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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: HURRY UP!! (WinPatrol discount)

« Last post by Jibz on November 20, 2011, 03:20 AM »

Regarding the title of the post, it's a contest rather than a discount isn't it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Music Beta Now Live

« Last post by Jibz on November 17, 2011, 02:12 AM »

Google Music is open to the public now, I wrote a quick review with my first impressions here .

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Living Room / Re: Moving up to ESET NOD32 v5

« Last post by Jibz on November 17, 2011, 01:29 AM »

I think it depends a lot on your use of the computer what will work for you.

If you visit questionable websites, or download/run questionable software on your computer, then you probably should go with a commercial security package.

If you are the type who uses internet explorer and immediately clicks the 'protect my computer' link in any browser window that pops up saying "Your computer is infected with 123345234 threats!!!!", or freely clicks any attachments e-mailed to you, then a commercial package might be a good investment too (although no level of security, except possibly unplugging the network cable, can save you from determined stupidity ).

Otherwise, I think one of the free ones (possibly coupled with running an on-demand anti-malware scan (MBAM comes to mind) every now and then), is to a large extent more than sufficient.

[rant]

Also, like superboyac notes, many of the commercial suites have gone from good to unmanageable giant piles of ... I used KAV/KIS since version 5, back then it was lean and powerful. Every version since then has gotten bigger, more bloated and slower. It is now at the point where you see special editions for laptops and notebooks, or recommendations to run older version on those, because the latest versions will bring any system that isn't quadcore with 4 gb+ to its knees .

Also, I was getting sick of the way that buying the upgrade from within the software was more expensive than buying an upgrade box in a computer shop, and even that was often more expensive than buying a box of last years version in the shop and installing that and then simply upgrading to the latest version (*glaring at Symantec*).

[/rant]

I've tried some of the other free ones, but either they constantly nag you about upgrading to the paid version, or they have clunky upgrade procedures. MSE is free with no annoying adds or anything, and it updates automatically alongside your Windows .

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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"

« Last post by Jibz on November 16, 2011, 10:41 AM »

http://en.wikipedia....op_Online_Piracy_Act

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

http://news.ycombina....com/item?id=3243482

I .. just .. don't even know where to start .

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Voxatron Debut

« Last post by Jibz on November 10, 2011, 12:17 PM »

That Zen Garden Puzzle game is quite fun .

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General Software Discussion / Re: TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by Jibz on November 02, 2011, 02:11 AM »

at length:  ((or how do i say in english: i waited for this and finally it is there? In german it is: "endlich"))

-AbteriX (November 02, 2011, 01:49 AM)

Thank you for the clarification on the beta thing . I believe either 'finally' or 'at last' would work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TED Notepad updated to stable version 6.0.1 Beta, Nov 2, 2011

« Last post by Jibz on November 01, 2011, 06:07 PM »

Am I the only one who finds it mildly amusing that the current stable release is a beta?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Herb Sutter's brief look at C++11

« Last post by Jibz on November 01, 2011, 01:06 PM »

Well, I guess time will tell

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Developer's Corner / Re: Herb Sutter's brief look at C++11

« Last post by Jibz on November 01, 2011, 02:05 AM »

Auto and range for alone will save a ton of typing (or a ton of typedefs) .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware

« Last post by Jibz on October 28, 2011, 11:19 AM »

Thanks for posting this, sad to see this happen, it was a good addon.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free Dropbox Lifetime Account Lottery - Ends Oct. 13th

« Last post by Jibz on October 27, 2011, 01:25 AM »

For a winners list (available after 11/01/2011), send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by 11/01/2011 to: AppSumo Evernote Premium Sweepstakes Winner, AppSumo, Inc. 710 Brazos Street Omni Hotel Austin, TX 78705.

Basically, if you didn't send them a stamped envelope before they drew the winners, no one will ever know

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Unlocking Touchscreen

« Last post by Jibz on October 27, 2011, 01:12 AM »

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [BARGAIN] GTA Complete Collection - US$12.49

« Last post by Jibz on October 21, 2011, 02:20 AM »

GTA complete package is on sale on steam as well if anyone is interested in it and prefers them.

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.

« Last post by Jibz on October 18, 2011, 04:38 AM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: Taking ownership of files ... confused, irritated & discombobulated

« Last post by Jibz on October 17, 2011, 02:43 AM »

I assume you are booting from some other drive than the one with the problem. Potentially, it could be the part of the disk where the permissions for those folders are stored that is defective. On the other hand it could be something else like a defective cable too.

If it is an actual harddisk failure, you could try your luck with GetDataBack. The free download will allow you to check if you can read the files with it before you buy.

There are a number of such applications, the reason I suggest this one is that it has saved me in the past.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dennis Ritchie dead

« Last post by Jibz on October 14, 2011, 01:33 PM »

His home page : http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

-Armando (October 14, 2011, 08:38 AM)

Thanks for the link, some awesome documents there for C geeks .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dennis Ritchie dead

« Last post by Jibz on October 14, 2011, 01:28 AM »

Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On

http://www.wired.com...dennisritchieeffect/

Rob Pike on the legacy of Dennis Ritchie, C & Unix

https://plus.google....67/posts/33mmANQZDtY

Herb Sutter / Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie

http://herbsutter.co...0/12/dennis-ritchie/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dennis Ritchie dead

« Last post by Jibz on October 13, 2011, 11:57 AM »

+1, wraith808

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office 2010 discount

« Last post by Jibz on October 13, 2011, 11:51 AM »

LibreOffice 3.4 - free.  Why pay?

-Midnight Rambler (October 13, 2011, 10:57 AM)

Mainly because SO is fast, small, and can handle MS Office files that are more complicated than a single paragraph of text in Times New Roman .

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Developer's Corner / Dennis Ritchie dead

« Last post by Jibz on October 13, 2011, 05:37 AM »

I didn't see a post about this yet, but apparently Dennis Ritchie^w, co-inventor of the C programming language, and co-developer of Unix is dead .

https://plus.google....ts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en

http://boingboing.ne...r-c-co-inventor.html

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Developer's Corner / Deep C Fishing

« Last post by Jibz on October 10, 2011, 09:07 AM »

http://www.slideshar...et/olvemaudal/deep-c

Some excellent stuff in those slides if you are interested in C/C++

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Developer's Corner / Lauren Ipsum

« Last post by Jibz on October 10, 2011, 06:22 AM »

"A story about computer science and other improbable things"

This first chapter made me chuckle a couple of times (via Hacker News).

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Living Room / Re: App vendors discover a new way to abuse Windows

« Last post by Jibz on October 08, 2011, 04:44 PM »

As someone who has spent way too much time manually updating Firefox and flash player on all kinds of machines, I think Chromes automatic updates are great.

If you only have your own machine at home to take care of, then you can afford to be paranoid, but to people who are not computer experts, having security fixes applied automatically without them even noticing, is a blessing compared to how Firefox works.

And I seriously doubt they are going to push an update that changes the EULA silently. Do you have any evidence of this ever happening?

Now Firefox is adding a similar feature, but as with the rapid release schedule, I am afraid they are going to mess it up because they simply don't realize what other changes it requires.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The confusion about the term "lifetime license"

« Last post by Jibz on October 08, 2011, 02:42 AM »

So let me carefully point out the psychology behind it all, which nobody ever seems to mention.  Instead, the debates circle around the definitions of the terms, and they completely avoid the heart of the matter.

The problem is this:
The developers pretend (i.e. play dumb) that what they meant by using the term "lifetime" in whatever context is limited to some sort of restrictions. ...

-superboyac (October 07, 2011, 04:16 PM)

I think that is a very good observation -- it is more of a psychological trick than anything else.

Using the words "lifetime license" in this way is a lot like when commercial software companies advertise "free download". They use the word "free", not because there is any chance anybody would ever charge $5 for a download, but because they can con a percentage of people into downloading and installing their software, thinking it is free.

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Living Room / Re: App vendors discover a new way to abuse Windows

« Last post by Jibz on October 07, 2011, 01:50 PM »

It's a royal pain to install and use software if you are not always running as administrator and the only user on a system. Microsoft haven't fixed this in the past 10 years, and now developers are trying to work around it.

I agree that it would be ideal if programs were limited to run from specific sane places, and that installing software into a place that was meant for data is a bad choice, but after you have fought with installers that require admin rights and then only install the shortcuts to the administrators account, software that requires admin rights to enter a license key, and then only shows up as licensed on the admin account, endless changing accounts to update software, software that stores file in the program files folder, etc. etc. etc., quite frankly it was nice that Chrome just worked .