I've tested many DAWs but my heart belongs to Reaper. You can do pretty much anything in music production with Reaper. When you miss some function than you can make your own by creating Actions by dropping the sequence of commands in Action window. But sometimes it isn't enough. Luckilly Reaper has its own EEL scripting language and even Python if you feel more comfortable with it. I've created several scripts in EEL because it feels a little bit faster than Python. Here is a script I've made in EEL that triggers just by pressing keys F2-F7 and inserting song markers: VS1, CH2 and so on. It is counter sensitive - you get VS3 after VS2 or CH4 after CH3.   Here you are, change the first two variables and save as for example VERSE.EEL. Then import it to Reaper and assign keybord shortcut... I tried to comment as much as possible in this script, it might help others to  understand the way script works or just go borrow code like I did. Change Mainprefix to "BR", f...

First of all: do not use Service Manager from Microsoft - worst piece of junk, sluggish, boring, entirely user-unfriendly, you will loose all of your registered incidents within a year, you will never-ever be able to see your workflow in normal manner without buying really expensive addons, you will tear your hair out to create SQL reports from SCSM database and so on. Seriously, does this look friendly to you? I spent more time to feed this monster than to resolve my incidents. And somebody is going to check all of the time that I kept this window open. So stupid that I just started to paste standard resolution: "incident resolved by me within 1-2 hours", thanks Ditto, my portable 100 times less in size program. ConfigMgr (A.K.A, SCCM) is another story: I used to be one of those "Ghost" guys, beautiful piece of software before it got snatched by Symantec like all the other fine software. Altiris was one of those good solutions for computer management bought by Sym...

Here is a Python script to batch Import SVG glyph files into FontForge and create TTF font automatically. Get FontForge first and install it. Save this script as  import_svg.py in the same folder there you have SVG-files. On Windows: run C:\Program Files (x86)\FontForgeBuilds\fontforge-console.bat navigate to the folder with your SVG-files using 'cd <FOLDER_PATH>' Run Python script by using " ffpython import_svg.py " # Batch Import SVG glyph files into FontForge and create TTF # Get FontForge first and install it.. # On Windows: # run C:\Program Files (x86)\FontForgeBuilds\fontforge-console.bat # navigate to the folder using 'cd <FOLDER_PATH>' # Run Python script by using "ffpython import_svg.py" import fontforge , os , pathlib str1 = os . getcwd () str2 = str1 . split ( '\\' ) n = len ( str2 ) fontname = ( str2 [ n - 1 ]) uzer = os . getlogin () font = fontforge . font () # new font font . encoding ...

What can you really do with it? I do a lot of experimental things in SCCM (A.K.A ConfigMgr) (A.K.A Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager). It doesn't matter, name aside, it is a good program capable of managing everything on your clients so far they have a client (CCM) installed and have a connection to the mothership. Well, what can you do with it? As I said I like bulleted lists so I think it's best if I show you a simple list: Everything that you do with Group Policies (GPO) can be done with SCCM but with a ticket back if it really happened Roll out updates Roll out antivirus definitions Roll out programs with all the whistles and bells Roll out all of your custom scripts Roll out App-V packages (not really mature, you cannot remove them easily without scripting) Manage VPN-connections Create dynamic collections of users and computers There is so much more but those are the things that I use a lot. SCCM is my main tool at my job, it is a real beast but most of the...

You can actually use SCCM as we old people used Norton Ghost  (unfortunately Symantec later on) console once upon a time: make an image of a reference machine and deploy captured image on the same or similar model with all programs, settings and ready-to-use accounts. You can even download my Powershell script which will do the same things as the GhostWalker did long time ago (except changing computers SID, newer Windows will do it automatically). The script will change computer name offline before it boots up for the first time. Do you remember this beauty? I could reinstall 120 (I never tested 254) school computers all at once under 15 minutes! The power of MULTICAST! A difference between standard SCCM deployment and this approach is in the type of capture: WIM type of image are just like usual Windows OS install type: small in size, deduplicated, not emulating disk placement, similar to a simple ZIP-file that expands to the free partition and gets some boot commands at the end....