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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: FreeFileSync - automated backup - Mini-Review (updated 2012-04-30)

« Last post by kalos on May 01, 2012, 06:12 AM »

this program needs radical GUI redesigning :/

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« Last post by kalos on May 01, 2012, 06:04 AM »

this looks interesting, but I would like it to be able to:

- indicate when to send the email
- easily import batch emails to be send at specific dates
eg, import an excel (or TAB seperated text file, preferably) where the first column is the recipient, second column the subject (can be empty), third column email body (can be empty), fourth column date to be sent
- how it will work when the pc is closed, but I will need to get that email notification in my email box? I have a server running 24x7, maybe this can offer a solution? or maybe intergrate NoteMe with some third-party web service, Google Calendar, or something?
- how can I be 100% sure that I get that email? in case my emal box is unreachable due to any factor, I need the email to be sent at some intervals, until it is successfuly delived, or even check that I actually read it too, in general safety that the reminder email will be actually sent, should be ensured 100% with multiple safety mechanisms

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: antivirus' negative impact on read/write/copy etc file speed

« Last post by kalos on April 30, 2012, 01:07 PM »

Would running files sandboxed have any less impact on file access times?

-Carol Haynes (April 30, 2012, 02:47 AM)

if you really ask me, I can't tell, I have no idea how sandbox works

-kalos (April 30, 2012, 04:45 AM)

To sandbox it it has to create a sandbox environment for the file before running it and then revert everything back after it has finished. I would have thought most AV apps could do a virus check more quickly.

-Carol Haynes (April 30, 2012, 11:27 AM)

surely more quickly, but also more resources efficiently?

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General Software Discussion / Re: add network printer

« Last post by kalos on April 30, 2012, 04:58 AM »

excellent thanks!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: antivirus' negative impact on read/write/copy etc file speed

« Last post by kalos on April 30, 2012, 04:45 AM »

Would running files sandboxed have any less impact on file access times?

-Carol Haynes (April 30, 2012, 02:47 AM)

if you really ask me, I can't tell, I have no idea how sandbox works

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General Software Discussion / Re: free antivirus

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 05:20 PM »

but you can still accidentally click RUN to that popup in your web browser that offers to download a virus...

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General Software Discussion / Re: free antivirus

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 05:12 PM »

Still no resident AV here. When I download something, I scan it with ClamAV or just use the VirusTotal Uploader (usually someone other have already checked it, so the results are instantaneous). If I am very suspicious of some executable, first I run it under Sandboxie and try to figure out if it's doing something fishy.
So far so good.

-Mark0 (April 28, 2012, 05:27 PM)

I have gone for years without AV too. But I dread to think that one day, a new threat may compromise my system beyond repair. Better safe than sorry. Or you think one can still go on without AV?

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General Software Discussion / Re: research tool

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 04:33 PM »

so far, from my research and tests, MyInfo seems to do the job nicely

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General Software Discussion / antivirus' negative impact on read/write/copy etc file speed

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 03:28 PM »

hello

I notice that running an antivirus, has a noticably negative impact on read/write/copy etc file speed
if this is true, I suppose it is because before accessing a file, it is firstly read and scanned by the antivirus, which causes a delay

to overcome this problem, I wonder if we can run every new file sandboxed by default, so that we wont have any delay (afaik, to be honest I 've never used sandbox) and afterwards, antivirus may scan the file, or afterwards, if antivirus will not detect malicious behaviour, the file to be removed from sandbox

this way, the whole system will be more secure (since malicious file detect wont lay only to heuristics analysis, but also its real behaviour will be examined), and moreover, the whole system will be more responsive and there will be no negative impact to its performance

your opinion?

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: research tool

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 12:06 PM »

TreeProjects and WebResearch seems to be about the same apps, how are such programs called? I want to search for other alternatives, in case I find something that fits me better

EDIT: I also found programs called outliners, that seem alot like what I need, any opinion?

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General Software Discussion / Re: research tool

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 11:07 AM »

mmm

it seems interesting, but the first obstacle I encountered, is that I cannot import the subjects easily, I have to do it one by one (20++)

:/

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General Software Discussion / research tool

« Last post by kalos on April 29, 2012, 08:54 AM »

hello!

I want to research (gather information) on 20 subjects/questions. That means that for each subject/question, I will copy text from various sources, extract pdf pages, crop parts of pdf pages, copy images, tables, etc from the web, MS Office documents, etc, and put all of them together, so I will process them later, to produce a report/response to the subject/question.

Is there a software that can help me manage the research of those 20 subjects?

Maybe MS Word can do this, but:
- I want to easily go through the info I gathered for each subject, and not do endless scrolling (unless MS Word can create an outline or something, so when I click on a specific subject, to display the gathered material on that subject)
- I want to easily add material of various formats, pdf, images, tables, text, without any problem (eg without pdf text's format to break, etc)

any suggestion?

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: free antivirus

« Last post by kalos on April 28, 2012, 01:24 PM »

I think I will go for a free solution with VIPRE engine/signatures, before moving to paid solution
I read all the time that it's superior
so far, I only found UnThreat that uses it, any others?

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General Software Discussion / free antivirus

« Last post by kalos on April 28, 2012, 08:35 AM »

hello!

I am looking for a free antivirus solution

Microsoft Security Essentials seems the best solution, we have it at work with no problems at all, but at home, I run WinXP 64 and it is not supported

instead, I run Avira freeware, but lately it spams so much with ads, that I want to uninstall it

any alternative? lightweight in performance is my main criterion, and reliable ofcourse

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: BitDefender

« Last post by kalos on April 28, 2012, 08:25 AM »

:/

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 26, 2012, 12:22 PM »

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It is the wordlist, a textfile

-kalos (April 26, 2012, 11:10 AM)

But why is there a hierarchy in the word file? Isn't it 1 entry per line? Are they indented with a tab or 4 spaces or something? What's the logic there for how it applies to the PDFs? Or is the 1.1, 1.2 stuff irrelevant?

-Renegade (April 26, 2012, 11:26 AM)

there is some hierarchy and some categorization, but I thought that, for begining, a simple wordlist would be suffice, and afterwards I would add the hierarchy and categories, etc

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 26, 2012, 11:10 AM »

1) chemical1
  1.1) chemical2
  1.2) chemical3
  1.3) chemical4
2) chemical5
3) chemical6

-kalos (April 26, 2012, 10:24 AM)

Where does that information come from?

-Renegade (April 26, 2012, 10:30 AM)

It is the wordlist, a textfile

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 26, 2012, 10:24 AM »

much appreciated, thanks!

-kalos (April 26, 2012, 05:33 AM)

So is that what in part what you're looking for?

-Renegade (April 26, 2012, 07:06 AM)

this is a part of the whole procedure

Now, I think I am looking for a filetype or some kind of program that will be able to display the below info. I imagine it as a table, but it can be anything.
- it will display an index/list of entries/fields:
1) chemical1
  1.1) chemical2
  1.2) chemical3
  1.3) chemical4
2) chemical5
3) chemical6
etc
- each entry/field will have a specific title (eg chemical1) and "inside" it, a specific file can be stored (pdf, txt, jpg, png files)
- if a field/entry of the index/list (eg. 1.3) has not any file stored, it will be marked as red, which will indicate that it's empty, otherwise, it will be marked as green, which means that it has a file stored in it
- all the files above, will be able to be extracted in a folder and subfolders, according to the list/index

I dont know if EXCEL can do this, I bet AHK can do this, if it is easy, I will try, but is there a ready solution ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 26, 2012, 05:33 AM »

much appreciated, thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 25, 2012, 12:53 PM »

as for the pdfs, an example is this:
http://www.purolite....n%20Chem%20Specs.pdf
(renamed as Hydrochloric Muriatic Acid.pdf)

-kalos (April 25, 2012, 02:12 AM)

Does that mean there are more then 1 chemical components described in 1 pdf file, or is this the kind of resulting pdf you want to have output eventually?

And how are the chemical components in the 'word list' separated from each other, by comma's or each on a new line? Or just try to find a word as a pdf, if not there, add the next word and retry, etc.?

-Ath (April 25, 2012, 02:30 AM)

each pdf describes one chemical
each word of a wordlist is one chemical
each chemical corresponds to one pdf
each wordlist is a bunch of different chemicals

chemicals in the wordlist are seperated by newlines

I can say it is easy to write a script that will gather the pdfs in a folder, that their filenames are mentioned in a wordlist, one seperated by newline from the other (and ofcourse without the file extension .pdf been written in the list)

but, after creating many folders with pdfs, where each folder will gather the pdfs of one wordlist, I need a way to know if a folder contains all the necessary pdfs mentioned in the wordlist, or if a pdf is missing (due to the fact that a word in the wordlist doesnt have a matching pdf)

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 25, 2012, 02:12 AM »

You mean to use EXCEL files?
That sounds good., and are there any kind of files similar? That can store blobs., etc

-kalos (April 24, 2012, 05:49 PM)

Excel doesn't use data types like that, so you can't store a blob in it. Blobs are for RDBMSes.

Can you post a PDF?

-Renegade (April 24, 2012, 08:26 PM)

but, cant EXCEL store a pdf or any other type, file in a cell?
if not, which specific RDBM would you suggest? (for a veeery simple task as this, that doesnt require to learn much)

as for the pdfs, an example is this:
http://www.purolite....n%20Chem%20Specs.pdf
(renamed as Hydrochloric Muriatic Acid.pdf)

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 24, 2012, 05:49 PM »

You mean to use EXCEL files?
That sounds good., and are there any kind of files similar? That can store blobs., etc

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 24, 2012, 04:03 PM »

Are your PDFs named according to the chemical itself, i.e. the same name as in the word list?

-rjbull (April 24, 2012, 03:04 PM)

yes

You can (usually) concatenate PDFs from the command line using pdftk.  So if your PDFs are named as in your word list, you could use the word list to build a batch file to concatenate them.

-rjbull (April 24, 2012, 03:04 PM)

I do not want to combine the pdfs and make one pdf
I want to somehow attach them with the word list :/

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 24, 2012, 01:40 PM »

any suggestion???

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General Software Discussion / automate database building

« Last post by kalos on April 23, 2012, 11:14 AM »

hello!

I have a word list (different each time), where each of the words (or lines, if you prefer) is the name of a chemical substance
I have a huge folder of pdf files of the specifications of every substance

what I do is to gather all those specific pdfs of the specific substances in the list, to make bunch of pdf files that corresponds to every substance of the specific wordlist

but I need to automate that process, so can you suggest me please:

1) how can automatically bind the wordlist with the according pdf files
2) how can I create a single file (not sure what kind of file) that will contain all these relative files (compression files, rar, zip, etc would not be convenient, because they will require time to open)
3) how can I check at each point, if a specific project (eg the gathering of the pdfs of a wordlist) is incomplete and which exactly files are missing (so to add them manually)

can you suggest me an idea, a procedure, an excel file to build, and ahk script to build, a program, anything!

thanks!