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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronizing a few folders between two machines?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2010, 01:12 PM »

One of the folders is 10 GB so at least the free account is not an option. I don't really want to have to upload to some remote server to do sync between two local computers either, that seems like a waste of bandwidth.

-Jibz (July 29, 2010, 12:42 PM)

Dropbox has an option to sync to local computers via lan.



Doesn't solve the other problem, but just wanted to point that out.

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Living Room / Re: Build a $200 Linux PC -- How-to by ExtremeTech

« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2010, 09:01 AM »

So are iProducts... but... 

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Living Room / My iPad Quest

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 06:42 PM »

As I said in another post, I have been really considering getting an iPad.  I've just been holding off as I do when some new tech captures my attention- to do some due diligence and such.  That quest is over now... and I'm not getting an iPad. 



When I saw the image above, I decided to instead gett a tc1100 to see how it stacks up.  I'm chronicling my quest and how it turns out on my blog.

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Living Room / Re: New Government Rules make Jailbreaking Legal

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 06:04 PM »

^ Well, you never hear that rooting your phone isn't legal, so they deserve it, IMO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 06:03 PM »

There are other uses also for Word other than 'tarting up text'  

IMHO, mrainey got it right...

Ninety-nine percent of my work is done using a text editor.

Same here.  That's why I don't feel qualified to evaluate the ribbon.   

-mrainey (July 27, 2010, 11:35 AM)

If you use a text editor for your work and it's enough, then you wouldn't see the use of the ribbon.  For those of us that do other things, it's a better way to get to what we use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to [partially] blur screenshots?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 03:18 PM »

^ I was just thinking of an option to apply the blurring algorithm more than once, though the idea of some user specified text seems like it would work even better, since it would act sort of like a private key.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to [partially] blur screenshots?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 12:07 PM »

Hmmm... what happens if you blur more than once?  And does all software use the same blurring algorithm?  It would seem that the person after the information would need not only the image, but to know the blurring software also.  Is that correct?

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Living Room / Re: New Government Rules make Jailbreaking Legal

« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2010, 08:13 AM »

Another article with some nice bullet points about things overlooked in the previous article.

http://www.tgdaily.c...ng-your-iphone-legal

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Living Room / Re: Get out your crayons to help Apple... ;)

« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2010, 07:50 PM »

Apple announced this morning it would be delaying production of the white iPhone until later this year.

The official reason for the delay: White iPhones are "more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected."

-Renegade (July 26, 2010, 06:55 PM)

Indeed it is more challenging.  They used all the parts on those nice shiny black ones.  Now that no one is buying the "Jobs Handjob"(TM), they're bleaching the black ones to make the white ones, hoping they'll sell! 

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Living Room / New Government Rules make Jailbreaking Legal

« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2010, 01:58 PM »

http://www.gottabemo...-jailbreaking-legal/

It's now legal to jailbreak your iPhone.  (Maybe a new term that doesn't imply criminality is needed?)

DVD security protections also took a hit, as the ruling covers breaking them to copy and embed short clips for non-commercial educational or critical purposes, if you are a student or reviewer. (How stringent this last bit will be will be interesting to see- as will the youtube effects of this)

Apparently the Library of Congress stepped in on this one... I didn't know about the three year exemption bit.

I wonder what Apple's response to this will be- and if it will apply to the iPad.

[via The Man Who Never Missed (had to credit for the picture )]

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Living Room / Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2010, 09:52 AM »

And the slippery slope continues...

http://www.cnn.com/2.../index.html?iref=NS1

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« Last post by wraith808 on July 23, 2010, 02:47 PM »

And there's always http://office.live.com.  I know there are some differences, but I don't think most users will need the full version.

Comparison to Google Docs

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Living Room / Apple Leads in Security Vulnerabilities...

« Last post by wraith808 on July 23, 2010, 09:48 AM »

Irony still lives.

http://www.ghacks.ne...ies-microsoft-third/

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Living Room / Re: Should Apple recall the iPhone4? Or should the user "Hold the phone the right"?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 23, 2010, 09:36 AM »

If you liked that one:

http://www.engadget....on-to-your-receptio/

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Living Room / Re: Should Apple recall the iPhone4? Or should the user "Hold the phone the right"?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 22, 2010, 10:09 PM »

Classic!

http://www.engadget....-issue-hopes-for-ro/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Issue with ScreenCaptor images on WordPress.com

« Last post by wraith808 on July 21, 2010, 10:45 AM »

Where is the reference to this post?  I use wordpress also for a couple of blogs, and don't have this problem, so that's the reason that I ask.  The developer will surely respond soon, so you'll get a response directly on the issue, I'm sure.

Thanks!

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Living Room / Re: Should Apple recall the iPhone4? Or should the user "Hold the phone the right"?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 20, 2010, 07:35 AM »

“OK, great, let’s give everybody a case,” he said.

-zridling (July 19, 2010, 11:44 PM)

It seems that the wounded paranoia is being inferred more from the writer... that quote is a lot different than the previous one in tone and such, at least from the writing.  And he didn't sound condescending when he was on the press conference at all IMO- the idea to include the other manufacturers in his 'study' was just ill-advised.

Other than that, they've done everything they could at this point IMO.

1. Offered refunds
2. Offered a case if you don't want refunds
3. Said they'd revisit in September

I just don't see what else people could want, personally.  They want mea culpas with their fix- for Apple (by way of Steve Jobs) to be humbled.  You're entitled to a fix- not a mea culpa based on what you think happened (i.e. that they knew about it before it was released).

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General Software Discussion / Re: weather.com

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 09:01 PM »

Maybe they'll call you when they try to go to site X and it's blocked.  "Our network isn't working!  Can you come fix it for lots of money?"

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [Steam] Alien Swarm Free forever

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 09:00 PM »

Let a mod worry about it if they want to

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Living Room / Re: Testing the internet "kill" switch

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 08:21 PM »

Oops. 

Thanks

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Living Room / Re: The eBook reader wars

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 08:16 PM »

I'm not   And that was my point above

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [Steam] Alien Swarm Free forever

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 08:14 PM »

Thanks for the link, though already posted

https://www.donation...ic=23454.0;topicseen

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Living Room / Testing the internet "kill" switch

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 02:44 PM »

Interesting article that would have passed me by if not for a friend linking to it.

http://www.backwoods...nternet-kill-switch/

If you read tech blogs — and only if you read tech blogs (or a handful of online techzines) — you already know that, on July 9, some unnamed government agency, for unnamed reasons, ordered BurstNet to take 73,000 blogs permanently offline. All were part of the same WordPress platform called Blogetery.

A week later, a forum-creating service was shut down just as mysteriously.

If you rely on mainstream sources for your news — or even online mainstream alternatives — you haven’t heard a peep about any of this.

Why did some unnamed government agency order the death of 73,000 blogs?

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General Software Discussion / Re: weather.com

« Last post by wraith808 on July 19, 2010, 10:37 AM »

This is my favorite weather website:

http://www.thefuckin...r.com/?zipcode=11215

-fm84 (July 19, 2010, 12:05 AM)

I got this response from Safari (or maybe AT&T) trying that link on an iPhone.

This is interesting because I just checked and have verified I don't have any active restriction settings enabled on this device.

 

Your page is blocked due to a security policy that prohibits access to category
Violence.

Pretty weird huh?

-40hz (July 19, 2010, 10:24 AM)

Did it automatically connect to some nearby wi-fi?  That's the only explanation I can think of.  I have an iPhone also, and it goes to the URL fine.

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Living Room / Re: Should Apple recall the iPhone4? Or should the user "Hold the phone the right"?

« Last post by wraith808 on July 18, 2010, 09:34 PM »

The other part of the issue which urks me is the fact that this free offer expires. What about new phones purchased after 30 September? Will users of the affected phones be able to swap for a working model once, if, the issue is fixed in a future design? If not, then this issue will just reappear as news in September when the free offer expires.

-Josh (July 18, 2010, 05:44 PM)

It doesn't expire in September.  What he said was that they would take a look at it in September to see if this was still the way to go, i.e. is there another way to correct the problem at that time.