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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/04
.lnk files are very usefull as they can link to both files and directories.
However, somehow the GUI tools for zipping .lnk files tend to compress the .lnk target, not the .lnk itself.
I tried the Windows Explorer, WinZIP and 7zip GUIs to no avail.
The 7za command-line to the rescue:
7za a -tzip lnk-files.zip *.lnk
Unpacking the zip using the GUI works fine though.
You can get the latest 7za here.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03
I uploaded the EKON15 conference download materials to http://bo.codeplex.com.
The changeset you are after is http://bo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/changes/70872
It contains most of the materials for the Delphi Tage and the Delphi Live conferences too, though I will upload the missing pieces soon.
With the [WayBack] demise of codeplex, these links now have moved to
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/03
Sometimes you just want to ask a user for a simple string of input.
The InputBox function is an easy way to do do this. It has a tiny issue with the icon (it uses the one that belongs to the application installation, not the icon in the project properties).
InputBox has been part of Visual Basic since the 90s. And it is very easy to use from C# and other .NET languages:
Microst.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Did you know your question goes here?","Title","Default Text");Sometimes you have to look a bit further than your regular toolbox for simple solutions.
I should dig up my 2006 session on the My Object in Visual Basic: that is also very easy to use in C#.
–jeroen
via: Input Message Box in C#?.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/02
Yesterday, Update 2 for Delphi XE2 / C++ Builder XE2 / RAD Studio XE2 became available for download.
A few notes from my experience upgrading from a full RAD Studio XE2 Update 1 install (from ISO):
There are a ton of changes (154 changes files in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\source directory tree alone) including some of the things I came across that now have been fixed:
–jeroen
Via: Update 2 for Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RAD Studio XE2 now available – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/02
It has been a while, but I have done some WinForms maintenance on business apps. For those kinds of apps, WinForms still is a productive environment, apart from one thing:
When you have a Dock of Fill, sometimes that control fills more than it should.
The reason is the order in which things are being calculated.
I always forget the trick, as other very productive environments for writing business apps don’t have this peculiarity (they have others, life is full of interesting peculiarities <g>).
Simple solution:
Now it fills exactly the wanted area :)
Thanks Jeff Cuscutis for posting this concise solution.
–jeroen
Via: c# – Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/01
Delphi Tricks (from Chris Hesik, see link below) to show which units are compiled into an app:
–jeroen
Via: debugging – How can I find all the units in my Delphi app? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/31
Ik heb in mijn omgeving een phishing mail gezien zoals onderstaande.
Je ziet op de web-site een kopie van de xs4all webmail site; maar dan niet secure, en zeker niet van xs4all.
Niet op in gaan!
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: XS4ALL Internet bv <announce@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:42:02 -0800
Subject: E-mail account Annulering
To: …accountnaam…@xs4all.nlGeachte gebruiker,
Dit is onze laatste waarschuwing voor u om uw account te upgraden binnen de
volgende 24 uur anders wordt uw e-mail wordt geannuleerd en u zult niet
hebben toegang tot het account.
Klik op de onderstaande link om te upgraden.U heeft 24 uur om deze e-mail account te upgraden.
Bedankt voor uw begripMet vriendelijke groet,
XS4ALL Internet BV
Het lijkt een herhaling van een eerdere phishing run eind augustus.
Freak-Search had er vandaag ook al eentje, waar ook de headers bij staan: rechtstreeks vanuit Phoenix (ip 108.62.214.248) op de xs4all SMTP server afgeleverd.
Op de server van de phishing site staan ook andere sites waarvan in ieder geval een deel legitiem lijkt te zijn.
–jeroen
Edit: het origineel met headers:
Return-Path: <announce@xs4all.nl>
Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25])
by mxdrop233.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9UNg5JI093574
for <...account...@xs4all.nl>; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:42:05 +0100 (CET)
(envelope-from announce@xs4all.nl)
Received: from SETUP-71E06881F
(108.62.214.248.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [108.62.214.248] (may be
forged))
(authenticated bits=0)
by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9UNfkg7018382
for <...account...@xs4all.nl>; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:41:59 +0100 (CET)
(envelope-from announce@xs4all.nl)
From: "XS4ALL Internet bv" <announce@xs4all.nl>
Subject: E-mail account Annulering
To: ...account...@xs4all.nl
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset="ISO-8859-1";
boundary="vq5IP9Z6GutAsjrFSLDbPAxyCNtQ=_5axJ0"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:42:02 -0800
Sensitivity: Private
Message-ID: <71212678828692@smtp.xs4all.nl>
X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner
X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=BV6iOS6O7aV3pd42iKzuhu9AXfb4rD1J2pLXhYW4ImA= c=1
sm=0 p=Cv8De4IAAAAA:8 p=9Xcd3dMEXsvCXAUVWdEA:9
p=TmgxwhVlkHPXNhtMxGUA:9 p=xOja8WcQ0Eu_BXAgI9UA:7 a=9jgdD2efK0wA:10
a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=zN6mbt9uKPqgxNxLRsltVQ==:17 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10
a=/zf/YJhaauBg/KYV17tUBA==:117
X-XS4ALL-Spam-Score: 3.7 (***) ALL_TRUSTED, CMAE_1, T_CMAE_1_MD
X-XS4ALL-Spam: NO
Envelope-To: ...account...@xs4all.nl
This is a multi-part message in MIME format
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hebben toegang tot het account.
Klik op de onderstaande link om te upgraden.
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U heeft 24 uur om deze e-mail account te upgraden.
Bedankt voor uw begrip
Met vriendelijke groet,
XS4ALL Internet BV
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/31
Somehow the LinkSys router menus have never been really intuitive, using popups for much of their functionality.
The link to the DHCP Client Table looks like http://192.168.x.1/DHCPTable.asp
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/28
After 3.5 years of operation, my Antec TruePower Quattro TP4-850 EC power supply died in machine HAL.
HAL is my storage server, it consists of this hardware:
It is organized as 2 RAID 5 arrays of 7 drives (each netting almost 11TB) each that are mirrored by a nightly job. 2 drives are hot spares. I could have done RAID 50 (now it is twice RAID 5), but this gives me the advantage of having a “yesterdays” view of the storage. Sometimes that is convenient :)
A separate (currently PATA!) disk contains the OS (currently Windows Server 2003), which will be upgraded to a SATA SSD running Windows Server 2008 later this year.
850 watts is perfectly OK, since the RAID drives don’t spin up all at once, and according to Extreme PSU Calculator Lite a 600 watt power supply should suffice.
Is it bad having the power supply to die? I think it is, especially in the way this one dies: it works for 10 minutes, then stops. The fan is still OK, so I don’t know why it dies.
Besides, my 2 Linux boxes both still run on an IBM PC 300PL Pentium 3 machines (that is, after replacing the capacitors a couple of years ago) and – though from 1999 – they run fine (and are about to be virtualized) without any power supply problems whatsoever.
Anyway: I have replaced it with a Corsair HX850W power supply, which is modulair too, and the Molex 8981 connectors are far easier to insert and retract than the Antec ones.
Being in picky mode today, I still have two tiny things on this new power supply:
–jeroen
PS: Having used HDDs since the mid-80s of last century, it is very nice to see how sizes have been coming down, and capacities going up.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/27
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 