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- 2021-Jul-25, 11:01 pm
- Forum: Meta: Site Feedback / Forum Q&A
- Topic: The new forum and the old forum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20513
The new forum and the old forum
The new forum is now here, to login you just need to register. The old forum is still online and can be found at https://ss64.org/oldforum/ I have migrated just over 10% of the threads on the old forum to this one, it looks like less but that's because a whole thread on the old forum has been conden...
- 2021-Jul-25, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Meta: Site Feedback / Forum Q&A
- Topic: Extra smilies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 17142
Extra smilies
There is a smilies toolbar when logged in, but also a few extra smilies you can enter by typing in the BBcode. Type in the code on the left without any spaces to get the smilie on the right. For any post you can tick the Disable smilies button if you need to prevent them from messing up the display ...
- 2021-Jul-25, 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Tech News, Notes and Queries
- Topic: The Tragedy of systemd
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19059
The Tragedy of systemd
This is a really interesting talk about the history of systemd by Benno Rice, (37 minutes + questions). Even for people who don't work with linux there are some interesting comparisons with the way that Daemons and Services are handled in Windows NT and MacOS and also some discussion of implementing...
- 2021-Jul-24, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Windows CMD Shell
- Topic: Robocopy to ONLY copy changed files
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4252
Re: Robocopy to ONLY copy changed files
This is an old thread, but a common reason for robocopy repeatedly copying files on every run is if the source and destination have different filesystems which return the date modified to a slightly greater or lesser accuracy. If everything is running NTFS there should be much less of that happening.
- 2021-Jul-23, 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Tech News, Notes and Queries
- Topic: The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
- Replies: 1
- Views: 17779
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
During an open commission meeting Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to enforce laws around the Right to Repair, thereby ensuring that US consumers will be able to repair their own electronic and automotive devices. The FTC’s endorsement of the rules is not a surprise outcome...
- 2021-Jul-19, 4:56 pm
- Forum: Windows CMD Shell
- Topic: Get Wifi Passwords
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1208
Re: Get Wifi Passwords
Hackoo's code runs an HTA application, which while it can still be run (in old versions of IE) is deprecated.
- 2021-Jul-17, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Windows CMD Shell
- Topic: How to automate user input/keystroke input when using pause command
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1198
Re: How to automate user input/keystroke input when using pause command
Another approach to this is to call the script with: START CMD /k yourscript.cmd That will run the script and the window will remain open for any further input. You don't actually need the START, thats just to open it in a fresh window so it's obvious what's happening, if creating a shortcut, you ca...
- 2021-Jul-14, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Windows CMD Shell
- Topic: issue with psexec not closing after execution
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1591
Re: issue with psexec not closing after execution
Im late to the party but you may just need to use psexec -accepteula to suppress the copyright message.
- 2021-Jul-11, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Meta: Site Feedback / Forum Q&A
- Topic: How to ask good questions - and get better answers.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 17441
How to ask good questions - and get better answers.
5 tips on how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer. 1) Before asking a question on the forum, do the following: Try to find an answer by searching the forum archives or via google Try to find an answer by searching the Web. Try to find an answer by reading SS64.com...