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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?


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.

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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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

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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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...

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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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.

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

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



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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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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?

Have you tried to go to the site of the software to ask for support?
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It's early enough that I think I might try to attend this year... at last.  :Thmbsup:
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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...

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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.

My experiences with OAuth.



In other words, I agree.  Totally.
1169
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.

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

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. 

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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