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Find And Run Robot / Re: Doesn't seem to search the D Drive?
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 05:55 PM »
If you want farr to search the D drive too, you probably should use one of the index plugins, as farr's search is quite slow when you have lots of files ;)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - The Name Game
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 05:52 PM »
After all did you know that Kodak is just such a word; meant nothing to anyone when it was created; and has become an icon in industry and languages all over the world!
-jtbarbieri (June 18, 2009, 11:23 AM)
Interesting!
It's a cool way to create a name for a future multi-million-dollar company :D
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 30-09
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 01:08 PM »
I didn't know about that "bad sectors go read-only" thing! That's just great :D
Having a temperature-efficient disk would also be great, my laptop heats a lot :(
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Living Room / Re: RIAA Says DRM is Dead
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 08:31 AM »
1. Don't forward ports.
2. No server permission in firewall.
3. Don't share the downloads folder.
-app103 (July 22, 2009, 05:47 AM)
I think that would stop the client from sharing random files, and from sharing the currently downloading files with some other peers. However, it wouldn't stop if from downloading from the peers which are providing data for the currently downloading files (since you may have data they have not yet obtained).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hannah Montana Linux -- about time!
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 08:25 AM »
That song is soooooo scary  :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Watch it shred!
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 08:11 AM »
A torpedo??
* jgpaiva opens the site again to look for the torpedo video
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA small script to set a timer to startup jkdefrag.exe when computer idle for
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 08:10 AM »
I'm not sure about what I'm about to say, but I'm sure if f0dder sees this he may provide more details.
I believe it's not a good idea to be defragmenting the disk every time the PC idles, for 2 reasons:
- The constant strain on the disk will probably make it fail sooner
- NTFS already tries to keep a low fragmentation. I would say "it never needs defrag", but I would probably be wrong, so I say it "seldom needs defrag" :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Fabricate: the better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 08:01 AM »
Oh, I didn't understand you were actually the author of fabricate! That's cool ;)

Yep, the next time I need to build something big, I sure will consider these alternatives.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 30-09
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 25, 2009, 07:56 AM »
I'm considering replacing the 120GB disk in my laptop with a somewhat smaller SSD; I could live with ~60gig there for better speed and no mechanical parts making "hi, I'm about to die" sounds :)

PS: SSD doesn't necessarily mean lower power consumption; conventional laptop drives are quick to go into standby modes, many SSDs don't have standby mode (not because they can't, but because the manufacturers are silly and lazy).
-f0dder (August 25, 2009, 12:42 AM)
It's the "i'm about to die" sounds in disks that scare me... In the recent years, I have lost quite a few disks, and even though I did have backups, I ended up losing loads of time reinstalling the OS and all.

I suppose they'll eventually do something about the standby mode, as soon as they start selling more and the competition rises!
Now that I think of it.. How about temperature? Do SSDs heat more than conventional disks?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Lock axis (steering wheel/controller)
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 06:35 PM »
I'm not sure about this, but I think that even on automatic transmission cars, cruise control is not the same as locking the accelerator. Cruise control maintains a constant speed, meaning that it'll accelerate more when the car's going up on slopes, and decelerate when the car's going down. If the game respects that, you'll have something a bit different from cruise control.

Still, if you find no other solution, you might always just put a weight on top of the accelerator, and something beneath it preventing it to go down ;)
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder loading funny in Firefox - colors missing - proportions strange
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 06:05 PM »
Probably unrelated, but this has happened to me repeatedly in the past, using Opera. To fix it, I'd dig DC's code to find the css file, open it on a new tab, refresh the page and everything would go back to normal.

I always assumed it was a problem with opera.

(I've switched opera for firefox during the recent months, and haven't been very much around lately, but it never happened in firefox)

[edit] I just noticed that my signature is lying! Time to delete that :) [/edit]
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Living Room / Re: stunning 3D projections on buildings
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 05:28 PM »
Actually, I also didn't notice tinjaw's link (it was on the right of the page and had no amusing image :D)

[edit] Oh, yeah, and tinyurls are evil and should be banned from the internets (except, maybe, from twitter) [/edit]

[edit2] I almost forgot: GREAT THREAD! Love the first clips! [/edit]
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 30-09
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 05:16 PM »
"7. Intel's New 34nm SSDs Cut Prices by 60 Percent, Boost Speed" - 25% in read latency? No moving parts and lower power usage? Looks like my next laptop will be carrying one of these :)
Or am I misinformed and there's a giant caveat waiting for me?
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Living Room / Re: Battle of the 6 Online Malware (AntiVirus) File Scanners
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 05:07 PM »
FROM SUE AGAIN- i am (obviously) computer illiterate.  Cant even sign in to raymonds site to ask questions-on the registration site it asks for the referrer- i put in donation decoder and mouser but that gets me nowhere.
Thank you to anyone who will help :-[
-K Sue Westerman (August 24, 2009, 12:20 PM)
Hi Sue.
That's probably because mouser isn't a member of raymond's forum ;)
Don't worry, just leave that field blank and you should be able to register!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Fabricate: the better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 04:07 PM »
SCons looks interesting. Have you tried it? The fact that it's python (notice that fabricate also is) is an advantage, I'm interested in learning it eventually.
I've looked at the documentation, looks fairly similar to fabricate (I suppose it's actually the other way around), and has support for parallelization (even though I didn't find the help section on it, but it does have the '-j' command line trigger :) )
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Living Room / Re: 1st Person Shooter Disease
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 02:41 PM »
Is that a picture of mouser and the video store girl?
-Deozaan (July 12, 2009, 08:43 PM)
;D ;D ;D ;D Love the quote!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Fabricate: the better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 02:37 PM »
Oh, that's sort of a killer for me, it makes a big difference to compile using 5 threads in a quadcore :)
But I really like the syntax of fabricate. I went through hell to write a makefile with multiple targets and build directories for my final project, I bet it'd been easier with fabricate!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Fabricate: the better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 02:09 PM »
That looks interesting..
But is there any way for it to parallelize the build? (like 'make -j 4' runs 4 concurrent processes?)
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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 24, 2009, 12:03 PM »
DAY 23:

Today's video takes a look at the Keyboard Interface Options of [url=https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html]FARR[/url
-mouser (August 23, 2009, 12:21 AM)
;D I love it when you explain the Ctrl+Alt+# thing, "ok, I don't know what this does... ok, so that's not really useful"
-TucknDar (August 24, 2009, 10:59 AM)
Funniest screencast ever :D
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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 08:04 PM »
I'm glad you find it interesting, shades!
I really really like the idea, and it's pretty very used in the scientific community (for example: clusters have support for distributed systems, so that you can always access the data to be processed as if it was stored locally).

From what I understand, the semantics with concurrency are not as strong as locally (sometimes strange stuff may happen if you access the same file in two places at the same time.. But that's not particularly surprising :P).
Still, for someone with several computers and data shared among them, this looks like one of the best solutions out there.

please don't forget that this is not beginners stuff, bad use may lead to data loss
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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 04:12 PM »
I believe what you really are looking for is a Distributed File System such as Andrew File Systemw. This would sync your files across all of your computers, and create a virtual disk which would by shared by them all (and cached locally as you access each file).
I know people who use it a lot at the research unit I'm at, and it's extremely useful when you have several machines and lots of data.
I believe it also manages the replication of data, which would help with backups.

HOWEVER, from what I know, it's quite a pain in the *** to configure and manage. Expert computer science investigators have had quite some trouble with it :)
I'm just presenting this because someone might know a very similar solution that doesn't cause so many problems.


[edit] I'm sorry if I'm suggesting something totally unrelated, as I only skimmed through the thread and didn't read all posts. If I am, please disregard this post :) [/edit]
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Living Room / Re: Help? Learning how to drive...
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 02:22 PM »
Yeah, and when you need to do something with both hands, like posting to DC. You can use the feet to drive in that situation. Please notice that this is probably THE only situation where using cruise control while traversing cities is acceptable!
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Living Room / Re: Help? Learning how to drive...
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 02:08 PM »
Oh, and never-ever use Cruise Control in a rear-wheel drive car at intersections with dirt on the floor. Ever.
(yep, bad experience: did that when I first got my license and ended up on a dirt bank :) )
Actually, the more general advice would be "don't use cruise control out of freeways" ;)
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 34-09
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 05:44 AM »
On '8. Internet Slowly Wakes Up to PayPal's Quiet Fee Hike', also see this topic.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Live as if Today was a Quantum Superposition of the the Rest of your Life
« Last post by jgpaiva on August 23, 2009, 05:17 AM »
 ;D Love the idea!
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