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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!

« Last post by Shades on February 04, 2019, 07:06 PM »

Keypirinha:
http://keypirinha.com/

Deadbeef (for Linux):
http://deadbeef.sour...forge.net/about.html

-panzer (February 04, 2019, 10:28 AM)

Keyirinha - dat is a Brazilian drink/cocktail, which has gotten me several times into trouble. In a similar fashion as shots of tequila... 

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on February 04, 2019, 06:38 AM »

The error message states there is no closing quote. The quote character indicated by the arrow seems out of place. Please remove it and run the AHK script again.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Problems to find Link for mp4 Videos on 4Players.de

« Last post by Shades on February 03, 2019, 04:48 PM »

The start of a new year is also the time of year where new versions of a website are introduced. Are you sure the website still uses the same structure of web pages? Or that changes are made in the way their web pages show their content? Or that it has changed to a different web host? Still uses the same backend system for their articles? Or still uses the same web server software?

All those things can have an impact on the functionality of URLSnooper. Usually this means that you need to take a look at the current configuration of your URLSnooper for this site and check if revisions in your configuration are needed.

Perhaps the cookie notifier has changed on that website and prevents URLSnooper to work. Also keep in mind that more privacy related laws in the EU have been activated this year and that has could have caused some websites to make changes to their inner workings as well.

In short, the timing of your error seems to be related to any of such changes at the end of the website and not on the side of URLSnooper. This is not to say that there is no problem with URLSnooper, but the timing of your error is suspect as well.
   

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on February 03, 2019, 11:53 AM »

Do you have AutoHotKey installed?  If yes, what is the version? I think it is a pretty safe bet you have AutoHotKey installed, because of mentioning radial menu as a tool here in this thread. So I assume there is a conflict of AutoHotKey versions occurring when you try to start shorthand.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on February 03, 2019, 08:05 AM »

That error means the folder structure in which you have placed Shorthand cannot be found during the initial execution of Shorthand.

Replace the current content from file 'start.bat' with:

@ECHO OFF
SET shortHandFolder=%~dp0
START %shortHandFolder%app\AHKv2_x32.exe %shortHandFolder%shorthand3_ahk2.ahk
SET shortHandFolder=


That should fix your problem (if you do not have spaces in folder names). And if it doesn't, try the following:

@ECHO OFF

SET shortHandFolder=%~dp0
START "%shortHandFolder%app\AHKv2_x32.exe" "%shortHandFolder%shorthand3_ahk2.ahk"
SET shortHandFolder=

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General Software Discussion / Re: [Splasm Software] Why can't I tab to the TYPE field?

« Last post by Shades on February 02, 2019, 03:56 PM »

@tutu11:

Guidelines state that all fields (where you can fill in or adjust content) must be accessible by using the tab key. Preferably in order of sequence.

Not much the end-user can do about this, except notify the author of the software and request for a new build in which this omission is fixed. It is normally a very simple/easy fix. Once the tab key setup is in place, programmers barely check if something in the tab key order is going wrong after they adjust the content in the screen. And is is usually not necessary to do such a check from a coding standpoint. So those checks do not happen too often at the coders side.

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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!

« Last post by Shades on January 30, 2019, 10:43 PM »

The MassiGra software does not seem to have an option to change the language to English. That makes the software much harder to use for users that are not familiar with the Japanese language. I assume it is Japanese, because the download file is hosted on a Japanese server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: email clients - special limited use

« Last post by Shades on January 29, 2019, 09:27 PM »

If I understand your post correctly, you wish to have a a big collection of all mail messages you receive with multiple accounts, using different software and/or profiles in one software client.

Then I think that MailStore Home is your best bet. You can collect mail in your preferred mail client for each account and once a day you can sync the received mail from these clients into MailStore Home. Afterwards you can use the search functionality in MailStore Home to find the messages you seek. Using a similar concept with my mail client of choice Thunderbird in combination with MSH and have amassed a collection of 18 GByte in mail messages. Searching with MSH through 18GByte is faster than with Thunderbird and because you have more/better search options in MSH, the returned results are much more relevant as well.

MSH is freeware, but there is also a MailStore Server version which is commercially licensed. But with that one you can connect to all your mail accounts and let it collect mail messages on your behalf, so no need for synchronizing anymore.

Mails collected by MailStore Home/Server can be exported as mail messages again in all the most popular mailbox formats (for 'TheBat!', 'Outlook', 'Thunderbird' and quite some more mail clients). If mail is part of your workflow, you should not be without MailStore Home.

No, I'm not affiliated in any way to that company in any way or form, just a happy user.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Switching.social

« Last post by Shades on January 27, 2019, 09:19 PM »

I'm running a Nextcloud server (v13.x...still need to migrate it to v15, although v13 still gets updated) on a old Linux box. Until this point, I must say that it is a very good experience. Has a lot of features in and off itself, but can be expanded with 3rd party mods. In my setup hardly any mods have been added, I mainly use it to transfer files to it from another continent by script using CarotDAV.

For my intends and purposes it is such a good solution that I didn't bother looking at anything else anymore.

However, if you look for something less resource intensive, WebDAV is pretty simple and you could simply enable the WebDAV mod from the Apache web server software. And I'm sure it is a pretty standard feature on the other main web server software packages (IIS, NGinX). That is the most basic version of a web drive you will ever get. but not really recommended if security is of any concern. Nextcloud comes with already with pretty decent authorization options and offers more options for extra security if you so desire.

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Living Room / Re: Refurbished or used internal hard disks 3½ 6TB-12TB

« Last post by Shades on January 17, 2019, 07:42 PM »

The bigger the drive, the bigger the back you need to have for when (not if) it fails.

Second hand drives I would only use for data/content I am prepared to lose. In my (anecdotal) experience I have had nothing but trouble with refurbished stuff. Not worth the few bucks shaved of the purchase price. Maybe that has something to do with this part of the world. I am certain that the South American continent gets the rejects from the production lines for the (Western) European/US markets.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android 6.0 tablet recent windows close all?

« Last post by Shades on January 15, 2019, 07:20 AM »

Even my Kyocera Brigadier phone with Android 5.1.1 has that 'close all' button. And when you press it, wait a few seconds to give apps time to close and then reopen that screen, not one of the apps has been terminated. Manually closing any of the apps in that screen results in the app reappearing in the screen in a random location. So it looks safe to say that this functionality may only work properly from Android 6.x.x or higher.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable Menu launcher colour rectangles

« Last post by Shades on January 13, 2019, 06:25 PM »

Well, Windows 8.1 is still supported. So you could use that.

And as far as I know you can enable this functionality within Windows 10 as well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Organizer/Sorter

« Last post by Shades on January 13, 2019, 09:21 AM »

Belvedere might help out with this task at hand.

And here are some free (but donatable) alternatives, like DropZone (from our resident member: skwire),  DropIt   or a commercially licensed one:  FileJuggler.

These will help out with sorting your files. Keeping them sorted will already you a lot in identifying what is what before you even have to open an archive to see what it contains. This works best with new downloads, but all pieces of software allow you to create rules for filtering and some can even automatically rename them according to your rules.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on January 12, 2019, 12:43 PM »

oh, the system_list entry there is not required for searching. Those are just used for scoring. I think it's more likely that results from earlier searches didn't find those other drives, because "Everything" wasn't finished building the index yet. Could you remove the additions from system_list and see if you can confirm my thoughts?

-Maestr0 (January 11, 2019, 02:32 PM)

You were right about the alterations I made to the ini file. Those appear to be unnecessary.

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Living Room / New game console to play actual board games with.

« Last post by Shades on January 07, 2019, 08:18 PM »

Board games going digital, but in a new and pretty interesting way, using a dedicated gaming console device. As Mouser is interested in board games, I assume this French upstart will tickle his curiosity:

https://www.wizama.com

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on January 07, 2019, 06:44 PM »

alternatively, I guess I could use code like this (but if the long paths work with the quotation marks, I don't see the need):

[Select]

@echo OFF

SET ShortHandFolder=%~s1
START %ShortHandFolder%app\AHKv2_x32.exe %ShortHandFolder%shorthand3_ahk2.ahk
SET ShortHandFolder=

-Maestr0 (January 06, 2019, 09:37 AM)

Whenever I use the quotes the following screen appears:



And I am sure the application to be used to run the .ahk script has been defined with:  START "%ShortHandFolder%app\AHKv2_x32.exe|"

When expecting people to use folder and/or file names with spaces, you normally use ", of that I am very well aware. Why Windows now trips over this, that puzzles me.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on January 07, 2019, 06:35 PM »

I can expand on that.  First I tried the search term 'look' and I got results but only from the C:\  partition. Then I added the highlighted text (I have several pen drives, each with it's own drive letter) to  the ini file and now the same search term returns results from multiple partitions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [Win][Suggestions needed] Ensure network shares are connected reliably at login?

« Last post by Shades on January 06, 2019, 04:40 PM »

Maybe it is even smarter to extend the script from 4wd to include:
net use X: \\SERVER\Share

X:           =  drive letter
\\SERVER = computer name or it's IP address. With the IP address, which barely changes in a LAN, no extra subsystem is needed to translate to an IP address. Faster and more reliable.
\Share     = the name of the share

That recreates the share and if the connection already exist it should make Windows mark the connection as active.

You can also go on with it in a blunt matter and remove the connection (net remove X:) every time you turn your system off and as one of the first things in your startup procedure you simply recreate the connection again.

UNC is always preferable, just as 4wd suggested. Much less of a hassle.

Another tip that could make your situation better is the following:
Open Control panel, then open credential manager and add windows credentials for the NAS device (IP address, user name and password). Once such a credential is created Windows will use those immediately instead of trying to make a connection using the credentials of the user account you used to log into Windows itself. Normally this procedure doesn't take much time, but you can shave time off when you create such a credential.

Always remember that TCP/IP are old protocols and that they were designed for unreliable networks. That means a TCP connection can wait for a max of 30 seconds before it marks a connection/session as bad. While that is the extreme, all the times TCP waits does add up and might take you out of the connection window allowed to connect to your share.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: Shorthand 3_2

« Last post by Shades on January 06, 2019, 09:04 AM »

I downloaded the 3.2.0.27 version and tried to execute it. That experience warranted the following suggestions:
- the content of the 'start.bat' file contains / as folder separator. That didn't fly on this version of Windows (10.0.16299 Enterprise edition), had to be \.
- the content of the 'start.bat' file could be improved upon:
    @ECHO OFF

    SET ShortHandFolder=%~dp0
    START %ShortHandFolder%app\AHKv2_x32.exe %ShortHandFolder%shorthand3_ahk2.ahk
    SET ShortHandFolder=

- Now the folder you executed the script in, is captured and there is no way for Windows to get confused about where to look for files. The last line is there to clean up the content of the variable and emptying variables causes them to be removed from memory.   
- Do not use quotes |(in the START line) if AHK has never been installed on the system. Windows 10 will ask you which application it needs to use to execute the ahk script (even though that is clearly specified).
  (caveat: I never use folder names with spaces in it. Not in file names either if I can help it.)
- All my portable applications are stored in a separate folder not located on the C:\ partition. Same as my data. I'm weird that way. So I had to add these partitions to the ini file myself. Maybe I overlooked things, but I didn't find an option to add those partitions in the GUI. Not that big of a deal though.

After these changes it did work as expected. So thanks for a nice piece of software.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Possible Malware Debug - HW laptop back-light detector

« Last post by Shades on January 01, 2019, 01:58 PM »

Keyboard can. And if the external drives came with driver and/or back-up software, those could trigger Windows to become active again.

Wireless headset uses BlueTooth? That sure can re-activate the audio system from Windows again when battery level from the wireless headset goes below a certain level. Same can be true with a wireless keyboard that uses Bluetooth.

The external BD device is the least suspect. The process of elimination to find the suspect device really requires you to disconnect everything from your laptop. Not just the devices that you think is logical.

Because this problem is playing long enough to make a thread for it on this forum, I think it is safe to assume that we are (long) past the stage of applying the logic that already has been applied and didn't solve your problem.

So, disconnect everything external, cut power to any of them, keeping all of them out of Bluetooth range, etc. If your laptop still activates at random, you can be sure that it something in your Windows installation or the hardware of your laptop and not something external. Right now it is unclear (to me) what is connected and what not. So better start from the most essential setup to get a good bearing of where to look for your problem.

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

« Last post by Shades on December 30, 2018, 08:12 AM »

A piledriver rammed home...

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by Shades on December 29, 2018, 07:39 PM »

If you are very sensitive regarding religion, in particular the story about Jesus, than don't watch this movie ever. Actually, show this in the 'Bible belt' from the U.S. and I am sure the people you show it to will never ever want to talk to you again.

For those with a (not so) healthy sense of humor: The last hangover.
It is in spoken in Brazilian Portuguese (comes with subtitles) and lasts about 45 minutes. But don't let those things stop you, it is brilliant.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Possible Malware Debug - HW laptop back-light detector

« Last post by Shades on December 29, 2018, 02:51 PM »

Perhaps with a tool like this you are able to find out what instance of software is making your monitor light up.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: AHK Script Center

« Last post by Shades on December 29, 2018, 09:28 AM »

I am confused as to why you call it the same name as the already well known AutoHotkey.exe ? I find this weird, even dodgy.

-Curt (December 29, 2018, 02:06 AM)

Confusing?

From what I see it is more like software that allows you to keep your favorite set of AHK scripts and runs them when needed. All of that in a GUI that is more usable than the one provided with the default AutoHotKey software.

It isn't a replacement, it is more like an supplement and likely some will qualify software like this an improvement that uses AutoHotKey as a base. Nothing wrong with that (in my mind at least). I am also looking forward to it.

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

« Last post by Shades on December 27, 2018, 05:43 AM »

[ Invalid Attachment ]

If Guns Kill People T-Shirt 2nd Amendment Gun Rights

-Arizona Hot (December 27, 2018, 03:01 AM)

Should the 'I guess' on the shirt not be replaced with 'I'll guess'?

T-SHRTS make spelling grammar mistakes.