Hi! All,

I had a win the other day, with Windows 8.1. It all started a couple of years ago, with a .MP4 movie. Some of you may know it: The Long Ships (1964), with Richard Widmark starring in the leading role as a Viking who had found the basis in fact of the myth of an enormous golden bell.

These days I usually view the movie on my lounge room TV, in full HD. It's handled via a (hardware) media player device, streaming the flick from over the
household LAN. The device accesses the LAN via a UPnP/DLNA server (software) I
have running on my Ubuntu PC.

The media player can't do netbios networking though it can do TCP/IP, to browse
EwwToob for example. It's supposed to be able to do Windows shares but it can't/won't. Like all fancy media-related doovers these days, the DLNA server likes to maintain an index of accessible media which is regularly re-indexed at
some arbitrary interval.

Anyhow... at some time some years back I must have had a need to rename the file, using possibly DOS or maybe a Linux file management tool. The renaming worked but screwed up the DLNA server index, which referred to the movie henceforth as "na". Yep, it got indexed as na!

It seemed an insurmountable pain but when I calmed down, I felt comfortable with the knowledge that for all time I would always know the correct movie title. Oops... this is getting bigger than Ben Hur's script... I'd better wrap
it up quick...

The other day I downloaded another short video from a site other than EwwToob, and its filename in the index revealed some random serial number NOT the filename! Well, that blew my cool! I was livid.

So, I got to poking around with my faithful Total Commander (any file manager would do). I checked the latest file's "Properties" and found a tab I'd never seen before called: 'Details'. Wow! There it was in the 'Title' field: the serial number. Windows was offering an edit field, so I took the opportunity to null it and clicked the [OK].

I waited and waited till the DLNA server re-index finally updated. Whoo!hoo! There it was! A filename! Not the damned serial number.

As it turns out, .MP3s are similarly blessed with a Details property. There are
probably other file types but I can only devote so much time to playing with *stuff* these days.

Don't anyone tell me you knew about this already. Please don't... :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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Paul Quinn wrote to All <=-

Hi! All,

I had a win the other day, with Windows 8.1. It all started a couple
of years ago, with a .MP4 movie. Some of you may know it: The Long
Ships (1964), with Richard Widmark starring in the leading role as a Viking who had found the basis in fact of the myth of an enormous
golden bell.

These days I usually view the movie on my lounge room TV, in full HD.
It's handled via a (hardware) media player device, streaming the flick from over the household LAN. The device accesses the LAN via a
UPnP/DLNA server (software) I have running on my Ubuntu PC.

The media player can't do netbios networking though it can do TCP/IP,
to browse EwwToob for example. It's supposed to be able to do Windows shares but it can't/won't. Like all fancy media-related doovers these days, the DLNA server likes to maintain an index of accessible media
which is regularly re-indexed at some arbitrary interval.

Anyhow... at some time some years back I must have had a need to rename the file, using possibly DOS or maybe a Linux file management tool.
The renaming worked but screwed up the DLNA server index, which
referred to the movie henceforth as "na". Yep, it got indexed as na!

It seemed an insurmountable pain but when I calmed down, I felt comfortable with the knowledge that for all time I would always know
the correct movie title. Oops... this is getting bigger than Ben Hur's script... I'd better wrap it up quick...

The other day I downloaded another short video from a site other than EwwToob, and its filename in the index revealed some random serial
number NOT the filename! Well, that blew my cool! I was livid.

So, I got to poking around with my faithful Total Commander (any file manager would do). I checked the latest file's "Properties" and found
a tab I'd never seen before called: 'Details'. Wow! There it was in
the 'Title' field: the serial number. Windows was offering an edit
field, so I took the opportunity to null it and clicked the [OK].

I waited and waited till the DLNA server re-index finally updated. Whoo!hoo! There it was! A filename! Not the damned serial number.

As it turns out, .MP3s are similarly blessed with a Details property. There are probably other file types but I can only devote so much time
to playing with *stuff* these days.

Don't anyone tell me you knew about this already. Please don't... :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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I love Total Commander, the features it offers over other file managers is the best.
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Hi! Barry,

On 05/28/2016 01:49 AM, you wrote:

So, I got to poking around with my faithful Total Commander (any file
manager would do). I checked the latest file's "Properties" and

I love Total Commander, the features it offers over other file managers is the best.

I feel the same about it. Enough to 'register' it. It's been my file manager of choice for more than 20 years.

Cheers,
Paul.

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Paul Quinn wrote to Barry Davis Jr <=-

Hi! Barry,

On 05/28/2016 01:49 AM, you wrote:

So, I got to poking around with my faithful Total Commander (any file
manager would do). I checked the latest file's "Properties" and

I love Total Commander, the features it offers over other file managers is the best.

I feel the same about it. Enough to 'register' it. It's been my file manager of choice for more than 20 years.

Cheers,
Paul.

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I use the FTP feature a lot as well (even to grab QWK packets from my BBS) Being able to check my home network is really nice as well (since I setup most of the PCs here to share so I can pass stuff back and forth)

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Hi! Barry,

On 05/28/2016 04:44 PM, Barry Davis Jr -> Paul Quinn wrote:

I use the FTP feature a lot as well (even to grab QWK packets from my

BBS)

Really neat, huh. I don't have any other FTP client app. I use it to even update my default webpage provided by my ISP.

Being able to check my home network is really nice as well (since I
setup most of the PCs here to share so I can pass stuff back and
forth)

Same here, though I stuffed up the networking on my Win 8.1 PC. I dunno how and can't seem to fix it. No hassles as all the other real and virtual PCs are
still able network sensibly.

I use a binkD mailer on it (configured as a point system), as a gate on what I call a network of Stargates. Every morning it catches 9/10ths of a gig of backup files from three Fido nodes, that just magically appear at its Stargate.
:)

Which reminds me: my Win 8.1 PC is a media source, automatically available to my media player thingie but only as a DLNA-compatible source not via networking. Apparently Win 7.xx can easily be enabled as a media source too...
well, according to a how-to doc I saw on-line someplace.

Cheers,
Paul.

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In a message on Saturday 05-27-16 Paul Quinn said to All:

Good evening Paul,

I had a win the other day, with Windows 8.1. It all started a
couple of years ago, with a .MP4 movie.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Nothing else tastes as sweet as victory!

I had the same feeling last night, after having had a fight with the
editor, that I use to edit the scandinavian bulletins/newsletters.

A modification of the WIN/DOS translating part has long been overdue.
Last night I felt like doing some programming, so I attacked the code.

Testing the conversion on the swedish weekly bulletin was succesful, but
needed one final quirk to be changed. That too was successfully managed.

The translation is necessary to convert the umlaut characters, found in
the scandinavian, and other european languages, from Latin1 to PC8,
because PC8 is the neutral language used in my BBS, for bulletins etc.


Have a good nite,

Holger

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Hi! Holger,

On 05/28/2016 09:39 AM, you wrote:

I had a win the other day, with Windows 8.1. It all started a
couple of years ago, with a .MP4 movie.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Nothing else tastes as sweet as victory!

When it comes to doing battle with computer stuff, I like to be in charge on the winning side. :)

I had the same feeling last night, after having had a fight with the editor, that I use to edit the scandinavian bulletins/newsletters.

Neat. Even a tedious job can keep the old grey matter roiling away, rather than wasting. Congrats, Holger.

Have a good nite,

Ah, thanks. Just having a lazy Sunday afternoon in front of the TV, watching a
favourite Clint Eastwood flick called Unforgiven (1992). Yeehar!

Cheers,
Paul.

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In a message on Saturday 05-27-16 Barry Davis Jr said to Paul Quinn:

Hi Barry,

I love Total Commander, the features it offers over other file
managers is the best.

I will not argue with your opinion, having never seen the need for
another file manager than XTree, ZTreeBold and ZTreeWin.

They have followed me from DOS, via OS/2 to WinXP and now Win10.
All the commands are in my spine.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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In a message on Tuesday 05-29-16 Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:

Good afternoon Paul.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Nothing else tastes as sweet as victory!

When it comes to doing battle with computer stuff, I like to be in
charge on the winning side. :)

Same here, it's utterly important.

I had the same feeling last night, after having had a fight with the editor, that I use to edit the scandinavian bulletins/newsletters.

Neat. Even a tedious job can keep the old grey matter roiling away,
rather than wasting. Congrats, Holger.

Apparently I'm not finished yet. Found a couple of odd characters
yesterday, when I edited a satellite bulletin from Amsat. Luckily I
still have the original file, so looking at that Latin1 text will tell
me if those two characters are translatable.

They may be mathematical symbols like micro (æ), or something.

Ah, thanks. Just having a lazy Sunday afternoon in front of the TV, watching a favourite Clint Eastwood flick called Unforgiven (1992). Yeehar!

I saw the HiLite's of the V8 Supercars race at (in) Winton. I started to
look for Winton, in my World Atlas and found one in Quensland, but I
recalled they said something like Victoria, and so-and-so far from
Melbourne, at the start of the program. I'll have to have another look
at it, when it's replayed.


Have a nice afternoon,

Holger

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