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Living Room / Re: widescreen monitor question
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 11:02 AM »
Got a new PC instead of a graphics card? Well, that's a way to handle it too. Congrats! :)
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Living Room / Re: cost of running a pc (in the UK)?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 11:02 AM »
If you have a 17" CRT or a 19" which you dont use at high res, buying an LCD screen (around£100 nowadays in the UK, cheaper in the US) probably pays for itself in a year. At least in a country where energy prices aren't heavily subsidised. If you want 1600 res the screens cost a bundle more, and I suspect they also consume a bit more so the savings in energy probably can't justify buying one.
-iphigenie
Power savings might not be able to justify it (though I still be it'll be using less than most CRT monitors), but the much smaller amount of eyestrain that a TFT gives will be worth every last penny.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Got my Ubuntu disk,got two hard drives,can i dual boot off of a seperate drive?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 11:00 AM »
True, gothic... but then it'd have to be a really old motherboard. While I can't remember if my old Athlon700 system had a bios boot menu, it certainly was able to boot from other drives by entering the bios settings and changing boot order.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Got my Ubuntu disk,got two hard drives,can i dual boot off of a seperate drive?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 07:51 AM »
If you remove the XP disk while installing (but leave the ubuntu in the position (pri/sec, master/slave) it will have when the XP disk is re-attached!), the boot manager goes on the ubuntu disk, and you can then use your BIOS boot menu (usually F8) to choose the right disk when booting. At least that's safe++ and ought to work :)
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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina programming font for X11 use
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 05:05 AM »
Perhaps google and some manual font strings could help, I found some reference to VIM font config (perhaps googling linux+vim+dina might help?). But I've never really messed with that myself, it seems too messy and I don't use GUI linux anyway.

I've never really understood the whole cleartype/antialiased fonts thing, it looks smudgy and annoying. Even when done "right". And this applies to both CRT and TFT monitors... strains my eyes rather than relieve them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tools for Password Protecting Files?
« Last post by f0dder on March 14, 2007, 04:29 AM »
If you need generic, secure, transparent and fast file&folder protection, imho www.truecrypt.org is the way to go. AxCrypt seems like it takes the traditional route of decrypt->modify->reencrypt, which is pretty useless as it leaves plaintext residue on your disk.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Directory/File Monitor Change Notification
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 05:57 PM »
Just remember that update notifications can be flaky with UNC paths (ie., files on a share on a server). Tend to work great otherwise, though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: If you plans to install Visual Studio ...
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 05:54 PM »
For VC2005 SP1, be sure to do a lot of googling and reading - there's ways to speed up it's installing tremendously. Even on my machine, it took about an hour or so, and that's an AMD64x2 4400+, 2gigs of ram, and a 10,000rpm raptor disk. Don't attempt that install on a laptop.

You can merge ("slipstream") the SP1 into your VS2005 install files, and it's easier done than it sounds - that way you get the latest version installed from the beginning, and much faster than applying the upgrade. It does expand the install enough that you can't fit the final and MSDN on one DVD, though - shame on Microsoft. MSI installers suck.
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General Software Discussion / Re: If you plans to install Visual Studio ...
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 10:28 AM »
Hm, sounds weird - I haven't had any problems from not removing it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: LanguageIdentifier.com: Does just what you'd expect (probably)
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 09:59 AM »
Mouser: perhaps you could do a button that automatically downloads image from other site, and does the attach+inline?

Might be more coding than it's worth though, but it's good for lazy users :]
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tools for Password Protecting Files?
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 09:58 AM »
<shameless_plug>
In case of text files, have a look at http://fsekrit.donationcoder.com :-)
</shameless_plug>
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Developer's Corner / Re: Registry Help...
« Last post by f0dder on March 13, 2007, 06:36 AM »
Ruffnek's way works (just fill in the API calls yourself :) ), but one word of warning: the code to do this will not run on a limited user account, but requires administrative privileges.

Now that Vista has come to enforce stuff, you really should do the association from your installer. Which, as tinjaw says, probably has an option to do this that's easier than the API calls anyway :)
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Living Room / Re: YouPorn: Like YouTube, but with a triple x rating
« Last post by f0dder on March 12, 2007, 07:01 AM »
snobby nude one ^_^
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General Software Discussion / Re: hosting: moving away from shared, and into Virtual Private Servers (VPS)?
« Last post by f0dder on March 12, 2007, 06:58 AM »
Btw there are multiple ways to run a VPS, isn't there? Full virtualization like vmware, hybrid thing like XEN, and iirc the BSD family has some super jailing feature that isn't exactly virtualization but does offer isolation.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
« Last post by f0dder on March 12, 2007, 06:50 AM »
I tried out BlackIce briefly, but it bogged down my system and caused a couple of BSODs, so I removed it again. Dunno if it conflicted with NOD32 (or did I run Kaspersky at that time?), but I wasn't impressed  :-\
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General Software Discussion / Re: Review of File Renamers — let's make a list
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2007, 09:42 AM »
Preview is definitely a must in such an app, and so is regular expressions. I checked out 1-4a renamer which did the job for the simple rename I needed, but wouldn't recommend that app - super messy interface.

The screenshots for FlexRename look a bit messy because of all the japanese + bugs :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Review of File Renamers — let's make a list
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2007, 08:43 AM »
*bump*.

Anybody's going to finish the review? :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: DVD File Arranger
« Last post by f0dder on March 09, 2007, 06:42 AM »
Oh, nice.

I found a python script that would do the sorting, but it was quite limited compared to Burn to the brim. Thanks for finding this app :)

PS: dropping files in system32 isn't always such a good idea, you can drop it in the folder where you install BTTB instead.
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Living Room / Re: New higher performance notebook pc drive shipping soon
« Last post by f0dder on March 08, 2007, 06:06 PM »
Now, let us see hybrid flash drives for desktop machines as well, and with XP support... Or at least Intel's Robson technology.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Reverse Regex Generator
« Last post by f0dder on March 08, 2007, 05:36 PM »
<:-*>.

I wonder how feasible the project is, though - RegExes are a pretty complicated thing to do right, and generating match-text? Ugh. Alternations, greedy vs. non-greedy asterisks, et cetera.

The Regulator has been pretty useful for me when dealing with regular expressions - in combination with Mastering Regular Expressions.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Be a SPAMfighter (Outlook/Express)
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2007, 05:15 PM »
SPAMfighter has been a bit unstable the places I use it, though - tends to hang Outlook Express when closing it.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Rounded corners in Vista
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2007, 03:39 AM »
Blame Canada. Or perhaps just Vista :]
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Living Room / Re: Drawing with 2 mice
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2007, 03:25 AM »
Hm, two mouse cursors... dunno if that's possible on windows. And even if you get the OS to support it, I can foresee a lot of applications becoming confused. Interesting idea, though.

I think the only time I've used two mice on a PC was the old DOS version of Settlers (or "serf city" if you got the german (european?)) version - but that had it's own mouse driver built in to handle this. Pretty nice way to do split-screen gaming, though.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ultrafunk Popcorn full version now freeware
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2007, 03:23 AM »
From free to shareware and back to free again? :)

I used to stick this on my usb pendrive... might be worth checking out again.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text in TextBox changes into Egyptian Hieroglyfes
« Last post by f0dder on March 07, 2007, 03:21 AM »
mouser will have to answer that - I just noticed it looks like some unicode vs. ansi/ascii issue :)
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