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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Target on January 14, 2012, 03:10 AM »
A bit of anti-aliasing will clear that right up...  ;D
Since we appear to be on a pirate ship — and I have the peg leg, the eye-patch, but no parrot — I must ask, where's my polygon?
-cranioscopical (January 13, 2012, 10:23 PM)

last I saw he said he was going for some fish and chirps
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Target on January 12, 2012, 10:42 PM »
you're tilting at windmills (again...)
It's pain sailing for me!
-cranioscopical (January 12, 2012, 10:28 PM)

aha, so now I see where the poop deck came from :o
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Target on January 12, 2012, 10:23 PM »
Another milestone......or should that be millstone?
 (see attachment in previous post)

I guess that depends on who you ask  8)

I had thought you made a point of being distant but that's quite a floury response.
-cranioscopical (January 12, 2012, 10:11 PM)

you're tilting at windmills (again...)
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Target on January 12, 2012, 09:46 PM »
Another milestone......or should that be millstone?
 (see attachment in previous post)

I guess that depends on who you ask  8)
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this advice from Scott Meyer on purchasing a mobile handset

funny as I found the the comic, it was the comments that cracked me up...
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Copy Text From Error Windows
« Last post by Target on January 12, 2012, 04:59 PM »
I have no afilliation with the developer, nor can I vouch for it's suitability or functionality, but you you might also look at  GetWindowText

it's standalone and no install

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Living Room / Re: Do things feel different today than in other decades?
« Last post by Target on January 11, 2012, 06:44 PM »
Actually the rich often pay with money they don't really have too, it is borrowed and carries interest, but they can afford it

and given their disproportionate value as a customer to the lending institutions, they are also 'eligible' for far more favourable terms than the vast majority.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any way to embed a search box on the desktop?
« Last post by Target on January 09, 2012, 08:35 PM »
how would you handle an artist - start playing at the first entry, prompt for an action, display a list?

and what formats?
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General Software Discussion / Re: handy security tool
« Last post by Target on December 21, 2011, 06:07 PM »
hehe, distrust is good :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: handy security tool
« Last post by Target on December 21, 2011, 05:31 PM »
worth noting that I wasn't promoting this tool as anything other than potentially useful, nor did I vouch for it's effectiveness.

from the feedback it sounds like there might some issue with Win7 64 - a bit of research should confirm or deny that (let us know what you find out) 

the idea of being able to identify what's behind those processes is sound and useful (those processes have bugged me for years), but dumping it on the basis of cross promotion seems a little shortsighted

YMMV
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Finished Programs / Re: Change a print job name currently in my print queue
« Last post by Target on November 22, 2011, 12:15 AM »
and another - Cobra Print Viewer

it's not free (though it doesn't appear to be too expensive) and I've no idea how good it might be, but it seems to cover the points you mentioned...
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General Software Discussion / Re: handy security tool
« Last post by Target on November 15, 2011, 09:02 PM »
True, but I find it a bit hard to trust a program that says it can't find a file that I'm looking at. :)

 :Thmbsup:

I usually just go with:
tasklist /svc /fi "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe"

didn't know about that one, thanks!!
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General Software Discussion / Re: handy security tool
« Last post by Target on November 15, 2011, 06:52 PM »
It is interesting, but it flagged a bunch of things as can't find/suspect that were standard parts of Windows (Win7 x64 on Domain). *Shrug* YMMV

I guess I would probably ignore most of the warnings, :-\

The interesting bit for me was being able to see what initiated or was using the service host process...
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General Software Discussion / handy security tool
« Last post by Target on November 15, 2011, 05:59 PM »
saw this on Addictive Tips

if you're like me and you've been wondering just what all those service host processes were doing this may help - Service host Analyzer

Want to check which user application or Windows utility initiated a specific instance of svchost.exe process? The svchost is basically a small executable file that resides in system32 folder. It is a generic Windows host process that plays a vital role in keeping all the system and user initiated services stable. Since Task Manager doesn’t provide a detailed information on running instances of svchost executables, you may need Svchost Process Analyzer to analyze the services and applications that run multiple instances of svchost.exe and to identify all the svchost related malwares. It helps you prevent Windows from those malwares and viruses which create a fake svchost.exe file at different locations to exploit user’s access rights; it lists down all the running instances of svchost processes with detailed information, so that you can easily identify malware infected svchost.exe files.

disclaimer - I have nothing to do with the developer whatsoever, nor can I vouch for the efficacy of the app.  I posted it here simply because I figured the functionality may be of interest to others (as it was to me)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Target on November 13, 2011, 08:23 PM »
It's the original vocals with the music replaced. It's not a regular remix where someone mashes up multiple songs. The guy that does these actually plays the replacement music himself. He's quite talented.

Here are some other particularly good ones he has done:

Megadeth-Symphony of Destruction(Reggae Version)
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Smooth Jazz Version)
Metallica-Enter Sandman (Smooth Jazz Version)
Kiss-Detroit Rock City(Reggae Version)


love that - then there's this...

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General Software Discussion / spidering search results from a website
« Last post by Target on October 28, 2011, 01:03 AM »
I use the local library extensively and I want to be able to browse the catalogue off line, so I'm looking for some means of spidering or otherwise saving the output of whatever my search might be for further study.

Could be that there are only a few, in which case I'll just browse it, but it could also be that there are a few hundred (or thousand) if I'm doing very generic searches (their classification process leaves a bit to be desired :()

I've used tools like HTTrack before, but I'm pretty sure they won't work with dynamically generated content like this

any suggestions?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a GUI that does...
« Last post by Target on October 28, 2011, 12:54 AM »
a bit more detail might be helpful, maybe some examples :huh:

FWIW (and apologies if you already knew this) you can pipe the output of your CLI activities (assuming they have outputs) to a file for further procesing, eg dir c:\some_folder\*.txt > c:\som_other_folder\output.txt
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Target on October 26, 2011, 06:18 PM »
Something to help ye warm up for halloween :P
The Struggle (ScroobiusPip)
e that one here's another Introdiction - ScroobiusPip

nice find :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

I'm not generally one for rap or hiphop (YMMV), but I rather like these guys (not at all sure I understand the johnny Depp reference in that one though :huh:). 

A scan through some other youtube postings turned up this one



not a music video, but thought provoking and indicative that there's a bit more to them than the usual pap we see from this genre...

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Yeah, that's a last resort kinda thing, but it won't help me find out what caused the problem in the first place.  I've gotten semaphore messages several times on this drive, but always cured with chkdsk - at least, so far.  It's not that I cannot move the files at all - I think  :-\ - with one of several recover CDs.  But I really wanna learn, if not what happened, at least how to recover from it within the current OS  :mad:.  Dumb, stupid, persistent - that's me  :o.  Sometimes it even works  :P.

I'm not sure I necessarily agree with you on that one, but there's nothing wrong with that, so long as you recover the data.  

You've been getting warnings and while it could totter along forever, it could just as easily go phhhht....

Once you've got a copy of the data you can spend as much time as you like trying to work out the why's and wherefore's.  Maybe you'll tell us all and we'll learn something too (see, I'm really only thinking about myself ;D)
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use a rescue disk - pretty much any of them should allow you to access and move files
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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by Target on October 12, 2011, 06:18 PM »
I'm looking at how moses is holding onto those tablets and I think I can see the problem...
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General Software Discussion / Re: cloud processing for end users - when? already?
« Last post by Target on October 09, 2011, 08:58 PM »
I realise that this is perhaps only a small part of what you're envisioning, but in the current climate it's unlikely that any business in it's right mind would provide the ability to transcode media files

They'd be sued into extinction before you could say codec...
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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by Target on October 07, 2011, 01:13 AM »
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - randomize image in an image folder
« Last post by Target on October 06, 2011, 08:56 PM »
Uhm I don't really understand your questions. XD I'd like to arrange them in my windows folder. Right now my folder looks like this:

I'd like it if I could be able to randomize their placement without having to re-name them. A sort of like a shuffle feature, so each time I refresh the folder it'll give me some new placement.  :)

out of curiosity, what are you using this for?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - randomize image in an image folder
« Last post by Target on October 05, 2011, 07:07 PM »
perhaps some info on what you're using to view this 'list', and possibly how you're going to use it might be helpful?
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