OverFlow, Helmi, muiz, JakeLD & dnoiz: thanks!

/me waiting for that new website

The packs have been maintained quite well, no worries there.

Hope to have you back soon.

R.

What We did, is something like this.
We made the INFinfofinder cmd ask for the source folder. (drag drop it into it).
Once we have the raw CSV output, it can be put to use.

Oh, spotlight uses a VBS script. It is free to all.

Araxis, that is not free. Winmerge is next best. These tools are used to compare sytemfiles and folders.
JakeLD mentioned duplifind to get internal duplicates found in a single file.
The hilite formula for excell posted by one of our members was valuable, and that is doing it for the HWID or any other Column one puts it to. (Excell has a limit on those formula. Our need is met by doing it on one or another, the human brain can devise ways to put this to use..)

These are what I use now.
Ruud, Alex, Erik, Jon, Jeff, Geert, and all the testers I do not mention have had access to this tool for a good while.
It's been on ftp by me for more than half a year before I personally looked at it..
Now I use it.

To explain, at the moment, we collect data with "spotlight" and then use its raw CSV output and put it in Excell (We could put it in a Dbase too. ) because we found a way to quickly show duplicated hardware ID's (or version, or filename.. There are like eight important columns in that file.).

I knew Bâshrat the Sneaky was busy.
I hope he gets us on the track to the future.

/waiting eagerly on that new site layout 'n stuff

Yes, I'm alive. I'm doing well, too. But school has been very demanding lately -- I'm currently working on a Reversi game, written in C++ and Qt, yay for cross-platform! (If anybody would like to get his hands on it, just request it in the comments.) Before that, it was the Drupal freelance work that was demanding. But, in exchange, the new site will have some very cool features.

I admit that I should have posted more status updates. But I also have to say that I simply felt I had to take a break from this project. The advantage is that the site will kick ass. I've learned *a lot* the past months. I've become pretty proficient at Drupal, and have even been hired by Drupal companies to write Drupal modules for them. Thus, I've actually been paid to learn how to write a professional-grade DriverPacks.net site. If any of my clients read this: thanks again!

As muiz pointed out, the time since the sponsoring round for the VPS and now, has been way too long to see no results at all. So hereby, I'd like to apologize towards those who sponsored back then. No worries, it won't take 10 months.

But I will be back, after the upcoming exam period. Promise. And the DriverDB that I promised, will come. And *very cool stuff* will be made possible thanks to that.

Finally, I'd like to thank muiz, mr_smartepants, Jaak, Jeff Herre, helmi, and so many others, for keeping this project alive. You guys rock!