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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by x16wda on March 06, 2014, 05:28 AM »
HAH! Damn auto correct! ;D
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by x16wda on March 04, 2014, 09:06 PM »
Just reread The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)... it was shorter than I remembered. Next will be The Werewolf Principle (Clifford Simak) and then Neuromancer (William Gibson), and then the Ray Feist series that starts with Magician: Apprentice and runs through A Darkness At Sethanon.

(I had a hankering to reread Neuromancer, and stumbled across a box of oldies in the attic. Treasure -- it also contained some of my Dad's old Ace Doubles that me and my brothers found in his attic lo these many years ago!)

After these I'll start a Neal Stephenson series (Quicksilver is book 1)... I was looking for Snow Crash but found this instead.
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General Software Discussion / Re: unattended large file copies that will not prompt for msg
« Last post by x16wda on March 03, 2014, 05:30 AM »
Supercopier can be configured to have defaults as you need.
So should be Teracopy, but I didn't try the second one.
-eleman (March 03, 2014, 05:26 AM)
I used Supercopier 2b for years and appreciated that feature. I think version 3 is the one to get, and it works fine in Win 8 64-bit and older. Someone new took it over in version 4, and is merging it into UltraCopier I think; I believe the licensing changed as well as the interface.
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General Software Discussion / Re: XP to Windows 7 advice
« Last post by x16wda on March 03, 2014, 05:27 AM »
If you can't afford an upgrade why not go with free LibreOffice ?
-Carol Haynes (March 03, 2014, 03:53 AM)
+1 for that, and LibreOffice generally does a fine job with the Office 2002 file formats.
530
General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Security Suites (2013/2014)
« Last post by x16wda on March 01, 2014, 03:04 PM »
^Just to correct the record, I can't blame Avast! for this. I finally had time to work on this and uninstalled Avast! and still had the problem.  Eventually tracked it down to a Flash update - v12.0 apparently doesn't like to display embedded YouTube videos in Chrome.  Backed it off to 11.7 and it crashes on the first use but is OK thereafter; I may bump it up to 11.9 and see if that's any better.
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General Software Discussion / Re: TechTracker becomes Download App
« Last post by x16wda on February 28, 2014, 07:14 PM »
...and additional system maintenance features.
-Curt (February 28, 2014, 07:22 AM)
Sounds innocuous.
532
Living Room / Re: GLaDOS explains fission and fusion for NASA's IRelevant Astronomy podcast
« Last post by x16wda on February 27, 2014, 07:18 PM »
...and she's still alive...
533
Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by x16wda on February 25, 2014, 06:55 PM »
wraith - heeheehee!
534
General Software Discussion / Re: software to monitor processes and services and kill them in real time
« Last post by x16wda on February 25, 2014, 06:39 PM »
Process Lasso will let you specify a list of processes to kill immediately.  Mouser's Process Tamer may be able to do the same sort of thing although I'm not sure.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Security Suites (2013/2014)
« Last post by x16wda on February 23, 2014, 07:06 PM »
Interesting reading. I tried installing the free BD and it didn't seem to have any controls at all (like for "leave this folder alone!"). Avast! seems fine so far, but I seem to be missing some embedded videos (such as this post).
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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive Brand Reliability Data
« Last post by x16wda on February 20, 2014, 08:34 PM »
I still have Quantum Fireballs that are running just fine.
-app103 (February 20, 2014, 05:17 PM)
Just send 'em on over, I can run 'em in a textile plant this summer for you.... just to burn them in, ya know....
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Living Room / Re: For Valentine's day: Creepy vintage Valentine's day cards
« Last post by x16wda on February 14, 2014, 03:15 PM »
Some of those are very disturbing...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Mothers Text Encryptor - simple encrypt text - any ideas or coder out there?
« Last post by x16wda on February 11, 2014, 08:31 PM »
First of all, let's mention the legendary xkcd comic:
-TaoPhoenix (February 11, 2014, 08:01 PM)
I love that comic!  It's just missing the actual 3rd panel, "What would happen to random people", where they say "Encrypted? So what, just sell the dratted thing on eBay anyway, we'll still get a little something for it."  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you DO have enemies, either.  :P

So either something like mysecret will be fine to prevent spurious leaks, or you're screwed no matter what!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hidden Files
« Last post by x16wda on February 11, 2014, 08:15 PM »
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2.5 *gigs* of cruft?!!
-TaoPhoenix (February 11, 2014, 07:40 PM)
Yeah, I have seen results like that too from Bleachbit.
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General Software Discussion / Re: DesktopInfo
« Last post by x16wda on February 11, 2014, 07:17 PM »
I started using DesktopInfo on my previous company's servers a few years ago. It's a good fast at-a-glance look at a box that worked well in that environment.

He had an updated version awhile back, but there was some feature that I had used that broke in it so I went back to the previous one. Can't quite remember what it was... maybe something about adding a line to display the logonserver which broke in the new version...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Mothers Text Encryptor - simple encrypt text - any ideas or coder out there?
« Last post by x16wda on February 11, 2014, 07:00 PM »
I initially thought of fsekrit but that is for saving text in notes.

You really want something more like MYSecret which works on the clipboard contents.

-----
Copy the above to the clipboard and run mysecret.exe and enter the password "tuesday" and it will replace the clipboard with this:

-----BEGIN MYSECRET-----
TVn8AEfQocqZMIaFG+t+fXWkA5gIO5j46sVFZrwnt6Y2CkiXR4gsWdCllsoy
I4WpfIdP6dfQ3VzPFBJ8EBjlx8ZsgujT1yim1qr8H7zbPN2UdhtIBv6d0/LF
V9IPanA3sowVv8Zvx+KUf3US7mtHlRq8H7oyScNfj5VDZ7fBZHMTOv+0IsjA
E83a/NEVvGo7ycdr0JS5LT5wesL26CsAR3WPBKTKM+kHdtXDMISfYEaM1LmO
laDhMMzOouY51Ab7SU6xbR55BKwQyLEPRIjEtOSIL74bNWJKJj+BBWQk+X2S
MzZRvYv5rJymXBG71bDnD5/0gba1ji350A5p60hOsuH7xrRZX+ulNuVYsg==
-----END MYSECRET-----

Then if you copy the encrypted text to the clipboard and run mysecret again, it will ask for the passphrase and decrypt. It sees the begin/end items to know if it should encrypt or decrypt.  Also has command line options for file encryption/decryption.  It is just one process, blowfish algorithm, but it looks close to what you want.
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread
« Last post by x16wda on February 10, 2014, 06:47 PM »
Back to basics... my easy, no-think dinner:

- Boil a big pot of water (that takes the longest time)
- Start heating a large skillet with a couple tablespoons olive oil, medium heat
- While the water is heating, slice some good mushrooms and break a bunch of asparagus stalks into bite sized pieces
- Toss the mushrooms & asparagus in the skillet, stir it around (& keep it moving)
- After a few minutes, toss a batch of angel hair (capellini) in the water (cooks fast, don't overcook)
- Drain the pasta, serve with mushies & asparagus, top with grated parmesan & fresh ground pepper

You can add some soy sauce or sesame oil to the skillet, or add other spices to add interest. Or add a few rashers of bacon on the side, or sprinkle with bacon bits (of course, fresh cooked & crumbled yourself if possible), or you could chop up some leftover pork roast or salmon and toss it in the skillet to heat with the vegetables. Whatever, it's always easy and satisfying. You have to play with the times a little to get the mushies & asparagus appropriately done.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Why didn't anyone tell me I could make the Windows 7 taskbar height non-obscene?
« Last post by x16wda on February 06, 2014, 07:41 PM »
x16, your image shows the double height normal size win7 taskbar.  i'm talking about the half-height option.

oh -- is that TClock you have showing that info?  Didn't know it could display two-lines. nice.
-mouser (February 06, 2014, 07:26 PM)

By golly, you're right!  I set small taskbar on every other machine I get on (at least all our servers, anyway)... but at home I have two 1920x1080 monitors so I didn't notice!  Fixed now, though, I just set the text in T-Clock to size 8 Marlett instead of 10...

taskbar-clock-2.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: Why didn't anyone tell me I could make the Windows 7 taskbar height non-obscene?
« Last post by x16wda on February 06, 2014, 07:22 PM »
I didnt know that it could show all that info on a 'small' taskbar.
-tomos (February 06, 2014, 06:06 PM)

There's plenty of room on the "small" taskbar!

taskbar-clock.png
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change default browser script
« Last post by x16wda on February 01, 2014, 10:33 AM »
That could be handy... We already have Open Link in New Tab and Open Link in New Window, how about Open Link in New Browser?
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by x16wda on January 31, 2014, 09:23 PM »
Well, my fault for not using the correct name, all I remembered was it was the dll that allowed the Posix epoch time display.  I'll promise not to lose sleep over it if you will.  (I have kids and it's on call week to boot so I have lots of other reasons to lose sleep.) :P
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by x16wda on January 30, 2014, 06:54 PM »
I was curious about that one too ... You don't know either? Shit.
-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2014, 12:39 PM)

Page 16 of this thread... here... c'mon, SJ, it was just a few years ago you posted that... :D
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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« Last post by x16wda on January 29, 2014, 06:08 PM »
I haven't had any problem with build 95 plus the Posix dll on Win 8.  It also behaves well with the Charms bar.  Of course this is in Desktop... haven't visited the Metro for quite awhile...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
« Last post by x16wda on January 28, 2014, 04:00 PM »
Anyone have a tip to show what file types are assigned to Metro apps?  I am disgusted... I was emailed a wav file (for a voice message) and started playing it. About 5 seconds in, a blasted box pops up "This app needs an update, please download it from the Store to continue".  Really, Microsoft?  Can't listed to a stinkin' wav file without an update??  I will gladly reassign all file types possible away from behavior like this!
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General Software Discussion / Re: SkyDrive no more, it's now OneDrive!
« Last post by x16wda on January 28, 2014, 12:52 PM »
If using a half ounce of common sense will prevent confusion of the two then ... Just, Let. It. Go.
-Stoic Joker (January 28, 2014, 07:04 AM)
Go? not Be?
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