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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FREE Affinity Publisher BETA available

« Last post by wraith808 on August 30, 2018, 08:44 PM »

I hope that it's going to read InDesign files, it can't right now.

-cranioscopical (August 30, 2018, 08:22 PM)

I don't think that the old ones did.  It's also one of the reasons that I think that I'm going to end up just going with a subscription.  It doesn't even support PagePlus files right now.  They suggest exporting to PDF and then importing.  It's been reported to work fine, but I'm skeptical.

UPDATE: Looking on the forums, Chris_K from Affinity affirms "It's not possible yet, plans to be able to in the future".  Now, what comes of that is to be seen.

He also says when asked about a timeline, "I can't give any timelines for this. It's being worked and will be in an update when it is considered working and relatively stable. But I would be talking more than a few weeks in not months, It's not a simple thing to just implement."

But, reading on, more troubling is this response from him to someone else, "We will not be able to import indesign files on initial release but it is something we are looking to do in the future. For the print optoins my best advice is to go and explore what options we have available already and see if they suit your needs, they are all contained within our print dialog"

What does on release mean? On commercial release?  Or is he just talking about the beta?  Hmmm....

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Developer's Corner / Re: Looking for lightweight, simple, portable/integrated database

« Last post by wraith808 on August 30, 2018, 08:12 PM »

SQLite has been the go-to for that kind of database, though I utilized VistaDB (though got that for free from a review- it's actually a bit pricey).

https://system.data....trunk/www/index.wiki

https://www.nuget.or...s/System.Data.SQLite

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FREE Affinity Publisher BETA available

« Last post by wraith808 on August 30, 2018, 06:52 PM »

I downloaded it.  It wasn't too large... 270.67MB.  I figured it's my last resort before getting a sub to indesign as I've reached the point that I need it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Registry of phone calls android-pc

« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2018, 10:58 AM »

Running

-Contro (August 29, 2018, 06:46 AM)

Please only report your findings after you have tried the software, messages like above are completely useless.

(Yes, I'm trying to teach you something, in case you wonder, a form of forum etiquette: give relevant information, avoid dis-information)

-Ath (August 29, 2018, 09:40 AM)

I view it as a thank you, and don't personally find anything wrong with it.  I see it in several cases in several ways, i.e. thanks for the information!

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Living Room / Re: Good links in english to the mathematics a programmer needs

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2018, 05:32 PM »

You use that word. Sympathy. I don't think it means what you think it means.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 6

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2018, 04:07 PM »

If I'm not alone, why does the world prefer to write horrible software?

-Tuxman (August 28, 2018, 11:56 AM)

Because it's paid for by companies that only care about the bottom line?

20MB these days is literally nothing...

-Stephen66515 (August 28, 2018, 01:05 PM)

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-Deozaan (August 28, 2018, 02:42 PM)

Well played, Deo.  Well played. 

Why would you want to only be able to store the same number of applications on a much larger drive?

-Tuxman (August 28, 2018, 02:14 PM)

Who can fault that logic? 

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Living Room / The Web is still a DARPA weapon

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2018, 10:48 AM »

The Web is still a DARPA weapon (and other stuff)

A visualization of all of the root servers, and the countries that control them

I went into this admittedly skeptical.  I just saw the title, and it was a free article (the only kind I read on Medium) and decided to read it.  He makes a convincing case.  The title is only a part of the article; he goes into other parts of history and the problem until finally settling on his point at the end:

Seriously, WebAssembly is the worst idea since JavaScript in browsers.
Not only because it’s a binary blob served by foreign companies but run on your PC, under the law of your country, but because they know you, your relations, your interests, and will “customize” that blob.

Even if implemented perfectly, without a single security issue, it’s a weapon.

You might object that JavaScript is already a weapon ready to fire on every PC and every smartphone out there. A weapon that constitutes a threat to free speech even if we ignore the power of Google and friends.

And you would be right.
JavaScript is a dangerous weapon that should be disarmed.

I cannot really understand how European states let this happen.

I’d like to think they were bribed, but the sad truth is that they do not understand the matter. Not even a little bit.

But developers do!
It’s time for developers to fix this mess.

Though it seems somewhat that he was burying the lede, the information is actually really interesting, and the point well is taken, so I forgave the article for it.



from The Web is still a DARPA weapon on Medium.

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Living Room / Re: Good links in english to the mathematics a programmer needs

« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2018, 07:30 AM »

This year I begin to teach Stadistic. Next year I want to teach to informatic engineers the first course of mathematics and so on the next years.
I would like to know and share good links in english basically for this purpose.
Best Regards

Do you know a good one ?
 

-Contro (August 19, 2018, 11:45 AM)

What ones do you already know?  Surely you googled or binged or whatever first, right?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Story of the development of the famous Goldeneye 007 videogame

« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2018, 01:23 PM »

I used to go to more formally organized ones.  I haven't been since Digital Overload (https://cad-comic.co...rload-tournaments-2/) closed up shop.  I used to go to one that was held at dragon*con too, but after they got larger, it was more corporate sponsored (read not-BYOC) instead of grassroots.  PAX East does seem to have a place for BYOC, so I was thinking about trying there, but more likely to go to PAX unplugged.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gridinsoft Antimalware's reputation?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 25, 2018, 09:29 PM »

No problem.  The fact that he said AntiMalwareBytes Premium 3.5.1 probably threw you off. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gridinsoft Antimalware's reputation?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 25, 2018, 03:48 PM »

Hello, i am using Products from https://www.malwarebytes.com/ and dont think it is bad. Since Shades did not mention it, it might be bad?

-KodeZwerg (August 25, 2018, 03:24 PM)

That's what the OP said he was using.  Many people are using that on this board, and I personally think it's a good product.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extract REGEX matches from multiple text files

« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2018, 03:14 PM »

Cleaned up the thread as requested.

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Android Apps / Re: Updating my Android Apps

« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2018, 09:46 AM »

Yes, but it doesn't block their ads, as their ads are not annoying pop-up ads that interfere with a clear and clean browsing experience.  Besides.  They don't want the competition. 

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2018, 01:35 PM »

I rate pretty similarly, and value thought-provoking ideas that show you what they mean, rather than telling you.  And sometimes it's nostalgia or production values.  But if I ever feel like I'm not enjoying the movie at certain times, I do vote down for those scenes.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2018, 11:45 AM »

Standouts to me - Totally Agree on Upgrade.  Liked the original Tomb Raider but not this one so much.  Totally agree on Man on Fire- was surprised that it was rotten on RT.  Thought Man from UNCLE, Safe, Hancock, and IW were better than the ratings, and Dredd 01 a lot worse (guilty pleasure, but I can realize that it's not very good).  The others were the same, close enough not to quibble, or haven't seen.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 10:33 PM »

Are those your ratings?  It's quite interesting to see how different people rate different movies.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve announces Proton - improving gaming on Linux with open source software

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 08:57 AM »

Well, depends on if Wine actually supports all of the games.  Some aren't supported, right? 

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

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 08:55 AM »

It's not invisible to me.  It's just characters that my browser doesn't support.



They're a supporting member, so it's probably something that isn't rendered correctly on western browsers, i.e. DBCS or something like that.

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Living Room / Re: Privacy (collected references)

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 08:51 AM »

The amusing Black Mirror video above, though artificial, is arguably a prescient comment on the implicit risks inherent in a tendency for "oversharing" and/or "data leakage" in the IT-enabled SNM (Social Network Marketplace) and other personal-data-related databases (e.g., health, insurance, banking, education), where private data that one might have previously perceived as being peculiar and useful/relevant in one context only is subsequently seen to be useful/relevant in another, or maybe many other contexts. These are typically the data connections and interconnections that the SNM operators and data miners would tend to seek/exploit, for financial gain.

When I was contracted in 2003 to get a failed data analysis project back on the rails, I learned quite a lot. It was a complex IT project to implement a BI (Business Intelligence) system and we had to train the users in the application of BI (it's actually quite powerful and hairy stuff) to meet the growing and complex business needs of the power (energy) company who had contracted me into the project recovery role. I learned that what the Defence sector had always taught was true - that all data/information can be interconnected at some stage - and that, for BI, the world could be simply envisaged as one or more universes of dynamic data - each having its own peculiar descriptive and dynamic data model and that, as in the popular SF concept of parallel universes, there was the potential to interlink these data universes (mass aggregations of dynamic data sets), constantly combining/recombining and drawing data from one to the other, enabling the BI analyst to discover data relationships in a way that would probably not have previously been feasible on such a mass scale, using the then prevailing technologies.

Fast forward to 2018, where we can perhaps now better understand why we might have the apparent privacy shambles that we see around us. It was a gold-rush, opportunistic, every man for himself. Presumably the Google/Facebook founders (and others) would have seen it coming. There were little/no regulations to limit or constrain the progress of BI and its application in the field of mass demographics. Now that some regulations have belatedly been or are being implemented, it arguably may be too late anyway - locking the stable door after the horse has bolted; Pandora's box has already been been opened.

-IainB (August 22, 2018, 04:45 AM)

It's arguably too late for any of us that are already born and have any social media links.  You'd have to have someone aware of not only what they share, but what others share about them.  You can make it harder to make the links, but I'd posit that it's impossible to restrict data after it has already been ingested into the system of data that surrounds us.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extract REGEX matches from multiple text files

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 08:40 AM »

Thanks, but it needs me to run it as admin, which I cannot.

-kalos (August 21, 2018, 09:42 AM)

And it's taken 4 pages to find that out - something that should have been stated earlier.

Any idea why the below does not work?

(gc *.xml) -match '(?s)<\?xml\ version="1\.0"\ encoding="UTF-8"\?>.+?</dbts:PmryObj>'

Sure.

Q: Whats's the input data?
A: We don't know.

Q: What's the command output?
A: We don't know.

Q: What version of Powershell are you using?
A: We don't know.

Q: What OS are you using, (including architecture)?
A: We don't know.

Q: What's the statistics of the input file, (eg. size)?
A: We don't know.

Q: Why the hell are you trying to process all files at once instead of one at a time?
A: We don't know.

etc, etc, etc, etc ... for 4 pages.

Idea: We don't know.
Why: See point 1 here.

-4wd (August 22, 2018, 06:30 AM)

Did you look up how to get the answers on Google for the ones related to your environment?  And several of those that you're giving are not things that you wouldn't know.  You know what your input data is.  You know what you would expect as an output.  You know this stuff or can get it.  Which leads people to believe that you're not trying to give us the information.  And so why waste time with incomplete information?  Learning difficulties is just an excuse for all of the questions that you posted.  None of those have to do with learning.

I literally highlighted what you typed for "What version of Powershell are you using" right clicked on it, searched in Bing, and came up with the answer.  There's no reason you couldn't do the same.

http://lmgtfy.com/?s...rshell+are+you+using

https://www.bing.com...rshell+are+you+using

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Android Apps / Re: Checklist DC (Android app) - v1.23 Aug 20, 2018

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2018, 12:02 AM »

Oh... I see now.  You just moved discussion for ScoreTracker DC.  I saw that you had locked it, but didn't see the new thread appear as unread.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Polywick Story Server

« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2018, 05:39 PM »

Maybe to generate hype?  That twitter account also leads to the following homepage: http://www.polywickstudio.com/

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Android Apps / Re: Checklist DC (Android app) - v1.23 Aug 20, 2018

« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2018, 05:17 PM »

Very nice!  I noticed that you took down another app too... is another thread coming for that one?  Or have you rolled up more functionality?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extract REGEX matches from multiple text files

« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2018, 05:16 PM »

Thanks, but it needs me to run it as admin, which I cannot.

-kalos (August 21, 2018, 09:42 AM)

TOPIC
    about_Logical_Operators

SHORT DESCRIPTION
    Describes the operators that connect statements in Windows PowerShell.


LONG DESCRIPTION
    The Windows PowerShell logical operators connect expressions and
    statements, allowing you to use a single expression to test for multiple
    conditions.


    For example, the following statement uses the and operator and
    the or operator to connect three conditional statements. The statement is
    true only when the value of $a is greater than the value of $b, and
    either $a or $b is less than 20.


        ($a -gt $b) -and (($a -lt 20) -or ($b -lt 20))


    Windows PowerShell supports the following logical operators.


        Operator  Description                      Example
        --------  ------------------------------   ------------------------
        -and      Logical and. TRUE only when      (1 -eq 1) -and (1 -eq 2)
                  both statements are TRUE.         False


        -or       Logical or. TRUE when either     (1 -eq 1) -or (1 -eq 2)
                  or both statements are TRUE.     True


        -xor      Logical exclusive or. TRUE       (1 -eq 1) -xor (2 -eq 2)
                  only when one of the statements  False
                  is TRUE and the other is FALSE.


        -not      Logical not. Negates the         -not (1 -eq 1)
                  statement that follows it.       False


        !         Logical not. Negates the         !(1 -eq 1)
                  statement that follows it.       False
                  (Same as -not)


    Note: The previous examples also use the equal to comparison
          operator (-eq). For more information, see about_Comparison_Operators.
          The examples also use the Boolean values of integers. The integer 0
          has a value of FALSE. All other integers have a value of TRUE.


    The syntax of the logical operators is as follows:


        <statement> {-AND | -OR | -XOR} <statement>
        {! | -NOT} <statement>


    Statements that use the logical operators return Boolean (TRUE or FALSE)
    values.


    The Windows PowerShell logical operators evaluate only the statements
    required to determine the truth value of the statement. If the left operand
    in a statement that contains the and operator is FALSE, the right operand
    is not evaluated. If the left operand in a statement that contains
    the or statement is TRUE, the right operand is not evaluated. As a result,
    you can use these statements in the same way that you would use
    the If statement.


SEE ALSO
    about_Operators
    Compare-Object
    about_Comparison_operators
    about_If

If you can't run an elevated command prompt... good luck in this endeavor.  You're going to need it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extract REGEX matches from multiple text files

« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2018, 09:04 AM »

but I cannot see in the list of operators the OR 

-kalos (August 21, 2018, 04:02 AM)

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. Get-Help about_Logical_Operators

-4wd (August 21, 2018, 07:49 AM)

I did that, but I get this:

[Select]

PS H:\> Get-Help about_Logical_Operators
Get-Help : Get-Help could not find about_Logical_Operators in a help file in this session. To download updated help
topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help topic in the TechNet library at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Help about_Logical_Operators
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Get-Help], HelpNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HelpNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetHelpCommand

-kalos (August 21, 2018, 08:31 AM)

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. Get-Help about_*

if you don't see it there,

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. get-help update-help