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...i would go would be, get AutoRuns from SysInternals (Microsoft) and run it. ...Yes, thanks. I already use AutoRuns - have done for years. I think you may have missed the point that I did not know why the laptop fan was running fast, and the penny only dropped as to the cause when I saw that the CoolSense icon (which was a start-up app.) was missing - i.e., it had not started on start-up, and then I discovered that that was because the executable had been mysteriously deleted (this was after a "minor" Windows update).-KodeZwerg (October 21, 2018, 02:00 AM)
looking for updates to the audio/music files that can be found there, when I became diverted by the headline for the K-LOC Calculator application - which I did not recall having seen before:K-LOC Calculator, version 1.01
Over the years, the software development community at large has gotten a whole host of valuable information about project management from good old Big Blue (IBM)... I should clarify that - valuable information on how NOT to manage a project. For fun, I decided to resurrect one of their worst ideas ever, K-LOC (or more appropriately, paying programmers based on K-LOC).
The AnalogX K-LOC Calculator is the exact opposite of PCalc, my programmer's calculator - this has almost no real world application, but it is fun for the number crunchers out there who want some sort of metric about the project. Sure, the metric is completely arbitrary, but hey, you can feed it into a spreadsheet! heheh... Actually, I would say that K-LOC does have its uses (a simple way to measure project complexity, perhaps), but there aren't too many.
AnalogX K-LOC Calculator can scan any number of files, any wildcard extension, and even recursively check subdirectories. It returns not only the total project K-LOC rating, but the average file K-LOC rating and total file size of the project as well!
K-LOC Calculator works on all versions of Windows, from Window 95 to Windows 7 and everything inbetween (including XP, Vista, Win2k, etc). If you have a general question related to any of the programs on the site, or would like some additional info related to the downloads in general, then check out the downloads FAQ.
Copied from: K-LOC[/b] Calculator, version 1.01 - <http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Programming/kloc/Freeware.htm>
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Etymology:
K (thousand) + LOC (lines of code)
KLOC (plural KLOCs)
1. Noun: (computing, programming) thousand lines of code
- In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count KLOCs, and a KLOC is a thousand line of code. – Steve Ballmer in Triumph of the Nerds II: Riding the Bear (Robert X. Cringely, Paul Sen, 1996), about 38 minutes in, relating events around 1989.
- It concludes that defects are found 2 to 4 times faster with inspection than with testing, that defects are typically found at the rate of one defect per man hour invested in inspection, and that inspection finds about 37 defects per kloc if it is done properly.
– Terry Shepard in Proceedings of the National Workshop on Software Engineering Education (IBM Canada, 1993)- The formula is based on thousands of lines of source code (kLOC) and incorporates Fagan's recommendations for inspection pace, meeting duration, and frequency:
- elapsed time (in days) = 3 × n kLOC
Here n is an estimate of how many thousands of lines of code will be inspected.
– Glen W. Russell, Experience with Inspection in Ultralarge-Scale Developments (Bell-Northern Research, 1991)
Copied from: KLOC - Wiktionary - <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/KLOC>
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[my emphasis]Function Point Analysis has been proven [Yeah, right] as a reliable method for measuring the size of computer software. In addition to measuring output, Function Point Analysis is extremely useful in estimating projects, managing change of scope, measuring productivity, and communicating functional requirements.[Amazing, eh? It also cures cognitive blindness.]
There have been many misconceptions [Translation: by people who who are misunderstanders of, or are not true believers] regarding the appropriateness of Function Point Analysis in evaluating emerging environments such as real time embedded code and Object Oriented programming. Since function points express the resulting work-product in terms of functionality as seen from the user's perspective, the tools and technologies used to deliver it are independent. [Translation: it can also be used to mean whatever you might want it to mean.]
Copied from: Function Point Analysis - <http://www.qpmg.com/fp-intro.htm>
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"I'm being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.
A Thneed's a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!
It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat.
But it has OTHER uses. Yes, far beyond that.
You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets!
Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!"
-Words and illustration from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
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Anand,Just thought I should mention that your Relevant Notes.exe app. file is registering as a virus:
As a challenge to myself and in order to add the ability to move and size Note windows in addition to coloring and text size, I decided to write my own program. Similar to yours, only one note is displayed at a time related to the active window. I call it Relevant Notes and it stores all data into one INI file in the same directory. I know you are busy with real work so this was an opportunity for me to be creative.
The blog page for the program is Relevant Notes
Mike-mat2016 (February 10, 2018, 12:39 PM)
Question: Should I include a min/max limiter? Like not scaling lower than 50% (if you downscale) or 500% (for upscale)Well, upper/lower control limits would seem to be appropriate. You don't really want them to go to infinity, I presume.
(100% is always my default 96dpi 1:1 original interface)-KodeZwerg (October 25, 2018, 04:44 AM)
The first thing that i would come up with would be something like a slider, as maby seen on some mediaplayers, if you hover over slider (timeline in player) you jump back-/forward, or volume up/down.Well, I was thinking in terms of the variable mousewheel zoom - as per the example suggested ("try to zoom in/out using Ctrl+mousewheel on the Windows Desktop.").
Is that what you mean? I can set scaling to any percentage decimal value 0%-unlimited (idk maximum)-KodeZwerg (October 24, 2018, 03:42 PM)
I found it just stopped doing it for some reason, whether it was an update or something I installed who knows.Ruddy heck. I'd speculate that the cause was likely to be the Registry settings had been zapped (changed/deleted) by a Windows update.-4wd (October 24, 2018, 07:34 PM)
...Kind of a challenge to proof that scaling (playing with DPI/PPI) works since you mentioned that it aint good :-] ...Now that's rather interesting. What it seems to imply is that scaling at the OS level may be broken somehow.-KodeZwerg (October 24, 2018, 12:39 AM)
@mouser - by the way, there is still this: User Requirements for CHS- which has apparently caused some readers to experience such traumatic mind-expansion and neural damage that it induces a temporary state of profound sleep from which the reader awakens with a complete loss of memory of ever having seen it in the first place. (This is the way Nature helps us to recover from traumatic experiences.)
It could be used to save repetition by different/new CHS users. I put quite a bit of effort into that. Have not updated it in ages as no-one seemed interested. I think I left it as public and editable.-IainB (November 16, 2015, 10:05 AM)
@phillie08:
Yes, the simple explanation would seem to be that the cached thumbnails that are of concern to you - and which do not contain the latest artefacts in the original image and that were added to that image - could probably be of an earlier version of the image. One can only suppose as to why the cached thumbnail was not updated.
Those thumbnails will have been created by the Windows OS and stored in a database/cache - which is an accumulator and will contain thumbnails of since-deleted/changed image files.
It is thus generally a good housekeeping practice to periodically run cleanmgr.exe (in Admininstrator mode and set to to clean up system files). When doing this, ensure that there is a tick against the "Thumbnails" item. For example:-IainB (October 23, 2018, 06:05 PM)
The example screenshot above shows 26.0MB of Thumbnails - which is not much really and is usually larger (I had already not long ago run cleanmgr.exe before taking this screenshot).
It can be educational to search the system with Everything for files with "thumb .db" (with the embedded space). That will identify all the Thumbnail-related files that comprise the 26.0MB - in my case, they are mostly/all in:
C:\Users\[UserID]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\
Those files will have names with "thumbcache" in them - e.g. "thumbcache_768.db".
An Everything search will also be able to show you where all the "Thumb" and "Thumb .db' named files are, so that you can delete them as necessary. Generally, system "Thumbs.db" files are to be found in all those directories where images are stored. They are Windows OS system files (caches), but it doesn't hurt to periodically sweep them up in a housekeeping run - e.g., using Everything to identify them prior to deletion - since they are accumulators and could contain thumbnails of since-deleted/changed image files (hence the problem discussed here), so that, over time, they could become bloated with useless garbage. The Windows OS will recreate anew the deleted thumbnail cache - with up-to-date thumbnails - as and when it is forced to open those image files again for any purpose.
If you use third party image file managers - e.g., (say) Picasa3 - then, from experience, you will generally find that they create and update their own peculiar thumbnail caches/databases. For example, in my case, Picasa3 builds several thumbnail and preview database files (caches) that are approx 2GB in size.
So, in my case, I would therefore tend to leave well enough alone there, since Picasa3 will have done a lot of work to deliberately build those caches, rather than rely on the Windows OS thumbnail caching system. So far, Picasa3 never seems to have displayed for me the outdated cached thumbnail problem discussed here. I suspect that the Picasa3 cache build and maintenance processes will have been designed for optimum performance (efficiency and speed) - i.e., with garbage removed periodically by Picasa3 systematically updating the thumbnails cache after an image is deleted/changed.-IainB (October 23, 2018, 06:05 PM)
...For now, me will read your Tips&Tricks Thread and see what I can do to realize everything in a good manner. ...Thanks! Please don't feel you have to fix it to meet my requirements, but I shall be interested in what you come up with.-KodeZwerg (October 22, 2018, 03:01 AM)
)That reminds me of a daily Telegraph news item I read years ago. It was on page 3 I think, which was where they used to put the odd and curious bits of world news that didn't warrant page 1 or 2.
This news item was only worth about ¾" of a column. Apparently police were seeking but had not yet found, a masked man who was in the habit of breaking into single bed rooms in some college's girls' dormitory block late at night. He would gag and bind the unlucky occupant and subject her to an enema, and then leave.
The news item bore the heading Public enema No.1.-IainB (May 02, 2013, 05:36 AM)
| CoolSense is a program that came with the HP laptop in the HP Service Pack sp67743 (HP CoolSense v2.2). The proggie is dated 2015, but that version remains the latest/current version in that Service Pack as at 2018-10-21. It can be downloaded from here This is the CoolSense pop-up toggle switch when the icon in the Systray is mouse-clicked: |
...At the moment searching for a slot to place a software request to randomize filenames. (Lots of solutions on the net, but nothing is satisfying. ...Post New Requests Here - This is the section where new coding snacks requests go.-HelmutWe (October 20, 2018, 07:05 PM)
...Not really, it's been proven that people very rarely bother to use a forum search engine prior to just firing off a new thread. ...I was unaware that this was "proven", but it certainly looks that way - judging from what I've seen, anyway. However, even of you used (say) a site: search (as opposed to the cruddy internal search tool), finding and consolidating relevant/related material in the discussion threads is still likely to be an uphill battle and somewhat hit-or-miss.-4wd (October 17, 2018, 09:01 PM)
Not sure if you will have seen these - possibly useful - discussions on DCF:
- alternatives to windows magnifier
- Screen Mask
- Re: PDF-XChange Viewer ($FREE version) - Mini-Review (as at 2012-10-04)
Also, if not already done, check out these potentially useful references: (some referred to in the links above)
- NoSquint - a Firefox extension that allows adjusting the text-only and full-page zoom levels as well as color settings for websites.
- f.lux™ - Better lighting...for your computer (referred to in the above DCF links).
- http://fx-software.blogspot.com/ and http://www.fx-softwa....co.uk/assistive.htm for software for visually-impaired PC users, including Dark Screen (check for viruses if you download this).
My experience of modifying the inbuilt Windows system colours, fonts, etc. for people with macular degeneration is that such methods are constrained by being a bit complicated and are not entirely successful.
The built in "Ease of Access" mods in Windows, designed for visually-impaired users, also seem a bit limited.
If a web-based email access were used instead of the Windows Live Mail desktop program, then NoSquint could be ideal as its settings are pretty flexible and can be set for a given website.-IainB (February 12, 2013, 03:55 AM)
Windows 10 Magnifier Lens Window is Black
By BGGRIT on 2015-08-13
I have set up my magnifier (size, shape, magnification, and to auto start), but the lens window will randomly turn black (not the entire screen just the lens window). Makes it difficult to navigate with my vision issues.
Any solutions would be appreciated. Thanks
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...further down the page, it says:
tonycol Replied on January 16, 2018
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In reply to Major Instigator's post on January 15, 2018
I am by no means an expert on Windows 10, but I can let you know how I resolved the problem on my own PC. My PC has an nVidia graphics card which works just fine with all applications with the exception of Magnifier._______________________________________
- Ensure nVidia Control Panel is installed and enter the control panel via a right click on the desktop screen, then select the nVidia Control Panel option in the context menu.
- On the left side of the application which is open, there is the option for manage 3D settings. Select this option. I know you probably aren't bothered by 3D anything - it's just where the settings are.
- On the right side of the screen select the 'Program Settings' tab.
- If the drop down selector in part 1 does not contain magnifier (and it probably won't,) click the 'Add' button and then the 'Browse' button.
- Navigate to c:\windows\system32\magnify.exe and double click on it. Doing this will add it to list.
- Choose c:\windows\system32\magnify.exe from the list.
- In part 2 choose integrated graphics from the drop down.
- Click the Apply button.
