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Find And Run Robot / Re: New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:33 PM »

On the note, if you have a separate vendor-specific control panel applet, please pass the .cpl or namespace and GUID for it, and I will create a separate, optional, alias file for the vendor-specific entries.

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Find And Run Robot / New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:25 PM »

To all that are interested in the new CPanel alias mentioned here, please post any comments or suggestions to this thread. If you find any missing applets (not vendor specific such as NVidia or AMD, or ones that come with a utility such as sisoft sandra or everest), please post them here and what OS you are running.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:21 PM »

Also, a thank you to mouser for putting up with my constant nagging to get him to add some of these features

  Cheers Mouser! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:11 PM »

My pleasure! I am happy to help. This is a tool that, with these updates, has become indispensable to me.

A note on the control panel list. It is hard coded to the control.exe procedural calls. With Vista, .cpl files slowly went away and were replaced with namespaces. Right now, I am focused solely on adding the core control panel applets found in XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Applets like NVidia control panel, AMD Control Panel, SiSoftware Sandra or Everest, etc. will not be added as not everyone has them and I have no way to detect their presence in FARR.

Another note, the icons are NOT EXACT MATCHES to the icons in the classic control panels. If someone has an icon of decent resolution (32x32), please send me a pm with a link to it and what applet it replaces and I will update the alias for mouser. Additionally, if some are found to be missing or not working, post to a thread in the FARR forum and I will look into it. Be sure to let me know the control panel applet name so I can l look it up.

Please pass any feedback so we can continue to improve this tool and capability. I will be adding admin tools (msc file) and a separate alias file for active directory management (ADUC, Sites and Services, Federated services, DNS, DHCP, etc). So look for that in the next beta release.

Bring on the feedback!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3 - Window Object and Scrolling Capture Screencast Videos

« on: September 20, 2012, 06:25 PM »

First, do not take my comments as detracting from the power that SsC brings. SsC is a great tool with a lot of power, my comments only refer to the scrolling capture functionality and are not meant as a detractor to the rest of the application.

I agree with nsathishk in that there needs to be a simple way of performing a scrolling capture without having to tweak the options in place. I do a lot of capture for scrolling windows and use these captures for tutorials, documentation development, and a few other projects, and when I capture, I want it to be as simple as possible. 9 times out of 10, I do not want to tweak any options, I just want the tool to capture the window and provide me the option of saving or editing the capture.

I am also in agreement with peterlonz in that I need a simple option. There is a lot of power in the tweaking options, but to take a simple screen capture of a scrolled window, I haven't found a way to reliably capture a scrolling window in SSC. Browser windows, mirc windows, scrolling word docs, and some of the sources I use for tutorials or documentation purposes all result in "seams", overlaps, or multiple captures of the same area in the final product.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« on: September 20, 2012, 05:11 PM »

Source?

-Josh (September 20, 2012, 04:56 PM)

Human logic.

-Tuxman (September 20, 2012, 04:57 PM)

I was more referring to a source where one service provider provides for direct import of data from another service (cloud storage, or IMAP, as you called out), besides simply pointing the client to the data already on your computer, as I suggested. And again, I think you knew this. I do not like claims without some source of proof.

If you knew these answers, and your point was what you stated two posts back, why did you not state that up front? I can see what data Google has about me and modify (to include deleting) said data in any of the Google products.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« on: September 20, 2012, 04:56 PM »

Moving files from one cloud into another does exist, of course. Not sure about the other features

-Tuxman (September 20, 2012, 04:55 PM)

Source?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« on: September 20, 2012, 04:49 PM »

Why would Google spend time doing this, Tux? There are far too many competing services to justify this. Plus, if you are syncing from a dropbox account, wouldn't the data ALREADY be on your computer (or one you have access to)? Just point Google drive to that folder and your data is synced.

Show me another service that does a direct import of IMAP data from another service. The only way I've ever found to sync IMAP profiles is using a client and draggin/dropping between the two, or some clunky scripts that does it (imapsync).

But something tells me you already know this all of this, didn't you?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Indie Bundle 6

« on: September 20, 2012, 01:11 PM »

This is a great bundle for Vessel alone! Vessel is a fantastic game, well thought out, and addictive puzzle-style game play!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« on: September 20, 2012, 12:59 PM »

Oh, great, you can export the data you actually provided yourself. Now that's useful.

-Tuxman (September 20, 2012, 12:55 PM)

Would you rather not be able to get your data out? Seems like a standard export function that one would expect to be available...

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Living Room / ipv6-capable Linux/BSD firewall distribution

« on: September 19, 2012, 04:43 AM »

All,

I am looking to repurpose my old media server (old p4 system) into a make-shift firewall appliance. One of my key requirements is to have ipv6 deployed internally. This would require a dhcpv6 implementation along with related ipv6 services.

Right now, I have an older machine running Windows 2008 Server acting as a firewall. I would like to re-purpose this machine to server as a secondary domain controller for Windows Server 2012 so I can test out NAP and a few other new features.

Any help is appreciated!
Josh

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« on: September 18, 2012, 11:08 PM »

YEAY! We are officially in beta for this release! Glad to see it. There are some nice features here that mouser has put in.

For those of you unfamiliar, you can now use environment variables to reference specific paths in the Windows environment. I personally define one as %google% which points to %userprofile\google drive (c:\users\username\google drive). This can help save a lot of typing. It was this feature that helped identify the lag caused by the custom folder icons (google drive, root of a drive, etc).

Additionally, the shellexec and updated "noresults alias" is a great feature. This helps design FARR to operate more like the run dialog in all versions of Windows. What I mean is this.

Normally, in FARR, you know the name of the program you want and type in an entry from the start menu and FARR finds it as it scans. Let's say, however, you want to directly launch an MMC applet (Disk management, event viewer, etc). Currently, farr does not index control panel applets and requires the use of specially crafted shortcuts. This presents a problem in that these shortcuts have to be created as new control panel applets are identified. My solution to this is to use the run dialog and type devmgmt.msc and launch the file directly since it is in the system path. FARR did not provide this capability. Additionally, some pages I launch by manually executing internet explorer (certain work sites and other sites that present problems in alternative browsers or activex enabled sites). For this, I always manually execute internet explorer and pass it the argument (iexplore www.google.com).

This new "no result" capability allows FARR to more closely mimic the run dialog functionality so that you can launch files directly if you know the name and it is in the system path, but not in a FARR search folder path (say, %windir%, which I don't think many would want scanned by FARR).

I did identify a way for mouser to poll a list of control panel applets in Windows Vista+ (Vista, 7, using the registry since Microsoft has stopped using .cpl files for most functions. Hopefully this makes its way into a future FARR release so we can populate control panel applets and further enhance FARR.

I must say that mouser has done an exuberant amount of work on this release and I think it has progressed very nicely!

Mouser, I tip my hat to you!

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Living Room / Re: In rememberance of....The antiquated hardware/software reminiscence thread

« on: September 18, 2012, 06:18 PM »

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARREnviormentVariables

« on: September 17, 2012, 02:33 PM »

It is great to see this functionality being built-in to FARR. I have been helping mouser test out this feature. Very nice, if not as nice as, as is the original plugin developed by vitalyb!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Steal Windows 8 and Microsoft probably won't mind?

« on: September 17, 2012, 11:45 AM »

Nope, no trolling at all. "I says what I means and I means what I says" -Popeye

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General Software Discussion / Re: Steal Windows 8 and Microsoft probably won't mind?

« on: September 16, 2012, 05:22 PM »

As a user of Windows 8 for about 3 weeks now, I can say that I do not see the issues with the interface, operation, or configuration of the OS. I am actually quite enjoying it. It is well thought out and works quite nicely. Even made my 3 year old laptop feel a bit snappier.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Roboform, crippling the export function and Bits Du Jour censorship

« on: September 14, 2012, 08:52 AM »

BdJ just removed a whole slew of comments.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Revolution

« on: September 13, 2012, 12:14 PM »

Downloading now!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Web search as default when no entry was found?

« on: September 13, 2012, 12:10 PM »

Mouser, perhaps this should be a configurable option that enables/disables this functionality? With this, I can now totally replace the run dialog as I use it!

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Revolution

« on: September 13, 2012, 08:12 AM »

Cody is in Worms Revolution! Scroll to 1:48.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Worms Revolution

« on: September 13, 2012, 05:41 AM »

Count me in!

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: DONE: Batch-create shortcuts from a CSV file

« on: September 12, 2012, 10:26 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=32217.0

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Batch-create shortcuts from a CSV file

« on: September 12, 2012, 10:24 PM »

Powershell is completely portable. You can run a PS1 script created on Windows 8 on a Windows XP system as long as all methods you call are not OS-dependent. This one is a simple WScript call, so it should work fine.

I am going to mess with yours and Target's tomorrow to see how they work. I figured I would take this as a learning opportunity but just in case I got stuck, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask on DoCo either.

Either way, Powershell is a tool I already use and it is as powerful, if not more-so, as languages like Perl on Linux. You can access any part of the OS through the same commands. This makes automation in Windows quite easy. I use it primarily for SysAdmin level stuff, didn't think about using it for this until after I had made my initial post.

Thanks again for the quick replies!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Batch-create shortcuts from a CSV file

« on: September 12, 2012, 09:26 PM »

I appreciate the responses thus far! I must say that I am fairly proud that I just made this applet in powershell.

The intent behind this was to have a list of known control panel applets, and generate shortcuts to them. This is to aid mouser with a planned update to FARR and the way it calls the control panel applets.

I created a file named applets.txt, formatted it as such:

Code: Text [Select]

1. Shortcut (LNK) Title, Path to control.exe, and the argument to call to execute the desired applet

Here is the code for powershell tested on Windows 8 and verified to work:

Code: Text [Select]

1. # Create shortcuts to a known list of control panel applets from XP-Win8
2. # File format for CSV is Shortcut Name, Path to control.exe (including control.exe in the path), Argument to call this control panel applet
3. # Sample: Action Center, c:\windows\system32\control.exe, /name Microsoft.ActionCenter
4.  
5. $filename = import-csv "c:\temp\applets.txt"
6. foreach ($i in $filename)
7. {
8.         $ShortcutName = $i.Name
9.         $Target = $i.Path
10.         $Argument = $i.Argument
11.  
12.         # Set the path to the shortcut LNK file
13.         $FullSPath = "$home\Desktop\Shortcuts\" + $ShortcutName + ".lnk"
14.  
15.         ### Debug code to display the shortcut file name, target file name (control.exe path) and the executing argument.
16.         # write-host "Shortcut File Name: " $FullSPath " Target File: " $Target "  Argument: " $Argument
17.         # pause
18.         ### End debug code
19.  
20.         # Establish a wscript shell variable
21.         $wshshell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
22.  
23.         # Set the path to the target shortcut file (LNK)
24.         $lnk = $wshshell.CreateShortcut($FullSPath)
25.  
26.         # Set the Target path to the executable file itself (control.exe)
27.         $lnk.TargetPath = $Target
28.        
29.         # Set the argument (Control panel applet call)
30.         $lnk.Arguments = $i.Argument
31.  
32.         # Write the shortcut
33.         $lnk.save()
34. }

Source file attached for shortcuts

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Windows software shortcut (LNK) creator

« on: September 12, 2012, 07:47 PM »

That would be awesome!