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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome, your friendly spyware browser

« Last post by 4wd on July 18, 2016, 06:40 PM »

I think what he means is, if you're signed into Google (or even not signed in probably) and using Google's Chrome browser, how are you going to stop the browser from reporting to Google everything you've been doing?

This isn't a case of a website tracking you, now it's the program you are using.

It may even be the case that the browser logs everything you do until the next time you log into your account, then sends it.

Not sure uBlock or DisconnectMe are going to help you much since so many sites now rely on something from Google that in a large number of cases they fail to work properly unless a connection to Google is allowed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I need help creating a new Directory structure including files from a text file.

« Last post by 4wd on July 18, 2016, 03:58 AM »

I think it would be a lot easier to do it using Powershell, look at the commandlets:
Import-Csv  (read the CSV file)
New-Item     (create folder structure)
Copy-Item    (copy file to destination or use Move-Item)

This Stack Overflow post pretty much answers how to do it in Powershell:
http://stackoverflow...v-file-in-powershell

To get you started, this will create a folder structure using the info in the CSV:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. $path = "k:\test.csv"
2. Import-Csv -path $path | ForEach-Object {
3.   foreach($property in $_.PSObject.Properties) {
4.     $stuff = ($property.Value).Split(",")
5.     New-Item -Path ("K:\DATABASE DATA\" + $stuff[0]) -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
6.   }
7. }

No error checking or pre-existing path checking.

The second item in the CSV isn't needed, you only need to copy/move the original file (third item) to the new structure.

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DC Gamer Club / [Kickstarter] System Shock Remastered

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2016, 08:43 PM »

For anyone that was a fan of System Shock and System Shock 2, (like me), there's a Kickstarter project due to end in 10 days with delivery due December 2017.

System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994, rebuilt from the ground up with the Unity Engine.

System Shock was one of the first 3D games that took a methodical approach to exploration while revealing a story driven narrative through audio logs and messages scattered throughout the game world. It was a revolutionary step forward for the medium in a time when developers first began experimenting with interactive story telling.

Players were trapped aboard Citadel Station as they fought to survive against the cyborgs and mutated crew members corrupted by a maniacal A.I. known as SHODAN, one of the most treacherous antagonists ever conceived. System Shock offered an unparalleled experience that would solidify it as one of the greatest games of all time.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2016, 05:46 AM »

Sagelight: HDR Details (~6MB)

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Living Room / Re: recommendations for a free web host

« Last post by 4wd on July 16, 2016, 07:46 PM »

Or if you want something a little more involved you can always get a cheap deal on a VPS and run your own web server, which is what I do for my own static sites.

Or possibly get some use out of that RasPi ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake equivalent for Windows

« Last post by 4wd on July 10, 2016, 08:16 AM »

Just found this: Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

From the above page, Selenium IDE for Firefox:
Features:

• Easy record and playback
• Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, or XPath as needed
• Autocomplete for all common Selenium commands
• Walk through tests
• Debug and set breakpoints
• Save tests as HTML, Ruby scripts, or any other format
• Support for Selenium user-extensions.js file
• Option to automatically assert the title of every page
• NEW! Easy customization through plugins

Selenium PowerShell eXtensions on CodePlex

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Living Room / Re: better battery life out of a laptop

« Last post by 4wd on July 10, 2016, 03:39 AM »

You could work from a small RAM drive, copying the contents to a flash drive every so often.  At the end of the day copy the contents of the flash drive to the HDD.

This should give you better security than running purely from a RAM drive, (in the case of a crash), plus allow the HDD to spin down for a greater length of time.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 10:13 PM »

You simply need to use the Window Spy to get the name of the control/window under the mouse cursor and add to the If statement.  It will vary with version of Windows etc..

-MilesAhead (July 06, 2016, 11:03 AM)

Windows 10:





The control for the icon tray is determined by the particular Instance number, so I don't know if it's always going to be ToolbarWindow322 as shown in image 1, same with the control for the Input Method button in image 4, (and the button for Hidden icons if it exists).
Kind of why I went for area rather than a specific control.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 03:31 PM »

What part/line did you change ?

--Huub- (July 06, 2016, 10:07 AM)

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. If IsArray($aTaskbar_Pos) Then ; Check if array is returned

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 08:39 AM »

The script from 4wd worked only I got an error when I was double clicking the start menu button.

--Huub- (July 06, 2016, 08:23 AM)

It's been fixed. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Utility to track boots and uptime.

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 07:05 AM »

I was hoping to avoid playing with logs at the command line, ...

-xtabber (July 05, 2016, 09:48 AM)

Didn't need to, there's a filter attached to that post that you can import into the Windows Event Log Viewer that filters all power events.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 04:57 AM »

OK, I don't get that because I use ClassicShell to replace the Win10 Start Menu - I can see where it's happening, I'll have a look at it.

EDIT: Apparently the second click on the Start button doesn't result in an array being returned when the Taskbar position is fetched.  This should be easy to fix by just putting in a check and exiting the function if an array is not returned.

UPDATED

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable left mouse click on windows taskbar only at the most right icons

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2016, 12:18 AM »

This will block the LMB in the SysTray.

HOWEVER, there may possibly be unforeseen consequences, ie. how do you propose to use any tray icon menu item if it appears within the SysTray area?



The Exit menu item for BTLMB falls within the area covered by the SysTray, since the LMB is blocked there is no way to choose the menu item and exit the program.

This is why it has a hotkey of Ctrl+Shift+Alt+f to exit it 

Ideally you'd check to see what is under the mouse and process depending on what's there, (menu, etc), but since I'm lazy ... the source is there to get you started 

You could probably fudge it by subtracting the number of pixels covered by what you don't want affected, (which will be static because the size of the Clock, etc aren't dynamic).

Only tested on Win10Pro x64.

BTLMB.au3 - Block Tray LMB

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. #include "MouseOnEvent.au3" ; MouseOnEvent UDF
2.  
3. HotKeySet("^!+f", "_Exit") ; Ctrl + Shift + Alt + f
4. OnAutoItExitRegister("_Exit") ; Call the _Exit routine when the program is terminated somehow
5.  
6. ; Set up tray icon menu/tooltip
7. Opt("TrayMenuMode", 3)
8. Opt("TrayOnEventMode", 1)
9. TraySetToolTip(StringLeft(@ScriptName, StringLen(@ScriptName) - 4))
10. TrayCreateItem('Exit',-1,-1,0)
11. TrayItemSetOnEvent(-1,'_Exit')
12.  
13. ; Display area
14.  
15. ; Hook into Primary Mouse Button down event
16. _MouseSetOnEvent($MOUSE_PRIMARYDOWN_EVENT, "_PrimaryDown")
17.  
18. While Sleep(100)
19. ;~      Twiddle twiddle
20. WEnd
21.  
22. Func _Exit()
23.         ; Release the event hooks and Exit
24.         _MouseSetOnEvent($MOUSE_PRIMARYDOWN_EVENT)
25.         OnAutoItExitUnRegister("_Exit")
26.         Exit
27. EndFunc
28.  
29. Func _PrimaryDown() ; PMB pressed
30.         Local $bBlock = False
31.         ; Get taskbar size and position, it should be visible if we're clicking on it
32.         Local $aTaskbar_Pos = WinGetPos( "[Class:Shell_TrayWnd]")
33.         ;~ $aTaskbar_Pos[0] = x
34.         ;~ $aTaskbar_Pos[1] = y
35.         ;~ $aTaskbar_Pos[2] = width
36.         ;~ $aTaskbar_Pos[3] = height
37.  
38.         If IsArray($aTaskbar_Pos) Then ; Check if array is returned
39.  
40.                 ; Get location of Notification area but only interested in the width/height
41.                 ; X/Y position returned is incorrect if Taskbar is Bottom or Right
42.                 Local $aTray_Pos = ControlGetPos(WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]"), "", "[CLASS:TrayNotifyWnd]")
43.                 ;~ $aTray_Pos[0] = x
44.                 ;~ $aTray_Pos[1] = y
45.                 ;~ $aTray_Pos[2] = width
46.                 ;~ $aTray_Pos[3] = height
47.  
48.                 ; Check if Taskbar is visible
49.                 If ( $aTaskbar_Pos[0] > -3) And ( $aTaskbar_Pos[1] > -3) And ( $aTaskbar_Pos[0] < ( @DesktopWidth - 5)) And ( $aTaskbar_Pos[1] < ( @DesktopHeight - 5)) Then
50.                         $aMouse_Pos = MouseGetPos() ; Get current mouse position
51.                 ;~ $aMouse_Pos[0] = x
52.                 ;~ $aMouse_Pos[1] = y
53.                         Select
54.                                 Case $aTaskbar_Pos[2] = @DesktopWidth   ; Taskbar at Top or Bottom
55.                                         If $aTaskbar_Pos[1] = 0 Then                    ; Top
56.                                                 If ($aMouse_Pos[0] >= (@DesktopWidth - $aTray_Pos[2])) And ($aMouse_Pos[0] <= @DesktopWidth) Then
57.                                                         If ($aMouse_Pos[1] >= 0) And ($aMouse_Pos[1] <= $aTray_Pos[3]) Then
58.                                                                 $bBlock = True
59.                                                         EndIf
60.                                                 EndIf
61.                                         Else ; Bottom
62.                                                 If ($aMouse_Pos[0] >= (@DesktopWidth - $aTray_Pos[2])) And ($aMouse_Pos[0] <= @DesktopWidth) Then
63.                                                         If ($aMouse_Pos[1] >= (@DesktopHeight - $aTray_Pos[3])) And ($aMouse_Pos[1] <= @DesktopHeight) Then
64.                                                                 $bBlock = True
65.                                                         EndIf
66.                                                 EndIf
67.                                         EndIf
68.                                 Case $aTaskbar_Pos[3] = @DesktopHeight  ; Taskbar at Left or Right
69.                                         If $aTaskbar_Pos[0] = 0 Then                    ; Left
70.                                                 If ($aMouse_Pos[0] <= $aTray_Pos[2]) And ($aMouse_Pos[0] >= 0) Then
71.                                                         If ($aMouse_Pos[1] >= (@DesktopHeight - $aTray_Pos[3])) And ($aMouse_Pos[1] <= @DesktopHeight) Then
72.                                                                 $bBlock = True
73.                                                         EndIf
74.                                                 EndIf
75.                                         Else ; Right
76.                                                 If ($aMouse_Pos[0] >= (@DesktopWidth - $aTray_Pos[2])) And ($aMouse_Pos[0] <= @DesktopWidth) Then
77.                                                         If ($aMouse_Pos[1] >= @DesktopHeight - ($aTray_Pos[3])) And ($aMouse_Pos[1] <= @DesktopHeight) Then
78.                                                                 $bBlock = True
79.                                                         EndIf
80.                                                 EndIf
81.                                         EndIf
82.                                 Case Else
83. ;~                                      ConsoleWrite("Mouse X: " & $aMouse_Pos[0] & "    Mouse Y: " & $aMouse_Pos[1] & @CRLF)
84.                         EndSelect
85.                 EndIf
86.         EndIf
87.         If $bBlock Then
88. ;~              ConsoleWrite("SysTray click X: " & $aMouse_Pos[0] & "    Mouse Y: " & $aMouse_Pos[1] & @CRLF)
89.                 Return 1 ; Block the default processing
90.         EndIf
91. EndFunc   ;==>_PrimaryDown

BTW, the reason I'm grabbing coords for the Taskbar and Tray on LMB click is because you can move the Taskbar around while the program is still running and it'll be happy.
The If...Then statements could probably be consolidated a bit better too, (did I mention I'm lazy?).

Might give someone an idea or two.

UPDATE:

• Check if an array is returned for Taskbar position/size (Win 10 doesn't return array for second click on Start)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Utility to track boots and uptime.

« Last post by 4wd on July 04, 2016, 06:30 PM »

You can use Eventlog:

https://www.donation....msg343147#msg343147

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does this exist and if not can someone write it up?

« Last post by 4wd on June 30, 2016, 11:04 PM »

Even if I dont have the slightest idea how to use what you posted

-questorfla (June 30, 2016, 10:38 PM)

Download archive, extract, run program 

It'll keep displaying keys, (and the Tooltip will get bigger), until you hit Escape, then it terminates.  For what you want there is no need to have something running all the time.

Anyway, do I need to Download AutoIT also?

Nope, it's just there for people to peruse - it's not my source, I just modified it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does this exist and if not can someone write it up?

« Last post by 4wd on June 30, 2016, 08:34 AM »

Woops, I left a send Scroll Lock in there when I was playing around trying to use it as the hotkey.  I'll fix it tomorrow but it doesn't seem to cause any problem, (it didn't want to work for me so I went back to Escape).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does this exist and if not can someone write it up?

« Last post by 4wd on June 30, 2016, 07:21 AM »

This wasn't written by me!

This is basically a modified keylogger, it doesn't do any logging it just displays any keys typed in a Tooltip as they are typed.  As soon as you hit Escape the program terminates, (the Escape isn't passed through AFAICT), or you can use the Exit menu item on the tray icon.

The source in AutoIt is available from here (easily found otherwise with a Google search): Pastebin

I've just turned off logging, stopped it displaying [SHIFT] as a key, and stopped it displaying which window is active.

Source for the main program:

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
2. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile=D:\My Documents\AutoIt\_Coding Snacks\KeyTip\KeyTip.exe
3. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Compression=4
4. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_Fileversion=2.0.0.0
5. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Add_Constants=n
6. #AutoIt3Wrapper_AU3Check_Parameters=-d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 6
7. #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
8.  
9. #include <Misc.au3>
10. #include "_KeyloggerUDF.au3"
11.  
12. Opt("TrayMenuMode", 3)
13. Opt("TrayOnEventMode", 1)
14.  
15. TraySetToolTip("KeyTip")
16. TrayCreateItem('Exit',-1,-1,0)
17. TrayItemSetOnEvent(-1,'_Exit')
18.  
19. HotKeySet("{esc}", "_Exit")
20. HotKeySet("{tab}", "_Exit")
21. HotKeySet("{enter}", "_Exit")
22. OnAutoItExitRegister("_Exit")
23.  
24. _SetHooks(True, False)
25.  
26. While Sleep(100)
27.   ToolTip($__KL_CapturedKeys)
28.   If _IsPressed("02") Then _Exit()
29. WEnd
30.  
31. Func _Exit()
32.   _SetHooks()
33.   OnAutoItExitUnRegister("_Exit")
34.   Exit
35. EndFunc

Lines modified in the UDF:

Line 236: Commented out

Code: Text [Select]

1. ;~     $__KL_CapturedKeys &= @CRLF & @CRLF & "[" & WinGetTitle($hWnd) & "]" & @CRLF

Lines 282, 285, 296, 429 & 430: Changed a True to False (ie. the first Boolean value in the lines below was originally True)

Code: Text [Select]

1. ["[ENTER]",                     False   ,       False], _               ;       13                      0000000D
2. ["[SHIFT]",                     False   ,       False], _               ;       16                      00000010
3. ["[ESC]",                       False   ,       False], _               ;       27                      0000001B
4. ["[L-SHIFT]",                   False   ,       False], _               ;       160                     000000A0
5. ["[R-SHIFT]",                   False   ,       False], _               ;       161                     000000A1

The Tooltip will appear near the mouse, eg.


It will display things like [DELETE], [BACKSPACE], [PAUSE], etc, and it will eat things like [PRT SCN] - I had to take the screenshot with a camera - so it's pretty useless running all the time, (also because that Tooltip will just keep getting bigger).

So in it's current form it's just about the dumbest keylogger around - it doesn't log, it doesn't hide, it eats keys, and it will start obliterating the screen behind a huge Tooltip.

Source is in the archive, except the UDF which you can get from Pastebin and do the above modifications yourself.

And neither MS Defender nor MBAM complain about it.

UPDATE:

• Removed Send('{scrolllock}') - wasn't required

UPDATE 2:

• Exits on Escape, Enter, Tab, Right Mouse Button, and tray icon menu item (which will also cause a RMB exit).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where is the registry function for left clicking the desktop?

« Last post by 4wd on June 29, 2016, 09:37 PM »

Might work, 4WD.  But I need it to function outside of a browser for my purposes.

-questorfla (June 29, 2016, 08:21 PM)

It's not tied to a browser, it intercepts any LMB click that is held down for more than a certain period unless the program it's over institutes its own custom handler.

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General Software Discussion / Re: save my writings

« Last post by 4wd on June 29, 2016, 08:27 PM »

Form History Control (Firefox/Pale Moon/etc) - have used for ages.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does this exist and if not can someone write it up?

« Last post by 4wd on June 29, 2016, 08:25 PM »

Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey + Show Password onMouseOver userscript - it's what I use.

Of course, that is browser only - the simplest method is to open a text document, type in the password, and then cut/paste it into the input field.

... many people are one step short of a blown fuse.

-questorfla (June 29, 2016, 04:00 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

« Last post by 4wd on June 29, 2016, 08:06 PM »

A bit of serendipity, clearance item ($129->$8.50), folder with detachable Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard/trackpad for MS Surface Pro came up a few days later.



Kind of cleaned out the shop 

ADDENDUM: OK, running the C.H.I.P. with the Bluetooth keyboard works well, no shut downs so far.
A few figures measured on a USB voltage/current meter:
Current drawn at boot to GUI is a maximum of 540mA.
Current drawn when loading the browser is ~570mA.
Idling at around 320mA as I type this with the keyboard.
6 tabs open caused a spike of ~580mA when it was loading the contents of one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: save my writings

« Last post by 4wd on June 28, 2016, 08:55 PM »

I snuck in an edit 

Yeah, just strikes me as odd for something like that to happen so often 

-Stephen66515 (June 28, 2016, 08:50 PM)

He applies for a lot of jobs?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on June 28, 2016, 08:35 PM »

In the more interesting than practical category:

https://imgur.com/a/icKnR

Fully Programmable Binary Keyboard.  Supports Dvorak too.

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-wraith808 (June 27, 2016, 02:52 PM)

With that keyboard you really don't want to get distracted...

-Shades (June 27, 2016, 08:17 PM)

01011001 01100101 01100001 01101000 00101100 00100000 01001110 01101111 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101001 01101011 00100001

-Stoic Joker (June 28, 2016, 06:05 AM)

01011001 01100101 01100001 01101000 00101100 00100000 01001110 01101111 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100001

01000110 01010100 01000110 01011001

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: save my writings

« Last post by 4wd on June 28, 2016, 06:16 PM »

How many times does your browser crash, that you are thinking about needing a keylogger?

-Stephen66515 (June 28, 2016, 06:01 PM)

He didn't say the browser crashes, he said the webpage closes - this could be the result of hitting the Submit button on a page or some other trigger.

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=34227.0

That being said, in the ~3.3 years since kalos last asked (and we never really did get an answer regarding the software suggested then) he could have searched for, downloaded, tested, and reviewed probably 90% of the keyloggers available.

Yes, I'm being indirectly facetious

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General Software Discussion / Re: converting whole website to kindle-compatible ebook

« Last post by 4wd on June 27, 2016, 11:56 PM »

Did you try zipping up the downloaded website and sending it to your Send-to-Kindle email address?

https://www.amazon.c...p/sendtokindle/email

Mentioned on StackExchange.

Might be dependent on how complex the website is though.