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Remove Filter  | 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. … |
| | If you like to use Sticky Notes, do yourself a huge favour and stop using the Windows 10 Sticky Notes tool. Instead, go to [Zhorn Software](https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/) and download Stickies by Tom Revell. It works much better, has more features, is very well documented and is very intuitive. You can also … |
| | In keeping with tradition, Microsoft has released the latest update before resolving a number of outstanding issues. But at least they now provide a more centralized location for getting update information. The home page (dashboard) can be found [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/) and the specific page for the latest update can be found … |
| | I have been wrestling with this for two days now and getting nowhere. Something is broken, either the GridSizer control or me. I'm hoping it's me and someone can show me the problem. I've stripped my app of non-essentials. What I am building is a Sudoku app which consists of … |
| | I think we can all agree (this will likely provoke disagreement) that a voting machine that records a vote electronically without a way to do a manual verification is a bad idea. How then should a proper voting machine work. My suggestion is to have a touch screen on which … |
| | As I continue my conversion from vbScript to Python I am finding the gotchas. For example... A lot of my utility scripts take a file name or a file pattern as a parameter. My script, bitrate.vbs, for example allows me to invoke it as bitrate file bitrate pattern Technically file … |
| | I'm having a problem with my python installation. The packages that came with the installation work just fine but when I try to use other installed packages I run into problems. For example, I installed a package `pymsgbox` using pip from an admin shell. When I run a sample script … |
| | The Quebec government will be introducing legislation that prohibits public employees from displaying religious symbols while at work. This would include items such as crucifixes, kirpans, turbans, hijabs, yarmulkes, etc. Even though there is majority public support for this legislation ther has been a strong backlash with the claim that … |
| | A few years ago, the Canadian government (at that time it was a majority Conservative government under Stephen Harper) proposed legislation which would have weakened the privacy rights of all Canadians. Part of the justification was to allow easier apprehension and prosecution of people trafficking in child pornography. The justice … |
| | After saying for the last 10 years that I would never own a cell phone (I had enough of that spending many years on call), I finally broke down and got one. It is a Figo (Speak Out) Android (Marshmallow) phone that allows me to buy a block of minutes … |
| | I just got a PM from a user who said "Hello! I'm <username>. Nice to meet you! Let's connect." What I know about this user is precisely zero. Before I respond to a "let's connect" request I'd like to know a little bit about this user. In the old Daniweb …  |
| | I tried to attach a file to a post by clicking the attachment icon and the file upload dialog did not show. I tried several times with no luck. |
| | As I understand it, there were problems on Sunday (Feb 24) which caused problems logging in. Daniweb would not accept my password (or so it said). Normally when I go to login I get presented with the login page with my userID (reverend Jim) and password already filled in. Now … |
| | I can't seem to find a way to send a PM. I tried going to the member's profile page but the PM area is gone.  |
| | To all in the last week or so who received a private message from me consisting only of the phrase, `Noli Mentula`, I sincerely apologize. In the previous incarnation of Daniweb, sending a private message was considerably different than in the new version. I had assumed that a message would … |
| | The day that Americans will decide if they want to step on the brakes or drive off the cliff. |
| | Remember when once upon a time all you had to do to start Windows in safe mode was go all Woody Woodpecker on the F8 key during boot? Well in Windows 10 it seems you have to do just a little more... 1. On the login screen click on the … |
| | My geo-location was being displayed as Cambridge (I returned from there on Monday) so I told daniweb to update, which it did, except it now reported me as `Winnipeg, Manitoba - 3,897 miles away`. What am I 3,897 miles away from? Then, when I click on `Member Connect` it says … |
| | My wife's laptop is a Dell Latitude E6520. A good enough machine except for one annoying quirk. The wireless card keeps disabling itself. We have it configured so that closing the lid puts it to sleep. When it wakes up, the wireless card is disabled. Before you ask, I already … |
| | It wasn't bad enough that Skype nagged me with "your current version will soon stop working" every time I brought up the GUI. When I ignored the upgrade requests is started popping up notices even when I wasn't using Skype. So I finally bit the bullet and did the upgrade … |
| | ASUS Computers I recently had dealings with Asus. The situation was regarding a malfunctioning keyboard. The computer is a several-year-old (no longer under warranty) Asus K53E laptop. It belongs to my father-in-law and because he is somewhat careless with food (he is 91 so this is understandable), something eventually got … |
| | I think this guy has made some excellent points in [this article](http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/).  |
| | These are things I'd like to see available now that should be possible given current technology as opposed to pie-in-the sky things like "I really want a teleporter". For example, I am getting very tired of watching TV shows where the (supposedly) background music is so loud that I can … |
| | A recent study done by a think tank hired by Canadian airline companies has come to the conclusion that if the airlines charged less money then people would buy more tickets. I don't want to know how much money and time it took to come to that brilliant conclusion. What …  |
| | I've been listening to various debates on the potential impact of AI and the two sides seem to boil their arguments down to 1. AI is dangerous because it will mean the extinction of humanity as machines that can improve themselves will do it so rapidly as to quickly make … |
| | ##vbScript - the basics My plan is to post a series of hopefully useful and informative vbScript Functions and Subs. I started writing up my first code snippet and found that I was taking too many side trips to explain things about the vbScript syntax and language so I decided … |
| | Here at the cottage I have a 3 gig/month cap. If I go over I pay extra. That gives me about 100 meg a day to play with. In preparation for the summer I have to spend some time 1. setting my wifi connection to metered (to block updates) 1. … |
| | APLX is a very complete implementation of the APL programming language from MicroAPL. The company stopped producing it in 2016 and it has been taken over by Dyalog. While Dyalog charges for the new versions, the final version from MicroAPL is available for free at [this page](http://www.dyalog.com/aplx.htm). It comes complete … |
| | Today I tried to install the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update. It failed with the message  I found this peculiar because I don't have that application installed. I **do** have Macrium Reflect (Free) version 6 but certainly not Drive Image 7 (Powerquest). As usual, clicking the Support link …  |
| | When I retired in 2008 after carrying a cell phone for years on standby for our control centre I swore I would never get another cell phone. I was wrong. It took ten years but I finally broke down and got a SpeakOut pay-as-you-go FiGO Ultra. It's got everything I … |
| | There are a number of very old threads on CUDA so I'm starting a new one rather than resurrecting an old one. Does anyone here have any experience setting up and developing in CUDA on a Windows platform? I know that there is a system that can be set up … |
| | I've been using GenuTax since 2013 to file my Canadian tax return. It's provided free and does the job nicely, but it misses one feature. Up north we can do pension splitting. That means I can offload some of my pension income onto my spouse, hopefully putting us in a … |
| | I just posted a code snippet [here](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/code/515601/vbscript-implementation-of-quicksort) and noticed a couple of problems. 1. No matter how I try to fix it, the frst line refuses to display properly indented. 1. The few lines of code that I included in the top window, even though properly indented, refuse to display … |
| | Does anyone know the function and origin of the wireless profile, bungle4? I've been cleaning up my numerous vbScript files and when I tidied, then tested Metered.vbs, it produced the following: D:\>metered Profiles on interface Wi-Fi: All User Profile : bungle4 All User Profile : mynet Metered.vbs is a script … |
| | In order to resolve a problem whereby Microsoft keeps updating my video driver (which works) with a newer version that is crippled, I installed the Windows 10 Creator's Update. So far it - Reset driver update back to auto (I had disabled it) - Re-enabled OneDrive (I had disabled that …  |
| | Is anyone familiar with Microsoft Remote Desktop? I'm referring to the application with the name MSTSC.EXE. I used this years ago at the office to remote into the servers from home but MS has made changes since then. I have one laptop downstairs that is usually unattended and I have …  |
| | I have been using my HOSTS file for years to dummy out ad sites by adding entries like 127.0.0.1 www.ukbanners.com A while back I installed [Unchecky](https://unchecky.com/), a program which automatically unchecks all of those software extras that some installers like to enable by default (like McAfee). Today I noticed nthat … |
| | ... how the same politicians who said that New Jersey should just man up and take care of themselves after Hurricane Sandy hit, are now calling for federal aid from FEMA for relief from Hurricane Harvey, and in a few days, probably Hurricane Irma. |
| | What are the qualifications to be an announcer/commentator at the US Open? Clearly it's not the ability to be able to pronounce the names of the players. Someone who has been making a big splash of late is an 18 year-old Canadian named Denis Shapovalov. At the start, when nobody … |
| | I've been a Windows user right from the start and I've seen many problems that resulted in the infamous `checking for a solution to the problem`. I'm curious. Can anyone tell me if they have ever had an instance where Windows has actually found a solution? |
| | Happy 150th birthday to all of the Canadian Daniweb members.  |
| | I've never been a fan of readme files. They are fine for project files where you will likely need note of building an application, or for distribution packages where you might need extra information on installing a package. But sometimes you want to add a comment to a file (perhaps … |
| | I have been having a problem for a few months with the video driver for my Dell laptop. The hardware/driver are from Intel. The driver from 2016-09-29 works just fine. It has a feature that I use regularly to rotate the display via hotkeys - very convenient for document reading. … |
| | You can win up to [$55,000 to optimize NASA's Fluid Dynamics code](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/nasa-wants-you-to-make-its-fortran-code-run-faster/). See the link for details. |
| | I'm at the cottage for the summer. Out here I have a metered connection and I try to keep under 3 gig per month (or I have to pay extra). Until this year that hasn't been a problem. This year, however, I have Windows 10. With Windows 7 I could …  |
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