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Brainworm posted:Strings works on Linux/*BSD and macs, and should work on Windows if you have WSL installed. There's a neat Mac tutorial here. If you don't want to deal with WSL, Sysinternals includes a strings clone as well.
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Entorwellian posted:Another niche product I like to use when I can is an audio programming environment called Puredata. It looks like it came from an apple ii but it allows you to build whatever you want with a small library of functions that you can load up as an external to play on a microcontroller, or you can turn your programs into VSTs for music software you use. So you can build a digital guitar pedal or a softsynth without having to know too much about hardware. It's open source and free, as opposed to its $500 counterpart Max/Msp by Cycling '74. It's essentially the "MSP" part of Max/MSP and was coded by the same guy. I still use Max for most of my stuff but puredata is my go-to for making the software component to anything hardware. Also you are limited to using the max runtime or max4live in Ableton with Max/Msp, whereas Puredata will run on just about anything. Pure Data is good poo poo. When I was doing my master's in music, one of the best classes I ever took was an intro to programming with Pd. For my final project, I ran a Yamaha Silent Brass mute into my laptop and built a patch so that I could get various guitar pedal type effects on my horn, or use it as a midi controller to play synth instruments or samples.
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I forgot to post Everything before. Windows file search has always sucked, even if you set C:\ to be indexed. This service has a file system watcher that records every file in your file system and puts it in its own database. Searching is instant. Even launching a program by name is typically quicker than the stupid Win10 start menu search. https://www.voidtools.com/en-au/
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EoinCannon posted:PureRef +1 Brainworm posted:Need to scrape human-readable text out of a binary -- like, maybe you want to pull plain text out of a document saved by some ancient word processor? There's a tool for that: strings. This is so awesome and just wanted to thank you for mentioning it.
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i like kdocker and the best music player is audacious, it still supports winamp skins too
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Mozi posted:windirstat https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=150 Entorwellian posted:Cool Edit Pro 2.1 Cool Edit Pro is wonderful. It lives in my quicklaunch bar and is my go to for any kind of sound editing. Brainworm posted:strings, strings, strings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-lyA2id5aY *I couldn't find an undaulterated copy of this, so the looping one will have to do. (I'm not just taking the piss, strings is awesome too.
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rotor posted:sshfs is a utility that lets you treat ssh sessions as drives mounted to your filesystem and it's incredibly useful and works just about everywhere. In Linux this solution is great for working on remote systems. However I have found that will bad connections it hangs things like the GTK file picker.
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EoinCannon posted:PureRef You've just reminded me it's been sitting on my toolbar for a year!
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Cheat Engine is a tool for cheating in computer games. People who know about programming stuff can do all sorts of neat poo poo with it but for someone like me all you have to do is point it at a program, type in a value you want to change (like the amount of money your character has or how many of an item you're character has), and then narrow down all the variables it returns by changing the number of the thing in the game and then plugging the new value in. Once you have it isolated you can change it to whatever you want, bypassing hours of grinding, or lock the value in place to effectively give yourself infinite health/money. Especially with the recent trend in games wanting to push microtranactions in single player games it feels great to just bypass that entirely. Just make sure you don't do it with an online-enabled game when the game is connected to the internet, if the values are stored server-side it will immediately revert at best and get you banned for cheating at worst.
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CLCL. It sits in your tray and keeps a history if stuff you have copied so you can go back after copying something else. Win10 kinda has this feature now but I prefer this ancient tool I've used forever. https://nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html
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I used MusicBrainz Picard when I had a bunch of mp3s from Kazaa or whatever and wanted to figure out what albums they were from and tag them properly en masse.
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Loden Taylor posted:Pure Data is good poo poo. When I was doing my master's in music, one of the best classes I ever took was an intro to programming with Pd. For my final project, I ran a Yamaha Silent Brass mute into my laptop and built a patch so that I could get various guitar pedal type effects on my horn, or use it as a midi controller to play synth instruments or samples. There's a fork that is out called "Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork)" which heavily modifies Puredata to brings it up-to-date graphically and makes things more user-friendly. Especially the GUI. Might be better for beginners or those that don't want to fight the C language.  Regular Pd: https://puredata.info/ L2Ork version: https://puredata.info/downloads/Pd-L2Ork
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Entorwellian posted:There's a fork that is out called "Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork)" which heavily modifies Puredata to brings it up-to-date graphically and makes things more user-friendly. Especially the GUI. Might be better for beginners or those that don't want to fight the C language. Thanks for this. Could't use L2Ork since I don't have Linux, but grabbed the Windows compatible fork, Purr-Data. And since it's all forked off Pd-extended, most of my old patches still work. Spent some time piecing apart and reworking an old drone generator to re-learn how everything works. 
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Entorwellian posted:Another niche product I like to use when I can is an audio programming environment called Puredata. It looks like it came from an apple ii but it allows you to build whatever you want with a small library of functions that you can load up as an external to play on a microcontroller, or you can turn your programs into VSTs for music software you use. So you can build a digital guitar pedal or a softsynth without having to know too much about hardware. It's open source and free, as opposed to its $500 counterpart Max/Msp by Cycling '74. It's essentially the "MSP" part of Max/MSP and was coded by the same guy. I still use Max for most of my stuff but puredata is my go-to for making the software component to anything hardware. Also you are limited to using the max runtime or max4live in Ableton with Max/Msp, whereas Puredata will run on just about anything. It's also the basis behind https://www.critterandguitari.com/organelle, which can be less glamorously described as an embedded linux machine with a lot of audio-focused ports and a really not ergonomic built-in keyboard. still fun though! Anyway, my favorite niche piece of software is Gephi, an open-source toolkit for manipulating and visualizing graph data. This is graph data in the computer science sense, where you have a number of nodes and connections (edges) between them. This is a surprisingly flexible abstraction, and can be adapted to represent connections between websites (the original theoretical basis behind Google search is based on it), real-world networks (you, your friends, everyone they're friends with, and all connections in between), or less intuitive things like recipe ingredients (garlic powder: turns out it's more likely "connected" to savory beef dishes and associated ingredients than it is to cocoa powder). While you can do lots of useful computer things with graphs, they're most fun for humans when you can visualize them. Graph data on its own is just a big list of things and their connections to other things, but there are a wide variety of algorithms you can use to analyze that data and plot it for easy human understanding. My favorite application is analyzing social network data: relatively open sources like Twitter or Facebook groups (at least back in the wild west pre-Cambridge Analytica days of Open Graph giving you everything with the barest of justification) allow you to gather a lot of data about the structure of communities. For example, this is a high-level, "big hairy balls" (on account of it being mostly a fuzzy mess of edges) view of the various communities grouped around the Twitter accounts of Let's Play posters, circa 2016:  That particular rendering isn't from Gephi, but it's pretty representative. While it does look like a giant mess at this level, zooming in does show a lot of interesting structure in how those communities are grouped, and which members are central and which form bridges between communities.
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:My work still uses Lotus Notes for a bunch of database stuff and I actually really like the bit we use for project tracking. It’s just nicely organized and really easy to find what you’re looking for. I know this is 7 pages old but if I heard you express this insane opinion in a design or specification meeting you would immediately get tarred with "never, ever promote this irredeemable monster" in my head
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Is there a program that allows me to copy from a pdf and paste it into a word document. I dont want to pay Adobe prices to do so, because I only need it to update my CV every few years at most
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lilbeefer posted:Is there a program that allows me to copy from a pdf and paste it into a word document. I dont want to pay Adobe prices to do so, because I only need it to update my CV every few years at most that depends on what you are trying to copy and how the PDF is set up. some times you can grab the raw text, some times you can't. but push comes to shove you can copy anything from any type of E-document using Sharex. this will involve taking a screen grab of your PDF
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Yeh I should clarify I really want to keep the formatting Will check out that and see if it helps, thanks
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If you want to paste it into a Word document, why not open the PDF in Word? It has a built-in parser since version 2013 at least
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A CRAB IRL posted:I know this is 7 pages old but if I heard you express this insane opinion in a design or specification meeting you would immediately get tarred with "never, ever promote this irredeemable monster" in my head It was a (bad) troll post. I do hate the replacement we’re implementing though.
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Lotus Scrotes
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olives black posted:Lotus Scrote Scrotus, if you will.
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Literally A Person posted:Scrotus, if you will. Powered by Domyerballs DB
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*tearfully removes the Lotus Notes poster from my bedroom wall; rolling it carefully, lovingly, into a tube held fast on both ends by the softest of rubber bands*
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:*tearfully removes the Lotus Notes poster from my bedroom wall; rolling it carefully, lovingly, into a tube held fast on both ends by the softest of rubber bands* *confiscates it, puts it in a lead box and delivers it to the same warehouse that holds the Ark of the Covenant*
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olives black posted:*confiscates it, puts it in a lead box and delivers it to the same warehouse that holds the Ark of the Covenant* Sorry, if the Ark of the Covenant was installed in the facility prior to Lotus Notes, it has to be taken out manually and the entire facility searched for any traces the Ark may have left behind. Once that's done, then you can move Lotus Notes in and get it set up. Afterwords you can put the Ark back in, but only most of it. Parts of the Ark might break, or break wherever Lotus Notes is being kept, no one's real sure.
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Big Beef City posted:Sorry, if the Ark of the Covenant was installed in the facility prior to Lotus Notes, it has to be taken out manually and the entire facility searched for any traces the Ark may have left behind. i thought the last hotfix was supposed to resolve that issue
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olives black posted:i thought the last hotfix was supposed to resolve that issue Let’s ask that old guy in the knight armor over there. He was the admin that applied the hot fix in 2003.
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lilbeefer posted:Is there a program that allows me to copy from a pdf and paste it into a word document. I dont want to pay Adobe prices to do so, because I only need it to update my CV every few years at most LibreWriter, part of LibreOffice, allows PDF editing. You could do just that and export to word format right from LibreOffice. 
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Big Beef City posted:Sorry, if the Ark of the Covenant was installed in the facility prior to Lotus Notes, it has to be taken out manually and the entire facility searched for any traces the Ark may have left behind.
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I appreciate the good software everyone
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i still use Cool Edit Pro 2.1 for pretty much everything audio processing related. been using cool edit since the mid 90s. it's just so comfy and familiar.
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DOSbox is great for games, and for a long time that's all I used it for. If you download a port of an old DOS game on Steam, it's probably actually running using a DOSbox wrapper. That's hardly a niche use, but DOSbox has plenty. We use it to run the control software for my dad's old CNC machine, for instance. DOSbox also runs WordStar, which probably deserves its own entry here, too.
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Adobe flash projector to play the innumerable amount of swf files I've collected over the years on the desktop.
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Gomi Day posted:i still use Cool Edit Pro 2.1 for pretty much everything audio processing related. There are still things that it does much better than REAPER and even Ableton.
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Why do people still use weird old word processors? Is it to write forbidden words that have been patched out of modern office software?
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