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General Software Discussion / Re: Laggy window resizing/dragging in Windows 10

« Last post by Ath on November 06, 2019, 01:05 AM »

Assuming all drivers are up to date,
Might it be related to a 4k monitor on less than 60Hz refresh? That usually only gives display-lag, not Windows-lag, but it might be of influence

Do you have the Logitech mouse software installed? It might help to uninstall that (with reboot after), as it has repeatedly caused issues like you mention, in the past.

Also some antivirus software (I'm looking at you Avast ) can cause 'lagginess' when dragging Windows around.

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Living Room / Re: How is this old interface called?

« Last post by Ath on November 06, 2019, 12:56 AM »

How can we automate them and can we inject data into them by-passing their tedious interface?

-kalos (November 04, 2019, 07:00 AM)

You can try to feed the application using my WinSendKeys tool.
It will probably take some trial and error, but as it mimics keyboard entry pretty well, it should work. Be sure to have a look at the delay options (f.e. between characters sent) to fix issues when characters are missing on input, as some DOS type programs have their own keyboard input routines that can be a bit finicky.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best app to learn SQL on

« Last post by Ath on November 05, 2019, 01:13 AM »

I understood that the various implementations all had distinct dialects so I guess I was looking for something reasonably generic to get me started

-Target (November 05, 2019, 12:06 AM)

Well, if you need a good standards-compliant SQL, then PostgreSQL is a good candidate. It's very well documented, supported, and as much Open Source as it gets. Find it here: PostgreSQL.org
I'm not too thrilled with the currently provided tools to manage it, though, they're pretty darn slow, last time I used that (been a while), but it gets the job done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: propagate a style.css and index.php to work in all subdirectories in a webfolder

« Last post by Ath on November 01, 2019, 02:21 PM »

About Apache configuration:
AFAICS, you should start reading (and some experimenting) on this Apache wiki page about DirectoryListings and how to configure that. I have no LAMP/WAMP installation available, so am unable to provide more detailed pointers, sorry.

About the .style.css file needing to be copied into each directory:
This is caused by this line in .index.php:

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="./.style.css">

It points to that file in the current directory ( ./ in front of the filename is a relative location).

By placing the .style.css file into a specific directory like directorystyle in the root of your website, and changing the above line into:

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/directorystyle/.style.css">

you are addressing the file at it's absolute location, and has to be stored only once at the server.
Renaming the file and moving it to the default styles directory is also an option, ofcourse.

The period as the first character of the filename makes the file invisible on *nix OS's, and it can be omitted if the file is moved out of the directories that are visible to the enduser. The name used in .index.php has to be adjusted accordingly, as is to be expected
The same goes for the .index.php file, after you have moved it out of the visible directories using the first pointer in this post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: propagate a style.css and index.php to work in all subdirectories in a webfolder

« Last post by Ath on October 31, 2019, 02:30 PM »

Any chance you can share those index.php and style.css files to see if a fix might actually be possible in the index.php file?

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General Software Discussion / Re: propagate a style.css and index.php to work in all subdirectories in a webfolder

« Last post by Ath on October 31, 2019, 02:08 PM »

I'm not an expert on Apache, but if al else fails, you could create logical links to the 2 files in each subfolder, avoiding duplicate files, and keeping a single point of maintenance.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: Welcome to NANY 2020

« Last post by Ath on October 29, 2019, 01:44 PM »

I can provide ideas....lol!!!

-superboyac (October 29, 2019, 01:42 PM)

O, please do, I'm still looking for a project/idea 

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

« Last post by Ath on October 27, 2019, 11:34 AM »

Another 1000 post mark, just today:

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Release - Android App - DiscussionList

« Last post by Ath on October 11, 2019, 01:07 AM »

This looks really useful

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Living Room / CafePress security incident 2019-02-19

« Last post by Ath on September 25, 2019, 01:43 PM »

Today, September 25th, 2019, I received an e-mail from CafePress, the supplier of, among other stuff, the NANY mugs, stating they have had a security incident on February 19th, 2019, where customer names, addresses, e-mail addresses and account-passwords have been stolen from a database. It appears they first published this story on September 5th, 2019.
I took a screenshot from their website where the whole story is explained for as far as they know.

Link to the page at cafepress.co.uk

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Silent Switch for Command Line Capture when SC already loaded

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2019, 01:17 AM »

You know about MiniCap, intended as the command-line 'add-on' for ScreenshotCaptor?

Using the -capturescreen and -exit arguments, besides -save to specify the filenaming scheme, should do the trick.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: Alternate NANY 2020 Graphic Design - work in progress

« Last post by Ath on September 08, 2019, 03:27 AM »

It is so great to have alternative mug designs, love it

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor from Visual Basic?

« Last post by Ath on September 03, 2019, 01:08 PM »

But you might also check out the littler brother of Screenshot Captor called MiniCap, which is a smaller commandline tool designed to be invoked from other programs:
https://www.donation...popular-apps/minicap

-mouser (August 23, 2019, 11:28 AM)

You suggested MiniCap before, wouldn't that be a quicker start&capture than the full ScreenshotCaptor executable?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Very broad: ISO Questionnaire Software with Report Functionality

« Last post by Ath on September 01, 2019, 03:40 AM »

What do you have in place for your current website (OS, webserver/software, database) ?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: New anti-spam process being put into place

« Last post by Ath on August 21, 2019, 02:49 AM »

I'm under the impression that this anti-spam measure is really working as intended

I just hope the extra administrative load isn't too much of a burden for boardadmins...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Standalone screenshot window

« Last post by Ath on August 19, 2019, 02:28 PM »

Wouldn't it be much easier to use the hotkey for grabbing the active Window? Because that's what it sounds to me what you want to achieve...

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: New anti-spam process being put into place

« Last post by Ath on August 15, 2019, 02:10 AM »

Other forums have this as a standard feature that only needs to be enabled, or as a plugin. I can only assume SMF has this too. (my main experience is with phpbb though...)

I'm all in favor of this plan (I've reported quite a number of (possible) spammers the last couple of months, often several (3-4) hours after they posted ), and I have the impression the automated spamfilters haven't been as effective as before

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General Software Discussion / Re: SCREENSHOT CAPTOR VERSION 4

« Last post by Ath on July 25, 2019, 01:38 PM »

Well, you might want to check the Preferences page 'Post Capture Options' to have the Copy to clipboard option set to 'Image bitmap' (not sure what the default is, I set it longtime ago)



(Other settings are probably changed by me too, so don't take them as advice )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 not able to connect to network shares

« Last post by Ath on July 24, 2019, 01:09 AM »

Do users on all computers login using a domain account or only you from your computer?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Out, damned WiFi spot! Out, I say!

« Last post by Ath on July 10, 2019, 12:38 PM »

Is there possibly a wifi-repeater active, still re-publishing the now no longer available SSID?

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Living Room / Re: Fingerprint sensor under screen: does it work well?

« Last post by Ath on July 03, 2019, 01:15 PM »

A tiny bit of googling brought me these links:

10-best-phones-with-under-display-fingerprint-sensor: https://www.smartpri...-fingerprint-sensor/
in-display-fingerprint-readers-how-do-they-work: https://www.pocket-l...ers-how-do-they-work

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FTP server and FTP Client Software (Windows)

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2019, 01:03 PM »

And your relation/connection* to these products is...?



*(product announcements require relation-disclosure for clarity, or you may be flagged as a spammer)

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by Ath on June 13, 2019, 01:26 AM »

Did you install Windows 7 anew, or updated the existing installation from your previous hardware setup? That situation is known to sometimes (often?) cause undetermined trouble because of unneeded hardware drivers clashing with useful drivers.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by Ath on June 12, 2019, 01:48 PM »

Besides that, the symptoms are not those of a virus.

-BGM (June 11, 2019, 04:55 PM)

Apologies, that's not what I was suggesting.
Most current AV systems are more like heavy duty system-intruders, resulting in unpredictable slowdowns, irregular fan-spinups, cause occasional high disk-activity, and stuff like that, including the symptoms you are describing. The Microsoft offerings with Windows 7 and 10 seem to be the most performance-friendly incarnations in AV-land.

All (hardware-)drivers are up to date (no beta stuff etc.), I presume? (You didn't answer that... )

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2019, 01:16 PM »

What AV are you using?
Are all drivers up to date (preferrably WHQL revisions)?