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Living Room / Re: Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies
« Last post by housetier on September 04, 2008, 04:36 AM »
This just makes me feel good for not using nor even OWNING a credit card.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What would your ideal Operating System be like?
« Last post by housetier on September 03, 2008, 05:36 AM »
if only opera supported encryption of emails I would agree to label it "secure".

But I know what you mean :)
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Living Room / Re: "Standard Deviations" of the Average System Administrator
« Last post by housetier on September 03, 2008, 04:08 AM »
and partly through legally mandated certifications
this reminds me to get the certificates from the LPI. They are accepted worldwide, and cost less than a MSCE certificate. Although the LPI certificates are not mandated legally, they help in reality.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours
« Last post by housetier on September 01, 2008, 07:02 PM »
As a matter of fact I hadn't heard of the rumor yet. donationcoder.com comes near the top in my feed list, before most other blog or news sites. So in my case dc.com knew it first ;)
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Official Announcements / Re: The site is now back online (March 6th, 2008) - Come Say Hello!
« Last post by housetier on August 27, 2008, 01:01 AM »
yeah welcome back again donationcoder.com!

What was the issue, the cause this time?
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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool
« Last post by housetier on August 26, 2008, 04:01 AM »
ma.gnolia needs a solid browser plugin. I wants it!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article: Performance Comparison: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Jython, JRuby, Groovy
« Last post by housetier on August 25, 2008, 01:33 PM »
Impressive, nobody read the article but everybody has a say about it.
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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool
« Last post by housetier on August 24, 2008, 03:40 AM »
Except for clickpass I could choose any one method. But I still have my original magnolia account from before they decided to go this way.

Personally, I would go with OpenID. Now this means you have to find an openid-provider. This seems to be a problem in general: a lot of sites accept openid logins, but very few are full featured openid providers.

We could make donationcoder an openid provider...
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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool
« Last post by housetier on August 23, 2008, 05:28 PM »
...and now we need someone to improve the magnolia-addon for firefox, so it will support groups. (One of the comments suggested the addon is lacking group support).
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Developer's Corner / Ultimate Quality Development System
« Last post by housetier on August 23, 2008, 07:14 AM »

I don't recall exactly how I found this (somehow via more feeds, pythonic, twisted, ...). It describes a development method that relies on tickets and branches. For each ticket there is (was) a branch, dealing with this ticket.

The briefest summary of the requirements for UQDS is that every task has 3 absolutely required steps.

  • A task is created in an issue tracker and assigned to a worker.
  • The worker does work, and creates a change-set to be applied to the mainline revision control system. (This can be represented as either a branch or a patch file.)
  • A reviewer reviews the completed work, and provides feedback: at least one good thing about the work, at least one area that needs improvement, and a judgement as to whether the good qualities ultimately outweigh the bad, i.e. whether the branch should be merged.
-http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/UltimateQualityDevelopmentSystem

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It seems like a very formal way. But I have seen worse, involving paper forms, weekly meetings and such. For me this UQDS sounds very intriguing and I want to try it in our company. This kind of development system goes very well with my personality.

As far as the overhead goes, I'd rather have overhead that results in better code than have an "afterhead" when having to deal with the results of bad code.
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General Software Discussion / Re: CleanMem - apparently a memory optimizer with a difference...
« Last post by housetier on August 20, 2008, 10:36 AM »
I know one memory optimizer trick that works: buy more ram! ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Print counter
« Last post by housetier on August 20, 2008, 09:07 AM »
If the printer is shared via Samba, it is doable with a small script on the server side. However, if this is an Windows-only environment I cannot help at all but hope others will jump in.
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Living Room / Re: Odd FF3 Problem... sucking up bandwidth
« Last post by housetier on August 20, 2008, 06:28 AM »
or maybe it's trying to download an update...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Calender using javascript
« Last post by housetier on August 19, 2008, 07:44 AM »
so assuming you are not using any of the available web calendars (for example google calendar), I must say I don't know what you are talking about.

I understand it this way: when entering an event/entry you want some sort of widget that lets you pick a date, and if you look at the calendar, days with entries should be highlighted.

Now, how this will be implemented depends on the application. I wonder if there are extensions for webbrowsers that somehow detect a "date input field" and pop up that widget, but then where from should this extension know about your other appointments... so its back to the actual application:

What program are you talking about?
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Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address
« Last post by housetier on August 16, 2008, 03:18 AM »
hmm now when I send email from gmail to one of my other email accounts I do not see any injections of ads.

My internet is the best after all.
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Developer's Corner / Re: shopping cart for php/mysql
« Last post by housetier on August 15, 2008, 03:47 AM »
I strongly advice against xt:commerce and therefore won't link to it. However, some people in the Drupal community (where I am somewhat active) have had good experience with Ubercart.

Drupal, however, is quite a powerful Content Management Framework so it might be too complex for your needs.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Privacy Page for DonationCoder.com Posted -- Suggestions Wanted
« Last post by housetier on August 15, 2008, 03:43 AM »
Before we can shoot or hang spammers we have to find them first.  That is where the problem lies, not with the punishment, but with "catching 'em".
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General Software Discussion / Re: What would your ideal Operating System be like?
« Last post by housetier on August 14, 2008, 09:41 AM »
Carol, rox-filer behaves similar. You have so called AppDirs which differ from normal directories by having an executable file named AppRun inside. When you "open" such an AppDir, rox-filer executes the file.

It is not an OS, just a graphical file manager: http://roscidus.com/desktop/

With 0install I can install lots of software packages via drag and drop.

The name "rox" comes from "Risc OS on X" btw :) risc rocks
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General Software Discussion / Re: What would your ideal Operating System be like?
« Last post by housetier on August 14, 2008, 05:12 AM »
error free.
no surprises.
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Living Room / Re: Please share your favorite search engines.
« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2008, 09:03 AM »
it is now, thanks :)
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Living Room / Re: Please share your favorite search engines.
« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2008, 05:43 AM »
I use these specialized search engines:

discogs.ico-0.pngdiscogsfor looking up labels, artist, releases, songs, producers...
dict.ico.pngdict.ccfor translating between English and German
imdb.ico-0.pngimdbfor finding movie titles and actors
canooto brush up German skills, mostly for loanwords like
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Living Room / Re: WARNING: Bigger Time Sink Than Tower Defense Games !!!!!
« Last post by housetier on July 29, 2008, 09:38 AM »
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH that's awesome!  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article: Performance Comparison: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Jython, JRuby, Groovy
« Last post by housetier on July 29, 2008, 04:40 AM »
Everybody loves a good pointless language bashing. It gives them a chance to reiterate old points over and over again until they finally start to believe it themseves without ever having tried.

However, no language war is complete without points and counter points from http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/! Select your languages, and then carefully choose an algorithm that favors your language - there is your proof!

And if performance does not count but elegance does: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/. 99 bottles is also artistic and emphasizes the silliness of language bashing, even more so unfounded language bashing.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Truspace 7.6 Available for free download
« Last post by housetier on July 26, 2008, 04:25 AM »
And here I wanted to report this also, but 40hz beat me to it :)
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General Review Discussion / Re: About this section
« Last post by housetier on July 23, 2008, 11:56 AM »
I have a suggestion for the minireview template: add a line "type of application" for people who might not be familiar with the application name.
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