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

« Last post by Jibz on October 07, 2011, 12:05 PM »

I am sorry if that came across the wrong way, it is quite possible they have the best of intentions, there were just some things about the whole contest that I did not notice at first, that seem odd to me. So I wanted to pass on the information, since I did post an entry link here aswell .

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

« Last post by Jibz on October 07, 2011, 10:15 AM »

I can't help but wonder a bit about that contest either, the first thing that caught my attention was the "Dropbox Inc. is not affiliate with the contest." in the smallprint at the bottom. How can they offer a lifetime license with no help from DropBox?

Also, if you click the contest rules link, it says "Prize includes: Dropbox premium 1 year membership. Winners will receive a payment to upgrade their own Dropbox account." Are they planning to keep on sending you $100 a year? Will they do that even if you unsubscribe from their daily newsletter?

That's right, a daily newsletter, and if you press the unsubscribe button at the bottom of it, it takes you to a page trying to get you to change your mind, that reads among other things: "Unsubscribing will void all entries into the Dropbox Pro For Life giveaway."

Some more discussion about the fishyness on DropBox forums: http://forums.dropbo...m/topic.php?id=45528

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.

« Last post by Jibz on October 07, 2011, 02:37 AM »

Much like Stoic Joker, I do not have any feeling of relating to the man, so while I feel for his family and friends, he was just another rich CEO to me.

What surprised me was what Google+ had turned into yesterday, and I imagine other social networks as well. It was filled with people, who I am sure never met the guy, posting black and white photos of him holding his hand to his face, looking like he was pondering how to make lasting world peace, or posting that quote of his about not living someone else's life, going "WE WILL MISS U!!!".

It feels like there is a lot of hype involved in posting about this (not unlike Apples products), and you have to go into the comments there to get a real feel for what people thought.

/rant

Spoiler

I was not going to post this one for a week, but since fenixproductions opened the ball:

"Ironically, Steve disproved the whole 'an Apple a day'-theory."

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

« Last post by Jibz on October 07, 2011, 02:21 AM »

Here is mine:

http://appsumo.com/~_VRo Edit: you might want to think twice, at least read the rest of this thread.

Will be clicking all of yours now .

Edit: Oh, it only counts if you sign up, sorry.

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Living Room / Re: Hoping for a Patent Bloodbath XD

« Last post by Jibz on October 05, 2011, 12:41 AM »

Connecting by slapping against your forehead -- the iPalm .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Jibz on October 03, 2011, 10:48 AM »

• [MinorFeature] Version # now shown in tray icon hint.
  

-mouser (October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM)

I think there might be a minor issue with this. When you ask Windows to always show or hide a notification area icon, it appears to do this by matching the text in the tooltip. So if you include the version number in the tooltip, and a user chooses to always show or hide the FARR icon, the next time FARR is updated, Windows will revert to the default hide when inactive setting because the name no longer matches.

Whether this is true only for the first line of the hint or in general, I am not sure. But I think this is part of the reason so few applications have version numbers (other than possibly the major) in the notification tooltip.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by Jibz on October 03, 2011, 06:46 AM »

This is just a random thought I had when I saw this tool -- would it be useful to have an option to paste as html? i.e. substitute characters like <>& etc. with their html escapes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Logging out of Facebook is not enough

« Last post by Jibz on October 02, 2011, 11:52 AM »

http://uncrunched.co...1/brutal-dishonesty/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by Jibz on October 02, 2011, 11:45 AM »

Just for reference, I dug out the e-mails from 2009, and here are some excerpts:

Dear [myemailaddress]:
Welcome to BrotherSoft.com!
Thank you for registering with BrotherSoft.com.
This is a sticky note for your email archives

Please click here to confirm your membership.

-BrotherSoft

This was the first e-mail I received, it looked like a regular signup e-mail, so I figured it was somebody signing up with my name and sent them this e-mail to ask them to fix it:

I have received a registration confirmation e-mail (sent to [myemailaddress]) along with four e-mails about programs being 'released' on your site.

I have not registered on your site, so somebody must have used my e-mail address and then submitted my software.

Could you please remove the account.

-Me

Their reply was:

Thank you for your feedback.
Our editor found your software is very good so added them to our site.
As you know our PR is 8 and the alexa rank is about 300. and your software are public on our site is free. So it is a big help for your company.
Please visit http://author.brothersoft.com and login ,manger your software by yourself.

-BrotherSoft

I am no lawyer, but I would imagine signing somebody else up for an account using their name would be illegal in some way, especially since I am pretty sure you would have to agree with some terms of service in the process? Of course laws differ by country, so who knows .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by Jibz on October 02, 2011, 04:11 AM »

Brothersoft.com has gone the same path

-cmpm (October 01, 2011, 08:05 PM)

Thanks, cmpm.  I've sent Brothersoft a nasty-gram as well.   

-skwire (October 01, 2011, 10:43 PM)

Speaking of BrotherSoft -- even if you haven't signed up, your software might still be listed on some of these sites as if you had.

Some years back I got an e-mail welcoming me to BrotherSoft with a link to click to verify my account. I naturally assumed some nutter had signed up using my e-mail address and contacted their support to tell them. They replied that one of their editors had created an account for me and added my software.

The same happened with SoftPedia, though they actually said in the e-mail that they had created an account for me and I was free to use it or not. I think BrotherSoft might have changed their method since then as well.

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Find And Run Robot / ClickOnce applications

« Last post by Jibz on September 29, 2011, 02:32 AM »

I noticed today that FARR was unable to find a new application I installed, even though it was in the start menu.

After a little poking around, I found it is because it was a ClickOnce^w application, which uses a file with extension 'appref-ms' to launch instead of a regular 'lnk'.

I added appref-ms to the extension search for the start menu, which works fine .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 7 is out

« Last post by Jibz on September 28, 2011, 03:57 AM »

Well, to be fair I don't think a lot of user-visible changes have happened in the past couple of Chrome releases.

It's just that Chrome silently updates in the background without bothering you with it, whereas Firefox is still using the "OMG there is an update" dialogs and the "What's New" page showing nothing new after the update .

And the automatic updating in the background is really great, especially when it comes to flash player. I am so sick of updating flash player manually for IE and FF.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Image viewer speed benchmark

« Last post by Jibz on September 27, 2011, 03:45 AM »

I tried installing FastPictureViewer, but the trial period was only a week, which was nowhere near enough to get any real idea about how it would work imho. It seemed like a good tool to quickly browse and do a rough culling of a set of images you import.

These are tools with different target uses though -- FPV is a real-time viewer, whereas tools like ACDSee and FastStone create databases. In my view this makes FPV good for checking out a set of images you just acquired, whereas it is less useful for managing your collection.

One thing that bothered me about ACDSee is that the viewer does not support holding down a mouse button to show a zoom of an area. This is such an intuitive and easy way to check out details in a photo, I can't believe it's not there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Logging out of Facebook is not enough

« Last post by Jibz on September 26, 2011, 08:20 AM »

http://www.zdnet.com...ing-allegations/4044

I don't know .. somehow I still don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling .

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General Software Discussion / Logging out of Facebook is not enough

« Last post by Jibz on September 25, 2011, 08:43 AM »

I don't know if the technicalities are right, but it looks plausible, sadly:

http://nikcub.appspo...cebook-is-not-enough

But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.

Via Hacker News.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by Jibz on September 25, 2011, 03:06 AM »

Since I agree with Stephen66515, I will refrain from commenting on this reply, but instead congratulate him on his 1000'th post



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by Jibz on September 24, 2011, 02:53 PM »

You are comparing libraries and software components to installer bundles? Come on ... Components/libraries have a FUNCTIONAL PART of the software, installer bundlers are SEPARATE products that are there to get installed into the PC as a separate product (and for commercial purposes, that is why you get paid).  

-db90h (September 24, 2011, 01:46 PM)

We're not going to see eye-to-eye on this.

Yes. They have a functional part. It's called putting food on the table.

-Renegade (September 24, 2011, 02:23 PM)

That is not a functional part of the software though, it is a functional part of your business. The software would run just the same if there was no adware in the installer.

I have no experience with OC, so I can in no way comment on whether it is fair to detect it as .. well .. OC. But to me there is a difference between components used in software, and adware bundled with it.

Also, just for the record, writing good signatures for malware is not as easy as it may seem .

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by Jibz on September 24, 2011, 05:03 AM »

I think this is a really good idea, and I sincerely hope you manage to get the security companies interested and involved.

Having to report false positives to each company individually, and hope that they all fix the error is horrible. Having a common place to publicly post is a much better solution, increasing transparency and helping security companies to address the issues.

I posted on the bitsum forum as well, and because I am a dinosaur I posted in the historical section as well .

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Developer's Corner / How To Write Unmaintainable Code

« Last post by Jibz on September 22, 2011, 05:39 AM »

I hadn't read this one before, but it is absolutely brilliant:

http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]

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

In the workspace options dialog, it is not possible to supply multiple root directories in the sub directory filter,
as this would be too complicated. instead, every word in "sub directory filter" is auto prefixed by "*" internally,
to make sure it's used as a sub dir filter.

-stahlworks (September 20, 2011, 12:17 AM)

That makes sense, thank you.

> Would it be possible to add a recently used folder list of some kind?

I'll put it on the todo, but this will take some time.

-stahlworks (September 20, 2011, 12:17 AM)

Great.

Even faster: create snapfiles with SFK, which are archive files containting many text files,
then load that with DView. Snapfiles can also be created from fileset definition files (sfk snapto=cache.txt -fileset myset.txt).

This way, I load a set of 20000 files everyday, containing everything I might need (sourcecode of multiple projects, include files
of different operating systems, open source libraries ...) and then I set the path mask to where I really need to search.

-stahlworks (September 20, 2011, 12:17 AM)

Interesting. I was actually wondering the other day if there was some way to save the processed data structure that dview uses internally to be able to quickly load a database of some old code that is not likely to change. I guess this would be the way to do that.

I use "GetOpenFileName" for the file open dialog, which cannot be used to select folders.
Also I don't see a big difference: no matter if you select "Load folder" or "Load file",
in both cases you can copy/paste a path into the given text entry field.

-stahlworks (September 20, 2011, 12:17 AM)

I think the reason we object to the browse for folder dialog is that it has remained more or less the same since Win95, and is just plain horrible to use for that reason. It is missing all the usability enhancements that the open file dialog has that allows you to quickly find what you were looking for, and dialog extenders like FileBox eXtender or Direct Folders do not work with it either. Also, it defaults to showing you the desktop, and doesn't remember the last place you browsed to. This is all not your fault of course, and I don't know if there is a good alternative, but it is a terrible dialog imho.

With all the fancy stuff Microsoft are doing to explorer, I think they should spend an hour going back and fixing this atrocity -- on the other hand I guess we would risk a browse for folder ribbon .

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]

« Last post by Jibz on September 19, 2011, 12:37 PM »

- loading from command line using -dir ... -file ... parameters.

-stahlworks (September 18, 2011, 04:01 PM)

Exclusion works much better now imho. I can now correctly exclude the '.hg' folder and only that .

Is there any reason the '*' in front of directory inclusions is needed? From the help it seems it is not required in the workspace options dialog, but it is from the command line?

- running dview without parameters, then configure Setup / Workspace, then load interactively.

-stahlworks (September 18, 2011, 04:01 PM)

Seems to work ok. Would it be possible to add a recently used folder list of some kind? having to repeatedly use the standard folder selection dialog is a pain.

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Living Room / Re: Portal Free on steam until 20th September

« Last post by Jibz on September 17, 2011, 08:43 AM »

http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/

Just has an "Install game" button with no price, that is from DK.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]

« Last post by Jibz on September 16, 2011, 01:52 AM »

A little more testing:

!tmp - matches tmp anywhere in the path
!\tmp - matches any folder that starts with tmp, except at the root level
!\tmp\ - matches folders with exact name tmp, except at the root level
!tmp\ - matches any folder that ends with tmp

!.hg - matches nothing (not .hg, not foo.hg, not .hgfoo .. nothing)
!*.hg - matches .hg anywhere in the path
!*.hg* - also matches .hg anywhere in the path
!\.hg - matches any folder that starts with .hg, except at the root level
!\.hg\ - matches folders with exact name .hg, except at the root level
!.hg\ - matches any folder that ends with .hg

Btw, sorry if you feel I am spamming you here, I am merely trying to understand why it isn't working how I expect it to .

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]

« Last post by Jibz on September 16, 2011, 01:19 AM »

In case 1), DView will ignore your Setup / workspace filter settings.
This is because you should specify all filters directly on the command line.

-stahlworks (September 15, 2011, 10:23 PM)

Thank you for the clarification. Can I suggest that instead it loads the configuration file, and any command line options override the settings in it?

Please try this:

   

[Select]

dview -dir . !*.hg

-stahlworks (September 15, 2011, 10:23 PM)

That works, but will exclude any folders with '.hg' anywhere in their name. I think the real problem here is that the first level of subfolders are listed without a backslash at the beginning, so matching '!\tmp\' will not match their names. I could be wrong though.

It seems like there is no way to exclude an exact folder name that is a direct subfolder of the root of the tree that dview reads?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: High Speed Source Code Viewer [portable, freeware available]

« Last post by Jibz on September 15, 2011, 05:36 PM »

I literally want to skip any subfolders named exactly '.hg'.

Even though the masks are saved in the config file, they do not get applied before I open the settings dialog and press 'reload workspace with new settings'.

Using the mask '!\.hg' works if the .hg folder is nested inside a folder below the current level, but not if it is at the level where I run dview. The same goes for '!\tmp' btw, I guess maybe you are just matching against the path, which does not start with a backslash if the file is directly below the current folder.

As an example, if I am standing in a folder with a subfolder called 'tmp' or '.hg' and do 'dview .' then they are both loaded. I can then go into settings and press reload with new settings, and nothing changes. If I go up one level, 'cd ..', and do 'dview .' again, they are still there, but going into the settings and pressing reload now removes them (assumingly because they are now 'foo\tmp\file.txt' and 'foo\.hg\file.txt').