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Living Room / Re: Raspberry/Arduinoe/etc. - Choosing a device questions?
« Last post by wraith808 on December 28, 2015, 03:24 PM »
This might help:

https://www.donation....msg393655#msg393655

Since mouser was the last post in that thread, I'd think that he'd seen it. ;) So I'd think he was asking about personal experience of DC'ers.

I hope some of you with experience can help point me in the right direction.
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General Software Discussion / Re: backup strategy
« Last post by wraith808 on December 28, 2015, 03:22 PM »
in case the laptop gets lost or stolen or corrupted, the data will always [may] be accessible online

ftfy kalos ;-)

why? do you often hear for data losses in gmail servers for example?? even if I have the previous version of the lost data, it would be very satisfying too from nothing!

http://googledrivesucks.com/

http://blog.cloudhq....gle-drive-data-loss/

https://productforum...ic/drive/WPtLkVSznts

Of course, you'll find similar stories with any cloud service, honestly.  Some are holes in the service, and others are user problems.  Check them out, and do what you will.  With any, you're taking a non-zero risk.  That's the reason that people have more than one backup solution- depending on how important the files are.  And since it's your data, it's better to craft your own, whatever that entails.  People have given you options and pros and cons.  I think it's time for you to decide based on your own research at this point.
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General Software Discussion / Re: backup strategy
« Last post by wraith808 on December 28, 2015, 09:53 AM »
You still need to charge that pen drive through a USB port. So with which intervals do you need to charge the pan drive? And for how long? And the WiFi on it...how secure is that? (WPA-2 or better?)

I was giving that to him as a help, since he talked about having to connect the pen drive.  And yes, it does use WPA2 - WPA2-PSK specifically.
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General Software Discussion / Re: backup strategy
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 09:09 PM »
OK, but it doesn't really make any sense to do that, I want to save my data in case someone breaks into my house and steal my laptop! He will also steal the usb as well!

Not if you have it on you?

and I will plug it in every time I want to use my laptop? that's very inconvenient!

That's not what wraith said.

Someone can't steal the flash drive if it's with you, they can steal the laptop but not the flash drive ... thus your data is still available.

If you're going to keep the flash drive with your laptop and you're worried about it being stolen with the laptop then don't bother making a backup because you have other problems.


And even if you do have larger problems... I can still solve your primary objection.

https://www.sandisk....nnect-wireless-stick
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General Software Discussion / Re: backup strategy
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 06:38 PM »
OK, but it doesn't really make any sense to do that, I want to save my data in case someone breaks into my house and steal my laptop! He will also steal the usb as well!

Not if you have it on you?
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Living Room / Re: Words fail me - you'll have to read this yourself
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 06:37 PM »






That was so awesome, I couldn't settle on just one to convey my sentiments.

I haven't seen a 40 slam dunk like that in a while.  Thank you.  And never change.
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 06:33 PM »
For some reason Chrome is blocking me from downloading it.

https://support.goog...d&hl=en&rd=1
https://support.goog...sters/answer/3258249

That's was what I was referring to above.  You can use curl, wget, or such utilities to directly download it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: backup strategy
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 06:32 PM »
I don't think a pen drive will do versioning and automatic backup realtime as I edit files!

It can.  Very easily.  Install a Git repository on it, and you're good to go.  It wouldn't be automatic (though I think there are some git extensions that enable it), but you'd have backups, versioning, and the ability to get it onto other computer(s) very easily.
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Living Room / Re: Words fail me - you'll have to read this yourself
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 12:29 PM »
If it was just "any random but competent art" as a performance piece, we wouldn't care. And stories are just text, my copy is as good as your copy from Gutenberg's Mark Twain set. And for music, there's whole cultures (besides the lawsuits of grumpy musicians) of mashup. Same with pics.

Those that the art affected would care.  And that's the point of this... art affects in ways that are only quantifiable by contact and taste.  So to denigrate someone else's feeling on the matter in the way that the writer did... I think that's the offensive thing.  And then to put it to such low brow use just because I have the funds for a stunt?  That's a different form of the same.  I'm all for people being able to do whatever they will with the money that they have.  But they are also not immune to the effects of the use of their money.  I'd thought that cards against humanity were a pretty cool game idea, and the mechanics were pretty cool.  And having played it online, I was on the edge about getting a copy.  I'm no longer on the edge.  And I'm just one person, with one opinion.  But I'll use that opinion and consumer power to go against the idea that this is cool.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: access windows explorer context menu from farr?
« Last post by wraith808 on December 27, 2015, 10:24 AM »
right click on the item, then choose the option that says "Shell Context Menu..."   That will pop up the normal menu for the item.
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Living Room / Re: John McAfee 2016?!? Yep. :)
« Last post by wraith808 on December 26, 2015, 12:45 PM »
Seems anyone could be president these days  ;)

I kind of thought it's been like that for a few decades now ;-)

I never knew it was any way different.  ;D  That's one of the 'charms'.
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Too bad I can't sign up for the contest since it is on facebook.

Same here.  But best of luck!  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2015, 01:17 PM »
Is that link above correct?  I used curl to get around chrome, and got a 301?

UPDATE: For anyone trying the same, the link is a redirect, and the location is in the 301, i.e. http://f.cl.ly/items...1G/QuickJump2016.zip
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2015, 11:30 AM »
Having to figure out a way to download it in Chrome sucks.

Just an FYI- how you get around the malicious warning (even though we haven't checked, we're going to mark it malicious) in Chrome

I had exactly this problem with an exe file that is downloadable from my web site. Whenever I tried to download the file using Chrome it gave the warning.

The solution I found was to sign up to Google Webmaster Tools and add my site. It took several days for Google to crawl my site, and fill in any information, but I went back today and finally found loads of information there.

Now I can download my file, and there is no malicious warning any more.

It seems that once Google has checked out your site and determined that you are not a bad person, the problem goes away.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on December 22, 2015, 01:58 PM »
I'm at 1511 10586.29 - Windows Home 64 bit.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on December 22, 2015, 01:05 PM »
^Yeah, there's a thread on reddit about it too, and some people drew the same conclusions about ransomware.  If you're automatically updating something, err on the side of communicating what you did.  A simple expedient of making the prior messages scroll to the bottom, or at least stay on the screen would be clearer.  Especially if you're still doing stuff.

I actually like the BSOD screen- it gives more user usable info than before.  That's the way I want them to go...
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It looks like an old Chinese script... I do not think Google Translate will be of any help.


Maybe.  Maybe not.  Just figured I'd suggest for a try.  It does some pretty amazing things.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: hotkeys no longer working in version 4.15.2
« Last post by wraith808 on December 22, 2015, 10:48 AM »
My HotKeys work erratically, working when I restart Windows and then after using it for a while, it stops working.  I have Window 10 64Bit install and do not have either DropBox nor One Drive (installed but not signed in). 

UPDATE: Once I paste the object into the target app, it stops working, restart the app and it works for one screencapture again.

UPDATE: reassigned to own keys and works everytime, so it does seem some app is "taking" the print screen button.  Could it be another screen grabbing app installed by the organisation (Snipping tool)?

The other option to DropBox being stupid is OneDrive being stupid, if you have that installed.  See this thread for more info.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on December 22, 2015, 10:44 AM »
Oh, and I didn't see anything about what the fall update entails, so I figured I'd post this:
https://www.thurrott...ndows-10-fall-update
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on December 22, 2015, 10:42 AM »
Microsoft really needs to stop trying to be "cute".

I opened my laptop this morning to the messages:

  • "Hi."
  • "We've Updated your computer"
  • "All your files are right where you've left them"
  • "We have some new features we are excited about" (something like that)

The bad thing?  "Hi" didn't stick around for long.  Neither did the second line.  After I looked up, I saw the third line.  And it stayed there, unresponsive for over 5 minutes!  Thankfully, I knew that I'd told it it could install, so it didn't freak me out too much.  But some people are going bonkers when that comes up, and doesn't give any other information.

Thankfully, I changed it so that it has to ask me in order to restart my computer for installs.  I was notified that it needed to restart, and scheduled it for 3:30 AM.  That sort of straddles the line between leaving it on, and giving them full carte blanche.

That message *did* scare me, however. 

Again, Microsoft needs to stop trying be "cute", and err on the side of being clear.
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you have an android device don't you?  You might try Google Translate.
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2015, 04:19 PM »
Wraith, what about removing the ".lnk" from the display?  We don't really need to see the file extension, and it would be less clutter.

I'm confused?  :huh:  Or was this for the author?
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2015, 09:25 AM »
Yes I used 7stacks but it would just run so slow sometimes and take forever to open if I had a lot of apps/files in the folder. I wanted a faster way, so I made this. :-)

My problem with it also, so I'll give this a try!
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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2015, 08:42 AM »
Looks pretty cool... a less visual version of 7stacks! :)
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Living Room / Re: 14 year-old boy arrested for creating a digital clock
« Last post by wraith808 on December 17, 2015, 01:46 PM »
Nobody thought it was really a bomb. He got in trouble for perpetrating a "bomb hoax." (Whether it was an intentional hoax or not is another story.)

I think that brings up another sticky point.  What is an unintentional hoax?  The 'bomb hoax' angle was a convenient artifice for covering up their reaction.  What you're arrested for at the time (especially as a kid- think about the psychology of a kid in handcuffs), can be very different from what the final charges are.  They kept asking him, "What is this", and he kept answering the same way.  "A clock."
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