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General Software Discussion / Re: how to download the text of webpages?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 26, 2013, 11:57 AM »
A lot of this depends on use.  If you're downloading the pages as is for that purpose- then these last methods will work.  Since the OP said d/l the text of the web pages in bulk, I'd assume that it wasn't for browsing, but rather for the data.  Perhaps that clarification will help to focus the conversation on the appropriate software.
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Living Room / Re: Help Proofreading a submission
« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2013, 10:09 PM »
And just in case you're interested... when I submitted it (about a month ago now), I was 130 in the queue.  Now I'm 77.  So I've got a wait.
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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!
« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2013, 09:21 PM »
Speaking of my own proofreading efforts, I've made $546 in ten weeks proofreading others' works. It's so easy to spot their errors. If only my own would leap out at me :) Check out the testimonials of satisfied customers.

That's pretty impressive!
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Living Room / Re: Help Proofreading a submission
« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2013, 09:20 PM »
I still don't know... waiting. :)

You did read the last part, didn't you?  It was rushed because of work and all, so realistically, I don't expect to get accepted.  But it was a start... and I'm continuing on for NaNo, hoping to get my game based off of it done by the end of the week, and then hoping as soon as I get rejection to start on a rework to an entire novel.
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to download the text of webpages?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2013, 12:49 PM »
Mozenda was favorably reviewed in our trials, and has a free account to try it out with (and that might be good for low throughput).  We still actually use it for some stuff.

iRobotSoft is free... it was nowhere what we needed for our uses, but it might work for you.

Automation Anywhere - again, didn't serve our purposes, but it is feature rich.  We still actually use it for some low intensity things.
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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent
« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2013, 06:01 PM »
Actually what clued me in that the spoof phishing Paypal attack was bogus, is that nobody gets my actual email address.
I have a paid subscription to www.Sneakemail.com which allows me to create a unique email address for each new contact.
They only see that, not my real email address.


Thanks for that!  Looks like a nice service!
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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent
« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2013, 12:49 PM »
One thing that I do want to remind people of that are in the same position as bit- with an authentic looking e-mail from their financial institution:

A little bit of convenience is not worth a whole lot of heartache.

Even with official e-mails and such, I never use the links in the e-mail.  Anything that you find in the email should be findable if you go to the site yourself and login.  Most financial institutions have a secure internal messaging system- the one that you receive by your e-mail is in general just a backup from what I've seen.  Look for the alert there in your messages.  Sometimes it even in the banner when you sign in- that's if you need to do anything.  Especially in relation to some problem with your account.  Worst case- call.  But don't get in the habit of clicking links to financial institutions I think is the best advice towards phishing that can be given.
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to download the text of webpages?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 21, 2013, 04:51 PM »
There's software for this type of thing (I've evaluated and made enough of them for work  :-\)

What you're looking for is a website scraper.  I will say that in my experience, the quality of the scraping is going to be directly proportional to how much you pay... not to much worth anything that's FOSS or free.

Are you looking to pay for this?  Or are you looking for something free?
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First let me say I think this is great that you are doing this.
Please take my comments as constructive criticism -- these are just my 2 cents:

The idea of making an always-running background service would turn me off from ever using this kind of thing.  Perhaps if it was something I used constantly I might go to the trouble of installing it, etc.  But I am stingy with things i leave running in the background.  And the added complexity, while impressive from a programming standpoint, seems troublesome to me..

I still think the best way to do this is a standalone exe that can just be called with the image file from any tool, to do its thing, without any need for a background resident process and inter-process communication.

If the desire is to not have to restart the program on each call, that would seem to me to be best handled as I said, with a 2nd instance simply passing off control to the first instance if the first instance is already running..

Just my 2 cents! I think it's great either way.

Even though I call it a service, it's really just another exe- no installation required.  If you run it, you'll see that it basically runs the other exe and sets up the named pipe.  One app just takes the command line parameters, sees if the other exe is running and the pipe set up.  If it's not, then it runs the other exe and sets up the pipe and adds the task bar notification.  You can close it if you wish after you're done with it... or leave it up.

Adding more info here- the reason I went with two .exes instead of one that looked for the other was load time.  The first exe that SSC runs has very little in the way of dependencies on purpose, so that it will load and run fast.  The one that actually shows the window and does the other stuff takes a bit of time.  In fact, so much so, that when the stub runs and it isn't available, I have to sleep the thread for a couple of seconds to make sure that it is up.  A couple of seconds to launch isn't such a big thing normally, but I wanted the stub that gets the input from SSC to be pretty lean.  If I had made it that same application, it would take the 2 seconds to run every time, even if there was another instance up.

Thoughts?
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That's nice!

Works fine here on W7-64 SP 1.

Re opacity, it would be handy if there could be a toggle (double-click?) between transparent and opaque.
-cranioscopical (November 20, 2013, 11:02 PM)

Yeah... I plan to add some sort of setting for that next :)
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I have an alpha available for download (link above); I'd appreciate any and all feedback; especially if anyone has problems.  I'm using wcf net.pipe to communicate, and I'm not sure if there are going to be issues with this on anyone's machine.

Thanks!
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / NANY 2014 Release: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)
« Last post by wraith808 on November 20, 2013, 10:46 AM »
NANY 2014 Entry Information

Application NameImgFloat
Short DescriptionOverlay the Desktop with a recently taken screenshot
Supported OSesWindows XP/7 (Should work in Vista/8 also, but untested)
Web Pagehttp://thinkshui.net/software/imgfloat/
Setup FilePortable Version
DescriptionI’ve used Screenshot Captor on Windows to great effect for years, and it contains a ton of features.  But one feature that I didn’t even realize that it was mssing until recently was the ability to float the screenshot after it was taken.  Lately, I’ve been using my MacBook more, and came across an application ScreenFloat.  It’s not a full featured as Screenshot Captor, but the ability to float the section that you’ve just taken a screenshot of in a transparent window has a multitude of uses.

So, for NANY 2014, I’ve decided to create a tool that can be called by Screenshot Captor to float the just taken image in a transparent window.

I’ve done much of the research into what I’m doing with the recently announced Reference Overlay Tool, so the two should be very similar.
Features
  • Stub application that interfaces with SSC so that a new instance isn't launched each time
  • Primary application displays (and allows hiding of) window with transparent image
  • Allows the loading of an image separate from the launch method from the toolbar notification area
  • Currently supports GIF, PNG, and JPG
  • Allows user to change the opacity
  • Can be run portably or from the program files directory
  • Can be disabled without changing settings in SSC
  • Can be set to keep a tray icon up, or close after each capture
  • Allow the user to specify whether the images are stretched to the size of the window or not
  • Current image can be frozen in the window, so that other captures can be done without losing the current image
Screenshotsimgfloatscreen.png

Doesn't adequately explain, looking back at it.  But I'll leave it.
Screencast
Documentationhttp://www.thinkshui.net/docs/imgfloat/
Installation
  • With .NET 4.0 installed, unzip application to preferred location.
  • To set up screenshot captor, open the preferences dialog, and navigate to Basic Capturing -> Post-Capture Options.
  • Check the checkbox labeled "Invoke these command lines after each capture"
  • Add a line to the textbox that contains your path where you unzipped ImgFloat, and add "%file%" to the end of the line.
  • For example: C:\Program Files\ImgFloat\ImgFloat.exe "%file%"

ImgFloat.png
UninstallingDelete application install location and remove command from screenshot captor preferences dialog.
NotesRequires .NET 4.0.
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I know that there's serious issues surrounding this... but this part is too hilarious to pass up.

Qatar's accidental vagina stadium is most gratifying

Al-Wakrah-stadium-011.jpg
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Living Room / Re: New Zealand bans software patents
« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2013, 05:58 PM »
^ That's been my concern, that this means something different than what people are heralding it as.
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Living Room / Re: New Zealand bans software patents
« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2013, 04:53 PM »
But how effective will this be in actual practice?  Doesn't this only apply to such litigation brought to NZ courts and within its bounds?
Yes. It's a start at least, with NZ getting it's own house into more sensible order.

How many high profile software patent cases have been brought up in NZ court?  Just wondering if this is more of a symbolic win than a practical one?
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Living Room / Re: New Zealand bans software patents
« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2013, 12:10 PM »
But how effective will this be in actual practice?  Doesn't this only apply to such litigation brought to NZ courts and within its bounds?
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Desktop URL Embed
« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2013, 11:03 AM »
Not double clicking on the gadget again.

After you double click on the gadget to install and get it installed, you can right-click on the desktop.  Click the gadgets entry on that menu.

It should bring up a dialog like the one in the second image above.  If you double click there again, it will add another instance of the gadget.
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Sure, this in itself is also rather funny, like the joke, but could be somewhat tedious unless deliberately done for the amusement/entertainment of others.
There would seem to be a possibility that the amusing joke could either be true or false, so couldn't we just leave it at that? There is such a thing as "killing" someone else's joke, after all.

+1
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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Desktop URL Embed
« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2013, 08:06 AM »
Hi- thanks for the kudos!

On to your questions:
1. The Window Refresh Frequency is in seconds; I did just find a bug that initially, even though it says 5, the refresh actually isn't set.
2. You can embed more than one URL by using the gadget- just double click on the gadget again in the gadget install window.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by wraith808 on November 15, 2013, 06:22 PM »
So if you actually cropped all around the image, it would be blurred on all sides?  That's pretty cool... I didn't know about that!
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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment
« Last post by wraith808 on November 15, 2013, 03:11 PM »
The fact that you have used something before is emphatically not a feature of the software.  It is a consideration in your choice to move, but it is not a feature that would indicate quality of the software or features thereof.  This is one of the things that people complain about when they talk about cloud solutions- the ability to port those solutions to other platforms and the ownership of data.

Countercase 1:
One reason that Microsoft Office has become the defacto standard is not because of anything that is a feature that is qualitative in the software.  It is because of a historical monopoly in that arena, and the fact that others utilize it- so interoperability between itself and others that use that software.  Is that a feature of Microsoft Office?

Countercase 2:
Google reader.  Many people used google reader as an aggregator, if not the interface, because of the fact that Google was a large player, and able to aggregate from different sources.  When google reader died, so did a lot of RSS readers that had nothing to do with Google other than they used its API.  Their software was built around an infrastructure that was not their own, so collapsed when that lynchpin was removed.  This is because Google Reader was not a feature of the software, but rather a dependency.

Gmail is not superior to other alternatives.  And I know this.  My laziness in moving to something else has nothing to do with Google as a platform, but rather my own choices not to be proactive on that front.  That is not a feature of gmail, and therefore has nothing to do with its superiority as a platform.
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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment
« Last post by wraith808 on November 15, 2013, 01:43 PM »
At one time gmail was superior.  Now, not so much.  But when all of your data is with a service, it's hard to change.

That's part of the point. It may not be superior in the list of features it supports, or in the responsiveness of its UI, or things like that. But taken as a package, the total product they offer, is demonstrably better than others. We know this is true, because if it weren't, you would have switched.

Apparently for you (and for most of us), the convenience of having our old emails in there is a compelling feature.

(And from a technical perspective, it is possible to download all of your email history from Gmail. You could, if this need was greater than your disdain for other parts of the service, do this. But apparently your disdain is less than the convenience factor derived from not having to go to the trouble.)

Historical use is not demonstrative of superior ability.  If such indicators were indicators of anything other than a placid userbase or historical entrenchment, then IE has been the superior browser for YEARS.

You're conflating superior attributes with a lack of a willingness to do anything else.
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That's Epic App! When was the date of that book!? 1977, before "political correctness"?

Likewise, political correctness is not real correctness. 8)

This.  The only basic concept you need to get about PC is this.
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General Software Discussion / Re: NLB and Load Balancing
« Last post by wraith808 on November 15, 2013, 10:22 AM »
Well thanks for the insight in any case :)  Hopefully it won't be an issue.  :-\
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General Software Discussion / Re: NLB and Load Balancing
« Last post by wraith808 on November 14, 2013, 08:40 PM »
Yes... I guess.  At least, they said that if we were connecting to SomeServerCluster with n number of servers, if we needed to test a particular server, we could connect to SomeServerCluster-onlyserver1 and guarantee what we're connecting to.  But yeah... they said something about it doesn't know the state, so can't guarantee what is being connected to- it's largely round robin and based on availability than truly load balanced.  And they did mention that bit about session persistence in relation to DCOM, which seems a bit scary considering how DCOM works.  But when you use a 16 year old technology (I really wish we could deprecate that) you have to be willing to deal with/expect a few scary moments...
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