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Sure , I was referring to the "usual plot" : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173609-btach-set-vast-with-echo-doesnt-work/#entry1096004 just kidding.... jaclaz

... right when I was reasonably convinced that our friend Gunsmokingman would have not been able to post a VBS script .... You can never be sure of anything.... jaclaz

Yep : ... and when they happen to discuss the matter on a same thread, it becomes an useful resource to calculate an appropriate size of the pageflie (fixed, NOT dynamic) if you actually want/need a full dump: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/151195-frequent-but-inconclusive-bsods/ I would guess a few benjamins changing hands Just in case : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/quotes?item=qt0335291 jaclaz

And, just for the record, C#/XAML or Silverlight developers (do the latter still exist? ) have no excuses now: http://appdevelopermagazine.com/1960/2014/9/30/New-Extension-for-Visual-Studio-Released-to-Create-HTML5-Apps-Using-C/ http://www.cshtml5.com/#learn-more And some considerations: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/689534/What-to-Choose-between-XAML-and-JavaScript-for-win Of course if you are going to write (say) an AutoCAD or Photoshop alternative for tablets , C#/XAML is likely to be faster but limited to the Windows ecosystem that seemingly very few people will use, but for the 90% of apps that at the most try to be an alternative to Candy Crush Saga or Ruzzle would make much more sense due to almost transparent portability to the other tablet platforms to use HTML5 ... jaclaz

There is not a "built-in" prevision in COMMAND.COM (it was introduced in CMD:EXE). You can use a third party tool or a "workaround" making use of choice in a loop or using a temp file and redirection (nasty) or using a CALL (to "self"), see: http://www.infionline.net/~wtnewton/batch/batguide.html#4 There is also a trick using ANSI conversion: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/userinput.php#DOS the latter link above contains links to commonly used third party tools,personally I would use editvar: http://www.westmesatech.com/editv.html jaclaz

Sure , that would be too simple (and smart ), surely they managed to put some Silverlight and some .Net and some super-sharp C or D in them. As said elsewhere I find it fun that the actual contents of - say - 90% of "apps" (including the iOS and the Andorid ones, not only the Windows ones) could be relatively easily reproduced in a "common" browser (using HTML5), yet they are "packaged" into an "app". jaclaz

Please do read the given link posts: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-153#entry968299 AND the read-me-first (which is here if you haven't found it): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ ALL in "ALL devices must be grounded together" means "ALL", it doesn' t mean "some" or "a few" or "a part", how do you say "Todos os dispositivos ..." in Brazil ? If needed think octopus : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/?p=968346 (which you would have found had you actually read the given link) jaclaz

Well, personally I would consider that an "offer" when the good MS guys will propose to pay me some good amount of US$ (Euros would do also nicely) in order to download and install that crap.... jaclaz

The pagefile has two main uses: a. to "help" in case of high RAM usage (more than available RAM) b. to make a dump of memory in case of crash Some programs however, as an example some Adobe ones, will *want* the presence of a pagefile in order to even start. There are three theories on which everyone is arguing about since years: 1) the pagefile is better left alone and MS (actually the Windows OS) can manage it fine 2) the pagefile makes little sense if there is *enough* RAM but since it is needed by some program the best thing is to have one FIXED size (NOT system managed) as small as possible. 3) the pagefile makes no sense whatsoever if there is *enough* RAM Since I don't use any program that actually wants a pagefile I have run Windows 2K and XP systems without a pagefile just fine, JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156944-delete-not-clear-pagefile-at-shutdown/ but it's not something that should be done at home. Making a Dynamic pagefile makes anyway very little (please read as "no") sense. If you believe that you need a full RAM dump on crash you need to set it's fixed size to at least the size of RAM the system has. Please understand how all the people that can actually use the info in a several Gb RAM dump for troubleshooting can be counted on your fingers. The good ol' rule of the thumb about 1.5 to 2.5x the amount of RAM makes no sense whatsoever (it was accurate enough when systems had 128, 256 or 512 Mb of RAM, but not nowadays with 3 or more GB of RAM). Given that on the same modern machine that has *enough* RAM there is also *enough* space on hard disk, a FIXED size pagefile 500 Mb or 1 Gb in size is more than enough (unless you really-really want to save space on hard disk) but making one the size of the RAM wouldn't make any harm (if not taking up a few more Gb's), and as well using a "magic formula" like 1.5 x RAM will do the same, only taking even some more space on disk. Still given that the machine has *enough* RAM, there will be NO difference whatsoever in performance with *any* of the settings, the pagefile will never be actually used if not in case of crash. The advice to set it as fixed derives from the fact that in some cases of crash a dynamic pagefile will expand possibly overwriting some areas of the disk where some data needed for recovery resides (a very remote possibility, but still a possibility) and anyway it will take more time to crash (while you can't do anything about it). JFYI, there are people that believe to be smart to put the pagefile on a RAMdisk (on systems with plenty of RAM), something that, in the words of Mark Russinovich, is ridiculous: http://www.overclock.net/t/1193401/why-it-is-bad-to-store-the-page-file-on-a-ram-disk The new rule of the thumb is "try the system, if you never hit the max amount of RAM you have you are good to go, if you consistently go over it, add more RAM, settings of the pagefile make not any difference in real life if there is *enough* RAM". jaclaz

Check again GROUNDing of ALL devices involved, see the Read-Me-First point #7 and a few posts starting from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-153#entry968299 Try a loopback test (that would be point #8 of the Read-Me-First). jaclaz

Maybe the time has come for a new Gay Mullins : http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091141,00.html Old Windows Users of America, it sounds fine.... jaclaz

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Thank you , but that's one good thing of the board software, this thread has now 100 (one hundred) views, evidently once detracted a few ones possibly caused by me or by some bots, all by people that share your lack of familiarity with the topic at hand since there was (yet) no useful reply. I guess that we can define it moderately popular but possibly too "narrow" or too "specific" even for a dedicated section like: Of course there are possible alternative explanations , we'll see if anyone comes out with some ideas/suggestions. jaclaz

OT But I guess that NoelC might find this interesting: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/169396-Need-details-of-Comcast-quot-xfinitywifi-quot-public-wi-fi-hotspot-I-m-hosting https://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/xfinity-wifi-hotspots https://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/disable-xfinity-wifi-home-hotspot/ jaclaz

Well, it wasn't a PM, you do not *need* to justify yourself . jaclaz

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The problem: A friend of mine who is involved in a non-profit medical assistance organization asked me if I could have a look at the QMS (Queue Management System) and Digital Signage system the organization bought (for an awful amount of money BTW) and that was never installed/tested/configured/whatever by the supplier because the company went bankrupt (and anyway they were not capable of configuring the setup). The system is (was) intended to be installed in a medical ambulatory. The current situation: I have available the actual hardware consisting of: 1) three small "brick" PC's, all of them running Windows 7 (but of course this can be changed), one intended to be a "server" and two intended to be "clients", bolted behind the TV's 2) two 32" LCD FLAT TV's 3) a "ticketing" kiosk, which upon visual inspection appears to be nothing more complex than a tablet (has to be checked but likely running a windows embedded or CE of some kind) and a thermal ticket printer integrated in a three foot tall metal stand/pillar. 4) A proprietary software (currently locked by a password) that has all the looks of being a (crappy) Access based *something* The expected goal: 1) have the displays show 4 or 5 (anyway no more than ten) queue lines numbers (something loosely similar to the "We are now serving ...", one for each medical room and *something* else, let's say at the bottom the name and telephone number of the charity and a window with - say - a TV feed from the news channel. 2) have the counters of the queue line number be incremented or decremented by any (authorized) PC in the intranet (loosely one in each doctor's room + one at the reception 3) Have *somehow* the ticketing "kiosk" print tickets in sequence incrementing the printed number, divided for each queue This MUST be free and as simple as possible, though foolproof is always a big word, particularly when fools are involved in the daily use of something, the expectation is for somethign that doesn't break easily or that is very easy to fix if broken. I managed to contact the actual maker of the kiosk and I am expecting in a few days to be able to understand what is in it and what it does currently, but anyway I don't think that it will be much of an issue to simply replace the current "unknown" tablet with *any* suitable el-cheapo one. I had a look around and it seem like there is nothing free/open-source that can do something like that in the simplest possible way, what I mentally imagined was: a (local) http server running on the "server" PC with a number of pages, each with an access or similar counter (which would be *somehow* incremented when a ticket is requested from the kiosk) a page to be served to a browser on the two bolted-on-TV PC's displaying the updated status of the various counters, the static text and the TV feed a number of password protected pages, one for each counter/room displaying just the current status of the single counter and a +/- button to increment or decrement the publicly displayed browser an "admin" page, also password protected with all the counters and a +/- and reset button for each (let's call it "receptionist page"I expected to find tens, maybe hundreds of similar examples, I was prepared to wade through a myriad of half-@§§edly implemented setups in order to borrow (or steal) some simple javascript code and "site template" but I came out empty handed Besides the usual "Let me teach you javascript programming, here you will learn how to display "Hello World" to a web page" extremely lengthy description of a three line snippet followed by the sentence "OK, now that you have learned the basics to complete this project you just need add the buttons, the authentication of the page, interface to SQLite through a Perl script running a Java VM executing a VAX emulator initiating an instance of ...., I found only one simple (here simple means that I can understand) example here: http://www.osyes.net/ which BTW seems coincidentally originated from Italy, but that seems to me not simple (in the sense of simple) at all as it needs: and however, besides the total lack of documentation gives the impression of being as half-@§§ed as something I could probably write myself . All the rest I could find are extremely complex "framworks", "Ultimate Digital Signage" tools and *what not*, a number of which stupidly "cloud based", some purely Commercial "masked" as Open Source, with only a few exceptions: Vodigy (seemingly now defunct as a company) for which I have anyway as well no good feeling and xibo: http://xibo.org.uk/ which appears like nice but simply too complex and with a whole lot of complications both on the server and on the client side (I am not disputing that PHP/mySQL/JSON/SOAP and .net/Flash/IE/WMP etc. are not needed for the wide possibilities xibo offers, but they seem to me overkill and a possible cause of issues/problems for the very simple needs I have). Same goes - at first sight - for Dashing: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ The request: If you happen to know a FREE, SIMPLE, NOT involved with the CLOUD, tool or site template or *whatever* that could be useful to reach the goal I would appreciate your help/suggestions/ideas. As well if you have the time (and knowledge) to put together something that could do or help me in putting it together it would be highly appreciated, remember that the "end user" is a charity/non-profit organization . jaclaz

Sure they do. The issue at hand is however that also small (and teeny tiny) minds think alike, and when you put a discrete number of them together what comes out is the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation (actually its Marketing division). : http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation "Update, Share and Enjoy" jaclaz

I wonder which OS may have inspired this Dilbert strip jaclaz

Well... IMO, where one reads "senescence", one ought to read "sentence", in case it may be of help... Hmmm. Clever but not entirely unexpected , you can't get away with just the easy parts, now translate "a enhancement such liver" for me, please jaclaz

I know what binaural beats are, thank you . As said earlier usually (and AFAIK) binaural beats are generated NOT derived from speech/voice. And again as said there is nothing to be "recognized" from speech or voice, speech recognition means to understand the meaning of the words you say, voice recognition means to identify your particular voice, distinguishing it from any other one. So, let's take "recognition" out of the equation. You can generate binaural beats and mix them with music or sounds (or your voice, which in this case is nothing but a sound like any other). A known software for this is GNAURAL: http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/help/ and another one is SBAGEN: http://uazu.net/sbagen/ Maybe you are wanting to convert your voice (in the sense of sound) into binaural sounds, thus creating subliminal messages of some kind? http://sourceforge.net/p/gnaural/feature-requests/28/ jaclaz

Well, one thing is sure, noone (if not the MS good guys themselves) will ever be able to find a way to make it worse. jaclaz

Well, the only thing they seemingly haven't actually done (yet ) is to hijack the home page of Ineternet Explorer to a page pushing for the update/reserve the copy, etc. but I wouldn't be so surprised should this happen. jaclaz

I will try typing the following slowly: We have right now NO IDEA of WHAT (the heck) you are talking about, would you be so kind to explain to us WHAT is that you are asking for? jaclaz

Yep , though the good WinBeta guys have it backwards: Should really be: jaclaz