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Living Room / Re: Any MiniDisc people out there?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 05:30 PM »

My bad, fodder, you are right!  The old MD discs had only 140-160 MB storage on it, depending on how you were using it.  That makes the new 1GB discs all the more amazing!  Yes, the HiMD's are still magnetic media.  I just love the novelty of these minidiscs.

I looked it up on wikipedia, seems like there was a "MD2" format with more storage, but only really supported by a shortlived generation of camcorders.

What I don't like from the wiki site is that it says that if you put MP3s on the HiMD, it will be wrapped in DRM crap...

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Living Room / Re: Any MiniDisc people out there?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 04:04 PM »

Hrm, the old MD's didn't have 650meg, more like 120 iirc? When talking about megabytes, people should mention the raw capacity; when mentioning recorded music length in minutes, compressed is fine. The recording feature sounds REALLY nice though, would make HiMD viable as a budget but decent quality recorder.

Hm, MP3 support... that rocks. I'll try to get the audio jack in my MuVo^2 fixed (possibly by switching it for one I salvaged from my old minidisc), and put off any media player purchase. I assume HiMD is still a magnetic media, which tends to be more stable than portable HDDs as in the large-capacity mp3 players...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 03:11 PM »

but I guess I'll live - the interface *is* nice and slick. But I'll probably miss the RegExp features of website watcher...

-f0dder (April 03, 2006, 08:27 AM)

What for are you using RegEx together with RSS feeds?

-brotherS (April 03, 2006, 02:58 PM)

Ignoring dynamic parts of a feed - like "Times viewed *", which shouldn't trigger the feed item as 'new', only new items or changed 'content' should trigger...

-f0dder (April 03, 2006, 03:02 PM)

But then you're talking about tracked websites... not actual RSS or Atom newsfeeds. With the latter, you don't have to ignore anything. When a new feed entry is up, you get it, whatever the time or any other counter on the page.

-moerl (April 03, 2006, 03:07 PM)

Perhaps - but it's still a form of RSS... but for "normal" RSS feeds, AleartBear certainly looks wonderful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 03:02 PM »

but I guess I'll live - the interface *is* nice and slick. But I'll probably miss the RegExp features of website watcher...

-f0dder (April 03, 2006, 08:27 AM)

What for are you using RegEx together with RSS feeds?

-brotherS (April 03, 2006, 02:58 PM)

Ignoring dynamic parts of a feed - like "Times viewed *", which shouldn't trigger the feed item as 'new', only new items or changed 'content' should trigger...

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Living Room / Re: Any MiniDisc people out there?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 02:44 PM »

I used to have a minidisc player, MZ-something. I took it apart a month ago, since it was (*literally*!) held together by gaffer tape. It's a real shame that sony stopped the MD data drives, and that the MD walkmen are so limited (recording md->pc is at 1x speed, only pc->md can be done fast... at least last time I looked, a couple years ago).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AlertBear 104 -- First Impressions

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 08:27 AM »

You should add an URL for http://www.alertbear.com/ in a larger font in the first post

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by f0dder on April 03, 2006, 08:27 AM »

Hm, I had stayed away from AlertBear because it's .NET, but it actually starts fast enough. 170meg VM usage and 23meg private bytes is a bit more than I'd like for an app like this, but I guess I'll live - the interface *is* nice and slick. But I'll probably miss the RegExp features of website watcher...

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fSekrit / Re: Progress report etc.

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2006, 05:04 PM »

Here's a little something without too much of a spectacle...

fSekrit-1.1-beta, a few bugs fixed, added menu items, and added text search. Please give it a thorough beating, be nit-picky on the text files, and generally give me ideas and suggestions.

I've not forgot about unicode, mouse right-click etc., but feel free to re-post suggestions to make sure I remember everything

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by f0dder on April 02, 2006, 04:38 PM »

I use Website Watcher for my RSS feeds, because I haven't found anything that does it better (or rather, does it better without an insane memory load or huge executable files).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Image Metadata Enhancer/Saver

« Last post by f0dder on April 01, 2006, 09:03 AM »

If you're running XP (can't remember if it's in 2k as well), you can right-click->properties on any file, and add info on the "summary" tab. If it's not available in Win2k, it shouldn't be hard to add - the NTFS filesystem supports 'alternate file streams' that are perfect for this kind of info.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Foxit Reader (fast pdf reader alternative)

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2006, 02:27 PM »

The switchless installer still needs *insstall* though, and it's large - eek

I hope Foxit will have performance & compatibility bugs ironed out with time.

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Living Room / Re: Zelda and the Collecting of Pills

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2006, 12:54 PM »

Legend Zelda was one of my big teenages crushes ;P

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Living Room / Re: pretend you are in the matrix

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2006, 12:50 PM »

Hehe, Bjarke is a mad guy

Btw I think aalib has better output, for those interested :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: Foxit Reader (fast pdf reader alternative)

« Last post by f0dder on March 30, 2006, 12:46 PM »

Hm, how can I tell when FR is updated? The page always seems the same, and I haven't been able to find a "news" or "changelog" anywhere. Might just be me who's dull.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Distributed compiling and clustering

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 11:35 AM »

Well, if you have the priority set in a way that the 2GHz is before the 1GHz machine, wouldn't it compile it on the 2GHz machine?

Depends on how files are served - first-come-first-served then it wouldn't matter. Unless the master machine decides it's been waiting too long and redelegates job to the faster machine, but I dunno how it works

Like, if you want to compile something on a 1GHz machine, and there's 3 2GHz machines, it'd still be allot faster just not to compile on the 1GHz machine, and take localhost out of the hostlist.... dunno

Exactly - but it still sucks not being able to use that extra gigahertz .

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Distributed compiling and clustering

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 11:15 AM »

Well, consider the scenario where you have a 1-ghz machine and a 2-ghz machine with distcc. The 2ghz machine compiles "small.c" while 1ghz compiles "templateheavy.cpp", and then the 2ghz has to wait for small.obj before it can link. This is of course an oversimplification, but the idea is that there's some "sync points" in makefiles/builds where you have to catch up

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Distributed compiling and clustering

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 10:55 AM »

Isn't there this issue with distcc, though, that you will be somewhat bottlenecked if some machines in the compile farm is noticably slower than the others? It's pretty nifty anyway, too bad I haven't found any native windows solutions for this (cygwin sucks and doesn't count) - well, except for those expensive ones.

Btw, you should check out http://ccache.samba.org/ and combine it with distcc...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Foxit Reader (fast pdf reader alternative)

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 10:45 AM »

I've been using Foxit Reader for a while (included on my unattended set up CD, and default handler for .pdf). It's certainly a lot smaller and leaner than Acrobat (Reader), unfortunately it crashes with a few PDFs (especially when trying to print), and it is *VERY* slow when rendering more complex files (like PC magazine or whatever) - plus it does no page caching, so if you flip back/forth between two pages... eek

But all in all, it's pretty nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free VMware Server software

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 09:20 AM »

Rover, which vmware version are you using? VM, ESX, GSX? The versions that don't require an OS sound pretty interesting to me...

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Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 09:12 AM »

If you look through astalavista, you'll get infected by a zombie ddos network within a few minutes - but yes, WEP is supposedly breakable within five minutes.

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Living Room / Re: Eets

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 08:48 AM »

Screens look cute, I'll have to take a look once I'm done setting up my gf's laptop

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General Software Discussion / Re: this video has been in my head all day.. really affected me

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 03:21 AM »

Really nice video, put a smile on my face

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 03:09 AM »

Using a dell keyboard right now - it's black and it's buttons are just the right hardness to press, with just the right clicking sound. I also have a black IBM keyboard lying around but I like this one a tad better. It's a standard .dk keyboard layout with the two windows buttons and the context-menu button as well (since I'm mostly a keyboard guy, I appreciate those).

I do miss the volume buttons that my old logitech keyboard had, but other than that I've never been a fan of those zillion extra keys.

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by f0dder on March 29, 2006, 02:55 AM »

I don't really understand why some people are so hyped up about Azureus...

uTorrent downloads fine, supports uPNP, can move both downloads and .torrent files to new folders when done, and even supports ipfilter.dat (in case you think that's going to help you in any way, hah). What more do you need?

I'll stick to uTorrent now and see how well it handles multiple torrents and at what speeds. I may return to Azureus in the end. I like them both, I must say.

I've had uTorrent grab files with around 1meg/s from my workplace 10mbit line, and it worked pretty well even though I was on a bit underpowered laptop with a slow hdd.

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by f0dder on March 28, 2006, 07:49 AM »

Their tracker for WOW updates is usually swamped after an update is release, and their client SUCKS so much that I used to manually extract the .torrent file from it, and used with uTorrent.

-f0dder

And ffter that, even the Tracker is no more needed, thanks to DHT! What more one could ask?

Bye!

-Mark0 (March 28, 2006, 07:47 AM)

That blizzard actually cared a bit about their customers and not just their customers' money? - I think torrent (or other p2p) techonology is good for things like update distribution, but the company should still deliver decent bandwidth and servers themselves.