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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2020, 04:03 PM »

UK police deny responsibility for poster urging parents to report kids for using Kali Linux

-Arizona Hot (February 15, 2020, 09:21 AM)

Even worse is that Discord is on there. Discord is very popular amongst the gaming community for chat, voice chat, and similar gaming related activities.

-Deozaan (February 15, 2020, 03:38 PM)

And writing groups, TTRPG/Board Game Groups, Mechanical Keyboard groups, etc, etc.  To say that a platform for chat, etc, is a symptom that your child may be into hacking is incredibly irresponsible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2020, 01:52 PM »

Just the shell that comes with Windows.  It's capable enough.  For my programs, I use True Launch Bar and Fences.

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Living Room / Re: Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model

« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2020, 11:36 PM »

Mine did today!  I'll try to get a picture up tomorrow!

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2020, 11:35 PM »

Ouch.


My Logitech G900 Chaos is holding up pretty well, though to be honest, I haven't had an problems with any of their mice.

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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2020, 10:37 PM »

And I liked it well enough until a couple years later I started having issues which indicate that the microswitch is failing in the mouse button(s).

1. Sometimes a click doesn't register at all.
2. Sometimes a single click registers as a double click.
3. Sometimes a click & drag registers as a single click & release.

-Deozaan (February 13, 2020, 05:57 PM)

I think that's the problem statement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Annoying Brave browser 'brave rewards' pop-ups

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2020, 10:35 PM »

The BAT is one of the reason that a lot of people are drawn to the browser and one of the features, so I guess it depends on their focus.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Annoying Brave browser 'brave rewards' pop-ups

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2020, 02:00 PM »

I found Brave Rewards Settings and turned off the pop-up; but now my 'new' home page has a purple nag-tag picture that begs me to turn it back on. Why do companies of great products insist on ripping off or otherwise annoying their loyal patrons? This is getting old fast. I wonder how popular (as in 'un-') the obnoxious Sales staff is with the rest of Brave's crew.

-holt (February 12, 2020, 06:09 AM)

Glad that Deo got it for you... but Patron?  Sales?  Last I checked, the browser was free...

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

« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2020, 08:08 AM »

Funny comic.

But it's gotten me curious: How come it's so trendy to hate on PHP so much? Is there a succinct explanation on what's wrong with PHP? Seems like a walk in the park next to something like the nightmare working in JavaScript has become.

-Deozaan (February 09, 2020, 07:10 PM)

To me Javascript and PHP have the same downside- it's a pain debugging it.  It's gotten better, but that's the only real difference to me- I hate working in both of them.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on February 09, 2020, 04:09 PM »

Now that was funny!

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by wraith808 on February 08, 2020, 12:52 PM »

Poor doggy legs.  Though I guess the same can be said for any athletic activity by anyone.

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Skwire Empire / Re: SigcheckGUI

« Last post by wraith808 on February 08, 2020, 12:51 PM »

Probably the real question being that should be asked here is whether or not SigCheckGUI works with the 64-bit version of SigCheck.

-Deozaan (February 08, 2020, 03:13 AM)

Deo asking the real question.  Though I altered it a bit 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on February 05, 2020, 12:18 PM »

Are there any people here who have Win 10 and don't use Classic Shell or something like it?

-Arizona Hot (February 05, 2020, 09:19 AM)

Me.

-Deozaan (February 05, 2020, 11:53 AM)

Ditto.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Epic Games Store Giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on January 30, 2020, 10:58 PM »

[Please no "Game Store Wars"]

-Stephen66515 (January 30, 2020, 02:48 PM)

Too late.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives 7stacks for w10home

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2020, 11:41 PM »

I'll attach the download here so you can try it, it's rather old (2009, that's not a typo), but it's the latest available. Please run some AV across it before actually trying it, just to be sure.

-Ath (January 29, 2020, 12:56 PM)

Thanks Ath. Now I am sure I can download.
If not tomorrow I will surf from another station ....

Note : Is downloaded 

Note after installation : I am lost !

In the installation directory only a doc and a dll !.
How can I use it ?
I am more used to the icon in the desktop to launch the program. 

-Contro (January 29, 2020, 12:59 PM)

It's an extension of your taskbar.  Right click your taskbar and select toolbars, then there should be an entry- not sure if it will say truelaunchbar or not.  Show that bar, then right click on it to get to the options.  For more than that, go to the TLB site.

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Living Room / Re: Google Home Mini - Is yours as useless as mine?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2020, 09:33 AM »

So how do we get the thing to realize that there are no content filters enabled, and just play music when people ask it to?

-Deozaan (January 27, 2020, 10:23 PM)

When you say that you disabled them in Google Home- are they getting enabled there?  Or each time, you're enabling and disabling them?

Perhaps it's defective?  I have a lot of them and haven't ever had this problem.  Then again, I use Google Play Music.  I know that Google Play Music (Youtube Music now?) has a trial plan- you might try to just experiment with that, and see if it's that Google is having problems with Spotify? 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: BUG? Second Past Always As Plain Text

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2020, 09:25 AM »

Disk space?
Hard drives are cheap these days.  Storage is plentiful.  Aside from the 1TB SSD I'm running the OS on, I've got 11TB online.  If you want to keep the primary storage device running lean, you could add a setting for locating your Recycle Bin (which I assume is different than the Windows Recycle Bin?) somewhere else, like on another drive. 

Scanning the CH+S data folders, I note that it's keeping a copy of all copied images in the Files\[year] folders, so there's a lot of space in use that I had never realized before.  Just an observation; I don't care that it's doing that.  It could be a space consideration for some, though.

-djMot (January 28, 2020, 08:30 AM)

For some that wouldn't be a consideration- but some use it in environments where space is at a premium.  I think that (like the other suggestion of making this the default) it should be an option.  I know that I use it on machines where I can't use that much space for various reasons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives 7stacks for w10home

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2020, 09:22 AM »

I use Bins - http://www.1upindustries.com/Bins/

-c.gingerich (January 27, 2020, 01:28 PM)

I used to use Bins, but I stopped for some reason that I can't remember right now.  There was some advantage of TLB- I think because of widgets that TLB provides.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives 7stacks for w10home

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2020, 01:30 PM »

The advantage of TrueLaunchBar (shareware) is that the menu pops out on mouse-hover, where the Windows toolbars need a mouse-click to open.

-Ath (January 27, 2020, 01:23 AM)

There are other advantages to TrueLaunchBar other than that, but yes, you could just use the windows feature.  If free is what you're looking for, they offer an older version of TrueLaunchBar as FreeLaunchBar for (predictably) Free!  http://forum.tordex.com/thread-3321.html

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Living Room / Re: Share your 2019 Top Ten Lists! - My Top 10 Board Games of 2019

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2020, 09:47 PM »

You're the overachiever of listers Deo! 

I really liked reading it!  I was going to do my top 10 video games, but I wasn't sure I've played 10 this year- even for having bought many more than that.  Looking at my list, I see that I do have over 10- so here's my top 10.

1. The Elder Scrolls Online
- I have spent way too much time in this game.

2. Marvel Contest of Champions
- Mobile game that I have spent way too much time and money on

3. Marvel Puzzle Quest
- Mobile Game that I played before MCOC.  My playtime has fallen off on this one.

4. My Friend Pedro
- This game makes me laugh!  I love it!  It's so over the top ludicrous, and it stores your best moves for each level.






5. Rocksmith 2014
- Played less last year, but still getting better.

6. Star Wars: Fallen Empire
- Really Enjoyable Christmas Gift

7. Injustice 2
- My Go To PS4 game before Star Wars Fallen Empire

8. Dying Light
- Still on my List

9. Starbound
- I never could get Terraria.  Just couldn't figure out how to get the walls and cover to work right.  Starbound made me really fall back in love with the type of game.

10. Grim Dawn
- I didn't really get into Diablo 3- this was more D3 to me than D3.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives 7stacks for w10home

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2020, 03:15 PM »

I use True Launch Bar (http://www.truelaunchbar.com/).  It can just be a quick list, or can take the lists from folders (which mine does)

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Living Room / Re: Share your 2019 Top Ten Lists! - My Top 10 Board Games of 2019

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2020, 03:12 PM »

My personal problem is finding people that like to play board games.

-Shades (January 26, 2020, 01:56 PM)

I think Mouser meant any top 10 lists of 2019.

Top 10 books read (in no particular order)

• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
• The Fall of Delta Green
• Lethal Agent
• The Burning White
• Legion
• Hammered
• The Expanse Roleplaying Game
• Servant of the Crown
• False Gods
• Siege of Tilpur

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 25, 2020, 12:13 PM »

For those with a Western Digital set top box or something similar it may still be very useful.

-MilesAhead (January 24, 2020, 10:46 AM)

Common problem with a WDTV Live was it couldn't handle MKV's that had compressed headers, (I still have and use one), remuxing to use uncompressed headers made the files playable, format translation wasn't necessary.

-4wd (January 24, 2020, 12:31 PM)

I just use MakeMKV and have had no problems with my WDTV Hub nor Live playing them.

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Living Room / Router Scam

« Last post by wraith808 on January 24, 2020, 08:11 AM »

Well, the article is actually entitled "Reddit Router Scam", but the "Reddit" part is just for clicks.


https://medium.com/h...ter-scam-9aaf42f349e

A couple of days ago one Reddit user had the misfortune to return home and discover something rather interesting hooked up to their router, placed there by their roommate. A cross between a multi-level marking scam and hardware malware, the malicious board had been put into a position that allowed it to harvest every bit of available data from their local network.

“Roommate has come home and stated they found the person on Facebook and installed the device a few days ago. They were told they’d receive $15 a month through direct deposit and all the device will do is run ads for other people when they visit roommates Facebook page…

…well it has been a long night but I’ve finally got all my passwords reset and bank cards cancelled. I have no way of knowing what data was taken as it is not stored on the device. Only thing left to do is grill my roommate for information regarding the person/company that gave them this and decide if I have enough to go to the police.”

Looking at the picture of the board itself, it appears to be an off-the-shelf Friendly ARM NanoPi NEO single-board computer. Built around an Allwinner H3 processor, a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 running at 1.2GHz with 256MB of RAM, the board has a 10/100Mbps Ethernet jack, and a micro SD card slot. That’s a specification that provides more than enough horse power to snoop in on any traffic going across the local network.

More at link... but it goes downhill from there.  As someone else said in the comments, I'd be room mate shopping at that point. 

Someone else also said that if you could  sign up and get the free NanoPis without connecting them or giving them real account information...  They'd already have too much information at that point IMO.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Any coders here on patreon?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 21, 2020, 10:40 AM »

Agreed 100%, it's on my todo list.

-mouser (January 20, 2020, 10:19 PM)

It should possibly be a generic sort of icon- there are other platforms other than Patreon (frex I use PayHip and liberapay- and I know there's also ko-fi, itch, GumRoad)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Brainstorm for a cross-platform programming language

« Last post by wraith808 on January 21, 2020, 10:02 AM »

Always relevant in these conversations