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Living Room / Re: can a file or folder structure make a pc crash at random?
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2007, 08:53 AM »
Hm, you only really need /R if you suspect the drive has bad sectors - otherwise /F is enough. But either causing reboots? Creepy!

Usually /F just needs to fix a few minor things, perhaps delete some excess indexes, it's pretty rare I've seen anything beyond that :(. You really should do a "chkdsk /f" on your drives after a BSOD, spontaneous reboot, lock-up requiring you to hard power-off, etc... that way you'll keep problems from creeping up on you.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Universal behavior for Ctrl-W
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2007, 08:26 PM »
It should be pretty easy globally remapping Ctrl+W to Ctrl+F4... adding the "close main app on no  tabs" would take more work, and I dunno if you can do it universally.

Checking if a program already handles Ctrl+W probably isn't that easy either, there's multiple ways a program can choose to handle key input.
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Living Room / Re: Soap Bubble 2: Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2007, 07:08 PM »
Oh christ this game is hard  :stars:
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Living Room / Re: can a file or folder structure make a pc crash at random?
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2007, 06:59 PM »
NTFS can get slightly corrupted, which can sometimes be enough to cause random freezes or just plain weird behaviour. It's usually fixed by a "chkdsk /f x:", which might require a reboot (ie, for system and paging file partitions). Dunno when/why this happens and why it's not auto-fixed...

Never lost data anyway, thanks to the journaling. (Well, except when playing with drivers and being very reckless, or when having hardware trouble :) ).
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Living Room / Re: The Novint Falcon - What is It?
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2007, 06:57 PM »
Looks weird.

I wonder why the only pictures of the thing looks like (bad) 3D renderings... why are there no "action shots"?
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 13, 2007, 02:30 AM »
Farmsteader: more like on the amiga - C=64 used SID music.

Gothi[c]: the whole point about .xm is that there's really tiny libraries for playback :). Yeah, I do know .s3m and .it... as long as there's some decent ->.xm conversion that'd be okay though.

Ruffnekk: of course it'll be posted here. Won't have time to complete it before a month or so from now, but the code should be pretty simple. Finding some skilled people for music & artwork, that's the problem :)
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 08:18 PM »
* f0dder grins - http://en.wikipedia...._%28module_format%29
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 08:03 PM »
Well, I'd prefer the .xm format since it's tiny and there's some tiny libraries available for playback - would be fun fitting everything in 64kb, just like the good old days :-*
-f0dder (January 12, 2007, 07:51 PM)
I don't have that technology yet, but I bet someone can convert wav/mp3 to .xm.  Just in case I'll see if I can find a freeware converter somewhwere.
-Farmsteader (January 12, 2007, 07:59 PM)
Not really possible - .xm is a format that has samples/instruments, along with "patterns" that play them... you could imagine it kinda like midi, but with embedded samples for the instruments. That's why .xm files can be pretty darn small, compared to formats that a just compressed waveforms.
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 07:57 PM »
No problem at all, would be fun to see whatever the crazy/creative people here can come up with, even if it wont suit my crazy idea :D
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 07:51 PM »
Well, I'd prefer the .xm format since it's tiny and there's some tiny libraries available for playback - would be fun fitting everything in 64kb, just like the good old days :-*
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Living Room / Re: Any creative/crazy musicians around?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 07:40 PM »
Well... it would be cool if you could do something that somehow reminds one of that song - I can't for the life of me think of how that'd sound, but it's for fitting in with the whole crazy idea I have :)
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Living Room / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #1
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 06:25 PM »
I hate. HATE HATE HATE and HATE++ the proprietary bloatsoft you need for most players today. Why can't they just frigging show up as a portable drive, like my good old (but diseased :( ) MuVo^2 did? Give users the damn option kthx.

The 8GB iPod NANO has to offer is enough for me - even with high-quality MP3s, it would offer 60+ hours of MP3s, and I don't mind having to rotate files manually when I need something 'fresh' (I do tend to be 'cyclic' in my music preferences, listening to the same n albums for a while).

Heck, if/when an updated version of ROCKbox comes out, I'll probably buy an 8GB nano - they're relatively cheap, flash memory isn't as fragile as disk-based players, it's tiny, and the battery lasts relatively long. I hate to say it, but it seems like the best player for me at the moment, apart from the current lame firmware and lame iTunes requirement. And the nanos aren't as butt-ugly as the old beige retro wannabe 70'es scifi look.
* f0dder mumbles and grumbles.
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Living Room / Re: PlateWire - The Voice of the Road
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 04:25 PM »
Hmm, time to re-introduce public flogging as well? :-*
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SMF Forum Mods / Re: Concerning posts subscription mod
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 04:24 PM »
Haha, tinjaw - I was thinking somewhat along the same lines. At least something making as much sense 8)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an indication that "start-up" is finished
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 04:21 PM »
Setting either thread or process affinity should be enough - thread affinity is "the thing that matters", but thread affinity is masked by process affinity.

Something else must be going wrong somewhere - probably either the 32- vs 64-bit issue, or perhaps a signed/unsigned integer issue? I guess I should grab a copy of AHK and see if I can figure out something :)
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Living Room / Re: Flash Element TD: Another Tower Defense Flash Game
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 04:20 PM »
Yeah, I played some more and found out that fire is good. I tend to need a single air tower to get through, but sell it as soon as I can get fire. Cannon towers can also be sold once you have enough cash for fire. I've made it farthest by also using some water in the last few levels, but perhaps more fire (and correctly upgraded) would be better.

Friend of mine actually completed the game, insane bugger! :| - he didn't reach nearly the highscore of other people, so I wonder if there's some special trix, or if the other highscores have been obtained by cheating.
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Living Room / Re: Wallet Test = Honesty Test -> How Will People Behave?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 09:11 AM »
Related post here...  :-\
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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 08:04 AM »
I think App or Carol mentioned those gadgets a while ago... Anyway, first google result for "matrox vga split":
http://www.gizmodo.c...ysplitter-136081.php
stretched_excel_mail_big.jpg
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an indication that "start-up" is finished
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 07:42 AM »
Hm, just tried out the app; seems like the affinitiy didn't do the trick (and it might not even be necessary with the timing call you're doing). However, the DllCall to GetSystemTimes looks pretty curious. I'm not really into AHK, but it looks strange - the times returned by GetSystemTimes are 64bit quantities, I would guess the "uint" you pass along means unsigned 32bit, and "VarSetCapacity" also indicates you're reserving 4 bytes of memory... so perhaps the GetSystemTimes call trashes some other memory?
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Living Room / Re: How do you spend your time on the computer?
« Last post by f0dder on January 12, 2007, 07:23 AM »
You guys actually have a downloads folder? I have download drives, each for a specific type of thing.
Yeah, mounted at s:\downloads until I have the new partitioning layout all sorted, used to be e:\downloads. That's just all sorts of misc stuff - if I download something large (linux iso, the entire series of "welcome to the scene", whatever) it typically goes somewhere else. Specific partitions for downloading sounds like a bit of drive space waste... I do try to keep some sensible tree structure in that folder, though. Anyway:

[Select]
S:\>dir /s download
     ....................
     Total Files Listed:
           13849 File(s) 12.199.440.250 bytes
            5111 Dir(s)  23.790.870.528 bytes free

eek. Needs sorting and deletion and that kind of stuff.
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General Software Discussion / Re: WARNING - Fake Ashampoo Winoptimiser has been posted ...
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2007, 02:36 PM »
Hm, what's the deal on this?

Malware included, or cracked (ie., registration stuff removed)?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Linux Kernel in a Nutshell Available For Download
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2007, 02:02 PM »
Interesting.
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Living Room / Re: Roxik Pictaps - Let your Drawings Dance - Brilliant!
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2007, 01:41 PM »
That's pretty artsy... if it wasn't interactive (and if it had some music and was synced to it), it could've been an arty-fartsy new-style demo :)
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Living Room / Re: Flash Element TD: Another Tower Defense Flash Game
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2007, 10:46 AM »
Mmh, this one is pretty nice - too bad my mum's laptop overheated and did the auto-shutdown dance >_<

Christ the game is hard... I made it to bonus level 1, with a score of 1,802. The worst score on the board is 13,081, and the best is 46,727 - do they cheat, or are they just a lot better than me? :O
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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by f0dder on January 11, 2007, 10:40 AM »
Looks nice - I'd still prefer two smaller screens, though.

By the way, you should position your keeberd (hm, that was supposed to be "keyboard" :-s) further towards the wall, so you can rest your arms on the table...
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