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General Software Discussion / Re: let's gather all possible cmd and batch tools

« on: May 30, 2012, 03:24 PM »

There's not enough room in this forum for all the batch and cmd tools    I have a folder of about 800 files that I copy into the path of any new computer I get (or my servers at work) just so they'll be available, no installation needed.  Most of them are "batchable", including ports of the gnu utilities plus a bunch of other items I've found, looked for, or evaluated.

Of course the real gem on the Kilowatt site is Rexx (although I prefer the Regina port, http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/) which I use for any scripting I need to do.  (Any other old mainframers out there?  If you miss the ISPF editor be sure to look at SPFLite...)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download

« on: May 29, 2012, 07:14 PM »

My standard advise top anyone with Norton or MacAfee stuff on their machine...

-Carol Haynes (May 29, 2012, 07:10 PM)

+1 to everything you said! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download

« on: May 29, 2012, 07:09 PM »

Check out CryptoTE at https://idlebox.net/2009/cryptote/

-PhilB66 (May 01, 2012, 07:31 AM)

Incidentally, if you like CryptoTE's encryption and fast Scintilla editing, but you think it may be a wee bit short on fancy editing features, be sure to add in Dolphin Text Editor Menu... then just select some text and hit ctrl-numpad-0 to do the fancy stuff.  I liked Dolphin enough to contribute so I could use it at work.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download

« on: May 29, 2012, 06:42 PM »

The emboldened bit seemed a pretty big claim...

-IainB (May 29, 2012, 04:42 PM)

Scintilla is the bomb, it seems to be the innards of a lot of the best text editors these days.  They all have a slightly different flavor (I am preferrring Notepad2 these days over SciTE, for example, and even over my licensed copy of Ultraedit) but they all tend to be blinding fast and can handle huge files (hundreds of MB) extremely well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a better way to list existing software

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:27 PM »

Can you use your restore-to-factory-default to go back to whatever the base image was, and try the upgrade from there?  That would take care of the Toshiba utilities.  You'd still have to reinstall everything else...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: scrolling window - how2 get single captures instead of a merged superimage

« on: May 26, 2012, 03:49 PM »

If I don't want this automatically combining of the parts to a big picture, I can use single shots.

-ralfs (May 26, 2012, 02:59 AM)

Same here, I use a scrolling capture if I want Mouser to merge the pictures for me, and if not then I take my own separate snaps of the different parts.  This can be useful for writing documentation, where an "auto scrolled" separate snapshot might not be scrolled to a logical screen break.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Aero (transparent window borders, etc.) is dead.. Good riddance

« on: May 22, 2012, 04:33 PM »

(...Second only to hiding file extensions by default).

-Stoic Joker (May 22, 2012, 11:43 AM)

AMEN BROTHER!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: EXCEL - ACCESS hybrid without limitations

« on: May 22, 2012, 12:47 PM »

The current MS SQL Server Express has a 10gb per database limit.

As Shades suggests, free and open source alternatives abound.  PostgreSQL, Firebird, SQLite, MySQL are just a few.  They have different strengths and weaknesses but are very capable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EXCEL - ACCESS hybrid without limitations

« on: May 22, 2012, 04:50 AM »

As info, Excel 2007 allows a million rows and 16k columns.  But everything is going to have some limits.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: php? program on webhost needed

« on: May 21, 2012, 09:43 PM »

You could look at <ahem> FART (that's Find And Replace Text).

Or, similarly, GSAR (General Search And Replace) would do it.

I have used both in several batch processes.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinOne for $US4.95 (regular $US15.00 )

« on: May 21, 2012, 06:44 PM »

But even better, watch this cool video about batch file debugging with Take Command (which also has a 30 day trial, but a $100 purchase price).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinOne for $US4.95 (regular $US15.00 )

« on: May 21, 2012, 06:35 PM »

Yes, the features list seems to include a lot of built-in stuff.  And a lot of features harken back to Windows 3.1/NT 3.5... weren't those the last editions of Program Manager?

Smart insertion of program files into Program Manager groups, by using the GROUP command.
Easy access to the configuration files, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS and all .INI files. Use the System Edit... option in the system menu.
Fast access to Program Manager or Explorer programs. Use the Programs option in the system menu to run these programs.
WinOne® can be set as the default start up shell, replacing the Program Manager.

You could always try this batch file debugger free for 30 days... but it's a whopping $80 to buy.  Let me know what it's like if you do...

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Living Room / Re: Request for help - potential website security issue

« on: May 21, 2012, 06:17 PM »

Well, if you can disable your user's site account, then that shouldn't interrupt access from what the user said, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: generate a text report of all the subfolders and files of a directory

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:44 PM »

Tree.com should be in the windows\system32 folder of your system drive.  Can you try doing the command this way?  Navigate to a folder, then type in:

   %windir%\system32\tree.com /f

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General Software Discussion / Re: generate a text report of all the subfolders and files of a directory

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:34 PM »

Hmm, I know it was in XP, and I tried it on my Win 7 64-bit box before I posted.  Maybe it's in the support tools package, or resource kit?  (No, I just checked both of those.)

The program draws a very plain tree of folders (and optionally filenames) to standard output, which you can redirect to a file.  If you add the /a switch it uses normal ASCII characters for the tree part, like this:

+---.idlerc
+---7ff2f154e9b0e698b1391e81c8b4cd58
+---88dfc9e137283755534b27faa983ae76
+---Identities
|   +---{3C5BEFD7-288D-4C10-A534-8FEB19793A1A}
|   \---{A67B7115-600B-448C-AA0F-7E6FFF1A467E}
+---nb-75-files
|       itg-nb75-backup_exit_notify.cmd
|       itg-nb75-nbmail.cmd
|       itg-old-backup_exit_notify.cmd
|       itg-old-nbmail.cmd
|       nb75-original-backup_exit_notify.cmd
|       nb75-original-nbmail.cmd
|
+---Program Files
|   \---Common Files
|       \---Microsoft Shared
|           \---DW
|               |   DW20.EXE
|               |   DWDCW20.DLL
|               |   DWTRIG20.EXE
|               |
|               +---1025
|               |       DWINTL20.DLL
|               |
|               +---1028
|               |       DWINTL20.DLL

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General Software Discussion / Re: generate a text report of all the subfolders and files of a directory

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:12 PM »

Just curious, is "tree /f" at a command prompt not sufficient?

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General Software Discussion / Re: powerful undo

« on: May 18, 2012, 02:10 PM »

also, undoing closing of windows, applications, or whatever else could be useful, would be nice too

-kalos (May 15, 2012, 02:40 PM)

ReOpen may do part of what you want, it will let you re-open folders or programs that you have recently used.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Software that would record the Activity in a PC !

« on: May 16, 2012, 07:53 PM »

Consider System Explorer for some help.  Just go in the options and set the history to record to a file, it saves a time stamped text file with events, program start and end, network connection (tcp) start and end.  I have used this many times to troubleshoot what is happening on a workstation or server.  http://www.systemexplorer.net

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General Software Discussion / Re: FORTRAN - All your problems will be solved.

« on: May 15, 2012, 05:15 AM »

Boy, those were the days.  Punch cards, punched tape, K&E slide rules and $400 HP-35 calculators!

-dspelley (May 14, 2012, 09:10 PM)

I asked my daughter's third grade math teacher when they would be teaching about slide rules, and she said "slide what?" 

The next year I asked her new fourth grade teacher, and he said "I would have to learn it first!" 

I had a decent simulator from http://www.sliderule.demon.co.uk/ but it appears it doesn't like 64-bit Win 7... hmm, have to find some other way to torture my daughter's brain 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: AppendDate

« on: May 12, 2012, 10:47 AM »

Useful - thanks!

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Listary Pro - good value at full price, 50% discount on BDJ today - 17 Dec 2011

« on: May 12, 2012, 06:26 AM »

The upgrade policy is not changed. You'll always get lifetime upgrade for free.

-Channing (May 11, 2012, 09:17 PM)

That's good news!  In the meantime I keep suggesting people try it out, only took me about an hour before I went for the Pro license. 

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Listary Pro - good value at full price, 50% discount on BDJ today - 17 Dec 2011

« on: May 10, 2012, 08:25 AM »

I have a license too, and although I assumed that the upgrade policy was the same as the "if you purchase now" deal, darned if I can find anything about it on their web site...  anyone know what the policy was moving from version 2 to 3  (I wasn't around back then)?  Given the "and all future version" wording in this deal, I'd be pretty disappointed if current licensees get charged...

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Listary Pro - good value at full price, 50% discount on BDJ today - 17 Dec 2011

« on: May 10, 2012, 05:09 AM »

And again today, 2012-05-09.

Channing added some teasing comments about the forthcoming - it's not here yet  Listary 4:

Channing Dai
[...]
Listary 4 is almost finished and you can upgrade to it (and all future versions) for free if you purchase now.

-rjbull (May 09, 2012, 06:04 AM)

wondering what their upgrade pricing will be with version 4. (I know it's a steal anyway...)

-tomos (May 10, 2012, 05:06 AM)

From the Policy section: "Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for the lifetime of the product."

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Living Room / Re: SuperMoon Pictures - Post Them Here :)

« on: May 05, 2012, 01:35 PM »

Oh- phew!  I thought this was another thread about Google Street View...

Hiberno-mooner stalks Google Street View
Ireland gives Google traditional pogue mahone greeting

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: scanning sofware

« on: May 03, 2012, 01:48 PM »

awesome stuff