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Living Room / Re: which phone?

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2014, 03:15 PM »

OMG, how long has that been there?

This used to be a real annoyance with the Play Store - thanks allen 

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General Software Discussion / Re: auto switching of network drive mapping

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2014, 03:50 AM »

Can you not use Task Scheduler to execute a script to demap the drive when the computer goes to Sleep and/or Shutdown?



I made an EventLog filter back here for power events if you want to check the Event ID.

It would seem to be the simplest method.

You could probably use the Task Scheduler to run a script on wake up to check whether it's connected to the work LAN or not and run following mappings/commands as appropriate.

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Living Room / Re: which phone?

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2014, 12:44 AM »

The other thing which annoys me about all the major stores is the way you can't really do refined searches and 99% of free apps come with ads or limitations which the vendors don't reveal until after you've installed the app.

-Clive (December 16, 2014, 10:59 PM)

Plus with Android, you can't remove what you've previously installed, (and probably no longer use), from the list kept in your account at the online Play Store - which is a f'n PITA.

See below

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Living Room / Re: looking for an adapter

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2014, 05:22 PM »

It would be easier if you just told us the laptop model then we can look up the plug/socket photos/specs - and considering that the plug sounds like it's going to be some proprietary shape, you're probably going to be out of luck.

My suggestion is move your laptop and mouse further away from each other.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Directory Opus Discount for Current Owners of v11 - Expires 1-1-2015

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 08:24 PM »

Wonder if it's because yesterday I tried to upgrade my already upgraded v10 using the other deal ... needless to say, it told me it had already been upgraded  

Thanks again, I'll pass this on also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 11 Released!

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 08:21 PM »

In the past, when I'd download a file with Firefox, the downloaded file would show up immediately in the download folder when open in Dopus. With v. 11 however I thought something was wrong because I was looking all over the place in the folder for the latest downloaded file and couldn't find it. It was only after some considerable time that the file eventually showed up.

Has anyone else had that experience?

-dr_andus (December 14, 2014, 06:40 PM)

Yes, but it's always been some retarded AV that was the cause - the download would sit in Firefox/Pale Moon/etc at %100 for up to 15 seconds before the AV program would finally decide it's OK.

It's why I always try to use an AV where I can set at what point a file gets scanned, and writing it isn't one of them.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Directory Opus Upgrade w/ Double Disount - Expires 1-1-2015

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 06:18 PM »

Thanks for that, passed it on to some friends still running v10 

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 06:11 PM »

^me too 

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 05:58 PM »

@wraith808: I guess if you'd read the books or any of the hype then you'd know they were aimed squarely at teens.  I usually just go, "Sci-Fi, I'll have to give it a try."  

Plus, I guess, it's the hope that maybe one of these films will actually be worth the time

@Ren: Unfortunately those aspects of Equilibrium didn't carry over very well into Ultraviolet.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Free Afterfall: Insanity Steam key giveaway

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 01:41 AM »

Indie Gala are giving away free Steam keys to Afterfall: Insanity



^That's a link.

After inserting a valid email address, you need to join the Indie Gala Steam group and verify a Captcha.  Haven't tried it because I already have Afterfall: Insanity


Also, if you spend at least $10 in their store you get a free copy of Afterfall Reconquest Episode 1.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2014, 01:18 AM »

Divergent

-Renegade (December 13, 2014, 07:36 AM)

I'm starting to find these movies rather tedious being, seemingly, rather teen oriented.

Divergent
The Maze Runner (first of what seems to be a series)
The Hunger Games
The Giver (which reminded me of a toned down PG13 version of the far better Equilibrium)
etc

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Non-Windows Software / Re: A little CentOS 7 help please :)

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 06:45 PM »

BTW, if you don't mind sharing, if you execute 'which grep' on the command line, what is the result you see?

-ewemoa (December 12, 2014, 06:22 PM)

Well, it was a minimal install, I had to install which before I could 'which grep' 

Answer was the same as the 'whereis grep' in the OP: /usr/bin/grep

Which leads us to:

A quick glance suggests that .install.sh is checking for grep ...

  Stupid, stupid, STUPID - I didn't think to do ls -A in the directory 

Now I can see why it failed, not so much that it couldn't find grep but that which wasn't installed ... aaarrgghhhh!

As soon as which was installed, it worked.

Thanks guys and especially you ewemoa 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for dial-up Internet Speeds?

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 03:03 PM »

And then there's this thing, listed full size in all its pain!
 (see attachment in previous post)

-TaoPhoenix (December 03, 2014, 11:18 AM)

You do know you can avoid that banner by using the Wikipedia site in another language, don't you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus file names are cut

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 02:51 PM »

Is probably another Swiss, since French and German (beyond his seemingly English OS) is to be found in his screenshot

-peter.s (December 12, 2014, 09:55 AM)

Since I've also had software that provides the exact same filenames, I guess that makes me Italian ... or French ... or German ... or North American ... or English ... or Australian ... or a New Zealander ... or Spanish ... or Argentinian ... or Mexican ... or just another human stuck on a planet full of them.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: A little CentOS 7 help please :)

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 02:22 PM »

Could it be that the make script messes up your $PATH setting ?

-Ath (December 12, 2014, 07:41 AM)

I don't think so, $PATH is the same after running make as it was before running, of course that doesn't preclude it being changed while it's running and reverting afterwards.

The same source compiled successfully on both CentOS 5 & 6, x86 & x64, without a problem - the only difference, (other than OS), being that those VPSs weren't minimal installs.

Or does it switch to another user-context for executing stuff (sudo <otheruser>) ?

Again, I don't think so, this is a fresh install of CentOS 7 so there's only whatever users are created at that point and I only log in as root, (I really should get out of that habit).

Link to source code / tarball under consideration?

-ewemoa (December 12, 2014, 07:57 AM)

http://www.softether...nux-x64-64bit.tar.gz

Using these instructions: Installing SoftEther VPN 4 on CentOS 6.5 Minimal x86_64

Doing a search just now I've found someone hosting an rpm for it, I may try that, (which isn't ideal), if I can't get it to build.

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

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 06:49 AM »

It's almost Christmas, so it must be time to look at physics!

-Renegade (December 12, 2014, 05:56 AM)

Considering I first read that almost 40 years ago, you have a lot of catching up to do 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: A little CentOS 7 help please :)

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 06:46 AM »

Odd.  Grep is usually in /bin/grep rather than /usr/bin/grep from my experience.

-40hz (December 12, 2014, 06:11 AM)

I added /bin to $PATH but it made no difference, (even though there is a /bin/grep).

Forgot to mention it's x64 but I don't think that'll make a difference.

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Non-Windows Software / A little CentOS 7 help please :)

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2014, 04:50 AM »

I hope one of our Linux gurus can give me a hand with this.

I've just installed CentOS 7 Minimal on a VPS and I'm trying to get SoftEther VPN server working on it, for which I need to download and compile it, (which I've done on 3 other CentOS 5 & 6 VPSs).

However, when I run the make command I get:

[root@wc vpnserver]# make
"grep" command not found.
Installation is aborted.
make: *** [default] Error 1

Which is a bit strange as I can use grep from the command line without a problem.

Output of $PATH and whereis:

[root@wc vpnserver]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
[root@wc vpnserver]# whereis grep
grep: /usr/bin/grep /usr/share/man/man1/grep.1.gz
[root@wc vpnserver]#

Any one got any ideas I can try please?

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

« Last post by 4wd on December 11, 2014, 01:35 AM »

A few panoramas from my last trip, (these have been reduced to about 20-30% of their full size):

Pink flamingoes at Walvis Bay^w:


Jamestown from about halfway up Jacob's Ladder^w (supposedly 699 or 700 steps, I forgot to count):


Ascension Island^w, the uninhabited side.  Unfortunately we weren't in the 15% of ships who actually get to land, there's no pier, (just a rock outcrop), so if the sea isn't dead flat you're out of luck.


Mindelo^w:


Pop quiz: Who can identify the type of the half submerged boat to the left of the ARMAS ferry?

For interest: 12,515 geotagged digital photos.

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General Software Discussion / Re: antivirus and web defense

« Last post by 4wd on December 10, 2014, 07:43 PM »

For Outpost Security Suite, if you're lucky they may run another lifetime license deal at the end of the year, (3 PC lifetime license for the cost of a single year) - they've had two that I know of in the last few years.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi project: wireless file server

« Last post by 4wd on December 10, 2014, 02:46 PM »

I hate to tell you, that wasn't a USB drive you plugged in ... that was one of these.

 

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Living Room / Re: which phone?

« Last post by 4wd on December 10, 2014, 02:31 PM »

You may want to check out this.

-eleman (December 10, 2014, 10:17 AM)

You'll have to update your other post, Nokia have just released Here android into a more open beta, (used to have to download from Nokia).

https://play.google....id=com.here.app.maps

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus file names are cut

« Last post by 4wd on December 09, 2014, 09:55 PM »

Ok...my apologies for asking about it again. Not being a DO user, the previous answer (back in March in a different thread) went in one synapse, got relayed to the client who had asked me about it, and then went straight out the other. Having forgotten, I asked about it a second time.

-40hz (December 09, 2014, 06:29 AM)

No need to apologise, I was merely seeking to conserve energy by not having the same information duplicated ... somewhere some electrons will be happy ... I guess

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi project: wireless file server

« Last post by 4wd on December 09, 2014, 04:14 AM »

Sheer number of files, it spent a lot of time indexing when the computer powered up, (why? nothing is likely to have changed when it was powered down), generated an inordinate amount of HDD activity when the drives should of been sleeping, it also used a lot of CPU while doing it.

And we're talking across more than one drive per machine.

Since most of the time I had it set for one-way syncing, I just use SyncBack now, it runs once a day and doesn't generate all the extra activity and is sufficient for my needs.

If I had been able to set a time frame in which it operated then it probably would have been more useful to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus file names are cut

« Last post by 4wd on December 09, 2014, 04:03 AM »

@Ennovy - By "license checks" (as in plural) do you mean DO is one of those products that periodically or regularly "phones home" for a license verification even after initial installation?

-40hz (December 09, 2014, 01:29 AM)

Already been discussed from about this point here.

Once the initial license check is done, you can block it if you like, it doesn't affect the functionality of the program.

From the FAQ:

The times that Opus attempts Internet access are:

    

• When you use the FTP (or advanced FTP) features.
•    When you use the ImageShack Upload or Flickr Synchronization features.
•    When you send an email (or send a file via email) using the built-in SMTP client.
•    When you run the update checker (or it runs automatically due to your Preferences settings), and when an update is downloaded. The update checker will make a port 80 HTTP connection to http://www.gpsoft.com.au (which is the same IP address as smtp.gpsoft.com.au, so you might see that in a reverse DNS lookup) for the main version check, and another port 80 HTTP connection to one of Google's servers to get an RSS feed of news articles.
•    A third-party viewer plugin or Windows Explorer shell extension connects to the Internet. For example, the shell extension for Perforce (a source control system) is known to create network connections when you right-click files (more details). Shell extensions for various cloud storage systems may also connect to the network, for obvious reasons.
•    When verifying the integrity of the program.

This last item involves the various methods Opus uses to protect against viruses and illegal use of the software (DRM). You can block these using a firewall if you wish - Opus does not attempt to "evade" or "get around" your firewall in any way. Legitimate users have no reason to be concerned by this activity, and none of your personal information is ever transmitted in this way.