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Post New Requests Here / Re: Back up set of folders to flash drive

« Last post by 4wd on July 18, 2012, 10:46 PM »

Used SyncBack Pro to mirror c:\1\... to e:\1\... last night.  55 gigabytes.  Nearly a million files.

This morning I checked Windows properties on c:\1 and e:\1 to simply check if both folder trees were the same.  Most unfortunately it appears that ONE file didn't get mirrored over.

-nkormanik (July 18, 2012, 08:31 PM)

SyncBack generates a report any time it runs, you should be able to open it by going to Task->View Log, they'll be opened in your default browser with details, eg. skipped files, errors, etc.

All other file diff programs seem to want to do careful file comparisons on source and destination.  Sheeesh.  Just tell me the file name that's different, please.

In Beyond Compare, uncheck the items below and it should only compare file names:

[ Invalid Attachment ]

I'm curious if you use the compression option for back-ups?  If so, do you go with the default "standard/normal" level?

-nkormanik (July 16, 2012, 03:55 PM)

I only use compression for backup of my email into one big file and that's on LZMA - Normal compression, trade off between speed and size.  There's not much gain size-wise for the more compression you use but it takes longer to compress it.

If you're talking about images, then you're better off with the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm but in my view it's not worth it due to images being mostly compressed already, (unless you're saving them as uncompressed in the first place).  Better to reduce the size of the image by reducing colours used or changing format to a lossy standard.

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Living Room / Re: How do I turn off image attachment previews in Gmail?

« Last post by 4wd on July 18, 2012, 06:54 PM »

Also, if you have a smart phone you can install Authenticator and use it to verify when you log in.  You need to activate GMail's two-step verification process, when you run Authenticator it generates a new 6 number pin every 30 seconds or so, you have to enter it when you log into GMail.

-4wd (July 17, 2012, 07:50 AM)

That's another strike against non-removable batteries. Thanks, I will look into it when I get an Android phone (which may be a while).

-daddydave (July 18, 2012, 11:50 AM)

You can still activate the two step verification, for non-smart phones they send a pin via SMS to the mobile you register with them.

Once activated, any program that accesses your GMail account, (eg. email clients, etc), will need to have their own individual password which you can generate, (they send instructions for all this), they also provide "emergency" access to your account via one time verification codes, eg. in case you left your phone somewhere.



Each code can be used once only, you can generate another ten whenever you like.

That's another strike against non-removable batteries. Thanks, I will look into it when I get an Android phone (which may be a while).

Both of my Android phones have removable batteries but then both of them together cost less than AU$150 unlocked, ie. they're not the super-duper-do-everything-cinema-experience-gotta-have-the-latest-phones.

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Living Room / Re: People Who Are Constantly Online Can Develop Mental Disorders

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 11:17 PM »

People with pre-existing mental disorders naturally collect on the internet because in many cases the internet helps them be social in spite of their disorder.

-SeraphimLabs (July 17, 2012, 11:13 PM)

No wonder I steer clear of FaceBook.....

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 11:13 PM »

Takes ~10-15 minutes to mix, another (unattended) 20 minutes or so to let it rise (if its a yeast bread), about an hour (unattended) to bake.  Once you've done that, got the basics, so to speak, let your imagination run wild ... almost any result will be edible   .

-barney (July 17, 2012, 10:17 PM)

Or just dump all the ingredients in the bread-maker you got given for xmas, push the button, walk away and come back when it goes Ding!

Then after the novelty has worn off, put the bread-maker back in the box, stick in a cupboard for the last 5 years and go to the supermarket

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch adjust shortcut targets

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 11:09 PM »

NameSearch=(.+)\.png
NameReplace=\1\.jpg

Something about it seems so foreign and daunting.  For now..., glad to have you, Skwire, etc.

-nkormanik (July 17, 2012, 10:44 PM)

I don't even pretend to be able to do the things skwire and others can do with RegEx on the forum here but for straight forward things like this I'm OK....until someone corrects me

So the code you provided above will work for shortcuts containing the names of the files, right?

Yes.

I'd think the names would be included in the total path.

No, I chose to treat the file path and file name as two separate entities.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch adjust shortcut targets

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 09:22 PM »

This should do it:

NameSearch=(.+)\.png
NameReplace=\1\.jpg


You really should have a read of RegEx expressions

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Living Room / Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 09:12 PM »

You want dieting tips from the country with the highest percentage of overweight people on the planet ...

-Stoic Joker (July 17, 2012, 06:41 PM)

Yes, I'm amazed that with all that weight up there, the USA hasn't slid down the face of the planet and become the new land "down under".  

Let's see, staples: pretty much the same as Renegade, except for cooked vegetables, (can't stand them - raw is fine though) - and like him, kangaroo is definitely more preferable than beef.  

Although, I'm not particularly fussy if it's organic or not - that's purely a financial decision AFAIAC.

For bread, I prefer pita or flat bread although the best "normal" loaf bread I ever tasted was in Mongolia.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 08:48 PM »

I mentioned a couple of things here.

SnapRAID - Filesystem agnostic parity based data redundancy, (Linux/Windows).
Elucidate - A GUI for SnapRAID (Windows).
Liquesce - Drive pooling for Windows.

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Living Room / Re: How do I turn off image attachment previews in Gmail?

« Last post by 4wd on July 17, 2012, 07:50 AM »

This now leads me to believe someone is logged into my account somewhere, spamming the same email addresses my email seems to be coming from, causing the importance ranking to get bumped up, and then quickly deleting the sent emails before I can find them.

-daddydave (July 17, 2012, 05:19 AM)

Down the bottom right of GMail, clicking Details will show the last 10 or so IPs that accessed your account, (this includes email clients):



I believe you can have it notify you if a login occurs from somewhere radically different, (eg. it alerted me when I went via a Russian VPN), you can also set it to tell you if more than one login is current.

Here:



Also, if you have a smart phone you can install Authenticator and use it to verify when you log in.  You need to activate GMail's two-step verification process, when you run Authenticator it generates a new 6 number pin every 30 seconds or so, you have to enter it when you log into GMail.

I use Authenticator on my main email account, the account I use for ebay/paypal and another account I use for purchases.

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« Last post by 4wd on July 15, 2012, 09:13 PM »

Can I ask the audience?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Back up set of folders to flash drive

« Last post by 4wd on July 14, 2012, 09:05 PM »

There's also HoboCopy - not as full featured as RoboCopy, (as they put it), but it can use the Volume Shadow Service to enable copying of in-use files which RoboCopy can't.

SyncBackPro (the payware version) can run profiles on Windows shutdown/logoff.

-rjbull (July 14, 2012, 03:25 PM)

I think you could use the free version and just create a task in the Task Scheduler, (it might even be what SyncBack SE/Pro does), to execute at logoff.

FWIW, I use SyncBack Pro for all my automated data sync/backup tasks - a set of tasks are automatically run when I plug in an external HDD.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Comparison of the contents of 2 xls files to isolate missing records

« Last post by 4wd on July 14, 2012, 08:53 PM »

The only easy way, (relative term), would be through VBA I think, (unless you want to export the sheets to another format, eg CSV, and use another program).

eg.
1) Grab amount entry from spreadsheet A, (X)
2) Look for a matching amount entry in spreadsheet B, (Y)
3) If X = Y then check to see if the time between them is less than 2 minutes
4) If it is, mark both entries as OK and go back to step 1.
5) If time doesn't match, go back to step 2.
6) If at the end of all values in spreadsheet B you haven't found a suitable match then flag the entry in spreadsheet A and go to step 1 until you've cycled through all entries in spreadsheet A.

The problem with that is if multiple entries occur within the space of a couple of minutes with the same amount.

It would probably make things a lot easier if you could synchronise the time between the two systems, eg. install a NTP server on one and have the other set its time from it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Back up set of folders to flash drive

« Last post by 4wd on July 14, 2012, 09:32 AM »

Robocopy won't do compression AFAIK, it would be easier to use a free sync program, eg. SyncBack Free, and just set a shortcut to run a needed profile.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Comparison of the contents of 2 xls files to isolate missing records

« Last post by 4wd on July 14, 2012, 07:00 AM »

Perhaps this page may help: How to Compare Two Excel Spreadsheets & Highlight What Is Missing

Otherwise, WinMerge, (free), has a prediffer Excel plugin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems with AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6500M/5600/5700 Series GPU driver/software

« Last post by 4wd on July 11, 2012, 08:56 AM »

Just to note - I have found 12.4 anything but stable (and there are lots of reports of problems). Loads of BSODs and freezes and other issue.

-Carol Haynes (July 11, 2012, 06:13 AM)

Definitely a YMMV type problem since I'm running 12.4 and have had no BSODs, freezes or anything attributable to them on a HD6850.

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Living Room / Re: How do I turn off image attachment previews in Gmail?

« Last post by 4wd on July 10, 2012, 11:17 PM »

Well-l-l-l ... yes and no  .  Gmail is pretty good, I'll grant, but it doesn't always recognize source URLs, and has a [bad] habit of not recognizing email subscriptions.  I'll see half-a-dozen to a dozen emails daily that should have come to my inbox.

-barney (July 10, 2012, 08:42 PM)

You must have one of those email addresses that everyone loves

Of the 10 GMail addresses I have, I'm lucky if I see more the one spam email per month in my Inboxes in total and only about 10 misdiagnosed spam in total ever since I had them.  But then, I don't really get much spam, (>50/month across all accounts), since none of the addresses could be considered a "normal" name based address, (ie. [email protected]), that seems to enabled me to avoid a hell of a lot.

My wife, however, gets hundreds of the things every month and occasionally one real one would get classified as spam but that hasn't happened for a year or so now, very few of the spam gets through GMails filtering - maybe one a month.

About the only thing that really urks me about GMail is the way they think, for example,  p.smith = psmith - if they fixed their system to recognise the period, 90% of my spam would disappear overnight.

Anyway, back to the OP - if you're running Firefox:

• Menu->Options->Content
• Check Load images automatically
• Click Exceptions and add mail.google.com

This will remove all images from GMail including from buttons that use them, (Newer/Older seem to be the only two), but the alt text will still appear if you hover over them.

Mind you, if you're one of those people that absolutely love HTML emails....then I have no sympathy for the mess that will be left

EDIT: You can do the same thing under Dragon/Chrome.

There's also the Image Block add-on for Firefox.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Freehostia (Free Website Hosting)

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 06:42 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Firewall with a quick toggle per program, to open/close connection?

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 11:28 AM »

I think I've worked it out, well it seemed to work here but it's 0220 and I've got to get up in 2 hours  

Anyway, by default WFwAS, (Windows Firewall with Advanced Security), allows all outgoing connections so you have to set it to Block connections by default for the Private profile.
You then need to create rules for the programs you want to let through, including your browsers, just like you would with a normal firewall.

Once you've done that, you can limit the access your browsers have by using the netsh command like above but using the remoteip option, (not profile or enable).

eg. remoteip=any                     Full access
     remoteip=192.168.0.1/24      LAN access only

Sorry, my screw up with the mis-leading profile stuff above, (I think old age is catching up to me).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $249 Debenu PDF Maximus FREE today only

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 07:15 AM »

My company name is: none

Works every time 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Firewall with a quick toggle per program, to open/close connection?

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 07:13 AM »

The above commands work - you might need to fiddle with the initial state, (enable/disable), or profile, (private/public/domain), to get it to perform how you want.

Stupid me, I'm looking at it wrong - you probably want: action=block profile=public enable=yes

Then just disable to allow internet access.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Firewall with a quick toggle per program, to open/close connection?

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 06:34 AM »

If you could get it to toggle the profile of the program, (eg. Public->Private, Private->Public), that should do what you want but it's probably going to take a little experimentation to get it right.

This might be a better link for syntax: Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall Commands

An alternative way would be create a rule that only allows, say Firefox, access to Private IPs:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="nudone hatez netz" dir=out program="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox.exe" action=allow profile=private enable=yes

And then to allow it to access the internet, just disable the rule:
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="nudone hatez netz" dir=out program="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox.exe" new enable=no

To disable internet access, enable the rule:
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="nudone hatez netz" dir=out program="C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox.exe" new enable=yes


Above commands tested working....finally  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Firewall with a quick toggle per program, to open/close connection?

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 06:12 AM »

Does NetLimiter work as a replacement for Windows Firewall or can it run in conjunction with it?

You could, (in theory), use the netsh advfirewall firewall command along with Ath's WinButton program to control specific rules in Windows Firewall, some netsh examples are shown here:

How to use the "netsh advfirewall firewall" context instead of the "netsh firewall" context to control Windows Firewall behavior in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a "virtual scanner' software in one pass, outputting in PDF.

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 04:53 AM »

Resurrecting this topic:

@MerleOne: You may want to check out the deal that Curt posted: Debenu PDF Maximus FREE toady

Since it should do what you want, monitor a folder and turn an image into a PDF - it can also turn a normal PDF into an image PDF.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... win7 startup problem solvers

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 01:45 AM »

Thanks, 4wd for applying impetus where it belonged.

-barney (July 09, 2012, 12:31 AM)

 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch adjust shortcut targets

« Last post by 4wd on July 09, 2012, 01:31 AM »

Test #1

Folder:
C:\5\QQQ\shortcuts 1_x_178\50501\20101  (a sub-sub-folder actually containing shortcuts)

Path of target:  C:\\4(.+)  changed to  C:\\5\1

Test box checked.  Recurse box un-checked.

Results....

New shortcut:

C:\5\QQQ\shortcuts 1_x_178\50501\20101\20101 20102  (correct, same as old, unchanged)

New target:

C:\5\QQQ\images\50501\20101 20102  (does NOT appear to be correct)

-nkormanik (July 08, 2012, 11:38 PM)

OK, I'm confused here - prior to v0.2 it reported New shortcut/New target in Test mode.

With v0.2, it reports Old Target/New Target, (as you can see in my post above), because the actual shortcut doesn't get renamed, (as it was doing in the prior version - I naively thought the shortcut would have the same name as the target).

Are you sure you're using v0.2 ?

Here's a directory setup as you've described above showing that the properties for the shortcut point to the old C:\4\QQQ.... path, (this is using the parameters from your Test #2 but Test #1 also worked):



Here's the Test output with arrows associating between things:



This is the result of execution, the shortcut properties now point to the image in the other directory:

BSM enhancement request 1:
C)  DONE!  xxxx shortcuts changed; yyyy shortcuts left alone.

-nkormanik (July 08, 2012, 11:46 PM)

See what I can do.

Set up an .ini file containing the last used parameters, and re-use next time program is run.

Easy enough, I'll have it save on close.

UPDATE BSM v0.3 (here):

• Added: Saves path/regex in an ini file on exit.
• Added: Generates a report when it's finished.

Regarding the report: If nothing went wrong then all it will say is the total number of shortcuts and there was no problem.  If something went wrong it will open a log file, (%TEMP%\BSM.log), in your default text editor.

NOTE: BSM works by replacing the existing shortcut by first deleting it, then creating a new one with the new data.  The log will show any shortcuts that failed to be deleted or failed to be created, (mark a couple of your shortcuts as Read-Only if you want to see what happens).