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Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?
« Last post by f0dder on October 11, 2006, 09:19 AM »
Well, the "machine gun sound" should only be when there's read/write activity (which, granted, there will be a lot of the time on a windows box). Those head movement sounds haven't ever really annoyed me, though - so it's the sound (including pitch) of spinning I'm interested in.

My computer is fairly quiet - at least quiet enough I can sleep with it turned on. The only really annoying thing about it is that sometimes there will be a "cyclic" kind of noise, instead of a "constantly shaped" background noise (a bit hard to describe :)). It's because of resonance, and pressing a bit against the side of the box for a few seconds usually stops it. I need a 50kg steel case, I think :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Myths
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 06:14 PM »
Mastertech: I have to wonder if you're a troll or just dull. Windows will never ever "create a paging file in memory", and such a term doesn't even make any sense at all. The only thing that can happen from disabling the paging file is that you might run out of memory, and some greedy application will be denied a memory request.
-f0dder (October 10, 2006, 04:54 PM)
Disable paging to disk, reboot and look at the Task Manager, Performance Tab.
-Mastertech (October 10, 2006, 06:02 PM)
Look at process explorer from sysinternals which has the real name for the value: "commit". The read up "Inside Windows 2000" (or Windows Internals as the more recent version is called) to get an idea of how the windows memory management works.

Oh and I have already corrected you on your incorrect advice on LargeSystemCache.
-Mastertech (October 10, 2006, 06:02 PM)
Nope :)
Try doing disk-cache intensive stuff in a large-memory system and you'll see what I mean. The Microsoft cautions in the knowledge-base article you refer to apply to low-memory systems. The default windows 2k/xp memory management settings might have been fitting for ~128meg machines, but are a bit conservative for modern machines.

Do keep in mind that the filesystem cache is dynamic, and will thus be adjusted depending on full system needs. LargeSystemCache simply means than, on a large-memory machine, your RAM won't be wasted.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Myths
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 05:00 PM »
Sorry. Hard and annoying evening at work and I haven't had my sugar dose.
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Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 04:58 PM »
How much noise does the Raptor make when your room is otherwise quiet? I'm interested in both the (high-pithc?) spinning sound, as well as the head movement noise.
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General Software Discussion / Re: foobar...honestly...WTF?! WTF?!
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 04:56 PM »
Look, over there! It's superman!
:-[
Okay, so I confused foobar and musikCube wrt. source code availability. Feel free to chop my head off :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Myths
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 04:54 PM »
Mastertech: I have to wonder if you're a troll or just dull. Windows will never ever "create a paging file in memory", and such a term doesn't even make any sense at all. The only thing that can happen from disabling the paging file is that you might run out of memory, and some greedy application will be denied a memory request.

Also note that this only works for XP, Windows 2000 and below require at least a minimal (~20meg) paging file, and will create one at boottime if you've disabled it.
-f0dder (July 19, 2006, 02:14 PM)
Yeah in RAM and multitasking performance will suffer.
-Mastertech (October 10, 2006, 10:15 PM)
Wrong, on disk - easy to verify. And again, only 2k does this, XP doesn't. And again, no such thing as "paging file in RAM".

The article also seems to confuse 80386 protected mode "virtual memory"/"paging" with the process of paging in/out from disk - just because 80386 paging is enabled doesn't mean you have to page (or swap) to disk.
-f0dder (July 19, 2006, 02:14 PM)
People confuse paging to disk with Virtual Memory, thus they think disabling paging to disk is disabling virtual memory.
-Mastertech (October 10, 2006, 10:15 PM)
Some people do, I don't. x86 paging/virtual memory cannot be disable on windows, but the use of a paging file can (on XP). There's a big difference between "paging" (protected per-process virtual memory space) and the "paging file" (swap storage on disk).

Once you've mastered x86 protected mode, know what a kernel debugger is, and what the numbers in Process Explorer means, feel free to try and correct me.
8107
Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 07:53 PM »
We've got a few gymballs at work, pretty nice to use now and then, but I generally prefer a chair so I can sit relaxed & comfy. But changing between chair, gymball and standing up is pretty nice at work...
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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 05:46 PM »
I like Beyond Compare's default view:
bc2_1.png

CSDiff has a unique view that will let you view differences inline, which makes it worth having even if you buy any of the others.
-rjbull (October 10, 2006, 04:51 PM)

Not sure if I'm missing something here, but isn't that what this view mode is about?
bc2_2.png
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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 05:38 PM »
I'd actually prefer my 2x17" TFT to the Athens... I don't need that much screen real estate since I'm not a stock broker :). Actually, I don't think I'd trade these for anything else, since they fit my needs (and desktop ;)) perfectly.

I wouldn't mind, however, a 42" HD-ready TV ;)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: screen saver that runs 24/7 regardless of user privileges?
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 04:25 PM »
jammo: I thought the .msc files were on home too, but I dunno. Anyway, all the .msc files do is set some registry entries etc., so you can set up stuff on a Pro machine, regmon, find the necessary entries, and export those to a .reg file - then it's as simple as double-clicking that file on the target machines :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: screen saver that runs 24/7 regardless of user privileges?
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 02:58 PM »
I think what you want to look at is the windows policy group stuff... try start->run gpedit.msc and look around, you might just get lucky :)
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Living Room / Re: Watch Ahree Lee age three years before your eyes
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 01:51 AM »
Narcissistic but hypnotically fascinating.

Somebody should do a version of it with one of those horror-shock-argh! effects merged in ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: foobar...honestly...WTF?! WTF?!
« Last post by f0dder on October 10, 2006, 01:38 AM »
I've never really had a problem with track gaps - there are reasonably solutions to that. Same with burning CD's. Meanwhile the 1 file/cue option makes it a lot harder to use portable devices, share with friends (oops, did I just say that? :D), make mixes, etc. It really seems like the wrong answer to the problem for me, but I suppose if more apps supported cue files it might be better.
-JavaJones (October 09, 2006, 06:47 PM)
The "gapless" plugins I've tried never worked 100% for me, there's always been at least slightly noticable artifacts. Burning to CD of course works, but I want as close to 1:1 copy as possible while still having something that's convenient to use. So, it's the best thing for me.

The only real inconvenience is when dealing with portable devices, but the trick is to get one with lots of storage and not add/remove tracks from it all the time... (because, yeah, I haven't found any that supports cue/file yet, even individual-file FLAC support is scarce).
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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 06:00 PM »
Dunno how the google thing works, but they probably cache content... If you have ridiculous high-speed internet and the site has been cached by google already, then it might improve things (considering that not all sites are fast, and google has ridiculous bandwidth and storage). It might also help against the slashdot effect.

But hm, not really interesting to me, as things are now anyway :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: foobar...honestly...WTF?! WTF?!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 05:53 PM »
One advantage is that you have no gaps between tracks, without doing "tricky stuff". Same goes for those CDs with "audio in pre-gap data" or whatever it's called. It's also handy if I want to burn a copy of a CD for bringing to a party, using in a car, whatever - places where you wouldn't want to bring an original. I rip all my music to lossless format for quality as well as archiving.

I plan to, eventually, work on a program to automatically generate MP3 files from the flac/cue combination - once I get a new mp3 player I'll even have an incentive to do so :). (The astute readers will have noticed that my playlist shows .wav files, since I haven't encoded to flac yet).
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Living Room / Re: (Defend the) Final Fortress - Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 05:45 PM »
That was a nice little game... not something I'd spend $15 on, but the demo was a nice stress reliever, even if a bit on the easy end :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: foobar...honestly...WTF?! WTF?!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 05:09 PM »
I'm not a fan of the way foobar does things, it's scripting seems quite complex and I don't have the patience to tinker with it. But with minimal tinkering (actually just downloading a couple of files and clicking a couple buttons), I got this result, which I quite like:
foobar.png

Also, I rip my CDs to single file with a cue-sheet, something that doesn't work very well under winamp (unstable plugins) - foobar handles this perfectly.
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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 05:03 PM »
I couldn't really get accustomed to LyX... IMHO it falls short between a wysiwyg editor and full TeX power - it just doesn't feel right.
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Living Room / Re: Super up your iPod!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 04:49 PM »
One thing that might make a iPod usable, however: http://www.rockbox.org/
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General Software Discussion / Re: foobar...honestly...WTF?! WTF?!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 04:48 PM »
And since they're both open source, anyone could come along and create a decent interface for them.
-Renegade
Foobar isn't open source, see here

But anyway, you're right. It's not easy to learn to get around with it. It takes a lot of time, reading the hydrogen forum, wiki's and other pages. It's a poweruser program & you've got to love fiddling around with it.
-Djiezes (October 09, 2006, 10:53 AM)
That certainly does look like a opensource license to me, just because it's not GPL crap doesn't mean it's not open...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Cygwin
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 10:09 AM »
I've never really liked cygwin - it was pretty buggy when I first tried using it (which at least partly was because I was one a 9x machine), but it never really felt 'right'. I also dislike cygwin.dll and their whole unix emulation idea. UnxUtils has some good stuff, and if you want GCC on windows there's mingw32 (which unfortunately take ages to update to more recent software).
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Living Room / Re: Deleting Folders that don't want to be deleted
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 10:08 AM »
chkdsk (not scandisk, that's win9x stuff) is a good idea when you get weird errors - sometimes a very small corruption (that doesn't really do much harm and can be fixed 100% undestructively by chkdsk) can cause very weird program behaviour.

Also, though, sometimes some program that really don't need to has file/folder handles open. Frustrating.
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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 09:59 AM »
Small suggestion: How about adding a status bar ? :P
-jonsen (October 09, 2006, 09:06 AM)

What kind of status bar? :)

As for your privmsg about chinese translation, currently fSekrit isn't very translation-friendly... but I might consider support for that in the feature, probably along with unicode support. That's still a bit in the future, though.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 09:57 AM »
I wouldn't mind hacking a bit away at the source code myself, but I'm realistic and I know I can in no way maintain a developer role for it - just look how erratic my release schedule for fSekrit has been. It would be nice if you opensource locate, with some sane (ie, non-gpl, perhaps BSD or ZLIB) license.
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Living Room / Re: Super up your iPod!
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2006, 09:53 AM »
Nice to hear I'm not the only one that thinks it's more or less a piece of crap :)

(And I hate the design, 70es style beige rounded sci-fi retro crap - why are everybody else fapping because of it?)
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