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General Software Discussion / Re: Move specific file types with original folder path included to another directory

« Last post by wraith808 on December 15, 2018, 01:22 PM »

Are you open to a pay solution?  I use Syncovery, and it can do exactly what you're saying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: offline browsing - archiving

« Last post by wraith808 on December 15, 2018, 01:21 PM »

Liquid Web is really a great outfit.  Again, maybe you can save some $$ on A,B,C but when you want voice tech-help, they are there, with real names, in the USA, lots of savvy, and your successful resoluation being their concern.  Our business had to move away from them for a hosted package, for our main website, but I am sticking with them for lots of stuff, on one reasonably priced server.  The usage may include some auxiliary landing pages, blogs and such from the biz, so then the $60 a month or so is not so daunting, as it might be for only private use.

-Steven Avery (December 15, 2018, 07:32 AM)

You've basically outlined why I stay with them, even though it costs a bit more.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PromptPal, PTFB Pro and Logmeister on 20% discount

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2018, 08:19 PM »

Yes, those are indeed the pair.  And within them, I run Powershell, MSys, Cmd, etc.  They're basically the same as Promptpal.  They aren't a shell in and of themselves, they're just an enhancement to shells that already exist.  Those others that you list fall into the same category.  Shells would be Powershell, MSys, Cmd, Bash, Cygwin, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2018, 01:11 PM »

I would go crazy with this layout.

-Tuxman (December 14, 2018, 11:17 AM)

And as an alternative, I can't see myself ever going back to even a TKL, let alone a full sized.  I'm preparing to build an 1800 (the TKC 1800), as that might tempt me.  But I'm doing that more for the exercise in making a cool board, as anything else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: offline browsing - archiving

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2018, 01:08 PM »

I've used bbPress and BuddyPress.  Of the two, I liked bbPress better, and it had most of the functionality of SMF (which I used before) easily accessible.  I had to add a separate plugin for polls, but that wasn't difficult either.  I haven't used them in a couple of years (both were for guilds, and the groups that I was using them for either broke up, or I stopped playing the games that we were using it for), but I imagine that they have only become better in the interim.

A couple of articles on Forum plugins:

https://www.wpbeginn...ugins-for-wordpress/

https://themegrill.c...press-forum-plugins/


Oh, and as a plus, I was running on LiquidWeb infrastructure also, so they were very compatible with that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: offline browsing - archiving

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2018, 08:33 AM »

Well, if you're using it as a blog, why not try blogging software?  Forums on WordPress are actually pretty well implemented for the forum use, and of course blogging is well implemented. Or is that not an option?

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2018, 08:31 AM »

Actually no HHKBs 

I tried Topre before and found it overrated. Those sre Tokyo60s- same layout as HHKB, but Mx based switches (using Kailh speed copper) and QMK firmware.  The last one is a Clueboard 66 v4 and is my daily driver, also using QMK.

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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards

« Last post by wraith808 on December 13, 2018, 10:21 PM »

I did a thing with my hardware at work. 

-Tuxman (December 13, 2018, 08:39 AM)

That's ... a thing.  Yup.  Definitely a thing.  I haven't posted any of my latest.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by wraith808 on December 13, 2018, 10:16 PM »

Full Throttle Remastered is also free right now.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: DC Archive

« Last post by wraith808 on December 13, 2018, 08:13 AM »

Hi Andrea.

By default all screenshots are put in a single Screenshots folder when they are taken.

Are you talking about the optional feature that files OLDER screenshots away into subfolders?

If so, you can customize how older screenshots are filed, by going to the "Saving and Loading Files" tab, and look for "Auto Move Older Screenshots".

For example, the following setting will file old screenshots away in one subdirectory per month of the year:
[ Invalid Attachment ]

-mouser (December 12, 2018, 07:37 PM)

I've never played around with this feature (I have archive turned off), but instead of a pattern, I assume that you could put an explicit name there like ArchivedScreenshots?

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: DC Archive

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2018, 04:45 PM »

This topic has been moved to Screenshot Captor.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=46827.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Consumer Photo/Pic Editing Software - what do you use?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2018, 09:46 AM »

If you can get around it's quirks, there is PaintStar.

-Shades (December 12, 2018, 05:29 AM)

Was it payware at one time and stopped being supported?  Just get that feeling from the last update to the page.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2018, 09:45 AM »

Just finished Red War



And that finishes my reading challenge for the year.  I started out strong, but other factors bogged me down making what I thought was a slam dunk questionable at times.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Windows Forensics Cookbook

« Last post by wraith808 on December 11, 2018, 10:23 AM »

At this point, it might be good to just do what Deo said, and just make this like the humble, steam, gog threads...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2018, 09:16 PM »

I might actually re-enable the update service one machine at a time to see what happens... 🤞

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Screenshot Captor / Re: where is the options page?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2018, 12:38 PM »

My print screen button on the keyboard does not trigger a capture. I want to set up a Hotkey but I cannot figure how to get to the options page. Anyone tell me how? Thanks.
Tom

-nofat (December 08, 2018, 12:27 PM)

What software?  I'm assuming you mean screenshot captor?  But not sure if that's correct.

If it is screenshot captor, then right click on the icon in the taskbar notification area, and half-way up, there's a Preferences option.  In the dialog that appears, choose The Basics >> HotKeys and Shortcuts.

Let us know in any case so that this topic can be moved to the correct subsection and you can get the help that you need with it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - A whisky exposé for reddit

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2018, 12:36 PM »

I could imagine that it would be a good starting point for some people who want to try Racket once, even if they hate whisky. 

-Tuxman (December 08, 2018, 10:48 AM)

You read my mind

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - A whisky exposé for reddit

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2018, 10:46 AM »

I've never heard of this, though it looks quite interesting.  It goes to show that people obsess over every hobby!  Thanks for opening my eyes to it, and it looks like a quite interesting and easy to follow implementation- like todo.txt.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why AdGuard? Why do they detect ad-blockers to begin with?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 07:07 PM »

Are you serious right now?

You can look up in relation to programming stream and find the following definition:

transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous flow.

There is no need to separate that for any sort of download, as should be obvious from that definition.  Each one of those connections its own separate communication stream to be rendered in the browser as indicated by the tags.

And the word asset is not "misused", but a standardly accepted term to refer to anything linked from the web page, whether it's external CSS, images, fonts, video, etc.

I have no idea what you mean about "telegram style", other than to toss it out as an aspersion to the fact that I like to get to the point of the matter.  I'm not a long-form writer when it isn't needed, i.e. I don't throw words at something to get my point across, but try to make things as succinct as possible and elucidate complex subjects, knowing that people don't necessarily have time to read multi-page treatises on a simple subject.  To bastardize a phrase by Einstein, Any intelligent fool can obscure his speech with words to make explanations longer and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: Donation software

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 06:57 PM »

This topic has been moved to Announce Your Software/Service/Product.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=46802.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why AdGuard? Why do they detect ad-blockers to begin with?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 11:59 AM »

"When you open a connection via http to get the ad" - I'd never do this! ;-)

-ital2 (December 07, 2018, 08:57 AM)

O...k.  I was referring to from a programming perspective.

As far as my knowledge goes, the page is downloaded.

-ital2 (December 07, 2018, 08:57 AM)

It is not.  The assets are processed separately, which is why you might get them at different speeds.  I'm telling you how things work on the internet from experience coding.  There are cases where the images are encoded in the streams, but they wouldn't be for this.  Each asset is streamed separately.

But I don't seem to be helping the conversation, so I'll bow out.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 11:56 AM »

@KodeZwerg: No need to be quiet, KodeZwerg, and you weren't causing any trouble or intrusion at all.   

-skwire (December 07, 2018, 12:12 AM)

Glad to hear that SkWire.


@OP, i cant reproduce your found error, on my system all work like it should.
If i should fix anything, please do some screenshots of what you are doing and how you use my Application.
So i can understand whats going wrong. Be as precise as possible, thankyou.

Over here i can replace all Icons to one, no matter if .LNK or .URL



I am on vacation for a week.

-KodeZwerg (December 07, 2018, 01:41 AM)

Look at some of the other requests- some people get 4 or 5 devs chiming in with different solutions.  More solutions is never bad, IMO.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 12:10 AM »

Deadhouse Gates

Again, I stumbled at the beginning- the shifting of most of the characters to ones that were less significant in the first book threw me.  With a different focus, I had to discover most of the focus characters and experienced the same slogging pace at the beginning as the first in the series. But armed with my experiences from that novel, I kept at it, and as I began to get the feel for the characters, the book grabbed me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why AdGuard? Why do they detect ad-blockers to begin with?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2018, 12:03 AM »

@wraith808: I don't get this. In fact, the page itself (javascript) sends data back, telling the respective server that the ads have not been displayed, or something along these lines. Or/and the other way round, in case of successful display of the ads, the page sends some "ok" string (which may be quite elaborate, unfortunately).

-ital2 (December 06, 2018, 02:47 PM)

No, that's not how this works.  When you open a connection via http to get the ad, it streams it back in the browser.  What the ad blocker is doing is _not_ making that connection at all.  It could make the connection then abort, I suppose, but they can also see how much is transferred if you do that.  It could also stream the ad and not show it, I suppose, replacing the element in the page and streaming it using another connection.  But that would require you to download the ads, which again, is one of the advantages that they tout, i.e. we saved you this much bandwidth.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PromptPal, PTFB Pro and Logmeister on 20% discount

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2018, 11:56 PM »

I just use ConEmu or Console.  I had a license to PromptPal, but didn't upgrade after I found those.