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General Software Discussion / Re: Adjust Work Area 1.0.0.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 16, 2013, 07:36 AM »
Give DesktopCoral a try but also I'm sure someone can find and post a download for Adjust Work Area -- but the best thing would be if Miles sees this thread and posts.
-mouser (April 11, 2013, 09:13 AM)

It can be downloaded from:
http://milesaheadsoftware.tk/

Adjust Work Area 1.0.0.1 - recompiled with AutoIt 3.3.8.0
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Living Room / Re: Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 15, 2013, 04:39 PM »
Hmmm, just this Friday the 13th I was awakened by a man in coveralls who told me my Laptop had to be serviced immediately since his records indicated it's HD failed 21 minutes from now. The strange thing was, he bore a striking resemblance to Tom Cruise.  He showed me the print-out.  It was beautiful, muti-colored and had several types of charts.  The good news was he could quote me an exact figure for parts and labor since he already knew what his diagnosis would show.

Of course I gave him the go ahead.   :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 15, 2013, 07:51 AM »
EaseUS ToDo I have had good luck with so far.  The Linux BootCD it makes (on v. 5 .. last time I used it) supported both my "fake raid" controller and USB 3.0 card.  No tweaking needed.  When I burn the CD with v. 6 I'll know how good it is for the Laptop.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 14, 2013, 05:25 PM »
I got EaseUS ToDo Backup.  I created a partition from a slice of C:.  At least I have some backup now.  I have to burn the BootCD still.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 14, 2013, 10:53 AM »
Hmm, looking in the forum there seems to be a lot of questions where the backup just hangs.

If there's no method to get the restore started from a non-booting system then it seems like the value is limited.  Plus I don't know how much faith I'd have in the restore if the backups hang.  Usually it's the restore part that's not robust on these things.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 14, 2013, 10:33 AM »
I just did a backup with RecImgManager.  Seems cool.  Once I hit the go button I'd say it took about a half hour to complete.  I don't have many programs installed yet.  Only thing is there seems no provision for fixing a system that won't boot.  If things get hosed you have to figure out how to boot windows without erasing the saved image.  But maybe somebody has figured that out.  :)

So far I like it.  Nice and simple.  You want to backup or don't ya'?  If so press the button.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 14, 2013, 08:10 AM »
RecImgManager looks interesting.  btw are you using it or doing it the old fashioned way?

I searched 8 forums and only got one hit on that error code.  It didn't seem helpful.

Brink has a tutorial for doing custom image refreshes:
http://www.eightforu...-recovery-image.html

Not sure if it's helpful in your case though.

Edit: if that custom image program works that could be ideal for me.  I take it I could store the image on the source partition?


that would be cool since lugging around externals is weight prohibitive(if that is a word.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 03:34 PM »
Speaking of Bugs Bunny and nuts.. if you were Mel Blanc how could you not go crazy?  When you talk to yourself there's like 65 different voices.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: PastePath 1.5.0.1
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 03:29 PM »
PastePath 1.5.0.1  Recompiled with "#usehook" directive for better hotkey response on Windows 8.  In W8 I also recommend you set it to Run As Administrator.  Especially when pasting into Administrator command prompts.  Make sure also that Quick Edit Mode is enabled in the command prompt properties.
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Living Room / Re: Paraskevidekatriaphobics Unite
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 02:42 PM »
@SJ I get that at times myself.  Not exactly as you describe.  It can be a word but often it's a proper name.  That's really annoying.  Like in the middle of relating some childhood experience at a Red Sox game, I forget the name Ted Williams... type of thing.  Of course you remember the name 10 minutes after nobody cares.  :)

I used to be quite skilled at that thing where you study the definitions of words.  Dang!! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 02:26 PM »
Hmmm, some of the girls around here have such nice butts I wonder if they've been la-bottom-ized.  :)
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Living Room / Re: Paraskevidekatriaphobics Unite
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 02:23 PM »
Heh. That's worse than "lethologica".    ;)
-IainB (December 13, 2013, 01:58 PM)

It can be handy at times if you have Tourette syndrome.  For example, you feel no inhibition about calling some giant football player lookin' dude a really nasty name.  Fortunately you are not punched out because you can't recall the insult.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 11:37 AM »
this time it's a tri-corn...
If at first you don't succeed, keep on tri-in' 'til you do suck seed. Nyuk nyuk.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 09:28 AM »
Good point! ...But if we're doing one flew over the cooko's nest ... Who get's elected as Full Goose Loony, Chief?
-Stoic Joker (December 12, 2013, 06:09 PM)

Hmmm, I don't suppose anyone on DC wants to throw their hat into the ring?   :P
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Living Room / Paraskevidekatriaphobics Unite
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 13, 2013, 06:15 AM »
As one Paraskevidekatriaphobic to another, today is the day.  Watch out for open grates in sidewalks, ladders with a bucket of paint hanging, and guys selling sunglasses for a buck.

Used to be I'd just stay home on Friday the 13th.  No option now.  I have to be out in the wild with all the weirdos.  I just hope the crackheads take the day off.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8's Task Manager -- Slow as Hell.
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 12, 2013, 05:54 PM »
Reviving an old thread.  :)
Seems like Windows 8.1's Task Manager running got quicker (coming back from standby/sleep mode)! Something like 10x quicker.
Now you're talking.
-Armando (December 12, 2013, 11:13 AM)

I wonder if anyone tried the exe on 8.0?  I have 8.0 preloaded and there's no way I'd attempt to go to 8.1.

Right now I'm trying AnVir Task Manager Free since I saw it recommened someplace.  I haven't used it much yet though.  I liked DTaskManager but it only shows support up to Vista.

Edit:  and of course I have the SysInternals tools.
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 12, 2013, 05:23 PM »
Welcome to the forum.

The third padded cell on the left is mine. If you hear howling in the middle of the night just keep walking and you'll be fine.  :o
-Vurbal (December 12, 2013, 02:01 PM)

Hehe.  I used to whistle in the dark.  Then I realized I was giving my position away.  :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - how to capitalise the first word of every line
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 12, 2013, 05:20 PM »
He didn't say I scanned *several* books... but "THE BOOK".  Ergo, my assumption.  I could ask why you thought he had thousands of items and call you out on the boards for poorly reading what he wrote... but frankly I don't care.

It's no big deal.  I'm just arguing for my position.  :)  The reason I think he's likely to have multiple files is my assumption that each page scanned will automatically be saved to a file. It's just an assumption.  But sed will work either way.. one file or a thousand.

Perhaps I learned something from my 15 minutes of work on this script.   8)

  Linus does have some awesome tools.  I keep telling myself to get into vim editor.  But I end up surfing the boards instead.  :)  Eventually I'll tackle it though.  It's too powerful to ignore forever.  :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - how to capitalise the first word of every line
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 12, 2013, 01:35 PM »
We can only assume that the OP has one single file.
Why would you jump to that conclusion?  He says he scanned a thousand songs.  I'd say it was a safer assumption that he has 1000 files.

sed was made for this kind of stuff.  Even back in Dos people were more comfortable with command line piping and redirection.. stringing tools together.  Since everything Gui people have to load it in a window or there's some discomfort.

Edit:  I downloaded the installer, the topmost download in the list, "Complete package, except sources" from here: http://gnuwin32.sour...net/packages/sed.htm

It installed on Windows 8.  I added the folder where sed.exe lives to the PATH.  sed --help in a command prompt shows the help. Supposedly everything it needs to run is in the installer.  It's good to have for cases where an already debugged one-liner may save you a ton of work.  :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - how to capitalise the first word of every line
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 11, 2013, 08:36 PM »
The ahk solutions ignore the case of leading white space on a line.  One could use trim or regex to get around it.  But the advantage of stream editor is you don't have to mess with the file details.  Command line redirection inside a batch and you're done.  The only chore is coming up with the pattern replacement string(never my strong point.)  Plus I'm inclined to think it's resource efficient.  Open a command window and kick it off to run in background.
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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 11, 2013, 02:12 PM »
 
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - how to capitalise the first word of every line
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 11, 2013, 10:30 AM »
There's a few sed answers with s/^\(.\)/\U\1/. GNU sed also has a \u directive that changes only the next letter to uppercase, so

sed 's/./\u&/'

Although if the first character on a line is a space, you won't see an uppercase letter, so

sed 's/[[:alpha:]]/\u&/'

from this page:
http://stackoverflow...-a-file-to-uppercase

This is conducive to batch. Once you test and find it works as expected then you can just loop through all the files and save them to the same file name with an additional extension.  For example file.txt the output could be file.txt.cap or whatever.  Once you verify the output has no errors then you can just rename the output files back to the original names.

There are free sed implementations for Windows.  Which you want to use generally is determined by whether you wish to do any shell programming such as with bash shell.  Also some need to have bash set up because special characters can conflict with those in Windows command prompts.  It's often easier just to run a bash command prompt to do the stream editing.

This particular task can probably be done fairly easily using awk.  A 'nawk' (for new awk) executable may not need the bash environment.  I'm not sure as there have been several Windows releases and i'm sure some changes in the Linux tools ported.  Last time I really played with them was in XP.
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General Software Discussion / Re: new Site for my Software
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 11, 2013, 09:29 AM »
Yeah, Hows that new laptop working out for you mate?
-ilikefree09 (December 11, 2013, 01:22 AM)

It's working fine. Windows 8 isn't as horrible as I thought it would be. Although I'm not thrilled they killed off the glass.  Now programs with glass that look great on W7 look like crap on W8.

I still haven't tried the optical drive.  The library doesn't seem to have a very extensive computer section with any discs I want to install.  I don't want to risk putting Linux on since I don't have the luxury of a backup machine.

So far so good.  Runs Pale Moon 64 bit really well.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Delete all files except two particular ones
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 10, 2013, 06:05 PM »
ahk does make plumbing the depths of folders really simple. A big time saver.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Special Security Software Just for Women?
« Last post by MilesAhead on December 10, 2013, 09:50 AM »
I heard it was Strong Enough for a Man, Made for a Woman. If you run that av it's no sweat from then on.  :)  But how it works is a secret.  ;)
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