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Living Room / Re: DayAgainstDRM

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2017, 08:22 AM »

^ I totally agree.  I don't know if Packtpub or Pragmatic have that capability (I'm pretty sure Apress and Manning do not), but that seems like a big change not to talk to your partners about.  Perhaps they wanted to roll it out before they could hear the detractors.  I should have known something like this was coming after they bought out Safari and made the big changes there (which made me cancel that subscription).

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2017, 08:20 AM »

I saw Spiderman: Homecoming, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  First Spiderman iteration to get Peter Parker and more importantly his age right.  It seemed small in the way no other superhero movie has recently, and the inclusion of RDJ as Tony Stark helped to reinforce that IMO.  Also, it wasn't burdened by the origin story, though it was referenced, which gave it a bit of a lift.

Recommended.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2017, 10:44 AM »

Or you can try this without an external file

Watch the space after nn (this will increase the speed, farr will recognize you alias early

As soon as you type nn[space] it will display the complete list of entries from the Result(s)

Typing nn em will get your emacs result

[ Invalid Attachment ]

KR wjamoe

-wjamoe (July 12, 2017, 02:57 PM)

The reason that the file appeals to me personally, is that I store the file on dropbox, and can use it on any installation of FARR without retyping.  I also don't have to type it in the field in FARR, but just edit it in my favorite text editor.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2017, 10:43 AM »

I have a question now, trying to figure out this same thing - It shows the name of the file itself in the results, even though the location where the file is located is not in my search folders.  What might I be doing wrong?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by wraith808 on July 13, 2017, 09:13 AM »

Before, you had to enable some advanced and somewhat hidden features within Windows 10 to enable the Linux shell. Now it's as easy as joining the Insider program and clicking install from the Windows Store.

-Deozaan (July 11, 2017, 04:58 PM)

This is just a different way to get the Windows Subsystem for Linux that was available after the Anniversary Update, isn't it?

No special requirements other than Anniversary Update and 64bit - that's all I had when I installed it.

-4wd (July 13, 2017, 04:52 AM)

That's what the text of those big pictures say above. 

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Living Room / Re: DayAgainstDRM

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 10:20 PM »

Interesting. I do most of my book shopping at BookDepository. They have some O'Reilly books, but not all. If I was in USA I'd probably use Amazon a lot more.

-Attronarch (July 12, 2017, 03:33 PM)

I don't use Amazon that much because I don't want to be locked into Kindle.  I just shop there, and then try to find the books elsewhere.

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General Software Discussion / Re: need 'always on top' e-Post-It 4 WinXP.

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 10:18 PM »

I use Notezilla: http://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla/

I've also used Tomboy: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy
It's FOSS, but I found Notezilla the best option even having to pay.

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Living Room / Re: DayAgainstDRM

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 12:43 PM »

I can get the reasoning behind the change on their part- infrastructure and such.  But on the customer's part, it really sucks.  I tried to find just general O'Reilly products on google books.  And it was an exercise in frustration.  But if they're willing to lose the business from people that don't buy into their rent only philosophy (like me) and can't find their books easily now (because other companies are not going to necessarily make it easy to find all books from a publisher), then oh well.

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ProcessTamer / Re: UAC still requires permission...

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 11:57 AM »

The page also provided links to 2 applications to make the task of creating the shortcuts much easier. I tested them both and one of them doesn't work in Win10, and the other was discontinued by the developer, replaced by Winaero Tweaker, which does work well. 

-app103 (July 12, 2017, 11:50 AM)

Thanks!  Hopefully their disable reboot will work still.  My manual work around broke with some update, and this morning when I got up for a meeting, I was close to being late because it took a while to install their updates because it had restarted overnight.  I really want to stay on Windows.  But stuff like that tests my resolve.

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General Software Discussion / Re: need 'always on top' e-Post-It 4 WinXP.

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 10:53 AM »

are you just looking for freeware?  Or is payware good also?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 10:49 AM »

Having said all that, another possibly MUCH EASIER way to do what you want is not to make separate shortcut files, but make one test file with all the urls you want, and put it in a text file and create a "us" alias that uses the "filecontents" command to let farr search it.

-mouser (July 07, 2017, 08:04 AM)

Thanks for this reminder.  I really need to set up FARR to use the more powerful features, but always forget.

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ProcessTamer / Re: UAC still requires permission...

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 10:44 AM »

Nope. Thanks!  I don't unblock (whitelist in disconnect/turn off ublock) unless I trust the site, and its advertising stream, which is very few sites.  I'll pay for the site if you put it behind a paywall and it's consistently useful, but not trust their ads.

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ProcessTamer / Re: UAC still requires permission...

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 08:22 AM »

Have you tried using Task Scheduler to bypass the UAC prompts?

http://www.thewindow...-programs-bypass-uac

-app103 (July 12, 2017, 04:04 AM)

What does it say?  It wants me to unblock it, and I just don't trust sites these days.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux File Manager With A Preview Panel and Favorites catalog

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 08:07 AM »

Have you used any of those?  Because (1) many of them you have to download and try to even see the features, and (2) many of them just outright don't have the features that were asked for in the OP, especially a terminal file manager (no drag and drop, no preview pane by design).   A list of file managers with nothing else when there are set requirements is less useful than it might seem, IMO.

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Living Room / Re: DayAgainstDRM

« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2017, 08:02 AM »

I just logged into my account at https://www.oreilly.com/ and downloaded PDFs, haven't seen any DRM.

-Attronarch (July 12, 2017, 05:36 AM)

Your current files are fine.  But try to find one to buy or purchase.  You can't.  You have to sign up for Safari.  Then once those files are downloaded they are DRM'd.  It's a subscription service (that's all they offer now), so they have to be able to revoke your access.

Now, they're going against it- all books on their site are DRMd by default, as they've changed to being a platform, rather than selling their books.  When confronted with this, they said that you can purchase their books from other storefronts, but in all honesty, that's a dodge, rather than an absolute.  It might be understandable - except for the fact that PacktPub also has a platform, and still sells their books directly DRM free.

-wraith808 (July 10, 2017, 01:08 PM)

Wait a minute... Are you saying that all ebooks sold on O'Reilly's site now contain DRM? Including ebooks originating from other publishers?

In other words, is there a fundamental difference between the ebooks sold on this page of O'Reilly's site and the DRM free ones sold here, on the publisher's site?

-app103 (July 12, 2017, 03:45 AM)

Indeed.  You can no longer purchase files from Oreilly.  Only rent them.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: An Idea: Providing some small funding for a yearly (or 6 month) regular coder

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 06:17 PM »

Everyone will offer their comments on a public thread listing the new apps, and then a select group of long time dc members and those who have contributed to the fund will conduct some kind of vote.  I expect it will be largely just a matter how how many apps were released by each person.. with minor tweaking for giant apps counting as two units, or small apps counting for half a unit.  I expect it will be very non-controversial, but if there is some disagreement we can write a little script to do the voting and weighting. 

As I said, let's start with the simplest approach and if it turns out something more complicated is needed we'll code a solution

-mouser (July 11, 2017, 05:28 PM)

Sounds good 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 05:10 PM »

I have software that I've purchased from the store, and I never use it, because I hate having to go into the stupid interface of the start menu in order to get to them.

-wraith808 (July 11, 2017, 01:00 PM)

I'm not sure what you mean with this one. Are you not able to create shortcuts for Store apps? I rarely use the start menu these days anyway because it's so much easier to just press the Windows key and type the first few letters of whatever I want to open.

-Deozaan (July 11, 2017, 04:58 PM)

You weren't able to make shortcuts for store apps before.  They backdoored a fix for this in one of the later releases.

https://www.thurrott...s-for-universal-apps

It's still a pain, but at least it's doable now.  I don't use the standard way of launching - I use truelaunchbar, so I need real shortcuts.  But even with that, I wonder about integrating in to ConEmu or Console64.  Currently, it's easy to set it up as a different shell.  Not sure how it will be with this.

Looking at it, you still have to go through the same steps, which is strange.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: An Idea: Providing some small funding for a yearly (or 6 month) regular coder

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 04:47 PM »

with bonus points for quality apps

-app103 (July 11, 2017, 04:09 PM)

How do you judge this?  And who judges it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 04:45 PM »

But what's wrong with building software on a real Linux system?

I'm not building software on/for/with Cygwin, just using it as a bash-like scripting environment to avoid the horrible cmd scripting, and re-use it on a real Linux box, if I want it. Powershell isn't going to fix that in the near future, and I'm not fixing the PS-blindness in my head for a while either

Most of the stuff I build is either Java or C# (also on Linux, see SedTester ) and a really small portion of C/C++ (next to a sleuth of other languages like Cobol, Delphi and whatnot), and a lot of that can also run on some taste of *ux OS.

The current offering is still quite restrictive, and keeps being restricted to insider previews it seems, I recall it was available a year ago, before the 1607 release of Win 10? Or was that another incarnation/beta. (MS policy: Buy our next version!) ?

-Ath (July 11, 2017, 03:32 PM)

It's not restricted, I have it on my Windows 10 installation, and I'm in the slow ring.  It works for everything I want it to do- building firmware and flashing hardware, and developing for remote systems and testing it before dockerizing it.  And I don't have to maintain a linux system.  I want to work on it, but don't want to maintain it.  That was one of my biggest stopping points when I tried Linux before.

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Living Room / The Walled Garden is Closer

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 03:08 PM »

Microsoft 365 announced, bringing together Windows 10 and Office 365 subscriptions

Microsoft is hosting its Inspire 2017 partner conference this week, kicking off the event with a big announcement for business and enterprise customers. Many of its corporate customers already have Office 365 and Windows 10 subscriptions, and Microsoft is now launching new, simplified subscriptions that bring these products together with other tools.

"Today," the company said, "we’re excited to announce Microsoft 365, a new set of offerings that include Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, to create a complete, intelligent, secure solution." Microsoft said this marks "a fundamental shift" in its approach to how it designs and launches its products for the needs of businesses.

There are two Microsoft 365 tiers. Microsoft 365 Enterprise is based on the existing Secure Productive Enterprise plan, and includes Office 365 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise, and the Enterprise Mobility + Security suite. Microsoft said this tier is intended for larger organizations.

Microsoft 365 Business will launch in public preview on August 2, and is designed for "small- to medium-sized business with up to 300 users. It includes Office 365 Business Premium, along with "tailored security and management features from Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security", as well as a "centralized console for deploying and securing devices and users in one location."

Microsoft 365 Business will be priced at $20 per user per month when it launches worldwide in fall 2017, but pricing of the Enterprise offerings haven't yet been announced. We do know that there will be two plans - Microsoft 365 E3 and 365 E5 - in the Enterprise tier, which will be available to buy from August 1.

Microsoft said that these new offerings will also provide "exciting new opportunities" for its global partner community, while simplifying management for the customers that use them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 03:04 PM »

I can't fully comprehend why I should want to have an ubuntu in my Windows? If I want that now I'll use Cygwin, on any Windows release I like, not just that insider preview. If I want a full Linux, I'll run a full, official, distro in a local or hosted VM, or on bare hardware. And using shared data from both Windows and Linux is as 'easy' as using shared storage. So, can someone please enlighten me?

-Ath (July 11, 2017, 02:55 PM)

There's a fundamental difference:

In Cygwin you have to re-compile the Linux program from source in order for them to work with the integration layer that Cygwin provides.

That's fine, as long as you only want to use open source projects and don't mind compiling them yourself, or if they're available in cygwin's repository.

With the new bash/Ubuntu integration, actual Linux executables will be able to run directly in Windows without the need to recompile anything, and with access to Ubuntu's humongous repository as well as third party repositories.  Now that I've gotten into firmware level programming, it's very welcome to be able to use the linux toolchain to build a linux executable rather than cygwin's toolchain which builds windows executables.

Explained better here: http://hackaday.com/...-cygwin-can-suck-it/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 01:00 PM »

I hope they don't get rid of the current way of doing it without Windows Store involved.  I have software that I've purchased from the store, and I never use it, because I hate having to go into the stupid interface of the start menu in order to get to them.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux File Manager With A Preview Panel and Favorites catalog

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 12:52 PM »

What you state as a general premise towards software on Linux and Windows is the reason I gave up on my Linux experiment (and indeed my Mac experiment).  The difference in platform isn't the only difference.  There's a difference in mindset, and what the users think is important.  That leads to a difference in what is available, and trying to go from something that you've used and features that you need to a different platform is a very big exercise in futility and finding software that you can feel comfortable with.  I'm finding that same problem in going from iOS to Android even.

Good luck in finding it!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux File Manager With A Preview Panel and Favorites catalog

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 08:30 AM »

Shallot doesn't have the favorites panel.  Though I guess it could be implemented if someone could be found to code it.  Same with Polo.

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ProcessTamer / Re: UAC still requires permission...

« Last post by wraith808 on July 11, 2017, 08:26 AM »

No, it didn't.  But it was informative, nonetheless, and something to try if I have to uninstall ProcessTamer and need to dampen the cpu drain - I think!

My drive also has several partitions and I didn't think having this program on my installations partition was the issue.  Getting confirmation of this was useful.  Yet now I'm still at a loss how to fix the issue of the UAC requiring permission every time I start or restart the computer.

I'm missing something here and I appreciate the help.  Thanks.

-Jakeman (July 10, 2017, 11:35 PM)

If you turn off UAC (if you feel comfortable doing that for a bit to test), does it start up fine?