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Living Room / Re: engineer joke

« Last post by f0dder on April 05, 2007, 03:20 AM »

surely most know this, but for those who don't:

http://www.kcbx.net/~tellswor/
is a place where you have 99% of jokes clean and readable by children or before your family.

-2stepsback (April 05, 2007, 12:20 AM)

Sounds boring - "good clean family entertainment you can trust"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Software MP3 Encoder already supports DualCore Cpus?

« Last post by f0dder on April 05, 2007, 03:17 AM »

I agree with Mark0, your best bet is to compress multiple tracks simultaneously. dBpoweramp does this automatically - and has pretty darn nifty ripping in the Reference version - imho clearly superior to EAC.

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Living Room / Re: Favorite Sci-fi movies?

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 06:23 PM »

Oh god, noone mentioned War Games? :O

Btw, the Dune film by David Lynch should have resulted in Dave getting lynched. It's a disgrace and an insult to anybody who enjoyed the book... Sure, a few things have to be adapted for the widescreen, but Lynch goes out of his way to rape the book, exponentially worse than LOTR got raped in the theatrical version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What fonts do I actually need?

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 06:21 PM »

Heh, Comic Sans is a pretty lousy font, but I've never really understood why some people go berserk over it. But okay, that Notepad++ chooses it as the default font for comments...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Drive Pro

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 06:18 PM »

This basically sounds like a payware version of http://www.daemon-tools.cc ...

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Living Room / Re: how to find out if external HD uses USB 1.x or 2.x?

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 01:52 PM »

It's annoying that they chose the confusing "full" and "high" speed labels... but it's probably because there's a "low" speed as well, for mice and keyboards and that sorts, and "full" is the max speed of USB1.x...

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General Software Discussion / Re: removal tool for ScreenShot Captor

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 11:53 AM »

How come you didn't like screenshot captor, though?

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Living Room / Re: how to find out if external HD uses USB 1.x or 2.x?

« Last post by f0dder on April 04, 2007, 07:49 AM »

I think he meant remove them from device manager, so they get re-detected and drivers get re-installed. That sometimes helps

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General Software Discussion / Re: ProcessMonitor 1.1 released by SysInternals

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2007, 04:53 PM »

It's a pretty great tool indeed!

I had it lock up heavily on me (non-BSOD, but a windows that wouldn't shut down or start new apps) in combination with visual studio debugging. Can't remember what exactly did it, and I don't want to try and reproduce it , just a word of warning: be careful if you're running a debugger at the same time as ProcMon.

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Living Room / Re: how to find out if external HD uses USB 1.x or 2.x?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2007, 08:15 AM »

Via AND intel usb is a typical mix on a P4 system that has more controllers than the onboard the intel chipset offers - iirc i had a mix like that on my P4 systems.

IMHO a specialized copy program won't do terribly much for speed when simply copying one file at a time - the advantages of things like Overlapping I/O has more to do with application logic and maximal use of threads. And if there's multiple simultaneous I/O, well, disk performance is going to hell anyway

I did various tests of file reading methods a while ago, and didn't find any difference in completion speed between Overlapped I/O, normal ReadFile, ReadFile without buffering, and memory mapped files. I did, however, find that memory mapped file access took more CPU time while doing the copy, and that ReadFile without buffering took the least.

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Living Room / Re: how to find out if external HD uses USB 1.x or 2.x?

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2007, 05:47 PM »

If you 1.5MByte/s transfer speed or less, the case is running in usb 1.x mode. If you get more than that, it should be running in usb2 mode... how high you'll get depends on a lot of factors, but you're not likely to reach the theoretical usb2 max speed of ~60MByte/s... protocol overhead and other stuff.

I've tested my (relatively crappy) enclosure with multiple drives, and I usually get around 20-30MB/s - and slightly more if I connect with FireWire instead, but I don't trust that because of some data corruption issues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advantages and disadvantages of NNTP Newsreaders

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2007, 08:20 AM »

If you set OE to "text only" (and use OE QuoteFix), I _think_ you'll be reasonably safe - afaik, the OE exploits are really for IE's html engine...

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Official Announcements / Re: Announcement: DonationCoder.com Has Been Sold to Apple

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2007, 03:36 AM »

A wise man said: Got me fooled once, i have to blame YOU. Got me fooled twice, its ME that have to be blamed. :-)))

-JoTo (April 02, 2007, 03:05 AM)

I thought the Wise Man^TM said: "fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again"?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free VS 2005 Standard from Microsoft

« Last post by f0dder on March 31, 2007, 12:44 AM »

Oh

Yes, it's a very good edition for newbies, and people who are a bit further than newbies - no doubt about that! Heck, it's a very good edition for  everybody

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / TOOL fans unite

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2007, 10:45 PM »

Okay, everybody that likes TOOL, let me know. I have this idea that a lot of us programmer types dig bands like nine inch nails and tool, and after a supergreat concert, I'd really like to try and promote a local upcoming band, if it's okay with you people

http://www.boilmusic.com - I can probably arrange a few giveaways for the interested.

PS: hope this kind of 'advertising' is okay. I'm purely a fan of the band. I think the drummer of DIE, one of my friends, know the guys from BOIL... so I'm not 100% partial. And hey, that was a commercial by itself.

Sorry

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free VS 2005 Standard from Microsoft

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2007, 05:04 PM »

nite_monkey: that's the Express edition, though... the other is non-express standard.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free VS 2005 Standard from Microsoft

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2007, 10:30 AM »

Does that apply for international shipping as well, or is it (as usually) only for people in the .us?

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: ($3 bounty) Automatic Stitching of Screenshots (freeware)

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2007, 09:39 AM »

Is this something you'll be using a lot? Might be worth starting a little reversing session instead

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General Software Discussion / Re: suggesting: "best encryption"

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2007, 06:52 AM »

Iirc TrueCrypt uses CBC mode on a sector-base level, so you won't lose a full partition. Personally I'd only use small container files, and go partition-based for anything larger...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can you disable XP's Recovery System partly?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2007, 05:02 PM »

If I had just one guess, it would be BITS - background intelligent file transfer, which is used as part of windows update.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can you disable XP's Recovery System partly?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2007, 09:58 AM »

I always disable system recovery completely...

anyway, for tracking down which service is being bad, you can view properties of the svchost instance that takes up all the CPU, process explorer has a "services" tab that lists which services that particular instance is responsible for.

Some instances serve a *lot* of services, but it should at least help you pinpoint it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Google Groups for Usenet?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2007, 09:41 AM »

Should have mentioned - the only use I have for Outlook Express is as a newsreader - does this very well (well enough for me, anyway!).

-Darwin (March 29, 2007, 09:33 AM)

Heh, same here - haven't found an alternative yet that is as convenient. All the other ones I've tried have sucked in one way or another >_<. You do need "OE QuoteFix", though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Google Groups for Usenet?

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2007, 05:07 PM »

Hm, both my former (and the largest) Danish ISP, TDC/TeleDanmark, has binary as well as (faster and more stable) text-only groups, and my current ISP CyberCity does as well. Are ISPs really going so cheap-ass that they don't offer newsfeeds? :O

Otherwise you have the option of one of the commercial feed providers... dunno how much they cost, and I have the impression their main purpose of existance is ware^H^H^H^Hbinary groups.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A programmers notepad w/ syntax highlighting

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2007, 05:05 PM »

Do keep in mind that Notepad++ is still under development, though, and has some bugs. I would stay away from using the "explorer" and "function list" plugins by default, until you've tested them extensively on text you don't mind losing...

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Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2007, 05:02 PM »

Hm, the FARR alias syntax looks somewhat daunting!