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2001

Living Room / Re: Multimeters are indispensable when working with any electrical apparatus.

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 08:52 PM »

Apparently you can never have too many:



Plus the monster:



One thing about an analogue meter: "It don't need no steenkin' batteries to measure voltage and current."

 

2002

Living Room / Re: Super Annoying Freezing Mouse (and Keyboard) - can ANYONE help, PLEASE!?

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 06:05 PM »

Check the EventLog for anything else happening at the associated time.

Also, do a backup and try GhostBuster to remove all redundant drivers from the system, if that doesn't make a difference, then I'd probably remove the motherboard drivers and see if it works OK on the default Windows versions.

Failing that, you may have a hardware problem with the USB sockets no longer providing enough contact pressure to ensure reliable connection.  No really easy fix for this but one thing I've done is slightly squeeze the plug in my fingers.
You can see in the image that this slightly bows the USB plug shield which increases the contact pressure a little.  YMMV, but I've done it to good effect over the years, just don't go overboard on the pressure.



Another idea, I have a netbook with a USB port problem where anything plugged in will appear/disappear whenever the plug/cable is moved slightly, pulling out the USB plug slightly, (1 or 2 mm), fixes it.

2003

Living Room / Re: wireless networking and wifi printer help

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 05:36 PM »

The much more sedate windows name resolution (NetBIOS) frequently suffers at the hands of overzealous security software blocking the name broadcasts causing them to not resolve. Typically this is mitigated by using a static address for the printer, and pointing the print driver's port at the static address.

-Stoic Joker (March 03, 2015, 07:04 AM)

 

You have just answered a problem I was having with a friend's network printer ... have a beer on me 

2004

General Software Discussion / Re: How to connect external storage? (sas cables, HBA card, adapters, ??)

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 05:34 PM »

You do realise that we will want to see assembled photos of this monumental effort?

Purely so we can rest easy knowing we won't have to go through it again ... even if it is by proxy 

2005

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Long left click as Right Click

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 05:25 PM »

The more I thought about the more it would seem like you'd need to practically install another handler which would cater for all conditions, (ClickLock, other program handlers, etc) ... and my brain can't cope with that

However, the Chrome, IE, and Explorer should be doable by checking for the window class under the mouse at the time of clicking and subverting the normal mouse handling for the timeout period.
ie. Instead of allowing the click to happen immediately the button is pressed, delay it until the button is released for periods less than the timeout.  For periods longer than the timeout, block the primary click and send a secondary click.

You could probably make it window configurable by adding window class entries to the ini.

The current code (which includes lots of comments, something that's totally against my normal modus operandi ):

See above.

Archive contains everything required to build, (except MouseOnEvent UDF) - download from here MouseOnEvent UDF.

2006

General Software Discussion / Re: Why won't my laptop run Firefox?

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 04:54 PM »

On stackoverflow a user listed the exact same DLLs (as shown in above screenshot), as being named by Dependency Walker as missing. He then installed three OCX files, and voila his problem was gone - even though DW still listed the many DLLs as "missing"! Maybe a coincidence. He never came back to name the OCX files.

-Curt (March 03, 2015, 02:33 PM)

Did you try the two VC++ Redistributables mentioned in that thread?

This problem is related to missing the Visual studio "redistributable package." It is not obvious which one is missing based on the dependency walk, but I would try the one that corresponds with your compiler version first and see if things run properly:

VS 2010
VS 2008

I ran into this problem because I am using the VS compilers, but not the full VS environment.

2007

General Software Discussion / Re: Why won't my laptop run Firefox?

« Last post by 4wd on March 03, 2015, 04:55 AM »

Is there any differences in the reports without you running the two versions - ie. just open them with DW and see what's reported as being missing between the two versions.

2008

Living Room / Re: DonationCoder 10th Anniversary plans, ideas, changes, fundraiser?

« Last post by 4wd on March 02, 2015, 08:10 PM »

I don't suppose there's any plans for a double walled stainless steel version of the DC mug - the one I won a few years ago only lasted about 9 times before it became a bottomless cup of coffee ... literally 

2009

Post New Requests Here / Re: OU and OK (for 4wd)

« Last post by 4wd on March 02, 2015, 08:02 PM »

In the script, duplicate this line as many times as needed for each extension and then change the extension it looks for:

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1. for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`dir /b /a-d *.url`) do (start "" "%%~a" && %windir%\system32\ping -n 1 -w 3000 1.1.1.1 >NUL)

Shortcuts:

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1. for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`dir /b /a-d *.lnk`) do (start "" "%%~a" && %windir%\system32\ping -n 1 -w 3000 1.1.1.1 >NUL)

Microsoft doc(x):

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1. for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`dir /b /a-d *.doc*`) do (start "" "%%~a" && %windir%\system32\ping -n 1 -w 3000 1.1.1.1 >NUL)

Adobe PDF:

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1. for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`dir /b /a-d *.pdf`) do (start "" "%%~a" && %windir%\system32\ping -n 1 -w 3000 1.1.1.1 >NUL)

BTW, the 3000 changes the speed at which items are loaded in milliseconds, eg. 2000 = 2 seconds - don't set it less than 1000 otherwise who knows what'll happen.

2010

General Software Discussion / Re: Best program for filtering access to website by IP address

« Last post by 4wd on March 02, 2015, 07:32 PM »

@questorfla: What installation of Apache are you running?

Is it WAMP or some other flavour (and the version of it)?

2011

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Long left click as Right Click

« Last post by 4wd on March 02, 2015, 05:17 PM »

It doesn't work on the address bar of chrome, IE, or a windows explorer window. After I highlight text and long left click, when it does the right click, it just deselected the text. Anyway to fix that? If not, that's fine it seems to work great everywhere else!!

-c.gingerich (March 02, 2015, 07:56 AM)

I have an idea about how to get around the problem, it means interrupting Windows mouse button handling completely and only passing through clicks and not holds, where that's going to be a problem is things like dragging windows around.  Unless I start putting in some form handling dependent on window class.

I'll see what kind of kludge I can mangle in - not sure how successful that'll be as they seem to use their own custom handlers for that area these days.  Pale Moon seems to work OK even though the text get deselected the primary click seems to be delayed just enough that it works.

EDIT: Doesn't seem to work on the desktop all the time. It worked once (i think) and now does not.

Interesting, I can't get it to not work on the Desktop - if I'm a little slow in drag selecting, (anywhere), I get the context menu instead.

I think this is also going to be dependent on your mouse settings in Control Panel, eg. ClickLock won't work anymore probably unless I find out some way of determining whether it's enabled or not.  Not even sure what'll happen if you have Single click to open enabled.

Maybe I should just post the code and let you figure it all out 

2012

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Long left click as Right Click

« Last post by 4wd on March 01, 2015, 11:17 PM »

OK, see if this works, (or formats your drive or something).

LMB2R - Left Mouse Button -> Right

Two files, an executable and a ini where you can specify the time delay and pixel tolerance.

Copy the files anywhere, rename them to anything you like.  Since it uses primary and secondary mouse buttons it'll also work if you've swapped buttons in the mouse config, (ie. you're a southpaw), in which case you might want to rename it to RMB2L  

LMB2R.ini

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1. [Settings]
2. Time=500
3. Zone=5
4. [Windows]
5. Window1=CabinetWClass|Edit
6. Window2=IEFrame|Edit
7. Window3=Chrome_WidgetWin_1|Chrome_WidgetWin_1

Time = delay in milliseconds
Zone = pixel tolerance, (applies to both x and y direction - can separate that if you like)

It doesn't require the ini file to work, if the file doesn't exist it will default to values of 500ms and 5 pixels.

You can exit the program either by the tray icon menu or the hotkey Control+Alt+Shift+x, (the hotkey was purely for a "Get out of jail" in case the mouse started going weird - it can be removed when proven not necessary).

I'll post the code once I know it works

Addendum: Not really a bug but if you use it on a SysTray icon so that its menu opens and then LMB click on the Taskbar, you'll get the Taskbar menu.  Seems to be the only area in which this happens, I could probably get around it by area exclusion but it doesn't seem to cause any problems so I'm kind of reluctant to implement something to try to stop this behaviour.

UPDATE: v0.0.0.5
Add: Add Window/Control classname specific handling.
Add: Classnames.exe to help you get the above.

2013

General Software Discussion / Re: Why won't my laptop run Firefox?

« Last post by 4wd on March 01, 2015, 08:47 PM »

You could try Dependency Walker and see what differences there are in system requirements between the version that does work and the later ones.

2014

General Software Discussion / Re: Find all files in a directory that match a list of names and make copy of each

« Last post by 4wd on March 01, 2015, 08:42 PM »

You could probably fix the & in file names thing by escaping them, (^&) - trouble is DOS is so convoluted when doing something like that, (even though string substitution is relatively easy), that it's usually quicker and easier to write something in AHK or AutoIt.

I just do it in DOS for the intellectual exercise ... or because I'm a masochist 

2015

General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for program that can copy folder hierarchy with checkboxes and size est.

« Last post by 4wd on February 28, 2015, 10:49 PM »

EDIT: see if anyone else chimes in here - this is not working for me on Windows 8.1 -
I am not getting asked if I want to recreate the hierarchy.

-tomos (February 28, 2015, 03:58 PM)

Works fine:



Do note that while you can turn on Calculate folder sizes, it'll only do it for the parent, any sub-folders don't get calculated and aren't added to the running total in the Status bar, (as you can see from the bits I've highlighted - a folder with ~36MB of files but only ~10MB in the running total).

I don't know if there is a setting that will propagate the folder selection to included files, this would fix the total size selected discrepancy.

2016

Non-Windows Software / Re: Pale Moon browser now available on Android

« Last post by 4wd on February 28, 2015, 10:03 PM »

Seems to be a little faster in browsing, (subjective naturally) ... I'll use it just because it fires up faster than Firefox.

2017

Non-Windows Software / Pale Moon browser now available on Android

« Last post by 4wd on February 28, 2015, 04:27 AM »

As per the subject title: Pale Moon on Google Play



Release notes

2018

General Software Discussion / Re: Ad blocking add-ons in Pale Moon 25

« Last post by 4wd on February 28, 2015, 04:22 AM »

Moonchild Productions now has AdBlock Latitude - a replacement for AdBlock+ and AdBlock Edge that works with the Pale Moon browser.

About this extension

Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser.

Adblock Latitude is designed to be a drop in replacement for ABP and will utilize all your exsisting settings. However, ABL is more than that. It intends to also replace Adblock Edge by removing the hard coded Acceptable Ads feature.

Adblock Latitude can be installed over the previously available Pseudo-Static version of Adblock Plus but you will have to uninstall the Pseudo-Static of Adblock Edge as these will conflict as will the orginal versions of ABP and ABE. Likewise, if you were an ABE user you will have to setup ABL to your previous settings.

Compatibility

Adblock Latitude version 3.0.2 works with Pale Moon 25.*

2019

General Software Discussion / Re: Find all files in a directory that match a list of names and make copy of each

« Last post by 4wd on February 27, 2015, 09:10 PM »

Doesn't like '&' in the file names but it seems to work:

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1. @echo off
2. set source=C:\source
3. set dest=D:\dest
4. set list=C:\list.txt
5. pushd %source%
6. for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (%list%) do (echo.%%a && call :FindIt "%%~a")
7. goto :End
8.  
9.  
10. :FindIt
11. for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%b in (`dir /b /s /a-d-s-h "%~1"`) do (call :DoIt "%%~dpb" "%~1")
12. goto :EOF
13.  
14. :DoIt
15. set str=%~1
16. set str=%str:~0,-1%
17. set file=%~2
18. rem NOTE: omit /MOV to COPY instead
19. robocopy "%str%" "%dest%" "%file%" /MOV
20. goto :EOF
21.  
22. :End
23. popd

2020

DC Gamer Club / Re: Far Cry 4 was amazing

« Last post by 4wd on February 27, 2015, 06:48 PM »

^ F&^%#@'n spot on 

Though I usually used close range weapons, the sniper rifles make it far too easy - but the .50 certainly makes short work of the large critters. 

2021

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on February 27, 2015, 04:56 PM »

Are you sure you're not using the old sync?  In the new one, effectively everything is a merge unless you delete the online db.  

-MilesAhead (February 27, 2015, 05:37 AM)

My bad, Pale Moon still has the option Firefox doesn't - shows you how often I use Firefox  
I run my own sync server but don't use it any more since I only use Firefox based browsers on Windows based computers, it's a lot more efficient to just replace the contents of the profile with the one I want.

@4wd: in the list Firefox (Pale Moon) Extensions used by @4wd (your FF PaleMoon extensions), you have Greasemonkey v1.15.
Is there any reason you have not updated to v2.3?

-IainB (February 27, 2015, 08:49 AM)

Most likely because I'm lazy and don't go looking for updates, and the add-on doesn't auto-update.  Plus it works with the scripts I'm using so there's never been a reason to update it.

2022

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Long left click as Right Click

« Last post by 4wd on February 27, 2015, 04:33 PM »

I was going to do a quick check in AutoIt as it has some MouseEvent UDFs that let you hook into what the mouse is doing but unfortunately other things are currently getting in the way of doing anything useful 

Next week I should be able to see if it can be done in AutoIt.

2023

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on February 26, 2015, 05:51 PM »

At the risk of duplication I thought it might be useful to cross-post this recent, and rather relevant and informative comment from @4wd:
(Thanks @4wd - there are some extensions there that look quite handy and that I don't think I have tried out yet, so I shall get busy.)

-IainB (February 26, 2015, 02:18 PM)

Your welcome, though quite a few came from mentions elsewhere in the forum.

I should point out that Lightbeam is rendered pretty much useless by my browser settings and other add-ons, ie.
Options -> No third party cookies
Options -> All cookies session only (which is actually pointless due to setting below)
about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable = false
about:config -> browser.cache.disk.capacity = 0
RefControl
RequestPolicy

Means that Lightbeam almost always displays a series of disconnected sites.

2024

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on February 26, 2015, 05:24 PM »

I think it should work more like the SyncPlaces FF AddOn where you could send and receive with overwrite.

-MilesAhead (February 26, 2015, 04:51 PM)

In Firefox, Pale Moon, (and probably other Mozilla based versions), just select Sync Options when you're Creating/Linking and you can change what happens:



So you can effectively have one master browser and all other iterations are slaves.

Or do you mean you only want to update some of your Firefox based browsers when you want rather than have them synchronised?

2025

General Software Discussion / Re: Best program for filtering access to website by IP address

« Last post by 4wd on February 26, 2015, 05:06 PM »

You probably could use a GeoIP module for Apache and then grab the free MaxMind GeoLite Country database, or you can get a more accurate version of the database for $50, GeoIP2 Country.

As for a GeoIP module for Apache, (on Windows I'm guessing), I think I'll leave that bit to someone with more brain cells than me