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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.

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Living Room / Re: I have a new found love for taking 360 degree panoramic photos!

« Last post by 4wd on October 05, 2015, 08:29 PM »

Funny, I couldn't get either of those images to show 360° in  either Firefox or MS Edge browsers.

-IainB (October 05, 2015, 08:50 AM)

Worked fine in Pale Moon, K-Meleon, IE11, Chromodo.

I did notice stitching errors in both of them, by the way.

Almost always going to happen where you have straight lines.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HDMI signal drops and reconnects (Mac) - DC plz help!!1

« Last post by 4wd on October 04, 2015, 08:11 PM »

I have the same problem with a tablet when connecting to TVs via mini-HDMI -> HDMI, the TV blanks every 10-15 seconds as it tries to resync with the tablet.

Nothing can be done about it other than find a TV it doesn't happen with - as Shades mentioned, unintended consequences arise from using differing versions of the standards.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Plugin Request: Active Directory users

« Last post by 4wd on October 03, 2015, 08:51 PM »

You can have Powershell format the output any way you like, eg:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. Get-ADUser -Filter * | Format-Table Name

will return a list of names for all AD users - in theory, I've got no way to test it.

Output will be:

Code: Text [Select]

1. Name
2. ----
3. name 1
4. name 2
5. etc
6. etc

Add the -HideTableHeaders parameter if you want to lose the headers, eg:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. Get-ADUser -Filter * | Format-Table Name -HideTableHeaders

Get-ADGroup - cmdlet for listing/searching groups.

Full list of AD cmdlets: https://technet.micr...ibrary/ee617195.aspx

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Plugin Request: Active Directory users

« Last post by 4wd on October 03, 2015, 07:46 PM »

You can do it using Powershell since it can access pretty much anything to do with ADs, eg:

Searching Active Directory with Windows PowerShell
Get-ADUser
Essential PowerShell Cmdlets for Managing Active Directory - This has good examples of searching for a user

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by 4wd on October 03, 2015, 02:33 AM »

Well, it ran for a while and then died.

Here's the console/terminal log:

[Select]

[libprotobuf WARNING google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.cc:505] Reading dangerously large protocol message.  If the message turns out to be larger than 1073741824 bytes, parsing will be halted for security reasons.  To increase the limit (or to disable these warnings), see CodedInputStream::SetTotalBytesLimit() in google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.h.
[libprotobuf WARNING google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.cc:78] The total number of bytes read was 574671192
Successfully loaded models/VGG_ILSVRC_19_layers.caffemodel
conv1_1: 64 3 3 3                                                        [3/276]
...
Setting up style layer          2       :       relu1_1
Setting up style layer          7       :       relu2_1
Setting up style layer          12      :       relu3_1
Killed

I'm trying again with smaller images, but don't expect different results....

-Deozaan (October 03, 2015, 02:03 AM)

I had the exact same problem, I swapped over to a VPS (running Debian 7) with twice the RAM/VSWAP and it got as far you did above.

I think it's going to take a machine with a fair bit of RAM, (eg. 16GB), before it'll do something useful.

The style image I was using is only 190x266 (12.5kB) and the picture is 160x107 (11.1kB) and it still bombs out.

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Living Room / Re: Tweets > 140 characters?

« Last post by 4wd on October 03, 2015, 01:39 AM »

Oddly enough, he could have gained an extra character 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by 4wd on October 03, 2015, 01:25 AM »

@JavaJones, if you want to post some pictures in this thread, I'd be happy to try them out once it's done getting set up, if 4wd doesn't get to them first.

-Deozaan (October 02, 2015, 11:37 PM)

I gave up, Debian 8.1 in a VM didn't want to work so then I swapped to a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 and while the whole installation took less than 10 minutes, the process was killed when it came to generating images due to the following:

[02:13 root@wc neural-style] >  th neural_style.lua -style_image image.jpg -content_image GEDC1428.JPG -gpu -1
[libprotobuf WARNING google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.cc:505] Reading dangerously large protocol message.  If the message turns out to be larger than 1073741824 bytes, parsing will be halted for security reasons.  To increase the limit (or to disable these warnings), see CodedInputStream::SetTotalBytesLimit() in google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.h.
[libprotobuf WARNING google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.cc:78] The total number of bytes read was 574671192
Successfully loaded models/VGG_ILSVRC_19_layers.caffemodel
Killed
[02:13 root@wc neural-style] >

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by 4wd on October 02, 2015, 07:25 PM »

P.S. If anyone gets the "DeepStyle" software running locally I'd love to send a few image pairs through it. I have some things I want to test.

-JavaJones (October 02, 2015, 05:33 PM)

For those interested in DeepDream, there's a downloadable VirtualBox VM available with it already installed, Ubuntu + Google's DeepDream.

Dodger Tools (5th image down the list) - 1.6GB

EDIT: The VM is set to German language, you can set it to English by opening a Term, editing /etc/default/locale, and then rebooting.

I'm currently installing Debian 8.1 to a VM to play with DeepStyle.

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General Software Discussion / Re: macro to edit a .txt file?

« Last post by 4wd on October 01, 2015, 05:43 PM »

That's because until you enter the ) the capture group hasn't been completed.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by 4wd on October 01, 2015, 03:22 AM »

I never tried it in a preview, but the spoiler in your post does nothing for me in IE, but works fine in Edge or FF.

-Stoic Joker (September 29, 2015, 03:13 PM)

Seems to work fine in IE11 on Win8.1Pro here in Deo's post but I can confirm it doesn't work in preview.

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General Software Discussion / Re: macro to edit a .txt file?

« Last post by 4wd on October 01, 2015, 01:45 AM »

How would I tell WG to find numbers 0 thru 9 and colon [:] all in one shot and make them disappear?

-bit (September 30, 2015, 11:49 PM)

([\[\]\d":]) - match [, ], digits, ", or :

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General Software Discussion / Re: macro to edit a .txt file?

« Last post by 4wd on September 30, 2015, 08:47 PM »

WildGem



Or if you want to do a global search and replace over multiple files there's Find & Replace or PSPad, both free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: macro to edit a .txt file?

« Last post by 4wd on September 30, 2015, 02:28 AM »

Some text sources list unwanted numbers in [square brackets], and although SedTester still removes the numbers, the square brackets cannot be removed with SedTester.

-bit (September 30, 2015, 01:50 AM)

s/[][0-9\":]//g

Place the closing square bracket immediately after the opening square bracket, it'll be read as a character, and so will the following opening square bracket.

You also need to escape the quote (\") to have them removed.



You could also remove double spaces created by character removal (see last two lines in example) by using a SED Script:

s/[][0-9\":]//g
s/(  )/ /g



But that may screw up any space formatted tables.

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Living Room / Re: Quirky Asian Movies

« Last post by 4wd on September 24, 2015, 08:18 AM »

Don't know about quirky but a triplet of my favourite Japanese Sci-Fi are:

Gantz
Another Gantz
Gantz: Perfect Answer

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Living Room / Re: TOR Vidalia - cannot connect

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 10:27 PM »

Try the alpha version: https://www.torproje...tall-5.5a3_en-US.exe

All I did was run it to extract, then run the Start Tor Browser shortcut, clicking Connect on the next window.

Just tried again, took 35 seconds for connection on first run, 5 seconds for subsequent runs.

Copy the folder to a flash drive and try it on another computer.

I entered Firewall and set a rule to 'allow' TOR connect & TOR exe; no success.

-bit (September 23, 2015, 09:38 PM)

What TOR Connect ?

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Living Room / Re: TOR Vidalia - cannot connect

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 09:13 PM »

Hasn't TOR Vidalia ceased to exist?

Now it's either TorBrowser or the main gateway/relay program.

TorBrowser 5.5a3 (latest alpha) connected OK after about a minute the first time I started it, thereafter it connected in about 10 seconds.

Only needed to allow tor.exe through the firewall.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 06:48 PM »

I usually install any drivers first thing after a Windows install, (then let it do its updates), if for nothing else than to let the chipset/video/SATA work optimally using the correct drivers rather than MS generics.

But seeing as it's a baseline recovery install, it's probably got all that already.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 06:39 PM »

How would I get it to show just the video in full-screen?

-bit (September 23, 2015, 01:53 PM)

Via streaming?

Use VLC, Media->Open Network Stream->paste in Youtube link.

Go to Tools->Effects & Filters->Video Effects->Geometry and enable Interactive Zoom.



Click Hide to hide the controls after you're done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tips for setting up a new Win7 laptop and installing lots of software fast?

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 06:08 PM »

0. Remove any manufacturer bloatware 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 12:39 AM »

^Yeah, I want to vote 0 and I can't.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CCleaner Cloud

« Last post by 4wd on September 23, 2015, 12:36 AM »

Don't know if you had to have been running Agomo up until now to keep the 10 computer limit, (as opposed to signing up and not installing/running).

I've been running it over the same four computers since the start of the beta.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CCleaner Cloud

« Last post by 4wd on September 22, 2015, 11:44 PM »

The advantage is when your dad turns up and mentions that Youtube is complaining that Flashplayer is out of date and you tell him that it was updated on his computer at 11:56 this morning

Or that you can also uninstall some unintentional program installations, (eg. Chrome), and see what other junk has been installed since the last time you were roped into fixing the computer without having to ring up and walk them through the steps.

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General Software Discussion / CCleaner Cloud

« Last post by 4wd on September 22, 2015, 07:56 PM »

Piriform's Agomo has finally come out of beta and is now called CCleaner Cloud.

Free users: If you sign up now you're limited to managing three (3) computers; if you signed up while Agomo was in beta you're limited to ten (10) computers, (you're listed as CCleaner Cloud FreeBetaUsers).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by 4wd on September 22, 2015, 06:03 PM »

Thanks mouser!