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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 07:00 AM »

I do have Miranda crashes from time to time, almost exclusively when file transfers are involved (and no, the new uPNP code didn't seem to have helped all that much). I also miss "custom emoticons"  on MSN, which also still has some timeout and repeated-message problems.

I still keep using Miranda though, since I don't really like the alternatives. Miranda is WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN, which I happen to like a lot

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Developer's Corner / Re: Problems with GNU C++

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 06:45 AM »

Wierd!

This also works now:

c++.exe "C:\test.cpp" -IC:\Test

-SkyIDE (February 06, 2007, 06:42 AM)

Well, if you fixed <iostream.h> to use <iostream> instead, then no wonder you don't get deprecation warnings

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Developer's Corner / Re: Problems with GNU C++

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 06:15 AM »

You shouldn't use "iostream.h", you should use "iostream" and the proper std:: namespace identifiers.
EDIT:

"like this"

Code: C++ [Select]

1. #include <iostream>
2. //#include <header.h>
3.  
4. using namespace std;
5.  
6.  
7. int main()
8. {
9.        
10.         int iVar = 0;
11.         cout << "Simple C++ Program\n" << endl;
12.        
13.  
14.        
15.         return 0;
16.  
17. }

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Developer's Corner / Re: Problems with GNU C++

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 05:59 AM »

Try moving all switches before the filename to compile. If that still doesn't work, you might have to rely on INCLUDE and LIB environment variables.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 03:56 AM »

Vista: by the industry, for the industry. Screw you, users!

EDIT: the funny thing is, as always, it's the legitimate users that get screwed. The pirates get things like this. So you bought a fancy new HD-DVD or BluRay movie? Well, start you torrent client and download 25 gigabytes from the net if you actually want to watch it. Microsoft and the movie industry (not that Apple is going to be one bit better).

EDIT 2: christ, it's even worse than I thought. Was discussing this with a friend before I had read the full article, and he joked that "I've got an idea... what about RSA encrypting all data before it hits the bus, then we can say we have a nice and protected OS... oh, performance you say?...". Well, just then I reached the following part of the article:

The initial crypto handshake is:

driver -> application: cert + nonce
application -> driver: RSA-OAEP-SHA512( nonce || key || seqNo1 || seqNo2 )

christ.

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Living Room / Re: Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« Last post by f0dder on February 06, 2007, 03:55 AM »

Oooooh, that's a router with built-in modem!

The £1,000,000 question is: can an ADSL2 modem do regular ADSL? Because if it can, this would be the only device I need. The following quote from the datasheet sounds promising, especially when compared with WikiPedia.

Standards: WAN (ADSL): ITU 992.1 (G.dmt) Annex A, ITU 992.2 (G.lite), ITU 992.3 ADSL2 (G.dmt.bis), ITU 992.5 ADSL2+

-enus_ds_dg834n.pdf

The client wireless connection I have found ideal are the USB 2 based WN121T devices which work at 300Mbps fine throughout my house. I used to have a 54g set up and couldn't get full speed (or close) upstairs even with a booster upstairs. With the current setup I get 300Mbps on my PCs upstairs and downstairs with no extra hardware.

-Carol Haynes

Darn - as long as it can cover our 50m2 flat that's okay, though. I don't really feel like adding usb adapters since the laptop has built-in WiFi, and my box is located right next to the router

I can't seem to find your exact model here in .dk, but there's an uglier-looking DG834PN that would seem to do the trick as well. And I also can't seem to find the edition with gigabit networking (the one I can find with gigabit seems not to have ADSL2+ modem).

But it seems like I'm getting closer to finding what I want!

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Living Room / Re: Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2007, 05:12 PM »

mouser: I was actually thinking about noppie when I posted the thread, but haven't seen him around for a while

carol: I'm not too fond of all the various proprietary speed hacks, but as long as it plays nicely with standard devices it's fine. And considering that the online shops I usually use have very few "pure" APs but a lot of mixed AP/router combos, I guess I'll be looking at those.

What's the precise model number you have? Does it support PPPoA? And can ADSL routing be turned off so it just functions as an AP? (I need either PPPoA so I can use the current ZyXel device as a dumb modem, or turn off ADSL routing in the future accesspoint so it doesn't interfere... I think ).

GigaBit wired ports available? That's nice. I can live with 54mbit wlan if I can wire at 1gbit when necessary.

Guess my next task is to read up on bridging mode for the ZyXel to see if it can do what I hope it can - and then find some user experiences.

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Living Room / Re: Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2007, 10:22 AM »

DMZ is one option, "bridging mode" is another (but then the 2nd router would still need PPPoA support, afaik).

I had signal problems with the old accesspoint, but it was pretty broken

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Living Room / Re: Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2007, 09:07 AM »

It's because of cable clutter and also a bit due to power consumption - and the heat generated by transformers/adapters, those little power bricks can get relatively hot.

Have modem and router separate can make sense (adsl vs adsl2, pppoe vs pppoa vs whatever), but I'd like to combine at least as many of router/switch/accesspoint. And as my current zyxel thing is combined modem/router, I'd like to either combine everything in one, or just the accesspoint/switch. (But hmm, the zyxel can be configured in bridge mode... I guess a router/switch/accesspoint device could be attached then, and the zyxel would function just as a dumb modem?)

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Living Room / Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2007, 04:01 AM »

Okay, so I'm getting tired of having a long RJ45 cable lying all over, for my girlfriends laptop. It feels especially stupid with all this clutter as her laptop has built-in wlan. I borrowed an old access-point from a friend, but it's too unstable, so I'm looking for something decent.

And this is where I get frustrated - there's a myriad of different products

My base requirement is a stable accesspoint of at least 54mbps, able to cover a 50m² apartment without signal strength dropping (the does mean handling a single wall splitting the bedroom and living room). WPA-PSK/WPA-2 are also required.

A four-port built-in 100mbit switch would also be nice, so I can get rid of my current switch and save a bit on clutter and power requirements. I'd rather have no built-in switch than something retarded that only runs ~50mbit even though it's wired.

I think it should be possible to find something that meets these requirements, but I haven't really been too successful - there's always been something wrong with the products I've found, like reviews indicating retarded signal strength or flaky connection

It would be even nicer if I could find a device that has routing, too - but then my requirements probably become too demanding: I need PPPoA support (which only seems to be available for a few devices?) and a built-in modem, since my current solution is a combined router/modem (ZyXel prestige 650) - and I want as few devices as possible.

Help?

EDIT: forgot to mention that I have ADSL. Currently 4096/512, will get upgraded to 8092/512 in March - so a router/modem should be able to handle that high speeds and be stable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Minesweeper cheats!

« Last post by f0dder on February 05, 2007, 12:28 AM »

It's an old-old-old-old cheat - I think it's been in there since forever. The word has been used in other places as well, mostly in old software - can't think of any titles right now, but I'm sure google will flood you

Hm, I don't think the site looks good - it reminds me too much of the pages that domain squatters put up >_<

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General Software Discussion / Re: Installing office 2007 gets me a consistent 20-30% increase in Explorer's CPU?

« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2007, 02:25 PM »

Sounds weird... does office2007 come with some indexing service or similar?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: to Shred a file already in Recycle Bin

« Last post by f0dder on February 04, 2007, 02:22 PM »

Mr.Fancypants: if you've deleted something from another partition than where your windows install resides, then drag that deleted file to your desktop, then my warning also applies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dexpot: Probably the best virtual desktop manager around

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2007, 07:43 AM »

Fix your link, it points to http://aston

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there any way to abort a reboot?

« Last post by f0dder on February 03, 2007, 01:26 AM »

It's not a feature...it's an application bug.

-app103

Actually, you could say it's a mix

The whole WM_QUERYENDSESSION/WM_ENDSESSION deal is pretty nice, without it apps would be terminated without a chance to save unsaved data (and shutdown wouldn't be halted if you hit "cancel" on a save request).

If an application is hung and doesn't reply to the messages, the shutdown process will hang for a while (but there's some timeouts, and those can be tweaked).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there any way to abort a reboot?

« Last post by f0dder on February 02, 2007, 06:06 PM »

Thing is that at a point during reboot/shutdown, windows won't let you launch new processes - you mostly see this if the system is in a limbo state because of a process that won't shut down.

So, generally, I'd say that it isn't feasible to abort shutdown - except for things like "critical service <bleh> has been nuked yadda yadda" (ie, what you get for a failed attack by the blaster worm or whatever).

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Living Room / Re: ASP or C# ?

« Last post by f0dder on February 02, 2007, 06:03 PM »

If I needed to do web stuff, I'd probably go for PHP - I have a bad impression of ASP from a end-user perspective (though those problems are probably more related to badly configured MSSQL servers than ASP as such).

As for hosting: you get what you pay for. Especially if you need database access. And it seems easier finding stable apache/php hosting than windows/asp (if you don't want to throw a lot of cash after it).

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Living Room / Re: be my valentine!

« Last post by f0dder on February 02, 2007, 04:11 AM »

I hate Valentines day >_<

Is such a silly and stupid guilt-laden commercialized p.o.s

Fortunately, my girlfriend thinks it's a bucket of crock as well, so at least I'm not in trouble :]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ripoff Britain strikes again ... this time with Vista Pricing

« Last post by f0dder on February 02, 2007, 04:10 AM »

I can't find OEM versions of Vista, and I think I heard something about Microsoft not wanting to allow this anyway (can't find any references though, so I might be wrong). Anyway, Vista price at www.shg.dk: Windows Vista Ultimate, 32/64 Bit, Retail: DKK3.899/GBP345.87. That's pretty insane.

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General Software Discussion / Re: console: a great CMD.exe replacement application

« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2007, 07:10 AM »

Interesting idea - but it doesn't seem to be able to fullscreen, one of my favourite hex editors, hexit looks pretty weird, and the console does feel a bit laggy.

But it might be nice when I just need a shell and no "interactive" apps in it, especially tab support sounds nice. Will test more

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Living Room / Re: Make Google Go Crazy,neet little javascript trick

« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2007, 07:02 AM »

Btw. neither versions work for me here on DC, with FF2... but work fine other places.

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Living Room / Re: backup question - how much of a risk is fire?

« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2007, 06:38 AM »

Freezer trick for harddrives is "the last blast" - at least you should consider it that way. Condensation water etc...

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Living Room / Re: Make Google Go Crazy,neet little javascript trick

« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2007, 03:27 AM »

Here's the source where I saw it first: http://www.pouet.net...=1&x=13&y=13 - looks pretty good on the http://pouet.net main page as well.

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Living Room / Re: backup question - how much of a risk is fire?

« Last post by f0dder on February 01, 2007, 03:22 AM »

reko100: confidentiality isn't much of an issue if you encrypt the stuff - bandwidth is a much higher concern.

Doing 2x backups and placing 2nd copy elsewhere is a good idea, but... it's sooooo troublesome if it's to be worth anything (ie., 2nd copy shouldn't be too close geographically).

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Developer's Corner / Re: Sorting Contest

« Last post by f0dder on January 31, 2007, 03:39 PM »

Funny thing is how some people thing radix sort is only usable for integers, and some even think it's only usable for byte-sized integers specifically...

Hybrid algorithms are