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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 08:07 AM »

It's getting Hot in here, Arizona Hot to be precise, 1000th post!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process to automate testing of a large email list to remove non working ones

« Last post by Ath on March 15, 2015, 07:28 AM »

• Export the list of e-mail addresses to a text file
• Run a script across that file to remove all valid e-mail addresses
• Pre- and post-pend all remaining with the sql to disable these records (assuming you have a column for that in the database)
• Run the script on your database
• Run the e-mail send script, excluding the flagged records

If the e-mail send script is in a formal programming language, lik Java, C#, php, etc., it should probably validate the e-mail before trying to send it, some sql dialects allow to cater for that using a LIKE or even a regex, if you press it hard enough

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General Software Discussion / Re: is it possible to have WhatsApp on my laptop?

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 05:06 PM »

Goto http://web.whatsapp.com (preferably using Chrome, AFAIR) from your laptop and scan the QR code shown with the whatsapp app on your phone, they'll then be 'linked', just follow the instructions there.
Needs your phone to have a very recent version of whatsapp.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 02:03 PM »

Recharge? Solar cells I'd expect...

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Living Room / Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 10:25 AM »

Well, over here in the non-US of A, we use a different date notation (14-03-2015, 2015-03-14 or 14.3.2015), that doesn't even come close to Pi, so I guess we'll have to pull the pass-card for the festivities

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to take a very long screenshot

« Last post by Ath on March 13, 2015, 08:54 AM »

SC has a manual scroll option for the very difficult auto-scrollable 'windows'...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Difficulty with launching FARR when using ` key + focus on desktop.

« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2015, 10:44 AM »

So I changed to Alt+Space, which is better as it can be done with the left hand only.

-IainB (March 10, 2015, 10:29 AM)

That <Alt-Space> keypress opens the System menu on most Windows applications...

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a way to expand all?

« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2015, 06:42 AM »

Most treeviews support the Asterisk (*) key on the numeric keypad for Expand all, some have a (context-)menu entry for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help guidance as a beginner of Android world

« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2015, 06:40 AM »

4. Quick note taking - Simple, may or may not have voice note mode.

-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)

Evernote ?

5. PDF reader - Small just for reading pdf files.

-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)

Adobe Reader works perfectly fine for me

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to take a very long screenshot

« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2015, 06:37 AM »

ScreenShotCaptor and check out/learn from the screencasts

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Living Room / Re: anyone using outlook to help me?

« Last post by Ath on March 09, 2015, 11:23 AM »

You'll have to record/create a macro, save it with a proper name, and configure that in your Ribbon, according to the description I linked to. (Here to be even more precise)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

« Last post by Ath on March 09, 2015, 02:44 AM »

I will give Vivaldi a try. I really liked Opera 12, but despise the new O-Chromium with a passion. It made me go to WaterFox and different other programs Never liked the way Chrome and all Chromium based browsers (including the new Opera)sends information behind your back.

-rxantos (March 08, 2015, 09:44 PM)

But this new Vivaldi browser is using the WebKit/Blink rendering engine, the same as Chrome is using, doesn't that bother you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: is it possible to easily build a GUI mockup?

« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2015, 01:01 PM »

I'm sure that there are some people out there that would find Eclipse intuitive!

-Renegade (March 08, 2015, 09:01 AM)

Oh, don't get the impression that I don't like Eclipse: I prefer it over both Netbeans (a lot) and Visual Studio (any edition from VS2005 to VS2013), it's only the GUI-design part I resent, I'd probably use Delphi 7 for a mockup, and VS2010 for a real GUI-based application.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is it possible to easily build a GUI mockup?

« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2015, 10:01 AM »

I can only see a free trial.

-Renegade (March 07, 2015, 08:00 AM)

I think the last free Delphi IDE was for Delphi 6, and that's been quite a while. I was assuming that they'd have released another freebee, but they probably can't afford it
Maybe the FOSS Lazarus IDE is a viable alternative, but I haven't used that myself.

If only a mockup is needed, then Eclipse is a good choice:

https://eclipse.org

-Renegade (March 07, 2015, 08:00 AM)

Hm, I beg to disagree on that statement. Building a GUI using Eclipse has always been real close to a nightmare to me.

Unless you have a really good plug-in to suggest for that? (I've used the Swing-derivate WindowBuilder, and compared to VS2008 or later, or Delphi, that's a nightmare, IMHO)

Your other suggestions really make sense

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General Software Discussion / Re: is it possible to easily build a GUI mockup?

« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2015, 02:57 AM »

Download Visual Studio Express or a free version of Borland's RAD Studio and create your mockup with it. You can easily add functionality if needed, in your language of choice, VB, C# or Delphi.

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Living Room / Re: anyone using outlook to help me?

« Last post by Ath on March 05, 2015, 05:12 AM »

I think the original manufacturer has the best support for this: https://support.offi...79-83d3-68a254a80ea6

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Living Room / Re: anyone using outlook to help me?

« Last post by Ath on March 04, 2015, 10:57 AM »

What Outlook version are we talking about here?

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Living Room / Re: "Renaming" a Windows 8.1 system that already has Office 365 installed

« Last post by Ath on February 25, 2015, 02:04 AM »

Office 365 accounts are coupled to the account that is used to log into the MS cloud where Office 365 resides, not to a specific workstation. I might work on another location/workstation, or a tablet, tomorrow, and I still want/need access to my own files, don't I?

Should be harmless to change the computer-name.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Ath on February 22, 2015, 05:27 AM »

Speaking of which, I have around 20 drives that I need to destroy in the next couple months or so.... and no shotgun! 

-Renegade (February 22, 2015, 05:20 AM)

A descent hammer will also do nicely

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on February 19, 2015, 05:35 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: two-factor entrance authentication

« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2015, 06:43 AM »

Then the bad guys can sign in.  One thing they do is place some sort of malware into index.html, which then
affects future entrants to the site.

-Steven Avery (February 16, 2015, 05:23 PM)

That are 2 statements, totally not related to each other.
If anybody, bad or good, can log into your site then why/how do they get to change something like index.html? I've never been able to achieve that, neither as an admin nor as a regular user.
Most webservers require a separate, (s)ftp connection to the server for up/down-loading of website related files. Any account allowed to access that does have proper strength, and because of the assumed required 's' prefix can't be man-in-the-middled, if you don't blindly accept a non-standard/weird certificate (that your ftp-client WILL inform you about).

For absolute foolproof secure client/server connections you need a two-sided certificate-signed 'ssl'-connection (tls is the current connection protocol, ofc.), where both the server and the client need a matching certificate before a connection is even established. The hassle of securely exchanging and then installing the certificates, and the time spent on daily maintenance (adding new certs, and removing expired/lost/stolen certs) usually makes the use of this feature very low-frequent. But, combined with strong, often changing, passwords this system is water-tight.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FireFox = total crap? And Jobs was oh so right about Flash, anyway. NoScript?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2015, 12:13 PM »

You can change your FF settings to start with the tabs that were open when FF was last 'closed'. Also works nicely if it dies or needs to be killed.

Sure it's not your AV acting up, btw? I tried AVG for a while, and my FF based Pale Moon grinded to a halt after being open for about a day, and nearly eating 100% ram. After returning to Avast I can leave the browser running for weeks without issues.

Oh, and another, well meant, advise: Get rid of Windows XP.
There are no excuses left of keeping that OS in use for internet research (of all purposes ), that task can easily be ported to an up to date Linux.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2015, 03:58 AM »

Hello there this is really my first time here , so any advice would be helpful

-TailsLover (February 15, 2015, 10:33 PM)

Advice? Just be nice  then read the topic-title, and if you think you have something useful to add, reply. Or ask, if you have questions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I've not been happy with Macrium Reflect Free, and perhaps their paid versions..

« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2015, 12:24 PM »

^ I was going to say quite off-topic *and* well worth a new thread, but the thread seems to be already fairly off-topic

-tomos (February 15, 2015, 12:19 PM)

+1, combined with the rewritten title and small-essay size post made me TL;DR; (again)

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY Entry: Ballistic: an easy list filter

« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2015, 12:19 PM »

Well I can confirm that, the .exe file in the first-time downloaded zip is dated August 2013, not really close to December 2014 when it was first posted, but hey, that's what can happen with NANY
But, as a side-note, Ballistic isn't very Hi-dpi (actually, 125% in Windows 7) friendly, as my screenshot shows: