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A quick update in case anyone here is interested: I'm still using Frantech and I'm still very happy with them. 
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Today let’s step outside the news cycle and turn our attention toward a topic I’m deeply invested in but only rarely write about: productivity platforms. For decades now, software tools have promised to make working life easier. But on one critical dimension — their ability to improve our thinking — they don’t seem to be making much progress at all.
Food for thought...
Cool. The biggest tray tooltip I ever saw had 6 or 7 lines IIRC.Ah... Are there different kinds of tooltips?-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 12:41 PM)
Tooltips are tooltips, but tray tooltips seem to have a limit to the amount of lines and text they can display. I'll play around with it.-skwire (March 06, 2022, 12:52 PM)
A few suggestions:Oh, and I just noticed that WiFiBrute wasn't running anymore, but I didn't see a crash notification while I was at the PC.-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 12:41 PM)
Hmmm...odd.
Somebody needs come up with a better name for this, too.-skwire (March 06, 2022, 12:52 PM)
Ah... Are there different kinds of tooltips?And may I suggest this mouse-over info:
SSID: xyz
Connection enforced: -
which will change to
SSID: xyz
Connection enforced: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
once it enforced a connection?-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)
Sure. I'll have to condense it a bit, since there is a limited amount of text allowed in that particular tooltip.-skwire (March 06, 2022, 12:33 PM)
It works! Awesome!
- Download the attached file and extract it into its own folder somewhere.
- Run the WiFiBrute.exe file. On startup, you should see a new icon in your tray with a yellow circle. It should then pop up an input box to enter your preferred SSID. This is case-sensitive and must be exact.
- After that, it will check to see which network it's on. If it's the preferred one, the tray icon turns green, and it then checks every ten seconds to ensure it's on the preferred network (if it's available, of course).
- If the preferred network is not available, the tray icon turns read, and it tries to connect to the preferred network every ten seconds. Once it's successful, the tray icon turns green again, and you are notified with a standard Windows 10 popup that you're back on the preferred network.
You can exit the application by right-clicking the tray icon and choosing Exit. It's a very basic prototype right now, with minimal configurable options, so I'm curious to see if it does, indeed, work for you. Let me know how you get on with it.-skwire (March 05, 2022, 04:12 PM)
Something much simpler to try may be the following:Yeah, I've tried that for a while, but that results in Windows being offline whenever the fast WiFi is not available, and I don't want having to manually interfere anymore.
Set your WiFi connection to your fastest WiFi to 'connect automatically', and the connection to your slower WiFi to 'not connect automatically'. Windows will now not so easily switch between WiFi setups any more. Whenever the fast one is available Windows will switch automagically, yet won't switch back to your slow connection.-Shades (March 04, 2022, 05:06 PM)
Based on my tests yesterday, I saw the same behaviour. That said, you can still connect to a non-visible network, via netsh, so long as you know the name. Here's my logic flow for a prototype:Interesting!
1. Program starts up knowing the preferred/fast network name.
2. Program checks what network it's currently on.
2a. If not the preferred network, set tray icon to red/slow, and attempt to connect to it every n number of seconds/minutes.
2b. If on the preferred network, set tray icon to green/fast, and check every n number of seconds/minutes to ensure we're still on the preferred network. If not, go back to 2.
It's a bit of brute method, but it's not resource intensive and should get the job done.-skwire (March 04, 2022, 12:59 PM)
Yeah, that sounds like the perfect logic. I might have some time early afternoon tomorrow (US Central Time), how long should prototype testing take?
I have control over the network but currently have very little time (I really appreciate your offer!), and there might be a deeper issue... see below.Yes and yes.-brotherS (March 03, 2022, 04:41 PM)
- Is this scenario something you can simulate or force to happen? That is, do you have control of whether the fast network stays or goes away?
- Are you free for some prototype testing tomorrow? I'm on Central Time in the U.S.
-skwire (March 03, 2022, 06:00 PM)
Maybe try this? I've used this a lot on a laptop where I constantly had to change network settings.Thank you, never heard of it. I've set it up and saw something weird in NetSetMan's AutoSwitch tab: while the fast SSID was available again - I could connect to it on my phone - NetSetMan didn't see it (while checking every 10 seconds), and thus failed to connect. After a few minutes, I checked the WiFi connections in Windows, and only then did the fast SSID show up there, and in NetSetMan.
https://www.netsetman.com/en/freeware
- Free
- Tray Icon
- Switch between network adapters
- Switch between networks
- Wifi Management is even a new feature
Features List
https://www.netsetman.com/en/freeware-BGM (March 03, 2022, 09:02 PM)
Yes and yes.The "whenever you check the tray icon and see that you're on the slower network" thing is what I want to prevent.-brotherS (March 03, 2022, 03:37 PM)
When it switches to the slow network, does the fast network go missing from the list of choices you see when you click the Windows network tray icon? Also, I assume the slow and fast networks have different SSID names?-skwire (March 03, 2022, 04:31 PM)
Hey, brotherS, been a while. =]Hey skwire, been a while indeed!
There are a bunch of ways to do this, depending on how pretty you want it. The default Windows tray icon shows the currently connected wireless network. You can easily create a batch file that runs the following command to quickly connect to your fast SSID.netsh wlan connect <FAST_SSID_NAME_HERE>
Create a shortcut to that batch file in a convenient place and run it whenever you check the tray icon and see that you're on the slower network.
If you want something more like an actual application, sure, I can do that, but I want to see if the quick'n'dirty suggestion above suffices.-skwire (March 03, 2022, 02:17 PM)
The perfect solution would be an app that would automatically reconnect to the fast connection when possible, just letting me know that it happened, but without me having to do anything.I've seen some addons for chrome and firefox before that allows you an extensive macro system that you can use on web pages. I never had a real use for these systems, but if you wanted to automate web-page processing, that seems like a good start.Interesting stuff, but iMacros looks WAY too complex for most users.
iMacro is one of these. I think it's the one I played around with, except it was for firefox - but that was all pre web-extension era.-BGM (February 14, 2022, 08:48 AM)
Because it's a browser extension, passwords aren't an issue. And since I use less than 25 'monitors', I don't have to pay for it. Website Watcher: https://www.aignes.com/That won't work since half of the sites are password-protected.-mouser (February 12, 2022, 08:38 AM)
AH - you need an RSS reader, no?Sorry, should have been more specific: not all of those sites have RSS feeds, and two of those sites I have to check for site notifications.
I use QuiteRSS and have for years. It's how I keep track of what happens on DC. It's how I get all my tech news and any word of software giveaways.
QuiteRSS runs on my desktop like an extra browser. I've tried over a dozen RSS readers and this is the one I've used the longest and am still using.
https://quiterss.org-BGM (February 12, 2022, 08:09 AM)
If there are any AutoHotkey users out there, this snippet will remap the two little side buttons on some mouses.Nooooo, those are great for browsing and to navigate in Windows Explorer and other programs.Code: Autohotkey [Select]-kunkel321 (February 21, 2021, 01:05 PM)
A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of avengeful drug lordarms manufacturer.
Highly recommended if you like lots of violence ...-brotherS (April 18, 2021, 12:14 PM)
A little change to the plot line and you have: Shoot 'Em Up.-4wd (April 19, 2021, 12:03 AM)
Right! That one was fun too, had totally forgotten about it... here's the Shoot ' Em Up 2007 Red Band Trailer: https://www.youtube..../watch?v=zV-nIlZ3XeE in case anyone wants to watch it.
A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord.
In addition to Bob Odenkirk, the cast includes Connie Nielsen, RZA, Aleksei Serebryakov, and Christopher Lloyd.
What's weird about that is that I wasn't able to find ANY info about The Marvellous Suspender being temporarily blocked or removed from the Chrome Web Store...
well, its back again this morning, but I'll be watching with interest to see what happens...-Target (March 08, 2021, 04:09 PM)
the saga continues...I wanted to shout some curse words in Chrome's general direction, but then I found that my Chrome hasn't disabled it and the extension page (https://chrome.googl...imajpfpamcfhoaifemoa) is still up. Was it just a glitch in the Matrix? Can you check if it's working again for you?
Chrome disabled the marvellous suspender this morning... <sigh>-Target (March 07, 2021, 10:05 PM)
