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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Is DC attacked again?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 09, 2019, 01:53 PM »
Hacking, DDOS etc is not confined to "big" sites, important sites and it has never been. It is about games and anybody with a tool showing off and trying to gain a reputation in the dark corners. My site, a very very minuscule part of the web with zero thing or data of interest, gets attacked by those trying to login ...is just one example to prove the point
-rgdot (February 08, 2019, 09:37 PM)

Same here.  One of the reasons I've minimized my use of WordPress now.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Is DC attacked again?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 07, 2019, 03:14 PM »
This is pretty criminal.
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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on February 05, 2019, 11:30 PM »
maybe I'm nitpicking, but if anyones adding to the list can they please add something more than just a name + link. 

In a lot of cases the name is a clue as to what the program does, but I'm probably not alone in being wary of clicking on an unqualified link to find out whats on the end of it

Not suggesting for a minute that anyone here would consciously do anything risky, but still...
-Target (February 05, 2019, 09:57 PM)

It's not even just the risk, but the time taken to even find out what something is.  A lot of it isn't self-evident, so I find myself skipping over things without a description.
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone
« Last post by wraith808 on February 02, 2019, 05:33 PM »
My wife and I just played this, and this is my report and review of the game (not of the program that generates games).

I printed just the instructions and the first game for each player, so we could both try it.
-david842 (February 02, 2019, 04:03 PM)

Did you look at the instructions for the game that it is based upon?  I think that he just included his alterations, so that might help.

https://czechgames.c...es-duet-rules-en.pdf
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2019, 11:02 AM »
Is your dollar bill worth thousands The bizarre trend for collecting cash with ‘interesting’ serial codes
-Arizona Hot (January 31, 2019, 01:24 AM)

I can't for the life of me figure out if that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, or my new hobby … Or both. :-\

Either way, I am definitely going to be checking it out this weekend. :D

-Stoic Joker (February 01, 2019, 07:57 AM)


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Living Room / Re: Refurbished or used internal hard disks 3½ 6TB-12TB
« Last post by wraith808 on January 31, 2019, 09:38 PM »
Refurbish doesn't necessarily mean repaired; it can mean something as simple as someone bought it and then returned it, they checked it and put it back out.  But I personally wouldn't take a chance.
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General Software Discussion / Re: [Splasm Software] Why can't I tab to the TYPE field?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 31, 2019, 09:36 PM »
When I am entering transactions, it will tab between each field EXCEPT the type field. I always have to go back and manually choose my selection. What am I doing wrong? I enter the date, hit tab and it skips the Type field and goes straight to the amount field--this really slows me down to go back to the type field each time. HELP! I have quite a few type options I made for myself so I need to change them constantly. I have it chosen as NONE in the box which is fine but will it not just tab to it at least so I don't need to backtrack on each entry?
-tutu11 (January 24, 2019, 01:55 AM)

Have you tried to go to the site of the software to ask for support?
1158
Living Room / Re: Gencon board (and video) game convention, Indiana Aug 2-5, 2018 - Ill be there
« Last post by wraith808 on January 30, 2019, 05:11 PM »
It's early enough that I think I might try to attend this year... at last.  :Thmbsup:
1159
Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2019, 09:36 AM »
I found a new band...

1160
Living Room / Re: Blades in the Dark
« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2019, 08:05 PM »
Yes, I've played it and several other Forged in the Dark type RPGs.  You can make it fit, but there are certain aspects that wouldn't carry over well to something that's programmed, IMO.  Though Darkest Dungeon has a bit different flair and background, it does remind me of Blades.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Switching.social
« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2019, 01:35 PM »
I saw a few alternatives to gmail that I was going to look into.  I'd heard of Nextcloud before, but not Cryptpad, so I'm going to look into that also.
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General Software Discussion / Switching.social
« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2019, 09:44 PM »
https://switching.social/ is a list of ethical(?), easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives.  I (?) ethical because that seems to be biased to the views of the site when that estimation should be in the eyes of the beholder.  But there are quite a few alternatives on there that seem to be worth looking into that I'd not heard of before.
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2019, 05:45 PM »
It wasn't the WOEID stuff that was a pain, it was the new OAuth requirements.  OAuth is a damn nightmare.
-skwire (January 20, 2019, 02:29 AM)

My experiences with OAuth.



In other words, I agree.  Totally.
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Android Apps / Re: android app keyboard
« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2019, 08:02 AM »
I use switftkey sometimes, but gbkard has actually become quite good.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator
« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2019, 09:02 AM »
oh, well, if there were word separations, such as spaces, that would be easy. thisisavariable would be quite difficult (more difficult than I am interested in, anyway!).  However, would anybody ever want to do that to a phrase?  I think Cytochrome wanted to do it to thisisavariable, and I can understand wanting to do that.  When people write variables in code, they never write them with spaces between.  I would actually find it easier to camelcase the vars as they come to me in my mind than to put spaces into them where they don't belong.
-BGM (January 15, 2019, 11:25 PM)

I was thinking about this, and you could convert between CamelCase, snake_case, and kebab-case pretty simply.  Just not the random all lower case words.  That could be a real use.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: gpa calculator
« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2019, 08:04 AM »
Isn't this going to depend on what country you're in, (and quite possibly state/region)?

eg. Scholaro GPA Calculator
-4wd (January 17, 2019, 05:23 AM)

And quite possibly school...  some use a 4.0 range, others a 5.0 range, and others different calculations.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android 6.0 tablet recent windows close all?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 16, 2019, 10:40 AM »
From his memory constraints, I'd think he'd want to terminate the app, else you wouldn't get back the resources.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator
« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2019, 11:23 PM »
I was thinking that the ask was to take a phrase and turn it into the appropriate case.  So if you had this is a variable it would be turned into this_is_a_variable or this-is-a-variable.  Nothing would be done to thisisavariable.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android 6.0 tablet recent windows close all?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2019, 09:07 PM »
The frustrating bit for me is the thing saves the list across boots. 
-MilesAhead (January 15, 2019, 03:44 PM)

That's actually one thing that I love.  I don't lose an app unless I explicitly close it.
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2019, 09:05 PM »
I think that 'free' is often misinterpreted, especially on the side of the receiver.  'Free' is never free, the costs are either absorbed by someone else, or are in a form that you don't immediately realize.  People thought that Facebook was free.  They were wrong.  They were buying the ability to use Facebook with their privacy.  In the same way, skwire offers these programs for free, but he absorbs the cost, whether he does it because he wants to or not, it takes his time and resources. 

I think if more people thought about things in that way, they might be more appreciative (and in some cases skeptical) of the people that provide free things.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter
« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2019, 09:01 PM »
@wraith808 Being the lazy type, everything goes into a download directory. I would like to sort the download directory and put the files where they should be according to what they are used for.
Hope this helps explain what I'm looking for.
-wetsmellydog (January 15, 2019, 12:32 PM)


I'm just going to do it so that you have the option, but to put it a better way; let's say that you specify your download directory, and say to move all to your 3d models directory, and specify the extension to look for as .DXF.  If there is a lone .DXF file in the directory (not in a zip) would you want it moved to that directory also?  Or only if it's in a zip file?  (And I should hopefully start on this tomorrow)
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android 6.0 tablet recent windows close all?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2019, 07:47 AM »
My tablet has android 6, but it is a Samsung Galaxy S2, so if what Ath says above is true, it could be jist because it's a Samsung device.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2019, 10:37 PM »
He didn't seem to mean the files being in the directory, which was why I was asking.
-wraith808 (January 14, 2019, 06:17 PM)

... scan for files with a specific extension in/out of a compressed folder ...
-wetsmellydog (January 12, 2019, 12:55 PM)

I took it to mean files within the directory and archives.
-4wd (January 14, 2019, 06:24 PM)

It could mean that.  But no harm checking.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2019, 06:17 PM »
When I say 'zip files' I mean supported archives, which would have to be an extension :)  He didn't seem to mean the files being in the directory, which was why I was asking.  I might add the ability to add the files in the directory to be scanned, but wanted to make sure that I covered his specific use case.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter
« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2019, 05:27 PM »
So, I think I could take this on, but just want to make sure of a couple of things.

First, a restatement of the problem:

Given a directory of files, you want to scan the zip files in that directory looking for files with a certain extension.  Given that a file with this extension is in the archive, you want to move the entire archive to a directory which you will specify.

Is that correct?
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