On 8/24/2024 3:57 PM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>> On 8/24/2024 8:24 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>
>>> For example, renaming a file
>>> is very easy with a mouse. It's no more difficult within the terminal
>>> but you need to learn how to do it with a terminal, you can guess with a
>>> GUI program. So, the mouse seems to be easier than the terminal.
>>>
>>> But, if you want to rename hundreds of files, it's neither more
>>> difficult with a GUI program than within the terminal. But it will be
>>> faster within a terminal than within the GUI program in which you need
>>> to rename all your files one by one.
>>
>> This file renamer is yet another fantastic Windows app:
>>
>> https://www.den4b.com/screenshots/renamer
>>
>>
>> GuhNoo/Linux/FOSS can't compete.
>
>
> That doesn't look so wonderful.

I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
extremely wonderful.

A few clicks and your new file names have a space inserted at the 4th
position, all dashes are replaced with underscores or spaces, and every
word is capitalized.

Free at last!

> If you like it, cool, but Windows isn't the only game in town.

True for many things. But if you want employment you'll need to know
Windows (basics anyway).

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:

> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
> extremely wonderful.

Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>> extremely wonderful.
>
>Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
*want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
current release? That's the bottom line: Linux is sleek, Windows is
bulky.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 10/16/2024 6:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>> extremely wonderful.
>
> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

You literally take my example count of 100 files and claim that's the
max capacity of ReNamer. You're lame like a Feeb.

I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.

On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>> extremely wonderful.
>>
>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>
>
> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
> current release? That's the bottom line: Linux is sleek, Windows is
> bulky.

For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.

Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.

Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.

I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).

My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
(1/20th of a second).

Getting the picture? Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast. Linux might be a little
faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.

I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer is
often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names matching
a substring. Ridiculous. So for file-finding I often use Everything -
another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-finding away.

Bottom line: Windows is sublime. Linux can't compete.

Le 2024-10-16 à 21 h 48, DFS a écrit :
> On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways.
>>>> When
>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>
>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>
>>
>> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
>> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
>> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
>> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
>> current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
>> bulky.
>
>
> For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
> documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
>
> Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
>
> Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
> scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
>
> I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
> files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
>
> My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
> (1/20th of a second).
>
> Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
> processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little
> faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
>
> I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer is
> often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names matching
> a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use Everything -
> another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-finding away.
>
> Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.

Except that Linux doesn't have to. It's not trying to take market share
from Windows or MacOS; it exists in indestructible form (due to the
possibility of forking) for people who either don't trust commercial
software or get fed up of how its closed nature seems to work against
the customer.

--
CrudeSausage
Paleoconservative, Catholic, Christ is king.

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>
>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>
>> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
>> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
>> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
>> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
>> current release? That's the bottom line: Linux is sleek, Windows is
>> bulky.
>
>For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
>documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
>
>Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
>
>Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
>scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
>
>I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
>files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
>
>My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
>(1/20th of a second).
>
>Getting the picture? Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
>processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast. Linux might be a little
>faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
>
>I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer is
>often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names matching
>a substring. Ridiculous. So for file-finding I often use Everything -
>another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-finding away.
>
>Bottom line: Windows is sublime. Linux can't compete.

I hear you, it boils down to what software and features you need to
utilize, I myself am contemplating going for something more advanced
because I was woefully unable to use my TV as a second monitor, for
the new Frontline episode about the Gaza war. I could use my Fire TV
stick, of course, but then the audio is through the TV speakers, not
my computer feeding my headphones. No biggie this particular time,
but I would like to be able to do it.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:48:43 -0400, DFS wrote:

> Bottom line: Windows is sublime. Linux can't compete.

Somebody said 'sublime'?

https://www.sublimetext.com/

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>> extremely wonderful.
>
> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

Ask Doofus how he would recode (e.g. rotate) hundreds of videos using
"ReNamer". Or convert a bunch of MP4 files to MP3.

Here's an excerpt from a Bash scrip I wote years ago:

declare -i COUNTER
COUNTER=0
for FILE in $(ls -1 *.mp4) ; do
FILE2=$(echo "$FILE" | sed -r -e 's/\.\///')
NEWFILE="normal-$FILE2"
echo "File '$FILE' becomes '$NEWFILE'"
ffmpeg -i "$FILE" -vf "vflip" $NEWFILE
COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done
echo "$COUNTER files processed."

--
"Are those cocktail-waitress fingernail marks?" I asked Colletti as he
showed us these scratches on his chest. "No, those are on my back," Colletti
answered. "This is where a case of cocktail shrimp fell on me. I told her
to slow down a little, but you know cocktail waitresses, they seem to have
a mind of their own."
-- The Incredibly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs
National Lampoon, October 1982

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 23:06 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 10/16/2024 6:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>> extremely wonderful.
>>
>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>
>
> You literally take my example count of 100 files and claim that's the
> max capacity of ReNamer. You're lame like a Feeb.
>
> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.

Wow, thats a lot! What were you doing?
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

On 10/17/2024 7:50 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 23:06 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> On 10/16/2024 6:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. When
>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>
>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>
>>
>> You literally take my example count of 100 files and claim that's the
>> max capacity of ReNamer. You're lame like a Feeb.
>>
>> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.
>
>
> Wow, thats a lot! What were you doing?

Making Larry Duh look sillier than usual.

I contacted the developer:

Me:
"Is there a limit to the number of files or folders that can be loaded
into ReNamer and operated on with various Rules?"

ReNamer developer Denis Kozlov:
"No, there is no limit on the number of files or folders."

I had to ask him because that's not addressed on the website or in the
documentation (that I could find).

It's as perfect an application as I've ever seen:
- drag-drop or copy-paste files into the staging panel
- create or reuse renaming rules
- apply rules to see the proposed new names
- edit rules as necessary
- pull the trigger and rename the files

https://www.den4b.com/screenshots/renamer

It's another example of one proprietary developer besting the entire
planet of GuhNoo/FOSS devs.

irfanview (image viewer) is another
https://www.irfanview.com/

HWiNFO (hardware info and system monitoring) is another
https://www.hwinfo.com/

And they're all free for personal, non-commercial use.

Windows is doomed.

On 10/16/2024 11:33 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:48:43 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> Bottom line: Windows is sublime. Linux can't compete.
>
> Somebody said 'sublime'?
>
> https://www.sublimetext.com/

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a
license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no
enforced time limit for the evaluation."

I like Sublime, but it's $99.

UltraEdit is good too. It's $80/year or $150 one time

EditPad is slick but doesn't have block commenting (last I checked) and
it's $60.

I tried every one of these: https://imgur.com/a/6F5Rt3u

I always go back to Notepad++. It has features I depend on:

* Edit | Line Operations | Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending

* View | Show Symbol

* edit data by column (Alt+drag mouse to select data)
https://imgur.com/a/7PkCcKi

On 10/16/2024 10:00 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
> Le 2024-10-16 à 21 h 48, DFS a écrit :
>> On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways.
>>>>> When
>>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>>
>>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>>
>>>
>>> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
>>> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
>>> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
>>> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
>>> current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
>>> bulky.
>>
>>
>> For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
>> documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
>>
>> Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
>>
>> Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
>> scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
>>
>> I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
>> files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
>>
>> My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
>> (1/20th of a second).
>>
>> Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
>> processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little
>> faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
>>
>> I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer
>> is often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names
>> matching a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use
>> Everything - another great Windows-only app that blows Linux
>> file-finding away.
>>
>> Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.
>
> Except that Linux doesn't have to. It's not trying to take market share
> from Windows or MacOS;

Contrary to basically every Linux user in existence who babbles 'Linux
won / is winning / will win'. Including Linus Torvalds, who spewed the
delusion that the destruction of Microsoft will be an 'unintentional
side effect' of Linux.

His dream of owning the desktop won't ever come true, either.

> it exists in indestructible form (due to the
> possibility of forking) for people who either don't trust commercial
> software or get fed up of how its closed nature seems to work against
> the customer.

MS doesn't do themselves any favors by trying to force you to login to
an MS account just to use Windows. But I'm not concerned one bit about
MS 'spying' on me or tracking my computing activities.

You're back on a Linux kick I see.

What distro are you running this time?

Le 2024-10-17 à 11 h 55, DFS a écrit :
> On 10/16/2024 10:00 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> Le 2024-10-16 à 21 h 48, DFS a écrit :
>>> On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways.
>>>>>> When
>>>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
>>>> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
>>>> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
>>>> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
>>>> current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
>>>> bulky.
>>>
>>>
>>> For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
>>> documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
>>>
>>> Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
>>>
>>> Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
>>> scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
>>>
>>> I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
>>> files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
>>>
>>> My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
>>> (1/20th of a second).
>>>
>>> Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
>>> processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little
>>> faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
>>>
>>> I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer
>>> is often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names
>>> matching a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use
>>> Everything - another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-
>>> finding away.
>>>
>>> Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.
>>
>> Except that Linux doesn't have to. It's not trying to take market
>> share from Windows or MacOS;
>
> Contrary to basically every Linux user in existence who babbles 'Linux
> won / is winning / will win'.  Including Linus Torvalds, who spewed the
> delusion that the destruction of Microsoft will be an 'unintentional
> side effect' of Linux.
>
> His dream of owning the desktop won't ever come true, either.

Those people don't seem to understand why Linux exists. It doesn't exist
to beat any proprietary operating system even though it is quite
possible that it will one day; it exists to empower the user of computer
hardware and software. Unlike Windows or MacOS, even if absolutely no
one remained to use Linux, it would still exist because the code is
widely available and can be picked up to use even two decades after it
stops being used as long as you make the appropriate additions to the
code. With a proprietary product, if people stop using it, you might as
well put it in a coffin. OS/2 and BeOS are notable examples, as is Visi-On.

>> it exists in indestructible form (due to the possibility of forking)
>> for people who either don't trust commercial software or get fed up of
>> how its closed nature seems to work against the customer.
>
> MS doesn't do themselves any favors by trying to force you to login to
> an MS account just to use Windows.  But I'm not concerned one bit about
> MS 'spying' on me or tracking my computing activities.
>
> You're back on a Linux kick I see.
>
> What distro are you running this time?

Kubuntu. I'm trying to stay away from the wokeness of GNOME and Ubuntu
seems to stick to focusing on the software rather than any kind of
diversity.

--
CrudeSausage
Paleoconservative, Catholic, Christ is king.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:09:23 -0400, DFS wrote:

> "Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a
> license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no
> enforced time limit for the evaluation."

Yeah, that has to be an uphill struggle. I've used Vim for years but never
got around to sending a few bucks to starving Ugandans or whatever
Moolenar was promoting. Now VS Code is free an are the extensions.
According to the tech sites many developers are using Code now.

That's got to hurt JetBrains that wants $289 a year for the full meal deal
or $99 for a single language like PyCharm. There is a community edition of
PyCharm but I don't know about the rest of the languages.

ActiveState's Komodo also has a free personal use version. The team and
enterprise licenses are 'contact us'. I love those deals where they won't
publish a price. I've dealt with Google over their map API and the
conversation goes something like 'How much you got, Jack?'

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

>Those people don't seem to understand why Linux exists. It doesn't exist
>to beat any proprietary operating system even though it is quite
>possible that it will one day

Welcome back, but I've seen that Linux *can* indeed best Windows,
depending on the distro and one's ability to work with it.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:06:24 -0400, DFS wrote:

> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.

Still such a quaint toy.

You’re talking to someone who has routinely worked with directories
containing hundreds of thousands of individual video frame files.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:58:02 -0400, DFS wrote:

> ReNamer developer Denis Kozlov:
> "No, there is no limit on the number of files or folders."

No, just the GUI becomes unusably slow if you have to scroll through
100,000 items.

On 10/18/2024 2:53 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:06:24 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.
>
> Still such a quaint toy.
>
> You’re talking to someone who has routinely worked with directories
> containing hundreds of thousands of individual video frame files.

file_n.txt (n = 0:9999)

2 changes: capitalize each word, replace underscore with dash.

eg file_25.txt -> File-25.txt

ReNamer handled 10,000 such renames in about 30 seconds total (copy the
files into Renamer, create the Rules, apply them). The actual renaming
was under 2 seconds. I skipped the 3 optional validity checks that look
for dupes and valid file names after applying the Rules.

So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes. Far, far preferable to messing
with a bash script.

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 10/18/2024 2:53 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.
>>
>> Still such a quaint toy.
>>
>> You’re talking to someone who has routinely worked with directories
>> containing hundreds of thousands of individual video frame files.
>
>file_n.txt (n = 0:9999)
>
>2 changes: capitalize each word, replace underscore with dash.
>
>eg file_25.txt -> File-25.txt
>
>ReNamer handled 10,000 such renames in about 30 seconds total (copy the
>files into Renamer, create the Rules, apply them). The actual renaming
>was under 2 seconds. I skipped the 3 optional validity checks that look
>for dupes and valid file names after applying the Rules.
>
>So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes. Far, far preferable to messing
>with a bash script.

I dunno how people have time for such drudgery with computers, I mean,
obviously if I were using a computer as part of a job, I'd have to use
spreadsheets and whatnot that I don't find especially entertaining,
but some people really make a hobby of doing rather mundane tasks.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>On 10/18/2024 2:53 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.
>>>
>>> Still such a quaint toy.
>>>
>>> You’re talking to someone who has routinely worked with directories
>>> containing hundreds of thousands of individual video frame files.
>>
>>file_n.txt (n = 0:9999)
>>
>>2 changes: capitalize each word, replace underscore with dash.
>>
>>eg file_25.txt -> File-25.txt
>>
>>ReNamer handled 10,000 such renames in about 30 seconds total (copy the
>>files into Renamer, create the Rules, apply them). The actual renaming
>>was under 2 seconds. I skipped the 3 optional validity checks that look
>>for dupes and valid file names after applying the Rules.
>>
>>So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes. Far, far preferable to messing
>>with a bash script.
>
> I dunno how people have time for such drudgery with computers, I mean,
> obviously if I were using a computer as part of a job, I'd have to use
> spreadsheets and whatnot that I don't find especially entertaining,
> but some people really make a hobby of doing rather mundane tasks.

Messing around trying to "prove" Windows is better than Linux keeps
DFS off the streets :-D

--
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You get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love.
Save your heart and let your body be enough,
To get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love.
Save your heart and let your body be enough,
And get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love.
-- Mac Macinelli, "Minimum Love"

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

>> I dunno how people have time for such drudgery with computers, I mean,
>> obviously if I were using a computer as part of a job, I'd have to use
>> spreadsheets and whatnot that I don't find especially entertaining,
>> but some people really make a hobby of doing rather mundane tasks.
>
>Messing around trying to "prove" Windows is better than Linux keeps
>DFS off the streets :-D

I know, but it's like I have fun with my box, I did with Windows, I do
with Linux too, it's the same thing, just sleeker, not proprietary. I
do serious work online, to be sure, but I get a near-fetish kind of
feeling from creating and working with such a great device, and the
wonderful software.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 10/18/2024 11:00 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>> On 10/18/2024 2:53 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just loaded 1867 files into it and got no complaints.
>>>
>>> Still such a quaint toy.
>>>
>>> You’re talking to someone who has routinely worked with directories
>>> containing hundreds of thousands of individual video frame files.
>>
>> file_n.txt (n = 0:9999)
>>
>> 2 changes: capitalize each word, replace underscore with dash.
>>
>> eg file_25.txt -> File-25.txt
>>
>> ReNamer handled 10,000 such renames in about 30 seconds total (copy the
>> files into Renamer, create the Rules, apply them). The actual renaming
>> was under 2 seconds. I skipped the 3 optional validity checks that look
>> for dupes and valid file names after applying the Rules.
>>
>> So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes. Far, far preferable to messing
>> with a bash script.
>
>
> I dunno how people have time for such drudgery with computers,

blasphemy

> I mean,
> obviously if I were using a computer as part of a job, I'd have to use
> spreadsheets and whatnot that I don't find especially entertaining,
> but some people really make a hobby of doing rather mundane tasks.

This was just a goof to see how well ReNamer handled larger file counts.

But in the real world you often need to rename files to satisfy your own
or your company's need for order and standardization.

At work I once inherited thousands of pictures of property interiors and
exteriors, with random photo names assigned by the employees that took
the pics. They were impossible to search and sort. So I standardized
the naming system, communicated to the field employees how it worked,
and enforced it in an Access app that required them to assign a standard
name before uploading the pics. From then on every pic that was
uploaded to the doc mgmt system used that naming system, which made
searching, sorting and filtering the photos very easy.

I also spent 2-3 full days renaming the existing thousands of photos.
THAT was drudgery.

candycanearter07 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 14:09 this Thursday (GMT):
>
>>
>> I always go back to Notepad++. It has features I depend on:
>>
>> * Edit | Line Operations | Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending
>> * View | Show Symbol
>> * edit data by column (Alt+drag mouse to select data)

Notepad++ is good, the Windows users on our programming team used it.
The Linux guys used vim or gvim.

Emacs would be good, too, but I'm too ingrained with vi.

> Code::blocks (C/C++) and Bluefish (HTML/CSS/JS) are good ides for specific
> languages.

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:54:41 -0400, DFS wrote:

> So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes.

Try it and see. This is Dimdows you’re talking about. It doesn’t behave
like a normal computer OS.