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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast
« on: June 04, 2006, 10:58 PM »
Dell[a] - Thanks for positng the lyrics... next time I can sing along  ;D

Love your avatar BTW, just need to find Buttercup and Blossum and we'll have the whole team.  ;) 

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Living Room / June 4 Podcast
« on: June 04, 2006, 09:50 PM »
Just finished listening and didn't see an existing topic.

That was fun.  Superboyac's rants/ramblings are entertaining.  The forum nickname origins were fun too.  Overall it was fun to listen to.  I like the programming blues tune too, although I had a hard time hearing it.

I always want to go record a snippet for the next show, but I don't have a mic installed on my system.  The mic I have is way down it the basement, and that would mean leaving my PC.  :o 

One of these days....

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My blackberry has appointment reminders... I don't seem to use anything else.  Not having a job helps in that vein.  :P

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Wow... GarAnimals for Printers!  Cool  :Thmbsup:

Don't rember GarAnimals?
http://zhumor.blogspot.com/2005/02/garanimals.html

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WARNING:  I'm going to use offensive language in this post.




You've been warned.



Piss on Adobe.... MS too for that matter.  Sun, IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle.  They're all bastards.  As soon as they think they have leverage on someone, they'll all pull a stunt link this.  "Everyone uses PDF, let's make 'em pay!"

This is one of the many reasons I support Donation Coder.  Let the egomanic CEO's piss enough customers off and we'll just have more happy donators.  I could rant for days...  :down: Adobe  :down: :down: :down:

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Catchy tune when you die... it's almost as fun as the whole rest of the game.

Anyone speak German?  I have not idea what the song says...  except "Oh yeah"   :P

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Living Room / Re: Mr. Tumpkins - cool flash adventure
« on: June 03, 2006, 10:30 AM »
I like games that don't make me think too hard :)

The moral at the end was a little strange...

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Vadim - I absolutely disagree about the web capture stuff.  I am very visual and mentally "key" off of the look and information.  If I write a note on a piece of paper, I remember the size and color of the paper. I usually remember the orientation and position of the text. 

In the same way, when I capture a web page, I want to capture the way it looks, not just the text.  Heck sometimes the graphics are part of the information.

Just my $0.02.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: WinCovers
« on: June 03, 2006, 12:17 AM »
The best will be when you ask about it after it's done, and they'll tell you it can't be. :)

When I was programming for a living.... I won't bore you with the details... They always say you can't do that, especially after you've just done it.  :P

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Now things look totally normal.... weird.  :huh:

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Weird... this is the 2nd time I've had rendering issues with Firefox....  Attached is what I see in the top of this thread.

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A. ~50
B. ~63

RAM Usually 1G in use.... 2G total.
P4 3.0Ghz HT

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I should probably state for the record, I'm not terribly upset or unhappy.... I would have used my  :mad: face if I were.  I'm just disappointed.  :-\

I'm in the process of writing this in the manly language of Pascal, becuase 1) I know it well, and 2) I'll be done it another 20 mins or so. 

I'd pick another language, like Ruby or Python to experiment with, but this is for a real job and I need it compiled.  It will run on ~3,000 PC's as they get re-imaged this month.

I am willing to review and discuss the AHK code for better enlightenment of the group  :P

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hey pluckerwank ---  I don't think I've ever said that before  :P

Sorry you're having trouble, here is a link https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys/index.php

I hope you can get things going and stick around... enjoy.

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Alright AHK fans, I tried, I really did.  I used Autoit 2.0 for automating some stuff a few years ago.  When I saw some of the cool things going on around DC with AHK, I thought I'd try to solve my little problem using it.
I am now going to have to rewrite it, in something a little more .... reliable, documented, debuggable!

All I wanted to do was parse a few strings, do some case statements and exec a couple of apps with parameters. 

Here is the actual, psudocode spec: 

Execute ipconfig | find "IP Address" > c:\ipaddr.txt
Execute %cmdspec$ /c type c:\zenworks\smbiosdump.log | find "Serial Numer" > c:\serno.txt

Read the first line of c:\ipaddr.txt  (IP Address .......... :  10.91.185.20)
Extract the 3'rd octet (185 in this case)

Read the first line of c:\serno.txt   (Serial Number:               'BX43299')
Extract the Serial Number (sans single quotes)

Based on the ip address 3'rd octet, assign a 3 letter building code
IP 182 -185 Code = MSW
IP 187 -189 Code = MSS
etc.

Use the Code and IP to create a unique PC name:
PCNAME=MSW-BX43299

Using that name execute a few commands
exec c:\program files\zenworks\zwsreg -unreg
exec c:\program files\zenworks\zwsreg -workstation PCNAME
exec c:\windows\system32\wsname.exe /N:PCNAME
exec c:\windows\system32\ipconfig /registerdns


THAT'S IT.  No Earth shattering discoveries here.  I will paste my final attempt at AHK for you review.  You can correct my thinking, etc.  I have moved on.  For the record, this is the butchered version that I was debugging with.  I finally gave up on trying to exec the first 2 commands from within AHK and created a 2 line .cmd file to deal with it.  The Run/Runwait commands WOULD NOT execute these statements.  Grrr...

Here's the ugly code
FileReadLine, ipline, C:\ipaddr.txt, 1
FileReadLine, sernoline, C:\SerNo.txt, 1

; I don't think any of this part works. 
; Stupid ass way to run functions... what's wrong with ipaddr := stringtrimleft, ipaddr, pos

colon := ":"
StringGetPos, pos, ipline, %colon% ; started as IP Address ....: 10.91.10.20
StringTrimLeft,ipaddr,ipline,%pos% ; should leave 10.91.10.20

StringGetPos, pos, ipaddr, .   ; should find the first .
StringTrimLeft,ipline,ipaddr,%pos% ; and leave 91.10.20
StringTrimLeft,ipaddr, ipline, 1

StringGetPos, pos, ipaddr, .   
StringTrimLeft,ipline,ipaddr,pos   ; leaving 10.20
StringTrimLeft,ipaddr,ipline,1

StringGetPos, pos, ipaddr, .   ; find the .
StringLeft,ipline,ipaddr,%pos%     ; copy from left ... 10.
StringLeft,ipaddr,ipline,1
StringTrimRight,locationkey,ipaddr,1  ; kill the . leaving 10 in locatinkey

location := "none"
if locationkey between 213 and 215 location := "mse"
if locationkey between 217 and 219 location := "mss"
if locationkey between 209 and 211 location := "msw"
if locationkey between 233 and 235 location := "bes"
if locationkey between 221 and 223 location := "ges"
if locationkey between 229 and 231 location := "hes"
if locationkey between 225 and 227 location := "jes"
if locationkey between 237 and 239 location := "res"
if locationkey between 181 and 183 location := "les"
if location = "none" location := "lhs".

; can't get the damn thing to trim the crap before the  first '

StringGetPos, pos, sernoline, '
StringTrimLeft, serno, sernoline, %pos%
StringTrimRight, sernol, serno, 1
StringTrimLeft, serno, sernol, 1

sernolen := strlen(serno)
if (sernolen < 5) {
msgbox "Invalid Serial Number"
exit 1
}

wsname := location . "-" . serno
; insert high quality debugging device
msgbox %wsname%
runwait, c:\program files\novell\zenworks\zwsreg.exe -unreg, ,hide
runwait, c:\program files\novell\zenworks\zwsreg.exe -workstation %wsname%, ,hide
runwait, c:\windows\system32\wsname.exe /N:%wsname%, ,hide
runwait, c:\windows\system32\ipconfig /registerdns, ,hide




 :down: :down: :down: Boo.

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DonationCoder Projects / Re: Flat File Mini CMS in PHP
« on: May 28, 2006, 11:17 PM »
Here are a few OS CMS's that use flat files.  They may provide inspiration or save persperation if you can re-use some code...

First up:  Pivot - Pivot is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=514&Itemid=159

2nd: GuppY - GuppY, the easy, free and databaseless web portal, will allow you to generate very easily a complete and interactive web site.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=489&Itemid=159

3rd: Reload - ReloadCMS is a free CMS written on PHP and based on flat files. It does not need any DB installed and realise all abilities of high-level CMS like modularity, templates, users management, advanced rights system and package of main modules like articles, news, guestbook, minichat, filearchive and others...
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2150&Itemid=159

And finally: TML - TML is a new type of CMS (Content Management System). Unlike most popular CMS currently available, where the systems have already pre-configured to perform the assigned tasks; that is, to get what you want all you need to do is point and click. Although this is a desirable feature, there is not much for you need to know to get the desired output. However, if you have a unique requirement, it might not be easily fulfilled.

TML attempts to address that shortcoming by introducing a new way of constructing web pages - using scripts to manipulate the contents. To lessen the complexity of yet another programming language, the scripts used will be few but yet will provide enough power to create the most popular web page layout.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=409&Itemid=159


All of these were found on the excellent site, OpenSourceCMS http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Just posted for you info.  I am not a lawyer.  Your mileage may vary.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« on: May 28, 2006, 11:03 PM »
PhilKC - I knew you'd want this captured for preservation...  :P

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Living Room / Re: Codie - all style, no substance ...
« on: May 28, 2006, 10:58 PM »
He took off with all of the DC Cash!  How much lower can you get?  Did he use the stolen funds to buy this fancy new DC ipod?  Did we ever get a really explaination for his departure and return?  Did we ever get a good accounting of the funds?

Someone call the NSA, we need to check this out.  :P

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3. PC World Review of any OS.

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I read through this and almost forget to welcome you  :o

So Ampa and Josh - Welcome and THANKS.  It's always nice to know that folks will take on a supportive volunteer role to help the rest of us out  :Thmbsup:

Anything you, or any of the other volunteers, can do to help keep mouser sane is a big help to us all.

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PCWorld - Worst PC Mag of the last 25 years   :P

Seriously, I think with a few minutes research, most geeks could create a better list.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista, Up Close and Personal
« on: May 26, 2006, 06:42 AM »
I am super excited about WinFS and would really have liked to see even more fundamental, progressive changes to the OS.
I thought WinFS was pulled from the initial Vista release?  Can anyone verify?


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Just to prove my point.... pic 1 is the CLUTTERED site.... count the ads, need two hands?  There is at least 1 more at the bottom of the page.

Pic2 shows the "several newsletters" that you are automatically subscribed to.  I just finished unchecking every stinking one of them.  I almost missed the "allow pop-up" crap. 


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geesh - I don't want to hear anymore whinning about DC policies, etc.  I just got back from phpclasses.org -- where they have FREEWARE -- and the site is so plaged with pop-ups and delay ads, I just wanted to puke.
Also, you MUST register to download some (authors choice) freeware.  When you do, you are automatically subscribed to "several newsletters."  You can opt out after you get your password, but what a pain in the arse.

DC is good.  :Thmbsup:  phpclasses.org bad!   >:(  :down:

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General Review Discussion / Re: VPN/SSH Tunneling software
« on: May 25, 2006, 11:25 PM »
I have a spare pc, and once its up and running again, I plan to install ubuntu to run as a firewall
For some reason I read this and thought it said you have a linux box... sorry for the confusion.  Once you have ubuntu installed, sshd should be available :)

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