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...I use Transdesk from here...What is "Transdesk" please?-TaoPhoenix (May 22, 2012, 01:02 PM)
I think maybe BGInfo lets you display the content of a text file.Yes, I think that's why I stopped using BgInfo - it was too constipated. It runs and then shuts down after arranging the display. You have to restart if after every change. And it's not very flexible in what it can do - as compared to Samurize.
Maybe make an Autohotkey script to open the text file, then update BGInfo when the window is closed... (?)-kunkel321 (May 20, 2012, 10:19 PM)
Then I noticed that my home page and also my default Google search page had been hijacked by a search page which was imitating Google, with a pretty seascape background (see copy in spoiler):The ruddy thing wouldn't go away.- I came across the image in one of several .ZIP files of wallpapers that I had downloaded from http://minus.com/explore/Wallpapers-IainB (March 19, 2012, 06:18 PM)
Well ... basically ... (hint)Ah, that's right - BASIC had each line sequentially numbered, didn't it?-joiwind (May 17, 2012, 06:50 AM)
I have to thank IainB for his valuable information.Well, thankyou. I only found out about the updated VideoCacheView after picking it up in the Nirsoft blog (which I subscribe to in my Google Reader). The split files thing explained a lot.-Giampy (May 18, 2012, 05:17 PM)
Will the DNS Crypt ("client") software play nice with the MS DNS server service, and only encrypt the forwarded (external domain) requests?Suck-it-and-see?-Stoic Joker (May 18, 2012, 05:04 PM)
I noticed OpenDNS has extended capabilities you can turn on or off...etc.Useful implications/points in @db90h's post:-db90h (March 21, 2012, 10:42 PM)
(Lacking the time to check) I'm wondering how well (/if) this would work inside a (DNS dependent) domain environment.Currently, I gather that:-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2012, 06:29 AM)
This software (v: 0.0.4) encrypts DNS packets
between your computer and OpenDNS. This
prevents man-in-the-middle attacks and snooping
of DNS traffic by ISPs or others.
I guess I checked the box for "Start DNSScrypt when Windows starts" or something similar? It's in the Startup folder for me, and I know I didn't put it there after installation.Ah, that might explain why others didn't get DNS Crypt starting on reboot/startup - they maybe hadn't ticked that option.-Deozaan (May 17, 2012, 06:01 AM)
Yes, but it was just for fun (not to mention that I've forgotten most of it).That's much better! Well done!
10 cls
20 goto 10-joiwind (May 16, 2012, 05:09 AM)
I noticed one big problem with DNSCrypt: When I restart my computer, it requires admin permissions via UAC before it will run. This means that if I'm not there to click OK and grant permissions, then my computer can't connect to the internet.That's odd. Doesn't seem to happen on a PC with Win7-64bit Home Premium. Seems to be completely transparent.-Deozaan (May 16, 2012, 09:48 PM)
The GUI sure makes it a lot easier to use.Sure does. Installing it and using it is simplicity itself.-Deozaan (May 16, 2012, 04:28 AM)
Version 0.0.4 Official Beta ReleaseI downloaded and installed it.
Updated: Wed, 9 May 2012
Official release of DNSCrypt for Windows.
Sorry for my not answering your Q before @kalos, but there is no real answer to your question, because it is not a relevant question in the context of FORTRAN.how does it compare with AHK, and particularly with third-party GUI automation?any serious input???-kalos (May 14, 2012, 09:43 AM)-kalos (May 15, 2012, 02:34 PM)
10 clsHar-de-har-har. Very droll.
20 goto 30
30 goto 10-joiwind (May 15, 2012, 03:31 PM)
Boy, those were the days. Punch cards, punched tape, K&E slide rules and $400 HP-35 calculators!Haha. Looks like I sparked off some reminiscing here!-dspelley (May 14, 2012, 09:10 PM)
Wasn't old BASIC a sorta grandchild of Fortran?I don't think so. The only similarities were that they were both high-level languages. Otherwise quite different in syntax.-TaoPhoenix (May 14, 2012, 08:30 AM)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do. The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of the firmware of the machine.
BASIC remains popular in numerous dialects and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual Basic. In 2006, 59% of developers for the .NET Framework used Visual Basic .NET as their only programming language.[1]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fortran (previously FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California[1] in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing [2] and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.
Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-oriented programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and generic programming (Fortran 2003).
...I remember a few years ago talking with a fellow working in defense. He was doing work on the battle/war simulators for the US/Korean defense against North Korea, and he worked in Fortran for it.Yes, it was really handy for solving Operations Research-type problems or wherever serious mathematical number-crunching was required.-Renegade (May 14, 2012, 08:38 AM)
In his short treatise On Bullshit, the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt gives us a useful theory of bullshit. We normally think of bullshit as a synonym—albeit a somewhat vulgar one—for lies or deceit. But Frankfurt argues that bullshit has nothing to do with truth.
Rather, bullshit is used to conceal, to impress or to coerce. Unlike liars, bullshitters have no use for the truth. All that matters to them is hiding their ignorance or bringing about their own benefit.
Gamification is bullshit.
I'm not being flip or glib or provocative. I'm speaking philosophically.
More specifically, gamification is marketing bullshit, invented by consultants as a means to capture the wild, coveted beast that is videogames and to domesticate it for use in the grey, hopeless wasteland of big business, where bullshit already reigns anyway.
Bullshitters are many things, but they are not stupid. The rhetorical power of the word "gamification" is enormous, and it does precisely what the bullshitters want: it takes games—a mysterious, magical, powerful medium that has captured the attention of millions of people—and it makes them accessible in the context of contemporary business.
Gamification is reassuring. It gives Vice Presidents and Brand Managers comfort: they're doing everything right, and they can do even better by adding "a games strategy" to their existing products, slathering on "gaminess" like aioli on ciabatta at the consultant's indulgent sales lunch.
Gamification is easy. It offers simple, repeatable approaches in which benefit, honor, and aesthetics are less important than facility. For the consultants and the startups, that means selling the same bullshit in book, workshop, platform, or API form over and over again, at limited incremental cost. It ticks a box. Social media strategy? Check. Games strategy? Check.
The title of this symposium shorthands these points for me: the slogan "For the Win," accompanied by a turgid budgetary arrow and a tumescent rocket, suggesting the inevitable priapism this powerful pill will bring about—a Viagra for engagement dysfunction, engorgement guaranteed for up to one fiscal quarter.
This rhetorical power derives from the "-ification" rather than from the "game". -ification involves simple, repeatable, proven techniques or devices: you can purify, beautify, falsify, terrify, and so forth. -ification is always easy and repeatable, and it's usually bullshit. Just add points.
Game developers and players have critiqued gamification on the grounds that it gets games wrong, mistaking incidental properties like points and levels for primary features like interactions with behavioral complexity. That may be true, but truth doesn't matter for bullshitters. Indeed, the very point of gamification is to make the sale as easy as possible.
I've suggested the term "exploitationware" as a more accurate name for gamification's true purpose, for those of us still interested in truth. Exploitationware captures gamifiers' real intentions: a grifter's game, pursued to capitalize on a cultural moment, through services about which they have questionable expertise, to bring about results meant to last only long enough to pad their bank accounts before the next bullshit trend comes along.
I am not naive and I am not a fool. I realize that gamification is the easy answer for deploying a perversion of games as a mod marketing miracle. I realize that using games earnestly would mean changing the very operation of most businesses. For those whose goal is to clock out at 5pm having matched the strategy and performance of your competitors, I understand that mediocrity's lips are seductive because they are willing. For the rest, those of you who would consider that games can offer something different and greater than an affirmation of existing corporate practices, the business world has another name for you: they call you "leaders."
