@levicki said in Superhuman media kerfuffle:
I wonder how do you use all those chat platforms where it says "wft is typing..." or "wft is sending a file..." on the recipient's side?
I use a 3rd party client that lets me turn this thing off.
@levicki said in Superhuman media kerfuffle:
I wonder how do you use all those chat platforms where it says "wft is typing..." or "wft is sending a file..." on the recipient's side?
I use a 3rd party client that lets me turn this thing off.
@boomzilla said:
I also wonder how common roaming profiles really are in corporate networks.I'd expect that rather than roaming profiles (which are slow any prone to breakage), folders are redirected to network instead (which is somewhat faster, but still prone to breakage, though somewhat less than roaming profiles).
@derula said:
What? ... Why?Because BitKeeper revoked the license it's given to Linux developers, and the Linus didn't want to continue working on Linux until he had a new revision control system.
@El_Heffe said:
There were two versions of Bitkeeper -- a commercial version and a free version. Linus Torvalds began using the free version because he felt that it was was best free (as in price) tool available. Unfortunately, the religious extremists only cared that Bitkeeper wasn't open source and therefore was evil. According to this version of the story some people were working on reverse-engineering Bitkeeper, which pissed off the company that makes Bitkeeper and so they eliminated the free version.That's what I actually heard, too - IIRC, the free version specifically had a clause that it was to stay free as long as nobody tried to reverse-engineer the protocol. Andrew Tridgell (best known as author of Samba) decided to reverse engineer it anyway (which IIRC, pissed off Linus).
@Ben L. said:
FIVE MEGABYTES FREE FOR JUST $34.99/MONTHWow, sounds like the offering from one of my past ISPs ... from 1996.
@ASheridan said:
In Windows, about the closest I can get is to hit the Windows key and start typing the beginning of the program name (or the start of a word of the program name, i.e. it won't list MySQL Workbench if I type in 'SQL', but it will if I type in 'my' or 'work').Let me guess: you disabled indexing? Not only does the search in Windows 7 Start Menu work on partial matches (of icon name, description, path and a few other things), it'll also find Control Panel items if you type a vague description of what you want to do.
@El_Heffe said:
Have you ever met anyone who really thought the animated paper clip in Office or the animated search dog in Windows XP were good ideas?I have met very few people who didn't think they're a good idea - and they were mostly techies. Any "normal" user I've worked with quite liked them (which is not surprising - that's who they were for).
@blakeyrat said:
I dunno. Drag-and-drop worked for attachments before, and works for attachments now. Paperclip button? Welcome to 1994.Drag-and-drop is one UI paradigm I almost never use - I find practically every other way of selecting/opening files faster than dragging them around.
@blakeyrat said:
But it's not related to Outlook Express or Outlook.Are you sure about that, because in the log files it spews all over %TEMP% it calls itself Outlook Express 7.
@da Doctah said:
DIVX?@Ronald said:
@mott555 said:Divx?@dhromed said:@El_Heffe said:Proposed code names for future Firefox versions:Atlantis will be the next major fucked up version.Isn't calling your project "Atlantis" kind of like calling your project "Titanic"?
- Titanic
- Atlantis
- Hindenburg
- Invasion of Poland
- TWA Flight 800
- Obamacare
- Trail of Tears
- New Coke
- Volt
- Roanoke
- Bay of Pigs
- Mozilla
Maginot line? Webvan? Obamacare?
codinghorror said:
Really? Try pressing ? on Twitter or GMail or GitHub for example. It's pretty standard these days actually.I've never heard of this. It's not advertised anywhere.
First time I've heard of this, too.
What if the window manager (which runs in kernel mode on Windows)
Support for XP has ended, and the window manager runs in userspace again.
Everyone always says this, but I've yet to experience it. Granted, I've only booted to Win 8 a dozen or two times.
kGraft it
When has Windows ever booted to a login screen?
In a tangentially related note, it has recently been discovered that 1 divided by zero is not undefined, but is actually different zero.
And here I thought were thinking of nullity.
What's really disturbing is the Mojave experiment Microsoft ran where they rebranded Vista as Mojave and apparently people loved it.
I used Vista before Windows 7 came out, and I never understood what all the hype about 7 was - to me it was just a slightly polished Vista.
Should be BESTAND_NIET_GEVONDEN
The fact that Git seems to require drastic measures like rebasing does not endear me to its reliability.
I've never had a bike go more than 250 or so.What kind of crap bikes do you buy? I don't have anything fancy, but can easily do 250 miles in a week on mine (or could - I've been a bit lazy this year).
In Update 3 you can choose whether to display Visual Studio menu bars in all caps or in title case.
Besides, how long until somebody wants to be able to use different colors in a single code point? Eugh.
My understanding is that systemd is basically an implementation of a Windows-like init system, meaning, you can set it to automatically restart services when they crash and all kinds of nice things like that.
RAM failure? Have you tried running something like memtest86 on the host OS?
Windows 7 should have retained DOS emulator.
@dhromed said:
PNG-8 is often larger than the equivalent GIF, but may in some cases be crushed beyond GIF.The only case in which I've seen 8bit PNGs larger than the eqivalent GIF file was when using interlacing - PNG's (although visually superior) interlacing algorithm sucks size-wise when compared with GIF (interlaced and non-interlaced GIFs are usually almost the same size, interlaced PNGs are always much larger than non-interlaced ones).
I haven't tested that properly. I used pngcrush to remove the GAMA chunk from various PNGs I made, in order have them display correctly in IE[6|7], and this sometimes made the file a few bytes larger. I blame that on my own inexperience with pngcrush.Hint: pngcrush is outdated. Use either advpng, optipng or pngout, they all produce better results (and advpng is extremely fast when compared to any of the others).
There's no single scale for JPEG compression - the actual compression depends on the quantization tables, and different software uses different tables. If you're more interested in the subject, there was a long discussion about this recently on the GIMP developer mailing list (search for "jpeg quality factor" in the archives).
Paint Shop "Pro", for example, does not allow 100% quality like PS, and also allows one to completely destroy any semblance of image content, using the 0% quality. Why is there no universal scale in which to measure jpg compression, so that software can implement it?
Compare Dreamcast and PS2, for example. Dreamcast's DRM strategy being, "gee, I hope CD burners don't get cheap!"
Is it just me, or does SpectateSwamp sound like some religious fanatics?
IIRC, SpectateSwamp claimed somewhere in this thread that his Search would have no problems searching through concatenated Linux source tree. Let's see what happens:
@SpectateSwamp said:
I just held my finger down on the enter key. I'm sure this app puts all matches up on the screen way more instant than yours does.I didn't have to hold down anything to get these results - I just typed the text in:
@SpectateSwamp said:
Or maybe got clued in about Desktop Search enough to give Swamp search a try for a few days maybe..But I did. And it froze.
@Spacecoyote said:
I won't point out what's so bad about any of this, I think you can see. Also, that scanner's not the only HP product that has been very bad to me. The moral of the story: Never buy HP.HP is only fine if you buy products that aren't intended for consumers. I've got a ScanJet 5590 that comes with 2 drivers - a "consumer" Twain driver that is exactly as you described it (except that uncompressed it's over 200MB), and a "corporate" ISIS/Twain driver that is much smaller, and uses normal Windows UI.
@AbbydonKrafts said:
I want one of those. I play so many different RPGs and RTS games on my computer that I can't keep track of which hotkeys mean what (and they are usually all over the friggin' place). If I could remap the keys to a convenient layout and provide a little graphic, that'd be awesome. Alas, those LCD keyboards are expensive.You mean something like this? :)
@morbiuswilters said:
Terrific attitude. I sure appreciate that you can't be bothered to prevent your own mediocre software from becoming an attack vector for hackers. I will be sure to withhold any help or sympathy when your servers are one day compromised.Sorry, but if a 3rd party server is compromised through an intended use of my server, that's not my fault.@morbiuswilters said:
Then why are we even having this conversation? If you're not a developer and don't intend to follow common development practices, why argue with me?I love an argument :) . And I'm pissed off by web forms that claim my e-mail address is invalid because it happens to contain a -, or a | (or in one case, because my e-mail domain didn't have an A record).
Arbitrarily forcing users finding a tiny "next page" button every 20 posts is the very definition of that.
That's why you make the spacebar automatically move to the next page when you reach the end of current page (which you also reached simply by pressing the spacebar).
Spacebar already performs a page-down. Don't you see a tiny conflict there?
Not at all. I think newsreaders implemented this first, but most e-mail clients also support it: spacebar first scrolls the text of current message; when you get to the end, spacebar jumps to the next unread message automatically (and then you can use spacebar to scroll the message text again). Opera implemented this on webpages (it uses meta [or maybe link? not sure] tags when they're present, and some heuristics when they aren't to determine what next/previous page should be); and guess what - this works with CS.
and ^ are Alt Gr + 7 and 3 respectively. Fun bit is, on every single system I tried, they ALWAYS require you to hit another key before they even show. No, I don't know why.
Look up dead keys. They're like that to âllôw yôu thîngs lîke thîs (however ` isn't dead for me).
Anyway, all this talk about layouts got me to finally install MS's Keyboard Layout Editor, and now I have <>{[}] in the top-left of the keyboard (and ^ as an undead key on AltGr+R). No more ć and đ for me (WTF is with this editor? I pressed Ctrl+V, and it deleted everything from ^ to the end of line‽)
There was a storm this Friday the 13th. It knocked out electricity in a part of client's building - the part that contains their two servers. When the power was restored on Saturday, one of the servers (5 years old HP ML350 G5, out of warranty) didn't finish booting up (froze on the Windows logo; trying to boot up a Linux rescue CD also resulted in a freeze during system initialization).
Since we had a similar unused server at work, I took their drives, put them in our server and tested that it boots, then I took this server to client's location. However, when I connected the server there, it just beeped, and showed a hardware fault LED. I tried moving everything but the motherboard back to the original server, but that still froze during bootup.
We bought a new server yesterday, and I borrowed another ML350 G5 from a different client to copy the data over. Except that when I powered it on, it's RAID failed with self-test error. Luckily, replacing the RAID controller from our dead server worked, system booted up, and I installed VMWare Converter. Unfortunately nothing I tried would get VMWare Converter to run, so in the end I enabled LSISAS driver in Registry, booted Linux again and dded the disk content over the network to my workstation where built a VM around the raw disk, and then uploaded that to the new server.
Verified that everything works, then connected the new server at client's location at 1 in the morning, checked again that everything works, then went to sleep.
The first computer at home was a whitebox 286 with 512kB RAM, 40MB hard disk drive, 5.25" floppy with Hercules graphics (with a black-and-white display - not green or orange). Over time this was upgraded with 3.5" floppy drive, a mouse (and Dr. Halo III drawing program), and Trident VGA (with 512kB of video RAM - yup, the same amount as the computer had for itself). At some point I got QuickBasic 4.0 and started programming (I learned mostly by borrowing books made for Commodore and Spectrum, then trying to get those programs to work).
@sam, @codinghorror: there seems to be a bug in notification e-mails exposed by my smiley above - some random linebreaks have been added to the encoded message, which results in additional spaces that break the preview:
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This should help with implementation:
https://www.smore.com/clippy-js
Status: Wondering why twatwood designed - and sells - a mechanical, back lit keyboard; yet the company he does this through doesn't manufacture replacement keys that are compatible with the back lighting.
The particular VM I am encrypting will be an 'always on' type of hardware,
I have it installed on my Windows 8 desktop right now, and it still manages windows like a retard. So I'm calling bullshit on you.
No. The file selector belongs to the OS. You do not implement your own. That is ALWAYS the wrong thing to do.None of the GIMP developers use Windows (and last time I checked, there was a single GTK+ developer that cared about the Windows port), so implementing OS-native file dialogs is not high on the list (it's also much harder than rolling their own - in their own toolkit when you want to make it easy for the programs to extend these dialogs).
It's easy to extend them in Windows, you just have to give a fucking shit and not hate your users.
EDIT: wait a minute, if they don't have any developers who give a shit about the Windows port, why does the Windows port exist? Is the open source philosophy specifically designed to produce awful shitty software everybody is guaranteed to hate?!
Are you sure about that?
It WAS building some kind of font cache the first time I ran it. I guess you need to tinker with that every time you add fonts. Messy.
And about GIMP, does anyone know how to open raw RGB file in it (on Windows)?If you mean raw as headerless stream of pixels, click the [+] at the bottom-left of the Open dialog, and choose RAW from the list before selecting a file (don't confuse it with the file-type drop-down on the right, which just filters which files are shown in the dialog).
Ever tried the Metro version of Skype? Most of the time it fails to make or receive a call, and if the call does connect, the other party usually can't hear you...
The liveleak one doesn't play at all for me, so it must be worse.