Just a suggestion

[lonewlf]

since today i havent seen this feature in any of the os's..

its like this..

imagine if you were downloading a movie from ur camcorder to ur computer and wanted to burn it or something a certain way.. what if you had a lil app that u can click on some boxes u want done and dont have to wait till the camcorder has done downloading to ur desktop and then do step by step and an hour passes away..

imagine if u could just click some stuff and leave ur computer to do the rest while u walk away from your screen..its like an automated process..wouldnt that be something new?

if you could walk away from your computer in the morning giving it some chores to do during that 8-9 hour period and come back home and see everything that yur computer did that it was asked to..and i mean do anything..what u guys think ?

 

[Twoboxer]

What if we had a forum interface that automatically took "u" and made it "you", "ur" and made it "your" or "you're", installed initial caps, provided some punctuation so the writer's intent could be clearly understood, and so on. Then folks would at least be forced to read English, and some form of it might remain.

Almost forgot. Automation. Yeah. Good idea.

 

[mindless728]

well you can do this, you just have to know how to use batch files and do everything from the command line

 

[lonewlf]

so u guys like the idea? i already submitted the idea..

 

[JonathanDeane]

My computer works virtually around the clock.... Why have it on if your not making it do your work ?

For batch file conversion of video I like a program called Format Factory its completely free and probably does what you want (just need to copy the files from your video camera first but for any type of conversion you would need to do that anyway)

At any rate you can drag over as many files as you need to have converted to this program and just tell it what format you want them all spit out as. The input files can be any mix of almost any format I have ran into.


Edit: To be honest sometimes I feel like I should grab a quad core cpu so I do not have to wait as long to get some tasks done, but then my penny pinching side kicks in and I say "Well I do not wait that often I can hold out for a while longer"

 

[sminlal]

Your idea is called "scripting" and it's been around for a long time. The only question is whether you have DVD burning software which can be easily controlled by a script.

See the Microsoft Script Center.

 

[lonewlf]

ah yes i remember scripting..its like u load the app and it does it for you over and over..i know..i've used it in diablo 2.

 

[tmike]

As pointed out, this is hardly a new idea (although it is a category of apps that are available for PCs much less often than for real computers). Such apps are called "job schedulers" or "task schedulers" (not to be confused with the Windows program with that name, which bears almost no resemblance).

They allow sysadmins to create hierarchies and sequences of tasks to be performed, triggered by various criteria (usually these include the day of the week, the (wall) time, previous completion of prerequisite tasks, and similar events). They allow operations staff to manually intervene if a task fails, to pause and resume some kinds of tasks, to "hold" and "release" tasks - used if some in-house situation requires that tasks be held off for a repair or other unusual event) without disrupting the overall schedule, and many other niceties such as paging of on-call staff for failures. Most are somewhat "hostile" to ad-hoc tasks, requiring too many steps to add one on the fly.

I have seen a few here and there over the years for PCs, but they all seem to have been written by people who have never seen a "real" task scheduling system, and therefore have been amateurish at best (but with a better interface for ad-hoc submissions, which is a strong requirement in single-admin or single-user environments).

I have been prototyping a task scheduler for Windows for the past several months, but it is #3 in my queue and I have no estimated completion date.

(#1 in my queue is a bug-fixed version NewSID which is nearing completion, to be followed by a feature-enhanced version of NewSID).