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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/20
No more UUCP at xs4all: Afscheid van UUCP | XS4ALL Weblog.
Boy, the first time I got UUCP working was a hell of a job (:
Back then it was the best way to copy files (including email) in a kind of system independent way.
The end of a remarkable time frame (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/20
Conspiracy theory 101: Ingres was right in 2009:
Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? « The MariaDB Blog.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/20
I especially love “works great to set a custom white balance: just leave the cap on, set the white balance, remove the cap, and all done” portion of the 18-200 mm Nikon VR lens cap replacement article.
The lid of a Nutella 220 gram jar will do the job perfectly well (and serve as a 72mm lens cap replacement)
–jeroen
via: 18-200 mm Nikon VR lens cap | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Posted in Nikon, Nikon DX VR 18-200 mm F3.5-5.6G Zoom, Photography, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/19
Wise words. If you don’t blog and don’t own your content, your content will be wasted sooner or later.
My content is important to me because of the main reason I write a blog: so I can find back and link to things that I think are important.
For that the content must be searchable (which many so called social networks aren’t) and each post has a permanent address.
Repeating the message across social networks probably makes me more than a broadcaster than a true social networker, but hey: that’s already way better than I used to be in the past.
–jeroen
via: Your words are wasted – Scott Hanselman.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/18
Never new that – as an Administrator – you could log off other login sessions in Windows Vista and up through the task manager.
I only knew the Terminal Server way. Using the task manager is way more convenient!
–jeroen
via: Task Manager Users – Log Off a Local User – Vista Forums.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/18
A question like How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio? is why I still like Stack Overflow.
The answers explain how to solve this in a version neutral way, including other MRU lists, and as a bonus point you to handy Visual Studio tools.
–jeroen
via: registry – How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/17
Sometimes when you are at a Linux site, there is no one available with the right credential information for doing emergency maintenance.
There is a way around it: boot your Linux in Single user mode. Then it will not ask for a password, and boot straight into the user root.
When you are lucky, your linux site:
Modern systems usually use GRUBand you can follow the steps in Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/16
The .NET 4.5 beta has a bug that manifests itself as an AV or an FatalExecutionEngineError in certain circumstances of String.Empty handling, which is fixed by the .NET 4.5 RTM that shipped earlier this month followed by Visual Studio 2010 RTM today.
Thanks both to the original poster for reporting it here, and to Michael for his excellent analysis.
My counterparts on the CLR tried to reproduce the bug here and discovered that it reproduces on the “Release Candidate” version of the 64 bit CLR, but not on the final “Released To Manufacturing” version, which had a number of bug fixes post-RC. (The RTM version will be available to the public on August 15th, 2012.)
They therefore believe this to be the same issue as the one that was reported here:
Many apologies for the error.
–jeroen
via: c# – What’s the cause of this strange bug? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/16
Quick way to get the current ISO-8601 based week number: What’s the Current Week Number?.
–jeroen
Posted in Internet, ISO 8601, Power User | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/16
If anyone knows a better solution than string search/replace, please let me know:
I’m required to write a tool that can handle the below XML fragment that is not well formed as it contains XML declarations in the middle of the stream.
The company already has these kinds files in use for a long time, so there is no option to change the format.
There is no source code available that does the parsing, and the platform of choice for new tooling is .NET 4 or newer preferably with C#.
This is how the fragments look like: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, Development, Software Development, XML, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »
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