http://www.1ph0ne.com/2009/10/16/how...rport-express/
setup an airport express connected sound device as a sound output in ubuntu

i'm up on the apex of a warehouse roof under a threatening black sky with a hole in the clouds shining light onto the screen of a netbook that i've plugged into the console port of an outdoor wap. it's windy, cold, my shoes only have just enough grip on the iron and i'm already pissed at having to be up there fixing the wap in the first place.

windows 7 doesnt have hyperterm, but that's ok cause i'd downloaded a copy onto the desktop. except between that and a usb serial port the data doesn't show on the console straight away and hyperterm is just being a dick.

thoughts of having to send the wap back to the supplier or take it down and break into its seal for the slight chance there might be an internal reset button are suddenly put to rest by www.portableapps.com and putty on my key ring usb stick.

i'd just managed to break the boot process to put the wap into a recovery mode - mission accomplished as the rest can be done indoors - and it starts raining.

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/screenshots.asp

It's like a sheepdog for your desktop icons

both these madmax apps tempt me

may have to investigate tommorowo :D
(my desktop looks horrible and yeah portable app stuff always handy)

Till now, http://www.freemake.com/. Converts plenty of common formats, and supports CUDA and DXVA for ultra fast encoding.

Holy shit, that is an awesome app.

http://mobilepcmonitor.com/

Handy.

Got tired of cracking Snagit everytime I needed to do some docomentation. Found Greenshot, which is free and open source.

TestDisk & PhotoRec (2 apps, one package). TestDisk can recover lost partitions, while PhotoRec can recover files from drives when the partition data has been lost.

Saves shit when a lot of other things cant, and open source.

Dunno if it makes any difference to you Monza but Windows 7 at least has a tool to do that built in, called (funnily enough) Snipping Tool.

^ hasn't tried snaggit

GODDAMN!!! I knew there had to be a better way to search in Windows 7.

Useful for the chronically ignorant that's wondering where the "advanced search" section wandered off to:

http://www.howtogeek.com/73065/learn...-in-windows-7/

Thanks crocos, that is actually really useful _b

That or use this free program

http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?...ilelocatorlite _b

Yeah, I know there's third-party tools, but learning the Advanced Query Syntax means I can rock up to any PC and search it. I don't need to install anything, no need to faff about with USB flash drives etc.

'allo nerds. Need something to scan and clean up my registry. IT help is taking too long to get back to me with a solution, cheers. :)

CC Cleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

+1 for CCleaner
+2 for Glary Utilies Freeware http://www.glarysoft.com/

Thank-you, gentleman.
That fixed the problem, I can now connect to networked printers, yay.

:)

http://ftptest.net/

for debugging your FTP servers.

these sites bug me, especially the 'test my password strength' ones. ;)
sure, it might seem handy, it might even work.. but it may just be a phish too.

and now something constructive, another 3rd party search engine not mentioned in the posts above;
Everything | http://www.voidtools.com/faq.php

"Enter your host, username, and password here, just for testing of course"

SOUNZ LEGIT

use your anonymous account or a test account.

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT NOT FIND THAT TOO DIFFICULT AB!

Who am I to criticise, I'm loving ifttt at the moment and that's just one big "hand over your password"fest. Fuck.

Just, wow. Who the fuck is this supposed to be helping?

Found from that:
How to launch a UAC restricted program from a shortcut without UAC annoying you.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/wi...windows/?p=730
All based on tricks with the Task Scheduler

actually I looked at ifttt and thought it was an awesome idea but I'm just not willing to hand over so many passwords (especially not my email account as that I keep completely separate from all other websites).

and to be honest I didn't put in my "usual" FTP username and password for that ftp test website (but *almost* did before thinking "..nah").

I found it because I am having issues getting secure FTP working with my synology NAS (no idea why yet) and wanted a quick diagnostic.

http://www.pronetexpert.com/technologies/free-tools

3CDaemon
TFTP Server. A useful TFTP server which also supports FTP and Syslog servers
(syslog daemon, windows)

These are my must-haves

TCC/LE - cmd.exe replacement. A godsend, if only for allowing ctrl-v/ctrl-c copy/pasting, and also shift-insert pasting. I used to use Console2 on top of it, which allows for multible tabbed command prompts, but that doesn't work within Win7 x64. TCC/LE has a lot more functionality but I like it for the ease of pasting.

AutoHotkey. I don't do anything fancy with it, but use windowskey + a to either start a TCC/LE window, or bring the out-of-focus TCC/LE window to the front. Also use things to type in oft-repeated strings, eg windows key + 3 to send my TACACS user/password and press enter, to log into network kit.

NotePad++ - huge improvement on Notepad.exe

Oh yeah and Putty Connection Manager, because I can't be arsed remembering the 200+ mgmt IPs for our estate.

comprehensive tcpip reset:
ttcshelbyville.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/reset-tcpip-network-troubleshooting/

I can't do without Charles Proxy for web debugging these days.

Regex Coach for regexp planning.

Anyone into newsgroup downloading?

I discovered sick-beard today, a nifty set of python scripts that automatically downloads new tv eps for you, integrates with sabnzbd, newzbin, etc. Just beats the built in sabnzbd scripting by miles.

*forgot to mention, altho its a set of python scripts, it provides a really nice web interface to manage it all.

I like to keep a simple dynamic desktop on my work PC that tells me the time and date at a glance. Rainmeter can do a whole bunch of stuff that can just about replace your desktop / taskbar and turn it into a writhing mess of CPU meters, RSS rolls and weather reports... if you're into that. Me, I just dont like the Taskbar clock and wanted something I can quickly glance at with [Windows Key] + [Spacebar].



https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nryzwwtxt9g84m2/nPbngRdAlM

Lots of customization to be had. I edited these skins so they centre to the screen whatever the resolution. Skins can be Always ontop, with transparency options, click through-able and such.

Its good to know that 2 years on we have eradicated all of the nerds. It was touch and go there for a minute or two.

Nah, they just moved to the smartphone OS thread :/

Wat

Pi-hole
Brave
Bitwarden
Bear-writer
Slack
iCloud Drive
Pinboard
Pocket
Marvin

Busy on an open source bender at the moment.

- Matomo | Self hosted for web analytics (looking to replace google analytics)
- Nextcloud | Self hosted (replacement for onedrive/google docs - testing...)
- Matrix IM | Account on main server (decentralised messaging) but talking to a mate with self hosted..
- Miniflux | Self hosted intranet - RSS reader to replace feedly

Also mastodon/pixelfed/lemmy etc for giggles.