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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook
« Last post by 40hz on November 19, 2010, 08:30 AM »
I have a similar problem with public forums like this one though. I sometimes wish I could discuss certain things with a selected group of people instead of with the whole world.
-phitsc (November 19, 2010, 04:53 AM)

Seems others are also feeling your pain.

Have you looked at Path? It's limited by design to only allow 50 friends to participate as an entity. Right now it's sort of a cross between Twitter and Flicker since there's a heavy emphasis on photo sharing/journaling. It will probably evolve as time goes on.

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It's starting to be called "the anti-social network." Love it!  ;D

Some editorial write-ups here and here.

On a more personal note, I have no intention of using this service either.  :P
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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 07:21 PM »
Uh... Yeah....that must be it.
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Living Room / Re: Still holding out, won't join Facebook
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 05:18 PM »
I'm not on Facebook either. And I have no plans to do so.

Maybe we should start a support group.  :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux webserver du jour?
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 03:50 PM »
Can't really comment on the ramifications for Ruby. (I just declined to get involved in a Ruby based project a short while ago and have very little knowledge about how that language/framework operates.) But I am a fan of lighttpd. Nowadays I'll only go with Apache if I need it's full feature set or need to integrate something that requires it. Otherwise it's lighttpd all the way. And that's better than 80% of the time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quick Cliq
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 03:42 PM »
Really, really, really like the way you implemented the clips menu.  :-* It's one of the most logical and intuitive multi-clip features I've ever seen. Makes even more sense than the usual tab arrangements found elsewhere.

Brilliant!
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General Software Discussion / Re: SMF or phpBB... that is the question?
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:39 PM »
FWIW I was thinking maybe a new thread once you got rolling. You could always do a cut & paste later if you wanted to incorporate it into a more finished account somewhere else.

Possibly put it in the Developer's Corner since it is a development effort even if you won't be doing any coding. Check w/Mouser and see what he thinks.

 :)

Thanks for the encouragement.
-CodeTRUCKER (November 18, 2010, 12:09 PM)

Thanks for the inspiration.  Like I said, very cool project. :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:28 PM »
Yay! I was hoping my last comment would be enough to prompt a visit from The Maestro!  ;D

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:26 PM »
That reminds me...my friend's super hot cousin is now available...
-superboyac (November 18, 2010, 01:22 PM)

mmmm...sooo nice to see SB hasn't changed a bit either!  :) :Thmbsup:

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:15 PM »
The SanDisk Sansa Fuze works for me just fine, nice soundquality, long battery life, small, has a micro SDHC card slot, cheap and it is .... simple.  It is just a music player and radio; it does not require any special software. You can also find some accessories for it online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_Fuze
-Lutz_ (November 18, 2010, 12:12 AM)
Those Sansa things have a GREAT reputation.  I've heard nothing but good things about them.
-superboyac (November 18, 2010, 09:19 AM)

I've got one of the old Sansa e260's that I'm completely happy with. Superb sound quality and battery life. Also has a very pretty and functional (non-touchscreen) interface that holds its own against anything Apple has come out with IMHO. Lots of people have asked me what it is and commented on how nice it looks and works.

I usually rip anything I want to hear off my CD collection with Exact Audio Copy  :-* ; save it as a FLAC file to my media server; and optionally convert to MP3 as needed.

I was given an iPod as a business spiff shortly after I got the Sansa.  After some A-B listening tests, I kept the Sansa and gave away the iPod. Nuff said?

Here's a photo of the e260's "bigger" sibling the e280. If you sprung for that model you got 8Gb of RAM (as opposed to 4).

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And some cleavage apparently.

Yowza! ;D
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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 11:50 AM »
Damned right, when serving  duck a l'orange for breakfast it always should be accompanied by green beans, not broccoli!
-cranioscopical (November 18, 2010, 07:50 AM)

and a good Burgundy of course...
-tomos (November 18, 2010, 08:06 AM)

Or better yet, a fine parallel port...  :P



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General Software Discussion / Re: SMF or phpBB... that is the question?
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 11:43 AM »
@CT: anything you like as long as it doesn't make more work for you. ;D

I was thinking just something about your goals; how the technology was selected; any design decisions that needed to be made; how well it worked - and what didn't; suggestions for those who want to follow in your footsteps, or branch out from there. Or just a journal where you talk about the experience from a technical and philosophical perspective.

That sorta thing.

Maybe it could be included in what you are making. Something like a designer's page, or the story of how your site came to be. That should also be of interest to your users since somebody will need to take on administrative responsibilities down the road. Almost like your own City of Ember where it's good to know how something first came to be in order to maintain its relevance in the future.

It is a very cool project you're considering. 8)

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Living Room / Re: Allow me to introduce "Dieselbuff" and "HorseDuck"
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:52 AM »
Sounds like the start of a new dynasty!

Welcome and well met.  :Thmbsup:

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P.S.

Cody sez WELCOME too!

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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.
« Last post by 40hz on November 18, 2010, 01:35 AM »
Just off the top of my head, how about:

  • Providing information on missing nutrients in the average diet and how to correct it.
  • A collection of quick healthy recipes for when you only have 5 minutes to eat - and 6 minutes to prepare it!
  • A place to share home gardening resources and how-tos.
  • A grassroots directory/info source for your local "farmer's" market crowd.
  • An advocacy site for increasing the federal minimum wage requirement.
  • A directory/social site/forum for people who are willing to provide goods and services at below prevailing market prices (i.e. Will Work for Food!)
  • A help wanted/available site for temporary or project oriented employment.
  • An information site where Vampires, Lycans, and flesh-eating Zombies can present their arguments as to why they are not monsters, and should be more correctly viewed as a part of the natural order and an important element in the food chain.

(I'm gonna stop now. This could go on all day!  ;) )

Alternatively, you could go totally Zen and do a site that is about anything other than eating!   8)

Either way, I'm sure you'll come up with something eventually.

Luck!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 10:32 PM »
This is somewhat of a shock to me - first, because this means a format doesn't wipe your data. Second, because new bad sectors might not be discovered merely from a read, and sector reallocation only kicks in on a write. Eek.

Thanks for making me look into this, Joker - I'll be sure to do an explicit single-pass wipe instead of format from now on.
-f0dder (November 16, 2010, 06:59 AM)

You could always try a Low Level Format, it worked on my 1TB Samsung - took a very long time, probably the same amount as doing a single-pass wipe.
-4wd (November 16, 2010, 06:33 PM)

FWIW, AFAIK all modern "low level format" utilities actually perform a "zero-fill erase" or "single-pass wipe" operation - so it's all just different ways of saying the same* thing.  ;D

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* I personally prefer the phrase: "hit it on the head."  A fellow tech has coined the term skooge , which I also like. ("Better skooge that puppy first if you're gonna reuse it!") :mrgreen:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft finally allows small business use of Security Essentials for free
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 10:11 PM »
Interesting article on MSE vs McAfee:

Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

By Ed Bott | November 14, 2010, 6:00pm PST

How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft’s free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed. Here are the details. [Update: After I publlished this post, a second example appeared, courtesy of a rogue commenter in the Talkback section. See the results at the end of this post.]

-more-

Read the rest here.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SMF or phpBB... that is the question?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 09:49 PM »
Sounds like a really interesting project you're embarking on.  8)

Any chance of getting you to 'blog' a bit on this while you're doing it? Or maybe write up a project report when you're up and running?

 :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: My new favorite ftp client: Total Commander (yes, really)
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 09:32 PM »
Hey Bro! +1!

I use NexusFile :-* in a similar manner when I'm in Windows. Got the portable version on my "field" usb key too.

There's times when you just can't beat a simple old-fashioned dual-pane file manager. Although t'was a time (not very long ago) when most FTP clients did look like one before they were "improved."  ;D

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NexusFile has very nice support for FTP, although I don't know if it can address those security issues you mentioned.

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So far (knock wood) it connects to everything I point it at. And it doesn't have a problem running under Windows 7. (Yay!) :Thmbsup:



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Living Room / Re: Does anyone know this music? The artist?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 08:38 PM »
Sounds very much like something David Arkenstone would do. Don't think this is one of his since he's a little less "electronic." But if you like that, you might like Dave's work.

Give Oceanus and Stepping Stars a quick listen to get an idea of what Dave sounds like.

 :)

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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 12:39 PM »
OK, I stopped being lazy and ran over to TechNet.

Here's what they had to say:

Safe formatting

If you do not specify the /u switch or a switch that reformats the disk to a different size, format performs a "safe" format. It clears the file allocation table and root directory of the disk but does not delete any data. You can then use the unformat command to recover the disk if you did not intend to format the disk. Format also checks each sector on the disk to ensure that the sector can properly store data. If it locates a sector that cannot store data, format marks that sector to prevent MS-DOS from using it.

If you specify the /u switch or any switch that changes the size of the disk, format performs an unconditional format by deleting all data on the disk.

Quick formatting

You can speed up the formatting process by using the /q switch. Use this switch only if you have not received read or write errors on your disk. You can speed up the process even more by using both the /q and /u switches. If you use the /u switch, format does not save the information necessary to later unformat the disk.

So I guess the "hidden recovery file" stuff I was told (or imagined being told  ;D) is incorrect. Looks like regular format (at that point) simply tossed the FAT and root directory. Kinda like "keeping all the library books and just throwing out the cardfile" as the saying used to go.

Still doesn't explain why a floppy always came up a few kilobytes short if you didn't do the /u (maybe it did keep a copy of the FAT/root after all?) but there you have it.

 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 12:24 PM »
You could be right. I just remember if you didn't do a /u on a floppy format, you wound up with less available disk space than if you did. Supposedly some hidden file(s) got saved that the unformat command could use to undo the format. When MSoft dropped the unformat command back around WinME (or thereabouts? Maybe it was still back in the late DOS days?) the /u became sort of meaningless.

I suppose you could try it on a floppy to see if it still does anything. I'm guessing these days it's just a "zombie switch" (i.e. doesn't violate command syntax, but also doesn't do anything).

That's assuming anybody still has a working floppy drive and usable media to test it!  ;D

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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 11:49 AM »
If I recall correctly, /u told format to skip saving some recovery information that made it easy to un-format a partition provided you did it immediately after you formatted.

It was intended to be an override for the safety feature that helped fix that mistake everybody seems to have made at one time or another. That's the one where you said "yes format" (followed by your choice of expletive) when you really meant to say "no."

;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: After re-installing XP - what?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 11:35 AM »
If you'd also like to check out Linux stuff I'd suggest a Wubi install of Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 under Windows - assuming you have 10-15 Gb of spare disk space. It won't mess with your partitions or Windows environment. And if you ever snarf it up, all you have to do is uninstall it with Windows' Add/Remove Software control panel.  After that you can either reinstall or walk away. 

 Ewige Pinguinkraft! 8) :Thmbsup: ;D
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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 16, 2010, 08:35 AM »
Would have been really cool if Microsoft included a zero-fill switch ( /z ) for their format command.

But I suppose that would have been too easy.  :-\

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Living Room / Re: 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes
« Last post by 40hz on November 15, 2010, 02:14 PM »
I understand he missed his house, wound up staying at a motel on Pluto overnight, and somehow made it back home the following morning with no idea how he got there.  :P
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Living Room / Re: Is "Quick Format" safe?
« Last post by 40hz on November 15, 2010, 02:12 PM »
It works well with flash memory drives since it saves a little read/write wear on the device.  8)

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