Posts by rproffitt

On mobile so short tip for mouse mover clicker and typer is AutoHotKey.

As a refresher, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

Agile to me in other words.

While I like projects and such work, I continue to run into folk that think these are a panacea to what ails product development. You can make bet on my view on that.

As to the game engine, since you will be at it for years, it's not a bad way to go. IOW, go for it. My parting advice is to the would be game maker is to never create a new engine. Re-evaluate existing engines.

Sadly no. But my bet is there is some formula from a paper that this this code implements. Since I don't know the paper this was coded from I can't point to the formula from the paper.

Try this. Go get the paper or papers on this cipher and look at the formula for a negation step.

key = -key; is the same as key = key * -1;

IOW, negation.

@gahhon, the edit button shows for some number of minutes after you post.

Toptal is another source when you need to hire out.

But I agree with diafol on the issue of user interaction on the upload of a file. That sounds like good security for javascript otherwise folk could steal files by you just visiting any web site.

IOW. Don't ask folk to break javascript security features.

That URL. Are you sure about that?

OK, it's time to bring something onto the table. It's this.

Not all distros run on all machines.

I have this Intel NUC with some dual core Intel and a good 8 out 10 distros either didn't run from the SSD or failed in various ways. In the end I went with what ran and today might try it again as it's been about 8 months and distros advance. I'm not into fixing a distro today.

Another thing. Any "Signature PC" and I'm advising to never do this.

Time to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI (again if you already did.)

The Celeron looks to be 64 bit so be sure your selected Ubuntu is 64 for the reasons given in the Ubuntu UEFI article.

That story, that color, oh what a mess.

OK, the blinking cursor and can't get to the BIOS would have me unplugging ALL storage devices. No HDD, SSD, ODD, flippy, floppy and sticks. Now a CMOS reset and try for the BIOS. If the BIOS comes up, then I set date/time and what settings I wanted THEN I save, reboot and make sure I can get to the BIOS screen again.

With that out of the way I can connect up my USB bootable Linux to see that work. No other devices yet.

OK, we're up and time to add the SSD and try again.

So many questions.

I used bar code readers to do similar but you claim this is to be done without display to the user.

I see no sign how you would tell if they are leaving or arriving. What does you design document say about that?
(Did you design this before you wrote code?)

Dani wrote in some prior discussion that DW scans these and breaks them for some reason later. So it looks good on posting then later, the bot breaks it for us.

I recall our host to tell why this is. While it's an annoyance, I don't recall why this feature must be kept.

To RevJim if I see a strike out on like this, is that not like this?

Not to leave you to read forever. Think about any changes, such as some USB thing. In fact, shutdown, unplug power, all USB things and then power up. Plug in the keyboard and mouse (laptop, doesn't apply.) and then try again.

Why is there a semicolon at the end of line 1?

The thing is, there are some thousand posts about this now. Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=Windows+10+won%27t+sleep

Notice something? It's rarely the same thing. You have to pick over those priors to see if you can find a match or try what they write about.

@Siberian, I think I listed them before but if I don't write the same list it's because it's late.

For Windows, Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier, Syncback, SyncToy and the always popular "write your own sync."

Hello Siberian. We've chatted a bit about what you wanted and to me the MAP to a drive letter is pretty good to know about.

HOWEVER you have written a bit and in my view you are after a way to mirror files in two locations. Neither map or symbolic links do that.

Let's hope you think all this over and look into sync apps.

For this I take this is Perl code and read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html as a refresher.

On line 14 you called out allgifs as a variable.
Later it seems you added @ and that would be an array.
Maybe it's just a matter of line 14 defining what it actually is.

Me? No way a Perl expert.

The "is not a function" is a fairly common web code error. I think you'll have to go over your code till you find why it throws that.

In regards to errors, you would see if the browser supports that. Hit caniuse.com to see.
But the error sounds more like a coding error to me.

The closest working project I could find was http://subinsb.com/html5-record-mic-voice

You have a lot of steps to complete to get this working.

Just a thought. Are you sure you didn't swap dest and source?
Read http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/27630-63-create-symlink-mapped-network-drive

I have to add this. Go get the free Visual Studio before you get old ideas locked in that you have to unlearn.

More on topic, VB6 worked as an event driven system and you may have to add a doevents() after the graphics action to see it happen. Otherwise the events and calls pile up and are handled at a later time. I decline to write more about doevents() since it's well done.

@Satyam, in the IDE, break on your line 3 and 4 as shown above to see if the condition is met.

I'm unsure of what line 4 is trying to do. Why not use the focus method noted at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743469(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-2

I see a few issues.

1. If the new string is longer than the declaration, overflow.
2. The way you declared the string is not a variable but a fixed string. You wrote you didn't declare a variable then you tried to treat it as a variable. You can't have it both ways.

Go ahead and declare the variable string so it's writeable.

There is no symbol for switch. Read https://www.edrawsoft.com/flowchart-symbols.php

OK, so how to show a switch? That's easy. It's nothing more than more decision symbols. I see such at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22067090/how-do-i-draw-a-switch-statement-in-a-graphical-design

And yet another error message. If you are trying different statements, share the statement and the error message for that statement.

Otherwise I can't follow. Maybe no one can.

I'd re-read the link I shared and sort out the JOIN.

Your top edit. Now it looks confused. The error text doesn't match your SQL statement.

Even so, I'd practice the JOIN on a command line (without the update) until I found the right set.

My first glance tells me you would use USING or ON but not both.
Read https://lornajane.net/posts/2012/sql-joins-with-on-or-using

I've read this complaint before and many MP3 CD players have no clue on order by tag or meta data.

The most common fix is to prefix 01 to 99 in front of each file name.

Just for you. Read and run http://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=FCCZ4KEI353K

Nope, never looped. You should fix that.

@Susan. If the browser has no name, dead end. I looked over http://caniuse.com/usage-table and will call it "Android Browser."

http://caniuse.com/#comparison has "Android Browser" so now you can pick through your code and see if it all is supported.

I clicked on 4.4 and landed http://caniuse.com/#compare=android+4.4 which is pretty extensive.

PS. You can pick other versions like 4. http://caniuse.com/#compare=android+4 and what a mess. Lots more partially supported tags.

Here's a bit more about that default android browser. What is it? It's not like I can head to caniuse.com and check it out.

What is that (horrible) thing?

In short why I install Chrome on my older Android phone. The phone maker is never going to update it so Chrome it is.

@Dani, only in respect to being lumped in to "other" when you read smart phone market shares.

@AndrisP It's great you were able to escape all this with another OS load. I have a few diehard Blackberry friends (well just one now) and they had a rough time letting go.

For the record, I have tried for a very long time to share what I run into but about half the time folk bristle at the notion of the cracked OS. I hope you understand what I'm getting at. As someone that has owned PC repair shops, I like to keep at it and get called in on the tough cases.

That USB thing, very annoying.

Malware? Just like donuts, is there nothing they can't do?

Not only that I wrote about it. But the issue I'm seeing is some odd USB enumeration/driver issue. Fortunately it happened at the office so I got to see it first hand and think about it and try something that paid off.

Missing Hal.dll issues are not fixed with boot record/sector repairs so far. And unless the OS was a crack copy, I haven't seen a Hal.dll bomb in years. (sorry about my words there, yes I have seen it, but the OS was pirated/cracked.)

I'll share a spat of recent boot failures in W10 that I've worked on and got by. It was stupid. I'll leave others to point out where stupid is.

It appears some updates on reboot will hang on boot. This is not a boot record issue but some sort of USB enumeration/driver issue. What fixed them was not boot record work but simply unplugging all USB devices and powering up and waiting for the update to complete. When that was done we plugged in the keyboard+mouse and logged in. After that we could plug in the printer and such.

I worry that boot repairs could break things and the USB issue I've run into (in forums I moderate) won't help.

That's a mess of a post. But I did paste it to http://esprima.org/demo/validate.html and it didn't complain.

You may have to reveal more such as what editor, what line etc.

When you think the case is closed, mark it as answered please.

The "Problem line" is waiting for you to write code to find the answer. If you don't know the algorithm then that's what you research next.

What no one pointed out is rarely do folk write your code. They may read and see where there's an issue but here, your code is missing.

I am missing where you are stuck here. That is, your problem statement is a tad unclear.

Try this. Take the problem and break it down to discrete steps that you would do manually. Code each step and step towards a full solution.

I would be guessing why one would write this "wheel" given what I see at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hailstone_sequence
That is, the C++ version is there and ready to use.

Seems a long roundabout method but Microsoft has a VM ready dev kit at
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

PS!!!
" Windows 10 Enterprise (Evaluation - Build 201612) 20 GB download

This VM will expire on 04/08/2017.
(Supported platforms)
VMWare
Hyper-V
VirtualBox
Parallels "

OK then what about https://github.com/yasinkuyu/NetDash and it's disk usage seems to match your example log?
The source is there to tinker.

Remember this issue is rather well done. I've solved it on many systems with the usual ideas so I'll pause here since the question is how to get reports and not about the usual fixes.

What about auditing in Windows? http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/07/08/audit-file-access-and-change-in-windows/ is one of many priors about this.

No extra software but these logs get quite long so you may have to tweak and filter the results.

That out of the way, I don't see this issue now that my work machines are on SSD. My guess is the seek time on HDDs really piles up and no one at Microsoft ever thought of implementing Novell's elevator drive access ideas. Or that was patented.

Sorry Ryantroop.

Neither Edge or IE11 worked and I declined to alter my IE11 to fix the missing scroll bar.

Sorry but the issue does seem to be there, Microsoft knows about it, you're not seeing things.