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Living Room / Energy cost of mining crypto more than the cost of mining precious metals
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2018, 08:19 PM »
Energy cost of 'mining' bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold (via The Guardian)

Article based on the following research: Quantification of energy and carbon costs for mining cryptocurrencies (note: URL so long because of entitlements- if you remove part of the URL, you will only get a preview)

One dollar’s worth of bitcoin takes about 17 megajoules of energy to mine, according to researchers from the Oak Ridge Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, compared with four, five and seven megajoules for copper, gold and platinum.

mining_costs.png

I've been sort of on the fence in regards to this whole cryptocurrency movement, and haven't gotten involved out of mostly impetus to do so.  I've thought that the other arguments against it were spurious, however.  But this...  I don't see how you come back from this if true.  I didn't look deeply into the methodology behind the findings, however.

Any thoughts?
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Living Room / Re: Smart Tech people do some really stupid things
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2018, 12:30 PM »
I was waiting for you to chime in Stoic.  Not disappointed  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2018, 12:28 PM »
definitely :)  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2018, 06:27 AM »
Oh, you never know. I mean, for all we know, "abudction" might be a word in Esperanto or Klingon (say) that meant "to have gone back in time", or something, and it might have been spelled correctly, though whether it would be the correct word to use in that sentence would be quite another matter.    :o
-IainB (November 04, 2018, 10:39 PM)
That might hold water if it were not spelled correctly two other times in the same context.  :-\
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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource
« Last post by wraith808 on November 04, 2018, 06:09 PM »
That card has "abduction" spelled incorrectly, twice.

Do you mean because it's capitalized? :)
-kyrathaba (November 04, 2018, 04:07 PM)

No. It was spelled something like "abudction" in two places. :Thmbsup:
-Deozaan (November 04, 2018, 05:31 PM)

I noticed it also :)
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Living Room / Smart Tech people do some really stupid things
« Last post by wraith808 on November 04, 2018, 01:05 PM »
I saw this article today on Medium:

How I used a simple Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards
https://medium.freec...rmation-8e5ccfef2724

excerpt:
A few days ago on 25th April, while researching, I found that a lot of individuals and companies are putting their sensitive information on their public Trello boards. Information like unfixed bugs and security vulnerabilities, the credentials of their social media accounts, email accounts, server and admin dashboards — you name it, is available on their public Trello Boards which are being indexed by all the search engines and anyone can easily find them.

With a simple google query, you can find this same info.  And this was a few days ago, and it still exists today.

Code: Text [Select]
  1. inurl:https://trello.com AND intext:@gmail.com AND intext:password

in a simple google query turns up username and passwords for some company gmail accounts.

I was flabbergasted when I saw that they still exist!  There were other queries in there too for all sorts of simple information- stored in publicly accessible Trello boards.  The even worse thing about this, is that this article was written on May 9.

We know about the stupid things that people do.  Using password for their password or abcdef or 12345.  But this kind of stuff... I would still think that people at tech companies would take this into account.

I guess I was wrong.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Drag Drop renamer
« Last post by wraith808 on November 03, 2018, 11:01 AM »
A major question is this: Can you use an existing external commandline tool to do the renaming? So that the job of this app is mainly to queue up and invoke commandline calls to the renamer?
With each tile just specifying a different commandline to run?

-mouser (November 03, 2018, 02:58 AM)

If we go this route, I can create the command line tool to take the commands for renaming, if desired.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Crazy bug in mod_rewrite for lastest apache 2.4.37
« Last post by wraith808 on November 02, 2018, 09:04 PM »
So *that* explains it.  I was having problems connecting to the site for a while, and didn't know what had caused it.
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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource
« Last post by wraith808 on November 02, 2018, 01:10 PM »
From my experience, it was only in the first iterations of most serious CCGs where rares gave you an insurmountable advantage.  There are still rares, but they are rare for different reasons rather than mechanical reasons.  Money grabs tend to do them as pay2wins, but others not as much.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on November 01, 2018, 04:10 PM »
Yeah... I get that now.  Hopefully, this is better for you.  There are some idiosyncracies to it also though, so be forewarned.  That's the reason I use something else instead, no matter how cool it is.

I think most of the downsides are described on that page, though it's missing that if something saves its place in a certain way (haven't been able to narrow it down), then when you try to open it on the alternate screen, it will instead open on the original screen.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release
« Last post by wraith808 on November 01, 2018, 02:39 PM »
Technically, yes...but was vague to the point that it felt like my Mrs was telling me I'd done SOMETHING wrong...but not WHAT I'd done.  
-Stephen66515 (November 01, 2018, 12:35 PM)

That's one of the reasons that I hate using external dependencies.  It can be a bugger to tunnel down to find out where the dependency is missing.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release
« Last post by wraith808 on November 01, 2018, 10:28 AM »
UPDATE ON PREVIOUS ISSUE (BY TOMAS)

Issue has been resolved - turned out Chromium wanted some DLLs I didn't bundle, and wouldn't cause an issue for anybody who happened to have them (other stuff may have installed them for people) - I will be bundling those DLLs with AudioMarker from now on so we won't run into this again!

* Stephen66515 dances
-Stephen66515 (October 31, 2018, 04:24 PM)

Congrats!  ;D  So the error message was right!  :Thmbsup:
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on November 01, 2018, 10:25 AM »
Virtual desktops seem not to provide new 'canvases' on which to work and organize your projects.  Virtual desktops appear to be mostly for separating open windows and running programs.

Unless I missed something.

If anyone knows of a program that provides new clear desktops or folders, on which one can carefully place icons, etc., and re-establish as desired, please let me know.

As said before, strikes me as absurd that such doesn't already exist.


-nkormanik (November 01, 2018, 01:53 AM)


https://docs.microso...s/downloads/desktops

This does exactly what you want.  And it's free.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows
« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2018, 09:44 PM »
A preview aint a view?  ;D
-KodeZwerg (October 31, 2018, 02:03 AM)

No.  It's just a preview of the cover of it.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2018, 09:42 PM »
Best approach for now regarding the objective of providing more 'desktop-like' working space in which to carefully arrange icons, etc., is to create additional desktops.

Windows directly allows this.  Google for instructions to change desktop folder.

In order to change desktops one has to log-off and back on.  New desktop will then be in effect.

After one finishes working on new desktop, one can use the same procedure to go back to original desktop.

DesktopOK works with whatever the current desktop is.  So just save icon positioning within each as wanted.


Skwire, another one done.


-nkormanik (October 31, 2018, 08:43 PM)

You don't even have to do that.  If you're going to go to that extreme, see Lintalist's answer above.  Virtual desktops would do it for you without having to log off.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release
« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2018, 10:13 PM »
OK, I just downloaded AM onto another laptop, extracted it into its own folder (as you would do) and ran AudioMarker.exe - absolutely 0 problems, ran straight away.  I can only honestly think the fact tomos has updated .NET and it's not showing properly on his system could be the possible cause.
-Stephen66515 (October 30, 2018, 06:28 PM)

Does that other laptop have visual studio installed?
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release
« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2018, 06:17 PM »
[Select]
System.IO.FileNotFoundException

Are you referencing any external resources?
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2018, 06:15 PM »
Fixed it for you

fixed_notch.jpg
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2018, 06:06 PM »
wraith808, Windows 10 Pro.  There is still that feature, to arrange and place your icons as desired, within each folder.

But, as said, as spotty as hell.  Pathetic.  Hit and miss.  Sometimes saved, mostly forgotten.

That's why a third-party solution is called for.  Microsoft engineers have other things requesting their attention.

By the way, icon arrangements appear to be held at the following registry location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\

But not at all easy to understand.  Coded.  Take a peek.

Theoretically one might be able to 'Export' that branch of the registry tree in order to save folder icon positions.  Then 'Import' back in to re-establish.

Trouble is, nearly EVERYTHING in the entire system regarding icon positionings is included there.  Each and every folder.  On all hard disks.  Plus extra stuff for good measure.


-nkormanik (October 30, 2018, 12:43 AM)


How are you doing it?  I don't see that option.

explorer.png

UPDATE: Ok, so I see that it has been gone since Windows 7.  There is a way to enable it with a registry file.  That's probably the reason that it's buggy - it's not meant to be used.

https://answers.micr...be-9ad2-6fb29e2168c1

http://www.unawave.d...arrange.html?lang=EN

https://answers.micr...-23ab277cfcc3?auth=1

I thought I was going crazy for a sec.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows
« Last post by wraith808 on October 30, 2018, 06:01 PM »
XYplorer's built-in file viewer displays pdf files properly and does not lock the file being viewed, so you can rename it while viewing it.
-xtabber (October 30, 2018, 09:06 AM)

That's not a true view though if you're talking about what I think you're talking about.  It's just a preview. (Unless I'm totally missing out on a feature)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on October 29, 2018, 10:30 PM »
wraith808, Windows does indeed allow one to move icons around and place 'em in a folder.  And is supposed to remember such.  As long as the context menu... View, Auto-arrange... is unchecked.
-nkormanik (October 29, 2018, 09:08 PM)

What version of Windows are you using?  I remember that being a feature at one point, but in Windows 10, it doesn't work in that way.  They are tiled in all of the icon view orientations.  Maybe it's a difference of OS?
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning
« Last post by wraith808 on October 29, 2018, 04:28 PM »
Confirmed New Feature:

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-Stephen66515 (October 29, 2018, 01:34 PM)


I don't get this feature.  What are you showing?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on October 29, 2018, 04:26 PM »
Aren't you actually looking for multiple desktops? (where you can then used DesktopOK etc)

If you're using Windows 10 it should be built in - how to here https://www.howtogee...ktops-in-windows-10/

For other Windows you could try:

https://www.dexpot.de/index.php?lang=en
https://virtuawin.sourceforge.io/
and no doubt others.

( If you are into AutoHotkey there are various scripts for managing/creating multiple virtual desktops as well )

-Lintalist (October 29, 2018, 01:22 PM)


If that's what he's looking for I seriously misread the question...  :huh:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows
« Last post by wraith808 on October 29, 2018, 01:02 PM »
I just saved a Notepad file and a WinRAR zip while it was open without any issues. Apparently, this is app related more than anything else. Some of MS's Office suite products have this restriction as well.
-bardman (October 28, 2018, 10:39 PM)

Some applications take the whole file into memory, thus releasing the handle on the file.  I didn't think Notepad was one of those, but checking, apparently it is.  If you'll notice, however- if you save the file loaded into notepad at that point, it creates an additional file with that name.

For my test, I created a file test.txt and opened it in notepad.  It had one line in it.  I then renamed it test1.txt.  I updated the file open in notepad, then saved it.  The newly created test.txt had my updates.  The text1.txt did not- it had the original text.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement
« Last post by wraith808 on October 29, 2018, 12:56 PM »
So you mean that when a folder is opened with icon chosen as display type, you want to freeze the positions of those icons?  Have you tried Stardock Fences?  I know it displays custom folders on your desktop and they retain the positions of the icons.  I don't know if you're going to close and open them individually if it will work for your purposes.

https://www.stardock...com/products/fences/

As far as the request itself, the problem is that Icon mode in Explorer (rather than the desktop) is only pseudo icon mode, i.e. it doesn't support drag and drop positioning like the desktop; it's always ordered in some fashion.

UPDATE: Looking at my installation of Fences, it uses the tile method of showing icons also, i.e. it will only allow you to sort the order, not the position.  Example follows:

Fences_Example.png

Notice that in that image, they're in an arbitrary order that I dragged and dropped them into.  Not sure if that's what you want.
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