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1951

LaunchBar Commander / Re: One config for x86 and x64

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2018, 05:38 PM »

Hmm this is an interesting point.

I'm assuming you are talking about when you create a LBC node to show the contents of a folder?

You can specify multiple folders to list the contents of by using a | character between them, so you could specify for the folder contents the directories explicitly:
c:\Program files | C:\Program files (x86)

And that should do it..

But I could make the %ProgramFiles% expand to do that automatically..

Can you confirm that this is what we're talking about?

1952

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2018, 09:31 PM »

How to groom an Emu:

This had me laughing hysterically at times.

1953

Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2018, 11:36 AM »

Thanks everyone for such happy thoughts and encouragements.

A final photo, from our weekend in florida:


I will now resume total personal information and photo blackout for the next 15 years

1954

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2018, 09:51 PM »

4wd: Nice discovery, thanks for sharing that 

1955

Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2018, 09:11 PM »

Ferret really wants her human to see her new children:

1956

UrlSnooper / Re: URLSnooper can't sniff wirelessly on Windows 10?

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2018, 09:40 AM »

You're right, you did and I missed it the first time.  My ears are getting old

1957

UrlSnooper / Re: URLSnooper can't sniff wirelessly on Windows 10?

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2018, 10:55 PM »

Thanks for posting TeeJay, that's great news about NCAP winpcap-compatibility option -- it's the first I've heard about it. 

1958

Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2018, 07:07 AM »

You should be able to check fairly easily if user is on an x64 OS and not install/show the version for the wrong operating system..

1959

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2018, 12:58 PM »

Sounds like kodezwerg has another NANY 2019 entry..

1960

Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2018, 07:18 PM »

THEN AND NOW: What 12 candy bars looked like when they were first released

Very fun seeing photos of the old candy bars 

1961

Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2018, 07:09 PM »

ps. If you are wondering where Cody was.. Who do you think took the photos? 

1962

Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2018, 07:08 PM »

We had a low-key court wedding -- just the two of us, and just the way we wanted it

Some photos from the marriage/wedding:

1963

Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2018, 07:06 PM »

Thank you all so much for such warm wishes.. It meant a lot to me to receive such kind words from my extended family here.  And it was wonderful to hear from some old timers 

1964

Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2018, 06:06 PM »

Implemented. Next version will show printer name in caption bar of Print Preview dialog.

1965

Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2018, 05:31 PM »

The ironic thing is, this question from Kalos is one of his most reasonable and specific requests for advice, and a question that might not yield a quick easy solution with a google search.. Sounds like something someone might be able to give some advice about, or at least point him in the right direction..

1966

Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2018, 04:59 PM »

Don't keep your mouth shut, just infuse some kindness when you give advice, even if you might feel frustrated -- it makes new readers feel more welcome and comfortable.

1967

Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2018, 04:37 PM »

It's better not to answer, and let silence speak for itself, rather than to post snark, in my opinion.  DC remains a very open and inviting site, and some do seem not to help themselves.  But our responses to them can scare off others that we really could help.

What Wraith said.  We must all remember to be kind and polite.  If you feel like someone should search for answer themselves, wither let your silence speak or give them some kind encouragement to go search for themselves... We try to avoid snark and sarcasm here, even though the current era we live in thrives on it.. it's just not the DC way

1968

N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019 - Idea for an app synchronizing web service

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2018, 12:42 PM »

I had an idea for a web service that would be useful to my android apps and could be quite useful in general.
It's something I would be willing to collaborate on, though I'm not sure I have the time to focus on it unless I make it my nany 2019 item.

Background: Right now I offer synchronization in my android apps by using the dropbox API, which has an api that can assist in reading/writing files from multiple devices in a shared account.
This works but can be less than ideal for synchronizing data because it means its only appropriate when you yourself want to sync data from different devices of your own.
It's not useable by an app where you wanted to sync data with a friend because you they need to be using your same dropbox account and credentials.

So if you had an app, say an app where you might allow multiple people (say only 2 or maybe 100) to form adhoc sharing of data, what you need is an online "service" where it's easy to create a new "group" account where you could simply tell your friends the password and account id and they could all put that into their app to sync data through it.

So my idea is for a simple service that makes it easy to create such group sharing/synchronization accounts and save/load data through it.


As I was imagining it, the web service would have a back end and a front end.  In the back end an administrator could create different application profiles.  An application profile would have an ID, and some configuration settings describing the maximum size of groups and data files.  And would show some statistics about how many groups were created for it, bandwidth, etc.

The front end would be for users to create new groups for a specific application.  Each group would be tied to a specific application and have a unique password.  Alternatively you could have user accounts and let users create and manage groups so that they could identify different roles/permission levels for a given group, with different passwords for each role.

So here's how the system would be used:

As the developer of some apps, I would install this web service on the donationcoder server and only I would have access to the back end.  I would add each of my android apps to the back end.
Then in each app, the app would offer a synchronization mode that used this web service.  If a user chose to use the web service as the synchronization method, they would be asked for an id and password.
They key is that this id and password is not specific to a person, it's specific to the GROUP of users they want to have shared sync access to the data in that app.  They would then share that id+password info with the friends that they want to share/sync data with, etc.  You could simply make up a new id/password if you wanted to share/sync with a different group of people, etc.  Knowing the id+password is akin to joining the synchronization group for that app.

Just think of the web service as having a folder for each combination of APPID+GROUPID+PASSWORD, which it uses for synchronization.

The web service would limit the possibilities of being exploited for other uses by having a very limited api and strong restrictions on the number and size and format of files that it would store.  Perhaps each app would just allow one xml file, under 100k, etc.
The api would just provide a few functions for uploading and downloading files.

1969

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request - realizable option

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2018, 10:01 AM »

It would just show the contents of a single group of your choice -- so you could have it show an arbitrary group, or the NEW group, or Favorites, etc.  Maybe a simple dropdown so you could change the group listed easily.

1970

Living Room / Re: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2018, 05:51 AM »

Interesting quora post from someone who thinks the article is wrong:
https://www.quora.co...answer/David-Seidman

1971

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request - realizable option

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2018, 05:50 AM »

Interesting ideas.. They somewhat overlap with an idea I had..

I was thinking of a new optional window for CHS that would just show clips from one group (normally the NEW group), in a very compact form, and optionally docked to an edge of the screen with auto sliding/hiding or set to always be on top.

It would really have only 2 purposes:

• To show you the most recent clips at a glance
• To let you quickly double click an item to paste it into your current application.

Does it sound like this would satisfy your ideas as well?

1972

Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2018, 04:07 AM »

Cat and squirrel are best friends:

1973

Living Room / I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2018, 03:41 PM »

In the 13 years of DonationCoder, I've been pretty reticent about talking about my own personal life.
It's not that I don't view everyone here as family -- it's just a general shyness and reluctance to talk about personal details.

But I wanted to share with my donationcoder family that I am getting married next week.

 

It's definitely not something I expected to be doing a year ago, but we found ourselves in a rather unusual situation after a couple years of dating where we were either going to be separated on different continents or try to make it work as a married couple, and we've finally decided on the latter.  After almost 50 years it's a very different kind of adventure we're embarking on, and I'm excited about it and wanted to share it with all of you...

(I hope this explains why I may not have been on the forum as much as usual over the last couple of months -- but I hope to be back to my normal activity later this month).

It's just a court wedding so don't expect any fancy photos, and there's no reception to attend, but here is a photo of us during a recent hiking trip (I'm on the left!):



Bonus points: Can anyone identify where the photo was taken?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab selected region

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2018, 11:00 AM »

If all monitors are set to the same DPI the problem there shouldn't be a problem.. If you have multiple monitors at different dpi settings (for example one at 150% and another at 100%) then the problem will happen.  It could also happen if you connect monitors after SC has been started.  There might be a way for me to add an option to correct this, at the cost of having the controls (buttons, etc.) on SC being native small size.

1975

Living Room / The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2018, 10:44 PM »

Nice long cool article: "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies"

In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video...
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers... During the ensuing top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.

https://www.bloomber...rica-s-top-companies