About to embark on the Akademik Sergey Vavilov in Ushuaia, Argentina for our antarctic adventure!
A great ship, still actively used for research purposes. We’re really looking forward to what we are going to see and do!
--jeroen
Archive for 2011
About to embark on the Akademik Sergey Vavilov in Ushuaia, Argentina for our antarctic adventure!
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/14
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VMware fusion on MacBook Air with OS X Lion seems to hang when getting back from sleep – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/14
If you have reactions on the question below, please add them to the SuperUser.com thread when possible.
Every once in a while, my MacBook Air becomes unresponsive when it is sleeping and I open the lid.
It seems to only happen in these circumstances:
- the MacBook air got into sleep modus because of closing the lid
- VMware Fusion 4 (4.0.2 build 491587) is running full screen
- The guest OS has a blank screen screen saver
When opening the lid, the backlight goes on, but the MacBook Air does not react on any key-combinations I tried.
I tried these, but to no avail:
- press the Touchpad
- press Control + Command
- press Control + Command + Enter
- press Command + Tab
The only thing that works is to press the Power button for 5+ seconds (forcing a hard power off) then reboot.
Two questions:
- For anyone having seen similar bahviour: what circumstances did you have?
- Any solution to this apart from first suspending the guest VM?
–jeroen
via: VMware fusion on MacBook Air with OS X Lion seems to hang when getting back from sleep – Super User.
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Not so convenient: after XP there is no more WebCam viewer in Windows (via: How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7? – Super User)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/14
Microsoft removed the WebCam viewer from Windows on all versions released after XP.
Very inconvenient, as it was very light weight, and most webcam software isn’t.
William describes in his answer to How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7?, there is a small AMcap sample in the Microsoft DirectX SDK that works very well.
He also points to 2 download locations where you can get the compiled version (the SDK only has the source code).
–jeroen
Via: How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7? – Super User, there is a
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Handy when having Mac test VMs: How to rename your Mac? – MacRumors Forums
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/11
Having written how to run Mac OS X Lion in a VM, it is handy how to know to rename your Mac: networks don’t like having multiple machines with the same name :)
It is easy:
- Apple icon
- System Preferences
- Sharing
- Computer Name
- Change
- Done
–jeroen
Via: How to rename your Mac? – MacRumors Forums.
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Deep Object Comparison Delphi – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/10
Last week there was an interesting question on Deep Object Comparison Delphi at Stack Overflow.
Two nice answers:
- Recursive new style RTTI based solution (comparing all data)
- Streaming using OmniXML and comparing the output (comparing only the relevant data)
–jeroen
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Allocating 4Gb+ of memory in x64 using Delphi XE2 Update 2: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 …
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/09
If you are creating x64 applications using Delphi XE2, have Update 2 installed, and are (potentially) allocating more than 4Gb of memory (QC report 100726), then you need the Unofficial fix for QC#100726, or use the latest version of FastMM (see below).
If you use Delphi XE2 (original release) or Update 1, then you don’t have problems in this scenario.
Thanks to FastMM author Pierre le Riche for providing this fix so quickly.
Note that the latest 4.x release of FastMM is now FastMM 4.99 and contains the same fix.
–jeroen
Via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 ….
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c# – Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/08
Every once in a a while I do WinForms development. On the .NET platform it still is the best way to create simple business applications that just, well: work.
WinForms apps are not fancy, but the actual users don’t care much, as long as they can their daily work done. They love fanciness of their mobile devices, but for stuff they use 8 hours a day, they just want something that works quickly, well and easily. So WinForms for a baseline is good.
WinForms historically has had two ways of automatically: Anchors and Dock (.NET 2 introduced another way using FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel, but often they make things more complicated than needed).
One of the pitfalls of Docking is when you set Dock to Fill. Sometimes the affected control will be too large.
Every time that happens, I am baffled, as .NET is the only platform with that behaviour; I use other platforms too, and they don’t have this docking peculiarity (of course the have others, that’s the fun of using multiple platforms <g>).
- Right click on the control that misbehaves
- Choose “Bring to Front”
Done :)
–jeroen
Via: c# – Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow.
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About Gmail’s new look: a few comments
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/07
Not sure I really like the “all new” black and white look where all of the screen looks the same, so no emphasis on the things that really matter.
Over time, you won’t be able so switch back, so you have to adapt to the new look & feel, and try the options to make it work for you the best.
So far, I switched to the “Compacrt” view, and chose the “Blue” theme to make emphasis on the mail list/content.
–jeroen
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DDMA codes – Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/07
Handig om te weten als je met direct marketing te maken hebt/krijgt:
De DDMA (Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association) heeft codes voor Privacy, E-mail, Listbroking (handel in adressenbestanden), Telemarketing, Verspreiding Ongeadresseerd Reclamedrukwerk en Streetmarketing.
–jeroen
via: DDMA codes – DDMA en http://www.ns.nl/home/privacy
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Some companies that do not verify email adresses on their sites: #Bilderberg #Karwei #KLM #Martinair #Witteveen #Xara #fail
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04
Below is a list of companies that just blindly start sending SPAM to email adresses you enter on their site, without verifying the person actually wants to be mailed:
- Bilderberg
- Karwei
- KLM
- Martinair
- Witteveen
- Xara
Most of them are giving you a really hard time to unsubscribe when you even haven’t subscribed.
Don’t buy stuff from them…
People notoriously for adding me on those lists:
- Mr and Mrs Ploemen
- Mrs van der Kolk
–jeroen
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