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Living Room / Re: Gencon board (and video) game convention, Indiana Aug 2-5, 2018 - Ill be there
« Last post by wraith808 on July 31, 2018, 05:39 PM »
I knew about the RPGs :)  I just didn't know about the video games.  I guess that they're trying to fend off PAX.  I was thinking about going to PAX East or PAX Unplugged next year as both are closer to me than GenCon or Origins.  But considering the fact that I'm supposed to be trying to purchase a house next year, it probably won't happen.
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Living Room / Re: Gencon board (and video) game convention, Indiana Aug 2-5, 2018 - Ill be there
« Last post by wraith808 on July 31, 2018, 12:23 PM »
Unfortunately a bit far away for me.  One year, though!  Do they actually have video games there now?  I thought it was more tabletop rpg and board games, but it might have updated...
1528
General Software Discussion / Re: Check your browser before accessing the Donation Coder site??
« Last post by wraith808 on July 31, 2018, 12:22 PM »
So I can post now?
-Arizona Hot (July 31, 2018, 12:20 PM)

Seems like you just did..?  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to extract tree hierarchy in xml?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2018, 07:53 PM »
I've used their JSON viewer on a large file before (7MB+) and it handled it with aplomb.  It doesn't extract the hierarchy, but it does visualize it, so he can know what to copy from the tree.  Just a suggestion.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to extract tree hierarchy in xml?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2018, 02:04 PM »
You could also use an online one.

https://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2018, 02:02 PM »
Yep.
-mouser (July 30, 2018, 11:37 AM)

But you didn't get a chance to ask anything?  They just popped on and off?

Seems rather irresponsible...
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2018, 11:31 AM »
Were you there at the time that they were?
1533
General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 30, 2018, 08:06 AM »
Right,

Disabling updates is not an option. Making updates non-automatic might work, but is a poor option.
I don't want to have to remember to go and check for + install updates - I want it to be a fairly automatic process.

wraith808: that link is just Microsoft really, really, REALLY not getting what people are complaining about >_<
-f0dder (July 26, 2018, 06:02 PM)
In my case (Auto-Update OFF / metered connection) i use WSUS Offline Update to do such action.
= How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10? = solved with that. Or am i wrong?
-KodeZwerg (July 26, 2018, 11:48 PM)

I tried that, and found that there are side effects that aren't immediately obvious.  The one that I saw (thankfully before it became an issue) is that my syncing software for my backups stopped syncing because of the change.  With this in mind, I switched mine back.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2018, 09:10 PM »
Is it Russia, OR China, or Russia AND China, and how would you know?
Just curious.
It might be North Wales - a lot of agitprop there...    ;)
-IainB (July 29, 2018, 07:31 PM)

He would know from the IP addresses that the attacks are originating from, I'd assume.
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 29, 2018, 06:12 AM »
The attack continues.. So strange.. Why anyone would target us I cannot fathom..
-mouser (July 29, 2018, 05:49 AM)

Mistaken identity? The fact that we fight spam?  Just random?

I take it that the attacks vary widely in country of origin?
1536
N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 Entry - Huge Text/Log file reader
« Last post by wraith808 on July 28, 2018, 12:17 PM »
You might want to zip it and upload it instead of uploading a .EXE.

That said:

https://www.virustot...de59894800/detection

Clean.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Check your browser before accessing the Donation Coder site??
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 07:44 PM »
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I didn't see a more appropriate section, so... I just clicked on my link to the DC site. Instead of going directly there, my browser showed a large box that said something like "Check your browser before access the Donation Coder site."  The box soon brought me to the DC site. I exited,  tried again, and this time there was no such box.  I don't recall ever seeing such a thing before.  Is it related to the ddos attack I read about a day or so ago? 
-cyberdiva (July 27, 2018, 06:54 PM)


https://www.donation...;topicseen#msg421959
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 07:43 PM »
I, on the other hand, find the look pretty great. Having the legs flush with the rest of the structure seems... blocky, I guess. Current placement is good
-f0dder (July 27, 2018, 06:03 PM)

Agreed!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 02:59 PM »
Those might have been regular visitors, looking for my software.
-Tuxman (July 27, 2018, 02:09 PM)

I've never known you to be an optimist!  ;D ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 02:58 PM »


I would not have known if not for the progress pictures that this was not store-bought.  Great job!

do you take commissions  ;D :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 01:22 PM »
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-Curt (July 27, 2018, 01:15 PM)


Yes, mouser explained that he switched on CloudFlare protection, so that's what that is from.

Some NL sites I frequently visit were also unreachable a week or so ago. After research from a tech site that got hit, it appears that someone paid about 40 euro's to have a stress test website attack several domains for a day. No questions asked by the stress test website to see if the person paying for the stress test had anything to do with the requested domains...they just take the money and do their thing. The guy who paid for it was eventually caught, because he started to provoke/brag to one of the admins of the tech site through IRC.

-Shades (July 27, 2018, 11:30 AM)

A few I know are under attack also.  Why do people do such things for no real reason?
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 10:46 AM »
I take it that it's still under attack.  :( >:(
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2018, 10:25 PM »
wraith808: that link is just Microsoft really, really, REALLY not getting what people are complaining about >_<
-f0dder (July 26, 2018, 06:02 PM)

Oh, I know.  I guess I should have put /s on the end of my statement.   :-\
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2018, 05:37 PM »
As if by magic:

https://www.ghacks.n...cted-update-reboots/

However, I'd still rather have control rather than a DS Model predicting my behavior...
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Living Room / Re: Procrastination as a phase in a project
« Last post by wraith808 on July 26, 2018, 05:08 PM »
Most of us know procrastination. Gets in the way and stops us from doing things.
-tomos (July 26, 2018, 07:03 AM)

I prefer to think of it as failure to overcome inertia.
-4wd (July 26, 2018, 07:42 AM)
you mean it's inertia that leads (or can lead) to procrastination?
Thinking about it, there can be a sort of a bunny-in-the-headlights vibe when starting a new project...

-tomos (July 26, 2018, 03:34 PM)


Analysis Paralysis.  I know it well.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 25, 2018, 11:28 PM »
But you have to have Pro to do that, don't you?
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 25, 2018, 09:51 PM »
I believe the necessary policies only work on enterprise versions, not even pro versions >_<

Removing the task files are not enough, they get re-created. The same goes for setting all ACLs to deny access, Windows will eventually go "Lol, I'm LOCALSYSTEM, bitch, what are you gonna do about it?" and reset/recreate the ACLs.

-f0dder (July 25, 2018, 01:28 PM)


I mean making something to run resident that checks for the task files being created, and deleting them again.  It worked for a while; I had that folder locked down and had created another bogus task with the same name that did nothing, and locked that down.  It worked until one of the big updates, but hasn't worked since then.

Hello Sir, did you tried all THIS methods?
-KodeZwerg (July 25, 2018, 04:51 PM)

I've tried all of them other than the metered connection bit.  I was just skeptical about other ramifications and not fed up enough to do it.  I'm trying it now, though.
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning
« Last post by wraith808 on July 25, 2018, 01:26 PM »
Ah... I was wondering about that loading page.  Glad that you got it back up!  Who did we piss off, I wonder...
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to REALLY stop ******* Windows Update on Win10?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 25, 2018, 01:25 PM »
Yeah... I looked into this a while ago.  The only ways are (a) by policy because businesses wouldn't put up with this and MS knows it or (b) some 3p solution.  I've tried a few.  The only one that sticks is deleting the task.  I even tried using their settings in the registry- and they changed them.  I was getting close to creating some custom way to monitor for those tasks, as I saw that they'd been added even after I removed them, added a bogus task and then locked that one from access.  I think the task removal is all that's required from my use of it, but who knows.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to close a Fortran DLL routine when exiting Visual Basic (front-end) program
« Last post by wraith808 on July 24, 2018, 08:07 PM »
The parameter it's asking for is a Windows handle. 

But beyond that, there's something intrinsically wrong with this, I think.  Where did you get that EndDLL function from?  It seems to me that you're mixing ideas in calling the Fortran DLL from VB, and though you have it working, it's really not being called as intended, therefore your results could be suspect, as your problem coming out of the method point towards memory access errors.

Just ideas- I'm shooting very much in the dark here with only partial code to work from; it appears that your method, if it's defined as above, is not defined as _stdcall.  Check that first link I put in there- the instructions are for Fortran90, i.e.

If you are using CVF, then just add the following to the declaration of
mydllsub:
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES STDCALL:: mydllsub
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES DLLEXPORT:: mydllsub
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES ALIAS: 'mydllsub'::mydllsub
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE:: myarray,n,m

Then remove that EndDLL function and try it- that would be my final suggestion.
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