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General Software Discussion / Re: A sneaky new attack on privacy

« Last post by Renegade on May 06, 2011, 07:18 AM »

So with such a contradiction, isn't that opening themselves up for lawsuits?
 

-Edvard (May 06, 2011, 01:40 AM)

Not really, in lawyer speak it says they promise not to, but reserve the right to. At least that's my interpretation of it. I'll not be touching that with a 438" pole.

-Stoic Joker (May 06, 2011, 06:51 AM)

That's 11 m, 12 cm and 5.2 mm for those that use metric. i.e. A damn long pole~!

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Living Room / Re: Save Stargate Universe

« Last post by Renegade on May 06, 2011, 07:15 AM »

I like fringe, supernatural, heroes, battlestar galactica, true blood, the walking dead

-justice (May 06, 2011, 03:43 AM)

You've written my list~!

I'd add Caprica and Dexter to that though. And South Park. Twice.

"The Event" is ok.

It was a tragedy when Farscape got canceled. That show was brilliant.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line

« Last post by Renegade on May 06, 2011, 02:14 AM »

I wrote this line in MS Word: "one two"

now, I want the "one" to appear in the left margin of the page (left align) and the "two" to appear in the right margin of the page (right align)

how do I do this?

-kalos (May 05, 2011, 06:19 PM)

Select justify as the alignment mode.
use shift-enter to end the line.
Yes, I know this is a weird way, but it works.

-eleman (May 06, 2011, 01:50 AM)

Hahahah~! Nice one~!

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Developer's Corner / Re: AttachMate/Novell Lays Off People - Mono Hit

« Last post by Renegade on May 06, 2011, 02:11 AM »

F-Spot doesn't seem to run on Windows. But wouldn't the whole point of using Mono be to run something easily on both Windows and Linux?

-phitsc (May 06, 2011, 01:39 AM)

There are still platform specific things that you can include/exclude.

They might just have decided to build for Linux, but reuse their C# skills and forget Windows.

Dunno.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 08:26 PM »

I find tabs and all that gooey goodness are almost futile in Office 2010:



The behavior seems random, and display is never correct.

Could just be me though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 08:11 PM »

Columns work, but then the text is:

one
two

Either way, it's a messy proposition in Word. Word just isn't meant for layout.

Another way is to use text boxes... Yuck.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 07:26 PM »

hello

I wrote this line in MS Word: "one two"

now, I want the "one" to appear in the left margin of the page (left align) and the "two" to appear in the right margin of the page (right align)

how do I do this?

thanks

-kalos (May 05, 2011, 06:19 PM)

Use a table. In the left cell, left align, and in the right cell, right align.

It's messy, but it works and it's easy.

Alignment is a block level operation.

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Developer's Corner / AttachMate/Novell Lays Off People - Mono Hit

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 06:54 PM »

I'm sure a lot of people have already heard this, but AttachMate/Novell has laid off a lot of people.

Mono has also been hit, though how hard is not yet public.

http://www.networkwo...aza-gnome-ipad2.html

http://blog.internet...-off-mono-emplo.html

Some Mono software:

http://banshee.fm/

http://f-spot.org/

This is really a crying shame.

I hope that Mono continues.

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Living Room / Re: Save Stargate Universe

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 06:28 PM »

Season 2 improved quite a lot in storyline and acting. So count me in.

-Shades (May 05, 2011, 05:08 PM)

First seasons are always shaky. But I think they did a pretty good job there -- it was engaging more than most. Now, it's like heroin - I need my SGU fix.

Make sure to like those. Maybe, just maybe sanity will return to SyFy!

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Living Room / Re: Save Stargate Universe

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 04:31 PM »

A good article:

http://www.justpress...argate-universe.html

A television show was already spared the gruesome hand of fate once this year, and now fans are hoping to do the same for Stargate Universe, the most recent chapter in the fan-favorite franchise. Unlike Fringe (the other show I was talking about), SGU's lifeline isn't quite so strong. As Fringe was thrown into the death slot by Fox, SGU is currently enjoying its last rites by SyFy, pure and simple. As of the final episode, next Monday, SGU will be dead. And yet, there's a glimmer of hope in what is an increasingly common phenomenon: the fan-organized campaign. An official Save SGU Facebook Page, meet-ups, e-mail campaigns - you name it - if there's a viable way to rally and do it online, SGU fans have done it.

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Living Room / Save Stargate Universe

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 04:22 PM »

Does anyone watch Stargate Universe?

http://www.facebook.com/SaveSGU

It's last show is coming up, sadly. It's a fantastic show.

The SyFy channel has some amazing super-powers that enable it to cancel all the greatest shows it comes out with, and they're going to use their super-powers to cancel SGU.

If you like SGU, then go like the FB page and spread the word. SGU is on it's last legs, but there's still hope...

Also:

http://www.facebook....Universe/61338771473

http://www.facebook....ateuniverseaustralia

A couple other pages to like.

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Developer's Corner / Re: C# : Object Lifetime is Not (entirely) Determined by Scope ?

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 03:57 PM »

GC is a two-edged sword.

99.9% of the time it's amazing.

Then, there's that 0.1% where it's black magic, requiring dark incantations, sacrifices, and mortgaging parts of your soul.

There are rare instances where you need to force GC. I've seen a couple, and don't like them at all. Still, it's what it is, and the small amount of pain is worth avoiding other pains that it solves.

Lambda expressions and anonymous delegates are 2 examples where "scope" kind of alters meaning.

You can have a method finish, but your lambda expression code can still be running. They're nice, terse ways to express functionality, but they come from functional programming and look somewhat odd in the context of OO programming, and are counter-intuitive when you look at them the first time.

I'm sure there are other reasons for object lifetime not being entirely determined by scope, but that's one look at "scope".

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 03:46 PM »

Nobody dismisses '"brute force" cracking techniques as being impractical any more. Today's multicore CPUs make it an extremely workable crack for most passwords people are able to commit to memory.

-40hz (May 05, 2011, 09:55 AM)

Check this out concerning brute force cracking of passwords. Was posted just recently somewhere.

-phitsc (May 05, 2011, 10:12 AM)

Good article. I was glad to see that they addressed the pass-phrase technique, especially as they showed just how good it is. I've heard people poo-poo on it as being useless.

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 05:30 AM »

Ouch.

When I worked at ESTsoft, they got around that problem entirely in ALPass Online.

Instead of storing salt and the like, the database had strong encryption and was only ever decrypted on the client. (IIRC) If you ever forgot your password, you were screwed though because YOU were the only one that ever had access to it. As such, warnings were BIG and LOUD.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Endless Projects - Dr. Dobbs article

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 05:11 AM »

@iphigenie - Some very good points there. Especially about working in teams.

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Developer's Corner / Re: WTF is Wrong with Web Developers? (Rant)

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 03:36 AM »

Obviously there is a market for a solution Renegade

-justice (May 05, 2011, 03:30 AM)

Hahahaha~!

True enough. But it's probably easier and cheaper for them to do it all in-house.

One site I use copies you with an email. But for some reason, they assume that your email is run on an open relay. Ahem. Uh... No. Just nuttiness. It's easy enough to fix though.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Endless Projects - Dr. Dobbs article

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 03:15 AM »

I read this article on Dr. Dobbs yesterday and was asking myself: does the programming language really make such a big difference on productivity.

Obviously, the availability of libraries makes a big difference on productivity. I also think that some programming languages are much better suited for certain tasks than others (e.g. systems programming vs. web stuff). But for something like a desktop GUI application, why would I be 10 times more productive with Ruby than with Java or C#, or even with C++ using a decent GUI toolkit for that matter?

-phitsc (May 05, 2011, 02:53 AM)

This is what I think is some of the brilliance in .NET -- a complete framework where you are free to work in any language you want.

I think the greatest factor in productivity is "what you know", then language after that, contingent on the task. e.g. Not assembler for UI, and not JavaScript for DSP, etc.

I've not bothered to learn Ruby, but I'd like to know if it really is all that great. I guess I should look at Iron Ruby sometime.

Obviously, the availability of libraries makes a big difference on productivity.

I'm all for buy rather than build. Why spend 6 months or a year to become an expert when you can spend $100, or whatever, and get all that expert work done for you instantly? Doesn't make sense to me.

I'd like to know if there's something faster than what I'm doing now...

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Renegade on May 05, 2011, 01:57 AM »

Imagine if OBL had been the same..with fruit juice instead of beer of course.

-tsaint (May 05, 2011, 01:37 AM)

Y'know, that could be a part of the problem. Then again, I'd hate to think what he'd be like if he were an angry, violent drunk~!

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Living Room / You're Only As Young As... Oh... Scratch That...

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 08:14 PM »

Wow... As they say, there's the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly...

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Developer's Corner / Re: WTF is Wrong with Web Developers? (Rant)

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 07:41 PM »

Deadlines?

-fenixproductions (May 04, 2011, 02:36 PM)

Probably. Some idiot project manager would rather have something that doesn't work now, than have something that works next week. Sigh...

It just seems like a lot of site use some form designer and forget that data needs to be verified.



I sooo do not feel sorry for the school...

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 07:36 PM »

No. Soviet military forces engaged in war are not considered innocent noncombatants. Al Qaeda is engaged in war with the US. Therefore, their leader is a valid military target.

-edbro (May 04, 2011, 04:00 PM)

Interesting. Since Obama is the Commander in Chief of the US forces, I suppose he's a legitimate target as well, and not exempt as a head of state. Just musing...

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 01:02 PM »

You're really going for that clown badge, aren't you?

no more clown badges until 2012, so don't work yourself up over it!

-mouser (May 04, 2011, 01:01 PM)

Just as long as they're given out before December 21st~!

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 12:59 PM »

But that's just a conspiracy theory...

-wraith808 (May 04, 2011, 12:47 PM)

Make no mistake... They ARE out to get YOU~!

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 12:17 PM »

Doing the rounds on Digg today... (see attachment in previous post)

-nosh (May 04, 2011, 11:33 AM)

Actually, come to think of it, that's a serious issue.

Given Apple's behavior, you could never trust them in any secure environment.

-Renegade (May 04, 2011, 11:48 AM)

O_o ...Because they're tracking them by their foot prints now too..?

-Stoic Joker (May 04, 2011, 12:02 PM)

Thankfully they don't have the footprints of important people yet...

Obama has a Blackberry.

Osama had an iPhone:



Source

Yeah... You know that was me~!

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Renegade on May 04, 2011, 11:48 AM »

Doing the rounds on Digg today... (see attachment in previous post)

-nosh (May 04, 2011, 11:33 AM)

Actually, come to think of it, that's a serious issue.

Given Apple's behavior, you could never trust them in any secure environment.