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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 12, 2013, 11:17 PM »

Did u get my g+ msg?

-kyrathaba (July 12, 2013, 11:06 PM)

Wait...you guys are secretly messaging in G+ behind my back?

 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 12, 2013, 11:12 PM »

It's quite disconcerting how I only linked to a medical article in passing that mentioned the vagus nerve and 4wd has ripped it out and wont it let go: it now seems to be at the centre of every eventuality 

-Perry Mowbray (July 12, 2013, 10:37 PM)

I dispute that!  You should see what I have planned for chapter 12 involving prions.

@K: What are you doing here?  Get back to work.

 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 12, 2013, 08:50 PM »

You need to update your 4 chapter sampler

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Living Room / Re: Privacy Policy

« Last post by 4wd on July 12, 2013, 05:12 AM »

Once you're done, change your mind and choose a new name & address & whatever for yourself.

-Renegade (July 12, 2013, 03:31 AM)

Nah, let someone else do the hard work: Fake Name Generator

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by 4wd on July 12, 2013, 02:38 AM »

OK, the following worked here, (on Win7 x64), using the files you sent and this command, (!Not_Searchable.txt was in same directory as command):

CopyFileList.cmd R:\test\test "!Not_Searchable.txt"

!Not_Searched.txt (note the accented e)

U:\test\1_ztestpdf\1_ABCi\2003\AHYEDKI 01 2003\important\Dopmdanen 2 zuuk\old accent e a - Copie.pdf
U:\test\1_ztestpdf\1_ABCi\2003\AHYEDKI 01 2003\important\Dopmdanen 2 zuuk\old accent é a.pdf

CopyFileList.cmd

Code: Text [Select]

1. Rem CopyFilelist.cmd <dest path> <file list>
2. @echo off
3. chcp 28591
4. setlocal EnableExtensions
5.  
6. if exist "%~1" goto :CheckList
7. echo Destination does not exist
8. goto :End
9.  
10. :CheckList
11. if exist "%~2" goto :Copy
12. echo No file list entered
13. goto :End
14.  
15. :Copy
16. for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %%I in (`type "%~2"`) do (
17.     if not exist "%~1%%~pI" md "%~1%%~pI"
18.     copy "%%~I" "%~1%%~pI"
19. )
20.  
21. :End

All I've done above is change the codepage to the same as Windows normally uses, (ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)).

Also, it now checks to see if the destination directory exists before creating it.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 11, 2013, 09:26 PM »

^He's a slave driver, I had the whole thing wrapped up in chapter 4 with the death of Sethra indirectly through the effects of an overactive vagus nerve.

@K: 4's clear, I've left a couple of things in 5.

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Living Room / Re: Privacy Policy

« Last post by 4wd on July 11, 2013, 08:32 AM »

Or to simplify:

... lie about your name and other personal information...

-40hz (July 11, 2013, 06:57 AM)

Always.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on July 08, 2013, 09:30 PM »

I presume they use led lights(?)

-tomos (July 08, 2013, 07:42 AM)

Solid State Lasers, (eg. the majority of Laser pointers), use Laser diodes, slightly different to LEDs in the method they use to generate light.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Cool Cinemagraphs Here!

« Last post by 4wd on July 08, 2013, 09:22 PM »

That's one tough log.

From here.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 08, 2013, 09:07 PM »

Ok, 4wd: Perry and I are done with Prologue through end of Ch.2, so awaiting your sign-off

-kyrathaba (July 08, 2013, 10:24 AM)

Just a couple of comments I've made but other than that, good to go.

So are you done at this point?  Or are you just summarizing?

-wraith808 (July 08, 2013, 05:56 PM)

K's decided to temporarily stop new material and fine tooth what's been done up to Ch 22.  Going through a couple at a time, when they're done they aren't looked at again unless some future chapter anomaly back references them, (or spelling mistake is picked up in casual read).  When it's complete we'll reread start to finish, (along with mouser), just to make sure.

So above is a summary of progress so far.

Just hope it won't put him off his stride for Ch 23+

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on July 07, 2013, 08:49 PM »

Very interesting. I wonder why pointing (green) lasers at aircraft is illegal in the USA, but doesn't seem to cause any problems in Egypt. . .

-Deozaan (July 07, 2013, 05:41 PM)

They've been made a restricted import in Australia due to the mentally deficient pointing them at aircraft approaching Sydney International.

Prohibited and restricted imports

Laser pointers (restricted import)

Description:
   Hand-held devices commonly known as laser pointers with an accessible emission level of greater than 1mW.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 07, 2013, 08:30 PM »

Works for me, I see we're all in there atm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by 4wd on July 07, 2013, 08:28 PM »

Remove @echo off and run it again.

Also, you need to provide more info, eg. OS, language (I'm assuming French), etc

And an attached shortened example of the file list, so we know what encoding the file is in, containing at least one line where it fails at.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by 4wd on July 07, 2013, 07:26 AM »

Duplicates paths.

CopyFileList.cmd <dest path> <file list>

eg.

CopyFileList.cmd G:\transfer C:\prog\PDFTextChecker\1.txt

Put quotes around arguments with spaces.

See below

Activating Quick Edit is one of the first things I do on a new system.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2013, 11:50 AM »

I like the air guns better then any Co2 powered pellet gun.

-cmpm (July 06, 2013, 10:48 AM)

Same here, I find there's something more enjoyable/interesting about air arms than any other type of firearm.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2013, 10:31 AM »

Three rabbits, one shot - no problem

-4wd (July 06, 2013, 07:50 AM)

Er-r-r ... how do you get the rabbits to line up <g,d,r> ?

-barney (July 06, 2013, 10:08 AM)

It was a complete fluke, getting dark and I didn't even see the two young rabbits feeding behind the bigger one, (they were only in the space of a 450mm of so) - the next door neighbours dog was very happy.

The steel core in the pellets certainly works well

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2013, 07:50 AM »

I like these pellets with the red polymer tip, I can see which way to put the pellets in the gun.

-cmpm (July 06, 2013, 04:20 AM)

I have a Gecado Model 35 air rifle, (.22).  Gecado is the trade name for Diana air rifles, quite a few years old now, (40+), sounds like a .22 Long Rifle firing, (PTFE piston head, chrome-moly spring), which means it's probably way over-powered.



Still quite lethal - especially using these:



Prometheus Sabot pellets

Three rabbits, one shot - no problem

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by 4wd on July 06, 2013, 06:48 AM »

>4wd
"0" files are copied in my command line.

-jity2 (July 06, 2013, 04:58 AM)

Interesting, seemed to work here on a test.

That's not a backquote (`) you used in the command, that's an apostrophe.

backquote is above the TAB key.



Although, you'll most likely end up with the same result as Abterix' method since they're both DOS based.

If your text file contains Unicode characters you can try the following at a command line:

Code: Text [Select]

1. chcp 65001
2. for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %I in (`type "!Not_Searchable.txt"`) do move "%~I" newdrive:\newpath

It changes the code page to UTF-8 for that CLI session. Here's a list in case you need something other than UTF-8.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 08:34 AM »

Everyone has *view* rights.  Everyone doesn't have edit rights.  I've seen it in practice (we use google at work) where I can comment, but not edit.  Or view and do nothing.  If you have edit rights, you have all the others... but the others are more granular.

-wraith808 (July 05, 2013, 08:16 AM)

Found the problem - you can't do anything if you have Revision History open, which, AFAIAC, is just plain stupid.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Enables/disable internet access based on a time schedule

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 07:46 AM »

One remark:
It's not tamper proof (you change the clock and you have internet access again or you run those commands yourself - given you know what is "wrong" with the internet connection)

-zzynx (July 05, 2013, 06:02 AM)

I don't know what OS you're running or whether you're using separate accounts but if you set it up so that your son is using a Standard User account, (you'd be an Administrator naturally), you might be able to set policies so that a normal User cannot change the system time, alter network settings or change Scheduled Tasks.

SJ or 40 can better answer that question.

There's not much you can do that won't be tamper-proof - anything you can do as a user can be undone by a user with the same privileges usually.



I see 40 has replied, he might be able to answer the following: Standard User as defined above can't change System settings that affect other users - does that include time, network and tasks?

Another:
Would it be possible to alter that task remotely?

Easily, just set the machine up for Remote Desktop, (or one of the many flavours of VNC, etc), and you can log in and edit the task.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 07:22 AM »

Well, at the moment I'd have to say it's a flop since other than reading I'm unable to do anything else.

I'm wondering whether mouser is able to create a, for example, special project sub-forum with access only by members he designates?

Kind of like a slightly enhanced of the My Personal Area one where the members can be nominated by the My Personal Area owner - if you get my drift.

Otherwise, a SVN is probably the way to go.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 12:32 AM »

What's the consensus for feedback location?

-Perry Mowbray (July 04, 2013, 11:28 PM)

I'm easy, (so I'm told), I'll even make up a completely new Google login just for the occasion.

-4wd (July 05, 2013, 12:08 AM)

You're keen for GDoc then?

-Perry Mowbray (July 05, 2013, 12:29 AM)

I've never used it, so I can't say whether I'm keen or not.  But I can't imagine it taking me long to come to grips with it.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 12:08 AM »

What's the consensus for feedback location?

-Perry Mowbray (July 04, 2013, 11:28 PM)

I'm easy, (so I'm told), I'll even make up a completely new Google login just for the occasion.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cut and paste list of files ?

« Last post by 4wd on July 05, 2013, 12:05 AM »

From the command line:

for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %I in (`type "!Not_Searchable.txt"`) do move "%~I" newdrive:\newpath

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General Software Discussion / Re: Enables/disable internet access based on a time schedule

« Last post by 4wd on July 04, 2013, 11:39 PM »

You could use Task Scheduler and netsh or devcon.

eg. My network settings are:

Name: Local Area Connection
Static IP: 192.168.0.244
Gateway (router): 192.168.0.2

To disable using netsh I just need to remove the gateway IP:

netsh interface ipv4 set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.244 gateway=0.0.0.0

That removes the gateway IP. You won't have internet access but will still be able to communicate with other computers on the LAN.

To enable:

netsh interface ipv4 set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.244 gateway=192.168.0.2

Then just add them to the Task Scheduler for whenever you want them to run.

If my IP was auto-assigned by my router then:

Disable:

netsh interface ipv4 set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp gateway=0.0.0.0

Enable:

netsh interface ipv4 set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp gateway=192.168.0.2