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Living Room / Re: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2014, 05:40 AM »

Read the topic title and saw who posted it, and expected to see this when I clicked:
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-app103 (August 24, 2014, 09:40 PM)

Hmm, I need to take speed reading for that vid.  (Except for the Weeeee part.  I got that.) 

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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2014, 05:35 AM »

The free version of 4DOS is TCC/LE by JP Software.  Here's a DC thread on it:  Take Command Console LE from JPSoft
For a free powercmd-alike (I think) here's a DC thread on Console:  console: a great CMD.exe replacement application.

-rjbull (August 24, 2014, 04:01 PM)

OK.  I remember playing around with 4NT quite awhile back. Thanks. It looks like it may be fun. 

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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2014, 05:33 AM »

Speaking of command line.. do you (or anyone reading) know of a utility similar to Windows Run-Command?  WRC itself isn't so bad.  But the extras it has just don't seem to be things I use commonly, other than RegEdit Button.

All the GUI prompt emulators for Windows, be they multitab or whatever, just seem unstable.  Something like WRC would be cool f it just had more useful doodads tacked on.

http://alternativeto...-command-prompt-cmd/

It's hard to imagine that what you are looking for isn't available here..

-Cuffy (August 24, 2014, 04:29 PM)

Thanks. 

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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 24, 2014, 03:38 PM »

Speaking of command line.. do you (or anyone reading) know of a utility similar to Windows Run-Command?

-MilesAhead (August 24, 2014, 10:46 AM)

Do you mean something like 4dos?  I never used it but it sounded like it could be good stuff, many people raved about it for years. Looks like it has gone freeware, although I haven't dug into the site.  I'm sure there are other DCers who can comment on it.

Or can you be more specific about what you have in mind?

-x16wda (August 24, 2014, 03:09 PM)

Thanks for the reply. 

Something like this:
http://www.powercmd.com/

only free would be of interest.

And/Or Windows Run-Command only with a better button set.  RegEdit and a command prompt are obvious.  But the other buttons I don't recognize and there's no tool tip to tell what they are on mouse hover.  I'd have to run them to find out.  Always a hairy proposition.

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Living Room / Re: Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 24, 2014, 02:08 PM »

I always thought the first law was sufficiently vague that humans would have trouble interpreting it.  Never mind a Tom Servo Citizen.  Especially the second clause "or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

The machine could easily calculate probabilities and therefore start doing stuff like taking cigarettes out of your mouth, blocking your way so that you could not board a spacecraft/skis/speedboat/etc..  make you finish your vegetables etc..

I get the idea what IA(meaning the scifi author) had in mind(stuff like don't just watch the guy hang from the cliff.  Help him up.)  But how would an AI machine interpret "to come to harm?"  The robot might become  a drill instructor making me do 500 situps and 200 pushups every day etc..

If he makes me eat red beets it's disconnection no questions asked!  

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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 24, 2014, 10:46 AM »

Speaking of command line.. do you (or anyone reading) know of a utility similar to Windows Run-Command?  WRC itself isn't so bad.  But the extras it has just don't seem to be things I use commonly, other than RegEdit Button.

All the GUI prompt emulators for Windows, be they multitab or whatever, just seem unstable.  Something like WRC would be cool f it just had more useful doodads tacked on.

Edit:  I'm thinking freeware utilities.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: diagnostic tool

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 09:53 AM »

If you are running AV while playing the game that would be the first application I turn off in the process of elimination.  If that's it then all you have to do is figure out an alternative method to protect your system while playing(perhaps something like ToolWiz TimeFreeze, assuming it doesn't have a performance problem.. the only way to know is try it.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 08:47 AM »

Would not clearing the archive bit work, assuming your backuup method just copied everything without twiddling bits?

-MilesAhead (August 22, 2014, 08:34 AM)

I thought of that, and my backup (Syncovery) does allow *not* using it (I'll have to check what it does by default).
Any tips how I do that? (again, I searched unsuccessfully )

-tomos (August 22, 2014, 08:39 AM)

Unless there's a freeware that makes it easy my thought would be a context menu to  a simple command line using attr command.  That way you could select multiple files and the Explorer would launch the command for each.  Perhaps a run hidden so the prompt wouldn't  flash.

Edit:  In fact a similar handler could be added for Folder to zap an entire folder in one shot.

Edit2:  I have a script I can modify that puts a handler inn the Registry for all files and folder.  It should work on both 32 and 64 bit systems.  It's hard coded for MD5Hash.exe but it's only a few lines o AutoIt3.  If you want to try that route I'll make it available.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 08:34 AM »

Would not clearing the archive bit work, assuming your backuup method just copied everything without twiddling bits?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.1 beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 08:29 AM »

Downloading
 

Best Regards

-Contro (August 22, 2014, 07:01 AM)

Thank you for trying it.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.1 beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 06:32 AM »

I made a change to BrowserBunch so that if the first param on the command line is not a switch and does not end in ".txt" then it treats it as a single url.

The reason for this is to make it easy to use it with a hotkey.  My usage of this feature is for launching a different browser to the url in the addressbar of the browser currently open.

Say I just installed a FF AddOn and I want to install the chrome version in chrome.  I added this hotkey to Transpose(my general purpose hotkey script)  It sends contol c to copy the selected url to clipboard, then Runs BrowserBunch with the url as param.  You can make your own variation.

[Select]

; send selected Url to Browser Bunch
#IfWinActive ahk_Group BrowserGroup
#F4::
  ClipSave := Clipboard
  Clipboard := ""
  Send, ^c
  ClipWait,2
  Run C:\Utils\BrowserBunch\BrowserBunch.exe %Clipboard%
  Clipboard := ClipSave
  ;MsgBox % Clipboard
return

I'm posting the BrowserBunch.exe here for those who wish to try out the feature.

Edit:  The next change will be to bypass the filter InputBox for single url launch. In fact I may add an .ini file option to disable it.  That would save a click.  I find I rarely use it anyway. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 22, 2014, 06:04 AM »

I like this idea.  I'm trying it out.  One thing though, the Toolbar Button scheme could make it more obvious what the traffic light color is.  I think it's green.  But if it's yellow I might not know the difference.

Edit: In chrome is pops out a green blob.  Much more obvious.

Edit2:  So far this is working very nicely.  My SAS and MBAM scans are coming up clean instead of showing the usual 52 tracking cookies.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wordpress and Hackers

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 21, 2014, 04:56 PM »

I wonder if it's even legit.  When I registered my domain I spent a couple of extra bucks to generate dummy whois info.  Probably a waste of $2 but I thought I might get phone calls if my home info came up.

Looking up favessoft.com it shows it registered to
Julius Caesar, LLC

I wouldn't waste anymore of your time on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best keyword-powered program launchers for Windows: Find and Run Robot is on top

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 21, 2014, 12:26 PM »

Congrats Mouser.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 18, 2014, 02:02 PM »

it's important to teach American children to accept electronic surveillance and coercion as early as possible. this misguided app will certainly help do that. :-(

-Gwen7 (August 18, 2014, 08:46 AM)

I can appreciate the irony.  I was always very touchy about privacy issues, GPS in the cell phone etc..

Now I find myself homeless in Miami.  My driver's license has never been revoked or suspended.  It is merely expired.  Even though I resided at the same address in Florida for more than 20 years I cannot renew my license since I am not a "permanent resident" of Florida.  To send over the net for my birth certificate, they want a scan of my driver's license.  Good old catch 22 in play.  After this going on for a year and a half I say give me the chip in the arm.  At least then I can prove who I am.

All this crap with stolen and lost IDs could easily be avoided with banks providing tiny safe deposit boxes.  It doesn't require a large drawer to hold copies of driver license, birth certificate, passport, deeds to property etc.

When the issuing government agency gives you one of these documents it should forward a copy to the bank near where you live.  Driver's License stolen?  Go to bank and get the copy.  Go to DMV to get another copy.  When you go to the bank with no ID and give the drawer number, the teller can open the drawer and check the picture ID inside.  The problem of proving who you are to get your stuff disappears.

Sorry to hijack the thread but it's not like Big Brother can't shut you down if he feels like it.  All he has to do is add your name to the computer list of suspected terrorists.  For most it would be game over right then.  For those with resources, they may be able to dig themselves out after an indeterminate period of residing in Hell. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 16, 2014, 04:30 PM »

I like that Tab Grenade.  Seems to work fine in Cyberfox x64 31.0.1

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Living Room / Re: HDMI vs Football

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 15, 2014, 05:54 PM »

I think he's talking about American football   
Soccer isn't popular enough in this country to put it on TV... who would watch it? 

-Cuffy (August 15, 2014, 11:41 AM)

With the multitude of channels today even stuff like Girls Highschool Lacrosse is televised.  Moms want to watch their kids play.  Eventually content starvation due to virtually unlimited bandwidth will create a demand, even for unpopular sports.

But I grant that "football" is the right name for sports where a ball is played with the feet.  It's just in the U S of A the N F of L has too much clout to let them not call it Soccer on TV here. 

But as Yogi Bera noted, if people are determined not to come to games you can't stop 'em. 

(It's Yogi Bera quote of the day week this week.) 

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Living Room / Re: Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face from Space

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 02:49 PM »

This is just silly. The resolution is roughly the size of your face, which means that in the resulting image, it'll be represented by a single pixel. It won't be possible to recognize who is who, or even if you're wearing clothes or not.

-CWuestefeld (August 14, 2014, 11:39 AM)

To paraphrase Yogi Bera "I don't know if they were men or women.[referring to streakers at a ball game]  They were wearing bags over their heads."

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Living Room / Re: Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face from Space

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 08:30 AM »

They say most of space is empty.  But I expect soon a couple of these will collide over South Beach.   

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 08:16 AM »

I'm nearly finished with Accelerando

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.

The blurb makes it sound like Terminator: Man vs Machine.  But it's an amusing tale of the transition of humans from merely "meat brained" to augmented integration with technology.  Fun reading. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program windows contained in a frame?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 07:55 AM »

My Laptop is 4 GB ram so it should be an interesting in between case.  I'll give it at least a cursory trial today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program windows contained in a frame?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 05:50 AM »

Sorry.  I've really been distracted lately.  I haven't tried it yet. When I do I'll update though.

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Living Room / Re: IBM develops a computer chip with one million 'neurons' that 'functions like a h

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 14, 2014, 05:47 AM »

Strosser used this quote in the beginning of Accelerando

The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.

    Dijkstra (1984) The threats to computing science (EWD898)

I never thought of it quite that way. 

I have about 70 pages left to read.

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Living Room / Re: R.I.P. Robin Williams

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 13, 2014, 12:55 PM »

I remember Death To Smoochy.  That was really bizarre.

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Living Room / Re: IBM develops a computer chip with one million 'neurons' that 'functions like a h

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 13, 2014, 12:53 PM »

Hmm, if a chip has more than a million neurons does that make it a moron?