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Living Room / Re: Wine Ratings Are For Suckers: Fun Article
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 06:01 PM »
Australian or Chilean wines are my favorite, definitely Shiraz. Merlot isn't all bad either, if perhaps a bit fruity.
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General Software Discussion / Re: free, small, fast uninstaller replacement
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 06:00 PM »
It's really just a lightweight version of ARP that doesn't take sooo...   long....  to....  load....   (what-the-#$% is ARP doing when it loads anyway?).
-mwb1100 (July 03, 2007, 02:09 PM)
I saw a description of that somewhere, probably on The Old New Thing blog. It does a lot of (imho, superfluous) crap, to detect things like how much the app is used, how big it is, etc. This means lot of registry access (not too bad), and a whole bunch of harddrive access as well, for each and every entry.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A question about DRM
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 05:58 PM »
As for the costly lesson, why not call them up, complain that you've downloaded their DRMed clips but now you can't rip them into files for sharing on BitTorrent, and demand your money back? What's the worst that could happen?
-Jimdoria
That's pretty harsh, Jim.

The DRM Paladin is faced with is obviously limiting his fair use choices. Other people have had even worse situations, one of our forums members couldn't play back his HD movie at all.

Pirates aren't going to be hindered much by DRM... both HD-DVD and BluRay has been broken, the asian and eastern-europe copyshops have always found a way to do their dirty deed, and in the end it's only the legitimate end-user that ends up being punished (after which he resorts to bittorent to find a working copy of the movie he's already paid for).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Editing RM Audio files - anyone know any good software?
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 08:56 AM »
Plasma Man: yes, I know and use EAC (wonderful that the new pre-beta supports AccurateRip even when you extract to image mode!), I believe that dBpoweramp has the superior ripping technology though.

But even with both of those, for scratched or protected CDs, you're at the mercy of your drive hard- and firmware.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Editing RM Audio files - anyone know any good software?
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 08:46 AM »
If you're paranoid, and have the time, and the CD to waste: you could burn the full files, rip them to .WAVs (which should maintain 100% quality), cut, then burn again.
-Hirudin
Doing ripping from audio CDs are actually a lossy process, where you're at the mercy of the error-correction hardware and firmware in your drive. For normal CDs you'll get bit-perfect copies, but with scratched (or copy-protected!) CDs, well...
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Living Room / Re: AllOfMP3 closes ...
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 08:41 AM »
...and before that, a bunch of Danish ISPs were forced to block DNS entries for allofmp3 - which was really lame imho, and shows how little politicians and judges understand of techy issues.
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Living Room / Re: Wine Ratings Are For Suckers: Fun Article
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 08:09 AM »
I think I heard about this test several years ago, and well... that just shows how snobby some people are. French wines suck anyway :down:
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Living Room / Re: ARGHH ... frustration -- anyone anyideas??
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 05:33 AM »
Perhaps firebug or the spellchecker or a combo of the two - I have similar symptoms sometimes. Also, sometimes it helps shutting down firefox completely and re-starting it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A question about DRM
« Last post by f0dder on July 03, 2007, 05:26 AM »
You have learned a costly lesson, I'm afraid.

There might be workarounds, but the companies behind the DRM will claim that it's illegal.
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Living Room / Re: World of Borecraft: The Trouble with Video Games
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 04:38 PM »
<thread pollution>
p3lb0x: I had sorta hoped you'd learn some English from the books I've thrown at you :(
</thread pollution>

I wonder if any game would be able to teach differential equations. I haven't seen any game designed explicitly for teaching that did an even remotely good job. Being a non native English speaker, I've learned a lot of English from computer games and programs, though. Adventures like monkey island, day of the tentacle, Kyrandia, early games like Kings Quest etc. were great. Oh, and my knowledge about traffic rules from Carmageddon :-*
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Living Room / Re: Diet coke bomb in two simple steps
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 04:24 PM »
Heh... Internally? That's got to be nasty >_<

Hm. I wonder if I could get one of my brothers to drink a boatload of coke, then dope them with mentos? Or perhaps swallow a whole pack of mentos without chewing, then force 1½ litres of coke down the throath?

Could be worth the hassle, if I can find a video camera. I've already got duct tape handy :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Diet coke bomb in two simple steps
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 03:18 PM »
Dunno if it only works with diet coke or if regular works as well... but google around, there's been plenty of ill things done with those nasty freshmakers :-*
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Living Room / Diet coke bomb in two simple steps
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 10:09 AM »
Diet coke and mentons (the troublemaker!) are one mean combo :)

cokebomb.jpg
http://www.compfused...com/directlink/4951/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Excalibur 32-bit
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 09:28 AM »
i do find RPN to be a beautiful and elegant solution to handling parentheses.  The stack-like process should warm the heart of any programmer.
-mouser
Not necessarily the programmers that have been dealing with x86 floating-point code >_<. I do find that there's some zen-like simplicity and elegance to RPN, but I don't find it particularly practical or convenient.
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Living Room / Re: New iPod ad says it all ...
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 08:17 AM »
Quite funny that apple design is so ugly1 (and always has been) if their new motto is "presentation is everything"... or perhaps I'm just not their target audience.

#1: okay okay, the iPod nanos are bearable.
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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 08:10 AM »
Website-Watcher does work as a RSS reader, but it doesn't feel all natural and nice. So if you're using more than a few RSS feeds, and use them for news and stuff and not just file notifications, a dedicated RSS reader is probably in order.

Still haven't found a standalone RSS reader that I like (which means very lightweight and nice), so I'm using WSW for now.
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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS Reader?
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 05:50 AM »
brotherS, let's try again... :)

Let's close this ASAP and let us discuss THERE! - no need for another thread.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A Guide to Trying Out Linux Distros
« Last post by f0dder on July 02, 2007, 05:48 AM »
Carol Haynes: all that trouble is because of the EVIL KAPITALISTIK MANUFACTURERS! though, and doesn't have anything to do with the reluctance to make a stable ABI and accept closed-source drivers.
* f0dder ducks and covers.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ZoneLabs makes the worst garbage ever!
« Last post by f0dder on July 01, 2007, 03:19 PM »
*shrug*

I never had a problem with ZoneLabs software, when I used it several years ago. Perhaps you have some flaky windows install, perhaps there's some software conflict, etc... not to be overly defensive of ZoneLabs, but I haven't heard of a lot of people with with bad problems.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Delete protected index.dat files in Win XP with IE6 without reboot
« Last post by f0dder on July 01, 2007, 11:27 AM »
I don't see any reason to delete index.dat files unless you're using public computers and doing stuff there you shouldn't be doing from public computers, if you're surfing really nasty stuff at home, or surfing inappropriate material at work (which can be caught by the BOFHs after all).

Previous-URL autocompletion rocks :-*
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General Software Discussion / Re: Excalibur 32-bit
« Last post by f0dder on July 01, 2007, 04:30 AM »
I still don't think RPN is more logic - you have to break down expressions into fragments with RPN. HP probably just wrote that blurb because it's easier to do RPN than a complex expression evaluator ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Excalibur 32-bit
« Last post by f0dder on June 30, 2007, 05:35 PM »
Why RPN though? Always seemed a 'bit' alien to me :)
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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: "Windows Task Manager" System Tray Fixer.
« Last post by f0dder on June 30, 2007, 05:34 PM »
To solve it, bring up the task manager, *exit* it instead of minimizing, and re-start... at least that works for me. I almost only use Process Explorer now, though. Which sometimes has the bug of the icon missing (or rather, just turning grey).
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General Software Discussion / Re: greenpad:super small notepad replacement with syntax highlighting in 50k !
« Last post by f0dder on June 29, 2007, 08:03 PM »
Well, it's actually ~98kb since the executable is compressed ;)

Still pretty cute, though.
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Living Room / Re: Tip: Don't Just Keep a backup of your latest files
« Last post by f0dder on June 29, 2007, 07:17 PM »
For source code specifically: subversion. Of course you need to keep, as mouser says, multiple copies of your repositories, not just "the latest and greatest" :)
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