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General Software Discussion / Re: IP attacks

« Last post by 4wd on September 12, 2014, 06:00 AM »

Apologies if it isn't ... but it sure comes across as if it is.

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

« Last post by 4wd on September 12, 2014, 05:50 AM »

^ Do they honestly think 6.9 inches is thin?

Is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Some good Aussie humour

-Renegade (September 11, 2014, 09:04 AM)

That's crap, everyone knows Harold was taken by a Chinese submarine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New BitTorrent client needed, suggestions please?

« Last post by 4wd on September 12, 2014, 05:10 AM »

^ +1 - I use uTorrent 1.82

FWIW, this is a list of the clients that a private tracker I'm on allows, anything else is at risk of being banned:

Spoiler

Vuze
Recommended version: 4.8.0.0   {Download Links: Windows  Mac  Linux}
Only approved versions: 2.5.0.4, 4.1.0.2, 4.1.0.4, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.0.2, 4.6.0.0, 4.6.0.2, 4.6.0.4, 4.6.0.5
Latest version tested: 4.8.0.0 (Result: Approved)
Notes: Azureus/Vuze configuration guide for Private Torrent Sites
Website: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

WARNING! Vuze 4.5.0.0, 4.5.0.2, 4.5.0.4, 4.5.1.0,  4.5.1.1  are not approved and you will use it at your own risk, including if you get disabled for cheating in any way when you were not or loss of ratio. The Site is not responsible for how Vuze 4.5.x.x versions behaves.

BitTornado (aka Torrentflux)
Recommended version: 0.3.18
Only approved versions: 0.3.17, 0.3.18
Latest version tested: 0.3.18 (Result: Approved)
Notes: 0.3.18 is experimental but still approved
Website: http://www.bittornado.com/


Windows Clients

uTorrent

Recommended version: 1.8.2  {Download Link: Windows}
Only approved versions: 1.6.1, 1.7.7, 1.8.2
Latest version tested: 3.4.1.0 (Result: Banned)
Website: http://www.utorrent.com/

WARNING! uTorrent 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 , 2.0.3 , 2.0.4, 2.1.0.0, 2.2.0.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.2, 3.2.1 and 3.3 are not approved and you will use it at your own risk, including if you get disabled for cheating in any way when you were not or loss of ratio. The Site is not responsible for how uT 2.x or 3.x versions behaves.

Deluge
Only approved versions: 1.2.3,1.3.3, 1.3.5  {Download Link: Windows}
Latest version tested: 1.3.5 (Result: Approved)
Notes: n/a
Website: http://deluge-torrent.org/

WARNING! Deluge 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1 & 1.3.2 are no longer approved and you will use it at your own risk, including if you get disabled for cheating in any way when you were not or loss of ratio. The Site is not responsible for how Deluge 1.3.x versions behaves.  
(reason being that live results have yielded very poor/bad announces)


Linux Clients

Transmission
Recommended version: All Production Versions released so far up to v2.7.3.0 (except for v1.8.1.x, 1.8.1.z, 1.8.1.0 which are banned) {Download Link: Linux}
Latest version tested: 2.73 (Result: Approved)
Note: beta's & daily updating variants (labelled with a X or Z at the end are excluded from approved use - eg 2.13z
Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com/

rTorrent/libTorrent
Recommended version: 0.8.9/0.12.9 / 0.8.6/0.12.6 (depending on synpantic library) Linux}
Only approved versions: 0.8.2/0.12.2, 0.8.4/0.12.4, 0.8.5/0.12.5, 0.8.6/0.12.6
Latest version tested: 0.8.9/0.12.9 (Result: Approved)
Notes: n/a
Website: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/

kTorrent
Recommended version: 3.3.4   {Download Link: Linux}
Only approved versions: 2.2.8, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.3.0, 3.3.4, 4.0.5, 4.1.0, 4.3.0
Latest version tested: 4.3.0 (Result: Approved)
Notes: n/a
Website: http://ktorrent.org/

Deluge
Only approved versions: 1.2.3,1.3.3, 1.3.5
Latest version tested: 1.3.5 (Result: Approved)
Notes: n/a
Website: http://deluge-torrent.org/

WARNING! Deluge 1.3.0 & 1.3.1 are no longer approved and you will use it at your own risk, including if you get disabled for cheating in any way when you were not or loss of ratio. The Site is not responsible for how Deluge 1.3.x versions behaves.  
(reason being that live results have yielded very poor/bad announces)

Reason most fail to be listed is that they do something wrong, eg. incorrect ratios reported, choking clients unnecessarily, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Internet control by the command line or start-execute

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

Microsoft Technet TCP/IP Troubleshooting
netsh command for configuring interfaces

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General Software Discussion / Re: consumables business

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 02:42 PM »

Food & Sex...the only 2 businesses that will be around long after we no longer are.

-Stephen66515 (September 10, 2014, 12:48 PM)

You forgot printer ink 

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Living Room / Re: A warning to anybody who is looking to purchase a VPS.

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 02:39 PM »

Low end VPS is a real buyer beware situation.

-mwb1100 (September 10, 2014, 10:58 AM)

But the deals from reputable providers are too good to pass up sometimes 

eg.
OpenVZ
50GB space
512MB + 512MB
3 virtual cores
1Gbps
2TB / month traffic

for $15/year, was absolutely excellent at the time I was looking and the provider has been very good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic shortcut creation for items in a folder.

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 02:18 PM »

One thing about using the filesystemwatcher to be aware of is that it loses connection to the watched folder after having been up for a while- most especially on network or mapped folders- and that's a known limitation.

-wraith808 (September 10, 2014, 01:34 PM)

Oh well, it's been an exercise in Powershell

Completed version, probably some redundant code, requires .NET 4.5 due to one of the procedures, IIRC.

Anyway, it works here OK creating shortcuts to folders and sub-folders in 'My Documents' on the 'Desktop'.

One caveat, I'm not checking for the prior existence of a shortcut the same name.  So if someone creates a folder called 'test' followed by a sub-folder called 'test', the create shortcut command will most likely fail.

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. #By BigTeddy 05 September 2011
2.  
3. #This script uses the .NET FileSystemWatcher class to monitor file events in folder(s).
4. #The advantage of this method over using WMI eventing is that this can monitor sub-folders.
5. #The -Action parameter can contain any valid Powershell commands.  I have just included two for example.
6. #The script can be set to a wildcard filter, and IncludeSubdirectories can be changed to $true.
7. # Version 1.1
8.  
9. $global:folder = [environment]::getfolderpath("mydocuments")  # Path to users 'My Documents'
10. $global:desktop = [environment]::getfolderpath("desktop")  # Path to users 'Desktop'
11. $filter = '*.*'  # You can enter a wildcard filter here.
12.  
13. # In the following line, you can change 'IncludeSubdirectories to $true if required.                          
14. $fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{IncludeSubdirectories = $true;NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'DirectoryName, LastWrite'}
15.  
16. # Here, the creation event is registered.
17.  
18. Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
19. $name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
20. $changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
21. $timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
22. Write-Host "The folder '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore green
23. # Out-File -FilePath d:\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"
24.  
25. $result = $name.LastIndexOf('\')
26. if ($result -eq -1) {
27.   $DestinationPath = $desktop + '\' + $name + '.lnk'
28.   } elseif ($result -gt 0) {
29.   $DestinationPath = $desktop + '\' + $name.SubString($result + 1) + '.lnk'
30.   }
31. $WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
32. $Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut($DestinationPath)
33. $Shortcut.TargetPath = $folder + '\' + $name
34. $Shortcut.WorkingDirectory = $folder + '\' + $name
35. $Shortcut.Save()
36. }
37.  
38. # To stop the monitoring, run the following commands:
39. # Unregister-Event FileCreated

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic shortcut creation for items in a folder.

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 12:04 PM »

You should be able to accomplish this with Powershell using the following information:

Powershell FileSystemWatcher
Create Shortcuts using Powershell

Seems rather straightforward.

Modified the first Powershell script to monitor Folder Creation only, atm just outputs to logfile and Powershell interface:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. #By BigTeddy 05 September 2011
2.  
3. #This script uses the .NET FileSystemWatcher class to monitor file events in folder(s).
4. #The advantage of this method over using WMI eventing is that this can monitor sub-folders.
5. #The -Action parameter can contain any valid Powershell commands.  I have just included two for example.
6. #The script can be set to a wildcard filter, and IncludeSubdirectories can be changed to $true.
7. # Version 1.1
8.  
9. $folder = [environment]::getfolderpath("mydocuments")  # Path to users 'My Documents'
10. $filter = '*.*'  # You can enter a wildcard filter here.
11.  
12. # In the following line, you can change 'IncludeSubdirectories to $true if required.                          
13. $fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{IncludeSubdirectories = $true;NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'DirectoryName, LastWrite'}
14.  
15. # Here, the creation event is registered.
16.  
17. Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
18. $name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
19. $changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
20. $timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
21. Write-Host "The folder '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore green
22. Out-File -FilePath d:\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"}
23.  
24. # To stop the monitoring, run the following command:
25. # Unregister-Event FileCreated

I'll try and add in the shortcut bit now.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Ideas wanted for celebrating 10th Anniversary of DonationCoder.com

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 07:10 AM »

Limited series of 31, (March has 31 days), DC mugs.

Numbered, (x of 31), signed, and custom-designed by various graphically orientated people here at DC, (count me out  ), to be given away as the results of many/one competition(s) - the coveted number 1 being the big prize, (and possibly the biggest mug).

Woohoo!  I had an idea 

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Living Room / Re: A warning to anybody who is looking to purchase a VPS.

« Last post by 4wd on September 10, 2014, 06:10 AM »

FWIW, all the VPS' I've got atm, (only 4 - but they're addictive), I got through deals via Low End Box.

Low End Talk, their sister site, is a good place to do any research on a provider, eg. FortaTrust

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 09, 2014, 03:31 AM »

polymimetic

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Living Room / Re: Google playing dirty, or being a nice guy?

« Last post by 4wd on September 09, 2014, 03:25 AM »

I'm currently in the UK and I hit a paywall no matter which link I use.  This happens in both K-Meleon and IE.

In IE however, using the Google redirector I can see the whole article for a couple of seconds before the paywall feature kicks in.

Same thing in Cyberfox, see the whole article for a couple of seconds then the paywall happens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Delayed Write Failed" — on FIVE computers at a time?

« Last post by 4wd on September 09, 2014, 02:22 AM »

However, these are practically always hardware related (in my personal/anecdotal experience at least).

-Shades (September 08, 2014, 10:57 PM)

Just to add to this, I've had the same experience here with Delayed Write Failure and in almost every case it's always come down to one piece of hardware - the SATA or USB data cables.

For SATA - those cheap, non-locking ones that were so prevalent a few years ago.  Low contact pressure combined with with the heating/cooling cycles within a PC case don't make for a happy combination.

For USB - the constant plug/unplug or the mechanics of the plug/socket sometimes result in a marginal electrical contact.  (eg. On my netbook there's one USB port where if I plug a cable all the way in, the device isn't recognised - pull it back 1 mm or 2 and it's fine.  Thus any decent vibration will result in the plugged-in device suddenly disappearing from the system.)

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 08, 2014, 05:15 AM »

curves

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

« Last post by 4wd on September 08, 2014, 05:13 AM »

My neighbour is a kiwi. I forget whether it was her or someone else pointing out the pronunciation of 'e' is often like 'i' in New Zealand.

-Renegade (September 07, 2014, 09:06 AM)

Normally it's the other way round, (for me anyway), quickest way to identify a Kiwi is get them to say the Number of the Beast  

Works every time, even in the back blocks of Nevada ...

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Living Room / Re: Hackers vs. gray matter

« Last post by 4wd on September 07, 2014, 10:37 AM »

I would have thought that if you click on the "Get Shipment Label" you'd more than likely confirm your email address as a potential spam recipient as well as get taken to a site that possibly adds all kinds of tracking cookies and whatnot.

I've been getting these for months, yet another reason why any email that contains HTML goes straight to the bin.

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 07, 2014, 09:50 AM »

Terra

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Living Room / Re: Have you ever gone Geocaching or Letterboxing?

« Last post by 4wd on September 07, 2014, 09:47 AM »

What has this got to do with letterboxing?

Inscription

In Memory Of
James Perrott
Who Died May 23rd 1895
Aged 80 Years
Also Mary His Wife
Who Died March 12th 1898
Aged 79 Years

Answer

He was the guide from Chagford^w that started letterboxing by installing the first letterbox at Cranmere Pool^w.

The History of Letterboxing:

The year was 1854, and a Victorian guide named James Perrott placed a bottle in the wildest, most inaccessible area on Dartmoor, England, along the banks of Cranmere Pool. In it, he included his calling card so future visitors could contact him and leave their own calling cards. Little did anyone know, this small act would be become the hobby we now know as letterboxing.

His grave is in St Michael's Church, Chagford.

I thought it may be of interest to someone - the cottage we're staying in, in Chagford is named after Cranmere Pool.

At some point I'll work up the energy to walk to it (~6km) ... or not 

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 06, 2014, 10:07 AM »

waterboarding

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Coding Snacks / Re: Create or delete a graphical shortcut or icon in the desktop

« Last post by 4wd on September 05, 2014, 07:58 AM »

Command line or file:

Use Shortcut.exe from here: Shortcut

eg.

Code: Text [Select]

1. Shortcut.exe /f:"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\MyFile.lnk" /a:c /t:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\MyFile.pdf

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Living Room / Re: bluetooth: folder browsing possible?

« Last post by 4wd on September 05, 2014, 07:27 AM »

Your best alternative, and also the easiest, is to get a cheap 3G WiFi router and just not bother to put a SIM in it.
Instant portable WiFi HotSpot - I do this all the time with the added bonus of being able to use a SIM from whatever country I'm in to give internet access to my phone, tablet, and netbook.

Something like the TP-LINK TL-MR3020 which can usually be picked up for less than AU$30.

However, if all you want is a simple, cheap way to connect all your devices when there isn't a ready-made WiFi or mobile network available, a portable WiFi router is probably your best bet.

* I should point out that the TP-LINK TL-MR3020 requires an external 3G USB modem if you want that feature - I use a ZTE MF60 (integrated 3G modem).

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Please help me find that utility - "Something" To TXT ?

« Last post by 4wd on September 05, 2014, 07:19 AM »

Is there any way to not see the black command window from loading? Can you put on the backround?

-sakiskom (September 04, 2014, 03:22 PM)

You could use cmdow to implement the command line with the /HID option.

Your AV will most likely complain about cmdow due to its be able to run commands in a hidden window - this automatically makes it something to be avoided like the plague as far as they're concerned.

But given that @anandcoral has found the original program, that'd probably be easier.

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 05, 2014, 07:13 AM »

flatten

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 04, 2014, 06:04 AM »

ethanol

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by 4wd on September 04, 2014, 05:30 AM »

print