Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/10
It is good to see the cross breeding effect works:
Last week, the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools added Quick Access Extension, which is the Visual Studio equivalent of the Delphi RAD Studio IDE Insight.
It is a keyboard shortcut (Delphi: F6 or Ctrl-.; Visual Studio: Ctrl+3) to search and execute things defined by the environment:
Delphi has a few options that Visual Studio hasn’t and vice versa, but it comes really close.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/09
Sometimes when you add a new user to your ESXi 4.x installation, you get this error message (click for the full size picture):
Create User: User name or password has an invalid format
Until now, only a few russian pages described the cause:
Without console login (or SSH – see my blog tomorrow), you cannot see the obvious reason for this message:
Your password does not adhere to the ESXi 4.x password policy, which is more strict than the ESX/ESXi 3.x policy.
vm-help.com has a nice page describing the ESXi 4.x password policy, and how to alter it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/06
Scenario is this;
I have seen it happen under these circumstances: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/05
I’m in the process of moving the VMs on my ESX 3.5 box to an ESXi 4.1 box (so I can get ESXi 4.1 installed on the ESX 3.5 box).
I tried copying over the files using the free Veeam Backup and FastSCP 3.0.2.270, but that obviously does not work well:
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Veeam Backup and FastSCP
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API version on the server does not allow CreateDirectory operation
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OK
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The free FastSCP works on a file by file base, but that won’t cut it.
Hoping the licensed product would work better, I registered for a trial of Veeam Backup and Replication (it is version 4.x in stead of FastSCP which is still 3.x).
The registration process went swift, but I was just a tad bit too early trying to run it against VMware ESXi 4.x: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/04
This seems to be a recurring question on a lot of forums:
How to get the current date as yyyyMMdd into environment variable datestring in a regional independent way?
A lot of solutions are using construct around the %date% environment variable similar to this:
for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=- " %%i in (`echo %date%`) do ( set datestring=%%l%%k%%j echo %%i echo %%j echo %%k echo %%l ) echo %datestring%
There are two things wrong with this kind of solution:
(note: the %date% environment variable has the same format as the date command).
For sytems having Powershell installed, this is a possible solution: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/03
Reminder to self.
Creating a new public filter depending on a new public query in StarTeam always bits me.
The reason is this subtle set of StarTeam rules for queries and filters: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/02
Edit – 20100813:
The problem is not completely fixed; still some PDFs are behaving odly. So have have disabled “Allow fast web view” in the Adobe Reader preferences (see below for steps) once again.
Edit – 20100812:
This below problem is fixed in the Chrome version 5.0.375.126 from the stable channel which got released 20100811.
Thanks commenter Jacques for reporting this:
… after installing the new fix (Chrome 5.0.375.126), all PDFs now open without error in the Chrome browser.
To install the fix, open the Chrome browser, click on the “wrench” icon (to the right of the address bar), and select “About Google Chrome.” A button in the About window allows you to get the latest update.
Original:
In the past, this used to work fine, but lately I often get this error message when viewing PDF documents in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 in Chrome 5.0.375.99 on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and Windows XP SP3:
There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107).
Sometimes I get these errors instead: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/01
Has it been that long ago? Yes, yesterday, Firebird celebrated its 10th anniversary as an open source project.
It was stable for almost 2 years, and then Firebird 1.0 was released more than 8 years go.
The next version, 1.5, also took less than 2 years, and was released more than 6 years ago.
Version 2.0 was a major release, and took a bit longer: 2 years ago.
Version 2.5 is taking the same speed as 1.5 did, and is about to be released.
Work has already begun on 3.0, and a lot of new features are in the pipeline, including a new ODS.
–jeroen
Via: Firebird – The RDBMS that’s going where you’re going.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/30
From the comments on Nick’s excellent post (that instantly made me feel hungry <g>):
If you find your developers bringing in their own equipment to work then you know there is a problem.
That reminds me of this story: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/30
Right now, LinkedIn does not send Notifications for Requests to Join My Group.
They should!
Right now you need to watch the LinkedIn group very frequently, otherwise you miss the “requests to join.
Mail notification would make that much less of a burden.
–jeroen
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