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UrlSnooper / Re: Help with a link - Kiss Radio (CKKS) (kissradio.ca)
« Last post by IainB on April 14, 2018, 04:24 PM »
I was working on an update to the mini-review of RarmaRadio (Rarma Radio (Raimersoft) - Mini-Review) today, and started playing about with it, trying to get it to play the Kiss Radio feed.
RarmaRadio couldn't make sens of any of the links, until I inserted the one (that streams a huge MP3 file) that @thehijacker came up with:<http://van1049.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/176/80909/v1/rogers.akacast.akamaistream.net/van1049>

I added Kiss Radio as a new radio station, giving just that URL as the feed, and copied/pasted in the logo and added a comment linking to this DCF post.
This is what the RarmaRadio Properties panel looked like after that:

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I then played it in RamaRadio: (it was just streaming the MP3 file (the station does not seem to be identified in any database of Canadian radio stations). There is no data in the stream to identify the station, or the tracks/artists currently being played.
This what RarmaRadio looked like whilst the streamed file was playing:

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At one point, the audio in the feed mentions "CKKS is Kiss Radio" so I searched that up and found an interesting Wikipedia entry about CKKS-FM at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKKS-FM>

I also found another link - this time to Kiss 91.7 <http://player.kiss917.com/?stationletterprefix=k>
Inspection of the HTML code of the webpage at that URL could turn up the feed to be added as a new radio station (Kiss 91.7) to RarmaRadio as well. I must say, both those feeds seem to play nice music streams, and I found the adverts interesting - because they are "foreign" (to me).
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - Mini-Review (calculator)
« Last post by IainB on April 10, 2018, 06:27 AM »
@Stephen66515:
Back on the topic of the review though....I had NO idea this existed and shall now go download it because I have a crap load of math stuff to do for Uni and this looks damn perfect for it :O
-Stephen66515 (April 10, 2018, 02:22 AM)

If you do try it out, could you please leave some notes about your experiences with this calculator, for posterity, on this thread? (Thanks.)
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Living Room / Re: Reader's Corner - The Library of Utopia + resource links
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 10:10 PM »
2018-04-10: Added:
  • A new section "Ancient books/manuscripts"
    - and reference to Bibliotheca Palatina and its digitisation of 3,000+ items.
- to the index table in the opening post.

(A good thing when there is less "squatting" on ancient knowledge-bases, by religio-political organisations/libraries.)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 08:32 PM »
I rather like some of the humour displayed in FalloutNV:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - Mini-Review (calculator)
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 06:51 PM »
@Stephen66515:
I'm confused....this (SMF forum) has nothing to do with the CMS (Joomla) - They are 2 entirely different applications and moving from the static website to Joomla wouldn't affect SMF 

EDIT: Hey, the rearranging of the images was a trivial and easy exercise in this new CMS!   
(Was a world of pain under the old CMS...)
Thanks, @mouser.

  There was no old CMS O_O
-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2018, 01:29 PM)

Ahh, thanks. Now that explains it. Because it had been so easy to make the changes in the OP in this thread, I had assumed that this amazing and unprecedented ease-of-use must have been brought about as a result of changes of which I had no idea about.
Sadlement, I realised later that it was a fluke - as I discovered later after trying to tidy up another mini-review that has lots of images, where I found myself back again in the familiar, clunky, constipated chronic world-of-pain with which one has become so accustomed to on this forum.

So, I take it back: No thanks to YOU, @mouser, you ratbag!    :down:  :down:  :down:
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 06:02 PM »
Quite a good pun, under the (current) circumstances:

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINFILE is back
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 05:34 PM »
Very droll
Has nostalgia value though, I suppose.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - Mini-Review (calculator)
« Last post by IainB on April 09, 2018, 10:51 AM »
2018-04-10: Some maintenance of this review thread:
  • Have updated the OP.
  • Am in the process of tidying-up/re-assigning the images, as they seem to have been shuffled in the migration to the new CMS.    >:(  (the price of progress).

EDIT: Hey, the rearranging of the images was a trivial and easy exercise in this new CMS!   :Thmbsup:
(Was a world of pain under the old CMS...)
Thanks, @mouser.
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Living Room / Documentary ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ free to stream courtesy of Elon Musk
« Last post by IainB on April 08, 2018, 07:32 AM »
Documentary ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ free to stream courtesy of Elon Musk

Streaming here: http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch

Apparently available free for just this weekend.
I'm watching/(listening to) it at the moment. The narration/voiceover is sufficient by itself - quite good - and the dramatised video is arguably somewhat superfluous, with music to "tell us" how to think - like a lot of American documentaries that I have come across. It's a bit "once over lightly". It could make a decent radio/.mp3 documentary - shorter too - but everything seems to have to be video nowadays...    :o

EDIT: Having tired of watching the video, I was sufficiently interested to continue listening to it as I browsed the feeds in my excellent BazQux feed aggregator. The video is about 1hr 18mins long. Some of the music is quite good and my ears picked up what sounded distinctly like some musical styles/riffs borrowed from others - e.g., Beatles orchestrated rhythms/music and Jean Michel Jarré's Oxygene.

As a documentary, I'd give it 3 stars out of a 5-star rating.    :Thmbsup:  :Thmbsup:  :Thmbsup:
It was definitely a bit "once over lightly", seeming to be neither objective enough nor well-researched enough to qualify as a sufficiently rigorous documentary to do justice to the central theme of "Where is AI likely to take us?" - e.g., including the title - even making some seemingly covert and ridiculous politically biased assertions/statements/non-sequiturs (largely American politics). But then it does seem to be an American-made documentary, so that could be messaging that was par for the course and for its intended audience.

Overall, it neither told me anything particularly "new", nor did it really suggest other avenues of new thought. However, that may be because I am an SF addict and, having played about with some real-life applications of Operations Research, mathematical modelling, linear programming and (experimental) AI programming, I was probably already familiar with the general issues about AI that were raised in the video. The thing is that, pragmatically, there's probably nowhere else to go but forwards, or get trampled in the rush.   :(
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Picasa "Sunset" version - Mini-Review and anchor-point
« Last post by IainB on April 06, 2018, 10:53 PM »
EDIT 2018-04-07:
Added/modified to the OP and the Indexing post below it:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Picasa "Sunset" version - Picasa Tags and creation of virtual albums
« Last post by IainB on April 06, 2018, 10:26 PM »
Just to keep this all together in this Picasa discussion thread:
@Tomos: Sorry, but I thought Google's blocking this [API] was already quite clear from the Picasa blog:
Moving on from Picasa
Friday, February 12, 2016 10:00 AM
Update March 26, 2018: The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or download photos and videos, create online albums, or delete online photos, videos and albums.
...
Desktop application
As of March 15, 2016, we will no longer be supporting the Picasa desktop application. For those who have already downloaded this—or choose to do so before this date—it will continue to work as it does today, but we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates. If you choose to switch to Google Photos, you can continue to upload photos and videos using the desktop uploader at photos.google.com/apps.

Finally for developers, we will also be retiring some functions of the Picasa API. Developers can learn more here.

Please note, you’ll still be able to access all of your photos and videos in Google Photos at https://photos.google.com/. If you want to upload photos and videos to Google Photos, you can use Backup and Sync at photos.google.com/apps. ...

Copied from: Picasa Blog - <http://googlephotos.blogspot.co.com/>

There's nothing to stop you from using Picasa as an image management tool/database, and shipping up the photos to Google Photos, as required. (I had thought that was what you were intending doing.)
-IainB (April 06, 2018, 03:05 PM)
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@tomos: Well, don't despair, because you can probably still have your cake and eat it.

IF you create Picasa albums out of the Tags (this was an innovative experimental feature that works beautifully), Picasa places the photos in sort of "virtual folders" according to each Tag - these virtual folders are created within the Picasa database. Picasa doesn't care where these Tagged photos are physically stored on disk (in logical folders). It can always find them again. So, once you have a Tagged album, you can use Picasa to drag and drop the pix it contains, as a group, into a newly-named logical folder on disk. Picasa will keep track of which photos have been moved where. You can then use Google Photos to upload/sync that album folder to the Google Photos cloud as an album/collection, and then share it to whomever you want. After that, maintain those album folders on your hard drive, so you can remove photos, or add new photos to an album (using Picasa, as above). The additions/changes to the album will be reflected in the Google Photo sync.

The Tags are magic because they are metadata which is attached to the data (the images).
If the Picasa database crashes or gets corrupted (it can happen - though I haven't see it in the "Sunset" version yet), Picasa can rapidly rebuild/recreate the Tagged virtual albums, because the Tag will have been written as metadata to each of the the photos' IPTC info. One of the things that doesn't get written to EXIF/IPTC fields are the face IDs of the people in the photos - which data only seems to exist in the database, and which needs to be rebuilt after a crash/corruption (which takes a bit of time). But the thing is, it can all be rebuilt/recreated.

So you keep maintenance at a low state and can almost have it as easy as it was in the original Picasa approach. To achieve this, all you have to do is use the Tagged virtual albums in Picasa.
-IainB (April 06, 2018, 04:50 PM)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scanned photos from Picasa to google Photo: experiences
« Last post by IainB on April 06, 2018, 09:58 PM »
It might also be worth considering using the Libraries feature in Windows. I've tended to steer clear of making too much use of Libraries and their "active" folder cousins, including (say) GodMode, AllGames, Briefcases, as they seem to be virtual folders about which the rules are ambiguous/undocumented and subject to change with OS updates, and the Libraries themselves seem to be kind of "broken" links. However, if one understood them more fully, I suspect that there could be some way in which one could usefully assign logical folders (a collection of photos in an album) to (say) the Photos Library. The trick then would be to see if there was some way one could reliably/consistently sync these virtual Library folders to Google Photos as albums/collections for sharing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scanned photos from Picasa to google Photo: experiences
« Last post by IainB on April 06, 2018, 04:50 PM »
@tomos: Well, don't despair, because you can probably still have your cake and eat it.

IF you create Picasa albums out of the Tags (this was an innovative experimental feature that works beautifully), Picasa places the photos in sort of "virtual folders" according to each Tag - these virtual folders are created within the Picasa database. Picasa doesn't care where these Tagged photos are physically stored on disk (in logical folders). It can always find them again. So, once you have a Tagged album, you can use Picasa to drag and drop the pix it contains, as a group, into a newly-named logical folder on disk. Picasa will keep track of which photos have been moved where. You can then use Google Photos to upload/sync that album folder to the Google Photos cloud as an album/collection, and then share it to whomever you want. After that, maintain those album folders on your hard drive, so you can remove photos, or add new photos to an album (using Picasa, as above). The additions/changes to the album will be reflected in the Google Photo sync.

The Tags are magic because they are metadata which is attached to the data (the images).
If the Picasa database crashes or gets corrupted (it can happen - though I haven't see it in the "Sunset" version yet), Picasa can rapidly rebuild/recreate the Tagged virtual albums, because the Tag will have been written as metadata to each of the the photos' IPTC info. One of the things that doesn't get written to EXIF/IPTC fields are the face IDs of the people in the photos - which data only seems to exist in the database, and which needs to be rebuilt after a crash/corruption (which takes a bit of time). But the thing is, it can all be rebuilt/recreated.

So you keep maintenance at a low state and can almost have it as easy as it was in the original Picasa approach. To achieve this, all you have to do is use the Tagged virtual albums in Picasa.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scanned photos from Picasa to google Photo: experiences
« Last post by IainB on April 06, 2018, 03:05 PM »
@Tomos: Sorry, but I thought Google's blocking this [API] was already quite clear from the Picasa blog:
Moving on from Picasa
Friday, February 12, 2016 10:00 AM
Update March 26, 2018: The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or download photos and videos, create online albums, or delete online photos, videos and albums.
...
Desktop application
As of March 15, 2016, we will no longer be supporting the Picasa desktop application. For those who have already downloaded this—or choose to do so before this date—it will continue to work as it does today, but we will not be developing it further, and there will be no future updates. If you choose to switch to Google Photos, you can continue to upload photos and videos using the desktop uploader at photos.google.com/apps.

Finally for developers, we will also be retiring some functions of the Picasa API. Developers can learn more here.

Please note, you’ll still be able to access all of your photos and videos in Google Photos at https://photos.google.com/. If you want to upload photos and videos to Google Photos, you can use Backup and Sync at photos.google.com/apps. ...

Copied from: Picasa Blog - <http://googlephotos.blogspot.co.com/>

There's nothing to stop you from using Picasa as an image management tool/database, and shipping up the photos to Google Photos, as required. (I had thought that was what you were intending doing.)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously
« Last post by IainB on April 04, 2018, 06:19 PM »
@BGM: Ah, I think I understand now. I had not properly read/understood your requirements.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size
« Last post by IainB on April 03, 2018, 12:42 AM »
@absoblogginlutely: That doesn't sound right. Once set, it should be persistent. Something may have been changed to undo that setting.
What version of ON are you on?
Go to File --> Account --> About
e,g,  Version 1802 {Build 9029.2253 Click-to-Run)
Force it to do an update check.
If it updates, then repeat the "Set as default paste" thing.

Also, just as an experiment, try setting the default to "paste as plain text", then sett it to "paste as RTF" again. See if that sticks.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me - "the municipal organ".
« Last post by IainB on April 01, 2018, 10:16 PM »
Whilst I am enthusing about pipe-organs, although the Notre Dame cathedral organ might seem to be a pretty amazing instrument:



- it might seem little when compared to what the Americans did with "the municipal organ" (I gather that there are only two such in the world).
Sound synthesizers lament and prepare to have your mind (or eardrums) blown: The Municipal Organ:
Published on 27 Jul 2010
This is a chapter entitled "The Municipal Organ" from the documentary film "The Senator's Masterpiece" about the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Organ. For more information about The Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Organ, please visit: www.boardwalkorgans.org/
For more information on the preservation of America's historic pipe organs please visit: http://www.organsociety.org
For more information about the filmmaker please visit: http://www.VicFerrerProductions.com
© 2006 Vic Ferrer Productions
htpp://www.boardwalkorgans.org/
http://www.ExpositionOrgan.org

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me - Choir - "Christ the Lord is risen today"
« Last post by IainB on April 01, 2018, 09:26 PM »
Not to be forgotten is the hymn itself, Christ the Lord is Risen Today, and here is a very nice rendition from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra:
Published on 30 Mar 2013
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" in Lyra Davidica 1708, lyrics by Charles Wesley, arranged by John Rutter.

Episode 4308. Aired April 8, 2012.

Copied from: (3) Christ the Lord Is Risen Today - Mormon Tabernacle Choir - YouTube - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjnlBn0K10>
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me! - Pipe-organ music.
« Last post by IainB on April 01, 2018, 09:19 PM »
I am a bit of a pipe-organ addict. Since childhood I have always enjoyed listening to pipe-organ music, and singing alongside it was always a memorable experience in my years singing in church, school and semi-professional choirs.
Absolutely one of the most beautiful organ pieces ever composed, here is (appropriately enough for Easter time) the pipe organ for the magnificently triumphal hymn Christ The Lord Is Risen Today - here it is being played on the 1892 Johnson & Son Organ at St. Stanislaus Church:
Published on 1 Apr 2012
Saint Stanislaus Parish, Historic Polonia District, Buffalo, New York: Organist & Music Director Peter Gonciarz performs "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today" on the 1892 Johnson & Son Pipe Organ. For more information visit www.StStansBuffalo.com. (April 1, 2012).

Copied from: (3) Christ The Lord Is Risen Today, 1892 Johnson & Son Organ, St. Stanislaus Church - YouTube - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIH3xqAHQc4>



In the video, it is played twice, the second time (starts at about 2:19mins in the middle) it shows the organist at work. Impressive skill. Just before that bit starts, the roaring of the air in the bellows (air pump) can be distinctly heard in the silence. As the organist is playing, one gets some idea of the time-lag between pressing a key and the sound issuing from the pipes.

My all-time favourite pipe organ music though would probably have to be Widor - Symphonie V, op.42 no.1 Toccata - Allegro. Here, we are indeed privileged to hear it being played by its composer: Ch. M. Widor plays his Toccata from V Symphony Op. 42 No. 1:
Published on 24 Apr 2009
Here the legendary organist plays his most-famous work, Toccata from 5th Symphony. When the recording took place, he had been already 88 years old. He many times mentioned, that Toccata was wrongly popularised, as a plain showpiece, without feeling, but with ridiculously fast tempos. Of course, here the age is a main argument, but... let's the composer speak through his music!

Copied from: (3) Ch. M. Widor plays his Toccata from V Symphony Op. 42 No. 1 - YouTube - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vz1D_L_OE>



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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS - Insert Prefix before copied text
« Last post by IainB on March 28, 2018, 11:18 PM »
Try also CHS Options -> Paste Template:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously
« Last post by IainB on March 28, 2018, 10:35 PM »
Mouser,
Here is my feature request:  add another post-capture option which will copy BOTH the image data AND the file path of the screenshot file to the clipboard together at the same time.
The Windows clipboard is capable of holding more than one kind of format simultaneously - I'm sure you know that.

Here is my reasoning for usage:
I take a screenshot, most of the time I immediately paste the image into my email to embed the image.
But about half the time I need the file path instead and I usually need to paste it into a file-browser dialogue.
If both formats were on the clipboard, the file-browse dialogue would only accept the text anyway - so having the image data won't affect that - AND I wouldn't have to fetch the path manually.
For non text-only applications, the image data should get pasted.

It's an idea; I'm sure there are complications.  What do you think?
-BGM (March 28, 2018, 12:13 PM)
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@BGM: At the risk of repetition, this (below) might help or be be of use, since it could provide the functionality that you seem to require:
...i succeeded once to scan the entire screen  and save with only pressing the key prt screen.
but this disapeared.
how can i set it it the program ?
-erze26 (January 23, 2018, 02:07 PM)
Despite its being in this thread, I suspect that the OP may not be a ScreenshotCaptor query per se.

@erze26 seems to be talking about the built-in Windows system PrtSc (PrintScreen) function. It does not require a third-party tool such as SC (ScreenshotCaptor) to do that.
The reason the screenshot "disappears" is probably that it just goes to Clipboard as a Copy operation, and is overwritten by the next text or image Copy to Clipboard. Thus, what's in the Clipboard is transient and seems to "disappear". I think the screenshot may also be saved to a default Windows directory, but this will be determined by system settings/preferences.

This is why I keep banging on about CHS (ClipboardHelp & Spell) as being an ideal image capture management tool, if users (and its author) only but realised it. The user can forget about worrying about image filenames or what directory the ruddy image is stored in or where it is.

It really does seem rather like a no-brainer, to me: If CHS is running, then every screenshot image that goes to Clipboard also is saved to the CHS image database folder [NB: together with any preset post-capture SC(ScreenshotCaptor} artefacts added at time of capture , if SC was being used to make the screenshot], from where the user can, at their leisure, view that image saved - just scroll through the images flagged in the CHS Grid display and view the image (with zooming) in the CHS Memo display. The user can at that point also trigger a separate image viewer (e.g., Irfanview) from the view button in the CHS Memo display, which will have previously been associated with images in the CHS settings. Any half-decent image viewer will also have a built-in image management tool and metadata editing tool. The latter would typically be an EXIF editor - e.g., Irfanview is very good in both regards.

If the user then wants to operate on (edit/change) that image, then they can invoke the third-party image editing tool (e.g., SC is very good) from the edit button in the CHS Memo display and which would have been associated with image editing in the CHS settings. (NB: This would require that SC or other image editor be installed first, of course.)

Done this way, the user:
  • can forget about the image file (if/when needed, it's path and name are given in the Text tab in the CHS Memo display), and
  • can forget about the viewer/editor applications (they are seamlessly integrated into CHS settings), and
  • concentrate on the task at hand - namely the functionality that is required (e.g., image view and/or edit) regarding any particular screen capture or clip or other image selected in CHS.

All the above boils down to making the whole process of image capture management more effective/efficient. It's a useful time-saving approach, simply because it automates the integration of image application functionality. The user typically doesn't generally capture an image because they want to capture it per se, but because they want to do something with the image
 - or its file - once it has been captured.

When seeking to improve a frequently-used and manually intensive process, the rule of thumb is generally to automate wherever possible/feasible and cost-effective to do so.
(As usually described in most/any Work Study practitioner's handbook.)
-IainB (January 23, 2018, 05:54 PM)
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Official Announcements / Re: New article posted about the DC Remodeling in 2018 -- server changes, cms, etc.
« Last post by IainB on March 28, 2018, 04:23 PM »
@mouser: Thanks for a very interesting article.    :up:
The potted history brought things into context and focus for me, as I was unaware of that background.
Good point about "practicing a migration" - it has to work, so there's every good reason for taking a rigorous and risk-averse approach, which ultimately could improve one's knowledge/understanding of the assets and their configuration/performance, in the acts of planning for and migrating the installation. Migration has never been an "easy" project.
Also, the experiential advice to take notes.
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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates
« Last post by IainB on March 27, 2018, 06:55 AM »
2018-03-26: Very interesting and informative post at techdirt: Kim Dotcom Wins Human Rights Tribunal Case Over Kiwi Government Withholding Info
The post includes a full scrolling view of the 82-page judgement of the Human Rights Tribunal.

Also very interesting is that there seems to have been little mention of this in the NZ press:
The apparently dead hand of the media's so-called "journalism" in evidence.

So, the somewhat depressing conclusion here could seem to be that NZ citizens may sometimes find themselves better-informed (and in more timely fashion) about what is happening in NZ by reading techdirt, rather than by relying on local media/"journalism".

The techdirt article opens with:
It's really quite incredible how, at nearly every turn, the New Zealand government has managed to mess up the legal case against Kim Dotcom. The raid on his house was later declared to be illegal, using invalid warrants. Evidence that was seized from his home and illegally turned over to the FBI was ordered to be returned. Oh, and then there was the whole bit about conducting illegal surveillance on Dotcom, deleting evidence of that illegal spying, and ordering officials to "bury" information about that illegal surveillance to avoid embarrassing the Kiwi government.

And now we have the latest: A Human Rights Tribunal in New Zealand has declared that the New Zealand government violated Dotcom's rights in withholding information from him.
...and ends with...
Either way, the book of examples of just how incredibly the New Zealand government has f#ck#d up everything about this case at every single turn has now added yet another chapter.
___________________________________

There are some pointed and concerned comments following the techdirt post, for example, including these, :
  • Comment: Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2018 @ 5:07am
    "Either way, the book of examples of just how incredibly the New Zealand government has f#ck#d up everything about this case at every single turn has now added yet another chapter."

    And how many more times of the NZ government and US have to be exposed of doing illegal things in this case before someone in the NZ government or US comes out and say "We could of got away with it it is want't for those pesky kids".
    ___________________________________

  • Comment: nerd bert (profile), 26 Mar 2018 @ 6:51am
    Malice vs. Incompetence
    "Either way, the book of examples of just how incredibly the New Zealand government has f#ck#d up everything about this case at every single turn has now added yet another chapter."

    Normally you should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

    This is not a normal case and I think we can rule out incompetence.
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  • Comment: Ninja (profile), 26 Mar 2018 @ 11:09am
    The thing is, even if you don't sympathize with the guy (and I personally don't), even if he actually did wrong things (I'm still not sure), everything that has been done to strip him the means to defend himself and to deny him due process gets you cheering on him and hoping he prevails in courts. And we are talking about the problems with NZ law enforcement. When you add the US things get much uglier.
    ___________________________________
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - Collection of Hacks, Tweaks, Improvements
« Last post by IainB on March 26, 2018, 11:08 PM »
also from leelusoft: Windows Quick Boost http://leelusoft.altervista.org/windows-quick-boost.html
-Curt (October 20, 2017, 03:34 AM)
Added to Index. Thanks.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - Collection of Hacks- System Font [Size] Changer
« Last post by IainB on March 26, 2018, 07:48 PM »
I am running version 1703 of Win 10 Pro.  I cannot find those font settings anywhere.
-techidave (August 01, 2017, 06:01 AM)
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It's gone in 1703, all you've got now is a percentage scaling under Settings->System->Display->Scale and layout.
There may be settings in the registry that can be written directly.
-4wd (August 01, 2017, 06:14 AM)
I just now remembered to add this to the list for all those who may want to be able to change system font sizes in (apparently all versions of) Windows 10, despite Microsoft having rudely removed said functionality:
Refer:
All I can say is that the ability to set these system font sizes and boldness is one of the best things someone with eyesight problems can do to improve the readability of their computer screens.
Try it and see.
(I've added this to the Index in the OP.)
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