jaclaz

It is a known issue: http://www.petri.com/windows_xp_search_bug.htm http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/309173 Depending on the actual specific search, it may be faster to use other tools, namely on NTFS a file searching tool making use of the $MFT then feeding results to a string find tool (such as gsar). jaclaz

Good news indeed I am lost at understanding WHY EXACTLY one would want to do that, however I guess that it is a form of freedom, which again is good . jaclaz

But being Italian (though possibly not very nice ) allow me to doubt, from my experience, that he had such a rich interpersonal experience with his partner (IF he ever managed to find one). JFYI, there is a vast tradition here about people who eat early in the morning garlic or onions or both in order to prevent illnesses (but usually they tend to have a somewhat reduced social life). And, of course OT, among our comics (not very known outside Italy) there is a known anti-anti-superhero [1], Superciuk, that has the superpower of such a strong /(alcoholic) bad breadth (which he acquired when involved in an incident in a distillery) that he can stun everyone by simply exhaling and when he loses his superpowers, he gets them back through eating the terrible garlicized onion tomatoes! . jaclaz [1] Superciuk thinks that rich people are nice, educated and clean while poor people are ugly, ineducated and dirty, so he resolves to robbing the poors to give to the rich.

Hmmm. At least you could limit the loop on first match, since you have the "old string" on each line or so. FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%B IN ('TYPE "%~dpnx1"^|FIND "%Old_string%"') DO SET tomod=1&GOTO :outofloop:outofloopIF %tomod%==0 ECHO No match...&ECHO.&GOTO :EOFjaclaz

First thing check the dictionary, at the S letter: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm I was jokingly highlighting how that part is (obviously) NOT news, we all know about the Windows 10 thingy tech preview, feedback, preview.windows.com and what not and there are already on the board quite a few projects revolving around changing Windows 10 looks and/or behaviour to make it actually work, sinmce the good MS guys are doing everything BUT listening to feedback/requests. jaclaz

Sure , and they do look like good guys, but the browser was started some 4 (four) years ago, https://web.archive.org/web/20100717041733/http://www.epicbrowser.com/ using at the time the Mozilla engine, they shifted to Chrome around 18 (eighteen) months ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20130912210023/http://epicbrowser.com/ starting evangelizing it to the world as "secure" or "hiding IP", and it took specific posts in February 2015 on their forum about this (re-)discovered flaw: http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-leaks-vpn-users-real-ip-addresses-150130/ to inform them on the issue when a blocking script for chrome existed since at least mid 2014?: http://www.webrtc-solutions.com/topics/webrtc-solutions/articles/385610-webrtc-giving-away-information-heres-what-do.htm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-block/nphkkbaidamjmhfanlpblblcadhfbkdm?hl=en Good guys? Surely. Good willing? Very possibly. Knowing where actually their towel is? Allow me to doubt this. I mean : jaclaz

Maybe you should first post the above under "news" , and then make a poll with this: in order to have W3bbo and all the members of the board directly appreciate how much this suggestion/initiative would be appreciated. jaclaz

It depends, they are serious about positive feedback and not-so-serious about negative feedback. I.e. they are as serious as the sign of the feedback, +=serious, -=not serious, after all negative quantities do not exist, right? jaclaz

Yet Another Chromium Skinned Browser? I thought that the idea by now is that Google is actually (at least partially) evil , and that anything Chromium based is to be taken with some caution, if you are going to make a point out of protection of privacy. At the very least I would say to not trust it much (yet) as making you transparent/unseen: http://forum.epicbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1051 http://forum.epicbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1040 The people behind the company and the development of this browser are (for once ) not much hidden (notwithstanding the name of the company) : http://www.hiddenreflex.com/ though the fact that their product(s) are currently in need of being evangelized to the world (which still sounds to me as vaguely unrespectful/of bad taste) makes me wonder, if the thingy is free, what (or who) is the product jaclaz

I will rewrite MagicAndre's previous suggestion in a slightly modified way : copy the CBS folder to the desktop, compress it as zip, upload the zip EXCLUSIVELY to a 1 click file hoster like Zippyshare.com AND NOT TO ANY cloud services (like OneDrive, dropbox) and post a link here. jaclaz

But, no matter whether someone likes it or not, is it a "feature" of the OS (or of the GUI)? Or, maybe better worded, does it really *need* to be implemented as an integrated feature (as opposed to being a "normal" program, that could be installed on - say - 7 or 8/8.1 as well or even - ideally - a "portable" tool)? By the same token Windows Media Player being capable of playing DVD's would be a feature of the OS (hey, wait, that's a NON-feature in WIndows 8/8.1 ). jaclaz

Well, yes and no. Most probably the laptop Hard Disk was partially damaged during the trip, but it was definitely NOT due to "vibrations, oscillations and bumps", that kind of behaviour (increasing 'Reallocation Event Count') happening a few times but that eventually did not further develop is more probably to be connected with electromagnetic high-frequency induction. Damage from bumps, vibrations and similar is usually permanent, whilst damage from exposition to electromagnetic fields is most of the times temporary, and this would nicely explain while you initially had such a dramatic failure that did not however increase in amount or spread to other areas of the hard disk or happen again in the following few years. You did not specify it in your original post, but chances are that you traveled with an electrically powered train along an electrified railway, these are known to emit high power (and relatively high frequency) electromagnetic radiations. With old laptops usually putting them in Velostat bags (the antistatic plastic in which electronics or motherboards are usually shipped) or wrapping them in a couple sheets of more commonly available tinfoil has been traditionally considered to create a Faraday cage good enough to prevent this kind of transient inductions. Even if your train was coal or diesel powered, it is entirely possible that you traveled near a high energy high frequency source, like (say) a big radio or TV antenna, old laptops and some non-recently manufactured or refurbished train carriages are simply not shielded enough to bear this kind of emissions. The good news are that since the GEERT (Global Electric Emission Reduction Treaty) has been signed by most western countries in October 2012 there has been a sensible reduction of these emissions along railways, while most carriages has been modified accordingly and in the meantime all laptop manufacturers became compliant with Revision 3.14 of the FCC/EMC Rules to the effect that all laptops built since around third quarter of 2011 have a much increased shielding, with an attenuation factor that on average grew from the previous -12 to -33 (expressed in Garn*Centipawn/square foot, and it is a logarithmic scale!). So, when you will buy a new laptop, it will certainly be able to survive unscathed such an ordeal as a 6 hour long train trip. jaclaz

This might help you to visualize the output of the command. In the above the DHCP is disabled (Enabled No), the adapter address is static to 192.168.254.15 and the Default Gateway (please read as "Router") is at address 192.168.254.254. jaclaz

Sure you can ask . Unfortunately jaclaz won't fulfill your request because, as already evidenced TWICE by him, the whole idea of using batch to replace a string in a file is foolish (besides being highly prone to errors/issues and definitely much slower then the suggested use of gsar or similar), unless there are valid REASONS for this choice (which are nowhere to be found in this specific case). Yzöwl has pointed out also how it is easier/better/advised/etc, to use a tool that already writes the expected output when compared to using a tool that writes in a format that you need to post-process. You may want to check the link in jaclaz's signature "But ... then, why?", you are of course very welcome to insist on doing this particular foolish thing or any other you may think of, but without jaclaz's support, at least for this particular one. Hint : What does "%~nx1" expand to? What does "%~dpnx1" expand to? jaclaz

No. SHA-1 is NOT compromised, an algorithm to reduce the needed calculations from 280 to a mere 269 has been developed. This in layman terms translates "from one zillion to a few fantastillions", a normal human mind cannot even start to appreciate how many items are in a zillion or in a fantastillion, everything is fine, don't worry, don't panic. Practical consequences: NONE Practical consequences for anyone but (maybe) NSA and other three-or-more-letter agancies: NONE42 Practical consequences for anyone using the hash for file verification: NONE84 By convention NONE to the power of 42 is used to describe a very, very, very, very, little amount, and NONE to the power of 84 is lot less than that. jaclaz

Exactly, what is now a Beta (or whatever it is called the current Windows 10 release) is very likely to be nothing but a re-branding of the service pack 2 for Windows 8 given to a few demented kids to play with it's UI. The Immortal Bard remains Immortal What's in a name? Windows 8 Service Pack 2 10. That which we call a rose huge pile of bullsh*t by any other name would smell stink as sweet much jaclaz

As I see it the real issue is that few people can draw the (IMHO needed) line between OS (actual underlying Operating System) and GUI (actual functionality of the UI) and looks of the GUI (actual esthetics of the UI), which is partially inherent to the way NT actually evolved and the way the good MS guys like at the same time to tag as "new" or "revolutionary" or "better" mostly senseless changes to the functionalities of the GUI and mostly ugly changes in its' looks and to completely fail to highlight and document the (BTW seemingly very few) actually new or "better" changes in the actual underlying OS ( they are however fair in the sense that they also completely fail to highlight and document the actually new but "worse" changes to the underlying OS). jaclaz

... and of one liners... jaclaz

I would call that a "right" question asked in th e"wrong" place. I guess that it is more likely that you'll get support for Longhorn here: http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/ jaclaz

And, just to bring some added uncertainty to this thread, why exactly one would use SHA1? I mean, what is the actual scope (or final goal) of the hashing? Possibly (please) refraining from the usual nonsense about MD5 collisions and the algorithm being compromised. jaclaz

And AGAIN, you really should use gsar (or any similar suitable text replacement tool), it makes VERY LITTLE sense to want to do it from batch. jaclaz

I can see fine in my crystal ball that you did it right , go ahead and try installing. The above is just a complimentary quick check, personalized advice and predictions via e-mail are made for a fee. jaclaz

Well, you can't have *everything* and *at once*. If you want to get to that result you will need to study a lot the involved operating systems, the grub4dos capabilities, etc., etc. It is very unlikely that someone will take the time to do what essentially are your homework. What you could do is take a shortcut, get RMPREPUSB and Easy2Boot: http://www.easy2boot.com/ (which should be able to easily do more or less what you want). jaclaz

I am not understanding what/why you want to dequote. The issue here is more like wrapping filenames with spaces into double quotes. I would use something *like*: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSIONSET New_string=newSET Old_string=oldFOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('DIR /B *.txt') DO echo Processing %%A...&CALL :do_replace "%%A"GOTO :EOF:do_replaceIF EXIST "%~nx1.new" DEL "%~nx1.new"SET tomod=0FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%B IN ('TYPE "%~nx1"^|FIND "%Old_string%"') DO SET tomod=1IF %tomod%==0 ECHO No match...&ECHO.&GOTO :EOFFOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%B IN ('TYPE "%~nx1"') DO (SET Line=%%BSET ModLine=!Line:%Old_string%=%New_string%!IF NOT "!Line!"=="!Modline!" ECHO !Line!&ECHO !Modline!&ECHO.&&SET tomod=1ECHO !Modline!>>"%~nx1.new")GOTO :EOFBut actually it makes little sense, exactly because a line in a .txt file may contain any kind of special character, and there are handy and faster solution. My advice is to use gsar.exe and call it a day, compare with this thread where the parsing of "plain text file" has been used (and abused): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/151785-how-to-merge-two-text-files/ jaclaz

And with Windows 10 it will become likely that the updates that will fail to download, will actually be coming from somebody else's PC, thanks to the new "distributed" approach. jaclaz