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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May

« on: Today at 03:55 PM »

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a perma-sale...  nobody ever pays the "full" price?

-rjbull (August 07, 2018, 04:47 PM)

People have had trouble for doing similar things... so I'd hope they'd consider the legalities of that approach.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FileMenu Tools is free for 2 days

« on: September 17, 2018, 11:54 AM »

There were folders named with Hiragana characters in what I extracted.  I moved all of these to the root.  A few of those were supposed to be contained in others as shown on running when files were not where they were supposed to be.  Diagnosed the errors and moved those (AppInfo I think was one, forget the other).  It was a pretty straightforward process from the error messages.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: cStatus a portable network scan and monitoring tool

« on: September 17, 2018, 08:38 AM »

I can't do much more but only say that my software and site are clean, use it only if you want.

-hugo nabais (September 17, 2018, 08:04 AM)

I've used your software so know that it is clean (and Clicador doesn't show up in my local Malwarebytes).  But, others visiting won't know, and will disregard it out of fear, so figured it might be good to inform you.  The details were some sort of riskware was detected: "Riskware, or “risky software,” describes legitimate software programs that contain loopholes or vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers for malicious purposes."  With that in mind, your reasons make sense.

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Living Room / Re: EU to Stop Summer (or is it Winter) Time

« on: September 16, 2018, 03:23 PM »

Please remember the basics. Time zones are as old as civilization itself: You go to another place, east or west, and adjust your clock accordingly - weather it is your inner clock or an actual clock. It was always like that. Only, now there is a name and a organized system.

Also, in this system there is no winter time, because that is normal time.

Forgive me for sounding like an old man past his bedtime.

-Curt (September 16, 2018, 01:05 PM)

The part that you're forgetting is that if each country chooses its own time, i.e. Summer or Winter, it will be nothing like that.  It would be better if no-one switched, and everyone was on the same relative time around the world.  When you're working with someone else around, this changing of the time is terrible, as sometimes, someone can be 9 hours away, and sometimes 10... and the 10 can make it quite hard to collaborate.  If some chose the 9-hour difference and others chose the 10-hour difference, this would be insane.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Any program required to move files to a NAS.

« on: September 16, 2018, 12:11 PM »

Wraith808, you are full of crap. Read back thru the posts, Everything was going great until you and Mouser (who should know better) and 4wd and Ath just had to chime in and just couldn't stay out of this initial post and practically hijacked it with all your own input.

I felt like reaching thru the screen and telling you all to stfu.  This was my requirement/idea NOT yours for gawd sakes.

All of you should be ashamed of yourselves for butting in and ruining this.

I am the one who did not get anything, YES I am the one who is punished here, thats the bottom line.

Ring the shame bell.

-Craig381 (September 16, 2018, 11:40 AM)

I didn't jump in, other than to agree that robocopy was a good tool.  It's apparently you that aren't reading well.  You could indeed reach out to KodeZwerg behind the scenes to see if he'd be willing to continue.  Offer him encouragement and perhaps even compensation.  But instead, you'd rather play the victim, and try to shame others- even the one that was trying to help you.  Entitled much?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FileMenu Tools is free for 2 days

« on: September 16, 2018, 11:39 AM »

Can confirm... worked for me too.  I didn't even install the portable- just extracted it and had to move a few folders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Big Data tools

« on: September 14, 2018, 01:31 PM »

https://stackoverflo...uge-large-text-files

You can try those and see if any satisfy your need.

From those, my personal recommendation is EmEditor, 010, or LogExpert.

https://github.com/zarunbal/LogExpert

I don't know what processes means, however in that context.  And on this Ath is correct.  You want better recommendations, give better requirements.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: cStatus a portable network scan and monitoring tool

« on: September 14, 2018, 01:21 PM »

Also, changing it to https, I now get ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR.  Not sure if that's Malwarebytes mucking about, or the method that you used to generate your cert.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Any program required to move files to a NAS.

« on: September 13, 2018, 08:25 PM »

Listen here Wraith, how the hell do you know what someone else is thinking?
Don't tell me what to do and how about you mind your own damn business.

This has nothing to do with you.

I would like to see new rules on this site that only allow the originator to dictate what they want or require because all the side comments ruined this with their OWN personal demands/suggestions which has NOTHING to do with me.

So get that into ya..

-Craig381 (September 13, 2018, 07:23 PM)

I never said anything about you, I talked about what he had said, and a more reasoned approach that you might take to get his attention instead of attempting to shame him into continuing or shame him for not continuing.   I was actually considering looking at this if he didn't want to continue because I could see that he dropped it because of crosstalk, not as a punishment to you, but in his own words:

i feel sorry to silent dropped this discussion.
Initial i really felt to help, and it was already finished, at least 95% with maybe 5% bugs left.
But that "do this/dont that" and "use this/not that" has killed my fun in developing it, its already dumped after all those "delete is a no go" texts.

-KodeZwerg (August 16, 2018, 02:24 PM)

Try to motivate him, not shame him was my only suggestion.  Whatever you take from that is your problem.  And no, I'm in no way thinking of picking this up at this point.  Onward!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Magix bundle at humble bundle. $25 donation gets all 8 software titles.

« on: September 13, 2018, 08:21 PM »

Discussion here: https://www.donation....msg423096#msg423096

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: cStatus a portable network scan and monitoring tool

« on: September 13, 2018, 12:45 PM »

You might want to get your site checked out- it's registering as a dangerous site with Malwarebytes, and a few others.

https://www.virustot...55b4210cda/detection

-wraith808 (September 12, 2018, 12:19 PM)

My site is very simple and clean, also my software is clean, I can assure that.

Can't do much about it. No idea why they say it has malware... maybe because I don't have a SSL certificate...

-hugo nabais (September 13, 2018, 11:49 AM)

Ok, I was just letting you know in case you wanted to reach out.  It could be that whomever had the domain before you did had some nasty stuff hosted.  Or it could be a false positive.  But I figured that you'd want to know.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: startHERE

« on: September 13, 2018, 12:43 PM »

Just curious on a separate point... what do you like better about Shrib.co over Pastebin?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Any program required to move files to a NAS.

« on: September 13, 2018, 12:42 PM »

Bottom line, shame on you KodeZwerg for bailing (unless you were unable to technically accomplish it. then I am sorry.)

-Craig381 (September 13, 2018, 11:00 AM)

Shame on him?  He bailed because he thought that was a general consensus.  Reach out to him directly to say, "Hey, I don't care.  Can you complete this?"

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?

« on: September 13, 2018, 12:35 PM »

The other approach is to say your connection is metered - although it will still pester but should not download without permission

-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2018, 11:29 AM)

That has other side effects as I said above.  And they are very much bad effects for me.  Dropbox, Onedrive, my backup service, and others stopped updating because it was metered.  Make sure that you know what those side effects are, or you could be surprised as I was when I found out (they don't proactively warn you).

Here's what I've done that has been working for me so far. Note that I'm using Windows 10 Pro so this may not be available in the "basic" version(s) of Windows 10.

-Deozaan (September 13, 2018, 10:36 AM)

Unfortunately, I have windows 10 home, and apparently, it doesn't have that option.

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now

« on: September 13, 2018, 12:33 PM »

I have the Apple watch series 3 and have used it in the pool here at my complex and at the beach without any issues. It's been great and I have no plans on getting the series 4

-c.gingerich (September 13, 2018, 12:05 PM)

I think the points are threefold - (a) you're comparing two different kinds of watches, (b) IP68 is better than just splashes, and (c) up until after release 1, Apple watches were actually worse than this watch.  It's all about paying for what you want, and they do have a watch that is pretty comparable for a lot less- it's just not this one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?

« on: September 13, 2018, 09:19 AM »

I woke up again to my machine being restarted.  To make it worse, I had a VM open as I was going to have an early meeting and wanted to make sure I didn't have to start the VM before the meeting.  To make it even worse, the VM showed aborted as the status.  I started the VM, and it was thankfully fine, but I just knew I had to do something at this point.

Apparently, Microsoft introduced a Windows Update Medic Service in 1803- I'm guessing this is what broke my workaround.  This service is apparently meant to repair Windows Update if something happens to it.  The service itself has the description, "Enables remediation and protection of Windows Update components." That protection part means that this re-enables the Windows Update Service if you disable it- I found that out the hard way.  To make it even worse, you can't disable this service.  You get access is denied if you attempt to do so.  I suppose you could attempt to take ownership, but I found a tool that does it for you before I even tried, and figured I'd mention it here, as I don't see any mentions on a search.

Windows Update Blocker (https://www.sordum.o...update-blocker-v1-1/) is a portable tool that allows you to disable both.  It does require a bit to get it to disable the medic service that you have to do manually, though it does have a protect service settings that would seem to handle that also.



The struggle is real- how long can this continue before they learn that their customers don't want this?

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now

« on: September 12, 2018, 02:31 PM »

"IP68 rating - resistant to dust, rain and splashing"

I'll stick with my Apple watch. Need more water proofing than IP68.

-c.gingerich (September 12, 2018, 02:18 PM)

Apple watch was IPX7 for the longest.

Your Apple Watch is water resistant, but not waterproof.*

From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000

The latest versions are finally waterproof, but just figured the clarification was needed.

I'm sure it will get there.  The Stratos (which is still less expensive, and what I'd think would be compared to an Apple watch) in contrast is waterproof.  It's just a matter of getting what you need, I think.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: cStatus a portable network scan and monitoring tool

« on: September 12, 2018, 12:19 PM »

You might want to get your site checked out- it's registering as a dangerous site with Malwarebytes, and a few others.

https://www.virustot...55b4210cda/detection

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now

« on: September 12, 2018, 10:54 AM »

I now have a AmazFit BIP - GPS, barometer, compass, accelerometer, notifications, heart rate, steps, transflective display, etc ... and a 30+ day battery life.

For ~US$60 I paid, I don't think there's anything comparable with the same features especially the battery life.

-4wd (August 14, 2018, 10:16 PM)

It's back on Massdrop, so I'm thinking about it again... just posting here in case anyone is interested.

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General Software Discussion / Humble Bundle for Xara tools

« on: September 11, 2018, 04:25 PM »

We'd been talking about Affinity Publisher vs Adobe Indesign, and now Humble Bundle comes along to throw another entry into the ring.

https://www.humblebu...tive-design-software

For $25, you get a lot of software- but I'm most interested in Xara Designer Pro X.  Has anyone used it?  I've looked at a couple of comparisons and reviews, but nothing beats that hands-on review from a non-reviewer.  At $25, it's hard to lose out getting it, but I was just wondering if anyone had experience with it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Software Giveaway--Get 8+ Windows Software for free ($350)

« on: September 08, 2018, 02:23 PM »

I looked at the deals again after rambler's post... they are good deals if you use that software.  Looks like loss leaders.

And I noticed why the person might have drive by posted it...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Software Giveaway--Get 8+ Windows Software for free ($350)

« on: September 07, 2018, 01:14 PM »

Removed referral link.  We don't allow them without saying that it's a referral link, and definitely don't allow obscuring with text over it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Comparative Review of Writers' Tools (INITIAL DRAFT)

« on: September 06, 2018, 10:28 PM »

I assumed data capture (screen, web page or file - especially the first two); hadn't considered the other option. But you are right, the question was all about constructing the manuscript.

-Dormouse (September 06, 2018, 06:59 PM)

What made me think that might be the case was the inclusion of RTF.  I'm thinking he means like Scrivener or Atomic Scribbler's binders.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Comparative Review of Writers' Tools (INITIAL DRAFT)

« on: September 06, 2018, 02:18 PM »

When you say capture, do you mean screen-capture?  Or just contain it within the manuscript structure?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ophcrack Failed to find my password on Windows 10

« on: September 06, 2018, 01:46 PM »

There is a convoluted work around to enable the hidden admin account - you can then login as admin and reset local passwords on other users. I have used this method to help clients but don't want to publish the details here - though a quick google search will help ;-)

Not sure there is a solution if you use an MS account to login other than their password reset tools online.

-Carol Haynes (September 06, 2018, 07:43 AM)

This is actually the reason that I switched to using MS accounts at home- there's an alternative for resetting.