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Living Room / Re: I wish there was some way to Encrypt my bike so it won't be stolen

« Last post by f0dder on December 18, 2006, 05:57 PM »

f0dder: I once turned in a wallet with money in. The police officer asked me if I was stupid since I hadn't grabbed the money myself... I'm pretty sure the owner of the purse got his purse and credit cards etc. back, but I'm also pretty sure mister cop had a 'bonus' that month.

Good on you for your honesty. Nowadays, too many are willing to debase their personal integrity for a handful of dollars!

-cranioscopical (December 17, 2006, 04:57 PM)

Well, sorry to say, but that incident did chip my integrity. If I found a wallet today, I would take the money before turning it in... I would still make sure to turn it in at a police station though, to make sure somebody with even lesser moral fibre wouldn't abuse credit cards etc.

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Living Room / Re: Cognitively Disturbing - But Funny As Hell!!

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 11:21 PM »

Horror! The horror!

Useless piece of trivia: this reminded me of  the horrible "Scatman John", which iirc was produced in my old town...

edit by jgpaiva: fixing missing "url=" tag

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Living Room / Re: I wish there was some way to Encrypt my bike so it won't be stolen

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 11:12 PM »

Yup, my (locked) bike was stolen in broad daylight, and I was only away from it for an hour.

Had to buy a new one, since otherwise I'd have no way to get to work (no public transportation going on at four in the morning, and ~12km was too long to walk) - so I borrowed some money from my girlfriend and got a nice new bike. And finally got my act together and signed up for some insurance.

Now the funny part... after a month or so, I got a letter from the police, they had found my old bike. Still in good condition, only the saddle was ruined and it was a bit dirty. And still locked. Pretty weird stuff. But it's nice enough having an extra bike, in case my new one gets stolen >_<

As for police laughing at you, I once turned in a wallet with money in. The police officer asked me if I was stupid since I hadn't grabbed the money myself... I'm pretty sure the owner of the purse got his purse and credit cards etc. back, but I'm also pretty sure mister cop had a 'bonus' that month.

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Living Room / Re: Very odd graphics problem - anyone any ideas ?

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 11:00 PM »

I've had (and probably still have? ) the same issue, only with a single card with two monitors attached... haven't tested if it still happens after I changed my GF6600 to a GF7600GT, though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Office Tools and a Music Player - Right in your Browser?!

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 10:55 PM »

Nice, but...

what's the point of integrating everything in the browser? Okay, cross-platform and use-everywhere...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bcc32Pch and other C++Builder IDE Plugins that speed up and enhance BCB

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 10:51 PM »

Interesting... so the IDE has a built-in compiler, instead of spawning commandline tools? And the commandline tools are faster than the built-in? O_o. Whatever happened to the decent Borland the wrote Turbo C and Turbo Pascal?

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Living Room / Re: Tofu Makes You Gay

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 10:40 PM »

Sorta interesting, but no links to sources or anything - pretty fishy.

But it's worth keeping in mind those gay emo kids all eat tofu

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General Software Discussion / Re: Regex Renamer

« Last post by f0dder on December 16, 2006, 10:28 PM »

But then it uses CVS...   And that just seems too painful to be worth bothering with.

-Renegade (December 16, 2006, 10:17 PM)

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Internet Explorer 7 or "Is MS determined to make everyone hate them by 2010?"

« Last post by f0dder on December 15, 2006, 03:06 AM »

dudone: Website Watcher, 'buff said

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Mircryption / Re: Norton antivirus false alarm

« Last post by f0dder on December 15, 2006, 02:21 AM »

The following two lines sum it up:
Norton = suck
ZoneAlarm = suck

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General Software Discussion / Re: Warning: FireFox renders slow like a turtle in a coma

« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2006, 06:43 PM »

Guess I should try that out...

I tend to hate "smooth scroll" stuff though, and always turn it off in IE and Opera. So if it's just adding some pixel/smooth scroll kind of thing, it's not for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: customizing running services on different XP logins

« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2006, 06:38 PM »

You don't need to partition to dual-boot, as long as you install copy #2 of windows in another folder (ie, c:\WinXP instead of c:\windows) - but it's recommendable to do so anyway.

Oh, and it is necessary if you're installing a 32-bit as well as a 64-bit windows - DON'T EVER TRY TO DO THAT ON THE SAME PARTITION!. Unless you really know what you're doing, and edit all the right files pre-install.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ISO Programming - Edit/Merge

« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2006, 09:40 AM »

This is probably a bigger task than you're imagining...

there's multiple filesystem formats being used in isos: ISO9660/joliet, rock ridge, UFS, and probably more if you're into 'exotic' ISOs. And there's various extentions and rule-relaxations as well.

Your best bet is probably finding a tool to extract ISOs, extract both files, then use mkisofs (or that Microsoft tool that allows only storing data for identical files once), and re-build the ISO.

It's a bit hacky, but at least you can automate the process...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Warning: FireFox renders slow like a turtle in a coma

« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2006, 09:35 AM »

Must be some extensions playing tricks, mouser.

FireFox rendering does seem a slightly tiny bit slower than IE, but not much, and I've only seen very seldomly, and only while scrolling up and down, up and down, up and down...

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General Software Discussion / Re: customizing running services on different XP logins

« Last post by f0dder on December 14, 2006, 08:59 AM »

Is there a program out there that will allow me to turn off a whole slew of services upon startup?  That way, I can just stick it as a shortcut in the startup folder and it will run at logon, and turn off all the specified services.  That would be one way to do it, right?

-superboyac (December 14, 2006, 01:35 AM)

Yep. Make a batch file or autohotkey/autoit/whatever script, and set it up so it runs it after some delay (some services take a bit of time starting).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free 3D Box Shot Maker

« Last post by f0dder on December 13, 2006, 07:32 PM »

I've always thought these kind of things were pretty silly, especially for products that don't even have physical boxes... but at least (from the shot above ), this one seems to get perspective right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Double Standards

« Last post by f0dder on December 13, 2006, 07:30 PM »

If anyone else were to develop "monopolistic" software, would they receive the same treatment? Doubtfully.

If they became just as big as MS is now, and developed the same "we own you and your computer and your media and your soul" tendencies, they probably would.

Flaming Microsoft just because they're Microsoft is silly - but bashing them when they do something bad (and boy, they often do that!) is okay. There's plenty of reason to attack IE, Vista, many non-kernel developers of MS, et cetera.

If Microsoft looses serious ground, I predict google to be the new boo-hiss-hateya company...

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ProcessTamer / Re: On Digg's Front Page

« Last post by f0dder on December 13, 2006, 07:22 PM »

Nice ^_^

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General Software Discussion / Re: customizing running services on different XP logins

« Last post by f0dder on December 13, 2006, 07:20 PM »

I'm pretty sure services are global... iirc they're under HKLM, which isn't per-user.

But you could make some script (or even batch file) to easily disable the services you don't need - see the commands "net start" and "net stop".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why Microsoft fears Open Source (in their own words)

« Last post by f0dder on December 13, 2006, 07:17 PM »

"open sores" wasn't a slip, it was a specific reference to GPL

I don't have a problem with Open Source as such, not even some of the free ones - BSD/Apache/zlib etc. seem like decent licenses... what I'm apalled by is the GPL hypocrites; GPL is not free in the "speech" way, and even not always in the "beer" way either.

There are situations where a "really free" license (BSD, or even public domain) is good, and there are situations where more restrictive "greatest good for the greatest number" licenses work better (although I'd never opt for GPL unless I was forced to).

I'm personally a fan of a special form of "open source" (which will of course be flamed to death by zealots and labeled "not open") that involves giving your clients the source code for your solution under very restrictive license... basically ensuring them that if you go out of business, they don't have to start from scrap, and also ensuring there's no back doors etc. Difference from traditional Open Source license being that your client can not redistribute the program(s) and that you still own the absolute rights.

What the FOSS/GPL crew wants is software socialism, which would kill off programming as an employment, dull out innovation (GPL projects are usually just more bugged and less featureful copies of commercial software), move programming to a hobby (or underpaid chinese/indians/whatever), and move the money to support and big firms.

I want to code for a living, not being a support monkey.

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Living Room / Re: Judgement Day

« Last post by f0dder on December 12, 2006, 06:26 PM »

Redhat: search the forum for some of mouser's posts about... umm... toys

Or perhaps buy her 1984 and Brave New World and Fahrenheit... great educational stuff.

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Living Room / Re: 'Ware the Bearded One...

« Last post by f0dder on December 12, 2006, 05:32 PM »

Some of those santas look pretty perv 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What non-programming tools do you use for programming?

« Last post by f0dder on December 12, 2006, 05:26 PM »

Veign: plain - that's what I use, anyway.

Sometimes pen and paper, for some reason getting away from the computer and not using a text editor helps. Got a (too small, but still nice) whiteboard too. A bunch of (physical) books on coding, as well as some ebooks. Google & MSDN.

And as Eóin, laying in bed or on a couch, or going for a stroll.

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General Software Discussion / Re: musikCube 1.0 Final Released

« Last post by f0dder on December 11, 2006, 09:47 AM »

Hm, does the musikCube developer specifically say he won't support cue-sheets, or just that he isn't planning to write the code himself?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What Programming Language have you USED THE MOST over the past 12 months?

« Last post by f0dder on December 10, 2006, 06:23 PM »

C++ here.