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WordPress multisite (subdomains), easy and good imo

My experience with Wordpress is that it's double minded over whether it's a blogging platform or a CMS, to not good results.  It also takes a bit to maintain, as it's a very big surface for attack, and very popular.  You might take a look at Ghost, and the users could host their downloads offsite, i.e. Dropbox or something.
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Living Room / Re: Weather notifications
« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2017, 01:24 AM »
I'm sure 4wd's comment was directed at kalos, who unfortunately so far always needs to be asked 20 questions in order to find the relevant info

Ah... that makes sense :)

I have tried various which I uninstalled, dón't remember the names. Many of them required me to pay to be able to use notifications. Others just didn't work (never got notified of the rain on one day).


I just want an app to do a simple thing: inform me at 7am if it is going to rain today or not (perhaps when about and how likely) with a push notification. Simple isn't it?

ifttt_wu.png

If that's your only criteria, just use IFTTT.  The image above shows the recipe that I used.  And it gives me a forecast on my device every day at 7AM, no fail.
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Living Room / Re: Weather notifications
« Last post by wraith808 on September 02, 2017, 07:59 AM »
Usually the weather forecast authority relevant to your country is the best source of info, eg. The Met Office for the UK.

What have you tried, and why are they unsuitable?

Cue round of 20 questions ...

Well, he says that

I am struggling to find an androip app that will notify me early in the morning if it is going to rain in my area during the day or not.

I have tried several but none is suitable.

But doesn't give answers for that.  The alternative to asking him to unpack those statements is to cue the rounds of a lot of different suggestions that might have those same limitations.
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Living Room / Re: Weather notifications
« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2017, 03:29 PM »
What have you tried, and why are they unsuitable?

I use IFTTT to do this.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A Shortkey Win-5 (in the numpad) under w8.1
« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2017, 01:10 PM »
Sigo haciendo algo mal. Tendré que revisar si estoy aplicando un compilador antiguo.
me da un par de errores al compilar.

Voy a bajarme un compilador nuevo. No tiene mucho sentido que el ahk funcione bien (salvo el error windows del UAC desactivado) y que el exe de errores al compilarse.



I am still doing something wrong. I'll have to check if I'm applying an old compiler. It gives me a couple of errors when compiling.

I'm going to get a new compiler. Doesn't make much sense that the ahk works well (except for the disabled UAC windows error) and that the exe errors when compiling it.
Sorry wraith808 this answer don't go still in this forum.
When I have the full answer I will answer IainB.

Best Regards

P.d. I am trying the script in ahk, autoit and batch to try under photo express. Firts attemps go bad.


You wrote a post in a language that most here probably don't speak, so I posted a translation.  That is all.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A Shortkey Win-5 (in the numpad) under w8.1
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2017, 09:26 PM »
Sigo haciendo algo mal. Tendré que revisar si estoy aplicando un compilador antiguo.
me da un par de errores al compilar.

Voy a bajarme un compilador nuevo. No tiene mucho sentido que el ahk funcione bien (salvo el error windows del UAC desactivado) y que el exe de errores al compilarse.



I am still doing something wrong. I'll have to check if I'm applying an old compiler. It gives me a couple of errors when compiling.

I'm going to get a new compiler. Doesn't make much sense that the ahk works well (except for the disabled UAC windows error) and that the exe errors when compiling it.

(For those that don't speak the language in question, I've thrown it in google translate and posted the translation)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Automated ftp uploads
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2017, 03:32 PM »
Mwb's solution will work, but Wraith's suggestion would be what I would go for: Use Automatic Screenshotter and then a standalone tool that monitors a directory and automatically ftp's files from that directory to your destination.  I think that would offer the most flexibility and lowest impact on your pc.

I'd done one before in the past (AutoFTP); maybe I can try to re-write it.  But it won't be very soon, so I'd try to utilize one of the ones out there.  I'd used Directory Monitor, but apparently they've changed that app quite a bit.  A quick google brought up the following responses:

http://watchdirectory.net/
http://venussoftcorp...05/thefolderspy.html
http://leelusoft.blo...tch-4-folder-23.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now
« Last post by wraith808 on August 30, 2017, 01:28 PM »
Node.js is not even a language.
And the jury still hasn't decided on the js part...

Can we be a little nicer on new member contributions?
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It was probably another case of a spammer necro'ing.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Automated ftp uploads
« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2017, 03:07 PM »
Seems like you'd want Automatic Screenshotter instead of Screenshot Captor.  However, I've never used it, so I can't say what it has in terms of automated ftp upload- perhaps if it's not there, Mouser would be willing to put it there.

Even without that, however, there are several programs that do automated uploads on directory changes, so you could monitor the location where the screenshots are stored, and use one of those to do the automated uploads.
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highend01 your comments to Contro did seem pretty harsh -- we are here to support one another and find constructive ways to offer criticism and learn from one another without insulting each other.



Having said that..  Contro I do think it would be helpful if you tried a little harder to search for solutions to things before you post so many posts on different subjects.. If you post 30 posts in a week they will inevitably tend to get lost in the clutter, almost like the boy who cried wolf.

It would be better I think for you to plan out posts a bit more and spend more time on each one explaining what you have already searched for, etc.

There are no hard and fast rules about this kind of thing, but I think a good piece of general advice would be to spend more time crafting your posts and space them out a little so that you don't have so many posts asking for assistance in so many different areas at once.

And then when you do post asking for assistance I think you will get a better reply since those of us reading will know that you have tried to solve the problem a bit yourself and that you actually care about the replies we give.



Again, there is nothing wrong with any one of your posts -- I think the reaction was more to the sheer quantity of short posts (about different issues) in a short time frame.


Thanks mouser.  This is exactly what I was trying to get across, and well stated.  And as Anand said, I fully agree with your statement about the community.
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I'm just saying, why so serious about a non-issue?  It doesn't notify you, you don't have to read, and you definitely don't have to be so aggressively negative about it.  Just don't read it.  And pretty much the DC forum is about being nice and being helpful.  And it's not like we're exactly very busy.
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I will comment
Just don't!  >:(

This is a forum, not a damn chat system :down:


This is a bit outside of the community we have at DC, don't you think?  Yes, he asks a lot of questions.  It's up to the reader to read it, however.
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Living Room / Re: Decentralized Cloud Storage Services (Storj, Sia, etc.)
« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2017, 05:52 PM »
So I get paid a few dollars worth of the Storj cryptocurrency each month for renting out some space on my HDD.

Storj cryptocurrency?
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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2017, 11:52 AM »
Is Amazon's Glacier a proper backup destination, if it's your sole remote? I thought it was pretty slow + "expensive" to get stuff out of Glacier? One of the important things wrt. backups is testing your backup archives regularly, which doesn't seem to fit too well with Glacier's model...


For me, it's part of that 3-2-1 thing- my offsite cold storage.
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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2017, 07:13 AM »
There's Glacier, depending on your needs.  Definitely not for the end user, and more of an archiving service than anything else, but you can use something else to back up locally, then copy those images offsite using Glacier in case of total disaster.

Apps that support that sort of paradigm include:
https://fastglacier.com/
https://github.com/brianmcmichael/SAGU
https://www.arqbackup.com/
https://www.cloudber...ndows/amazon-s3.aspx

And here is a quick guide to backing up with Glacier:
http://www.technolog...with-amazon-glacier/

I backup my needed files to my Synology NAS, then upload them to Glacier.  I also back them up in OneDrive.  I don't have a fast restore option using images.

http://wahlnetwork.c...synology-to-glacier/


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Interesting... they use an OSS engine called searx.  There are several other providers that use this.

https://github.com/a...wiki/Searx-instances
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...

Is there a reliable way for consumers to defend against this?  I've taken to searching more than one search engine, but this is a pain.  Is there a reliable service that searches a lot of search engines and collates the results, so this becomes obvious?

I believe DuckDuckGo and Startpage do aggregate/metasearching.  Dogpile is still around, which combines Google and Yahoo results.  Qwant is a European search engine jumping on the "we won't track you" bandwagon.

Oh, looky what I found:
List of Metasearch Engines
http://l-lists.com/en/lists/e34z3f.html


DuckDuckGo mentions nothing about aggregate search.  And the last time I evaluated them, there were results missing from their searches that were in Bing and Google for the same search.
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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Surface Pro problems
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2017, 11:48 AM »
Microsoft disputed the study, saying the company’s return and support rates differ significantly from the Consumer Reports study.

“We don’t believe these findings accurately reflect Surface owners’ true experiences or capture the performance and reliability improvements made with every Surface generation,” the company said in a statement.

And with the findings being based on an 'estimated' failure rate from '90,000 users', I don't have confidence in their findings.  If they released their study, then it could be scrutinized.

Microsoft has never won my trust for its Surface line, and I see no reason to start buying its laptops now.

And that reveals the bias.
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I'll give you a hint: Google can control which search results show up when people do a search for "encrypted email." Guess which Gmail competitor didn't show up in the search results?

Is there a reliable way for consumers to defend against this?  I've taken to searching more than one search engine, but this is a pain.  Is there a reliable service that searches a lot of search engines and collates the results, so this becomes obvious?
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Living Room / Re: Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2017, 12:34 PM »
I never said anything about Agile boards looking at that statement.  I talked about backlogs. 

True, it was in another that I haven't quoted. This one:

... The purpose of an agile board (and trello) is not in the implementation, but the backlog. ...

Anyway, it sounds like organisation you are in is more involved in pretending to be agile rather than trying to become more agile and your team is adapting. Just make sure you don't carry-over any bad practices once you switch organisations. :)

I'd recommend joining local meetups, if you haven' already. Those can be good places for intellectual sparring and building competence outside your organisation.

I said Agile to mean scrum/kanban rather than writing it every time; I thought that people would get the intent.  Sorry if there was any confusion.  Onward!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List
« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2017, 07:55 PM »

I think there's a problem intrinsic to trying to make OnTask digital.  Some things need to be touched, and felt, and simple in order to succeed. What I've found using OnTask is that I'm bad at prioritizing large amounts of anything, and estimating how long something does take or should take, and easily distracted.  Backlogs, after working with Agile for 4+ years don't really work, as you're never really trying to clear them, so they become built up with a lot of detritus that distract.  There's a whole lot of that on our backlog at work, and we're never going to prioritize them, even if we have nothing to do.  They just don't matter.  And so the stack rank becomes meaningless. 


Don't get me wrong, but it seems that your team needs some help with getting their scrum or kanban game to next level.

Your backlog piling up is not necessarily a bad sign. That is, if you stop to reflect on it and dig into the root cause of it.

There are no agile boards. There is a scrum board (or sprint board) and kanban board. I prefer kanban approach.

The OnTask thingy you mention is very minimal kanban system - prioritize 3 tasks, limit WIP to 1.

I never said anything about Agile boards looking at that statement.  I talked about backlogs.  The backlogs are of things that have been prioritized and stack ranked, but their ranking never changes because we have more higher priority things.  We know this.  But the stuff at the bottom, we never get to, because there's so much work on higher priority work to be done.  And yes, that's what the on task thing is; I know about scrum and kanban, and know that our scrum process isn't necessarily the best.  But the powers that be don't want it to be the best.  They want to say that they're using agile, but maintain control.  They want to know everything about how things are going to turn out from the beginning.  So we're constrained by that mindset, and they make the rules and pay the checks, so I just shrug.

But that's not my primary desire to use it.  It's the fact that it's physical.  And it's to get around my own problems in prioritizing a large amount of tasks.
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Hi, and welcome to DC!  Can you please update your URLs so that they are not shortened, but point to your actual site?

Thanks!
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I guess the question I'd have, and one I've been pondering lately is, why does either have to be better or worse?  If you don't like the interface, then don't download it.  Too many times developers (including me, which is why NANY is hard for me at times) think that unless they have a new idea, they have nothing to say.  It's not just in development, but writing, art, movies, etc.  And it's not just about the product itself, but about the themes.  As long as it does what it says it does, and there isn't a non-obvious flaw that would be a potential weakness to those that are using it, and that they might not know, then just introduce people to other software (I'd not heard of rufus) while getting away from the negativity towards them.

And as far as the size and what they're doing- both are open source.  Neither is hiding anything.  The size is probably due to libraries or something, but I haven't looked.

Just my opinion, and something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
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Quote from: wraith808 on August 09, 2017, 03:40 PM
Or is there another impediment?

That would appear to be an insinuation for purposely impeding the request.  It may just be lack of command of the English language, or somehow he believes asking "will there be other impediments" (impede: delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder) was not rude and he believes its meaning is "can you think of anything to add that might be helpful?"  That is difficult to imagine.

Equally difficult was at that point envisioning a completion of the request.  The response less than two hours before wraith808's was in entirity,
 

I am a native English speaker, so that's not the problem here.  When I was asking was there another impediment, I was asking was there another problem?  Was there something else in what was delivered that was lacking.  Was there something else you needed?  Was there another hindrance or obstruction in doing what you needed in that solution that Skrommel posted?  Was there another requirement that you needed.  I just wanted to know if there was some deficiency in what was offered before I spent the time to try to figure out how to get the chrome extension on the windows store.

My perspective was that if there was nothing else, I could look at getting it on the Windows store, since that was outside of his area of expertise.  To carry the solution across the finish line.   But, apparently there was another impediment - Skrommel's suggested solution targeted Edge, and you wanted it to target Internet Explorer.  A simple statement would have brought that to light.

That you interpreted "Is there another impediment" as "That would appear to be an insinuation for purposely impeding the request."  And used that as the rationale for your next reply- I can't even make that association.  If it indeed didn't satisfy your requirements, you could have indeed simply said, it doesn't meet my requirements as stated; I need it in internet explorer, and he only tried it in Edge.  Which would have more than answered the question.  And I would have tried what he did in IE, and tried to find something that allowed Chrome extensions to work in IE.

With that in mind, I looked to see if there was a way to implement what Skrommel did in IE.  There was not.  I also looked to see if there was a way around that limitation.  Without fully coding an IE add on, the facilities that might have worked (greasemonkey scripts) are no longer supported.  And might have fallen outside of your parameters as you wanted something easy to install.

And one other thing, I'm not sure who you're targeting with your statement:

...knowing that those same three people had completely derailed any chance of the project again seeing the light of day with baseless concepts for confusing the goal and insistence for a /tip/ that was intended and might have increased had they not supported the person and waited to see if skrommel returned and wanted to request /more/.

But if it is me, I never said anything about your intended charity or money or anything, other than to say that the money at hand wasn't an issue.
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