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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Possible Malware Debug - HW laptop back-light detector

« Last post by 4wd on December 25, 2018, 05:19 AM »

Since you say it's doing it after the computer is powered down the obvious thing to do is also switch off the computer PSU.

If the screen is still doing it then it seems likely that it may be caused by random power fluctuations or something in the monitor itself - obvious solution is to turn it off.

If it stops doing it then it's possibly getting random signals over the monitor lead from the gfx card that cause it to wake up. Try a different lead, (shielding maybe a factor), rerouting it away from power leads, etc.

Or the simple solution, turn the monitor off.

The Event Log on the computer will show if it's the computer powering on at random times which causes the monitor to wake up.
If the monitor is lighting up without the computer being on then it's a hardware issue.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Google Drive Option

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2018, 09:45 PM »

Another alternative, (this time I'm awake), is CarotDAV.

Add your GDrive account and then enable it's WebDAV server and assign a drive letter, then it's just a matter of copying/moving files to/from it as per normal Windows operations.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Google Drive Option

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2018, 06:01 AM »

Ah, my bad ... didn't notice what forum section it was in, not enough sleep lately ... just put me on ignore 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Google Drive Option

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2018, 07:35 PM »

Log into your Google Drive via a browser: https://drive.google.com
Then just drag'n'drop images/files onto the browser window.





To share it, right-click on it and choose Share... or Get shareable link:

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Living Room / Re: Privacy (collected references)

« Last post by 4wd on December 18, 2018, 04:59 PM »

The death of the technology industry in Australia happened last week.

EDIT: A possibly better explanation of what the new laws involve: Australia’s horrific new encryption law likely to obliterate its tech scene

The new law gives Australian law enforcement agencies the power to issue cooperation notices to technology entities with the purpose of gaining access to specific users’ encrypted messages and data. These entities may include companies, websites, or anything else that transmits data to an end-user in Australia.

Australia: Controversial Australian Encryption Act Denounced By Privacy And Cryptography Advocates

Last week, Australia's parliament passed a controversial act that will enable law enforcement and intelligence agencies to compel access to encrypted communications. In an explanatory memorandum, the Australian Parliament stated that the new act, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018, is intended to combat "the challenges posed by ubiquitous encryption." Under the act, certain law enforcement and intelligence agencies will be able to approach "designated communication providers," using one of the mechanisms below, for the purpose of gaining access to specific users' encrypted messages and data.

• Technical Assistance Requests (TARs) – These are voluntary requests that allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies to request access to communications and data while bypassing the oversight rules surrounding mandatory notices. TARs may be issued by the directors-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), or the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), or by the chief officer of an "interception agency," which includes the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), and the state and territory police forces, provided that they obtain the approval of the AFP commissioner.
• Technical Assistance Notices (TANs) – These are compulsory notices requiring a "designated communication provider" to use existing interception or decryption capabilities to provide access to communications or user logs. TANs can be obtained only by the director-general of the ASIO or the chief officer of an interception agency.
• Technical Capability Notices (TCNs) – These are compulsory notices requiring designated communication providers to build infrastructure to meet subsequent TANs. TCNs may be issued only by the attorney general, with the approval of the minister for communications, following a request from the ASIO or the chief officer of an interception agency, and require written notice to the communication provider, allowing them the opportunity to respond within 28 days.

The new act allows these agencies to directly approach specific individuals, such as engineers or IT administrators at an organization, rather than the organization itself. Companies that resist the demands could face a fine of up to $7.3 million, while individuals who refuse could face jail time.

Australia’s encryption law threatens NZ cloud data
Tech Companies Line Up To Pan Encryption Bill
Encrypted Messaging App Signal Won’t Comply With Australia’s New Backdoor Bill

... and more ...

Welcome to Australia, a country run by idiots elected by idiots.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Packt Book of the Day

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2018, 06:28 PM »

Packt Christmas Sale - every book and video is only $5.00 each

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General Software Discussion / Re: Move specific file types with original folder path included to another directory

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2018, 12:45 AM »

I need to move all files of specific file-types from Folder A to Folder B and put them under the same path as they existed in A.

-questorfla (December 15, 2018, 01:08 PM)

Code: Text [Select]

1. robocopy.exe "C:\SCRIPTS\A" "C:\SCRIPTS\B" "*.docx" /MOV /R:0 /W:0 /E /Z /Copy:DT /LOG:"C:\SCRIPTS\EMPTY.LOG"

I have heard that MicroSoft has promised to open up the path lengths allowed to some really extreme number in a soon to be released version of Win 10.   And i think it can even be enabled now with some registry edits.  But as far as I can tell, the original Max_Path of 260 total is still the rule at this time.

-questorfla (December 16, 2018, 04:12 PM)

If you want to bypass the max path length problem use extended-length path addressing, (eg. \\?\D:\somelongpath), maximum path length is then restricted to ~32,767 characters.

I have been told that I can even shorten this but here is the Working Script to create an empty copy of a dir with only all paths

-questorfla (December 16, 2018, 12:34 AM)

Code: Text [Select]

1. robocopy.exe "C:\SCRIPTS\A" "C:\SCRIPTS\B" /CREATE /E /XF "*.???" /LOG:"C:\SCRIPTS\EMPTY.LOG"

Since you're only recreating the directory tree you're not copying any files so /Copy:DT and /Z aren't used, you don't really need /R:0 or /W:0 either.

Remove /XF "*.???" and it'll create zero length files as well.

BTW, what happens if you have an extension longer than 3 characters, eg. .docx ?

Wouldn't /XF "*.*" be better ?

Also btw, before investing in commercial software to sync files/folders, Robocopy is quite capable of doing it either on the number of changes seen or a time interval.

Code: Text [Select]

1. robocopy.exe "C:\SCRIPTS\A" "C:\SCRIPTS\B" "*.docx" /MOV /MON:3 /R:0 /W:0 /E /Z /Copy:DT /LOG:"C:\SCRIPTS\EMPTY.LOG"

Will check every minute to see if there has been at least 3 changes to the filesystem involving DOCX files.

Code: Text [Select]

1. robocopy.exe "C:\SCRIPTS\A" "C:\SCRIPTS\B" "*.pdf" /MOV /MOT:3 /R:0 /W:0 /E /Z /Copy:DT /LOG:"C:\SCRIPTS\EMPTY.LOG"

Will check every three minutes to see if there has been any changes to the filesystem involving PDF files.

Check the /MON and /MOT options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Consumer Photo/Pic Editing Software - what do you use?

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2018, 10:48 PM »

Sagelight - Quick single image HDR effects, noise removal.

-4wd (December 12, 2018, 01:43 PM)

Any idea what is/was the latest (last) version of Sagelight? Mine's 4_4

-cranioscopical (December 12, 2018, 10:01 PM)

Mine's 4.4h (b) - was the last beta version before development died, IIRC.

Executable properties:


Normal 4.4 installer: 21,456kB
4.4h (b) installer: 22,234kB

Still available on Softpedia.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Consumer Photo/Pic Editing Software - what do you use?

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2018, 01:43 PM »

XNView - View, crop, quick colour adjustment, resize, batch
Photofiltre - General painting, text, drawing, fisheye removal
Affinity Photo - Aspect correction - AU$40 when it was launched
Sagelight - Quick single image HDR effects, noise removal.
DxO OpticsPro 11 - Quick preset colour effects (free occasionally)
GIMP - Very good object removal by "healing", cutting up multi-photo scans.
Image Analyzer - "Feature preserving" resize, reduce quality until file size constraint is met, other esoteric operations.

Haven't settled on any one program because it always seemed that some program did something I wanted better than another program that tried to do everything, (eg Polaroid Dust & Scratch Remover instead of whatever GIMP had, Affinity's aspect correction compared to MV's Plugins which I used for ages).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Vegas Pro Edit 14 $20 on Humble

« Last post by 4wd on December 11, 2018, 04:52 PM »

Conversely, I  use Pro 14 all the time, no problems with it at all but I never do final renders with it, using it only for editing and rendering to lossless, (MagicYUV or Lagarith).

Vegas MSP 13 & 14 (Pro and MSP) were unstable when I first installed, (failing to start, sometimes crashing), that was fixed by removing all 3rd party installed codecs and then only installing the two above, (anything else wasn't required, MPC-BE has it's own and they're not necessary for any encoding I do).

Think I'll wait til next year when they should have Vegas 16 in a bundle ... really want to play with the Motion Tracking

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Windows Forensics Cookbook

« Last post by 4wd on December 11, 2018, 02:45 AM »

BUMP

Windows Forensics Cookbook - see OP

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Much as I hate to admit it, I am looking for help again...

« Last post by 4wd on December 05, 2018, 09:39 PM »

And... being serious, should I continue here or start over on the coding snacks thread?

-ai4fu (December 05, 2018, 08:37 PM)

One of our illustrious moderators can move this thread over ... save some typing 

Just looked up the Maidenhead system, another similar system is What 3 Words (W3W), (as in reducing location to a referenced square).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Much as I hate to admit it, I am looking for help again...

« Last post by 4wd on December 05, 2018, 08:15 PM »

You're wanting to take GPS data and broadcast it via UDP?

Can you access the NMEA data output by the GPS?

If so you can probably use the code from gpsfeed+ to take the raw NMEA input and output it as UDP packets, (among other formats).

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Living Room / Re: The quest for a completely silent PC

« Last post by 4wd on December 05, 2018, 07:02 PM »

One drawback is that the tiles I added makes the PC heavy, but I never move it anyway.

-mateek (December 05, 2018, 05:58 PM)

You can go to an automotive shop and buy sheets of under-bonnet, self-adhesive sound dampening foam, it's about 10mm thick.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Mastering Docker

« Last post by 4wd on December 05, 2018, 03:50 AM »

Sounds like this thread needs to be renamed to something like [FREE] Packt Book of the Day.

-Deozaan (December 05, 2018, 01:38 AM)

Nah, just thought those that were interested in the Docker on Windows ebook might be interested in today's offering.

This might help: Web Alert 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Backup and restore sound volume profiles

« Last post by 4wd on December 04, 2018, 08:13 PM »

Perhaps Sound Volume View ?

It allows you to Save/Load profiles.

eg.
1) Set all the volumes using the Windows Sound control panel.
2) Run Sound Volume View and save the current profile.
3) Do 1 and 2 as necessary for more profiles.
4) Create shortcut icons as follows, (rename the shortcuts to NetFlix, Youtube, etc):

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [FREE] Mastering Docker

« Last post by 4wd on December 04, 2018, 08:06 PM »

BUMP

Mastering Docker is today's freebie.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018

« Last post by 4wd on December 03, 2018, 10:46 PM »

Probably doesn't help that big sites like ScienceAlert were also selling Windscribe access, so their service is faaaaar more known about than it really should be lol

-Stephen66515 (December 03, 2018, 03:30 AM)

More to do with how often they change exit IPs because it happens to all VPN/SmartDNS providers, some are just more proactive in swapping/changing IPs.

It's why I use cheap VPS's, a couple of users from a single IP compared to (many) thousands over a proportionally smaller number of IP addresses.

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now

« Last post by 4wd on December 03, 2018, 10:27 PM »

RE the AmazFit BIP, I use my Pebble to bluetooth control my Android phone's music apps when I teach Argentine tango. Does the AmazFit BIP have that ability?

-davidqxo (December 03, 2018, 09:23 PM)

Don't know about the "official" MiFit app but Notify & Fitness for AmazFit lets you set the unlock button to control various things.





The touch screen on the BIP is really only to move through the firmware apps - it is not a "SmartWatch" in that it runs an OS that you can load whatever apps you like on it, it's a fitness tracker with extra functions.
As such the only control that 3rd party programmers can really access is the screen unlock button, hence the 1, 2, or 3 pushes selection above.

You'd be better off sticking with your current method or just buying a cheap Bluetooth remote for music control.

EDIT: Amazfit Pace allows music control of BT connected phones and also has onboard music storage/playback, so no phone needed at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on December 02, 2018, 10:00 PM »

does anyone know of a replacement for "Download Them All" in FF?

-JohnWa321 (December 02, 2018, 08:05 PM)

Download Portable Firefox ESR 52.9.0 and continue to use DownTheMall ?

This is exactly what I currently use when I need to use DTA because there are no replacements for DTA on the current version of any browser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "File Size" Not Increasing As It Should Be

« Last post by 4wd on December 02, 2018, 09:45 PM »

This has been normal for me ever since ... well ... a very long time, across different file managers, eg. Explorer, DOpus, etc.

Normally I'd have to do a Properties on the relevant file and then refresh the display to get the current size.

Oddly enough it seems to be random sometimes, eg. writing an MP4 video file will:

• sometimes show a steady increase,
• sometimes just sit at 0 until it's closed,
• or sometimes show a steady increase but only after forcing the system to interrogate the file, (eg. Properties).

A F5 refresh alone doesn't seem to initiate a return to increasing file size.

Maybe it depends on the way the file is being written and/or the filesystem of the destination?
eg. One long continuously open write as opposed to the file being closed between successive appends.

I just ignore it now until I see the process is finished.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018

« Last post by 4wd on December 02, 2018, 03:47 PM »

Using a commercial VPN service to access Netflix, Hulu, etc is always going to be a game of cat and mouse, the sheer volume of traffic coming from a few IPs is always going to raise a red flag.

Try sending support a message so they can see about getting it sorted.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on November 27, 2018, 06:17 PM »

Raspberry Pi is now famous. What next?...Grape Pi,  Banana Pi....Apple Pi?

-Arizona Hot (November 27, 2018, 06:08 PM)

Banana Pi

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018

« Last post by 4wd on November 27, 2018, 06:10 PM »

Verbatim from Windscribe:

Next best thing since FREE

We hope you haven't spent all your hard earned cash on various "deals" this past week. If you have, close this email, we got nothing to talk about. For all the rest of you savvy shoppers, read on.

What we're gonna hawk to you next isn't a "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday" deal (who comes up with these names anyway?), this is a new permanent offer that is available to everyone going forward, but that doesn't make it less exciting.

Windscribe is happy to announce the launch of "Build a Plan", which allows you to pick the locations you want access to, and pay as little as $1/month. Here is a simple chart that will help you understand this groundbreaking concept:

    1 Pro Location - $1/month
    2 Pro Locations - $2/month
    3 Pro Locations - $3/month

REVOLUTIONARY! But wait, there is more! Each location you purchase will add an extra 10GB of data to your monthly allowance. If you want unlimited data, that will cost you another cool dollar.

Are you ready to make it rain like you're in a Vegas Strip Club? Just click the link below.

Build a Plan

Random Fact

"'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the keys on only one row of the keyboard."

- Windscribe Team

So, in theory, if all you are interested in is Netflix US/UK then for a $1/month you can just have access to either the Windflix US or UK exit node plus 20GB, (10GB for signup + 10GB extra), or possibly 70GB if you've previously taken advantage of their extra 50GB freebie in the past.

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Living Room / Re: Is it possible to have Microsoft Exchange account to Ymail Android app?

« Last post by 4wd on November 27, 2018, 07:04 AM »

Do you get interruptions or asking for password when Ymail messes up with updates?

-kalos (November 27, 2018, 05:25 AM)

Nope, I prefer to receive my email with close to 100% success rate, so I don't use Yahoo.