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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Does SSDS even run on anything later than... like... Vista?
IIRC the standard response for these sorts of issues was that anyone here who felt like porting it from VB5 to something more modern on Swampy's behalf was welcome to do so.
That's not even surprising.
To be fair to Swampy, it may be one of the best third-party Desktop Search programs out there today. It's not hard to get near the top when you're the only one competing.
I think the last time I had a "Desktop Search" installed was... Google Desktop back in like 05 or something. When I was 12.
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
in like 05 or something
See, if you had that information stored in SDSS' single text file you wouldn't have to guess, SDSS could find the exact datum for you!
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@Onyx said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
in like 05 or something
See, if you had that information stored in SDSS' single text file you wouldn't have to guess, SDSS could find the exact datum for you!
Weeeeeeelllllll.......
ACCESSING DATE STORAGE MECHANISM...
IDENTIFYING CONTEXTUAL DATA... COMPLETE.
LOCATION IDENTIFICATION... COMPLETE
ACCESSING MKLDCC DATABASE...
EXACT DATE IDENTIFIED: [LOCATION REDACTED], Early 2005
So yeah. 05.
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@sloosecannon
why do you store information with disco-dates?
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@Luhmann said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon
why do you store information with disco-dates?Because I track childhood dates based on where I lived (I was a military kid, so I moved around all over the place). I've found it's much more accurate to do it that way (it's easier to think "did that memory occur in Illinois or in Georgia?" than it is to try to remember what year it was), even if the output is somewhat generalized.
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Or... just...
I don't even. There are about a thousand better ways to accomplish what you're describing.
Never mind the full-on inaccurate data or the fact that howtf do you copy the contents of a USB stick to an iDevice....
Does SSDS even run on anything later than... like... Vista?
I hope not...This way madness lies.
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The last desktop search I remember seeing was after my technologically braindead uncle downloaded like 10 different desktop search applications that turned out to be malware. He was upset that I gave him two choices: Either he keeps it installed and has to continue dealing with a computer that took 30 minutes to start up and 5 minutes to open his browser, plus possibly having to change his credit card numbers every week, OR he uninstalls it and returns to sanity, but lacks the awesome functionality of typing into a box that is "always on top of the screen" and has a cute girl leaning on top of it, and not only gives you the contents of your documents directory but also gives you awesome deals at "amazoink" and "beebay" because even though those companies are really bad misspellings of known internet retailers, those other ones can be legit too, right?
Admittedly, I think that software is probably WORSE than SSDS. But only if the horribly ancient VB5 stuff Spectate's using to develop it with doesn't cause some really bad DLL hell that corrupts Windows.
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SSDS runs on windows 10...
my latest project -- music files has proven interesting...
Corrupt metadata in files needs to be deleted.. I have 40 or so in 24,000 mp3 files.
Those with embedded jpg files won't play but I can copy the good and bad to different folders and run a fix to those that need it.
SSDS can catalog any file type.
SSDS can play a limited number of formats... mpg jpg mp3 bmp avi and a couple more.
SSDS can copy any file type to another folder (randomly too)Yup it does everything I need..
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
SSDS
Oh, you're talking about a program and not a hardware device. No idea how I forgot about that...
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@Tsaukpaetra Only the greatest app on the planet.
To identify those mp3 files that have jpg's
When I do the cp function for mp3 files I have it play / display the music for 1/10 of a second right before the copy. If it fails only those that don't get put to the new directory.
I'll make a few changes so that those that don't pass get put to another folder..
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Tsaukpaetra Only the greatest app on the planet.
To identify those mp3 files that have jpg's
When I do the cp function for mp3 files I have it play / display the music for 1/10 of a second right before the copy. If it fails only those that don't get put to the new directory.
I'll make a few changes so that those that don't pass get put to another folder..Sounds like fun!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Sounds like fun!
Jam it @Tswampaetra!
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@boomzilla said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Jam it @Tswampaetra!
Feature request: honorary titles granted by mods/admins, to be shown like group memberships
Filed under: I was thinking s, but I guess we can abuse groups for it, actually.
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@error said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
honorary titles granted by mods/admins, to be shown like group memberships
Private groups indeed should provide for this...
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
SSDS runs on windows 10.
What're you going to do when Microsoft stops porting VB5 or whatever (CBA to look it up) you use to the next version of WIndows?
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@FrostCat said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
SSDS runs on windows 10.
What're you going to do when Microsoft stops porting VB5 or whatever (CBA to look it up) you use to the next version of WIndows?
at a guess..... stop upgrading, and then complain when things break because new apps assume you have a modern OS.
.... wait. sorry. wrong denizen.
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@accalia said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
at a guess.....
stop upgrading, and then complain when things break because new apps assume you have a modern OSconspiracy theory regarding desktop search cartel becomes central plank in campaign for city council. Smoke some more weed.
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@boomzilla ..... yeah. that sounds about right.
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@SpectateSwamp Wikipedia shares knowledge better than this.
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@FrostCat I'll be dead by then. Or too old to care.
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@Tsaukpaetra It sure is nice to have 100% of the files being playable.
of the 24,000 + files there are 17,100+ are without embedded jpgs.
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@groo I don't give a fiddlers F*** about data that isn't mine.
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@boomzilla I like the Windows 10 task manager...
When jamming it, I like to know what else is running and how disk I/O is going.
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It's way better to have those 17,000 songs in ONE folder rather than the 3500.
It's much easier to see just what tunes you have for sharing when they are all in one folder.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
When jamming it, I like to know what else is running and how disk I/O is going.
Whoa, I didn't need that visual. But whatever floats your .
Filed under: Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
It's much easier to see just what tunes you have for sharing when they are all in one folder.
Sharing tunes is illegal, Spectate. I'm going to report your ass to the RIAA.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I'm going to report your ass to the RIAA.
It's not his 's fault.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I'm going to report your ass to the RIAA.
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@accalia
Pfft, of course I'm not serious. Everyone knows jurisdiction for this was transferred to the cyberpolice in 2006.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I've found many people with huge audio collections complaining about the 32GB size of most smart phones when they have hundreds of GB on their computer...
The SSDS solution is to COPY thousands of RANDOM songs to a USB stick and put those files on their phone. Do this every week or two so that the selection is always fresh.Share and Share randomly..
MP3s have a star rating in meta data.
Can SSDS
- copy all MP3s with no star rating to a folder so I can rate them
- only random random songs rated 4+ stars?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I've found many people with huge audio collections complaining about the 32GB size of most smart phones when they have hundreds of GB on their computer...
The SSDS solution is to COPY thousands of RANDOM songs to a USB stick and put those files on their phone. Do this every week or two so that the selection is always fresh.Share and Share randomly..
MP3s have a star rating in meta data.
Can SSDS
- copy all MP3s with no star rating to a folder so I can rate them
- only random random songs rated 4+ stars?
The SSDS Feature Requests thread is... um... not created?
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@Tsaukpaetra I didn't find any official website for this SSDS thing (google just show a lot of SSD storage devices)
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@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I didn't find any official website for this SSDS thing
You're reading it, methinks. As yet I don't recall there being anywhere else in any case...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I don't recall there being anywhere else in any case...
I quite hope not. If there were one, it would almost certainly be about as rational, well thought out, and sensible as http://timecube.2enp.com.
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@Tsaukpaetra SSDS can do that. Just another check right before the copy.
I think I'll start doing mini apps (in C or Java) to update the meta data into the original files.
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I've been ignoring this thread up to now, but an evil thought just occurred to me: maybe we should point Swampy in the direction of my old friend Ted Nelson and see what happens. I'm betting on some sort of annihilation reaction, like matter and antimatter.
I mean, I wouldn't want to do that to Ted, but it might be interesting to watch.
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@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Tsaukpaetra I didn't find any official website for this SSDS thing (google just show a lot of SSD storage devices)
Does this count?
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict_exe.htm
It did for Wine.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
17,000 songs in ONE folder
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Tsaukpaetra I didn't find any official website for this SSDS thing (google just show a lot of SSD storage devices)
Does this count?
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict_exe.htm
It did for Wine.Maybe. I'm having trouble parsing the page, it's formatted like a poem, so I keep having to close the Prose annunciation helper.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
It did for Wine.
I think you need something stronger than wine to be in a mental state that SSDS makes sense.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
17,000 songs in ONE folder
If they're properly tagged and you have a music player like Foobar which organizes by tags, it's actually rather fine.
If all you have is SSDS, though...
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@SpectateSwamp Can SSDS do video search of audio files?
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Has anyone who isn't @SpectateSwamp seen - or even claimed to have seen - SSDS? Just curious.
I mean, at least Ted didn't claim to have a fully working version of Xanadu until quite recently (though he does claim that they had most of it working on two earlier occasions before his terminal case of Babbage's Syndrome took hold and he threw the existing code away; to be fair, though, the source code for those two attempts is all published now, and a few others say that they got something working based on them). Also, he never claimed to have written it on his own, while I gather Swampy says he managed to not only come up with something no one else in the industry has ever succeeded with or even seen a need for, but to implement it entirely on his own.
Finally, while Nelson has used languages and tools that were laughably unsuited for what he was doing, he never said they weren't, and he's jumped from one approach to another trying to find one that would be adequate (he never did). I gather that Swampy has always trumpeted the superiority of Visual Basic 5 above all other programming suites, which is a bigger than the rest of it combined.
Seriously, Swampy, if you love pre-.Net VB so much, there are several VB copycats such as Liberty Basic, Xojo, and Gambas around that should accept your existing code with minimal changes. Conversely, there are dozens of other languages with good IDEs and RAD tools to choose from; have you looked at the GNAVI IDE for Ada, for example? Or maybe Delphi? Seriously, VB5 was closer to both Ada and Pascal than it was to street BASICs in a lot of ways, I think you should take a look at them.
OTOH, if you hate semicolons, then what about Python? OK, so decent IDEs with RAD tools are a bit thin on the ground since Boa Constructor tanked, but Gumby and PyCharm are still options, as is Monkey Studio with the Python add-ons. Or maybe Ruby would be more your thing, in which case try RubyMine, 3rdRail, or RadRails.
Or maybe you could tell us why you think VB5 is so bitchin' awesome. We're all ears. It's not like some of us (me, for example) don't have weird ideas about what makes a good programming language, too.
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@Yamikuronue said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Tsaukpaetra His and Hers USB sticks?
http://www.casedup.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/USB_Cable_His_Hers_1.jpg
WHERE!!!!
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@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Or maybe you could tell us why you think VB5 is so bitchin' awesome. We're all ears. It's not like some of us (me, for example) don't have weird ideas about what makes a good programming language, too.
VB5 is mature. I like that. The old computing adage is keep it simple. VB5 is simple.
When I finish with the MP3 updates, I'll work on video navigation based on GPS locations. Games Anyone.
Grab a copy of SSDS then we can all Play.
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@SpectateSwamp VB5 is mature the same way scrolls and harpsichords are mature.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Or maybe you could tell us why you think VB5 is so bitchin' awesome. We're all ears. It's not like some of us (me, for example) don't have weird ideas about what makes a good programming language, too.
VB5 is mature. I like that.
That doesn't seem like much of an explanation to me. FORTRAN and COBOL are mature, too, but I don't see anyone defending them on that basis alone.
Also, it isn't even all that true. Python (first released in 1990) is older than VB (Visual Basic 1.0 was released in 1991), and Ruby is only a little more recent (1993), and neither of them have changed anywhere close to the amount that VB did going from 1 to 3, from 3 to 5, or from 5 to 6, even before the .Net reboot was made. Languages such as C, C++, Smalltalk, Ada, and Pascal are older and more mature still, each by a decade or more, and there are RAD tools of the sort you seem to favor for each of them.
The old computing adage is keep it simple. VB5 is simple.
I absolutely have to disagree here. In my experience, the surface simplicity of older versions of Visual Basic hides enormous complexity in actual programming. It is actually an large, unwieldy, and highly inconsistent language, and one which encourages poor programming methods.
If you want simple, Python has VB5 beat in every way possible, and even simpler languages exist, such as Logo or Smalltalk, and Smalltalk's RAD tools beat those of VB5 hollow.
Put bluntly, you're argument is not convincing. If you just like it better, say so, or else give actual reasons why you consider it superior. There's nothing wrong with simply saying, "I like it, and if no one else is going to be working on this project then it doesn't matter". The only reason it would be an issue is if you are looking for assistance in the program, in which case all I can say is good luck finding anyone willing to work with it, and with you.
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@ScholRLEA
Just like operating systems... The programming language doesn't really matter.It's the results that count... SSDS is all about results....