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General Software Discussion / Re: VMWare Player 7.0 Released

« Last post by Ath on December 02, 2014, 12:49 PM »

I've been using VMWare Workstation, the 'big brother' of Player, professionally for several years. Every update has been painless and an incremental improvement over the previous version.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: Ideas Wanted!

« Last post by Ath on December 01, 2014, 12:51 PM »

Hm, I usually go to www.regex101.com to devise a proper regex find/replace, then head over to one of our HP-UX machines and use trial&error to fix-up the not supported regex signs like \d -> [:digit:] and similar sillyness. After that I've found a sed sequence that works on all our *nix platforms...

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Exchange Server email

« Last post by Ath on November 29, 2014, 04:47 PM »

The default Android e-mail app (with the yellow-ish or white icon, not gmail).

From Android 5.0 on: Use the Gmail app.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Windows Email Server Options

« Last post by Ath on November 29, 2014, 04:40 PM »

hMailServer is used in our 400+ employee business 24/7 for some rather critical secondary mail-services, though not as the main mail server (that's Exchange, as is to be expected). It hasn't let us down in the 10+ years it's in use, all 'failures' can be accounted to configuration/human error, not software failure 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Resources for learning Windows PowerShell

« Last post by Ath on November 29, 2014, 03:27 AM »

@Daleus: Might a couple of free e-books get you into the right direction? http://powershell.org/wp/ebooks/
I guess a package manager just one of the minor subjects.

Microsoft is turning more and more to PS for server management, so having (some) knowledge about it can come in handy for some of us.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Experimenting with Other Programming Languages

« Last post by Ath on November 28, 2014, 08:48 AM »

Finally making some good progress on Android coding..

-mouser (November 28, 2014, 08:22 AM)

IF you are working on an Android version of PBOL, then please let me know, so I can stop pondering on whether I should start the project, because it is really short for my NANY to get it finished, and I really didn't start it yet (too much other stuff at hand )

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by Ath on November 26, 2014, 02:55 AM »

Oh, and to pull this thread back on track:

Yes, please devise tooling to avoid Crapware and Installer-wrappers

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by Ath on November 26, 2014, 02:53 AM »

I  agree with your objections and second your questions.

-Ath (November 25, 2014, 04:10 PM)

This feels like a lawsuit-avoidance tactic. "Starting with version ...

-TaoPhoenix (November 26, 2014, 02:35 AM)

The above combination makes me really wonder why in earth's name a big multinational, like Oracle pretends to be, has to include crapware for some infamous minority like "Ask"

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by Ath on November 26, 2014, 01:45 AM »

not sure about recent versions but use to the offline installers didn't have the offers.

-hamradio (November 25, 2014, 11:18 PM)

I'm quite sure recent versions have them, but you may have disabled the settings from the Control panel gadget that gets installed with the JRE. I only get the off-line installers, though I currently tend to no longer install a separate JRE (space-saver when having 3 installed JDK's).

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by Ath on November 25, 2014, 04:10 PM »

which brings to mind the question... should it even be necessary?

-wraith808 (November 25, 2014, 03:44 PM)

I  agree with your objections and second your questions. Especially when knowing that these 'sponsors' are only added to the JRE installers, and not to the JDK installers (not even the JRE installer included with those) AFAICS. But all a developer needs is a JDK (without the extra JRE), after all

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: Installer Crapware Wrapper Detection DLL

« Last post by Ath on November 25, 2014, 03:04 PM »

The offer to install the Search App by Ask was still there, and checked by default.

-wraith808 (November 25, 2014, 02:44 PM)

Oracle actually offers a solution for disabling those 'sponsor offers': https://www.java.com...q/disable_offers.xml

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Living Room / Re: New square monitor (27" 1920x1920)

« Last post by Ath on November 23, 2014, 06:57 AM »

I saw the announcement earlier this week on Dutch site tweakers.net (chrome can do a translation for you), so I thought: lets wait and see how well that's going to get adopted.
Next would be a 'real' developers' monitor 1:1 with 2560x2560 resolution and a 27 to 30" diagonal size When that arrives, I'll try to order 2 of those at work

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows services manager. such a thing?

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2014, 04:21 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows services manager. such a thing?

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2014, 01:28 PM »

AFAIK, App103 has created a tool like that, but I can't get to it atm

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Developer's Corner / Re: Is it wise for amateur to invest time in NET Framework languages?

« Last post by Ath on November 19, 2014, 01:51 PM »

(While I was typing, mouser also posted, but...) In addition to what mouser said:

Java^w is as 'hard' as C#^w, the mainstream .NET language, and does officially run on both Linux and Mac, next to Windows and a plethora of other OS's like Android (though with it's own programming model) and many embedded systems (think: IoT^w).
.NET languages can be (created, compiled and) run on Linux, and derivatives like Mac, using the Mono compilers and runtime, but it is a kinda 'reverse-engineered' solution, as it originally wasn't supported by Microsoft, and still isn't fully feature-complete compared to the current .NET runtime, and some parts will even never be done for Mono.

The major IDE's for Java, Eclipse and NetBeans, are free. And there is a free community edition of IntelliJ IDEA by Jetbrains next to a paid version, where the free edition is also the base for the new Android Studio from Google (that currently has Eclipse as it's foundation).

Next to that, solutions for any programming dilemma in Java can easily be found using Google, while for .NET that can be a lot harder to find, or end up in a commercial solution.

(All of the above from personal experience)

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Living Room / Re: Still weird: The mouse is more accurate than a finger

« Last post by Ath on November 19, 2014, 01:38 AM »

It's because you have to hover your entire arm above the screen, and point at something quite small, like a pixel on the screen and at ~400 dpi they can be quite small, versus resting your arm on a desk and finely control sliding a piece of plastic (the mouse) representing a sharply shaped pointer toward that same, still small, pixel.

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Living Room / Re: Hardware-motherboard- cell CR2032 goes down very quickly

« Last post by Ath on November 18, 2014, 01:41 AM »

Buy a good quality new CR2032, and replace it (again if you have to).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Possible to make application point to a directory within the drive it is on?

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2014, 12:51 AM »

Assuming that the downloader-software doesn't 'improve' the directory entry when storing the download, using \downloads (without the drive-letter) should work, as you start the software from that same drive.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Experimenting with Other Programming Languages

« Last post by Ath on November 13, 2014, 01:39 AM »

Wel, there is a section in this forum called Programming School... 

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Living Room / Re: java -version -> 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external

« Last post by Ath on November 09, 2014, 08:27 AM »

To get java available in a common CLI the environment variable Path has to be set. The value is set by the Oracle Java installer, but not (as in: can not) propagated to any open CLI. Re-opening the CLI is the least that has to be done.
When running the CLI from something different than the Windows Explorer, that application usually has to be restarted to get the new environment available for child-processes. The easiest way to achieve that is to restart Windows.

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Living Room / Re: java -version -> 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external

« Last post by Ath on November 09, 2014, 05:41 AM »

Did you restart your PC after the re-install, or at least re-open that CLI? If not then retry that first.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: looking for good/working way to text from computer

« Last post by Ath on November 08, 2014, 06:56 AM »

^That would be perfectly doable using Tasker or AutomateIt, see the threads that kilele has started recently on similar subjects for links

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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2014, 01:26 PM »

I hope I've found a solution for the original request: AutomateIt-Automation.
It has a location trigger that is imho, close to spot-on for what's been asked. It offers to take you to the Location tips and tricks on the developers website when you select it, where you can select a spot on a map and a radius around it where the trigger should fire.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Software KWM

« Last post by Ath on November 06, 2014, 04:31 AM »

Nope, usually request like these are directed toward one of the free solutions available.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: customizable gui for cmd apps

« Last post by Ath on November 06, 2014, 04:22 AM »

Or my (IMHO) similar tool WinButtons

Both aren't actually feasible for n00b users to start out with, but a more seasoned user can set up a set of applications for that n00b less experienced user using either tool.