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Post New Requests Here / Re: Ping with latency alarm?
« on: May 15, 2021, 03:16 AM »
The simplest way to do this might be to write/use a PowerShell script.
You could set the alarm value as a variable for testing with an IF statement, or just dump all the pin responses into (say) an Excel spreadsheet or Access database for analysis.
Refer for example: https://www.checkyourlogs.net/ping-sweep-using-powershell-quick-and-dirty-powershell-mvphour/

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« on: May 11, 2021, 10:27 PM »
...I use search programs, and imagine that I might end up learning regex, but I'll go no further in that direction than I have to.
-Dormouse (May 10, 2021, 08:04 AM)
To ease the pain, I thought this might help:
How to Learn Regular Expressions
https://www.labnol.org/internet/learn-regular-expressions/28841/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Chiral motion.
« on: June 28, 2020, 08:41 PM »
@rjbull:
Have you considered trying a Trackballw?
-rjbull (June 28, 2020, 04:02 PM)

Good point, but in my case I used a clip-on side trackball years ago and, though I found it was an improvement (ergonomically) over the central little joystick in the middle of the keyboard, I found chiral scrolling to be ergonomically a vast improvement. I think they may still use trackballs in military applications though, as - again ergonomically - they were regarded as being more accurate/precise in use (e.g., rapidly targeting crosshairs on a ship for ship-to-ship missile launch where there are lots of ships clustered in the radar display).
Nowadays, I suppose they'd probably use a touch-sensitive (or aware) display screen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch - Radiolab on Beethoven's 5th.
« on: May 26, 2020, 04:01 PM »
Thought I'd tack this onto this thread as it relates to another excellent Radiolab audio post - this one about the speed at which music is played, in the context of the "metronomic" beat. They play some stretched music of the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth to illustrate the contrast in tempos and the effect on our senses of altering the timing (tempo) of music.
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Speedy Beet
tags: beethoven, classical_music, idea_explorer, shorts, speed
There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his listeners to a kind of psychological limit.

Big thanks to our Brooklyn Philharmonic musicians: Deborah Buck and Suzy Perelman on violin, Arash Amini on cello, and Ah Ling Neu on viola.

And check out The First Four Notes, Matthew Guerrieri’s book on Beethoven’s Fifth.

Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.
radiolab_podcast20speedybeetrerun.mp3 (23:47, 22MB), popup

Source: http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/269783-speedy-beet/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Sort/organize mp3 files by bitrate, into folders
« on: May 15, 2020, 12:00 PM »
@nkormanik:
"Looking for a way to sort/organize mp3 files in a folder into a set of folders by bitrate:"

I don't think I understand the need for this question.

You would already have all you seem to need to do this on an ad hoc basis. The system knows all about what audio files you have and their properties and the file manager can be invoked to swiftly sort these as and when you require. I use xplorer² (it also lets you turn nested directories into a manageable virtual flat file), but I presume Windows file manager can do it also - since the system knows all about what files you have.

If you had a dynamically changing population of audio files though, and wanted to (say) periodically sort newcomers into the appropriate folders, then you could do so manually or automate via a macro, I suppose, but again, I'd do that in xplorer².

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