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Remove Filter  | I recently fell victim to the latest Windows 11 update - KB5023706. The symptom was intermittent BSODs (blue screen of death). It wasn't until after I had done a thorough slate of hardware and system diagnostics that I came across an online tech article explaining the problem's likely origin. After …  |
| | I've only ever noticed this happening while playing a video in vlc media player. I'll have the video playing in full screen with the video's folder in the background. Without touching the mouse, keyboard, or touchpad, the background Explorer window will pop to the front, obscuring the video. I can …  |
| | First I want to say that my only interest in the technical details of web development are from an end user perspective. I usually go to [this site](https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca) to get my weather forecasts. Their current display format is to present the forecasts horizontally but it will likely be changing soon …  |
| | In the summer of 2022 I bought an ASUS laptop from BestBuy. It came with an internal SSD and an empty internal bay for a 2.5" drive. I didn't install a second drive until October and when I booted up it would not recognize the added drive. When I took … |
| | I went to a site that sells wood veneer slat paneling. They make a nice range of products and seem reputable. However, on completing my order I found that my payment options were limited to * shoppay * paypal * gpay I have never seen a legitimate site that would … |
| | Having just acquired a Raspberry Pi Model 3, I am attempting to set it up as an NAS. So far I have set up the Raspberry Pi OS and configured samba. It appears to be working fine except for one minor problem. While I can remote in using TightVNC, I … |
| | My laptop seldom leaves my house. When I am not using it I close the lid to put it into sleep mode. I also close the lid when carrying it to another room (or perhaps into the backyard hammock). This causes a minor inconvenience as every time I open the … |
| | I came across this item while programming something that should have been very simple. VLC Media Player will save the last viewed position in a media file (assuming you have the resume option enabled). It maintains two lists, file names, and offset times. The file names are encoded such that …  |
| | I wrote a timer/alarm app in Python that I wanted to be accessible from all Windows Desktops. What I had to do until recently was run the app, select the desktops icon on my toolbar, then right click the app and select "Show this window on all desktops". I was …  |
| | My older son and I are both working through online videos teaching machine learning with python. All of the materials we have seen use Jupyter Notebooks. For those of you unfamiliar with Jupyter Notebooks, they are freaking awesome. At least they are when they work. We were using two laptops … |
| | ## Introduction I have a pile of home movie videos created over more than seventy years. As with my many photos (all in digital form) they require some effort to find particular ones of interest. Typically, I name my videos (and photos) with tags. A file might look like 2013-10-29 … |
| | I don't often rave about software (ok, other than my own), but I have to give two big thumbs up to the latest release by [Topaz Photo AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/?attribution=true). I have a very large collection of family photos reaching back to the turn of the last century. I long ago converted … |
| | In the last two weeks I renewed my cable package (TV/internet/phone) and in the process got upgraded to a new, faster modem. Three months ago I bought a new ChromeCast device and was able to connect it to my old modem/network using my existing Android 6 cell phone. Today I … |
| | Adding a file/folder comment capability to Windows This is something I wrote a few years ago in vb.Net and just recently ported to python/wxpython. As I keep discovering, just about everything is easier in python. Windows does not have a commenting facility so I decided to write something simple. NTFS …  |
| | After reading a few reviews I decided to try [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com/download/) out. After importing my bookmarks and customizing my bookmark bar (just a little drag and drop) I was ready to go. Without trying any formal timing tests, my purely subjective impression is that things load faster. I don't have the … |
| | This is yet another thing that everyone just accepts, but nobody can tell me why this decision was made. Everyone is familiar with the Windows screen coordinate system where x and y values increase to the right, for x, and down, for y. What is not noticible until you start … |
| | ## Introduction I recently bought a new laptop. Since I haven't used VB.Net in years (nothing but Python now) I did not install Visual Studio. That meant rewriting all my VB apps in Python/wxPython. One of my most often used apps was a shell extension I wrote to add a … |
| | I've seen multiple write-ups and videos on how super-easy it is to install and configure JellyFin Media Server. My experience has been the opposite. It has a lot of really nice features, one of which is the automatic fetching of meta data. It's so nice, in fact, that I thought … |
| | My son uses Anaconda so I thought I'd install it so we could collaborate. I downloaded and installed the latest version. When I ran Anaconda Navigator, the first thing it told me was "there is a new version available". That's when I started having misgivings, but I downloaded and installed … |
| | I discovered, after upgrading to Python 3.10, that wxPython no longer worked. Fortunately, a kind soul at wxpython.org suggested I try installing a snapshot build of wxpython via the command pip install -U --pre -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython So far my existing wxPython scripts run just fine. If you are wondering … |
| | Videolan.org has a section in their forums for "VLC media player Feature Requests". I have been using VLC for many years and, other than being a tad light on documentation, I find it pretty damn awesome. But there is one small thing that always bothered me. If you are watching … |
| | Happy New Year to all. I hope 2022 is much kinder to everyone than the last two years. I, for one will be spending the evening with family and killing many monks, knights, and ghouls (In Death Unchained on the Oculus is awesome). Oh yeah. We're also going to eat …  |
| | I've had one for a couple of years. I like it because I only have to spend $25 a year to keep the phone minutes topped up (sometimes more if I use more minutes). It does what I want, which is make and receive calls while I am away from … |
| | Curious. Both [this post](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/threads/536401/how-to-write-a-function-of-image-rotation) and [this post](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/threads/536400/how-to-rotate-image-using-c) by user omar90 are tagged as "first post by omar90". They were posted 6 hours apart. |
| | **Requires:** 1. Python version 3.8 or newer 2. wxPython version 4.0 or newer 3. exif module 4. Windows with NTFS file system To ensure you have the required packages please run the following 1. python -m pip install --upgrade pip 2. pip install exif 3. pip install wxPython I have … |
| | # Comparing two videos side by side I have been creating walk-through videos on the cheap by just wandering through an area with my little Sony camera. Lacking a steady-cam I just try to hold the camera as steady as possible. Fortunately, with the proper (free) tools I can still … |
| | I have a SQLite database that for some insane reason stores dates as the number of days since 1899-12-31. I want to create a view that will display the date as an actual date. I can calculate a specific date from a specific day number as select date('1899-12-31','Localtime','+44386 day') as … |
| | As if Jeff Bezos isn't already rich enough. As someone who is at high risk because of a compromised immune system, I thought it might be a good idea to get a few N95 masks. Because local medical supply stores are out of stock I checked Amazon. While the prices … |
| | I've been following the latest efforts (in the US) of the GOP to unfairly redraw electoral boundaries and was considering how simple a law could be worded to ensure a more fair allocation of electoral districts. What I came up with is: 1. All boundary lines must consist of straight … |
| | This thread is a continuation of a conversation that I started [here](https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/threads/522661/where-to-buy-instagram-followers#post2261270). As Dani correctly pointed out, the discussion belonged in its own thread and should not have taken over the thread in which it started. It wasn't my intention to hijack that thread (and I apologize) but that's what …  |
| | Can anyone recommend a free flv to avi converter? There is a lot of free software out there so I have choices but can anyone recommend one that is free of trojans, viruses, malware, etc.? I've already got the DivX codec and converter but the DivX converter will not do … |
| | I just bought a Figo Nitro 4X cell phone (Android 8.1) phone for my son. When I connect my cell phone (Figo Android 6) to my Windows 10 laptop it displays in file manager with an icon that I can open to see all the folders on my phone. From … |
| | Sometimes you want to ensure that only one copy of a script can be run at time. Windows provides a facility called a mutex and you can use it to prevent multiple instances. To create the mutex, all I have to do is varname = GetMutex() If the mutex already … |
| | ###Subclassing python objects Sometimes you want to add just a little more functionality to an existing python object. You can do that by subclassing it and adding on the missing parts. This example is based on a really mindless game of solitaire I used to play as a kid. In … |
| | ##This project implements a multiple timer application. It was written in 1. Python 3.8.2 2. wxPython 4.1.0 Feel free to experiment. Here are some possible enhancements: 1. Add the ability to run a program when the timer expires. With a little scripting you could, for example, schedule the sending of … |
| | Python-wxPython Tutorial This tutorial will take you through the basics of wxPython. ##Introduction: Let's face it. I am a dinosaur. I got my computer science degree in the mid 70s. And it won't be long before **I** am in **my** mid 70s. So why am I trying to learn Python? … |
| | I have a Chromecast that I use to stream video from my laptop to our TV. It works great, however, until VLC (Videolan) releases their promised upgrade with Chromecase support, I am limited to streaming files in the mp4 format. Fortunately, ffmpeg allows me to convert other formats to mp4. … |
| | I found this great article on [User Interfaces](https://datagubbe.se/decusab/) that I wanted to share. Two points I wanted to add 1. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's bad. 1. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better. And can we please all decide that light grey text on a white … |
| | When asked, "What language should I learn first?", my answer is always "English". If you can't communicate clearly then you can't do your job as a programmer properly. As a programmer your job does not begin and end with code. You must also be able to write documentation clearly. I … |
| | A long standing complaint with the standard progress bar control is that there is no easy way to display text. In spite of numerous requests, Microsoft has not included this capability. The following code includes a class, `CustomProgress` which inherits the standard `ProgressBar` and adds such a feature. It is … |
| | As part of a project to manage my collection of photos, I wanted to add the capability of displaying a series of files as thumbnails. This posed me with three problems: 1. how to preserve the aspect ratio of the original images 1. how to generate the thumbnails without tying … |
| | I am being over-notified. I started a new thread to tell the community that "Active State Komodo IDE Now Free". I got four emails telling me I had started a new thread.  pritaeas endorsed me in - web development - hardware and software - computer science I received 5, … |
| | Fot anyone who is a fan of the Active State Komodo IDE it is now available free and can be downloaded [here](https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/13411-activestate-komodo-ide-now-free.html). According to their blurb... >There will no longer be a fee for Komodo, the multi-language IDE for Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, Perl, and a … |
| | When I go to the programming forum, the banner says "Join the Programming Group Chat - 188 members are chatting as of 20 Hours Ago", yet when I go there I see Dani was there Friday morning and bookday502 was there Dec 7. Where exactly are these 188 members who … |
| | I posted a question last week on Microsoft Technet and during the resulting discussion the following was posted: >VBScript will be gone in the next version of Windows. Almost all references to VBScript have disappeared from MS sites. In all the columns I've read about what's new and what's being … |
| | Why is it that when nine innocent Americans get shot and killed by gangs in Mexico, Tom Cotton says the US should basically invade Mexico and clean thisi mess up. But when 40,000+ (2018) get killed by guns in the US the GOP just shrugs its collective shoulders and say … |
| | For any karaoke freaks out there, There is an experimental package available for free from MIT called [spleeter](https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/wiki). This is a simple (in terms of use) AI which is quite remarkable in its ability to separate an audio file into component sounds. In its simplest form it can take a … |
| | Sophos software has recent.y made their [Sandboxie](https://www.sandboxie.com/) software free for personal use and will soon be making it open source. For anyone unfamiliar with Sandboxie, it implements an isolated enviroment where you can run programs (even install them) without fear of affecting your system. When you run a program from … |
| | My wife got a VeryfitPro fitness monitor for Christmas. I have the app loaded on my Android (6) phone and was hoping to install a companion app on my Windows 10 laptop but the only thing available is to install an Android emulator on Windows 10 then load the phone …  |
| | Because Microsoft will be removing vbScript in the next version of Windows, I have been busy converting my utility vbScripts into Python. Part of this is a library of functions that I keep in `D:\include`. I'd like to maintain this system in Python, but the import process is rather clumsy. … |
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