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Irish Cream Fudge

Materials:

  • Baking Paper
  • Baking Tray
  • 500g Milk Chocolate
  • 400g Sweetend Condensed Milk
  • 1/2 Cup Irish cream Liqueur

Procedure:

  1. Line baking tray with baking paper
  2. Mix chocolate and condensed milk over a low heat until combined
  3. Add Liqueur and mix until combined
  4. Pour into lined tray
  5. Refrigerate for 6 hours/overnight.
  6. Cut and serve

 

My Install Guide

Before you start

  1. Backup all data to removable drives (run a full image backup in win 7)
  2. Ensure you have all the required drivers (or a second pc to download them)
  3. Create a bootable install USB using the Microsoft Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool

Install software:

  1. Security
    • Virus Scanner
  2. Drivers
    • Network
    • Video
    • Others
  3. Utilites
  4. Productivity
  5. Entertainment
  6. Diagnostics

Linked software is OS/Freeware.

FTP Folder Copy/Move with Date Time Batch Script

I decomissioned my DNS-323 NAS which was setup to automatically copy scanned pdf’s off my Brother MFC-440CN Scanner. This meant I needed to re-write my scanning copy shell script to run as a batch script on my main computer.

Re-writing the script was harder than I anticipated. The command line ftp client on windows expects you to know the names of each file. It does however have the ability to run a script file full of ftp commands. So the solution to getting the script working was:

  1. Run a temporary script for ftp to get a file listing
  2. Run another temp script for ftp that fetchs and deletes each file in the file listing.
  3. Cleanup/delete temporary scripts/files

What it does:

Moves files from the specified ftp directory to the specified local directory prepended with the date and time.

Usage

Create a .bat file with the script below. Then set the parameters at the beginnng of the script as follows:

  • set server= the ip address of your ftp server (in my case my scanner)
  • set fetch_directory= the directory on the ftp server to copy/move files from
  • set target_dir = the directory on the local computer to copy/move the files to

The Script

SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
@echo off

:: downloads then deletes ftp files from the given location

set server=192.168.1.6
:: no trailing / on fetch dir path
set fetch_directory=/BROTHER
:: no trailing \ on target dir path
set target_dir=c:\Users\myusername\Docs\Scan
set temp_script_file=ftp_script.txt
set temp_dir_list=ftp_file_list.txt

:: create temp file with ftp script to output file list
echo open %server% > %temp_script_file%
echo. >> %temp_script_file%
echo mdir %fetch_directory% %temp_dir_list% >> %temp_script_file%
echo y >> %temp_script_file%
echo bye >> %temp_script_file%

:: now run the script with ftp
ftp -s:%temp_script_file%

:: now we have a list of the files in the ftp directory

:: now make a script from the file listing to copy each file.
echo open %server% > %temp_script_file%
echo. >> %temp_script_file%
echo lcd %target_dir%  >> %temp_script_file%
:: copy each file to a dated file locally
for /F "tokens=9 skip=3" %%i in (%temp_dir_list%) do (
SET get_file=%%i
echo binary >> %temp_script_file%
echo get %fetch_directory%/!get_file:~0,-1!  "%target_dir%\%date:~10,4%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~4,2% %time:~0,2%.%time:~3,2%.%time:~6,2%.%time:~9,2% !get_file:~0,-1!" >> %temp_script_file%
echo delete %fetch_directory%/!get_file:~0,-1!  >> %temp_script_file%
)
echo bye >> %temp_script_file%

:: now run the new script
ftp -s:%temp_script_file%

::remove temporary script files
del %temp_dir_list%
del %temp_script_file%

What I look for in a phone

  • 3.5mm Audio Jack
  • Micro SD Slot
  • MP3 & AAC Player
  • 2G & 3G on Bands of my Carrier
  • Bluetooth
  • Wifi
  • Tethering and/or hot spot function
  • Camera – Capable of taking shots of paper/books/white boards
  • Easy to Use and responsive interface (it must go fast regardless of what it looks like)
  • Keyboard
  • Good Call Quality
  • Speakerphone

This allows:

  • Email/SMS
  • Clear calls and group calls with speakerphone
  • Ability to copy documents and white board work
  • Google Maps for navigation
  • Internet for Laptop on the go

 

 

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