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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2014, 05:37 AM »

It's not possible to do what you want, the mobile phone system doesn't work that way.

-4wd (November 05, 2014, 04:11 PM)

That is where the experimental Google Geofencing stuff comes in; it tries to make location determination more accurate by (probably, that's part of the experimental stuff) including the WiFi hotspot information that G' gathered 'by accident' using the Streetview recordings, and connection accesspoint detection when using G' applications.

-Ath (November 06, 2014, 01:48 AM)

I don't think that's going to be of much use in his situation because:
a) The WiFi on his phone might not be turned on.

I want to do stuff (like activate wifi, etc) when I enter/leave specific locations

-kalos (November 03, 2014, 02:47 PM)

and
b) GPS runs the battery down.

GPS seems to be more accurate but it's resources consuming

Which kind of leaves just the phone towers.  It would be nice to know if Llama was satisfactory ... if he give it a chance to do its stuff.   

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Living Room / Re: More speed/bandwidth from an 802.11n laptop<-->WiFi Router/Modem connection?

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2014, 05:53 PM »

^I wasn't aware that bridging or teaming could reduce lag (ping?) time for gaming. I was always under the impression it couldn't. But then again the game server and client machines in this scenario are within the LAN and not accessing the WAN so I suppose (under certain conditions) it might be possible.... but I'd want to try using a smarter network switch before I went that route.

-40hz (November 05, 2014, 04:36 PM)

We couldn't afford smart network switches back then 

Seemed to work though, less lag was noticeable when the guys who were running the game server had teaming enabled ... or maybe we were all plastered by then and it didn't seem to matter 

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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2014, 04:11 PM »

Tell it to Learn an area, the more towers it sees in an area, the more accurate its location triggers will be.

It's not possible to do what you want, the mobile phone system doesn't work that way.  How would the phone know how far away a tower is without taking into account information that doesn't get transmitted?

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Living Room / Re: More speed/bandwidth from an 802.11n laptop<-->WiFi Router/Modem connection?

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2014, 03:59 PM »

FWIW I've never seen NIC teaming done on the PC level. From my experience it's purely a "server thing."

-40hz (November 05, 2014, 08:38 AM)

Forgot about Teaming, this was actually pretty common 4-7 years ago on nVidia based high-end motherboards, aimed at gamers who wanted the lowest lag they could get at LAN nights, or game/media sever, etc.

We had two people at our LAN group who used it, one a nForce4 MB, the other a nVidia 790i based MB, (IIRC).  Two 1Gb ports that could be teamed.

Sorry, I was originally talking more about when you inadvertently make two connections to the same network, (still happens at our LAN night).

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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2014, 03:43 PM »

One cell tower is going to cover more than a 200m radius unless the area is saturated with mobiles, in which case you'll be switched to another tower close by that's not saturated.

This is why you need to tell Llama to Learn an area - which in all the messages you've posted you've never said you're doing.

So, a simple question: Do you tell Llama to Learn an area?

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Living Room / Re: More speed/bandwidth from an 802.11n laptop<-->WiFi Router/Modem connection?

« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2014, 06:01 AM »

IME, it's always been very bad to have more than one NIC connecting to the same network, (eg. wired and wireless, 2 x wired, etc).  The system ends up getting confused about where to send things.

Probably requires some fiddly settings to get the multiple connections to load share with each other or you can use something like Speedify or Dispatch.

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Living Room / Re: Regexp help

« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2014, 10:42 PM »

@4wd - Your regex there is elegant and terse.

-Renegade (November 04, 2014, 09:25 PM)

The IP bit wasn't mine, it came from here.

It's one of the things that I tend to avoid as I find it's simply easier to read when being a bit more verbose.

Conversely, I find the opposite

I have more chance of understanding it if I'm not going cross-eyed trying to take in 50+ characters at once

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Living Room / Re: Regexp help

« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2014, 08:58 PM »

Actually, @Ren's does pick up invalid IPs ... Sorry 

Honestly @Ren, you should have limited the number range it'll match on then I wouldn't have been wrong

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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2014, 08:54 PM »

I have to be physically present in that location.
But again, while physical present in that location, I can find the current CELL ID I am connected.
But I want the action to be triggered in the surrounding CELL IDs! Under a specific radius!

-kalos (November 04, 2014, 12:21 PM)

When you're in the area you instruct Llama to Learn the towers in the area within a specific time frame.  There's no need to add towers one by one, any that Llama sees while in that position will be added as an area identifier.

Llama picks up 16 towers servicing my immediate area, over the space of 2 hours without me moving from my study.

Considering some of these towers are up to ~20km away from me, that's a rather large area - exactly how big an area are you wanting it to trigger on?

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Living Room / Re: auto wifi

« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2014, 08:42 PM »

You're talking about Captive Portals^w.

Hotspot Login

Automaticaly log into Captive Portals (Wifi Hotspots with a login form). The solution is configurable and not specific for one Hotspot. Currently there is only one configuration for German T-Mobile Hotspots as that is what the author has tested it on. If you make a new configuration, let him know! See the website for explanation of configuration terms.

Website (Sourceforge)

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Living Room / Re: Regexp help

« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2014, 08:33 PM »

With a little help from here.

NOTE: It doesn't check if the IP is from a valid range like @Ren's but on the other hand it won't miss any if the IP is invalid.

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by 4wd on November 03, 2014, 10:05 AM »

Found him, The Monk - otherwise known as Mortimus, another renegade.

There was also Romana, (who regenerated), and Susan, (his granddaughter from the first episodes).

You could possibly include Jenny, (The Doctor's Daughter episode).

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by 4wd on November 03, 2014, 05:58 AM »

But none of the others even when The Doctor diddybops around in time including like, before they were destroyed?

-MilesAhead (November 03, 2014, 05:35 AM)

The Rani - renegade Time Lady (1985)

And I think there was another Time Lord(?) during Patrick Troughton's era who I seem to remember tried to trap him in his TARDIS by stealing something to fix his own.

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

« Last post by 4wd on November 02, 2014, 08:11 PM »

It doesn't have near the negative connotation that it does in American English.

-Renegade (November 02, 2014, 10:25 AM)

We have a knack for turning normally vulgar insulting terms into endearments. 

B*gger and b*st*rd are another couple.

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by 4wd on November 02, 2014, 08:02 PM »

The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords.  I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?

-MilesAhead (October 26, 2014, 04:47 PM)

Because there aren't any Time Ladies? 

-rjbull (November 02, 2014, 04:58 PM)

The Rani - whatever happened to her ... might have to watch all the eps again.

Don't look if you haven't seen Dark Water episode

Never fear though, The Master is back as you've never seen her

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fSekrit / Re: LATEST VERSION: fSekrit 1.40 shrinkwrapped!

« Last post by 4wd on November 02, 2014, 03:45 AM »

Only things I can think of is:
a) The file you opened is read-only.
b) You don't have permission to write to the destination.
c) Your AV/AM program has taken exception to fSekrit and refuses to let it write out the final executable.

My money goes with (c) ... but I'm probably wrong.

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Living Room / Re: bottleneck of gps

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2014, 10:18 PM »

You can if you have the right GPS receiver, ie. one that allows corrections from a Differential GPS transmitter (DGPS).  These are transmitters located at specific points that broadcast timing corrections derived from the errors sent in GPS satellite broadcasts.

Any GPS receiver capable of receiving these transmissions and utilising them will use their data to correct the data received from the satellites.

This can offer accuracies down to about 10cm but the receivers aren't cheap and you also have to within the range of a DGPS station.  You can get portable DGPS transmitters though, say for if you need it for automated vehicle control, eg. mining trucks, and you're not near a permanent DGPS.

They also have the same thing using satellite based DGPS called Wide Area DGPS, (also called Wide Area Augmentation System - WAAS) - but it's not as good as DGPS, you can get down to around 3m accuracy.
Ground stations broadcast corrections to an orbiting WAAS satellite, which then broadcasts a correction signal that any capable receiver can pick up and use.
Better than DGPS in the amount of area covered but from what I remember you still need the ground stations to be in the same global area as yourself, ie. ground stations in the USA broadcasting corrections to an overhead WAAS satellite are of limited value to a GPS receiver in Australia, (if it can see it), and vice versa.

A lot of low cost consumer GPS receivers can take advantage of that - depending on the make/model if you enable that setting you'll start seeing a W, (or something), next to various satellites on the display, eg. my Garmin Geko 201 has it (enabling it causes increased battery usage though).

While government/military systems can thread a needle from space, they don't think the civilian riff-raff need that sort of pin point accuracy ... Hence we don't get access to it.

-Stoic Joker (November 01, 2014, 02:59 PM)

Surveyors use very accurate GPS' all the time these days.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice guide to using a RAM disk

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2014, 10:12 PM »

I installed SoftPerfect RAMdisk and used it for a while, and it caused a such wicked crash and blue screen (Win 7 64 bit) that I had to restore my system from a backup.

-HankFriedman (November 01, 2014, 04:17 PM)

I've been using it for the last couple of years, a 2GB RAM drive on Win 7 x64 and now 8.1 x64 - no problems at all.

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

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2014, 09:52 PM »

pissed = angry
pissing = urinating

-crabby3 (November 01, 2014, 08:03 AM)

Here's it's all about context and/or inflection.

pissed = drunk, annoyed, angry
pissing = urinating, getting annoyed, getting drunk, wasting time
mate = pretty much anybody (generally males though), friend, not friend

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2014, 02:25 PM »

@4wd: Have you read the Necroscope series, by Brian Lumley? Very good stuff.

-kyrathaba (November 01, 2014, 09:08 AM)

I've read all his books at least four times over.  His version of the vampire mythos is better than the original AFAIAC.

One of the very best authors I've ever read.

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

« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2014, 07:27 AM »

In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)

Generally, Americans think that pissed = angry

My mate lived over there for a while in Berkeley, he got a bit drunk one night and when one of his American friends asked him how he was going he said, "I'm pissed."
His mate went all quiet and went over to my friends wife and asked what he was angry about

Unless, of course, they take it in the literal sense in which you'd need a very big water tank

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch adjust shortcut targets

« Last post by 4wd on October 31, 2014, 11:40 PM »

Bug confirmed, I'll see what I've screwed up  

Fixed that one but found another ... need a bigger swatter I think.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [EXPIRED] CintaNotes Pro 2.8 - *FREE*

« Last post by 4wd on October 31, 2014, 11:10 PM »

It's not like you to not already have a piece of software Curt.



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Router-based ad-blocking. Possible? Totally!

« Last post by 4wd on October 31, 2014, 10:24 PM »

THEN we can look into auto-updating scripts, running Pixelsrev, parsing multiple host files auto-magically, etc.

-Edvard (October 30, 2014, 08:30 PM)

I'll look at doing a reinstall with pictures for you on my router, Tomato USB but it should work for the other DD-WRT varieties.  Only thing different would be where I install it as I have a permanently plugged in flash drive on the router.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by 4wd on October 31, 2014, 10:20 PM »

Do you anticipate departing soon? 

-kyrathaba (October 30, 2014, 06:16 PM)

I'm not sure, I've had a sign saying "Willful UFO abductee" on my roof for some time but I'm still stuck on this planet.


Still, it'd be nice to have something to read