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General Software Discussion / Re: Contra Chrome

« on: August 23, 2022, 11:15 AM »

Most everyone I know has the opposite experience.

-sphere (August 23, 2022, 08:40 AM)

+1

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multiple Android app instances

« on: August 15, 2022, 01:59 AM »

Unfortunately it's not possible.

-kalos (August 14, 2022, 04:17 PM)

Have you really asked 'm? Your response is a bit too quick to have gotten a honest reply from the developer(s).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multiple Android app instances

« on: August 14, 2022, 03:58 PM »

Is there a cheap way to operate these five sensors?

-kalos (August 14, 2022, 03:43 PM)

Ask the developer of that software to fix that, it seems like quite a severe and unneeded limitation.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ThumbNails No Longer Show Screenshot, Just Generic Flower Icon

« on: August 12, 2022, 02:04 AM »

I think it needs to be repeated that this issue is a long standing 'undesirable feature' of Windows (lmgtfy link), and should not be attributed to Screenshot Captor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Overstepping the invalid certicate

« on: August 09, 2022, 11:52 AM »

What browser (and version) are you using?

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« on: July 17, 2022, 04:25 PM »

Instant fame! 

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Living Room / Re: Random M.2 SSD Disconnects

« on: July 11, 2022, 12:25 AM »

You could request a replacement under warranty from the supplier, as it clearly doesn't work as is to be expected & intended.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The End of the Atom Editor

« on: June 09, 2022, 01:55 AM »

Did anyone else use Atom?

-wraith808 (June 08, 2022, 08:14 PM)

Nope, tried it once, a couple of years ago, and couldn't get along with it very well, so stayed at Notepad++, until someone showed me the benefits of VSCode, and I've been kind of an addict for that ever since (though I also use NPP for some tasks).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: June 01, 2022, 12:35 PM »

Synchronize It! and Compare It! - superb GUI design, I still use them to this day for small simple jobs - one can still buy them, they still work, but unfortunately not upgraded for many many years. Synchronize It! can even copy sparse files, which is extremely rare.

-brahman (May 31, 2022, 08:53 PM)

I've been a licensed used for, AFAIR, over 20 year, and still use it at least a couple times a month, and sometimes even on a daily basis. Best compare tools ever

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Living Room / Re: Arduino anyone?

« on: May 27, 2022, 02:02 AM »

You've added quite some features

The keyboard keys look a bit 'clunky', but are probably very useful just because of that, a touch screen display isn't that practical in the kitchen, during preparing & cooking

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Windows 11 round edges transparency

« on: May 23, 2022, 10:13 AM »

+1 similarly for scrolling screen captures, those gray rounded corners are included somewhat irregularly in the result, as a rectangle is cut out for the captured window

NB: There is a dirty hack available that changes uDWM.dll, but that is not something I want to have as a 'fix', as it is a little to blunt for me. And it might break with future Windows updates.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Incapable of Solving Issue With Windows 10 Not Loading

« on: May 09, 2022, 03:28 PM »

This time I put what fellows usually write to me :

https://www.google.c...ndows+10+not+loading

-Contro (May 09, 2022, 02:13 AM)

Look who's talking You have picked up some of the advice presented here

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General Software Discussion / Re: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel i7 1260P ?

« on: May 09, 2022, 03:25 PM »

AMD's not supporting Thunderbolt

-kalos (May 09, 2022, 01:23 PM)

Is that a requirement? Are you planning to buy devices that need that? That kind of devices is mostly so specific that you're on Apple equipment already (and even they seem to move slowly away from TB), or can easily be substituted by USB 3.0 connected devices.

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Living Room / Re: Arduino anyone?

« on: April 30, 2022, 04:08 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Arduino anyone?

« on: April 30, 2022, 02:51 AM »

I've been actively involved in Arduino based programming since about 2 years now (and a user of the project I'll mention below for about 4 years), but I skipped the Arduino hardware and went straight to the IMHO more capable Espressif ESP hardware based boards, using ESP8266 and ESP32 controller, as these come with WiFi built in (and ESP32 even with bluetooth, but I don't use that). These boards can be bought from Aliexpress starting at only a few $$, where the Arduino hardware is usually less powerful and more expensive.

I've been involved with ESPEasy (github link and support forum), that is intended to make it easy to use sensors in an IoT/domotica setting.
Lots of functionally already available 'out of the box', with a web UI served from the controller (no cloud involved, other than github for development and the support-forum, obviously). You can find my involvement by looking for my avatar
NB: Though I do some occasional hardware tinkering, I'm mostly in this 'game' for the software-side (C++) of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: April 24, 2022, 05:58 AM »

But with current (low) prices for storage, why does it matter?

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: April 24, 2022, 02:21 AM »

That's a somewhat unfair comparison, as docx is a compressed container format (you can view the contents using a tool like 7-zip), where the other 3 are uncompressed. If you compress those files to f.e. zip files, the figures will be more comparable. And most likely docx will then be the largest, but also contain the most elaborate mark-up/formatting data.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: I have a new problem“memory is out”

« on: March 30, 2022, 05:51 AM »

My computer use eight display monitor(all is 4K 3840X2160)

-microseee (March 30, 2022, 02:50 AM)

That will most likely result in a screenshot larger than 2GB, but SSC can only allocate up to 2GB of memory, as it is a 32 bit application. That's not easy to change.

You can screenshot each monitor separate and stitch the images together.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Searching and updating XML file in PowerShell

« on: March 22, 2022, 04:28 PM »

Wouldn't it be easier to use a simple xpath expression to extract the matching element(s)?

[Select]

Select-Xml -XPath "//variable[id='this-is-the-node']"

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: March 14, 2022, 02:36 PM »

All of your design skills in one place

No kidding, I like it for it's plain vanilla interface.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 03:18 PM »

Guess the name should start with a lower-case s, as that's a common prefix for many of Skwire's specialist tools

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PublicDomainVic / Re: Change File Name. Then change it back to what it was.

« on: February 26, 2022, 10:13 AM »

I'm pretty sure you can rework that SAS script to accept a filename in a variable (never used or interpreted SAS script, but did a quick google search on it), so executing the script while passing the filename(s) should be really doable.
This is only to avoid getting stuck with a 'one trick pony' tool
And adjusting the script will improve someone's skills, if not yours

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PublicDomainVic / Re: Change File Name. Then change it back to what it was.

« on: February 26, 2022, 02:56 AM »

Just a suggestion, but wouldn't it be much more efficient to improve the 'script' to handle any filename? This workaround seems so inefficient, and prone to bite you in the behind, sometime soon.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: February 22, 2022, 01:42 AM »

For those that use DD-MM-YYYY dates, today is palindrome day: 22-02-2022

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General Software Discussion / Re: A few new programs

« on: January 26, 2022, 02:25 PM »

This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in www.xhirl.com.

-kunkel321 (January 26, 2022, 08:35 AM)

That's a really old post you've referenced, the software has been moved here