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General Software Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery.

« Last post by 4wd on January 04, 2014, 11:49 PM »

YTOTPC^* - Pretty boring, any time there's a power state change it'll pop up a message box.  This could be connecting or disconnecting AC power.

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
2. #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseUpx=n
3. #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
4.  
5. ;--- Tray Menu ---
6. Opt('TrayMenuMode', 3)
7. TraySetClick(16)
8. $exititem = TrayCreateItem('Exit')
9.  
10.  
11. ; WMI object creation for CIMV2 namespace
12. $gobjWMI_CIMV2 = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
13.  
14. ; WMI event notification sink for power management
15. $gobjWMI_PowerEVT_Sink = ObjCreate("WbemScripting.SWbemSink")
16. ObjEvent($gobjWMI_PowerEVT_Sink, "PowerEVT_SINK_")
17.  
18.  
19. ; Build notifier object for power management events
20. $gobjWMI_CIMV2.ExecNotificationQueryAsync($gobjWMI_PowerEVT_Sink, "Select EventType from Win32_PowerManagementEvent")
21.  
22.  
23. ;; Sleep forevAr - make sure to build a hotkey somewhere to allow you to terminate this process...
24. While 1
25.         $nMsg = TrayGetMsg()
26.         Switch $nMsg
27.                 Case $exititem
28.                         Exit
29.                 Case Else
30.         EndSwitch
31.         Sleep(100)
32. WEnd
33.  
34. ; Power Management event sink function
35. Func PowerEVT_SINK_OnObjectReady($wmiObject, $wmiAsyncContext)
36.         $intEvent = $wmiObject.EventType
37.  
38.         Switch $intEvent
39.                 Case 4
40.                         ; Machine is entering suspend")
41.                 Case 7
42.                         ; OS reports resume from suspend is complete")
43.                 Case 10
44.                         ; AC <-> DC switch
45.                         MsgBox(48, "YTOTPC", "Excuse me but you have suffered a AC/DC event." & @CRLF & @CRLF & "This could be because you tripped over the power cord" & @CRLF & "or inadvertently plugged it in.")
46.                 Case 11
47.                         ; OEM Power event...
48.                 Case 18
49.                         ; Hardware triggered resume from suspend...
50.                 Case Else
51.                         ; You can case these out from the constant defines mentioned earlier in this thread
52.         EndSwitch
53. EndFunc   ;==>PowerEVT_SINK_OnObjectReady

* You Tripped Over The Power Cord

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General Software Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery.

« Last post by 4wd on January 04, 2014, 06:30 PM »

Knowing what OS the OP is talking about would go a long way towards suggesting anything.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery.

« Last post by 4wd on January 04, 2014, 01:39 AM »

Windows will alert you when your battery gets low, first will be a warning, then there'll be a critical alert, followed by standby, hibernation, or shutdown (depends on how you have it configured).

Control Panel->Power Options

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General Software Discussion / Re: Transfer data from Win7 to a new installation?

« Last post by 4wd on January 03, 2014, 08:29 PM »

Syncback Free will let you choose source, dest, replicate paths and allow you to select what you want to copy from the list at the end but it won't go searching for media files for you - you'd have to specify a filter set, (eg. *.avi, *.mkv etc).  Once that was done, you'd only need to change the source/dest for each following machine.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on January 03, 2014, 08:08 PM »

... consumers can generate hydrogen and store it in a solid form automatically in HydroStik cartridges.

Quite a feat, must be one hell of a cooling system in that little thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: need freeware .vob to MP4 converter

« Last post by 4wd on January 03, 2014, 07:09 PM »

The two picture VidCoder instructions





Optional:

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Living Room / Re: I want to ping back blocked incoming pings - could I use BlackIce Defender?

« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2014, 11:46 AM »

You've got IPs from Amazon Web Services, Google, Akamai (CDN), Joe's Datacenter LLC (this would have to be the NSA ), etc being blocked.

I think you need to check what programs you've got installed that require contact with these services.

eg. Background updaters, sync programs, iTunes, etc, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: dual 6800 GS w/256MB ram vs. (1) GeForce GTS 450?

« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2014, 04:58 AM »

I'd go with the GT 450, it's 5 years younger than the 6800 series, handles DX11, faster GDDR5 RAM, at least twice the RAM of a single 6800 GS, and you won't need to screw around trying to get two 6800 GS' running in SLI.

You'd most likely be able to run the drivers in quality mode and not even notice the difference in play speed compared to performance on the 6800.

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Living Room / Re: I want to ping back blocked incoming pings - could I use BlackIce Defender?

« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2013, 11:09 PM »

You give me some hope if the syslog can be output to the client Windows Event Log though! That could be ideal, if feasible.

-IainB (December 31, 2013, 10:04 PM)

After suggesting that, I've starting playing around with AutoIt3 to see if it can receive the events, (I can already write to the Application EventLog), atm it can see the kernel log restarts from my router.  So if it works out, it'll just be a small program that sits around monitoring a port.

... do you have incoming ICMP messages blocked in the router ...

-4wd (December 31, 2013, 09:20 PM)

I don't know, I never kept a record, and I wouldn't know the difference anyway. As far as I recall, they all look similar in format to the ones in the image.

By default incoming connections should be blocked, (if the router firewall is enabled), so for ICMP messages, (pings), to be getting through there's usually a couple of places to check:

Check Incoming IP Filtering and ensure there isn't an Allow rule for ICMP protocol:



If it's only happening to one particular IP on your network, then you may also have an Allow rule set to Any, (depends on your router whether Any is a valid selection), to that IP.

And there is usually an option somewhere, (in Advanced or Administration), that says something like:

Respond to ICMP requests: Never, LAN, WAN, Both

This is purely to do with what the router does when a ping is directed towards its LAN or WAN IP.  Normally you'd set it to Never or LAN unless you have a specific need to ping your router from the internet.

A quick search through the manual for your router for ping or ICMP didn't seem to find anything but that doesn't mean it can't be controlled by logging in via telnet and issuing a command.

I am wondering why your software firewall is seeing a lot of inbound blocking activity if the routers firewall is turned on though, (it does support a SPI^w firewall which should make it reasonably intelligent).

Referring to the W7FC image, you've cut it off so does it report what protocol is being used?

Don't know if this is feasible or worth bothering with, (SJ, 40, etc would be more informed than me), you have connection attempts being blocked to processes started by svchost.exe - it might pay to try and narrow down what processes in particular.  Possibly by using Process Explorer to get the names and trying to correlate with lookups on the blocked IPs.

Addendum: Here's another SysLog Server that might be a bit simpler, LogLady - very small (2.30MB) and works quite well with my router sending messages to it.  LogLady's default port for your router to send to is 514.

Shareware, but you could use it for a short period to see what's what.

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Living Room / Re: I want to ping back blocked incoming pings - could I use BlackIce Defender?

« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2013, 09:20 PM »

Just referring to your image above, those are all TCP protocol, do you have incoming ICMP messages blocked in the router firewall?

Re. the syslog server, your router is capable of sending the error reports to one - it looks like you have version 1 of the router going by the image in the other thread, so from the manual:

Mode - Select Local, Remote or Both. If the selected mode is Remote or Both, events will be sent to the specified IP address and UDP port of the remote syslog server. If the selected mode is Local or Both, events will be recorded in the local memory.

SJ will probably know for sure but I would have thought there was a way to have the events appear in the Windows Event Log.

Otherwise, Kiwi and PRTG both have a free version Syslog Server, (limited number of input sources), that should be able to do what you want.

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Living Room / Re: I want to ping back blocked incoming pings - could I use BlackIce Defender?

« Last post by 4wd on December 30, 2013, 06:01 AM »

Depending on your router, you could set its firewall to block incoming ICMP messages and then set the System Log to report blocked connections.  Then log into the router and have a look every so often, normally the originating IP will be in there.

EDIT: Oopps! I see SJ already covered that 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Internet Archive presents ....

« Last post by 4wd on December 28, 2013, 08:15 PM »

OMG, you have killed my productivity for the day! 

-app103 (December 28, 2013, 12:48 PM)

Glad I could help 

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DC Gamer Club / The Internet Archive presents ....

« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2013, 10:56 PM »

Next time Steam suffers a meltdown in the midst of a Flash Sale ... The Console Living Room

The Internet Archive Console Living Room harkens back to the revolution of the change in the hearth of the home, when the fireplace and later television were transformed by gaming consoles into a center of videogame entertainment. Connected via strange adapters and relying on the television's speaker to put out beeps and boops, these games were resplendent with simple graphics and simpler rules.

The home console market is credited with slowly shifting attention from the arcade craze of the early 1980s and causing arcades to shrink in popularity, leaving a small percentage of what once were many.

Through use of the JSMESS emulator system, which allows direct access to these programs in your browser with no additional plugins or settings, these games can be enjoyed again. Simply click on the screenshot or "Emulate This" button for each individual cartridge, and on modern browsers the games will just start to run. As nostalgia, a teaching tool, or just plain fun, you'll find hundreds of the games that started a billion-dollar industry.

These games are best enjoyed in an up to date version of a modern browser. Currently, there is no sound in the games, although that feature will be added soon. Please read carefully regarding key mappings of the games and programs, to use them in your browser.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: AdBlock and DC Forum

« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2013, 07:01 PM »

Works fine here:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 2.213.01 Hotkey mystery

« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2013, 01:47 AM »

I just found that the Tab Mix Plus add-on is eating my F3 hotkey in Pale Moon - disable it and the hotkey works again.

To keep it ontrack, hitting Pause/Break works fine in Pale Moon here on Win8.1 - FARR opens immediately (whether or not TMP is disabled).

I'd try starting Pale Moon in Safe Mode and see if you have an add-on doing something strange.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : Reload Target Program

« Last post by 4wd on December 26, 2013, 08:32 PM »

Well one issue has been resolved. If Pale Moon browser is not running, my hotkeys work as expected.  The browser must have hooked something at low level.  I posted on the Pale Moon forum.

-MilesAhead (December 26, 2013, 04:22 PM)

I'm not sure that this is just Pale Moon causing the problem.  I've got the same version of Pale Moon (24.2.2 x64) on Win7 and Win8.1, on Win7 the F3/Shift-F3 keys work to step through a Quick Find search but on Win8.1 they don't.

EDIT:  Dammit!  Looks like it's a add-on ... now I gotta find which one  

@Miles: Have you tried starting Pale Moon in Safe Mode, (hold down shift when starting), to see if it still happens?

EDIT2: And it turns out it's Tab Mix Plus (0.4.1.2.02) that's eating my F3 hotkey - worked fine under Win7.  What's interesting is that Tab Mix Plus doesn't have the F3 key defined.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: So, about wallpaper changers...

« Last post by 4wd on December 26, 2013, 06:37 AM »

I'm not completely sold on it so keep the ideas coming, though.  =]

-skwire (December 25, 2013, 05:36 PM)

I'm not quite sure you'd like my idea, although the title is accurate the acronym may be a little off-putting:

I'm demented, so sue me

Arbitrary Screen Swapper With Integrated Process Exclusion

 


Disclaimer: In no way, shape, or form is this any reflection upon the work skwire does - more likely it's a reflection upon my warped and twisted mentality which often manifests itself in strange and interesting forms.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Left 4 Dead 2 ->FREE<- until 10:00 on Dec 26 (US PST)

« Last post by 4wd on December 25, 2013, 11:34 PM »

So many games, so little time ...

The above offer apparently brought the Steam servers to their knees for a few hours, such was the rush to get it.

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DC Gamer Club / EXPIRED: Left 4 Dead 2 ->FREE<- until 10:00 on Dec 26 (US PST)

« Last post by 4wd on December 25, 2013, 10:32 PM »

Current US Pacific Standard Time



Just log into your Steam account, go to the L4D2 store page and click Install.



Current US Pacific Standard Time

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DC Gamer Club / [EXPIRED] IndieGala 50% off until 23:30 Rome time 25-Dec

« Last post by 4wd on December 24, 2013, 06:22 PM »

Current time in Rome.

This deal is valid until 23:30 (that's 11:30 PM to those with a watch/clock with hands ) on the 25th of December, Rome time.



This makes the IndieGala CodeMaster bundle a steal:



I've already got the Operation Flashpoint games but for the price, I think I'll get them again just for the others.

The current Limited (Weekly) Bundle:



Current time in Rome.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: 5 reasons the video game industry is about to crash

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2013, 10:05 AM »

At this point, it'd be cheaper to just create real zombies to chase people around.

Please, just bring it on, restore some sanity to this planet.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch file or vbs code to change name of xls worksheet back to "Sheet1"

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2013, 05:53 AM »

The FYI section:

Can I pass an argument to a VBScript
QTP - How to rename Excel worksheet
DOS For command

+ your second post.

 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch file or vbs code to change name of xls worksheet back to "Sheet1"

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2013, 04:31 AM »

Looks like I got the wrong object name ... time to read a bit more.

Ahh, I was using the VBA object instead of declaring in VBS before using, (I think) ... edited VBS above.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Batch file or vbs code to change name of xls worksheet back to "Sheet1"

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2013, 12:01 AM »

Put these two files, (.cmd and .vbs), in the same directory.

ExcelWSR.cmd

Code: Text [Select]

1. for /r %1 %%a in (data.xls) do  (cscript.exe ExcelWSRename.vbs "%%~fa")

ExcelWSRename.vbs

Code: ActionScript [Select]

1. 'check for args
2. if WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 then
3.    WScript.Echo "Missing parameters"
4.    WScript.Quit
5. end if
6.  
7. 'launch Excel and open file
8. Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
9. Set xlFile = xlObj.WorkBooks.Open(WScript.Arguments(0))
10. 'turn off screen alerts
11. xlObj.Application.DisplayAlerts = False
12. Set xlWS = xlFile.Worksheets(1)
13. xlWS.Name = "Sheet1"
14. 'save, close, then quit
15. xlFile.Close True
16. xlObj.Quit

Usage:
ExcelWSR.cmd <path>   <- It'll recurse through the tree

eg. ExcelWSR.cmd D:\data

Test it on a sacrificial file first since I don't have Excel, nor do I use VBScript

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General Software Discussion / Re: a program similar to DropFolder

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2013, 07:51 PM »

I'm guessing it was running at around 80frames/s, which is not too shabby considering the hardware.

What did the quality come out like, is it suitable for the situation?