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General Software Discussion / Re: Obtain a program list ordered by installation date in windows 8.1

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2017, 05:24 AM »

UninstallView from Nirsoft:
http://www.nirsoft.n.../uninstall_view.html

has many options especially commandline (see below)
but a simple select items, copy, paste into spreadsheet will get all the info displayed

/stext <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into a simple text file.
/stab <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into a tab-delimited text file.
/scomma <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into a comma-delimited text file (csv).
/stabular <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into HTML file (Horizontal).
/sverhtml <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into HTML file (Vertical).
/sxml <Filename>    Save the installed programs list into XML file.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by tomos on July 04, 2017, 03:45 AM »

@IainB -- we are largely in agreement,
you appear to have misunderstood my point though - I do not "want him to be perceived as speaking as a proponent of QE". FWIW I have no vested interests in seeing him in any particular way -- I have no reason to project here.

I was simply pointing out his seeing it as pragmatic when things get that bad. That was it.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by tomos on July 02, 2017, 04:10 PM »

It seemed to me he spoke of it derisively.

-Deozaan (July 02, 2017, 04:01 PM)

He calls it 'pragmatic', and bemoans the ECB's workaround for not being able to do the same.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by tomos on July 02, 2017, 01:17 PM »

^ he approves the 'printing' of money in the US to reflate the economy after the crash of 2008. I thought that was quantitative easing, or am I misunderstanding? Also thinks the ECB is flawed because, he says, it cannot do that.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by tomos on July 01, 2017, 04:54 PM »

Also came across a video of Varoufakis being interviewed about the book by a Swedish TV interviewer.

-IainB (July 01, 2017, 05:56 AM)

thanks for this

No proponent of ... quantitative easing

-IainB (July 01, 2017, 05:56 AM)

this thread is no place for debate, (and all I know about this guy is this interview), but he appears to agree with it @ 3:23 of that video:
https://youtu.be/nGt82RFfg3U?t=3m23s

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on June 30, 2017, 02:39 PM »

ExPetr-Petya-NotPetya is a Wiper, Not Ransomware

-Arizona Hot (June 30, 2017, 02:23 PM)

via the comments:
http://www.securityw...urrency-manipulation

Thycotic's cyber security and digital forensics expert, Joseph Carson, has an alternative theory: the motive behind Wannacry was effectively insider trading following currency manipulation. Bitcoin was the real target.

If he is right, it explains the efficiency of the attack (the primary motive) and the inefficiency of the ransom collection (which was neither part of nor important to the plan).

Talking to SecurityWeek, Carson explained that one common theory on the value of Bitcoin is an application of Metcalfe's Law. Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2) (Wikipedia). Giovanni Santostasi, chief scientific officer at DeepWave and Fountain Health Technologies, has applied this to Bitcoin: "The exponential growth is driven by one factor only, not millions. The rate of adoption. Period. In fact there is a strong correlation (R2 = 0.82) between number of users and price."

This is Carson's starting point. If you want to manipulate Bitcoin value, he told SecurityWeek, you cause a sudden increase in the number of users. This is most easily measured by the number of Bitcoin wallets in existence. A global ransomware outbreak, demanding payment by Bitcoin, would certainly have such an effect: both direct victims and judicious organizations are likely to obtain wallets.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2017, 01:25 PM »

Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good
Live: Offenbach, Germany 1976

The video below is distorted (proportion), if you do want to see it properly, here's a cued link to the full concert:
https://youtu.be/fInfRe9Qf50?t=58m6s

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2017, 11:16 AM »

Hmm... I remember learning about the various kinds of clouds in grade school. But I don't recall them mentioning mammatocumulus. Or maybe I was too young at the time to know about or make the connection to mammaries and my teacher neglected to point it out. I only remember a couple of the clouds we learned about, and I'm sure knowing one was named after "boobies" would have made it much more memorable to an immature ~8-10 year old's mind.

-Deozaan (June 27, 2017, 11:04 AM)

they didn't want to risk giving ye this kind of information ;-)
Mammatus^w

OTOH, maybe it was just that they're not a common cloud formation

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2017, 06:57 AM »

from Pecos Hank,

-tomos (January 11, 2017, 08:37 AM)

STRANGE STORM CLOUDS - Mammatus facts and information

this could just as easily have gone in the 'Interesting' thread - only some timelapse footage in it (at least I think it's timelapse). But I decided to post it here for continuity:

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by tomos on June 25, 2017, 02:59 PM »

Look at the huge motive on the building in the back; Ukraine's Coat of arms all over:

-Curt (June 23, 2017, 05:51 PM)

Well found Curt! I was wondering what that symbol was...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2017, 12:44 PM »

What things sound like in different languages:  The art of James Chapman.


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More here -> http://chapmangamo.tumblr.com/

-Edvard (September 25, 2014, 01:22 AM)

came across 23 illustrations of his shown here:
http://arthubmagazin...-autres-langues.html
I notice sometimes the English word used is American, and not used on the other side of the Atlantic (e.g. we'd say 'Beep' instead of 'Honk')

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater fails when checking for updates

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2017, 05:48 AM »

well... search engines are supposed to allow you to find what you're looking for with any string found in the actual text...

Seems the search engine for this forum is very poor--or I don't know how to use it...

-sba (June 23, 2017, 04:44 AM)

IIUC you searched for something which wasn't there.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2017, 03:44 AM »

Baby orangutan wants to play and mother says no:

-mouser (June 22, 2017, 05:02 PM)

great fun - you're on a roll mouser

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by tomos on June 22, 2017, 05:54 AM »

My google fu is not so good, but looking at the image, I see this in the bottom left:



is that Russian?
Some port heading up towards the Baltic sea maybe - is it Kaliningrad^w?

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2017, 05:53 AM »

Video: TED Talks - Tim Ferriss (13:21min.)
WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINE YOUR FEARS INSTEAD OF YOUR GOALS
https://embed.ted.co...stead_of_your_goals#

-IainB (June 19, 2017, 03:30 AM)

well worth watching

must read up a bit about stoicism too

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch Image Resizing Without Losing Quality

« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2017, 05:29 AM »

I need some advice please.
[..]
Thanks for any suggestions.

-skywalka (June 11, 2017, 04:49 AM)

How did you get on skywalka?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Windows 10

« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2017, 04:13 AM »

But press Win+Z didn't take me anywhere... strange.

-sun1991 (June 21, 2017, 02:03 AM)

it's supposed to "Show the commands available in an app in full-screen mode"
https://support.micr...s-keyboard-shortcuts

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AOMEI Backupper FREE + AOMEI Partition Assistant FREE - Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2017, 08:48 AM »

Aomei Partition Assistant Pro is free today on BDJ (next 17 hours, you may have to install today) - or you can purchase two Pro lifetime licenses @ 60% off (for ~$20)
http://www.bitsdujou...in=todays-deals-home

My experience using it was positive:

More Aomei experiences [Aomei Partition Manager]:
I wanted to delete a partition; incorporate the freed-up space into 'C'; then divide 'C' into three partitions:
[C | Data | Partition-with-space-for-one-backup-image]

Aomei Partition Assistant:
# I created a boot usb-flash-drive (it's Win PE)
# on a laptop with three partitions (one a miniscule one with some Dell tools), I:

• deleted the 12GB 'Recovery' partition
• I then had to *move* (and resize) the 'C partition so as it would take over the now unallocated space (this was slow: I had to use an 'up' arrow to increase the size of 'C')

At this stage I rebooted: everything was fine so I created a new 'System image' using Aomei Backerupper
I then booted again with Aomei Partition and:

• split 'C' into two partitions
• then split the newly made partition into two partitions

[..] worked fine

-tomos (August 02, 2015, 12:20 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: opening folders in new file manager

« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2017, 03:29 AM »

Or could it be a problem with Dopus?
Were either updated lately?

It works here with Dopus 12.3 -- I'll try updating (to 12.6) later today and will report if there's any changes.

EDIT// note the option mouser highlights is empty, and dopus is set to replace Windows Explorer.
Also, you didnt mention OS - windows 7 x64 here

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on June 19, 2017, 04:53 PM »

[..] So I didn't worry about the issue when posting it. [..]

-Arizona Hot (June 19, 2017, 03:58 PM)

no worries -- it's not important (and I made my point anyways)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on June 19, 2017, 04:51 PM »

Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment

-Arizona Hot (June 19, 2017, 04:18 PM)

hadn't heard of that -- I found a couple of comparisons, (still dont quite understand the difference/s):
http://www.investope...fferent-purposes.asp
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

they seem to be having their problems too...

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Living Room / Re: Slashdot asks: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC?

« Last post by tomos on June 19, 2017, 03:49 PM »

I'm in trouble if my laptop gets stolen:
I do have a password on my account, but that's it - my only hope really is that they would wipe it rather than try and get in: if they did get in, they could relatively easily get into my email account which is not good.
Guess I better read the article.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on June 19, 2017, 03:44 PM »

Video: TED Talks - Tim Ferriss (13:21min.)
WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINE YOUR FEARS INSTEAD OF YOUR GOALS
https://embed.ted.co...stead_of_your_goals#
[..]
Tim Ferriss video notes:
He bought a book on "simplicity", which held the quote:
@05:20 He gave the quote: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca the younger.
Which led to" Prememdiatio malorum" (the pre-meditation of evils).
Which led him to develop :fear-setting".
@06:00 He describes "Fear-Setting" (Goal-setting, but for FEARS). [@10:20 He does it once a quarter-year.]

3-pages of analysis
Page 1: What if I ,,,? (list of fears causing procrastination of action steps)
   Define: (the worst things/events you can imagine happening if you take that first step).
   Prevent: (what could be done to prevent each fered event feared, or devrease its likelihood).
   Repair: (if the worst-case scenarios eventuated, what could be done to repair the damage?Key: conside who are the likely people who have had to deal with such events and have useful experience of same and that you could learn from?)

Page 2: What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success? (the upsides)

Page 3:
The Cost of Inaction (doing nothing).
(Emotionally, Physically, Financially, etc.)
    6 months-------- 1 year -------- 3 years
If one avoids the action for these periods, then what might be the result - what might one's life look like after those periods?

[..] quote: "Easy choices - hard life. Hard choices - easy life."

-IainB (June 19, 2017, 03:30 AM)

Sounds seriously interesting.
I've always been mistrustful of the positive thinking type of approach to life, and in favour of one that removes the negative ideas that get in the way [of life] . . .
but,
I got distracted by the wonderful Fr.Ted:**

Father Ted Series 1 Episode 1 - Dead Parrot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAMsPEiSLyY

-panzer (June 19, 2017, 10:01 AM)

** I will definitely watch Ferriss once I'm finished Fr.Ted ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2017, 02:16 PM »

This Android smartphone has 132GB of storage - and it’s under $150 right now

-Arizona Hot (June 17, 2017, 01:50 AM)

100GB is online backup, which makes the title misleading I find (I know: technically... still misleading).
Any chance you could correct your post? Thanks

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Living Room / Re: [Breaking] - AI Simulant Discovered Online

« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2017, 02:05 PM »

^well worth it lol stephen


stimulant|simulant|schtimulant :p

The stimulant in question [..]

-Stephen66515 (June 17, 2017, 07:15 AM)