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Comment Re:Been caught out with faked good from Amazon too (Score 4, Informative) 447

by KDEWolf (#31384670) Attached to: Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s

Sometimes they will even hack the FAT to make it look like a much larger drive, although obviously you will start getting errors if you try to write beyond its actual capacity... A lot of people get caught out by this because it takes them some time to fill the drive.

Yep, and most of the time even the retailer doesn't know about it. They buy from gray market, and that's what they get.

It's a worldwide huge issued already as you can see.

There's even a "white list" of good USB sellers in eBay.

Comment Re:Why... (Score 1) 432

by KDEWolf (#28957033) Attached to: KDE 4.3 Released

The free ones are sucky! AFAIK good, well designed typefaces that work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants are sold for good money. The free fonts on the other hand, lack this completeness. That said, I still think the sub-pixel hinting provided by Ubuntu (Gnome) is better than WinXP ever managed -- I find a lot of fonts under XP have small amounts of colour at the edges whereas they look much sharper under Ubuntu.

No, no. I know that those "OMG FREE FONTS LOLZ!!" sites don't have high-quality and standardized fonts.

I'm a graphic designer, and I'm not talking this out of the blue.

There are great quality freeware typefaces available out there, like http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html or http://www.fileguru.com/Rubicon-Unifont/info

Great fonts, with everything you mentioned (work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants, etc). And free! No excuses. Sometimes I think their people just don't ever thought about it...

Comment Why... (Score 1) 432

by KDEWolf (#28948685) Attached to: KDE 4.3 Released
...even with the UI looking each time better, all Linux typefaces suck so badly? (don't come with the not free excuse, please... there are plenty of them available on-line)

Comment Re:Firefox just has too many useful addons (Score 0) 277

by KDEWolf (#28208941) Attached to: Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

Yeah, so much of my web browsing today depends on a number of Firefox add-ons that simply JFW for a variety of things. Opera could be the greatest browser on the planet, but without AdBlock Plus (no, a manually configured host-filtering hack is not equivalent) or GreaseMonkey, or any other FF extensions I occasionally find use for (FxIF, del.icio.us, TwitterFox, , I simply can't adopt it seriously.

You do need to read some more /. hehe:
You just don't need addons, it's right here for you to use!

Comment Re:AdBlock Plus? NoScript? (Score 1, Informative) 278

by KDEWolf (#28202971) Attached to: First Beta of Opera 10 Released

So, does Opera have any functionality at least as good as AdBlockPlus and NoScript?

They are the /only/ reason I use Firefox. Really, for webbrowsers, AdBlock Plus is the killer app - if Opera can block ads at least that well, I'll be done with Firefox for good. If not, I have no reason to use it.

----AdBlockPlus:

Yes! From-the-box! Just right-click any "blank" (non-image nor Flash, let's say) part of the current displayed page. Then select "Block Content" (shortcut K).

It'll change to an "ad-kill mode", where the page itself gets transparent and only images and flash applets stand out normally (also from iframes).
If you click any of them, Opera will block anything else coming from that url folder (like www.google/ads/, for example).
If you just want to get rid of a single banner/flash, hold shift before clicking them.

Also, you can pre-block hosts via URL filtering urlfilter.ini ( http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/ ).

----NoScript:

Yes, also another from-the-box feature. For global settings: "Tools" menu -> "Preferences..." -> "Advanced" tab -> "Content" -> Javascript Options button.
Or, for per-site settings, just right-click the current page and select "Edit Site Preferences". You can also set CSS stuff this way, and add Javascript Files to run on some or all sites like on greasemokey.

Ahoy!
Businesses

Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? 680

Posted by CmdrTaco from the just-don't-crawl-this-domain-please dept.
An anonymous reader writes "My boss recently assigned me a project that was all his idea, with two basic flaws that would require me to break multiple web sites' Terms of Service (TOS). Part requires scraping most of the site, parsing the data and presenting it as our own without human intervention. While we're safe on copyright issues, clearly scraping like this is normally not allowed. At times it might also put a load on those sites. The other is, for lack of better words, a 'load balancing' part that requires using multiple free accounts instead of purchasing space and CPU time for less than $2,000 USD per month. The boss sees it as 'distributed' computing when in reality it's 'parasitic.' My question is: am I wrong about the ethics? If I do need to walk, how best can I handle it without damaging my reputation and future employment opportunities?"
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Nintendo's Homebrew-Blocking Update Hacked 157

Posted by timothy from the initiative-applied dept.
ElementC writes "Team Twiizers, the group behind almost all of the Wii Homebrew scene, has released an update to the Homebrew Channel (and installer) that allows for installation on a Wii with the most recent update installed. While the team still recommends against installing the Nintendo update, those who accidentally updated or purchase games that require the update are no longer left out to dry. This update to the Homebrew Channel also adds SDHC support, a feature Nintendo has not implemented in vanilla Wiis. The community has also created an app that updates just the Wii Shop Channel — allowing users to purchase Wiiware and Virtual Console games without losing their homebrew. It took the team only two days to get the fix out."

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