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Find And Run Robot / Re: netsh alias problem

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2011, 09:44 AM »

Hi ali,

You are on the right track -- but you want to use a regular expression to capture the 8.8.8.8 stuff

So make your alias called netsh,

But make the regex pattern to match:
^netsh (.*)$

and then you will also need to modify your command to run to specify the full path to the netsh.exe

and yes i think runcap should work fine with this.

See if that's enough to get it solved and maybe post your solution for others if so. if not let me know where you get stuck.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2011, 09:40 AM »

Paul, I'm afraid this may be a real oversite in my code which normally is smart about where configuration files go.. it seems the plugin specific advoptions files are trying to write into the Program Files\Plugins directory.. when they shouldn't..

Let me try to put together a fix.

One temporary workaround for you would be to move the entire Find And Run Robot directory out of you Program Files\ directory and into your documents area, and edit the configdir.ini to uncomment the Portable=True line, thereby running FARR in portable mode which shouldn't suffer from this problem.


ottenm -- sorry i missed your original question. are you still searching for a solution?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2011, 07:39 AM »

I just want to reiterate what I think is an essential point: Fixing the incentive structure for the security companies.

There is huge competition in the security/antivirus world to build the best and most popular scanner.  These companies have very skilled coders working day in and day out, 365 days a year to improve their software.

Why then is every company doing such a horrible job with false positives and how they present alert information to the user?

Laziness, yes -- but at its core I believe the reason is simply that their does not exist an meaningful incentive for them to do better.

When comparisons of antivirus software is written -- no review puts much emphasis or effort into discussing false positives or the way heuristic/false alerts are presented and explained to the user.

And users don't seem to be aware of how important this issue is when choosing an antivirus engine.

So to me, the absolutely key part of reforming/rehabilitating the antivirus software industry in this respect is by creating both positive and negative incentives around this issue -- a carrot and stick approach.

The stick is the traditional one -- bring attention to the bad actors and provide a site where people can learn to avoid them.  The fear of damage to their reputation will cause them to do better.

But this is also a case where a VERY attractive positive incentive can be created to encourage the good companies -- allowing them an opportunity to set themselves ahead of the pack.  By creating a kind of certification/award that people recognize as the gold standard in security software.

Such a thing, if it could come to be seen as having some weight behind it, would be welcomed by the good security software vendors as a way for them to set themselves apart from their competitors -- and a way for them to get attention for their efforts at doing things the right way.  It would be a way to reward the good guys and help build the reputations of the companies that are doing the right thing.  And such an effort -- if done right, would be welcomed by the better antivirus companies as a way to separate the serious companies from the unserious ones.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2011, 07:18 AM »

It's great to see you moving on this front db -- the software world needs something like this badly.

We've discussed on this forum the abysmal and almost-criminal behavior of antivirus companies when it comes to false positives.

And i've made my own proposal for what I think would help move things forward here -- namely a set of standards to live up to and a kind of award/certification that would give security companies a positive incentive to do better -- which i think they crucially lack right now.

If you can make some progress in this effort you'd be doing us all a great service.  Go for it!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Toggle Touch Screen

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 01:28 PM »

This sounds like a really good idea to me.  Maybe you can try to find if the control panel item has any documentation somewhere that would explain WHAT it actually does when it disables touch screen interaction.

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Living Room / Re: What's the red thing in the NASA logo?

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 10:37 AM »

Don't believe a word lotusrootstarch says.  With some image magnification you can see clearly what is is:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 09:32 AM »

Completely configurable in both the engines/sites supported and output formats.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 09:21 AM »

Yesterday I sat down and planned out the application and figured out all of the unresolved issues I had regarding User Interface, so I'm pretty much ready to start coding.

dMbTiger -- we shall see soon, hopefully in the next week or so during testing; it's hard for me to anticipate how good a job the tool is going to do with it until we try.

One thing i'm still contemplating is whether to make a pure native windows app, or whether to go cross-platform and write it in something like python with a thin user interface wrapper..

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Developer's Corner / Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 07:02 AM »

Great stuff. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why 2012 may finally be The Year of the Linux Desktop (courtesy of Microsoft)

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 02:33 PM »

This just confirms my Microsoft Conspiracy Theory that I have been peddling for the last 5 years or so, which is that:

• The only rational explanation for some of the decisions Microsoft makes is that it has been deeply penetrated to its core by rogue elements work extremely hard every day to bring about the collapse of the company from within.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 08:05 AM »

Thanks for the screencast xcopy -- those really make it easy for me to see the bug.  I shall fix.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 07:50 AM »

Nice 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Auto Upload/ftp/imageshack/dropbox/etc using ZUploader

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:40 AM »

I've posted a screencast video showing how ZUploader works with Screenshot Captor:

• https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc18/sc18.html

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:12 AM »

Another "addon" I have recently adopted for the index card system is to use a clear desk mat.  When i get ready to work on a set of cards I can arrange them in a grid under the clear desk mat and not have to worry about them getting scattered or in the way if I want to use the desk.

EDIT: Just an update to say that i now consider a clear desk mat to be an essential component of the system -- it makes all the difference in the world when laying out a bunch of cards that would otherwise get in the way or be scattered throughout the day.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:03 AM »

Does the Splice feature do anything other than remove portions of an image?

no it does not.

"Splice Out" is what it does -- it removes a section of the image and splices the remaining surrounding regions together -- much like a film editor would do when splicing out a few unwanted frames.

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Living Room / Re: Board Game Review Site Roundup

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 09:44 AM »

And another: http://www.nerdbloggers.com/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 09:07 AM »

Minor update:

v2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

• [BugFix] Better grabbing of active window executable filename (especially with 64bit processed)
• [MinorFeature] Post capture pop-up dialog now has an easy way to configure whether it is shown after captures.
• [MinorFeature] You can now specify a custom path to ZUploader (or event use a different tool in its place)
• [MinorImprovement] Improved size of ellipse border around line arrow text.
• [Feature] Line arrow text can now be multi-line (separate with \n)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:45 PM »

Ah you know what.. if you have the salamander dll in the farr plugins folder for some reason, FARR is going to try to load it as if it was a farr plugin, which could cause an error if one salamander dll is trying to load another, etc..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:02 PM »

what is SALRTL.DLL?

i think you are associating farr with some files it has nothing to do with.

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Living Room / Re: it's not Star Trek, it's Cosmic Journey

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 05:01 PM »

Nicely done!  

My only suggestion is to replace the one sound effect that sounds like someone coughing 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 04:00 PM »

as for point 1, there have bee a couple of aliases that do this..
see https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4426.0
and https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2760.0

i used to distribute an addnote.exe utility for just this purpose, but i stopped once hamradio wrote his excellent hamnotes plugin.

but i could try to find the old addnote.exe if you want.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 03:23 PM »

not yet but im aiming for new years.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Pomodoro + To Do List Prioritizer

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 05:47 AM »

It's a little hard for me to follow what you want since im not familiar with some of the organizational ideas.

But the idea of making a new kind of "gamified" productivity tool that explores new concepts is extremely appealing to me.  The key for me would be can one identify some really new things to try and keep it really simple so that it could get off to a smooth start and easy experiment.  I encourage you and others to keep thinking about ideas for this stuff.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.99.02 - Sep 7, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 04:07 AM »

Glad it's working well 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 03:31 AM »

Wow did i screw the pooch on this one ... i somehow uploaded the installer for a version from 2008..
The correct version should be up now.. I hope that anyone who downloaded it in the last couple of hours can figure out to get the new version.