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Screenshot Captor / Re: Filename format suggestion

« Last post by Ath on August 07, 2017, 03:02 PM »

Check out the %customdate% option in the Preferences/File naming page, it's the closest possible match to your request.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by Ath on August 06, 2017, 03:10 PM »

yes, congrats Ath, enjoy the new start!

-tomos (August 06, 2017, 01:16 PM)

Thanks tomos, wraith808 and mouser for the encouragement , I've been looking around silently for some time but at 55 that's not easy. But for this job I've been asked if I would be interested to join, and I'm quite sure I'm gonna like it very much.

Thanks x16wda for enlightning us with your alarmclock selection process, it is very helpful

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Extracting All Image Links from a Booru Website

« Last post by Ath on August 06, 2017, 05:06 AM »

As said, it's an example of how to get a lot of files from that particular website. Each page has to be downloaded to extract the actual download-url per image.

You might want to do some work on it, as downloading 800.000 files into 1 directory isn't something Windows is very fond of
Splitting the from/to range into several scripts allows you to run more scripts in parallel (number of CPU-cores seems reasonable), and this way you can run several sites in parallel too, but you might get your IP banned from the server, because of hammering the site with that many requests
A possible speed improvement could be to not set the tray icon tooltip for each page, but only for each 10th or so, so you still have a notion of progress, especially if Windows is displaying it when it's set, that's usually quite slow. (NB: Haven't tested it myself.)

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by Ath on August 06, 2017, 04:14 AM »

I'll carefully toss in the 'gadget' I bought yesterday: A VW Golf^w 1.6 FSI Sportline (2006).



I bought it to commute to my new job where I'll be starting October 1st (actually Monday the 2nd), and the 45 km distance isn't easily doable by (e)bike, compared to the current 12 km.


I'm leaving my current job after 16+ years to pursue a new challenge, in a new environment, though still in software development, it's more to do with cloud, healthcare related application development, and less with 'hardcore code-crunching' (applications, libraries, standard components) and systems maintenance (the second 'chunk' of my current job, keeping stuff like JIRA, SVN, Jenkins, Confluence, Crucible, Artifactory, etc. running and all users happy). Plus all the accumulated specialized projects (license generator, internal libraries, JIRA external issue creator, stuff like that) I keep dragging behind me
Now a couple of weeks vacation, then transferring all knowledge that isn't yet documented from my head to our Confluence and to colleagues heads/notebooks, and then a fresh start

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Manipulate lines in a txt file

« Last post by Ath on August 02, 2017, 01:07 PM »

That stil doesn't answer the question...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Ath on August 01, 2017, 02:58 PM »

Some pic I grabbed from FB today:



Made me think of mouser...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Three-dimensional file access in Windows, especially by Hard Links

« Last post by Ath on August 01, 2017, 02:52 PM »

... seem like blog posts rather than discussion fodder.

-wraith808 (August 01, 2017, 02:00 PM)

+1 (and then some)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Three-dimensional file access in Windows, especially by Hard Links

« Last post by Ath on August 01, 2017, 08:06 AM »

I'm surprised there has been no reaction to this post yet ...

-ital2 (August 01, 2017, 07:16 AM)

TL;DR;
If you keep writing blog-size entries like this in the forum, then don't be surprised if there will be less and less response.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on July 31, 2017, 10:28 AM »

I almost got it, new user-id 533335, (shot this while 533336 had just registered )

A case of palindrome, ofcourse

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: MultiMonitorManager

« Last post by Ath on July 23, 2017, 04:39 AM »

In the case of Firefox I can't rolling with the mouse wheel.

-Contro (July 22, 2017, 03:49 PM)

Most likely caused by FF having it's own, quite incompatible with default Windows windows, scrolling (rolling?) handling. Check out the Screenshot Captor forum about scrolling capture not working properly until mouser put in several dirty hacks to get scrolling captures working again.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on July 20, 2017, 12:40 PM »

it's working correctly i.e. yahoo weather is reporting accurately

-tomos (July 20, 2017, 07:19 AM)

I've been using it nearly since day 1, and the yahoo service has been flakey a lot over time, but the last couple of months the service is quite stable and the forecasts are reasonably accurate.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: DC member wraith808 agrees to join spammer-killing squad

« Last post by Ath on July 19, 2017, 12:58 AM »

 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now

« Last post by Ath on July 18, 2017, 02:44 AM »

Next up (if I'll find some time in the next decade or so): x86 ASM and (more) COBOL.

-Tuxman (July 17, 2017, 01:44 PM)

x86 ASM I can relate to, but Cobol... remember wat Edsger W. Dijkstra said about that: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." (ref)
(And Yes, I do know how to program in Cobol and can confirm/confess that Edsger's quote is true)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eisenhower Method - Matrix Decision Method-Covey Matrix Decision

« Last post by Ath on July 16, 2017, 05:04 AM »

above goes attachthumb=1 but i see nothing !

-Contro (July 16, 2017, 04:49 AM)

Do not try to display a zip or rar attachment, the forum won't know how to display it, just attach it and it'll be shown below the text of the post

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by Ath on July 15, 2017, 03:08 PM »

During Amazon's recent Prime Day they had the Yubikey 4 and Yubikey 4 Nano for 1/2 price, ($20 & $25 respectively).

So I picked up a Nano version.

-4wd (July 15, 2017, 02:43 PM)

Finally another Gadget, great

I actually got such Yubikey 4 from a colleague who won a dozen or so at a security conference a while back, with the intent of doing something useful with it and reporting that back to him. I'm still thinking about what to use it for

Wait, I'll 'sign' this post with it: ccccccfcrviucerjeltjcktljbhdtkngbtnnklnhffjj
And another one just for fun: ccccccfcrviuvfthljdjttfdhefvnejnufeunjjvvuel

So, I've at least once done something useful with it now...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on July 14, 2017, 02:02 PM »

I caught that too, but you beat me in publishing it

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: An Idea: Providing some small funding for a yearly (or 6 month) regular coder

« Last post by Ath on July 12, 2017, 12:59 AM »

let's start with the simplest approach and if it turns out something more complicated is needed we'll code a solution

-mouser (July 11, 2017, 05:28 PM)

+1 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by Ath on July 11, 2017, 03:32 PM »

But what's wrong with building software on a real Linux system?

I'm not building software on/for/with Cygwin, just using it as a bash-like scripting environment to avoid the horrible cmd scripting, and re-use it on a real Linux box, if I want it. Powershell isn't going to fix that in the near future, and I'm not fixing the PS-blindness in my head for a while either

Most of the stuff I build is either Java or C# (also on Linux, see SedTester ) and a really small portion of C/C++ (next to a sleuth of other languages like Cobol, Delphi and whatnot), and a lot of that can also run on some taste of *ux OS.

The current offering is still quite restrictive, and keeps being restricted to insider previews it seems, I recall it was available a year ago, before the 1607 release of Win 10? Or was that another incarnation/beta. (MS policy: Buy our next version!) ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

« Last post by Ath on July 11, 2017, 02:55 PM »

I can't fully comprehend why I should want to have an ubuntu in my Windows? If I want that now I'll use Cygwin, on any Windows release I like, not just that insider preview. If I want a full Linux, I'll run a full, official, distro in a local or hosted VM, or on bare hardware. And using shared data from both Windows and Linux is as 'easy' as using shared storage. So, can someone please enlighten me?

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Living Room / Re: Android virus

« Last post by Ath on July 10, 2017, 03:05 PM »

Hm, reset to factory defaults?

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Play a sound when a color appears on screen

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2017, 03:38 AM »

Found it: https://www.donation...x.html#PixelNotifier
PixelNotifier by skrommel 

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Hourly chime software (like Cuckoo for Mac)

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2017, 03:32 AM »

Just to confirm: I've tested it here on Win10, and it worked just fine, right out of the box.

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Play a sound when a color appears on screen

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2017, 03:28 AM »

I seem to remember a very similar request has been posted here before, but I've so far been unable to locate it.
Have you requested this before?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2017, 01:45 PM »

It's been a while since Skrommel payed us a visit, and he even made 2 posts (== 2 coding snacks) today (and the day is not over yet...)

He also created his 888'th post, must be a very lucky number somewhere

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General Software Discussion / Re: Watermark Software

« Last post by Ath on July 05, 2017, 01:02 AM »

Also, MS Word has special options for inserting a watermark in your document and printed output: Insert a watermark in Word
Similar features exist in MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.