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General Software Discussion / Re: name.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk forever ?
« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2013, 10:55 PM »
Used to be able to turn it off in XP under Folder Options->View, in Windows 7 it's a bit different, see here.

One of the first things I did on any new install since I don't use Explorer anyway - one, (or more), less files cluttering up the place :)

At least MS learnt to stop spreading them all over the drives.
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General Software Discussion / Re: name.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk forever ?
« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2013, 10:33 PM »
Delete all thumbs.db - they are a semi-useless file that just carries ephemeral data, (ala. pagefile).

Better yet, don't back them up in the first place, most decent file backup programs just ignore them.

To refresh the display, click on another folder than back again or hit F5.
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General Software Discussion / Re: name.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk forever ?
« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2013, 08:59 PM »
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General Software Discussion / Re: name.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk.lnk forever ?
« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2013, 06:35 PM »
RegexRenamer

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PS. I haven't the foggiest idea why it works, just that it does.
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on January 02, 2013, 06:41 AM »
PM sent.

Thanks Wraith, c.gingerich, Deo, mouser, (and I'm sure Stephen had a hand in the bonuses), for a bit of Xmas fun!

Cheers and hope the year ahead will be good to you  ;D
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on January 01, 2013, 07:44 PM »
And if I was, then I'd have done the three way prisoner's dilemma.

...

Now *that* would be interesting to watch  ;D
-wraith808 (January 01, 2013, 07:15 PM)

That's just simply evil.........







I'm in  :greenclp:

PS. I stand by my original PM if we go this way.
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on January 01, 2013, 06:21 PM »
Each participant send me a PM with the words 'split' or 'giveaway'.  If everyone says split, I'll randomly split the prizes among you (each getting at least one).  If any person says giveaway, then I'll draw for one of you three to take it all.
-wraith808 (January 01, 2013, 09:48 AM)

Oh you sneaky #&#%#*~~!!!

That's just a ploy to find out whether we are the kind, generous, giving people that we purport to be on the forum....or in reality are self-centered, back-stabbing SOBs.

Nice  :Thmbsup:


PS. You're a psychiatrist aren't you?
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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !
« Last post by 4wd on January 01, 2013, 03:59 AM »
Kangaroo burgers for New Year's Eve dinner, and Aussie organic beef sausages for New Year's Day lunch/dinner. :P Nom nom nom nom~! :P Aussie beef and kangaroo ROCK~! :D
-Renegade (January 01, 2013, 12:35 AM)

Any chance you could leave some of our kangaroos alive now so that we poor people of Oz can shoot and eat them later?

Kangaroo steak, cooked rare smothered with peppercorn sauce and juniper berries.......drats, I'm drooling......

BTW, emu sausages - much better than beef ;)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 08:53 PM »
4X4 on icy roads has saved my butt on many occasions,
-Tinman57 (December 31, 2012, 05:59 PM)

Poor 4wd, always getting the blame.
-Stephen66515 (December 31, 2012, 08:24 PM)

Wait....are you suggesting I'm somehow responsible for Tinman being here today?
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Living Room / Re: 6 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 07:53 PM »
  Kind of like a movie that I saw where they passed the same rock like 6 times while adventuring through the jungle.  lol
-Tinman57 (December 31, 2012, 07:22 PM)

Speaking of which, the one sound you hear a lot in jungle movies: 402kB MP3

From this characterw.
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Living Room / Re: New Windows install - How should I organize SSD, HDD, user folders?
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 07:28 PM »
Have you ever run into any problems with installers or windows update like the ones mentioned here and here?
-Jibz (December 31, 2012, 09:56 AM)

Interesting, I can't say I've ever hit either of those problems and unlike f0dder, I use a non-persistent RAMdisk - System/User Temp and IE cache directories are located on it and at reboot/shutdown everything just vanishes.

Pale Moon, (Firefox), is set to not use disk based cache at all, (browser.cache.disk.enable = False), and profile remains in the User folder on SSD.

Program installs I've done that required a reboot are few, (Agnitum OSS is the only one I can think of off-hand), but they worked.
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 07:09 PM »
You're confused?

I thought we were into a last round of "pass the parcel" where we get to nick someones gift in return for one of our own....or have I missed something, (hey! I'm new at this).

I was just expressing my desire to misappropriate Mr. G's Bioshock whilst leaving behind Nation Red under his Christmas tree then, after eating the cookies and drinking the eggnog, scurrying back to my place of hibernation.

Or to put it more succinctly:
Swap Bioshock for Nation Red please.

 :mrgreen:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Ram Disks with Dynamic Memory Management?
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 06:57 PM »
This post has a list of most, (if not all), of the RAMdisks available for Windows - over 2 years old but from a quick search there appears to be no new ones.  So you could look through and see if any of the free ones like Gavotte or Imdisk have a beta with that feature.


An interesting, (or not), snippet:

HP was granted a patent for it: Dynamically allocable RAM disk

...only 16 years after the Amiga was already doing it  ;)
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on December 31, 2012, 05:45 PM »
Cripes!  Kill hordes of mindless zombies or kill hordes of something else........tough choice......

Spoiler
I'm going to nick Bioshock instead of Nation Red!


Sorry Mr. G!


On 2nd thoughts
No I'm not  :P


Just to clarify
Sorry, that is  >:D

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Living Room / Re: New Windows install - How should I organize SSD, HDD, user folders?
« Last post by 4wd on December 29, 2012, 06:56 PM »
The free version of the software doesn't come with the ability to use command lines when the UPS is triggered - otherwise I could simply do a force shutdown.
-Carol Haynes (December 29, 2012, 01:41 PM)

Use different software, Apcupsd ?

Doesn't Windows detect when an UPS is connected, (via USB) ?

And if so, might there not be an setting you can change under Advanced Power Options to determine what action to take rather than utilise APCs limited software.

Haven't done intensive research, but look here - basically, Raymond Chen says it can't be done, and...
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
-f0dder (December 29, 2012, 06:42 PM)

Beat me to it, was going to point to that :)

But perhaps you can do some really black magic with bcdedit?

Wouldn't make any difference if you did fiddle around with BCD, it only contains the info concerning reading the hiberfil.sys file, (and apparently editing it won't make it work neither will creating links - it's been tried).

Writing of the hiberfil.sys file is performed by some other function, (ie. hard-coded), so it will always go to the same place.
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on December 29, 2012, 06:27 PM »
Decisions, decisions, decisions............let's see what's behind the Orange door!
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Living Room / Re: New Windows install - How should I organize SSD, HDD, user folders?
« Last post by 4wd on December 28, 2012, 07:52 PM »
4wd: thanks for the link, lots of data there :).
-f0dder (December 28, 2012, 06:52 PM)

I changed it to add post numbers since the links didn't work properly.

Buy Samsung  :P

I wonder if there's a lot of stress on electronics during a power cycle, and whether that's a more likely death cause than wearing out the NAND cells, at least for non-heavy use?

Most of my electronic stuff has died at power on over the years - there may have been a slight deterioration of performance, (maybe a bit of snow in the TV picture, PSU gone out of spec, etc), but it always seems to be at power on when something has permanently failed.  Being powered on for hours at a time causes component wear, (electrolytics may "dry" out, resistors increase resistance, etc), and repeated power on/off, (with attendant heat/cool cycle), pushes them along to being marginal, so voltages may start creeping up, etc - then at the next power on you have inrush current which is over what the device normally uses and...bang!

Turn it on, leave it on - probably the best way to achieve longevity.
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on December 28, 2012, 06:32 PM »
No, I was giving mouser a bit to reply.  But I guess he really does want out...
-wraith808 (December 28, 2012, 10:18 AM)

You got mousered ?

No...really?

 :P
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Living Room / Re: New Windows install - How should I organize SSD, HDD, user folders?
« Last post by 4wd on December 28, 2012, 06:22 PM »
FWIW, over at Xtreme Systems they're doing accelerated endurance, (ie. continuous write/read), testing of a few SSDs.

SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

They got over 6PiB of writes from a 256GB Samsung 830, (post #5393), before it died - I'm guessing that under normal circumstances it will last quite a few years.

It was on continuously for 3775 hours and died after a power cycle, (post #5400), 70% of its spare blocks were still free.

ADDENDUM: For some reason the links to the specific posts just took you to the last page so I've removed them and added the thread post numbers.
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Living Room / Re: Be Careful What You Download - Or Go To Jail...
« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2012, 05:24 PM »
lol...also check the population of those states. 'nuff said.
-robinsiebler (December 27, 2012, 01:37 PM)

Yes, it would be more relevant if they gave a ratio of incidences per population.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA : program which waits will specified programs complete
« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2012, 06:47 AM »
Try this:

WTPF.exe [prog1.exe] [prog2.exe] ........

If there's multiple processes with the same name, you only need to specify it once.

Code: AutoIt [Select]
  1. #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
  2. #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseUpx=n
  3. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y
  4. #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
  5. ;WaitTillProcessFinish (WTPF)
  6.  
  7. $process = False
  8. If $CmdLine[0] = 0 Then Exit
  9.  
  11.         For $i = 1 To $CmdLine[0]
  12.                 $list = ProcessList($CmdLine[$i])
  13.                 If $list[0][0] > 0 Then
  14.                         $process = True
  15.                         ExitLoop
  16.                 Else
  17.                         $process = False
  18.                 EndIf
  19.         Next
  20.         Send("^")
  21.         Sleep(5000)
  22. Until $process = False
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Living Room / Re: Be Careful What You Download - Or Go To Jail...
« Last post by 4wd on December 27, 2012, 12:33 AM »
Actually everything I see says firearms are the number one murder weapon. Where did you get the baseball bat stat from, Ren?
-J-Mac (December 13, 2012, 09:58 PM)

I don't remember. :( I was just doing random reading, and came across it. It was just some article about the most common murder weapons. Not even sure how I ended up there.
-Renegade (December 13, 2012, 10:46 PM)

Baseball bats kill people
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Community Giveaways / Re: DonationCoder Digital White Elephant Thread
« Last post by 4wd on December 25, 2012, 06:41 PM »
i don't need a gift, i just wanted to donate one.
-mouser (December 25, 2012, 05:50 PM)

Oh, go ahead an play :)  There's only a few of us to play so more makes it better :)
-wraith808 (December 25, 2012, 06:12 PM)

Hell, I only joined in so I could nick someones gift  >:D
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... charting, course plotting software
« Last post by 4wd on December 25, 2012, 01:03 AM »
Here's the Google Play store Marine Navigation search.

From a quick look over some of the apps it looks like they are all raster based.

[addendum]
Looked at OpenCPN.  Looks good for Win, but no Android as yet <sigh />.
[/addendum]
-barney (December 24, 2012, 08:21 PM)

Wait, you would have looked at it when I mentioned it back here.....right ?   :P

Apparently there is an Android app in development.
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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... charting, course plotting software
« Last post by 4wd on December 24, 2012, 06:37 PM »
MX Mariner ?

Based on OpenCPN
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