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Living Room / Re: Literal Videos - Hilarious!

« Last post by Eóin on June 20, 2009, 09:50 AM »

To point out one very good one, A-ha, Take on me.

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=lnjYrP5J6rE
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Note, seems the original is gone, so this is a shorter version.

Also a different but related theme is literally interpreting the sounds in foreign videos as English words, for example here's a good one, though slightly NSFW.

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=yRSc5z55QGM
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Eóin on June 18, 2009, 04:46 AM »

From a post on AmazingSuperPowers.com, the best of spam.

A modest fetid pile of spammy comments tends to build up at ASP. Here are some of my favorites and first impressions.

“Check out the new Mexican Swine Flu Ringtone”
Does it come with SARS wallpaper?

“Good article, Thanks. Thanks.”
We changed this person’s life with a post about dinosaurs.

“I want to find good pop music. Help me please.”
Are you on an abstract scavenger hunt?

“Amoxicillin….Amoxicillin. Amoxicillin 500 mg facts. Canine dosage for amoxicillin for sinus infection. How quickly does amoxicillin work. Amoxicillin order mexico mexican. Can i drink beer if i m taking amoxicillin?!”
My best guess is that this was written by an alcoholic Wolfman with sinusitis.

“Is the museum open on Sunday?”
…sure. But they might close an hour earlier.

“Good afternoon! Escort Model information there. Fish-girl men. I am pleased to welcome you to its website, prostitutes and Fish. You can visit my blog.”
You, sir, are a pioneer.

“Good article, Thanks. my name Philip.”
My name Phillip. I bring porn links.

“Prozac…prozac…”
These are the mumblings of depressed zombies.

-http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/06/best-of-spam/

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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use

« Last post by Eóin on June 14, 2009, 08:10 PM »

Since you want encryption I'd say combine msysgit, tortoisegit with an ssh server, possibly freeSSHd but I've no experience with others to claim it's best or anything, but it does work.

Sounds like a bit of a hack to combine all three but tortoisegit and msysgit go hand in hand anyway. I use them all the time and love it. freeSSHd worked flawlessly for me in past for PuTTY console and tunneling access, since git can talk over ssh directly it works fine through tortoisegit. Git as a versioning system does take some getting used to though, I found it very different from Subversion, but now feel making the change was well worth it. Still may be overkill for your purposes.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use

« Last post by Eóin on June 14, 2009, 07:11 PM »

You could use a distributed versioning system? Probably serious overkill, but free.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for P2p file sharing for personal use

« Last post by Eóin on June 12, 2009, 09:10 PM »

Well WASTE would work. Seems the fork WASTE again is active.

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Living Room / Re: IE to be removed from Windows 7 in EU

« Last post by Eóin on June 12, 2009, 08:58 PM »

This is rather just EC show of to prove what they can do. They did it once already discussing how much curved bananas should be.

-fenixproductions (June 12, 2009, 08:25 PM)

I don't know why you assume such maliciousness. The EU has anti-monopoly laws to maintain competition within the market. MS broke those laws and got fined. It's not about throwing weight around.

And that banana thing was blown out of proportion. The original truth is nothing like the story reported in blogs and the media, no surprise there.

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Living Room / Re: IE to be removed from Windows 7 in EU

« Last post by Eóin on June 12, 2009, 08:01 PM »

Sometimes I'd really like to hear from MS mouths: "Because of EC recommendations, selling Windows in EU is not profitable so… Win7 (and others which will follow) will not be sold in EU."

-fenixproductions (June 12, 2009, 11:23 AM)

I'm pretty sure the EU is a bigger market for MS than USA, they couldn't dare risk pulling out. And if they want to do business here then must abide by the rules same as everyone else.

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by Eóin on June 12, 2009, 07:55 AM »

What would actually be useful is to know WHY the prompt.
Is this installer trying to write to c:\windows? Is it adding something in the registry? What? etc

-urlwolf (June 12, 2009, 06:20 AM)

This would only work though if you had to ok every operation, and that wouldn't be fun. As it is one could ok the first innocent looking operation and then all the malicious ones could follow.

now, when I get a prompt, I'm blind. I just assume it must be ok to accept.

If the thing I'm installing has a big hoking trojan inside, there's no way for me to know that. How is UAC helping with security then? It's just making me exercise my fingers.

-urlwolf (June 12, 2009, 06:20 AM)

For me I really see UAC as asking 'Do you trust this app do give it free reign of your system?'. Personally I just not sure how else it could work.

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Living Room / Re: Is UAC as bad as I think it is?

« Last post by Eóin on June 11, 2009, 07:44 PM »

My understanding was that UAC being a PITA was to give developers a wake up call and get them to stop their apps wanting Admin privileges when most never need it.

Which is equally stupid as far as users are concerned but history would seem to show that the only means of getting developers to change their ways are to stop those old ways working. DEP for example would prevent a lot of buffer issues but developers won't stop mixing code with data hence DEP has to be left opt-in by default if those badly written programs are to still work.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Eóin on June 11, 2009, 07:30 PM »

I guess the humour for me is that I've sat through loads of proper talks and in every way except the actual content that was a perfect imitation. The paper too, except the words, is formatted exactly like the familiar published research.  So for me it's funny to see such lunacy presented in a format you'd never expect to be anything but serious. Perhaps without that context it's just bland.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Eóin on June 11, 2009, 03:07 PM »

Everything you never wanted to know about poultry so didn't bother to ask.

Chicken chicken chicken

Also there is a recording of a presentation of the paper on YouTube - http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk.

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Living Room / Re: The Longest Joke in the World

« Last post by Eóin on June 11, 2009, 02:56 PM »

Good one Edvard

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Living Room / Re: NSFW - The website is down!

« Last post by Eóin on June 06, 2009, 02:12 PM »

why has no one responded to this post. the "website is down" videos are hilarious.

-nudone (June 06, 2009, 11:26 AM)

Well I saw the title and thought it was saying some site I hadn't heard of before, NSFW, was down. Silly me. Funny vid.

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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by Eóin on June 03, 2009, 01:31 AM »

Hi, the pronounciation does actually throw people off because of the three vowels in a row. The E is silent really, so it's pronounced exactly like the word 'own'.

The other Gaelic spelling is Eoghan, the English would spell it Owen.

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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« Last post by Eóin on June 03, 2009, 12:23 AM »

My name simply is Eóin

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« Last post by Eóin on June 02, 2009, 11:08 AM »

Didn't check if the links were still valid myself, but try the torrent files. And of course always make you you double check the file hash when it's downloaded to be sure you have a genuine non hacked ISO.

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« Last post by Eóin on June 02, 2009, 09:24 AM »

Nudone, there are retail ISOs there also, but yeah if you download the VL ISO a preinstalled key won't work with it.

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2009, 07:14 PM »

The legalities on these issues are always dubious but if the key is legit then ultimately that's what you paid for so there should be nothing wrong. Also this link was mentioned here before.

http://www.tipandtri...via-http-or-torrent/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you ever test in High contrast mode?

« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2009, 03:38 PM »

Fascinating question. Personally I tend to code my apps to have the most 'native' look possible which basically is my way of saying don't do anything custom or fancy.

I really feel programmers should leave those things to the users. I you make your app simple and play nice with the classic gray look and the XP look then you mostly get all the more recent Vista/Aero effects for free and users get to run 3rd Visual Styles when they feel the look of their desktop needs some spicing up. And most importantly (in my opinion) they get that consistent look across all their programs.

That said though I have just spotting an error on my part, a custom font color to distinguish some text only in certain cases messes up if the default text colour isn't balck, exactly the problem you've mentioned.

Guess it time to change that hard coded colour value to one from the system pallet.

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Living Room / Re: Star Trek 2009 - Discussion [SPOILERS]

« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2009, 01:17 PM »

I enjoyed, I'd say the alt. reality business was to just give the freedom to plots of any future movies. You would make big enemies of the die hards who would be driven mad by the various contradictions setting your events within an already established, pretty obsessivly loved, universe.

Now fans have the characters they love in a whole new set of 'adventures' and newcomers don't have to know the eniter backstory to be able to just pickup and enjoy the movies for what they are.

A wish decision I think.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2009, 11:09 AM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by Eóin on May 30, 2009, 01:35 PM »

What if someone else exploits it? I think some of you are very smart but naive people.

-kartal (May 30, 2009, 01:10 PM)

No, it can't be exploited. This is not naivety, a DLL just sitting there inactive is completely benign. It cannot activate itself and if something else activates it then that is the malware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by Eóin on May 30, 2009, 09:26 AM »

Josh that's incorrect, a DLL sitting there not in use is completely benign. It's only if it is loaded into a process can it cause harm, and even then no more harm than that process itself could do. It getting loaded into some processes address space cannot happen spontaneously, something must load it and that something is then the malicious application, not the DLL.

Sorry to be blunt but you're concerns here are unfounded.

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Living Room / Re: Help me build the ultimate metal playlist

« Last post by Eóin on May 29, 2009, 05:59 PM »

You need more Disturbed songs Specifically I'd add

• Criminal
• Facade
• Deify

to the tracks already mentioned.

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Living Room / Re: Google demonstrates new communication platform "WAVE": mail, chat , wiki, ..

« Last post by Eóin on May 29, 2009, 03:43 PM »

This looks interesting, normally I am sceptic but this... well as I said, it looks interesting.