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Living Room / Re: Software tycoon charged over biggest alleged tax evasion scheme in US history
« Last post by brotherS on October 17, 2020, 05:32 AM »
From https://www.justice....tax-fraud-scheme-and :

Additionally, Smith agrees to abandon his protective claims for a refund totaling approximately $182 million that were filed with the IRS. The protective refund claims consisted, in part, of claims filed with the IRS for charitable contribution deductions on Sept. 21, 2018, and Oct. 11, 2019. As a result of the agreement, Smith shall take no further direct or indirect tax benefit from such claims.
Not too familiar with the tax code, but this could mean that he already paid off the student loans and the IRS just won't let use those payments to reduce his own taxes.

We may find out some day. :)
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Living Room / Re: Software tycoon charged over biggest alleged tax evasion scheme in US history
« Last post by brotherS on October 17, 2020, 04:59 AM »
Am I the only one wanting more details on the proprietary encrypted email system? :)
-brotherS (October 16, 2020, 11:19 AM)

Knowing how the the media operates, they probably already told you everything about it in the part you quoted. :P
-Deozaan (October 16, 2020, 06:02 PM)
:D

The sadder part of this is that the person that ratted on him was the one that at the Morehouse commencement said that he was going to pay off a lot of students' debts.  It's unknown as that was charitable donations if it is going to be able to be honored.

https://news.yahoo.c...d-pay-204500089.html
-wraith808 (October 17, 2020, 12:03 AM)
Yeah, I thought that was a nice gesture when I read about it back then. A bit weird (like a surprise lottery), but nice. But it looks like Smith is still a billionaire, so if he hasn't already paid off their debts, he will hopefully still do so. :)
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Living Room / Software tycoon charged over biggest alleged tax evasion scheme in US history
« Last post by brotherS on October 16, 2020, 11:19 AM »
From https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2702MA:

Houston technology executive Robert Brockman has been charged in the biggest tax evasion case in U.S. history after fellow billionaire Robert Smith turned against him to avoid prosecution himself, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

Brockman, the 79-year-old chief executive of Ohio-based Reynolds and Reynolds Co, hid $2 billion in income from the Internal Revenue Service over two decades, using a web of off-shore companies in Bermuda and St. Kitts and Nevis, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday.

Reynolds and Reynolds provides software used by auto dealerships to help manage their business.

The indictment alleges Brockman appointed nominees to manage the off-shore entities for him as a means of hiding his involvement, saying he even went so far as to establish a proprietary encrypted email system and use code words such as “Permit,” “Red fish” and “Snapper” to communicate.

...

Another link: https://www.bbc.com/...d-us-canada-54548626

Fascinating! :o Am I the only one wanting more details on the proprietary encrypted email system? :) Gonna be interesting to see what the resulting fines/prison time will be, if any.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scud (RandomMediaLauncher) - enjoy your media collection in a fun way!
« Last post by brotherS on October 13, 2020, 05:23 AM »
Just wanted to share this with all other Scud users: I found it helpful to use several copies of the Scud folder, each loading a different path. Sure, you can adjust the path every time you start Scud, pick one of your favorite path names stored in the settings, but this way it's even easier and just that little bit quicker to launch Scud to enjoy a random song from folder X, a random image from folder Y, or a video from folder Z. :)

I've created a set of folder copies for the specific 5 ways I use Scud most often.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?
« Last post by brotherS on October 07, 2020, 02:41 PM »
Ah, good to know. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?
« Last post by brotherS on October 07, 2020, 05:30 AM »
I know the issue is already resolved, but here's another potential suggestion for anyone else who may come across this thread in the future. When problems like this crop up on my PC, I just boot into a Linux Live USB (usually Linux Mint) and delete the files from there. :Thmbsup:
-Deozaan (October 06, 2020, 09:58 PM)
That would take (me) more time though. 8) And is Linux able to handle NTFS?


In these situations, and especially with the "filename too long" problems, another thing I always try is to use the 7-Zip GUI interface to see if I can get to the folder and delete it from within 7-Zip.  Sounds strange, but it works quite often.
-skwire (October 06, 2020, 10:27 PM)
Wow, that's weird! But cool. :)


"How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?" -- sounds like a zen koan
-mouser (October 07, 2020, 12:13 AM)
Yeah, it's a special sentence for sure.  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?
« Last post by brotherS on October 06, 2020, 10:45 AM »
Make sure you verify it's existence and name in the detail panel as opposed to the tree
-hpearce (October 06, 2020, 09:13 AM)
Does it happen that there's a difference between the two? I checked and it's really gone. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?
« Last post by brotherS on October 06, 2020, 06:09 AM »
Yeah, I had already unsuccessfully tried "Shorten names from above until it comes into range."

rmdir did the trick! More info: https://docs.microso...ndows-commands/rmdir

Thanks to both of you!  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternative point of view China-Russia-etc.
« Last post by brotherS on October 06, 2020, 05:44 AM »
Hi, Contro,

I'm from China
-chashnniel (September 27, 2020, 11:12 PM)
Not sure if you live in China, but if you do so, do you ever have the feeling that your life could change dramatically if you post the 'wrong' words?

I've already caught myself censoring what I post - knowing there's a chance that it'll be saved somewhere till eternity -, but I can't really imagine how that must be in China...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Not CPU, not GPU, but …DPU?
« Last post by brotherS on October 06, 2020, 05:37 AM »
the convenience granted by the current internet infrastructure is far more problematic than most people realize.
-Shades (October 05, 2020, 08:36 PM)
Worthy of a blog post. Thanks for the overview :up:
-tomos (October 06, 2020, 04:24 AM)
I agree. With both of that. :)

And I'm somehow reminded of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016), Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/
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General Software Discussion / How to delete a folder that Windows can't find?
« Last post by brotherS on October 06, 2020, 05:35 AM »
Somehow my Windows 10 ended up with a folder on C: that it "can't find" when I try to delete it. :o

IIRC I copied or FTP downloaded a folder with a very long name (let's call it "Z"), containing files with long file names. Now I can only rename the folders above Z, but not Z itself. I can't open Z either. Deleting Z or any parent folder fails.

Any ideas? :)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scud (RandomMediaLauncher) - enjoy your media collection in a fun way!
« Last post by brotherS on September 15, 2020, 04:35 AM »
btw, why is it called SCUD?
-Rockets (September 14, 2020, 06:14 PM)
I had proposed RandomMediaLauncher, but skwire probably thought about Scud missiles to be launched, so he named it Scud. 8)

I really like that out of 23240401 users, you, Rockets, are asking! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Windows 10 pagefile size?
« Last post by brotherS on June 08, 2020, 10:01 AM »
Thanks for all the input!

If you tweak it try to measure your performance gains, otherwise go for stability.
-x16wda (June 07, 2020, 02:31 PM)
Yes, that's what I'll do. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Windows 10 pagefile size?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 08:02 AM »
Sure, the browser isn't 'the only thing in the world', but when Chrome + everything else only uses 10% (or even 20%) CPU, that's ok for me. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Windows 10 pagefile size?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 06:59 AM »
First thing I'd do is switch to Firefox, when having that many tabs open in a browser, Chrome isn't really good at that, consuming lots of memory and CPU when the tab-count goes up. I'm running one of my Firefox instances with 300 tabs, without trouble, but I do turn off that computer at the end of my workday.

I try to never touch the pagefile size, at least not since the Windows 2000 days, back in the Windows NT 4.0 days it seemed to make sense to tune it, but after that it usually got worst whatever way I tuned it away from the Windows optimal/automatic settings. Theoretically, Windows running on a 16 GB system should be able to do without any pagefile, but I've found that Windows can get really instable that way, so that's IMHO a good reason not to touch it.
-Ath (June 07, 2020, 06:51 AM)
I've tried Firefox again and again over the years but currently prefer Chrome with all of the extensions I'm using. RAM usage is pretty bad, yes, but CPU not so much. Right now the CPU is at 10%, and even when it's a bit higher I can live with that. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Windows 10 pagefile size?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 06:57 AM »
I dont think changing the pagefile (again) would optimise further.

AFAICS the great pagefile debate is whether it's necessary to have one at all (presuming you have enough memory). You do need it for a windows dump file (not sure I have the name correct there...) when there is a problem with your pc. Setting your pagefile, you can set a maximum and minimum size. Some say you should make these the same, so the file is always there and there's less of Windows messing around on your hdd.

I now have 16GB RAM on two machines. Was considering removing the pagefile, but found both arguments for and against very convincing, so I just set it to fixed size in the end (cant remember offhand what size exactly).
-tomos (June 07, 2020, 06:45 AM)
Yeah, I read those warnings regarding removing the pagefile too, so I didn't. I'm curious to see how this reduced pagefile size will affect the next crash, previously the crash dumps took quite a while, even with the SSD.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome tab height bug?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 06:53 AM »
The issue still sometimes shows up here. I'm really surprised that this thread didn't get a single reply. Am I the only one seeing this? :)
-brotherS (June 07, 2020, 04:39 AM)
Well, I initially read your post but didn't recognize the issue, Chrome is only my third browser (Firefox GA and Firefox DEV are my 2 main browsers... browser-based application development and testing on the same domain but different accounts => 2 browsers is the easiest solution).
And on top of that, even if it happened, I probably wouldn't have noticed... :-[
-Ath (June 07, 2020, 06:41 AM)
Hehe... ok. :D Your reply inspired me to add screenshots to my first post above. And by doing that I saw that not only the tab is reduced in height but also the top of the "+" button is cut off. Weird!
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General Software Discussion / Thoughts on Windows 10 pagefile size?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 04:46 AM »
Since I like to have lots of stuff open at the same time (in addition to Chrome with 150+ tabs) - and let Windows run for as long as possible without a reboot - I recently upgraded from 8 to 16 GB RAM.

I then changed the pagefile setting from 8 GB to 2560 MB. That's the recommended value I found somewhere (for 16 GB RAM) after looking through many Google results on that topic. The system does feel like it's running more smoothly than before (so that's great), but I'm interested in hearing what you guys have learned about the topic. Maybe I can optimize it even further. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome tab height bug?
« Last post by brotherS on June 07, 2020, 04:39 AM »
The issue still sometimes shows up here. I'm really surprised that this thread didn't get a single reply. Am I the only one seeing this? :)
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General Software Discussion / Chrome tab height bug?
« Last post by brotherS on February 27, 2020, 03:31 AM »
Hi,

a few weeks ago this started to happen: sometimes, in a maximized Chrome window, the tabs would not reach the top end of the screen. If that happens, it's possible to click 'over' a tab while trying to click on it. Nothing happens, the tab isn't activated:

Screenshot - 2020-06-07 001.png

If that happens I use Win+Left to make the window smaller and then Win+Up to maximize it again. That fixes it:

Screenshot - 2020-06-07 002.png

Did anyone else notice this? I've tried Google but didn't find anything. The issue is still there after the latest Chrome update.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: tray icon that shows if wifi connection is 2.4 or 5 GHz
« Last post by brotherS on January 17, 2020, 04:35 AM »
Thanks, highend01! And thanks for the info, anandcoral. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: tray icon that shows if wifi connection is 2.4 or 5 GHz
« Last post by brotherS on January 16, 2020, 02:43 AM »
Works at least on Win 10...
-highend01 (January 15, 2020, 03:26 PM)
Are you willing to share that working code? I have zero experience with that side of AutoHotkey...
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General Software Discussion / Wanted: tray icon that shows if wifi connection is 2.4 or 5 GHz
« Last post by brotherS on January 15, 2020, 03:12 PM »
Hello,

does anyone here know an app who offers this? Maybe even with customizable colors (one for 2.4 and another for 5 GHz)? I've tried Google but couldn't find one...
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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for cheap email hoster
« Last post by brotherS on December 09, 2019, 08:03 AM »
Thank you, all of you! I finally decided to sign up here:

I haven't signed up with these guys, but I'm considering it:

"BuyShared" web-hosing by Frantech: https://buyshared.ne...ared-cpanel-hosting/

Their smallest plan is $8 per year which gets you 1GB of space and unlimited email addresses.
-mwb1100 (November 28, 2019, 11:42 PM)

It was the best deal for what I needed (just $0.66 per month!) and I liked that it's not a special offer, so there won't be a big price hike in a year or two.

I've finally set up everything to my liking and so far it's working as expected. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for cheap email hoster
« Last post by brotherS on November 27, 2019, 12:07 PM »
Yes, in Jan 2019 I paid for 2 years in advance for $35. .. actually 25 months.

My error.  About 1.40 a month.  Maybe they have that special now?
-Steven Avery (November 27, 2019, 12:03 PM)
Yeah, they still/again have that 2 (years) for 1 special... if no one else has a great suggestion I'll probably sign up there. :)
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