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Living Room / Re: Happy New Year 2019 for the best forum in the world

« Last post by Ath on January 01, 2019, 02:42 AM »

Happy New Year!

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Process Started

« Last post by Ath on December 30, 2018, 04:10 AM »

Very interesting NANY entry, Anand, thanks.

Hope you add some customization options, as the gray on green color scheme just isn't my taste.
Also, the more... link doesn't seem to work yet, and I'd like to see the date/time the process was started, if possible.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Is DC attacked again?

« Last post by Ath on December 26, 2018, 03:57 AM »

Well, looking at the max. number of visitors on the 25th and Cloudflare 'checking your browser' message when first accessing the site, I can only conclude the same as tuxman did, but obviously, Cloudflare is doing its job as a loadbalancer, though that might throw some 50x's in the process 

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Skwire Empire / Re: 1.7.5 Not Working

« Last post by Ath on December 25, 2018, 09:16 AM »

You have added a location in the settings?
And I assume you didn't 'install' it in a Program Files' or other protected directory? It has to be able to write to its .ini file in the current directory.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Much as I hate to admit it, I am looking for help again... ***mod: please delete

« Last post by Ath on December 13, 2018, 12:39 PM »

It is not a problem you withdraw your request, but I'm a bit disappointed you have removed all text, so nobody can pick it up later or give helpful suggestions

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Wait for a web page is fully loaded and then enter a password

« Last post by Ath on December 08, 2018, 04:29 AM »

Can't your browser' password manager fill that in for you? With Firefox, or a derivate, you get that option for free...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Issues with ERAM (An Open Source RAM Disk Driver) and its CPL

« Last post by Ath on November 26, 2018, 03:53 PM »

VStudio I do not own

-KodeZwerg (November 26, 2018, 02:58 PM)

You can download and install the free (as in 'free software') VS 2017 Community Edition from here so you can start experimenting. Knowing Delphi it isn't that hard, the basic (some pun intended) principles are quite the same. Do select C# as the initial development configuration.
Software you create yourself with it can be distributed freely.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - StringSimilarity - Release

« Last post by Ath on November 24, 2018, 08:15 AM »

StringSimilarity has been updated to 1.3.0, adding the ability to load text from txt files (*.txt or *.*), no file-content check!

Also, the download has been moved to my DCMembers space, link available from the first post, above.

Is a export things to dll planned?

-KodeZwerg (November 11, 2018, 05:59 AM)

Haven't decided on this request yet, as it's quite a bit of work for such a small feature-set
What would you want to use it for? Or would a command-line enabled version (with somewhat formatted output) suffice?

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Android Apps / Re: Mouser Android Apps Updated 11/14/18

« Last post by Ath on November 15, 2018, 01:48 PM »

Correct. When tapping the widget, the slides open in the normal UI in the usual colors.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Looking for a scrolling rich-text displayer to show an AUP

« Last post by Ath on November 15, 2018, 01:28 AM »

Creating an installer, f.e. using InnoSetup, that doesn't actually install anything, could provide you with that.

Btw, when(/how) should this AUP be shown?

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Android Apps / Re: Mouser Android Apps Updated 11/14/18

« Last post by Ath on November 15, 2018, 01:22 AM »

I just want to make sure you aren't saying I broke something in the PBOL widget or changed its default color.

-mouser (November 14, 2018, 09:04 PM)

Well, the default color did change to dark (black), where it was something greyish before (don't recall the exact color though), and also the progress bars are now green where they used to be blue (AFAIR) , now that you mention you might have broken something...

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Android Apps / Re: Mouser Android Apps Updated 11/14/18

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2018, 01:20 PM »

Well, the setting to override the 'default' font color doesn't seem to be applied. The setting itself does stick though.

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Android Apps / Re: Mouser Android Apps Updated 11/14/18

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2018, 01:12 PM »

How can I change the font-color of the widgets?
For PBOL it changed to smt rather dark, so now it's barely readable on my darkish-blue background image. Can't find that option in the settings...

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 13, 2018, 12:37 AM »

The file format I will use is not decided yet, so I advise no one spend any time coding anything yet..

-mouser (November 12, 2018, 03:37 PM)

was waiting until he decided what that format might be in order to test.

-wraith808 (November 12, 2018, 04:02 PM)

And that is why I'm waiting too...

Or put up a request to convert file.

-KodeZwerg (November 12, 2018, 03:34 PM)

The only reason to convert a logfile is just before putting it into something like LogStash, syslog, or another log agregator. Converting just for display is a last resort only, so no, I shouldn't need (to write) me a converter

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 12, 2018, 02:01 PM »

Hm, though LogFusion looks like a fine log viewer, I'm afraid it doesn't handle the json-like format that is currently output by ProcessWatcher. We'll have to wait for mouser to choose another format before LogFusion is useful in this context.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 12, 2018, 06:47 AM »

I was planning a process lister,
which will show the process names, time etc.,
as they are loaded by the os,
in a small non-focus window.

-anandcoral (November 12, 2018, 06:31 AM)

I think this should be one of the tasks of a GUI on Process Watcher logs.
Maybe you could create that kind of a GUI? (I might start it, depending on available time and motivation)

Another GUI tool/task would be for filtering/searching the log-data, and that could even be the same tool, AFAICS.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2018, 05:26 AM »

That sounds like a very solid path

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Calculate string-similarity

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2018, 05:24 AM »

I have now released this for NANY 2019, over here

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - StringSimilarity - Release

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2018, 05:20 AM »

(Reserved for future use)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019 - StringSimilarity - Release

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2018, 05:19 AM »

NANY 2019 Entry Information

Application Name	StringSimilarity
Version	1.3.0.0
Short Description	Compare 2 strings/texts giving a distance/proximity score using several algorithms
Supported OSes	Windows 7 or newer (.NET 4.5 or newer required)
Web Page	StringSimilarity page
Download Location	StringSimilarity page
System Requirements	Windows 7/8/10 .NET 4.5 or newer
Version History	2018-11-24 1.3.0.0: Added Load from (txt) file feature. 2018-11-11 1.2.0.0: NANY Release. Show all algorithm results in a grid 2018-10-26 1.1.0.0: (not released) Added extra algorithms, restore screen size/position and settings. 2018-10-24 1.0.0.0: Initial release
Author	Link to Ath's Profile page

Description
As a response to a request by HelmutWe I searched and found an algorithm that seemed to match the request, and folded that into a C#/WinForms application.
After adding a few similar but different algorithms, also found on the internet, and re-shaping the UI a bit to handle larger texts and a results grid, the current incarnation is now available.

Used algorithms and sources:

Algorithm	Source
Jaro-Winkler	Ronnie Overby's Jaro-Winkler
Damerau-Levenshtein	Wicked Shimmy's Damerau Levenshtein
F23 Sorensen-dice coefficient	Feature 23's StringSimilarity.NET library
F23 Cosine similarity	(see above)
F23 Jaccard index	(see above)
F23 Normalized Levenshtein	(see above)

Features
Compare 2 strings/texts and calculate their similarity.

Planned Features
Allow to select 2 files and determine their similarity

Requested features
Make available as separate dll for use from other tools (undecided yet)

Screenshots
Initial screen:


Comparing Similarity and Simelarity


Usage
Installation
- Unzip the file to it's own directory
- Run the exe
(A settings.xml file will be created when closing the application)

Using the Application
- Enter some texts to compare
- Select desired options
- Results are updated immediately when both strings are non-empty
- Results can be sorted by clicking a column title

Uninstallation
- Close the application
- Remove all files

Known Issues
To be reported by users, none so far...

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2018, 04:24 AM »

Well, about that file-format: I was going to ask you to use real JSON, as the current content isn't quite readable using standard tools/libraries, but also seeing your remark about compact/heaps of data, I'd suggest to switch to CSV, as that's usually the most compact and usable for non-complex data like this (unless you want to put the performance/usage data inside the JSON object ofcourse...).

Continuing on the subject of including performance/usage data: Using (structured) JSON storage would require you to rewrite the entire file when updating a single performance item, so the policy of 'only appending' isn't going to work.
I've suggested (reply #3) to create a file-per-exe for the performance/usage data, and when using CSV that would be a feasible and fast solution, including append-only. It will generate a lot of files though, so a configurable log directory would be nice to have.

I might even be tempted into creating a GUI for this data, but you'd have to have the storage format finalized first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DonationCoder featured on list of "9 Safest Free Software Download Sites"

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2018, 06:41 AM »

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Windows App - Process Watcher

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2018, 06:37 AM »

Ha, sounds interesting.
Most difficult part would be to organize the logging in such way that it actually makes sense when looking at it, without being overwhelmed with 'all that data'
Maybe the memory/cpu use-log should be separated, possibly a logfile per exe (path+filename, possibly reversed, and : and \ replaced by another character?) and include the pid inside the logfile to be able to filter on. (Hint: the LogStash family of products, no ties)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Ahk script to remove the CBRS_GRIPPER from toolbars

« Last post by Ath on November 05, 2018, 03:22 PM »

Your request is very generic, could you add more details, like the application involved, a screenshot, and, also interesting, the motivation for removing it?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Drag Drop renamer

« Last post by Ath on November 05, 2018, 01:33 PM »

You could try to disable your antivirus... that is usually adding a lot of unpredictability to Windows' responsetimes.