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Living Room / Re: Desktop Tower Defense: Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2007, 05:45 PM »
Hm, pretty primitive graphics, and non-air towers can shoot flying mobs? Oh well, fun enough anyway :)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text in TextBox changes into Egyptian Hieroglyfes
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2007, 05:20 PM »
Looks like a possible unicode bug - did you use any national (ie., Dutch, I assume?) characters in the text?
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Official Announcements / Re: Upgrading the forum tonight to SMF 1.1.2 - Possibilities of minor turbulence
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2007, 08:54 AM »
Nice to see that you put some effort into this. Painful, but less painful than the massive breakage that can happen if an automated system fails :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: GNU Utilities for Win32 dead?
« Last post by f0dder on March 06, 2007, 04:04 AM »
Hm, why have both gnuwin32 and unxutils instead of collaborating? That's a waste of resources. Nice to know about gnuwin32 though, seems pretty comprehensive :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: AAAAAwwwwwwhhhhhhhhh
« Last post by f0dder on March 05, 2007, 05:35 PM »
grmbl, double post because of "quote" rather than "edit". Ignore or delete this post.

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Living Room / Re: AAAAAwwwwwwhhhhhhhhh
« Last post by f0dder on March 05, 2007, 05:35 PM »
Hehe, cute.

xkcd is gweat, but I always forget to check it because I can't remember what combination of {c,d,k,x} gets me there :]
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Keep a full screen window on top in a dual monitor setting
« Last post by f0dder on March 05, 2007, 05:34 PM »
There probably is a way to do it, but it'd either be game-specific reversing or perhaps some more general DirectX reversing. I doubt it's possible to do without one of those methods, though, but I'd love to be proven wrong - I'd like a tool like this, too, for the same reasons.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GNU Utilities for Win32 dead?
« Last post by f0dder on March 05, 2007, 07:50 AM »
cygwin is... ick.
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General Software Discussion / Re: GNU Utilities for Win32 dead?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 01:29 PM »
Thanks for that, mwb1100!

Project does seem a bit dead though, haven't been updated for a while. But the tools work well enough :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 11:46 AM »
Many people still have not upgraded to SP2 and could not care less.
-dk70 (March 04, 2007, 11:40 AM)
And if those people aren't behind a NAT, it's their own fault when they get hit by the same-old worm, and they shouldn't whine and bitch about security.
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Living Room / Re: widescreen monitor question
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 10:46 AM »
If you have AGP, you (almost) certainly don't have PCI-E, but regular PCI slots.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 10:04 AM »
iphigenie: you don't really need a perimeter firewall if you use NAT - of course you can think of NAT as a sort of firewall, but it isn't. Of course if you run some static mapped services or are corporate sized, a firewall and some intrusion detection is probably a good idea.

But you do make a good point (which I already mentioned :) ), even with a perimeter firewall (or NAT), you still need some per-host stuff... Windows Firewall from XP should handle the basics, and add antivirus ontop of that to protect less savvy users from themselves, and the rest of us from exploits :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need app to find album cover art?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 07:01 AM »
Btw it doesn't seem to handle international characters very well - when I click "Andersens Drømme", it stalls for a few seconds, and doesn't show the coverart... renamed to "Andersens Droemme" and it works perfectly.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need app to find album cover art?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 06:45 AM »
Album Cover Art Downloader seems to work pretty well - at least for well-known albums, anyway. It did come up with some "industrial tribute" for Metallica's Black Album though, heh.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 06:04 AM »
Malware detection is something antivirus products should detect, though, in my opinion. They're already inspecting executables and doing heuristics... and there aren't that many "viruses" around anymore, it's another kind of malware nowadays.

And most people will be wanting proactive defense (instead of scanning *after* the damage) is done, this requires some drivers and hooking to be efficient; might as well protect some registry keys and system services to make life harder for malware too.

That said, there is a tendency of too much functionality in each product. I don't think firewall capability belongs in an antivirus app, and full system sandboxing doesn't fit with either AV or FW software.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to edit .xpi, and with what?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 04:42 AM »
Generation 1981, so I'm 0x19  8)
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to edit .xpi, and with what?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 04:27 AM »
:)

I used to mess around a lot with hexeditors in the DOS days, and I still do. ZIP files start with the "PK" signature (after it's inventor, Phil Katz  :rip: ), and you can usually see some filenames after that :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 04:24 AM »
If you're not doing strict outbound filtering, there's not much point in running a personal firewall - a router with NAT translation is going to offer better protection for incoming traffic. The XP firewall then does the job of protecting you if a friend with an infected laptop visits you (and your LAN)...
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to edit .xpi, and with what?
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 04:14 AM »
You know you're a geek when you look at the first notepad screenshot and say to yourself "oh, that looks like a zip archive"
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Living Room / Re: A total eclipse of the Moon this Saturday
« Last post by f0dder on March 04, 2007, 02:50 AM »
Was cloudy here :(
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General Software Discussion / Re: SmartFTP Users: Adware As Of v.2.5.1004.7
« Last post by f0dder on March 03, 2007, 06:55 PM »
Might want to throw in md5 sums as well, for good measure.

Offtopic: nighted, what's the screenshot from? explorer with custom color scheme? looks nice :)
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Living Room / Re: widescreen monitor question
« Last post by f0dder on March 03, 2007, 04:19 PM »
Hm, AGP and not PCI-E... might be a bit hard finding something decently priced :/

With your requirements, I'd probably go for something in the nvidia 6xxx family - it should be dirt cheap (otherwise, don't buy!), and there's still stuff available for AGP. The shop I use here in .dk has a GF6200/128meg for less than $50 - you won't be gaming anything recent with that, but it's cheap and specs say it goes up to 2048x1536 (doesn't specifically mention 1440x900 though, so you might have to inquire about that).
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Living Room / Re: widescreen monitor question
« Last post by f0dder on March 03, 2007, 03:14 AM »
You probably do need a graphics card, onboard tends to be limited. Shouldn't cost you an arm and a leg, though; if you get along fine with onboard graphics, you should be able to find a cheap card...

PS: you really should break apart statements, even though you no longer need to. Perhaps nobody else but you will ever look at your source, but Very long lines of text are less readable, and hint at code complexity as well. Personally I stay at around 80-100 columns for code.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free Tower Defense game at giveawayoftheday
« Last post by f0dder on March 02, 2007, 05:20 PM »
Oooh, how nice - that game looks pretty good.

You should add a screenshot of it to your first post, cthorpe, "so mouser can blog it more easily" :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: limiting memory
« Last post by f0dder on February 28, 2007, 06:10 PM »
I'm running a 866mhz P3 with 512mb of ram.  And I use VMServer regularly  :huh:
-cthorpe (February 28, 2007, 06:03 PM)
Masochist :o

...but then, I used to run vmware on an athlon700/512meg :)
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