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Offline Kazade

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2009, 04:56:18 pm »
Hi ollydbg, I'll try it tonight when I'm at home, nice work!

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2009, 01:49:24 pm »
If some piece of memory should be reused, turn them to variables (or const variables).
If some piece of operations should be reused, turn them to functions.
If they happened together, then turn them to classes.

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2009, 03:18:33 pm »
Sorry, been really busy lately. I'll try and do it tonight. :)

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2009, 10:30:20 am »
Sorry, I'm extraordinarily useless, I haven't forgotten about this, I'm just trying to find some time :)

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2009, 03:22:50 pm »
That link is borken!
my website with c++ libs:
http://kiwisoftware.110mb.com/

Degmath launched!!! (Does degree functions)

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2009, 03:28:08 pm »
That link is borken!
...What do you really want to express?
If some piece of memory should be reused, turn them to variables (or const variables).
If some piece of operations should be reused, turn them to functions.
If they happened together, then turn them to classes.

Offline Jenna

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2009, 05:38:54 pm »
That link is borken!
...What do you really want to express?

He wants to spam the forum with useless posts, to make as much people as possible click on his link (and of course to come up in google ranking).

I deleted all his posts, where he tried to directly link to his useless degmath-"library".

Instead of contributing with some really helpful code, or fixing some bugs he wants some functions to be distributed with C::B that are of no real need for anybody, nor reletd to C::B in any way.

But I'm just a moderator, not and administrator, so I can not do anything but deleting his posts, but that's not worth the time.

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2009, 09:46:27 am »
In Kiwi's defense, it may actually be that the link is "borken", if he is using a recent version of Firefox.

You know, those recent versions of Firefox are so smart they actually make you use Internet Explorer again because of their fucking smartness.
In addition to the improved dumb-ass "unverified SSL certificate" process which prompts you with idiotic presets (you sure want to permanently install a certificate for every random website that you just want to see once and that your browser warns you about...), some genious decided it would be a good idea to add super smart feature that prevents you from using sites that Firefox deems invalid entirely, such as for example BerliOS. You don't even get a "show anyway" option.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: Premature quotation is the root of public humiliation."

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2009, 12:17:38 pm »
Hi,

I accept your critic as your personal experience, but it took me only three clicks to get through accepting the certificates and viewing berlios within my up to date firefox ... ???

one has to read the displayed warning thouggh, and click on "I understand the risk".If this is paranoid or even MS-like, I won't state any opinion on that ... ;)

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Re: Papercuts :)
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2009, 07:30:17 pm »
one has to read the displayed warning thouggh, and click on "I understand the risk".If this is paranoid or even MS-like, I won't state any opinion on that ... ;)
That's only half of the story, though. You need to click on "I understand the risk" then on another button, then a window pops up which has "install permanently" selected by default and a built-in 2 second delay before the UI can be accessed. Seriously, if the browser tells you "Warning! Great danger ahead, do not proceed, don't trust that site!" then why in the name of all that is holy would you want to permanently install that certificate? This is just a flipping stupid preset.
A lot of websites use https:// for no apparent reason, and most people don't care about whether a connection to a random site on the web is secure or not, as they know that they can't trust a random website anyway. No need to be so darn smart-alec about security when it really doesn't add anything to security and indeed only steals the user's time. A simple "yeah, I know... show it anyway" would be entirely sufficient.

On top of that, if a site has updated their certificate at some point in the past and it's one of the commonly used "snake oil" certificates (i.e. the unsigned self-made ones), then Firefox will deny access to that site alltogether, with no "show anyway" option at all. It will only keep you telling that the certificate is ambiguous. This is what has happened to me before and what might (possibly) have happened to the Kiwisoft person, hence my above post.
You can of course fix the problem by deleting the certificate database, but hey... what the hell?  What program (other than Code::Blocks of course  8)) requires you to delete files to fix program self-configuration errors?!
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: Premature quotation is the root of public humiliation."