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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on September 01, 2017, 08:54 PM »

Was that device made by SanDisk, by any chance? Because I have several of these with varying capacities that work fine, except for turning them into a boot-able device. And that while using the exact same creation software and/or iso file with a different brand of pen drive results in a boot-able device 100% of the time.

-Shades (September 01, 2017, 12:15 PM)

This is true, SanDisk chose to have the flash drives identify themselves as Local Drive instead of Removable Drive for a few years - caused a lot of trouble, only need to have a look across their forums and elsewhere.

That being said, the flash drive I was using above was a 3-4 years old SanDisk Cruzer Switch 4GB and it was working fine.

Case in point:


Two 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Switches, bottom identifies as a Local Disk, top identifies as a USB Drive.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by 4wd on August 30, 2017, 09:07 PM »

While I was hurtling around Ukraine recently had a bit of fun with sending my realtime location to a couple of friends using Glimpse.

Glympse is a fast, free and simple way to share your real-time location using GPS tracking, with any of your family, friends or co-workers!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on August 30, 2017, 08:56 PM »

It'll be the weekend sometime so anyway a new phone: Moto G5+ (XT1685 APAC version) 4GB/32GB, NFC, Dual SIM and μSD, 4k UHD and Slo-mo video, etc.



Loses the compass and BeiDou GPS receiver that the Redmi Note 2 had but at least it's not a f'n MTK chipset.

Now to unlock the bootloader 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on August 30, 2017, 08:30 PM »

Alternatively:
Download FD12FULL.zip, extract FD12FULL.img, write it to a flash drive using Win32DiskImager, boot it, select the language, then answer No - Proceed to DOS on the next screen.
Either way you will need to modify it to do what you want.

-4wd

Its clearly evident from the screen shot tht u're using Freedos 1.0 n the one they r providing is 1.2.
So i believe they did change certain things.
I tried every method.
U should try with ver1.2.
 

-hulkbuster (August 30, 2017, 07:59 PM)

That is the archive for FreeDOS 1.2 is it not?

It boots to FreeDOS from that point you can modify it however you like.  It might be that it loads it all into RAM to run in which case you'll need to modify the image it's running from.  It might be that it runs from the flash drive mapping it as C:

The point is it runs, FreeDOS 1.2, from this point you need to work on it to get it to do what you want.

I have minimal interest in doing searches and combining bits from multiple websites, (something you're quite capable of doing), since there are easier ways to run DOS programs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on August 30, 2017, 07:07 AM »

Step 1) Download UNetbootin, run it, select FreeDOS from drop-down menu, select USB drive, click OK.

-4wd (August 28, 2017, 12:00 AM)

Option 3, 4, and 5 on the install menu let you run it as a LiveCD - it will be *BASIC*, you will need to modify the image it to install any needed drivers (eg. CD, sound), etc.

-4wd (August 28, 2017, 07:52 PM)

Alternatively:

Download FD12FULL.zip, extract FD12FULL.img, write it to a flash drive using Win32DiskImager, boot it, select the language, then answer No - Proceed to DOS on the next screen.

Either way you will need to modify it to do what you want.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Open a folder with autohotkey assigning a hotkey combnation

« Last post by 4wd on August 29, 2017, 07:48 PM »

It'll be in the last place you look, so start there.

Thank you! Unfortunately it isn't there...

-highend01 (August 29, 2017, 05:19 PM)

Then it obviously wasn't the last place you look ...

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by 4wd on August 29, 2017, 07:45 PM »

I agree with most of what f0dder says... but I also was wondering if there are any that have easy integration with a synology NAS.

-kfitting (August 27, 2017, 05:53 AM)

IDrive has applications for Synology NAS' either for specific model or a universal version.  They have a free 5GB account so you can give it a try beforehand.

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Japan Unveils Green Train Faster Than Shinkansen

« Last post by 4wd on August 29, 2017, 07:37 PM »

Slightly relevant since @IainB un-necro'd the thread 

Elon Musk Just Shared Footage of a Hyperloop Accelerating to 200 Mph And Holy Crap

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on August 29, 2017, 07:27 PM »

Totality



How it was shot

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General Software Discussion / Re: Etcher - A simple way to "burn" disc images to SD cards and USB drives

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 08:55 PM »

Just tried Etcher x64 portable on my Win10Pro x64 laptop:

• Continually tried to access the net to report usage statistics until told not to.
• Tried to access the net anyway - no way to turn off.
• On running: "Couldn't scan the drives: An unknown error occured" - even though every other program could see them fine.  This might be because I didn't give it net access which it shouldn't need.
• When a bootable ISO was selected it told me it didn't appear to be bootable, (UNetbootin read/wrote it OK).
• Couldn't select a output device because there apparently wasn't one "No removable drive detected" - despite every other program seeing it.

Easier? No.
Simpler? No, there are easier ways to do nothing.

Think I'll stick with UNetbootin. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Separate Out STOCK Symbols From Large Text File

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 08:23 PM »

I was trying to end up with something along the lines of:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. (Get-Content -Path .\test.txt) -creplace "\b[^A-Z]+\b" " " | Set-Content -Path out.txt

Would have left spaces between the remaining terms to make output formatting easier ... wasn't getting the RegEx though.

That was the theory anyway 

Now I think about it I could have split the input easily:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. [regex]::Split((Get-Content -Path .\test.txt),'[\s,\.\(\)]') | %{ if($_ -cmatch('^[A-Z]+$')){Write-Host $_}}

Output is OK except for outputting SBA and SBAC and duplicated entries.

@skwire: How did you stop SBA being passed through since SBAC is the stock code, (considering codes occur both inside and outside of surrounding brackets)?

You must be checking for duplicated entries also since there are multiple occurrences of JD and QQQ.

Was something to blow a few cobwebs out of my head anyway 

Addendum:
Duplicates removed courtesy of http://www.secretgeek.net/ps_duplicates

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. $hash = @{};[regex]::Split((Get-Content -Path .\test.txt),'[\s,\.\(\)]') | %{if($_ -cmatch('^[A-Z]+$')){if($hash.$_ -eq $null) { $_ }; $hash.$_ = 1}} > .\output.txt

Output

FWONA
FB
OLED
AAPL
SBA
SBAC
ABMD
BAC
DNB
CHK
HAL
XOM
RIG
DAL
AAL
GM
F
QQQ
TVIX
VIX
ETN
CSCO
JD
MOMO
BRCD

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Coding Snacks / Re: Open a folder with autohotkey assigning a hotkey combnation

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 07:58 PM »

Btw, I came to this post to ask if someone can give me a hint how to find
the thesis I was working on (on real paper!). I've lost it somewhere.

-highend01 (August 28, 2017, 06:23 PM)

It'll be in the last place you look, so start there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 07:52 PM »

Did you boot it?

Option 3, 4, and 5 on the install menu let you run it as a LiveCD - it will be *BASIC*, you will need to modify the image it to install any needed drivers (eg. CD, sound), etc.

Otherwise:

• use UNetbootin, Rufus, etc to install the FreeDOS 1.2 CD ISO to a USB drive and boot that.
• install FreeDOS to a VM, the FD 1.2 USB install file includes a VM image.
• use DOSBoxPortable instead.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Separate Out STOCK Symbols From Large Text File

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 12:19 AM »

@skwire: What regex did you use, (if you did)?

I had a quick look at making a single line PoSh command but my brain wasn't up to the nuances of stopping it grabbing every uppercase letter.  regardless of what followed

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Living Room / Re: Decentralized Cloud Storage Services (Storj, Sia, etc.)

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 12:10 AM »

I recently learned about these services and decided to allocate some of my HDD space for a Storj farm to get an idea of how it works. So I get paid a few dollars worth of the Storj cryptocurrency each month for renting out some space on my HDD.

-Deozaan (August 26, 2017, 10:56 PM)

Damn, no ARM implementation ... there goes that use of the RasPi 

-4wd (August 27, 2017, 01:49 AM)

Check again:

https://docs.storj.i...re-on-a-raspberry-pi

But note that it needs 1+ GB of RAM. So it needs to be one of the later models of the RPi.

-Deozaan (August 27, 2017, 03:31 PM)

Got a RasPi 2B sitting here, I think it just found a job ... Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on August 28, 2017, 12:00 AM »

Can u write or explain to me or make a short tutorial on how to make a bootable FreeDOS on USB Device.

-hulkbuster (August 27, 2017, 05:54 AM)

Step 1) Download UNetbootin, run it, select FreeDOS from drop-down menu, select USB drive, click OK.



Short enough?

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Living Room / Re: Decentralized Cloud Storage Services (Storj, Sia, etc.)

« Last post by 4wd on August 27, 2017, 01:49 AM »

I recently learned about these services and decided to allocate some of my HDD space for a Storj farm to get an idea of how it works. So I get paid a few dollars worth of the Storj cryptocurrency each month for renting out some space on my HDD.

-Deozaan (August 26, 2017, 10:56 PM)

Damn, no ARM implementation ... there goes that use of the RasPi 

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General Software Discussion / Re: COFEE

« Last post by 4wd on August 27, 2017, 01:38 AM »

CAINE the web give me "The web is not redirecting well...."

-Contro (August 26, 2017, 02:52 PM)

That's your browser and/or extensions, it works fine here on Vivaldi, Edge, Chromium, Firefox, Waterfox, SlimJet, Dooble, and K-Meleon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: COFEE

« Last post by 4wd on August 25, 2017, 11:18 PM »

COFEE is discontinued
I have an old installer.

-Contro (August 25, 2017, 09:21 AM)

The only version available to non-enforcement personnel is the one leaked back in 2009, you can get it via WikiLeaks.

There are other options, eg. SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation and CAINE.

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by 4wd on August 24, 2017, 07:18 AM »

https://www.backblaz...ive-backup-solution/

-Jibz (August 24, 2017, 05:47 AM)

Re. BackBlaze, unless they've substantially changed the way the backup works then by default it does a backup of everything.

You have to deselect what you don't want it to backup ... and you can't deselect the OS drive, which in my case is the easiest to restore.  Having to deselect what you didn't want a backup of was an absolute PITA when you have more than one HDD.
Plus if the machine doesn't access the account at least once every 6 months the backup is removed ... that is just wrong considering you're still paying for the service.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on August 23, 2017, 09:53 PM »

TSA explains inconvenient airport security rules

-Arizona Hot (August 18, 2017, 10:06 PM)

Flyers at some US airports are already being asked to remove their laptops and tablets from their baggage for a separate trip through the scanners.

Aren't they a little slow with this?

It's been the case at airports in Australia, UK, EU since about 2005 when I started lugging a laptop overseas, always have to remove it from carry on and scan it separately.

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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by 4wd on August 23, 2017, 08:33 PM »

FWIW, iDrive is now doing 2TB and 5TB personal plans that allow you to HDD seed and HDD recover, another possible choice.

* Not recommending them one way or the other, do the research.

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Living Room / Re: Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service

« Last post by 4wd on August 23, 2017, 08:22 PM »

Oh, looky what I found:
List of Metasearch Engines

-Edvard (August 22, 2017, 11:37 PM)

Thanks, just started using search404 (last on the list), much better than Google, DDG, or StartPage with more options (easily accessible search parameters, eg. music, files, etc), ability to download results, show where results came from, etc.

Very nice so far, my new default in all the browsers.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Windscribe - Get 50GB free VPN bandwidth every month for life

« Last post by 4wd on August 20, 2017, 02:00 AM »

Windscribe 60GB per month deal is back, this time the code is: GOTD60GB

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General Software Discussion / Re: Edit this Autoexec.bat?

« Last post by 4wd on August 16, 2017, 09:44 PM »

Split it over multiple lines is one option:

Code: Text [Select]

1. @echo off
2. set PATH=.;\;\LOCALE;C:\rar330;C:\editv12;C:\FILEMAN\FILEMAN
3. set PATH=%PATH%;C:\FREEDOS\PSRINVAD;C:\freedos\dosedit\bin;
4. echo Using US-English keyboard with US-English codepage [437]

or

Code: Text [Select]

1. @echo off
2. set PATH=.;\;\LOCALE;C:\rar330;C:\editv12;C:\FILEMAN\FILEMAN;^
3. C:\FREEDOS\PSRINVAD;C:\freedos\dosedit\bin;
4. echo Using US-English keyboard with US-English codepage [437]

NOTE: Works fine for normal DOS but who knows for FreeDOS.