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General Software Discussion / Re: Wakoopa discontinuing service

« Last post by wraith808 on July 06, 2012, 11:21 AM »

We still have nothing to import them.

-Tuxman (July 05, 2012, 11:33 AM)

They're CSV, so the data at least is open.  But no replacement service...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wakoopa discontinuing service

« Last post by wraith808 on July 05, 2012, 10:54 AM »

It's done... the logs are available for export at http://social.wakoopa.com if you want to download it until October 1, after which they will be deleted.

Dear Wakoopian,
 
This is a follow-up on our previous e-mail where we announced the closing of Wakoopa Social.
 
As of today you can download your personal export from the website http://social.wakoopa.com. This possibility will be around for three months, until October 1st. After that we will destroy all the data.
 
We want to thank you all for the time and effort you have put into our product. Together we truly made discovering software social.
 
Best regards,
Wouter Broekhof, Founder & CTO

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Living Room / Re: "You may lose your internet service Monday" ?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 05, 2012, 10:40 AM »

It is true, and was discussed on here a while back.  Visit the site, see if you're infected, and follow the instructions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 04, 2012, 01:07 PM »

Pretty Run

http://delphistep.cis.si/prettyrun.htm

- Search Internet Explorer favorites
- Search Firefox bookmarks
- Search Chrome bookmarks

-PhilB66 (July 04, 2012, 06:02 AM)

He's talking about searching the bookmarked pages for certain terms.  Pretty run just searches your favorites when you type in a search term for a certain page matching that term- FARR does something similar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 03, 2012, 10:38 AM »

Sounds like a possible job for mouser's Web Link Captor

-Ath (July 02, 2012, 03:34 PM)

I think you may be right.  mouser, any chance of this making its way into the program?  I'll place a request in its forum.
I'm testing it out right now, I wasn't even aware of this one.

-superboyac (July 03, 2012, 10:24 AM)

Wow... you know, I don't think I ever understood that program before.  But this discussion has placed it in a whole new light for me.

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by wraith808 on July 03, 2012, 10:32 AM »

I've copied this post (above) to the relevant discussion in the Soap Box:
Re: "Terrorist Police State" [NSFW?]

...

-wraith808 (July 02, 2012, 02:00 PM)

-IainB (July 03, 2012, 02:33 AM)

Why?  It wasn't to start discussion or anything, especially as I said in there that I don't want to discuss?  And of course you could have done it without the announcement.  But... whatever... have fun.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2012, 08:43 PM »

Or how about this: can you set your preferred desktop indexer to index a group of websites?  You don't have to download the entire website, but index it.  Come to think of it, it's sounds like I need some kind of "spider" program.

-superboyac (July 02, 2012, 06:14 PM)

Do you mind creating the groups separately from bookmarks?  i.e. sort of like that screenshot?  If it were made for every browser, it would be more extensive as they all store their bookmarks separately differently.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2012, 05:10 PM »

Can anyone recommend a software that will only search the pages that are bookmarked or favorited?  That is, not the entire web, but just a specified set of pages?

Like ClickHint, except a standalone software or works outside of a browser?

I was wondering if DTsearch can do it, but I'm not sure.

-superboyac (July 02, 2012, 03:25 PM)

You want to search the current content of the page live?  Just trying to understand what you're looking for?

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2012, 02:00 PM »

response to posting above

Now, it would seem to me obvious what such an intelligent poster had done above by quoting in stream of a topic that's not limited to that section a response from that section had done.  With that in mind, one would have to determine that this was calculated.  I tried above to ask in a nice manner that this be limited to the section that I had purposefully ignored- because people have opinions, and they have the right to voice them, just as others have the right to come to a board dedicated to software and not be assailed by those opinions, whether they agree or disagree with them.  But with that last quote brought from there to here (and the earlier links provided on said subject after it was asked), well, I do have to post this dissenting argument.

via Mirram-Webster
terrorism: The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
police state: A totalitarian state controlled by a political secret police force.

Though there are acts that are beyond the pale as have been committed by elements in the government (which is not a body, by the way, but a group of individuals, notably, usually ungoverned), it is neither systematic, or totalitarian, nor controlled by a political secret police force.  So yes, I do take objection to the rather heavy handed use of those terms, and no, it's not obvious in the "it's dark at night", or "the sun is hot" manner. 

My response above (and now) is in relation to the already off-topic comments posted in this thread, and still here, after the request was made.  Hopefully, this will end that.  If it's there, I'll neither see, nor reply, and be quite happy at the ignorance of the topic. I don't want to continue discussion, as I didn't want to discuss it originally, and that was all I was asking.  Thanks for moving it there. 

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by wraith808 on July 01, 2012, 07:37 PM »

Everyone knows the US is a terrorist police state.

-Renegade (June 29, 2012, 08:48 PM)

Maybe this should be taken to the soapbox?  I ignore it for a reason.  I might not believe in everything that the US does, and disagree with quite a bit.  But to stand by while such flamebait is posted?  A little too much to ask.  And I don't want to bring such things into the mainstream of DC- doesn't usually work out.

-wraith808 (June 30, 2012, 12:23 PM)

Good point. In the future, I'll try to start a topic in Soap Box and simply refer to that there. I know I can be extreme at times.
So, point taken. I'll try to keep it out of the Living Room.

-Renegade (June 30, 2012, 12:33 PM)

I did not perceive what you said as being worthy of the label "flamebait".
"Dangerous anarchic rebellious speech", perhaps      -  but I certainly didn't suppose that you were intending to goad anyone to debate the point. On the contrary, it seems that you were just stating your POV.
Everyone - including you and @wraith808 - is entitled to their POV, no matter how wrong they may be.     
And what you said didn't goad me or make me feel obliged to respond either. It was harmless.

-IainB (July 01, 2012, 02:26 AM)

Perhaps flamebait was too harsh of a word, but the complaint is still valid.  We have a soap box for a reason- for conversations of these types.  Is asking someone to take it there denying them of their ability to respond?  It was also not even tangential to the conversation, i.e. you had to go google to find those particular instances to 'support' your position.  If something isn't part of the conversation, and is brought up, and is likely to bait people... well, perhaps the designation wasn't too far off?  If we didn't have an area, I would have said something in response... or not.  But I used a third option as given by the forum and by my ignoring that area for this very reason because I come here for light conversation and discussion about software and things peripheral to that and coding, which the DOTCOM saga is a part of.  This particular tangent isn't that.

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by wraith808 on June 30, 2012, 12:23 PM »

Everyone knows the US is a terrorist police state.

-Renegade (June 29, 2012, 08:48 PM)

Maybe this should be taken to the soapbox?  I ignore it for a reason.  I might not believe in everything that the US does, and disagree with quite a bit.  But to stand by while such flamebait is posted?  A little too much to ask.  And I don't want to bring such things into the mainstream of DC- doesn't usually work out.

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Living Room / Re: The Zombie Apocalypse starts now....in Miami

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2012, 10:41 PM »

Zombie Event Tracker (including possible spread vectors)

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Living Room / Re: Someone may be maliciously using my domain name

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2012, 12:52 PM »

I had the same problem, and found out through my trials that there's not really anyway to stop them.  They put bogus reply addresses (in many cases, they use an account on your server) so that they can get past some spam checks that don't use something akin to the Sender Policy Framework^w check to make sure it's actually from that domain.  It can also get your domain blacklisted.  This was several years ago that I had this problem, so I'm not sure if something better has come along in the meantime.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2012, 08:47 PM »

Fair do's to Google. At least when they introduced g+, though they seemed clearly to be aligning themselves as a Facebook competitor, they didn't make it (g+) compulsory - though they seemed to come pretty close to doing that.

-IainB (June 28, 2012, 08:39 PM)

Oh, I imagine that's in large part because of Buzz.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2012, 11:26 AM »

From Gervase Markham's story:

The email instead goes to my Facebook inbox, and I don't get a notification email to say it's there.

So this is why Facebook introduced it: They want you to go to their site to check for email. They don't want to send the messages to your email and have you interact there, they don't want you to use a search engine to find content, and they don't want you to use forums and instant messages to talk to people. They don't want you ever to get the idea to leave the site.

-justice (June 28, 2012, 03:49 AM)

Yup... that's what I meant/said earlier.

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General Software Discussion / Dropbox alternative for those with FTP access

« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2012, 03:42 PM »

Of course, it doesn't have to be an alternative- I'm planning to try it side by side with my other syncing software (JungleDisk, Cubby, Dropbox, and SFFS).

FTPBox - File Syncing on your own Host

It's FOSS too!

It was discussed in this thread, but it appears more polished now, with a site and everything... and the source is available now on github and google code.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 09:35 PM »

At least in my case I can toggle visibility of @facebook and my email
 (see attachment in previous post)

-rgdot (June 26, 2012, 01:18 PM)

I don't think the largest issue is the ability to toggle visibility, but that facebook decided without consent to make it visible by default.

-wraith808 (June 26, 2012, 02:10 PM)

I still haven't understood why this is a problem. If you allowed messages from unknown people, the "send a message" button was there before and it accomplished the same objective. If you did not allow them (and still don't), as fenixproductions mentioned, emails from unknown sources get refused (much in the same way messages from unknown sources would).
If they made the personal emails available (the ones not from facebook), I would understand the problem, this way, I really don't.

-jgpaiva (June 26, 2012, 06:31 PM)

You're looking at it purely from the intent of privacy concerns and personal uses.  Facebook, for better or worse, is used by non-businesses.  And some of them post their contact information to get in contact with them off of facebook.  If all of a sudden, business correspondence is going to facebook messaging rather than their e-mail address... that's a concern, at least as far as I see.

The other concern (even from a personal use) is transparency of action.  When google opted people in to buzz, did it really do anything terribly bad?  It was just that people got opted into a service that they didn't opt into.  Same thing goes here.

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Living Room / Re: Error 451: The Government Has Censored This Content

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 09:31 PM »

^ could it not be both (intentional content/message and other intrepertations)

-tomos (June 26, 2012, 03:29 PM)

Exactly. He meant what he meant, but people got other things out of it that he didn't.

-Renegade (June 26, 2012, 08:36 PM)

I'm not denying that.  What I'm saying is that people say that *he* meant the story to be about censorship, not that *I interpret the content of his writing to have themes of censorship* or something similar.  The two are *very* different- one being quite logical, and the other being quite abhorrent to me.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 02:10 PM »

At least in my case I can toggle visibility of @facebook and my email
 (see attachment in previous post)

-rgdot (June 26, 2012, 01:18 PM)

I don't think the largest issue is the ability to toggle visibility, but that facebook decided without consent to make it visible by default.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 01:09 PM »

This is really nothing in my opinion, no effect on anybody as far as I can tell. It's probably another step in their messaging system - ie facebook want everything to be facebook, even the part after @

-rgdot (June 26, 2012, 01:07 PM)

Well, I believe it can be something to certain people.  If you actually publish your e-mail address and use it as a form of contact, then this does affect you.  Especially if it's a business or your primary link to family/friends.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 01:07 PM »

Cool.. thanks for the link!

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Living Room / Re: Error 451: The Government Has Censored This Content

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 01:06 PM »

So while Ray may not have intended it to be about censorship, that's not what a lot of people got from his book. Call it an unintended gift.

-Renegade (June 26, 2012, 12:27 PM)

Well, IMO Ray wasn't wrong.  He wrote what he wrote, and meant what he meant.  If I write that I am blue, and you take it to mean that I'm sad, but I actually meant, I dressed up like a smurf, you are entitled to your interpretation.  However, by the same rights as the writer, my intent is not changed by your interpretation.

So people can get out of it whatever they want.  However, the writer's intent of the novel remains unchanged.  And when such classes as mentioned are formed, they are usually about the writer's intent, not your interpretation (though there are classes about that also).  And telling the author what his intent was in the face of his denial and correction is just rude in my opinion.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2012, 01:02 PM »

Do you have to check it?  I mean the e-mail account.  As long as they don't forward to my personal account, I don't care.  It will just take up space on their servers.

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Living Room / Re: Error 451: The Government Has Censored This Content

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2012, 09:55 AM »

^ Ah I understand.   I said that because admittedly the interview I linked to was pretty hard to follow at times, with direct quotes and paraphrasing.

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Living Room / Re: Error 451: The Government Has Censored This Content

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2012, 11:27 AM »

I confess I had no idea, if indeed that's how he felt.

-rgdot (June 23, 2012, 07:19 PM)

Well, why doesn't someone ask him? Oh, wait...bugger.

-IainB (June 23, 2012, 10:50 PM)

Umm... that was the point of the article?  As in it had direct quotes?  And you can find other direct references to it if you search for it...