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General Software Discussion / Re: Does it work? Caching Proxy to speed up browsing

« Last post by f0dder on August 13, 2007, 03:47 AM »

Agreed.  I was going to say how could it be better than the browser's cache?

-skywalka (August 12, 2007, 09:16 AM)

For a company or even an ISP, it can be beneficial, though... a LAN *is* faster than most internet connections, even if they're fast

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web 2.0 Poll

« Last post by f0dder on August 13, 2007, 03:43 AM »

Just remember that when deleting something on gmail, it's not really deleted, and still being used for google's database indexing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?

« Last post by f0dder on August 13, 2007, 03:42 AM »

WSW has a very simplistic RSS reader, and at least for me it always skips things like inline images etc. Main difference is probably things like default stylesheets used, and how comfortable the UI is.

I personally use WSW for my RSS feeds, but that's only because I haven't found any feed reader I like

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Living Room / Re: Don't copy that floppy! (old times)

« Last post by f0dder on August 11, 2007, 01:49 AM »

The video is a classic, quite surprised that there wasn't a topic about it already (only reference I could find with the new super-duper forum search was here, where it doesn't get the attention it deserves).

I really like this particular frame from it, I make more or less the same facial expression myself in utter disbelief of how horrible the rap is. I mean, most rap is pretty awful, but this particular one takes the cake ^_^

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:36 PM »

Windows Explorer? Not using an alternative file manager? oh boy oh boy :O

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove featured on Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror Blog!

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:38 AM »

Niceness!

At first I thought "Mentioned on Coding Horror, oops!" - but turns out it's an article about multimon setups, not bad code

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Silly Idea? A program that counts out loud

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:32 AM »

Should be a fun little programming exercise anyway - once you've made an algorithm that can spell out an integer in English, the rest is pretty simple (until you get into trying to make the stitched-together speech sound natural ).

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Living Room / Re: Start pages, revisited

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:17 AM »

I use www.google.dk as my start page - it's very fast to load, and my browser is always started with "win+r->http://whatever.url", clicking the firefox icon (which usually means I want google), or double-clicking an URL from a mail message

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Developer's Corner / Re: Is Beautiful Code A Succubus

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:11 AM »

I just ordered "Beautiful Code" after mouser pasted the TOC - it's been some months since I've had my last Amazon fix

Ehtyar: I hope JoTo's friend doesn't code like that, but that linebreaks/indentation went AWOL in the process of sending the code...

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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 05:06 AM »

Remember to use 120mm fans when you're stuffing fans in the casing... smaller fans make too much noise.

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Official Announcements / Re: No August 2007 Discounts

« Last post by f0dder on August 10, 2007, 04:56 AM »

I think perhaps fowmow wanted to post his reply in this thread? At least there it would have made some sense

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Site/Forum Features / Re: compose hotkeys

« Last post by f0dder on August 09, 2007, 08:45 AM »

Humm, would be a solution, but it'd feel clunky... I'll try to find out it the other forum users custom code or some already existing mod to do the hotkey stuff.

But thanks for the offer

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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-

« Last post by f0dder on August 09, 2007, 08:44 AM »

I've never been too fond of in-advance transfers, a lot of people lost money when half the computer stores in my old town went bankrupt. COD is nice enough, although it usually has a fee...

Anyway, hope the system is going to suit your needs - apparently you won't be assembling it yourself, otherwise I'd have ordered you to take pictures of the process.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by f0dder on August 09, 2007, 06:24 AM »

I'd say FireFox, TheBat, NotePad++.

Most of my mail is forum reply notifications though, so if we count those out we could switch TheBat with explorer^2 - yes, for some reason, I spend a lot of time copying files around and whatnot

Listing a web browser is pretty much "duh", so perhaps I should replace that with MSN (or Miranda, really) instead. Keep it running most of the time, though whether it's the most-used app changes depending on what I'm actually doing - some days it just sits idly in the background, mostly.

A couple of years ago mIRC would have been a solid #1, but now I only log on a couple of times a week.

Oops, that was more than three, I'm afraid

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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-

« Last post by f0dder on August 09, 2007, 06:03 AM »

I'd go with an nvidia card instead of ATI - they tend (these days, GeForceFX series was a bad exception ) to be a bit more quiet than ATI, and I have better experience with NV drivers. Iirc you stated you aren't going to be gaming on the system, so just about anything should do (unless you want to watch HD-DVD or BluRay stuff).

Funny that a 8400gs is cheaper than 7300gs

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Living Room / Re: Anyone any idea how to fix file assocations?

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 07:26 PM »

Dunno how important those mime types are, but at least it's only a single entry. The worse ones are all that CLSID crap and whatnot. But again, if you don't need all kinds of fancy stuff and explorer integration, you don't need those either :]

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Developer's Corner / Re: Is Beautiful Code A Succubus

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

A beautiful piece of code is... something that makes me smile at it's beauty.

It can be the terse elegance of something kernighan or ritchie have written, it can be C++ code that really is self-documenting, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone any idea how to fix file assocations?

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 07:09 PM »

One idea that popped up in my head would be to (and DO export those registry branches first!) check the HKCR\.mp3 (etc), check out the "default" key (on my system that'd have the value "mp3file") - then nuke the .mp3 and key (and all subkeys of course), plus the key mentioned by the default entry. At least that'll get rid of the keys, including permissions - hopefully whatever player you want will be able to fully construct what it needs afterwards.

The trick would work for me, but I don't depend on any explorer.exe support for media types etc., I just want to double-click my media files and have them enqueue in foobar...

Anyway, once you have things working, you can set permissions for those registry keys and only allow read access - that might work for getting media player to ACCEPT not stealing ownership of the permissions

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 06:52 PM »

I really really really hope the surgery is going to work, sounds like a serious matter indeed. My grandmom had a condition where some of her... spinal rings?... had started growing, and would eventually have trashed her nervous system. Took a couple of doctor changes to even acknowledge that there was a problem, and she were in constant pain for quite a while, enough that morphine only reduced the pain somewhat, but of course had her totally drugged.  So I have a rough idea of what you're going through, certainly no fun.

Thankfully surgery worked out fine in her case, I'll cross my fingers it's going to work for you too!

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General Software Discussion / Re: User settings storage debate

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 06:42 PM »

Storing the settings in the user folders could be helpful here, but requires switching users in Windows, which is an annoyance. A better solution IMO would be to have users choose a profile to use when the program starts. User A selects "John's Profile" and user B selects "Jane's Profile". If the content of the program is sensitive in some way (e-mail, passwords, whatever) then also have a password for each profile.

-Hirudin

IMHO the default multi-user config setting should be %APPDATA%, not manual specification of user profile on startup. However, with a flexible config system, it'd be very easy to support both scenarios.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Recommended/Best/Most Useful IDEs for Language *insert language*?

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 09:37 AM »

Imho SlickEdit is way overpriced, especially since it falls somewhere inbetween "just a texteditor" and an IDE. Considering that Microsoft's Express Editions of Visual Studio are available for free, well...

But okay, multiple language support for intellisense might come in handy.

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Developer's Corner / Re: C++ Development: win32 or .NET?

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 08:48 AM »

At least for the DK, I can now rule out mfc and native api in favor of .net.

-cnewtonne (August 07, 2007, 08:39 AM)

Unless, of course, you want to target low-end machines - dotNET is still somewhat heavy: initial startup-time of the dotNET runtimes after system boot is *slow* even on high-end systems, and the memory impact of dotNET apps is large too. Once started, it runs pretty well though (for normal desktop stuff anyway).

I will be doing some research this week on the Palm OS side at PDN. I have already installed Turbo C# and will be playing with it throughout this week.

-cnewtonne (August 07, 2007, 08:39 AM)

Might also want to get Microsoft's own environment, since the Express editions of Visual Studio are free (and afaik they're not crippled crap, but pretty full-featured apart from some of the heavy-end enterprise stuff you probably won't be needing anyway).

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Developer's Corner / Re: C++ Development: win32 or .NET?

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 05:34 AM »

If you're going to use C++, do direct Win32 API calls masochist-style, or use some crossplatform framework/toolkit. MFC is imho out of the question, you're better off with dotNET and C# - I wouldn't do C++ dotNET.

ATL/WTL, ho humm. Sorta similar to MFC but with less bloat, but it still means learning a framework/tookit and being locked to windows development.

Personally I do C++/Win32, since that's what I grew up with, and as mouser said: it's hard to break old habits. I haven't found a GUI toolkit that I really like, and dotNET/BCB/Delphi/etc. are too bloated for my liking.

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

« Last post by f0dder on August 07, 2007, 05:24 AM »

I'm using Vista Business, which I've come to like, except that I'm far more afraid to load just anything on this computer. Imaging the c-drive reliably has been sketchy at best on the 64-bit level, and the one time I did reinstall, I had to call and beg an Indian lady for almost an hour to allow me to reinstall it on my machine! So I don't do as much experimenting as I did on my XP system, where I could virtualize and/or rebuild within an hour or two if needed.

-zridling (August 06, 2007, 11:04 PM)

Yet another reason to stay away from Vista

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

« Last post by f0dder on August 06, 2007, 05:18 AM »

Thanks for clearing that up, Josh. Doesn't change my mind about it one bit, though