Posts by rproffitt

Is this the Shannon Entropy we see at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Entropy

So that just changes my search to multiple operator precedence calculator in c++ windows source or
https://www.google.com/search?q=multiple+operator+precedence+calculator+in+c%2B%2B+windows+source

The first hit is interesting since it writes "uses the same operator precedence and associativity as the C++ programming language" which has that going for it.

Be aware this is a well done app. https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+c%2B%2B+calculator+source+code finds both source and tutorials.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-linux-10way&num=7 seems to be a recent benchmark of Linux on Ryzen and Threadrippers.

There are (today) three Intel builds at PCMR.

Ahh, gaming taps more than the CPU. My current fav build is kind of a monster. It's the usual i7, 16GB RAM, 1050 or better GPU and no hard disks. SSD has come way down in price so I usually pop in the 512GB SSD. These machines fly.

As to the GPU choice, see what Linux heads are writing about AMD or Nvidia. But if I were to build on a budget I'm back to PCMR builds.

Something else would still have me update the BIOS then setup BIOS and then the OS. This isn't really a new thing but with Ryzens the BIOS can matter. It's a minor bit of work that I always get done before I commit to using it long term (regardless of CPU choice.)

About Ryzen builds. Be sure the BIOS is up to date before you commit to the OS install that you are going to run for a long time. That is, update the BIOS per the maker. If that requires some OS installed then my choice to isntall the OS, update and then wipe out and then setup the BIOS to my choices.

My choices are ofter factory BIOS defaults with as few changes as required. This makes it easy if the CMOS battery ever dies. I can't count how many times a builder required the BIOS to be just so for the OS to boot. No need to damn the user years later.

So once the BIOS is up to date and setup, then I can go about my OS setup.

As to socket and chipset. I rarely find any gain in choosign chipsets but as you can guess, the socket, chipset and BIOS must list the CPU you choose.

That is, the motherboard maker will have a page about compatible CPUs for the board we are looking at.

Sure. Here's a google so you can pick which you like best.
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+reset

I have to go with "I wouldn't do that." If I were to pick only boards with more than the usual 4 or so ports my choices get slim or expensive.

Most folk pick a CPU then the board to support the CPU choice. I don't know the goals but that many drives doesn't mean more CPU power. Nod to "Amdahl tried to quantify the characteristics of a well balanced computer in three “laws”."

In your case you elected to find 8 or more SATA ports so you find those then see where the chips fall.

Have you seen this video about coin mining using dozens of drives?
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4ea5NNqcg
Off topic but there are machines for holding dozens of drives today.

OK, here's the deep dive on how all this works. Keep this link handy as I bet you'll have to go back from time to time.

https://medium.com/@damko/a-simple-humble-but-comprehensive-guide-to-xkb-for-linux-6f1ad5e13450

I'd start small with just one change for the key you want to alter or add, then fix the rest one by one.

You had me till that many SATA ports. I think you should use some PCIe board for more ports if need be.

About shopping boards, the socket changes with your CPU selection (most of the time)

USB 3 ports so far support all my USB 1.x and 2.x devices.

If I were to build today I would not create a new combination. I'd steal designs from PCMR at https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

Slow down. Windows 10 has a menu pick where you can factory reset the machine and save yourself from driver hell.

I'd do that first.

Hi Lewashby, I was pleasantly surprised a while back that I could plug in two keyboards via USB and both worked. Sitll had to select a keyboard layout but hey, progress.

To edit the existing keyboard layout I think we'll have to get into the exact OS in use. But I'm sure folk have written much on editing layouts or creating one from new (which I think would be a pain.)

Maybe you could use some old fashioned idea like a macro for the hard to get to characters?

Is this Mint or Windows? Also, if you want the real deal, go get a French keyboard. It is different.
https://www.amazon.com/French-European-Language-Keyboard-Windows/dp/B0002JP05Y for example shows the AZERTY keyboard.

Doing this with just layouts would be annoying to most French. Look at that keyboard. It has the characters you were asking about.
There are also stickers for those that have a laptop.

There are also a lot of priors about adding and switching layouts. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22384513/how-does-one-add-keyboard-languages-and-switch-between-them-in-linux-mint-16

@divinity02. "Best" is achieved by stating what is best. The above fails one of the criteria of user login systems on a very basic item. Since you are asking for best but didn't detail what best is, I think you have changed your question from your first post to something else.

It's an assignment so for this round you are under the gun to get anything that works. My view is that if this is what is being taught today then you see the genesis of why we see so many data breaches today. Folk are being taught an incorrect system and unlearning is harding than learning.

I think this must be one of those first times for the person who wrote that code. It breaks a rule about passwords in the database.

In case you didn't hear or read about it, here's your Google -> https://www.google.com/search?q=Never+store+passwords+in+a+database

By Final I take it's like the Cookie Monster's Last Cookie?

PS. Thanks for the story.

SAAS usually means Software As A Service.
LESS in reference to CSS is a CSS extension. Some call it a pre-processor.

You may want to correct your question because not everyone may guess you really meant to ask about the other extension SASS.

Also, I don't see any burning reason to pick either pre-processor. You didn't from what I can read from your discussions here.

Let's put on our lab coat. We're going in.

"Any process that has more than a ten thousand handles open at any given point in time is likely either poorly designed or has a handle leak, so a limit of 16 million is essentially infinite..."

• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2009/09/29/pushing-the-limits-of-windows-handles/

Later he reveals we can use 4,096 bytes as to what to estimate for RAM use per handle. So that 910K+ handle usage ate 3,727,360,000 or just under 4GB of RAM. While we do have very nice machines at the office, this is an obvious thing to fix.

Why I posted it is I'm getting a few PCs that don't budge on performance and I'm keeping an eye out for new areas to check.

Why not install a current XAMPP?

https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html notes PHP 7.2.4 which is today's current stable version at http://php.net/downloads.php

As to your first question, I feel you forgot some words. From your prior posts it's clear you know what PHP is.

So video calls? https://www.google.com/search?q=video+conferencing+raspberry+pi seems to note projects that have been kicking around for 4 or more years. My bet is you'll have to tailor such to your exact needs but that's what you as a programmer or one of your team members gets to do.

Don't get me wrong here. Once in a while folk want a ready to use solutuon. Maybe one of these will work but given all the work done so far it doesn't seem to be a stretch to get what you want with little to no programming effort. But there again I am running into non-programming that want such ready to use. For that you add team members with the skills or hire the work out.

@ryantroop. Since I can't get into the driver and app's source code I can only speculate where the issue is.

But since ripping out the old and installing the new did find a thousand fold difference it's clear that the developer was the issue. Microsoft? The fact the OS stood up to all this has me credit MS for no BSOD under this condition. Yup, W10.

I'm going to check this out as I check out more of the office machines.

As to socket connections, so few. No browsers open, etc. Already turned off W10's update sharing.

In parting, this appears to be a thing since forever on Windows.

From Stardock's newsletter I read "Handles are killing your PC" and checked in on the apps and handles to discover the stock Killer Network app was way out there at over 906,000 (906 THOUSAND) handles. This was a pretty interesting find and had me off to the maker for latest suite and drivers.

Result? The 906,000 number dropped to 900 handles or a thousand fold less.

Here's the full text of the message and link.
"Handles are killing your PC

The handle issue is a pretty big deal, and you may never have even heard of them. Let's fix that.

Right now, hit Ctrl-Shift-Esc. Go to the Performance tab. You will see the word "Handles" over on the right. On Windows 10, you should boot with around 60,000 handles used. This is actually pretty bad, but no biggie.

But, many people are starting to run enough programs to get over 100,000. And at around 120,000 handles... bad things start to happen. Your PC will get slow. Graphical elements might not show up. Programs may not launch. Long before you run out of memory, you will likely run out of handles - it's a problem that Microsoft really needs to fix.

So, what can you do?

Click on the "Details" tab. Now, right click on the name column, choose "Select Columns," and then choose "Handles." Now sort the list of processes by handles. Anything using more than 5,000 is not good (unless it's a game). But, keep an eye on …

I think I see why. In program1 line 6 calls out an element "demo" and there is no such element.

Answer? "Bum code does nothing."

In this example it's all about order of execution. Line will have to call Multiply() to make the output string and since your function echo'd something then your example shall echo the mulitiple first then your line 14 text is output.

I see no mystery here at all.

Keeping your data is a discussion on its own. For most, using Android's own sync may be enough. But then you dive deeper into they want more than what sync provides. There is no getting away from you revealing what you meant as well as you researching what sync does, then talking about filling in the gaps.

Your second question about installing a new Android OS shows you may have not done research yet. Unlike our PCs which are somewhat all the same, phones use a variety of CPUs and rarely look the same from the OS standpoint. Also, to install Android OS on a phone is often too much for even someone that has installed Linux. Again, you need to do research on not only how Android is installed (really I wouldn't even do this research first) but to find out if any Android newer version ever was made for your phone.

DEEP BREATHS. STAY CALM. OK where do I go to look for a new ROM? XDA Developers and LineageOS.

Started in December 2016, LineageOS now supports 178 smartphone models and claims to have over 1.7 million installs.

Is your phone on the list? Read https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

I would have checked further but found only HTC in the top post.

I've found the moment others make a joke about some esoteric thing, someone has made a project out of it.
Unless I'm the one with the joke. Then I can't find it.

Here you go. APL with CUDA upport. https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

Sorry but only guilty by association. A programmer I know twiddles with bits in GPU land. His nod is back to AMD.

https://gpuopen.com/professional-compute/ for example.

Take a moment ant read https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question

Now try again to fill in all the missing information from your top post.

Tell more. We all know SEO is hit or miss so if they used your SEO and it didn't pay off, why not be upfront about your products? It would be refreshing to read a SEO that told the truth rather than "sell it, sell it hard."

@Schol-R-LEA. In regards to VB6. A dear buddy is running VB6 SP6 on Windows 10 Home and Pro. So while it's clearly unsupported it does work to a point.

One thing I found is dead dead and dead is the database connector. The rest seems to work.

In case you want to know why. Here it is. We get paid to maintain a nigh 20 year old VB6 app. They pay full rate and we don't talk back about it. Money talks, put don't try to make it talk to the cops.

I have to write nope. I never saw such a thing. Where did you see this?

The usual is to put code into your app to ask for the product key. If you write apps, you can do this.

PS. Thought of another way. Write your own installer. It would be in whatever language of your choosing but that would ask the questions, check keys and such.

I think before you write such an app, you should complete your web site which is your showcase. This way you get coverage on PCs, Chromebooks, Android, iOS, Apples and even smart TVs.

You won't get that from an app.

@webbingbcn. I take it that you didn't get the news about Facebook, Cambridge Analytics and more here. Or you sell this channel. I know a lot of folk here have severely cut back on their Facebook use.

Or you are an ostrich.

What did you write there? You compete with Imgur? Let's see that site as Imgur is well, the 6000 liter engine on the track today.

As to your dead comment, Facebook did take a huge hit over recent news. Even Elon Musk deleted his company pages there.

As it stands today, you should not expect much from your facebook efforts.

If you have memes, isn't that something for you to share on say Imgur.com or is that your competition?

@Sajid_10. I see lots of help but I fear you want others to write your code for you.

If you want folk to write code for you then post this as a For Hire post and state the rates or use sites like https://www.freelancer.com/work/software-projects-bidding-web-sites/1/

Here you get help where you are stuck on your code. (Again, "your code.") Folk here help when you are stuck at "My code failed at line 20 with this error and I can't find what I did wrong. Ideas?"

Also read https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question

@Agilemind. -20F didn't work out so well for horses and people back then either. They were however smart enough to just forget travel that day or night.

The question is "could I" and not "will it work?" The answer is you could. And in fact given the wide variations of such schemes it may or may not work. No one will be able to tell you except the department that runs the network. But could you connect such a thing? Yes.

Let's cover two scenarios.

1. The file is just misplaced.
   In this scenario I think Everything would be my choice to find the misplaced file by it's partial name.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(software)

2. The file was deleted. If so it's very important to stop using this drive.
   Place the drive in another PC and see if RECUVA can find it.

If you don't share the issues or report a bug to the keepers of TCPDF they won't respoind or fix it. Not to leave you without recourse I am running into folk that don't understand how things work. That is, if you find a bug, you have to report the bug. If you don't then you accept that the bug is OK.

While you have a managed switch you don't seem to have an appliance to manage bandwidth per user.

I don't see what you think your options are but will give a nod to implementing a SQUID server for your users. It has many features that I won't get into here or later. But it does seem to be a great solution as not only the bandwidth control but caching to maximize your internet connection.

Need more information? Use the usual search engines and http://www.squid-cache.org/

Again, there are discussions about bandwidth control with this appliance.

That's what should happen. If you take "codes" none should work because you didn't tailor them to your site and database.

If you can't code, recruit coders for your site.

May want to take care on topic title vs. the question. I think you want to change the border of a field which you might change with code.
Example ideas at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21127083/js-validation-highlight-input-field-red-green

I worry here that you want to find code and just use it without understanding how it works or tailoring to your site.

If so, I think any code you find or are supplied will fail. Why not learn more about PHP and your site so you can tailor what you find or make your own?

That out of the way, do not make the usual mistakes. Here's a google about the most common BIG mistake I see today:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Do+not+store+passwords+in+a+database

Share your research on this area. That is, I see 8+ years of ideas with https://www.google.com/search?q=php+add+digital+signature+to+pdf+file

106 Invalid numeric format

Since we don't know what you typed in response to each question it appears your code is what we call fragile. Blows up when you input a numeric but answer with a character.

@Joseph, your quote reminds me of many software development cycles. The specs are rarely clear and when not, you get what you asked for.

You got exactly what you asked for.

"I'm that guy." The mod that deleted it. This discussion lead with signature links that elsewhere just get the topic deleted and forgotten.

If the OP doesn't reply, then is it just SEO spam to most folk. So much for "Don't be that guy."