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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: MIDI Capture

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 08:54 AM »

I have a program that plays music from a score by using midi data to play via the built in MIDI soundcard interface. I can't save the midi dada as a file though.

Anyone got any idea how to capture the midi data stream and output the file as a MIDI file?

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 04:17 AM »

My most favorite key is D minor...
-dpierron (June 16, 2006, 04:10 AM)

The Dorian mode is good too

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Living Room / Re: Interesting tad bit - MS Windows Genuine Advantage Phones Home Every day

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 04:16 AM »

I think it is not easy. There are no uninstall options and if you delete the file windows simply regenerates it.

The trouble is that you have to let it run occasionally to be able to download updates. According to the article I posted above some people can't get critical updates without WGA (which is another area where MS have fallen down on their stated policy).

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 03:12 AM »

There is a pretty simple solution to avoid that - use a different email address for every contact - then you find out how the idiots and b******s are.

You can do this quite easily with Yahoo and others by using the anonymous email address generator. You still get all your mail in one place but you at least know which email address has been used.

My problem (the multiple 'carol' problem) is that when I signed up for my current ISP I had spam in my inbox when I opened it for the first time !! OK I know you say I should change ISP but I am happy with the service they provide in terms of internet access and mostly I do my own thing with email but it is annoying.

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Living Room / Re: OISV - Organization of Independent Software Vendors

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 03:08 AM »

Personally I never sign up to websites that have no content until you register with them - I find it really offputting. Am I paranoid?

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Living Room / Re: Creative PC Cases

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 03:02 AM »

Shame he sidn't incorporate a flatscreen monitor in the lid - he could have had a portable ;-)

I hope he had some good insulation!

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 03:00 AM »

Actually, placing the + in front of the "l" in carol will only cause the "l" to repeat. You want to enclose carol in () so the whole word repeats instead:
[Select]
carol.*carol.*(carol)+.*
-superticker (June 15, 2006, 10:03 PM)

Thanks - I wish I could get to grips with RegEx but everytime I start to follow tutorials my eyes glaze and I have to go and lie down for a while.

I presume I can use:

[Select]

carol.*(carol)+.*

for 2 or more occurences of the string?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting tad bit - MS Windows Genuine Advantage Phones Home Every day

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 02:44 AM »

Just posted another article regarding WGA in another thread. Check out https://www.donation...10.msg28415#msg28415 if you haven't already.

The interesting thing is that by installing this as a critical update MS have actually gone against their own declared policy on the use of AutoUpdate. When it was first designed MS repeatedly argued that it would only be used for critical updates - no user actually needs WGA at all - it is only for MS's advantage.

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Living Room / SanDisk accused of "Shades of Sony Rootkit"

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 02:37 AM »

The following is a summary of an article I read - unfortunately it isn't available without paid subscription but I thought it important enought to point out the issue here:

Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB flash drives.
Plug in the card reader, and up pops LaunchPad and wants to install Skype and other apps.
Not unusual Flash cards often come preinstalled with software.
But autoplay is off so how did it launch?

Deleted the files from the Flash drive. Insert the USB drive again - same thing happens.
Reformat the drive and it all happens again.

It is a "smart" Flash drive including U3 technology which emulates a CD-ROM drive (for part of its data area).
Autoplay is enabled by default for CD-ROM drives and you can't delete files from a CD-ROM.

There is an uninstall utility from U3.com to delete U3 technology (but SanDisk hide the fact) that makes the drive into a plain Flash drive again.

Shades of the Sony BMG rootkit!
No evidence to believe that Sandisk installed software, let alone installed a rootkit but I want to install software under control.

Beware of USB devices! If Flash drives can do this then it could any USB device next!

Orginal article by Ryan Russell in the WindowsSecret Newsletter.

The question left unanswered is what happens when a non-savvy user tries this - I would suspect that a lot of people would simply install Skype etc. if they have never heard of it assuming it was something to do with their new super duper flash card !!!

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Backtracks on phone home WGA ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 16, 2006, 02:28 AM »

Interesting article with a few ideas on WGA from Brian Livingstone's WindowSecrets article:

Read it here http://windowssecret.../comp/060615/#story1

It is aquite a long series of articles but it told me some things I didn't know and showed up some of the bugs and problems people are encountering even with legitimate copies bought direct from MS.

Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware

By Brian Livingston

Windows Genuine Advantage — the controversial program Microsoft auto-installed as a "critical security update" on many PCs starting on Apr. 25 — not only causes problems for many users but has now been proven to send personally identifiable information back to Redmond every 24 hours.

This behavior clearly fits any plausible definition of "spyware." Some tech writers have said categorizing WGA as spyware is arguable. But I have no hesitation in calling the program a security nightmare that Microsoft should never have distributed in its present form.

In my May 25 newsletter, I called Microsoft's WGA download a "severe blunder." It causes serious problems for some legitimate Windows users and was sprung on customers with no notice other than a press release the day before.

No PC-using company that values security and reliability can allow a program like WGA to send data to a distant server, download additional software, morph its behavior, or remotely change the functionality of Windows (as I describe below). I don't believe individuals should put up with this, either.

Today, I'll explain the problems and let you know what you can do to fix them.

If the spyware label fits, wear it

read on on the website ...

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 15, 2006, 06:18 PM »

I think it should be 'you are as old as you see' ... I seem to spend 50% of my time taking my glasses off and putting them on again!

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Developer's Corner / Re: web-based logo design companies

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 15, 2006, 01:46 PM »

keep in mind that this site is not filled with graphic artists

But there are plenty of other kinds of artists

(just kiddin')

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 15, 2006, 01:44 PM »

I have an Audigy and I can hear it ...

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's Haiku Mug

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 15, 2006, 12:00 PM »

"Hi! Coo!" says Cody
Hi Coo Lo Coo WHY Coo. Warghhh!
This is TOO boring!

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 14, 2006, 02:22 PM »

I can hear it (and I am 48) but I wouldn't like to rely on hearing it for my telephone !!

The weirdest thing is the my house mains electric fuse tripped as I clicked play !!!

Good test for my UPS

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 14, 2006, 02:15 PM »

Actually having gone back to Mailwasher (combined with FirstAlert and SpamCop) after a long break I am finding it very useful. The 'multiple cc to carol*' filter is quite effective against my ISP spam as it is usually addressed to at least 10 'carols' and so is easily identifiable. As I get legitimate mail to that address I'll move subscriptions to alternatives and then eventually I can just do a 'dump the lot' approach on that address.

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General Software Discussion / Re: soft and hard links in ntfs

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 14, 2006, 05:53 AM »

You can also map spare drive letters to folders ... which is similar

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's Haiku Mug

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 14, 2006, 05:50 AM »

Final effort (four is not bad) ...

Cody likes to say
Give us coins and I will play ...
...... Out of here sucker

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Get all entries in windows regedit about an element via the contextual menu

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 13, 2006, 08:57 PM »

Another nice feature of Registrar (which I had forgotten) is that if you have .REG files you can open them in Registrar and edit them as if they were a set of registry keys - which is great as it means no more manually editing in Notepad !!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Get all entries in windows regedit about an element via the contextual

« Last post by Carol Haynes on June 13, 2006, 08:49 PM »

Doesn't work from the context menu but try Resplendence Registrar Registry Manager. It has lightening fast searches and it lists all occurrences. You can also keep bookmarks and favourite tweaks.

The Pro version is not free but there is a free lite version (not sure what facilities are limited though).

I have use the pro version for a few years and it has been rock solid. Also has Reg utilities for backing up and compacting the registry, access to registry key security settings, a registry monitor and editing the registries of remote computers amongst others.

Here are a couple of pictures of it in action ...

Registrar Main Window