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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/20
The referenced article explains the difference in code points between EBCDIC CCSID 37 and EBCDIC CCSID 500, and the difference in code points between EBCDIC CCSID 37 and EBCDIC CCSID 1047:
IBM CCSID Comparisons – United States.
Basically, these are the codepoints that are sensitive:
4A, 4F, 5A, 5F, AD, B0, BA, BB and BD.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, EBCDIC, Encoding, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, Software Development, WebSphere MQ | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/20
One of the things hard when doing FireMonkey iOS development Delphi XE2 is that you have a multi stage process:
Basically you need to share your project files both ways between Windows and OS X.
Naturally, you would share files between your Mac and Windows using Samba. With the introduction of OS X Lion, the Samba support was rewritten, causing all sorts of problems.
One of the problems is that it uses a lot of CPU (I tried copying over a 40GB VM, and stopped because the fan in my MacBook Air was making so much noise, I was afraid it was going to take off).
I didn’t even realize it had one, but a MacBook Air has a Fan, and it vents through the keyboard :)
Now I use DropBox to share files between it. If you like that to, sign up with the URL at the end of this line. The 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/6f95UJW
And if you know a better way of sharing: please let me know!
–jeroen
Via: Dropbox – Referrals – Simplify your life.
Posted in Apple, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, Software Development | 15 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/19
Sometimes when you see a solution you have this “duh” moment.
In my case, somehow I broke my Powerpoint template and got autofit disabled: “autofit body text to placeholder” not working in PPT 2007.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/19
The direct UPC Speedtest link does not load all the fuzz the normal UCP speedtest page has.
At a client.
My Cable connection.
My ADSL connection.
Note the Cable connection is early in the morning. In the afternoon/evening it is much slower.
The ADSL connection is slower, but more reliable, has IPv6, and XS4ALL is way better at security and privacy than UPC.
–jeroen
Posted in Internet, ISP, Power User, SpeedTest, Ziggo/UPC/A2000 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/16
Right after finding out VMware Fusion 4 got released, I downloaded and installed it.
Basically, there are two VMware Fusion 4.0.1 downloads:
I can’t imagine McAfee being larger than the size of VMware, and if it has the same speed impact on a Mac as it has on PCs, then don’t get it: get the light version.
–jeroen
Via: Download VMware Fusion 4.
Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/16
A long time ago I showed a list of PDF printer drivers.
In the mean time, FreewareGenius did a comparison of free PDF printer drivers in june 2011.
Time to go to the BullZip site and try the download of their Free PDF Printer :)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/16
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/15
My MacBook Air has arrived, a few days before VMware Fusion 4 got out and a very early preview of Windows 8 got released.
Time to move my iOS dev env from my Mac Mini Server dev env over to this fully loaded 13.3 inch MacBook Air model (A1369 with 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 / 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM / 256GB Flash Storage).
A few initial observations on the MacBook Air:
Oh well, will install it at the Embarcadero office later this week.
A few things on VMware Fusion 4:
Time to have a lot of fun :)
–jeroen
Via: VMware: VMware Support Insider: Fusion 4 is here!.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1369
Posted in About, Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Personal, Power User, VMware | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/15
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/14
The download page states
The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers.
But of course this is also interesting to designers and regular users: getting a hands-on impression of what Metro will bring to Windows 8.
–jeroen
via: Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads.
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8 | 2 Comments »
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