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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: App to separate multiple photos on page

« Last post by 4wd on December 01, 2012, 11:51 PM »

The GIMP routine also does batch processing:

The script also provides a batch mode to process a while directory of scanned images pages.

BTW, thanks for reminding me - I have a whole load of photo album pages that I took photos of and haven't got around to separating to individual pics

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: App to separate multiple photos on page

« Last post by 4wd on December 01, 2012, 07:57 PM »

For GIMP: Divide Scanned Images

For ImageMagick: Multicrop

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Living Room / Re: Folder properties

« Last post by 4wd on December 01, 2012, 05:28 PM »

Possibly: Fixing the Windows 7 Read-Only Folder Blues

“The Read-only attribute for a folder is typically ignored (!) by Windows, Windows components and accessories, and other programs. For example, you can delete, rename, and change a folder with the Read-only attribute by using Windows Explorer. The Read-only and System attributes is only used by Windows Explorer to determine whether the folder is a special folder, such as a system folder that has its view customized by Windows (for example, My Documents, Favorites, Fonts, Downloaded Program Files), or a folder that you customized by using the Customize tab of the folder’s Properties dialog box.”

ie. It's not used for what it should be used for. 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: create a stand alone app that implements oplop

« Last post by 4wd on November 30, 2012, 07:30 PM »

Is there any other location for that include file?

-helmar (November 30, 2012, 11:11 AM)

Attached.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with my friend's V9 malware infection?

« Last post by 4wd on November 29, 2012, 08:11 PM »

Does this help: V9 Redirect Virus ?

I'd try the manual removal first followed by running HitmanPro, (only if it allows free scan on demand), or ComboFix.  I say manual first because I'd rather not have to install a program to get rid of it.

Just a note on ComboFix, I've used it before and it has yet to fail me or cause a problem but do take note of the warning on the page:

Please note that running this program without supervision can cause your computer to not operate correctly. Therefore only run this program at the request of an experienced helper.

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Living Room / Newzbin2 closes its doors

« Last post by 4wd on November 29, 2012, 03:43 AM »

It is with regret that we announce the closure of Newzbin2.

A combination of several factors has made this the only option. For a long time we have struggled with poor indexing of Usenet, poor numbers of reports caused by the majority of our editors dropping out & no-one replacing them. Our servers have been unstable and crashing on a regular basis meaning the NZBs & NFOs are unavailable for long periods and we don't have the money to replace them.

Newzbin2 was always hoped to be a viable underground commercial venture. The figures just don't stack up. Newzbin1 was said to have had 700,000 registered users. In fact that was the total number of people who ever signed up in the history of Newzbin from 2000 onwards & only a fraction were active, loads of people dropped out & went to other sites. We reckon they had about 100,000 users and of those only a few 10's of thousands paid premium topups.That still made good money for the Newzbin1 guys. We never quite got the trust and lots of people said "Newzbin2 is an MPA trap", that stung us bad and we never got the userbase back. We don't have much more than about 40000 active users and the number of premium users is in the small thousands. It costs much more to run than we bring in, It just doesn't stack up.

To make things worse all our payment providers dropped out or started running scared. The MPA sued Paypal and are going at our innocent payment provider Kthxbai Ltd in the UK. Our other payment provider has understandably lost their nerve. Result? We have no more payment providers to offer & no realistic means of taking money (no, Bitcoin isn't credible as it's just too hard for 90% of people).

The tragedy is this: unlike Newzbin1 we are 100% DMCA compliant. We have acted on every DMCA notice we received without stalling or playing games: if there was a DMCA complaint the report was gone. Period. That was a condition of our advertising & payment partners so we complied but we never got a single complaint from the MPA. Not one.

Will we be back? not as a search service but we might run a blog from this site at some point.

Link

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Living Room / Re: Samsung & Dell Printers backdoor

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2012, 07:59 PM »

(But seriously - do you have any links for that?

-Renegade (November 28, 2012, 07:38 PM)

Damnit!

Forgot the 

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Living Room / Re: Samsung & Dell Printers backdoor

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2012, 07:25 PM »

Hmm. My printer is Samsung, but last I knew it wasn't live connected to the net. So how would an attacker get to the back door? Is it only some models?

-TaoPhoenix (November 28, 2012, 07:13 PM)

That chip in the ink cartridges that they tell you is to monitor levels actually monitors all connected computers, (including USB).

Then when you throw out or recycle the old cartridge, the government collects the information stored on that chip.

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Living Room / Re: Samsung & Dell Printers backdoor

« Last post by 4wd on November 28, 2012, 07:10 PM »

I wonder in what universe is that a good idea?

-Renegade (November 28, 2012, 06:59 PM)

China.

-40hz (November 28, 2012, 07:01 PM)

Really, I would have expected more from you 40!

How does answering China bolster Renegades conspiracy theories?

The correct answer is the US Government  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking experiences from people backing up relatively large personal data sets

« Last post by 4wd on November 27, 2012, 04:57 PM »

Only after enabling that startup parameter on a 64-bit OS and having a 64-bit compiled application you can go over the 3 GByte limit to go to a 4 GByte limit. Expect to run your system into the ground sooner than later though.

As far as I know both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows memory manager sees that there is 4 GByte of RAM, even if your PC has less physical RAM. Whatever is not there, will be delegated to the hard disk (swap-file). 2GByte of this RAM is for non-Windows processes only, the other 2GByte is also open to Windows kernel processes.

With the /3G parameter you limit the Windows kernel to just 1 GByte and whatever non-Windows process is allowed to use 3 GByte. Nether you or the Windows memory manager is going to be pleased with this. So, if you have an application that consumes 2 GByte, that application is clearly doing something so wrong it doesn't deserve a place on your hard disk in the first place.

-Shades (November 27, 2012, 04:40 PM)

From Comparison of 32-bit and 64-bit memory architecture for 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

System PTEs
A pool of system Page Table Entries (PTEs) that is used to map system pages such as I/O space, Kernel stacks, and memory descriptor lists. 64-bit programs use a 16-terabyte tuning model (8 terabytes User and 8 terabytes Kernel). 32-bit programs still use the 4-GB tuning model (2 GB User and 2 GB Kernel). This means that 32-bit processes that run on 64-bit versions of Windows run in a 4-GB tuning model (2 GB User and 2GB Kernel). 64-bit versions of Windows do not support the use of the /3GB switch in the boot options. Theoretically, a 64-bit pointer could address up to 16 exabytes. 64-bit versions of Windows have currently implemented up to 16 terabytes of address space.

From RAM allocation for applications in Windows 7 x64/ Where is the 3GB switch for x86 apps?

Memory allocation is set automatically.

If a 32-bit application is compiled with the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE switch set it is allocated a 4GB address space in 64-bit Windows. If not, it is allocated 2GB.

For 64-bit applications, if IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is set when compiled - the default is set - it can use up to 8TB. If IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is cleared it can use up to 2GB.

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Living Room / Re: External DVD Writer

« Last post by 4wd on November 26, 2012, 03:47 AM »

You'll have to move the writer closer to the free IDE connector on the existing ribbon cable - depends whether you, (or your mum), can be bothered.

Spacing on IDE cables seems to be pretty standard, so if it doesn't reach both devices with the existing flat ribbon cable, a rounded version won't make any difference.

You only have one IDE port on the motherboard, so both the existing Maxtor HDD and old IDE DVD need to be plugged into the same cable, (as it was previously).

If you want to go this route, grab another picture of the inside as it is now and we'll suggest device positioning to get everything going, (might be time to vacuum it out again anyway ).

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Living Room / Re: External DVD Writer

« Last post by 4wd on November 25, 2012, 05:55 AM »

Any 'caveats' for an external usb writer?

all the ones i've seen require TWO (2) usb ports to work reliably.

-mouser (November 25, 2012, 04:27 AM)

The ones I've seen, (in recent years), quote 1.5A on the drive - that's the output from three (3) USB2.0 ports.

All good external writers come with a PSU, eg. Sony.

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Living Room / Re: External DVD Writer

« Last post by 4wd on November 25, 2012, 04:20 AM »

Don't you have a currently non-used internal IDE DVD writer still in your machine?

You could reconnect it back up - depending on whether it was working or not when it was disconnected - might get you a few more burns before having to expend some money.

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Community Giveaways / Re: DC Community Digital White Elephant

« Last post by 4wd on November 24, 2012, 08:30 PM »

I'm going to regret it but what the hell, I'm in 

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Living Room / Re: Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

« Last post by 4wd on November 23, 2012, 08:26 PM »

I've been using the dishwasher for a decade+.

-barney (November 23, 2012, 02:44 PM)

I've used a dishwasher to clean the odd circuit board and motherboard - you just need to recognise whether there's any components that will retain water in any cavity and either remove them or don't use a dishwasher.

Use a mild detergent and don't let it do the drying cycle - take them out and air dry, (eg. car hoods ).

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 4wd on November 21, 2012, 06:45 AM »

Have any of you eaten turducken...

-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:52 PM)

The REAL Turducken...

 

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Living Room / Re: NAS Recommendations?

« Last post by 4wd on November 20, 2012, 11:55 PM »

This is the solution I came up with for my N40L HTPC, it is almost perfect apart from one major issue which I have detailed here  http://www.tuckshots...uk/Temp/Liquesce.htm

Have you experienced missing files in Liquesce storage pools when browsing over the network?

I have since experimented with RAR files and created a folder with 500 3GB files in.  This time I could only see 453 of the files over the network

-Chewie (October 25, 2012, 08:06 AM)

Sorry, I'm notoriously slow to reply to some things.

To answer the question, I don't use SnapRAID or Liquesce - all my data is transient, so I don't bother with RAID solutions, (ie. shit happens, I'll live with it).

As for Liquesce, I'm starting to think about installing it because a couple of my drives are becoming rather unmanageable as separate entities.

Sorry I can't help you atm.

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Living Room / Re: I need your help...

« Last post by 4wd on November 20, 2012, 11:50 PM »

Sweetener and Noodles taken care of.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by 4wd on November 20, 2012, 08:55 PM »

I tried Pale Moon. I downloaded their applet to transfer stuff from FF profile.

-MilesAhead (November 20, 2012, 06:35 PM)

I just copied my profile from Waterfox without using the transfer program, anything else was picked up through the inbuilt sync, (since the sync ID was copied along with the profile directory).

About the only inconsistency I find with WF is it seems to drop more mouse clicks than most.

That's it!  I got sick of it dropping mouse clicks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by 4wd on November 20, 2012, 06:22 PM »

I've went back to Palemoon a couple of months ago - Waterfox was giving me some problems, (sorry, can't remember what).

No doubt as soon as Palemoon screws something up I'll swap back to Waterfox 

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Living Room / Re: Mysteries

« Last post by 4wd on November 20, 2012, 06:28 AM »

• Candidate A wins an election with 51% while candidate B gets 49% - it looks as though candidate A won by 2% (51 - 49) but then just take that 1% from candidate A's 51% and give it to candidate B : and they both have 50%

-joiwind (November 20, 2012, 05:42 AM)

How is that a mystery?

Win = more than the other guy
Draw = equal second place
Lose = less than the winner

Who cares what the numbers are  

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Living Room / Re: The Free Videos Thread

« Last post by 4wd on November 19, 2012, 04:35 PM »

<aside>
No, no no... Use the cheap cloths... and pour the gasoline in the bottle *first*...
</aside>

-Renegade (November 19, 2012, 03:37 AM)

Don't forget to score the bottle with a glass cutter first, you can't imagine how embarrassing it is when they don't break 

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by 4wd on November 17, 2012, 11:16 AM »

re boiling water : as most real tea drinkers know, you should not boil water when making tea - it makes the water "flat" and affects negatively the taste of the brew, just bring the water up to nearly boiling (no jokes please about whether tea tastes of anything anyway ... I'm English).

-joiwind (November 17, 2012, 08:30 AM)

And you don't boil water for making coffee either.

Up until about 18 months ago, we used a plastic cordless electric jug to boil our water but it finally died after 15 years of service.

It got replaced by a cordless stainless steel version...it died last week.

Screw what it's made of, just give me something that lasts as long as the plastic one.

The plastic one was more efficient also since the element was in the water, (direct heat transfer), and not heating up the base as in metal versions, (indirect transfer).

Yep, still a tech, give me something that's efficient, does the job and lasts a long time. 

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by 4wd on November 16, 2012, 09:13 PM »

I'll have to get a used P4 replacement on eBay one of these days.

-mwb1100 (November 16, 2012, 07:51 PM)

Make sure you try searching for NTSA - all those happy people that had them seized at the airport because they forgot they were on a keyring, then the NTSA sell them off to people who flog them on ebay

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by 4wd on November 16, 2012, 06:12 PM »

I'll sneak one, (well three), in:



Top is the original Gerber Multi-tool that you could open by flicking your wrist and the jaws would slide out plus the optional 1/4" hex drive and bits.  No longer available, it's about 15+ years old.

Bottom right, (I meant my other right ), is the Gerber EVO Multi-tool and the other is a Gerber Shortcut Mini-tool.

The top one is probably my most used version due to the hex drive but it's absolutely lethal to use as pliers if you're not watching what you're doing - the handles close to a gap of about 2mm and if you happen to catch the skin of your hand, (or a finger), when the jaws slip off whatever you're using them on....IT F'N HURTS!



I'm partial to Gerber but I also had a Leatherman Micra....which got left on the bus between Cusco and Puno    

Honestly, a tech without a multi-tool ?

Heresy