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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares antivirus memory usage

« on: May 14, 2013, 12:29 PM »

Sure, everything you might use will be circumvented in time, but that doesn't mean that the less effective attacks aren't going to happen in the meantime.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS and REXX

« on: May 13, 2013, 08:06 PM »

FWIW I always prefer Regina REXX for scripting (although I am not a CHS user and don't know how it interacts).  It's just an executable, plus a library file or two, no installation required.

Do you have a preferred flavor of REXX?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... multiple IP camera software (opinions or suggestions)

« on: May 12, 2013, 09:29 AM »

Wow, thanks michaelclyde!  Sounds great, and if I can get some time I'll beat it up with a few cameras.

The link to 12oclocker's programs page is here.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Previous version?

« on: May 11, 2013, 07:43 AM »

Hmm, I don't see that behavior when pasting into Word 2013.  I get a normal size and aspect bitmap.

Regarding the ini file location, I remember I had to edit something to put that file in a non-redirected folder but I can't remember where that was... at any rate it was noted in a thread here (although I couldn't find it in a quick search).  It was simple once I found the right post.  I guess fixing that up would be a nice checkbox option during installation, in case Mouser needs anything else to keep him busy... 

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Living Room / Re: New PC double-take

« on: May 07, 2013, 05:40 AM »

the disincentives seem to include the sorts of thing you mentioned above, and others - e.g., the dropping of ClearType functionality (ergonomics is kind of important).

-IainB (May 07, 2013, 12:54 AM)

Yeah, and the lack of ClearType is only part of that.  Outlook, for example, uses way too much white space.  And I mean just that - white space, no borders or boundaries, no visual cues about where one thing starts and another stops, borders that are just thin line boxes.  Very large sender names, all spread out too much.  I guess the idea is it will work better that way when you are navigating with your finger.  (I navigate my finger to them somewhat differently though.  )

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Living Room / Re: New PC double-take

« on: May 06, 2013, 05:09 AM »

To be honest I don't do much movie watching on my PC, but it came with PowerDVD installed which does the necessary.

On the other hand, I installed Win 8 N edition (sans media code) on my test box, so maybe I'll need to locate the media add-in and give it a spin.

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Living Room / Re: New PC double-take

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:05 PM »

With a couple minor omissions

-TaoPhoenix (May 05, 2013, 05:29 PM)

NT was a minor omission?

FWIW I haven't seen any Win 7 boxes in the weekly flyers here for several months now.  That said, I don't find 8 so annoying... my main home PC came with it installed (it was an emergency replacement), and once I put a start menu utility on it has behaved much like 7.  I just recently brought up a test box with win 8 on it so I could get more familiar with how things get done.

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Living Room / New PC double-take

« on: May 05, 2013, 09:21 AM »

This caught my eye in this week's Staples flyer:



What does this mean?  Did Staples find a cache of older boxes that were lost in the warehouse behind the paper?  A trailer that never got unloaded?

More importantly, how fast do you think people will snap them up?  

Of course, the market for all-in-one boxes might not be particularly operating system aware...

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Count Number of Pages in PDF Files

« on: April 30, 2013, 08:07 PM »

Couldn't you just grep the output to find the Pages: line then use set to pull out the page count?  Set has some niceties you don't often think about.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Patch to Disable ACL access-control-lists

« on: April 29, 2013, 07:59 PM »

OK.  Looks thorough for the file system, did you make the comparable modifications to the registry permissions?

That said, I don't think it is possible to force Windows to just skip the acl check completely, is that what you're asking?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Patch to Disable ACL access-control-lists

« on: April 29, 2013, 07:32 PM »

I have a feeling that setacl.exe could probably do what you want with regard to the file system and registry.  (The link is to the documentation, which you would surely want.)  There is also a GUI version that is a free trial for 30 days.  I did a little scripting with setacl.exe years ago and I recall being very careful in exactly what I asked it to do...

Of course I would suggest getting a very good backup of your system before applying anything.  Two copies on different devices.  And testing a full restore ahead of time. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Combining Batch Files

« on: April 27, 2013, 08:38 AM »

Pilgrim, what I posted was basically the same as your comment #1 link.

From looking at the thread in the second link, is your intention that you want one script to do both your Internet_ON and Internet_OFF scripts?  If so we could pull the guts from your two scripts and put them into this framework, or just change this to call your existing batch files.  This would be the first option, with everything in one place:

Code: Text [Select]

1. rem Check if our flag file exists and act accordingly
2. if exist internet_is_on.txt goto running
3.  
4. rem Turning Internet items ON
5. echo hah>internet_is_on.txt
6.  
7. start "" "C:\Program Files\D4\D4.exe"
8. sleep 1
9. start "" "C:\Program Files\Sandboxie\SbieCtrl.exe"
10. sleep 1
11. start "" "C:\Program Files\PeerBlock\peerblock.exe"
12. sleep 3
13.  
14. devcon enable *DEV_001C*
15.  
16. goto alldone
17.  
18. :running
19. rem Internet is ON, turn it all OFF now
20. del internet_is_on.txt
21.  
22. taskkill /F /IM peerblock.exe
23. taskkill /F /IM SbieCtrl.exe
24. taskkill /F /IM D4.exe
25.  
26. devcon disable *DEV_001C*
27.  
28. :alldone

That said, when you reboot your computer the status of the programs and device might be out of sync with the "internet_is_on.txt" flag file.  If that happens you should be able to just run the script an extra time to get everything in sync.

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Living Room / Re: Tip of the Day: How to make your zip files less annoying

« on: April 26, 2013, 06:24 PM »

Thumbs_viewer works fine 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Combining Batch Files

« on: April 26, 2013, 06:07 PM »

I agree with jpfx, a flag file would be the simplest.

Code: Text [Select]

1. if exist prog-running.txt goto running
2. rem prog is not running
3. copy NUL>prog-running.txt
4. start vncviewer.exe
5. goto alldone
6. :running
7. rem prog is already running
8. del prog-running.txt
9. taskkill /IM vncviewer.exe
10. :alldone

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Auto Email Screenshot

« on: April 25, 2013, 08:17 PM »

Here is a sample of the 3-liner I used (slightly obfuscated):

Code: Text [Select]

1. @for /f %%i in ('datex.exe -f yyyymmddhhnn') do @set mydt=%%i
2. wkhtmltopdf.exe --page-size Letter http://prtg/sensor.htm^?gr188=1^&timeout=60^&id=188^&position=0 d:\storage\ntt-graphs-%mydt%.pdf
3. blat.exe - -to [email protected],[email protected] -subject "emailed web page" -from [email protected] -attach d:\storage\ntt-graphs-%mydt%.pdf -body "graph attached"

Datex.exe is from Bill Stewart's site
Blat is from the Blat site
wkhtmltopdf is from this Google Code page

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« on: April 25, 2013, 07:53 PM »

some false positives are far better than an overlooked virus...

-Giampy (April 25, 2013, 11:23 AM)

Tell that to a couple of my customers after AVG decided that the lower filter for the Xen disk subsystem was a virus.  No problem there until their boxes were rebooted, which resulted in a nice 7B bsod.  (Fortunately for the second customer I remembered tracking down the issue for the first...)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Auto Email Screenshot

« on: April 24, 2013, 09:17 PM »

Easy to do with a batch file and two utilities.  wkhtmltopdf (or wkhtmltoimage) to pull the web page, then blat to send it on.  From what I remember it took some testing to figure out the command line for the wk stuff (I can check at work, I used it to do some monitoring a few years ago) but it wasn't too hard.  Blat is the command line mailer bomb.  Oh yeah, and a scheduled task to run the batch file.

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Living Room / Re: What to do with an SSD after it fails

« on: April 22, 2013, 07:05 PM »

Beat the crap out of it with a hammer (also good therapy) 

-Carol Haynes (April 22, 2013, 07:00 PM)

I'd go with Carol's recommendation, but make it a sledge hammer, and post the video on Youtube! 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« on: April 21, 2013, 08:06 PM »

@40hz - my wife would like to get you started on the horses!   Personally speaking, I know they are smart and wonderful creatures, but I am just intimidated by the size.

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Living Room / Re: The Coffee/Caffeine Thread!

« on: April 21, 2013, 07:59 PM »

We used to have a local Barney's (well, not too far away, anyway) that carried actual Jamaican Blue Mountain for awhile.  Expensive, but it was the real deal - either that or they mixed in some crack or something.  I couldn't afford it very often, and I haven't seen it in years (and not only couldn't afford it now, but also would expect a ripoff if I tried sourcing it over the Internet).

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« on: April 21, 2013, 12:11 PM »

Yes, indeed.  (Even the cats we have had were rescues.)

A year after we were married my wife and I adopted as a companion for our Golden a wonderful 10-year old girl, Rae-Rae, who had been living in the rescue kennel for almost a year because she was old, she had unsightly (though benign) tumors on her teats, and she had horrible teeth.  But she had beautiful deep brown eyes that sparkled and laughed at us and she delighted in our attention.  She was a true angel  .  We had her for three years before a cancer took her from us suddenly, less than a month after we lost our golden retriever.

Since then we have taken in mostly tough sells - one big girl who was terrified of the wind and the feel of grass under her feet, another girl who was dropped off after she had damaged her back from a fall and couldn't walk properly.  One girl we adopted, also 10, had developed bone cancer; she was with us for almost two months and had just started feeling happy and excited when her humans came home when things came to a head.  Johnson had developed seizures, and Athena was 9 when her owner became tired of her.

Our times with our dogs are short, but that's just a reason to treasure every moment.  I think that lesson has helped us with our kids, who we adopted in our late 40s; there are often times when I have to grit my teeth and tell myself "treasure this moment!" 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« on: April 21, 2013, 09:57 AM »

The morning after...



Greyhounds are always happy to pose in a sleeping position for you.  Laziest dogs I have known.  Except for the sprint to the food bowls and then to the soft comfy places. 

Top to bottom these are Johnson (7), Athena (10) and Finch (14).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Is there a way to not capture title bars while capturing windows?

« on: April 21, 2013, 09:03 AM »

Of course you could use Grab Selected Region and select the window minus the title bar.  That's my standard capture method, I modified the key assignment to associate that with plain old Print Screen (no shifts or ctls or alts).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Minimal key-state OSD "Caps Scroll Num"

« on: April 06, 2013, 10:48 PM »

HP has a couple that might do.  Turns out I have an HP computer but maybe they'll work on other hardware too.

The older one (sp45986, here) puts up three icons (sorry, not user-selectable) above the tray to show num, caps and scroll lock status.  The newer one (sp57445, here) adds icons for battery status of your wireless keyboard and mouse.  Neither is particularly configurable.

The older one takes up less screen space but isn't movable, and it uses a bit more memory that the newer one.  I suppose I should look at the software that came with my Logitech wireless mouse & keyboard to see what they supply.  Except for the battery status, all of this type of app ought to be checking the same place to find the status.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Copy one particular file into every folder in a subdirectory

« on: April 05, 2013, 06:32 PM »

Oh my, let's do it even easier.  Open a command prompt in the top folder and try:

           for /r %I in (.) do copy c:\folder\source.txt %I\target.txt

If you run it from a batch file you'd need to double the % marks.  Or if you don't want to navigate to the top folder for your command prompt, just enter its path after the /r and before the %I.

Edit: looking back at the original post, you could open a command prompt on your desktop (very easy with ContextConsole shell extension by the way) and enter the command as:

          for /r c:\1 %I in (.) do copy file.txt %I\file.txt