Posts by rproffitt

I have purchased refurbs on Amazon but they came with a product key sticker so I could complete the activation.

There were some refurbs that used a cracked W10 OS so when you reloaded you might trigger the issue you have now. W10 and all Windows have a license to deal with so in your case you would check your case for the sticker and use that key to activate.

All that said I occasionally run into folk that were ripped off by the refurd seller and even if so, you are not entitled to a free CDKEY.

If you were ripped off, then you talk to the seller.

PS. My project is to drive around, geocode a location, add my observations, and then have a map with my addresses and notes.

As a realtor what good is Lat+Long doing us here? All the realtor/realty sites use/display addresses. Maybe the Lat+Long is complicating the project.

I rarely see folk here code for the members. Only discuss, try to sort out an error and redesign. That said, it sounds almost like you want to duplicate Zillow or Redfin which should be a long endeavor as your programming skills improve.

My PS. Don't get stuck on just Google APIs. Use any solution. Such as https://www.google.com/search?q=street+address+to+lat+long&gl=US

Did you use the 7 to 9.5 mm spacer for the new thin SSD? Folk report that without the spacer, the drive didn't connect.

Common finds on this model is this and getting the BIOS current.

Lat and Long do not tell you the address but a point on a map. I've found folk new to this complain that the Lat+Long to address is "always wrong." They need time to think about how this works as they are not inside the address's boundery but usually on the street or sidewalk. Only the human that is doing this can make this decision.

But back to your top post and reply. To me you tossed out a lot of code and maybe, just maybe told what you wanted in your one line PS in the reply. All that code and it's just me saying this, distracts from what you want to do.

-> Don't take this badly, but leaving out comments about what a passage does means that when you wrote it, you and God knows what the intent was. Yes I can read code but I can't know the intent and God doesn't speak often on the matter.

My advice is to break down the problem to steps.

1. As I travel I want my phone to log a location with my notes.
2. Later I want to translate these locations to an address.
3. Then I want a map with ????

Each of those goals should be tackled on their own and broken down into discrete small steps that you can code up. As to you not being a programmer, now you are.

I can't decode what your code is doing. You wrote you want the Lat+Long yet on line 33 you tell it the lat and long.

To help me understand what your code is supposed to do, supply a few lines of psuedo code.

I can't know how you configured PHP so go ahead and put a closing tag on that code.
Read how at https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php

WDC 8 pin uses. http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/981/c/123/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3OTYwNzQyNy9zaWQvSDJQeEFKQWw%3D#satadesktopjump

All makers did this years ago when machines were even older. Unless you have a PC close to 20 years old, I don't use those pins.

PS. Later I see we installed a WD Blue 1TB into an office laptop last week. The laptop was a HP EliteBook 745-G2 14" Notebook, AMD A10 Pro-7350B 2.1GHz Quad-Core, 500GB SATA HDD, 8GB DDR3, 802.11n, Bluetooth, Win10Home. Before it had some slug of a HDD, now it's ready for hopefully years of boring office drudgery.

Without machine details I can't look into this. I will write that I've gone as far back as say a 2006 Dell e1505 with dual core Centrino and 1GB RAM to fit a SSD to let it be a nice enough Web tool. It would boot the OS and get on the Internet in 35 seconds.

PS. The HDD model can't be seen either but the extra pins were for other reasons like setting a cylindar limit to other. Please share more details.

I like Agile, I really do but a few times it has me walk out on the process as a few think that everyone must "buy in." That's just part of the problems I've run into and kind of glad I'm no longer on such teams. In fact if a company does go "all in" on Agile I may want to short their stock. I think it works until they try to forget what the real goals are.

The real goal is to get the product out the door. Some folk love to get wrapped up in the process. The process to them is all that matters. Someone made a funny albeit dark meme about it.

The full meme is over at https://imgur.com/gallery/23mdpAa and fair warning the end is very dark.

I'm going to have to disagree. I've been on projects where the client's requirements were met, the app did exactly what the client asked for and the project targets were not met.

There are plenty of examples like this in the game market where the game does exactly what the client wanted yet the sales and user base targets never were met.

The client was at fault entirely, not "your developers just aren’t good enough."

So it's Windows 7 and "Ultimate." Good to know when discussing such things as it matters.

You know that the fan is fine but you don't know if the sensors and PWM control system is fine or not. Since it looks like the OS is not stock you should at the very least install the drivers for this PC from its maker. I find folk ignore that all too often.

From https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/3279;-;Aspire+5742Z at least the Chipset Driver which is where the fan control should live.

If that fails then you can try fan control software and see if you can set the speed manually. There are many for Windows 7 so I will not pick for you. If this fails then it is hardware and the hardwire method could avoid replacing the motherboard.

Time to debug your code. I don't see it but if this was mine then in Pig_Laten Translator Code just before line 9 I'd add

System.out.print(count); // just to be sure what this is.
System.out.print(word[count].length()) //could it be a null length?
System.out.print(word[count]); // to see what this is.

For credit charges here they must add a shipping address. That is the norm for here in the USA even if you don't ship a physical product. I'm sure somewhere it's explained that this is part of keeping everyone on the up and up.

My workaday laptop is now an Acer Predator which while being very nice and all started to boot up with Windows Sticky Keys enabled. Now being a long time Windows user I went to the usual control panel, turned it off but it turned back on if the machine was rebooted or you logged out and back in.

The usual Google research was done, registry changes made and still it persisted. As all you needed to do was tap the shift key a few times to turn it off I left it as it was until I had more free time to look into it.

A deeper dive into the machine was done with AUTORUNS which found an odd thing I tossed but still it enabled after login.

So what if it's something to do with this model laptop? A new google found the answer: https://www.google.com/search?q=acer+predator+sticky+keys&gl=US

Aha, Acer and others added a Sticky Keys on/off to their system so there was more than one place this can be controlled which reminds me of the more than one boss stories.

Fix: Press the Acer Predator Sense button till it turns red, then tap button 1. It's fixed and I share this here so others might not spend as much time hunting it down.

Now I'm spitballing here but I've seen the command shell FORGET environment variables when you launch by association. I'm sure there is a longer discussion on that somewhere but it is a Windows thing.

Now this is covered at https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html and I had to read it five times to get it. Try the assoc and ftype commands at https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html#executing-scripts but the way Windows revs up the python and pythonw.exe and how paths are determined is my take on why this is.

Loops can use the do, for, while constructs and your exit can be done in many ways. Why I note that is, the homework stating "Using loops" gave you no less than three or all loop mechanisms offered by C#. So that can't be what's stopping you here.

Supply your code so far and tell which line or function is stopping you.

A wise repairman once shared this nugget with me. Can't find a name to give credit to.

When unsure what part to replace, start with the cheapest part first.

I have used this advice many times over the years. As I do a lot of computer work, I always do the free stuff first then move to the cheapest part and so on. Some may fault this method. I don't.

Agreed about the SEO posts. I find most are are disingenuous to spam or shill jobs. So many that if anyone was sincere they may be lost to me if they lead with the usual "my ratings have dropped, this is my site, what am I doing wrong?" Or worse.

That aside there was a few OP-ED pieces by a new member which was nice to see.

Dani has compared her work to a newspaper. Maybe that's the next move for the homepage. News that we read or news that we find interesting. I'm not sure the social "connect with" is working out.

This is a stretch since it seems to work here. So here's an example with a goof on my part.

I have something in the search box but to the right of "test" is "13 hidden". Also in this shot I show the console sidebar.
Clear the search box and I get a display of the hidden items.

There's some chat about console.log() not logging when the "code snippet was attempting to grab the scrolling area" which was nothing I've ever tried. Wish I had more to offer but console.log() is working here on W10 Chrome Version 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit).

I only used Dev C++ briefly so I can't recall if it allowed you to specify which directory to run in but I will bet you can specify command line parameters. Not one IDE I used in decades didn't have that. The early ones didn't have a pause after execution but that was added later. So go looking around your IDE for the options you need here. It appears there's really nothing busted here as the code looked fine and Reverend Jim confirmed that.

https://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/fastest-way-to-deindex-pages/ is working here but I'm in the USA using a Google DNS 8.8.8.8 so folk in China, North Korea and who knows where else may not be able to get there.

Yup, it looks like India to me too. "Address: 4th Floor, Mridul Tower Opp. Bata Showroom, Ashram Rd, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015, India"

Welcome but please don't fib here.

My point here is robots.txt doesn't appear to be the answer. Looking around for more clarity I found this discussion in which Google's own webmaster John Mueller notes how to mass deindex.

"using a robots.txt won’t remove pages from Google’s index." was his point and again why I wrote no.

The full discussion is at https://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/fastest-way-to-deindex-pages/ and IMO should be the fine answer on how to deindex where needed.

PS. Read http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=5918

A little light on details but here's a trick I used long ago. To make a service available to just about any language app I set it up as a miniature server or service. You would connect to it via IP, send your query string much like SQL and the answer would come back on the same pipe.

Whether this applies or not is something I can't guess given what has been revealed so far.

The Python I use has no buttons. So I would be guessing what you use for your GUI components. Even so, we could research like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=python+hide+a+button&gl=US

Hello again Reverend Jim. I will write Bluestacks is not what it seems. You can find more with research but here it's on our suspicious software list. That is, if a client has PC troubles this gets removed. More at https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/42k1sw/avoid_bluestacks/

I don't see any emulator that implements a Bluetooth stack for what I think you initially wanted this for.

My view: Avoid.

"An app for your product-- is it a good investment?"

You were not entirely clear what your product was. You mention a web site so if it's the usual web site with the usual products I will write no. I rarely hear web masters tell me it paid off. Now for sites like, Amazon, Newegg, Woot and such it does pay off but your scale may not come close.

-> Here's a thing. Those folk at "App Development Agency" are there to sell you on this idea. It's your money and in your case I don't think it will work as you expect. Let me add the most common reason why and it's a doozy. "APP Fatigue." Today's users are pushing back with "not another app to install." This pushback has been going on for a few years so you are very late to the party unless you are an Alibaba, Yahoo, Amazon or such in class.

My advice? Focus on making your web site mobile friendly to the max and on your strengths. The mobile app may drain your time, money and distract you from what really matters.

@cameliajohn. I can't stress enough that the carbon industry is one we need to pivot or move away from unless it's in capture or carbon neutral products.

As "Bill Nye says "the planet's on f*ing fire" and we need to "grow the f up"" in John Oliver's piece at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA the alarms are going off and we must take action at all levels.

I do see hope as the UK in 2017 "The switch to natural gas and a stiff tax on CO2 have helped drop emissions 36% below those in 1990." and it's declined even further since then.

Here's Bill Nye explaining why Co2 emissions went down:

And Bill Nye showing us what's going on now (exaggerating but you have to today.):

As to the flickering I recall that happening in all Office versions since about 1997. Microsoft apparently does not work on making their Office product operate smoothly (at least not on Windows.)

As a test I pasted web content into LibreOffice and it just worked without the warning messages. So it does indeed look like a choice made by Microsoft to hold hands and warn against every possible exploit or user error.

Turning off warnings like this has fallen out of favor in security circles as it removes a possible warning to the users. Microsoft is constantly beat up about security so they may have removed the off switch. As it appears to still paste but with the warning you may get no where with Microsoft. The usual reply is "works as designed."

That's quite an undertaking you have there. My advice is to not code this at first. Break down the steps it takes from the beginning to the end.

Why that matters is that without a road map you don't know where you'll go. Also, I find some don't have any prior website building experience so you may be new or not. Setting up your site first may be daunting so again, break down the areas you need to learn and it won't feel like taking a sip from a fire hose.

That's a common fault I see on older Dells. The usual cause of it failing to boot is "BAD CAPS." The symptom is hard starting and even harder if it's been off for a time. The machine will work (usually) after it's been warmed up.

The usual fix is a new motherboard if the owner can't do their own cap replacement. Shops today with some rare exceptions will not do this repair.
Example Cap Kit: https://www.amazon.com/Optiplex-GX745-motherboard-Capacitors-repair/dp/B00B4769YE/

In the future when asking about PC issues, it would be nice to know the make and full model number.

Is there a question that needs asking?

This has a huge security issue. It appears the password is in clear text maybe all the way down to the database. This is not how to teach login systems. This when I see it gets a failing grade.

More at https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/store-password-database/ "Storing plain text passwords in the database is a sin."

Please tell me if you think that using other folk's work for your assignment is a good idea. If you did use code from any web site it's a sure bet the prof can google it to see if it's your work or someone else's.

Wouldn't your use of code from here give you an automatic fail?

Old programming trick. Take the code in some edited and delete all characters but the parens. If it is a parens issue, you'll see it quickly.

Also, in the editor count how many left then right parens there are. Should be equal.

I found no cucumber and this is a fine example what happens when folk write code without comments.

As Reverend Jim wrote, maybe you are trying to use your computer before you have all the steps and design. The online courses and tutors are where many start but it sounds like you need to step back and do the thinking before the coding.

This question omits what the target system is. I've programmed on many boards and since you are asking I have to think this is not a x86 system.

Just like your other post, think about your question and ask if you are supplying enough detail as well as showing your work so far.

@Z, please add more detail. You could be writing for x86 to some hundred other computers. If it's x86 what you want is found a bit too easy.

Going to need a lot more detail. I've written such on MicroChip PIC, Atmel and other computers. This is very specific to your platform.

I'm assuming this is not for DOS, Linux or any x86 computer as that's been done and you would have done your research.

There are plenty of online courses from free to paid (Udemy is mentioned a lot and has some free ones.)

Most schools have tutors if you check in with your school counselor.

This sounds like a nonsense question. Can you expand on what you are looking for as the first is an effort to rank on Google and the second is revenue via clicks.

I ran into this issue with the Insyde BIOS on a lot of PCs. Turns out it's a bug in their BIOS and so far uncorrectable. This has lead me to never buy another PC with that make BIOS.

What make is this BIOS?

Is that in code? Or was that the input to the code you didn't supply?

In your case you would learn the Marie language then take your assignment and break it down to steps that you could code in that language.

All this is for you to learn the process of "problem" to "solution." If someone writes the code for you then you are on a management track.

There are some folk that can't learn the skills in these topics but can recall questions and answers so for them this is the only way for them to pass these exams.

What happens next is they land a job but can't perform since they are now in the real world. I used to think such sites to be terrible but now think that anyone foolish enough to use such gets what they deserve later.

@Haile_3, burying your posts under such an old discussion usually gets nothing. Try again but in a new post with all the details about the problem.

Last month, Facebook admitted to storing million of Facebook passwords in plaintext.
The Verge Apr 18, 2019

We see students being taught login systems here and a recurring mistake is passwords being stored in databases. It appears that CompSci courses teach bad practices early and as we know it's hard to unlearn what you learn earlier.

Further reading seems to indicate these passwords may have collected via logging.
"But as Krebs on Security first reported, various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012."

I'm been chided for pointing this out from time to time but the mistake happens over and over and in very big companies.

Nothing good can come of this. I doubt anyone will help you hijack standard Windows keypresses.

If you want help, explain in detail why.