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General Software Discussion / Re: Dropbox alternative for those with FTP access

« Last post by ewemoa on June 30, 2012, 02:01 AM »

I haven't tried, but it looks worth an attempt as the site claims:

Use the SFTP protocol or select to use explicit or implicit TLS/SSL encryption (FTPS) to secure your file transfers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Retracing DonationCoder's footsteps

« Last post by ewemoa on June 30, 2012, 01:41 AM »

During first launch (portable 64 bit version) I asked for hotkeys a la Windows (F5=refresh, etcetera), but the GUI was their private setup (F5=Copy, etcetera) all the same. When I then opened the otherwise brilliant Button Editor, it asked me to click the button that I wanted to edit, but stayed in front of the buttons! => I had to first grap and move the editor's window, before I could use it.

-Curt (June 29, 2012, 04:37 PM)

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I didn't find:

  Configuration ->
    Quick Look'n'Feel Setup...

to work as I expected either.

FWIW, to get Refresh to be F5 instead of F2, I made some changes via:

  Configuration ->
    Keyboard Customization

Some rough edges for sure (e.g. Tray Icon behavior seemed quirky), but looks promising

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General Software Discussion / Re: Retracing DonationCoder's footsteps

« Last post by ewemoa on June 29, 2012, 07:37 AM »

Found a link to a French language software blog that my version of Chromium now easily translates - led me to a file manager I'm going to try called  Multi Commander.

-dspelley (August 16, 2011, 12:48 AM)

Did you ever try this?  I came across it today via "The Portable Freeware Collection" -- looks quite nice!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: find files not in both folders

« Last post by ewemoa on June 29, 2012, 06:01 AM »

A bit late, but FWIW, NirSoft's SearchMyFiles seems to do this.  The aforementioned web page has a screenshot that doesn't show the feature -- in the version I'm using, there's a drop down named "Search Mode" (above the Base Folders drop-down) that allows one to select from among "Standard Search", "Duplicates Search", and "Non-Duplicates Search".

I've been using the feature to verify that some ISOs I made have the same content I started with (ISOs were mounted using PortableWinCDEmu) 

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Living Room / Re: Google Tablet

« Last post by ewemoa on June 28, 2012, 02:05 AM »

IMO, one drawback of no external memory is in the event that one's device has certain kinds of problems which an owner cannot fix on their own, data stored on the device is vulnerable to being copied, viewed, modified, etc. by the folks who might service it.

Sadly, as I understand it, even with external memory, it appears that owners may not be able to choose to store it there for certain (many?) applications

As I understand it, if your phone is rooted, the situation is not necessarily as described above.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Safely" Remove USB Devices in *N*X

« Last post by ewemoa on June 11, 2012, 06:39 AM »

There are some claims that suggest that umount will lead to a sync (at least in recent *NIXes) without having to do so manually.  In any case, sync doesn't appear to lead to the device's LED turning off.

eject looked promising, so I gave it a try -- the results of sudo eject -v sdb were:

eject: device name is `sdb'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/sdb'
eject: `/dev/sdb' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/sdb' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/sdb' is a multipartition device
eject: using device name `/dev/sdb' for ioctls
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sdb' using CD-ROM eject command
eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sdb' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sdb' using floppy eject command
eject: floppy eject command failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sdb' using tape offline command
eject: tape offline command failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

FWIW, sdb does show up via dmesg and sudo blkid shows some /dev/sdb* lines.  The syntax of the command looks right as one of the examples from the man page was: eject sda

I tried the sudo echo 1 thing, but no luck (Permission denied) -- may be I chose the wrong thing for what comes between devices/ and /remove...

Perhaps some day there'll be a straight-forward easy way to do this

Thanks all for your help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Safely" Remove USB Devices in *N*X

« Last post by ewemoa on June 10, 2012, 08:55 PM »

Thanks for the feedback.

As near as I can tell in this environment, even after performing umount on all the partitions on a device (so df doesn't show anything mounted for the drive), the physical device's LED is on.  So as far as I can tell, "Safely Remove" is not the same thing as umount.  IIRC, palimpsest's UI has a button per partition for unmounting and a single button for "Safely Remove" for the whole device.


Came across this too:

Safely remove an USB hard drive in Linux

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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoCat - Secure Chat Software - Open Source

« Last post by ewemoa on June 09, 2012, 09:03 PM »

I didn't have luck watching the video from my environment, but a helpful cat told me that the following is a comparable (if not the same) video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1Oqvk3wmw

Spoiler

M-x spook

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General Software Discussion / "Safely" Remove USB Devices in *N*X

« Last post by ewemoa on June 09, 2012, 07:18 PM »

Recently I came across the "Safe Removal" feature in palimpsest (aka Gnome Disk Utility) and I've started using it before detaching some of my USB devices.  I'm not quite sure what it does, but LEDs seem to turn off so I get the sense that using the feature may be better than not.

I'd like to be able to do this or something comparable from the command line though.

Anyone know how that might be done?

The local context is various Debian-based things -- so I guess I'm looking for a GNU/Linux-ish answer

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General Software Discussion / gMTP (1.3.1) oops

« Last post by ewemoa on June 07, 2012, 12:35 AM »

After struggling to interface a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 via USB with a PC running Debian and being able to view its content via gMTP (imagine the surprise of discovering that the timing of initiating a connection via the UI after connecting the device to the PC is critical!) to perform a backup, a major oops...

I discovered that what was selected when I chose "Delete" was ".." in a subdirectory of a directory I was trying to back up...no warning...and then no files or folders...

There appears to be a preference for confirming deletion, but as luck would have it...

Beware

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Living Room / Re: Lost my father

« Last post by ewemoa on June 06, 2012, 04:49 PM »

Condolences.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi - more woes!

« Last post by ewemoa on June 02, 2012, 10:04 PM »

Which Debian are you using (squeeze, wheezy, sid, or something else?) and what is the content of your /etc/resolv.conf?

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Living Room / Re: Just Had a Baby Girl~!

« Last post by ewemoa on June 01, 2012, 08:05 PM »

Congratulations, Renegade and kunkel321

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/recommendations, ftp diff software

« Last post by ewemoa on May 31, 2012, 04:35 PM »

Diff support in FileZilla does sound nice -- apparently other folks think so too:

  http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/2837

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General Software Discussion / BookmarkQ: share pages with sections highlighted

« Last post by ewemoa on May 30, 2012, 09:43 PM »

I've often wanted to share some specific bit from a web page without duplicating the content and yet making it easy for a recipient to perceive which bit I wanted to indicate -- BookmarkQ offers one approach via a bookmarklet (no account required).

Here's a sample:

  http://bquot.com/cqg

A rough usage summary:

• Navigate to a page with some content to share (non-frame stuff might work better)
• Click on the BookmarkQ bookmarklet (dragged to the Bookmark toolbar as part of set up)
• Wait a bit for the content to redisplay
• Highlight some text
• Click on the BookmarkQ bookmarklet again -- page should redisplay with selected text highlighted in yellow
• Mouse over the selected area -- should cause a popup to appear with URL to share
• Copy URL and share as desired

The description may make it sound like it's more complex than it actually is

Note that this approach may be letting a 3rd party know that a page is being shared and specifically what on that page is of interest.


Thanks to mouser for pointing me at the freewaregenius article:

  Highlight specific content on a web page to share with others, with InFocus

The article covers a different service, but that appeared to require Flash (which wasn't in the environment I was using when I took a look), but a commenter mentioned BookmarkQ -- so thanks to that commenter too

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Living Room / Re: 513 interesting wallpapers

« Last post by ewemoa on May 29, 2012, 07:05 AM »

Quite a bit of eye candy...humor...and dark humor

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/recommendations, ftp diff software

« Last post by ewemoa on May 28, 2012, 08:35 PM »

FWIW, I noticed neither DiffVue nor Diff Commander on the Wikipedia page and they were new to me -- thanks for the research

On a related note, I got some results for Beyond Compare and DiffVue at alternativeTo:

  http://alternativeto.net/software/beyond-compare/
  http://alternativeto.net/software/diffvue/

I didn't turn up a result for Diff Commander though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/recommendations, ftp diff software

« Last post by ewemoa on May 28, 2012, 05:56 PM »

FWIW, the following seems to have a column for FTP support:

  Other features section of "Comparison of file comparison tools"

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 28, 2012, 04:31 PM »

Haven't found a solution within SmartGit so far.

Did get me to learn a bit about using Git through Emacs though

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Developer's Corner / xml-coreutils: a collection of Unix/POSIX command line tools for processing XML

« Last post by ewemoa on May 19, 2012, 06:28 AM »

After not getting along so well with XML Starlet, came across xml-coreutils:

The aim is to make XML processing for shell users exactly as easy as text processing.

Commands include:

xml-cat(1) concatenate XML files and print XML on the standard output.
xml-cp(1) copy nodes from XML files into an XML file.
xml-cut(1) print selected parts of an XML file as an XML file.
xml-echo(1) generate an XML file on the standard output.
xml-file(1) determine type of XML files.
xml-find(1) search for nodes in XML files and execute actions.
xml-fixtags(1) convert HTML into XML on the standard output.
xml-fmt(1) reformat an XML file, writing to the standard output.
xml-grep(1) print matching fragments as an XML file on the standard output.
xml-head(1) truncate the parts of an XML document.
xml-less(1) interactively display an XML file on a terminal.
xml-ls(1) list the contents of an XML file.
xml-mv(1) move nodes from XML files to an XML file or the standard output.
xml-printf(1) format and print data in an XML file to the standard output.
xml-rm(1) remove nodes from XML files.
xml-sed(1) stream editor for filtering and transforming an XML file.
xml-strings(1) print the strings of data in an XML file to the standard output.
xml-unecho(1) ungenerate an XML file into an xml-echo(1) expression.
xml-wc(1) print height, depth and number of tags for each XML file.

The tutorial seems to be a decent introduction -- it seemed to touch on most (if not all) of the aforementioned.

Caveat:

This project is still at an early stage, and is not ready for production use. However, it is usable today for simple tasks, and you can try it out right now by clicking one of the download buttons on the left.

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Living Room / Re: Debian Administrators Handbook now available in English (free!)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 17, 2012, 12:29 AM »

Thanks for sharing 

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Mircryption / Re: WeeChat Version 0.3.0 is released ! :)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 15, 2012, 10:02 PM »

Currently using 0.3.7 -- thought I'd jot down some notes for getting started.  May be that will help me out when I inevitably lose my configuration

To start the terminal ui:

$ weechat-curses

Once started, adding a server with SSL access - sadly with bad work-arounds:

/server add efnet irc.swepipe.se/6697 -ssl
/set irc.server.efnet.ssl_dhkey_size 768
/set irc.server.efnet.ssl_verify off

To save the current configuration:

/save

Connect to a server previously specified in settings (see above):

/connect efnet

Specify nick and join #donationcoder:

/nick somenick
/join #donationcoder

Disconnect from a server:

/disconnect

Getting help:

/help

Handy for viewing some config options (/set with wildcards):

/set *ssl*

All good things...

/quit

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 14, 2012, 05:08 AM »

It seems odd to me that via the command line one can use git mv, yet there does not appear to be something comparable in the SmartGit UI (hopefully there is something and I have just missed it).

Do you have any recommendations as to how to cope with renaming through SmartGit's UI?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« Last post by ewemoa on May 12, 2012, 12:50 AM »

I wanted to rename a file and a directory today but failed to find a simple way to do this from SmartGit.  Ended up using git mv from the command line

Has anyone figured out how to do this simply via SmartGit's UI?  The online user manual had the following bit in it, so may be there isn't a nice way:

Explicit copy and move operations are not possible, Git recognizes them automatically.

However, that bit of text was from "Known limitations" under "SVN support configuration" though so may be it's not relevant.

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AutoHotkey / Re: AHK Code Highlighting and Code Completion in Notepad++ ?

« Last post by ewemoa on May 09, 2012, 10:08 PM »

If you can stomach using a separate app, one of lanux128's suggestions:

  http://www.autohotkey.net/~fincs/SciTE4AutoHotkey_3/web/

has (as you might guess) a fair bit of support for AHK -- including debugging (at least for AHK_L):

    Syntax highlighting
    Calltips (also known as IntelliSense)
    AutoComplete
    AutoIndent
    AutoHotkey help integration
    Abbreviations
    Editing macros
    AutoHotkey_L debugging support
    Tools for AutoHotkey scripting
    A toolbar that enables easy access to the tools

FWIW, I do most of my AHK development in Notepad++ and/or Emacs, but the debugging is way easier to get working (and better supported) with SciTE4AHK, so I tend to use that when testing.  This option is IMHO the easiest to get up and running with in terms of not having to tweak settings and search the net for various syntax-related files...at least compared with the various other options I have tried