Jared0×90

Well I just got notified automatically by Firefox about the 1.5.0.1 update about an hour ago. It went very smoothly and I am honestly happy to see that. One of the things I didn’t like about Firefox 1.0 was that even though I could explain to people how to update it, show them when it was signaling it needed to be updated, or walk them through it once or twice, every time I visited those computers they were always out of date and potentially at a greater risk. These are the computers that need the monthly registry, services, hijack this cleaning. Now that it has the overly large “update me now!” screen that comes up I think most people will be able to catch on. I wonder how long it will before unscrupulous advertisers start making their ad look like the Firefox update screen.

I have added a bunch of streaming videos provided by google that range from a car soccer game to michael jordan tributes.

Funny picture on the front page of whitehouse.gov today but I will link to the actual story as it will likely be a valid link longer:

Hmmm…..

DOSBox rules. Not only can I now play Master of Magic on x64 pro — I can do it with full sound emulation!! Well now that is running I guess I will have to cut this post short.

“Old Man You Seek The Spell Of Mastery”

On /. just saw a post about AOL and Google joining via Google buying $1billion into AOL. Why do I have this feeling that AOL will mess up Google… or will Google just take over AOL and be some kick ass ISP and finally drive the price down with MAYBE some decent software? Google Talk kicks AIM’s ass as far as I’m concerned, and should be replaced accordingly… but hey, that’s just me.

-a

Source Story

I modified modRC4 to add a simple file encryption routine. Check it out in the source code section of the site. If you use this module I’d love to hear some feedback. Thanks!

Seems like everyone is trying to sell copies of the software Microsoft is giving away on their VS2005 tour. I sure would be interested in a package like that if it was legit. I wonder if Microsoft monitors those kinds of sales.

Lisa:
??? (I wound up getting everything thus far)

Jared:
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Best Buy Gift Cards
Circuit City Gift Cards
Game Stop Gift Cards
EB Games Gift Cards
Ebay Gift Cards
[Insert electronic store here] Gift Cards
Xbox 360 Live Gold Starter Kit
Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Xbox 360 Memory Unit

Post a comment anonymously if you are actually getting one of these things so nobody gets the same thing!

Firefox 1.5 is now out! It’s not even on the mozilla home page yet! Get it now!

Update Read comments from user MWare below if you are having any trouble

So I wanted an easy and free way to backup my source code everyday. Well if you run Windows NT and have an Internet connection to download a copy of 7-zip you most certainly can backup your files regularly with unique filenames containing the date and time they were created - something that was a must for me. It helps if you have your source structured in a way that it all resides in a central location such as:

M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project A\
M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project B\
M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project C\

This way we can create a backup folder in the XYZ folder such as:

M:\XYZ Software\Source_Backup\

Then in XYZ Software place a copy of the 7za.exe file you downloaded and a batch file with the following code:

View the original version here (11/8/2005)

Every time this batch file is run from now it will generate a file in the Source_Backup folder like:

M:\XYZ Software\Source_Backup\2005-11-17-PM-11-04-Archive.zip

View version 2 here (3/15/2006)

This generates .7z files instead of .zip like listed below and is multithreaded for improved performance on multicore/multiprocessor machines. If you have a single core/CPU machine you may want to remvove the “-mmt=on” portion of the last line.

With the AM/PM setup this way when you sort by filename you will have your archives in the correct chronological order. Next simply schedule a task in Scheduled Tasks to run this batch file everyday at a given time. There you have it. Your own automated backup system. You could even add extra commands for AES encryption and then back it up off-site with FTP! Ah good old command line interface!