2 more issues got on-line both close to a 100 pages each:
So the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31.
–jeroen
Archive for July, 2013
2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/17
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Prolog, x86 | Tagged: Media, technology | 1 Comment »
Lots of projects did not get it yet, but for connecting to SQL Server: RIP OLE DB
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/17
I still see a truckload of projects that connect to SQL Server do this using OLE DB or the Native SQL Client.
All OLE DB access to SQL Server has been deprecated, not only from regular access, but also from SSIS.
These are the only ways you should connect to SQL Server:
- SqlClient (managed code)
- JDBC (Java)
- ODBC (for native code)
For instance, these have been deprecated (for each one, I linked to the oldest SQL Server version where they were made available for):
–jeroen
via: RIP OLE DB.
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Igor Ostrovsky: C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice;
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/16
Just found out that Igor Ostrovsky wrote two really nice articles on .NET memory management as part of his great series of other .NET articles there:
- C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice.
- C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice, Part 2.
–jeroen
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PowerPoint high cpu usage
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/15
Every once in a while, a hidden POWERPNT.EXE consumes 100% of one CPU core (on a single core, that is deadly, on a multi-core system it drains your battery pretty fast).
This was the cause:
One reason is you have preview pane enabled and have selected a PowerPoint File. To preview it an invisible copy of PowerPoint is opened and may not close when you deselect. This doesn’t normally use much cpu though.
–jeroen
via PowerPoint high cpu usage.
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Freaking out (not only) mobile app users – xkcd: QR Code
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/12
xkcd: QR Code titled “Remember, the installer is watching the camera for the checksum it generated, so you have to scan it using your own phone” is not only freaking out mobile app users (:
The fun starts when putting http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/qr_code.png through a QR decoder…
–jeroen
via: xkcd: QR Code.
Yeah, yeah 1237: QR Code – explain xkcd got it too: ZXing will parse http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/qr_code.png fine, then gets you to http://xkcd.com/1237/scan/ which contains http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/qr_code_loop.png which parses fine.
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Which OS X version has which name? (via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/12
Though Apple prominently advertises with the OS X name, they give Mac users a hard time finding it:
None of the built in options like “About this Mac” or “Software Update…” tell you the OS X name. They only tell you the OS X version number.
So I grabbed this list from the OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. article:
- Public Beta: “Kodiak”
- Version 10.0: “Cheetah”
- Version 10.1: “Puma”
- Version 10.2: “Jaguar”
- Version 10.3: “Panther”
- Version 10.4: “Tiger”
- Version 10.5: “Leopard”
- Version 10.6: “Snow Leopard”
- Version 10.7: “Lion”
- Version 10.8: “Mountain Lion”
This list was correct at the time of writing, but Wikipedia probably keeps a better track at updating than I do, so after publication my list might lag behind.
–jeroen
via OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Rode plekken/blaren na een landelijke picknick in de zon: Berenklauw, Fototoxiciteit en Fytofotodermatitis (via: Wikipedia)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/11
Afgelopen weekeinde waren we met een groep kanovaren rondom Lisse/Sassenheim. We hadden lunch aan de rand van een stukje akker waar we relatief makkelijk uit de kano’s konden komen.
Een soort landelijke picknick in de zon: altijd leuk om te doen.
Maandagavond werd ik door 1 van de deelnemers gebeld: hij had een enorme rode jeukende vlek op zijn arm met allemaal blaren, en dacht dat hij brandnetels geraakt had.
Die stonden er niet, bovendien gaat het na aanraking van brandnetels meteen branden en deze plek was pakweg een dag later gekomen. Dus het moest iets anders zijn, maar wat?
Hij is ermee naar de huisarts geweest die tot de conclusie kwam: aanraking van Berenklauw in combinatie met blootstelling aan zonlicht. Dat veroorzaakt namelijk Fytofotodermatitis door Fototoxiciteit, en kan bij veel mensen enorme brandplekken geven. Read the rest of this entry »
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Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted (via: Random ASCII)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/11
Don’t increase your Windows Timer Resolution. And keep an eye on programs that do:
Raising the Windows timer frequency is bad. It wastes power and makes your computer slower. Routinely doing this in all sorts of programs that end up sitting idle for hours really needs to stop.
You can use ClockRes to monitor the time resolution and what programs changed it.
–jeroen
via: Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted | Random ASCII.
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Using ILDASM to determine the .NET Framework version an Assembly/DLL requires (via StackOverflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/11
Josh Stodola wrote a nice answer on the Determine .NET Framework version for dll – Stack Overflow question for using ILDASM to show the required .NET Framework/CLR version for an assembly.
From that, I wrote this tiny batch file:
ildasm.exe %1 /metadata[=MDHEADER] /text /noil | find "Metadata section:"
It gives output like this:
ildasm.exe C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\System.XML.dll /metadata[=MDHEADER] /text /noil | find "Metadata section:"
// Metadata section: 0x424a5342, version: 1.1, extra: 0, version len: 12, version: v4.0.30319
The cool thing is that older ILDASM versions work on assemblies requiring newer .NET Frameworks/CLRs.
So it is relatively future proof.
–jeroen
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UCSD Pascal – memories from the past….
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/10
Just found out that the kind people at BitSavers added some scanned USCD Pascal documentation in PDF format:
- The 1981 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System and UCSD Pascal version IV_internal Architecture Guide
- The 1983 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System version IV for the Apple IItm computer documentation
- The 1984 Softech Microsystems Software Reference Library MacAdvantage UCSD Pascal documentation
- and more
It reminds me of my early Pascal days on Apple ][. UCSD Pascal was so slow that I was glad to discover Turbo Pascal 1.0, which lacked some of the UCSD Pascal features (for instance cross platform – including Mac, almost 30 years ago! – and Turtle graphics), but was blazingly fast.
Trade offs indeed (:
–jeroen
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