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google OS already here, with hardware?! Well, sort of.

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 07:11 AM »

Carol:

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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?

« Last post by f0dder on November 05, 2007, 06:55 AM »

Hm, AJAX stuff... I wonder if those use the standard proxy settings, or a direct connection?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How is this Done?

« Last post by f0dder on November 04, 2007, 03:11 PM »

Mmmh, tool <3. You really need to listen to the whole Parabol->Parabola sequence, instead of just "jumping into the middle" with Parabola

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google OS already here, with hardware?! Well, sort of.

« Last post by f0dder on November 04, 2007, 03:10 PM »

I'm not sure I'd be superhappy about a "google OS" - they already have a searching monopoly, would you want the to (potentially) get an OS monopoly? They're big enough that they could get a working OS together and smoke both MacOS and Linux, and since most people think of them as The Good Guys^TM, they could get some real momentum... and then...?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Tor - The Onion Router

« Last post by f0dder on November 04, 2007, 03:08 PM »

TOR is a nice piece of work, just remember that there's some issues with it - like, if you're not using an encrypted protocol (ie., you're browsing a site with http:// and not https://), it's still very possible for people to sniff your traffic at the exit node. Yes, this has been done.

Also, I haven't checked into this, but is it possible for TOR nodes along the way to eavesdrop on your traffic?

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Living Room / Re: Tower Defense games collection

« Last post by f0dder on November 02, 2007, 07:16 PM »

Holy schmoley

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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?

« Last post by f0dder on November 02, 2007, 07:14 PM »

Ugh, OpenDNS... not my cup of tea. But I'll leave it at that, use forum search in case you wonder.

Yeah, DNS requests are cached at various levels in your system, including browsers... but since TreeWalk does have an effect when my ADSL line is maxxed out, I guess that browsers perhaps don't tend to keep DNS entries for their max lifetime, and most likely don't persist the DNS cache when you close the browser (wouldn't make sense either, imho). Dunno about Windows' own DNS cache, but treewalk does seem a bit more efficient.

I wouldn't mind a DNS cache for Windows that isn't bind-based, btw...

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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?

« Last post by f0dder on November 02, 2007, 06:54 AM »

Oh, a thing nobody has mentioned yet - this makes it even easier for google to track your surfing habits... perhaps somethign to keep in mind for the paranoid?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free Code Refactoring

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:45 PM »

Oh, I had hoped this was about an auto-refactoring wizard kind of thing, to take some tedious work off our poor weary programmer's shoulders

Dunno what to think about this idea... if the participators are professional enough, it could be decent (although I dunno if I'd post commercial code on such a site - partially because it'd feel wrong and exploitative).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to Change File Attributes on Windows

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:36 PM »

I crashed a harddrive once by trying to remove the archive attribut from the whole system drive  It never booted up afterwards so I think it was gone anyware. Now I just leave these things alone though lol.

-justice (November 01, 2007, 04:12 AM)

Hm, sounds weird - perhaps the harddrive was failing, and the stress of changing attributes for all files whacked it out?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Evidence Eliminator - What has your experience been?

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:10 PM »

Carol Haynes: hear ye hear ye on the RadSoft stuff.

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Living Room / Re: Entering License keys late...

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:08 PM »

A Matter of Life And Death is decent enough imho, but Dance of Dead sorta sucks. Brave New World is great. And I daresay that his solo album The Chemical Wedding is even better than the maiden stuff!

I just knew that Somewhere in Time he'd be Back in the Village after all those Wasted Years Running Free as a Drifter out of Iron Maiden.

-Renegade

Huhu ^_^

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Living Room / Re: Entering License keys late...

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 10:06 AM »

Watched them at Roskilde Festival 2003, and at their own show in Valby Hallen in... I think it was December 2003. Great gigs, both of them - they certainly kicked Metallica's arse at RF2003, much better show, felt more alive etc.

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Living Room / Re: Entering License keys late...

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:50 AM »

There's got to be at least 1 Iron Maiden fan here somewhere...

-Renegade (October 31, 2007, 11:41 PM)

Up the Irons! \m/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Strange customer...

« Last post by f0dder on November 01, 2007, 07:45 AM »

I'll certainly get a contract next time, even though everything has turned out for the best, it still has been a nightmare(which I dont want to repeat).

-John2k (October 31, 2007, 08:37 PM)

And when you do, make sure it's not a "pay on success" contract, those suck.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 07:20 PM »

As you can see. Cody had a nice trip to Venice!

-p3lb0x (October 11, 2007, 12:27 PM)

Hehe, it looks like the coin came out of... you know... and that Cody is slightly embarrassed

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Living Room / Re: Real magic wands

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 07:12 PM »

Ohmajgårf that's cool!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Database Application IDE

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 10:53 AM »

Humm, if you do want it to be database-driven, I'd suggest taking a look at SQLite - it works directly on the database files without having to set up a database server etc., and is pretty lightweight and relatively easy to use. Plus it has bindings for a lot of languages already (if you're lucky, also autoit/autohotkey).

But it's not a simple visual solution that lets you "draw" databases, it does require a bit of programming and SQL statements, so it does take some investment from your side. There might be better things around that are easier to use

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General Software Discussion / Re: XP or Vista user — take the poll!

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 10:49 AM »

Another clue I should have noticed: All my paperclips would fly up out of the desk drawer and attach themselves to the glass.

-Ralf Maximus (October 31, 2007, 08:03 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 10:47 AM »

Calling ThunderBird fast is wrong, imho - it has the same bloaty-slow startup feeling that FireFox has (I bet it's the whole XUL interface deal), and moving large amounts of messages between folders is slow - because of the retarded all-text MBOX format used.

Luckily, ThunderBird does do binary indexing of the mbox files, otherwise it would be unusable. The downside to this is that in the case TB decides to act all weird about your mbox files, you have to let it re-index them... which took ~15 minutes for a ~1.5gigabyte mbox file on a mid-end P4 system.

Don't get me wrong, I love the clean and easy TB interface, the filtering rules are strong enough, and the built-in anti-spam is also efficient enough, but it does weird things every now and then.

And the interface is pretty clean, I've moved four (more or less computer-illiterate) people from Outlook Express over to TB, and it works well for them - apart from those occasional hiccups.

PS: importing Outlook Express mailbox files into TB is fast, but importing contacts takes ages.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Fake upload

« Last post by f0dder on October 31, 2007, 06:23 AM »

Heh, what's the use of such a thing? playing tricks on your friends?