// ==UserScript==
// @name           Ebay-Location-Route
// @namespace      www.ebay.de
// @description    Adds a link for the item location on google maps
// @include       http://*ebay.*
// ==/UserScript==
// Version 0.4
// author: knoe, fixes by MoJo

//Configuration
var home = "mah house"; //home
var blank = false;                   //open link on a blank page?
//Config end

var ebayClass= new Array("titlePurchase", "sh-DlvryDtl");

for (var j = 0; j < ebayClass.length; j++)
{
 //check each element of the ebayClass
 for (var i = 0; i<document.getElementsByClassName(ebayClass[j]).length; i++)
 {

 //if the location has been found do the link stuff
 var toCheck = document.getElementsByClassName(ebayClass[j])[i].firstChild.data;
 if (toCheck.search("Item location") != -1)
 {
 var place = toCheck.slice(15);
 //the google map route link
 var linkRef = "http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr="+home+"&daddr="+place;

 //create the link
 var link = document.createElement('a');
 link.href = linkRef;
 if (blank)
 link.target="_blank";
 var linkText = document.createTextNode(place);
 link.appendChild(linkText);

 document.getElementsByClassName(ebayClass[j])[i].firstChild.data="Item location: ";
 document.getElementsByClassName(ebayClass[j])[i].appendChild(link);

 return;
 }
 }
}

curl -k "https://readitlaterlist.com/v2/get?username=[user]&password=[pass]&apikey=[key]&since=1245638446" >ril.txt
tr "{}" "\n " <ril.txt >ril2.txt
tr -d '\\' <ril2.txt >ril.txt
sed "s/\"\:\"/\,/g" ril.txt >ril2.txt
sed "s/\x22//g" ril2.txt >ril.txt
awk -F "," "{print $7}" <ril.txt >ril2.txt
awk -F "," "{print $6}" <ril.txt >>ril2.txt
grep "http" ril2.txt >dump.txt
awk "{print \"curl -k -d username=\x22[user]\x22 -d password=[pass] -d url=\x22\"$0 \"\x22 https://www.instapaper.com/api/add\" }" <dump.txt >upload.cmd
del ril.txt
del ril2.txt

You can then run upload.cmd to add your URLs to InstaPaper. You need curl, tr, sed, awk and grep. It could be done from Perl too but I don’t have time to figure it out.

chdir /D update
c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe http://code.google.com/p/miranda/downloads/list -O data.txt
type data.txt|findstr /i unicode.7z 1> data1.txt
del data.txt
ren data1.txt data.txt
c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe --force-html -c -i data.txt
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=." %%a in ('dir *unicode.7z /b') do set ver=%%a_%%b_%%c
echo S|"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x *unicode.7z -o%TEMP%\%ver%
del *unicode.7z
del data.txt
cd ..
%windir%\system32\taskkill.exe /IM miranda32.exe
ping localhost -n 5 > nul
%windir%\system32\taskkill.exe /F /IM miranda32.exe
for /f %%f in ('dir *.* /b/a:-d') do copy %TEMP%\%ver%\%%f %%f
cd Plugins
for /f %%f in ('dir *.* /b/a:-d') do copy %TEMP%\%ver%\Plugins\%%f %%f
cd ..
start miranda32.exe

The Start Menu has some nice features but I really don’t like the way the All Programs section works now. Fortunately you can bring back the old cascaded menu and keep all the good new stuff with Classic Shell.

The Game Controllers applet in the Control Panel has gone, and I had a shortcut to it on my Start Menu anyway because I use it for development. It is possible to do in 7: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/57153-game-controllers-shortcut-create.html

I use MaxTo for window positioning so I turned off Aero Snap: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-the-mouse-drag-window-arranging-feature-in-windows-7/

To replace notepad.exe with notepad++ copy NppLauncher over notepad.exe after taking ownership/permissions in these locations:

• c:\Windows\notepad.exe
• c:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
• c:\Windows\SysWOW64\notepad.exe

Disable driver signing: Use DSEO to enable test mode and then sign the offending driver files. Unfortunately a security update makes it impossible to disable driver signing completely. Remove the test mode watermark with (surprise surprise) Remove Watermark.

Outstanding irritations:

• Can’t put the Recycle Bin or My Computer on the new start, but you can make shortcuts in “All Programs.”
• Clock on compact Task Bar takes up enough room for the date, even though it only shows the time. Can be “fixed” by changing the date format but the setting is system-wide.

Something about the combined installer for the software and drivers was preventing it from working.

The solution was to install the software on a Windows XP machine and then copy the files manually from the XP system to the Windows 7 one. I then pointed Windows 7 to the copied files when it requested drivers for the scanner. The application program was copied in the same way and I simply set up a shortcut on the start menu pointing to the program file.

Aside from the main program directory the drivers were spread out in various system directories. It took a while to find them all.

It took me a long time to sort all that out. There are a  lot of posts on the internet written by people with the same or similar scanners who are unable to make them work on Vista or Windows 7. As far as I know we are the only people who have ever managed to make it work with Windows 7.

I tried to use it with Arkanoid. That game uses a spinner control which can rotate endlessly clockwise or anti-clockwise, unlike a paddle which has a set range it can cover (typically 360 degrees). MAME does not support absolute positioning for spinner controls (or dials as it calls them). The Sega controller reports back a position from 0 to 255 but MAME needs left/right pulses as you would get from a decoded optical Gray code sensor of the type commonly used in mice.

Apparently absolute positions are usable with mice so I will try to set the controller up in that mode tomorrow.

This kind of problem seems to be common with emulators.

The key is to understand that in order for the device to be detected it has to be connected while the guest OS is running. If it is connected before it is started then it won’t attach. It will say it is, but it won’t be seen by the guest OS.

This small but vital fact is not made clear in the documentation.

I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still there. I closed the ballot window and rebooted.

The ballot came up again, but this time even worse:

This thing is horribly broken. Even when you have installed another browser it tries to force you back to IE. It didn’t delete the IE icon off the desktop or Quick Launch either.

#viewsource {
color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

body {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
border: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

body > pre {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
}

body > * {
background-color: #fff;
color: #00f;
}

pre {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
}

pre > a:link {
color: #65ff00;
}

div[class=moz-text-html] {
background-color: #fff;
color: #000;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

div[class=moz-text-html] > table {
background-color: #fff !important;
color: #000 !important;
}

div[class=moz-text-plain] {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

*[_moz_dirty] {
color: #f8f8f2;
background-color: #272822;
}

*[_moz_quote=true] {
color: #ffcb00;
}

/* Quote Levels Colors */

blockquote[type=cite] > pre {
color: #ffcb00;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote > pre{
color: #fd6500;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: #00a000;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: purple;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: teal;
}