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General Software Discussion / Re: Re: XYplorer is not responding.

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 10:21 PM »

Weird that nobody in my forum reports this. And I'm sure they would. They are merciless.

-DonL (March 17, 2017, 04:16 PM)

Well, take it for what it's worth.  I bought a true lifetime sub sight unseen, so I'd love to be able to use it rather than re-upping DOpus every few years, so I'd love to be able to help you.  But without some diagnostic way of getting information, there's no way for me to give you something useful.  If you have a way that I could give you some more info, I'd love to help.  But until then, I've got nothing.  Various OSes (from Windows Server 2003/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows Server 2012/Windows 10) at sometime when I use the portable version, it does it, and it's when accessing local or network resources.  I've only used the portable version.  That's all the info I have for it.  But the diagnostics would have to be logged all the time when I use it, as it doesn't happen on any regular basis (or enough to get me to stop using it altogether), and I can't afford to replace my file manager with something that might freeze for daily use, so it would probably take a while to get you anything.

Let me know if I can help.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Exclusive Giveaway for DonationCoder - HD Video Converter Factory Pro

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 10:16 PM »

^ Nice info, but I must say that I agree with Deo on this one.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 10:14 PM »

Yeah, I think that's the faux leather they put on a lot of them.  I had that problem with my $250 chair I had before this that I purchased from Staples.  This one is fabric, so none of the 'chair-droppings'.  I haven't had it that long- less than a year.  So I'd have to report on it later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Malwarebytes goes full Anti-Virus

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 10:08 PM »

That's not what that said to me, but maybe it's in the reading, though the title says "a next-generation antivirus replacement", which seems pretty clear.  But I will say that I've never had problems with it before, and I've always had it scheduled on several machines.  It's never taken a long time, nor has it bogged down my machine.  It is now, very badly, and I can only point to this update.  So no matter what what it means, it's pretty useless to me at this point.

And when I finally killed it in the task manager, my machine stopped for a not insignificant amount of time while it re-started itself.  And in the task manager, it showed it taking 73.4% of my CPU.  Malwarebytes anti-malware?  More like Malwarebytes Malware at this point.

And it seems like I'm not the only one:

The only downside I see is that this uses A LOT more CPU than before, it shoots up to 100% CPU load on an i7 4770K when it would be like around 20% in the background before, is this where the 4x speed increase comes from?

There's a lot more like it in the comments.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Bug? - Incomplete grabbing of a URL

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 07:56 PM »

Funny thing is, I have a high DPI monitor without the font set to over 100%, a

Well I guess I should refer to these fixes as fixes for those with Windows Text Size setting over 100%, as that is what is improved -- regardless of the resolution.  Hopefully these latest fixes won't cause any issues for those with 100% text size setting.

-mouser (March 17, 2017, 07:47 PM)

No, I think you're fine.  The ones that I have problems with, I didn't have my text set to over 100% either.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Malwarebytes goes full Anti-Virus

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 07:52 PM »

What a shame

-f0dder (March 17, 2017, 07:26 PM)

And the initial outlook... not good.  I never had a scan last longer than 30-45 minutes before.  Which made it easier to run it anytime.  Made a scan after the upgrade - 5 hours, 23 minutes, and it didn't finish.  Even worse?  I tried to cancel it because it was bogging down my computer, and it asked me if I really wanted to end it.  5 minutes later and it still hasn't aborted.

Very disappointing.

UPDATE: It's the heuristic analysis part that is bogging down the machine, and taking so long, and there's no obvious way to turn that part off.

UPDATE 2: 2 hours later, and it has not responded to my request to stop it, nor cancelled.  Very Disappointing.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Bug? - Incomplete grabbing of a URL

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 03:46 PM »

Funny thing is, I have a high DPI monitor without the font set to over 100%, and I've never had a problem with any of your applications, even though others, I have terrible problems with on the same settings.  Strange.  But great that you're getting all of them updated!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Exclusive Giveaway for DonationCoder - HD Video Converter Factory Pro

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 03:44 PM »

We've had this show up a few times by different users (and dodgy in the case that they got a user to create this thread), and I haven't really gotten a feel for whether it was dodgy any time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 03:43 PM »

I must say, I really hate this update process.  Continually, I have to hard reboot my daughter's machine because she's on a wireless adapter on her desktop (though her laptop doesn't have the same problem- go figure).  It will just be on a screen with the chasing dots, and stay there.  One time, I tried to just let it go because she was out of town- after days, it was still there.  But I hard reboot it (sometimes once, sometimes twice after it goes through it again), and then it says restoring old installation.  But eventually the version number does change.  Very annoying, as is the fact that it will just shut down your active applications in order to finish the update.  I've updated three of the machines here to never restart (which has it's own problems, as the memory profile does strange things if you have a pending update for restart- haven't been able to adequately explain it, other than if I have a pending update, some apps can't get any more memory, and if I restart and let it do it's thing, it's fine), so I might end up updating all of them to block the restart.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Re: XYplorer is not responding.

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 03:38 PM »

Could it be that a sleeping hard disk wakes up? This can take some seconds, and usually you hear some kind of yawning noise.

-DonL (March 17, 2017, 09:37 AM)

I don't think so.  It's on a variety of machines- I still get it using it portably.  Some are SSDs, and some are Virtual Machines, and like Deo said, I don't experience the same with windows explorer in the same timespan.  It's not long enough to be crippling where I just say "I'm not using it again", but it is long enough that I won't switch out my primary file explorer for it.

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General Software Discussion / Malwarebytes goes full Anti-Virus

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 02:50 PM »

So, I was praising the fact that Malwarebytes stays in it's lane dealing with certain types of malware, and leaving the more in depth anti-virus functions to others.

Today, I received notice of an upgrade and a requisite e-mail touting the fact that it's going full anti-virus replacement.

https://blog.malware...tivirus-replacement/

I'll have to see where they go from there- most antivirus these days are worse that the problems they purport to solve, which is the reason I stopped using anything other than Malwarebytes and Windows defender.  They're also bloated, and tie up your computer forever, and block things that shouldn't be blocked with false positives, so I'm not optimistic...

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

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 12:33 PM »

Now that is funny!  Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Re: XYplorer is not responding.

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 09:29 AM »

"It frequently locks up on me for several seconds at a time." ??? You should report that at XYplorer's user forum. It's certainly not a known issue. If it can be confirmed it will be fixed quickly. I know because I'm the one who does it.

-DonL (March 17, 2017, 07:29 AM)

Personally, I can't give you any information about why it happens, and that's the reason that I haven't reported it.  It doesn't happen under any circumstances I've been able to suss out.  It just happens enough that I only use it portably on machines that don't have anything installed.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2017, 09:26 AM »

The Alera Elusion has been recommended on a few sites I've seen as an affordable high quality alternative to the big boys, so I bought one on craigslist without much testing, and I can't say I really like it.  I don't know it just doesn't feel very comfortable no matter how I adjust it.

-mouser (March 17, 2017, 08:01 AM)

I got a no name (Flash Furniture) one from amazon (https://www.amazon.c.../product/B012JJ2EEY/), mostly because the ability to roll the arms back meant I didn't have to have an extra stool for when I use my guitar.  It's been pretty good, and compares well to all of the $350 or less chairs that I've used.  I think that in order to get a better chair, you have to spend more than I'm willing to...

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General Software Discussion / LessPass password manager

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2017, 09:56 AM »

I haven't seen this discussed here:

https://lesspass.com/#/

https://blog.lesspass.com/

I found out about it reading Jeff Atwood's Blog: https://blog.codingh...-rules-are-bullshit/

But as with many things, it came from the comments, not the article: https://discourse.co...are-bullshit/5033/23

(the reason I can't just stop reading the comments *sigh*)

A short blurb from the site (full info can be found at https://blog.lesspas...742dd18a4#.d6uu4xx1q)

The trick is to compute passwords rather than generate and store random passwords.

LessPass generates unique passwords for websites, email accounts, or anything else based on a master password and information you know.

LessPass is different from other password managers that you can find on the Internet because:
It does not save your passwords in a database ;
It does not need to sync your devices;
It is open source (source code can be audited).

The system uses a pure function, i.e. a function that given the same parameters will always give the same result. In our case, given a login, a master password, a site and options it will return a unique password.

What about sites with strange requirements?

From the same link:

What about complex password rules?

Sometimes sites have specific password rules. For instance, some banks only accept passwords made of numbers. So you have to remember both a strong password and complex rules.
Well, we built a “connected” version to tackle that. It works by saving your password’s profile, i.e. everything –except the master password and the generated password– to be able to generate the password. Then, next time you need this password you just have to select the profile and type the master password.

Source is available on GitHub: https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass

And you can host your own instance in a docker container, if you don't want to use the public database.

Not quite sold enough to switch from lastpass, but I am thinking about it, and wanted to find out if anyone had seen/taken a look at this?  Seems very simple, but very logical...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Re: XYplorer is not responding.

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2017, 08:47 AM »

I had that problem too, on specific machines, which is the reason that I don't use XYPlorer more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer now has banner ads

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2017, 09:36 AM »

I think wraith808 was saying that when someone unilaterally says "you should be using product X" or "you should not be using product Y" that is what is condescending. I don't think that he meant that what you said was condescending.

-Deozaan (March 12, 2017, 12:43 AM)

Exactly.  Thanks for putting it better

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer now has banner ads

« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2017, 07:51 PM »

Your argument shows false equivalence.  In your example, it was based on trends, not someone telli g someone else what they should be using.  Theyre all tools, and all have their upsides and downsides, and their respective uses, but none of them are perfect, and to say thatnyou should be using so,ething smacks of condescension, imo.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer now has banner ads

« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2017, 04:38 PM »

After a quick search, I found several news outlets have reported on this in the past couple of days. I clicked on one, somewhat randomly, and skimmed through it and found this:

Luckily, there appears to be an easy way to banish File Explorer ads—though sadly, it's not tied to any of the settings you need to disable Windows 10's other ads.

Open an Explorer window and go to View > Options > Change folder and search options. In the properties window that opens, click on the View tab, and under Advanced settings scroll down and uncheck “Show sync provider notifications.” The list is organized alphabetically.

-http://www.pcworld.com/article/3178683/windows/microsoft-ads-invade-windows-10s-file-explorer.html

-Deozaan (March 11, 2017, 02:31 PM)

The downside of this is that you don't get OneDrive notifications either if you turn this off.

Surely they aren't showing ads for those who paid for Windows 10.
But this is still a bad omen.

On the other hand it's just another reminder that you shouldn't be using windows explorer, you should be using one of the 3rd party alternatives.  This will just help spread the word to more people.

-mouser (March 11, 2017, 03:04 PM)

Fixed

-rgdot (March 11, 2017, 03:15 PM)

There are those that for them (for work, or other reasons) that Windows is the only choice.  Sorry... a bit cranky about people telling what people should be using.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: HTML to RSS

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2017, 02:42 PM »

I've found these scripts which are sort of what I had in mind. I guess they'd have to be adapted so the entire html content was displayed on newsreaders.

Script1: https://github.com/C...lob/master/README.md
This seems to me a Linux script (I think modern Windows can run bash scripts..)

-kilele (March 09, 2017, 10:31 AM)

Eh... sort of.  First you have to install the subsystem- it doesn't come installed.  It's good, but not exact.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opt-in before January 31, 2016 to keep your current OneDrive storage size

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2017, 08:09 AM »

Hmm, I just checked my storage and it is only 15 GB total capacity.  It was at 125 GB when I did the "Opt In" BS.  Looks like they just chop you when you are not looking anyway!

Guess it's a good thing I happened to be under the 15 GB limit in usage.  I hate how they just use a scythe like was are the front lawn instead of customers.

Edit: I see the "contact us" on the OneDrive page has been set up to reply to keywords in what you send them.  Meaning there is no way to just send a note with the one line description of the issue to a human being.  Instead it is badminton with "did you mean this?" and some description that has nothing to do with your problem, coming back over the net.  Somewhere there has to be one guy with bifocals who actually reads the communications.  It is finding out his email address that's the problem.

-MilesAhead (March 09, 2017, 07:08 AM)

That was to let you keep the 15GB, reading the notification above.  The only additional storage you get to keep is the camera storage for a total of 30GB.  How did you have 125GB?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any tool that immediately shows boot time problems?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2017, 08:06 AM »

IainB was talking about the tool: Soluto

-Shades (March 09, 2017, 07:58 AM)

Unless I'm missing something at your link, that's a service, not a tool, owned by Asurion, the same people that do the after-market warranties.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: How to print a multiple page forum thread?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2017, 11:31 AM »

There is also pdffactory.  It's a printer like fineprint (and by the same company), but it will save to PDF.  The reason I didn't originally recommend it is that chrome already has a print to PDF printer in it.  So the process is as tomos says... you print each page to the print job, then take out what you don't want or rearrange if necessary.  Then send on to your PDF printer to save it as one PDF.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: How to print a multiple page forum thread?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2017, 06:55 AM »

Don't know . . . I don't see it print multiple pages in forum threads.
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-dcwul62 (March 08, 2017, 04:15 AM)

You print each separately to fineprint without sending it to the printer.  It collates them into one print job, that you can adjust/manipulate as you will.

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General Software Discussion / Re: placing documents online for download and sharing

« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2017, 07:29 PM »

Onedrive can do what you want, I just think it's going to depend on what you're most comfortable with.  I use it because I have an office365 subscription, so 1TB per user.