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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« on: December 10, 2017, 04:09 AM »

You might want to put up the same warning you have on the DCISV forum about it being the beta testing site... not that I'm about to write my life's story there (yet)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« on: December 10, 2017, 04:03 AM »

I've tried it a little bit, and it is really fast, as you state. But that can be caused by the fact I was the only user on it...

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Living Room / Re: How can I blank out my laptop camera?

« on: December 10, 2017, 03:44 AM »

Isn't the base cause for a video interview you being visible? Otherwise a (skype) chat session would have been sufficient...
A 'malfunctioning' camera, during a video interview, isn't quite a valid alibi, I presume.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 07, 2017, 08:58 AM »

Thanks very much.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 06, 2017, 02:57 PM »

That's just great

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 06, 2017, 02:26 PM »

I made it so it cannot be smaller than the default size because of the controls.

-c.gingerich (December 06, 2017, 02:19 PM)

Well, the height is also rather fixed, and that's where I'd like to make it smaller

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 06, 2017, 02:11 PM »

Just downloaded the 1.2 version from the iCloud link above.
The attached version is still 1.0 though, you'd probably better update it (or remove it), though the forum won't let you replace it in one update with the same name (afair).

Resizing is now a bit funny, I can't make it smaller than the default size (larger is accepted fine),  but that's still larger than I like/want it...

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 06, 2017, 01:17 AM »

Well, on my work-PC it does resize as stated, but last night, at my home-PC, it didn't (both Windows 10 FCE). I'll re-download and retry at home tonight. Thanks.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 05, 2017, 02:42 PM »

One, smallish, issue: When resizing the window, only the outer frame is resized, not the notepad inside it. I'd like to make it a little smaller by default.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: Mini Clip Mon

« on: December 05, 2017, 01:34 PM »

At the moment, iCloud is giving an error on the download. (It was my script blocker kicking in, sorry) You'd IMHO be better off attaching the zip to the post (and downloads are counted for you).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software timers and interrupts on a microcontroller

« on: December 05, 2017, 01:29 AM »

Any particular reason you choose such low-level hardware? A little more sazzy and easier programmable, IMHO, would be an ESP01 or ESP12 (ESP 8266 Wiki^w) or an Arduino^w or an even more high-level Raspberry Pi^w.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Downloadable Office trial

« on: December 04, 2017, 01:54 PM »

MS is moving/pushing consumers to their subscription model by default. You might want to search for Office 2016 explicitly (try this MS link) that should be usable without registration for 30 days. Didn't try it myself though.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Single Application Instance

« on: December 03, 2017, 05:15 AM »

The code above (posted by Skwire) uses "MozillaUIWindowClass" (twice), but the current FireFox (v57.x) has the classname "MozillaWindowClass", so you might want to adjust the code, compile, then re-try.



And maybe it needs to be compiled for 64 bit, as FireFox by default is now installed in its 64 bit incarnation.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Data extraction and convert to CSV

« on: November 28, 2017, 02:26 PM »

I've updated Doc2CSV to version 1.1.0.0, adding command-line parameters for separator, delimiter and output filename, defaults same as v1.0.0.0.
Download above from the original release-post, including updated usage info.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Retro Music Devices

« on: November 28, 2017, 01:19 AM »

I've got a 30 year old Curtis Mathis stereo in my garage (for shop music) does that count?

-Stoic Joker (November 27, 2017, 10:56 PM)

Only if you share a picture of it

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Data extraction and convert to CSV

« on: November 27, 2017, 12:54 PM »

should be able to do this (import a txt file, and parse to a table.query) directly using access

-Target (November 26, 2017, 11:46 PM)

Well, I haven't installed MS Access on any computer near me for many years, so that wasn't a viable option. I was almost going to ask if it wasn't supposed to read MS SQL instead of MS Access...
And being a Java/C# style programmer, VBA feels really awkward to me (though I've done small VB/VBA projects in the more distant past).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Data extraction and convert to CSV

« on: November 26, 2017, 03:17 PM »

So, I've written this in Java, and running it requires a Java runtime environment to be installed on your computer (Windows or Linux).

Doc2CSV
Version: 1.1.0.0
Released: 2017-11-28

Purpose
Convert a 'column@data' formatted file to a .csv file.

First column name found triggers a 'next record'.
Columns are in the order they are found in the file, so adding a complete first record gives you control over column ordering.
Empty lines, or lines without the @ separator are ignored.
Whats new:
Separator and delimiter can be changed using command-line parameters.
Outputfile can be specified from the command-line.

Installation

• Download the zip file attached to this post
• Download and install an Oracle Java JRE (I've been testing with Java 8, but Java 9 should work AFAICS)
• Unzip the contents of the zipfile to it's own directory (keeping the directory structure intact, on upgrade: overwrite all files)
• On Linux: rename the start-run.sh script to start-run and make it executable

Running the conversion

• Open a command-prompt in the application directory
• Export the .doc file as text
• execute: start-run {exported-text-file} (a full path/filename can be used, see below for optional parameters)
• Wait for processing to complete (should be a few seconds)
• Check the output in the created file (same as the inputfile but with .csv appended, any previous outputfile will be overwritten)

Command-line parameters

• -s {separator character} : specifies the separator character used in the input file
• -d {delimiter character} : specifies the delimiter character used in the output file
• {input filename} : first non option (-s or -d) specified, required!
• {output filename} second non option (-s or -d) specified

NB: The separator or delimiter character support specifying \t for using the Tab character.
NB: If {output filename} is not specified or equal to {input filename} (name compare only!), then {input filename}.csv is used.
NB: The order of parameters is not important, except for the {input filename} and {output filename}.

Possible enhancements

• Make the column separator (,) configurable and/or a parameter
• Make the input-data separator (@) configurable and/or a parameter
• Do you need a GUI? It can be added but will take some time
• Process .doc files directly (rather easy, but because of response time not done yet)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Data extraction and convert to CSV

« on: November 26, 2017, 01:26 PM »

I've come to this, so far:
Input:

[Select]

fieldname1@data1
fieldname2@data2
fieldname3@data3
fieldname4@data4
fieldname1@data1
fieldname2@data2
fieldname3@data3
fieldname4@data4
fieldname1@data1
fieldname3@data3
fieldname4@data4

Output:

[Select]

fieldname1,fieldname2,fieldname3,fieldname4
data1,data2,data3,data4
data1,data2,data3,data4
data1,,data3,data4

And after adding a few commas in the field3 data:

[Select]

fieldname1,fieldname2,fieldname3,fieldname4
data1,data2,"data,,3",data4
data1,data2,"data,3",data4
data1,,"data,,,3",data4

Missing columndata sample:

[Select]

fieldname1@data1
fieldname2@data2
fieldname4@data4
fieldname1@data1
fieldname3@data3
fieldname4@data4
fieldname1@data1
fieldname3@data3

With this output: (attention: columns are in the order found in the input!)

[Select]

fieldname1,fieldname2,fieldname4,fieldname3
data1,data2,data4,
data1,,data4,data3
data1,,,data3

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Data extraction and convert to CSV

« on: November 26, 2017, 11:54 AM »

A question (and more may follow)
- Is the data-part limited to a single line, or can it be multiple lines?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.21.1 - May 7, 2017

« on: November 24, 2017, 01:34 AM »

FYI: After all these months of trying I was able to download the installer today

-dbareis (November 24, 2017, 01:18 AM)

Did you find what was preventing you to download it earlier?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store

« on: November 24, 2017, 01:32 AM »

I kind of wish we could give "likes" or "thumbs up" to posts...

-Deozaan (November 24, 2017, 12:11 AM)

Check out the MARK TOPIC button, bottom right of each topic..., close enough?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: VMware Workstation 14 Pro 40% off today

« on: November 22, 2017, 01:50 AM »

old versions of VmWare hold up just fine.

-mouser (November 21, 2017, 07:26 PM)

Well, compatibility with the newest Windows editions has been troublesome for older VMWare versions, and now especially the latest Win10 CU and FCU updates have proven to have lots of backward compatibility issues, upgrading could be important/useful.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« on: November 22, 2017, 01:47 AM »

Current configuration is much better than before, but I guess I'm not much into that brown color. I'll get used to it, now that it's no longer hurting my eyes

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tomato Custom Router Firmware question

« on: November 21, 2017, 02:28 PM »

This is merely an experiment to see how steep the learning curve is.

-jcase397 (November 21, 2017, 10:57 AM)

Ah, now it makes more sense.

IMHO, you either need to acquire the needed knowledge yourself, or find a colleague/hire someone that has or can get up to speed with this.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« on: November 21, 2017, 03:45 AM »

We could put up a poll for that, maybe offering several available options (if any).

It may be caused by my age that I like the 'old' quote style more...