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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by justice on July 25, 2008, 09:32 AM »

Well that's the first newsletter out and indeed now we're paying to hear about free software. What do people think?

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Developer's Corner / Re: ASP Error 0126 -vs- Firefox

« Last post by justice on July 25, 2008, 03:46 AM »

Does this help: http://www.webmaster...com/forum47/1620.htm make sure you use forward slashes where appropriate, IE might be more lenient.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Report ACL lists for a folder structure

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 09:32 AM »

yes i can clone the tree but then i'll still need to check every file for incorrect permissions. it's possible to do the same with robocopy btw with /sec /create (creates a series of 0 byte files and folders).

the xcopy trick is good for having to copy acls from a to b. I need to clean up too

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General Software Discussion / Re: Report ACL lists for a folder structure

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 04:20 AM »

I found DumpSec.

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General Software Discussion / Report ACL lists for a folder structure

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 04:11 AM »

I'm looking for a program that creates a texfile with all ACLs from a root folder down, showing the additions / removed permissions only.

so if I have a C:\test folder which John and Bob has read access, and a subfolder called test2 which John and Pete read access I'd expect a report like:

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c:\test  - READ: John Bob
    +--- test2 (READ: -Bob, +Pete)

Or something more legible. I want this program so I can redo an existing ACL structure and the interface windows provides is useless.

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Living Room / Re: Linux needs more haters

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 03:29 AM »

For noe to hate linux you must first take it serious as an alternative.  The site is funny at times though, not Joel on software quality but nice find.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 03:15 AM »

Here's the plugins that I use you might find some useful:

@ Reply     1.0.1 
This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. By Yus.

AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget    1.0    
Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services. By AddThis.com.

Akismet    2.1.6    
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

Get Recent Comments    2.0.2    
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin. By Krischan Jodies.

Highlight Author Comments    1.0.0    
Automatically applies a distinctive style to comments by the post’s author. By Rob Marsh, SJ.

Nice Search    0.2    
Redirects ?s=query searches to /search/query, and converts %20 to + By Mark Jaquith.

SimpleFlickr    3.0.3    
This plugin allows you to embed a Simpleviewer Flash Object integrated with a Flickr account. By Josh Gerdes.

Subscribe To Comments    2.1.2    
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.

Twitter Tools    1.1b1    
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Configure your settings here. By Alex King.

WP Super Cache    0.6.5    
Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once enabled, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada. By Donncha O Caoimh.

You really want to use WP Super Cache for performance reasons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2008, 03:11 AM »

Another tip then, you can tell uTorrent to automatically load torrents from a certain folder. Also set it to delete torrent files after they're loaded. Make a seperate torrents folder and you can dump any .torrent files in there from any location and utorrent will download it while you're away or next time it starts.

That's what's excellent about DropBox it works even when only one pc is on at a time, unlike foldershare (that won't sync to a intermediate server).

Of course this will work with any other files that can be used by programs. Especially if you have some kind of autohotkey script to monitor a folder and start files if they have a certain extension.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2008, 05:31 PM »

Looks like you only installed the locate32 plugin, not the actual program, which you need as well. http://www.locate32.net/ then after installing that go back to the plugin options and provide the path to the locate executable in there manually.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Instant infos via aliases?

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2008, 07:33 AM »

If you want a quick way of searching a lot of pain text files for a specific keyword use the following alias:

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1000>>>Note Search>->ns $$1 | restartsearch cn find C:\temp\*.txt /n "$$1" &&>+>^ns (.*)

And replace c:\temp by the folder holding all your plain text notes. It's not pretty but it works.
try it with ns <keyword>

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands - Syncing any folder

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2008, 06:51 AM »

It's really easy to sync folders outside the My Dropbox folder:

1. Install Link Shell Extension
2. Open two explorer windows and move the folder you want into the My Dropbox folder, then drag it back to the original location using the right mouse button
3. from the menu that pops up use Drop here... => Junction

The folder will remain in the same place and will be synced using dropbox using NTFS junctions. Immediately the files are available from the Web Interface. I've not checked the another DropBox installation with it yet.

With junctions it seems to work better to move the folder to your dropbox, and junction back to the original location, I think you'll find that new subfolders in the juntioned folder don't sync until you restart dropbox.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2008, 03:46 AM »

So I've been looking to backup my music collection.. And further research has lead me to the following model. It seems I'm wanting to do 3 seperate things which I thought was all backup:

* Backup: Keep a secure backup of files i'm working on in case of hard drive crash or accidental deletion, such as my documents folder
* Archival: keep large amounts of data  that I might need a long time from now and delete it off my local drive, such as ISO images or installation images
* Syncing: Have information available both at work and home in an up to date version.

Because Amazon S3 charges per GB, Jungledisk is good for Syncing. Backing up data is also good especially with previous versions now part of the automatic backup. However you want to look for an alternative for Archival if you're especially price conscious like myself and get yourself a huge harddisk instead and move stuff off your system. Currently I'm paying over 10 dollars a month, which means it could be cheaper to use Mozy ($5 a month for unlimited backup, but once you delete files off your system it gets deleted after 30 days) if my 'Backup' data is particularly large. However you can't sync or archive with Mozy.

So I'm now looking to move my archived files off JungleDisk and onto something else and then see what the bill will be. Also looking at Dropbox for syncing, maybe its more seamless.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2008, 03:17 AM »

yes thats what's happening sorry if it's not clear., but if you have a folder with files on it and have the same files in a repository you still can't convert the regular folder into a checkout folder, you'll need a empty folder to checkout into which means having to set up all the filesystem permissions. That's my understanding.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on July 21, 2008, 03:15 AM »

Well the development server (when we used to work without version control)'s role is only testing, so we should really call it testing-server but the name stuck.
All two developers () check out locally and modify files on their local machines, then commit it, it gets automatically checked out on the testing server in the public root for that site (for new sites) or in a temporary checkout folder and robocopied to the public root. We only ever edit code locally.

The robocopy method is unfortunately necessary because subversion only allows checkouts to empty folders. When we moved to svn, we already had some existing sites with file system permissions set in several places. We're moving webservers soon and until then don't want to mess up any filesystem permissions so are forced to copy changes over for some sites. Soon it will just be a clean checkout from the repository.

We're using beyond compare to move from test to live for an additional safety check (making sure every action is intended)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by justice on July 21, 2008, 03:07 AM »

If you want something more graphy then try http://cloudstatus.com/ it monitors the various services and shows you nice graphs and throughput.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by justice on July 21, 2008, 02:08 AM »

First time this has happened as far as I know since s3 started. You can see the status of S3 at http://status.aws.amazon.com/ and it has affected every website using s3, not just JungleDisk and not something they will want to repeat I am sure. Should be fine now though and no data has been lost.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by justice on July 18, 2008, 04:40 AM »

If you're in doubt go with the one that's best supported. Which probably is wordpress / drupal. and as you already know wordpress, sticking with it will not be the worst option. As they used to say you can't go wrong with IBM. wordpress is the ibm of personal homepages.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let go of your bookmarks!

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 04:49 PM »

the FARRsomebar!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 04:45 PM »

Use a bit of adobe cs3 and you'll get to that figure easily haha.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 06:33 AM »

http://en.wikipedia....g/wiki/Commit_charge

In computing, commit charge is a term used in modern Microsoft Windows operating systems to describe the total amount of virtual address space for which the backing store is the pagefile. It may be thought of as the maximum potential pagefile usage.

here's my current one

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 05:17 AM »

Maybe others will find it useful. I've set up a separate repository for the shared functions. I set up a post-commit hook batch file that does the following:

* update all projects on the development server to latest version
* then replace all instances of the shared function file with the one just commited
* commit all projects on the development server again with the message that includes the revision number of the shared functions repository.

all this along with the result of all operations, diff of what's changed, log and other basic info that i already generate gets emailed to me. If any projects are committed as a result of the shared functions commit, then they'll sent an email as well with the changes.

That is all setup, except for the post-commit bit haha as it seems any environment variables are not available in the batch files which prove an annoyance, but am sure this will be possible. Good debugging tips

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Found Deals and Discounts / Wired Magazine: 12 issues (one year) for $10 plus WIRED How To FREE

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 04:15 AM »

Found this (not applicable to me, its $70 for the UK if I'm correct *sniff*, who will sent it to me for half the price? *grin*:

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Link to offer (only valid for US residents)

It's a fantastic magazine that always gets my creative juices going. Great to get inspired and read up on interesting tedchnology / science developments, although with a lot of adverts.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 03:33 AM »

I'd suggest http://websitebaker for any more simpler content managed website it's very logical and clear and there's plenty ways to add plugins to it. That said i don't have any experience with drupal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let go of your bookmarks!

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2008, 03:11 AM »

why can't i search bookmarks from the search field nexxt to the address bar? that would make using bookmarks so much better. early morning awesomebar ignorance.

Now I know why i never liked the Awesomebar as much as i did farr, after installing Enter Select 3 pressing enter launches the first result like farr does. Nais!

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2008, 05:39 AM »

Thanks both, I looked a bit more into the suggestion of a seperate
companyfunctions.asp
manualfunctions.asp

It look like this will work well, fortunately you can redefine functions in asp/vbscript quite happily and only the last function will be used, so that it will be compatible with functions inappropriately adapted for a specific project.

Now when I commit a new version of companyfunctions.asp then I want automatically that the other projects receive this update.Am currently thinking about setting up a client side post-commit script using tortoise svn to robocopy over the file into certain checkout folders.