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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: December 20, 2013, 06:06 PM »

Sorry this is an unintended side effect of moving my blog to Tumblr.
Will have a look in the coming days and reply in this thread when the links are working again.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Productivity utility

« on: December 13, 2013, 10:13 AM »

It is with regret that I have to withdraw my pledge due to a busy spell both at work (merging with another organisation) and at work (moving home).
I guess you'll have to wait until 2014 for more software from myself!

Good luck everyone on your NANY submissions I will look forward to trying them all out. Will be sorry to miss out on the mug too, hopefully I can buy one from mouser??

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Developer's Corner / Re: How are these AutoHotkey script protected?

« on: December 03, 2013, 07:58 AM »

Can you tell me more about this?  I'll give it a try.

-vbmark (December 03, 2013, 06:53 AM)

Compile_AHK II
http://www.autohotke...-who-compile/page-30
Latest version at the end of the thread, explanation at the start.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How are these AutoHotkey script protected?

« on: December 03, 2013, 05:35 AM »

Interesting question!
 AutoHotkey scripts are interpret on runtime, the AHK runtime is  bundled inside the .exe file and then interprets the script after 'unpacking' it from the .exe. Because of this any binary protection solution I've tried doesn't process AHK .exe files because it 'breaks out' the files and then evaluates. (my layman's understanding).

So I was under the impression that it wasn't possible, unless there is a AHK compiler that actually compiles AHK to exe files that do not require interpretation..

EDIT: perhaps it's using http://www.ironahk.net/docs/autohotkey/ IronAHK:

Security

When scripts are compiled the source code is not attached to the binary file so it cannot be decompiled. This is unlike AutoHotkey which stores a full copy of the script with the compiled .exe which can be extracted and decrypted or read from process memory when it is executed.

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Developer's Corner / Re: GameMaker Studio Standard Free Upgrade

« on: November 28, 2013, 07:24 AM »

As in the article, it doesn't apply to the steam version, only standalone (which can autoupdate as well).
Btw, I'd appreciate good resources on this

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Finished Programs / [Powershell] Update DNS for your chosen network adapter

« on: November 28, 2013, 05:45 AM »

I've got a bunch of pcs needing their DNS updated to Open DNS so here's a powershell script that will let you choose a network adapter and then set the DNS servers.
OpenDNS servers are provided. The script will make sure to run itself as admin.

[Select]

# 1.001
$servers = "208.67.222.222", "208.67.220.220"

# Functions
function IsAdmin() {
$wid     = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
$prp     = new-object System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal($wid)
$adm     = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator
$IsAdmin = $prp.IsInRole($adm)
$IsAdmin

}

function SetDNSForNIC($s, $n) {
$dns = $n.DNSServerSearchOrder | Foreach {"$($_)"}
$description = $NIC.Description
Write-Host "OLD DNS settings for $description = $dns"

$NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($s) | out-null

Write-Host "NEW DNS settings for $description = $s"
}

# Init
if (IsAdmin)
{
(get-host).UI.RawUI.Backgroundcolor="DarkRed"
clear-host
$NICs = Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -computername . | where{$_.IPEnabled -eq $true}

$i = 1
$message = $choices = $nic_descriptions = @()
Foreach ($NIC in $NICs) {
$d = $NIC.Description
$nic_descriptions += $d
$message += "$i - $d`n"
$choices += New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&$i", "Select $d."
$i = $i + 1
}   
$options = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]]($choices)

$title = "Select Adapter to Update DNS Settings for:"
$result = $host.ui.PromptForChoice($title, $message, $options, 0)

$nic_descriptions[$result]
# exit

Foreach ($NIC in $NICs) {
If ($NIC.Description  -eq $nic_descriptions[$result] ) {
SetDNSForNIC $servers $NIC
}
}   
Write-Host "Press any key to continue ..."
$x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

}   
Else {
$this_script = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe" -Verb Runas -ArgumentList "-command `"$this_script`""
}

Network adapters are listed by Description, this is listed in the Network Connection Details.
I would have used the NetConnectionID but not everyone will have named their network connection.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 - New Apps for the New Year - Welcome Thread

« on: November 25, 2013, 03:35 AM »

10 Must enter NANY
15 Hibernate for 300 days
20 GOTO 10

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / NANY 2014 Pledge: Productivity utility [withdrawn]

« on: November 25, 2013, 03:34 AM »

I haven't been happy with any solution to manage my 'current workload'. (more to come)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: The NANY Retrospective Thread

« on: November 11, 2013, 07:39 AM »

Great thread. Last year's wordpress-basetheme has been a failure, not in functionality as it worked well for me in a few personal and work based projects. However it didn't gain traction with the DC community (or many others) so it wasn't the success of previous projects.

I thought there was some overlap between wordpress users and NANY users but apparently not, therefore I would recommend people to create software only.

Another thing I learned from previous years projects is: Do you want to support the project after the NANY is over? If so, how are you going to do that? Some of my other projects have been used very well but I haven't been motivated enough to pick up the support while there is momentum.

Hope that helps.

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Living Room / Prim Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome (techcrunch.com)

« on: July 26, 2013, 07:04 AM »

Either way, laundry is a chore, and new Y Combinator startup Prim wants to do it for you. You can schedule Prim online to come to your place, pick up your laundry, have it washed and folded at a top-notch laundromat, and deliver it back to you. $25 for a bag. It’s that easy.

http://techcrunch.co.../07/25/prim-laundry/

You go online and select from their upcoming 9am-11am or 8pm-10pm pickup and drop-off windows. You throw your clothes in a garbage bag and wait for Prim’s text that it’ll be there in 15 minutes. The driver calls when they arrive. You can hand them the bag, leave it with your doorman, or if you’re comfortable, give them a copy of your key or send a photo of it and they’ll make a copy so they can just come into your place and grab the bag.

Wait, what?

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Living Room / Re: Why the NSA Doesn’t Want You to Have a BlackBerry

« on: July 25, 2013, 08:00 AM »

Nobody wants you to have a Blackberry!

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: Yumps reboots as Mewlo - I'm Looking for Teammates

« on: July 19, 2013, 10:12 AM »

  I feel this is going to be really interesting!!

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Living Room / Re: Own your identity

« on: July 19, 2013, 06:44 AM »

Yesterday I finally took my own advice and moved my primary email from @gmail.com to my own domain. This will make it a lot easier to move to another mail service in the future.

If you wait until you're forced to migrate, chances are friends will send email to the old address for some time.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: C++ program problem

« on: July 17, 2013, 04:20 AM »

ClickOff might already be doing what you want.

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Living Room / Re: Domain Name Registrars

« on: July 17, 2013, 04:19 AM »

If you are still looking I can second Hover. As a nice bonus when you transfer domains to them they will add a year to your current expiry date, rather than from the point of transfer.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Microsoft gives app developers 180 days to fix bugs

« on: July 17, 2013, 04:17 AM »

This can only be good for consumers. Half a year seems a very long time for exploits to be developed? I understand it might take longer than a month, but maybe the only way to push this policy through Microsoft and their partners was to be generous with the time limit, with the hope that it might be changed in the future.

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Living Room / Re: SimCity - EA shows us all how to ruin a landmark game with DRM.

« on: April 03, 2013, 09:50 AM »

Controversially, I like the game I'm aware of the limitations of the simulation but that's how I treat all games regardless, so the problems are just challenges to me. So far have not found anything that I can't build around.

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DC Gamer Club / Rogue likes for PC

« on: February 19, 2013, 03:16 AM »

I seem to have become a fan of the genre of "rogue like" games. I've heard this originated with Gauntlet, but I am only familiar with IOS games like "Sword of Fargoal", "Dungelot" and "Dungeon Raid". All of these are excellent. I really like the character progression, randomized dungeons etc.
Could anyone point me to good rogue likes for PC?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: wordpress-basetheme

« on: February 12, 2013, 06:11 AM »

Found another one called Starkers (http://nathanstaines...cles/starkers-html5/)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Convert PDF to DOC in a special way...

« on: December 04, 2012, 04:04 AM »

What Renegade says. You will end up with a blurry form with sharp overlays, especially when printed.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Ratemyava - Second Life avatar rating game

« on: December 04, 2012, 03:47 AM »

It didn't work out. Time for something else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Separating features into Basic and Advanced

« on: November 29, 2012, 01:01 PM »

I really dislike options, both as a developer and a user. Of course im in the minority here. However, if you measure option usage somehow you could hide / remove those where nearly all users agree, and keep the focus on divisive options where many people disagree.

Worth thinking about. All the options are probably not needed and make it harder to understand the character of the program, introduce more bugs, and add a learning curve.

Also I would hide all divisive options you want to keep in a combo box and away from the interface.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: wordpress-basetheme

« on: November 29, 2012, 05:56 AM »

1.1 now available
Download | View on GitHub

changes:
* updated styling and version
* previous next buttons on singles
* ie style targeting (unused), remove admin bar until supported, top nav
* archives added and accessibility improvement
* date permalinks
* consistent titling
* edit link in footer, no home
* moved comments into its own template file
* padding issue

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General Software Discussion / Re: Keyboard shortcut of the day

« on: November 27, 2012, 03:30 AM »

Great contributions everyone

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: wordpress-basetheme

« on: November 23, 2012, 08:35 AM »

Compared to starting from scratch: This is faster than that plus gives you a better base than piecing together snippets from the wordpress documentation, I have some of the work.
It's also (or will become with your help ) a more reusable base to build off of than other themes and base themes I have seen around because I have left out functionality that is custom to your theme while sensibly implementing shared functionality.