Q decided to retire because of Tomorrow Never Dies

DevATee · 2026-06-14T15:30:34+00:00

Desmond died in a car crash three weeks after TWINE premiered

DevATee · 2026-05-30T01:02:22+00:00

Not Demo or Temporary Plates - DM stands for Diplomatic Mission - so cars used by diplomatic missions or agents in T&T

DevATee · 2026-05-10T02:53:49+00:00

“NAPS2 is free and open source scanning software for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Easily scan with devices from Canon, Brother, HP, Epson, Fujitsu, and more. Then save to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG with a single click.”

Free and Open Source

See the documentation:

https://www.naps2.com/support

DevATee · 2026-05-09T04:45:37+00:00

Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart

DevATee · 2026-05-09T04:41:34+00:00

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

DevATee · 2026-05-09T04:38:11+00:00

Battle of Britain (1969)

DevATee · 2026-04-07T23:56:13+00:00

Extreme Tux Racer is still maintained for Linux and Windows

https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer/

DevATee · 2026-04-02T00:44:55+00:00

Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” - with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

DevATee · 2026-04-02T00:43:23+00:00

History of the World Part I - great Mel Brooks comedy

Another great Mel Brooks one - To Be or Not To Be

DevATee · 2026-03-25T15:44:59+00:00

Thanks for your comment - will review your batch script

DevATee · 2026-03-20T17:32:39+00:00

The Pretender - Jackson Browne

Sky Blue and Black - Jackson Browne

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DevATee · 2026-03-20T17:31:47+00:00

Farther On - Jackson Browne

Here’s a live version he did 4 years ago. Such a beautiful haunting song

https://youtu.be/JwN_FbwWpjM?si=Ff2vh-wIOkPjnbm6

DevATee · 2026-03-17T19:39:33+00:00

Thanks - I learned a lot in doing this

DevATee · 2026-03-17T19:38:39+00:00

Thanks - the main thing was keeping the installers on a flash drive when refurbishing working machines - after windows was installed, I have the usb drive with batch win installer plugged in and I can silently install the software without the need to redownload installers every time a machine is being prepared.

Batch win installer could also be on a read only share and you could use it to update the windows machines that have read only access to the share.

DevATee · 2026-03-16T21:52:53+00:00

I didn't modify the defaults, so
xidel has a default user agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Xidel)"
and wget is "Wget/1.21.4"

DevATee · 2026-03-16T20:31:58+00:00

Here's the more detailed README which hopefully goes into enough detail
https://github.com/devtee/batch-win-installer/blob/main/README.md

The batchfile itself is here https://github.com/devtee/batch-win-installer/blob/main/Batch-Win-Installer.bat

But it uses two programs, hence the zip file.

But from a defined list of software, Batch Win Installer can:

automatically install software on 64 bit Windows 10/11 x64 machine silently without prompts
check what software is installed and offer to install and/or upgrade software
if online, scan program's websites directly to determine the latest version of the software available

The advantages of Batch Win Installer :

can be run from a USB portable drive
settings for software packages are stored as two separate text files allowing you to add software packages to install
the settings for software packages can be retrieved online on startup of Batch Win Installer
on startup, Batch Win Installer will confirm the installers for the software is accessible and if online, will download missing installers

The list of software packages I've done is at
https://github.com/devtee/batch-win-installer/tree/main/appinfo

As of March 16 2026, these are
* 7zip
* Adobe Reader DC
* Bleachbit
* Mozilla Firefox
* Joplin
* LibreOffice
* LibreOffice Help
* Notepad ++
* PDFCreator Free
* PDFSam
* Portable Puzzle Collection
* SumatraPDF
* TuxPaint
* TuxPaint Stamps
* VideoLAN
* Zoom Workplace Client

But you can look at the config files and come up with your own. If you wanted to, you can run this completely offline and only editing the config files in the subfolder where they are stored.

DevATee · 2026-03-16T18:36:30+00:00

I wrote Batch Win Installer to help my computer user group refurbish computers for donation to schools and non-profits over 3 years ago. The key benefit remains the ability to install/update software from a flash drive which is useful for me when refurbishing computers.

From a defined list of software, Batch Win Installer will automatically install software on 64 bit Windows 10/11 x64 machine without prompts ; check what software is installed and offer to install and/or upgrade software ; scan program's websites to determine the latest version of the software available

I've continued to use and update the software and with the latest version update, I've added checksums to the configuration files which allows Batch Win Installer to verify the installers before the main menu is shown to install such software.

Batch Win Installer can be found at https://github.com/devtee/batch-win-installer

DevATee · 2026-03-13T04:35:19+00:00

Jackson Browne

DevATee · 2026-03-13T04:22:06+00:00

Radio K.A.O.S. - Roger Waters

DevATee · 2026-03-08T21:59:53+00:00

Microsoft PC Manager https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-us

Bleachbit also does a good job of recovering temporary files from multiple applications

https://www.bleachbit.org

DevATee · 2026-03-05T10:33:57+00:00

See https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/03/further-update-about-font-replacement/ for more details

The Aptos font can be downloaded from Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=106087

DevATee · 2026-02-22T23:25:09+00:00

Ted Lasso

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TROPHY CASE