Recent Posts

701

Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder/Veign Programming Contest Results Posted

« Last post by housetier on July 22, 2008, 05:21 PM »

WOW, that webcam signature program is super awesome! I wish I had a webcam so I could use it Great Idea anyway 

702

Mircryption / Re: mircryption + eggdrop --> how to allow auto identify to services on startup?

« Last post by housetier on July 22, 2008, 05:24 AM »

normal users can prepend the message with ` to send it unencrypted. Dunno how to apply that to eggdrop though.

703

Living Room / Re: Distributed computing: I do it - do you?

« Last post by housetier on July 22, 2008, 05:22 AM »

I participate in "green computing" and turn off the machines I do not use. If they cannot be turned off, I let them idle to have the operating system save energy as much as possible.

It's nice for older hardware that can't slow down and always needs the same amount of energy regardless of "stress". But newer hardware can adapt to computing needs and will consume less if it just idles.

704

Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2008, 04:50 PM »

However don't use trash / throw away email accounts for important communications: Never Trash Your Mail. Even if such throw away email accounts CAN be hijacked, I still consider them save enough for those "fire and forget" sign ups.

It's just me pointing out the security of electronic communication.

I find those throw email accounts rather convenient to avoid being spammed.

705

General Software Discussion / Re: Which free burning software can you recommend?

« Last post by housetier on July 20, 2008, 04:54 AM »

for linux: k3b.

706

Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

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

What's this trick with username plus [email protected]? What does it do for my gmailbox?

707

General Software Discussion / Opera Arioso - Firewall inside Opera browser

« Last post by housetier on July 19, 2008, 05:54 PM »

This showed up in my feeds just now. I no longer use Opera but I remember there are some Opera users on this forum; this might be of interest for them:

Opera Arioso II is

a User Script written for Opera that behaves like a firewall inside Opera. Unlike other plugins or User scripts, Arioso can detect and block malicious activity before it ever gets a chance of executing.

I cannot say if or how exactly it works. However, 0x000000.com was very "informative" and accurate in the past, so I guess they "know their stuff".

I'd like to hear feedback from Opera users, just so I know it works.

708

Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

« Last post by housetier on July 19, 2008, 12:00 PM »

The address might also become unavailable when one decides to switch ISPs for whatever reason.

I "lost" a friend this way: he kept using his ISP email address for years even though I literally begged him to sign up at one of the many mane freemail providers. Now he's switched to a different ISP and I no longer can email him.

Please do use a reliable freemail provider for your email stuff. mouser's advice is VERY GOOD!

709

Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« Last post by housetier on July 13, 2008, 01:46 PM »

Wow it is so amazing to see the variety of people's sites. I mean, the variety of people who are using this forum!

710

Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 11th, 2008 - Codename "Revenge of the Mini-Review"

« Last post by housetier on July 11, 2008, 06:22 AM »

the newsletters are among the best of donationcoder. thank you mouser! 

711

Developer's Corner / Re: Features are a one way street: Short but Sweet Blog Post

« Last post by housetier on July 11, 2008, 06:21 AM »

Ah this is very nice indeed! I especially like the analogy to real estate.

712

General Software Discussion / Re: Queueing downloads in firefox

« Last post by housetier on July 06, 2008, 07:47 AM »

Maybe one of these download manager addons for firefox can help. I haven't used any of them, so I won't recommend a particular one.

I am quite confident there is a queue-able extension among them

713

Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

« Last post by housetier on July 05, 2008, 01:09 PM »

just aber posting, I saw tomos' post. That's the swopper I meant, it's supergreat!

714

Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

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

Jeff Atwood writes about office chairs again and features a bunch of suggestions he got after his first post about this topic.

Of the features without images I recommend the swopper, although I sat on a version with wheels and arm rests. You can bounce up and down, or swing back and forth or any other direction; in fact you can assume endless variations of positions, never actually sitting still -- it's the best you can do for your back!

715

Developer's Corner / Re: help ! With RegEx

« Last post by housetier on July 04, 2008, 03:45 AM »

Using http://rubular.com I get as far as

[Select]

(\.)

giving me all the dots.

There is something like assertions in regular expressions, where you can say "give me this if not followed by that" or "give me this if it comes after that". however, these don't seem to be available on rubular.com. IIRC, assertions look like

[Select]

(?<...)

or

[Select]

(?>...)

.

Then I sometimes get the feeling there are different flavors of regular expressions, while I am under the impression there would be a standard: PCRE. This feeling is amplified when I start redet and see all the different "programs" it can use for matching.

However, with my lack of patience I couldn't find a regular expression that matches all "." in between "__". Maybe someone else will

716

General Software Discussion / Re: I need a frame by frame dvd video player software.

« Last post by housetier on July 04, 2008, 02:59 AM »

I want to suggest mplayer, which is a rather simple but powerful mediaplayer. VLC and mplayer share a lot code; I prefer mplayer because it doesn't have a gui.

To view a film frame by frame just play it and pres ".", each "." will move to next frame.

mplayer has options to generate screenshots too, but I haven't used that feature yet so I can't say much about it. mencoder can be used to convert, or encode, from one format to another. I believe ffmpeg can do this as well.

It is a very simplistic if not cryptic media player. Which is fine by me because it does what I want: it plays any media I throw at it. Don't expect a usable GUI.

What does "scrub back and forth" mean?

717

Developer's Corner / Re: Use a foreach loop maybe?

« Last post by housetier on June 28, 2008, 03:25 AM »

Just add the appropriate WHERE-clause to your database query and then following code should work

Code: PHP [Select]

1. $table = '<table>';
2. foreach($recordset as $row) {
3.   $table .= '<tr>';
4.   $table .= '<tr>'. $row['SubId'] .'</td>';
5.   $table .= '<td>'. $row['CatId'] .'</td>';
6.   $table .= '<td>'. $row['SUbName'] .'</td>';
7.   $table .= '</tr>';
8. }
9. $table .= '</table>';
10.  
11. print $table;

If you can't change your database query, you can skip over the $rows that don't match the selected 'SubId' in $test:

Code: PHP [Select]

1. $table = '<table>';
2. foreach($recordset as $row) {
3.   if ($row['SubId'] != $test) continue;
4.   $table .= '<tr>';
5.   $table .= '<tr>'. $row['SubId'] .'</td>';
6.   $table .= '<td>'. $row['CatId'] .'</td>';
7.   $table .= '<td>'. $row['SUbName'] .'</td>';
8.   $table .= '</tr>';
9. }
10. $table .= '</table>';
11.  
12. print $table;

But it is really the best if you make the query as specific as possible.

718

Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« Last post by housetier on June 21, 2008, 04:14 AM »

hey yeah this is a great idea!

I own or operate these websites:

nrrd.de	a friend and I started this as a nerd portal site, it will shortly be heading this direction again
nrrd.de/dasbuch	is our largest project; it is supposed to be a project to collaboratively write a book about irc, and has lately been used mostly as a personal blog of several friends. Along with putting nrrd.de back on course, Das Buch will refocus on collaboration.
housetier.crew.c-base.org	is my crew page from my club c-base. The c-base reconstruction project (cbrp) is rebuilding a space station that crashed a couple of billion years ago and now lies under Berlin
seculogix.com	is the website of the company I work for, the company belongs to another friend of mine

I own a couple of more domains, however they are dormant have no content whatsoever.

719

Living Room / Finally: Converting Units Sensibly

« Last post by housetier on June 19, 2008, 05:48 PM »

Have you ever wondered how many CDs it takes to backup you whole harddisk, or how long 90 AA batteries end to end are? Or maybe you just need a funny way to express a boring value.

In that case, head over to sensibleunits.com and start converting! You can also do the old style convert stuff, i.e. from inches to rods, but 100 inches equaling 1.3 Kobe Bryants is a lot funnier than 100 inches equaling 0.505 rods. 

720

General Software Discussion / Re: A Warning about Thinkall.com

« Last post by housetier on June 17, 2008, 09:01 AM »

I wonder all the victims will get their money now:

The operator of a software company that used automatic memberships to trick people into spending money for free software agreed to pay a $2.1 million settlement to pay them back. Yuri Mintskovsky, owner of Think All Publishing, admitted no wrongdoing in settling with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

-http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63420.html

If there was no wrongdoing, why settle at all?

721

Developer's Corner / Re: Great Roundup: 15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

« Last post by housetier on June 15, 2008, 04:58 PM »

I'll definitely have a look at those tools when it comes to relaunching my websites. atm it's just not worth it, because the whole structure will change soon anyway.

But I intend to use some of those tools while setting things up. YSlow seems especially interesting for its integration with firebug (I would get nowhere without firebug).

722

General Software Discussion / Re: The LiveCD List

« Last post by housetier on June 14, 2008, 10:13 AM »

I especially like the filter there

723

Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for June 13th, 2008 - Codename "Programmapalooza"

« Last post by housetier on June 13, 2008, 04:45 PM »

Yay for newsletters! Without them I would miss so much 

724

C / C++ / Re: IDE or tool that can automatically generate UML chart

« Last post by housetier on June 13, 2008, 04:43 PM »

back in the days of yore, when I was a young innocent java programmer I used "Together" from then togethersoft. I believe Borland/Inprise/Borland bought togethersoft and incorporated their IDE into JBuilder(?).

Those technicalities aside: together was the best IDE have seen. Changes made to code relfected back on the UML class diagram, and changes in the diagram changed code. Very good, very expensive. I always wanted something like this for my python projects...

725

Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by housetier on June 13, 2008, 04:36 PM »

I, too, followed the herd. I hope is was timely enough.