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I've recently had some good luck with a high-end kvm purchased cheap on ebay. It was this model, which supports usb switched wireless keyboard/mouse:
https://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1794/



I used iogear products before I started using multiplicity, and was very satisfied with their products.  I just moved to software based ones because of the fact that hardware based ones can interfere with your signal while routing them, changing the capabilities from what your cards actually provide, and to get to a usable one, you have to spend a lot of money.
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That worked. Thanks!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft and Skype atrocity
« Last post by wraith808 on July 14, 2017, 08:56 AM »
I have found that Hangouts is good for international group video chat and we use it where I work, just for that purpose, so that we can all attend company meetings, remotely, regardless of where in the world we happen to live. (company located in AU, with remote workers located throughout the world)

It's not a good international alternative for just calling someone and connecting with their phone number, but for things you can schedule, it's great.

We used to use it at work, and it was great.  Now we've switched to skype which I hate, though it does have better meeting capabilities.  Having international meetings has quite a few options, but all of them seem to have some measure of problems.
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wraith -- I was going to reply to your issue but I couldn't think of anything useful.. what did your problem turn out to be?

Stupidity.  I had a header in the file so I'd know which file I was using as I separate mine into categories with different keywords.  Which brings me to a different question- is it possible to have comments in files that are overlooked when FARR searches?
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Multiplicity is from Stardocks (or from their branch-off Edge..., Ever.... Whatever), which obviously is the contrary of a one-man software software house, but which sells, besides lots of games, a lot of crap, their "Fences" being some quite prominent but particularly useless (and ugly) little tool for example. For non-big-corporations, Multiplicity comes in 3 flavors: 20$ for a KM for just 2 comps, and then 40$ / 100$ (always plus VAT) for up to 9 comps, but as a KVM, the 40$ versions handling the monitors of 2 of them though.



I'd disagree quite heavily with you here.  First of all, Stardock is not a one man shop.  It's been around a while, and has been very prolific, especially in the customization community, with well done software.
 The games came after, not before, and Edgerunner was their attempt to put the business software under a different name.

I extensively use Multiplicity, and have found none of what you said to be true.  My primary computer has no load while I'm on my secondary computer, and I did check this while trying to run something down that was totally unrelated.  It's been a lifesaver at home and work, and very much easier for me to set up than Synergy or Sharemouse.  It just works.  Your other complaint about it- the lack of indication and how it's done- I can't really speak to, as I know when I'm on a different monitor, so it's never been an issue.  As you have to move the mouse, it seems that it's not something that you'd need an indication of, and I haven't found the need in practice. 

Fences contrary to what you said for me, is a very useful software, and I don't think that I'm the only one that thinks so.  It was already discussed here, and was favorably looked upon.  I use it to keep my desktop clear and categorize when I install a new application.  I used to use it for launching, but moved to TrueLaunchBar because of being able to put it on my taskbar, rather than anything wrong with fences.
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I figured my problem out... thanks!
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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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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

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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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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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.

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.

That's what the text of those big pictures say above.  ;) :Thmbsup:
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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.

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.  :)

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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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.


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

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

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.

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?

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

Sounds good  :Thmbsup:
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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.

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.

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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with bonus points for quality apps

How do you judge this?  And who judges it?
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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 :o

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!) ?

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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