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Sorry to jump in the middle of a thread - what's this game like resource wise? Just picked myself up a laptop and will be loading a couple of games on to it, but it only has Intel iGPU so not going to handle anything too intense. SimCity 2000 should be fine either way

Although I haven't used Moodle itself, one thing that comes to mind is that if it's going to be pulling data from your MIS, chances are it'll need access to some Windows EXE or other (I know with SIMS the CommandReporter EXE is Windows only, imagine other MIS' are imilar) You could of course set up a Windows server to serve the data it needs, but that's another layer of complexity in the chain.

You can make them in Excel, but to be honest they're so basic it's just as easy to use Notepad. The file to create/edit is in the base directory of the EXE, called launchers.csv Takes four fields, each separated by a comma: Title, EXE Path, Arguments, Image Path Each launcher goes on it's own line. Pretty self explanatory but as a for instance, if you wanted two launchers, one of which launched Steam in big picture mode and the other launched Chrome full screen on Netflix, your CSV would look something like this (in Notepad): Steam,C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe,-tenfoot,steam.png Netflix,C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe,www.netflix.com --kiosk,netflix.png The title is optional, whatever you put there will be printed as a label for the launcher button. You can leave it blank, or precede it with a # to hide it. All paths are relative to the BertUI EXE, so in the above example, the two PNG files would need to be in the same folder a the EXE. You can of course use absolute paths if they're elsewhere. EDIT: should have added, the "arguments" field are command line arguments for whichever EXE the launcher is for, not for BertUI itself. So whichever program you want to launch, Google it's command line arguments to find out what options to set at launch for the desired effect. EDIT2: should also mention that it auto scales the buttons to your screen resolution, the idea being the buttons will be the same size regardless of resolution. I had planned to make this tweakable, but have never got round to that (it was one of those projects I had loads of ideas for but stopped developing as soon as it did what I wanted it to do ). It'll add rows if you add too many buttons to fit on a single row. If there's much interest in this, I'll pick up development on it again

Well it's a tiny bit of self promotion* but I developed a program called BertUI [The 10-foot UI for Windows] which basically creates a nice big UI to launch whatever you want from. Adding an item is as simple as adding a row to a CSV file. It's far from perfect and could do with rewriting in something lighter than .NET, but it does what I need it to. I coupled it with a few AHK scripts I wrote and can now launch whatever 'app' I want from the desktop - so for Netflix, there's a button that launches Chrome full screen, for Minecraft there's a script to launch joy2key and log Minecraft in - sort of like a big quick launch. I did it because I found some of Kodi's apps lacking and buggy, Netflix in particular. Oh and it works with the 360 pad (and probably others) as that's what I mainly control my HTPC with. If you're interested, you can download it from my website (yeah I know it links to an empty github, I've never quite gotten around to tidyin up the source to put online but if anyone wants a copy I'm happy to share): BertUI - the 10-foot UI for Windows http://www.geekjosh.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BertUI-1024x576.png * but not really because I'm not selling anything! EDIT: undocumented feature alert: if you put a pund sign ('#') before the launcher's title, it won't display the title. You can just leave the title blank of course, but I added this in as a way of enabling labelling in the CSV without the neccessity to display the text on the button, as I'm using images that clearly identify their purpose)

To each their own, but I can certainly tell the difference between a cheap catalog panel and a high quality panel in a Sony/Panasonic/etc. It's not as clear cut as "Sony are good" or "Panasonic are good" though, different sets use different panels, though Sony and Panasonic seem to consistently use good panels, excellent in some of their TVs. Samsung are one of the most varied; their cheap panels are ugly as hell, but they put some really nice panels in their high end TVs. It's all down to personal taste though; the missus genuinely doesn't care if a picture is SD/HD! I'm more picky Panasonic sets tend to have freetime, which is about the closest we have to an industry standard on Smart TVs* - it provides the freeview EPG as well as links to the various OD services, including the big 4 (BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD and 5 On Demand) I have to say though, I rarely use the "smart" features of my TV; my HTPC does a much better job of those features and can be customised to do whatever I like. Consoles have apps for most of the streaming providers now too. Really, unless you have no other equipment to handle it or it's going in a room separate to all that equipment, I don't see the point in paying the premium for smart features. With a little work, a Raspberry Pi can achieve most of the functionality for under £50. * not sure if other TV manufacturers use freetime, but it's what the YouView boxes and a few other freeview boxes are based on

Some amazing work there! I consider myself quite adept in Photoshop, but this is on another level. Something to aspire to for sure @sonofsanta - I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, thanks!

Not for me - I can see the BT tower from my back garden

I don't use SpiceWorks and I'm not an NM, but the opportunity to meet a few of you in a fantastic pub is very tempting...

IrfanView is a great tool for basic image manipulations and it can do batch processing too: IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

I don't! Slingshots will be back in fashion and I'm not popular

At least in my area, they are Yodel. I don't know if things have changed now but certainly when Amazon Logistics started, they just sub contracted existing delivery drivers

Thanks for taking the time to report back the solution - no doubt someone else will eventually stumble on this post and it'll save them the hassle you had!

In that case, first thing I'd try is a new/alternative PSU (use any known working one to test if that's the issue)

Does it beep? Computer POST and beep codes

That is a good one Elevator Saga is good too, though only JavaScript: Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game

Do you know the command to run or was that part of the question? If so, this should do it (put this in the "Remote Command" box in Putty): libreoffice --show localfilename.odp It's important to specify the full path in Linux, and it's case sensitive. Assuming the file is in the home folder, the shorthand reference to this is '~/', so the example above would become: libreoffice --show ~/localfilename.odp EDIT: there's a list of LibreOffice command line arguments here: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Starting_the_Software_With_Parameters

See my edit, there's an option in Putty to do it

Try sending the run command as an SSH argument, rather then SSH'ing to the shell then running it i.e. ssh username@host "your command here" EDIT: sorry, just realized you're suing Putty. Go to "Connection > SSH", then look for "Remote Command" and enter the command you're using to open presentations there. Then when you login, that command will be run on the host.

Not seen the error but it might help you diagnose it if you edit the report's template. I'm assuming it's an Excel report, so it'll either be using the default template (Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\ExcelStandardList.xls) or a custom one - you'll need to find who has the original template if that's the case. Open up the template, go to the Auto_Open sub routine and comment out the line beginning 'On Error'. Save the template with a new name, then in SIMS report designer, choose "User defined template" on the output page and select the template copy you just saved. Now, when the report is run, you'll get the default VBA error box with a 'debug' button, press that and it'll show you exactly which line the error occurs on, which should give some clue as to why it's failing. [This is from memory so I apologize if the menu routes/boxes aren't labelled exactly as described, should be enough for you to find it though]

Gah, someone beat me to it - I was going to make an add-on myself as a little weekend project

still got this issue and it hasn't cleared itself up this time - any ideas what I can do/check to fix it? The way it's going, I'm going to have to resort to issuing login details but I'd rather it was transparent, staff already moan about the number of login details they have to remember EDIT: so I just remoted in to the server as a domain admin and now it's all working fine again! Not sure what causes this issue, so still curious if anyone has any suggestions.

It's an add-on for Firefox called Live HTTP Headers: mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index

Done it on mine too Good old @ZeroHour

anyone?

If you have an adapter yeah (part of the joke) - but USB1/2/3 is exactly the same connector and backwards compatible, the issue here is that although still called USB, it's a completely different connection to old USB cables. Ifyou needed an adapter for your tablet, it's not because it was USB2, it's because it was mini/micro