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Living Room / Re: Looking for "Smart"watch Recommendations
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2019, 07:16 PM »
Just a couple of notes on the BIP:

  • For the basic stuff nothing other than the supplied app is required, (Mi Fit), so it's fine for Notifications, Step Counter, Heart Rate, Sleep Analysis, etc, etc.
  • The BIP2 is soon to be available, (was available for pre-order for a short time) - 5ATM Water Resistance, slightly narrower, loses the Barometric sensor, albeit at a higher price - but it may prompt sales on the BIP1.

I think Apple has the best Smart Watch.
-Sean123 (March 06, 2019, 06:04 PM)

I'm looking for a smartwatch that won't murder my bank, has good battery life, and that will let me view my [Android] phone's notifications without having to take it out of my pocket.
-nite_monkey (March 06, 2019, 10:52 AM)

0 out of 3 ain't that bad ... I guess.
-4wd (March 06, 2019, 06:19 PM)

 ;D :Thmbsup:
1127
Living Room / Re: How to calculate the area of a graph?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2019, 03:57 PM »
http://www.mathwords...ea_under_a_curve.htm
-wraith808 (March 06, 2019, 10:14 AM)

Bearing in mind it's been 40+ years since I had to stare cross-eyed at this stuff I would have thought that since the graph was seemingly created using sampled data rather than a formula that you would have had to use the age old method of slicing and dicing the area into trapezoids, calculating their area, and then adding them together?

Or given the data you could probably just stick it into Excel and have it do it.
-4wd (March 06, 2019, 03:42 PM)

That's a possible way of doing it- that way just requires geometry and basic math, not calculus.  The equation given there is just the easier way to calculate it from the formula of the graph.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for "Smart"watch Recommendations
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2019, 02:48 PM »
I currently have a Garmin Vivoactive 1st Generation and have had it since it hit the market.  It's a great watch and interfaces well with my s9.  That said, it's about 5 years old.  I constantly research other models, as I'm ready to upgrade.  I looked at the Fenix, but it's a bit pricier (unless I go with the older Fenix 3, which I almost did).  I also looked at the Samsung Galaxy Watch, and Garmin Instinct.  I've almost pulled the trigger on the Amazfit Stratos a few times.  The only thing that I've determined so far is that I'm more confused after looking than I was before.

My requirements for my watch would be

(a) running, cycling, and swimming
(b) daily fitness tracking
(c) 2 weeks+ battery life (would tolerate less with GPS)
(d) GPS
(e) Pair with android
(f) not incredibly oversized
(g) durable

My current watch has all of these, though I've noticed with age that the battery (using GPS daily for about 30-45 mins) is about 4 days, so that's the primary reason that I've started to look.

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Living Room / Re: How to calculate the area of a graph?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 06, 2019, 10:14 AM »
http://www.mathwords...ea_under_a_curve.htm
1130
General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2019, 06:58 PM »
Plumbing and Electricity are two areas that I personally won't touch.  Good luck!
1131
General Software Discussion / Re: Slow Windows load even with SSD
« Last post by wraith808 on March 05, 2019, 08:30 AM »
(cleaned up and locked thread.  OP left unbanned for now)
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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 04, 2019, 09:35 AM »
I'm a Web Designer in an online company somewhere in New Jersey. :)
-Sean123 (March 04, 2019, 02:32 AM)

Welcome!
1133
Post New Requests Here / Re: Does any folder in tree have more than one file in it?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 01, 2019, 06:52 AM »
I meant that the code that poshgui generates looks like just the freehand code.  you can move things around the xaml canvas also, and it generates the same sort of code.  I just find that I have more fine control doing it myself.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Does any folder in tree have more than one file in it?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2019, 11:20 PM »
Wow... I write all my forms freehand- I never realized that you could do the same in PowerShell.  I might be writing more scripting than ever now.
1135
Living Room / Re: Apologies, confessions and a bit of a rant
« Last post by wraith808 on February 28, 2019, 11:51 AM »
This isn't the life you deal with day to day.  Look at this as an escape, and visit as you have a chance.  I hope things get better- I know how work can affect all of the other areas of your life.  :) :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2019, 09:38 PM »
So I decided to dive in again, and have experienced a couple of oddities.  One of my sites doesn't work in brave where it works fine in chrome.  It's a web app, and when I click things, they just refresh the page instead of the control working.  And I can't get the behavior to have middle-clicks close tabs.  It works in Vivaldi and Chrome.  It does seem speedier, but not sure that I'm going to be able to use it if these small things add up.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2019, 04:08 PM »
All of the chrome extensions work on it now?  When last I checked, I wasn't able to use some of them, which is why I dropped it.
1138
General Software Discussion / Re: Switching.social
« Last post by wraith808 on February 27, 2019, 04:03 PM »
https://mastodon.at/...ags/alternativesatoz

A series of toots by switching.social about different FOSS alternatives.

I currently have experience with writeFreely (excellent alternative for writing and having it federate or just using as a lightweight blog), PixelFed (Instagram alternative), Pinafore (alternative interface for Mastodon), PeerTube (alternative to Youtube), Friendica/Diaspora*/HubZilla (alternative social networks- I also use HubZilla for my RSS reader), open.audio (alternative to Soundcloud), and Cryptpad (alternative to Google Docs, operates similarly to f0dder's fSekrit but the pads are sharable). 

I don't go all in on the FOSS nor the privacy bit, but I use these because they are nice.  And the fact that you can own what you use in a different way than normal software has become appealing to me.  I don't have my own instances for all of these (in fact, right now I only have my own instance for Friendica and HubZilla), but the fact that I can do that with most of these is a really compelling idea.
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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Calculor - A Live, Handy, Dandy, Inline Calculator
« Last post by wraith808 on February 19, 2019, 01:31 PM »
Who uses log anyway?
-BGM (December 25, 2016, 10:36 PM)
Yule find out one day...    ;)
-cranioscopical (February 16, 2019, 09:19 AM)
...and you'll get fired up!
-Shades (February 17, 2019, 08:41 AM)
You guys can stick those puns somewhere.

-BGM (February 17, 2019, 09:22 AM)

And then it ends up to be a match...
-Shades (February 19, 2019, 08:20 AM)

Your bark is worse than your bite, truth be told.
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Automatic Screenshotter / Re: How to capture a transient window?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 17, 2019, 06:37 PM »
automatic screenshotter might help.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by wraith808 on February 17, 2019, 06:35 PM »
Nothing changed.  What now?
-berkland (February 12, 2019, 09:29 AM)

Open up one of those URL files with a text editor and see if an "IconFile=<some path here>" line is there.  If so, this might be a refresh issue with Windows Explorer.
-skwire (February 12, 2019, 01:41 PM)

skwire, not sure how to open up URL files with a text editor, but I may have gotten what you need.  Attached preferences.txt file is TXT file of URL file that had the proper icon.  Attached measuredup.txt file is TXT file of URL file that did NOT have the proper icon.  Neither file has an "IconFile=<some path here>" line.  Is this what you need???

[ Invalid Attachment ]     [ Invalid Attachment ]
-berkland (February 17, 2019, 05:58 PM)

If it's just a text file, then you can actually just quote the text in a post.  But I modified your post to remove the attachthumb markup so that they would show.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 17, 2019, 09:38 AM »
I'd only think that MOT would work because of the fact that the changes wouldnt necessarily be in even batches of 10
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2019, 11:15 PM »
I thought about the balloon tip, but it would generate it for each change, which would be annoying IMO.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2019, 05:33 PM »
https://docs.microso...ws-commands/robocopy

Specifically:

/xo   Excludes older files.

Add that to the given command line and it should only copy new files.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2019, 01:17 PM »
You could actually do a combination of the two; use robocopy for the command in the powershell script to only copy the file that changed.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2019, 08:57 PM »
When I put an answer up in powershell, 4wd switches to robocopy  ;D :Thmbsup:
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2019, 07:01 AM »
As I said, I'm working on a more robust solution, but have been a bit busy at work.  Not sure if someone else is interested in making another solution.

There are also a number of synchronize applications that either run on a schedule or are resident.  FreeFileSync is one that is free.  Syncovery is one that I can personally recommend.   There are also programs that can monitor folders for changes, and those do the same as the PowerShell script, and some can launch other items, just like the PowerShell script.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter
« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2019, 09:19 PM »
Any updates?
-wetsmellydog (February 11, 2019, 06:54 PM)


Sorry, things have been really busy at work, so I haven't been able to work on it like I wanted to.  I have the baseline working but haven't had a chance to get it tuned in the way that I'd want it.  Things should hopefully calm down a bit within the next week or so, and I should be able to get back to it.
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Coding Snacks / Re: Automatically adding custom-folder music to iTunes 12.x +
« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2019, 11:03 AM »
I was actually working on something that would work for this, but life got in the way of finishing it.  Hopefully soon.  But there are a few alternatives out there to watch directories and then do things based on the directory changing.  An easy alternative is also PowerShell.  I have the following script running as my first step to creating that program.

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. ### 1. Setup folder to watch (it's currently set to the default download directory with my username commented out)
  2. ### 2. Should it watch subdirectories?  I have it set to false since my process copies to the subdirectories
  3. ### 3. Set file filters- I have it set to all files
  4.  
  5.     $dirWatcher = New-Object System.IO.FileSystemWatcher
  6.     $dirWatcher.Path = "C:\Users\<username>\Downloads"
  7.     $dirWatcher.Filter = "*.*"
  8.     $dirWatcher.IncludeSubdirectories = $false
  9.     $dirWatcher.EnableRaisingEvents = $true  
  10.  
  11. ### 4. Define your action for when an event is raised.
  12. ###    This is currently a multi-part action, logging it, then running my cleanup program
  13.  
  14.     $watcherAction =    {
  15.                             $path = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
  16.                             $changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
  17.                             $logEntry = "$(Get-Date), $changeType, $path"
  18.                             Add-content "C:\Users\<username>\Downloads\DirSweeper\log.txt" -value $logEntry
  19.  
  20.                                             [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("C:\Users\<username>\Downloads\DirSweeper\DirSweeper.exe")
  21.                         }
  22.  
  23. ### Decide which events to watch (I only watch for files being created)
  24.  
  25.     Register-ObjectEvent $dirWatcher "Created" -Action $watcherAction
  26. ###    Register-ObjectEvent $dirWatcher "Changed" -Action $watcherAction
  27. ###    Register-ObjectEvent $dirWatcher "Deleted" -Action $watcherAction
  28. ###    Register-ObjectEvent $dirWatcher "Renamed" -Action $watcherAction
  29.     while ($true) {Start-Sleep 5}

Just kill the window when you want to stop it.  That command I have in there to my other program can be anything that you want to script to do the copying.  Thanks to 4wd for getting me back into PowerShell scripting.

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Living Room / Re: Apologies, confessions and a bit of a rant
« Last post by wraith808 on February 10, 2019, 03:41 PM »
If anyone has a mechanism for dealing with bullying that doesn’t require a properly functioning HR department, I’d love to hear about it.
-oblivion (February 10, 2019, 02:49 PM)

A lot would depend on how large the company is, and how much you're invested in staying there.  If you have a letter from the HR department talking about the incident and their poor handling of it, you can burn the whole place down pretty effectively.  I'd suggest keeping a log of everything involved and every occurrence, no matter how small, so that if it does end up coming back against you, you'll have proof of everything from your side.  It's a pain, but it works.  Also, your director of HR reports to someone else.  If you can loop them in, that might be a way to circumvent them and get things done.  Of course, all of this is contingent on being willing to leave if it comes to that.

Not a great situation, and sorry that you've had to deal with it.  I hope it works out for the best for you in the end.
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