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Living Room / Re: Windows Phone Narrator should be punished!

« Last post by x16wda on February 06, 2016, 08:30 AM »

Capslock + Esc will turn it off on a PC that is driving you batty... wonder if you could do that on a bluetooth keyboard? I'm not sure the on screen keyboard would cooperate.

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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by x16wda on February 05, 2016, 05:10 AM »

I would recommend a green laser pointer or two - they're cheap, and if you are out of sight of the road for some emergency, the beam could help locate where you are. Or use it for a star pointer (as my son calls it) and point out the constellations before you head off to sleep.

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« Last post by x16wda on February 04, 2016, 06:09 PM »

G

I heard God still uses VAX/VMS because it never crashes.  All those planets and suns twirling around you don't want a system that hard locks.  We'd be in The Spilled Milky Way if that happened. 

-MilesAhead (February 04, 2016, 08:58 AM)

Not Glorious Lifeform and Deity Operating System? I hear it's a piece of cake to keep running.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sync Laptop & Desktop

« Last post by x16wda on February 02, 2016, 05:49 AM »

I still like FreeFileSync with the caveat that it has an OpenCandy installer.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by x16wda on February 01, 2016, 05:18 AM »

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

-Arizona Hot (January 31, 2016, 08:45 PM)

Looks interesting - I'll look at it later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opening ost files with Outlook 2013

« Last post by x16wda on January 23, 2016, 01:23 PM »

An OST file is not the same as a PST file. It's a local copy of your mailbox, but in a mangled, dysfunctional format.

PST files are bad enough but at least you can open them directly. There are a number of tools around to convert OST to PST but I think they all cost. FWIW I have used Kernel tools a lot and they work well, their OST recovery tool would surely do what you need.

That said if you just want to find something, they have a free OST viewer program, one of their free tools.

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Living Room / Re: Very slow internal network speed - any ideas

« Last post by x16wda on January 22, 2016, 06:32 PM »

What kind of nic is it? Intel cards used to come with a management tool that let you look at what the speed and duplex were actually running at (as opposed to "auto negotiate").

You could try going into the nic properties and click Configure, then find the speed and duplex setting and hard code it at 1gb, full duplex and see if that changes anything.

Or you could uninstall the device, then reboot to have Windows install it fresh and see if that makes a difference.

If none of that helps, go ahead and run TCP Optimizer and have it set up reasonable values for the network stack. Something may have gotten honkled in there.

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Living Room / Re: Very slow internal network speed - any ideas

« Last post by x16wda on January 22, 2016, 02:13 PM »

Check out Glasswire if there's bandwidth being used and you're not sure what's using it. Although from your description that's probably not the issue.

Does your nic give you any control over or insight into how it's talking? Maybe the port (or switch) it's plugged into is having an issue, or it has dropped down to 10mb half duplex or something. Can you move the cable to another port (preferably in a different set of 4 - assuming you have more than 4 ports)?

You could also plug your pc directly into your Internet connection to make sure it's really the PC that's the problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking back (Some of your first code)

« Last post by x16wda on January 20, 2016, 08:52 PM »

Heh... nice that you have that! I saved the executables of my Atari programs from the early 90s when I was sysopping on Compuserve, but even though I posted the source online I haven't ever found it again. I'm sure I'd cringe to see it again... but it's nice to run across an old post about my big hit, and I even found the whole package in case anyone has an old Atari ST laying around.

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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?

« Last post by x16wda on January 20, 2016, 05:34 AM »

...First, what I'd like is a nice sandbox to run scenarios through with zero real consequences. That would rock~!
________________________

-Renegade (January 19, 2016, 09:58 PM)

I think you might be confusing what seems to happen in what we see as "the world around us" with a concept called "reality".
This is the sandbox.

-IainB (January 20, 2016, 12:15 AM)

I think you missed the part about "consequences". Now... Don't you wish you'd had a sandbox before you'd posted that?

-Renegade (January 20, 2016, 02:03 AM)

Come now, every sandbox has consequences! Just ask my cat.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I change computer name?

« Last post by x16wda on January 10, 2016, 07:27 PM »

I'm not quite sure I follow your navigation, but see if this will get you what you want.

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T-Clock / Re: Time shift...

« Last post by x16wda on December 31, 2015, 08:23 AM »

No reboots. Just chugging along, and once it hit the 20th the day name stayed Sunday.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Assemble PDF documents

« Last post by x16wda on December 30, 2015, 10:13 PM »

I am sure that pdftk would be able to do what you need. I used this once for a slightly different process a couple years ago and it worked fine. Of course you would need to write the command line to do just what you want. 

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T-Clock / Re: Time shift...

« Last post by x16wda on December 29, 2015, 09:36 AM »

It was stuck at Sunday since that specific Sunday (the 20th) until I pulled in the newer release. Otherwise I had not noticed anything at all odd. Format string is:

HH:nn:ss  POSIX\ndddd, mmmm d, yyyy

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYmas Cyber Sale 2015 - XYplorer Pro Lifetime License

« Last post by x16wda on December 25, 2015, 08:43 PM »

^ Picked up a copy myself, you can never have enough different file managers!

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas 2015 (Feliz Navidad 2015)

« Last post by x16wda on December 25, 2015, 08:11 AM »

(I don't recall if this is in the silly thread or not, but there's a line that has been crossed when I slosh across the yard to drown the pups 3 or 4 times a day... )

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T-Clock / Re: Time shift...

« Last post by x16wda on December 23, 2015, 07:50 PM »

Of course you're right - I'm in the northern hemisphere, yet I had my head tilted to the left when I checked. Drat!

Correcting the alignment fixed it. That, plus upgrading to 2.4.0 build 384. 

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T-Clock / Time shift...

« Last post by x16wda on December 23, 2015, 08:57 AM »

I fear there may be a time vortex manifesting itself in my tray...





I've been running version 2.3.2 build 151 for awhile now. In the off chance that Professor Brown's flux capacitor hasn't really bollixed things up, I'll just try out the latest download and see if that helps.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by x16wda on December 23, 2015, 08:41 AM »

^ OMG, my Aunt Karen would kill for such a thing!!! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: heads-up for big changes affecting signed installers

« Last post by x16wda on December 23, 2015, 08:39 AM »

So what would this mean for an end user? All the myriad of installers that are out there now would appear to have invalid signatures if installed??

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Foolish ITs' "D7 Premium" Admin tool now free - announcing new versions too

« Last post by x16wda on December 22, 2015, 08:00 PM »

Thanks for this AbteriX - I have heard praises from some folks but have not investigated before. At this price it is definitely worth checking out! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language

« Last post by x16wda on December 13, 2015, 07:09 PM »

Why not COBOL?

-Tuxman (December 13, 2015, 08:02 AM)

COBOL is not a silly language. COBOL is an asinine language.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by x16wda on December 07, 2015, 07:00 PM »

Personally I like this "Miles-stone"! I wrote a lot of assembly code for my Atari on the 6502. I fondly recall a whole library of string handling subroutines in hand-assembled relocateable code, stuffed into short characters strings that I could call. Ahh, those were the days! :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alert on File/Folder Access

« Last post by x16wda on November 26, 2015, 05:11 PM »

For inspiration... 
http://leelusoft.altervista.org/watch-4-folder.html
https://blogs.manageengine.com/it-security/eventloganalyzer/2012/06/20/object-access-auditing-simplified-find-the-who-what-where-when-of-file-folder-access.html
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771070.aspx
http://venussoftcorporation.blogspot.com/2010/05/thefolderspy.html
https://directorymonitor.com/
http://trackfolderchanges.codeplex.com/
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/folder_changes_view.html
http://www.isdecisions.com/products/fileaudit/file-folder-access-alert.htm

-Shades (November 26, 2015, 08:47 AM)

Just as info, when I looked into stuff like this a few years ago (6-10 maybe?), TheFolderSpy seemed to be the best combination of features and - more importantly - reliability. Several of the other programs for this sort of thing did not seem to implement the file system hook very well and caused instability and crashing, or at the least missed some number of test accesses. But NOTHING was really satisfactory for what I was looking for (which, in part, meant that the monitor could run as a service).

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General Software Discussion / Re: flamory

« Last post by x16wda on November 08, 2015, 06:39 PM »

Surfulater also appeared to cost about $79US. I like supporting software authors, and I'm prone to buying licenses to neat things that I don't need, but at that level it would need to do something that really makes my life easier or more enjoyable.