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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.

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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 05, 2018, 08:42 AM »

Again, I think a good ad-blocker should SIMULATE that the ads have been displayed, or then, stop any page-specific feedback altogether / send false data back.

-ital2 (December 05, 2018, 02:48 AM)

One reason that they don't do this is bandwidth.  They tout saving bandwidth because they never actually touch the asset.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Mastering Docker

« Last post by wraith808 on December 05, 2018, 08:24 AM »

Sounds like this thread needs to be renamed to something like [FREE] Packt Book of the Day.

-Deozaan (December 05, 2018, 01:38 AM)

Nah, just thought those that were interested in the Docker on Windows ebook might be interested in today's offering.

-4wd (December 05, 2018, 03:50 AM)

It might still be good to rename in case there's an offering that someone thinks would be good to put in here to bring people's attention to it.

This might help: Web Alert 

-4wd (December 05, 2018, 03:50 AM)

Cool app!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2018, 09:31 PM »

So, editing out the name, that second one represents

C:\Users\[Name]\Desktop#2 - And that's where you have desktop 2, right?  Sounds like an interesting problem!  I'm sure skwire will get something to you before mine is done, but I've been struggling to find a NANY, and this is something that I could do!

I'm thinking to show the current that it's pointing to, and give the option to clone to a new folder (creating a new entry), switch to an entry, or delete an entry.  Since skwire said he could do it without logging out, I'm looking to that to be a challenge.  But at the least, I'll give the option after the change to trigger a logout.

Thanks for the idea!  I'm very interested to see how it interacts with fences...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: --> PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST <--

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2018, 09:29 PM »

New to forum, "My Personal Area" does this still exist?

It doesn't -- it was removed when we simplified things and got rid of some of the harder to maintain custumizations on the forum.

-mouser (December 04, 2018, 07:16 PM)

I miss it also- helped me to draft posts before I was ready to post them.  The only work-around that I have now is to PM it to myself.  The PMs use the same format, so it can work.  You just can't edit.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: edit decision list preparation for long audio files, subtle GUI...

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2018, 07:57 AM »

The thing about audacity is that since its oss, if it comes anywhere close, it might be easier to customize that, or the modifications might be something that the team on it would consider

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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2018, 07:54 AM »

I ended up creating additional desktops in my c:\Users\Nicholas folder.  Along with the usual Desktop folder.

So, I have there:

Desktop#0
Desktop#1
Desktop#2
Desktop#3

Then I have to change in the registry which desktop I want to use.  Log out, and back in.

The additional desktops are blank slates.  Lots of new real estate.

Skwire, you can close this topic, I guess.

-nkormanik (December 04, 2018, 12:37 AM)

If you tell me what you have to do in the registry, I can automate the changing an logging out for you if that would help. I might be able to automate the desktop copy also, in case you need a new one, and I can make it so that you can add them in the interface.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: edit decision list preparation for long audio files, subtle GUI...

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2018, 07:51 AM »

What does audacity not do that you're asking for?

https://www.audacityteam.org

I personally use GoldWave, and I know that it does it, but is paid

https://www.goldwave.com

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for December 3rd, 2018 - Codename: Wedding Feathers

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2018, 08:50 PM »

Gmail marking it as spam 

-rgdot (December 03, 2018, 07:04 PM)

GMail account here - not marked as spam.

-Stephen66515 (December 03, 2018, 07:37 PM)

Same here.  Not marked as spam.

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Living Room / Re: World Chase Tag - The Game of Tag as a Sport

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2018, 10:46 AM »

There was a show on network TV that was pretty much the same thing.  I can't find the link to it currently right now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "File Size" Not Increasing As It Should Be

« Last post by wraith808 on December 02, 2018, 11:14 PM »

maybe this - https://www.nirsoft....er_changes_view.html

-Target (December 02, 2018, 09:46 PM)

There are a few out there that do this.  A lot depends on the methodology even with these, as I've noticed that even doing it programmatically using the Windows API, it stops working after a while.  I've narrowed down this particular issue in several cases to be that the file isn't flushed, but kept locked, so that the operation isn't evident on the drive.  Is it possible that the data hasn't been flushed to the file?

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Living Room / Re: texting from Windows 10 PC

« Last post by wraith808 on December 02, 2018, 09:20 PM »

Microsoft has software to allow just that. It's called "Your Phone."

And yes, you need to link it to your phone using an app on your phone, but after that you should be able to text from your PC.

But if you don't have a phone and just want to send SMS messages to people using your PC, then I second Google Voice as an option.

-Deozaan (December 02, 2018, 04:53 PM)

I didn't post that as he didn't want to link to his phone.  But I love it since discovering it!