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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2011, 08:24 PM »

ROFLMAO looks like some mod got trigger happy a while ago and banned my lotus username:

I can't remember how many times mouser actually asked mods not to ban people and not to stifle free speech. It's quite counter-productive and benefits no one (check my comment on the link):

http://www.techsuppo...goodie-every-day.htm
 (see attachment in previous post)

-banmenot (March 06, 2011, 08:07 PM)

If you're actually concerned with improving the site, then why air dirty laundry like this on some other site?  Why not contact mouser directly?  I'm sure you know he doesn't condone this as long as you've been around- you even say so above.  Are you trying to help or hurt?  Because such perceptions on another site are sure to hurt...  I now really do question your intent.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2011, 10:30 AM »

^ Sounds like a good compromise.  Thanks for taking this on app!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2011, 08:21 AM »

Design/development by committee just never works.

-Veign (March 04, 2011, 08:17 AM)

Again, point.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2011, 01:31 PM »

IMO if App had done a Wordpress based website it would probably work great for years and bring much joy to the community instead this being in discussions for months, development for a year (if a solution is chosen where solid development work is required) and in the end maybe have something that works but is difficult to maintain by a non-developer.

If someone is ready, willing and able to provide a solid solution what's the harm on taking them up on it.  Put your trust in what they will deliver and be happy to have something better (maybe perfect).  Hell, just getting someone to volunteer to complete an entire project is difficult, don't pass it up.

Think of it this way: what ever is delivered probably buys you years to work on other things.

Just my .02

-Veign (March 03, 2011, 01:05 PM)

He has a point.  And not just the ones on his avatar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2011, 12:49 PM »

^ This is one of those times where design by community decision leads to more indecision and no work done.  I think that a real priority needs to be established, even if just as general as (a) work towards immediate benefit or (b) work towards a long term goal, i.e updating the platform and such.  I don't think that either is wrong, but it should definitely frame any conversations, and reduce such frustrations as app is experiencing.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2011, 12:46 PM »

So no change just for the sake of change -- we don't have the time for such stuff.

-mouser (March 03, 2011, 12:08 PM)

This x1000.  And it should be the driving mantra during any changes- IMO they should be linked back to a purpose that either (a) mouser has prioritized or (b) has been pointed out and affirmed by more than one person as a priority requirement for some tangible reason.

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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2011, 09:44 AM »

A free solution to backing up not only gmail, but a lot of other mail options.

http://www.mailstore.../mailstore-home.aspx

(from http://gigaom.com/co...up-my-gmail-account/)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Serial Key Storage for Windows

« Last post by wraith808 on March 02, 2011, 02:53 PM »

It's tiny, reliable, and does one thing extremely well - which makes it a perfect app for portable use. Everything is stored in the executable so there's no separate datafile to go looking for. Sweet!
 (see attachment in previous post)

fSekrit is a small application for keeping securely encrypted notes. These notes are truly stand-alone; the editor program and your note are merged together into a tiny self-contained program file, bypassing the need to install a special application to view your data. This makes fSekrit ideal for keeping encrypted notes on, for example, USB flash drives.

Luck!

-40hz (February 25, 2011, 06:05 AM)

I just realized that you have obscured the directory, but not the keys!  Will that be problematic?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 02, 2011, 01:10 PM »

I use it on my site, and it's not been a big deal, maintenance wise.  As far as the future direction (or lack thereof), I haven't really paid attention, but without that larger dialogue, and with where we are in regards to the forums, I made that suggestion based on the fact that the integration is already there, so it would seem to be the path of least resistance/most compatibility with the current platform.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« Last post by wraith808 on March 02, 2011, 12:00 PM »

Another possibility is modifying something that integrates with SMF, like tinyportal.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on March 01, 2011, 09:03 PM »

I love this place. Will donate the second week of March. Just finished putting LibreOffice over the top. My nips are tingly! Oh wait, that's TMI.

 

-zridling (March 01, 2011, 08:41 PM)

Thanks for keeping us abreast...

-timns (March 01, 2011, 08:42 PM)

Are you trying to out-pun Chris?

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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on March 01, 2011, 01:25 PM »

An article on some ways to back up your gmail on lifehacker.

And on a interesting note about the actual incident, no e-mails were lost- they are being restored from tape

Now, cue the privacy advocates, i.e. what does that mean when you *actually* delete an e-mail?

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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on March 01, 2011, 09:54 AM »

A good article about the happy medium between "don't trust the cloud", and CYA...

http://gigaom.com/co...hen-the-cloud-fails/

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General Software Discussion / Re: PS2 Emulator for Geforce 210 , is it possible !

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 09:12 PM »

Truthfully, I'm not sure about the hardware requirements, but just by googling PS2 Emulator I found some sites that specialize in that sort of thing.  For such specialized information, one of those would probably be a better place to ask.

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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 08:58 PM »

Very timely... I'm actually in the process of moving my email server over to Gmail and getting rid of running my own email server.

I'll still be moving over to Google Apps there anyways. I always maintain local copies, so as long as the basics work, I'll be fine.

-Renegade (February 28, 2011, 07:22 PM)

Local copies of the e-mails via POP access?  What about the documents?  And the calendars?  There's a big focus on e-mail from this incident- but the cloud is much more than e-mail...

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Living Room / Re: Should ebook users have any rights?

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 08:56 PM »

Remote deletion already happened on the Kindle.  Here's the NY Times article about it: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle

-jaden (February 28, 2011, 07:02 PM)

Well, yes.  But my question was the kindle apps.  You know, for the PC, iPhone, Android... do they have the same sort of hooks in there?  Is it the Kindle as an e-book platform, or the Kindle as a hardware platform?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 08:54 PM »

mate my case is awfully clear throughout the thread, if you cant see my points now then I'm really not sure what I can do about it. To me u guys seems to be nailing on this username/identity issue lol, to me such diversion tactics only add to the confusion and serve no one any good.

-lotusrootstarch (February 28, 2011, 06:49 PM)

Actually, to many of us it's clear as mud.  And those people you seem to brush off/ignore, as if we're not worth your time?  Perhaps that's not the case, but it sure feels like it, especially when the only replies to any of my queries has been to say how wrong I am about where you're coming from in regards to your contribution, even though I never really called it into question.

* wraith808 shrugs

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Living Room / Re: Should ebook users have any rights?

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 06:08 PM »

The problem with remotely deleting comes in large part from the comibination of hardware and software, I think.  I wonder if they have the same capabilities with the kindle app.

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Living Room / Re: Help: Recommend flash drive(s) for small files

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 01:56 PM »

Here's a thread on this.  It's from 2009, but there's a lot of good info.

You could probably run tests on it and get good info on the actual transfers; there's some info on that here.  Again, it's from 2009, but the program links provided still work other than Chip Genius and Check Flash.

Chip Genius seems to be at http://www.fake-memory.com/index.html, though it seems that this site is only for verifying if a chip is fake (the original purpose of that post).  More on Check Flash (and some other speed utilities) can be found at http://www.makeuseof...flash-drive-windows/, and a download link for Check Flash can be found at http://www.softpedia...sk/Check-Flash.shtml.

I use the cloud sync route; I was concerned about having the internet available, but it's not really a big issue, it turns out (at least for me).  I can recommend Dropbox and Jungle Disk for the sync.

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Official Announcements / Re: UnReplied Topic Fridays on the DonationCoder.com Forums (URT-Fri)

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 12:58 PM »

Also, a few requests to make it simpler:
1 - please remove the "moved" posts from there, they take a large percentage of the list
2 - maybe we could have a "show only topics started by new members" thing (where "new" would have some sensible definition), since most of the threads in that page are really started by long-time members.

-jgpaiva (February 28, 2011, 12:57 PM)

I was thinking both of these... I was going to do the new member by clicking on the name and seeing how many posts and prioritizing that way, but your suggestion makes so much more sense!

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Official Announcements / Re: UnReplied Topic Fridays on the DonationCoder.com Forums (URT-Fri)

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 12:55 PM »

I'll commit to helping... though it will probably be anytime that I have downtime and no topics to reply to

Edit: On that note, is there a way to make the moved topic post not show up in this view?  And maybe very old topics also? And how far do we want to go back with this starting out?

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Living Room / Re: Gmail accidentally resets some accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 12:27 PM »

Also, apart from pure hardware and software reliability, there's the people and the decisions they make. If I value my data, I'm more likely to value it more than Google is ever going to.

-Armando (February 28, 2011, 11:25 AM)

This is very true.  And from the experience standpoint, my only point over the whole thing was directed more at me than anyone else.  These are things that you tend to turn a blind eye to/get way too comfortable with than is truly warranted.  And it really takes a critical eye to look at your own setup and see all of the points of failure.

I guess that's the reason that security consultants make a whole lot more money than I do.

Failures and security breaks are the cloud's 800-lb. gorilla if you ask me, on top of privacy issues.

-zridling (February 28, 2011, 11:41 AM)

I'd totally agree.  On the one hand, the providers of cloud services want you to trust them.  On the other hand, they don't want to accept liability.  Those two incompatible approaches have never been truly tested IMO.  I have close to 50GB of my data backed up on Amazon's S3 services, in addition to being on a few different drives in different physical locations.  Amazon touts the rock solid bullet proof nature of their S3 services- but if something happened, how much liability would they actually take, even though I'm paying for the service?  They talk about credits for data being unavailable, and the small likelihood of your data being lost- but what if it does happen?  In all of their guarantees, they make no statement of liability in case of data loss.  What does that mean to my data?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 09:57 AM »

There are only 2 names on that very short list, and I think it would be safe to say you are not wraith808.  

-app103 (February 28, 2011, 09:46 AM)

There are more, I would assume... anything supporting or above would apply, I'd think (charter members may not have donated, but I'd assume that most have).

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 09:31 AM »

Mouser can't do it alone.  And he does encourage people outside of the 'senior member circle' to contribute in whatever ways they can- I know from personal experience.

-wraith808 (February 28, 2011, 06:42 AM)

Not in the right ways, still not... i also know from personal experience... before you joined the site m8.

-lotusrootstarch (February 28, 2011, 07:43 AM)

That's sort of the idea that I'm getting at ... would you say that sort of thing to me if you were posting under your *real* username?  You say not to focus on the username that you're using- but you're *very* deprecating.  And not in a nice way most of the time- smilies only cover up the nature of language to a point.  There's a way to be critical, but still be uplifting... and truthfully, your posts aren't it from what I've seen.  But I haven't seen *anyone* that's been here that long be that way.  If I had, it would have been a pretty sharp contrast to anyone that I've seen in my short time here (that's sarcasm, if you can't tell).  There are ways to bring attention to problems, and then there are other ways...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2011, 06:42 AM »

Hehehe I'm here merely to point out the problems, look at all the responses I got here -- all pointing finger directly at me, and it's never even about me, it's about problems.

So app you made me feel very bad about myself under this username... alright I'm defeated... so what? It doesn't fix any problems I mentioned.

Ouch you guys really have no idea... 'nuff said. best of luck. cheers.  

-lotusrootstarch (February 28, 2011, 06:13 AM)

Not pointing the finger at you... they're instead asking you to clarify your responses.  And of all the people asking that you clarify responses (to something other than just reviews, which seems to be the only sticking point, and one easily overcome if you write some if you're that passionate about it) you don't answer.  The fact that your responses are picked and chosen seems disingenuous to me at least.  No one's pointing a finger as you say... I explicitly said that in my last post.  But got no response to the questions raised.

I think app put it best:

This is a community driven site, and everything is provided by unpaid volunteer members of this community. If you, a member of this community, is going to complain, you should be prepared to also be part of that solution.

Therefore, I propose you volunteer to write a major shoot-out review, instead of just complaining that someone else hasn't volunteered to do one in quite awhile.

When you are finished, you can then volunteer to contact all your big name A-list blogger friends and see if you can get them interested enough in it to write about it. Don't have any A-list blogger friends? Well, I guess you'll have to figure out how to make some.

Then you can volunteer to hit the major social networks and post about it, reaching out to the masses on Digg, Mixx, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, StumbleUpon, etc.

Then you can contact all the developers of the apps you reviewed and ask them if they would be interested in giving discounts to DC members, and maybe donate a few copies for a giveaway drawing.

If you run into any problems that you think the community can provide assistance with, make a post and ask for some help. (I'll be willing to help by contacting some of the bloggers I know, once you have finished your big review, I'll also vote it up on both Mixx and Digg, and give you a post or like on friendfeed, a tweet or retweet on twitter, and a thumbs up on StumbleUpon)

When you are finished with all that, you can work on your next complaint.

See, this is what people in this community do when they think something should be done...we shut up, roll up our sleeves and do it, instead of complaining that someone else won't volunteer to do it for us.

And an annual fundraiser is justified, as long as there are bills that need to be paid. To say we shouldn't have one is saying we should shut down the site and go away, because if we don't pay the bills, the hosting company will pull the plug on us and that is exactly what will happen to this site....it will go away. Is that what you want?

-app103 (February 28, 2011, 04:17 AM)

That was a succinct explanation of all of the things laid at your door to respond to in one central post.  Mouser can't do it alone.  And he does encourage people outside of the 'senior member circle' to contribute in whatever ways they can- I know from personal experience.  So are you ready to pick up your own gauntlet?  Or just slink away after a piffy 'cheers'?  Or maybe not to slink away- maybe to contribute under another name.  But your contributions under *that* name won't help to shore up your arguments; they'll go towards the reputation of *that* name while this is left to be 'blast[ed] to oblivion by a single button'.

Thoughts?