Archive for 2013
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/14
The Europen evening premier of Frozen Planet in Concert was much fun, and great to see the antarctic species we encountered alive at the big screen.
But the Ziggo Dome venue was too large to provide the right acoustic for a symphony orchestra like this Het Gelders Orkest. The sound was OK. Great though were the video footage, the humble introductions by the composer/conductor himself and Dutch translations by presenter Sacha de Boer.
Last two years (and hopefully next week “Return of the King”) the sound of Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest playing Lord of the Rings Live in De Doelen had awesome acoustic.
The Ziggo Dome should work on their acoustic system to match De Doelen.
http://www.ziggodome.nl/event/297/Frozen-Planet-in-Concert
https://www.rpho.nl/concerten/alle-concerten/2013/04/21/1400/lord-of-the-rings-live-the-return-of-the-king/
–jeroen
via: Jeroen Pluimers – Google+ – The Europen evening premier of Frozen Planet in Concert was….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/12
If you ever get “same glue” messages when checking your comains (a lot of sites fail this, see these intodns.com or viewdns.info searches), you might wonder what DNS glue is.
DNS glue is needed when you provide the NS and A records for a domain on a host within the domain itself.
From inside that domain, this works, but from the outside, nobody knows how to resolve servers in that domain.
You need to have the registrar of that domain put the glue A records for the nameservers, so from outside the domain, you can find the nameservers, and via the nameservers you can resolve other DNS entries in the domain.
A few more detailed explanations:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/11
Earlier this week, I posted abut ThinkPad W701: Win7 Ultimate x64 suddenly only saw 8GB RAM of 16GB (via: [H]ard|Forum).
One of the search results in my query indicated it would be possible to put 32GB in it.
That’s nice, as the official Lenovo ThinkPad W701 specs and Lenovo ThinkPad W701 2500 Overview & Specs – Laptops – CNET Reviews indicate it should max out with 16GB.
This Google search returns lots of results indicating people actually run it with 32GB RAM using 4x8GB memory modules:
ThinkPad W701 32GB RAM
–jeroen
via: ThinkPad W701 32GB RAM – Google Search.
Posted in Power User, ThinkPad, W701 | Tagged: cnet reviews, computer, google search, lenovo thinkpad, memory modules, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/11
A small duh moment when I found this out myself the hard way: when repeatedly drawing anti-aliased text, it will alter the background on each draw.
So you cannot do that. Not in Delphi, not in .NET, not in Cocoa, nowhere (:
–jeroen
via: delphi – “Additive” text rendering on TCanvas? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Software Development, User Experience (ux), WinForms, WPF, XNA | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/10
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/10
This recently happened to me, but not sure when it started:
My ThinkPad W701 had 16GB of RAM, and everything worked fine for about 2 years, but now the BIOS and Windows only saw 8GB of it.
The odd thing: SpeedFan would see 4 memory modules of 4 gigabyte each for a total of 16 gigabyte.
This solution helped:
the easiest (and most embarrassing) fix worked – just took out the new RAM sticks and re-seated them into different sockets instantly fixed the problem.
The steps I followed: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in BIOS, Boot, Power User, ThinkPad, W701 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/10
For my research queue:
I should look at the below ConnectionStrings to access dBase with ADO from Delphi, If I ever need to do that.
Thanks Cromulent for asking, Nelson for editing and Pieter for answering:
Driver={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};DriverID=277;OLE DB Services = -1;Extended Properties=dBase IV;Dbq=c:\mypath
doing operations like ADOTable1.Open are very fast (good) but GetIndexNames returns nothing (bad).
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Extended Properties=dBASE IV;OLE DB Services=-1;Data Source=c:\mypath
doing operations like ADOTable1.Open are exceedingly slow (bad) while GetIndexNames does return index names the way it should (good).
How do I get both speed and the index info via ADO for the dBase tables?
“We use the following connection string which works really well.”
Provider=MSDASQL.1;Persist Security Info=False;Extended Properties="Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver};UID=;SourceDB=c:\mypath;SourceType=DBF;Exclusive=No;BackgroundFetch=Yes;Collate=Machine;Null=Yes;Deleted=Yes;"
–jeroen
via Delphi + ADO + dBase – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 8 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/09
A few interesting links for my archive:
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Development, FreePascal, Pascal, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/08
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue.
This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the articles and advertisements:
A fun thing to notice are the advertisements for Modula-2. Logitech Modula-2. Yes though the Logitech Wikipedia page does not mention it at all, Logitech didn’t only sell mice, keyboards and web-cams. They had more products. Being Swiss, they were big in Modula-2. And Bitsavers has a PDF of that too: Logitech_Modula-2_86_1.0_Feb84.pdf
The only issues still to be scanned are #28 till #32.
–jeroen
via: New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers including the Final May 1990 issue « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: computer, Media, research, science, technology | 2 Comments »
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