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General Software Discussion / Re: Where is the registry function for left clicking the desktop?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 12:51 PM »
Left click and right click on the windows desktop are two totally different things.  Right click is made to be contextual.  Left click isn't.  The drawing of the box is made to interact with desktop objects at the OS level.  Right click is similar... but links to the menu that comes up.  There is not an easy, non programmatic way AFAIK to capture the left click, as it would override the OS functionality.  It is possible.  Just not easy.

Perhaps someone knows something that I don't know in that regard... I can try to post some code if you're interested in doing it in a programmatic way.  AHK might be able to do it also.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ERAM (Open Source RAM Disk) Development
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 12:32 PM »
So then why offer the source code for modification?
-Zero3K (June 26, 2016, 11:51 AM)

Setting a license is not the same as offering source code- especially something like GPLv3.  That particular license, for better or worse, is a virus.

You can't choose to set that on someone else's source. It says something specific about what you're trying to do, and you can't decide that for someone else.



It's not originally your code.  It's not originally your project.  You can contact the developer to clarify their position.  But not being able to find that developer, and/or not getting a response does not leave it open for you to decide that.  See Circle Dock for the example of what bad things can happen when you try to do so.  This is a big deal for a lot of people.  And when things are a big deal, making unilateral decisions for others isn't a good thing to do, no matter what you might think.  Their reactions might surprise you.
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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 11:26 AM »
It's a 40% keyboard.  I've gotten into them for writing, as it focuses me.  I've actually considered making one of them my daily driver... you access the other keys in layers.

So the standard layout (which I tweaked a bit in the firmware)



Then the first function layer



And the second function layer



So, they're still accessible, and I get a keyboard that I can carry, and just like distraction free editors for writing, I consider this a distraction free keyboard for the same.

Looks like a solid piece of work, but where did the numeric keys go :o
-Ath (June 26, 2016, 03:09 AM)

I was wondering for a moment there how it was soo small lol

Looks great wraith --
how much soldering was involved?
-tomos (June 26, 2016, 04:03 AM)

I have a build log:

http://imgur.com/a/KQCt4

The only problem I had was in building the firmware.  I ended up using an online configurator to get the hex file to flash it.  I installed the toolchain, and mingw, and the programmer... but I was having problems with the references.  Still want to figure that out... but the soldering, it was just two contacts for 40+ switches.  The board already had the other components on it from the factory.


 I just built one from parts!

-wraith808 (June 25, 2016, 11:58 PM)

It's  a good-looking item.  Are you about to enter space?
-cranioscopical (June 26, 2016, 06:17 AM)

Ouch.  That really hurt :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: ERAM (Open Source RAM Disk) Development
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2016, 11:14 AM »
I have attached the benchmarks as a PDF.
-Zero3K (June 26, 2016, 09:40 AM)

More than the benchmarks, the problem is the licensing.  As f0dder said:

You can't just take other people's work and stick an arbitrary license on it.
-f0dder (June 26, 2016, 02:53 AM)

It's not even whoever sources that page, as shown in the disclaimer: http://hp.vector.co....363/tech/eramv68.htm

Text below:
Views on ERAM modified version of 2ch

Last updated 2008.7.13
68 Mr. at 2ch (?) Set aside also serves as a survival prove views on ERAM for WindowsNT / 2000 / XP / 2003 source difference is published.
Seems to be there was one that is copyright Donokono of problems seen but, (as long as does not contain copyrighted material of others) you can safely source publication of all or a difference with respect to ERAM.
On for people should be readily available execution module, it can be safely be published the source bundled with or separately from binary difference. At your own risk If you are using the binary difference.
It seems people are stay that is published a binary module, but it is a little. I think, but it is not intended to force the deletion.
If possible (68 Mr. version to the body) might also be where I am allowed to ask the source coalesce, but there is no spare capacity (in 2008.7.13 time). Operation check environment of over4GB is no at hand.
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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards
« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2016, 11:58 PM »
Since that first post, I've spent way too much on this new hobby.  I now have my plank, and jd45 besides.

But I just got back into soldering, and what I'm most proud of is the fact that I just built one from parts!

http://i.imgur.com/QUO1d2i.png


http://i.imgur.com/moEnUeT.png


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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on June 23, 2016, 11:15 AM »
A psychologist finished his work day devastated, and dragged himself into the office building’s elevator to slink down to his car and try to drive home.  In the elevator was another psychologist, an older man, who looked crisp and happy and was whistling instead of looking like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die.   Unable to contain himself, the younger man cried out:  “how do you do it?  How do you listen every day to all these stories of disappointment and death and shattered dreams and failed marriages and cheating and losing and dysfunctional families and lost hope?  How do you listen to that all day and still stay fresh?”

The old guy looked at him, smiled, and said: “who listens?”
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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive
« Last post by wraith808 on June 22, 2016, 10:19 AM »
I've used that approach before... the only caveat that I found is when you have an application that accesses the symlink continually, some access can fail.  I didn't look into it anymore than that, I just found another way around it.  But I did want to point that out.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2016, 07:31 AM »
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Living Room / Re: Raspberry/Arduinoe/etc. - Choosing a device questions?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2016, 07:30 AM »
Wow! Thanks!  I'd given up... PM incoming!
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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2016, 07:23 AM »
They run those fairly often, truthfully, which is why I haven't posted them.
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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 10:33 PM »
Pretty encouraging words!  I hope you have an overall good experience with it.  And it's easy to look back on a purchase and wish you'd done something else... I do it all time.  But it really just matters if you're happy with it. :)
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Living Room / Re: Thanks again for the Windows 10 upgrade reminder - NOT
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 06:03 PM »
my point is that the reason I moved from desktop software is that many things can (and did) happen, to make me lose my snipe.  Comcast going down, latency in the connection, ebay deciding to act weird.  And of course, my own machine going down for some reason.
-wraith808 (June 19, 2016, 09:11 AM)
Quite so, but those will presumably also be true for whatever web service you use, plus the concern over giving it your eBay credentials.  Gixen has been mentioned on DC before as a sound service, though.
-rjbull (June 20, 2016, 05:02 PM)

Gixen, if you pay for it, provides a mirror.  No guarantees, but having a mirror in two different places, reduces that dependency.  And presumably, their service is on a bigger trunk than my home service.  And gixen doesn't store your password, it merely uses it for the snipe, and deletes them very closely after it.
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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 03:20 PM »
that would be a sync of your files as opposed to a proper backup (but I dunno, does OneDrive do versioning?)
-tomos (June 20, 2016, 03:13 PM)

Indeed it does.  That's why I made my caveat above about it not being in use.  If I have the same document open at home and work in Word, sometimes it has a problem merging the deltas.
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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 02:53 PM »
do I need that dedicated drive? can't I just specify to back up in onedrive disk directly?
-kalos (June 20, 2016, 02:29 PM)

Depends on your usage.  If you use items in onedrive directly, you have to make sure that they are not locked, and able to be copied even during use.
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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 12:56 PM »
Hello Kalos,
Here's my solution:
1) I have a dedicated hard drive which I have configured as the OneDrive destination. Go here  to see how to do it
2) I use backup software called Yadis which backs up my My Documents partition to the OneDrive HDD. It backs up in real time and has versioning.
3) OneDrive then backs up to my cloud storage

Hope that helps
-Clive (June 19, 2016, 10:16 PM)

That's very similar to the solution I set up for my wife.  I'm just using rsync to back up to the backup drive.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Commandline method of downloading a webpage
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 10:39 AM »
Does that MHT go offsite?  Or is it all contained?  I'd guess that everything for DC is onsite, so maybe that's not apparent.  When I used to use MHT, I'd end up dropping offsite resources.
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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 10:35 AM »
I can try that... thanks for the suggestions!
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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 07:28 AM »
Did you try the Headless 4.4 No Fastboot version?
-4wd (June 20, 2016, 02:04 AM)

I wanted a GUI. :(  That's the reason I purchased the one with the HDMI DIP.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Commandline method of downloading a webpage
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2016, 07:27 AM »
Wow.  Talk about switches!  How about I tell you that the link is www.example.com/website.  It is hosted on localhost only so it isn't an actual WEB site per se.
But I open it by typing www.example.com/website into any browser. Can you narrow down the switches a bit with that info?   I feel "whipped" :)
This is just a single page like "the home page" that the site opens to.  All I need is that one page.  As a manual download with Ctrl+S it is an approx 2MB MHTML file.  If I could find that old Mouse Keys programmer I would just program the mouse strokes into a script to do it :(
-questorfla (June 19, 2016, 07:10 PM)

I can tell you what they do... and you can take out what you need.  Since you're going via the http protocol, it doesn't really matter if you're running local or not.

--recursive: get the page recursively, i.e. don't just stop with the queried page
--domains [domain]: don't go outside of the current domain
--no-parent: don't go upward, no matter what the links say
--page-requisites: get extra needed files, like css and js files
--html-extension: other than prereqs, we're only looking for html files
--convert-links: converts the links on the page to explicitly point to the downloaded files, i.e. remove the domain from the files
--restrict-file-names=windows: use windows compatible file names
--no-clobber: if you have to resume the download, it won't download those files that already exist.

I'm not sure how to limit it to only one level- my use for it was to download the website for offline extraction.  you might be able to add --l1, but I've never tried it.

All of these switches are detailed on the wget page (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/), and they might have a better explanation of them.



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General Software Discussion / Re: Commandline method of downloading a webpage
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 06:53 PM »
That's because with wget (or curl) you're directly getting the page you're pointing to, not a packaged version of the page.  When I've had to do this for work, I've had to go pretty deep into wget knowledge of the switches to get the external resources in the directory structure... a pain, but actually not that bad, once you know what the commands do.

wget --recursive --domains [domain] --no-parent --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --no-clobber [url]

where [domain] is the domain of the site that you're getting (so it doesn't go offsite), and [url] is the url you want to start with.  I offer no guarantee- there might be some syntax errors, but that should get you started.

I know there's LWA by aignes, but I'm not sure if you can script that from the commandline: http://aignes.com/lwa.htm
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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 06:46 PM »
Yeah... that was what my next step was.  But I didn't think it should be necessary :(
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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 11:05 AM »
I'm on a Win7 installation.  I haven't updated it in forever, and have even turned off the windows update service, because it regularly uses an insane amount of CPU.  I'm preparing to give in and update to W10, so maybe I'll try again after that.
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Living Room / Re: Surface Pro 4 (etc); observations from long term use?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 11:03 AM »
Interesting that you're going with the 256gb ssd. Locally that is nearly 25% more expensive, and I couldn't justify that. Instead I'm going with a big, fast sd card and a Samsung T3 portable SSD. Easier to switch the use between computers which I will be doing fairly often, and still cheaper. Also bought a dock, so will see how well it works as a desktop replacement.

-Dormouse (June 18, 2016, 05:23 PM)

Maybe you were looking at dGPU vs non?  In the same category, i.e. non-dGPU, i5/8GB/256GB vs. non-dGPU, i5/8GB/128GB, the difference is only $200 on the Microsoft Store, i.e.  $1499USD vs $1699USD.  It's the same $200 difference with dGPU prices.  It's only if you compare non-dGPU vs dGPU that the difference becomes that extreme.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Where has Clipmate Support Gone?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 10:59 AM »
The reason that I use clipboard fusion instead of arsclip is the ability to share the clipboard realtime between all of my instances, and access it online.  I know that ArsClip has a Global Clipboard feature, but I haven't been able to find it detailed anywhere, and clipboard fusion was close enough to free ($5) and works.
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Living Room / Re: Thanks again for the Windows 10 upgrade reminder - NOT
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2016, 09:11 AM »
I used a desktop one before - auction sentry (http://www.bitsdujou...uction-sentry-deluxe).  They've since seemingly become auction sniper, and have a questionable (IMO) practice of charging you for each successful snipe, so I don't recommend them.

But my point is that the reason I moved from desktop software is that many things can (and did) happen, to make me lose my snipe.  Comcast going down, latency in the connection, ebay deciding to act weird.  And of course, my own machine going down for some reason.
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