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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 11 Released!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 15, 2014, 09:55 AM »

A variation on the problem is that I have deleted a file from a folder but it was still there. When some 15 sec later I wanted to delete it again, it would give me an error message (i.e. it was already deleted but it wasn't cleared from view). I had to navigate to another folder and then back to "refresh" the folder and get rid of the 'nonexistent' file.

-dr_andus (December 15, 2014, 08:54 AM)

You are persuading me to stick with 9 LOL

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Alpha Release: MarkdownBuddy

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 07:36 PM »

UPDATE: Added HTML Export.  Need feedback on whether its confusing- instead of putting some dropdown or something, I just used the expedient of the selected file filter, i.e. if you choose PDF in the save dialog, it will export in PDF- otherwise it's HTML.

-wraith808 (December 07, 2014, 11:07 PM)

It's not confusing, but it didn't work on my system. Even when PDF is selected (which is the default option), it still saves it as HTML (and so does the HTML option). Personally I don't need the PDF option. Normally I print to PDF, and looks like CTRL+P does trigger the printer, so that's sufficient.

-dr_andus (December 14, 2014, 03:57 PM)

it is based off of the extension currently, so if you don't put an extension in, it will default to html.  I might find a different way to do it if I can't get the filter.

Clicking on the Information icon crashes the app on my system (Win 7, 64-bit).

Can you provide any more information?  I have a win7 64-bit machine and it is working which is why I ask for more information.

Also, I had some encoding issues, with dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks and French accented characters being replaced by a dark square with a question mark.

Was it that way in the export?  And can you provide a sample document?

I wasn't sure what the button before the close button is for. It didn't seem to do anything.

It doesn't.  Haven't gotten that in yet.

Otherwise it works fine, renders Markdown correctly. Aesthetically speaking, I'd prefer if it didn't justify paragraphs or at least the headings (i.e. align text left instead), as it makes the text look messy, by stretching it out (actually the paragraphs look fine, it's the longer headings really that are a problem).

it shouldn't be justifying anything.  I'm rendering the HTML using a flow control... so the only thing it should be doing is wrapping lines.  Because it's a flow control, it might change spacing until it can wrap.  And I don't see it justifying headings... that first line in the screenshot is a heading and it's aligned left.  I might need a screenshot or even a sample if you can to understand what you're saying?

But it's coming together nicely, so keep up the good work! Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback!

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 07:18 PM »

@wraith808: I guess if you'd read the books or any of the hype then you'd know they were aimed squarely at teens.  I usually just go, "Sci-Fi, I'll have to give it a try."   

Plus, I guess, it's the hope that maybe one of these films will actually be worth the time

-4wd (December 14, 2014, 05:58 PM)

Or have a teenager.    I'm just glad that she reads all the time... and if that's what she wants to read and watch, then more power to her! 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wordfence Hacked

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 04:32 PM »

well I guess this topic can be deleted.  not being affected, I guess I shouldn't have posted. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wordfence Hacked

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 04:08 PM »

He found the problem using Wordfence

I found out where's the problem with Wordfence

If you are referring to

/wp-includes/template-loader.php
/wp-includes/js/swfobject.js

Those are not Wordfence files, if a plugin uses WP's Includes folder to insert js and php files I would not use it to start with...

-rgdot (December 14, 2014, 04:04 PM)

How are the updated one's not Wordfence's files if the fix is to re-download the archive?

I'm not sure... I wasn't affected.  I just figured someone might benefit from knowing in the case that their site was displaying the same symptoms.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wordfence Hacked

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 03:17 PM »

where do these say Wordfence was hacked?

-rgdot (December 14, 2014, 01:21 PM)

Look at the wordpress support page.  There are two specific files in the wordfence update archive that propagate the problem. There has been no 'official' statement.  But that would be one hell of a coincidence.

I've had the same issue now (soaksoak.ru, wp 4.0.1, hostgator, only in chrome with phishing and malware protection enabled). I found out where's the problem with Wordfence
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Btw, there was soaksoak.ru error in the chrome console last couple of days, but the sites were working fine, until today.

Anyway, try this first - download fresh wp installation, and check these files, if they're recently changed, I'm guessing you got the same two hacked:
/wp-includes/template-loader.php
/wp-includes/js/swfobject.js

Replace them with the files from the fresh installation.

If it isn't the problem with them, install Wordfence and scan to find the issue.

Now I'm trying to find out how the hell this happened, and I came accross your post. We have a number of client sites, with identical dev versions on the hostgator and live ones on other hosts, live sites are perfectly fine, dev sites got the hack (literally all of them), figure can't be the issue with the sites, so I'm guessing it's something up to hostgator.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 03:15 PM »

BTW - Am I the only one here who wasn't impressed by Equilibrium?

-40hz (December 14, 2014, 02:11 PM)

Maybe not the only one.  But I'm not in that camp.  I loved it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Alpha Release: MarkdownBuddy

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 11:46 AM »

Any feedback... positive or negative on this?  I'm moving right now, so probably won't be able to finish the additional features until week after next, but wanted to see if there was any feedback.

Thanks!

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Developer's Corner / Silder Revolution (not Wordfence) Hacked

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 11:35 AM »

Thankfully, I don't use Wordfence, but apparently it was hacked.  Apparently several (1000s?) Wordpress sites have been hacked through a vector of an old version of Slider Revolution.  I found out from going to dulfys.net, and looking for updates.

http://www.swtor.com...wthread.php?t=783325

http://www.reddit.co...kru_alerts_at_dulfy/

https://wordpress.or...soaksoakru?replies=5

And the quote for succinctness:

Looking into it, thanks for the headsup.

It is a know issue affecting multiple wordpress sites apparently. Either vulnerable plugin or something in wordpress: https://wordpress.or...soaksoakru?replies=5

Update: We have identified and removed the hacked files. The site should be okay now. May take a day for the warning to clear.

http://gizmodo.com/m...00-000-wo-1671419522

Apparently the attack vector has been identified.  Again, I don't use it... so just posting this as a PSA.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on December 14, 2014, 09:29 AM »

I'm starting to find these movies rather tedious being, seemingly, rather teen oriented.

Divergent
The Maze Runner (first of what seems to be a series)
The Hunger Games
The Giver (which reminded me of a toned down PG13 version of the far better Equilibrium)
etc

-4wd (December 14, 2014, 01:18 AM)

I don't get it.  They *are* teen movies, aren't they?  Based on teen books?  No more adult oriented than If I Stay, or Fault of Our Stars, right?

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2014, 03:39 PM »

I'm getting ready to move, so decided to look around, and there was a Music Resource Center in the area that provides music instruction + studio time to under-privileged kids in the area.  I've been taking this trombone with me from move to move... but I don't really play anymore.  I didn't even know if they'd want it, it's so old and dinged up, but it works.  The excitement that they had to get the instrument was worth way more than the sentimental value of keeping it around.

Just food for thought, as I'd not even thought about looking into it before now.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2014, 12:56 PM »

^ Agreed, wholeheartedly.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Experimenting with Other Programming Languages

« Last post by wraith808 on December 11, 2014, 09:47 PM »

Why not LISP?

-Tuxman (November 13, 2014, 04:30 AM)

I've started working my way through Clojure for the Brave and True.  Pretty nice so far.

-ewemoa (December 02, 2014, 09:54 PM)

If you're working in Clojure, you might want to take a look at Light Table.  Pretty impressive!  And if you're on Windows, installing it with Chocolatey is really easy.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File collection manager

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 04:38 PM »

I posted it on Elance. I plan to leave it up at least through the weekend until I decide which developer to work with.

-garbanzo (December 10, 2014, 04:21 PM)

I'd be... careful.  Having done work at similar sites, their procedures for escrow and payment and management of the project can leave a little to be desired.  And in general, you don't find out until you're in the project.  But I haven't worked on that one in particular, so I can't give first hand experience with it.

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Living Room / Windows 10 Package Manager vs. Chocolatey

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 04:06 PM »

Apparently Windows 10 is going to have a proper package manager.  Except... with the way that they've gone with the Windows Store, I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

Enter Chocolatey.  It is a package manager... and exists.  And is OSS.

... or not.

Enter the new version of Chocolatey.  That was a successful Kickstarter project.  And mentioned... Chocolatey Pro.



Anyone have any thoughts on this?  I love Chocolatey.  But I hate the dichotomy of a pro version vs. a 'community' version.  And I don't trust Microsoft to have our best interests at heart... even with their embrace of OSS.  And this is from someone that loves MS products and .NET.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File collection manager

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 02:07 PM »

XYplorer has paper folders as of v14.30.0100 and later -> Xyplorer 14.30 notes...

From the link I gave...

"Paper Folders can be used just like normal folders in virtually all contexts in XYplorer: You can bookmark them, search them, filter them, branch view them, tag their items, generate reports on them, copy their stuff, paste stuff into them, drag stuff into them, color their contents, customize their icons, cache their thumbnails, show custom columns for them, save their folder view settings, etc."

-hamradio (December 10, 2014, 12:30 PM)

I know about these, and talked about them above.  It just doesn't give the level of ease or functionality something devoted to the job does.

But I've realized this project is probably too big for this site, so I've put a request up at a freelance site and am already getting proposals. Which isn't to say someone here can't take this on - I'm happy to work with anyone who is enthusiastic about the project! I'm just anxious to fund the project see it through to completion.

-garbanzo (December 10, 2014, 12:43 PM)

Not necessarily too big- but you have to really get it and be driven to do it- or be paid for it.

Out of curiosity, what freelance site did you use?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File collection manager

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 11:57 AM »

@ Wraith - Thx. I guess I didn't completely understand. But wouldn't some of the more powerful third-party file managers let you do that?

-40hz (December 10, 2014, 11:53 AM)

Sort of... but not really.  And they're in a general purpose file manager.  By default, you see everything.  I only want to see those things that I add.  I have DOpus and XYPlorer, and though they have collections, they're just not as easy IMO as what I envision.

from the FAQ for alfa:

What ebook formats does Alfa Ebooks Manager support?
Please, pay attention, that Alfa Ebook Manager is the software for managing ebooks, but not for reading ebooks. It can link ANY ebook file to a book in the database. It supports ALL ebook formats in Scan operation and can retrieve metadata from PDF, MOBI, AZW, MP3, FB2, LRF, EPUB, DJVU, TXT, CHM, HTML files. It allows to edit metadata in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, AZW, FB2 files.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 11:33 AM »

^ I don't get the point? (of the post above... not Foamstream)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File collection manager

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2014, 11:29 AM »

That looks like it's about 20 different apps mashed together into one - a jack of all trades and master of none.

-garbanzo (December 10, 2014, 06:09 AM)

Am I missing something? To my mind that seems to be pretty much what you're asking for. Except in this case, you want a single jack-of-all-trades app that's master of none. Truth is, with a database, there's no such thing as a "simple" solution. Or a universal one either.

-40hz (December 10, 2014, 11:08 AM)

I think the he's looking for the same thing that I've been looking for.  Thankfully, I was able to find something for pdfs.

What he's looking for is something that will attach to the file system and allow you to catalog them in place.

What I use (for pdfs/books) is Alfa eBooks Manager.  Datacrow is *only* for the information- it doesn't seem to link to the file (or at least it didn't when I looked at it).  Others (Calibre) do it.. but insist on managing your files in their structure.

What he'd want is something that allowed you to link to files in place, and then tag them.  I've thought about making my own... but it's decently intensive software to code, and after I found my solution, there was no cause to doing it.

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Living Room / Re: Spoilers Are Fun !!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 09, 2014, 12:26 PM »

Reload that machine with Windows 7 64-bit home premium or professional, and use either Chrome or Firefox.

Without even changing the hardware, you'll experience computing like never before.

Though it probably would be worth considering a new build. Something in the Haswell family from Intel with 8-16GB of ram and 64-bit Windows 7. Windows 8 is not recommended for desktops unless you are building for a kid who is used to smarphones, and Windows (9) 10 is probably going to be a disaster.

-SeraphimLabs (December 09, 2014, 12:03 PM)

Telling someone to reload their machine with a different operating system doesn't seem like the desired solution to a particular software problem that's just emergent.

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 09, 2014, 08:05 AM »

I keep meaning to get back to this, because I do agree, at least where it concerns the great ones. I would add one caveat, that a great voice alone can't make you a great singer any more than dexterity makes you a great drummer.

-Vurbal (December 09, 2014, 07:39 AM)

Yes!  This is exactly what I meant... though I was including it for the others also.  That's the part that I wanted to illustrate... that all forms of creative endeavor need something else.  Not just singing.

However, on the subject of great singers, I can think of one in particular who illustrates your point perfectly, and that's Corey Glover of Living Colour. Given that every other member of the band could arguably be among the best in the world on his chosen instrument, it would be easy to dismiss Glover as less important,but that would be a huge mistake.

Definitely underrated when it comes to male singers.

And I have nothing to add... other than I totally agree.  

As impressive as it is for the rest of the band to smoothly move between playing R&B to heavy metal to hardcore to hip hop, they still have one huge advantage compared to him. He doesn't get to change instruments when he needs a different sound. What he was born with is what he's got.  Arguably, it's even more than that since singing, even the most beautiful singing, actually damages your vocal chords. The fact he sounds amazing singing stuff influenced by, or even flat out copied from, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Bad Brains, Neil Young, and any number of other acts, is at least as impressive as anything you could say about the rest of the band.

That's a good point.  Look at many great singers after they get older.  Which is one of the things that's so amazing about Ann Wilson's voice today, to bring it back full circle.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on December 08, 2014, 11:02 AM »

No, 'Gangnam Style' Didn't Break YouTube. We Did the Math  WIRED

-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 03:34 PM)

Apparently Wired has a loose screw. The title isn't remotely related to the article and isn't remotely accurate. I really expected better from Wired.

-Renegade (December 07, 2014, 07:36 AM)

I disagree. The story was about the problem YouTube had with the number of viewers of that video. It was a problem in the same way that Y2K was a problem.

-Arizona Hot (December 08, 2014, 09:21 AM)

I'll just quote one of the comments on the story:

And by "we did the math" you mean "we pointed out a technical grammatical error in the pouplarly buzzed headline, then spun it around for our own 'controversial' headline, to give a false sense of 'truth' to our article in order to bait more clicks."

And then you proceeded to recite the same figures as every other article that had already gotten to this bit of news, in an effort to drag people in for more.

And you succeeded. Well done. You baited the fish. And most of us stuck around to complain about how we got baited to boot. Double whammy.

Now please don't ever do it again.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Alpha Release: MarkdownBuddy

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2014, 11:07 PM »

Updated to add PDF export (which took the project from less than 200k to 30MB(!?!)).  I'm using the Pechkin wrapper around the wkhtmltox0.dll- which is the largest part.  I might look into other export engines.  Also thinking about adding HTML export.  Since it's rendered in HTML anyway... I figure I might as well.

UPDATE: Added HTML Export.  Need feedback on whether its confusing- instead of putting some dropdown or something, I just used the expedient of the selected file filter, i.e. if you choose PDF in the save dialog, it will export in PDF- otherwise it's HTML.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Alpha Release: MarkdownBuddy

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2014, 03:23 PM »

Original Post updated with Alpha Release, and name changed to MarkdownBuddy.

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Living Room / Re: Talents and talent shows

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2014, 12:03 PM »

Awesome news!  It's always great to hear that even in not winning, the shows raise the profile of the performers!  Great job- on the show, and on using that platform!