Archive for September, 2013
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/17
Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list:
Though the articles show the majority of sample code in C#, the actual topics are of great interest to any developer writing .NET code or interfacing to it.
Some keywords in his articles: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/16
Virtual ][ Help.
is on my list of things to play with.
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac, Power User | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/13
I wish I had kept an eye on it after it was announced (which was 3.5 years ago, but not very stable): The Youtube HTML5 viewer trial.
It has come a long way since then. Full screen it is still not as good as the official one, but the main attraction introduced since is: configurable playback speed!
Yes, you can choose playback at 25%, 50%, 100%, 150% or 200% of the original speed. Ideal for lectures or watching replays of conference sessions.
Quote from the life hacker post LifeHacker on this:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opera, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/12
On my research list:
I need to check out KBOX — a miniature Linux distribution integrated with a terminal for non-rooted Android devices.
It seems to add a lot of normal unix/Linux commands to your Android terminal emulator, but does not require root access.
I usually use a Windows or Mac system to browse the files on my Android device, but this should be much more convenient and aid both software developers and power users.
Now I need a remote ssh access to my Android device (:
–jeroen
via: KBOX — a miniature Linux distribution integrated with a terminal for non-rooted Android devices – Kevin Boone’s Web site.
Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/11
Thanks for StackOverflow user xordon for this answer:
This is current accepted way to link to a specific lat lon (rather than search for the nearest object).
http://maps.google.com/maps?z=12&t=m&q=loc:38.9419+-78.3020
- z is the zoom level (1-20)
- t is the map type (“m” map, “k” satellite, “h” hybrid, “p” terrain, “e” GoogleEarth)
- q is the search query, if it is prefixed by loc: then google assumes it is a lat lon separated by a +
–jeroen
via: What parameters should I use in a Google Maps URL to go to a lat-lon? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Development, Google, GoogleMaps, HTML, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/10
Just came across this nice answer by harpo containing a small class that can Escape/Unescape double-quotes in strings.
–jeroen
via: Good CSV Writer for C#? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, CSV, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/09
A while ago, I had to transfer a couple of files from a Linux machine where I did have console access, but no proper network access.
This was the sequence to get it connected and copy a directory to the USB flash drive:
- Stick the USB flash drive in a USB port (duh <g>) on the Linux system
- Run the fdisk command to see on which device it got loaded:
# fdisk -l
It will give you something like this:
Disk /dev/sdd: 8019 MB, 8019509248 bytes
20 heads, 16 sectors/track, 48947 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 320 * 512 = 163840 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 48948 7831512 b Win95 FAT32
- Create a
/mnt/USB directory to mount the device to using the mkdir command:
# mkdir /mnt/USB
- Use the
modprobe command to make sure the vfat file system support is loaded:
# modprobe vfat
- Use the
mount command to mount the device from the first step (/dev/sdd1) to the directory you created (/mnt/USB)
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/USB
- Use the
rsync command to recursively (-p) copy a directory maintaining timestamps (-t) and showing progress (-v)
# rsync -rtv /home/user/directory/ /mnt/USB/directory/
- Use the
umount command to unmount the directory (and therefore the device)
# umount /mnt/USB
–jeroen
via: Simple mounting of FAT32 USB Flash Drive.
Posted in *nix, Linux, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/06
As Dave mentioned a couple of years ago in an article smbd_unable_to_connect_to_cups_server, even if you have printing disabled in Samba, you can get errors in /var/log/messages like these±
May 5 09:45:02 www smbd[<pid>]: [2008/05/05 09:45:02, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_connect(69)
May 5 09:45:02 www smbd[<pid>]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused
This happens even if you disable the printers and print$ shares from within YaST2.
He proposed a 5-line change in the /etc/samba/smb.conf, but testing this on openSUSE 12.x, shows the actual diff is a lot smaller: just change the entry for printcap name, then add an entry for disable spoolss.
This is the diff of /etc/samba/smb.conf.printing versus /etc/samba/smb.conf: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/05
The NEXTGEN family of Delphi compilers for the Mobile platforms changed quite a bit of things.
Most of it has been covered by various blogs posts. A non exhaustive list of ones I liked:
Those articles do not contain two things I had’t found about yet though that are important when you do RTTI using NEXTGEN in Delphi XE4: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8 | 2 Comments »
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