You're going to want to spend a minimum of 800 dollars on a paper shredder. Any less than that and the quality is going to be so low you'll want to replace the damn thing within 5 years, but you won't be able to because your identity will have been stolen and your bank account emptied.
If you're serious about shredding, get something with carbide cutting heads and at least a.5HP motor. I have a Rawlings-Chamberlain MK220 AKA "The Silver Knight" . It comes fully loaded with a dual rubber roller feeder and 6 layer hopper to separate different kinds of paper, wood, metal, etc.. I can shred a New York telephone book in under 15 seconds. The built in milling computer lets me customize the shred pattern to meet any security needs. I prefer a 3mm parallelogram with bilateral fiber separation. You can't even make out individual characters on those things.
Send me an IM if you're serious about this. Welcome to the world of paper shredding. You're in for a hell of a ride.
Agree with this post, except I'd rather see 33% Android, 33% WP8, 16% BB and 16% iphone. Apple need to be knocked off their perch for quite a while, frankly they need some humbling. (I don't even like WP8!)
I drank it for about 2 years, loved my iphone so much. My first smartphone - I was completely blown away by the thing. Infact, I became so addicted to their products and so eager for new shit, I actually ruined a part of a nice long holiday in London in 2010 because I was so busy reading iphone 4 news, hoping for it's release while I was away, ordering the phone in the store over there - the whole lot. I was so desperate for the next 'iproduct' that I wasn't spending time enjoying myself on my holiday. Totally my own fault of course but part of dumb consumerism, brand loyalty, good marketing. (Yes, I did end up buying it outright in the UK)
Over time though, I got sick of so many things I couldn't do. I hated that I needed to jailbreak just for SBSettings, which is frankly - fucking priceless (or was 18 months ago when I last used it) that one thing alone and the fact Apple hadn't copied SBSettings had me concerned. How can they NOT impliment this logical, awesome stuff? They are devestatingly stubborn.
Someone showed me, I think a 2.2 build of Android and the pull down menu and the power bar widget. I was blown away. He was an Android nerd and lent me an Android phone for a few weeks. Almost all the shit which was pissing me off with an iphone was solved. I think I'd owned my iphone 4 for about 4 months at this point and then it went in a drawer for 7 months before I sold it - my journey had begun. Would never EVER switch back now - just couldn't consider it
Won't deny one thing though - the hardware support from Apple, no one else comes close, not even remotely - which is sad. That whole "oh golly sir, it has a scratch and re-booted once on you?! Here have a new phone!" - that's good. That bought my loyalty for quite a while, won't deny that. I hear Samsung and Asus are really bad to return things to - and I've personally returned to Nokia (or tried to) I'll never purchase a Nokia product again.
Long story short though, this stubborn shit from Apple? surprising? Not at all, not even slightly.
Wait the condensing ones are more efficient? I know they are vastly more expensive to purchase upfront but I was under the impression they are also terribly inefficient, the advantage is they don't mould up the bathroom with a lot of water condensation?
This is one of the nerdiest posts I've seen in a long long time. As just a normal IT nerd and regular to slashdot, thank you for continuing to come here, it's good to see some really smart guys here.
I always like hearing good old 60's / 70's / 80's stories from people like you regarding big cool interesting projects / problems - not just same old IT stuff you can get anywhere.
This is why I keep coming here, unique people and history. P.S - can't help with your pen problem, I'm just one of those normal nerds. Try a palm pilot!
It might be very easy to use but even idiot users are smarter than the OS, that's why even your regular 'dummies' are using Android phones now.
Any old regular manager can operate a blackberry, sure it might take 2 days to get used to, instead of 2 hours but it's not much for such a powerful device. So to make it clear, beat with me here. Proper run of the mill, non technical people can completely operate a device with a trackball / select button, back button, submenu (right click / context) button, home (end) button and a green dial button. The classic 9000 series is a 5 button device yet in thousands of hours of support, usability is exceedingly rarely an issue after a day or two
Then you pick up an iphone - you go into an app and want a context menu to come up, so you can choose for example to correct spelling, or choose a contact to email to, or switch an address book, perhaps paste - but no, Apples method is to hide/somewhere/ on the screen - in a NON.CONSISTENT.LOCATION the menu button. Android* and blackberry have this in a consistent location and frankly - for more than just basic tasks, it makes for a more consistent experience when trying to do more advanced functionality.
So yes, Apple wins in simple, open app, go home, open new app, but more than that and it starts becoming tricky. Menus and settings being wherever the dev wants, instead of under consistent buttons, is illogical - no matter how apple slice it.
That's just the beginning of the shortcomings of the OS which has completely stagnated for the last 2 years, I heard they finally copied Android with a drop down notification menu - mind you if you want to quickly access brightness, wifi, gps, 3G (4G) data, bluetooth options, you still need to go 7 pages deep into the bloody settings instead of the lovely and simple power bar in Android. - sorry but it's just more logical and more convienient.
ios will continue to be popular, of course - but when I'm starting to see retirees tapping away on a Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Nexus on public transport, plus a heap of young people, male and female using Android - well, having an iphone is simply not cool anymore. If I owned AAPL I'd seriously consider selling - once at the top, where else can you go? Especially with this stagnation.
* NOTE: Google have ditched the dedicated menu button to a/roaming location/ settings button like Apple and instead focused on a dedicated app switch / multitask button (I NEVER use this!) I have absoloutely no idea why they think this frankly, stupid idea is good - but as part of the point of my post, users can still quite easily navigate Android with dedicated back, home, multi-task buttons at least as well as the quickpower bar menu for quick access to turning things on and off. (NOTE NOTE: Don't send me links why the dedicated task switcher is good, it's not - it's a fucking idiotic change, sorry)
Moderate you up or just type I agree? Too important to just mod, you're bang on point. After using the internet for over 15 years, definitely this is the case with tech articles. I think you could probably count the technological _huge_ leaps in the last 20 years on a single hand in regards to PC parts.
3D GPU stuff like 3DFX cards SSD's Ability to burn optical media High speed internet Flat panel displays
As for CPU speed increases, memory size increases, memory bandwidth increases, disk storage size increases - ALL of these have been slowly eeked out at a slow pace to keep the money flowing.
"Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid?"
What industry? The tech industry, the medical industry? The hearing aid specific industry? This isn't the first time I've seen industry used in this manner, we can definitely assume whch industry in most cases but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be specified. This isn't correct use here and it sounds stupid.
I only whine because I suspect this isn't an accident but another one of those poor uses which people actually think is correct and it gets perpetuated out there, like this incredibly ridiculous and weird one. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=anymore%20nowadays&hl=en&meta=
Steam does this - although generally not Valve who are good about this but more big big publishers who are sharing the service with Valve. Luckily with US contacts, I can be 'gifted' games at US prices.
It's disgusting and it's bullshit, if you're willing to sell a game, or a song or a book or fuck even a physical product to an American for X price and I produce the same amount of money for you and I take care of the shipping (or downloading the fucking bits) then frankly, fuck you for trying to charge me more.
This is much worse for console using folk on PSN and the 360, sure I have a US PSN account but I don't WANT to have to buy PSN 'money' in US format from gift cards just to get games at reasonable prices and then be left with 3$ or 13$ or whatever in 'change' on my account. Honestly this bullshit just stops me participating entirely.
About the only reasonable thing of late is PC parts in Australia, due to the proximity to Asia and the AU$ being strong so long (and of course PC parts, high turnover) for the most part, CPU's, RAM, HDD's and so on are very very close to the US. Mind you if you are picky and want something high end or obscure like high end SAS controllers and stuff like that, sorry buddy, 4x the price.
So as I started with,... they wonder why we steal shit.... sigh
Honestly if you have any patience you just wait 3 months and the good games are 25$ a pop - that's 2 lunches for me. I'm in my 30's now and I suspect my heavy piracy days are long gone. I also feel slight guilt when I pirate games now, some of these guys bust their asses to make some really good stuff. If ever do pirate anything it's only the gargantuan huge games which are selling a tonne anyhow.
I'm also really really happy with my PS3. I know Sony is the devil here but the exclusive games for the system, unlike the 360 - don't get ported to PC. There's some genuinely unique and fantastic games on the platform.
If I didn't own a beast little HTPC now (HP Microserver N40L) then I would however be happy that finally XBMC might come to the PS3. (I can't deny it DID piss me off they closed the loophole the developers were considering on the PS3) They honestly coudl've sold a shitload more if the PS3 supported XBMC out of the box with a basic live boot CD / DVD or something.
I've been reading and reading and reading about sugar for the last couple of months and that video is really something everyone should watch. The stuff is quite genuinely addictive, I'm sure in very very low quantities it's quite FUN to eat but it does nothing for you, the problem is what it does to your body - I'm quite horribly addicted to the stuff.
HTC make the second best Android phones behind Samsung. If Samsung turn evil or make stupid decisions I don't agree with, I like having HTC there as a backup. I owned a HTC HD2 (no it's not a native Android phone) but the build quality, for the time was fairly good and HTC Sense really isn't that bad. (Then again, I don't hate touchwiz either)
I hear Sony's Android phones aren't shabby but I have a hard time believing a juggernaught like Sony would release timely products or updates. Also LG and Motorola both "not bad" but HTC is definitely, in my eyes #2 - it'd be a shame to see them completely slayed.
I don't follow them too closely but I believe they were continuing to focus on Microsoft based phones which seems, completely foolhardy to me - the sales numbers on those things would be quite miniscule, fingers crossed they remain competitive. (The HTC One X does have a glorious screen, but the lack of removable battery or SD card slot is a no no, the actual design however - for the most part is quite nice looking like the S3)
Was this posted on HIS own personal wall and someone took offense or was it posted on the wall(s)? for the little girl who was kidnapped or whatever (sorry, only read half the story)
If this is on the kids wall / page, then I can very very partially understand he's at least breaking morale 'asshole' code, however if this was on his own personal page, then that's his own dumb opinion.
Anyone know? It's difficult to tell from the article.
I've posted this online multiple times with no answer, I'm curious if anyone here knows the feasability of using genetic modification / whatever methods (Selective breeding?) there is to reduce the nicotine content in tobacco?
I utterly loathe the stuff but I too don't like the banning attitude, what next?.. -I'd like however to slowly see over perhaps 10 to 20 years the eventual reduction of nicotine in tobacco if possible, just by a small factor each year, the government(s) could outlaw tobacco of X strength.
Over the duration of this time, people, ideally would be able to quit through breaking the habit, rather than breaking an addiction and habit. I admit it would be difficult at first and yes - many people would either smoke more or try other means to find the stuff, but ideally in the long run it may give some a fighting chance. I hear the stuff is incredibly genuinely difficult to break the addiction.
What do you mean all your lawyers are busy right now? Oh they are already busy, well get some more! You don't want to cut profits you say? Oh no worries, fire the engineers and innovators in the company, hire some more lawyers!
Don't quote me on this but I think the Vostro is one of the few laptops with a matte finish nowadays. So the remainder of the Apple (obviously) and Dell stock is pretty much defective by design. Thank the lord for the Vostro.
I have too many, due to simply being a messy pig and pedantic with files. The best tool I've found is called Duplicate Cleaner - it's from Digital Volcano. I do not work for / am not affiliated with these people.
I've used many tools over the years, DFL, Duplic8 and "Duplicate Files Finder" - one of which had a shitty bug which matched non identical files.
Duplicate cleaners algorithm is good and the UI, while not perfect, is one of the better ones at presenting the data. Especially identifying entire branches / directories being binarily (word?) identical.
Yes it takes a while, that's what minimising applications is for, do you want a TRUE representation of genuinely identical files, or not?
Wish I could mod you +6, Apple have become everything they pretended they were against. I have multiple friends who abandoned Microsoft many years ago because they are an evil monopoly and are now vehement, blind Apple supporters. They are blind to see Apple is just as bad at the top as Microsoft was.
I don't want Apple to die, despite how much they deserve it for their disgusting atittudes. We need competition. but good lord do they need to be knocked down a few rungs, I am eager for Google and partners to do so. Although considering how poorly Apple has innovated the last couple of years in the handheld space, I suspect they are about to knock themselves off their own perch.
I was a dodgy little software pirate too, I was constantly formatting floppy disks and checking for bastard CRC errors. I only had a 20mb hard disk to begin with.
So that is why the pin for my ATM card is 145766412139 (I can't fit the 52 at the end, they max out at 12 digits here, not 14) Sad, I know.
The 2 combined numbers there, which you might be more familliar with in Ztree are. 1,457,664 BYTES FREE 1,213,952 BYTES FREE No CRC errors on those bad boys, every block is working:) Oh and I have an 8" floppy stuck up on the wall of my nerd cave:( although I never got to work with them, the bank I was working in used them for transactions from offices only about 10 or 12 years ago - which really is pretty recent when you think about it. (A lot of our Aussie companies here purchased used hardware from the US to set themselves up, I believe Coles supermarkets used US based registers and ANZ banks used some kind of US based banking hardware - both second hand)
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You're going to want to spend a minimum of 800 dollars on a paper shredder. Any less than that and the quality is going to be so low you'll want to replace the damn thing within 5 years, but you won't be able to because your identity will have been stolen and your bank account emptied.
If you're serious about shredding, get something with carbide cutting heads and at least a .5HP motor. I have a Rawlings-Chamberlain MK220 AKA "The Silver Knight" .
It comes fully loaded with a dual rubber roller feeder and 6 layer hopper to separate different kinds of paper, wood, metal, etc.. I can shred a New York telephone book in under 15 seconds.
The built in milling computer lets me customize the shred pattern to meet any security needs. I prefer a 3mm parallelogram with bilateral fiber separation. You can't even make out individual characters on those things.
Send me an IM if you're serious about this. Welcome to the world of paper shredding. You're in for a hell of a ride.
s[thanks ArB]s
Agree with this post, except I'd rather see 33% Android, 33% WP8, 16% BB and 16% iphone. Apple need to be knocked off their perch for quite a while, frankly they need some humbling.
(I don't even like WP8!)
I drank it for about 2 years, loved my iphone so much. My first smartphone - I was completely blown away by the thing.
Infact, I became so addicted to their products and so eager for new shit, I actually ruined a part of a nice long holiday in London in 2010 because I was so busy reading iphone 4 news, hoping for it's release while I was away, ordering the phone in the store over there - the whole lot. I was so desperate for the next 'iproduct' that I wasn't spending time enjoying myself on my holiday. Totally my own fault of course but part of dumb consumerism, brand loyalty, good marketing.
(Yes, I did end up buying it outright in the UK)
Over time though, I got sick of so many things I couldn't do. I hated that I needed to jailbreak just for SBSettings, which is frankly - fucking priceless (or was 18 months ago when I last used it) that one thing alone and the fact Apple hadn't copied SBSettings had me concerned. How can they NOT impliment this logical, awesome stuff?
They are devestatingly stubborn.
Someone showed me, I think a 2.2 build of Android and the pull down menu and the power bar widget. I was blown away. He was an Android nerd and lent me an Android phone for a few weeks. Almost all the shit which was pissing me off with an iphone was solved. I think I'd owned my iphone 4 for about 4 months at this point and then it went in a drawer for 7 months before I sold it - my journey had begun.
Would never EVER switch back now - just couldn't consider it
Won't deny one thing though - the hardware support from Apple, no one else comes close, not even remotely - which is sad. That whole "oh golly sir, it has a scratch and re-booted once on you?! Here have a new phone!" - that's good. That bought my loyalty for quite a while, won't deny that.
I hear Samsung and Asus are really bad to return things to - and I've personally
returned to Nokia (or tried to) I'll never purchase a Nokia product again.
Long story short though, this stubborn shit from Apple? surprising? Not at all, not even slightly.
Wait the condensing ones are more efficient?
I know they are vastly more expensive to purchase upfront but I was under the impression they are also terribly inefficient, the advantage is they don't mould up the bathroom with a lot of water condensation?
I belive the correct response to this is "whooooooooooooooooooooooosh"
This is one of the nerdiest posts I've seen in a long long time.
As just a normal IT nerd and regular to slashdot, thank you for continuing to come here, it's good to see some really smart guys here.
I always like hearing good old 60's / 70's / 80's stories from people like you regarding big cool interesting projects / problems - not just same old IT stuff you can get anywhere.
This is why I keep coming here, unique people and history.
P.S - can't help with your pen problem, I'm just one of those normal nerds. Try a palm pilot!
It might be very easy to use but even idiot users are smarter than the OS, that's why even your regular 'dummies' are using Android phones now.
Any old regular manager can operate a blackberry, sure it might take 2 days to get used to, instead of 2 hours but it's not much for such a powerful device. So to make it clear, beat with me here. Proper run of the mill, non technical people can completely operate a device with a trackball / select button, back button, submenu (right click / context) button, home (end) button and a green dial button.
The classic 9000 series is a 5 button device yet in thousands of hours of support, usability is exceedingly rarely an issue after a day or two
Then you pick up an iphone - you go into an app and want a context menu to come up, so you can choose for example to correct spelling, or choose a contact to email to, or switch an address book, perhaps paste - but no, Apples method is to hide /somewhere/ on the screen - in a NON.CONSISTENT.LOCATION the menu button. Android* and blackberry have this in a consistent location and frankly - for more than just basic tasks, it makes for a more consistent experience when trying to do more advanced functionality.
So yes, Apple wins in simple, open app, go home, open new app, but more than that and it starts becoming tricky. Menus and settings being wherever the dev wants, instead of under consistent buttons, is illogical - no matter how apple slice it.
That's just the beginning of the shortcomings of the OS which has completely stagnated for the last 2 years, I heard they finally copied Android with a drop down notification menu - mind you if you want to quickly access brightness, wifi, gps, 3G (4G) data, bluetooth options, you still need to go 7 pages deep into the bloody settings instead of the lovely and simple power bar in Android. - sorry but it's just more logical and more convienient.
ios will continue to be popular, of course - but when I'm starting to see retirees tapping away on a Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Nexus on public transport, plus a heap of young people, male and female using Android - well, having an iphone is simply not cool anymore.
If I owned AAPL I'd seriously consider selling - once at the top, where else can you go? Especially with this stagnation.
* NOTE: Google have ditched the dedicated menu button to a /roaming location/ settings button like Apple and instead focused on a dedicated app switch / multitask button (I NEVER use this!) I have absoloutely no idea why they think this frankly, stupid idea is good - but as part of the point of my post, users can still quite easily navigate Android with dedicated back, home, multi-task buttons at least as well as the quickpower bar menu for quick access to turning things on and off.
(NOTE NOTE: Don't send me links why the dedicated task switcher is good, it's not - it's a fucking idiotic change, sorry)
Is it really only a CAT1? The amount of news on this thing, I would have guessed it's a CAT6 or something ridiculous like that.
Moderate you up or just type I agree? Too important to just mod, you're bang on point. After using the internet for over 15 years, definitely this is the case with tech articles. I think you could probably count the technological _huge_ leaps in the last 20 years on a single hand in regards to PC parts.
3D GPU stuff like 3DFX cards
SSD's
Ability to burn optical media
High speed internet
Flat panel displays
As for CPU speed increases, memory size increases, memory bandwidth increases, disk storage size increases - ALL of these have been slowly eeked out at a slow pace to keep the money flowing.
Yes it very much is bad grammar, the fact it's moderated down shows just how poorly educated people are nowadays.
"Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid?"
What industry? The tech industry, the medical industry? The hearing aid specific industry? This isn't the first time I've seen industry used in this manner, we can definitely assume whch industry in most cases but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be specified. This isn't correct use here and it sounds stupid.
I only whine because I suspect this isn't an accident but another one of those poor uses which people actually think is correct and it gets perpetuated out there, like this incredibly ridiculous and weird one.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=anymore%20nowadays&hl=en&meta=
Steam does this - although generally not Valve who are good about this but more big big publishers who are sharing the service with Valve. Luckily with US contacts, I can be 'gifted' games at US prices.
It's disgusting and it's bullshit, if you're willing to sell a game, or a song or a book or fuck even a physical product to an American for X price and I produce the same amount of money for you and I take care of the shipping (or downloading the fucking bits) then frankly, fuck you for trying to charge me more.
This is much worse for console using folk on PSN and the 360, sure I have a US PSN account but I don't WANT to have to buy PSN 'money' in US format from gift cards just to get games at reasonable prices and then be left with 3$ or 13$ or whatever in 'change' on my account.
Honestly this bullshit just stops me participating entirely.
About the only reasonable thing of late is PC parts in Australia, due to the proximity to Asia and the AU$ being strong so long (and of course PC parts, high turnover) for the most part, CPU's, RAM, HDD's and so on are very very close to the US. Mind you if you are picky and want something high end or obscure like high end SAS controllers and stuff like that, sorry buddy, 4x the price.
So as I started with,... they wonder why we steal shit.... sigh
Honestly if you have any patience you just wait 3 months and the good games are 25$ a pop - that's 2 lunches for me. I'm in my 30's now and I suspect my heavy piracy days are long gone. I also feel slight guilt when I pirate games now, some of these guys bust their asses to make some really good stuff. If ever do pirate anything it's only the gargantuan huge games which are selling a tonne anyhow.
I'm also really really happy with my PS3. I know Sony is the devil here but the exclusive games for the system, unlike the 360 - don't get ported to PC. There's some genuinely unique and fantastic games on the platform.
If I didn't own a beast little HTPC now (HP Microserver N40L) then I would however be happy that finally XBMC might come to the PS3. (I can't deny it DID piss me off they closed the loophole the developers were considering on the PS3) They honestly coudl've sold a shitload more if the PS3 supported XBMC out of the box with a basic live boot CD / DVD or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I've been reading and reading and reading about sugar for the last couple of months and that video is really something everyone should watch. The stuff is quite genuinely addictive, I'm sure in very very low quantities it's quite FUN to eat but it does nothing for you, the problem is what it does to your body - I'm quite horribly addicted to the stuff.
Watch that video and get educated on the stuff.
HTC make the second best Android phones behind Samsung. If Samsung turn evil or make stupid decisions I don't agree with, I like having HTC there as a backup. I owned a HTC HD2 (no it's not a native Android phone) but the build quality, for the time was fairly good and HTC Sense really isn't that bad. (Then again, I don't hate touchwiz either)
I hear Sony's Android phones aren't shabby but I have a hard time believing a juggernaught like Sony would release timely products or updates. Also LG and Motorola both "not bad" but HTC is definitely, in my eyes #2 - it'd be a shame to see them completely slayed.
I don't follow them too closely but I believe they were continuing to focus on Microsoft based phones which seems, completely foolhardy to me - the sales numbers on those things would be quite miniscule, fingers crossed they remain competitive. (The HTC One X does have a glorious screen, but the lack of removable battery or SD card slot is a no no, the actual design however - for the most part is quite nice looking like the S3)
Was this posted on HIS own personal wall and someone took offense or was it posted on the wall(s)? for the little girl who was kidnapped or whatever (sorry, only read half the story)
If this is on the kids wall / page, then I can very very partially understand he's at least breaking morale 'asshole' code, however if this was on his own personal page, then that's his own dumb opinion.
Anyone know? It's difficult to tell from the article.
I've posted this online multiple times with no answer, I'm curious if anyone here knows the feasability of using genetic modification / whatever methods (Selective breeding?) there is to reduce the nicotine content in tobacco?
I utterly loathe the stuff but I too don't like the banning attitude, what next?.. -I'd like however to slowly see over perhaps 10 to 20 years the eventual reduction of nicotine in tobacco if possible, just by a small factor each year, the government(s) could outlaw tobacco of X strength.
Over the duration of this time, people, ideally would be able to quit through breaking the habit, rather than breaking an addiction and habit.
I admit it would be difficult at first and yes - many people would either smoke more or try other means to find the stuff, but ideally in the long run it may give some a fighting chance. I hear the stuff is incredibly genuinely difficult to break the addiction.
(Maple syrup on bacon thing rather... on pancakes, of course!)
Only moronic savages would put maple syrup ON bacon, something I'd expect a bored child to do, playing with their food.
(I'll take the karma hit, the rest of the world are completely o_0 at the whole maple syrup on pancakes thing)
What do you mean all your lawyers are busy right now?
Oh they are already busy, well get some more!
You don't want to cut profits you say?
Oh no worries, fire the engineers and innovators in the company, hire some more lawyers!
Don't quote me on this but I think the Vostro is one of the few laptops with a matte finish nowadays.
So the remainder of the Apple (obviously) and Dell stock is pretty much defective by design. Thank the lord for the Vostro.
I have too many, due to simply being a messy pig and pedantic with files.
The best tool I've found is called Duplicate Cleaner - it's from Digital Volcano.
I do not work for / am not affiliated with these people.
I've used many tools over the years, DFL, Duplic8 and "Duplicate Files Finder" - one of which had a shitty bug which matched non identical files.
Duplicate cleaners algorithm is good and the UI, while not perfect, is one of the better ones at presenting the data. Especially identifying entire branches / directories being binarily (word?) identical.
Yes it takes a while, that's what minimising applications is for, do you want a TRUE representation of genuinely identical files, or not?
Wish I could mod you +6, Apple have become everything they pretended they were against.
I have multiple friends who abandoned Microsoft many years ago because they are an evil monopoly and are now vehement, blind Apple supporters. They are blind to see Apple is just as bad at the top as Microsoft was.
I don't want Apple to die, despite how much they deserve it for their disgusting atittudes. We need competition. but good lord do they need to be knocked down a few rungs, I am eager for Google and partners to do so. Although considering how poorly Apple has innovated the last couple of years in the handheld space, I suspect they are about to knock themselves off their own perch.
I was a dodgy little software pirate too, I was constantly formatting floppy disks and checking for bastard CRC errors. I only had a 20mb hard disk to begin with.
So that is why the pin for my ATM card is 145766412139
(I can't fit the 52 at the end, they max out at 12 digits here, not 14)
Sad, I know.
The 2 combined numbers there, which you might be more familliar with in Ztree are. :) :( although I never got to work with them, the bank I was working in used them for transactions from offices only about 10 or 12 years ago - which really is pretty recent when you think about it.
1,457,664 BYTES FREE
1,213,952 BYTES FREE
No CRC errors on those bad boys, every block is working
Oh and I have an 8" floppy stuck up on the wall of my nerd cave
(A lot of our Aussie companies here purchased used hardware from the US to set themselves up, I believe Coles supermarkets used US based registers and ANZ banks used some kind of US based banking hardware - both second hand)
In conclusion: I don't miss the sound of drive heads seeking on cheap floppies with cheap drives, but I do fondly recall some aspects of them.
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Aimed at me or Geekoid? Where did all that come from?