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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on October 28, 2015, 11:45 PM »

Rambo vs. DJ Schmolli - video added to DJ Schmolli vs. Johnny Cash mashup - God's Gonna Cut You Down

WARNING: Did I mention Rambo?  There's a few seconds of warning before the clip starts - take heed if you don't like the sight of blood and guts, (even if it is fake).

Spoiler

In the meantime, Let There Be Rock! (The original video isn't on YouTube, and Bon Scott at the pulpit is just classic.)

-Renegade (October 28, 2015, 10:25 PM)

There was a better quality VHS rip at DailyMotion, you can view it via here: The Best Rock and Metal Videos

Yeah... I was looking for it earlier, and realized that it's not there.  The guy that did that video has some pretty cool stuff though... https://hearthis.at/djschmolli/

-wraith808 (October 28, 2015, 11:39 PM)

DJ Schmolli only does the mashup audio AFAIK, others put video to them - as in the Rambo one above.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2015, 08:04 PM »

Can anyone else think of a better rock anthem?

-Renegade (October 27, 2015, 08:52 AM)

Not better but another Australian rock band I've always been a fan of:

Rose Tattoo - Rock and Roll Is King

Another example of where I prefer the remix over the original, (unfortunately most remixes only have slideshows rather than video):

The xx - Missing (Round Remix)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2015, 11:36 AM »

An online friend has various playlists running in the background comprised of songs I'd forgotten and songs that have been remixed, (the remixed Bob Marley one above for example).  A lot were from genres I normally wouldn't look at but the remixed versions were more to my taste.

So I started identifying the ones they were playing and adding them to my list, in the process I wandered from remixes into mashups and found that one.

Glad you enjoyed it 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 4wd on October 27, 2015, 06:04 AM »

DJ Schmolli - Rock of Ages (Rock mashup - turn the volume up)

ReUnited - Sun Is Shining (only a slideshow but a really good rendition of the Bob Marley song)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Delete my applications' log directory and replace it with a symlink directory?

« Last post by 4wd on October 25, 2015, 05:22 AM »

Yes, you can do that.

I have Steam (~360GB of games) currently installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam, which is on a 111GB partition as far as the OS is concerned.

I installed Steam into C:\Program Files (x86) and then moved the contents to a 2TB drive and created a hard link back to the empty C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam directory.

Has worked fine for the last 4 or so years.

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Living Room / Re: Are RFID Skimmers FUD? Or a real, present threat?

« Last post by 4wd on October 24, 2015, 05:33 AM »

Interesting that the article mentions contact-less as going out of favour in the USA whereas here, (Australia), it has become rather widespread in the last two years or so.
CnP has been around for a few years with banks in the last year or so stating that signatures are no longer required for any CC transactions.

Not particularly concerned about RFID reading of CCs since the process to get a new card/recover funds is pretty painless, (from the one time CC fraud happened to me).  Plus it's easy to check whether there's any unauthorised activity on the cards.

I'd be more concerned about protecting objects for which there is no easy way to tell if they've been compromised, eg. ePassport, access card, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Are RFID Skimmers FUD? Or a real, present threat?

« Last post by 4wd on October 21, 2015, 07:04 PM »

I've pledged for a minimal wallet on Kickstarter: Wally Micro - The Minimal Wallet with a Few Surprises.

-wraith808 (October 21, 2015, 03:15 PM)

Going a little off-topic, nice looking idea except the price kind of kills it - for the last 30+ years I've just been using the plastic card wallets the bank provides free as my cash/card wallet.  About 3mm a side bigger than a card and can hold up to eight.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on October 21, 2015, 01:27 AM »

Battle Royale: I had never heard of this before, but from IMDB is seems that it was an updated remake based on the gruesome Battle Royal (2000), ...

-IainB (October 20, 2015, 10:04 PM)

@IainB: Which Battle Royale are you referring to when you say "updated remake" because AFAIK there is only the one film, Battle Royale (2000), or it's original title, Batoru rowaiaru.

Watched it and its sequel a few years ago and didn't think the first was too bad, can't remember much about the sequel - have to watch them again.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by 4wd on October 19, 2015, 08:35 PM »

stunning :thumbsup:

-tomos (October 19, 2015, 09:43 AM)

Thanks   If you do a image search in Google for "Kurume Bowl" the top few rows are all images from the same gardens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: one click shortcut to enable all default windows desktop icons

« Last post by 4wd on October 19, 2015, 07:19 PM »

... i still dont know how you found them

-questorfla (October 19, 2015, 05:38 PM)

FYI:

Google Search

Result

A search through the registry for NewStartPanel provided the rest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: one click shortcut to enable all default windows desktop icons

« Last post by 4wd on October 19, 2015, 06:09 AM »

The following values are applicable to Windows 8.1 (and probably Windows 10):

Code: Text [Select]

1. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
2.  
3. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
4. "{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000001   # Network icon
5. "{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}"=dword:00000001   # Libraries
6. "{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}"=dword:00000001   # Control Panel
7. "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000001   # This PC
8. "{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:00000001   # User folder

A value of 1 hides the icon, a value of 0 displays it, refresh the Desktop after changing the values.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by 4wd on October 19, 2015, 04:20 AM »

The Kurume Bowl at the National Rhododendron Gardens, (just up the road from me).



~6.96MB 6140x2526

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on October 15, 2015, 06:27 PM »

A lot better than IndieGoGo, where there have been instances of people funding devices that are not even possible.

They are on IndieGoGo also.

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Living Room / Re: Help needed re Zte "Join Me" software for PC sync <--> Telecom NZ "R1" phones.

« Last post by 4wd on October 15, 2015, 06:16 PM »

I think I've just got it.
I did a duckgo search: https://duckduckgo.c...29+manual&t=ffnt
The first item in the list of hits was: R1(TNZ) - Support - ZTE Devices - Tomorrow never waits
This links to the "Manuals" tab on the Support page.
From there:

• I saved the page to Scrapbook, which also swept up the software download files in
  file: p020111219589075332625.zip

-IainB (October 15, 2015, 08:35 AM)

The USB drivers for the TNZ R1 are available from ZTE CN here.

-4wd (October 14, 2015, 06:39 PM)

Same file. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft "Hyperlapse" tech is finally available to play with

« Last post by 4wd on October 15, 2015, 03:44 AM »

Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro trial has ended and the final version is now available from the MS Store at a cost of $49.99

Store link

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Living Room / Re: Help needed re Zte "Join Me" software for PC sync <--> Telecom NZ "R1" phones.

« Last post by 4wd on October 14, 2015, 06:39 PM »

... the software for Join Me is network carrier specific for the TelecomR1 phone.  Your link contained phones allocated to the Telstra network and didnt have the R1 phone on the list of phones designed for that software. ...

-nogojoe (October 14, 2015, 03:06 PM)

Sorry, didn't know that - there is an XML file in the archive that lists ZTE models, I wonder if one could be edited to R1 or it tacked on the end?

The USB drivers for the TNZ R1 are available from ZTE CN here.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Folder File Count and Move

« Last post by 4wd on October 14, 2015, 01:40 AM »

I'd give chcp 28591 a go, it's worked for me with various accented characters, (corresponds to ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)).

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Living Room / Re: Help needed re Zte "Join Me" software for PC sync <--> Telecom NZ "R1" phones.

« Last post by 4wd on October 14, 2015, 01:19 AM »

Your "friends" at CNET have v1.1.0B32:



Softonic and other sites also have Join Me but their download links are for installer stubs, unlike the one above which downloads the original installer, (even if it is a fairly early version).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Folder File Count and Move

« Last post by 4wd on October 13, 2015, 04:33 PM »

I had a few issues at first which seems related to characters in the folder name. I have separated those for the moment and will investigate later.

-magician62 (October 13, 2015, 03:21 PM)

You could probably get it to process those by adding a change codepage command (chcp) at the start of the command file to change the character set it uses by default, (normally 850).

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General Software Discussion / Re: One Key Popup for an Office phone directory

« Last post by 4wd on October 11, 2015, 08:07 PM »

There is Powershell: List Outlook Contacts with PowerShell

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. $Outlook=NEW-OBJECT –comobject Outlook.Application
2. $Contacts=$Outlook.session.GetDefaultFolder(10).items
3. $Contacts | Format-Table FullName,MobileTelephoneNumber,Email1Address

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win 10 Can't Tell One Processor From Another!

« Last post by 4wd on October 11, 2015, 04:58 AM »

Would I need to change MOBO too?

-CleverCat (October 11, 2015, 02:10 AM)

You'd need a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM if you went for a complete upgrade.

How much RAM is currently installed?

If it's only 2GB then you could try asking the store if they have 4GB (2x2GB) of used DDR2-800 from an old computer for a reasonable price, (or even free if you ask nicely ).  It should give a little more headroom when running applications.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win 10 Can't Tell One Processor From Another!

« Last post by 4wd on October 10, 2015, 07:43 PM »

As far as I know the Pentium 4 processor only comes as single core.

...

Now I must add that all of these experiences come from desktop PC's with the Intel Core2 Duo E8200 processor (2676 MHz a.k.a. Wolfdale), which was a very good model in it's day. And I know that performance between Core2 Duo processors varied quite a lot depending on the model in desktops, but even more so for models in laptops.

So I hope for CleverCat that she is not cursed with one of those...

-Shades (October 10, 2015, 08:57 AM)

It's a ECS G31T-M7 socket 775 motherboard, so it's using a Pentium E21xx Dual Core.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best REAL Program to use for AVCHD video format conversion

« Last post by 4wd on October 10, 2015, 01:04 AM »

Thanks 4WD and has a boatload of options that i presume  are best left alone by neophytes such as myself?

-questorfla (October 09, 2015, 11:59 PM)

The default Normal preset is good for anything that isn't device specific.  Otherwise, it has presets for Apple/Android devices among others.

I thought the conversion time was a bit long (took 36 mins to do a 3.2 GB file) but it id it with no errors and no questions asked and NO little hand poked out of the screen asking for $$ so I guess this is a really Free version?

It's just a different interface to the HandBrake engine, a bit easier by default but you can still get in and tweak settings if required.

Otherwise, there's also ClipToolz Convert V2, (also free - need to use DropBox download link near page bottom), which is designed for quality conversions using ffmpeg or ffmbc but it has a interesting interface, (ie. VidCoder is easier).

In theory, given that AVCHD is just MPEG4-AVC + audio in a transport stream, you could just remux the video+audio stream into a MP4 format container which would only take a minute or two.

eg. Using ffmpeg in a CLI:

ffmpeg -i inputvideo.m2ts -c:v copy -c:a copy outputvideo.mp4

The media player just needs to be able to handle whatever audio format the stream is, most likely AC-3 if it's from a camcorder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best REAL Program to use for AVCHD video format conversion

« Last post by 4wd on October 09, 2015, 10:53 PM »

VidCoder

http://vidcoder.codeplex.com/

Install, run, drop video on it, hit Encode.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: TV schedule software

« Last post by 4wd on October 08, 2015, 05:59 PM »

TV Scheduler Pro - I've used a commercial fork of this software for the last 5+ years and it has never once failed.

You can set it to automatically grab the XML for you, and if you have any DVB-T/S devices connected (using standard Windows BDA drivers), you can set it to automatically record based on various match criteria.