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I was not aware of the pervasiveness of fake news sites. Thanks for enlightening me.

As a humorous aside, I wonder if you detected the irony of your closing paragraph.

 

Thanks for your clarification and for your reasoning for buying BC4.

I can’t imagine businesses used paper tape! LOL

Cheers,

 

Mitch

 

This is a great review! I have a similar history with computers (saving programs on Paper tape from the time-sharing terminal in middle school; hand-coding ML on the Commodore 64; carrying around COBOL programs on punch cards in college.)

I bought Beyond Compare In the early 2000’s to manage all the duplicate backups I had accumulated. My favorite feature was the ability to write scripts to automate tasks. This was vital for the implementation of a Tower of Hanoi backup scheme. LOL (I love backups!)

I never saw the need to get Beyond Compare 3. I see your screen shots show BC2, but you mentioned upgrading?

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

 

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Will Fastie

Happy retirement, Fred!

I was a teenager when I started reading BYTE Magazine. I enjoyed seeing your name when I finally bought a computer and got online in the early 90’s.

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

 

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Fred Langa

Hi Deanna,

Thanks for this Autorun Organizer. I used to use Nirsoft’s utilities.

To answer your question about right-clicking an entry and then selecting Add to Startup…, this allows you to add a new program to Startup.

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

 

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Seriously? The best SF Series ever is Cleopatra 2525.

{runs from the lounge, giggling}

mrjimphelps, this is cool! I recently zapped Windows from my old laptop, with the intention of installing Ubuntu Linux (he-he).

Currently, I am running it from a USB key, which I used during the zap phase. I will be following along and learning!

Cheers,

Mitch

RG,

Here it is:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd361851.aspx

Cheers,

Mitch

I use Evernote for this – select what to save, click the elephant, click Save, tag the resultant EN Note as ‘Windows Secrets’, copy & paste Newsletter number and date into Note Title. Done.

If I wanted an EN Note as a PDF I would print the EN Note to a PDF printer – not that I ever have.

For some inexplicable reason, in Firefox, I cannot avoid selecting the line before Newsletter number and date (it’s the title of the first item) hence the cut and paste step. Maybe in Chrome I could, but for various reasons I keep Chrome free of extensions. Firefox is my goto browser.

Would it not be more logical if WS made the ‘title’ of the newsletter page the newsletter number and date, rather than the title of the first item. Probably, but…

NW

NW, are you clicking to the article page before saving in Evernote? If you save from the “home” page, perhaps because you just want the top story, Web Clipper takes that title, as you said.

If you click on the article title first, then Web Clipper uses that article’s page title:
43574-lounge-save-evernote

Bonus: you won’t have to tediously select what you want.

Cheers,

Mitch

Due to the the large database size, this has to be an all or nothing proposition. The following suggestion is subject to two huge assumptions:

1. The web site will allow thousands of searches from the same IP in a short period of time
2. The client can find a developer to properly implement the scheme

Maudibe had the right idea: partitioning the data. I chose to focus on the other filters, since the initial letter really can’t be extended. After refining each filter, I checked against the letter A. Each result returned over 500 until I got to the last filter: time range. Arbitrarily, I chose 01/01/2006 – 01/31/2006.

Finally! 3 results!

43573-lounge-md-search

Upon further reflection, this is a good range, as the number returned is less than a page. (If the developer can use sockets, this will be irrelevant.)

At the worst, nearly 20,000 searches have to be done for each time range. Here is a summary:

Partitioning Scheme:

26 Initial: Must use only one letter, due to single letter entities like A & L
24 County: Maryland has 23 counties and one independent city
4 Case Type: Civil, Criminal, Traffic, Civil Citation
2 Court Type: Circuit, District
4 Party Type: Attorney, Defendant, Plaintiff, Other
?? Time Range: 1 month

So for each time range, create 26 * 24 * 4 * 2 * 4 = 19,968 searches.

Optimizations are possible. OP didn’t mention whether client was interested in the entire database. For example, if only one county is required, the searches per time range would go down to 832!

Thanks, Rory. I added this to my Evernote.

Rory, this is intriguing. Where can I learn more about WithEvents and, specifically, your implementation in the class handler? (Translation: I am clueless…)

[edited to eradicate cluelessness]

I wanted to figure out why the collection object was used. I found the answer in StackOverflow, along with a generally useful tutorial for event handlers in Excel VBA:

Note that the reason you need to add the event handler instances to a collection is simply to ensure that they remain referenced and thus don’t get discarded by the garbage collector before you’re finished with them.

Cheers,

Mitch

After losing a decade’s worth of archived programs when my WD MyBook failed, I swore I would never again waste money on external drives. So, the short answer is that I store everything except backup images.

I created free accounts on about half a dozen services, evaluated their usefulness and allocated my offline file storage according to how easy it was to retrieve them.

Eventually, I stopped using services with buggy or resource-heavy desktop “apps” (MediaFire and SpiderOak, respectively.) Currently, I pay for just one service – Google Drive – but I’m probably going to switch to Dropbox Pro to save money and increase storage.

I let CryptSync handle the syncing and encrypting between my local drive and the services’ folders. While that adds a layer of complexity for recovering files, I just use RoboForm to keep track of the CryptSync passwords!

The only fly in the ointment is that I will have to buy an external drive in order to do full image backups (I miss the old Norton Ghost! and Windows 98SE…sigh)

Cheers,

Mitch

Zeddy,

You are a rockstar. Every time I read this forum, you seem to have something cool to share!
When I saw this thread highlighted in WindowsSecrets, I thought someone would come up with either an animated GIF or, a solution based on Excel’s Camera tool.

Yours is a cool hybrid of those. I’ve seen the camera in action (on Chandoo.org) but I can’t “picture” using it for a dice-roller, can you?

Cheers,

Mitch