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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance

« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 08:35 AM »

But then once I got to the content, I was happy with it, and it definitely helped me see some concrete steps to take. And yes, those concrete steps could be put on an index card (I summarized them in my previous post). But I felt the book was useful in driving home the point of the importance of doing these things as well as how big of a difference these things can make over the long term.

-Deozaan (January 19, 2017, 06:52 PM)

Yes, the system at it's basis is pretty simple.  He also goes over the envelope system at some point, though I'm not sure if he does so in that book, or if it's the other.  But in all honesty, the simplicity makes it easier to follow and continue to follow.

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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance

« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2017, 01:47 PM »

I read the Dave Ramsey book (Total Money Makeover).  I would classify it as more of a motivational book than an information book..  It's basically written to wake you up to the urgent need to get absolutely dead serious and focused on eliminating all debt, and shake some sense into you about getting deadly serious about making a major life-changing commitment to budgeting your money.

It's short on facts and details, but if you can benefit from the motivation I'd say it's worth a read.

-mouser (January 19, 2017, 02:30 AM)

Maybe it was a different one I read, because when I read Dave Ramsey, it gave me concrete steps on what to do to get out of debt.

Looking on Amazon, what you need is the workbook.

https://www.amazon.c...kbook/dp/0785263276/

The Financial Peace Planner is also a good one...I attended one of his Financial Peace University seminars at church, and it was good also.

https://www.amazon.c...-Step/dp/014026468X/

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 04:40 PM »

La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

-tomos (January 18, 2017, 02:58 PM)

You mean Gosling and Stone?  I thought they had great chemistry.  It's amazing how multiple people can see the same movie, and have such wide-ranging differences in what they see.  I've heard them compared to the Golden Age greats.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Black Hole Organizer updated to v.4.00

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 12:48 PM »

Remember reading about Ema Personal Wiki a while back 

My thing also lets me become more familiar with WP, because I play around with the code often. The only missing piece would be having the info directly on a mobile device but exporting WP posts (functioning as notes) to ics is possible.

-rgdot (January 18, 2017, 11:38 AM)

The more familiar I become with Wordpress, the less I want to be familiar with it LOL

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General Software Discussion / Re: Black Hole Organizer updated to v.4.00

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 11:23 AM »

3 months is pretty insane.  Unless it has very frequent updates, which would beg a different question.

Wordpress?  Wow... that's pretty crazy.  Currently, I'm using Ema Personal Wiki with Texthaven.  Still using Evernote, but not as much as I did before I found this combo.  It also allows me to use other things for editing.

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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance

« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2017, 07:41 AM »

I said it before I'll say it again, this is the year I get financially organized and literate -- who's joining me?

-mouser (January 16, 2017, 07:43 PM)

I'd say I'm joining you, but it's something I've already been doing for the past several years. I've been budgeting using YNAB and the YNAB method, combined with the ideas/goals/concepts explained in Dave Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover as well as The Millionaire Next Door by Drs. Thomas Stanley and William Danko.

-Deozaan (January 16, 2017, 08:27 PM)

Same here. Thought not the second one.  I'll have to check it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2017, 11:03 PM »

You'll have to use the program to create the links, and put them into the folder.  Then, update the search folders setting to point to whatever folder you store the resulting links in.  It's not a FARR plugin, but rather something that creates true links out of steam links.  Then you can put them anywhere, and they act as normal links, i.e. findable by FARR.

-wraith808 (January 15, 2017, 06:55 PM)

OH! Okay, so the .dcupdate file is just a little extra to help keep the program up to date, and it doesn't serve any other function?

Has anyone come up with a clever way to maintain cloned links? Delete and create them as Steam games are added and removed? I've been looking at the possibility of doing this with Task Scheduler, and it looks a lot like I'd have to learn PowerShell scripting or else buy some sort of tool to monitor directories for changes...

-aloishammer (January 15, 2017, 08:36 PM)

That is correct.   And I've not heard anything automatic to do that.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2017, 06:55 PM »

You'll have to use the program to create the links, and put them into the folder.  Then, update the search folders setting to point to whatever folder you store the resulting links in.  It's not a FARR plugin, but rather something that creates true links out of steam links.  Then you can put them anywhere, and they act as normal links, i.e. findable by FARR.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2017, 05:52 PM »

You might use the Steam URL Converter, and place those URLs in a folder, and add that folder to the FARR search folder list.

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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2017, 02:22 PM »

Another good author is Dave Ramsay. His Total Money Makeover is good. As are Suze Orman's books. They both have similar central tenets but have different approaches so it might not be a bad idea to read one title from each author if you're new to this.

-40hz (January 14, 2017, 11:01 PM)

+1.  Dave Ramsay has some pretty good tenets that are easy to follow.  I've also found the YNAB method helpful (https://www.youneedabudget.com/learn/).  They also have hands-on classes- of course to push you towards their product, but they are good themselves. (https://www.youneedabudget.com/classes/)

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Living Room / Re: Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2017, 11:02 AM »

So I'm looking for any thoughts/recommendations of hardware and software and tips and tricks to getting good production quality in videos, especially with regard to sound.

Any thoughts?

-mouser (January 14, 2017, 09:36 AM)

Well, are you recording cross talk from your fellow players, or will it be mostly just you speaking?  That will make a difference in your best choice.  I've used a Blue Yeti with a Filter before, and was able to get good results.  But that was *just* me.

There's also the pro version, but I'm not really sure of the difference.

Not much info, but hopefully it's helpful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Passworded gatekeeper for websites

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2017, 09:01 AM »

If i have to 'build from scratch, i am sure it can be done but would rather pay for a prebuilt setup based on a few spec requirements.

-questorfla (January 12, 2017, 12:56 AM)

You don't have to build it from scratch yourself.  How much are they willing to pay?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Keyloger detector and other theories on how the deed could have been done

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2017, 08:58 AM »

We test everyone in the organization and find the percentage of employees who are prone to phishing attacks. Next we train everyone on all major attack vectors, and keep sending simulated phishing attacks to everyone on very a regular basis.

For anyone else who didn't know what that term was.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Passworded gatekeeper for websites

« Last post by wraith808 on January 11, 2017, 09:43 PM »

One could quite easily make a webservice that did this, i.e. queried the database based on user id/password and redirect them to their own page that had links on it.  I don't know of any out-of-the-box solutions, but I've found that if you give them the solution to their problem, and they balk at the money involved (especially the pittance that would be), then they have to accept that they can't have the solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Passworded gatekeeper for websites

« Last post by wraith808 on January 11, 2017, 08:14 PM »

^ That won't scale very well, depending on the size of the company.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: DIA4

« Last post by wraith808 on January 11, 2017, 11:36 AM »

DIA4 is written in Delphi, which is probably why the false positive on the antivirus software

-chesterw (December 09, 2016, 07:24 AM)

 

-Tuxman (January 11, 2017, 03:45 AM)

I wondered about that too.  Never got a false positive on Delphi, as it's compiled, not interpreted like many of the others that false positives hit for.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

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

I should also say that one thing I don't support and didn't like about this otherwise rather good video is the raised fists, which could potentially be a further discrete fascistic incitement to the sort of mindless post-election violence against people and in "protest" riots that was experienced (if not encouraged) in parts of the US. However, I am aware that that mindless violence was probably committed by and probably revealed a lot about a relatively small minority of American people and their perception of the need for real "democracy" - the majority presumably seeing it as being undemocratic to go around thumping people and causing property damage because your party lost a democratic election to a sizeable majority, or something.

-IainB (January 01, 2017, 10:46 AM)

The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a symbol of solidarity and support. It is also used as a salute to express unity, strength, defiance, or resistance. The salute dates back to ancient Assyria as a symbol of resistance in the face of violence.  One might draw parallels to, most recently, Standing Rock's Water Protectors, or not so recently the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what are you now using instead of Outpost?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2017, 06:55 AM »

more worried about malware than computer viruses

-Shades (January 09, 2017, 08:29 PM)

I really dislike this distinction that the vendors try to use.  I don't care if the malware is technically a virus, a trojan, a worm, or whatever - I want my anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-whatever to stop it and/or uninstall it.  For example I never really understood exactly what the difference was between Malwarebytes Anti-malware (MBAM) and Malwarebytes Anti-exploit (MBAE) despite trying to get clarification on their support forum.  I believe that in v3 those two products have merged.  That's the way it always should have been in my opinion.

-mwb1100 (January 10, 2017, 01:34 AM)

I actually like the distinction, and appreciate the difference that they are trying to make.  If MBAM integrated all of the different variations into one product, they'd become as bloated as McAfee, Symantec, and all the others.  I like that they focus on malware, rather than trying to be anti-virus software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what are you now using instead of Outpost?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2017, 09:54 PM »

I swapped to Windows Defender/Firewall and MBAM - and a dose of common sense. Been using it for years without problem and (famous last words) been safe.

-Carol Haynes (January 09, 2017, 08:33 PM)

Same here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AutoHotKey vs AutoIT - why choose one over the other?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2017, 06:20 AM »

Hello DonationCoders,
I have already written a small program in AutoIT and I see that many of you use AutoHotKey. Is there a certain advantage to using AutoHotKey over AutoIT? Is there a feature set that is missing from AutoIT?

Please discuss.

-lugosi84 (January 09, 2017, 04:53 AM)

I think it's personal preference, just like most arguments of this type.

http://stackoverflow...autoit-vs-autohotkey

http://paperlined.or..._and_autohotkey.html

http://advancedcase....t-or-autohotkey.html

http://www.computore...s_AutoIt_Review.html

Those are just from searching autoit vs autohotkey.

One distinction that is important for a lot of people:  AutoIt is freeware closed source.  AHK is FOSS.

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Official Announcements / Re: NANY 2017 Wrap-Up

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2017, 05:59 PM »

I noticed in earlier newsletters that an application: QuickJump 2016 by CJ Gingerich, was going to be submitted  in this year's N.A.N.Y. that failed to materialise by the finish.

-TWmailrec (January 05, 2017, 10:23 AM)

I'm actually using quickjump 2016 quite regularly.  Was there something else that was supposed to be added?  I thought it was done.  Perhaps it's because you thought it was supposed to be for this year's NANY?  It was for last years.

https://www.donation....msg393759#msg393759

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2017, 05:26 PM »

I thought Incubus was her brother, and she gave him a new host. But aside from that, I still don't understand why--if he is an actual god, and she is only god-like--why does he do everything she says. And again, he can kill in an instant, and everything he touches--except the Suicide Squad--is immediately destroyed. I honestly can't remember if it ever came down to kicks and punches with the Suicide Squad (not counting the one obvious exception), but it still seems to me like he could have annihilated them instantly.

-Deozaan (December 22, 2016, 01:39 AM)

You are correct... I misspoke, as that's exactly what I meant.  And I thought you meant motivations, not literal actions.  Of course, if he'd done that, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.  But they didn't give any in-movie explanations.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [Dimensions2Folders] My needs...

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2017, 05:24 PM »

I'm not getting the purpose of quoting here in a dead thread?  When there's already a thread for it?  If it's because it's in the wrong location, then perhaps flag it for moving?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question re/ future software project

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2017, 12:01 PM »

Well, the development is just as much a 'pain' as is any xaml project (I'm using Xamarin Forms with xaml, as that is the advised way to go for mobile dev. and working in VS2015 sp3, not Xamarin studio, on Windows 10), but VS doesn't have any Xamarin specific auto-complete support (yet) or form designer/viewer, so that takes some searching for the correct keywords to use. But all in all it's been a rather pleasant experience, more so if you're a Visual Studio fan/addict (I'm more of an Eclipse/Java fan , but do 'speak' C#-ish too).

-Ath (January 07, 2017, 07:04 AM)

I guess I'm glad that I don't use the designer   I'll have to try it (well, currently I'm in training for docker and EC2, so it will have to wait until that's done), but thanks for the feedback!

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: MMAHW! (Make My Active Hours Work!) - Cancelled

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2017, 06:18 AM »

http://superuser.com...tarting-visual-studi
https://technet.micr...360(v=exchg.80).aspx

There are quite a few threads out there on this issue, but no real authoritative source; I guess because they don't really want you to get around it.

On another point, it would seem that these scripts that were posted above should be more rightly posted in the Windows 10 thread, as most won't see them in this thread dedicated to a NANY entry.  And I've posted what I did to get it not to reboot there, and am using it currently.  Just a thought.