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I wonder how easy TOR is to use...

If you install the entire Tor bundle it is as easy as using, say, firefox. The bundle backend takes care of the connection routing. It is just a lot slower and cannot be consistently used to access the galleries.

[www.torproject.org] Full MS windows instructions

I wonder how easy TOR is to use...

Easy, but not safe anymore. Use I2P.

Why the heck does my keyboard stop working randomly?

I can't figure it out. The batteries are fine, the USB is fine(my keyboard and mouse use a unified receiver), and most of the time the keyboard works just fine. However, for some reason, there'll be random periods of time where the keyboard just flips a b!^ch, and stops doing what it's meant to. It stops working for like 2-15 seconds, then starts again, but repeats this process every couple minutes, and lasts maybe an hour. Then it'll be fine again for a while.

Why the heck does my keyboard stop working randomly?

I can't figure it out. The batteries are fine, the USB is fine(my keyboard and mouse use a unified receiver), and most of the time the keyboard works just fine. However, for some reason, there'll be random periods of time where the keyboard just flips a b!^ch, and stops doing what it's meant to. It stops working for like 2-15 seconds, then starts again, but repeats this process every couple minutes, and lasts maybe an hour. Then it'll be fine again for a while.

USB controller probably put it to sleep or something, so you gotta force it always on somewhere(i forgot).

I had a similar problem but i think mine was not enough power to run multiple USB devices.

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Dec 19 2013, 13:34

[www.afterdawn.com] Microsoft no longer recommends their own anti-virus

Still, being on the "bottom of the AV software rankings" is no excuse for the lack innovative features in MSE since v2.0.

Tried playing lost souls to remember good ol' MUD times. Died to two rats and one deer, not doing it ever again.

I hope whoever is in the charge of the Adobe Reader plugin for Chrome chokes on an endless bag of dicks.

Adobe's Reader support for browsers has been terrible on and off for quite some time. I love it when they break reading older pdfs.

Tried playing lost souls to remember good ol' MUD times. Died to two rats and one deer, not doing it ever again.

I laughed heartily.

Fuckdamnit, is there any spreadsheet software for linux that lets me disable all auto-formating, especially the date one and aligning in cells based on contents. LibreOffice Calc and Gnumeric are useless in this, there's no permanent option.

Fuckdamnit, is there any spreadsheet software for linux that lets me disable all auto-formating, especially the date one and aligning in cells based on contents. LibreOffice Calc and Gnumeric are useless in this, there's no permanent option.

Use [www.r-project.org] R and export results to .csv files, R do not have absolutelly any spreadsheet formatting as it is not a spreadsheet program.

I did this once, when a stupid manager asked for weekly spreadsheet reports. Tail logs, pipe to R script, output .csv, and mail it; all into a script added as a cron job.

Use [www.r-project.org] R and export results to .csv files, R do not have absolutelly any spreadsheet formatting as it is not a spreadsheet program.

I did this once, when a stupid manager asked for weekly spreadsheet reports. Tail logs, pipe to R script, output .csv, and mail it; all into a script added as a cron job.

I like clicking your links pingu.

You've got a nice repository of useful tools inside your head.

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Dec 22 2013, 10:50

I don't quite understand why SRWare Iron is as popular as it is.
It's basically Chrome with slightly different defaults and AdBlock already installed.
At least with Chrome you get an auto-updater.
Oh well, as long as it makes people happy.

Apple's 12 christmas presents app offered me a Justin Timberlake single

Anyone know a good 'site' I can use to learn ASP.NET with VS2013? Can't seem to find any tutorials that explain with VS2013 but instead VS2012. Problem being that the template options being different so I don't know how to start. (Learning ASP.NET instead of PHP because I already have some C# knowledge)

ASP.NET
(Learning ASP.NET instead of PHP because I already have some C# knowledge)

Kill it, fucking kill it with fire!

Here's a decent [www.w3schools.com] (newie) tutorial website with decent technologies that are NOT designed to break your code with every update (as opposite to the ones quoted).

And here is a [railsforzombies.org] (not newbie) set of video tutorials on something newer (more advanced? better?) than PHP.

This post has been edited by blue penguin: Dec 27 2013, 19:26

I don't quite understand why SRWare Iron is as popular as it is.
It's basically Chrome with slightly different defaults and AdBlock already installed.
At least with Chrome you get an auto-updater.
Oh well, as long as it makes people happy.

It has every part of google's nosey ass removed from the code. That's why I use it...

It's based on Chromium (the open-source project Chrome is built upon), so Google's nosey ass is pretty much still all over it
As far as I can tell, all* of Iron's "features" can be easily enabled on a vanilla Chrome build just by changing some of the default options ("Depending on the configuration" = "You can disable this if you want")
I don't know, it just seems silly to me how people hail Iron as the second coming of christ (I mean - why not install directly Chromium at this point?)

* except perhaps for the Installation ID, though I'm not even sure what that does

I don't quite understand why SRWare Iron is as popular as it is.
It's basically Chrome with slightly different defaults and AdBlock already installed.
At least with Chrome you get an auto-updater.
Oh well, as long as it makes people happy.

Did you notice the 2 google update services running?
Maybe the certificate you needed to disable auto-update, not sure if still applies.
Or the fact that it downloads 120mb+ silently in the background when there is a new version availaible without fucking telling you even if you have no Chrome open.
The services also make continuous checks for new versions even though you thought you disabled it.

It's basically a trojan.


The thing about Iron is all that shit is removed and the developer tools too, since those are usually useless to casual users and detrimental to performance.
There are some other pro's but i can't think of em right now.

And i've never used Chromium or any other derivatives but i believe Chromium lacks a few functions so it's not recommended.

Did you notice the 2 google update services running?
Maybe the certificate you needed to disable auto-update, not sure if still applies.
Or the fact that it downloads 120mb+ silently in the background when there is a new version availaible without fucking telling you even if you have no Chrome open.
The services also make continuous checks for new versions even though you thought you disabled it.

It's basically a trojan.
The thing about Iron is all that shit is removed and the developer tools too, since those are usually useless to casual users and detrimental to performance.
There are some other pro's but i can't think of em right now.

And i've never used Chromium or any other derivatives but i believe Chromium lacks a few functions so it's not recommended.

Huh?
No, it's a service aka a daemon.

Chromium is fine if you like memory leaks.

And I wouldn't use Iron in a million years if I were concern for my privacy (then iceweasel sounds much more welcoming) given how slow the releases are and how lacklusting the fork is.