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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by Renegade on October 08, 2010, 06:28 AM »

It sounds like a DNS issue. Add more DNS servers & push them up in priority (#1, #2, etc.). Google has free ones available. There are more.

It's not your MAC address. That's not available on the network -- it's only on your local machine. Browsers do not broadcast that information.

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Living Room / 100 Wives...

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2010, 09:08 PM »

Hmmm...

100 widows...

Kenya's most prominent polygamist has died having married more than 100 women in his lifetime and fathered nearly 200 children. Nicknamed "Danger" because women were so attracted by his handsome looks, Ancentus Akuku was in his late 90's when he passed away of natural causes.

Akuku Danger was legendary in Kenya. He married his first wife in 1939 and became polygamist some 70 years ago at the age of 22. He's outlived 12 of his wives, marrying the last one in 1992. There were so many children in his family that Akuku established two elementary schools solely to educate his children, as well as a church for his growing family to attend.

In past interviews Akuku told local journalists he was responsible for naming all of his children, as way to bond with them.

Naming a kid is bonding? Wow. And you thought your dad didn't pay enough attention to you!

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Living Room / Re: New image format for the web

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2010, 06:08 PM »

IE Below 50%

Graph of data

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Living Room / Re: Who's suing whom in the telecom industry?

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2010, 05:59 PM »

Justice, what's the source of your graphic? I like it far better. Looks like Nokia is this year's winner of the Jerk prize. And Renegade, you left out an audio file of screaming, wailing, and gnashing of teeth!

-zridling (October 07, 2010, 02:38 PM)

Ooops! My bad...

Hell Awaits

FAIR WARNING: The following video will be very disturbing for some people. Really. And... It's the censored version.

Right Now

Mindless Violence

Again, be warned. This is disturbing.

Skinny Puppy - Worlock

I hope those kind of help sum up the state of patent law and technology. Well, metaphorically anyways. Or maybe a little bit literally...

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Living Room / Re: Who's suing whom in the telecom industry?

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2010, 08:03 AM »

That's excellent!

The graphic could use some decoration. Blood, machetes, hockey masks, perhaps a noose or 2, some zombies and mutant ninjas... It'd be more realistic then. :p IT has turned into a horror story after all.

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Living Room / Re: antivirus false postives - let's do someting about it

« Last post by Renegade on October 07, 2010, 07:57 AM »

I use an AVG server edition on a server, and it plays nicely. But that's commercial, paid, and not free. I've got Avast (free) on another computer, and it's quite nice. Never causes me any pain.

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Living Room / Re: antivirus false postives - let's do someting about it

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 08:33 PM »

Pisses me off. I don't want a trillion f**king pieces of s**tware installed all over my computer... No. I don't want YET ANOTHER f**king toolbar... No. I don't want to change my f**king search page. No. I don't want to change my f**king about:blank page to f**king Yahoo s**t. F**K OFF! No. I don't want your f**king firewall. No... No. NO!

-Renegade (October 06, 2010, 08:08 PM)

Yes, but apart from that how do you like it?  

Glad to have the input because I was wondering about whether to try it.

-cranioscopical (October 06, 2010, 08:27 PM)

It only gets worse.

After the pricks change my about:blank page, they have a link in it:

How to disable search on this page

Notice that the link is:

avg.com/ww.special-toolbar-how-to-disable-search-tlbrc

But it goes to:

avg.com.au/home/

The proper text should be something like this:

How to unf**k this page... PSYCH~! NOT~!

It's just adding insult to injury.

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Living Room / Re: antivirus false postives - let's do someting about it

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 08:08 PM »

If anyone wants to take the bull by the horns, I've got some domain names that I've wanted to do something with, but just don't have the time:

false-positive.com
scareware.net
scareware.org

They're all very appropriate.

In other news... Grrr... I installed the free version of AVG on my new box... It's more like malware now than ever. Pisses me off. I don't want a trillion f**king pieces of s**tware installed all over my computer... No. I don't want YET ANOTHER f**king toolbar... No. I don't want to change my f**king search page. No. I don't want to change my f**king about:blank page to f**king Yahoo s**t. F**K OFF! No. I don't want your f**king firewall. No... No. NO!

Grrr...

You may be able to tell that I'm a bit ticked. I think I need to try something else. I just hope that I can uninstall all the s**t it put on my computer.

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Living Room / Re: Tortoise SVN and online repositories

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 07:45 PM »

Thanks, Deozaan.

Question: how do you identify what a "major" versus "minor" revision is?

-kyrathaba (October 06, 2010, 07:38 PM)

Functionality. It's really very subjective though. In the Unix/server world, versions tend to go up slower than in the consumer-level end-user PC software world.

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Living Room / Re: Two broadband connections at the same time?

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 04:10 PM »

This used to be easy to do, but I'm not sure how to do it now...

It's called "binding". You need to bind your NIC to the one connection, and bind your other network interface to the other one. As for which connection different software uses... Not sure anymore.

Anyways, maybe that's enough to help point you in the right direction, or maybe someone who's up on the topic can chime in.

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Living Room / Re: New image format for the web

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 03:32 PM »

IT's a replacement for JPEG not PNG (ie photographs, not logos and shapes)

-justice (October 06, 2010, 08:18 AM)

Yes, but it's still an infrastructure change, and now that PNG can FINALLY be used for design properly (after many years of not), any replacement for JPEG must offer some kind of actual benefit. Another lossey compression format just won't cut it. Smaller is great, but it's not a very tangible benefit. Given that there is so much bandwidth available and broadband is everywhere (kind of), nobody cares much about size. But, transparency in a lossey format would truly be a liberating thing for designers as it would elevate the level of possibilities just that much higher. PNG isn't used for photos because it uses GZIP compression. But a format that was designed for photos with alpha? That would be sexy!

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Living Room / Re: Anyone have any experiences (good or bad) with Wireless USB?

« Last post by Renegade on October 06, 2010, 12:07 AM »

+1 Carol.

$400 is pricey.

For that price, I'd want USB dongles for the 4 devices instead of running cables to the hub. Like really! Isn't the point of wireless to get RID of cables? That just reroutes them a bit. It doesn't eliminate cables.

(Am I missing something?)

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Living Room / Re: New image format for the web

« Last post by Renegade on October 04, 2010, 07:41 AM »

I think the success/failure of it rests entirely in 2 sources:

1) Google creates BSD licensed code for developers and brings the WebP format up to par with others
2) Microsoft incorporates support into IE

It must be up to par. The best format now is PNG with transparency. Alpha is not optional anymore. Otherwise, it's only good for photo albums.

Nobody will use WebP if it doesn't work in IE.

Looks promising though. A 39% reduction is a LOT~!

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Living Room / Re: [email protected]

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 07:39 PM »

They are doing a major overhaul of the site(s), and I suppose these are some of the hiccups.

The last major overhaul they did went extremely well and was a trillion times better than the older one.

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Living Room / Re: OMFG! Beauty of the Web...

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 07:37 PM »

Another secret message

-4wd (October 03, 2010, 07:18 PM)

Spoiler

Ah. Got it. But it was extremely odd to get 2.4 MB down that fast. It's was instantaneous. MS uses CDNs, so it's no surprise that it's fast, but that was abnormally fast.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 06:37 PM »

@wraith808 -- Apple will let you buy an app oon your iTouch, then also put it on your iPhone, and put it on your iPad, without charging you each time?

THAT sounds VERY out of character...

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Living Room / Re: OMFG! Beauty of the Web...

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 06:33 PM »

It took exactly how long I calculated it would.

-4wd (October 03, 2010, 12:16 PM)

Spoiler

I ended up with 60 fps in IE and 3 fps in FF. Massive difference.

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Living Room / Re: [email protected]

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 06:32 PM »

Seems back to normal... 

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 08:58 AM »

Of course, the thing about smartphones in that the OS is not where the action is: users will switch from one to another without a second thought.

-Dormouse (October 03, 2010, 04:15 AM)

I disagree.  Once you've bought apps, if they won't work on an OS, then you'll pretty much stick to it unless something catastrophic happens.  So the OS locks you in.  That's one of the reasons it took me forever to get an iPhone- I had too many apps on windows mobile (or whatever it was then).

-wraith808 (October 03, 2010, 08:31 AM)

I really hope that we are blessed with an all-out total Von Clausewitz war that weeds out the wankers Apples weak and forces a compromise of interoperability.

This is one of the reasons that I'm rooting for Novell so much. I want their Mono project to really take root and succeed. (.NET/Mono is so much more productive than some other languages.)

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Living Room / OMFG! Beauty of the Web...

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 07:10 AM »

Ok, no spoilers please... At least for a couple days.

Visit this site:

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com

Just check it out. Then click the download button... I nearly crapped myself.

Don't read until you've visited & downloaded

The site is slick, and the download speed was INSTANTANEOUS! 2.4 MB in less than 1 second... On a crappy Australian connection... I nearly crapped myself... 2x...

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Living Room / [email protected]

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 06:41 AM »

Ahem...



Huh? Like WTF?

I'm getting massive 404s all over the MS site. This was all like 10 years ago...

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 05:36 AM »

The Galaxy S is actually an Android. The Wave is the first bada phone.

There will be a general bloodbath. In the end I think there will either be absolute, dictatorial control, or good 3rd party software that helps to do cross-platform development and more open systems. I hope the latter. I fear the former.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 03, 2010, 12:38 AM »

That might be because it's a Blackberry Curve.
AFAICS, it is only the iPhone and Android that are really easy & useful for doing lots of things. Blackberry is still too email & business orientated for that and the Curve's screen is too small.

-Dormouse (October 02, 2010, 11:48 PM)

Keep your eye on Samsung's new bada devices. I know the SDK intimately, and it really has a lot in there that is VERY attractive for developers. It's still basically in its infancy, but keep your eye on it. It will take hold soon.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 02, 2010, 11:39 PM »

Here's my summary: App Store Review Guidelines for iPhone/iPad Apps

And a funny look before they published their guidelines:

http://www.crunchgea...-by-eight-year-olds/

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?

« Last post by Renegade on October 02, 2010, 11:33 PM »

Also where's the publicity in having your app rejected because because it violates some arbitrary condition imposed by Apple to protect their interests, and not devices owner.

-Eóin (October 02, 2010, 07:16 PM)

In all fairness, they *have* improved and have published a list of wishy-washy conditions that include "we don't like you". So, it's a *bit* better now.