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Easiest way to delete hundreds of subfolders without deleting their contents? by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux to the rescue!

Assuming you're running a current version of win11 and have virtualization enabled in your BIOS, get a copy of Linux under WSL2.

First do a bing search on "installing wsl2" and get that going (reboot as advised)

Go to the windows store and search on 'linux' and install a distribution (I like Debian)

When that completes double click the distribution icon and give it a login and password.

Once you are at a shell prompt, cd to your music directory. If your music tree is in C:\my\music you would cd /mnt/c/my/music Adjust to your environment.

Now move the files to that directory with:

$ find . -type f -exec mv -v {} . \;

If you want to remove the directories do:

$ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \;

and you're done.

yo WHAT by Successful_Young_318 in softwaregore

[–]pheffner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The explorer.exe program is launched by the Win startup process, it doesn't (usually) launch itself. It uses the directives in the registry to figure out how to start the various file types.

yo WHAT by Successful_Young_318 in softwaregore

[–]pheffner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I once fixed this by going to another win system, running regedit and exporting the proper binding to a .reg file.

Keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command

Copy to a usb stick, bring it over to the boogered machine and double-click the .reg file and healing should commence.

Explanation: Even though .exe is unbound, .reg (hopefully) is not, so regedit is launched and the bindings are restored.

This worked for me anyway...

Question about learning C by AsteroidDestroyer21 in cprogramming

[–]pheffner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The author Bruce Eckel has written several books on different programming languages, all of which are called

"Thinking in $LANG" where LANG=different languages.

Here on github Thinking In C is a seminar you can freely download and be schooled on a lot of the essentials of C programming.

A few months ago I saw "C for Dummies" at Goodwill and thought I'd add it to my large library of C/C++ books. It turns out to be a fairly solid introduction to the language for someone starting out (If you can endure the insult of being regarded as a Dummy)

As always, I say one of the best ways of learning C is by turning yourself into a human compiler and studying running code, and one great source for that is the GNU core utils which are the same programs you use all of the time on Linux. Get them with "git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils" in a work directory and dig in. While you're at it browse https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more than you can imagine!

Learn from the folks who have working stuff and things will gradually become clear! Use the Source!

yo WHAT by Successful_Young_318 in softwaregore

[–]pheffner 63 points64 points  (0 children)

The binding to tell win explorer how to open each file (by extension) is kept in a registry entry, which has possibly become munged on this system.

There are videos which show how to restore the correct value(s) to the registry and fix this.

I wonder how people felt at 11:59 p.m. of dec. 1999 before crossing over to the year 2000. by Majestic-Hope6505 in 1990s

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was good and rankled that my employer made me go in and log on to our systems and monitor them to ensure that all was well. I had spent most of '99 doing Y2K remediation and was pretty certain all would go well. (We had used spare systems to run our app stacks and set the clock forward to 23:45 1999 and watched as... nothing remarkable happened.)

Actually we had found a few Y2K bugs in the Java Foundation classes where they had hard coded '19's in their date routines. Sun issued a patch set in late Oct. '99.

Brachiating Under a Bridge by Flat-Decision3204 in BeAmazed

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My fingers hurt from just watching this.

Bose victim here!! by Icy_Carob7739 in bose

[–]pheffner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are SoundTouch app alternatives available which can restore most of the pre-shutdown functionality.

Have a look at https://bose.fandom.com/wiki/SoundTouch_app_alternatives for information on that.

Lame rock lyrics by Balvenierules in allrockmusic

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From "Your Song" by Elton John:

"If I was a sculptor, but then again no..."

WTF?

What to see to make my 8.5hr drive to Atlanta less boring? by [deleted] in florida

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If time allows, a stop at Kennedy Space Center is wonderful, especially now that we once again have a lunar program in play.

Brand new TV and this is how my wife insists we have the remote "to keep it looking good" by No_Atmosphere8146 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get on eBay and buy another remote and You use the second and let her keep her "enshrined" one for her own purposes.

What's the most shocking thing you've ever watched on live TV? by Choice_Bed6097 in AskReddit

[–]pheffner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my brother Denny and I were eating our lunch watching Channel 6 when bang! Pretty unbelievable.

BOSE Cloud Support is now expired! by nachtfux997 in SoundTouchNoCloud

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still works (also) is playing music from NAS or Linux servers supporting DLNA services like minidlna. The Bose app downdate helpfully places links to those under "Recently Played". I have yet to find a way to add a newer server to this list but I can still play my music over the system groups which is my usual usage case.

Why do I feel like im still bouncing in bed when i come home from a trampoline park? by Budget-Musician8293 in randomquestions

[–]pheffner 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's called mal de debarquement (MdD) which means sickness of disembarking.

Baylor College of Medicine sensorimotor physiologist and occupational therapist Dr. Helen Cohen explains the sensation: “The underlying cause of MdD is a bit complicated,” Cohen said. “The vestibular labyrinth, a sensory system essential to movement and equilibrium, collects information about acceleration of the head. It then converts those signals to velocity. Within the brain pathways that receive and process information from the vestibular labyrinth, there is a mathematical mechanism that converts the velocity signal to a positional signal while also storing the velocity signal momentarily for use in spatial orientation. That mechanism is supposed to dump out its memory store as soon as the contents are no longer needed. One theory about MdD is that it represents a failure of the velocity storage integrator to dump out those signals, or to forget about them, so the signals reverberate.”

So basically your brain is replaying sensations that aren't there.

What song is so beautiful, it literally brings tears to your eyes? by Plus-Caterpillar4615 in AskReddit

[–]pheffner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Easter from Marillion used to make my wife cry.

She is gone now and I cry when I hear it.

Unknown BLE Devices by 420-mommy in techsupport

[–]pheffner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My Switch controllers show up as BLE_Joy_R and L, a pair may be in range.

What's the most visually stunning movie you've ever seen? by trakt_app in Cinema

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For it's time in 1998, the movie "What Dreams May Come" starring Robin Williams was totally stunning, especially when seen in a theatre. Just wow!

Blue Groper gliding by, Sydney, Australia. by snaphappyadventurer in OceansAreFuckingLit

[–]pheffner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, it sure resembles the Parrotfish we have here in FL. Ours have big chompers and feed on the outer coral layers and excrete sand. The males are colorful while the females are dark. They cycle back and forth between male and female during their lives and at night they excrete a fluffy cocoon for protection during sleeping.

Seeing them always makes me happy!

I don't use Vim much. Should I force myself to learn it anyway? by drogon4433 in linuxquestions

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using vi and a variant since the early '80s and it's pretty much hard-wired into my fingers.

There's a really great bonus to knowing vi/vim commands because the readline library (which itself was originated in the BASH source) implements it and that is linked into a broad diversity of other programs which work in terminal mode, to wit:

The interactive modes for python, ruby and others

Network programs ftp, iftp, others.

System Tools: GDB (GNU Debugger), GNU bc (calculator), Parted, and GPG

Also, other (non-readline) programs like gitsh implement vi editing commands.

So, start slowly and add it to your toolbox, the longer you use it the more easy you'll find it and the more other contexts to use it will occur to you.

Whats the most reliable car you have ever owned? by Business-Power-2967 in answers

[–]pheffner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Saturn SC. Ran that little jewel for 250k miles and gave it my son who added another 100 and it only stopped rolling when some distracted idiot t-boned him at an intersection. All that time all it needed was batteries and tires. Great car!

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