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General Software Discussion / Re: Major software project redesign

« on: January 12, 2023, 04:50 PM »

This video by the project lead developer (who goes by the  name of Tantacrul) walks us through the design process that was employed to fix MuseScore for its latest release.

-40hz (January 05, 2023, 09:57 AM)

Great video.  As a developer and UX lover, I could watch videos like this all day long.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2023: PingPong (ping latency alarm)

« on: January 01, 2023, 04:41 PM »

Perfect NANY app.  Thanks for joining in the fun.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass hacked proper

« on: January 01, 2023, 04:38 PM »

Been using Keepass for years, it syncs to iDrive Cloud Drive, (mainly as a backup but also so I have access to the database file via browser/app if needed), and via OneDrive sync plugin which the Android app uses as the database, (syncing any local changes back to it which then propagate to computers).

-4wd (December 25, 2022, 10:57 PM)

Keepass user for many years as well.  I also use a similar online setup to yours to gain access from my phone and to sync back changes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 submission: Amazon Spending Analysis Utility

« on: January 01, 2023, 04:31 PM »

Naoki-さん、おつかれさまでした!

It was terrifying to see my amazon spending plotted.

-mouser (December 31, 2022, 08:02 PM)

My thoughts, too, about my Amazon spending history.  Ignorance might be bliss, in this case.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Pledge - OBS Plugin for AutoZoomCrop using machine vision

« on: January 01, 2023, 04:21 PM »

Even though I probably will never have a use for this, this is an extremely clever program and solution.  Very very cool, mouser.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for programming language with good integration to Windows

« on: January 01, 2023, 04:17 PM »

I suppose I can install Python and do all the above but again would prefer no installation.

-kalos (December 31, 2022, 02:46 PM)

How do you propose to do all (any?) of the above without installing anything?

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / NANY 2023 Release: IPMI Tool GUI

« on: January 01, 2023, 02:05 PM »

NANY 2023 Entry Information

Application Name	IPMI Tool GUI
Version	1.0.0
Short Description	IPMI GUI app with multiple system support.
Supported OSes	Windows 10. Probably works, but not tested, on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/11.
Web Page	Website
Download Link	Download
System Requirements	A computer with network access and a server/workstation that has a BMC which speaks the IPMI protocol.
Version History	Changelog
Author	Jody Holmes (Skwire Empire)

Description
BMCs and the IPMI Protocol: Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) are a type of embedded computer used to provide out-of-band monitoring for desktops and servers. These products are sold under many brand names, including HP iLO, Dell DRAC, Sun ILOM, Fujitsu iRMC, IBM IMM, and Supermicro IPMI. Nearly all servers and workstations ship with or support some form of BMC.  Interface (IPMI) is a collection of specifications that define communication protocols for talking to these BMCs. This specification is managed by Intel and currently comes in two flavors, version 1.5 and version 2.0.

I run/manage/access many of these types of servers and, for years, have used the some form of the CLI program ipmitool.exe to monitor alarms, get data, and modify settings.  For DonationCoder's NANY 2023 promotion, I decided to start writing a simple GUI interface for the CLI ipmitool.exe.  Of course, there are existing GUI programs for this purpose, but this one is mine.  If you do not have access to a server/workstation with a BMC that uses the IPMI protocol, this program will be of no use to you.

Features

• You can learn more about BMCs and the IPMI protocol here.
• This first release of IPMI Tool simply queries the sensors of the BMC, typically the temperatures, fan speeds, and voltage.  I plan to add more functionality to this program as I make time: event logs, network display and control, fan control, user control, and more.
• This first release stores passwords in plaintext in the hosts.ini file.  I will remedy this in a future release.  If you have concerns about this, please don't use the program.

Planned Features

• Export options
• Event logs display
• Network display and control
• Fan control
• User display and control

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Download the zip file and extract its contents into a new folder.  Run IPMIToolGUI.exe.

Uninstallation
Exit the application and delete the folder you unzipped it to.  No changes are made to the registry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frameless v1.1.8 build 1

« on: December 08, 2022, 10:05 AM »

Could you please provide the newer download url?

-bandit012345 (December 07, 2022, 02:11 PM)

I never fully finished and released it.

https://www.donation....msg442374#msg442374

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frameless v1.1.8 build 1

« on: December 07, 2022, 01:33 PM »

2022... 10 years later and I'm still using frameless ...because it's awesome!

-bandit012345 (December 06, 2022, 11:37 PM)

Amazing that it's still useful for you.  =]

My only issue is that I have been unable to lock the "x=c y=c" so the image that I placed in the center of the screen cannot be moved.

-bandit012345 (December 06, 2022, 11:37 PM)

You might try using the "clickthrough=yes" option to avoid accidental movements.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewall Tester

« on: September 27, 2022, 02:31 PM »

I don't think cstatus is going to work for me.  I have many servers where PING is not enabled and have to use the telnet command to see if the port is open.

-rsteward (September 27, 2022, 01:39 PM)

Checking ports has nothing to do with ping.  As Shades mentioned, in the cStatus program, choose Tools > IP Scanner from the menu and use that to check for open ports.  Check out the third screenshot on this page: https://www.hnsoft.p.../Screenshots_cstatus

Additionally, the de facto network scanning tool is nmap.  It's a commandline program that's available on just about any platform, but you can use the Zenmap GUI if a GUI suits you better.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast entry Android reminders

« on: August 05, 2022, 11:06 AM »

Do you use any Android app that has very fast reminder input?
E.g. type 11.30am 03/01 blah blah blah and it will ring you at 11:30 with a 'blah blah blah' note?

-kalos (August 01, 2022, 03:54 PM)

Have you tried the native Google Calendar app and its reminder feature?  Bring up the calendar, press the + button and you should be presented with several options: Goal, Reminder, Task, and Event.



Choose Reminder, fill out the fields, and save it. 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips

« on: August 03, 2022, 01:57 PM »

Apologies for the lack of reply.

-  a item to the "Copy Text" menu named: Full Filename what include Path+Filename

-antekgla (August 02, 2022, 06:23 PM)

Quick and easy to add.

- A box to filter files in the list applied to Filename or better yet to any field we want.

-antekgla (August 02, 2022, 06:23 PM)

Not as quick, but certainly doable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware images to video

« on: June 01, 2022, 02:14 PM »

Seems difficult for me. I would like a simple program for doing all.

-Contro (June 01, 2022, 02:29 AM)

If you're using Windows 10 (or 11, I assume), you can use the built-in video editor app to do what you want.  If you can't figure it out, I can make a tutorial.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Incapable of Solving Issue With Windows 10 Not Loading

« on: May 08, 2022, 12:49 PM »

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well and good. First and foremost, I'd like to state that I am new to this forum, and this is my first post. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate location. But I was hoping for better advice from you. Guys, I've got a problem; I'm having trouble getting Windows 10 to load. After repeated attempts, I gave it my all, but the problem remained. Because I lack experience in this area, I am seeking your advice. Can you assist me in any way?

-Lesterhuggins (April 30, 2022, 06:27 AM)

We're going to need more details, please:

1) What kind of computer is this on?
2) Is this a new install or a previously working install that doesn't load anymore?
3) How far into the boot does it get?
4) Are there any error messages?
5) What have you tried to fix it?
6) Any other tidbits of info you think might help...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Help tweak an AHK script

« on: May 03, 2022, 03:35 PM »

trying to find a  solution to a repetitive task

-magician62 (May 03, 2022, 12:38 PM)

What's the task?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Have AV False Positives Improved? (Systemus 16 months later)

« on: April 12, 2022, 12:01 AM »

As one of the devs here who has gone through many rounds of false positive hell, I gave up caring about it many many years ago.  If my body of work isn't enough to convince a potential user to use my software, there isn't much else I can offer.  Call it apathy, or whatever, I simply don't care and don't spend a single cycle worrying about it.

To give you an idea of how ridiculous false positives can be, I once wrote a single line program consisting of one hotkey that simply EXITED THE PROGRAM.  Nothing else.  Even that didn't come up clean in the virus scans.  As you might imagine, it was about that point that I stopped caring.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: BETTER Spotify Playlist Editor

« on: April 02, 2022, 07:13 PM »

Every Spotify playlist editor doesn't edit the liked songs playlist
[...]
It's utterly ridiculous that no one has done this yet.

-y0himba (March 31, 2022, 07:55 AM)

I don't use Spotify, but your statements I quoted above make me wonder if editing the "liked songs" playlist is even possible?  Can you provide some examples of third-party editors you've tried?

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 03:42 PM »

Guess the name should start with a lower-case s, as that's a common prefix for many of Skwire's specialist tools

-Ath (March 06, 2022, 03:18 PM)

Hahaha...only because I'm rubbish at naming these things.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 12:52 PM »

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.

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.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 12:33 PM »

It works! Awesome!

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)

Great to hear since it was just a rough prototype.

I'm guessing you'll change it so that the wanted SSID doesn't have to be entered every time the .exe is run?

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)

Indeed.  Again, this was to test functionality.

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.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 05, 2022, 04:12 PM »

Interesting!  Yeah, that sounds like the perfect logic. I might have some time early afternoon tomorrow (US Central Time), how long should prototype testing take?

-brotherS (March 04, 2022, 04:43 PM)

No need as I found a USB wireless adapter I could use for testing on my desktop PC.

• 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.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 04, 2022, 12:59 PM »

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.

Is there a way to make Windows check for available networks more frequently? I didn't see a related Windows option and Google didn't offer anything useful.

-brotherS (March 04, 2022, 10:15 AM)

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:

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.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 06:00 PM »

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.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 04:31 PM »

The "whenever you check the tray icon and see that you're on the slower network" thing is what I want to prevent.    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.

-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?

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 02:17 PM »

Hey, brotherS, been a while.  =]

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.

[Select]

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.