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Post New Requests Here / Idea : One Shot System Time Sync
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2016, 04:20 PM »
I find when I WiFi that the WiFi routers block the Windows Time Service.  I thought it may be a nice idea for a small utility that does a one shot time sync when a button is clicked.  It could sit in the tray.  Perhaps with a command line switch so that it syncs the time and exits without showing a Tray Icon.

Right now what I am doing is getting the exact time off the web, then using the time command on the command line.  It would be nicer just to hit a button and have it compensate for AM/PM etc..

This is mainly aimed at my Laptop so I am looking more for a manual trigger than recurrent as I may not be connected to the net when the interval expires.

I found a few ahk scripts on the forum that use the IE activex control to get the time, but they don't quite do the whole job.  Sort of fragments from back around 2006.

The simpler the better.  :)

Edit:  this thread shows how to get the tine using the ie object avoiding the router block.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook App Popup : how to block?
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2016, 12:04 PM »
Something like GreaseMonkey on Firefox could do what you ask, but I don't think SlimJet has anything comparable.
-Jimdoria (May 23, 2016, 05:13 PM)

In fact I just found out about and installed TamperMonkey yesterday.  I guess it is basically a GreeseMonkey port to chrome.  They say it can run some GreeseMonkey scripts.  Do you have a particular script in mind?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slimjet updated to 10.0.1.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 24, 2016, 09:48 AM »
Google Chrome dev 64 bit
-dantheman (May 24, 2016, 08:27 AM)

I may check it out in the future.  Right now I want to let things stabilize for a bit.  I took a quick look and did not see a portable version.  I just got done with my system backup regimen.  Maybe in a few days when I am due for the next incremental backup I'll take another look.

One encouraging thing is I seem to have the cookies working almost perfectly with SAS not complaining during quick scans.  The "genius" of Windows is you keep tweaking it, so you always have something to pass the time.  But it does get tedious when done too frequently.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook App Popup : how to block?
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2016, 05:10 PM »
you may simply try another ad-blocker. I use uBlock Origin for instance.
(in another browser though  :D )

-spankmonkey (May 23, 2016, 04:53 PM)

I had that running in Firefox and still got the popup.  It seems to have gotten its quota today.  Or perhaps my JavaScript blocker is blocking it now that I removed the only white listed site from its settings.  I probably will not know until the first time I go on tomorrow.

Thanks for the suggestion.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Outlook App Popup : how to block?
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2016, 01:10 PM »
Several times a day I go to my hotmail account and this same annoying popup telling me that the Outlook App is available for download, covers the entire page.  Anyone know how to block it?  I am running the latest SlimJet and I have JavaScript PopUp Blocker installed.  It catches many of the annoying popups.  But not this one.

I am running the oldest UI they will let me use for my hotmail account.  On my backup mail account on hotmail I let myself get pulled into the vortex and now I cannot back out of the new fangled lame ass Outlook UI on that account.  I sure do not want my main account to flush down the same tube.  Edit: not that the popup blocker has anything to do with preventing that mandatory migration.  I just never want to see the popup for something I do not want to use.  There must be a way to kill it dead door nail permanent like.  :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slimjet updated to 10.0.1.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 23, 2016, 08:40 AM »
10.0.1.0 is out today, but it was only a few days ago the last 9 series update came out. Slimjet is my goto browser these days too, fewer annoyances than most others.  :P

-x16wda (May 21, 2016, 03:39 PM)

By any chance do you use Vanilla Cookie Manager?  I never had a problem with it before. Now on a few sites it shows the cookie icon in the address bar with a small 'x'.  On most sites if I click it then click Done Button with radio selected "Always allow site to set cookies" and hit F5, the cookie icon goes away.  But on DC and my page, so far, it just stays there.  Pretty strange.

Edit: I was blocking 3rd party cookies.  Turning that off seems to have fixed it.  :)

Glad you like SlimJet too.  I was a bit leery of chrome because I ran my Laptop using Performance profile and it seemed like chrome based browsers could pull my battery down even when I was plugged in.  But there seems no problem after switching to Balanced profile.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Slimjet updated to 10.0.1.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 21, 2016, 10:02 AM »
For some reason the version 9.x portable did not detect that version 10.x was available.

I have renewed interest in using this as my goto browser because it opens quickly and even if Fast Dial is set to show on startup it will accept a url typed into the address bar.  Firefox I cannot take anymore.  It opens and hangs for 30 seconds before it will react to any input whatsoever.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Designing Personal Sites - Programming POV
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 21, 2016, 09:34 AM »
Something here may give an idea:

https://sourceforge....ects/html-templates/

But if you want to get down to the metal I would find a good html/css forum and pick the brains of the pros there.  If you are willing to do the html and/or css they are willing to help you get around the obstacles.  If you use a design tool then your are pretty much limited to getting help with that one tool.

One of the frustrating bits about going the html and css route is that various browsers have quirks how they interpret the markup.  Most notorious is IE.  Since Microsoft is the 800 LB gorilla you cannot say "IE is non compliant so screw IE" if you are doing web pages for a living.  :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 21, 2016, 07:54 AM »
After playing around with this for a bit I found a few things that are deal breakers for me:

Even syncing with Xmarks bookmark sync, which will sync without dupes in the lastest snapshot, will not sync the favicons.  Some may see this as a quibble but I like having the favicons and being able to refresh them without spending a couple of days doing it.  I have over 250 bookmarks.  Perhaps half of those are in the Bookmarks Bar folder structure. It just makes it easier to see what is what with the icons.

On startup, whether opening to a blank page or to a Speed Dial there seems to be a hesitation before it will accept input.  This is the main reason I cannot tolerate Firefox as my goto browser anymore.  Firefox is even worse with a 20 to 30 second lag before I can type into the address bar.

The forum moderators use condescension when they cannot defend the product with rational argument.  I have no need to waste my time snit picking with those who want to impart spin to the issues.

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What I have found is that the SlimJet Portable browser I have been using as a backup browser has qualities that have come to the fore recently:

1) Xmarks bookmark sync or importing a bookmarks.html from Firefox seems to get the favicons without making it a life's work.

2) I notice that even though I have it set to start with Fast Dial rather than a blank page, when I open the browser via clicking the link or by launching a url, the dial does not hamper the browser loading.  It snaps right up there and will accept a url typed into the address bar.

3) The auto check for updates seems to work even though this is the portable version of the browser.  Edit: maybe because it is a major version update it did no sense 10.0.1.0 update available yesterday.

4) I signed up for the SlimJet Forum.  But I just checked and clicking Browse Your Posts shows a total of 0.  So I haven't had to badger anyone over there to get something working.  :)

I like using Firefox and am used to it.  But the performance issues are so annoying now that I have to relegate it to backup browser status.  Unless they break it, SlimJet seems to be one of the more well thought out chrome implementations.

The UI was kind of appealing but I have uninstalled Vivaldi as just not being close to ready for prime time.
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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 20, 2016, 06:57 AM »
Pi: Probably one of the best Sci fi movies Ive ever seen.
-AdrianMix (May 19, 2016, 11:36 PM)

I really liked that one, too!  :Thmbsup:
-app103 (May 20, 2016, 06:44 AM)

The editing in that flick was very cool.  When the genius takes the pills.. those scenes reminded me of Roberto Benigni in Johnny Stecchino.  Every time he mentioned his gangster rival he did this sequence where he slapped his legs and wiped his shoes.  It just seems to have the same rhythm to it.  Pi is one of the coolest.  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 19, 2016, 01:47 PM »
Do solipsists buy life insurance?
-Arizona Hot (May 19, 2016, 01:00 PM)

Why?  Since the solipsist in question has not died, he/she would have no proof that humans are not in fact immortal.  Besides that, who to buy it from?  We all know that insurance salesmen are not real people.


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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Insync free for next half day or so (2016-05-18)
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 19, 2016, 06:47 AM »
Anyway, if you're able to add GMail to that account temporarily you might be good to go.

-mwb1100 (May 18, 2016, 06:47 PM)

Thanks for the tip.   :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive Brand Reliability Data
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 18, 2016, 05:52 PM »
I recently purchased a WD Black 5TB HDD
-Deozaan (May 18, 2016, 05:38 PM)

Obliquely on topic perhaps.. but I am curious how you partition and use the 5 TB and what OS etc..  I had a few WD Blacks but I stopped at the 1 TB capacity.  That was the sweet spot for the online discount house I used to purchase storage.  I have seen some Windows people have weird things happen with storage larger than 2 TB.  That is why I am curious.


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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Insync free for next half day or so (2016-05-18)
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 18, 2016, 05:44 PM »
Hmmm, it will not accept my MDC email hosted by google because the domain shows as mymdc.net.  Supposedly I have "unlimited storage" there.  It is a bit klunky doing drag and drop upload through chrome browser.  I would like to try it out but it seems to be a no go.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 17, 2016, 05:21 PM »
The main stumbling block so far is trying to show favicons in the bookmarks.  There is no equivalent of the Firefox Favicon Reload to automate loading them up.  And messing with the bookmark sync online stuff is a nightmare.  Usually you end up with duplicated bookmarks galore.

In the old days when a browser used a single exe file and loaded in a few seconds my bv.exe browser visit could brute force it with most any browser just by launching the url to open the default browser.  After loading 10 tabs it would kill the exe, and run 10 more until it exhausted the bookmarks.html file.  Now browsers weigh 10 tons and take over a minute to come up.  Also they are multi-exe so killing one exe doesn't set it up to reopen clean again.

I hate it when a simple problem has no simple solution just because the application in question is a tower of kludge.  Seems like all the browsers now are a house of cards.  They jitter, quiver, hang and do everything but run steady.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 17, 2016, 10:44 AM »
^ following with interest :) :up:
-tomos (May 17, 2016, 10:35 AM)

I have the previous snapshot on now.  Annoyingly it makes you uninstall any newer version before it will let you install it.  A snapshot should go on like Firefox Nightly to a different folder etc..  But at least it picks up settings extensions and bookmarks if you don't delete your data during the uninstall.

It seems a bit better but nothing really satisfying.  I don't know if it is the new engines or what.  It just seems like scrolling is awfully sticky no matter what browser I use.

I suspect that they would run somewhat smoother if I did not have RollbackRX installed.  But even so it just seems weird.  I seem to remember dial-up with my 56K external USR modem being smoother than this.  :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 17, 2016, 08:30 AM »
I recommend using the 32 bit snapshot.  You can search using the address line, hit alt enter, to get results in a new foreground tab.  Also when opening multiple tabs in the background, the tabs fill with data.  The page is still blank when you first switch to the tab.  But since the data is already downloaded the fill is snappy.

Now I have to decide if I want to keep the SearchBar extension I added.  I like the idea of it.  But it does seem a bit flaky.  It looks like they are getting there though.  If only they would supply command line switch documentation and/or settings we want but they don't think we need.  :)

Edit:  For those considering trying the snapshot, I installed to a different folder so as not to overwrite the 64 bit stable I already had.  When the snapshot came up it picked up my dials, bookmarks and extensions.   :Thmbsup:

Edit2:  This does react to the chromium command line switch "--renderer-process-limit"
I have tried various settings from --renderer-process-limit=4 to =10  It seems like for 4 tabs or so it is pretty spiffy.  But trying to open 8 tabs really bogs it.  Of course I am only on a Laptop with 4 GB ram.  Your mileage may vary.  At least on my system running more that 4 or 5 tabs I am probably in a more stable situation using Firefox.  It will be interesting to see where Vivaldi is in 6 months.

Edit3:  The consensus on the Vivaldi for Windows Forum is that the lastest snapshot is flaky and slow.  They say backing off to the previous snapshot is a very good idea.  I am downloading it now.
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Developer's Corner / Re: How do decentralized/P2P applications connect to each other?
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 16, 2016, 06:11 PM »
This Wiki page explains it better than I could.  :)

I had a chance back in my 486 days of building and running a small free CORBA implementation.  Amazing some of the stuff you can get for free for Linux.  The fascinating part of it was that it created C++ Objects inside your program.  The server that hosted the object may be on the same or another machine.  Kind of like DCOM only more sophisticated.  In the CORBA scheme I believe there was the ability to use the concept of a cluster to route the resource requests, object creation etc..  But it was a long time ago that I messed with it.  Amazingly my 486 built the entire library and all the test programs from the make file, overnight, without an error.  Not amazing that my machine did not crash.  It was amazing that they totally tested their code in this giveaway CORBA implementation.  Really something.  :)


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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2016, 06:12 PM »


Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
-tomos (May 14, 2016, 11:37 AM)

I think Van Morrison must have more hits than anyone but Neil Sedaka.  Everything that guy did seemed to hit the top 10.   :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Custom dice for board games, etc.
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 14, 2016, 07:52 AM »
Well, it arrived today. Sort of. I actually received a 16mm punch instead of the one I ordered, so now I have to send it back.

Now the project is delayed for another week or two.
-Deozaan (May 13, 2016, 11:46 PM)

I hate it when that happens.  "We don't have that one is stock.  Send the next closest thing.  They'll never know the difference."  Customer contempt mode.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 14, 2016, 07:49 AM »
This sure has its quirks.

Bookmarks Bar, folder, no "open all in tabs"

In page search I backspace out from the end of the search string, it activates the back button and closes the browser altogether.  Really weird.  That's the type of thing I would expect to get in Netscape 1.0.
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General Software Discussion / Fast Dial Clicks?
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2016, 02:38 PM »
I cannot find a guide to clicks for the Fast Dial.  Right click gives me the menu so I can open, open in background tab, open in foreground tab.  But there is no info how to do it with mouse clicks directly.. sans menu.

By experimentation I have it, left click replaces start page with the site clicked.  Control left click opens sit in new Window.  Shift left click opens site in new background tab.

But I have not hit on the combination to open the site in a new foreground tab.  I tried Alt click, control shift click, shift alt click etc..

Only the tedious right click then left click on Open in New Foreground Tab seems to do it.  Anyone know the secret?

Edit:  Shift Middle Click seems to do it.   :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Adding the ability to zip files from multiple locations to a vbs script
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2016, 06:58 AM »
I found this article how to use 7-zip from vbs:

http://naterice.com/...h-vbscript-and-7zip/

Another consideration, WinRar is not free but you can seamlessly build in error correction data, say the default 10%, during compression.  And the unRar part is free.  Compression tools like 7-zip can unrar the .rar files.  Zip is quick but it has the inherent problem that if one bit is corrupted the CRC fails.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Adding the ability to zip files from multiple locations to a vbs script
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 12, 2016, 01:22 PM »
You may find this useful:

http://stackoverflow...-directory-structure


If you do not need to preserve the directory structure then you could just demp the files in a temp folder. That is if you are sure there will be no name collisions.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a folder automatically on my PC using a weblink on the browser
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2016, 07:20 AM »
You could try an AutoHotkey script.

In this example you would select the folder name in the browser, then hit the hotkey (control shift d) to copy it to clipboard and then make a folder with the name.  If there is no drive part in the folder name (does not contain ":") then it will be appended to C:\.

To test it uncomment the MsgBox line and comment out the FileCreateDir line

Clipboard text, if any, that was in the clipboard when the hotkey was pressed, is preserved.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  3. ClipSave := ""
  4. Root := "C:\"
  5. return
  6.  
  7. ^+d::
  8.         ClipSave := Clipboard
  9.         Clipboard := ""
  10.         Send ^c
  11.         ClipWait 2
  12.         FName=%Clipboard%
  13.         If FName  not contains  :
  14.                 FName := Root FName
  15.         Clipboard := ClipSave
  16.         ;MsgBox %FName%
  17.          FileCreateDir, %FName%
  18. return
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