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Remove Filter  | I recently fell victim to the latest Windows 11 update - KB5023706. The symptom was intermittent BSODs (blue screen of death). It wasn't until after I had done a thorough slate of hardware and system diagnostics that I came across an online tech article explaining the problem's likely origin. After …  |
| | I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it. |
| | I've only ever noticed this happening while playing a video in vlc media player. I'll have the video playing in full screen with the video's folder in the background. Without touching the mouse, keyboard, or touchpad, the background Explorer window will pop to the front, obscuring the video. I can …  |
| | Vatican City has a density of 5.88 popes per square mile.  |
| | First I want to say that my only interest in the technical details of web development are from an end user perspective. I usually go to [this site](https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca) to get my weather forecasts. Their current display format is to present the forecasts horizontally but it will likely be changing soon …  |
| | A big problem today is that people have forgotten the purpose of language. In my day (cue Seth Meyers routine) language was intended to convey ideas from one person to another. Similarly to data transmission, we want to get the information from one person to another as quickly and as … |
| | Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the … |
| | In the summer of 2022 I bought an ASUS laptop from BestBuy. It came with an internal SSD and an empty internal bay for a 2.5" drive. I didn't install a second drive until October and when I booted up it would not recognize the added drive. When I took … |
| | I went to a site that sells wood veneer slat paneling. They make a nice range of products and seem reputable. However, on completing my order I found that my payment options were limited to * shoppay * paypal * gpay I have never seen a legitimate site that would … |
| | Having just acquired a Raspberry Pi Model 3, I am attempting to set it up as an NAS. So far I have set up the Raspberry Pi OS and configured samba. It appears to be working fine except for one minor problem. While I can remote in using TightVNC, I … |
| | We haven't had any really silly discussions going on here for some time so let me start one with these two items: Is it just me, or does Lauren Boebert (at least in the outrage/rant photos) look like Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz? and speaking of green things... … |
| | My laptop seldom leaves my house. When I am not using it I close the lid to put it into sleep mode. I also close the lid when carrying it to another room (or perhaps into the backyard hammock). This causes a minor inconvenience as every time I open the … |
| | I came across this item while programming something that should have been very simple. VLC Media Player will save the last viewed position in a media file (assuming you have the resume option enabled). It maintains two lists, file names, and offset times. The file names are encoded such that …  |
| | This is the continuation of a conversation resulting when a thread about crypto currencies went off the rails. I'll start by quoting the relevant parts of the previous thread... from borobhaisab >Any currency that is no value of itself or is not backed by some physical objects, like Metal, that … |
| | My older son and I are both working through online videos teaching machine learning with python. All of the materials we have seen use Jupyter Notebooks. For those of you unfamiliar with Jupyter Notebooks, they are freaking awesome. At least they are when they work. We were using two laptops … |
| | When I get onto Daniweb I notice that the private message icon (speech bubble) next to my avatar has a little red dot. I believe that was to notify me that I have one or more PMs waiting to be read. However when I go to the message centre there …  |
| | I don't often rave about software (ok, other than my own), but I have to give two big thumbs up to the latest release by [Topaz Photo AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/?attribution=true). I have a very large collection of family photos reaching back to the turn of the last century. I long ago converted … |
| | In the last two weeks I renewed my cable package (TV/internet/phone) and in the process got upgraded to a new, faster modem. Three months ago I bought a new ChromeCast device and was able to connect it to my old modem/network using my existing Android 6 cell phone. Today I … |
| | While going through new posts this morning I noticed a change in behaviour. Yesterday, if I clicked on the sprocket to the right of a thread title I got a pop-up menu (mark as read, etc.). Today the menu pops up briefly before I get taken to the thread. There … |
| | It used to be that google maps satellite images had pretty good resolution, at least over cities. I haven't checked in some time, but today I noticed that the resolution is barely equivalent to Donkey Kong when it first came out. When did it get so bad? |
| | Adding a file/folder comment capability to Windows This is something I wrote a few years ago in vb.Net and just recently ported to python/wxpython. As I keep discovering, just about everything is easier in python. Windows does not have a commenting facility so I decided to write something simple. NTFS … |
| | After reading a few reviews I decided to try [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com/download/) out. After importing my bookmarks and customizing my bookmark bar (just a little drag and drop) I was ready to go. Without trying any formal timing tests, my purely subjective impression is that things load faster. I don't have the … |
| | This is yet another thing that everyone just accepts, but nobody can tell me why this decision was made. Everyone is familiar with the Windows screen coordinate system where x and y values increase to the right, for x, and down, for y. What is not noticible until you start … |
| | What I've been doing is to click and drag to select code. Is there a hotkey that will select only the code? CTRL-A selects all text on the page. |
| | When I create a new topic and enter the mandatory tags, the tag dialog box sometimes overlays the "Continue to the Last Step" button leaving only the merest sliver of a button to click. Could the tag dialog be aligned left to avoid this? |
| | I've seen multiple write-ups and videos on how super-easy it is to install and configure JellyFin Media Server. My experience has been the opposite. It has a lot of really nice features, one of which is the automatic fetching of meta data. It's so nice, in fact, that I thought … |
| | My son uses Anaconda so I thought I'd install it so we could collaborate. I downloaded and installed the latest version. When I ran Anaconda Navigator, the first thing it told me was "there is a new version available". That's when I started having misgivings, but I downloaded and installed … |
| | I discovered, after upgrading to Python 3.10, that wxPython no longer worked. Fortunately, a kind soul at wxpython.org suggested I try installing a snapshot build of wxpython via the command pip install -U --pre -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython So far my existing wxPython scripts run just fine. If you are wondering … |
| | Videolan.org has a section in their forums for "VLC media player Feature Requests". I have been using VLC for many years and, other than being a tad light on documentation, I find it pretty damn awesome. But there is one small thing that always bothered me. If you are watching … |
| | [This item](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabotage-code-added-to-popular-npm-package-wiped-files-in-russia-and-belarus/) was in the news a few days ago. I'd like to know people's thoughts. I'm torn. On the one hand, it erodes trust in all open source software. On the other hand, it selectively targets the aggressor nations in an illegal and immoral war. But where do we … |
| | The Quebec government recently proposed a tax on the unvaccinated. Their reasoning is that the Covid crisis is being exacerbated because so many people are refusing the vaccine. In Canada, health care is publicly funded so the extra costs associated with the flood of mostly unvaccinated people into hospitals must … |
| | Happy New Year to all. I hope 2022 is much kinder to everyone than the last two years. I, for one will be spending the evening with family and killing many monks, knights, and ghouls (In Death Unchained on the Oculus is awesome). Oh yeah. We're also going to eat …  |
| | I've had one for a couple of years. I like it because I only have to spend $25 a year to keep the phone minutes topped up (sometimes more if I use more minutes). It does what I want, which is make and receive calls while I am away from … |
| | Curious. Both [this post](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/threads/536401/how-to-write-a-function-of-image-rotation) and [this post](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/threads/536400/how-to-rotate-image-using-c) by user omar90 are tagged as "first post by omar90". They were posted 6 hours apart. |
| | What are the odds. Three minutes before I popped in, we started getting support spam. I whacked 4-5 but I expect they'll keep coming. |
| | We are getting a burst of posts all from IP 180.188.224.184 Wouldn't be a concern except they are all similar in content but from five different usernames (they come in pairs). Anything to be concerned about? If it was on the up-and-up, why use multiple accounts? Jason_54 How do I … |
| | I have a SQLite database that for some insane reason stores dates as the number of days since 1899-12-31. I want to create a view that will display the date as an actual date. I can calculate a specific date from a specific day number as select date('1899-12-31','Localtime','+44386 day') as … |
| | As if Jeff Bezos isn't already rich enough. As someone who is at high risk because of a compromised immune system, I thought it might be a good idea to get a few N95 masks. Because local medical supply stores are out of stock I checked Amazon. While the prices … |
| | I've been following the latest efforts (in the US) of the GOP to unfairly redraw electoral boundaries and was considering how simple a law could be worded to ensure a more fair allocation of electoral districts. What I came up with is: 1. All boundary lines must consist of straight … |
| | This thread is a continuation of a conversation that I started [here](https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/threads/522661/where-to-buy-instagram-followers#post2261270). As Dani correctly pointed out, the discussion belonged in its own thread and should not have taken over the thread in which it started. It wasn't my intention to hijack that thread (and I apologize) but that's what …  |
| | I've been a member of Daniweb since 2010 and a moderator for most of the last ten years. I had the great pleasure of meeting our illustrious founder and leader in 2015. I've enjoyed many interesting discussions, particularly the ones which caused me to re-evaluate some of my own opinions. … |
| | I think I finally understand why Trump is doing so well (he recently pulled even with Hillary Clinton). It's only after years of shows like American Idol and America's Got Talent that his rise is possible. These shows got Americans used to the idea that they could vote with no … |
| | Can anyone recommend a free flv to avi converter? There is a lot of free software out there so I have choices but can anyone recommend one that is free of trojans, viruses, malware, etc.? I've already got the DivX codec and converter but the DivX converter will not do … |
| | I just bought a Figo Nitro 4X cell phone (Android 8.1) phone for my son. When I connect my cell phone (Figo Android 6) to my Windows 10 laptop it displays in file manager with an icon that I can open to see all the folders on my phone. From … |
| | I found this great article on [User Interfaces](https://datagubbe.se/decusab/) that I wanted to share. Two points I wanted to add 1. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's bad. 1. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better. And can we please all decide that light grey text on a white … |
| | When asked, "What language should I learn first?", my answer is always "English". If you can't communicate clearly then you can't do your job as a programmer properly. As a programmer your job does not begin and end with code. You must also be able to write documentation clearly. I … |
| | I'm hoping that people will post unusual or little known facts here. It would be proper to include a link to a source for confirmation. Here's a start. Speedy Gonzales was banned by the Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the … |
| | I am being over-notified. I started a new thread to tell the community that "Active State Komodo IDE Now Free". I got four emails telling me I had started a new thread.  pritaeas endorsed me in - web development - hardware and software - computer science I received 5, … |
| | Fot anyone who is a fan of the Active State Komodo IDE it is now available free and can be downloaded [here](https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/13411-activestate-komodo-ide-now-free.html). According to their blurb... >There will no longer be a fee for Komodo, the multi-language IDE for Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, Perl, and a … |
| | When I go to the programming forum, the banner says "Join the Programming Group Chat - 188 members are chatting as of 20 Hours Ago", yet when I go there I see Dani was there Friday morning and bookday502 was there Dec 7. Where exactly are these 188 members who … |
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